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Friday, April 12, 2013

Looking more and more like the fall of the Roman Republic every day . . .

GOP Senator Mark Kirk Says Booze And Parties On Dem-Owned Yacht Led To Bipartisan Gun Deal…

Sen. Mark Kirk says the real driving force behind the gun deal that was hatched by bipartisan work was booze and boat retreats.

The Illinois Republican said to reporters that visits to the Black Tie, a yacht owned by Democrat Sen. Joe Manchin, played a large role in the Democratic-Republican come-together over background checks and other legislation related to gun control, Roll Call reported.

“You guys really ought to go out to National Harbor and see the Black Tie, which has been much of the reason for much of the bipartisan cooperation around here,” he said, as quoted in Roll Call.

Frequent visitors to the luxury vessel: Democrat Sen. Kay Hagan and Republican Sen. Lisa Murkowski, Mr. Kirk said.

From an upcoming Hollywood epic: "23 August 2014: In the wake of the outbreak of the civil war, the senator had not considered that some members of the military might take his treason to the Constitution more seriously than others."

6 comments:

William Flatt said...: All traitors should be so dramatically blown up!; April 12, 2013 at 8:10 AM
Anonymous said...: Kirk is really just another liberal Democrat, only all dressed up in RINO clothing.

CPB; April 12, 2013 at 11:08 AM
Anonymous said...: Hanging off an overpass is so much more graphic and appropriate.; April 12, 2013 at 2:22 PM
Anonymous said...: Old fashioned keelhauling was suggested over at WeaselZippers. Tie a rope around the evil-doers, toss them overboard and pull them under the length of the ship at speed. Blowing them up is too easy. But it's quick and certain, I'll give you that.; April 12, 2013 at 2:31 PM
Anonymous said...: Yeah, it'd be a damned shame if that boat sank. Terrible, terrible thing.; April 12, 2013 at 6:14 PM
Anonymous said...: Something smells about that "news story". Is it really for real? I hope like hell this story was well vetted. Personally I would have expected a story like this Monday before last. I never expect such candor from a pol.; April 12, 2013 at 7:17 PM

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I believe that liberty is the only genuinely valuable thing that men have invented, at least in the field of government, in a thousand years. I believe that it is better to be free than to be not free, even when the former is dangerous and the latter safe. I believe that the finest qualities of man can flourish only in free air – that progress made under the shadow of the policeman's club is false progress, and of no permanent value. I believe that any man who takes the liberty of another into his keeping is bound to become a tyrant, and that any man who yields up his liberty, in however slight the measure, is bound to become a slave. -- H.L. Mencken

"The Fate of Unborn Millions. . ."

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"We will not go gently . . ."

This is no small thing, to restore a republic after it has fallen into corruption. I have studied history for years and I cannot recall it ever happening. It may be that our task is impossible. Yet, if we do not try then how will we know it can't be done? And if we do not try, it most certainly won't be done. The Founders' Republic, and the larger war for western civilization, will be lost.

But I tell you this: We will not go gently into that bloody collectivist good night. Indeed, we will make with our defiance such a sound as ALL history from that day forward will be forced to note, even if they despise us in the writing of it.

And when we are gone, the scattered, free survivors hiding in the ruins of our once-great republic will sing of our deeds in forbidden songs, tending the flickering flame of individual liberty until it bursts forth again, as it must, generations later. We will live forever, like the Spartans at Thermopylae, in sacred memory.

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