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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, December 09, 2005

Back after technical difficulties ...

Yes, even software guys can have technical difficulties with their machines ... after all, we're SOFTWARE, not HARDWARE guys.

Anyhow, while we were away, Howard Dean and John Kerry Heinz made pronouncements that heartened our enemies, the president gave a couple of fine speeches on Iraq and the economy, and Thy Majestie's (sic) "Jeanne D'Arc" edged oh-so-slightly ahead of Kamelot's "The Black Halo" for our Metal cd of the year.

Oh ... BRYCE started a blog!

The Ponderosa

Friday, December 09, 2005

Back after technical difficulties ...

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