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I heard this tonite on radio.  I enjoyed it so much.  Not very spiritual, but pretty much how I am.

I was trying to find a post I was sure was here on Say Anything about debate styles of Liberals.  In Googling around I ran across this instead. This has to do with TV but applies here as well. Good stuff.

1. Avoid factual arguments, they’re usually against you anyway.

2. If for some obscure reason the facts actually fall your way (an extremely rare occurrence) then repeat them endlessly regardless of the reply of your conservative opponent. Remember time is limited, use this against him.

3. Get as personal and vicious as you can, maybe it will distract your opponent from his train of thought.

4. If you are unable to insult him with the usual insults such as ‘racist’, ‘homophobe’, or ‘bigot’, then insult someone else on his side (someone related to the subject under discussion is preferable but not required).

5. When you’re losing, and you usually will be, abruptly change the subject. Again the object of this is to distract and deflect attention from your opponent’s argument.

6. Talk loudly and rapidly, don’t allow your opponent to get a word in. Remember the more time you consume, the less time your opponent will have.

7. Use hyperbole as an example of your opponent’s argument and suggest that that is what they are suggesting.

8. Purposely misunderstand what is being said by your opponent and distort it into something you can use.

9. Make up ‘facts’ most people don’t check them and anyway, you’ll be long gone by the time the truth is known, and so will the audience.

10. Expect perfection. Focus on the slightest flaw in your opponent’s argument, any kind of mistake, grammatical, spelling, contextual, anything no matter how slight is sufficient to deflect attention away from how vacuous your arguments are.

11. Act insulted. Take umbrage at the slightest contradiction and act as if it is a personal insult. This will make your personal attack seem warranted and just.

12. Mug the camera or audience while your opponent is speaking, make faces, sneering is good, head-shaking better, and looking toward the ceiling is best [notice the avoidance of the word Heaven, Liberals avoid words of a religious nature WM]. Let the audience know you disagree with your opponent (even if you’ve no idea what he’s saying)

13. Use condescending laughter as much as you can. It serves two purposes, first, it dismisses your opponent as being unworthy of your respect and second, it shows your contempt for his arguments. This is a very powerful tool and can really annoy your opponent and disrupt his train of thought.

14. You’re an arrogant Liberal; demonstrate your obvious intellectual superiority by acting in a condescending manner.

15. Forget how many of the wealthiest in this nation are Liberals, always beat the drum of “Rich Republicans” and “working class Democrats.”

16. Finally, always remember style trumps substance. Know it, Live it.

Tip of the hat to Mongo

I got this picture from my college roommate from Washburn.

What is so disheartening is one of these three is about to become President of the USA. I demand to see the wizard. I want to go back to Kansas. I’m tired of fantasy land. Where’s Mike Huckabee when I need him?

Children’s television in The Gaza isn’t Road Runner and Wiley E. Coyote. It’s a primer on assassination of the President of the USA. I’m not kidding.

IF this is the kind of stuff the little kids are being hammered with in Gaza by the Islaminuts of Hamas then there is no hope.

Here is the text of this Video.

Bush: “Who are you? What brings you to my home? How did they let you in, boy? My guards! My soldiers! Get this boy out of here.”

Child: “Nobody will take me out of here.”

Bush: “Who are you to come here and threaten me?! You are on my own turf, you little child, you! Get out. My dear, bring your father, your grandfather, or your mother, so I can talk to them. Get somebody older and smarter than you. What, you came here on your own?”

Child: “You killed daddy in the Iraq war. It’s true, you killed him in the Iraq war. As for my mom - you and the criminal Zionists killed her in Lebanon. You and the criminal Zionists also killed my younger and older brothers in the Gaza holocaust. I’m an orphan, you criminal!”

Bush: “What are you talking about? Where did you come from? Don’t I have enough troubles already? Where did you come from?”

Child: “I have come to take revenge with this sword - revenge for my mother and my sisters. You are a criminal, Bush! You are despicable. You made me an orphan! You took everything from me, Bush! I must take revenge on you, with this sword of Islam, the Prophet’s Al-Battar sword.”

Bush: “No… No, my dear. I give you my word that this is it. I repent, just don’t kill me. Where are my guards? Where is my people? Help! Help! He wants to kill me. Help!”

Child: “There are no guards, and your people has surrendered, Bush. I have not come alone, Bush. I have brought thousands of thousands of children from Palestine, Iraq, Syria, Lebanon, and Afghanistan. You have denied all these children their fathers and mothers. That’s why I have come to take revenge on you and on all the criminal traitors who collaborated with you.”

Bush: “Okay, fine, that’s enough. I will give you whatever you want from me.”

Child: “What can you give me? All I want is one thing. Bring back my father and mother. I don’t want anything from you. I don’t want anything from you, just bring back my father and mother. I place my trust in Allah. I need to kill you.”

Bush: “No, my dear. Enough. I will give you anything you want. I also… Enough with that. Come with all your friends to the White House. I will give you food and toys. We will sit in the White House and talk. You will get whatever you need.”

Child: “You are impure, Bush, so you are not allowed inside the White House.”

Bush: “What are you saying?! Why am I not allowed into the White House?”

Child: “Because it has been turned into a great mosque for the nation of Islam. I will kill you just like Mu’az killed Abu Lahab. I will kill you, Bush, because that is your fate.”

Child stabs Bush repeatedly

Child: “Ahhh, I killed him.”

Very distubing. This is out and out child abuse.

I don’t know how such a brilliant man is so hidden from sight.  He holds the key to our taking back government and restoring our broken society.  Newt Gingrich gave a speech last week.  The transcript has just been released. 

In it he says several things you need to hear and read if you care about the principles of restoring our country:

Other groups have reasons for anger. Native Americans have a claim probably at least as great if not greater than African-Americans. Japanese-Americans went through a period of internment in World War II. Jewish Americans have a history which includes the Holocaust but extends back before the Holocaust to pogroms in Russia; anti-Semitism in Poland; expulsion from Spain; and, in the last fifty years, an unrelenting and virtually hysterical effort by their Arab neighbors to exterminate them in a way which no other group has experienced.

So there are many groups that could find causes for anger. But I would go a step further. I would argue that as citizens of a country which asserted that we are all endowed by our Creator with certain inalienable rights, every American has things to be angry about. Simply ask yourself, if it was your daughter or son, if it was your granddaughter or grandson, trapped in some of the disastrous conditions of the very poor and very dispossessed in America, how angry would you be?

Consider some examples: At the Rosebud Sioux reservation in 2007, a population of 13,000, 144 young Native Americans tried to commit suicide—arguably the highest suicide rate in the United States.

In 2006, the poverty rate in America was 12.3 percent. For non-Hispanic whites, it was 8.2 percent, but for blacks, it was 24.3 percent.

In 2007, 46.8 percent of twelfth-graders admitted to taking some sort of illicit drug in their lifetime; 35.6 percent of tenth-graders made the same admission; and in 2006, 20.9 percent of eighth-graders—let me repeat this, among eighth-grade Americans, every fifth American child admitted to taking some sort of illicit drug.

1 percent of the American population—3 million people—are in prison. That is more than the entire population of Washington, D.C., Baltimore, Atlanta, Detroit, and Denver combined.

Now, how can you hear these things in a country that says we are endowed by our Creator with certain inalienable rights and not be angry? So I think anger can be, should be a universal American feeling about those things that dissatisfy us and about a culture and a government which is failing.

Consider homicides in our cities: in Philadelphia in 2006, there were 406 murders. To give you a sense of the scale of this, there’s an article called “The War in West Philadelphia” written by Dr. John Pryor, who was an Iraq combat surgeon and an emergency room doctor in Philadelphia. This is what he said:

In the swirl of screams and moving figures, my mind drifted to my recent experience in Iraq as an Army surgeon. There we dealt regularly with “mascals,” or mass-casualty situations. In Iraq, ironically, I found myself drawing on my experience as a civilian trauma surgeon each time mascals would overrun the combat hospital. As nine or ten patients from a firefight rolled in, I sometimes caught myself saying “just like another Friday night in West Philadelphia.” The wounds and nationalities of the patients are different, but the feelings of helplessness, despair and loss are the same. In Iraq, soldiers die for freedom, for honor, for their country and for their buddies. Here in Philadelphia, they die without honor, without purpose, for no country, for no one.

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Let me make the key case for boldness. I think this is a great national debate we need, and it’s a debate which I would hope Senator Obama would be prepared to engage in. The greatest case for boldness and new solutions is that the current system is destroying people. This is not a choice between a productive, effective system and improvement. This is a choice between utter disaster with enormous, profound human consequence, and the need for new thinking, new ideas, and new solutions.

Our choice is: how many eighth graders will take up drugs instead of math and science? How many thirteen-year-olds in Dallas will become madames before they have an honest job? How many young African-Americans will be killed or sent to prison? So when we talk about bold ideas, it is in the context of human disasters right here in America reported in your news every day. And the next time you hear these disasters, ask yourself, “To what extent is this the cost of bad culture and bad government?”

We speak here after twenty-five years of failure to fix the problems. April 26 will be the twenty-fifth anniversary of “A Nation at Risk,” a report on education in the United States. Here’s what that report said. Quote,

If an unfriendly foreign power had attempted to impose on America the mediocre educational performance that exists today, we might well have viewed it as an act of war. As it stands, we have allowed this to happen to ourselves. We have even squandered the gains in student achievement made in the wake of the Sputnik challenge. Moreover, we have dismantled essential support systems which helped make those gains possible. We have in effect been committing an act of unthinking unilateral educational disarmament.

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Let me repeat this, because I think to have a national security group come back and tell you that you are in greater danger from the collapse of education than you are from any possible conventional war should have been a very startling thing, and should have led to very fundamental questions about how badly the system is failing and what the replacement has to look like.

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IN CASE you were under the illusion that Obama is untouchable clean shiny and new and all good things come from Obama.

He’s in a sinking quagmire.  Many are calling him a modern day (Not Messiah, the other M word) MC GOVERN.

Keep up with his messes and mire every day here.

Longshoreman philosopher Eric Hoffer once wrote that all great movements eventually become a business, then degenerate into a racket.

As quoted by Pat Buchanan

3 Mile Island
Artificial Sweeteners
Contaminated Cranberries
Asbestos Remediation
DDT Panic

LaShawn Barber gives a pretty good analysis of baby killing in America.  The National Education Association in America has George Tiller the Baby Killer, Master of the late term abortion show up to speak and get a standing ovation.  He says he is supporting the Democrat Presidential Candidate.

He aborted a baby ONE DAY before it was to be born alive.  Here are pictures of women going into the Planned Parenthood Abortion Mill. They look pretty late term to me. 

Here is a part of the video that raised such a firestorm.  Read about it before you watch it.

In an article written by Arthur Brooks and economist from Syracuse University has written a book just released called “Gross National Happiness”.  From this Article these quotes:

In 2004 Americans who called themselves “conservative” or “very conservative” were nearly twice as likely to tell pollsters they were “very happy” as those who considered themselves “liberal” or “very liberal” (44% versus 25%). One might think this was because liberals were made wretched by George Bush. But the data show that American conservatives have been consistently happier than liberals for at least 35 years.

This is not because they are richer; they are not. Mr Brooks thinks three factors are important. Conservatives are twice as likely as liberals to be married and twice as likely to attend church every week. Married, religious people are more likely than secular singles to be happy. They are also more likely to have children, which makes Mr Brooks confident that the next generation will be at least as happy as the current one.

When religious and political differences are combined, the results are striking. Secular liberals are as likely to say they are “not too happy” as to say they are very happy (22% to 22%). Religious conservatives are ten times more likely to report being very happy than not too happy (50% to 5%). Religious liberals are about as happy as secular conservatives.
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So much for right versus left. Mr Brooks also finds that extremists of both sides are happier than moderates. Some 35% of those who call themselves “extremely liberal” say they are very happy, against only 22% of ordinary liberals. For conservatives, the gap is smaller: 48% to 43%. Extremists are happy, Mr Brooks reckons, because they are certain they are right. Alas, this often leads them to conclude that the other side is not merely wrong, but evil. Some two-thirds of America’s far left and half of the far right say they dislike not only the other side’s ideas, but also the people who hold them.

I don’t know about you, but I’m happier knowing I’m happy.  If you’re happy and you know it clap your hands........

Oh and the red Highlight above is ME.  Just thought you would want to know.

Earlier on C-SPAN 2 a talk by Newt Gingrich was given today.  It was classic Newt and Should be the platform for the Republican Party if we had any balls.

It won’t be.  We got McCain.  Listening to this made me long for the days of Contract with America.  Newt’s remedy for many of the ills in our country particularly among African Americans is clearly identified as a failure in culture.  Go Newtie. 

It’s almost 50 minutes long, you can watch it on line if you have real play. 

Click Here to Watch.

I have questions that as a shooter I have always wondered about and since there appears on Say Anything to be some pretty good understandings of all things firearms I have some questions I would appreciate those of you more knowledgeable than I am to clear up.

• I have been told that we shouldn’t throw cartridges in the fire because they would explode and the bullet could kill someone. I know a bit about barrel length and if a shell exploded the bullet and the shell would go in opposite directions and if the bullet got out of the fireplace it would go about 2 feet and collapse. Right or not?
• If I had a rifle, say 30 caliber, laying on a flat piece of glass, and with a remote firing device was able to pull the trigger would the bullet go in the exact direction the gun was aimed when I pulled the trigger. It has to do with he question of recoil. Does the recoil happen after the bullet leaves the gun or while the bullet is rifling up the barrel. Is recoil the reaction of the load speeding up? If it were the case wouldn’t the recoil from a 165 grain bullet be greater than one from a 65 grain. Assuming the load were the same. If the rifle were to move after the trigger was pulled but before the bullet leaves the barrel doesn’t that call into question the issue of aim. I was told once that recoil was the air reentering the barrel after firing, that makes no sense at all.
• I know there is no such thing as rise in trajectory, it’s a function of sighting at 150 yards. But, since a 1 pound rock falls at the same speed as a 10 pound rock, shouldn’t the trajectory be very similar or the same between a 150 grain bullet and a 70 grain assuming the same load.

I was driving back from working in the field the other day and started thinking about some of the things we all think are true about guns and ammo. Like the fiction that a bullet fired straight up will fall to earth with the same velocity and will kill people. NO, it falls at terminal velocity for it’s shape an size and actually tumbles as it falls at about 180 MPH. Much less than it would take to kill a person, might hurt, but not kill. Saw that on Mythbusters.


Not the most political of posts, but I was just wondering.

One other question, why does recoil from a pistol go UP. Why shouldn't it as well go down.

A couple weeks ago or so Rob introduced many of us older Rolling Stone age Rockers to the Black Keys.

They were terrific.

Now the Wall Street Journal has an article about them and the great music they play.

Now they are toast.  Or not.

Obama has created a great divide in this country and will divide us further if he should become President.

I fear for our country.

Read the update of this post.

Or go to Pat Buchanan’s original article and read a few hundred of the thousand or so comments to the article to see what happens when the great divider speaks.

This is not good. Black Racism is evil