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Posted at 5:06pm on Jul. 3, 2008 Hang 'em high, boys
By Flyover Country
Via the wonderful Rachel Lucas, we have today's winner of the "Most In Need of A Serious Beating" video. The cell-phone video purports to show a 16 year-old Georgia male sending...and I cannot believe I'm writing this...an 8 month-old baby flying across a living room. He does this by placing the infant on an inflatable pillow, and jumping on the far side...ever seen one of those big inflatable water games at camp or a waterpark, where you sat on one end, and someone jumped onto the other to send you airborne? Something like that. The video is below, but seriously, remove all throwable objects from your immediate vicinity. You've been warned.
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Posted at 3:49pm on Jul. 2, 2008 Oh say, can you see...disgusting liberalism on display?
By Flyover Country
Hey friends and neighbors, time for another Flyover Country post on the disgraceful liberalism on display this year. Just a few days ago, I had this outrageously outrageous gun-grabbing editorial from the fine folks at the Chicago Tribune. Prior to that we had Congresscritter Delahunt's Freudian tumble and Obama's Greyhound-bound "presidential seal".
My "outrage meter", as you can see, is wearing down, but here we go again...
Via the good folks at Hot Air and LGF, we have this curious decision to replace the national anthem with the "black national anthem". Well, consider me well and truly gobsmacked once again. I'm stunned (not really...) that a liberal would so casually choose to spit in the face of American values and tradition.
For those who choose not to follow the link, I've embedded the trash above the fold, just so we can see how low the Democrats and liberals in general have sunk in plumbing the depths of their self-loathing and bitterness (which, according to Obama, would make them Rust Belt conservatives, clinging to guns, God and nativism). I've included the longer video, which has a presentation of colors for the various firemen, law enforcement, etc. Skip to 1:50 in for the spectacular display of leftist "patriotism".
Truly courageous stuff...read on.
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Posted at 6:16pm on Jun. 29, 2008 You can have my guns when you pry them from my cold, dead hands
By Flyover Country
Via the Hot Air headlines, we have this little piece of stupid from the pinheads at the Chicago Tribune. Anymore, in this age of insta-everything (no knock on the godfather, Glenn Reynolds, however), I find myself more and more inured to the mountain of bull that gets slung into the mediasphere by the liberal loons of the Fourth Estate. That said, there are occasional times when the volume of dumb gets cranked to eleven, and I have visions of rending my garments and covering myself in sackcloth and ashes. This is one of those times...
[Repeal the Second Amendment]...No, we don't suppose that's going to happen any time soon. But it should.
The 2nd Amendment to the U.S. Constitution is evidence that, while the founding fathers were brilliant men, they could have used an editor."
Erm, excuse me?! No, you blathering dolts, the Fathers wrote that document exactly as they intended it to be formed. I find myself awestruck by the overwhelming arrogance, the unmitigated gall, to parse the words of the Constitution as if it somehow was merely written incorrectly. As if men who laid the fortunes of their lives, their families and their future on the altar of self-governance and freedom would somehow make a few mistakes here and there on their foundational document.
How dare they, these pusillanimous, traitorous dogs! Should we be grateful that these divine demi-gods have descended from their Ivory Tower to bestow tidings of wisdom and peace upon a desperate, gun-clinging, bitter populace? Should we kneel before the almighty virtues of Peace, Hope and Change? Would that there were no evil men in this world, I'd be willing to listen. But there are evil people, devils in the flesh, who would kill me and mine.
There is no better equalizer than a firearm. It cannot be un-invented, nor can it be wished away into the land of unicorns and pixies and squishy feelgoodness. Those who would violate the sanctuary of my freedom, and try to impose their will upon me, would meet a violent end. This is as it should be, because no entity, NO ONE...not the state, not me, not anyone...has the right to abrogate the basic freedoms of another man. These yellow-bellied wussies at the Trib seem not to understand that firearms are a tool, possessing no spirit or will of its own.
Some view this court decision as an affirmation of individual rights. But the damage in this ruling is that it takes a significant public policy issue out of the hands of citizens. The people of Washington no longer have the authority to decide that, as a matter of public safety, they will prohibit handgun possession within their borders."
You're d*** skippy it's an individual right! It's my right to defend my life and my property. It's my right to honor the sanctity of my freedom by preserving its very nature. It's my right to defend my community, my family and my nation from all enemies of freedom and liberty, foreign and (especially) domestic. And it's my right to tell you, sweet Solomons on high, that you can shove off and shut up.
If you desire to live in a safe, gun-free society, I suggest you move to Britain, where a sweeping gun ban has drastically increased the level of violence among its populace. See, the predators have no fear when their prey have been de-clawed and de-fanged. I will not be a sheep for the wolves to destroy. I, and so many others, are sheepdogs. We defend the helpless, and we cherish our unalienable rights. We are not Euro-weenies, neutered and scared of the dark. We are Americans, bootstraps and all, and we founded this nation on guts and guns, and a vision of a land where every man is free to choose his destiny.
The constitutional freedoms enumerated by the Fathers brook no contest, nor specious attempts to dissolve the meaning and intent of a document clearly intended to enshrine my rights as a citizen of the last, great hope of this world. So don't tell me that the 2nd Amendment is outmoded and in need of repeal. That "outdated" right is the fortress which will shelter its citizens should an overly-expansionist government seek to claim our liberty. It preserves our lives, our fortunes and our self-claimed fate. I treasure my freedom, and you can take it from my cold, dead hands.
-- Flyover Country
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Posted at 11:36am on Jun. 27, 2008 A response to Congressman Delahunt
By Flyover Country
What appears below is the text of an email I sent to the office of Congressman Delahunt (D-ipstick), in response to his vile comments against David Addington, VP Cheney's CoS. I suggest every RedStater, and every decent American, flood his office with complaints and demands for proper action. This brand of indecent politics cannot be allowed to continue.
Congressman Delahunt:
I recently was made aware of your outrageous statement to Vice President Cheney's Chief of Staff, David Addington. It sickens me that you have reached so low in your specious anti-American liberalism that you would seek to promote the death of a public servant. Your statements, which you have attempted to parse and spin into a misunderstanding, are unequivocally vile and reek of the violent language that many on the Left employ when discussing the War on Terror. Your statement of...
"I would be surprised if he had any other interpretation other than the one that I suggested I intended. And if he believes in any way I wish him ill, I assure him that's not the case and I'd be happy to have another conversation with him."
...is the type of head-in-the-sand, willful ignorance that permeates much of the Democratic Party, as well as the candidate for whom you are an unelected superdelegate.
While it may be true that you do not lie awake at night, plotting the demise of Mr. Addington in a specific manner, your glib response to a legitimate concern (that of our enemy conducting opposition research) at best betrays a startling lack of seriousness with which you seem to view matters of national import. At worst, this would appear to a Freudian slip of epic proportions, offering the nation a glimpse into the psyche of a man who will stop at nothing to score political points by hoping that we fail in the greatest test of this present darkness.
Mr. Delahunt, we do not fight a faceless, nameless shadow. Our nation is engaged in an existential battle for the survival of Western ideology, those fundamental concepts of freedom, respect for life and the right of a people to self-determination. Our enemies would destroy our nation, and all that we hold dear, and you are (knowingly or unknowingly) abetting them in their "divine mission". Clearly, your views on proper political governance are fatally flawed. To suggest, as you did, that you were "...glad they finally have a chance to see [Mr. Addington]" is a grossly negligent abuse of your position in we the people's government, and demands nothing less than censure and public scorn. In my mind, it demands much more.
Do not send me some apologetic/polite response email drafted by an overworked summer intern or clerk. I hope you receive a million of these emails, and a million more. Mr. Delahunt, you must understand that this is no game, and you do not exist in your capacity as a congressman to aggrandize yourself and promote your own personal station. You serve at the leisure of a nation that should demand better, that requires leaders that are civil and promote the national welfare in an honest fashion. You have embarrassed yourself, the House and this nation. The people of this nation demand a strong response to this breach of responsibility - do not try any more half-hearted, mealy-mouthed attempts to soften the blows you rightly deserve. You were out of bounds. What will you do to make this right? I believe you will do nothing of any substance. Prove me wrong.
Sincerely,
Ross Kennedy
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Posted at 6:04pm on Jun. 20, 2008 Big. Shiny. Brass. Stones. (Updated x2)
By Flyover Country
Is Obama kidding?! Oh dear God, after Wright, Pfleger, Rezko, et al, after the endless gaffes and ceaseless flip-flopping on Israel, Iran and public financing for the election...after all that, Barack Obama still has the unmitigated gall to pull this stunt?!
Via Greg Pollowitz over at the NRO Media Blog, we have Obama's subtle revision to the Presidential Seal:
Let's see:
Campaign slogan in place of office title - check.
URL to campaign website - check.
Shield of national colors changed to Obama logo - check.
National motto usurped by ridiculous Latin sloganeering - check.
Absolute disrespect for the office of President of the United States and complete mockery of our national legacy - Check and Check.
So, now I sit here at my computer, blood pouring from my eyes, confronted with the reality that we are totally hosed if the Gaffe Master becomes our president. I understand that my tone is outright disrespectful to a presidential candidate, but the h*** with it. He's an abomination, a total farce and is dang-skippy a liberal's wet dream of a candidate. McCain is a complete cluster, but he isn't this bad. Will someone please prove this photo to be a really good Photoshop? Please? Somebody tell me I'm wrong and overreacting. The alternative is a hundred times worse.
-- Flyover Country
(Update) - I see that Halperin and Allahpundit over at Hot Air are on this, too. Good lord, I hope someone calls him out for his shameless debasement of the office he seeks. Oh, and "Vero Possumus"...it means "Yes, We Can." Here I thought it meant "Here lies America, ignorant and dead."
(Update #2) - Pejman and Erick are on the case, as well. Get him, boys! Man, I love freedom, and the ability to see reality smack Snobama upside his big-eared head. Little Green Footballs has also picked up the baton. People with bigger bully pulpits are seeing that Barry's incredible narcissism doesn't go unpunished. Cry "Havok" and let slip the hounds, my friends.
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Posted at 1:14pm on Jun. 12, 2008 Retaking the Land of Lincoln, part 1
By Flyover Country
I stumbled across this image when I ran a Google Image search for "Abraham Lincoln". It is the #3 image that appears, and I couldn't resist leading this post with it. It so perfectly captures the disintegration of Illinois politics, and the betrayal of the values of President Lincoln. Contained in the artist's rendering is destruction, treason and glory forever enshadowed by avarice and revenge against righteousness. In this analogy, Booth morphs in my eyes into Mayor Daley, Governor Blagojevich, former Governor Ryan, Obama, Durbin et al. These treasonous bast***s, and so many like them, have filtered through this state's political landscape and left it in ruins.
As a young idealist, a man who tends to separate the wheat from the chaff in everything I do, it burns me up inside that these...liars...pull the levers of power in my homeland. They've achieved such heights of influence that their poster boy, Senator Barack Obama, is on the cusp of attaining the highest office in the world. He has been groomed by these wolves, plucked from obscurity because he's a pretty face, an eloquent speaker (when rehearsed), a lackey for the hard Left liberals of Chicago and the coasts. He's been funded by terrorists (Ayers, Dohrn, Auchi, Kalidi) and corrupt moneymen (Rezko, Levine).
We all know these things. America knows these things, and yet, the Daley / Chicago machine grinds on, churning out failed policy after bad governance after scandal. The time is now - enough whining. That's such a liberal thing to do. How do we fix the mess that the Great Leaders have made in the Land of Lincoln?
Read on...
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Posted at 4:45pm on Jun. 10, 2008 Where to begin?
By Flyover Country
Per Erick's exhortation from earlier, I'm going to make a stab at "owning" my state.
The only problem is - Illinois is an unmitigated disaster, politically speaking.
To whit:
The state's an epic example of the lunatics running the asylum. There are THREE counties in Illinois, out of 102, that voted >60% Democrat in the 2006 gubernatorial race between Topinka (R) and Blagojevich (D-umba$$). FIFTEEN went heavily red. Fourteen went in a majority for the Democrat. Thirty-five (I think) broke by a majority for the Republican. So, a majority of electorate districts went red, but were overridden by the heavily-partisan Chicago population.
Cook County has turned Illinois in a political wasteland, ruled by the great Democrat overseers, who operate in the shadows, buying political favors and blocking the return of Illinois to the United States.
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Posted at 9:57am on Jun. 10, 2008 The Heart of a Champion
By Flyover Country
On 3 April 1989, Ken Griffey Jr. debuted in center field for the Seattle Mariners. The son of Major League Baseball star Ken Griffey Sr., "Junior" was an exciting, wildly talented baseball player. He had what many observers called the "perfect swing", a smooth power stroke that generated extreme bat speed and thundering long balls. He was fast, averaging 15 stolen bases per year his first ten years, an unusually high total for a power hitter. He was an elite defensive player, known for unbelievable catches and incredible throws. "The Kid" has always played the game with a smile, and has been the face of two franchises. And now, he has cemented his place as one of the all-time greats.
Why, with a nation-changing election upon us, a rough economy and the enemies of America circling the wagons, do I choose to honor a baseball player, a man who has played a game for a living and gotten richer than I could ever hope to be? Because Ken Griffey Jr. exemplifies so much of what is good about America.
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Posted at 12:36pm on Jun. 9, 2008 Stopping the Obamatron
By Flyover Country
[Note: this is pretty long. I apologize for the length, but well, it's got a lot of stuff. I'm cleaning out my mental attic on this topic.]
Today, there's a plethora of great articles up regarding the HopeChange vs. Surge Architect POTUS popularity contest. To highlight just two:
Kyle-Anne Shiver over at NRO has got a great analysis of Obama's networking skills, focusing on Saul Alinsky's "self-interest" principle. That is to say:
Self-interest is based a good deal on the law of the jungle, and certainly the survival of the fittest does not lend itself to thinking and acting according to co-operative, and self-sacrificing for-the-other-guy philosophy. Yet this seeming obstacle can be and has been used as one of the most driving motive forces in the development of a co-operative organization." — Saul Alinsky, Reveille for Radicals, p. 95
To which I reply...no kidding, Saul?! I suppose you gave the world something useful, after all. You mean that self-interest tends to drive people to seek the highest perceived value for their time/money/sweat equity? Y'know, for a radical leftist, that sounds an awful lot like Adam Smith's Invisible Hand, doesn't it? Shiver hits the nail on the head showing that even a socialist liberal with radical roots tends to exploit the free market for his own ends. Well done, Kyle-Anne.
Which brings me to Bill Kristol's latest op-ed, "A Campaign We Can Believe In? Here, Kristol analyzes the Messianic imagery of the Obaminator's coronation speech contra McCain's epic FAIL! of a speech that same night, and finds McCain to be a bit...lacking in the "Inspiration" department. Obama, on the other hand, covers himself in glory by declaring:
...generations from now, we will be able to look back and tell our children that this was the moment when we began to provide care for the sick and good jobs for the jobless; this was the moment when the rise of the oceans began to slow and our planet began to heal.”
Well, bowl me over. It appears that Jesus Christ has abdicated his role as the Son of Man, Lord of All, so that Barack Obama may become the Rewritten Word Made Flesh. My goodness, he's going to single-handedly stop the oceans from rising and speak truth to natural power, using his mellifluous voice to soothe the earth back to its natural state of being. Even Mother Gaia is madly in love with Barack Obama.
It appears that a grouchy old curmudgeon like McCain would be foolish to challenge Barack Almighty. While the heavenly host stands ready to defend their new Messiah, how can John McCain, he of the Maverick Syndrome and with little political support from conservatives (besides the "Well, At Least He's Not Going to Let Us Lose the War on Terror" defense) triumph over the Fates and win the presidency?
Read on...
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Posted at 2:31pm on Jun. 5, 2008 Molon Labe
By Flyover Country
Below is a story of courage that we are all familiar with, and how the lessons learned there will enable us to achieve victory in the long war of ideological struggle for the American soul.
In 480 B.C., King Leonidas of Sparta led a small, rugged band of warriors against the mighty Persian army of Xerxes at Thermopylae ("Gates of Fire"). The Persians had already rolled up most of southern Asia, the Middle East and the eastern Sahara and Lower Nile regions, and were knocking on the door of Greece. If Greece fell, so would all of Europe. Thermopylae would be the keyhole that would unlock Greece, and allow Xerxes' forces to roll on through to Athens, the greatest of all Greek city-states, and the last refuge of the nation's hope.
Knowing this, Leonidas led three hundred of his best warriors to the pass at Thermopylae. He was joined in combat by roughly 5,000 other Greek warriors. 5,000 Greeks against a force that (by most current estimates) numbered over 700,000. The forces of Greece fell to the last man at the Gates, after a battle that raged for three days, and cost the Persians significant losses. Athens used the delay to gather their forces at Salamis (while the Persians sacked Athens), and eventually crushed the Persian navy at Salamis. Later, a Spartan-led force of Grecians annihilated the Persians at Plataea, finally pushing them out of Greece.
We all know the story, and the legend that has emerged from the mists of history about brave Leonidas and his three hundred warriors. Why do I bring it up here, after so many popular depictions and re-tellings have watered down the legend?
Read on...
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Posted at 1:27pm on May 30, 2008 Keith Olbermann - Deadbeat (w/ Extra-Special Comment!!!) [Updated: Video Goodness]
By Flyover Country
[Updated: Found this on YouTube...it's IMAO's "Condensed Olbermann" video. Absolute hilarity. I feel guilty for posting this w/o consulting the great FrankJ, so make sure to hie thee hence and support said funnyman's work.]
[Updated again: Fixed the double posting of FrankJ's video...I hate myself so hard sometimes.]
First is the Al Franken tax drama, and now Keith ("Big Show") Olbermann failing to render unto Caesar. The guys over at Olbermann Watch are doing the Lord's work exposing this liberal @$$hat for what he is: a failed, egomaniacal mouthbreather whom Rupert Murdoch has termed "crazy".
Here follows my best attempt at excoriating the Olbermaniac in his own form:
Read on, as it is quite long-winded and full of bluster and bile...you know, what we expect as a result of this gold-encrusted turd's inflated self-importance...
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Posted at 5:02pm on May 29, 2008 The Irresistible Force of Reality meets Pelosi's Immovable Idiocy
By Flyover Country
No freaking way she said this...
House Speaker Pelosi has spent her tenure as Speaker of the House cozying up with Bashar Assad, endlessly proclaiming defeat in Iraq (of our troops, not the murderous terrorist thugs) and outfitting the Hill with pretty flowers and organic foods with French names. But in this, she has well and truly flown the cuckoo's nest.
Well, the purpose of the surge was to provide a secure space, a time for the political change to occur to accomplish the reconciliation. That didn’t happen. Whatever the military success, and progress that may have been made, the surge didn’t accomplish its goal. And some of the success of the surge is that the goodwill of the Iranians-they decided in Basra when the fighting would end, they negotiated that cessation of hostilities-the Iranians."
Did you read that?! Holy bejeepers. I know that Ace and Hot Air are all over this, but...dude. Between this and Maxine Waters' awesome debacle, our "leaders" are more and more showing themselves to be not only sympathetic to the enemy, but are now openly hostile to the best interests of American sovereignty and propserity.
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Posted at 11:42am on May 29, 2008 Shining City on a Hill
By Flyover Country
This entry is a follow-up to my previous diary that floated the notion of the "Big Tent" concept. It was met with open arms by some, and a measure of hostility by others. I believe the hostility to have been by and large the result of some poor wording on my part(i.e. using phrases that appeared to attack the social con base) and an idiotic stubbornness on my part in sticking to my guns on phrasing. I owe most of the commenters a sincere apology for that. I'm on the Right's side 100%, and so I will clarify here a proposed, work-in-progress roadmap to utilizing first principles and strong conservatism as an outreach tool to a majoritarian political center who could be useful political allies.
You can call it mysticism if you want to, but I have always believed that there was some divine plan that placed this great continent between two oceans to be sought out by those who were possessed of an abiding love of freedom and a special kind of courage." -- Ronald Reagan, 25 January, 1974
Ronald Reagan is viewed by most on the Right as a political chimera, a man who infused the three legs of conservatism with a vigor and primacy of place never before witnessed in America. Reagan has since become a mythical creature of demi-god proportions, because he proved that a principled conservative politician could win - and not just win, but dominate this country's political landscape like no conservative ever has.
Under Reagan, the United States regained its economic swagger and its fearsome reputation as the defender of freedom. The question is now being asked, "where's our next Reagan?" I posit that perhaps the question is irrelevant. Ronald Reagan was only a man - an incredible, effective leader, no doubt, but still just a man. It was his pinciples that re-energized America. It was nothing more than a strong man, wielding unbeatable principles. I look at some of the leaders on the Right, and they too are capable of carrying on Reagan's true legacy (not the squishy, big-government "compassionate conservatism" of the succeeding Bushes).
I look at leaders like Bobby Jindal, Jeb Hensarling, Jim DeMint and Sarah Palin, and I see men and women who live and die by conservative principles. They are photogenic, incredibly intelligent and possessed of dignity and honor. They can be Reagan. It was not as much the man as his unswerving, eloquent promotion of first principles and conservatism. What can the next generation of conservative politicians do to raise the banner again, and carry a true majority mandate to shrink government and save the republic?
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Posted at 5:56pm on May 27, 2008 The "Big Tent" Concept, or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Center
By Flyover Country
Author's note: What follows will probably be viewed rather dimly by many here, but I have confidence that my suggestions for improving American politics will be met not with vitriol or anger, but will be viewed as a sincere attempt to promote honest discussion.
There is a growing trend in the discourse on the Right to disparage the idea of becoming a more inclusive group, more welcoming to loosely-affiliated political factions who tend to view certain primary issues counter to a pure conservative. This rejection of center-right politics is often in favor of a purer, more ordered approach to conservatism. While I'm personally a staunch conservative, I'm also a pragmatic individual.
Barack Obama is on the cusp of the most powerful office in the land; he will be backed by a strengthened Democratic majority in both houses of Congress, with at least two SCOTUS appointees in the next four years and a whole slate of activist judges to boot. His election will almost certainly push American policy and legislation to the Left for the next couple of decades. Conservatism will wander in the wilderness for another generation, seemingly waiting for its Reagan on a white stallion to bail it out again. Can we prevent this? Dare I say...Yes, we can.
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Posted at 12:30pm on May 25, 2008 Iran funding insurgents?! You don't say.
By Flyover Country
Via "dri" over at Ace's place we have this story about a leaked British field report detailing allegations of Iran directly funding the Jaish al-Mahdi (JAM) in Basra. Not that this is an earth-shattering revelation, but it is one of the first times that a government has leaked or released explicit details regarding Iran's bankrolling of the Iraq insurgency.
[The Mahdi Army]...used money from Iran to recruit and pay young unemployed men up to $300 (£150) a month to carry out attacks against the British."
So, not only have we had a heapin' helping of anecdotal evidence from our own armed forces that Iran is building, engineering and supplying EFP's (Explosively Formed Penetrators) for the insurgents to build IED's with, we also now have direct verbal and written confirmation from a ranking British army officer in Basra that Iran is quite literally funding the insurgency, as well. We've long been aware that Iran has been fighting a proxy war against the United States through Hamas, Hizbollah and other terrorist factions, and now we know that they are coordinating efforts on the ground to kill Coalition troops in Iraq. What to do?
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