Author: David

Open Trackbacks Alliance Post for Wednesday. Link to this post in one of your own, track back and be listed below.

More posts later today, including Guard the Borders, Fairtax and whatever else strikes me fancy… Arrrggghhh… (‘K, wait; Talk Like a Pirate Day’s later in the year… Oh well.)

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Still catching up. Open trackback post. Link to this post in one of yours you’d like to see listed below and then trackback.

Oh, and thanks for some good reads Monday. I should be back on schedule (both reading and posting) by wednesday, but a coupla days downtime just seemed to come beggin’ for my attention, ya know?

So go ahead and link to this post with some good reading; save me some time, eh? 🙂

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I think I have narrowed down third wourld county driver to three basic classes. While there may—indeed, is—a great variety within the classes, I think my classification system holds up fairly well.

First, there are the folks who for whatever reason—inability to think ahead, lead foot, illiteracy, extreme disregard for the law and the safety of others (let alone themselves) feel compelled to exceed every know speed limit, ignore every traffic light, stop sign and even the presence of other vehicles on the road in their pursuit of that elusive goal: get “there” ahead of the guy in front of them. Any guy in front of them, anywhere down the road.

Then there are the folks who need their own mentally handicapped license plate, cos they are simply the slowest-thinking things on the road with pretentions of humanity. “Can I turn onto this road? I dunno… that car a half a mile away looks to be blazing along at nearly 30 miles and hour. Maybe I should wait til that speed demon whizzes on by. Oh, and what’s that strange honkin’ sound? We get a flight of geese through here? happens evry time I spend a few glorious hours waiting to enter the ‘Slow Boat to Purgatory Lane’.”

And then there are the four drivers who can actually plan ahead so they don’t have to speed, ignore stop signs, etc. and who aren’t slow moving roadblocks.

(You don’t think YOU are one of the four, do you? :-))

17-year-pld youth arrested for planning a food fight.

Can arrests for thinking about throwing paper wads be far behind?

Too pooped to pop. Taking a bit of R&R today, This is my monday open trackbacks post. Pick a post of yours you want to feature, include a link to this post and then track back.

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You might be a third world countian if…

Your check engine light stops coming on cos it’s burned out (cos the only semi-reliable mechanics not working for The Great Satan’s fleet services are named Jackleg and Shadetree).

Your POTS telephone service dies during “squirrel courting season” cos alla the squirrels are out line dancing. (But then, it is also likely to fail if it rains or even during a heavy fog.. )

911 doesn’t know your address (cos you don’t really have one), but it doesn’t matter, cos the ambulance driver knows a shortcut.

You know the sheriff’s deputy who got a traffic ticket for running a traffic signal in his official vehicle… and the town marshal who gave it to him.

You KNOW that if you drive the 55mph speed limit on some-a the two-lane roads, you’ll top a rise to find a coupla bubbas parked blocking the highway cos they just can’t wait to get to the feed store to share gossip.

…You DON’T stop and shake your head every time you pass the sign for the Pooh Coner Daycare (No, that’s not a typo. I must confess, however, that I do see conehead children covered in pooh in my mind’s eye whenever I pass that sign.. )

Oh, yeh. There’s more… another time, maybe.

(Blogging from Lovely Daughter’s wifi cionnection at her home, where we just shared Sunday lunch. Kinda nice not to have to do cleanup. :-))

The satire site, Scrappleface, is one of the best places to go and watch a master prick the ballons of pretentious… pricks. Scott Ott uses light irony and heavy-handed satire, both with equal facility. But a post dated May 19, 2006—Da Vinci Flick Makes Pope Admit Secret Code—exceeds even his usual level of mastery.

‘The Da Vinci Code‘ has finally forced Pope Benedict XVI to release a statement admitting that the Bible contains a “veiled mystery unknown to most of the world.”…

…Under pressure from theologians in the news media, a Vatican spokesman today admitted that the Holy Scriptures contain a hidden code, known only to a relative handful of insiders.

Read the rest to unlock the secret. I’ve tried it, and it actually works!

Wow! Now that’s masterful satire: using a factual “secret code” and its real key in a fictional post to mock a book/film that uses fake “facts” to promote a fake code in a fictional work that the author claims to be essentially true…

That’s gonna leave a mark.

Yesterday, Jerry Pournelle suggested:

“Would it not be cheaper to pay the Mexican government say, $10 billion a year, on the provision that they close the border from their side? If many get through to the US we reduce the bribe.”

I’ve excerpted just a small portion of Dr. Pournelle’s comments, and there are more from his readers in the Mail section of Chaos Manor Musings. But the idea cited above could be a useful tool in reducing the alien invasion from Mexico, I think. “Las Mordidas” is the social lubricant that gets things done there. Only a couple of problems as the proposal was stated:

1. Remitance monies (also mentioned by you in the same “View” comment) amount to something over $20 billion a year pumped into the Mexican economy, now. Perhaps the first or second largest single element of its economy. The bribe needs to be bigger.
2. In order to work, the bribe needs to be highly targeted. The “ricos” kakistocracy must be targeted to recieve the money, or it won’t be an effective bribe.

In the long run, would it not be cheaper to simply annex Mexico? Instead of moving the U.S. border to San Francisco-Kansas City-D.C., as Scott Ott at Scrappleface “predicted” the President’s speech would propose, move it south to Guatemala/Belize. Maybe the Texas national Guard could be tasked with that little adventure… *heh* Well, if such a pipe dream ever materialized, it would at least have the virtue of (hopefully) moving the robber barons off that pot of gold the beggars once sat on.

*sigh*

Oh, and while we’re at it, let’s close the back door on all the Muslim extremist groups populating Canada. Annex Canada next? *heh*

Oh, a lil note I’m considering adding to most of my posts as a reminder to call, write, fax and email the administration and your congresscritters, your governor and as many other public officials as you can about the alien invasion (and the fax I suggested a couple of days ago that you send :-)):

Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the government for a redress of grievances.

Folks, it is not only your undeniable right to petition the government for a redress of grievances, it is your responsibility to yourself, your children and grandchildren and your fellow citizens to do so whenever OUR unresponsive kakistocracy is steering the ship of state onto the rocks.

The U.S. Senate wants to fix both Social Security and illegal immigration in a “comprehensive” approach. Kinda like “fixing” a bull (by making a steer of him).

The Senate voted yesterday to allow illegal aliens to collect Social Security benefits based on past illegal employment — even if the job was obtained through forged or stolen documents.

?!?!?

“There was a felony they were committing, and now they can’t be prosecuted. That sounds like amnesty to me,” said Sen. John Ensign, the Nevada Republican who offered the amendment yesterday to strip out those provisions of the immigration reform bill. “It just boggles the mind how people could be against this amendment.”

The Ensign amendment was defeated on a 50-49 vote.

Necktie party. 50 ropes. 50 trees. 50 senators. Some assembly required.

Meeting behind Zeb’s place to plan the weenie roast and tea party to follow close after…

Once again, Jerry Pournelle offers sage advice. The proposal he mo8unts in yesterday’s Chaos Manor Musings/View isn’t the end-all, be-all of border security, but it is a sensible “middle way” that any rational person can at least discuss:

We all know how to control the borders. Just Do It. Allocate $1 million/mile/year to be paid to the local county sheriff for use in border control. Add $10 million/year for each border city. Now levy a $1000 fine (not ruinous, but discouraging) for employing an illegal immigrant for more than five days, and pay half of that to whomever turned in the employer to the local sheriff. The other half goes to the sheriff’s office. Add a Federal bonus for each sheriff, interior or border, say $1000 per illegal immigrant apprehended and delivered to the Federal authorities. Local sheriffs who don’t want to catch immigrants just for being immigrants will at least have a way to deal with crime coming to their attention. The whole thing won’t cost $20 billion a year, far less than the savings in social service. The result will be that apprehension of those currently here will be adjusted to local sentiments — counties where no one much cares will not have vigorous enforcement, but will have a way to cut down on criminal and gang activities; the borders will be closed effectively; citizens hiring someone at the local Home Depot won’t face the fines; and the attractiveness of crossing the border will diminish.

Now, here’s the crux of the issue: because proposals like Dr. Pournelle’s make good sense, are affordable and don’t cause undue hardship on citizens or cause the growth of another huge federal power grab, our Masters Will Not Allow this proposal to gain any traction in Washington D.C. or in any other venue controlled by the Mass Media Podpeople Hivemind.

I’d be much happier with far, far more stringent punishment of those who employ illegals. And I’d like to see the U.S. build walls on ALL land borders, task the Navy to serious patrol duty on our water borders and other armed forces as appropriate to guard air access. (And I’ll be happy to shoot down any subliterate/disingenuous discussions about posee comitatus preventing military protection of our borders).

But I could compromise with sensible alternatives such as Dr. Pournelle outlines.

And if poll numbers mean anything, most Americans (by a majority approaching 70% in general and a sizeable percentage even among Latinos!) would be happy with sensible alternatives like the ideas quoted above.

What I will never accept is the betrayal of the American people by Vicente Fox’s Lapdog and Senator Joh n “Snake” McCain and his cohorts in crime among D.C. political poltroons and media whores.

Beating the drum at Outside the Beltway, The Crazy Rants of Samantha Burns, The Business of America is Business, and The Liberal Wrong Wing