 It isn't my thinking that went awry. It is your writing.
Steve Wolfer
http://rebirthofreason.com/Forum/NewsDiscussions/2188.shtml#16
To be successful, a rat requires cunning, not genius.
Steve Wolfer
Corporate Bailout
In a rational society, Barney Franks would find himself walking down some dirt road, trying to find his way back home, wondering about what to do with his life and how to get the tar and feathers off of his miserable hide.
Steve Wolfer
http://rebirthofreason.com/Forum/Blogs/0043_1.shtml#21
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You say, "Never mind the theories - those are but academic exercises... " But there have been nothing but empty theories and foolish academic exercises to support the absurd claim that anarchy could ever work.
On the other hand, government is already working, and working extremely well in every area where it is aligned with individual rights. Go out and buy something - an ink cartridge for the computer printer, for example. Look at the chain of transactions protected by courts, laws, legislature, law enforcement, etc., that define the terms of valid contracts, property rights, and outlaw the fraud or initiation of force, or theft that could interfere with that. You can point out all the things that are wrong, like the taxes, or a limitation on importation, or requirements for a business license - and we would agree. But each of these can be diminished to the vanishing point until there is no complaint left except a claim that government itself is bad even if it no longer does ANYTHING bad. And there is nothing sensible in that!
Steve Wolfer
http://rebirthofreason.com/Forum/Quotes/1208.shtml#11
We could keep arguing about when America should go to war, but something happened this week. We went broke. Now, war is just one of the things we will shortly no longer be able to afford.
Steve Wolfer
Reason demanded, Choice directed, and Courage sustained.
Steve Wolfer
http://rebirthofreason.com/Forum/Videos/0093.shtml#9
I can just see [Ariana Huffington], face knotted up in anger and determination, busily duct-taping McCain and Bush together like some three-legged potato sack racer. "Stand still, damn it! You are staying fastened together till Obama gets a chance to win this race!" But Bush isn't running we say, and she says, "He is now! What do you think I'm doing with this tape?"
Steve Wolfer
http://rebirthofreason.com/Forum/GeneralForum/1283.shtml#11
We laugh at the buffoon Chavez but at least he nationalizes the profitable enterprises.
Steve Wolfer
http://rebirthofreason.com/Forum/NewsDiscussions/2140.shtml#4
Watching [Sarah Palin], everyone can say to himself, somewhere in his subconscious, "The best within me is like her (even if not as successful, or powerful, or whatever) and as long as I'm being honest and standing up for my values I too am a hero (even if on a smaller scale)."
Steve Wolfer
http://rebirthofreason.com/Forum/NewsDiscussions/2137_4.shtml#96
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