>>If you don't see a problem with characterizing "lower taxes, free enterprise and less government" as "running around like hillbillies" you will never understand why so many are coming to have such littel respect for the strength of your arguments.
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>>(and oh so sensitive arbiter of racism and prejudice that you are I am quite surprised you have no problem with "hillbillies" as an epithet. It was a pack of those hillbillies - including my ancestors - who fought the revolution that allowed the great experiment to even happen.)
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>Your terrible ancestors used guns!
Often, skillfully and even sometimes when sober (albeit then not as often or skillfully)
Charles Hankey
Though a good deal is too strange to be believed, nothing is too strange to have happened.
- Thomas Hardy
Half the harm that is done in this world is due to people who want to feel important. They don't mean to do harm-- but the harm does not interest them. Or they do not see it, or they justify it because they are absorbed in the endless struggle to think well of themselves.
-- T. S. Eliot
Democracy is two wolves and a sheep voting on what to have for lunch.
Liberty is a well-armed sheep contesting the vote.
- Ben Franklin
Pardon him, Theodotus. He is a barbarian, and thinks that the customs of his tribe and island are the laws of nature.
