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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

Saturday, November 11, 2006

Our greatest pageload ever, and on Vets Day!

We couldn't help but notice a visitor from iraq.centcom.mil.

May God be with you and all your brothers and sisters.

Thank you for your service to our country and the cause of Liberty for all of God's children.

The men of the Ponderosa raise their tankards of ale in your honor.

We owe everything to you and those who came before you.

Thank you, thank you, THANK YOU!

This Maker's Mark is for you!

If any of ya's, upon returning home, come across a dude who looks like an ugly woman, mention this post for free drinks!

The Ponderosa

Saturday, November 11, 2006

Our greatest pageload ever, and on Vets Day!

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