Sunday, January 30, 2005
Olives, figs and honey
Californian black "Black Mission" desert figs, Peruvian jumbo olives, both sun-dried on the tree and Brazilian Marmelero wild mountain flowers honey were the special extra ingredients to season the thick vegetable stew mentioned further below...On both Sundays, January 23 and January 30, not a single grown-up fart or mucky pup showed up in the Exterritorial™ Chat Rooms for the discussion on firearms. I was alone.
As my revenge, I post hereafter both transcripts where ">" stands for "CB". They speak for themselves.Number One:
> Welcome to this chat room of BUTTERBACH.NET/EXTERRITORIAL.NET! The topic today is "For or against private firearm ownership".Number Two:
> "Peace with a cudgel in hand is war." PORTUGUESE PROVERB
> "Stretch a bow to the very full,/ And you will wish you had stopped in time." LAOTSE
> "A weapon is an enemy even to its owner." TURKISH PROVERB
> "He has made his weapons his gods./ When his weapons win he is defeated himself." RABINDRANATH TAGORE
> [In war] the latest refinements of science are linked with the cruelties of the Stone Age." SIR WINSTON CHURCHILL
> "We can do without butter, but, despite all our love of peace, not without arms. One cannot shoot with butt49 but with guns." PAUL JOSEPH GOEBBELS
> "Self-preservation is the first principle of our nature." ALEXANDER HAMILTON
> "It isn't important to come out on top, what matters is to be the one who comes out alive." BERTOLT BRECHT
> "Nature is indifferent to the survival of the human species, including Americans." ADLAI STEVENSON
> :-)
> If these quotes are not enough to trigger a discussion, nothing will...
> Of course, a discussion is not easy, if no one is present in the chat room but me... :-)
> No one seems to have accepted my appointment.
> Well, I would not want to have to rely on the defense by the kind of gun-toting libertarian that does not show up when her/his favourite subject is being dealt with...
> I guess I'll soon quit and topple a Bowmore instead...
> Till next Sunday then. Goodbye ALL!
> PS: I just notice that I slightly misquoted the subject of this discussion. The correct title was "For or against private ownership of firearms".
> Christian Butterbach: The Webmaster and Host of this discussion (January 23rd, 2005 ~ closed at 6:05 p.m. GMT)
> Welcome to this chat room of BUTTERBACH.NET/EXTERRITORIAL.NET! The topic today is "For or against private ownership of firearms".
> I will start with a few quotations that may trigger the discussion:
> "Peace with a cudgel in hand is war." PORTUGUESE PROVERB
> "Stretch a bow to the very full,/ And you will wish you had stopped in time." LAOTSE
> "A weapon is an enemy even to its owner." TURKISH PROVERB
> "He has made his weapons his gods./ When his weapons win he is defeated himself." RABINDRANATH TAGORE
> "[In war] the latest refinements of science are linked with the cruelties of the Stone Age." SIR WINSTON CHURCHILL
> "We can do without butter, but, despite all our love of peace, not without arms. One cannot shoot with butter but with guns." PAUL JOSEPH GOEBBELS
> "Self-preservation is the first principle of our nature." ALEXANDER HAMILTON
> "It isn't important to come out on top, what matters is to be the one who comes out alive." BERTOLT BRECHT
> "Nature is indifferent to the survival of the human species, including Americans." ADLAI STEVENSON
> :-)
> While I am waiting till all these gun aficionados (where are you, Mary Lou? and Neil, the man of The Atlanta Declaration?) show up here, I am going to the kitchen and pour me a soup-plate of soup...
> That's less dull than this absence pf shooting...
> Sorry for the typo, _of_ shooting of course.
> I meant mental shooting of course, the firework of the intellect!
> There is not even an undercover agent in this room!
> The German government is remarkably absent from this room!
> Does this mean that they installed one of these devices to record all I am typing while I was in the kitchen? :-)(
> My cat is getting impatient and about to jump on the mouse or the keyboard and that will terminate the session and then all content so far will be lost for the late-comers, when I start a new session.
> Where are you, big mouth Rick?
> ...
> I should have known it, 2nd amendment buffs are mostly of the religious right, they spend their Sundays in church... :-)
> So the next chat will have another topic.
> About something where you should preferably be in the buff!...I close this chat now, a bit earlier than last time, at 5:55 p.m. GMT.
Posted by Christian Butterbach @ 11:01 PM GMT+1 [Link]
Literature on Liberty at Calcutta Book Fair 2005In connection with this site's and this webmaster's increasing awareness of India (including the neighbouring countries), which is partly a revival of a former and old interest, I take great pleasure in letting our readers, in particular in that area, but also the others, know, though with a little Indian delay :), about that book fair.Please see this in relation to a probably upcoming special rubric on India on this site and to the following: Below is the invitation to the fair as I received it today: Literature on Liberty… We invite you to take advantage of this unique opportunity to browse through a large collection of literature on liberty from around the world. The only place to find the works of the father of economics Adam Smith as well as Ayn Rand’s modern masterpieces. LIBERTY INSTITUTE at Stall No.321 Calcutta Book Fair 2005 At the Maidan, from January 26 to February 6, 2005, Daily 2 to 8 pm This being the birth centenary of Ayn Rand (1905-2005). We have a special display of her works. We will also showcase books by Nobel Laureates F. A. Hayek, Milton Friedman, and James Buchanan. International scholars like Ludwig von Mises, Henry Hazlitt, Julian Simon, Thomas Sowell are represented, as well as contemporary treatises by Indian and international policy experts, and authors. Among the Indian authors you will find Surjit Bhalla, Sauvik Chakraverti, Gurcharan Das, Bibek Debroy, Ashok Desai, Deepak Lal,Minoo Masani, B.R. Shenoy, and many others. On display will be publications from many think tanks from different countries. We have the complete collection of books and papers published by Liberty Institute, including our latest –
Ideas matter. Join us on this intellectual odyssey. Together we can make the world a better place. ****************************************************** LIBERTY INSTITUTE "Where the mind is without fear..." Julian L. Simon Centre C-4/8, Sahyadri, Plot 5, Sector 12, Dwarka, New Delhi 110 045, India Tel: 91-11-25079214, Fax: 91-11-25079101 Email: info@libertyindia.org, liberty@nda.vsnl.net.in, Web Site: www.libertyindia.org |
Posted by Christian Butterbach @ 01:03 PM GMT+1 [Link]
Friday, January 28, 2005
Bush Budget Busts Bank
The above heading is the title of a great column by Jim Peron which you will find on my Op-Ed page. The text is a repost, without the typos :), of a post by Jim Peron to the mailing lists of the Institute for Liberal Values of New Zealand and of the Free Students Network, an Australian Yahoo! group.You may remember my profound :) and tongue-in-cheek comment "Terrorism in the Shoe" about Jim Peron's great article "You might not want to go home again!".
John Zube comments today's article as follows:
"As for the slogan: Bush Budget Busts Bank: The Austrians [CB: Dear package tourists, this is not the people that invented the Wiener Schnitzel, the Wiener Waltzer and somehow managed to have some crazy combination of genes happen at Braunau, no these Austrians are just a small sub-set of the whole, namely the members (like Ludwig von Mises) of the famous and for the most part very commendable school of Austrian Economics, one of the many examples of a Wiener Schule (in music, in philosophy, in jurisprudence, in art, "phantastic realism", to name one of many as an example, etc., etc., even in osteopathy!], after many paper money inflations, have a fitting reply to that: Governments never go bankrupt. Only their creditors do."
John Zube further writes:
"I guess you will like this point of view and on these points I am certainly not on the side of Bush, either. The points I partly agree upon are relatively minor, like the recent increase of the price on the head of Bin Laden from $ 25 to $ 50 million is, in my view, not a waste of money. It may also not be due to Bush himself but to one of his better advisors.
That he feels religiously inspired, like Jenghis Khan also did, does not speak for him, either.
The history of previous crusades should have taught him at least something. Moreover, one cannot consistently engage in a crusade against WMD as long as one retains one's own."
I couldn't agree more...
Posted by Christian Butterbach @ 01:20 PM GMT+1 [Link]
Thursday, January 27, 2005
http://www.BoycottTesco.com
The world's third-largest retailer is trying to introduce RFID tagging...Posted by Christian Butterbach @ 05:00 PM GMT+1 [Link]
Wednesday, January 26, 2005
Fuck you, Supreme Soviet in Brussels!
Sequel to Thank you, Supreme Soviet in Brussels!
See http://www.butterbach.net/blogs/net/archives/00000174.htmToday I received the latest issue of EDRI-gram, Number 3.2, 26 January 2005, the newsletter I urge everyone to subscribe to and to use the info in it to warn your neighbour!
Unfortunately, the public at large or general public, the common herd, the masses, are totally unaware of what is really going on behind the political scenes. They have no idea what the future holds and thanks to their ignorance we will all be the victims of that inflation of dictators swarming out from Brussels and the other capitals (also non-EU ones) like locusts to eat all our freedom, all our property, all our happiness, under so many disguises of pretenses of wanting our good only. Indeed they just want to take our good, our best, our natural rights.
If you think I am exaggerating, read that newsletter I am reproducing here in full. And try to figure out the real motivations behind all this and what will be the logical consequences for our drab future, having swallowed the wrong-coloured pill.
Here is the table of contents:
- 1. Poland blocks software patents once more
2. German library allowed to crack copy protection
3. Data Retention: Parliament Rapporteur doubts legal foundation
4. Total surveillance visitors World Cup Germany
5. New rumours about spy chips in EURO notes
6. French Big Brother Awards
7. EU consultation calls for social impact studies on nanotech
8. Verizon blocks European e-mail
9. Recommended reading: spyware
10. Agenda
11. About
Above I have hightlighted in bold those items that inform about the most scandalous realities and projects.
Bon appétit! Vomitive included.
Posted by Christian Butterbach @ 08:33 PM GMT+1 [Link]
Saturday, January 22, 2005
Exterritorial™ Chat Rooms Event
For or against private firearm ownership
Ladies with penis envy and gentlemen with small cocks will have the opportunity to shoot around in this site's chat rooms to their heart's content, provided they own a real firearm as replacement for the real McCoy, not just an Opel Manta with rear spoilers and a fox's brush... ‹THIS IS A JOKE, YOU DUMMIES!›A discussion in English on the subject of "For or against private ownership of firearms" will take place
tomorrow, Sunday, January 23rd, 2005
at
noon, New York time
5 p.m., Greenwich Mean Time (G.M.T./U.T.C.)
6 p.m., Hamburg (Germany) time
4 a.m., Monday, January 24th, 2005, Sidney time
and
a week later, Sunday, January 30th, 2005
at
noon, New York time
5 p.m., Greenwich Mean Time (G.M.T./U.T.C.)
6 p.m., Hamburg (Germany) time
4 a.m., Monday, January 31st, 2005, Sidney time
The chat rooms are at
http://www.butterbach.net/chat.html
Posted by Christian Butterbach @ 05:43 PM GMT+1 [Link]
Thursday, January 20, 2005
Shame on you, Lindsay Perigo!!!!!!
Attacking ISIL that way is the last straw! Since they say so of themselves, I have always thought that the disciples of Ayn Rand are intelligent, logical, rational, objective, "Objectivist" people. This proves that they are not. How can a Papesse be intelligent and objective?! Someone who falls for the official theory, all those lies, of the American government, especially the present one, and governments in general, cannot reasonably be called intelligent and not honest either. Your reformed kind of Objectivism is claiming to be neither left nor right wing (which by the way would be a sign of true libertarianism). The truth is that one could not possibly be more right wing than you are.Seven years ago, when I started my websites, the very first link I offered and recommended to my visitors was the one to your editorial policy of your Free Radical, Lindsay Perigo. And the link is still to be found on my websites, at the same spot, since seven years: http://www.butterbach.net/waiting.htm. The reason for this recommendation was that at that time I had not yet found any other short text describing exactly my libertarian beliefs in a way where I could really subscribe to every comma. I am disappointed up to the point of throwing up.
What can one expect of believers?! The world is torn apart through them...
Lindsay, you may soon have another occasion to attack Tom Knapp, FND, RRND and the whole board of ISIL: the looming war against Iran. When will the right libertarians and the left libertarians start throwing bombs at each other??? Ste. Ilana, have mercy with us victims of Objectivist warmongers and pray for their enlightenment.
Sense of Life Objectivists, hah, hah!
Posted by Christian Butterbach @ 01:29 PM GMT+1 [Link]
Tuesday, January 18, 2005
"CB's fireplace"
The above two pictures show two parts of a roughly 120 cm long oak log that has a girth of about 50 cm without the knots. The special thing about it is that (a) it is from a German oak, so you do not just have the wood, but also the myth, Wagner and all... ;-) (b) it is from a tree in the park around the villa my mother lived in in Hamburg, Germany, towards the end of the Eighties of last century (c) it has stayed at least 15 years in a heated apartment so that it is dry like tinder.
If you are the happy owner of an open fireplace (I used to be!) and are the first one to call me saying that you are going to pick it up at my address, it's yours for free. (The second caller will get a similar, a bit longer, beech log from that same park.) You will have to promise though that you will take a great picture of that log's fantastic burning in your fireplace and send it to me to become the "logo" or "masthead" of my new cooperative blog
"CB's fireplace"
which is hereby introduced!Posted by Christian Butterbach @ 12:23 PM GMT+1 [Link]
Saturday, January 15, 2005
Latest columns
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Going To California
Pay Up, Sit Still, and Damage Your Bladder: Theater Economics
Posted by Christian Butterbach @ 02:33 AM GMT+1 [Link]
In Defense of Jews (or Not?)
When this site has reason to boast about a major addition, an essay with an epoch-making revolutionary analysis and proposal, and the high priest of libertarian benedictions doesn't muster the intelligence, independence and courage to draw attention to it, this webmaster has a right to be angry. The text has little merit from a strictly literary point of view, but this has hardly ever been a hindrance in so many other cases, and we are not in the department of literature here, but in the one of political philosophy. Peace or poetry that is the question here. If we can't have both, what should we choose?Every single day we are confronted with a deluge of brilliant articles by fashionable libertarian authors who dissect for the n-th time every small detail of the rotten Bush administration and for the n-th plus one time how the Bill of Rights has been largely abandoned, never ever the question whether the Constitution and the Bill of Rights were good enough in the first place is discussed. There is hardly ever a place for any new idea, always the daily staple hash.
So I have to draw the attention to that essay myself:
In Defense of Jews (or Not?)
by John ZubeThe essay is analyzing, explaining, proposing the fundamental concepts of exterritorialism or a-territorialism and panarchism in capsule form with topical references so that the dumbest libertarian can get it. Just read it slowly.
It is about time that the movement stops striking only at the root of a tree that sits in a small garden surrounded by a high concrete and barbed wire wall of nationalism and constitutionalism and minarchism.
Posted by Christian Butterbach @ 02:23 AM GMT+1 [Link]
Friday, January 14, 2005
"To eliminate competing philosophies of medicine"...
This is the major undertaking [like in undertaker ;-)] of the Political-Medical Complex. I hope the following quotes- "Caring for the health of the nation has been undertaken with as much sensitivity as a surgeon with a chainsaw."
"Responsible behavior is needed and it cannot come from politicians."
"People have to learn that they are responsible for their own lives, that they will not live longer simply by turning decisions over to politicians or god-pretending physicians."
MEDICAL QUACKERY: GOVERNMENT POLICY IN THE UNITED STATES
by Ken SchoollandAs I said in issue #10 of my newsletter [TEI]: Ken here at his very best. The essay has some of the best insights and formulations ever, several should be carved into marble, the letters filled with gold, and placed on public squares. The essay is extremely instructive, both regarding the medical side and the general political side. If you didn't know about the historical facts revealed, you will be forever grateful. I am myself a victim of the "gods in white", so I must know. And I do not hail from the States, as you know. Basically the same is true in England, France, Germany...
An incidental note: This is not, as Tom Knapp put it in Rational Review News Digest, "a reprint from 1994". Such a remark somewhat diminishes the value of this publication, which is the first ever, either in print or online, even though it is the text of a speech or lecture given ten years ago in Lithuania. And it is as topical now as it was then. Upon request of the small audience a quick computer print-out had been made and distributed to the participants. This was not a publication in print in the usual sense of the word.
Posted by Christian Butterbach @ 11:15 AM GMT+1 [Link]
Thursday, January 13, 2005
Revelations 5
In December 2004, my site had 18,071 visitors, the highest figure ever, as you can gather from the above graph. I was unable to reach the target I had set myself of 20,000, nor will I, most likely, be able to reach my next target: 30-35,000 in Spring. Insuring such an increase requires so much new content to be added and promoted that the work involved goes far beyond the power of a single person, especially if that person had the bad luck towards the end of the year to suffer from bad health. I am now so much handicapped healthwise that pending a treatment I cannot afford I will either have to give up my sites completely or just leave them as they are or now and then might be able to add something so sensational that it will boost the number of visitors greatly. As always, I keep a few tricks up my sleeve. Your continued support is much appreciated!
Posted by Christian Butterbach @ 01:24 PM GMT+1 [Link]
Wednesday, January 12, 2005
Belated good wishes for the new year that just started. I was too ill to be able to write anything earlier. More on this new situation soon.
Posted by Christian Butterbach @ 10:27 PM GMT+1 [Link]
