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Defunct Again

Outta here.

I've exited the blogging trade a few times only to return, at reduced output. While I don't discount the possibility of, again, posting a thing or two in the most random fashion, I'm pretty much through with this.

I consider this a non- articulated New Year's resolution. 'Just better ways to spend one's time.

I hope some people will come upon my writings on occasion and perhaps look over some of my past writings and find them satisfying expressions of the just argument for individualism and freedom.

For now...maybe forever, see ya! Have fun and...don't comply! Cliff

Why People Shouldn't "Share"

Dinesh D'Souza; an excellent response to the polemic of phony compassion.

The Pursuit of Happiness and the Great Waste of Time, Resources,and Lives, opposing It

A happy person is not belligerent. A happy person isn't envious or resentful. A happy person isn't cruel or coercive. Happiness is contagious and where there is a happy person, others will see the benefit of living in such accordance.

Is it any wonder that those so impassioned to stir conflict, hold resentment, and demand the subjugation of others to their schemes are always the ones who are clearly unhappy?

So it is that the pursuit of happiness is the most ideal of human endeavors...and, the mere desire to create constraints or command the following of other people's rules a breeding ground for discontent and the worst of human expression.

The pursuit of happiness; so obvious, so simple, so good for anyone that such values touch. Yet everywhere, perpetually, the values that cringe and grimace declare their perpetual war against it, promising that obedience to their commands will one day lead to...happiness...when they could have had, at no cost at all, such bounty from the start.

"Let's Roll" back the Authority of the State

...before it's too late.

Proof that powers of government have long breached the bounds of constitutional restraint.

There's an election in one year. Anyone who votes for any candidate not fully committed to cutting the state's size and authority considerably is helping to create a distopia worse than anything fiction has ever portrayed.

Most people get the government they deserve. The rest of us have to deal with their flawed judgement.

How a Pipe Organ Works

This is clearly off topic from what I usually post here, but it's not only informative for those who wish to know, "how things work," it's also presented in a refreshingly informal way free of the snobbish academic elitism one so often finds in discussions of intelligent topics.

"They Care" because...they want you to think they care

Most who read this blog are probably not followers of astrology but, in addition to the astrological insight this post offers, there is some superb insight and analysis of the perpetual contradiction in leftists ideals.

Cutting Edge Stagnation..."for the people"

This Is the kind of thing that only a "progressive" would be cool with.

While the left (of all degrees) typically distances itself from gulag styles of socialism, the basic concepts of obedience to the state in it's pervasive quest to control economics and all aspects of life is something they all at least sympathize with to some degree.

The fact that people who so often consider themselves rebels can ultimately be so opposed to free expression is pathetic

Anyone who thinks that the sentiments of garden variety "progressives" in the age of Obama don't ultimately lead to the elimination of individual freedom has slept through history.

As I've written often, 'you want "utopia'," "equality," "justice" - join a commune and leave the rest if us alone.

The Discreet Charm of Bureaucrats

This is just too fun! The four minute video is priceless