Quote of the Day

You cannot legislate the poor into freedom by legislating the wealthy out of freedom. What one person receives without working for, another person must work for without receiving. The government cannot give to anybody anything that the government does not first take from somebody else. When half of the people get the idea that they do not have to work because the other half is going to take care of them, and when the other half gets the idea that it does no good to work because somebody else is going to get what they work for, that my dear friend, is about the end of any nation. You cannot multiply wealth by dividing it.

­­- Anonymous, found at AR15.com

Found via Kevin, who seems to spend all of his time looking for good quotes.

Good News

Oil producers running out of storage space
Glut caused by world slowdown leaves the world awash in crude

The immutable laws of supply and demand are going to drive prices down.

H/T SurvivalBlog.

Newspaper clippings

Personal Rule #469

Never question another's fetish.

Let's go to the Power Exchange together. Let's go to the Power Exchange together and roleplay. Let's go to the Power Exchange together and roleplay HOT ZOMBIE SEX. I mean it. I know it sounds really ridiculous, but I've always loved zombies and the undead, and I've always loved sex, so I want to mix the two. Additionally, I've seen (and am friends with) some really cute zombie girls, and I could really enjoy the mix of horror, terror, shock value in others, and, y'know. Sex.

I'll dress up like an office professional or something like that, in some clothes I don't care about, and pretend to be doing some work in an office or something. Maybe then I'll listen to a prop radio and look shocked, act scared, peer out a mimed window or something, and then you batter on the door. And batter, and batter, and push -- and break in! And I let out a blood-curdling shriek, and you lunge at me and rip my clothes apart and splatter fake blood all over me (we'll use a tarp on the floor, to be polite), and proceed to savagely violate me. Or something like that -- I'm not really tied to that exact SCENE, but I think something that goes that way would be fun.

Zombie Thursday

Man Down

You entered the plane on a rickety jump ladder in the tail, walked through the fuselage filled with wooden ammo boxes and gun emplacemements, climbed around the retracted ball that was his home for forty missions, and then had to walk on a catwalk less than a foot wide between the bomb racks to get to the cockpit. All this for a man who needs a walker.

Read the rest.

Thuggery Close to Home

Again. Dammit. This is two minutes from wrestling practice. I drive past this place often. Several times a week.

Monday, March 2 - Brooklyn Center Police are looking for a man who shot another man in the leg this afternoon in the parking lot at the BP gas station at 6044 Brooklyn Boulevard.

At 1:10 p.m. today Brooklyn Center Police Department responded to a report of a shooting at the station. Responding officers found a 23-year-old man who had been shot once in the leg.

Cooking Tip

If you're going to make cream cheese wontons at home, get a fryer. Don't make them in a pan. If one of them pops, or you don't seal the wonton perfectly, the cream cheese boils violently. Large bursts of 400 degree oil flying at your hand as you try to pull food out of the fryer is NOT FUN.

3 packages of cream chees
1 small can of crab meat
and a coating of soy sauce

will almost perfectly fill

1 60 count pack of wonton wrappers

Yum.

Quote of the Day

" And who’s gonna pay for this? You. The government makes rules, and we ALL pay. It’s a hidden tax. They don’t call it a tax, but they make a rule and YOU pay.

And folks, my industry is just a little slice of the pie that is modern America. Somewhere along the line, we’re going to recognize that the caresses we feel on our shoulders are really a hand reaching for our throats.

What happens then may be terrible to behold."

-Mostly Cajun

MS13 and the Suburbs

A 15-year-old male and an 18-year-old male were shot in the parking lot outside JC Penney at Southdale Center in Edina around 6 p.m. Friday, Feb. 27.

I know someone listening on the scanner. The police reportedly said that this was MS13, which was officially not in Minnesota a few months ago. MS13 is one of the most violent gangs running.

I hate watching violent crime and gang activity migrate. Especially to a location visible from my office building. But hey, that's no reason to carry, right?

Update: It's officially MS13.