Hundreds of Armed Right-Wing Militia Members Take Over Federal Building

Alas Hitchen is no longer with us, but it would have been wonderful if he had joined A2K.

What a city; what a mayor.

"If you take out the killings, Washington actually has a very very low crime rate."

"I promise you a police car on every sidewalk."

What was great about Hitchens was that he never was so wed to an idea or a past argument that if he had reason to rethink it and come to a new conclusion he wouldn't immediately do so and have no qualms about admitting he was previously wrong and explaining why.

“A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines. With consistency a great soul has simply nothing to do. He may as well concern himself with his shadow on the wall. Speak what you think now in hard words, and to-morrow speak what to-morrow thinks in hard words again, though it contradict every thing you said to-day. — 'Ah, so you shall be sure to be misunderstood.' — Is it so bad, then, to be misunderstood? Pythagoras was misunderstood, and Socrates, and Jesus, and Luther, and Copernicus, and Galileo, and Newton, and every pure and wise spirit that ever took flesh. To be great is to be misunderstood.”

― Ralph Waldo Emerson, Self-Reliance

... owes millions of Dollars in gazing fees ... still owes the money.

Fast forward to 2016 and ... owes equally high numbers in gazing fees.

The Washington Post has some infos as well.

While the Citizens for Constitutional Freedom have the same right to protest, peaceably assemble and call for specific political changes that any group of Americans share, it's also reasonable to examine closely what they want and the language they are using to stake their claims. And "return" justvisn't a word that fits....A more accurate and far less racially and morally charged word for what Bundy wants might be "transfer"....

Gazing fees could make this site a highly exciting pay per view.

You would have found it very difficult to predict his opinion on any given topic, and you would always be able to count on him cutting through posturing and bullshit and neatly skewering the pompus and the arrogant.

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No bad faith or slight was intended.

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You would have found it very difficult to predict his opinion on any given topic, and you would always be able to count on him cutting through posturing and bullshit and neatly skewering the pompus and the arrogant.

Arrogance is a matter of perspective. I found him pompous and arrogant, but then he would probably have found me pompous and arrogant too...

Josh Marshall has a great term for what is happening in Oregon: white privilege performance art.

The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) report, titled “Domestic Violent Extremists Pose Increased Threat to Law Enforcement and Government Officials,” concludes that after years of sporadic violence from domestic extremists motivated by antigovernment ideologies, there has been “a spike within the past year in violence committed by militia extremists and lone offenders who hold violent anti-government beliefs.

“These groups and individuals recognize government authority but facilitate or engage in acts of violence due to their perception that the United States Government is tyrannical and oppressive, coupled to their belief that the government needs to be violently resisted or overthrown,” the report says.

Hey, guys, maybe spend a week more at Camp Cowboy and turn yourselves
in. After a while stage another one. I'd recommend the Everglades if you're
going to do it in winter