Go Fitz! Our favorite tortoise has won another lap! Between Rove's Demotion and being named a 'Subject' today yet another peice of handwriting has appeared on the stinking, filthy TijuanaTruckstop bathroom wall of the Bush Administration. This is a pure pleasrure pony (are there any other kind?) Fitz deserves it! For more read the euphoniously named taylormattd's
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Snail Mail Patrick a Pony
Bond Federal Building
1400 New York Avenue, NW, Ninth Floor
Washington D.C. 20530
FAX Him in Chicago at: Fax: (312) 353-2067
Couldn't find a good e-mail for Fitz himself. If anyone has one , please post it in the comments.
REMEMBER SINCE WE ARE USING PONIES FOR BOTH POSITIVE AND 'ATTACK MAIL' YOUR MESSAGE IS KEY!
Oh Michelle malkin@gmail.com! Ms. Malkin, def on my MRPOE list! Michelle is scared and sad right now, cause her Covering Fire is eroding and she is left waaaaay out on the looney right. As Bush goes down his suppoters will go with him. Michelle being one of the more extreme will start to crack soon....and then Crash & Burn, hopefully in spectacularly Public way. Of course, the ponies deplore the release of michelle's private info. THIS IS NOT PERSONAL, PEOPLE.
we only want to destroy her PROFESSIONALY e-mail her only through her website please. Ponies are always polite, right up to when they start biting and kicking, then they become polite again quickly! Its the Pony way, and its extremely fun to hold the moral highground even in the most FlameFilled environment!
And as always, to The Good Dr. Dean. Howard Dean represents a Progressive Vision of the Democratic Party. Howard Dean represents small Government...not small government of the Republican kind. Small DONOR Government.
Gov. Dean believes in and is working hard and fighting for a Government funded by its Citizens. If the government is funded by its Citizens, then it is Responsive to its Citizens. Then it REPRESENTS its citizens and NOT Corporate and Special Interests.
Dr. Dean represents everything we want the party to be. His opponents represent everything that frustrates us about the party. By supporting Dr. Dean we not only give him a Warchest for the 06 races...but we send a message to our alleged representatives about how we want OUR government and party to work.
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A Warchest gives Howard the clout and flexibility to support good candidates as well as have strategic resources to pour into critical races at critical times.
To Help Dr. Dean: One of the ideas of the Ponies is to make our hooves heard by those in power. Snail Mail: mail an envelope a pony pic, drawing, poem whatever....write 'Have a Pony Howard' on your pony and mail it with a $5 dollar bill. If you can afford more, do more, either by sending many pieces of mail (over days?) or a larger contribution. And don't forget Democracy Bonds ...and to always add a penny!
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Nothing real exciting going on right now, but I'm looking forward to one day having us flex our muscles with a nice mass mailing.
And lastly (maybe) has anybody read up on Cossaks/Kossaks? What do you think of using the name Kossaks? As in perhaps Kossak ponies or something like that? And how bout gravity? What's up with that.
OK! Here's Unitary Moonbats abridged Kossak Briefing! If we decide to become the Kossak Ponies, I'll cut this down even more and make it a boiler plate or perhaps a link let me know!
The word "Cossack" is Turkish in origin ("quzzaq"), and means "adventurer" or "freeman." Though the original word may well have come into Turkish as a reference to the Khazak people of Central Asia (descendents of the outrageously terrifying Scythian horsemen), "Cossack" now describes a Slavic group which came to dominate the Ukraine and southern Russia around the 14th and 15th centuries. The various Cossack tribes - which were later augmented by runaway serfs and anyone else who didn't want to get extradited to some autocratic monarchy - were in a state of near-constant war which lasted for centuries. They were too big, mean, and fierce for any neighboring state to conquer them, and too bogged down in inter-clan rivalry to unify on their own, so they contented themselves with pillaging bordering states, selling their services as mercenaries, and taking up the sword of the fanatic in defense of the Orthodox Christian Church. Proud as the Cossacks were of their military prowess and glory, they cherished much more their way of living. The main principles of Cossackdom were full and complete equality in social, political and economic rights and duties. Each Cossack Voiska was a democracy, pure and simple.
They were responsible for the collapse and expansion of empires. The Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth found out how vindictive the Cossacks could be when the dual monarchy tried to place the yoke of serfdom on the Registered Cossacks, a loyal band of Commonwealth soldiers famed for their use of armored supply wagons to create fortress-camps deep in enemy territory. In the Russian view of things, by contrast, the Cossacks occupy a place roughly equivalent to the mountain men, explorers, and cavalrymen who explored and subjugated the American West - it was they who first sighted the Bering Strait, they who first claimed Kamchatka, and they who founded the Russian trading posts in Alaska, the west coast of Canada, and the Pacific coastline as far south as San Francisco. Cossacks were bold, half-starved frontiersmen making epic, forgotten journeys across places where angels fear to tread. The cavalrymen who conquered these lands gradually became farmers and settlers, but always retained the idea that they were warriors first. These were farmers ready to ride into battle at a moment's notice - mounted minutemen ready to fight for the czar at the call of a bugle.
Of course, that's the Russian view of things. One would suspect that native Siberians regard the Cossacks the same way Native Americans regard the U.S. Cavalry, or the Pueblo peoples the Spanish conquistadors. To a Jew being thrashed as part of a late-19th century pogrom, the Cossacks were a military caste of Russians, and many Eastern European immigrants to the United States report having been frightened at gendarme-reminiscent uniforms worn by American officials at Ellis Island. The Cossacks stayed loyal through some of the tsar's worst decisions, like the Bloody Sunday Massacre and the violent suppression of protests in 1905-06. This was Cossackdom at its most repugnant, an ancient code of honor twisted to justify atrocities in the name of suppressing revolt. As the first few years of the 20th century passed, however, individual Hosts of Cossacks began to increasingly lose faith in the Imperial government. Just one too many Rasputins, I guess.
Wadda ya think?