The Ponderosa: We're off for a few days ....

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

Thursday, July 21, 2005

We're off for a few days ....

... of metal, mayhem and Maker's Mark. [we woulda thrown in "Macanudos" but we prefer Arturo Fuentes. Gratuitous alliteration must take a back seat to brand loyalty when it comes to ceegars!]

We will check in ... maybe ...

Moonbats -- behave yourselves! Go easy on the porn and pot ... Damn, alliteration again ... Try to work up the courage to post here rather than sending us emails which we have no permission to post ... Better yet, fill out a few job applications.

Cheers!

The Ponderosa

Thursday, July 21, 2005

We're off for a few days ....

Available from The Virginia City Trading Post . . .

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