Today’s quote…

 

Quote of the Day: "The legal tender quality [of money] is only valuable for the purposes of dishonesty." -- Justice Salmon Chase Chief Justice, formerly Secretary of Treasury in President Lincoln’s administration Source: in dissent of Knox vs. Lee (The Legal Tender Cases, 1871)

DownsizeDC.org

Technorati Tags: quotes,quotations,famous quotes,money,greed

Politics of Prohibition: it's government greed, not rights

Don Boudreaux July 31, 2007 - This is the history your government school history books DIDN'T teach, and it applies to today's prohibition-failure, too. I'm sure alcohol prohibition was an expensive failure akin to prohibitions on other drugs for years, but it took a fiscal clusterfuck akin to today's clusterfuck to get "change." It's all about the money, not individual rights.

So, if the history of alcohol prohibition is a guide, drug prohibition will not end merely because there are many sound, sensible and humane reasons to end it. Instead, it will end only if and when Congress gets desperate for another revenue source.

That's the sorry logic of politics and Prohibition.

read more digg story

Durbin calls for election to replace Obama

by Richard Simon - U.S. Sen. Dick Durbin (D-Ill.) today called for the Illinois General Assemby to quickly pass legislation for a special election to fill Barack Obama's Senate seat, saying that any replacement appointed by Blagojevich would be tainted.
"This is a sad day for my state," Durbin said. "No appointment by this governor under these circumstances could produce a credible replacement." Durbin said if the charges are proven, the governor has "clearly abused the public trust."
Durbin said he spoke to a state senator and urged him to work with Republicans to pass the legislation by a big enough margin that it could overcome a veto by the governor.

read more digg story

Caglepost: Wal-Mart Trampling Christmas

I hate shopping! I do most of it online. I don't like most people either. Especially, when they form a crowd of any kind. The herd mentality takes over and makes everyone do something awful because everyone else does it.
Obviously, the people who were at Wal-Mart that day are obsessed with material things so much so that they would kill a man by trampling him into the Wal-Mart concrete like the herd of cattle they are.
Sorry, a littler rant there. This cartoon by Pat Bagley sums up how life is in America.


Cartoon by Pat Bagley Comment on the cartoon