Juan Valdez should be a wealthy man.

================================================
============================================
=============================================


"[E]very Man has a Property in his own Person. This no Body has any Right to but himself. The Labour of his Body, and the Work of his Hands, we may say, are properly his. The great and chief end therefore, of Mens uniting into Commonwealths, and putting themselves under Government, is the Preservation of their Property." -- John Locke (1632-1704) English philosopher and political theorist. Considered the ideological progenitor of the American Revolution and who, by far, was the most often non-biblical writer quoted by the Founding Fathers of the USA.
http://quotes.liberty-tree.ca/quote_blog/John.Locke.Quote.07AA


"Positive laws are tyrannical. One's individual rights -- whether they be life, liberty, or property -- must be sacrificed by the state in order to fulfill the positive rights of another. For example, if housing is considered a "right," then the state will have to confiscate wealth (property) from those who have provided shelter for themselves in order to house those who have not.... True justice is realized when our lives, and property are secure, and we are free to express our thoughts without fear of retribution. Just laws are negative in nature; they exist to thwart the violation of our natural rights. Government ought to be the collective organization -- that is, the extension -- of the individual's right of self-defense, and its purpose to protect our lives, liberties, and property." -- Mark Da Vee Source: Defining Justice, The Freeman, P. 566-67, August, 1996 http://quotes.liberty-tree.ca/quote_blog/Mark.Da.Vee.Quote.752A


"The doctrine of non-resistance against arbitrary power and oppression, is absurd, slavish, and destructive of the good and happiness of mankind. -- New Hampshire Constitution, Source: Article 10 http://quotes.liberty-tree.ca/quote_blog/New.Constitution.Quote.5380

"Is your life worth protecting? If so, whose responsibility is it to protect it? ...
How can you rightfully ask another human being to risk his life to protect yours, when you will assume no responsibility yourself?" -- Jeffrey R. Snyder American attorney, author Source: A Nation of Cowards, 113 Public Interest (Fall 1993). http://quotes.liberty-tree.ca/quote_blog/Jeffrey.Snyder.Quote.392C


"In March, 1982, Kennesaw, Georgia, passed a mandatory gun ownership ordinance which requires all heads of households to own a firearm -- handgun, rifle or shotgun. In 1982, our crime against persons, which include murder, rape, armed robbery, aggravated assault and residential burglary, decreased 74%. In 1983 these same crimes decreased [an additional] 46%. ... I would also like you to be aware that our population has increased in excess of 20% since 1982. We have had no accidents nor incidents involving our citizens with regards to firearms. ... It is a pleasure to see our senior citizens strolling the streets at night without fear of becoming a victim of violent crime." -- Robert L. Ruble Chief of Police, Kennesaw, Georgia Source: November 5, 1984, unpublished letter to Ann Landers
http://quotes.liberty-tree.ca/quote_blog/Robert.Ruble.Quote.6504


"If you own your life, then you have the right to defend yourself against anyone who would deprive you of it. ... And, if you have the right of self-defense, it follows that you have the right to act ... to obtain means appropriate to that defense. That brings us to firearms, particularly the handgun, which so many people would outlaw. The handgun has been called the equalizer ..., and for good reason. It affords smaller, weaker people the chance to defend themselves against bigger, stronger people who threaten them. Handguns offer the otherwise defenseless a convenient, practical, inexpensive method of safeguarding themselves and their families. Banishing handguns -- even if the big and strong were also denied them -- would leave the small and the weak defenseless." -- Sheldon Richman V.P. of Future of Freedom Foundation, author Source: The Right to Life Equals the Right to Possess Firearms, The Tyranny of Gun Control, 40 (Future of Freedom Foundation 1997).
http://quotes.liberty-tree.ca/quote_blog/Sheldon.Richman.Quote.A418


==========================================
==========================================
==========================================

My comments at

Meeting Rep. Dan Branch

Tim Lebsack | Points: +32 | Tuesday December 7, 2010, 13:24 PM

Dan Branch didn't ignore the Libertarian Party of Dallas County in March 2010. He sent two shill delegates to our County Convention to persuade us to NOT nominate a candidate to run against him.
Dan Branch's false delegates were not as persuasive as he had planned. Disappointing that Dan Branch and Dallas County Republicans will stoop to such tactics to keep a career politician in control of the taxpayer's coffers. 

=======================================
=======================================
=======================================


"[F]or everybody has a natural right to defend his own person and property against aggressors, but also to go to the assistance and defence of everybody else, whose person or property is invaded. The natural right of each individual to defend his own person and property against an aggressor, and to go to the assistance and defence of every one else whose person or property is invaded, is a right without which men could not exist on earth."
-- Lysander Spooner
(1808-1887) Political theorist, activist, abolitionist
Source: Vices are Not Crimes, A Vindication of Moral Liberty (1875)
http://quotes.liberty-tree.ca/quote_blog/Lysander.Spooner.Quote.209F


"I'm convinced that we have to have federal legislation to build on. We're going to have to take one step at a time, and the first step is necessarily -- given the political realities -- going to be very modest. Of course, it's true that politicians will then go home and say, 'This is a great law. The problem is solved.' And it's also true that such statements will tend to defuse the gun-control issue for a time. So then we'll have to strengthen that law, and then again to strengthen that law, and maybe again and again. Right now, though, we'd be satisfied not with half a loaf but with a slice. Our ultimate goal -- total control of handguns in the United States -- is going to take time. My estimate is from seven to ten years. The problem is to slow down the increasing number of handguns sold in this country. The second problem is to get them all registered. And the final problem is to make the possession of all handguns and all handgun ammunition -- except for the military, policemen, licensed security guards, licensed sporting clubs, and licensed gun collectors -- totally illegal."
-- Nelson Shields
Co-founder and Chairman Emeritus, Handgun Control, Inc.
Source: A Reporter At Large: Handguns, The New Yorker, July 26, 1976, 57-58
http://quotes.liberty-tree.ca/quote_blog/Nelson.Shields.Quote.C2AE

=====================================================
==================================================
==============================================


"If you believe it reprehensible to possess the means and will to use lethal force to repel a criminal assault, how can you call upon another to do so for you?"



"Crime is rampant because the law-abiding, each of us, condone it, excuse it, permit it, submit to it. We permit and encourage it because we do not fight back, immediately, then and there, where it happens. Crime is not rampant because we do not have enough prisons, because judges and prosecutors are too soft, because the police are hamstrung with absurd technicalities. The defect is there, in our character. We are a nation of cowards and shirkers."



"As the Founding Fathers knew well, a government that does not trust its honest, law-abiding, taxpaying citizens with the means of self-defense is not itself worthy of trust. Laws disarming honest citizens proclaim that the government is the master, not the servant of the people... The Bill of Rights does not grant rights to the people, such that its repeal would legitimately confer upon government the powers otherwise proscribed. The Bill of Rights is the list of the fundamental, inalienable rights, endowed in man by his Creator, that define what it means to be a free and independent people, the rights which must exist to ensure that government governs only with the consent of the people."
-- three quotes from Jeffrey R. Snyder
American attorney, author
Source: A Nation of Cowards, 113 Public Interest (Fall 1993)
http://quotes.liberty-tree.ca/quote_blog/Jeffrey.Snyder.Quote.F47B

 

Savage Garden, Josh Groban

Kid Steals IPad At North Dallas High School

Almost A Moment Of Despondency

Yesterday evening, I begin my walk to home from the employer.  A trio of hispanic high-school boys approach and ask if I'd like to buy an IPad.  A quick glance and I realize that it's well used - most likely stolen from someone at the nearby North Dallas High School.  I decline the offer to purchase the IPad.

http://www.cultofmac.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/4745723210_04182d5d63.jpg

What possesses a 15-year-old to become a thief, particularly from someone he knows?  Perhaps only one of the three was the perpetrator of the crime but the two companions were knowledgeable.  

Hopefully, all three of these lads will abandon their larcenous ways as they mature or each of them will eventually be destroyed by his own life.

 ==============================
 =============================
=============================== 

"The aim of public education is not to spread enlightenment at all; it is simply to reduce as many individuals as possible to the same safe level, to breed and train a standardized citizenry, to put down dissent and originality. That is its aim in the United States, whatever the pretensions of politicians, pedagogues, and other such mountebanks, and that is its aim everywhere else...Their purpose, in brief, is to make docile and patriotic citizens, to pile up majorities, and to make John Doe and Richard Doe as nearly alike, in their everyday reactions and ways of thinking, as possible." -- H. L. Mencken (1880-1956) American Journalist, Editor, Essayist, Linguist, Lexicographer, and Critic
http://quotes.liberty-tree.ca/quote_blog/H..L..Mencken.Quote.0BF4


"A general State education is a mere contrivance for molding people to be exactly like one another; and as the mold in which it casts them is that which pleases the dominant power in the government, whether this be a monarch, an aristocracy, or a majority of the existing generation; in proportion as it is efficient and successful, it establishes a despotism over the mind, leading by a natural tendency to one over the body."
-- John Stuart Mill (1806-1873) English philosopher and economist
http://quotes.liberty-tree.ca/quote_blog/John.Stuart.Mill.Quote.9453


"In the hands of the state, compulsory public education becomes a tool for political control and manipulation -- a prime instrument for the thought police of the society. And precisely because every child passes through the same indoctrination process -- learning the same "official history," the same "civic virtues," the same lessons of obedience and loyalty to the state -- it becomes extremely difficult for the independent soul to free himself from the straight-jacket of the ideology and values the political authorities wish to imprint upon the population under its jurisdiction. For the communists, it was the class struggle and obedience to the Party and Comrade Stalin; for the fascists, it was worship of the nation -- state and obedience to the Duce; for the Nazis, it was race purity and obedience to the Fuhrer. The content has varied, but the form has remained the same. Through the institution of compulsory state education, the child is to be molded like wax into the shape desired by the state and its educational elite. We should not believe that because ours is a freer, more democratic society, the same imprinting procedure has not occurred even here, in America. Every generation of school-age children has imprinted upon it a politically correct ideology concerning America's past and the sanctity of the role of the state in society. Practically every child in the public school system learns that the "robber barons" of the 19th century exploited the common working man; that unregulated capitalism needed to be harnessed by enlightened government regulation beginning in the Progressive era at the turn of the century; that wild Wall Street speculation was a primary cause of the Great Depression; that only Franklin Roosevelt's New Deal saved America from catastrophe; and that American intervention in foreign wars has been necessary and inevitable, with the United States government required to be a global leader and an occasional world policeman."
-- Richard M. Eberling (1950- ) Author, Professor of Economics
Source: Introduction to 'Separating School & State: How to Liberate America's Families' (Sheldon Richman, 1994) http://quotes.liberty-tree.ca/quote_blog/Richard.Eberling.Quote.2E61


 ======================
======================
=========================






My response at

GOP fear: Steele spending spree could cripple convention

tim_lebsack

None of the taxpayer’s money should be used so that a private organization can gather.

11:38 AM 12/03/2010 - 11:38 AM Reply | Report Comment




==============================================

=============================================
==============================================

Q: "I'm going to show love this Christmas" - When might difficulty with this statement arise ??

A: December 26th.

=============================================

=============================================
=============================================

Violence motivated by religion is indicative of a lack of faith. -- Tim Lebsack

======================================
==========================================
=============================================

You are visiting the official site of Jameson Irish Whiskey.

You must be of legal drinking age in the country in which you are accessing this site. By entering you agree to our terms & conditions & our privacy policy.

Where do you live? United States United Kingdom Ireland Afghanistan Albania Algeria Andorra Angola Antigua and Barbuda Argentina Armenia Australia Austria Azerbaijan Bahamas Bahrain Bangladesh Barbados Belarus Belgium Belize Benin Bhutan Bolivia Bosnia and Herzegovina Botswana Brazil Brunei Darussalam Bulgaria Burkina Faso Cambodia Cameroon Canada Cape Verde Central African Republic Chad Chile China Colombia Congo Costa Rica Cote DIvoire Croatia Cuba Cyprus Czech Republic Denmark Djibouti Dominica Dominican Republic Ecuador Egypt El Salvador Equatorial Guinea Estonia Fiji Finland France French Polynesia Gabon Gambia Georgia Germany Ghana Greece Grenada Guatemala Guinea Guinea-Bissau Guyana Haiti Honduras Hong Kong Hungary Iceland India Indonesia Iran, Islamic Republic of Iraq Israel Italy Jamaica Japan Jordan Kazakhstan Kenya Korea, Democratic Peoples Republic of Korea, Republic of Kuwait Kyrgyzstan Lao Peoples Democratic Republic Latvia Lebanon Lesotho Liberia Libyan Arab Jamahiriya Liechtenstein Lithuania Luxembourg Macedonia Madagascar Malawi Malaysia Maldives Mali Malta Mauritania Mauritius Mexico Micronesia, Federated States of Moldova, Republic of Monaco Mongolia Montenegro Morocco Mozambique Namibia Nepal Netherlands New Zealand Nicaragua Niger Nigeria Norway Oman Ouganda Ouzbekistan Pakistan Panama Papua New Guinea Paraguay Peru Philippines Poland Portugal Qatar Romania Russian Federation Rwanda Saint Kitts and Nevis Saint Lucia Saint Vincent and the Grenadines Samoa San Marino Sao Tome and Principe Saudi Arabia Senegal Serbia Seychelles Sierra Leone Singapore Slovakia Slovenia Somalia South Africa Spain Sri Lanka Sudan Suriname Swaziland Sweden Switzerland Syrian Arab Republic Taiwan Tanzania, United Republic of Thailand Togo Tonga Trinidad and Tobago Tunisia Turkey Turkmenistan Tuvalu Uganda Ukraine United Arab Emirates Uruguay Uzbekistan Vanuatu Venezuela Vietnam Yemen Zambia Zimbabwe When were you born?

Remember Me

(Do not tick if it is a shared computer)

You must be of legal drinking age in the country in which you are accessing this site. By entering you agree to our terms & conditions and our privacy policy.

Irish Distillers Limited - Registered in Ireland - Number 23732 - Registered office: Simmonscourt House, Simmonscourt Road, Ballsbridge, Dublin 4, Ireland.

Irish Distillers and Pernod Ricard encourage a responsible attitude to the consumption of alcohol and actively discourage abuse and inapproriate consumption. Both companies are members of social aspects organisations which are active in the promotion of responsible drinking.

Buy whiskey, Hell, One cannot even look at a web site without being of government approved status.

Rachael Ray She's Not

Drunk Cooking from Sean Anderson on Vimeo.

=====================================================
======================================================
==================================================

Why would a Democrat-controlled Congress pass a measure (HR 3940), and a Democrat president sign it, that would postpone the enactment of something as "wonderful" as an increase in the minimum wage law. -- Walter Williams

Minimum Wage Maximum Folly

==========================================================

==========================================================

========================================================== 

"We have the same number of homeless people in Bryant Park today as we had when it was viewed by everyone as horrible in the early 1980s. What we didn't have then -- and we have now -- is 4,000 other people. The ratio of non-homeless to homeless is 4,000 to 13 instead of 250 to 13. So any female walking into Bryant Park who might have in the past been concerned about her security says, 'This doesn't look like a homeless hangout to me.' The homeless people are welcomed into Bryant Park if they follow the rules. And those same 13 people are there almost every day. We know their names." -- Dan Biederman

Making Parks Decent Again

=====================================================

=================================================

====================================================

Please stop attempting to normalize your child. -- Tim Lebsack 

=============================================
=============================================
===============================================





Catering Boss: I'm not paying you to do... whatever it is you're doing.

Ricky Fitts: So don't pay me.

Catering Boss: Excuse me?

Ricky Fitts: I quit. So you don't have to pay me. Now leave me alone.

Lester Burnham: I think you just became my personal hero.


=============================================
=============================================
============================================= 

 

Do You Want To Be A Hero ?

Advocate, teach and allow other individuals to be heroes.

Each of us must accept that we are our own first and last consultant.