The “Gulf Stream” of Politics/Linkfest

Alan Woody has sent me another “must read” that I can heartily recommend. Click here for more of this:

…here’s the imagery I want to paint for you. Think of us as a sailboat, politics as a sailboat. ‘Cause it’s not a motorboat ‘cause there’s not enough power. You’re always subject to the wind and the sea, and underneath us in the ocean is the equivalent of the Gulf Stream, this enormous river of water which is so huge that it actually warms all of Europe. And the Gulf Stream is a center right Gulf Stream and so it’s natural pattern is to move the country towards the right.

But up on the surface where our sailboat is, all of the wind comes from the left. So all the news media gets up every morning and says, “How can I shove the sailboat to the left?” And unless you are really disciplined as Ronald Reagan was, you can’t remember that all you have to do is tack. You can sail into the wind as long as you tack, but also if you drop a sea anchor down to that huge river, the river will pull you to the right.

There’s a meta-lesson here, as well: listen to and learn from folks who are smarter than you are. Read the material at the link and I think you’ll agree that the speaker is certainly smarter than I am… and probably smarter than you are, too. 🙂 As politicians *spit* go, he seems one of the very best of that bad breed.


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Reality Check

I recieved an email from Alan Woody (who used to blog at Woody’s News and Views) that points up much of what is rotten in our society today *sigh*

A Circuit City employee spots some Muslim men behaving suspiciously and notifies the authorities. Turns out the men were terrorist-wannabe’s plotting to attack a US military base and murder military personnel and/or their families. Now the Circuit City employee might be sued [for] “violating constitutional rights or for racial discrimination”! No kidding… the citizen who saved the lives of our troops and their families could be sued for it.

We need to wake up people! The terrorists are using our own system against us and half of us are sitting back and letting them do it while the other half unwittingly (?) helps them. Here’s a reality check that I think everybody should read and pass along:

http://iraqwartoday.blogspot.com/2007/05/my-two-cents-reality-check.html

With Woody, I strongly recommend reading Reality Check: My Two Cents Worth… and passing it on.


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Après… le deluge Monday Linkfest

(Yeh, well, I know the quote variously attributed to Louis XV or his mistress, Madame de Pompadour, and in various other forms to many historical persons through the ages is more properly, “Après moi le deluge,” but I meant it as I typed it in the post title. *heh*)

The busiest weekend in some time here at twc is over, but things left hanging fire because of preparations are now demanding my attention, so please supply my day’s reading matter by linking in your best stuff. I did have plenty of blogfodder supplied by events of the past few days, but no time to really develop them here, yet.

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Happy Blogmothers Day!

I’m more fortunate than most in that I have two Blogmothers who each, in their different ways have “mothered” me in blogging. Carol, Diane: Happy Blogmothers Day! Couldn’t have (well, more like “wouldn’t have”) done this without you.

Note: all mistakes, off-the-wall-weirdness, totally insane rants at twc, etc., are in no way the fault of my blogmoms. They did their best and that’s all you can ask. 😉


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Yet Another Posole Recipe

I guess this is the third posole-type variation I’ve posted over the past coupla years. See how it sits with you.

Ingredients:

~8oz of Ancho chile sauce, or red enchilada sauce made with Anaheim peppers, instead.
~1lb. pork loin, in about 1″ cubes
4-6 cups canned white hominy, drained
1 head of cabbage, chopped or shredded (chopped is better, IMO, but it’s your supper :-))
a couple of teaspoons of cayenne pepper (or do without and set a bottle of cayenne-based hot sauce by the places of folks who like it)
3-4 lemons or limes, juiced
1 onion, chopped
2 cloves garlic, minced
2-4 medium tomatoes, diced (use your favorite “sauce” tomatoes)
water to suit your pot
salt to taste (I prefer juuuust a little on the pork as it is browning)

Procedure:

Brown the pork with the onion and garlic.
Add all the other ingredients except the hominy and cover with water. Simmer for about 30 minutes.
Add the hominy and water as needed and simmer another 30 minutes or more.

Yum.

Blood for Oil

blood_for_oil.jpg

Kinda sorry I only had a cheapo low-rez camera with me this a.m. What you cannot easily discern is that the lower price is for the premium blend of gas… Just one more data point putting the lie to the “blood for oil” Iraq adventure meme. If the goal were to pump oil and bring down prices, then oil would be at an all-time low, because if the American forces were to simply and solely concentrate on securing the Iraqi oil fields and delivery system and leave the tribal and religious squabbles to those who have practiced them so well for millennia, we’d be drowning in excess oil at low prices.

But even that would do little to correct the problem the disparity between lower-priced premium gas and higher-priced “regular” gas pictured above. THAT disparity (as well as the supply problem driving much of the recent gar price increases) is pretty much solely the responsibility of enviroweenies, politicians who listen to enviroweenies (and their Mass Media Podpeople flacks) and all their ilk who have been primarily instrumental in preventing the construction of new refinery facilities for the past 30+ years…

Blame it on the greens (who, if cosmic justice were as swift as it is sure, wouldn’t be green but red and black and blue all over… I can wait. The universe’s Creator will teach them a few lessons, eventually, as He lets them inhabit a hell of their own making.)


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Triple Threat Weekend Linkfest

So, this weekend features, Mothers Day, my son’s college graduation and BLOGmothers Day (and you thought I’d forgotten!). While I’m busy with the graduation shindig, Mothers Day (and because of bubba’s graduation, my own mother will be here this weekend–and since she’s a tad on the frail side and in her eighties, now, this is a rare treat) AND honoring at least one blogmother (*s*), feel free to populate my weekend reading list (for when I can steal time away from the festivities) with your posts tracked back to this one all weekend long.

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Truly “eaten by locusts” OTA Wednesday

The day’s not here, yet, and it’s already “gone”… *sigh* Please create my reading list for Wednesday and Thursday evenings by populating this linkfest, OK? 🙂


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Goin Jeeeeeeeeeeehad

By: Angel

FORT DIX, N.J. – Six Is-lamic militants from Yugoslavia and the Middle East were arrested on charges of plotting to attack the Fort Dix Army post and “kill as many soldiers as possible,”

6 charged with plot on Army post in N.J.
In conversations secretly recorded by an FBI informant over the past year, the men talked about killing in the name of All-ah and attacking U.S. warships that might dock in Philadelphia, according an FBI criminal complaint.

“It doesn’t matter to me whether I get locked up, arrested or get taken away,” a suspect identified ..said in another recorded conversation. “Or I die, it doesn’t matter. I’m doing it in the name of A-llah.”

Another suspect,… was recorded saying: “In the end, when it comes to defending your religion, when someone is trying attacks your religion, your way of life, then you go jih-ad.”

The FBI was tipped off in January 2006 when a shopkeeper alerted agents about a “disturbing” video he had been asked to copy onto a DVD, according to court documents. The video showed 10 men in their early 20s “shooting assault weapons at a firing range … while calling for jihad and shouting in Ar-abic ‘All–ah Ak–bar’ (God is great),” the complaint said.

The description of the suspects as “Isl–amic militants” renewed fears in New Jersey’s Mus–lim community…

“.. a lawyer who represented many of the detainees. “But when the government says ‘Isl–amic militants,’ it sends a message to the public that Is–lam and militancy are synonymous.”

“Don’t equate actions with religion,” he said.

Don’t equate actions with religion?…LOL

Howza bout you stop shrieking Alla-hu Ak-bar as you fly planes into buildings or saw off heads then huh.

Already worried bout N.J.’s Muzlim community are ya..Ya mean the very same N.J. Muzlims in Patterson, who were dancing in the streets after 9/11?
Thought we forgot all bout that didn’t ya Muzlim lawyer?

Rad. Izlam= Hate and Death.

Well at least according to your very own Mu-llahs and the assorted jih-adis who seem to be doing just fine on getting that particular message out.

Geez. The Poconos used to be a honeymoon paradise. Now it’s a terrorist training center. Nice.

Three of the Muzlim poster children who were arrested were here illegally, by the way.
But don’t sweat it y’all. You know, they’re just here to mow lawns, pick lettuce, I mean, err… to commit random acts of terrorism that Americans won’t do.

oh yay. Another terrorist training camp broke ground t’day..oh..in Cherry Hill.
Wouldya lookie here!

Construction of the $1.5 million mos-que will begin………Calling Cherry Hill a “town of faith and tolerance,.. said “what all people want is peace. We’re in a place of peace right now.”
Group breaks ground for Cherry Hill mos-que

‘Course we must thank Clinton who sent the U.S. military into former Yugoslavia to help the good ole Muzlims. They sure have a funny way of expressing gratitude don’t they.

Clinton also paved the way for massive immigration to this country from Bosnia.

In case you were unaware of his “benevolence”..during the 1990s, 40,000 Bosnian Muzlims moved to St. Louis.

Geez. I wonder what percentage are radicalized. Anyone care to do the Math?

So follow the bouncing ball friends.

Milosovic was shooting masses of Muzlims in the head and tossing them in large graves.

America, (the Evil Imperialist Empire) intervenes to stops the ethnic cleansing.

Next thing ya know Yugo-jih-adis come to America and start mass murdering.
I must be worse in math that I thought…cuz that doesn’t add up either.

Well, all I can say is Bravo to the person who tipped the FBI and law enforcement off to the terrorists.
Copying a DVD?..ha.
Like I said before, too bad stupidity isn’t painful.

Then again, wait….the video store owner surely violated the civil rights of these illegal Muzlim immigrant jeehadis by profiling them and then turning them in to the FBI.

Hopefully the CA-IR Bears and their comrade in arms the ACLU will be working on the lawsuit pronto.

See no evil, Hear no evil , Speak no EviL.

6 flying im-ams , 6 Fort Dix terrorist plotters……..
What’s with the Muzlim enamorment of the number 6?

666.
Right. Got it.
Did the math on that one.

As one of the terrorists said:
“when someone is trying attacks your religion, your way of life, then you go jih-ad.”

Join me sweet friends:
Sing it out loud!

Let’s go Jeehadi now.
Everybody’s learnin how.
C’mon an jeehadi with me.
Come on an jeehadi with meeeeeeeeeee!

Crossposted at Woman Honor Thyself

On a Wonderful Day Like Today…

(Today, I feel like I’m NOT on the set of “The Roar Of The Greasepaint – The Smell Of The Crowd” singing “On a Wonderful Day Like Today”–instead, it’s one of those days when I need to drink a coupla cupsa coffee just to be able to remember where I put my first two cupsa coffee… *heh* Does the news of the weird–AKA the typical antics of politicians *spit*, Mass Media Podpeople, celebtiries *gag*, Islamic savages, enviroweenies and so on help? Surely you jest. Soooo, instead a repost of something that has a page of its own here at twc)

O Blessed, Holy Caffeine Tree!

Midi File:

Mp3 File (Courtesy of the Morning Coffee and Afternoon Tea Singers):

Go ahead; sing along. 🙂

(This mp3 is a lower-sampling-rate version of trhe one at the Morning Coffee and Afternoon Tea link above.)

Oh, and here’s another verse, not included in the verses above:

O Blessed Holy Caffeine Tree,
In gratitude I sing of thee,
For all the ways you give life zest,
O Caffeine Tree, you are the best!

N.B.–The graphic above has a word-switch in the second verse that I need to get around to editing. First one to spot it gets two brownie points, redeemable for absolutely nothing but a pat on the back and a hearty “Attaboy/girl!”

🙂

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