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An Example of the Skillful Use of the Broadsword



Banagor of Shining Full Plate and a Good Broadsword reviews an excellent comment left on an anti-Nader site, and delivers an “Off-at-the-knees!” stroke of his own.

Teaser:

Democrats don’t get it. They don’t understand that some people won’t do something no matter how long or hard you talk.

That is why I have to laugh at their efforts and their sites. They are idiotic in their attempts to try to change the inevitable. They simply can’t do it, just like they can’t convince Sudan to stop killing thousands of people just by flinging potentially harsh words at them, or try to stop Iran from building a nuclear bomb with finger-wagging.

Some people just won’t listen.

So what do they do? They attack other people’s freedom of speech and Constitutional rights. They can’t attack Nader on the issues because they have none, so they attack his right to run for President. They can’t attack the Swift Boat Vets on their testimonies, so they attack them on their right to speak out during an election. They can’t attack Bush on the current issues of the war because they have no solutions, so they attack him with Kerry’s thirty year old record of Vietnam.

This isn’t a party of issues any longer, but a party of idiots.

THAT’S gonna leave a mark!

Amen, Claire, Amen.

Claire, “La Profesora of Moonbatology” and contributor to SondraK.com, has an excellent post up. You need to read the links, too. Here’s a teaser, and something I agree with wholly:

We lost that war in Viet Nam and the Vietnamese people paid. Dearly. We cannot afford to lose this war through the same mistake of refusing to believe in ourselves and each other. This time, not only will we pay dearly, but the people of many other nations will pay, in turn.



We need to reacquaint ourselves with what is good and right and pure and unique about The Great Experiment that is America. We need to return to the roots of belief in the basic goodness of Man from which our approach to governance sprang. We need to give ourselves permission to be proud of all that we have accomplished in our mere 228 years and believe that we, indeed, still have the Right Stuff to continue to do credit to our forefathers, and to ourselves. We need to give ourselves permission to protect ourselves because what we have created and what we have done is worth protecting. And what we will do will be principled, and decent and right.

Go read it all. Spread it around.

Ravenwood has found possibly the seminal example of John F’n Kerry’s incredible skill at nuance yet, via the New York Times no less!

The truth, which is what elections are all about, is that the tax burden of the middle class has gone up while the tax burden of the middle class has gone down

I’m in awe.

And it’s TRUE! I saw the CBO report that said that the percentage of the total tax burden has gone up for the middle class after the tax cut that let the middle class keep more of their own money! See! See!

Actual REPORTING!

The Washington Times has an Assault Weapons Ban article that is ACTUAL REPORTING, in the unbiased “Just the facts, ma’am” style that the media swears is all they do. Connect that to the AWB primer I linked to a couple of days ago, and you have a very powerful education tool for the uninformed.

I think Jerry Seper of the WT will probably be fired for not following the AP Stylesheet when writing a firearm-related article. It wasn’t misleading or frightening enough.

OK, ONE more: Sometimes I Fear for Our Future



Checking my tracking I found a link from a blog I’d never seen before, so I clicked the link. It must have been someone using Blogger’s new header-bar with the “next blog” link, because there’s no way this blogger actually linked to me.

All I have to say is: “WTF, over?”

One More: HMO (black) Humor

My dad sent me this one:

Q. What does HMO stand for?

A. This is actually a variation of the phrase, “HEY MOE”. Its roots go back to a concept pioneered by Moe of the Three Stooges, who discovered that a patient could be made to forget about the pain in his foot if he was poked hard enough in the eyes.

Q. I just joined an HMO. How difficult will it be to choose the doctor I want?

A. Just slightly more difficult than choosing your parents. Your insurer will provide you with a book listing all the doctors in the plan. These doctors fall into two categories – those who are no longer accepting new patients, and those who will see you, but are no longer participating in the plan. But don’t worry, the remaining doctor who is still in the plan and accepting new patients has an office just a half-day’s drive away, and a diploma from a Third World country.

Q. Do all diagnostic procedures require pre-certification?

A. No. Only those you need.

Q. Can I get coverage for my pre-existing conditions?

A. Certainly, as long as they don’t require any treatment.

Q. What happens if I want to try alternative forms of medicine?

A. You’ll need to find alternative forms of payment.

Q. My pharmacy plan only covers generic drugs, but I need the name brand. I tried the generic medication, but it gave me a stomach ache. What should I do?

A. Poke yourself in the eye.

Q. What if I’m away from home and I get sick?

A. You really shouldn’t do that.

Q. I think I need to see a specialist, but my doctor insists he can handle my problem. Can a general practitioner really perform a heart transplant right in his office?

A. Hard to say, but considering that all you’re risking is the $25 co-payment, there’s no harm in giving him a shot at it.

Q. Will health care be different in the next decade?

A. No. But if you call right now, you might get an appointment by then.

Been to Flashbunny.org Recently?

Flashbunny.org is a site run by an AR15.com contributor. Wickedly funny and very effective flashmedia movies and photoshopped posters dealing with gun control and politics. (This one’s probably his most famous.) Well, Bastiat may not be running a 527, but he wants to ramp up in the period just before the election – and screw McCain-Feingold. However, he needs some help:

This is the part of the site where I become like a PBS fundraiser – asking for donations for the site. Why? Because doing what need to be done costs money – something I don’t have enough of right now to do this right.



That’s right, I need money. To take this site to the next level for the presidential election and the fight against liberalism, it needs to be more than funny pictures and informative flash movies. It needs professional level videos and multimedia to be ready for the onslaught by the left this election year. And all that costs money for hardware and software to get it done right.

How much? The shopping list tops out at $5,000.

Some previous purchases have already been made thanks to your help and me working a second job. But because the election season is so close, it needs to get done faster. The Democratic national convention ends July 29th. Their campaign officially starts then, but will be underway long before that. My goal is to have everything needed in place by June 30th so I can get up to speed and hit the ground running. That’s a little over 4 months from my writing this. $1,250 a month can be done, based on the number of visitors and fans of this site. Just consider this:

If 1,000 people gave just $5.00, we’d be there.



If 500 people gave $10.00, we’d be there.If 250 people people ponied up $20.00, we’d be there.



And if just 50 people were extremely generous and gave $100 each, it would be a cakewalk.

So there you have it. $5,000 in a little over four months. Can it be done? Yes. Will it be done? That’s up to you.

And what will you get from it? Plenty of videos and other features that you’ll be able to send to friends and foes alike. Things you wish other people would do but don’t because they don’t have the guts to say them. With your help those things can be said for the world to hear.

“The preservation of a viable constitutional government is not a task for wimps.” – Judge Janice Rogers Brown

If you’re up to the challenge and want to help out, you can make a donation the following way:

By Mail:

APSGPO Box 415Elm Grove, WI 53122

Just put ‘donation’ on the memo portion of your check so it will be earmarked as such.

Via Paypal:

[email protected]

And no, donations are not tax deductible.

“…I have sworn upon the altar of god eternal hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man.” – Thomas Jefferson

I know I’m late, but I hadn’t seen this before. Help him out if you can. As he says, give till it hurts – a liberal.