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ogabel: The first person to guess where and what year was first...

Wed, 24 Oct 2012 02:59:25 -0400

ogabel:

The first person to guess where and what year was first money rose painted, gets 50.00 shopogabel $! #ogabel #original #moneyrose (Taken with Instagram)

ogabel: This was done a while back for the homie Big Tmoney w...

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ogabel:

This was done a while back for the homie Big Tmoney w #RollerzOnly .. #ogabel #lettering #calligraphy #script #breakinbread (Taken with Instagram)

ogabel: The new drunk driving, think before you text… I thought...

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ogabel:

The new drunk driving, think before you text… I thought this was a very powerful image #had2share (Taken with Instagram)

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"Men have become the tools of their tools."

Tue, 23 Oct 2012 08:50:26 -0400

“Men have become the tools of their tools.”

- Henry David Thoreau (via singularitarian)

kohenari: I’m going to be live-blogging tonight’s presidential...

Tue, 23 Oct 2012 07:43:12 -0400

kohenari:

I’m going to be live-blogging tonight’s presidential debate in the spirit of James Madison. And I don’t mean that I’d be commenting on slavery or on the lack of appropriate wigs or breeches; I mean, I’ll be filtering the candidates’ answers through the lens of Madisonian political philosophy.

The live-blog begins below; I anticipate updating several times over the course of the debate so check back or leave this post open in a browser tab and refresh every so often.

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8:00pm - The debate begins.

If men were angels, no government would be necessary. If angels were to govern men, neither external nor internal controls on government would be necessary. In framing a government which is to be administered by men over men, the great difficulty lies in this: you must first enable the government to control the governed; and in the next place oblige it to control itself.

8:04pm - “How will you create new jobs?”

Obama notes that we’re saving money by having fewer troops fighting in foreign wars. Romney, oddly, blasts Obama for a trick-down theory of government. He then says he has a five-point plan. The fifth point is to make life easier for small businesses in the U.S., which he says he’ll do but Obama hasn’t done and won’t do.

Obama thinks we need to improve our education system. He also wants to change the tax code, closing loopholes for companies that outsource. Boost energy production. Manage the deficit. But here Obama notes that the Romney plan won’t allow us to pay for tax cuts and more military spending while also balancing the budget.

Madison noted:

Of all the enemies to public liberty war is, perhaps, the most to be dreaded, because it comprises and develops the germ of every other. War is the parent of armies; from these proceed debts and taxes; and armies, and debts, and taxes are the known instruments for bringing the many under the domination of the few. In war, too, the discretionary power of the Executive is extended; its influence in dealing out offices, honors, and emoluments is multiplied; and all the means of seducing the minds, are added to those of subduing the force, of the people. The same malignant aspect in republicanism may be traced in the inequality of fortunes, and the opportunities of fraud, growing out of a state of war, and in the degeneracy of manners and of morals engendered by both. No nation could preserve its freedom in the midst of continual warfare.

politicalprof: This makes some sense. ht: Bartcop

Tue, 23 Oct 2012 07:37:38 -0400

politicalprof:

This makes some sense.

ht: Bartcop

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