The Ponderosa: Color us purple

Death before Dhimmitude

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Above this race of men stands an immense and tutelary power, which takes upon itself alone to secure their gratifications and to watch over their fate. That power is absolute, minute, regular, provident, and mild. It would be like the authority of a parent if, like that authority, its object was to prepare men for manhood; but it seeks, on the contrary, to keep them in perpetual childhood: it is well content that the people should rejoice, provided they think of nothing but rejoicing. For their happiness such a government willingly labors, but it chooses to be the sole agent and the only arbiter of that happiness; it provides for their security, foresees and supplies their necessities, facilitates their pleasures, manages their principal concerns, directs their industry, regulates the descent of property, and subdivides their inheritances: what remains, but to spare them all the care of thinking and all the trouble of living?

--Alexis de Tocqueville, Democracy in America

Monday, December 12, 2005

Color us purple

Purple Finger for Freedom

Twice this year, Iraqis have shown their courage, defying the terrorists -- risking their lives to exercise their right to vote.

They will vote again on December 15.

Shelby Dangerfield, a 10-year-old Montana girl, demonstrated Americans' solidarity with freedom-loving Iraqis by inking her finger purple last January.

From December 12 - 15, let's follow her example by inking our index finger purple.

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We don't generally go in for useless symbolism like ribbons and cheesy songs, but we intend to ink our fingers as a sign of solidarity with the Iraqis who will boldly go to the polls on the 15th, in defiance of the "insurgents" and to the chagrin of many here at home.

Plus, it'll really tick off the Moonbats!

The Ponderosa

Monday, December 12, 2005

Color us purple

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