Snippets from Jerry Pournelle’s blog, Chaos Manor, 6-10-13
… On the data collection scandal: SUBJ: Six lines . . . “If one would give me six lines written by the hand of the most honest man, I would find something in them to have him hanged.” – Cardinal Richelieu And now your every email and every board posting are available for the amusement […]
Gun Shop Allegedly Banned From Partcipating in Popular Store’s Contest: ‘Entry Contains Content That Promotes…Firearms’ http://www.theblaze.com/stories/2013/05/30/gun-shop-allegedly-banned-from-partcipating-in-popular-stores-contest-entry-contains-content-that-promotes-firearms/ May. 30, 2013 3:11pm Billy Hallowell Maple Creek Gunsmithing, a firearms store in Fremont, Nebraska, is claiming that Staples, the popular office supply chain, rejected a recent contest application from the shop — because Maple Creek sells guns… The alleged […]
Why Congress is losing approval with the people:
Why Congress is losing approval with the people: http://www.youtube.com/embed/svGDZOW-brA?rel=0
Growing an Economy without spewing out CO2
http://www.jerrypournelle.com/chaosmanor/?p=14021 Posted: May 23, 2013, 12:51 pm – Last updated: May 23, 2013, 12:51 pm View 775 Thursday, May 23, 2013 Talk continues on carbon taxes, and there are political claims that Oklahoma deserved destruction since it produces oil and contributes to global warming and global warming causes extreme weather. Some of the rhetoric is […]
GOD VS. GOV’T: WHAT DOES THE CONSTITUTION REALLY SAY ABOUT THE SEPARATION OF CHURCH AND STATE?
http://www.theblaze.com/stories/2013/05/16/god-vs-govt-what-does-the-constitution-really-say-about-the-separation-of-church-and-state/ … Dr. John Eastman, a distinguished law professor at Chapman University, told TheBlaze that he believes these non-believers have their story wrong. “They think the phrase separation of church and state is the First Amendment,” he said, going on to note that these words don’t appear anywhere in the U.S. Constitution. Just in […]
THE FIREARMS STATISTICS THAT GUN CONTROL ADVOCATES DON’T WANT TO SEE
http://www.theblaze.com/stories/2013/05/06/the-firearms-statistics-that-gun-control-advocates-dont-want-to-see/ May. 6, 2013 3:30pm Jason Howerton To accompany TheBlaze’s coverage of the National Rifle Association’s annual meeting in Houston, we figured it could be helpful to share some gun statistics pointed out to us by some of the NRA Convention attendees. Forget the talking points used by both sides in the gun control debate; we’re […]
Glenn Beck – It is the man, not the gun, that is capable of committing acts of evil.
http://www.theblaze.com/stories/2013/05/04/glenn-beck-teaches-part-of-americas-history-like-never-before-using-guns-in-nra-keynote-speech-it-is-the-man-not-the-gun …One story about a particular shotgun, wielded by a “naked hippie” shooting birds decades ago, seemed to have the most impact. Beck explained that after receiving a early morning call about the naked hippie shooting birds out of season, police in California arrested the said hippie and confiscated his WWII-era shotgun. That man turned […]
CALIF. GOV. SIGNS BILL ALLOCATING FUNDS TO CONFISCATE GUNS FROM CRIMINALS, MENTALLY ILL
http://www.theblaze.com/stories/2013/05/02/calif-gov-signs-bill-allocating-funds-to-confiscate-guns-from-criminals-mentally-ill/ May. 2, 2013 10:42am Billy Hallowell Wednesday, California Gov. Jerry Brown signed controversial legislation aimed at stripping 20,000 of the state’s residents of the rights to own handguns and so-called assault rifles. The politician signed a bill that will ensure funding to ban individuals from ownership if they have a serious mental illness or […]
Freedom is not free. Free men are not equal. Equal men are not free.
http://www.jerrypournelle.com/archives2/archives2view/view476.html#Tarquin The lesson for today is from Aristotle and Livy: Tarquin the Proud, telling his son how to establish a tyranny. Tarquin was king in Rome. His son pretended to defect, and went to a neighboring city where he became a general. He sent a messenger to his father to ask what he should do […]