Journal Journal: Ron Paul's farewell speech 28
I find myself substantially agreeing with the old chap.
You may pour your derision here. One must own having been proven thoroughly wrong.
Economic Left/Right: 4.50
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: 0.62
So, yeah: I'm totally a right-wing SoCon, but I differentiate strongly between morality and ethics, and thus veer libertarian on federal Constitutional issues.
E.g.: life begins at conception, but if you pagans in Washington want to build altars to Moloch and sacrifice your offspring, then God have mercy on you. And, in the same fit of folly, declare sex with a mare 'love' and marry your horse. I'm not coming to Washington on vacation, that's for sure.
As for Economics, if you haven't read The Road to Serfdom, you probably think this sunshine Obama has been blowing up your nethers is somehow valid.
Because corporations cannot be trusted to voluntarily protect the environment, they require regulation.
Evil. Corporations. Are. Evil.
Right. I hail from Western Oregon, which has been thoroughly denuded and rendered a blighted wasteland by Weyerhauser.
NOT! Corporations tend to grasp their symbiotic relationship with the market.
They can tend toward monopoly, and there is a reasonable regulatory role for government.
Just keep in mind that government, itself, is the ultimate monopoly.
It's about getting Tuesday started the right way, folks: http://linux.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=3171705&cid=41594577
You fear what the Burma Shave troll can do: http://mobile.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=3126179&cid=41373651
But second post will do: http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=3062809&cid=41068147
A few thoughts on PPACA and a hilarious Onion scan here.
The hardest part of climbing the ladder of success is getting through the crowd at the bottom.