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Enter the court jester....just in time too.

Here's one for all of you who are foolish enough to think we still live in a Representative Republic. “I am concerned that the size of some of these institutions becomes so large that it does become difficult for us to prosecute them when we are hit with indications that if you do prosecute…it will have a negative impact on the national economy” – Eric Holder, Attorney General, United States of America, 3/6/2013

You know...if you would have told a cotton grower back in the 1800's: Hey, you know that in a few years... we aren't going to need slaves to pick the cotton. In fact you aren't going to need people at all....except a few to run these great machines that pick the cotton for you. These machines are going to run on this black stuff we pull out of the ground. They are going to roll on wheels....made from the same black stuff that comes out of the ground....ect. The cotton grower would have said a couple of things: 1. You are crazy 2. Please, can you give me one example where slave labor wasn't needed to build society. I mean when has society ever worked without slaves....they have been doing it since the Egyptian age....ect.

Hey, while you all have been figuring out how to turn a violent, corrupt, and coercive system into a non-profit organization.....the government has lumped another $3,699,744,466.56 to your national debt obligation. Come on tax cows your not mooing loud enough.

The Declaration of Independence states: "We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness." That is, each individual has a natural, inalienable right to self-ownership, to make use of one’s own life, person, labor, contracts and property as one sees fit, as long as one does not interfere with any other individual’s same right. (For those who think there’s a difference between inalienable and unalienable, please see this.) But the problem is that statists, communitarians, collectivists, political conservatives and progressives, and even some libertarians, don’t believe that rights are inalienable. Whether they would ever state it directly or not, they believe that the community in which one lives has collective ownership rights over each individual and one’s life, labor and property, and that the community has the right to make use of each individual as the community sees fit. http://www.lewrockwell.com/lazarowitz/lazarowitz64.1.html

Solution: Freedom. Do you have a mouse in your pocket or something? I have taxes extracted from me at the barrel of a gun. I don't "pay" anything....to "pay" would imply a voluntary exchange. The only reason the collective gets anything from me is because they would kill/imprison me if I withhold my capital.

I'm sorry mb, but your "Great Democracy" died long ago. As you keep trying to "make it better, a little at a time"..they'll keep selling your children and grandchildren into debt slavery.

None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free.---Goethe

Everyone wants to talk about changing the color of the cage...all I want to do is get rid of the cage altogether.

Ok...I'll toss you a pitch. You say that Government and Taxes are not evil. I disagree. Government and Taxes are the biggest evil...they both represent force...and only force. The use of force is evil, unless in self defense. I cannot point a gun at my neighbor and make him pay for my driveway repairs...but this is precisely what the government does everyday. They might cover it up with pretty parks or pave over the top of it with asphalt. Yet, nevertheless...they remain evil to the core. In a system where the "just powers" are supposedly garnered from the people. Where did they (the government) get the power to steal?

I am not name calling just pointing out the truth. I am well aware of my "tax slave" status. You seem to like being a tax slave, I however do not. You like that the master provides you with "services" and do not wish to see the master stop doing so. Ok...great. I ask you this: What was the primary thing that kept the slaves of the south from revolting and killing the master? Was it the threat of the gun? Was it the threat of a government crack down? Was it the masters whip? Maybe... to some point. I would argue it was the other slaves around them saying "It's not that bad here...other masters hit harder and even kill their slaves. At least our master provides us with, food and lodging. We even get to visit the pick-nick area on Sundays. So please, pipe down and get back to work. Besides if we are all free, who's going to pick the cotton. Slave on brother...slave on.

I never said they were good farmers. Yet, farmers they are and we are the livestock.

It's funny watching tax slaves bicker. Here is the truth: You are all tax cattle....the government is the farmer. The farmer (government) does not care what their cows (you) moo about...as long as you stay in the fence and keep giving up the milk.

Here is one for all you people still clinging to the left/right paradigm. Chief you are right about the right wingers. J.D you are also right about the left wingers. What you both fail to see is that they are one in the same.

Otters for sure. Usually two of them, one large and the other small. I see them all the time.

Smallie..I see otters just about every time I go to bsc. I do hope you are wrong about them dooming the creek...are they really that bad?

I have to give this a try

Mic...BSC is doing fine. Some structural changes...but all is good. We got a fair amount of rain...2-3 inches. I would say it will be prime-time by the end of September.

http://vimeo.com/48268425

And there it is the douche bag quote of the thread.

No sweat Al. I understand most people on this forum are supporters of gun rights.

Al, you never seemed like the kinda guy to get a jab in at the end of a well thought out rebuttal. I guess I was wrong.

Well which has the greater chance of happening to you? 1) Getting hit by a drunk driver or 2)Being a victim of a violent crime That's my point. Which is it? FYI: The stats came from MADD's website and FBI stats on crime.