New T-shirt Design
From the guy who brought you the anti-corporate t-shirt:
Laps of fire
Holy shit this Macbook gets hot if you leave it on all night downloading torrents.
Freedom may not be free, but the Pentagon is still overcharging
. Why should the soldiers do all the work on the taxpayer dime - especially if you're so pro-America? Why not take it upon yourself to defend your community, family, and self - cut out the middleman? (For conservative military gung-ho types: <em>what, are you skeered?!?!</em>)
<p>I think we're much safer as a result of popular firearms ownership than as a result of the military industrial complex. A rifle behind each blade of grass, just like Admiral Yamamoto <a href=)
said, is the best guarantee of our freedom from foreign or domestic governments. I think the latter is a bigger threat than the former at this particular juncture, but the point still stands even if you're more afraid of terrorists.
WOO HOO!!!
My little brother is out of the military in less than a month and will soon be back in Virginia!
This is the best news I've had in a while.
SWAC Girl's Counter-Protester Hypocrisy
the Pentagon protest last month, where counter-protesters were allowed by on-site police to shove, spit on, yell at, and otherwise bully and assault anti-war protestors without consequence (according to two three separate witnesses at least; I reacted to those events here). The "Gathering of Eagles" counter-protesters outnumbered anti-war marchers by 4 to 1, but still the police failed to intervene to stop their intimidation.
And some people complained about it.
This, apparently, was too much for SWAC Girl, a prolific right wing cheerleader who has exercised her free speech on many occasions excoriating the anti-war movement, hippies, and Democrats. She's like the non-patrician version of Right Thinking Girl, only she plays the Christian card more often. In response to these complaints from the loyal opposition, she unleashed a tirade of ranting which had something to do with troops, Vietnam, and her children living under the constant threat of somebody, somewhere, not wanting the U.S. meddling in their affairs (sorry, I know, 9/11 happened because of the freedom-haters). Playing the role of the victim doesn't go as far when your party's in power, but she summoned enough God-fearing hysteria to make up for it.
Reaching out to Richmond libertarians
Tonight I'll be attending the Patrick Henry Supper Club in order to touch base with local libertarians. Feel free to join me!
Also, Robert Russo writes a great piece addressing the Richmond Left Libertarian Alliance. Thanks!
UPDATE: Just got back and documented the event here.
If the troops dig this tacky tripe, they're even more demoralized than I thought...
What, "we will never forget" self-indulgent WTC imagery? And you've gotta be kidding me - Read this article
Written on Tuesday, April 03, 2007
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what we saw in D.C. was an attempt to put together a genuinely fascist movement, one that could be used not only on March 17 but in the future to prevent anti-war and other progressive mobilizations. Some of the comments posted on the GOE Web site are conservative but not crazy, while others are open calls for shedding blood -- ours.
So, on the one hand we shouldn't think we are up against a broad wave of resentment by masses of vets. But, on the other hand, we shouldn't kid ourselves into thinking this couldn't develop into something more serious than what we saw on March 17. In D.C., we had numbers, if not much security. At a much smaller protest back home, 20 or 30 of these yahoos could be problem.
Richmond Left Libertarian Alliance. Here's the 
