• RE: Libertarian Test.

    From Earl Croasmun@1:124/311 to Bob Ackley on Sun Nov 21 14:35:40 2010
    On 11/21/2010 1:27 PM, BOB KLAHN wrote to BOB ACKLEY:

    There is a short story available online.
    http://www.snipurl.com/omelas

    The writing style is overdone, but here is the short version. The author constructs an authoritarian society based on the idea of "the greatest good
    for the greatest number," where the majority has the power to impose disproportionate burdens on others. The story takes this to such an
    extreme that one person is imprisoned and enslaved for the benefit of
    everyone else. Some accept it. The libertarians take a hike. That's it.
    Nothing much to it.


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  • From Stan Hardegree@1:123/789 to All on Tue Dec 28 18:59:43 2010
    It's been a good year in politics:

    1. Obama goes into 2010 with respectable approval ratings and goes out with a newly elected Republican House and a drastically smaller majority in the Senate. The census virtually guarantees a six-vote loss for Obama in the Electoral College as places like New York and Wisconsin lose seat while places like Texas and Georgia pick up seats.

    2. GW's memoir "Decision Points" has sold 2 million copies since its release in November. GW's publisher calls the performance "remarkable;" in fact, it is the best selling nonfiction title of the year. This number ties the sales of Cigar Willy's memoir "My Diseased Penis and How It Kept Hillary Willy Out of the Oval Office."

    3. When Chilean miners are trapped underground, the government of Chile comes to the United States to get the technology and expertise it needs to get them out. This country is not exceptional, is it, Otto?

    4. Out of one side of its mouth - Joe Biden's - this administration says our political system is broken (no doubt because of Republican obstructionism). Out of the other side of its mouth - Barry Obama's - we hear that this has been
    among the two most productive legislative years in our history. One of these men is lying.

    5. Cigar Willy says that he will campaign in Chicago against yet another black
    guy, but he will be campaigning for a Jew, people the Willys also hate. "Twenty fav years ago, this guy'd a been brangin us cawfee, Tedroo." "That fucking Jew bastard!" These are the democrats' senior statescriminals; democrats PAY to hear these scum speak.

    6. Yet another state has filed suit to exempt itself from Barry's mangun opus,
    Obamacare. How many are we up to now?

    7. A democrat president and previous democrat president go before the country to argue in favor of a policy of the previous Republican administration. A few
    days later, the democrat president signs a law repealing a policy of the previous - and impeached - democrat president. This irony is lost on the New York Times and every democrat idiot in Fido.

    8. The Washington Post Company sells liberal rag Newsweek for one dollar.

    9. President Barry Soweto invites all former presidents to the Oval Office for
    a photo op. All formers look happy to be there except that intellectual, moral
    and physical pipsqueak Jimmy Carter who stands apart from the group.

    10. John Edwards da baby daddy.

    11. Al "Crazed Sex Poodle" Gore is busted trying to get chakra release from some masseuse. The Gores divorce. Gore's Chicago Climate Exchange shuts down after the world pretty much figures out that global warming is bullshit. A banner year for that lisping buffoon.

    12. Mrs. Cigar Willy wears a pup tent to her beautiful daughter Howdy Doody's wedding. The diseased father of the bride wears an ill-fitting Dollar General tux to walk the beautiful Howdy down the aisle.

    13. The media convince themselves and ultimately the First Broad herself that she is a beautiful fashion plate. Said Broad makes the mistake of allowing herself to be photographed from behind with the first ladies of France and Italy. Whoops.

    14. Madam Facelift famously marched her Speaker's gavel - who knows where she was marching with it? She will now march her Speaker's gavel over to John Boehner.

    15. GW ends the year as the second most respected man in the country. Whoever
    is president is ALWAYS default first place.

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