The Penn is a fool...

Sean Penn shows why he is a moron with this letter to Matt Stone and Trey Parker about their new movie..... (via Drudge)

I do mind when anybody who doesn't have a child, doesn't have a child at war, or isn't or won't be in harm's way themselves, is encouraging that there's "no shame in not voting" "if you don't know what you're talking about" (Mr. Stone) without mentioning the shame of not knowing what your talking about, and encouraging people to know. You guys are talented young guys but alas, primarily young guys. It's all well to joke about me or whomever you choose. Not so well, to encourage irresponsibility that will ultimately lead to the disembowelment, mutilation, exploitation, and death of innocent people throughout the world. The vote matters to them. No one's ignorance, indcluding a couple of hip cross-dressers, is an excuse.

Sorry Sean but both candidates are pro the warfare/welfare state. Guess it doesn't matter hombre. Plus the odds of your vote actually mattering (this is assuming that their is a difference between each candidate other than handing out the goods to their buddies--far fetched I know) is so statistically irrelevant that IT DOESN'T MATTER IF YOU VOTE.

Choices and Echoes by Gary North

Gary North answers the vote or die crowd and all the folks who like to get on me when I tell them that I won't waste my time voting.

They ask themselves: "Why bother to vote?"

The answer is not what we are told in high school, let alone college: voting is a religious act. This was understood by the ancient Greeks, who regarded political life as central to religious life. But in a society that promotes the separation of church and state in the name of the separation of religion and politics, it is not politically correct to admit the truth, namely, that exercising the franchise is an act of promoting one’s religion, i.e., one’s worldview. It means picking up a ballot instead of a gun, so that people you approve of will possess the lawful authority to pick up a gun in your name.

This is what politics is: the right to decide who picks up a government-provided gun and then tells other people what to do or not do. We can fool ourselves as voters by refusing to admit this, but when push comes to shove, and political issues seem to be life-and-death issues, we go out and use our ballots to make sure that "our guys" have control of the guns.

So, the name of the political game today is two-fold: (1) to distract voters’ attention from the hard reality of politics, namely, that it’s all about who controls the biggest guns; (2) to convince swing voters that the party’s program is best for them, which really means that the party’s appointees can be trusted with the guns. No candidate is willing to admit in public that he and his agents intend to stick guns in the bellies of the political losers, but this really is the plan. When a politician says "Trust me," he means, "Trust me to use the gun on that guy over there, not you." He’s lying, of course. He intends to stick the gun in your belly, too.

Voters are beginning to figure out that the guns will be used on them, no matter who is elected, and there’s not much they can do about this. How does a patriot act today? He takes off his shoes before boarding a plane. "Your photo ID, please."

The bureaucracy holds the guns, and no President can do much, one way or the other, to prevent the bureaucrats from using these guns in a way that is convenient to them. The system is too large to control. Bureaucrats respond to only one pressure: the threat of a budget cut. Because modern politics is all about increasing the budgets of bureaucracies, there is no believable threat facing the bureaucrats with the guns.

Conservatives/Liberals:

"The problem with conservatism,' says colleague Dan Denning, 'is that there is nothing left to conserve.'
Both parties stand for the same things: more spending, more debt, more meddling in people's lives all over the globe. This agenda used to be called 'liberal.' Now, it is 'neoconservative.' Neither party disagrees with the basic doctrines of the liberal welfare/warfare state; each candidate merely promises to do a better job of it."

Well said...