……..the emotions follow. At least, I would guess for INTJs like myself. I can’t remember the exact point when I stopped being a libertarian and became an anarchist. I do remember when I quit being a (big L) Libertarian and became a libertarian, it was when the party endorsed a state level politician (and I forget the ass-wipe’s name) who had a bad gun rights record. But, as for the time between that and now there are no mile markers I can readily pick out. During this time my beliefs have changed a lot. Most easily the largest change is that I no longer believe there is any way to salvage the system by working within the system. This was a huge disillusionment for myself. I was a lot like the day I had to take my poor sick dog out and shoot it. Now I’m not stupid enough to think that the very few people who think like I do would have any chance for forcing change on the system. Not that that would even be an option, since it’s is direct opposition to my beliefs. So what I’m left with is my little island I call Goat’s Gulch where anarchy thrives even if we do still have to deal with the system on things like property taxes. I used island because not only is it the only area near here where anarchy exists but more and more it is the only place where I feel as if I can truly, honestly exist. It seems as if society has given up on rationality, but I know really what has happen is that I’ve given up on society. I once believed that all these authoritarians who I’m surrounded by were just mistaken because they didn’t understand what they were doing. But, as the years roll by I’m more and more convinced that these people are consciously, knowingly trying to limit others rights and freedoms. Like petty high school clicks, or rats wantonly hurting other rats, or maybe more generously like crabs pulling another crab down who is trying to escape the crab pot.
End of the Trail
What do you do when you reach the end of the trail
When all that’s left is picking up the empty beer bottles of your dream
Times like these Ol’ Man Wanderlust plies his trade
Just ride off like Abbey’s Brave Cowboy he says
Make the sweet simplicity of Walden
I know just the place
This time it will work
I’m not sure I’m strong enough anymore I tell him
Those are young men’s dreams
The Siren Solitude calls
I don’t want you forever she says
Just let me help you find a new dream
I won’t wreck you on the rocks
Didn’t I return you from the mountains all those times
We danced in the falling quaky leaves
In the warmth of the setting sun while your head was on my lap
I told you stories of tomorrow
We can do it again
How Things Work
Yesterday I drove the 90 miles to our nearest large town building center. I pulled our heavy duty flatbed trailer since I had to pick up nearly two tons of decking and a bunch of dimensional lumber. This material will allow me to finish the final layer of roof on our backwoods house. Well actually it was purchased to end the parade of five gallon buckets around the house whenever snow melted or it rained. Most importantly it was purchased to end the near hysterical fits my wife had when the house developed impromptu roving waterfalls in random rooms. (more…)
Who do you serve?
For those of us who are fighting the system there are many adversaries that are obvious. Adversaries being those individuals or groups of individuals who’s existence is harmful to liberty as we know it. (more…)
This is John Galt
I was pleasantly surprised to read that Atlas Shrugged is now one of the “Must Read” books in the nation, even Congresscritters are recommending reading it. My second Blog entry was entitled “Why I Shrugged” because well…………I did. The time I wrote of in that entry that inspired me to Shrug was 1998. It took me seven years to realize my plan but in 2005 we officially Shrugged. Boy, things have changed since the days of the lake front home, with 3 boats on our private dock, all the pocket money etc.. are gone but things are simpler now. “Starving the beast” has actually become a lifestyle and a reason for many things including my quitting smoking, and restarting my home brewing. It seems as though the masses are way behind as usual but it’s nice to see them getting their shit together so to say. Myself and several others who have been able to see several years ahead are now looking at “end game strategies”. I recently read something (I can’t remember where) about how nobody saw the fall of the USSR until just days before it happened. Mind you I lived through this time in history but I was more genitally oriented than politically, so I did some research about that time and place today. There are some scary parallels. Just as oil played a major part in the end of the USSR I see it being the final straw here also. Several years ago there was talk of a “Golden Dinar”; a gold backed currency from Saudi Arabia. If this is instituted it would end the era of every country needing to purchase oil in dollars and the need for foreign countries to hold them for this purpose. The US government stopped reporting the M3 several years ago but I guarantee you there are a bunch of near-worthless FRN’s (Federal Reserve Notes) that have been held for that purpose only. They will be coming home and will start us down The Zimbabwe Express………….enough rambling for today……………..
Best movie I’ve seen in a long while
I’m one of those weird people who likes dramas. Four out of my top five currently favorite movies are dramas. A couple of days ago I ran across We Don’t Live Here Any More while looking up clips of some of my more obscure favorite movies. I watched it the other night………late…. late because I knew it would be inappropriate for the kids and unfortunately the Lil’ Lady doesn’t like any movie that doesn’t have a Disney-esque ending. This has to be the best movie I’ve seen since The Lives of Others (#3 on the list) and the most disturbing since Fight Club(still at #5). This movie is a dark and honest look at infidelity, the lengths some people will go to to escape the monotony of the status quo, and the lengths some will go to preserve the same status quo. This movie was able to do something no other movie has ever done. I was actually laughing and crying at the same time. I’m not talking about one immediately following the other but really at the same time. These weren’t tears of mirth, no this part was so sad yet so sad I couldn’t help laughing. I coined the phrase emotional responsibility paradigm after watching this.
The non-drama outlier on my current list is the unrated version of Eurotrip for those who were wondering.
GULCH UPDATE:
The wiring is almost done, I have only 3 runs left and we hung 12 sheets of drywall yesterday. We haven’t received any real snow since December until a few days ago but have been picking up a few inches per day for the last couple of days.
Obama is a lying sack of shit.
That fucking cunt fart is not the next Reagan, FDR, Carter, or Christ you dumb son-a-bitches. Yea, It shouldn’t be a surprise to anyone, and it really isn’t to me. He is a politician you moronic imbeciles, that’s what they do; lie. I’d race back to the store and return any of these if you impulse bought them.
Here is a quote from not that long ago:
HELENA – Democratic presidential nominee Barack Obama “isn’t going to take your guns,” Montana Sen. Jon Tester told reporters Thursday in a call from the Democratic National Convention in Denver.
http://www.missoulian.com/articles/2008/08/29/news/local/news02.txt
Here is the quote I read today:
The Obama administration will seek to reinstate the assault weapons ban that expired in 2004 during the Bush administration, Attorney General Eric Holder said today. http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/story?id=6960824&page=1
I posted the text of this crap a couple of months ago and this time around they intend to include the transfer and possession…….in other words… they have every intention of coming and taking them.
I like this part for the same Tester interview also:
….he’s a guy[Obama] “who likes my guns, to be honest with you,” and said Obama looked him “straight in the eye” and said the Second Amendment will be safe under an Obama presidency.
I’m going with the case law………..and common sense that says any laws contrary to The Supreme Law of the Land and null and void. I’ll give those bastards the gun only when I have no bullets left……if then.
It’s funny how all governments that have plans to crush and kind of dissent have always disarmed the citizens…………how our economy is turning fascist (it’s called socialist by most except, there is still an illusion of property rights) and is crashing at the same exponential rate as their fucked up gun laws.
Marking Time
I had an old friend once who said a person can mark points in their lives by the bad habits they quit.
I spent the last week at home not leaving even once. There were two reasons for this. Firstly, I have some people coming to visit around the twentieth and several have offered to help sheet rock…..Which would require me to be ready to hang some more sheet rock. Meaning I need to finish up the wiring and second layer of rigid insulation inside the stud walls. The second reason being I decided to take a break from booze and the only place I ever really went to in town was the bar which has free wi-fi.
I’m back in town tonight, and will soon partake of a nice cold beer. I was beginning to get a little bit scared of my sobriety.
I was never really big on drugs even in college. I quit caffeine almost ten years ago, and soft drinks shortly after that. I quit smoking on New Years, and last weeks spin on the wagon almost did it….I could feel my ascension, it was that close. I have to dirty my life up a little bit. I really want to see this house completed at least. If we could get good reasonably priced shellfish reliably up here every Friday I guess I would take that path, both “DB” and Jacques swear that’s a sin.
Over the course of last week I finished all the appliances and wiring in the kitchen, bath, and utility room. I finished the Breakfast Bar, linen closet, vented battery box and got all the alternative energy equipment moved into their permanent places in the utility room. The ol’ Homelite Genny is about done…….well at least due for a vacation. It’s burning a lot of oil and is producing only 7 Amps. I really can’t complain it has run thousands of hours for us and it was used when we got it. I purchased an old Coleman maxa unit with a 8 horse Tecumseh today for $100 and will install it tomorrow and see how close it gets to it’s spec rating of 33 Amps.
Here are some pics for you all.
High Crimes and Treason……Low Crimes and Misdemeanors?
So the whole category of ethics has really sparked my interest lately. I always thought that it was pretty cut and dry. But recently a couple of incidents have show me in the “lesser crimes” categories there are large differences of opinion. Drunken dialing (not on a regular basis) in my opinion is just one of those things friends will do occasionally. Sending a friend homosexual pornography is one thing that almost makes me utter the words “There should be a law.” However, I have a friend “Etiwanda” who believes the moral stand point on these two are reversed.
