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Sarah Palin Kick A** Quote O' The Day

"In addition to immediately increasing unemployment in the energy sector, even more American jobs will be threatened by the rising cost of doing business under the cap-and-tax plan. For example, the cost of farming will certainly increase, driving down farm incomes while driving up grocery prices. The costs of manufacturing, warehousing and transportation will also increase.
The ironic beauty in this plan? Soon, even the most ardent liberal will understand supply-side economics." ~Sarah Palin

Shadow Government Quote O' The Day

"Russia had 18 Czars in 300 years, Obama has 34 in 6 months"~ Leland
Conway, host of the Pulse of Lexington on News Radio 630 WLAP

Let's Bring Back The Duel!!

Summer Patriot, Winter Soldier has come up with a brilliant idea that I've quoted below. Can we petition to bring the duel back into vogue? Heh.

bring back the duel to the death ...

friends:
i make a modest proposal to bring civility and comportment back into politics.
i suggest that we bring back the duel to the death.

it was a cherished institution right up until the civil war, and did much to assure that those who openly engaged in public rancor with their political adversaries at least did so in all seriousness. you may be sure that when aaron burr killed alexander hamilton, he did not do so in light jest.

just imagine if you will, a world without the braying jackasses lanny davis, james carville, susan estridge, barney frank, al franken, and a host of other loud mouthed insufferable braggarts and professional sycophants. imagine a world with reverend wright, or jesse jackson, ... , or any number of others who are of spiteful, contemptuous and rancorous dispositions. i assume that all such people as named above would button up their yaps were dueling back in vogue, as i am assuming that not one of them would be of sufficient mettle to actually have at it with an equally
armed opponent at arms length. nothing quite like the prospect of death to invoke a little caution in one's expression, a little civility in one's demeanor.

as to weapons, if guns were favored by the combatants, i would think that the .45 long colt in a brace of model 1873 colts at 15 paces would be sufficiently lethal to insure the death of one or more of the participants. if people wanted to work hard enough at it to ensure a proper aesthetic, in keeping with the proper solemnity of the moment, say a duel as between franken and frank, then nothing beats the classic foil. and, always, as in all things human, one or a society should not entirely loose it sense of humor about such things, we should always be mindful of abraham lincoln's choice of weapons when challenged to a duel by a fellow illinois militia officer, during some very obscure militia versus indians campaign. lincoln chose rapiers, and the fight to occur on a plank slung between hogsheads, e.g., that's a big ass wooden barrel, to you.
the would be duelist thought the better of it in lincoln's case, and was consigned to a deservedly obscure place in history.an occasional genius like hamilton was felled, but
far more hot tempered big mouths like lincoln's adversary were sufficiently
chastened by the chill air of morning to perhaps reconsider whether the matter
at hand actually merited dying. i can think of nothing more desirable than
shutting up the caravilles and estridges of the world, and believe the duel to
the death a fitting mechanism by which to do so. what could be the downside to a fight between barney frank, and any other person on earth?(you'll notice an implicit trust in my analysis in g_d making the proper decision, in all cases.)
john jay @ 07.06.2009

If This Is As Good As Deadliest Catch, Then I'm In.

I hope Mike Rowe is the voice over. Heh.

Okay, I Take Back My Pessimistic View of Sarah Quote O' The Day

Sarah is atypical. She will not follow a conventional path....We need a peasant w/ pitchforks rebellion. She scares the hell out of the established order because she upsets the applecart. She did it in Alaska, and will do so in Washington. She is like Jesus turning over the tables of the money changers in the temple. She is serious about returning government to the people, and this scares the hell out of people who control the government today. This is why she is pilloried - by BOTH parties
(Republican insiders hate her too). ~James

Some Thoughts on Palin, Guns, Worms and the American Revolution

**UDATED**
Okay I take back my blog post from yesterday if the following quote from Governor Palin 4 President proves true...provided by my friend James.

"She intends to forge a coalition of those increasingly large numbers of Americans “with noses pressed to the window” looking in at the “swells” in the fancy ball gowns and tuxedos who are dancing the night away. Those Americans without gold plated health insurance, without jobs, without cash, cards, or even cars to call their own, are her natural constituency and she knows it."

It took me a while to come to this conclusion and in fact, just this morning, I was still clinging to the "hope" that Sarah had some grand scheme that would allow her to take back America in 2012. As is often the case, then reality smacked me in the face like a bowl of ice water in the form of Mark Steyn. While encouraged for a while by enthusiastic Palin-optimists, I have to sadly conclude that I agree with Mark. Quitting a position she was duly elected to fulfill and serve, only translates into one result--it provides the left with more ammo to come after Sarah and her family when 2012 approaches. As Mark says,

"With respect to many of the Palinologists below, I think they're getting way too hepatomantic over the entrails. As a political move for anything other than the 2010 Senate race, today's announcement is a disaster. "

I'm one of those "Palinologists" of which Mark speaks and I have to concede that he is right. That said, it also bodes increasingly unwell for our great democratic republic. Which brings me to the issue of guns.

Pat Dollard posted this nugget of an article, which only confirms what most people in the heartland have known for months now--the recession is NOT hitting the gun and ammo market. The scary part about this quote, is that he articulated it so well.

"I foresee much civil disobedience coming down the road. Americans are citizens, and not subjects like the British, Canadians or Australians. They just don’t always obey the law blindly and not one officer or citizen that I spoke to said anything like I hope I get to keep this gun for awhile before they are banned; They are fun to shoot, so I would hate to give it up.” It isn’t going to happen, so the cop on the street and the soldier on the base needs to think now what he will do if the orders come down. I think you all get what I am saying here. Which leads me to the third fear, that there is a revolution coming, yes, a revolution on the scale of the original American Revolution." ~Written By; Scott Wagner is a Police Academy Commander and Professor at Columbus State Community College in Columbus Ohio, and Commander of the 727 Counter Terror Training Unit. A 29 year law enforcement veteran, and current Deputy Sheriff, he is the Precision Marksman for the Union County Sheriff’s Office SRT Team.

He hit the nail on the head. Americans are of a different stock than even Australians. We know how our country was built and we are aware of the lynch pin of its design. The root of the American experiment was our Constitution and its structure to govern and protect a free society. The current administration is-borrowing a phrase from Sarah-in full court press to undermine the very cornerstone of our democratic republic. And they are succeeding. They've captured every lever of power that matters. We've allowed Al Franken a seat in the United States Senate. Yes, loonies and comics sometimes find their way into the House, but not the Unites States Senate. Minnesota allowed their Senate seat to be usurped under the machinations of a corrupt Secretary of State and Democratic voting block. This too doesn't bode well for 2012 and brings me to my quote o' the day about worms.

Leave it to Shakespeare and his Hamlet to provide the perfect quote which speaks to the futility of power--even Kings end up being eaten by worms. Arrogant power, like all sin, only leads to death. The leadership of our country have jumped on that "Old Black Train" called Power and they are driving it as fast as they can to nowhere, with the American people along for the ride.

Can the runaway train be stopped in time? What will the crash look like? I don't know the answers to these questions, but I look to the American Revolution for hope and optimism. The Revolution is a story of failure. The Colonial rebels lost battle after battle. They had no money, no government support, no advantage. Colonial America went up against the most powerful navy and army in the world and when reason and logic dictated there was no chance, we won. What despots the world over have failed to calculate is the waking of that sleeping giant called the American Spirit. A spirit that Sarah Palin just happened to epitomize.