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Trickle Up Poverty: Stopping Obama’s Attack on Our Borders, Economy, and Security:
Trickle Up Poverty, by bestselling author and revered radio host Dr. Michael Savage, is your best defense against the Obamanomics that are dragging the middle class, and everyone else, into a Marxist-Socialist death spiral. The Savage manifesto you hold in your hands shows how Obama is circumventing the Constitution to push through his radical agenda—and, most important, how we can restore our country to the power and prestige that Barack Obama and his corrupt and degenerate “czars” are trying to destroy.
The Naked Marxist can and must be stopped. Obama’s trickle up poverty is infecting all that we hold to be true and self-evident. Here’s how.
Murdoc doesn’t listen to talk radio and doesn’t have anything more than a passing familiarity with Savage. This book does appear to be right on target with the Tea Party crowd and its sympathizers, which is, for the most part, fine with Murdoc.
If you’d like an opportunity to check out Give Us Liberty: A Tea Party Manifesto by Dick Armey and Matt Kibbe, simply leave a comment on this post.
Contest Rules:
- Book will only be mailed to US mailing address. Sorry. No exceptions.
- Murdoc’s immediate family cannot enter.
- Please enter only once.
- Sending Murdoc cash is permissible but will not improve your chances of winning.
- If (and only if) you win you will have to give me your real name and mailing address.
- Winner will be chosen randomly and all results are final.
- Entries must be posted to the site by 2359 hours ET on Sunday, 05 Sep 2010
- I can’t think of any more right now but I’ll add them if I do.
To Enter:
- Leave a comment on this post.
That’s all there is to it. Leave a comment and I will have a winner chosen from all entrants using the Random Integer Generator at Random.org. If the random number is 13 and you have the 13th comment on the post, you win a copy of Give Us Liberty: A Tea Party Manifesto by Dick Armey and Matt Kibbe. Simple as that.
UPDATE: If you’re not on record as having left a comment on MO before, your comment will go into moderation. Don’t worry, it will be approved in the location it was originally left in. This will have the effect of “bumping” down comments left after it.
I had to implement comment moderation for new commenters after some particularly friendly things were said by some drive-by types.
In the mail: Give Us Liberty: A Tea Party Manifesto by Dick Armey and Matt Kibbe
Former House Majority Leader Dick Armey and Matt Kibbe have been on the front lines of one of the fastest-growing and most influential political phenomena in recent memory: the Tea Party movement. As the leaders of the advocacy organization FreedomWorks, they have helped guide and give voice to hundreds of thousands of activists from across the country and have a strong vision for the future of this powerful grassroots uprising.
United by a strong belief in limited government and individual liberty, Tea Party members are changing the American political landscape. Unlike mainstream media accounts that observe the Tea Party movement from the outside looking in, Give Us Liberty chronicles the roots and rise of a new breed of taxpayer activism in the voices of those who were there. Discover the personalities that drove the first meetings, the unknown candidates whose principled stand earned them unlikely victories, the march that gathered more than a million activists, and the bedrock beliefs that brought them together.
In this national call to action, Armey and Kibbe provide an intimate history of the movement, explain how citizens can join the cause, and chart the future of the Tea Party—and America. Give Us Liberty also contains a battle-tested, step-by-step guide to organizing and effecting change in any community.
Murdoc also received a copy for a giveaway and will be putting contest details soon.
Paul McCartney is still a jerk
Jim Treacher:
I’m not sure how the BP oil spill proves global warming, but then again, I didn’t write “Silly Love Songs.” The point is, if you disagree with Paul McCartney, you’re a Nazi.
To prove his dedication to giving our kids a decent world, McCartney has sworn off all petroleum products and now tours by pack-mule caravan. Ha ha, just kidding! He flies around all over the place, same as always.
I was actually a pretty big fan of Paul McCartney’s music for a long time. But he seemed to lose it around ’90 or so and every time he opens his mouth on politics he sounds like a fool on the hill.
For five years the armies of the world have fought back and forth across Europe. Three years ago the missiles started flying. Most countries were hit hard in the nuclear exchange, but no one had a decisive advantage, and the war went on. Tanks began breaking down, and the supply of spare parts gradually dwindled to zero. The sophisticated artillery weapons have shot off all of their ammo and no one is capable of producing any more. Divisions which have started with 20,000 men are lucky to put 2,000 in the field.
But the war goes on.
You are part of the remnants of the leading division of NATO’s last drive into central Poland. There isn’t much in the way of an organized military force left on either side. Local warlords, militia and murderous bands of marauding deserters rule the countryside. Your division has been overrun. Your group is hundreds of kilometers from the nearest friendlies.
The last message from Division HQ read: GOOD LUCK. YOU’RE ON YOUR OWN.
Now what do you do?
I had this game and a number of supplements back in the 80s, though we never got to play it much. My recollection is that the hardware side of things (weapons, vehicles, gear) was pretty good.
Was in a rush to download an audiobook to listen to and basically chose this one at random. I haven’t reached the end yet, but I can already give it a Murdoc recommendation. It’s not really “heavy” or “deep” or “hard” SF, but it’s got a lot of good stuff and most of the military/gun stuff seems right on the money.
Baen now launches an exciting new science fiction adventure series by the New York Times best-selling author: When a 60-kiloton explosion destroyed the University of Central Florida, and much of the surrounding countryside, the authorities first thought that terrorists had somehow obtained a nuclear weapon. But there was no radiation detected, and, when physicist Dr. William Weaver and Navy SEAL Command Master Chief Robert Miller were sent to investigate, they found that in the center of the destruction, where the University’s physics department used to be, was an interdimensional gateway to . . . somewhere. An experiment in subatomic physics had produced a very unexpected effect. Furthermore, other gateways were appearing all over the world–and one of them immediately began disgorging demonic visitors intent on annihilating all life on Earth and replacing it with their own. Other, apparently less hostile, aliens emerged from other gateways, and informed Weaver and Miller that the demonic invaders–the name for them that humans could most easily pronounce was the Dreen–were a deadly blight across the galaxy, occupying planet after planet after wiping out all native life; and now it would be Earth’s turn, unless Weaver and Miller could find a way to close the gateways…
I went in expecting a light ride through man-vs-alien warfare fantasyland and have been thoroughly enjoying it. It’s apparently part of a series though I didn’t know that until looking at the Amazon page.
I don’t read much military SF, so I can’t say how it compares to other stuff out there. But Murdoc is really digging this so far. Definitely a good summer read for the beach or a trip.
Just caught an episode of this on HBO at the hotel we’re staying at. Nice, because we don’t get HBO at home.
The Marines on Guadalcanal.
Excellent. Very much excellent.
Marvel Comics’ depiction of anti-tax protesters inspires anger, apology
Captain America #602 shows a political rally with a sign reading “Tea Bag The Libs Before They Tea Bag You.”
This whole tea bag thing is pretty funny. It’s almost like they are intentionally misunderstanding.
Haven’t had time to look around for commentary on it, but is Murdoc the only one who didn’t think that “Green Police” commercial [was all that] funny?
UPDATE: First, Smallest Minority is talking about it.
Second, here’s the commercial:
Third: Somewhere I saw this:
Buy guns not Audis
Close Encounters of the Redneck Kind:
Close Encounters of the Redneck Kind from Marc Bullard on Vimeo.
