Random Shots for Thursday, 14 September 2017

Today in history

Comments I’ve posted

1. Posted to Diaspora*, Ello, Facebook [ here, here, here, here, here, and here ], Google Plus [ here and here ], Minds, seen.life [ here and here ], VK [ here, here, here, and here ] –

   Arvin Vohra
   Wednesday, September 13, 2017 at 10:54am

   Could the free market fight drug use? It already does.

   The free market doesn’t fight idiotic behavior with violence. It just makes you pay the penalty for that behavior. If you use any drugs at all, there are plenty of private sector jobs that you cannot be hired for. Private insurers give private companies that work with heavy machinery major discounts for being drug free. No need for government involvement. Private healthcare, daycare, and educational companies often require drug free employees. Pretty much every employer prefers them.

   The free market won’t kidnap you and lock you in a rape camp for using drugs. It just might not hire you. You may face the choice between clean living and destitution, homelessness, and starvation.

   If you’re squandering hours a day intoxicated, you also may have a competitive disadvantage compared to those who don’t. If your competitors are using that time to better themselves or improve their skills, you’ll be left behind.

   On the reverse side, if drug use makes you more creative, or just more relaxed, or somehow helps you, then the free market might even reward you.

   The free market rewards good behavior and punishes bad behavior — without government violence or theft.

   If elected, I will sponsor legislation to end the drug war, abolish the DEA, release nonviolent drug users, sellers, and transporters from prison, and cut taxes accordingly. I will also sponsor legislation to end all federal welfare, including educational and medical welfare. Drug use punishes itself, and it does so even better without welfare softening the blow.

   Respectfully,

   Arvin Vohra (L)
   Libertarian Party Candidate for U.S. Senate (MD)

2. Posted to Facebook –

   I thought you were a Linux user, Frank.

3. Posted to Facebook –

   Ah OK

4. Posted to Facebook –

   What happened to the Post Office?

Listening / Reading / Watching

1. Alien: Covenant
2. Hiring a Social Justice Warrior
3. The Tom Woods Show by Tom Woods — Ep. 906 Judd Weiss, John McAfee’s VP Pick, on What Really Happened Behind the Scenes – and It’s Not Pretty
4. Quill Driver Books — 400 Things Cops Know by Adam Plantinga
5. Sportsman Channel —
   1. Handguns and Defensive Weapons
   2. Davidson’s Gallery of Guns
6. New Mexico In Depth — Realtors and developers give big money to ABQ mayoral candidates by Marjorie Childress
7. Tales From SYL Ranch by William Stone III — Bitcoin Will Die
8. Helloween —
   1. Keeper of the Seven Keys – The Legacy World Tour 2005 / 2006
   2. Straight Out of Hell
9. KUPI 29 TV [Heores & Icons (H&I) affiliate for Albuquerque, New Mexico] — Star Trek: Enterprise