We feel like we've been a bit remiss in sharing the good news about Representative Jack Kingston, one of the Georgia-bred shining stars of the U.S. Congress. Sure, we touched on the illustrious Kingston (touched ON. touching would be gross) when we chatted about how he
Bob was a bit of a loon, and got loonier (and longer-winded) as he got older -- and he did have that mother fucking fixation -- but he was no kind of "Libertarian" or "Objectivist". He would want to know why a Libertarian hadn't enlisted.
He also had a hell of an imagination, and occasionally a sense of humor (e.g.,<i>The Man Who Sold The Moon</i>, or, for that matter, <i>Waldo</i>). I think it&#039;s a shame that the Paultards have managed to &quot;claim&quot; him -- a lot of people now ignore his work because of that. The guy was a hyper-anti-commie, but he was also more complicated than that alone.
Everyone who wants to have an opinion about Bob should first read <i>The Man Who Travelled in Elephants</i> (all six or seven pages of it).</i>
Come buy my bags full of crumbs, Come feed the little birds, show them you care And you&#039;ll be glad if you do Their young ones are hungry, their nests are so bare All it takes is tuppence from you Feed the birds, tuppence a bag Tuppence, tuppence . . .
in a just world, this asshat would be swinging from a tree by his tiny gonads and those poor kids would be beating him like a pi&ntilde;ata, waiting for the free lunches to fall out like so much candy...
trouble is- Heinlein was more complex than those Rand fanbois get. Look at his famous &quot;lifeboat problem&quot; (essentially, a lifeboat adrift in roiling, freezing cold seas- at capacity with more survivors in the water. You&#039;re the boat officer and have a loaded pistol to enforce your decisions. rotating people is not possible-what do you do?) His comments about libertarians speaks volumes: &ldquo;Any libertarian so doctrinaire that he cannot find a pragmatic solution to this problem deserves no tolerance from others&hellip;Unfortunately a large percentage of those who describe themselves as &ldquo;libertarians&rdquo;&hellip;would be a a mortal danger to their shipmates.&rdquo; He also said that this question must be answered with a realistic solution before &ldquo;any avowed libertarian&rdquo; should be allowed &ldquo;to open his big mouth on the subject of &ldquo;natural rights&rdquo; in space.&rdquo;
The guy had some odd, technocratic views on life and was coldly pragmatic about how they ought to be applied (he was a big fan of Reagan&#039;s SDI program) and he constantly preached the virtues of individualism, but he was no capital L Libertarian in the mold of what the Paultards have become. He also stressed an individual&#039;s obligation to society and was even active in Upton Sinclair&#039;s early anti poverty movement when he was younger. He was an odd bird and far more complex than the Paultards who want to name him their standard bearer think- proving they have as shallow a grasp of his writing as they do of most every other subject they mangle.
that attitude has always been there. it&#039;s just that they usually do a better job of sufficiently hiding lest the natives get restless. But being the arrogant bastards that they are, they tend to forget that lesson from time to time until they get a harsh reminder like Madame Guillotine. The real question these days is going to be whether our noble experiment in modern democracy is self regulating enough to get them to tone it down and back off or whether things will once again go too far and those sorts of extreme attitude adjustments will once again become necessary.
I&#039;m pretty sure Heinlein didn&#039;t come up with the idea, but simply used it often. I&#039;m also not aware if he ever answered it directly, but being a navy man I am sure he was rather familiar with the Birkenhead Drill, which gave us the familiar phrase &quot;woman and children first&quot;
I wonder if anyone here also too remembers during Romney(R-Loseriville)&#039;s &quot;47%&quot; speech the incredulous tone with which he said that they &quot;think they are entitled to FOOD,&quot; or is it just me? How many Republicans are assholes? All of them, Katie.
Shut up, Bob.
Bob was a bit of a loon, and got loonier (and longer-winded) as he got older -- and he did have that mother fucking fixation -- but he was no kind of &quot;Libertarian&quot; or &quot;Objectivist&quot;. He would want to know why a Libertarian hadn&#039;t enlisted.
He also had a hell of an imagination, and occasionally a sense of humor (e.g.,<i>The Man Who Sold The Moon</i>, or, for that matter, <i>Waldo</i>). I think it&#039;s a shame that the Paultards have managed to &quot;claim&quot; him -- a lot of people now ignore his work because of that. The guy was a hyper-anti-commie, but he was also more complicated than that alone.
Everyone who wants to have an opinion about Bob should first read <i>The Man Who Travelled in Elephants</i> (all six or seven pages of it).</i>
Bully pulpit!!
Oh, boy.
Chim-chim, cherreee...
Come buy my bags full of crumbs, Come feed the little birds, show them you care And you&#039;ll be glad if you do Their young ones are hungry, their nests are so bare All it takes is tuppence from you Feed the birds, tuppence a bag Tuppence, tuppence . . .
<i>Consider the lilies of the goddamn field.</i> -- O, Brother, where art thou?
in a just world, this asshat would be swinging from a tree by his tiny gonads and those poor kids would be beating him like a pi&ntilde;ata, waiting for the free lunches to fall out like so much candy...
in that one case it may have, since it turned out she was lying through her teeth
Jack Abramoff maybe
I&#039;d settle for Eric Clapton beating him senseless with an old Stratocaster
trouble is- Heinlein was more complex than those Rand fanbois get. Look at his famous &quot;lifeboat problem&quot; (essentially, a lifeboat adrift in roiling, freezing cold seas- at capacity with more survivors in the water. You&#039;re the boat officer and have a loaded pistol to enforce your decisions. rotating people is not possible-what do you do?) His comments about libertarians speaks volumes: &ldquo;Any libertarian so doctrinaire that he cannot find a pragmatic solution to this problem deserves no tolerance from others&hellip;Unfortunately a large percentage of those who describe themselves as &ldquo;libertarians&rdquo;&hellip;would be a a mortal danger to their shipmates.&rdquo; He also said that this question must be answered with a realistic solution before &ldquo;any avowed libertarian&rdquo; should be allowed &ldquo;to open his big mouth on the subject of &ldquo;natural rights&rdquo; in space.&rdquo;
The guy had some odd, technocratic views on life and was coldly pragmatic about how they ought to be applied (he was a big fan of Reagan&#039;s SDI program) and he constantly preached the virtues of individualism, but he was no capital L Libertarian in the mold of what the Paultards have become. He also stressed an individual&#039;s obligation to society and was even active in Upton Sinclair&#039;s early anti poverty movement when he was younger. He was an odd bird and far more complex than the Paultards who want to name him their standard bearer think- proving they have as shallow a grasp of his writing as they do of most every other subject they mangle.
that attitude has always been there. it&#039;s just that they usually do a better job of sufficiently hiding lest the natives get restless. But being the arrogant bastards that they are, they tend to forget that lesson from time to time until they get a harsh reminder like Madame Guillotine. The real question these days is going to be whether our noble experiment in modern democracy is self regulating enough to get them to tone it down and back off or whether things will once again go too far and those sorts of extreme attitude adjustments will once again become necessary.
I&#039;m pretty sure Heinlein didn&#039;t come up with the idea, but simply used it often. I&#039;m also not aware if he ever answered it directly, but being a navy man I am sure he was rather familiar with the Birkenhead Drill, which gave us the familiar phrase &quot;woman and children first&quot;
How much for putting the broom somewhere else?
I wonder if anyone here also too remembers during Romney(R-Loseriville)&#039;s &quot;47%&quot; speech the incredulous tone with which he said that they &quot;think they are entitled to FOOD,&quot; or is it just me? How many Republicans are assholes? All of them, Katie.