Find The Boots

John Edwards, man of the people and ambulance chaser, doesn't like his neighbor.

If only we could get a group of people together to purchase that property and put in a proper rifle range.

Labels: liberals

Michelle Malkin, the conservative hottie, put up a post about Ben.

Hi, I'm Ben, a 25-year-old white guy from rural Virginia. I used to be a directory assistance operator, but now I work at the Wal Mart in Waynesboro. I still live with my parents.

I rarely disagree with Michelle, but I'm not sure why she decide to showcase this loser. Ben's site has been up for 10 years, but he's only managed a Google Page Rank of 4. That's pretty low. Michelle has a PR of 7, making her one of the heavy hitters. Most webmasters would be willing to pay for a link from a PR 7 site -- it will definitely help him in his pathetic ranking. You'll notice I linked to Michelle's review of his site, not his site. There's no reason to give him any extra help. As a comparison, Find The Boots is a PR 3, and we've only been up for the last year and this barely consumes a part of our lives. His website appears to be the best thing Ben has going.

As for piling on Ben, the point that sums it all up for me is at the bottom of his "About Me" section:

Is there anything else you'd like us to know?

Vote Democratic.

Yep, that's the level of intellect. I think another quote might be good advice to Ben, from Dean Wormer:

Fat, drunk, and stupid is no way to go through life, son.

Labels: liberals

Dave Kopel has a great article that talks about the grammatical interpretation of the 2nd Amendment. Lots of great stuff, but here's one that stands out:

"A well-schooled electorate, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and read Books, shall not be infringed." Is the grammatical structure and usage of this sentence, and the way the words modify each other, identical to the Second Amendment? Could this sentence be interpreted to restrict "the right of the people to keep and read Books" only to "a well-educated electorate" — for example, registered voters with a high-school diploma?

This shows an interesting point about human cognition. A liberal can read the 2nd Amendent:

A well regulated militia, being necessary to the security of a free state, the right of the people to keep and bear arms, shall not be infringed.

and because they feel that somehow guns are evil and should be restricted to the distasteful military, their brain puts an emphasis on the first phrase and is able to turn that into acceptance of all sorts of "reasonable" restrictions. But take the exact sentence structure and replace education and books for militia and arms and they can clearly see that any restriction on the right of the people to read books would be barred in the first sentence. This isn't a slam against liberals, it just shows that the perspective that people approach things from has a dramatic impact on their understanding of "clear" english.

This explains why two people with different agendas can look at a powerpoint bullet and get completely different meanings. Except that the 2nd Amendment isn't a powerpoint bullet. It has a very clear meaning -- the liberal brain just has to go through more gymnastics in order to believe that it doesn't say what it says.

Labels: 2nd amendment, guns, liberals