Since you intervened on behalf of your alter ego, please answer the question. was Ben Franklin entitled to privately own his printing press and other ventures? A simple question really.

-- bucky1

The cabal owns everything and Glenn tells us what to say, what to print and who to vote for! Even Kos takes orders from Glenn now and we all get checks from George Soros! Muhahahahaha!

MIKE ALLEN IS A MONUMENTAL PUTZ --

(WHICH IS NOT TO SAY THAT HUGH HEWITT ISN'T,TOO).

I'm sorry, but Mike Allen is a bow-tied queen and his politics show beneath his knickers (where Hugh "man tits" Hewitt is right now.

Forgive my political incorrectness, but these bozos (like Adam Nagourney of the NY Times) skewer national political reporting and they should be called on their sexual and political stances.

We all know that Matt Drudge is an evil, right-wing homo (who supports hypocritical, right-wing homosexual homophobes like Senators Lindsey Graham and Mitch McConnell and Larry Craig and Representatives David Dreier -- and the late, unlamented Mark Foley) and yet no one calls him on it?

What about the Franklin stove and the lightning rod and all the other useful and lifesaving inventions Franklin refused to patent? Huh, smart guy? Huh? Do you?

I first note the play on my name as if that is supposed to bolster (bluster?) your argument, such that it is, in some way or the other.

I also note that old Ben and patents has nothing to do with the question; I asked if your clone supported private ownership of the press, and gave Ben Franklin as an example.

I also note that you do not have the foggiest idea of the Rothbardian stance on patent laws or you would not have tried that lame gambit.

Since you intervened on behalf of your alter ego, please answer the question. was Ben Franklin entitled to privately own his printing press and other ventures? A simple question really.

"live and let live."

I say "live and let live" allot. I let a harmless fool remain a fool if he/she so chooses.

It is a good rule of thumb. America hasn't lived by it since the end of WWII but we always had plausible deniability because the CIA did most of the dirty work. That all changed under Bush II. Thanks to that moron and all the neocon policy fools we have created a lucrative industry of America hating jihadis and takfiris. It won't go away just because we changed our tune. Now there is money in it. Ask any expert on the IRA. They helped create the very monster they pretended was there for political purposes. Now we must deal with it but it isn't being dealt with in the proper manner.

I say "live and let live" allot. I let a harmless fool remain a fool if he/she so chooses.

I say when people are foolish, violent, and create a Agni blaze in hell on Earth, setting the course of the world on fire, we have a duty to douse water on those killing fools!

Our town is having the annual Firemen Carnival, by the way.

I suggest not to shake the politicians hand. When ya; eat french fries potatoes cooked in peanut oil, your hands will smell like whore's perfume.

You like ketchup and vinegar?

You politicians wash hands in red ketchup?

You want a tin-can of &- up with lard fries?

You shut up. okay. burp some seven up on the keyboard.

You wear mittens when you type on cold August mornings?

You march the world front and center to fiery hell holes.

You think I need a tropical drink on a pink sandy beach?

I need to go get tangled up in some green seaweed and let me live and let live, or something like that. O, yea, "live and let live?" okay. shut up? yes. O, Hanlon and Pollack 'tour' should too. yes!

Clucky...Unless you hate private ownership altogether, even Benjamin Franklin's private printing ventures. Do you?

-- bucky1

What about the Franklin stove and the lightning rod and all the other useful and lifesaving inventions Franklin refused to patent? Huh, smart guy? Huh? Do you?

The Senate--both parties--clearly announced last night that the constitution and civil liberties are secondary priorities, if they can be called priorities at all. Feinstein last night announced from the floor that she had not even read, nor did she understand, one of the bills. This is how fast this thing got pushed through. Yet, if I remember correctly, she voted aye on the republican bill, handing even more power to Gonzales. That is how decisions are being made in the Senate.

-- casual_observer

The Senate doesn't even have a simple Democratic majority and Feinstein is Joe Lieberman lite. But I applaud you for at least mentioning priorites. What are yours?

I repent too.

Buck Fush and the go cart these dee-cee critters rode into town in, huh?

I repent agin!

I say do a 360.

Go home toads!

I repent 360 x's.

I go dig tatters.

I hope no ripp pants some more.

I no pass wind on the onion hill.

But aren't there actually guidelines in place designed to prevent the Army from engaging in Psy-Ops against the American people? Because the last time I checked there was a word for waging war against the American people though its not commonly used when describing the activities of the Military. (Certain hatemongers of course throw the word around like penny candy when describing their fellow countrymen who happen to dislike violence.)

I speak of course of Treason.

Of course you are correct. I remember when the debate to end the draft was going on; many people warned that an all voluntary military was just another phrase for a professional military and we were going to regret it.

Two different members of my family were military intelligence; one was a field officer. In saying what was legal to say, I got the impression that 'national security' has been used to justify all manner of vile and evil things that the general public would never believe. I mean they would not believe if there was video tape.

We need to elect people who reject empire and interventions. We must return to being a people who leads by example and not by military force.

By the way, when was the last time you heard a friend of yours say 'live and let live' in real life? I used to hear that all the time here in the deep south, but not in years. A small thing perhaps, but that little factoid may say a lot about our woes.