I am a Declaration American: To me, America consists mainly in the idea of individual liberty and found its most compelling political expression in the Declaration of Independence. The Constitution was a counter-Revolutionary act, and Lysander Spooner was right.

So...what? You're nobody, woman. You work for professional liars and you lie, too. Do you have any idea who I am? I am your prospective customer and believe me: you are *fired*.

Keep your house, asshole, and see if I care.

(l-r) Mark -- FOH Audio Jid -- Monitors, Production Manager The Boss Me -- Lights Derek -- Guitar Danny & his wife -- Keyboards Ollie -- Tour Manager Three of us are gone, now. Love them, all.

Put some clothes on, woman.

A collectivist tyranny dare not enslave a country by an outright confiscation of its values, material or moral. It has to be done by a process of internal corruption. Just as in the material realm the plundering of a country's wealth is accomplished by inflating the currency - so today one may witness the process of inflation being applied to the realm of rights. The process entails such a growth of newly promulgated "rights" that people do not notice the fact that the meaning of the concept is being reversed. Just as bad money drives out good money, so these "printing-press rights" negate authentic rights. -Ayn Rand ("Man's Rights," in The Virtue of Selfishness, Ch. 12; p. 128, Kindle ed.) Artist unknown: may be computer generated.

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There are several examples I've written about before of bike lanes that actually make sense. The Hudson River Greenway is one, as it doesn't interfere with traffic on the West Side Highway and is a well-established example of what bike lanes SHOULD be. Scenic, spacious, and mostly IN A PARK. The 2-way bike lanes along the westbound span of the Brooklyn Bridge are another example that makes sense because they keep bike assholes from plowing into pedestrians on the bridge. The bike lanes going over the Manhattan Bridge? Same thing. MY issue, sir, are with the INTRUSIVE bike lanes, planter pots, and every "road dieting" device that clutters roads, shrinks lanes and makes life needlessly miserable for drivers, both passenger cars AND truck drivers alike. Viable alternatives? Ripping up every single bike lane, from EVERY single street, EVERY single avenue, in EVERY SINGLE BOROUGH that are intentionally designed to fuck with people.

Don't argue with this imbecile.

Speaking of the means of production, from my friend @_Billy_Beck_

"We want you to have personal property under communism" Who do you think you are? You have no authority to dictate the terms and conditions of my life. You're nobody, and you don't matter.

Well, it's come to a new steering rack in the Lincoln MKS. Going in at the price that I did, I knew it would come to something like this, and I'm ready for it. This car is worth it.

I believe it.

On the other hand, that post read like Bolshevik history and I'm not kidding. Factory worker meetings; that sort of thing.

To me, it's not that "it doesn't matter". In fact, it matters, profoundly. I carry an implacable conviction that it is wrong to submit rights to the opinions of majorities. The very idea is morally abhorrent to me.

"Win" *what*?

I don't know about you, but by about eight seconds into it, I was instinctively reaching for the bug spray.

"I am for the separation of state and economics. Just as we had separation of state and church." — Ayn Rand

This mad Ponzi-scheme lady is at it again.