It's bulloney that grassroots moovements don't cownt cows as people. We should get some bovine experts in the field -- willing to get their hands dirty -- before we have a mad cow epidemic. We need to cow the pigs in beef corporations into taking less "deadly field-trips"; we need to dog the heels of those rat bastards. Cows everywhere are cownting on us to take over the moomentum with a mooving moovie depicting cows cownting the days until their grassy graves. Please chew on these ideas; cows are food for thought, not people.

Cowabunga! Don't be sheepish! Don't be chicken! Don't be a mouse; roar like a lion! Don't duck the issue! If we milk the cows, we can save all our farmyard friends.

Context:

Ayaan was just elected to Dutch government. After the election but before she started an interview from some weeks ago was published. In it, she said harsh (but valid) things about the Prophet Muhammad being a tyrant, and commented about his sex with young girls. The interview caused a big fuss, and Ayaan had to face her new political party at a meeting (she had changed parties as she entered the election, so it's her first time at this particular kind of meeting). Her sort of friend and mentor tells her:

Infidel, page 305

When the meeting starts, you'll see, people will attack you. I want you to stay quiet. When it's your time to speak, you must say, 'This interview happened a long time ago, before I was even elected. I realize this is not how things work, and I apologize for causing such a commotion. From now on I iwll consult the Party before coming out with such things.'

At first Ayaan did stay quiet. But then someone said:

Don't you think we should protect her from herself?

Ayaan was angry, but then delivered a completely calm and rational reply:

What surprises me is that not one person in this room has asked 'Is this true?' If the prophet Muhammad went to bed with a nine-year-old, then according to Dutch law he is a pedophile. If you look at how the Prophet Muhammad ruled, he was a lone ruler, an autocrat, and that is tyranny. As for being protected from myself, that is condescending, and inexcusable.

Isn't that spectacular? It is absolutely the right thing to say. And it is hard to say it in the circumstances. When asked why she said it, she said that it was the truth.

http://www.chrisbrunner.com/2007/05/09/libertarians-are-terrorists-says-the-state-of-alabama/

http://reddit.com/info/1pgvv/comments

http://72.14.205.104/search?q=cache:NZZeQlDYWxEJ:www.homelandsecurity.alabama.gov/tap/anti-gov_grps.htm+http://www.homelandsecurity.alabama.gov/tap/anti-gov_grps.htm&hl=en&ct=clnk&cd=1&gl=us&client=safari

http://72.14.205.104/search?q=cache:KAbTzrpj5OQJ:www.homelandsecurity.alabama.gov/tap/anarchist.htm+http://www.homelandsecurity.alabama.gov/tap/anarchist.htm&hl=en&ct=clnk&cd=1&gl=us&client=safari

The alabama state govt thinks anarchists oppose world trade and globalization and hate the rich.

And they talk about anti-govt groups that dislike gun control and like the constitution.

Both of these are in the domestic terrorists section.

The .gov pages are down, but google cache has it.

"Most unmarried Somali girls who got pregnant committed suicide." - Infidel, page 169

That is one of the details of what it means to say our culture is life-affirming, and theirs is not.

http://www.newyorker.com/humor/2007/04/30/070430sh_shouts_simms

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I used to link these on the front page of curi.us before the site redesign and never put them back up anywhere.

The Way of the World
True And Mutable
Choosing A Mate
Ten personal pearls of Jewish wisdom
Ethical Monotheism
Israeli Innocence

William Godwin writes in Enquiry Concerning Political Justice:

The evil of marriage, as it is practiced in European countries, extends further than we have yet described. The method is, for a thoughtless and romantic youth of each sex, to come together, to see each other, for a few times, and under circumstances full of delusion, and then to vow to eternal attachment. What is the consequence of this? In almost every instance they find themselves deceived. They are reduced to make the best of an irretrievable mistake. They are led to conceive it is their wisest policy, to shut their eyes upon realities, happy, if, by any perversion of intellect, they can persuade themselves that they were right in their first crude opinion of each other. Thus the institution of marriage is made a system of fraud; and men who carefully mislead their judgments in the daily affair of their life, must be expected to have a crippled judgment in every other concern.

Add to this, that marriage, as now understood, is a monopoly, and the worst of monopolies. So long as two human beings are forbidden, by positive institution, to follow the dictates of their own mind, prejudice will be alive and vigorous. So long as I seek, by despotic and artificial means, to maintain my possession of a woman, I am guilty of the most odious selfishness. Over this imaginary prize, men watch with perpetual jealousy; and one man finds his desire, and his capacity to circumvent, as much excited, as the other is excited, to traverse his projects, and frustrate his hopes. As long as this state of society continues, philanthropy will be crossed and checked in a thousand ways, and the still augmenting stream of abuse will continue to flow.

The abolition of the present system of marriage, appears to involve no evils.

You can read the book online here. The quote comes from this chapter.