Liberty Maven

Today, Christmas Eve, I am pondering two humorous quotes for different reasons. Both are from Jack Handey of Saturday Night Live and “Deep Thoughts”.

The first is about children. I have a five-year-old daughter and a three-year-old son. As I ponder the future potential for economic calamity with worry I also witness very small moments of pure joy at their excitement over Christmas. It makes me realize that I will do anything for them because I cannot feel a more stronger love than I feel for them. Children are imperfect liberty seekers, but seek it they do every single day. Jack Handey said it best when he wrote:

“The face of a child can say it all, especially the mouth part of the face.”

The second quote is a dedication to the exiting Bush administration and every single U.S. President who believed in an interventionist foreign policy. Also, anyone in a position of power who is a proponent of the oxymoron: Peace through war. Again, these are Jack Handey’s words:

“I can picture in my mind a world without war, a world without hate. And I can picture us attacking that world, because they’d never expect it.”

Merry Christmas and keep your liberty fire burning through 2009 and beyond.