tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-340033402009-12-18T17:45:07.837-05:00League of the Scarlet Pimpernel''We seek him here, we seek him there,
Those Frenchies seek him everywhere.
Is he in heaven?
—Is he in hell?
That demmed, elusive Pimpernel.''El Cidhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17642175827926988173noreply@blogger.comBlogger497125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34003340.post-86755657238695778562008-12-31T08:32:00.003-05:002008-12-31T09:05:18.825-05:00A Goal For 2009I have decided that I will go an learn a few trade skills - partly for fun and partly because when I retire to my new gentleman's farm I want to be able to do a lot of things for myself. There are several things I have toyed with over the years that I am not particularly good at. My father always seemed to be good and most everything - perhaps this resolution for next year will be dedicated to El Cidhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17642175827926988173noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34003340.post-35370828058745863182008-12-30T22:59:00.003-05:002008-12-30T23:07:26.113-05:00Ammunition Accountability ActFrom Charleston VoiceWell the Liberal Gun Grabbers are at it again. Now they want to fingerprint your bullets. They will charge you more. They will make it a crime to possess bullets that do not bear a serial number. Your name and designated serial number ammo will be stored in a sweet ol' database, of course. Tricky bastards are running this game at the state level, trying to fly under theEl Cidhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17642175827926988173noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34003340.post-84520276074407906462008-12-30T17:52:00.001-05:002008-12-30T17:54:19.677-05:00Preamble to Social MayhemFrom a piece by Tim CaseGiven also that the society that elected the president-in-waiting is dominated by blind nationalism, trendy savior-worship, an unending ignorance of history, economics and philosophy and devoid of a critical thought process, I fear history will say of this moment, "the civilization of the modern world suffered final collapse."El Cidhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17642175827926988173noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34003340.post-36698197535373157642008-12-30T03:07:00.005-05:002008-12-30T04:14:28.393-05:00Not With a Bang, But With a WhimperThis is How The World Ends - Part IVIf, as I have contented in the first three parts of this series of post, the following is true -We Americans are woefully ignorant of our rights, our Constitution and political philosophy in generalOur Constitutional Republic from those nice stories in history books is long deadOur election process is completely incapable of fixing any of this (or our other El Cidhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17642175827926988173noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34003340.post-7659445887614451792008-12-29T21:20:00.004-05:002008-12-30T00:50:07.880-05:00Elections Will Not Fix ThingsThis is the Way the World Ends - Part IIISay what you will about the Ron Paul supporters the fact is those loyal souls that got into the trenches and went to the Republican Convention as delegates to cast their votes appear to have received the ultimate rebuff....20 Ron Paul buttons and a handful of other things, he was stopped by security which called on upon an apparent supervisor, who directedEl Cidhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17642175827926988173noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34003340.post-50838852684140801762008-12-29T21:02:00.003-05:002008-12-29T21:09:53.315-05:00GazaYou notice I have been silent on the entire Gaza thing - what is there to say really? Bush the Second thought the answer to all the problems in the world was to give everyone democracy - Hamas gained power thought the ballot box. Mob rule is strange like that. Now the Israelis are pounding Gaza with US weapons, technology and munitions with the world-wide impression they they do not act withoutEl Cidhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17642175827926988173noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34003340.post-67662323904349020352008-12-29T02:47:00.002-05:002008-12-29T03:32:06.485-05:00This is the Way the World Ends - Part IIHave you ever stopped to consider that The Glorious Revolution was really not that glorious. I am serious, the last ruling Stuart monarch did his family name no service by running to France in the face of William III of Orange but the events that followed were certainly less impressive from a constitutional perspective. The end result, the monarchy replaced via methods completely outside of theEl Cidhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17642175827926988173noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34003340.post-70372005137247591872008-12-28T21:16:00.006-05:002008-12-28T22:32:11.621-05:00This is the Way the World Ends - Part IWith Valkyrie now in theaters the History Channel predictably aired a special feature on the historical events surrounding the story. One statement at the beginning of the show troubled me especially, just as it has every time I have ever heard it stated.To paraphrase: "The German people did not generally support Hitler or the Nazi's and really had no choice but to go along with what occurred..El Cidhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17642175827926988173noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34003340.post-4662807785922027112008-12-28T02:07:00.004-05:002008-12-28T04:09:34.631-05:00Militarized PoliceRubicon in the Rear-View, Part I: Militarizing the Police I just read again a post by William Norman Grigg from last Oct. that meshed well with some things that have been on my mind lately.First, if you go to YouTube and search for Katrina or Iowa floods and cop abuse you will find buried in there several examples of what I can best describe as - beefy, bald, junior college linebacker looking El Cidhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17642175827926988173noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34003340.post-9740644504756117502008-12-28T01:39:00.003-05:002008-12-28T01:52:50.764-05:00A Very Good ReadEn Route to Military Rule by William Norman Grigg is a must read. At first glance one might take the concepts of this article to be just a bit over the top. As I reflect upon my professional knowledge of the subject coupled with what I observe elsewhere I do not find it so implausible. Frightening that...I found it interesting that a link within Grigg's post references a 1992 article by one GENEl Cidhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17642175827926988173noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34003340.post-44220968736475271672008-12-27T16:11:00.004-05:002008-12-27T16:35:46.892-05:00Rattling of SabersIt is interesting in these times of economic introspection (i.e. that is all we care about) that so little discussion is occurring on the blogsphere about the saber rattling along the Indian-Pakistan border.In all honestly, from my worldview, such events do NOT hold the same importance as they do to those that see the role of the US as some sort of global interventionist entity. I do realize the El Cidhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17642175827926988173noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34003340.post-75517638659864644262008-12-27T03:18:00.001-05:002008-12-27T03:20:41.393-05:00TruthThis blog is called "Sell Civilization Short" for a reason. Civilizations do not fade out peacefully, as a rule. When they crumble, they expose the ugliness of rot....and I agree, a simple survey of just a sampling of headlines on a daily basis supports this claimEl Cidhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17642175827926988173noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34003340.post-47226110804164123932008-12-26T17:36:00.001-05:002008-12-26T17:39:18.356-05:00Baltic Dry Index Falls 93%El Cidhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17642175827926988173noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34003340.post-84645163057309595532008-12-26T01:51:00.003-05:002008-12-26T02:32:48.473-05:00Ron Paul on Martial LawSighEl Cidhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17642175827926988173noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34003340.post-2160007702763200792008-12-24T17:54:00.004-05:002008-12-24T18:19:23.046-05:00"Great News" at ChristmasAs I mentioned in a previous article my family and I were in the market for a piece of rural/farm property. I thought going into my search that I would find what we were looking for at a reasonable price. I assumed that there would not be a lot of other people competing for the land.Several of the real estate agents I talked to told me that their phones were ringing off the hook with people El Cidhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17642175827926988173noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34003340.post-69367812782619229902008-12-24T00:41:00.004-05:002008-12-24T01:07:19.050-05:00Reply to a CommentIn response to my post "When is Disobedience a Moral Imperative", Gibbons writes:I've read both the Patton Papers and the Rommel Papers. "Infantry Attacks" by Rommel, writing of his experiences in World War I, is one of my favorite books.I understand the admiration of Rommel. But I don't understand your comment about Patton. There's a recent article suggesting Patton was killed because of his "El Cidhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17642175827926988173noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34003340.post-66393824142533738652008-12-23T19:50:00.001-05:002008-12-23T19:52:54.843-05:00Here is wishing everyone a Merry Christmas!ikantspelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11561578475703668990noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34003340.post-25460010597694846362008-12-23T01:21:00.002-05:002008-12-23T01:26:36.011-05:00I Promise I wrote mine firstI penned my last post before going to bed last night only to find this post ('Question 46,' Revisited) by Norman Grigg on the Lew Rockwell site this am. It might appear that my thoughts were spurred by his but that is not the case. In any event his is a good read and amplifies and corrects a misstatement I made about this 1994 survey (I actually thought more Marines said "yes" tot he most El Cidhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17642175827926988173noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34003340.post-30181428034190358462008-12-22T00:34:00.003-05:002008-12-22T01:35:13.061-05:00When Is Disobediance a Moral ImperativeI mentioned previously that I have just completed reading a book titled "Patton and Rommel". I do not have it near by so I apologize for not knowing the author. I essentially skipped all the chapters about Patton as there is nothing about the man that I want to know that I do not know. He was, in my opinion, the lowest sort of man.Rommel fascinates me. Not so much for his successes and failures El Cidhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17642175827926988173noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34003340.post-47168011152789872102008-12-21T00:21:00.006-05:002008-12-21T01:21:56.467-05:00Sustainability, Survivalist Seeking Like-minded to JoinI have pondered doing this for a few weeks and finally came down on the side of action for reasons I cannot exactly pin-point -simply because I do not fully know myself. I am writing this more for the potential like mind that may some day stumble across this post though a Google search. I decided to do this because I know there must be someone out there with the same dreams, hopes, fears, values El Cidhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17642175827926988173noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34003340.post-20196035719302594132008-12-20T20:50:00.002-05:002008-12-20T20:56:42.618-05:00Protectionist dominoes are beginning to tumble across the worldFrom the Telegraph:Greece has been in turmoil for 11 days. The mood seems to have turned "pre-insurrectionary" in parts of Athens - to borrow from the Marxist handbook...We are advancing to the political stage of this global train wreck. Regimes are being tested. Those relying on perma-boom to mask a lack of democratic or ancestral legitimacy may try to gain time by the usual methods: trade El Cidhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17642175827926988173noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34003340.post-26534648423265940932008-12-20T16:37:00.005-05:002008-12-20T17:14:37.369-05:00Cops Gone WildRead this article and then pay special attention to the comments - Police Get The Wrong House In Galveston, Allegedly Assault 12-Year-Old Girl. It seems people are growing ever more tired of this nonesense.This is of course not a new sort of story - there have been far too may, some heavily reported others not. The fact is our local police have become something of a clear and present threat to usEl Cidhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17642175827926988173noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34003340.post-11361054270913893982008-12-18T00:42:00.002-05:002008-12-18T01:21:29.972-05:00What Would Ron Paul DoImagine if you will a congruence of circumstance, however bizarre required, that had instead of Obama as our current president elect but Ron Paul.Ok hold that thought.When the Senate was debating the auto bailout "Buckshot" Cheney chided the republican senators something to the effect that their inaction was "Herbert Hoover all over again". The implication being that inaction, i.e. letting the El Cidhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17642175827926988173noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34003340.post-25745900024978063032008-12-18T00:21:00.003-05:002008-12-18T00:41:23.377-05:00Russell Means Speaks the TruthJoshua points us to Russell Means' latest video offering and update about the Lakotah Republic. The thing that has impressed me all along with Means is that he presents a picture of a man that is not unhinged, rather a man unencumbered by wrong-thinking.The strategy employed by the Republic thus far seems workable if rather unremarkable. I say unremarkable only in the sense that by the measure El Cidhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17642175827926988173noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34003340.post-4175433125415149602008-12-17T17:14:00.002-05:002008-12-17T17:19:48.368-05:00Not in America You Say?Little by little, step by step we are accepting the mechanisms of our own demise...(From DUI Blog) The U.S. Marines have landed…and are apparently manning "sobriety checkpoints" in San Bernardino County in California. Yes, Marines. Yes, civilian DUI roadblocks.From an official December 10th California Highway Patrol public relations release:CHP to Conduct Sobriety/Driver’s License El Cidhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17642175827926988173noreply@blogger.com1