![]() Author has written 27 stories for Sci-Fi, Historical, Song, Religion, Essay, Biography, Politics, and Supernatural. May 5, 2006: Woot! is online! My old freewebs site. I write regularly, and research what I write. Given time, I hope to make friends who are also struggling with writing. I prowl Blogger, Fanfiction.net, fictionpress, and Livejournal regularly, and I read a ton of columns. Today I post my entries at Greatestjournal and Blogger. I have a DeviantART account now and I'm going public with it. See my art here. I have some artwork lying around I'd love to display, and should I get a scanning device running, I can post my own images regularly. These days I enjoy web design almost as much as writing. The reason I moved the blog from Angelfire to Livejournal to Blogger & Greatestjournal is because they offer more design control than the previous hosts. GJ and Blogger truly are awesome, and I invite you to join those communities. Despite the name, Typewriter King doesn't write with the antiqued device. The name was actually inspired by the big gun of the gangster era of America, the Thomson Submachine Gun, known by many names, but most famously the "Tommy Gun," and the "Chicago Typewriter." Typewriter King has been very busy writing his name across the web with his typewriter. I started an account for Fiction Press on October 15, 2004. I started at Fanfiction.net on March 31, 2004. To this point, I've mainly been a fanfic writer. That doesn't mean I have trouble developing original content- that's far from the truth! I love thinking for myself, developing for myself, drawing, writing, coding, purchasing for myself. Politics seem to matter more at this site than the sister site. The same people that don't feel it necessary to give testimonials about their dogma on FF feel they have to a FP. Suffice it to say I believe in free markets and free people. More people also feel the need to give a personal description. Am I tall? Yes. Do you like books? Sure. Frederick Forsyth, Tom Clancy, Dean Koontz, Michael Crichton, Ben Mezrich, Larry Bond, Do you like movies? I do. We Were Soldiers, Gladiator, the Star Wars movies, Contact (also the book), M. Night Shyamalan, and a few others. Theaters induce vomiting, however. What type of mini series do you like? These are usually better than other TV shows. Band of Brothers (also the book), TV shows? Law and Order when Lenny was there, Tour of Duty (remember that?), JAG, Gundam Wing, anything by Shinichiro Watanabe, I liked the Clerks cartoon, The Simpsons, Family Guy, Futurama, The Critic, Ghost in the Shell, Bleach. Music? U2, Yoko Kanno, The Police, The Chieftains, Chopin, Sting, The Cranberries, John Williams, The Clash, Moby, REM. You'll want links. Would you like quotes with that?“You want the earth to shake and spit fire, you want the sky to split apart and for God to pour out.” “Wherefore take unto you the whole armor of God, that ye may be able to withstand in the evil day, and having done all, to stand.” "Blessed be the Lord my strength, which teacheth my hands to war, and my fingers to fight." -Psalms 144:1 Quotes about what freedom means: "I'm the enemy because I like to think. I like to read. I'm into freedom of speech and freedom of choice. I'm the kind of guy that could sit in a greasy spoon and wonder, gee, should I have the T-bone steak or the jumbo rack of barbecue ribs or the side order of gravy fries? I want high cholesterol. I would eat bacon and butter and buckets of cheese. Okay? I want to smoke Cuban cigars the size of Cincinnati in the nonsmoking section. I want to run through the streets naked with green Jell-O all over my body reading Playboy magazine. Why? Because I might suddenly feel the need to. Okay, pal?" "What is the essence of America? Finding and maintaining that perfect, delicate balance between freedom "to" and freedom "from."" "Republic ... it means people can live free, talk free, go or come, buy or sell, be drunk or sober, however they choose." "Instead of just applying my skepticism to business, I applied it to government and "public interest" groups. This apparently violated a religious tenet of journalism. Suddenly I was no longer "objective." " “Quemadmoeum gladius neminem occidit, occidentis telum est.” "When you disarm your subjects, however, you offend them by showing that either from cowardliness or lack of faith, you distrust them; and either conclusion will induce them to hate you.” Quotes of fools: "Armas? Para que?" Beware! Politicians can ideologically steer 180 degrees in a decade! "We cannot allow the filibuster to bring Congress to a grinding halt. So today I start a drive to do away with a dinosaur — the filibuster rule."- Tom Harkin, Congressional Record, January 4, 1995. He believes the polar opposite today. "The most foolish mistake we could possibly make would be to allow the subject races to possess arms. History shows that all conquerors who have allowed their subject races to carry arms have prepared their own downfall by so doing." Quotes about economics and freedom: "When the people find they can vote themselves money, that will herald the end of the republic." -- Ben Franklin "Government's view of the economy could be summed up in a few short phrases: If it moves, tax it. If it keeps moving, regulate it. And if it stops moving, subsidize it." The first lesson of economics is scarcity: There is never enough of anything to satisfy all those who want it. The first lesson of politics is to disregard the first lesson of economics. --Thomas Sowell (He's black!) "It is impossible to introduce into society a greater change and a greater evil than this: the conversion of the law into an instrument of plunder." --Frederick Bastiat "A democracy cannot exist as a permanent form of government. It can only exist until the voters discover that they can vote themselves largess of the public treasury. From that time on the majority always votes for the candidates promising the most benefits from the public treasury, with the results that a democracy always collapses over loose fiscal policy, always followed by a dictatorship." -- Sir Alexander Fraser Tyler "But how is this legal plunder to be identified? Quite simply. See if the law takes from some persons what belongs to them, and gives it to other persons to whom it does not belong. See if the law benefits one citizen at the expense of another by doing what the citizen himself cannot do without committing a crime." --Frederic Bastiat “Never appeal to a man's 'better nature.' He may not have one. Invoking his self-interest gives you more leverage.” --Robert A. Heinlein “In the general course of human nature, a power over a man's subsistence amounts to a power over his will.” "Capitalism should not be condemned, since we haven't had capitalism. A system of capitalism presumes sound money, not fiat money manipulated by a central bank. Capitalism cherishes voluntary contracts and interest rates that are determined by savings, not credit creation by a central bank. It's not capitalism when the system is plagued with incomprehensible rules regarding mergers, acquisitions, and stock sales, along with wage controls, price controls, protectionism, corporate subsidies, international management of trade, complex and punishing corporate taxes, privileged government contracts to the military - industrial complex, and a foreign policy controlled by corporate interests and overseas investments. Add to this centralized federal mismanagement of farming, education, medicine, insurance, banking and welfare. This is not capitalism!" Once one accepts the principle of self-ownership, what's moral and immoral becomes self-evident. Murder is immoral because it violates private property. Rape and theft are also immoral -- they also violate private property. Here's an important question: Would rape become morally acceptable if Congress passed a law legalizing it? You say: "What's wrong with you, Williams? Rape is immoral plain and simple, no matter what Congress says or does!" If you take that position, isn't it just as immoral when Congress legalizes the taking of one person's earnings to give to another? Surely if a private person took money from one person and gave it to another, we'd deem it theft and, as such, immoral. Does the same act become moral when Congress takes people's money to give to farmers, airline companies or an impoverished family? No, it's still theft, but with an important difference: It's legal, and participants aren't jailed Quotes about what freedom means: "I'm the enemy because I like to think. I like to read. I'm into freedom of speech and freedom of choice. I'm the kind of guy that could sit in a greasy spoon and wonder, gee, should I have the T-bone steak or the jumbo rack of barbecue ribs or the side order of gravy fries? I want high cholesterol. I would eat bacon and butter and buckets of cheese. Okay? I want to smoke Cuban cigars the size of Cincinnati in the nonsmoking section. I want to run through the streets naked with green Jell-O all over my body reading Playboy magazine. Why? Because I might suddenly feel the need to. Okay, pal?" Quotes that express how I feel about all the charges of hypocrisy going around: "The reason any conservative's failing is always major news is that it allows liberals to engage in their very favorite taunt: Hypocrisy! Hypocrisy is the only sin that really inflames them. Inasmuch as liberals have no morals, they can sit back and criticize other people for failing to meet the standards that liberals simply renounce. It's an intriguing strategy. By openly admitting to being philanderers, draft dodgers, liars, weasels and cowards, liberals avoid ever being hypocrites." "A humanitarian is always a hypocrite." The only prolife quote I'll ever need: "Abortion is advocated only by persons who have themselves been born." Clips, poetry, and proofs, motos, lyrics, and creeds: In 1996, John Stossel was doing his job on "20/20" when he interviewed Gilbert Casellas, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission’s chairman, about the Americans with Disabilities Act. Here’s a clip : Casellas: "The law's fairly clear, it's fairly simple." Stossel: "If you come to me applying for a job, and your arm's in a sling, can I ask you why your arm is in a sling?" Casellas: "You can ask -- you know what? I'm going to ask you to stop the tape ... we're getting into a complicated area ..." "Things are in motion, hence there is a first mover Me and Superman got in a fight His friend Batman wanted some too, The Incredible Hulk, He came to help. Captain Jack Hey, hey Captain Jack Hey, hey Captain Jack Hey, hey Captain Jack Hey, hey Captain Jack Please try out the Homeland Defense Generator (Now version 0.95). Dudzone is written in the style made famous by Mark Twain. The character Ned was originally named Ned Lowe, but when I submitted I mailed the manuscript to Analog in July of 2003, and never received a reply. Perhaps it was lost in the blackout of the time, but whatever the case, I never received word of what happened. |