Author: David

This brought back a memory—

NEW YORK (Hollywood Reporter) – CNN apologized Tuesday after an open mike transmitted an anchor’s bathroom conversation with another woman live over the network as it was carrying President Bush’s speech in New Orleans.

“Live From” anchor Kyra Phillips had apparently left the set around 12:48 p.m. EDT Tuesday for a bathroom break while the news channel carried Bush’s speech marking the one-year anniversary of Hurricane Katrina. Phillips’ wireless microphone was turned on and picked up about a minute and a half of a muffled conversation she had with an unidentified woman where she apparently talked about her husband, laughed and talked about her brother….

No, I’ve never taken a “tinkle break” while wearing an open, live mic, but…

I recall the hidden grins some few of us shared before (and during and for a bit after) a “big wedding” (moneyed folks, “snagged” by a money-hungry preacher for his church, for his wonderful production of a wedding ceremony) one time. You see, the pastor had a habit of simply turning on his own wireless mic and leaving it that way, trusting to his hand-picked sound guy to leave the mic “off” at the board until it needed to be “on”… and “hand-picked” failed to have it off one day. The day of the “big wedding” for the monied folks said pastor had his eye on for further milking.

(Yeh, I knew the guy well. An ego that had him convinced he excreted vanilla ice cream… appropriately enough for this lil vignette.)

Right before the ceremony was to start, the minister decided it would be best to take a preventative potty break. Hand-picked sound guy was… out of the booth, just farting messing around, soooo… The entire potty session was clearly transmitted and played over a very fine, high-fidelity sound system. Zipper, jingle of pants pockets contents, rustle of fabrics, tinkle, urm, etc., and grunt/sigh of relief, among other amusing sound effects.

I guess ya just had to be there, but the experience had everyone (except the folks paying the frieght) pretty much trying not to guffaw out loud the rest of the afternoon/evening… and on into several weeks.

Didn’t do him a world of good, sad to say, because his ego refused to take it in stride. And learn a little humility? Fuggetaboutit!

Maybe it wasn’t a newsmaker like CNN’s (most recent) gaffe, but it did make for a memorable experience.

I dreamed I saw this attempt to land at our new “neighbors'” house:

It was not a pretty sight…

[a tip o’ the John Deere cap to Neal Boortz]

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It’s been a while since I ragged on Jean Fraud sKerry for his assinine lies, lack of honor and overall bullshittiness. In fact, the only real defense he’s mounted against calls for honesty from him has been to stonewall and count on folks to simply lose interest.

Well, that certainly seems to be working.

But you see, that’s one of the really important issues facing our society today: lies are perfectly acceptable. Slander (Jean Fraud’s slander of those who served in Vietnam, particularly) is cool. Who really cares? Honor is trash. Justice is… maleable, simply a tool for bureaucratic anarcho-tyranny.

Jean Fraud sKerry: poster boy for dishonorable conduct for the 21st Century.

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Heidi’s post for this week’s blogburst extracts some lengthy comments from a new book that some might miss because the author is a bit… pugnacious, shall we say… *heh* I think I need to get my own copy.

State of Emergency: The Third World Invasion and Conquest of America

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By Heidi at Euphoric Reality

Civilizations die from suicide, not by murder.
-Arnold Toynbee

Wide open and unguarded stand our gates, and through them passes a wild motley throng.
-Thomas Bailey Aldrich, “Unguarded Gates,” 1895

You cannot become thorough Americans if you think of yourselves in groups. America does not consist of groups. A man who thinks of himself as belonging to a particular national group in America has not yet become an American.
-Woodrow Wilson, Address to New Citizens, 1915

Those who favor unrestricted immigration care nothing for the people.
-Sam Gompers, founding president, AFL, 1921

Why was the border guard so thin? Did the Romans not notice…that their way of life was changing forever?
-Thomas Cahill, 1995

No society has a boundless capacity to accept newcomers, especially when many are poor and unskilled.
-Robert Samuelson, economist and Newsweek columnist, 2005

We can’t protect our own borders.
-Donald Rumsfeld, November 29, 2005

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The following excerpts are all from a new book, State of Emergency: The Third World Invasion and Conquest of America. Many people may not read it because of the political baggage of the author, but I’ve read the book, despite my disagreement with the author on other issues, and it is entirely right on the money when it comes to the invasion of our country by foreigners. It occurred to me that many people may miss out on the common sense found within its pages so I’m excerpting a little bit of it here for those who may never read the words otherwise.

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Walls that need mending…

Of the critical issues facing the West in general and the U.S. specifically, four are standouts, and they all have their roots in the same bed of manure. Here’s a very short presentation of those issues.

Borders: Linknzona has the best roundup of the essentials, and of course, Euphoric Reality provides a weekly blogburst on this tiopic. I’d boil it down to security and justice. No country that will not vigorously defend its borders when necessary can call itself a nation for long. And no country that requires only some of those entering it to do so legally can claim any justice. Absent justice, a democratic republic… isn’t.

(Oh, and see this post by Angel at Woman Honor Thyself. She tracked it back but the blog monsters ate the trackback. 🙂 It’s germane to the borders issue.)

Islam. No, not the “GWOT”–Islam. Unless and until a majority of the population of Western countries (and the U.S. in particular) are able to call the primary enemy of the West by its true name, Islam will continue to convert Western democratic societies into barbarous totalitarian states, by outbreeding the demiocrats of by killing them; either method suffices for its purposes. See Woman Honor Thyself, All Things Beautiful and others in my blogroll for frequent wakeup calls.

Education: Many serious problems with education in the West–not just U.S. public education (AKA “prisons for kids”). As long as schools are teaching children lies under the cover of “tolerance” and “multiculturalism” we will continue our slide into darkness. Add that serious problem to the fact that, at least in American schools, we are turning out generations of subliterates and there might seem to be no hope at all.

Taxation: I could say economic issues in general, but it seems to me that a majority of economic woes faced by the West can be laid at the feet of politicians having altogether too much control over the pocketbooks of their serfs. (Yeh, I said that. Have you talked with your Congressman or Senator and NOT been treated like a nobody?) Too much money in politicians’/government hands = too much power where it simply does not belong in a supposedly democratic society.

But the roots of these problems can be revealed in two statements that should be the guiding lights for anyone concerned with correcting the course of Westertn Civilization:

“Liberalism is a philosophy of consolation for Western civilization as it commits suicide.”—James Burnham

and

“American conservatism is merely the shadow that follows Radicalism as it moves forward to perdition. It remains behind it, but never retards it, and always advances near its leader. This pretended salt hath utterly lost its savor: wherewith shall it be salted? Its impotency is not hard to explain. It is worthless because it is the conservatism of expediency only, and not of sturdy principle. It tends to risk nothing serious for the sake of truth.” —R. L. Dabney

“It tends to risk nothing serious for the sake of truth.” Rings out loudly in the face of the FACT that Saudi Arabia, our “good buddies” in the Middle East, are still major financers of Islamic hate and outright terrorism, while BOTH so-called liberals and so-called conservatives clutch the greasy Saudi “princes” to their bosoms, doesn’t it?

Neither the faux liberalism spawned by an unholy bastard issue of genuine liberalism and communism/socialism in the 20th Century nor the faux conservatism that simply slops along happy as a puppy to follow wherever “liberalism” leads (while simply lying about being genuinely conservative) can preserve (or resurrect) the Republic the Founders handed us, nor can these opportunistic fake opponents save what was once the nursery of Western Civilization, while Mohammedans are allowed to invade and outbreed Europeans by multiples of 5 to 1 or more.

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OK, so they weren’t firearms at all. But absent English longbows, we might all be cheese-eating surrender monkeys. Remembering “this day in history”—

The Battle of Crécy, fought on Saturday, August 26, 1346 was the first of several significant battles during which the longbow triumphed over crossbowmen and armoured knights. (Other battles were Poitiers, in 1356 and Agincourt, in 1415.)^_*_

Be sure to brush up on this pivotal battle fought on Saturday, August 26, 1346. Outnumbered 3 to 1, the English forces prevailed, as at Agincourt, because of better tactics and… superior “firepower”. There were roughly as many French (really Genoese) archers as English, but superior weaponry (the English longbow) and tactics (the expenditure of about a half a million arrows, field position, etc.) won the day.

Thank God for superior “firepower.”

[Note: the Battle of Poitiers referred to above is NOT the 732 Battle of Tours, also sometimes referred to as The Battle of Poitiers, in which Charles Martel handed Muslims their first significant setback in their efforts to conquer Europe. The Battle of poitiers referred mto above is the 1356 battle between the forces of Prince Edward “the Black” of England and Jean II of France.]

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UPDATE: See Angel’s post, FreeD.

Here are a few things I stumbled across that have backlogged on me (translation: that I’ve been too lazy, swamped or whatever other excuse to blog). Some are interesting, others important, but too darned taxing to actually devote a whole post to.

This is one of the latter. I need to devote a whole post to the implications of this, but that’ll take some time…

“On the Virtues of Killing Children”. Sadly, the post is right.

Profiling again. Maybe in a way at least ssome of the enemies of the West can be silenced on the issue… temporarily.

“Fake But Accurate” Science?. A strong argument for remaining skeptical of the “peer review” process.

And here’s another: Diets of rodents may have tainted decades of research. Yep. Researchers have been feeding phytoestrogens to rodents for decades without factoring in the effects… or even realizing they were there. Smart. Real smart. So, when you start growing an extra eye in the middle of your forehead or whatever because of faulty rat research… *heh*

Military forces — by tradition, organization, equipment and training — are best at killing people and breaking things. Some good points, although I can’t find myself in complete agreement. I’ve heard it all (and more) at Jerry Pournelle’s before this, but as he noted,

Mr. Reagan had a sign on his desk: “It’s amazing how much you can accomplish if you don’t care who gets the credit.”

It’d be nice to think James Glassman has it right in his article, Sane Mutiny: The Coming Populist Revolt, but don’t bet the farm on it. How smart can people who elected our current Congress actually be?

*heh*

Well, that’s a few grabbed from a backlog. Cruise my blogroll for more interesting reads and links to even more.

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My thanks to Kat for reminding me to get with it and sign up for the “2996 Tribute” scheduled for 09/11/2006.

Consider dropping by and participating.

Gee, the Robinson-Miller race for North Carolina’s 13th Congressional District seat is almost rich enough to make me wanna leave America’s Third World County and move to North Carolina. I’d appreciate a more clearcut support for the Fair Tax bill than is available on Robinson’s site, but I’d probably vote for the dude just cos of his great attack ads.

Here’s a sample of part of one of ’em:

Of course, I can’t vote for the guy, and I’m not even campaigning for him–no point since I can’t vote for him. But I do like ATTACK ADS. Funny? Sure, I can take humorous. But there has to be both substantial (and true) statement of behavior harmful to constituents in specific and the Republic in general, plus a real bite with just a little meaness to it for an attack ad to win grins from me.

Robinson’s throwing the “Oh, how nasty! An attack ad!” prissy neo-victorian bowdlerizing of politics (which only goes one way in PC circles, dontcha know) back in the faces of faux liberals and their cohorts in crime among the Mass Media Podpeople Hivemind.

I like that. I wish more pols would come out clearly and unequivocally saying that pols are stealing our money, giving away the store to illegal aliens (yes, I’m talking about GWB, too), failing in national security and more.

Now, admittedly, I am NOT a NC resident, and I have only a very, very surface knowledge of the Robinson-Miller race or NC 13th Congressional District needs and drives, so I’m not in any way endorsing Robinson, but I do think if y’all would visit his site (linked above), you might well have some fun watching/listening to his various ads (like this one).

At the very least, it might be instructive of… something. *G* And it’d give you a lokk (and listen) to something that has the usual suspects among the Kosites and D’uhnderheads getting their knickers all in a twist.

🙂

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by Julie of Degree of Madness

If you owe back taxes to the federal government, the next call asking you to pay may come not from an Internal Revenue Service officer, but from a private debt collector.

Within two weeks, the I.R.S. will turn over data on 12,500 taxpayers — each of whom owes $25,000 or less in back taxes — to three collection agencies. Larger debtors will continue to be pursued by I.R.S. officers. (link)

So now, private firms will have access to our tax information, or at minimum how much you (may or may not) owe to Uncle Sam. Our tax information is private. Or it was up until now.

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