Spirit of America!

GUIDONS-GUIDONS-GUIDONS! THIS IS FUSILEER 6. SITREP FOLLOWS

For God, Country, and the Spirit of America!

Warriors! Soldiers! Sailors! Airmen! Marines! Coasties! Family Members! And Just Plain Folks!

Our advance continues. Even with the help of an Instalanche, the Victory Coalition could not overmatch our relentless march on to Victory. The Instalanche has helped them narrow the gap somewhat - but Michele is standing firm in her refusal to put people to the Rack.

The Liberty Coailition, while noble warriors all (snort!), are obviously a formation of leg infantry falling farther and farther behind the two Juggernauts. So bad is their progress that Dean's personal Dominatrix is putting people to the Rack! In a sure sign of desperation, she is also resorting to falsified atrocity reports, and the dreaded "Precious Moments" attack!

How much booty are we kicking? Glad ya asked!

Blog / Coalition Amount Raised
Castle Argghhh! Fighting Fusileers for Freedom! ....................$8105.50
The Victory Coalition .....................................................$6208
Liberty Alliance ............................................................$2417

Nudging up to $17,000!

Now here's the level of effort we're looking for:

All I can handle in April! Now tell the rest to do that, what you can!

James M. Dwiggins
SFC (R) USA

Ya hear that? That's all we're asking for - All You Can Handle! Not a penny more.

Great Efforts on the part of Smash, Susie, MarineCorpsMom yesterday, with more to continue today. Smash - Michele got an Instalanche - can't you work your mojo for us? Castle Argghhh! is Still Not Blogrolled By Glenn, so I don't have any pull! Of course, reading Instapundit of late, it might be because I don't have a rack and talk dirty like Wonkette...

Howver - the enemy's Instalanche certainly helped. This is yesterday's one day total:

Day Two Results Amount Raised
The Victory Coalition .................................................$3,231.00
Castle Argghhh! Fighting Fusileers for Freedom! ................$1,498.50
Liberty Alliance ........................................................$1,132.00

That's a trend we can't let continue! Otherwise I'll have to put up with more comments like this one:

If I have any money left over after this campaign, I'm going to buy one of those teddy bears!

As for John--well, just because you can buy a "super soaker" water gun
and paint it olive drab doesn't make you a real gun collector.

It's pretty clear at this point that we're going to win, because we
know how to pace ourselves, whereas you and your allies are all tired out
around now. We'll show you who's playing a game of "cat and mouse"!

New blogs are still signing up - but we need to get some exposure. Send letters to your local newspapers. Emails your local TV. Rattle the cages! Get the word out. Politely spam your email lists.

Do the contest thing - and if you decide to host a contest - email us all so we can point our readers to it!

For those of you who are doing something special - please send me direct emails.

Here's the link so that you can check yourselves as things progress.

FUSILEER 6, OUT

The campaign lasts through the 29th of April - please give generously! Put out the word to your friends and family and random strangers you encounter on the street. Don't just passively sit back and wait for visitors!

Tell 'em to just click on the Donate Button above and help the Castle Argghhh! Fighting Fusileers for Freedom raise money for the Spirit of America! If you aren't comfortable with internet transactions or don't have a credit card - the link will provide information on other ways to donate - we won't get credit... but that's not what this is about. This is all about the Spirit!

The Unit Manning Roster. Slots are still Available!

Go forth and Smash the Minions of Esmay. No Wasted Electrons! Go Psycho on 'em! Get your Mom involved! Make Fools of the Kitten-Killers! It's Grim work - but I know we will prevail! Infest them with Fleas! Uncommon donating will be a Common Virtue! The Geeks Will Log our Victory over the Minions of Satan! So humiliating will their defeat be - they'll be selling the front pages of the Gazette on eBay for decades! We'll hit them with dezinformatsziya. This will be a Bloodletting of monumental proportions! We will give Kevin and Dean Indigestion! We will savage them with our attack dog! Speak to me not of Technicalities! Pfaugh! We laugh at the obstacles in our path! We will simply drop paratroops behind them and take them from the rear! Lord help them - for we will unleash Bejus! We will assault their beaches and Shave Their Brains! Our Warriors will Own their roads, all while safely operating within the flickering lights of our Penumbra!
Our Soldiers will Blog it as our enemies quake under the threat of a visit from the Imperial Senate. We will sneak through the Wheat to get to their Kitten-Killing Masters! Even if our Pundits are Pudgy, our message will get out! We will swamp them with graphics and whack them with tools from the Armory - above all because We Will Be Obeyed! Comes the Dawn, we'll gather 'round the Calliope that is Left-Of-Center in Da Goddess's Glen, to listen to Aaron Rant about the Bill for the Brass expended - and discuss how our foes in this fight were just a Special Kind of Stupid!

Spirit of America needs your help more than ever!!

While the mention in the Wall Street Journal has brought us much more than we need to fulfill the initial request for television equipment, we’re not done yet. It is critical that we all remember that winning the peace is going to be a long process, and that the demands - once it becomes apparent how powerful the volunteer spirit of America really is – will be immense.

We will meet the original request for TV equipment NEXT WEEK, subject to taking delivery of some long-lead time items, and we’re going to work with the Marines on the next phases of the program – including Tools To Rebuild Iraq.

This first phase program – as well as the other programs in which we supply materials requested by our troops in Iraq and Afghanistan – is only a drop in the bucket.

Spirit of America intends to support the Coalition troops – as well as the Iraqi people – by providing the resources needed to turn enemies into allies, and helping our troops and civilians show that we are there to help the Iraqi and Afghan people build their countries toward a peaceful, independent, free future – not to colonize or conquer them. That’s what winning the peace is all about.

The blog coalitions competing to raise money not only will make a big difference in the material support we can offer, but will have a critical role in broadening the community of people who support positive efforts in Iraq and Afghanistan, and who support giving our troops the tools they need to do their real jobs…to help the people there build a strong, free, and peaceful future.

Now, more than ever, those networks of support and action are going to be critical, and it is the energy – literally, the spirit – of those volunteers that will make Spirit of America a success. The problems in front of us aren’t going to be solved by donating funds or buying things alone. It’s going to take a movement – a movement to show the best that America has, and that’s what all of us are hoping to become part of.

We’re looking forward to this, and while we’ll certainly say “May the best blogs win!!”, the winners will be our troops and the people they will be able to serve with what we can all provide.

As before, 100% of the funds raised (net of credit card or PayPal costs)will be used to actually buy and ship the requested goods.

Once again, I open up the 'roll to our left-of-center friends. Put your money where your mouth is (and some of you are!).

We're still taking volunteers (heck, we'll take 'em 'til it's over - I'm not making Lincoln's mistake of short duration enlistments! You join us, yer in it for the duration! Unless Michele shows some skin, as she's threatened (desperate woman, that!), in which case I fully expect mass desertions.

If you feel you should be in here - let me know. I've had about 120 emails to wade through and I might have missed you! Remember - you don't have to have a blog - we're signing up commenters and non-commenters! Come one, come all and sundry!

There ya have it Heroes! If ya don't wanna be with us, then yer agin' us. If yer agin' us, ya better sign up yer own blog!

Any latercomer blogs who want to join can just swipe the code and slap it up.

*At own request. Doesn't need any trolls, thank you.