The Ponderosa: No idea what this means ...

Death before Dhimmitude

Energy Independence

Above this race of men stands an immense and tutelary power, which takes upon itself alone to secure their gratifications and to watch over their fate. That power is absolute, minute, regular, provident, and mild. It would be like the authority of a parent if, like that authority, its object was to prepare men for manhood; but it seeks, on the contrary, to keep them in perpetual childhood: it is well content that the people should rejoice, provided they think of nothing but rejoicing. For their happiness such a government willingly labors, but it chooses to be the sole agent and the only arbiter of that happiness; it provides for their security, foresees and supplies their necessities, facilitates their pleasures, manages their principal concerns, directs their industry, regulates the descent of property, and subdivides their inheritances: what remains, but to spare them all the care of thinking and all the trouble of living?

--Alexis de Tocqueville, Democracy in America

Friday, July 30, 2004

No idea what this means ...

I want an America that relies on its own ingenuity and innovation – not the Saudi royal family.

No idea what this has to do with the Saudis -- other than as a sop to the Fat Boy. Further, it's the ingenious and innovative he wants to raise taxes on.

And our energy plan for a stronger America will invest in new technologies and alternative fuels and the cars of the future -- so that no young American in uniform will ever be held hostage to our dependence on oil from the Middle East.

The new "technologies and alternative fuels" will come to be when someone figures out how to make a profit by producing them. Sadly, this means someone will get rich.

The Ponderosa

Friday, July 30, 2004

No idea what this means ...

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