The Legacy of Andrew Breitbart

Andrew Breitbart – February 1, 1969 to March 1, 2012
I want my Legacy to be, that they know that they screwed with the wrong guy.
In the United States of America you have the right to think freely,
you have the right to do whatever you want…. the idea that the Democrat Media Complex will tell you that you are a slave to an ideology… to a mindset that if you don’t abide by it, we are going to punish you severely — that’s as un-American as anything I can possibly imagine. I don’t care if you agree with me or disagree with me on policy, what I care about is that you have the freedom in this country to run your life as a free, rugged individualist. I am at war with anybody who would tell you that you don’t have a right to be a free man.


Andrew Breitbart on his Legacy “I want the left to know they screwed with the wrong guy!”

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The Message of Liberty in One Minute


The Message of Liberty in One Minute

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Bryson Backpacking

Brandon and Shaun wanted to see if Bryson could make it as a boyscout. Maybe not yet!

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Monster Truck Jam at Cowboys Stadium

Amber and I took Bryson to see the Monster Truck Jam today at the giant silver cockroach. (shout out to all the Arlington taxpayers, thanks for the subsidized facility, it is nice!) They make these events fun. The stadium was packed full too, lots of screaming kids. Crazy stuff. In between main events, they even have fun racing action, like 4-wheelers and a junker demolition match. I was blown away by the bombardment of marketing too. Serious work goes into planting desire into the little ones to use dad’s money to buy stupid plastic crap. $15 cotton candy, yup, they had that too.

Grave Digger 2012 Cowboys Stadium

El Toro Loco 2012 Cowboys Stadium

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What is a Right?

Words matter, it is how we communicate! When people change the meaning of words, it seems like one of two things is happening 1- they want to manipulate the situation or 2- ignorance of the true definition. The word ‘right’ gets misuse more often than not:


Walter E Williams – What is a Right?

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Groundwater and Subsidence

About 22% of the fresh water on earth is stored below the surface – groundwater. It is pretty easy to pump water out, but it takes a long time to refresh the water in many cases. Also, we compound the problem of recharge because we replace natural insoak areas with impermeable structures like roads and roofs. If that weren’t bad enough, we take the water displaced by these structures and divert it across the land as quick as possible (again preventing insoak) through raised home lots, drainage ditches, and storm drains. If I live to be 70 years old, I predict I’ll die of a young person murdering me out of sheer hate of the stupid things we did to make their life hell.

Now I learned about Subsidence. This is the sinking of land as the result of pumping out too much of the groundwater. It turns out the water is available because of the space between rock particles. Well, in many situations, after you remove the water, there is just empty space left, so the rock compresses, the land shrinks– forever. You will never have water in that place where the water was at—ever. In the Houston area, the land surface has gone down 9 feet. In the San Joaquin Valley it is something like 30 feet. I wonder what the punishment for robbing future generations of clean water should be? Murder seems fair to me.

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Garden Update – February 21, 2012

I forgot that I had pepper seeds growing on top of the refrigerator! I happened to remember tonight and uncovered them just in time. Now I have to get my growlights hooked back up and working.

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Penn Explains Libertarianism in 30 seconds

“The more freedom we can get, the better… I want to start every question with ‘is there any way we can solve this problem with more freedom instead of less'”
He does a pretty good job of simply explaining it, but Pot-head Maher doesn’t want to here the part about taxing people being a force with violence involved.
Penn Jillette Explains His Libertarian Philosophy

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A few pictures of Aiden at six months old

Amber took a few pictures of Aiden this weekend. He is usually smiling and giggling! Lots of fun to be around when he is like that.

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Aiden is becoming mobile

Here is a short video of Aiden manhandling one of his big toys. He is moving around all over the place now, just wondering how much longer until he learns to crawl.

Aiden playing on floor

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