Medicur
Sam Aurelius Milam III
In Bouvier's definition of property, the distinction between absolute property and qualified property is of considerable importance.  Bouvier mentioned animals as examples of absolute property.  Such absolute property used to include the power of the owner to dispose of the property, meaning that he could do whatever he wanted to do with it.  Thus, if a horse was ill-fed or a dog was mistreated, it wasn't the business of anybody but the owner.  However, today's meddling reformers have changed all of that.  In the pursuit of a misguided concern for the well-being of animals, they have decided that the so-called "rights" of animals are more important than the rights of human beings.  Accordingly, they have empowered the government to confiscate animals which are, in the opinions of the reformers, being mistreated.  They have thereby deprived the erstwhile owners of their previous absolute property, and converted them into mere custodians.  Absolute property has been transferred from human beings, who once had a right of ownership, to the government, which has converted that right into a privilege.  The meddling reformers cheer every time the government seizes a mistreated animal from the man who ought to have been its owner.  The reformers fail to understand the implications of what they have done.  The definitions of ownership and property, as documented by Bouvier, are sufficiently complex and flexible to encompass almost any silliness.  However, the sacrifice of a human being's right of ownership in exchange for a so-called right of an animal to be well treated is really stupid.
Not surprisingly, the nonsense continues to escalate as the meddling reformers try to elevate the status of animals to equality with the status of people.  We now have department stores and websites dedicated to pets, salons, doctors, hospitals, and cemeteries for pets, special food, toys, and medicine for pets, and God only knows what else.  How often have you heard somebody declare that the dog is "a member of the family"?  The next thing you know, in a world where human beings are brutalized, homeless, diseased, and starving, some nitwit will be demanding universal health care and free prescription drugs for dogs.

PROPERTY .... When things are fully our own, or when all others are excluded from meddling with them or from interfering about them, it is plain that no person besides the proprietor, who has this exclusive right, can have any claim either to use them, or to hinder him from disposing of them as he pleases:  so that property, considered as an exclusive right to things, contains not only a right to use those things, but a right to dispose of them, either by exchanging them for other things, or by giving them away to any other person without any consideration, or even throwing them away .... .... It is also said to be, when it relates to goods and chattels, absolute or qualified. Absolute property is that which is our own without any qualification whatever:  as, when a man is the owner of a watch, a book, or other inanimate thing, or of a horse, a sheep, or other animal which never had its natural liberty in a wild state. Qualified property consists in the right which men have over wild animals which they have reduced to their own possession, and which are kept subject to their power:  as, a deer, a buffalo, and the like, which are his own while he has possession of them, but as soon as his possession is lost his property is gone, unless the animals go animo revertendi .... But property in personal goods may be absolute or qualified without any relation to the nature of the subject-matter, but simply because more persons than one, have an interest in it, or because the right of property is separated from the possession.  A bailee of goods, though not the owner, has a qualified property in them;  while the owner has the absolute property .... — from Bouvier's Law Dictionary, 1889

A White Man's Notes
Sam Aurelius Milam III
Super Bawl — Janet Jackson's breasts are not obscene.  Sending U.S. soldiers or secret agents to murder people in foreign lands is obscene.  Allowing U.S. cops to murder people in this country is obscene.  Having food fights or food eating contests while people are starving in the world is at least disgusting.  I think that building new Olympic "venues" every few years while people are homeless in the world is insane, if not obscene.  Deploying medical resources on cosmetic procedures to remove wrinkles from the faces of American women while people are dying of AIDS hatefully selfish, if not obscene.  Whiny, sin-based, repression of normal, healthy human sexuality is an abomination.  There are many shameful things in the world but Janet Jackson's breasts are not among them.  Her performance at the Super Bowl might have been inappropriate, but it wasn't obscene.
Double Standard — If a man tries to protect his wife from the rat race, then he's dominating her.  If he lets her go out and take her lumps, then he's neglecting her.

Frontiersman  1510 North 22nd Drive Show Low, Arizona  85901              Abolish the United Nations

Some Rules By Men, For Women
Original Source Unknown.  Forwarded by Don G.
•     Don't ask us what we're thinking about unless you're prepared to discuss such topics as navel lint, the shotgun formation, or monster trucks.
•     You have enough clothes and too many shoes.
•     Peanuts are as exciting for us as handbags are for you.
•     I'm in shape.  ROUND is a shape.

Buck Hunter Shoots Off His Mouth
Dear Buck
I made a really serious Freudian Slip at a meeting last week.  Have you ever done that? 

Call to 911
Original Source Unknown.  Forwarded by Don G.
Caller:  I heard what sounded like gunshots coming from the brown house on the corner.
Dispatcher:  Do you have an address?
Caller:  No, I'm wearing a blouse and slacks, why?