Thursday, May 31, 2012

Metaphysician

 "A metaphysician is one who, when you remark that twice two makes four, demands to know what you mean by twice, what by two, what by makes, and what by four. For asking such questions metaphysicians are supported in oriental luxury in the universities, and respected as educated and intelligent men."

--H.L. Mencken (1880-1956), US writer

Wednesday, May 30, 2012

Secrecy

"The liberties of a people never were, nor ever will be, secure, when the transactions of their rulers may be concealed from them."
--Patrick Henry (1736-1799)

Tuesday, May 29, 2012

How To Get Back The Google Cache Function

How to get back the Google Cache function.  I've seen some other ways described, such as a "preview" function that I don't see and arrows that aren't there...suffice it to say, the one below does work.

TLC
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(Per Google's Guide)

You can also retrieve Google’s cached version of a page via the cache: search operator. For example, [ cache:www.pandemonia.com/flying/ will show Google’s cached version of Flight Diary in which Hamish Reid documents what’s involved in learning how to fly.

On the cached version of a page, Google will highlight terms in your query that appear after the cache: search operator. For example, in the snapshot of the page www.pandemonia.com/flying/, Google highlights the terms “fly” and “diary” in response to the query [ cache:www.pandemonia.com/flying/ fly diary ].

Use the Wayback Machine when you want to visit a version of a web page that is older than Google’s cached version.
http://archive.org/web/web.php


Source:
  http://www.googleguide.com/cached_pages.html

Miserable

"So long as men worship the Caesars and Napoleons, the Caesars and Napoleons will arise to make them miserable."
--Aldous Huxley

Monday, May 28, 2012

Security VII

"... By calling attention to a well-regulated militia for the security of the Nation, and the right of each citizen to keep and bear arms, our founding fathers recognized the essentially civilian nature of our economy. Although it is extremely unlikely that the fear of governmental tyranny, which gave rise to the 2nd amendment, will ever be a major danger to our Nation, the amendment still remains an important declaration of our basic military-civilian relationship, in which every citizen must be ready to participate in the defense of his country. For that reason I believe the 2nd Amendment will always be important."
--John F. Kennedy
(1917-1963) 35th US President
Source: (Ref: AR 12-73 p.14)

Sunday, May 27, 2012

Looking II

"The faces of our future generations are looking up to us from the earth and we step with great care not to disturb our grandchildren."
--Traditional Circle of Elders

Saturday, May 26, 2012

Heresy

"Heresy is another word for freedom of thought."
--Henry Graham Greene (1904-1991) British Writer

Friday, May 25, 2012

Habitual II

"As one reads history, not in the expurgated editions written for schoolboys and passmen, but in the original authorities of each time, one is absolutely sickened, not by the crimes that the wicked have committed, but by the punishments that the good have inflicted; and a community is infinitely more brutalised by the habitual employment of punishment than it is by the occasional occurrence of crime."
--Oscar Wilde

(1854-1900)
Source: The Soul of Man Under Socialism

Thursday, May 24, 2012

Determine

"Nevertheless, to the persecution and tyranny of his cruel ministry we will not tamely submit - appealing to Heaven for the justice of our cause, we determine to die or be free...."
--Joseph Warren (American account of the Battle of Lexington,
26 April 1775)

Wednesday, May 23, 2012

Vice

"For a government to declare a vice to be a crime, and to punish it as such, is an attempt to falsify the very nature of things. It is as absurd as it would be to declare truth to be a falsehood, or falsehood a truth."

--Lysander Spooner (1808-1887)
Political theorist, activist, abolitionist
Source: Vices are Not Crimes, A Vindication of Moral Liberty (1875).

Tuesday, May 22, 2012

Natural II

"Natural liberty is the right of common upon a waste;
civil liberty is the safe, exclusive, unmolested  enjoyment of a cultivated enclosure."

--William Paley
(1743-1805) British Christian apologist, philosopher, and utilitarian

Monday, May 21, 2012

Nullification II

"The jury possesses a general veto power and may acquit when it has no sympathy for the Government’s case, no matter how overwhelming the evidence of guilt. A jury acquittal is final and unreviewable; a judge may not direct a jury to convict or vacate an acquittal, nor may a prosecutor appeal an acquittal on grounds of judicial error or erroneous jury determination."
--Lieutenant Commander Robert E. Korroch
Source: Lieutenant Commander Robert E. Korroch and Major Michael J. Davidson, (LTC Korroch serves with the U.S. Coast Guard; B.S., U.S. Coast Guard Academy (1981); J.D., Marshall-Wythe School of Law, College of William and Mary 1988) (Maj. Davidson serves with the U.S. Army Judge Advocate General Corps, Litigation Division), in Jury Nullification: A Call for Justice or an Invitation to Anarchy?, 139 MIL. L. REV. 131 (1993).

Sunday, May 20, 2012

Reason III

"Man, once surrendering his reason, has no remaining guard against absurdities the most monstrous, and like a ship without rudder, is the spot of every wind. With such persons, gullability, which they call faith, takes the helm from the hand of reason and the mind becomes a wreck."
--Thomas Jefferson, letter to James Smith, December 8, 1822

Saturday, May 19, 2012

Change VI

"As I stood in line screaming in terror while the cashier handed me two quarters, one dime and a nickel, I was hit with a sad realization: I was afraid of change."
--Paul B.

Friday, May 18, 2012

Bequeath

"We must pity the poor wretched, timid soul who is too faint-hearted to resist his oppressors. He sings the song of the dammed: “I can’t fight back; I have too much to lose; I own too much property; I have worked too hard to get what I have; They will put me out of business if I resist; I might go to jail; I have my family to think about.” Such poor miserable creatures have misplaced values and are hiding their cowardice behind pretended family responsibility -- blindly refusing to see that the most glorious legacy that one can bequeath to posterity is liberty; and that the only true security is liberty."                                         
--Marvin Cooley


Thursday, May 17, 2012

Annoyance

"Few things are harder to put up with than the annoyance of a good example."
--Mark Twain (pseudonym of Samuel Langhorne Clemens), Pudd'nhead Wilson (ch. 19)

Wednesday, May 16, 2012

Worse IV

"There are worse things in life than death. Have you ever spent an evening with an insurance salesman?"

--Woody Allen

Tuesday, May 15, 2012

Alibi

"The welfare of the people in particular has always been the alibi of tyrants, and it provides the further advantage of giving the servants of tyranny a good conscience."
--Albert Camus
(1913-1960) French Algerian author

Monday, May 14, 2012

Suffering

"Few can believe that suffering, especially by others, is in vain. Anything that is disagreeable must surely have beneficial economic effects."

--John Kenneth Galbraith

Sunday, May 13, 2012

Replay

"He [King George III] has erected a multitude of New Offices and sent hither swarms of Officers to harass our people, and eat out their substance."
-- Thomas Jefferson
(1743-1826), US Founding Father, drafted the Declaration of Independence, 3rd US President
1776
Source: Declaration of Independence, listing the reasons for declaring independence from England.

Saturday, May 12, 2012

Shepherd

"It [government] covers the surface of society with a network of small complicated rules, minute and uniform, through which the most original minds and the most energetic characters cannot penetrate, to rise above the crowd. The will of man is not shattered, but softened, bent, guided; men are seldom forced by it to act, but they are constantly restrained from acting: such a power does not destroy, but it prevents existence; it does not tyrannize, but it compresses, extinguishes, and stupefies a people, till each nation is reduced to be nothing better than a flock of timid and industrious animals, of which the government is the shepherd."

--Alexis de Tocqueville
[Alexis Charles Henri Maurice Clerel, le Comte de Tocqueville]
(1805-1859) French historian

Friday, May 11, 2012

Sometimes

"Sometimes, I think I love my dog more than I love my husband. Then again, he slobbers all the time, he's always hungry, and he won't stop humping my leg even if I swat him with a newspaper. The dog doesn't do that stuff."
--Rita Sullivan

Thursday, May 10, 2012

Sing

"You can muffle the drum, and you can loosen the strings of the lyre,

but who shall command the skylark not to sing?"
--Khalil Gibran
(1883-1931) Lebanese-American philosophical essayist, novelist, mystical poet, and artist
Source: The Prophet

Wednesday, May 09, 2012

Remote

"In an age of synthetic images and synthetic emotions, the chances of an accidental encounter with reality are remote indeed."
--Serge Daney

Tuesday, May 08, 2012

Death Squads At Work

North Carolina man charged with 50 counts of animal cruelty

Yesterday, Burke County Animal Control seized 105 dogs from the house of Larry Steverson Buff, 58, of Morganton, N.C.

According to the Hickory Daily Record, today Buff was charged with 50 misdemeanor counts of animal cruelty.

According to investigators, some of the dogs were suffering from medical conditions which warrants them to be humanely euthanized.

Full article, Examiner, May 8, 2012.
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Once again government, instead of sending in kids who have gotten into trouble and need to do some community service, instead of rallying the community to get in there and fix the place up, instead of encouraging a fundraiser so there would be funds for veterinary care...instead of doing the right thing, instead of doing something *constructive*, the iron jackboot of government comes down after letting things reach a crisis level, then takes those innocent dogs to concentration camps where most will receive The Needle Of Death.

Where there is government...there is violence and tragedy.

TLC

Students

"We are students of words; we are shut up in schools, and colleges, and recitation rooms, for ten or fifteen years, and come out at last with a bag of wind, a memory of words, and do not know a thing."                    
--Ralph Waldo Emerson
(1803-1882)

Monday, May 07, 2012

Limits V

"Government exists to protect us from each other. Where government has gone beyond its limits is in deciding to protect us from ourselves."
-- Ronald Reagan
(1911-2004) 40th US President

Sunday, May 06, 2012

Progress IV

"Progress is life, Standing still is death".
--Pir Inayat Khan

Saturday, May 05, 2012

Education IX

"We must create out of the younger generation a generation of Communists. We must turn children, who can be shaped like wax, into real, good Communists. ... We must remove the children from the crude influence of their families. We must take them over and, to speak frankly, nationalize them. From the first days of their lives they will be under the healthy influence of Communist children's nurseries and schools. There they will grow up to be real Communists."
--Communist Party Education Workers Congress

Friday, May 04, 2012

Handicapped

"Interestingly, from an identity standpoint, what does it mean to have a disability? Pamela Anderson has more prosthetic in her body than I do and nobody calls her disabled."
--Aimee Mullins, Ted Conference, How My Legs Give Me Super-Powers, February 2009

Thursday, May 03, 2012

Crushes

"What ever crushes individuality is despotism, no matter what name it is called."

--John Stuart Mill

Wednesday, May 02, 2012

Nullify

The drafters of the Constitution clearly intended [the right of trial by jury] to protect the accused from oppression by the Government. Singer v. United States, 380 U.S. 24, 31, 85 S. Ct. 783, 788, 13 L. Ed. 2d 630 (1965). ... Part of this protection is embodied in the concept of jury nullification: “In criminal cases, a jury is entitled to acquit the defendant because it has no sympathy for the government’s position.” United States v. Wilson, 629 F.2d 439, 443 (6th Cir. 1980). The Founding Fathers knew that, absent jury nullification, judicial tyranny not only was a possibility, but was a reality in the colonial experience. Although we may view ourselves as living in more civilized times, there is obviously no reason to believe the need for this protection has been eliminated. Judicial and prosecutorial excesses still occur, and Congress is not yet an infallible body incapable of making tyrannical laws.


--Judge Thomas Wiseman
Source: U.S. v. Datcher, 830 F. Supp. 411, 413 (M.D. Tenn., 1993) case dismissed Sept. 1, 1994, 6th Cir. Ct. Of Appeals, Case No. 3:92-00054 certiorari denied U.S. Supreme Court Case No. 94-8767, May 15, 1995.

Tuesday, May 01, 2012

Anniversary

One year ago, Elvis Presley was killed in a compound in Pakistan.

What, you say he was long-dead?

So was the person the corporate media seeks to brainwash you into believing was gunned down on 5/1/11.

Happy Walpurgis Night!

TLC

P.S. Yeah, Google it. Add the word "Occult"