A pithy comment at HotGas

"What is government? What is political power?

Government is the local monopoly of physical violence. That is the most basic definition of government.
That is it. It is forcing you to behave by it’s rules.

A little mental exercise. If you do not pay your taxes what happens? A man with a gun comes and threatens you with violence. Do not follow any government dictate for long enough and you will end up with a gun pointed at you. Which is why every time you hear someone say "They should do something about X”, where "they” invariably means the government you should ask the complainer if the problem is really important enough to have someone get a gun pointed at them.

Now, what is political power at its most basic level? The ability to direct the government to do your bidding.

Is this basic enough for you to understand why the accumulation of massive political power should concern everyone, not just Conservatives?"

Nathan_OH on May 10, 2012 at 10:12 AM

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The Rally In The Fox Valley (Updated)

Today I'll attend the Rally in the Fox Valley right here in good ol' Sloshkosh.  All four Republican US Senate candidates are slated to attend and speak, along with such luminaries as Lt. Gov Kleefisch, Mark Block, Rick Gudex, and others.  Governor Walker, Paul Ryan, and Herman Cain are invited to attend and address the rally, but there has been no confirmation.  I'll be happy either way. 
It is currently overcast and dreary outside, and I'm hoping like hell the rain holds off.  If I don't drink too much beer I'll post photos and shit later, but if it isn't raining I'll burn wood in the backyard.  And drink beer.

(Update)


The rally was well attended, and I happened to meet my brother and nephew there under the TGFSW (Thank God For Scott Walker) banner.  I showed a bit late due to family obligations, but compared to previous TEA Party rallies the crowd size was at least double.  The takeaway:  people are ginned up for the recall election, and boy howdy am I optimistic. 

After the rally, I recommended a nearby dive for drinks and conversation with like-minded folks.  Yeah, the Trail's End is a townie tavvie, but I know the owner.  I believe he is a conservative because he's crabby, and to me it's pretty much the same thing.  I made a couple friends, and came away with a sense of optimism which I previously lacked.  Mark these words:  Scott Walker shall serve AT LEAST eight years as Governor of the State of Wisconsin.  TGFSW.

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Pre-Election Jitters

I highly respect Steve Eggleston of norunnyeggs.com, and was lucky enough to run into the guy on an excellent WI recall thread posted by CAC at the HQ. 

Posted by: steveegg at May 03, 2012 09:49 PM (o44nj)

++++++++++++++++

While I trust steveegg's judgement and acumen more than my own, I'm not feeling real optimistic about our beloved Governor's recall survival.  It's going to be a nail biter.  While CAC places a high value on the Prosser/Kloppenberg matchup, the gubernatorial recall election turnout will eclipse the already sky-high State Supreme Court election turnout by at least twofold.  The commies are on the march, and they're sick of losing.  I believe their turnout will be akin to the way in which good patriotic Americans coalesced to enable the 2010 landslide, but in reverse.  Not as brilliant, but enough to win.

I hope I'm wrong.

TGFSW

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Spring Turkey 2012

It was a fun time swilling beer with the guys (and gals). I got skunked again this year, but at least everybody else was unsuccessful as well. Friday morning was absolutely frigid, and I was underdressed for the temp, and worse yet hunkered in a blind trying to call the birds in. The toms were gobbling and seemed all over the area I was hunting, but were uninterested in approaching my call. The gobbling ended at about 9:00, and then it just got boring. And cold... way too cold to sleep.

Saturday the temperature was a bit higher, though the toms weren't gobbling. The rain and wind quieted the birds down, and I got only one bird to respond to my call. I set about to get closer to the call (from the direction of the river to the south of my blind), but I received only one response after I moved. That was it for the day.

Here is a porcupine that I didn't shoot.
Sunday, said "screw the blind, I'm wearing camo, and it's frickin' cold out" so I set out "runnin' and gunnin'". I received responses about half an hour's hike from the trailhead, and followed him into the woods calling to maintain contact and direction. Once again the bird wasn't interested in meeting me, as he moved away whenever I'd get closer. I chased him for about two hours until he crossed the river, and taunted me with gobbles in tall grass about 150 yards away.

Good times. Next year I'm going to blast a big tom, I promise.

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Tomorrow: It Begins.

The hunt for the elusive and dangerous forest chicken.  I'll be drinking with a bunch of old dudes out at the cabin, then waking extra early to freeze my ass off in the woods.
The shotgun is clean and oiled, I have a flask of alcohol, and a copy of Skousen's 5000 Year Leap.
I hope to shoot something this year.  Or at least see something.

We shall see.

I'll try to take a couple photos if anything fun besides boozin' happens.

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Excellent Quote, Dude.

From John Venlet at the excellent blog Improved Clinch:

"In response, I’ll quote a thought of Epictetus, again, as he has recently been firing my mind.

When any person does ill by you, or speaks ill of you, remember that he acts or speaks from a supposition that it is his duty.  Now, it is not possible that he should follow what appears to be right to you, but only what appears so to himself.  Therefore, if he judges from a wrong appearance, he is the person hurt, since he, too, is the person deceived.  For if any one supposes a true proposition to be false, the proposition is not hurt, but he who is deceived about it.  Setting out, then, from these principles, you will mildly bear with one who reviles you, for you will say upon every occasion: "It seemed so to him.” (bold by ed.)

Improved Clinch... now linked in the sidebar.

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Rasmussen Discovers Idjits in Wisconsin

The results of a recent Rasmussen poll have concluded that Wisconsin is composed of roughly 52% idiot.  It's going to be close, boys and girls.

If Walker goes down to the likes of Union toadie Kathleen Falk, we truly are boned. 

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Mad Skills

Found this at Ace's

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Quote of the Day:

"We should run Dick Cheney and emphasize he's had a change of heart"
       -George at H&B Chat


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Original Meaning or Underlying Principles

Here is your required reading for the week.  Don't worry, it's only twenty pages.  

Here's a taste:

Please read the whole thing.

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John Hawkins with your Must Read for the AGES.

I stumbled on a column written by John Hawkins at Right Wing News which I believe neatly crystallizes leftist political thinking.  Here's the opener:

Liberals love to think of themselves as intellectual and nuanced, but liberalism is incredibly simplistic. It’s nothing more than "childlike emotionalism applied to adult issues.” Very seldom does any issue that doesn’t involve pandering to their supporters boil down at its core level to more than feeling "nice” or "mean” to liberals. This makes liberals ill equipped to deal with complex issues.

Please read the whole thing... it is true and rare.

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I Am Andrew Breitbart.

War.

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Don't Get Mad... Get MOTIVATED.

First:   After about a month of neglecting a bunch of other obligations, we have achieved a goal. 

The Verify The Recall Database is live.

I've had difficulty getting on, either through legitimate traffic or DDoS, but that won't last forever.  Then the commie hunt begins.  I hope a bunch of corrupt bastards end up suffering the consequence of their fraud. 

I'm happy to have seen the effort through, and I'm proud of the effort of the volunteers.  I spent nearly every night since the petition release entering data... I could have done more.

Second:  "We have danced and danced with Wisconsin politicians.  We don't like to dance and we are now done dancing in Wisconsin.  Forever." - an Unnamed Mining Company Representative.

The State Mining Bill went down today. 

I'd like to stipulate that Senator Tim Carpenter is a weak-kneed, limp-wristed, commie bitch.

The contemptible piece of shit Dale Schultz (RINO-Richland Center) sided with the commies to shoot down the State Senate mining bill compromise.  The bill was not to approve the proposed iron mine (in the State's most economically depressed area), but to allow a process in which there was a tangible endpoint.  The mine proposal would still have had to wade through the alphabet soup of departments, bureaus, and agencies in order to obtain a permit, but the mother fucking commies (including Dale Schultz) pretended all the while that everybody would glow in the dark and have three-eyed babies if a mine were allowed to APPLY to operate.  Who cares there are mines operating in harmonic compliance with EPA regs less than a quarter tank of gas away... And who cares that the average family income in the area of the proposed mine is $23,000 per year. 

The State Senator currently holding office in the district in which I live is a commie.  You may remember Jessica King from her love-fest with the "Fuck The Troops" blogger Ian Murphy.  Senator King the commie won our district Senate seat in a recall against Randy Hopper by a margin of about 1,200 votes (around 1% IIRC) in a district that trends 56% conservative.  In my eyes, she was the deciding vote against the mining permit application process streamlining... and therefore it was her vote which prevented a $1.5 billion dollar job-creating endeavor in an economically-depressed area.  She and she alone is responsible for strangling these jobs before they could ever leave the crib.

The good news:  She Has A Challenger.  Meet Rick Gudex.  His website currently stinks, but that can be fixed.  What the guy DOES have on his side is organization, drive, goals, an articulate message, and a weak, gaffe-prone communist opponent who barely managed to win office despite a highly-motivated base against a flawed incumbent.  I'm going balls-deep on the Gudex campaign, and I believe that with hard work he will win.

Jessica King:  Hope you've had fun.  Get the fuck out.

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Verify the Recall Update, Housecleaning, and other Somesuch.

From the inbox this morning...

Wonderful news.

There is an incomplete list circulating (with a search tool) which can be found at Put Wisconsin First, but the Verify The Recall searchable database will go live on Wednesday night.  I presume the VTR database will most likely be found through the VTR website

I'm absolutely delighted that the data entry is complete for the Walker challenge.   I believe there was a substantial drop off in enthusiasm as the days (then weeks) dragged on.  I began to worry we'd not complete. 
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In other news, I attended the "It's Working Wisconsin Town Hall" event sponsored by Americans For Prosperity and the MacIver Institute.  Speakers included Luke Hilgeman (State Director of the AFP Foundation), Brian Fraley from the MacIver Institute, Rep Robin Vos (WI Joint Finance Co-Chair), Rep Jim Steineke, and Ben Schneider (Oshkosh School Board). 

One of the highlights was the new video effort by AFP and MacIver to showcase the results of Act 10.  Check out their website HERE.

It was great, and afterward one of the Oshkosh TEA Party activists let me know US Senate Candidate Mark Neumann would be dropping through the Republican HQ in Oshkosh.  Neumann is a proven budget slasher, and is endorsed by Senators Rand Paul and Jim DeMint (two conservative rock-stars if ever there were).  I've concluded that this is his time, and he is the man.  Mark Neumann is the best choice to represent Wisconsin in our war against the bastard commie horde.  Neumann for Senate 2012!

Screw the commies, and Baracka Hussein SCOAMF Obama is a limp-wristed Marxist bitch. 
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From now on, We are ALL Andrew Breitbart.

Please allow me to present this without further comment.

From a thread at AoSHQ by StuckOnStupid at March 02, 2012 08:27 PM

"Who is Andrew Breitbart?"

Rest In Peace, Brother.

Update:  "Every time I see a tree, I just want to kick its ass.”

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Andrew Breitbart

The world lost a great man today.

Rest in Peace, Proud Warrior.  My prayers for you and your family.

May millions carry the sword you joyfully wielded.  We are still at war, brother, and we'll carry the fight... but you'll be sorely missed. 

Unbelievable.

Awful.

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PA Commies

Apparently people from Pennsylvania are interested in the Walker Recall.  Get the Fuck Out, commie bastards.


I have a bunch of examples of bullshit perpetrated by the Blue-Fisters on the recall petitions, and if it suits my fancy I'll share them here after the Verify effort is complete.

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Battle on 'Bago

This weekend was the annual "Battle on 'Bago" fishing tournament.  I did not participate, due to other obligations... namely the final push on the Verify effort.  Lil' botnet and I stopped by Menominee Park to see how many people were fishing, and were surprised to see that people had driven vehicles onto the ice.  We had walked this area last weekend to check out the pressure crack, and at that point the only people traversing the area using motorized vehicled were ATV riders (and we thought THEY were crazy).  The ice has been shit all year, and over the past week we were lucky to see freezing temps even during the night hours. 

While it's entirely stupid to drive a vehicle on ice you aren't familiar with, it's doubly-stupid to park a vehicle on 8-inch ice.  If you wish to be even stupider... park right next to another vehicle.  Click the photo to embiggen.

We've been on the ice all year, and it was surprising to see vehicles on the bays two weeks ago on 10-inch ice.  Still too thin, and temperatures in the 40's sure doesn't make the ice any better.

I feel bad for the people whose vehicles fell through (two were pulled out of this spot before Lil' bot and I arrived), but for heaven's sake the ice has been terrible all year.  Don't drive it unless you've tested it.  Click to embiggenify the photo.

Best regards to all, and I look forward to the Verify project wrapping up soon.  TGFSW!

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Tell your Friends...

I've not posted here, or done much of anything else on the intertubes lately... I come home from work, have supper with the family, then hop onto the Verify The Recall site to enter signatures.

We have (finally) achieved the 75% mark for our data entry... and need help.  If you can spare a bit of time; an hour here or there.... please consider joining our efforts.

From the Verify The Recall facebook site:

Verify The Recall

Encourage ONE MORE FRIEND to become a Verify The Recall Volunteer! We are in the final push for completing the gubernatorial recall data entry process... Every additional volunteer helps us complete the process quicker! Sign up at www.VerifyTheRecall.com.

Thanks.

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Verify the Recall *UPDATED*

Over the weekend, we patriots in the Land of Cheese and Beer sharpened our teeth on the Van Wanggaard recall petitions as part of the "Verify the Recall" effort organized by the Wisconsin Grandsons of Liberty and the Dane County Tea Party.

The communist bastards and useful idiots of the left in their pathetic recall attempt submitted more than 24,000 signatures in their bullshit attempt to recall Senator Wanggaard, which we chewed through "several times" over the course of 48 hours. In the first image, we see a case in which two people at the same address have remarkable similarities in their penmanship. (Click to embiggen)

And as for the Main Event... the Walker Recall? The communist bastards at the GAB are stonewalling the release of the petitions online, which will only delay compiling the Database of Shame. The GAB commies claim they wish to protect the identities of "domestic abuse victims", but I suspect they are squirrelling away some of the more egregious fraudsters to use should they need a push over the top if huge numbers of signatures are forcibly tossed. As an example, here is a case where somebody got fucked up, signing their real name after printing their nom-de-guerre. (Click to embiggenify) Perfect fodder for the race to the finish for the bitterly partisan GAB.

Interestingly enough, and despite repeated assurances from the commie bastards at the WI-SDWP they had gone through the signatures to weed out obvious fraud and mischief, apparently they were as successful as they are at rational thought... which is to say, not at all.

The errors contained in the petition here are numerous and glaring. Item 1) "Pedro "Ventue"" cannot sign his own fucking name. That's pathetic. Item 2) "Cesaria Cortez" cannot sign his name, either. Instead, it is printed each time. Item 3 "A-Git" probably is not a valid name. Like the SCOAMF, it is reasonable to suppose "A-Git" might have trouble producing a birth certificate proving that is indeed his name. Further, in Item 4), "A-Git" cannot legibly write his own address, and similarly, in Item 5 does not seem to know what the Zip code for that address might be. The person who signed their name to the bottom of the petition certifying its validity should have their ass thrown in jail. (One click to each image will serve you well if embiggening is your wish.)

The cases I have identified are the most obvious which I personally happened upon in the course of the petitions I entered to the database, and one can only imagine the level of fraud of types more difficult to detect. How many people comitted identity fraud, and how many dead people voted. Lizard claims that all dead people are democrats, being either dead-dead, or else just brain-dead. I believe her.

In closing, fuck the commies, fuck the SCOAMF, and may G-d Bless our beloved and honorable Governor Scott Walker.

UPDATE

I just received this in my inbox....

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