Words Of Wisdom

The Best Quote I've Seen In Quite A While!

I was perusing 'The Smallest Minority' today, and saw something worth sharing.

OK, in truth, Kevin's entire blog is worth sharing. If you're a gun owner committed to preserving our 2nd Amendment rights and not stopping by regularly, you're woefully underinformed! Mr. Baker does a bang-up job telling the latest news, fisking the clueless, and being a general PITA to the gun-grabbers.

OK, it started here, with a link to a cartoon on Firehand's blog, Elmtree Forge. Go read the cartoon. I'll wait. Swallow your coffee first!

A full-scale donnybrook commences in the comments section of his linking post, 75 entries at last count. Most of it's mindless blather from Kevin's pet troll named Markadelphia trying to prove that since evolution exists, we should enter a post-capitalism era and evolve to a higher form of economic system. Oddly enough, his revol er... evolutionary system walks, quacks and tail-waggles like garden-variety socialism.

Labrat from Atomic Nerds makes a great comment that Kevin later links, to wit:

If you think of the "ideal" system- the one that produced life on earth, in all its diversity and richness- as guided by a top-down process that has a goal set for everything (or maybe just humans), then that sounds a lot more like a version of socialism that somehow produced wild success than anything.

ACTUAL evolution is a lot more like the world's most cutthroat capitalist proposition. No rules except "succeed or go extinct". - LabRat

Great quote, but IMHO it pales in comparison to one left earlier by a guy known only as DJ, no blog address stated. In defending capitalism, DJ states:

Kevin got it right, and so did Thomas Edison. Luck is where preparation meets opportunity. Most people don't recognize opportunity when they see it because it's dressed in overalls and looks like work.

Amen, DJ. Y'oughta get that printed on coffee mugs!