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Clearing the Browser Tabs – Dangerous Christian Extremist Tuesday Edition Posted: 10 May 2011 03:10 AM PDT I think I’m a little bit concerned about my spiritual health. You see, my church is holding a revival and Dr. Tim Lee is our speaker for the week. Dr. Lee is one of those old-time preachers, the kind that would give most of the PC crowd flat-out heart-attacks and cause the collective heads of most of the progressive left to explode in fear or anger, or a combination of both. I’ve heard three of his messages this week and you might expect that I am now filled with the sort of righteous fanaticism that might drive me to acts of extremist violence. But I’ve not once in the past two days felt even the slightest desire to charge the cockpit of an airplane yelling “Jesus Saves”. See, that’s not how we Christians roll, despite what the MSM or this administration’s Justice Department says. It’s a shame we still have to deal with that unfair and untrue characterization while real threats go mostly ignored. Don’t forget that The Delivery goes live tonight. I’ve a plate full of topicality tonight and I may forego the hard political stuff for something a little different. Come along and find out. Also, we’re down to two days left in the Deliver for The Delivery fundraiser and I’m looking for one last hard push to the end. Give me a hand, if you can. And now, links! I really wish the guys who made the Atlas Shrugged movie had talked to Ace before they finished it. His lengthy review addresses virtually every concern I had with the film, and even tackled the stunning lack of story that has kept me from reading the book. Oh sure, Mr. Big Shot Blogger, you may have tons of traffic and gobs of advertising cash, but is your blog name on a no-fooling, for-real race car? Victor David Hanson is right. The real problem in America right now is one of heart and spirit. So whose Medicare proposal is going to deny care to old people again? There’s a word to describe the call President Obama made to kill Osama bin Laden, but for the life of me, I can’t think of what it is. Maybe some helpful members of the MSM could sing it in eight-part harmony for me? How much does a viral video cost? Well, if you hire Ladd Ehlinger, you’ll get one for far cheaper than you think. The essential difference between conservative and progressive is what they think about who owns what you produce. If you doubt that the minimum wage hurts poor people feast your eyes on the data. This week in Automotivators! I don’t know what to call this project to survey the sky that won’t sell it short. Go visit, surf around a while, and be amazed. Interesting: NASA will pony up $200 for a refueling station in space. Perhaps the old dreams still live on.

Roadkill Never Won an Argument Posted: 09 May 2011 01:44 PM PDT I’m going to nominate this Kurt Schlichter masterpiece as an early contender for Quote of the Week. You need to not only annoy stupid people, but to develop a taste for it.  Otherwise, you'll be roadkill. The “stupid people” of whom he speaks are the legion of addle-minded progressives who swarm the various social media platforms, eager to lay about the evil ReThuglican Koch Korporate Empire with all the righteous fury the latest bullet-point post from Think Progress of Media Matters will allow them. I love Kurt’s advice here. He is a trial attorney by vocation, which means he knows a thing or three about arguing for effect. At the outset, understand that you should never –ever – argue with your leftist opponents.  This may seem odd for a trial attorney to say – after all, isn't that how I make my living?  No, it is not.  I never argue with the other side.  And neither should you. No matter what argument I might make to another lawyer, he is never going to change his position.  I am not going to convince him of anything – nor is he me.  Now, he may convince himself of something – I might supply (without comment) a sampling of the evidence I have or the legal authority I'll be smashing over his head in court.  But trying to argue him into agreeing with me is a waste of time and even risks giving away valuable intelligence on how I intend to defeat him.  So I don't do it. [...] No, in law I argue to the judge and the jury – they matter because they make decisions.  My opponent is simply an obstacle to be breached in pursuit of victory.  Once I engage my opponent, he has an opportunity to respond and to try and seize the initiative.  So I don't.  It drives them nuts. And I treat leftist nimrods the same way, particularly as part of my Twitter antics.  I don't argue for their benefit.  I don't care if they change their minds.  I argue only to influence undecided people who have no firm opinions and to reinforce and boost the morale of people who already agree with me.  Those are the two ways you contribute to the cause within the social media – influencing the undecided and supporting the committed. I have seen him put this tactic to work and, let me tell you, it is a thing of purest beauty. It helps greatly if you have a sense of humor — Kurt has one of the best I’ve seen, by the way — because, as I’ve said here before, humor is the best way to knock a progressive off his game. Ridicule stings a noble heart full to bursting with utopian dreams and more than few delusions of grandeur. Use it a couple times and watch how quickly Mr. Progressive McCivilNewTone starts throwing down the insults and invective. Give it a try for yourself one day on Twitter or Facebook, or the comment section of your favorite blog, and see just how well it works. I bet you’ll end up on the winning side of the debate with a better reputation and you’ll make a few folks laugh. That, as Charlie Sheen might say, is #winning.

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