Appeals to the Court of Public Opinion

Sounds pretty nasty huh? Well it is. Dan Kaminsky found the most ginormous flaw in the interwebs in ages. Go to his site and check out your own ISP’s DNS. 

It is generally understood that those who support the “conservatives” expect them to uphold the system which has been camouflaged by the loose term of “the American way of life.” The moral treason of the “conservative” leaders lies in the fact that they are hiding behind that camouflage: they do not have the courage to admit that the American  way of life was capitalism, that that is the system which they are now allowing to perish by silent default.

If the conservatives do not stand for capitalism, they stand for and are nothing; they have no goal, no direction, no political principles, no social ideals, no intellectual values, no leadership to offer anyone.

Yet capitalism is what the “conservatives” dare not advocate or defend. They are paralyzed by the profound conflict between capitalism and the moral code which dominates our culture: the morality of altruism. Altruism holds that man has no right to exist for his own sake, that service to others is the only justification of his existence and that self-sacrifice is his highest moral duty, virtue and value. Capitalism and altruism are incompatible; they are philosophical opposites; they cannot co-exist in the same man or in the same society. The conflict between capitalism and altruism has been undercutting America from her start and today, has reached its climax. - Ayn Rand Capitalism: The Unknown Ideal

 If the “liberals” are afraid to identify their program by its proper name, if they advocate every specific step, measure, policy and principle of statism, but squirm and twist themselves into semantic pretzels with such euphemisms as the “Welfare State,” the “New Deal,” the “New Frontier,” they still preserve a semblance of logic, if not of morality: it is the logic of a con man who cannot afford to let his victims discover his purpose. Besides, the majority of those who are loosely identified by the term “liberals” are afraid to let themselves discover that what they advocate is statism. They do not want to accept the full meaning of their goal; the want to keep all the advantages and effects of capitalism, while destroying the cause, and they want to establish statism without its necessary effects. They do not want to know or to admit that they are the champions of dictatorship and slavery. So the evade the issue, for fear of discovering that their goal is evil. - Ayn Rand Capitalism: The Unknown Ideal

After his recent gig in Austin, Texas, Eddie Izzard held a question and answer session in the lobby of the Paramount Theatre.

An audience member asked, “As a transvestite you challenge gender stereotypes. Do you consider yourself to be a feminist?”

Izzard’s response?

“Yes I am a feminist.”

What a visionary Eddie is. And his performance earlier in the evening was the best I have ever seen.

Bravo Eddie.

I know, I know, very few people even have one yet, and I probably won’t have one until sometime in August, but I am craving an iPhone.

This is unabashed, worshipful, false-idol lust. This thing is so amazing. Apple can do no wrong lately.

It’s not wise to pine so over a device but I have waited for this day for over a year. I have completely given myself to technology and if I could become a robot right now I would. (As long as there are still orgasms.)

Barack Obama tonight clenched the Democratic nomination. I know that I will look back on this day and say, “I told you so,” because Obama will be business as usual. He is a politician to the core and he is selling out the liberties of the U.S. as fast as any other Washington criminal.

Four years from now, we will still be in Iraq and Afghanistan. We will still have not brought anyone to justice for the coup d’ etat on 9/11. There will have been no repealing of any of the Constitution killing bills enacted by W. and his crew such as Patriot Acts 1 and 2, The John Warner Defense Authorization Act, The Military Commissions Act or PDD 51.

We will all be monitored closely by the NSA and their illegal wiretapping and Obama will do nothing to stop it. He will criminalize the ownership of firearms and he will systematically ensure that we are all taxed to death to pay for the rest of the world’s problems.

He’ll probably invade Iran under the misguided idea that we can have nukes but no one else can. (I believe the Constitution is good enough to cover the entire planet if they want it. Therefore the right to bear arms applies to anyone.)

I was a Hillary supporter not because I agreed with her politics but because she is a woman. Sexism is the most critically important issue that we as humans must solve. I am a radical affirmative action feminist. I say fire everyone in Congress and the Supreme Court and replace them with women. 100 years of women in power will be a “change I can believe in.”

Now we will have what we always have in the Whitehouse. A christian, heterosexual, breeder, sexist, sexualist, MAN.

Change. Ha!

Twitter goes down all the time. It’s because it is so cool and everyone wants to use it. It’s so popular that it’s now cool to trash it. I can’t imagine what it must be like to keep a site like Twitter up and running but I imagine it must be giving a few people sleepless nights worrying about it.

I’m going to say it. “I love Twitter. Warts and all.”

Of course all of the presidential candidates are WRONG WRONG WRONG on this issue. They are all cowards and they will scurry away from the “gay marriage” issue like the cockroaches they are. All of them: Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama, Ron Paul and (of course) John McCain.

I am all for abolishing marriage, but short of that, the only other solution is absolute equality for same-sex unions, henceforth to be known as “marriage” too. Nothing less.

Eddie Izzard - Visionary.

Since nature does not provide man with an automatic form of survival, since he has to support his life by his own effort, the doctrine that concern with one’s own interests is evil means that man’s desire to live is evil - that man’s life as such, is evil. No doctrine could be more evil than that.
…If you wonder about the reasons behind the ugly mixture of cynicism and guilt in which most men spend their lives, these are the reasons: cynicism, because thy neither practice nor accept the altruist morality, - guilt because they dare not reject it.
…Since selfishness is “concern with one’s own interests,” the Objectivist ethics uses that concept in its exact and purest sense. It is not a concept that one can surrender to man’s enemies, nor to the unthinking misconceptions, distortions, prejudices and fears of the ignorant and the irrational. The attack on “selfishness” is an attack on man’s self-esteem; to surrender one, is to surrender the other.
Ayn Rand - “The Virtue of Selfishness” - x-xi