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Contributed by: filbert Saturday, October 24 2009 @ 09:43 AM CST
This Republic is grounded on the belief that the individual can govern himself.
Contributed by: filbert Friday, October 23 2009 @ 10:18 AM CST
From the book Power in the People by Felix Morley, as linked by Gary Galles at the Ludwig von Mises Institute[*1] :
The most that any government can do is set people ‘at liberty.’ The State can stabilize the condition of freedom, and that is its sole excuse for being…men must develop their liberty from within. It cannot be doled out by government agencies.
Contributed by: filbert Thursday, October 22 2009 @ 08:54 PM CST
That’s more like it. After a three-week stall, I weighed in today with a 10.5 pound loss for the week. 231.3 pounds. Since my first initial visit with Dr. Tague at the Center for Nutrition[*1] , I’ve lost 47.7 pounds from the 279 pounds I started with.
Woo. And Hoo. And I did the math correctly this week, too.
I was getting a little nervous about making 230 by Halloween. I think I’ve got a pretty good shot at it, now. I’m off all of the blood pressure medications for now–we’ll see how that goes, but I’m hopeful that I’m off of them for good–or at least for a good long while.
Anyway, I had my third “body composition analysis” this week. The numbers are really, really good:
| Today, October 24th | August 11th | Difference | |
| Weight: | 231.3 lbs | 274.5 lbs ** | -43.2 |
| Lean body mass | 167.6 lbs | 177.0 lbs | -9.4 |
| Body fat mass | 63.7 lbs | 97.5 lbs | -33.8 |
| Body mass index (BMI) | 31.1 | 36.9 | -5.8 |
| Percent body fat | 27.5% | 35.4% | -7.9% |
** Yes, I gained 5.5 pounds in the week from my first Body Composition Analysis (274.5 pounds) to my first visit with the doctor (279.0 pounds). A last fling, of sorts.
Oh, yeah. I got another ribbon–my 40-pound ribbon. (Snookums likes the ribbons.)
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Contributed by: filbert Thursday, October 22 2009 @ 07:09 PM CST
On October 22, 2007, I posted:
I’m traveling, so posting has been nonexistent for a while. But now, I’m sitting in a hotel lobby on the side of the world that’s in the light when it’s nighttime back home in the USA, and it’s a depressing thing. No, not the hotel lobby itself, which is as fine as any you could hope for. But this side of the world is ugly, nasty, poor, and heartbreaking. It’s disgusting, messy, and dirty. But people live here, laugh here, have fun with friends here.
The news is filled with terror attacks, monkey attacks on city assistant mayors, more terror attacks, cricket, more terror attacks, Bobby Jindal, and more terror attacks.
Time to start thinking about coming home.
Contributed by: filbert Thursday, October 22 2009 @ 10:17 AM CST
Nothing that advances the power of the State over Society, thereby subjecting the individual to the State, can properly be called liberal.
Contributed by: filbert Wednesday, October 21 2009 @ 10:16 AM CST
The one enduring political folly is to concentrate in the hands of ambitious men power that they do not have the restraint to exercise wisely.
Contributed by: filbert Tuesday, October 20 2009 @ 10:16 AM CST
The reformer…is usually disposed to believe that improvement can be imposed by government fiat…placing great confidence in the coercive power of the State.
Contributed by: filbert Monday, October 19 2009 @ 10:15 AM CST
There are many Americans who attest their willingness to accept political dictatorship, if the State will only furnish them with periodic handouts and otherwise show continuous benevolence in the ordering of their lives.