Random Nuclear Strikes

Yes. Yes. And Yes.

Or should that be: No. No. And No.

I have certain rules I live by. My first rule: I don’t believe anything the government tells me.

George Carlin

What’s mine is mine. What I volunteer to hand away, I volunteer freely.

And yet, because I disapprove of some of the expenditures that some of my fellow citizens wish for government to make with the money I do not give away freely, I am considered greedy.

I am not. I could be, but I am not.

To take from one, because it is thought his own industry and that of his fathers has acquired too much, in order to spare to others, who, or whose fathers, have not exercised equal industry and skill, is to violate arbitrarily the first principle of association, the guarantee to everyone the free exercise of his industry and the fruits acquired by it.

Thomas Jefferson

And they will even argue that my wages are not “taken at the point of a gun”, though I have no way to politely tell them that that is the only method of extracting a portion of the wages I earn for their spending pleasure.

Some folks just never learn.

The more we progress the more we tend to progress. We advance not in arithmetical but in geometrical progression. We draw compound interest on the whole capital of knowledge and virtue which has been accumulated since the dawning of time.

Sir Arthur Ignatius Conan Doyle

If our “capital of knowledge” tells us that socialism doesn’t work, why do people keep insisting on the re-running the “do it again, only harder” theory?

Bad education can’t explain it all away.

Eight years ago today, evil arrived in the form of the hijackers of commercial aircraft. The damage they did that day should never be forgotten, for until their sycopahnts are wiped off the face of the earth, they will look upon this day as one of celebration.

Strangely, the hijackers acted out of revenge for acts they believed should be classified as evil. Things like us parking an extremely small contingent of our military’s air corp in their “Holy Land” so that we could keep the murderous and war mongering secular dictator in the country next to their “Holy Land” from invading his neighbors and killing his own people. Or, not making “our women” wear a head-to-toe blackout curtain and allowed them to drive. Or for not renouncing our sky pixie and worshipping their sky pixie.

For such evil things as those, 19 cowards boarded and took command of four privately owned civilian commercial aircraft loaded with innocents and crashed them into three buildings and one farm field, killing over 3000 people in the process.

If instead of blindly following their sky pixie, which instructs them to wipe civilizations and their history from the human record, they would have instead opened their minds just a fraction and listened to a Greek philosopher, maybe they wouldn’t have been so willing to die.

Is God willing to prevent evil, but not able?

Then he is not omnipotent.

Is he able, but not willing?

Then he is malevolent.

Is he both able and willing?

Then whence cometh evil?

Is he neither able nor willing?

Then why call him God?

Epicuris

When will Islam undergo its Reformation?