Category: Boneheads

… only out oh hell, when they do that it means society is coming apart at the seams.  The British people need to stand up and take their individuality back from the state, or it’ll be over from them.

How’s this for the bureaucratic nanny state:

Michael Sheridan was stripped of his title as class vice president, barred from attending an honors student dinner and suspended for a day after buying a bag of Skittles from a classmate.

School spokeswoman Catherine Sullivan-DeCarlo says the New Haven school system banned candy sales in 2003 as part of a districtwide school wellness policy.

Michael’s suspension has been reduced from three days to one, but he has not been reinstated as class vice president.

If you think it’s bad now, just wait until government bureaucrats are in charge of your health care.

Hat tip to Cam & Company

Classical Values has a pretty good post up on former domestic terrorists, who are now respected academics, and are claiming their former terrorism was just a joke.  Ha ha ha.

Tempered glass, as in the kind you’d find on a sliding glass door, will most definitely not stop a projectile from a potato gun.

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sAbGm9YaN1c[/youtube]

If you’ve always wanted to lock up all the hippies,  this could be your chance.

… aren’t going to do much to help the cause of getting shall-issue carry passed in Delaware.

The Three Little Pigs is deemed “offensive to Muslims” by a British government agency, and was disqualified from winning the agency’s award.

Scroll down to “What does L.A. mean to Lindsay” and read.  She’s from Texas, is liberal/progressive, and moved to LA to live in a blue state:

Funny thing is, I think I sort of, well, in some ways, prefer living in a Red State.

Because if I have to hear one more piece of coastal Blue State snobbery, I think I will scream. I try to explain to folks here that in Texas cities we don’t shoot each other anymore than people do in LA, that we are actually sort of nice to each other every once in a while, and we also like going to sunny places with good beaches and good food.

Come to Pennsylvania Lindsay.  We’re a blue state without all the attitude.  But yeah, the weather kind of sucks.

Libertarianism was something I flirted with in college and in my early post college life.  I decided it wasn’t a political movement, so much as a religion, and it’s why walked away from it.  I’m not interested in being pure, I’m interested in being an advocate for causes that I think enhance personal freedom and limited government meddling in private affairs, and advancing those causes politically.   Libertarians, in my experience, are not interested in seriously advancing their ideas politically, because to do so, you have to build a “tent” that’s big enough and comfortable enough for enough people to get under to win.  Libertarians, in my experience, tend to spend more time about arguing over whether someone belongs in the tent than they do trying to grow it.

I would consider Megan McArdle a fellow traveler, and someone who belongs in our tent of people interested in promoting liberty.  But Megan McArdle has spent a lot of time lately criticizing Ron Paul, and recently suggested that Ron Paul’s demise is good for libertarianism.  Read the comments.  If you want to know why I can’t abide by “movement” libertarians anymore, read her comments.   I’ll pick out some choice ones:

Don’t think that we will forget this treasoness behaviour. What you do now will be with you for ever more. ‘When the time comes Megan,… when the time comes’.

And yes, that is a thinly veiled threat.

As the ‘Revolution’ grows, You have no idea.

I guess it doesn’t matter how many dissidents they have to put down in the name of liberty.

I am an anarchist and to me a statist, even a minarchist, is much worse than a racist.

Because a rule by the strong over the weak is guaranteed to have positive outcome for individual freedoms!

I don’t think we did lose big in NH. If you look at the towns that just didn’t count Paul’s votes and consider the lop-sided contridictions of the electronic vote versus the hand re-count … Obama probably beat Hillary and Paul probably took 3rd or 4th.

It’s a conspiracy!  I point this out not to poke fun at anyone but as a warning, because we have folks in the gun rights movement who also think this way, and who would place our movement far outside the mainstream.  Gun rights must be a large tent as well, and we also have folks who are interested in driving the insufficiently pure out of the movement.  Once we become that, it’s over.  The last thing we want the gun rights movement to look like is the Libertarian Party.