homeland security

Or Obaminions.

Jerk.

Who, oboma or miso? Or both?

Your soup is even thinner than usual today, Miso.

So you don't think the Patriot Act is administrative tyranny? I do.

The abuse of administrative power under the current administration was only possible because that administrative power has been built up over about the last century.

You're so stuck defending the indefensible that you don't even recognize that I'm attacking someplace else, and someone else.

I don't consider myself to be in competition with you in any significant way, so winning or losing isn't in view. I'd like you to be more free than you are, as well as myself.

Cheers

Phil Hobbs

Obviously both.

Only a sore loser resorts to semantic games like that.

?-)

Miso is a generalized loser >:-} ...Jim Thompson

miso's wry, funny and smart (though sometimes a tad snarky). He thinks he's standing up for liberty and simply doesn't notice that redistribution produces (and is producing) the opposite. Ages ago I was the same. Snark is easy; pessimism is fashionable, if superficial.

But we now live in a country where (hopefully temporarily) huge swaths of people of all parties are afraid of their government, where the government spies on you, lies constantly, punishes its opponents, and can force you to do anything if they call it a 'tax.'

I lived across the Iron Curtain hearing the same spin from the East that we now hear from Dear Leader Comrade President & crew--all the five-year plans are working, employment is glorious, and any problems are from hooligans or external parties. Curiously, even though they sighted a couple of machine guns hot and loaded at me it took a couple decades for the lesson to sink in, and Barack Obama to ram it home.

I think it's temporary. Americans still want to be free, still want people to have opportunity, etc. The new stuff doesn't work, creates poverty and discourages work, and I believe we'll toss it off.

Cheers, James Arthur

Dreamer...

I was talking to my wife over breakfast. She's a serious leftie, though somewhat less since she started her own business. I suggested that we should have a one-term conservative president who would do some necessary housecleaning: tax reform, simplify laws, fix immigration, tame the various bloated and abusive agencies: and I think she agrees! Such a president would be one-term because s/he would be massively unpopular.

Hey, this is fun: