There is no cease-fire, there will be no cease-fire. We are determined to succeed in this struggle. We will not give up on our goal to live a life free of terror.

Ehud Olmert
Israeli Prime Minister
Israel Approves 'Full Force' Strikes
On the attacks against Hezbollah in Lebanon.

Charles Whitman made history. Both sides of the gun debate use the example for their case. The anti-gun people because he killed 15 people and wounded 31. The pro gun people because private citizens started shooting back and kept him pinned down while the good guys got in position to finish him off.

The link above is a factual retelling of the tragedy. It's good reading.

[Sent to me by Meredith who is a student at the University of Texas.]

Xenia was downtown with Sara yesterday when a woman identifying herself as a newspaper reporter for the Daily News approached them and asked if they were high school students and if they would mind talking to her about cell phones in the school. They had a nice conversation and Xenia called me shortly thereafter to tell me I might be getting a call about cell phones in the schools.

I received the call earlier this morning. And one of the first questions she asked was if I had any comments on the school policy against cell phones with cameras. I asked if they had a policy against ordinary cameras in the school. They didn't. So I told her I didn't think it made any sense to have a policy against cell phone cameras. One is allowed and the other isn't. What sense can that make? Besides what's the problem with cameras anyway? She expressed her opinion that there was concern about cameras being in the locker rooms and bath rooms. Yeah, I can see why they wouldn't want pictures taken in those places but it's just like gun control.

They don't seem to get it. If someone is going to violate a rule against behavior that is obviously wrong and will be punished if the perpetrator is caught then what makes them think a rule against possessing the object to begin with will be honored? The possession is a victimless crime. Victimless crimes shouldn't exist.

This could be very useful. Lighter and tougher body armor. It will never take the place of defensive weapons but I would consider wearing body armor on a regular basis if it were cheap and comfortable enough. I carry my handgun whenever I can but in many cases you may end up taking the first hit before you are able to take the attack to the aggressor. And of course there are those times when I'm not allowed to bring my defensive tools with me and body armor might allow me additional time to bring my hands and/or feet into range and absorb the attack while I'm delivering my own.

From the UK Times:

Since Israel started to bomb Hezbollah targets in Lebanon last month, it has asked for faster delivery of JP8 jet fuel and guided bomb units (GBU28s). The jet fuel order could be worth up to $210 million and the 100 GBU28s, which are better-known as bunker busters, could cost $30 million. Other outstanding deliveries include F16 fighter jets and armoured troop carriers.

Just as computer programmers turn caffeine into code Israel converts jet fuel and bombs into dead terrorists.

I cannot and will not cut my conscience to fit this year's fashions.

Lillian Hellman
Letter to the House Un-American Activities Committee, May 19, 1952.
[An admirable point of view.--Joe]

I don't care for horror flicks. I don't find it fun to be scared. In most cases the victims do some really stupid things and avoid doing things that would obviously improve their odds of surviving until the end of the movie. However, here is a horror video that is "more like it". Via Clayton and Arms and the Law.

Occasionaly I have some sympathy for the media. They can't be experts on everything they write about. But this instance is just too rich. And Alan Korwin does such a good job of skewering them:

The lamestream media told you:
An armored car heist in Phoenix was committed using automatic weapons. An unknown amount of cash was stolen, and police are looking for the suspects. No shots were fired during the robbery.

...

Several days later, the followup story claimed that automatic OR semiautomatic weapons MAY have been used, and suspects were in custody, increasing skepticism in those parts of the community that are awake.

Today (July 28), the headline says "Toy rifles aided three in heist," and Bosnia-Herzegovina natives were the apparent culprits. "Fake AK-47 assault rifles" were used in combination with pepper spray. I am not making this up.

According to the report, toy fakes can be scary sounding "assault rifles." The money has been recovered. No correction has been issued. The reporter is still at large.

I can't comment authoritatively on everything this guy says but I do know at least some of it is without basis in fact. And yet he claims to be a professor. Well, I suppose really it all makes sense then:

The National Rifle Association (NRA), which makes millions of dollars through the manufacture and sales of weapons, has always opposed vigorously any law that would restrict citizens from easy access to the purchase of weapons. As a result, the United Sates has turned into a very violent society. Statistics show us that more people are killed by the gun in the United States every year than in all of the countries combined!

...

The United States is the only nation on earth that views the constitutional "right" for every citizen to bear weapons on a 24 hour basis.

News flash: The NRA doesn't manufacture weapons, doesn't sell weapons, and doesn't get membership dues from firearms manufactures. They do sell advertising space to the manufactures.

News flash: England has a higher violent crime rate than the U.S. As I have said many times before here measuring violence only in terms of crimes committed with firearms is irrelevant. There is Just One Question.

News flash: He should check out the gun laws in some other countries such as Switzerland and Bolivia. They may not a have constitutionally guaranteed right to firearms but they don't have many restrictions either. Perhaps he has and that is why he worded the statement so narrowly.

However, many people in the United States and the world at large have witnessed other types of Americans whose ultimate goal was to exploit them and to inflict in them endless pain and suffering. These are the capitalistic American industrialists who want to control the economy of every single nation on earth. Anyone that resists their domination is viewed as the enemy and they will soon ask the US government officials, whose campaign for election they financed, to punish such heads of states through boycotts and sanctions. This has been the case of Fidel Castro of Cuba who said from the very beginning, "the economy of Cuba belongs to the Cubans and not to American industrialists."

Okay. We are done. No need to read any further. Castro's Cuba is a workers paradise which is why so many of them risk death to flee to the U.S. The guy is clueless.

Castro is getting old and feeble. Some are even saying he is already dead. There could be fighting break out there too. A Cuba without Castro could be very interesting. It would be hard to imagine it being any worse than it is under the thumb of Castro.

One of the things we teach in self-defense classes is to not be timid. If you take an aggressive stance, preferably with a loaded large caliber firearm, your attacker is far more likely to rearrange their to-do list such that causing you harm is placed at a much lower priority than previously. On the other hand if your voice quivers and you look like you are about to break and run that increases the odds of violence being committed against you. Apparently Israel understands this:

The Israeli cabinet has agreed to widen the country's ground offensive against Hezbollah in southern Lebanon.

The decision, made at a closed door session, received unanimous approval, a senior political source said.

Earlier Prime Minister Ehud Olmert ruled out an immediate truce, saying Israel would continue its offensive as long as its security was threatened.

Good for them. I hope we are giving them satellite images and/or whatever else help we can without being too overt about it. Some good deals on bombs for their warplanes wouldn't hurt my feelings either.

I would like to think that with last Friday's tragic event we can wake the Jews up in this country to the benefits of sensible gun control (trigger prep, sight alignment, squeeze). Israpundit gives them a good shake here:

Now we remember why we have such little use for the Anti-Defense League: this is the same batch of Kumbaya-singers that supports gun laws like those enacted to disarm Jews in Nazi Germany and thus facilitates exactly the same kind of terroristic violence that took place last Friday.

I rather like this cartoon too:

Via Samantha, a collection of computer related quotes. My favorite is this one:

1f u c4n r34d th1s u r34lly n33d t0 g37 l41d

Time to go back to bed. Barb is waiting for me.

I realize the Israel/Lebanon situation is very stressful, to put it mildly, for Muslims. But this sort of response to the shooting at the Seattle Jewish center is a very good thing.

Thank you Shahed Amanullah.

The sad fact is that the anti-gun lobby's "vision" of gun control just doesn't work. It can't because it targets exactly the wrong group of people: law-abiding gun owners. Gun control isn't crime control -- it is only about divesting law-abiding citizens of their rights.

Bruce N. Mills
July 31, 2006
Guns and rights
Globe and Mail, Toronto Ontario

My magazine changes are pretty good, but not anywhere near this good.

And the anti-gun bigots wonder why we think restricting a magazine capacity is just plain stupid as a means of reducing crime.

Some time ago our son James took the Myers-Briggs temperment test and came out as an INTJ. This describes how to deal with him quite well:

1. Be willing to back up your statements with facts - or at least some pretty sound reasoning.
2. Don't expect them to respect you or your viewpoints just because you say so. INTJ respect must be earned.
3. Be willing to concede when you are wrong. The average INTJ respects the truth over being "right". Withdraw your erroneous comment and admit your mistake and they will see you as a very reasonable person. Stick to erroneous comments and they will think you are an irrational idiot and treat everything you say as being questionable.
4. Try not to be repetitive. It annoys them.
5. Do not feed them a line of bull.
6. Expect debate. INTJs like to tear ideas apart and prove their worthiness. They will even argue a point they don't actually support for the sake of argument.
7. Do not mistake the strength of your conviction with the strength of your argument. INTJs do not need to believe in a position to argue it or argue it well. Therefore, it will take more than fervor to sway them.
8. Do not be surprised at sarcasm.
9. Remember that INTJs believe in workable solutions. They are extremely open-minded to possibilities, but they will quickly discard any idea that is unfeasible. INTJ open-mindedness means that they are willing to have a go at an idea by trying to pull it apart. This horrifies people who expect oohs and ahhs and reverence. The ultimate INTJ insult to an idea is to ignore it, because that means it's not even interesting enough to deconstruct.
   This also means that they will not just accept any viewpoint that is presented to them. The bottom line is "Does it work?" - end discussion.
10. Do not expect INTJs to actually care about how you view them. They already know that they are arrogant bastards with a morbid sense of humor. Telling them the obvious accomplishes nothing.

Ahh.... that is my boy!

Barb and I bumped into a friend today and we innocently asked "What have you been up to?". Our innocence was taken away when he said he and his girlfriend just got back from Las Vegas where they attended the Lifestyle conference. There were 3000 people there. That's a very big sex party.

He reported they both had a really good time.

I participated in a steel match at the Lewiston Pistol Club last weekend. I just posted the results on the Lewiston Pistol Club web site. Although the same people are ahead of me that were ahead of me last month I've closed the gap some. I really need to start shooting while I'm in the Seattle area during the week.

Continuing my watch on the enemy I found Washington Ceasefire does a very interesting dance with numbers. From their Gun Facts page:

• Last year in the United States, approximately 214 children died from accidental shootings and more than 1,000 suffered from non-fatal firearm injuries.
• In 2001, there were 14,571 kids injured by a firearm.
• Every 7.5 hours a child or teen was killed in a firearm-related accident or suicide in 2000.

At first glance you think they aren't consistent. After all if a child was killed every 7.5 hours you would have almost 1200 dead in a year instead of the 214 on the first line. But the first line just references accidental shootings. The last line includes suicides, justifiable and praiseworthy homicides, and is for a different year as well. And doesn't injury in the second line include those killed? Well... probably the 1,000 in the first line refers only to accidental shooting that were not fatal and again it's for a different year. And "injured by a firearm" would include injuries on the "non-business" end of the gun such as "scope eye" from shooting a rifle with your face too close the to scope and recoil from firing cause it to hit your face (typically just above your eye).

And it's interesting to me they spend most of their time on "kids and guns". Apparently they are shooting for maximum emotional appeal.

The numbers they should be looking for are the ones that answer Just One Question.

I just browsed over to the Brady Bunch website and found them claiming in a recent press release that lax gun laws increase the violent crime:

Weak gun laws have not made Florida a leader in fighting crime: Arguably, they have helped to make it one of the two most violent states in the Nation.

They, of course, cherry-picked their states. They should have looked at my post on the Brady "Report Card" versus crime rates. But maybe they did and that is why they chose to cherry-pick their states.

Friday night I met Barb in the Tri-Cities and the next day we visited her aunt and uncle before driving back to the Seattle area to visit our Jewish friends (Randy and his new wife Kim). On the three plus hour drive alone I figured it would be appropriate to listen to some of Randy's music. So I listened to the album Slop. I found myself very pleased with the combination of technology and sex in the song Virtual Babe (WMA, 1.34 MB).

I have never been able to get an answer from these type of people. They say things like this:

As for Australia, a study from Oxford University Press states: "Despite reports of a crime wave in Australia following recent restrictions on the private ownership of firearms, evidence actually shows sweeping reductions in gun-related death, injury, and crime." (Small Arms Survey 2004 Yearbook, June 2004)

The results in Australia are important because more than 700,000 guns were removed from the community (the equivalent figure in the USA would be 40 million guns). No other nation had ever attempted anything on this scale. In the country’s leading newspaper, the Sydney Morning Herald, the question was asked, "So, ten years later, can we see a difference?" The answer was resoundingly, yes. The results are in: Australia’s tightened gun controls have been followed by remarkable reductions in gun deaths.

It is true that in an area that arouses such passions as gun control, statistics are a minefield because of the difficulty in comparing like with like. But in all the stuff that came my way as a result of what I wrote, one point stood out: "Stick to apples and apples: real gun violence versus real gun violence.

It just doesn't seem to matter to them that the violent crime rate can go up as long as the crime rate where guns were used goes down. A million people a month could be killed with machetes because their guns were taken away from them (Rwanda) and that's better than if a few people were killed with guns.

These people have mental problems.

Scientists have created artificial sperm from stem cells. Similar techniques can probably be used to create artificial eggs. Hence:

..it may even prove possible to produce sperm from female stem cells, and eggs from male ones, allowing homosexual couples to have children that bear the genes of both parents.

This would also enable a single man or woman to provide both the sperm and eggs needed to create an embryo, so that a person could essentially mate with himself or herself.

This means the arguments based on "marriage is about raising children" currently used against homosexual marriage may soon fall by the wayside. I always found those arguments weak anyway. Do supporters of that argument think that a woman past child bearing age should not be allowed to marry either? Or what of a man that is sterile? My view is that if two (or more) people want to get married to each other and spend their lives together then what's the problem? Where's the victim?

Remember when Kennesaw, Georgia, made it mandatory for all households to be armed, and the media viewed this with dismay?  Well note further that in Kennesaw, Georgia, where there used to be very little armed violence, there now seems to be none.

What was it that Heinlein said about an armed society?

Jeff Cooper
From Jeff Cooper's Commentaries
Vol. 3, No. 1
13 January 1995
[Barb, James, and I spent the evening last night with some Jewish friends that are loosely associated with the Jewish center that was shot up on Friday. More Jews need to be armed in this country when (not if) they are attacked again the response needs to be immediate and decisive. This will reduce future attacks. Taking a 13 year old girl hostage and shooting a pregnant women is a cowardly thing to do. It wouldn't take much display of force to convince cowards such as these to reconsider their actions. I also give my endorsement of some Muslims condemning the attack and expressing sympathy for the victims.--Joe]

The View From North Central Idaho has a new contributor. Lyle from UltiMAK. Lyle's UltiMAK facility is almost reachable with a good slingshot from my house. I have known Lyle for many years now. He's been to numerous Boomershoots. I can't tell you the number of times we have spent hours talking about all the problems of the world and how to solve them. He is has also left the most comments on this blog. And most importantly I can't recall every disagreeing with any of his views. Hence his contributions to this blog are almost for certain going to be very compatible with mine.

Ry and I both have been very impressed with some of Lyle's ideas and the way he has expressed them. There are some excellent essays he as written but they usually only get distributed in email to a few of his friends. With this new outlet that should change.

Lyle, thanks for coming on-board.

When you have shot and killed a man you have in some measure clarified your attitude toward him.  You have given a definite answer to a definite problem.  For better or worse you have acted decisively.

In a way, the next move is up to him.

R. A. Lafferty
[This reminds me of the situation in the Mideast.--Joe]

Does this seem at all familiar, Joe?

Professor Thomas Klocek a Roman Catholic…was dismissed by DePaul University for allegedly offending Muslim students when discussing Christian interests in Israel, disputing that Israeli treatment of Palestinians was akin to the Nazi treatment of the Jews and then terminating the discussion when it appeared that the students were more interested in Israel-bashing than discussing the issues.

It is our understanding that Prof. Klocek alleges:

1) He was never allowed to meet with his accusers.

2) He was never presented with a written list of the complaints or charges against him.

3) He was suspended by the Dean of the School for New Learning in clear violation of the University's own stated Faculty Handbook procedures.

4) He was never given a hearing.

5) A vote by the DePaul Faculty Council affirmed that the same rules that apply for a formal academic hearing apply to all professors, full-time and adjuncts alike.

Read more here http://www.spme.net/cgi-bin/display_petitions.cgi?ID=3

I just realized that Dr. Joe's Cure for Everything is one of the viable options to winning WWIII (or IV depending...). As I have said before we must destroy their culture. One of the ways we can do that is by "corrupting" their youth and leading them away from a strict Islamic lifestyle. Hence giving their young hormonally overdosed youths a steady diet of porn could lead them to "the dark side" of western culture.

It could work! I even have a slogan for this campaign: "Porn for Peace."

I also have cameras and spare bandwidth. I'm hereby volunteering to help in this new campaign. I just need volunteer models. Send me an email with a sample photo if you want to participate. Hillary need not apply--we want to win this war, not put a bullet through our own brain.

Bruce Schneier must have different, and much better, search terms than I do for these things. Here is a sample of what airport security is about (emphasis added):

The point of the training class is simple - to teach you to identify the FAA test items on the x ray machine. Pat downs, hand wands, those sort of things were covered in a cursory manner. Pat downs, incidentally, had their own picture, illustrating that a man cupping a woman's breast served no purpose for security measures. The rest of the days were spent on the test items. We were drilled frame by frame, chanting in unison -
"Gun"
"Knife"
"Bomb"
"Clear"
"Knife"
This went on for hours, then the tests became "tricky". The film strip was inserted backwards, and we did it again. We lost two trainees that first run, two men who insisted that the slide they had just looked at left to right no longer contained the bomb when viewed right to left. Then they ran the strip upside down. When we concluded, it was time to be tested.

Test items. Not actual items considered a threat. Do you think I'm just displaying my Aspergers? Ha! Got you this time. Check out this:

"How do you know it's a gun?" He asked me.
"it looks like one," I said, and was immediately pounded on the back.
"Goddamn right it does. You get over here," yelled Mike to Will.
"How do you know it's a gun?"
"I look for the outline of the cartridge and the..." Will started.
"What?"
"The barrel you can see right here," Will continued, oblivious to his pending doom.
"What the hell are you talking about? That's not how you find this gun"
"No sir. It's how you find any gun, sir," said Will. I knew right then that this was a disaster.
"Any gun? Any gun? I don't give a fuck about any gun, dipshit. I care about this gun. The FAA will not test you with another gun. The FAA will never put any gun but this one in the machine. I don't care if you are a fucking gun nut who can tell the caliber by sniffing the barrel, you look for this gun. THIS ONE." Mike strode to the test bag and dumped it out at the feet of the metal detector, sending the machine into a frenzy.

"THIS bomb. This knife. I don't care if you miss a goddamn bazooka and some son of a bitch cuts your throat with a knife you let through as long as you find THIS GUN."
"But we're supposed to find," Will insisted.
"You find what I trained you to find. The other shit doesn't get taken out of my paycheck when you miss it," said Mike.

The incentives are screwed up. It's important they pass the tests, not that they catch you or I with a knife in the bottom of our carry-on luggage. Bruce has another post that points us in generally in the correct direction. But we really need to consider alternatives. The incentives need to be aligned with the desired goals--safe air travel. The passengers and crew of the plane have the motivation and are in the best position to implement appropriate security measures. Let them do their job instead of taking away their defensive tools.

I was talking with a friend at work yesterday. He grew up in Lebanon and his mother is still there. Nearly every day when I see him I ask about his mother (she evacuated safely and is doing fine so far). He told me the extremists are about 1000 years behind the times. They are brain washed and the entire world has a problem. I agreed.

If you don't agree then take a look at the evidence Michelle Malkin presents:

...a 16-year-old girl hanged in a public square in the Iranian city of Neka. Her death sentence was imposed by Islamic mullahs for "crimes against chastity."

That is just a hint of what we are fighting against. As long as we tolerate "crimes against chastity" and other affronts to the Islamic extremists we will be attacked. It will not stop until we capture or kill them. Yes, there are innocents die as we, and now Israel, fight this evil but the number of innocents killed will be greater if we do nothing. It is better to fight them now before they obtain atomic weapons rather than after. I just hope enough people of the world realize the seriousness of this war such that we have the resources and the will to finish it.

It's bad enough that cops enforcing speed limits have quotas. But think about the implications if Federal Air Marshals have quotas. And there's evidence that some of them do have quotas to meet. It's time to consider some alternatives and scrape the TSA efforts.

She does bind oxygen and carbon together and produce heat. So I suppose she is good for something.

Ry Jones
13:10 July 27, 2006
Referencing an individual he has low regard for.
[I suppose the same could be said of the barking moonbats. Ry is such a tolerant person. It must be rubbing off on me. Ry was in good form at lunch yesterday. He also had this to say.--Joe]

Ry sent me a link to a video. Pretty funny stuff. Probably safe for most work environments. It's a beer ad but you wouldn't have guessed it from the first 1/2 of the video. It could be considered an exaggeration of the sexual attitude differences between men and women.

I've never been to a museum of sex (it was a bordello museum, not a sex museum). I think would probably enjoy such a visit but not if they have exhibits of Hillary. Even if you drop the title of "The First Woman President of the United States of America" this image just drains it all out of me:

The criticism is right on but the proposals are only a step in the right direction. The optimal won't currently pass political muster so one has to go with the baby step:

This approach would begin with the fundamentally different assumption that the function of aviation security is to identify and isolate dangerous persons, not dangerous objects per se. The challenge is to keep bad people from causing harm, either in the terminal area or to the planes themselves. The TSA currently devotes the lion’s share of its airport resources to only one of these threats: preventing would-be hijackers from boarding planes with weapons. Far less money and effort is spent on securing airport terminal lobbies and the ramp areas where planes park and on keeping airline tickets out of the hands of known and suspected terrorists.

One summer I worked for a short time for a local guy doing contract game development. I got an email from him yesterday asking if I or anyone I knew would be interested in working for him again:

I have a game development position open and am trying to get the word out to people who might be interested. This is work much the same as before. Lots of C++ network & graphics coding. Initially it will be code maintenance on our PS2 and PSP titles, but will transition to new code development on the PS3 in the 6-12 month time-frame. If this sounds like it might fit with your current situation, please contact me. If not, please spread the word if you know of anybody you can recommend.

...

If you know any talented programmers who would like to get out of the city and would like to work long hours for low pay in the environs of Deary, please give them my address...

I turned it down. Right now I need a fairly high income to accomplish some particular goals and I'm pretty happy with the work I'm doing. It's very challenging and being forced to stretch myself is probably a good thing. It can be comfortable to coast but I'm sure I'm a better person accomplishing difficult tasks.

Where is Deary? It's about 20 miles east of Moscow on highway 3. As near as I can tell it has nine streets. And my recollection is that it doesn't have any stop lights. There are lots of trees and mountains however.

Let me know if you are interested and I'll forward your name on to him.

It's like a B-grade science fiction movie: Yellow jacket nests as large as Volkswagens.

Although I am fond of the saying, "There is no problem the proper application of high explosives can't solve.", I'm not convinced Ry has the correct approach with high explosives. I think some tests are in order to test that hypothesis.

Is it just me or do you see a similarity in people that are fearful of guns and gun owners? I remember the rallies against I-676 (Washington State initiative to register handguns) where a few pro-676 people showed up and a couple years later attending a rally in Olympia (capital of Washington State).  The anti-gun people just looked different. Here I see the same look. I want to say timid but that's not quite it. I sense a weakness. Perhaps a lack of assertiveness. Here's the picture:

I keep thinking "grass eaters", "sheep", and "prey". Why is that? And is it something that could be changed with training? Would a few hours on the range and in the classroom convert them to "sheep dogs"? Would their appearances change such that other "sheep dogs" such as I, and the "wolves", notice the difference?

Update: It's fear. That's what I see. I figured it out when I was in the shower this morning. It's like they are in a German concentration camp and they are submitting a petition to the camp commander.

I also should have commented on the text of the article. They say Cincinnati should ban handguns like Morton Grove, IL. That ordinance was held up as constitutional. There's just one problem. The Ohio Constitution has a provision for the right to keep and bear arms that IL doesn't have. And of course, there is Just One Question for these fearful people.

Be sure to read the comments to this post. More enlightenment is awaiting you there.

She appears to have taken after her father. That's my girl!

The war with Israel does not depend on cease-fires ... . It is a Jihad for God's sake and will last until (our) religion prevails...from Spain to Iraq. We will attack everywhere.

Ayman al-Zawahri
Second in command to Osama bin Laden
July 26, 2006
As quoted in the Jerusalem Post
[This is entirely consisted with Osama bin Laden's letter to America. This extremist culture must be destroyed worldwide.--Joe]

How interesting! Just yesterday I was just explaining to a lawyer how information is leaked in your search terms when you search the web. One of my blog visitors from the General Services Administration did a search for "nuke medina".

It probably was just some individual with free time on their hands as opposed to true government interest. But it's amusing all the same:

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The ruling has come out. No gay marriage in Washington State for the time being.

I'm all in favor of gay marriage but it needs to be approved by the majority of legislature and/or the people. The people working this issue have more foundation to lay before they can erect the institution.

Gun rights advocates can learn from this. Going to the courts to resolve your issue can backfire. If you don't win you can make things worse.

Of course, the Marxian definition of value is ridiculous. All the work one cares to add will not turn a mud pie into an apple tart; it remains a mud pie, value zero. By corollary, unskillful work can easily subtract value; an untalented cook can turn wholesome dough and fresh green apples, valuable already, into an inedible mess, value zero. Conversely, a great chef can fashion of those same materials a confection of greater value than a commonplace apple tart, with no more effort than an ordinary cook uses to prepare an ordinary sweet.

These kitchen illustrations demolish the Marxian theory of value--the fallacy from which the entire magnificent fraud of communism derives--and illustrate the truth of the common-sense definition as measured in terms of use.

Mr. Dubois
Instructor of History and Moral Philosophy
A character in Robert A. Heinlein's book Starship Troopers
Page 90
[Do not think for an instant that Marxism, the most thoroughly tested and failed political philosophy in human history, is dead. It should be but millions of people still yearn for it. It's a mind numbing addictive drug that gives an initial euphoria and the illusion of well-being but ultimately it destroys initiative, your economic healt