...Ya jus' gotta go to war in the unnerwear ya got on.
--Dolly
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jc writes...
Thanks for the "heads up" Mark. Just sent my email to selected media and the President. Already my own message to Sen. Brown.
Good to "hear from" the Mrs.
Posted by jc on 02/07/09
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Mrs. du Toit writes...
Thanks for blogging about it. I'm not seeing the rightosphere blogging about this as much as they should. The usual Republican turncoats have said they'd vote with the Dems on this and we need to keep the pressure on everyone and not throw in the towel!
They postponed the vote from last night until Monday night, which means they're scared they MAY not have the votes, and they're prolly a bit scared that the polls are showing that so many are opposed.
Keep it up, and thanks again.
Posted by Mrs. du Toit on 02/08/09
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So They’re Playing...
THE PANIC CARD on the -- scorn quotes -- "stimulus," even as public support for it wanes. Ebbs. Goes out with the tide. Gets sucked down in the undertow.
They're saying if we don't do something RIGHT NOW(!!!Eleven!1), we may never recover from the recession.
To me, that's a sign it's time to donkey up. Dig your heels in, lean back against the halter rope, and REFUSE to go ANY farther. The only appropriate answer to this tactic is, "HELL no!"
Inform your congresscritters of your resolve.
And in line with that, this comes via eMail from The Mrs -- Connie du Toit. It's a blast being sent out by the folks from Americans for Prosperity.
It now looks like the vote in the Senate on the Pelosi-Reid-Obama giveaway spending bill will be this weekend -- most likely Sunday though it could slide to Monday. Thanks in large part to folks like you, pressure is building relentlessly on individual senators. The Democrat leadership desperately wanted to end the debate last night because they know they're losing the battle on the ground but they did not have the votes in-hand to defeat a filibuster as of last night.
We need to make sure your senator understands that just cutting some pork is not enough to fix the bill. And we know our members agree. On our Wednesday night telephone town hall with Senator Jim DeMint, we asked the over 10,000 activists who joined the call if a compromise on the stimulus bill was acceptable, 96% of the responses were a very clear NO.
That's why we've got to dial up our efforts even higher.
This afternoon, Americans for Prosperity is delivering your petition along with more than 68,000 other signatures from our NoStimulus.com website to the Senate demanding a NO vote on this outrageous bill!
The petitions are broken out state by state. Already, we've been sending the petitions to targeted senate offices via email and fax. Targeted offices have included Senator Specter (PA), Senator Snowe (ME), Senator Nelson (NE), Senator McConnell (KY) and others.
One senate office told me last night that people calling and emailing their offices are having a powerful impact BECAUSE they are able to describe in detail the waste, abuse and sheer wrong-headedness in this Pelosi-Reid-Obama spending bill. That's an important reminder for us to be focused specifically on WHY this bill will hurt our nation and send us down the wrong path. To that end I want to share two very important websites with you.
The first website is Stimuluswatch.org by the great folks at the Mercatus Institute. This site is crucial because it details state-by-state the most outrageous requests for earmarks if the legislation passes I urge you to check out this site and look at your own state's most egregious earmark requests.
The second site is Heritage.org from our good friends at the Heritage Foundation. They detail how funds in the Pelosi-Reid-Obama debt plan will fast track the scheme to move us to a Government Run Health Care System -- without any public debate.
After you check out these sites, if you have not called your Senator, do so today. You can call the Senate switchboard at 202-224-3121 and ask for your Senator. I just dialed the number from my desk and all the circuits were busy!! Let’s keep shutting down the system though that means you may have to call a few times to get through to your senator.
And please get your friends to NoStimulus.com to sign the petition -- we can break 100,000 petitions by Sunday with your help. Adding more petitions every hour is the clearest way to show momentum for our side and keep the heat on the senators.
Check out the NoStimulus.com "counter" to see the momentum that you are helping grow-- it keeps a real time log of every single new petition.
Keep fighting. Keep getting your friends and family involved. You're part of a growing grassroots movement that is going to protect our economic freedoms and preserve the American Dream.
Tim Phillips
President, Americans for Prosperity
P.S. You signed the petition and said NO to heaving trillions of dollars of debt in the name of economic “stimulus” and now lawmakers are starting to feel the heat. Help us keep the momentum going by forwarding this to your friends, calling your Senator, and by supporting our efforts so we can reach more individuals through emails and the radio.
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I'm little, but I'm loud.
All helicopters are black after midnight.
Yes, a broken clock is right twice a day, but it is still broken.
No, I don't want to live forever, but neither do I want to spend the rest of my life dying.
Screw feminism; celebrate your babe-ness.
If you've got 'em, flaunt 'em. And, Baby, I got 'em.
Get some on ya. More usually does the trick.
Yeah, I'm anti-war. Trouble is, the enemy isn't. So, what're ya gonna do? Bleed on 'em?
You look to me like somebody who actually believes that there's no such thing as a stupid question.
"Life's too short to box with stupid liberals. Trouble is: there ain't any smart ones."
Okay. Here's how this works: If all you got's a hammer, pretty soon, every problem starts to look like a nail. Folla? 'N' if all you've got is government, pretty soon every solution starts to look like oppression.
Beauty may be only skin-deep, but ugly goes clear to the bone.
You may not be able to impose democracy on a country, but you sure as hell can impose socialism. Stop it!
Damned right I'm an enemy of the state. Aren't you? Why the hell not?
Just so's y' know: I didn't pick the fight.
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I don't PLAN on fightin' in a leather bikini with my midriff exposed and my boobs half hangin' out. It's just... sometimes a fight comes at you without giving you a chance to get all armored up. 'N' ya jus' gotta go to war in the unnerwear ya got on.
Cincinnati novelist Mark Alger is one of nature's noblemen, and one of the best writers on the Web. Treat yourself. --Francis W. Porretto
Mark Alger is a writer, who just happens to blog. And if you're not checking him out you're doing yourself a disservice. --Raging Dave
Mark Alger's Baby Troll Blog, whose look at life and the world around him, along with pithy comments from the effervescent Dolly, deserve to be on everyone's required reading list. --Guy S.
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"Society has no right to be unjust to a single one of its members, ... the whole society minus one, is not authorised to obstruct the latter in his opinions, nor in those actions which are not harmful, in the use of his property or the exercise of his labour, save in those cases where that use or that exercise would obstruct another individual possessing the same rights." --Benjamin Constant
"Individual liberty; Individual Responsibility." --Russell Means
"When you want to blather away into the ether, collecting the accolades and shunning the negative response, you're not advocating for speech to be free -- you're advocating for talk to be cheap." --Jane Galt
"A leftist idea can be recognized by three earmarks, It will be: 1)Founded in ignorance, 2) Focussed on irrelevance, 3) Engaged in wishful thinking. --Mark Alger
4) "And threaten use of the coercive power of the state to extract compliance." --Arnold's Corrollary (ed.)
"I could tolerate leftists if they had any coherent ideas for a better way to do things. But they don't. They cling stubbornly to failed brain-fart dreams that have been attempted over and over again with disastrous results, but they never learn. When better ideas come along, they simply screech and holler at them, then fling feces like the monkeys they are." --Acidman
"All the extravagance and incompetence of our present government is due, in the main, to lawyers.They are responsible for nine-tenths of the useless and vicious laws that now clutter the statute-books, and for all the evils that go with the vain attempt to enforce them. Every Federal judge is a lawyer. So are most Congressmen. Every invasion of the plain rights of the citizen has a lawyer behind it. If all lawyers were hanged tomorrow, and their bones sold to a mah jong factory, we'd all be freer and safer, and our taxes would be reduced by almost a half." -- H.L. Mencken.
Just One Question Can you demonstrate one time or place, throughout all history, where the average person was made safer by restricting access to handheld weapons? --Joe Huffman.
The Jews in the Attic Test
I looked at all laws that restricted freedom with a view to the impact it would have in a worst case scenario of our government run amok. Will this law make it difficult or impossible to protect innocent life from a government intent on their imprisonment or death? ...I told them I called this test my "Jews In The Attic Test". Furthermore I told them that if it fails this test no further discussion is really needed, the law must be opposed in the most vigorous manner possible.
--Joe Huffman
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APHORISMS PASSED
"Extremism in defense of liberty is no vice; moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue." -- Barry Goldwater
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"I have sworn upon the altar of God, eternal hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man." -- Thomas Jefferson
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"We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. --That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, --That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government... -- Thomas Jefferson, 1776
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At the core of modern liberalism is the spoiled child -- miserable, as all
spoiled children are, unsatisfied, demanding, ill-disciplined, despotic and
useless. Liberalism is a philosophy of sniveling brats. --P.J. O'Rourke
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[W]e're not facing a set of grievances that can be soothed and addressed. We're facing a radical ideology with unalterable objectives: to enslave whole nations and intimidate the world. No act of ours invited the rage of the killers, and no concession, bribe or act of appeasement would change or limit their plans for murder.
On the contrary, they target nations whose behavior they believe they can change through violence. Against such an enemy there is only one effective response: We will never back down, never give in and never accept anything less than complete victory.
--President George W. Bush
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THESE are the times that try men's souls. The summer soldier and the sunshine patriot will, in this crisis, shrink from the service of their country; but he that stands by it now, deserves the love and thanks of man and woman. --Thomas Paine
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"How a politician stands on the Second Amendment tells you how he or she views you as an individual... as a trustworthy and productive citizen, or as part of an unruly crowd that needs to be lorded over, controlled, supervised, and taken care of." ----Texas State Rep. Suzanna Gratia-Hupp
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One bleeding-heart type asked me in a recent interview if I did not agree that "violence begets violence." I told him that it is my earnest endeavor to see that it does. I would like very much to ensure -- and in some cases I have -- that any man who offers violence to his fellow citizen begets a whole lot more in return than he can enjoy. --Jeff Cooper
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The only sure way to get the money out of politics is to get the power out of government. --Mark Alger
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When Obama says he wants to "spread the wealth," you can be sure it's your wealth he's talking about, not his.
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Carry your gun - it's a lighter burden than regret. --Breda
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Only fools speak of "climate change" as though it were something remarkable or frightening. Climate is change.
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To all the hogs at the trough in DC: You don't get to waive my rights.
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In a time of deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act. --George Orwell
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It is in vain, sir, to extenuate the matter. Gentlemen may cry, "Peace, Peace!" -- but there is no peace. The war is actually begun! The next gale that sweeps from the north will bring to our ears the clash of resounding arms! Our brethren are already in the field! Why stand we here idle? What is it that gentlemen wish? What would they have? Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery? Forbid it, Almighty God! I know not what course others may take; but as for me, give me liberty or give me death! --Patrick Henry
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Compromise, hell! That's what has happened to us all down the line - and that's the very cause of our woes. If freedom is right and tyranny is wrong, why should those who believe in freedom treat it as if it were a roll of bologna to be bartered a slice at a time? --Jesse Helms
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