Political quotes of the moment

[Prince Glittersnatch III]

I think there's a good case to be made that taxing people to protect the Earth from an asteroid, while within Congress's powers, is an illegitimate function of government from a moral perspective.

Apparently there is no limit to the insanity of libertarianism.

Source?

[Requia ☣]

Volokh

Or possibly you aren't all as familiar with crazy law blogs as I am, so link: http://volokh.com/2011/02/15/asteroid-defense-and-libertarianism/

[Freeky]

wayt, wat

[Lord Cataplanga]

I think I read something like that in The Onion the other day?

EDIT: here it is:
http://www.theonion.com/articles/republicans-vote-to-repeal-obamabacked-bill-that-w,19025/

Life imitating art?

[Adjective Noun]

Too often debates about AV are less like political arguments, and more like scientific discussions, where people get lost in a language of proportionality and preferences, probabilities and possibilities.

Of course, some of these things are important. But for me, politics shouldn't be some mind-bending exercise. It's about what you feel in your gut - about the values you hold dear and the beliefs you instinctively have. And I just feel it, in my gut, that AV is wrong.

This from the debate on changing our voting system in the UK ... from our current Prime Minister, David Cameron. Because politics is about not challenging your instinctive, knee-jerk "beliefs", don't you know?

Edit to add source - http://uk.news.yahoo.com/14/20110418/tpl-cameron-i-know-av-is-wrong-in-my-gut-81c5b50.html

[Prince Glittersnatch III]

You say Rachel Maddow, I say Glenn Beck
You say Keith Olbermann, I say Bill O'reilly
You say Jon Stewart, I say Stephen Colbert
You say Cenk Uygur,I say Michael Savage
You say Ed Schultz,I say Rush Limbaugh
You say Obama,I say Reagan
You say MSNBC, I SCREAM Fox News
You say George Soros, I fucking punch you in the face
92% of teens have turned to socialism and communism.If you are part of the 8% that still believe in freedom, copy and paste this message to 5 other threads. DONT LET OUR REPUBLIC DIE!

[Cain]

When Obama wins, the only change will be that his supporters will be eaten first

Fucking called it.

[Cain]

Farm out Snickers commercials to fugitive Serbian war criminals, and we'll have moved only half a step away from our mere trucknuts-lovin' jingoism toward the hypernationalism we are destined to embrace, like Rwandan Hutu Power. This murder was a state-sanctioned revenge killing with all the legal pretext a Sicilian would need to avenge a dirty look on the street. Nothing more, nothing less. Bin Laden deserved what he got, but then, if that Old West logic was also the guiding ethos in domestic affairs, Donald Trump should've been shot in the face by Navy SEALs the same week. Don't pretend this was justice, when it only exists in DC Comics. The eagle shrieked for blood, and so blood was served. And it won't even help Obama win reelection — won't make people love him any more than they already did or did not. Some major organ is thoroughly rotten, riddled with abscesses and blisters, if the one "big thing" America can accomplish is the tawdry, soul-sapping killing of a dilettante porn-addicted rich killer.

Bin Laden was clearer than is commonly believed in elucidating his oxygen-deprived "theology." In his last interview with journalist Robert Fisk, in the wilds of his Afghan fiefdom, Osama slowly explained the future: "From this mountain, Mr. Robert, upon which you are sitting, we beat the Russian army and helped break the Soviet Union. And I pray to God that he allows us to turn America into a shadow of itself." He wanted to embroil the U.S. in an endless global war that would enrage all Muslims, kill Americans, and batter the Treasury. He wanted us to writhe with fear in the absence of any sustained threat. We are shadows of ourselves, scanning the horizons for the next looming threat, even as we liquefy our eyes staring into the sun.

All of it available at http://www.mrdestructo.com/2011/05/wailing-walls-bela-lugosis-dead-part-i.html#more

[Telarus]

wow

[Cain]

Et tu Mr Destructo is one of the best blogs on the internet written by a dead, former Central African dictator, Alan Greenspan, Idi Amin Dada and an assassinated Israeli Minister for Tourism.

[Prince Glittersnatch III]

Et tu Mr Destructo is one of the best blogs on the internet written by a dead, former Central African dictator, Alan Greenspan, Idi Amin Dada and an assassinated Israeli Minister for Tourism.

Seems pretty cool.

Bookmarked.

[Pope Lecherous]

Et tu Mr Destructo is one of the best blogs on the internet written by a dead, former Central African dictator, Alan Greenspan, Idi Amin Dada and an assassinated Israeli Minister for Tourism.

Truly thank you for this Cain.

_{btw your avatar reminds me of Roland from the Dark Tower series}

[Prince Glittersnatch III]

Et tu Mr Destructo is one of the best blogs on the internet written by a dead, former Central African dictator, Alan Greenspan, Idi Amin Dada and an assassinated Israeli Minister for Tourism.

btw your avatar reminds me of Roland from the Dark Tower series

That makes sense. Stephen King said that the Dark Tower was the result of him reading the Lord of the Rings and then watching The Good the Bad and the Ugly. So Roland is essentially a fantasy Clint Eastwood.

[Pope Lecherous]

Et tu Mr Destructo is one of the best blogs on the internet written by a dead, former Central African dictator, Alan Greenspan, Idi Amin Dada and an assassinated Israeli Minister for Tourism.

btw your avatar reminds me of Roland from the Dark Tower series

That makes sense. Stephen King said that the Dark Tower was the result of him reading the Lord of the Rings and then watching The Good the Bad and the Ugly. So Roland is essentially a fantasy Clint Eastwood.

I'm excited but afraid for the movie.  [/that]

I'm searching through the blog now for more enlightening material.  This should make work more tolerable.

[Cain]

http://imdb.com/title/tt0060665/

WILLIAM ROPER: So, now you give the Devil the benefit of law!

SIR THOMAS MORE: Yes! What would you do? Cut a great road through the law to get after the Devil?

ROPER: Yes, I'd cut down every law in England to do that!

MORE: Oh? And when the last law was down, and the Devil turned 'round on you, where would you hide, Roper, the laws all being flat? This country is planted thick with laws, from coast to coast, Man's laws, not God's! And if you cut them down, and you're just the man to do it, do you really think you could stand upright in the winds that would blow then? Yes, I'd give the Devil benefit of law, for my own safety's sake!