Author: David

This is an Open Trackbacks Alliance open post. link to this post and trackback. See the OTA and Linkfest Haven links below the (very) short roundup of posts that have caught my eye. (Hey, I’ve been mostly outa the loop for a coupla days, ‘K? :-))

Alexandra notes a kinship with Mark Steyn (she’s right; they are intellectual sibs :-)).

Beth asks, Is Peace Moonbeam a Fraud? Well, with a name like that, I’d certainly hope so…

“Dave the NCO,” writing in over at Jerry Pournelle’s place, notes the mystical powers of literacy. 😉 He points to an article by John Derbyshire (though unfortunately not with a link) that has gems like this:

“…a few years ago, when I complained to my Wall Street boss, a lady with a degree from a good university and a six-digit salary, that in giving me a project to complete without the proper means to complete it, she was asking me to make bricks without straw. She stared at me uncomprehendingly. “Bricks? Straw? What on earth are you talking about, John?””

Yep. Communicating with the subliterate is like making bricks without straw, indeed.

Why is Africa “poor”? Read this. Western Civilization is better. And one of the key principles of the West can be seen lacking in Africa… and it’s one that’s both essential to creating a society of growing wealth and one that’s particularly despised—in theory and loudmouthed pronouncements and rules affecting other people—by the disingenuous liars and the useful idiots of the Left…

Oh, and you’ll see this too, if you page around enough on Pournelle’s site:

Chicago schools require Drivers Ed for blind students.

I can’t make this stuff up. No one can. Who has an imagination that depraved fecund?

Random Yak holds forth with an English/History lesson. “…when all the sway of earth shakes like a thing unfirm…” and all that. 😉

Yeh, I know there’re lots more (including some good posts linked in on Monday and Tuesday). Link in with some of the good ones I’ve missed, OK?

Also note the other fine blogs featuring linkfests at

Linkfest Haven.

Diane’s got a linkfest post up, too. Go check it out and link there, as well.

Well, thanks to my great friend, the Blessed, Holy Caffeine Tree, I survived a day and a half of dialup over third world county telco lines *shudder*. Oh! The horror of it all!

*heh*

Thanks, coffee.

(Yeh, the pic’s low-rez, in nothing but the light coming in the kitchen window. But it’s of my “coffee shrine” and my second-favorite coffeemaker to date. Fav died and not enough parts available… *sigh* If you’re interested remind me to tell ya how I can emulate a French press with this coffeemaker. :-))

Still short shrift day–limited bloggage due to ISP/connectivity, but ain’t it fun falling back on old Blogger habits? Ya know, write the html in a plain text editor and then—real quick, it’s working right now!—pasting it into an “edit post” window and hope for the best… *heh*

A post by The Median Sib—also here— dovetailed with a link found at Chaos Manor Musings (Mail). The Media Sib outlines four strategic “high ground” areas the enemies of Western Civilization must take and hold to wage their battle of conquest on America. She’s right.

Bullet points from Median Sib’s post (do go read the whole thing, would you?):

So you set out to conquer the United States in four simple steps.

1. Place your people in the schools…
2. Get the mainstream media in your pocket…
3. Become involved in the political system…
4. Infiltrate the entertainment industry…

The link at Jerry Pournelle’s site is to a discussion on (of all things) The Practical Machinist discussion board (again, do yourself and your children and grandchildren the favor and read the whole thing!). It details a speech made by former governor of Colorado, Richard Lamm. Here are the bullet points:

To destroy America…

Continue reading “How to Conquer America”

Weeeell, apparently tornado damage was more extensive—at least where my ISP is concerned—and I’m told they “expect some word about progress (getting broadband access back) by noon Tuesday”…

Meanwhile, this wonky (backup) dialup has dropped twice while I’ve been trying to get this posted. Squirrels still line dancing in the wires here in America’s Third World Countyâ„¢ no doubt.

This IS an open post. Link to this post and track back. If I can, later I have a coupla posts to get up, but it’s hair-pullin’ time trying to get just this post up (and I cannot afford that :-)).

Also note the other fine blogs featuring linkfests at

Linkfest Haven.
Oh, and if you have any mocking words to leave for Jean Fraud sKerry, that’d be a Good Thing, too.

This week’s Guard the Border blogburst post if from an eye-witness account of an illegal alien “demonstration” in Chicago. I think these things are great and should be encouraged. I also think the U.S. government ought to put a bounty of $5,000 per illegal payable to citizens who turn illegals in for deportation.

I think the two things would work very nicely together, don’t you? Now, on to Freedom Folks’ account of the mob of illegals in Chicago…

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by The Freedom Folks
Illegal Aliens March On Chicago

“Si, se puede!” was the cry of the crowd in Chicago today — “Yes, we can!” Thousands upon thousands of illegal aliens and their supporters gathered in Union Park, then marched down Jackson Street to The Loop. Jamming the plaza, as well as the surrounding streets and sidewalks, they rallied to cheer on those who had come to speak.

They demanded legalization for all immigrants. They patted each other on the back for working hard and having dreams. They lauded politicians who devote themselves to representing “the people,” which evidently, in their minds, includes “the people” who have come here illegally and don’t get to vote. They demanded justice. They jeered HR4437, the House bill passed last December that would make coming here illegally a criminal offense, rather than a civil one, that calls for a fence on the border, and that would penalize anyone who hires and/or helps someone to come or stay here illegally.

Mayor Daley even got up to add his support, which made no sense:

“Don’t let anyone tell you you’re an immigrant,” he shouted. “We’re all immigrants!”

???

“Si, se puede!” Yes we can WHAT, one wonders?

Yes we can…make demands of the government, even though we’re here illegally? Yes we can…break your laws then demand to not only not be penalized, but to be rewarded for it? Yes we can…take taxpayer-funded services like education and healthcare, and in exchange we’ll drive down wages and refuse to assimilate? Yes we can…shout loud enough about our civil rights that the politicians will forget that civil rights are, by definition, for citizens?
Continue reading “I think it’s time for a bounty…”

Big storm(s) in and around third world county last night. The worst of it was several counties away, north and south, though, which explains why my broadband access is out today. Lovely Daughter’s car suffered hail damage (it was her night to be parked on the street–shared garage). Just the driver’s side window gone, though.

Reduced to extremely slow and hinky dialup (either squirrels are line dancing on the local telco’s chewing-gum-and-baling-wire “infrastructure” *cough* or some baling wire is about to give out down the line…

Link to this post and track back. If I can, later I have a coupla posts to get up, but it’s taken an hour on this connection just to get this far. *sigh*

Also note the other fine blogs featuring linkfests at

Linkfest Haven.

(from O.Fr. pissier “urinate”)

Damned supercilious, holier-than-thou, busybodies are starting to royally piss me off. First they came for our booze. When THAT worked out so very well, they decided no one was doing right by “the poor.” Now that The Great Society has proven to be such a rousing success*cough* the damned supercilious, holier-than-thou, busybodies have set their sights on punishing hard work.

What is wrong with these idiots? Not content with fostering the ascendency of the Mafia, ruining generations of (primarily) black families with their poverty plantations—and, oh, BTW also denying smokers the reasonable freedom to imbibe in a legal substance, while taxing their use of that substance all out of proportion to its harmful effects—they have now decided that hard work is evil and should be controlled by placing a greater tax burden on those who, uhm, work hard.

WTF?!?

Would someone tell these Academia Nuts that it’s the hard-working, productive citizens that support their ability to sit on their hinky white asses and write stupid “reports”? Yeh, yeh, I know that “Joel B. Slemrod Ph.D.” wrote the report, but the no doubt white-as-snow ‘U-M Office of Tax Policy Research” office issued the damned thing.

Oh, and note the typical Academia Nut arrogance: Slemrod apparently wrote the press release—in a third person voice—quoting himself throughout as though he had been interviewed by a third party. It’s how these things are done, you know.

Jackass.

Spraying piss and vinegar all over the place at The Real Ugly American and The Crazy Rants of Samantha Burns.

Check out the latest Carnival of the Recipes at Dubious Wonder for some interesting additions to your grocery list this week. I’m definitely putting Romeocat’s (CatHouse Chat) Brainless Chicken Stir-fry Stew, and the Toad in a Hole sounds both delicious and easy (two of my main criteria for recipes).

Thanks to Boudicca for spurring me to let my family know what to put on my “grave marker”—a stick-on label saying,

In this mason jar are the cremains of The Black Knight of America’s Third World Countyâ„¢

“‘Tis but a scratch.”

(Oh, btw, maybe my family would play at least the Black Knight scene from “Search for the Holy Grail” at a wake or something, in my remembrance, as it were… invincible.mp3)

Whoever visited from “sugartown-162.camtel.net (216.84.141.65)”, you were my 50,000th “unique visitor” (excluding, as far as possible search engine crawlers and myself) since I started keeping track around the end of March 2005.

Thanks. Now I can stop checking Statcounter daily, as I have for the past several days. 50,000 “unique pairs of eyeballs” (insofar as the technology available to me can determine) isn’t all that much, I know, and, given the best info I have, translates to somewhere between seven and eight times as many “hits” in that time frame. Still not a huge number.

But, it’s certainly more than I would have expected, given the often iconoclastic, irascible, and sometimes downright weird nature of this blog. (Did I say weird? But one contrast will suffice: what other blog do you know that would feature not only Mohammed in a pink dress but regular rails against every damn politician to pollute the air with their existance, appeals to read Chesterton and Wodehouse and a recipe for mock haggis? I rest my case.)

So, back to my regular schedule of “everything AND the kitchen sink” and about this time next year, I’ll start wondering how many folks have actually dropped by.

Thanks for all the fish.