I used to think I was a democrat until I realized that it is just the government taking control in the name of helping my fellow man and the earth. Now I realize I am a libertarian because morally liberal fiscally conservative democrats don’t exist anymore.

The pendulum swings between red and blue each time one side imposing their will in the form of laws on the other because they have to “for their own good”. What people don’t get is that each time it swings more laws get made, laws never get unmade, the chains progressively get tighter around us. Shall we lock ourselves in solitary confinement? We would be moral, we would be fair to all, and we would be green, because we would have no choice to be otherwise. That is what we are doing whenever we say “We need a law to stop them from…”.

If something needs to be done it should be done by us the people, not through laws and punishment, but by our own efforts and sacrifice.

Lastly I leave you with this:

You cannot strengthen the weak by weakening the strong.
You cannot help small men by tearing down big men.
You cannot help the poor by destroying the rich.
You cannot lift the wage earner by pulling down the wage payer.
You cannot keep out of trouble by spending more than your income.
You cannot further the brotherhood of man by inciting class hatreds.
You cannot establish security on borrowed money.
You cannot build character and courage by taking away a man’s initiative and independence.
You cannot help men permanently by doing for them what they could and should do for themselves.
William J. H. Boetcker, 1916

For those of you who don’t know Alucard

Furthermore, if any $cientologists are reading this, I am a S.P., and I am not afraid.

I’ll leave you as I started with the words of the flobots,

There is a war going on for your mind, if you are thinking you are winning.
Resistance is victory
Defeat is impossible
Your weapons are already in hand
Reach within you and find the means by which to gain your freedom
Fight with tools
Your fate and that of everyone you know depends on it

Holy balls! look, it comes with a little graph!

Despite all this it remains a guilty pleasure because I distinctly remember as a kid thinking to myself “Jazz is for old people”. I’ll let you guys judge for yourself. Here are a few of my favorites:

So I’m in my jeep and I realize I should head to the water and grab a boat for the next part of my journey, and I think I was going a little too fast…

I was actually able to drive around in the boat with the jeep still on top of it for a while before it fell off and sunk to the bottom.

Seriously though, Far Cry 2 is pretty darn sweet. Trees grow, fire spreads, weather is dynamic. I know its been a while since it came out but until I got my 9800gtx+ I didn’t even want to try to run a game that I know would push the tech envelope.

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This also reminds me of a funny fark news headline that said “man killed by fighting dogs. Why he was he fighting dogs in the first place we’ll never know.”