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One day I'll beat Stunna to it
Aren't we supposed to be answering questions with questions? Did I miss something important again? 
http://reason.com/blog/2016/02/01/google-celebrates-frederick-douglass
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Today's Google doodle is an image of Frederick Douglass, the escaped slave who became one of the most eloquent and influential abolitionists in American history. The doodle signals the start of Black History Month, which grew out of earlier traditions such as "Negro History Week" and offers a period of intensive reflection on the contributions of blacks to the history of the United States while also reminding the country of the historical realities of slavery and other unspeakable ills pushed on African Americans due to de facto and de jure racism.
Douglass, who was believed to have been born in February, 1818 is of special interest to libertarians for many reasons. As Damon Root has written for Reason, Douglass was a true classical liberal who believed in individualism, strong property rights, and voluntary philanthropy as the best way to create a free, prosperous, and inclusive society. From a 2012 review of Nicholas Buccola's The Political Thought of Frederick Douglass:
“Douglass’s arguments against slavery are, in a very important sense, arguments for liberalism,” writes Linfield College political scientist Nicholas Buccola in The Political Thought of Frederick Douglass, his engaging new study of the great abolitionist. Taking seriously Douglass’ dual commitment to both a “robust conception of mutual responsibility” and “the ideas of universal self-ownership, natural rights, limited government, and an ethos of self-reliance,” Buccola offers a nuanced portrait that illuminates both Douglass and his place in American intellectual history....
Buccola notes, “throughout his development as a political thinker, Douglass was presented with a series of ideological alternatives,” including the pacifist anarchism of Garrison, who said the only government he recognized was the “government of God,” and the utopian socialism of John A. Collins, general director of the Massachusetts Antislavery Society, who believed “that private property was the root of all evil.” Douglass, Buccola observes, “consistently rejected these in favor of liberalism.”
Socialism was then becoming particularly attractive to many New England reformers. Yet Douglass rejected the socialist case against private land ownership, saying “it is [man’s] duty to possess it—and to possess it in that way in which its energies and properties can be made most useful to the human family.” He routinely preached the virtues of property rights. “So far from being a sin to accumulate property, it is the plain duty of every man to lay up something for the future,” he told a black crowd in Rochester, New York in 1885. “I am for making the best of both worlds and making the best of this world first, because it comes first.” As Douglass’ glowing description of his first paying job indicated, he also considered economic liberty an essential aspect of human freedom....
Douglass, who was believed to have been born in February, 1818 is of special interest to libertarians for many reasons. As Damon Root has written for Reason, Douglass was a true classical liberal who believed in individualism, strong property rights, and voluntary philanthropy as the best way to create a free, prosperous, and inclusive society. From a 2012 review of Nicholas Buccola's The Political Thought of Frederick Douglass:
“Douglass’s arguments against slavery are, in a very important sense, arguments for liberalism,” writes Linfield College political scientist Nicholas Buccola in The Political Thought of Frederick Douglass, his engaging new study of the great abolitionist. Taking seriously Douglass’ dual commitment to both a “robust conception of mutual responsibility” and “the ideas of universal self-ownership, natural rights, limited government, and an ethos of self-reliance,” Buccola offers a nuanced portrait that illuminates both Douglass and his place in American intellectual history....
Buccola notes, “throughout his development as a political thinker, Douglass was presented with a series of ideological alternatives,” including the pacifist anarchism of Garrison, who said the only government he recognized was the “government of God,” and the utopian socialism of John A. Collins, general director of the Massachusetts Antislavery Society, who believed “that private property was the root of all evil.” Douglass, Buccola observes, “consistently rejected these in favor of liberalism.”
Socialism was then becoming particularly attractive to many New England reformers. Yet Douglass rejected the socialist case against private land ownership, saying “it is [man’s] duty to possess it—and to possess it in that way in which its energies and properties can be made most useful to the human family.” He routinely preached the virtues of property rights. “So far from being a sin to accumulate property, it is the plain duty of every man to lay up something for the future,” he told a black crowd in Rochester, New York in 1885. “I am for making the best of both worlds and making the best of this world first, because it comes first.” As Douglass’ glowing description of his first paying job indicated, he also considered economic liberty an essential aspect of human freedom....
Read the full article here: http://reason.com/archives/2012/07/17/frederick-douglass-classical-liberal
^I think you have to start killing bats now 
Do they drop any good loot?
They used to. Until bot nuke day caused Rsbuddy to shut down and caused hyper-inflation of the economy :/
^I think you have to start killing bats now
Do they drop any good loot?
This is what she looked like on the show!!!!
What an incredible difference!
What an incredible difference!
Can anyone guess this Star Trek actress? She looks NOTHING like she did on the show!
Just read the news. She flashed her breasts and butt to kids and got arrested. I heard she's suffering from mental health issues too.
Can anyone guess this Star Trek actress? She looks NOTHING like she did on the show!
http://i.perezhilton.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/jennifer-lien-mugshot__oPt.jpg
http://i.perezhilton.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/jennifer-lien-mugshot__oPt.jpg
The chick that played Harrison Ford?
Can anyone guess this Star Trek actress? She looks NOTHING like she did on the show!
my neck hurtt/ 
^I think you have to start killing bats now
Just killed another one.....that makes 100 Kills for this ace:
really man this thing is scary,It's just a bug.
I mean...it does kill spiders...but spiders kill other bugs...
What will be the next highest organism in the food chain?!
I better start working out
The seconds I spend picking nickels and dimes from my bed and sporting them around in my pocket all day is wearing an almost imperceptible hole in my life 
Human DNA is 50% identical to banana DNA.
I have to pull down my pants to write my name in the snow - but I don't need to pee.
I have to pull down my pants to write my name in the snow - but I don't need to pee.
Most trees are blue.
Don't believe me? Well then how can mirrors be real if our eyes aren't real?
Don't believe me? Well then how can mirrors be real if our eyes aren't real?
i just dream 4 times in one sleep. feel soo scared.
I had one of those dreams where I thought I was already up and everything was normal till this gorilla came in to the room and wanted to I presume have sex with me.
I woke up because I am tired of being raped by animals in my dreams,you know what I mean? That kind of scary?
I never mentioned a monkey! You must have been dreaming that I mentioned a monkey.
This is so weird. I just had a camel tell me that he had a dream about a monkey raping me and supposedly I like it. Luckily, the camel woke up, but I still can't explain the monkey hair in my underwear.
i just dream 4 times in one sleep. feel soo scared.
I had one of those dreams where I thought I was already up and everything was normal till this gorilla came in to the room and wanted to I presume have sex with me.
I woke up because I am tired of being raped by animals in my dreams,you know what I mean? That kind of scary?
I never mentioned a monkey! You must have been dreaming that I mentioned a monkey.
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