Eejit Proof
welcome to my personal brain-dump
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As a very important source of strength and security, cherish public credit. One method of preserving it is to use it as sparingly as possible...avoiding likewise the accumulation of debt, not only by shunning occasions of expense, but by vigorous exertions in time of Peace to discharge the Debts, ... not ungenerously throwing upon posterity the burden which we ourselves ought to bear.George Washington, Farewell Address, 1796.
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[T]o compel a man to furnish contributions of money for the propagation of opinions which he disbelieves and abhors, in sinful and tyrannical.
Thomas Jefferson, Virginia Statute for Religious Freedom, 1786.
This completely sums up the outrage by Roman Catholics and others against the Obama administration’s contraception mandate.
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[T]o compel a man to furnish contributions of money for the propagation of opinions which he disbelieves and abhors, in sinful and tyrannical.
Thomas Jefferson, Virginia Statute for Religious Freedom, 1786.
This completely sums up the outrage by Roman Catholics and others against the Obama administration’s contraception mandate.
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The sacred rights of mankind are not to be rummaged for, among old parchments, or musty records. They are written, as with a sun beam, in the whole volume of human nature, by the hand of the divinity itself; and can never be erased or obscured by mortal power.
Alexander Hamilton, The Farmer Refuted, 1775.
Our rights are derived from God, not from man. Than means man cannot remove or reduce those rights, as much as liberals try.
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When the representative body have lost the confidence of their constituents, when they have notoriously made sale of their most valuable rights, when they have assumed to themselves powers which the people never put into their hands, then indeed their continuing in office because dangerous to the state, and calls for an exercise of the power of dissolution.
Thomas Jefferson, A Summary View of the Rights of British America, 1774.
Currently, the congressional approval rating is at an all time low of 11.3%. The federal government has overstepped it bounds. The time is now to make sweeping changes to take back the “powers which the people never put into their hands”. Be sure to take a close look at your representative’s and senators’ voting records before November.
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Single acts of tyranny may be ascribed to the accidental opinion of a day; but a series of oppressions, begun at a distinguished period, and pursued unalterably through every change of ministers, too plainly prove a deliberate, systematical plan of reducing us to slavery.
Thomas Jefferson, A Summary View of the Rights of British America, 1774.
Although Jefferson is describing Britain’s rule over America, this quote can certainly be applied to us today. What more characterizes American politics of the 20th century than “a series of oppressions…of reducing us to slavery”?
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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.
The Declaration of Independence. 1776.
- These are “truths”. Not opinions.
- They are “self-evident”. Obvious to all who stop to think about them.
- These rights stem from the “Laws of Nature and of Nature’s God” (earlier in the Declaration). They are not granted by any government or society.
- They are “unalienable”. Permanent. Cannot be taken away.
- “among these”. There are others.
- Men have a right to “pursue” happiness on equal terms with other men. They do not have a right to be happy.
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It took a whole bunch of hours. The inside has a fairly accurate representation of the rooms, but no gilded furniture or inlay. There’s only so much one can do within Minecraft.
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This month, Dark Horse starts a new Conan line focused on the latter tales from Conan’s life when he was king of Aquilonia. Appropriately titled “King Conan”, the first issue begins the tale of The Scarlet Citadel. Tim Truman, Tomas Giorello, and Jose Villarrubia continue their teamwork from the Conan the Cimmerian series that just finished late last year.Tim Truman is truly a master of retelling Robert E. Howard’s tales. He led the effort through The Cimmerian and continues into King Conan. Truman has a gift of being able to take Howard’s work and crafting it into the comic format. I really appreciate the beginning, not found in Howard, showing the aging Conan retelling a tale of his former days. The images of Conan as an old wrinkled war veteran is superb.
Like Truman, Giorello and Villarrubia continue their collaboration on the artwork. Giorello has really come a long way from The Cimmerian #1. The penciling is tight and highly detailed. Villarrubia does a fantastic job on the colors, like he did on the Cimmerian.
All in all, an excellent way to kick off the new series.
