Poles Apart

Two people who couldn't be further apart taught me a university course worth of things yesterday.
The first was a 300#, bob-haired she-male of a woman who couldn't be dissuaded from her "liberated" narcissism even by the kisses and hugs of her 2-year-old son, which she barely acknowledged with anything other than looks of disgust and embarrassed sighs. The second was an aging Vietnam Veteran, recently returned from his "family" reunion with the 101st Airborne in Virginia, who held the moon for a woman half his age. Such a contrast, and all within a few blocks; a few hours' time.
One went to hell and back for his country and his home, and that not by choice. As Galt-in-Da-Box has said before elsewhere and in a much different context, "Freedom is not free, but sometimes the price is too high." The other became a mother before she learned the most valuable lesson of life; that who you are, how you feel and look are not as important as what you leave behind. There are sermons we see everyday in life...
How closely are we listening?

Breaking Windows

It looks like the Gates monopoly/Windows dynasty may be dying very nastily in the near future.
Galt-in-Da-Box followed Twitter leads this AM to this web page, detailing plans for the launch of an open-source (presumably Linux) coded operating system from none other than Google later this year. All bad things eventually come to an end...Thankfully! If it is the Linux/Unix open-source code or derivative, Mac users will have the option also, from what I understand.
We'll add this to our Network Affiliates so you can keep apprised of the latest news on this also.

"Into the storm, and through the storm."

Prepare yourselves befittingly, to conquer or to perish.
Nearly a quarter-millennium ago, a hand-full of concerned individuals united to drive back the darkness of imperialist tyranny from our coasts and clear out a "Galt's gulch" if you will; a veritable Rock of Salvation in this drifting world: A place for men who wanted to be independent and self-reliant, not constantly bowing and scraping to alleged "noble" inbreds who were anything but nobility. These men knew the true nature of government. They had learned from dear-bought experience, yet prevailed to prosper anyway. They already had security; they treasured freedom more! One of them became the voice of liberty and etched on parchment words that should be etched in stone:

"We hold these truths to be self evident; that all men are created equal. That they are endowed by their Creator with certain inalienable rights; that among these are life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. That to secure these rights, governments are instituted among men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed...That whenever any form of government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the right of the people to alter or abolish it; and institute new government...And for the support of this declaration, with a firm reliance upon...divine providence, we mutually pledge to eachother, our lives, our fortunes and our sacred honor."
- from the Declaration of Independence by Thomas Jefferson

It's becoming undeniably clearer as days go by that these principles are not as valued as they once were. Freedom requires responsibility and diligence, so many opt for the free lunch and the armchair attitude of "let someone else do it for me, instead." Thanks to this trend, the looters and moochers will soon outnumber the creators and producers. The trend is not irreversible, but that reversal must come soon: Sudden, sullen and stark changes loom on the horizon. If we summon the courage of the founders to do what we must, we can move forward into bright sunny uplands, but if we fail, then all we love and cherish will be lost forever. Because too many lust to live at the expense of their fellow man and constantly appeal to power for license of their perverse egotism, the struggle for freedom - by its very definition - is never-ending. It may be verbal, political or physical, but it must always be a struggle! Show me how much bribery the willfully ignorant are willing to accept for their allegiance; how much robbery and plunder of their neighbors they will gladly tolerate, aid and abet by silent complicity, and I will show you how much tyranny and injustice must finally be imposed by force upon them! If you join the battle against the dying of the Light by refusing to hand over your individual sovereignty and rights to the collectivists for a "temporary measure" of counterfeit security, America lives on. If not, we'll sink into the morass of a new Dark Age, made more sinister and protracted by the darkness of false and perverted science.
You are the only future Liberty has!

What's In A Name?

John Hancock.
A/k/a signature. If it's on a check, the check is only as good as the name signed to it. Everyone wants to be thought well of and be in good repute...Well, anyone worth mentioning, anyway. The Word says a good name is a precious thing to have. It's great to have others respect you and be well-thought-of, but there are times when great causes, times and events move to the fore: Amazing as it may seem, there are actually things more important than looking and feeling good, or even what others think of you. Liberty is one of them, and I tip my hat to whoever said "there is none more free than he who has nothing to lose."
If you take a look at a copy of the original Declaration of Independence, you'll discover John Hancock's signature is the most prominent, because he wanted King George III to be able to read it without his glasses. He didn't care about the personal consequences of his stand for freedom, because he knew the consequences of not taking it would be much greater.
On this what-should-be Independence Day, which really is not since we are tens of trillions in debt to hostile foreign powers and dependent on foreign oil thanks to the anything-to-keep-our-synchy-jobs mindset of the Kakostocrats in Washington D. C., this blogger has changed his online post signature: That is my real name, except for the obvious quoted inclusion.
To the cause of restoring a Constitutional republic dedicated to individual liberty and national sovereignty, yours truly considers himself expendable.

A Few Things You Can Do...

...to end socialist tyranny in America:

1. STOP ASKING GOVERNMENT FOR PRIVILEGES, FAVORS AND HANDOUTS! No matter how appealing or attractive they may appear THEY ARE NOT "FREE": They are extracted from the hides of your fellow citizens, and an increasing deadweight around the necks of future generations.

2. BECOME PART OF THE SOLUTION INSTEAD OF MOST OF THE PROBLEM: If you are employed in the bureaucracy "public sector", seek and acquire private sector work. Though this is much easier said than done, drunkards preaching temperance are one of the major issues impeding the libertarian movement today, and the bribes government offers only move you to a slightly higher deck on the ship Socialism is sinking.

3. "DO THE MATH." Take every deduction and exemption you can rightfully claim at tax time. The less money "Der Holy Mother Schtaat" has to pay its over-extended and over-the-limit Chinese Bank credit card, the greater compulsion builds for it to operate within its means.

4. BRING THE NOISE. Learn and give people the facts on how ruinous this faux-economic system is to individual integrity and responsibility. Discourage discretely others' dependence on socialist programs.

5. PUSH BACK. Find a political action group or organization with a proven track record of supporting limited government and greater individual liberty and responsibility, then throw all your weight behind it. If you can't find such a voice, you must become that voice!

6. LOSE THE ATTITUDE. Most people have bought the bill of bads about "you can't fight City Hall/there's nothing I can do", and quite frankly, that's bunk! It's exactly what the socialists and socializers want you to believe, because it empowers them. This country was started by people just like you, who decided to make a difference and take a stand against the blight of imperial tyranny...It can only be preserved by the same!

7. WISE UP (Perhaps I should have listed this earlier): Turn off the freaking HELL-a-vision, throw away the newspapers and gossip rags...Get rid of all that JUNK the Establishment wants you to keep swilling your head with and check into the Bible, the Constitution, the Harvard Classics - the wisdom of ages that built the men and women that founded this republic. Bare minimum, check out some of Ayn Rand's novels and epistemology from your local library. Educate yourself about America's history and heritage, because government certainly won't do that for you - The last thing on Earth a bureaucrat wants is an informed citizen getting in the way of his altruism! For too long now, America has been in the hands of the arrogant, aided and abbetted by the ignorant. At the end of your self-education, you'll become something rare and far between on the American scene today: Somebody who actually knows what they are talking about!

8. KNOW YOUR IMPORTANCE, AND DARE TO BELIEVE IT. Frederick Douglass said "The limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they oppress." Remember that when leftist tyrants falsely accuse you of being an old fogey, fossil or fascist, and "right"-wing ones would discourage with Papist, dispensationalist atheo-illogy and other excuses for you to cede power to them. The rightful political authority in a Constitutional republic resides in its active citizens...and ONLY with them!
You can and will make a difference if you know who you are and refuse to be talked out of it.

One More Nut Makes Sixty

If anyone had told Galt-in-Da-Box twenty years ago that the battle for America as a Constitutional republic would be fought and lost in Minnesota, I would have told them they were so full of crap it was running out of both ears.
Nevertheless, that may very well be the case: Read it and weep, folks. It doesn't take eight goddamned months to count ballots, but engineering and executing a political scam on par with Obama's "where's the birth certificate" fraud can take at least such! SocMed, anybody? How 'bout a good, unhealthy, funny-mental-ist dose of censorship Faaaaaairness Dogma? National police force? Disarmed citizenry? Elimination of the internet? Complete white-America disenfranchisement? Massive interference in your personal, private life "for your own good" in the name of public health? It's all on the table and no way to stop it, if these freaking socialists want to ram it down our throats. If you hear air-raid sirens and see lights going out, you're not alone!
Now, I want to stop right there and address the Rush Limbilges and similar wanna-bees that are going to be frothing at the mouth, before you start pretending to give half a piece of a busted damn about something other than the empowerment of your own goons and goon squads and the padding of your pockets. Here's a question for the Sean Argue-tys, before you begin recycling and reverse engineering blogger rants for your purposes. All of you dumbasses need to take a step back from the edge of the ledge and answer me this one: Who made all this possible? Why, could it be the left-leaning "neo-con"men you were pimping and lauding to the skies for so long? Could the buck for enabling the Democrat Constitution-burying machine possibly stop at none other than the feet of your own George W. Uss (Bonus demerits for hand-crafting, gift-wrapping and handing them all the instruments of tyranny via Patriot Acts I, II and the DHS)? Didn't you enable the left with your own, compromised, "pragmatic" leftist non-leadership? Since you can't answer that with an honest forthright "NO", shut the fuck up!!! I'm not even trying to hear your lame-ass, copped-out excuses.
The fact of the matter is America, you are not in charge. You've been disenfranchised for quite some time, now. Quite possibly, since the end of the War Between The States! Largely by your own abdication of authority and acceptance of partisan bribes and government robbery!!! Just a small glimpse of reality: In 1980, we were told the largest voter turn-out in history elected Ronald Reagan. That "largest voter turnout" amounted to 20% of the population! One party empowers itself by pandering to the Old-Money, Filthy-Rich. The other gains authority by catering to the weaknesses of tiny factions of looters, losers and moochers. Those of you who work for a living, who actually produce the wealth these fringes steal, are represented NOWHERE in the demographic!!! The ones who benefit the most from a GOP reign amount to 5% of U.S. There is always a 10% abject poverty crowd the other guys placate, and then give most of their judicial and legislative activism to an alphabet soup of AARP, NOW, NEA, ACLUnatics, &c bunches of whiners and snivelers that comprise about 5% of the mouthy malcontents looking for someone else to blame and stick it to for their loserism. Those actually laboring to tend their families well and improve their lot in life don't show up on the Donk radar at all. And now, Jimmy Carter days are here again!
Without a viable third party, or a massive libertarian invasion and overthrow of the Democratic one, there is not much future left for a nation tens of trillions in debt to its enemies, dependent on foreign oil and top-heavy with politicians that are either insane with greed or slutted out to the international scene. You want a political savior, a Ronald Reagan who will ride into the middle of all this, lobbing one-liners at every Establishment liar in sight? He's not on the campaign trail. The old-boy network running both parties is genetically incapable of producing such, but all is not lost. Here's where you can be sure to find The (wo)Man Who Can Save America:
Look in the mirror!

Mission Accomplished?

The smoke was just clearing.
The deafening roar of her engines echoed over the Florida cape and out on the water like a never-ending thunderclap.
Pausing to look up almost with every step, Robert Carter wandered out to the launch pad. He had given his all to see this day, and hoped and prayed it would be enough. He felt for Saratoga as though it were a long-lost child, with whom by a thousand coincidences that composed an ordained miracle, he had been graciously allowed the privilege to reconnect. There was a sense of not just being, but belonging, from Day One.
"For this purpose I was reserved!" The words escaped his lips as he saw the first stage separate."
Where would she go? What would she do? Baby, if I could just be there with you, he thought. On that ship, arcing across the heavens, rode so many hopes and dreams, and yet there came the sense of an open end.
The project coordinator told him it would return, but had given no specific date. He wondered what the manifest would state; what awesome treasures she would contain? And he looked forward with eager anticipation.
Saratoga was one-of-a-kind!
He wandered onto the launch pad, its surfaces still glistening with steam as the residue of the largest object ever sent into space continued to race skyward. There were going to be eleven more like her. The funds had been allocated, the plans and decisions made. As the sun rose that early morning on 30 August, 2018, Carter could see the placard on the lower bulkhead; a faithful remnant from old Launch pad 34:

Per Aspera Ad Astra

He grinned widely, remembering the challenges surmounted in getting the colonization project this far, establishing this toe-hold in the solar system.
"That's goddamn right."