Author: David

It’s been a good year and a quarter at Blogger, and I plan to do some “transitional posts” as I try to train those of y’all who are regular readers to Go Where The TWC Action Is.

Please update your links to reflect http://www.thirdworldcounty.us/ as the REAL address for third world county.

I’ll still blog other things on Blogger (what with six or so other blogs including a recipe blog for my extended family), though much less as two or three of those blogs need to be shut down/consolidated with http://www.thirdworldcounty.us/.

Meanwhile, thanks for all the fish!

MAKE A NOTE OF THIS URL:

http://www.thirdworldcounty.us/

All future third world county action will be there. Linkfests, curmudgeonly rants, wise posts from my co-conspirators (Diane, The English Guy and Romeocat), snark, oh-so-witty humor from yours truly (well, I laugh at my humor! 🙂 and more.

Bring your own stuff on over there for the party. Grand opening this weekend with an All Weekend Open Post Party (topic to be announced pater–make suggestions there.

Talk w/y’all later… over here.

I feel so left out. Musselmen are awefully angry at a few Danes for speaking (well, drawing) their piece in some cartoons. Where the hate spewed my way? Would I have to say something on the order of “Mohamed was the bastard offspring of a sypillitic dog having anal intercourse with a gonorrhetic sow”?

Do you think that would do it, or should I have that translated into Arabic?

Come on, Islamic camel lovers! Surely you have some hate left over for me! Come on over to America’s Third World Countyâ„¢. We would welcome y’all with open… gunsights.

Asking for trouble at Pirates! Man Your Women! and Cathouse Chat’s “Glass Parking Lot. Seriouslty” (where Romeocat almost gets on board with something I’ve advocated for a long, long time… 🙂

[This is a combo “Guard the Borders”/Open Post. See Open Post info below or in my Left sidebar.]

Emmigration may just be the key…*heh* No, really: think about it for a second. Yes, we do need a wall and better (more) Coast Guard and Navy protection of our borders. Heck, we need thousands more customs agents to inspect imports.

And that’s just for proper security.

But we do need gates in the walls and barriers. Gates that swing both ways. Some recent estimate hold that, although America is still by and large a technology leader, but the Business Roundtable has presented a study that asserts “If current trends continue, by 2010 more than 90% of the world’s scientists and engineers will live in Asia… ” Not only that, but most college grads today are, if not illiterate, severely subliterate, unable to read and comprehend simple printed information. BTW, we’re not alone. Despite John Stossel’s recent presentation of “Stupid in America” demonstrating that European kids outpaced American students in academic accomplishment at accelerating rates the longer each group was in school, Britain, at least, is experiencing a severe dumbing down of its population, too. Despite the rather shallow “analysis” in the article linked, I have little doubt that at least some of the “enstupiating” of British youth has something to do with the changing mix of immigrants.

We should have stronmg walls and gates that swing both ways. For those coming in, let them first demonstrate that they have something of value to contribute, and we should especially concentrate on recruiting high caliber immigrants in the hard sciences, recruiting them to become full citizens and fully assimilate into their new country, to become real Americans and not hyphenated Americans.

On the other side of the coin, why not do everything possible to encourage the stupid among us, most especially those who once had the native intelligence to become good citizens but who have chosen to allow the American “education” system and “pop culture” to make them into functional idiots… to emmigrate. Yup. Leave, go elsewhere, buh-bye!

Might I suggest we start with offering every congresscritter, pubschool (prisons for kids) administrator and “education” school academia nut retirement packages to emmigrate to Mexico? (With a concommittant seisure off all other assets under the justification that they are incompetent idiots, as evidenced by, well, darned near anything “accomplished by congress in too darned long a time and the shambles educrats and academia nuts have made of their end of education in this country.). Followed by foceably dumping Hollyweird celebrities, writers and producers, en masse, across our southern border? Then, get out invitations to a party held by Dr. Tarr and Mr. Fether to alla the Mass Media Podpeople intent on running the U.S. down at every opportunity and give them free “rail” transportation to Vicente Fox’s home state of Guanajuato. Along with every illiegal alien his government has aided across our southern border…

For a start…

Just a thought. We need more smart people, and we are more and more manufacturing dummies through our schools and pop culture. Let’s get rid of the worst idiots and “import” some good folk in their place.

(Ah, heck, let’s throw out at least 90% of the country’s federal bureaucrats while we’re at it. Hard enough that they bounce a few times after hitting the ground across ANY border… )

This is my contribution to the Guard the Borders Blogburst. Like it or lump it. 🙂

As I said, Open Post. Link here and track back.

This has been a production of the Guard the Borders Blogburst. It was started by Euphoric Reality, and serves to keep immigration issues in the forefront of our minds as we’re going about our daily lives and continuing to fight the war on terror. If you are concerned with the trend of illegal immigration facing our country, join our blogburst! Just send an email with your blog name and url to euphoricrealitynet at gmail dot com.

Blogs already on board:

Euphoric Reality
A Lady’s Ruminations
TMH’s Bacon Bits
Part-Time Pundit
The Right Track
Cao’s Blog
Ogre’s Politics and Views
In The Bullpen
Stuck on Stupid
NIF
Kender’s Musings
Watchman’s Words
Third World County
Gribbit’s Word
Right on the Right
Team Swap
Gina’s Rantings
The Irate Nation
Publius Rendezvous
Freedom Folks
Bear Creek Ledger
Something and Half of Something
Mover Mike
Independent Conservative
The Neo-Con Blogger
Ravings of a Mad Tech
Parrot Check
Curley’s Corner
Mensa Barbie Welcomes You
Intergalactic Source of Truth
Woman Honor Thyself

Green-carded at Bloggin’ Outloud and Committees of Correspondence.

Yeh, yeh, I know: it’s the biggest day of the year for some folks. It’s a great party day for others. And very likely most folks with a TV here in the U.S. will at least catch parts of the Superbowl.

But I’m not likely to.

It’s not that I think it’s a waste of time (for me it would be) or that I don’t have some appreciation for the game of football (I do). It’s just that I’m not very interested in watching someone else play sports. No, I’ve never been hyper-athletic. Football? “Touch” football that was more akin to rough housing in the grass was a lot of fun when I was younger, and about the extent of my personal play. I like to play tennis, swim, other things. But watching someone play a game… well, it was interesting watching Ken Rosewall play tennis when I was picking the game up, but that’s been about it for my interest in watching others play games, except for a few high school and college football games that held my interest briefly 30-40 years ago (and my kids’ soccer games—but then, I was an assitant coach for my son’s team. Soccer: another fun game to play that’s MUCH less fun to watch.).

Different strokes. If I’m not playing—a game, an instrument, whatever—or actively learning how to play, I’m much less interested in watching someone else have all the fun. (Not that alla the pro athletes view playing as fun, although I’m sure some do).

Same deal with the olympics. Watching other folks do stuff has never been a biggie with me. Heck, I’d rather read a book and imagine other folks doing stuff… *heh*

Others feel differently. I have a sister who is strongly emotionally invested in how “her” football team performs (why it is “hers” I haven’t figured out: she has no familial or financial ties to the team and doesn’t even live in the state it harks from). That’s fine. No skin offa my back.

Variety in food and in people is the spice of life.

So, for alla y’all who’re planning on having a rip-roaring time this evening watching a buncha guys getting all the action somewhere else, more power to ya. Have fun. I’ll be doing something else.

Inciting to riot over at Conservative Cat and Basil’s Blog. Root, root, rooting for the home team at The Crazy Rants of Samanthat Burns.

Had several things I’d thought of posting for Carnival of the Recipes, but I’m outa time. let this stand in:

Recently, I’ve been using a rather full-bodied dark roast coffee. Rich flavor. But it needed… something.

Hand grater.

Nutmeg.

Atop coffee grounds before brewing: a few scrapes of freshly-grated nutmeg. (Addendum: DO NOT use pre-ground sawdust packaged as “ground nutmeg”. *spit* You really might as well just use sawdust. Old sawdust.)

Very nice. Adds a distinct high note that is a nice addition to the dark roast coffee.

S’all, folks. Have to stagger off to “St. Mattress Cathedral” now to dream of The Holy Brew.

…I don’t care. It’d be the truth. Why, the other day, before I’d had even one cuppa The Holy Brew and hence was operating at a serious caffeine-deficient level, I wanted the square root of 232, but my wheels stopped spinning at 15 (common square 15X15=225. Knew cos I had to memorize squares of whole #s up to the square of 25 in gradeschool). So, caffeine-deprived and lazy, I did what anyone with two brain cells to rub together would do:

I typed “square root 232” (w/o the quotes, of course) in my browser’s Google search box. To seven decimal places: 15.2315462.

So, call me lazy. I rounded it up (for my purposes) to 15.25.

Confessed (“Sign ze papers, old man.” “But I cannot sign the papers!…”) at Bloggin’ Outloud, where the Best So Far 2006 awards show will close ballots tonight.

Provocative enough post title for ya? 🙂

Several things have converged to create this post: Reading (piecemeal) The Founders Constitution and steeping myself in the ground from which this country sprang. Antics in the Loony Left Moonbat Brigade, the Mass Media Podpeoples’ Army, among Mixed Academia Nuts, the ACLU and all their ilk to sabotage what remains of the democratic republic the Founders and Framers bequeathed us. The fact that the next seven days will determine just how much of my money the Feds will have stolen from me over the last year (yeh, doing my taxes before Feb 10-“feds have stolen” refers to all the monies levied and spent by the feds for things NOT AUTHORIZED BY ANY GENUINE CONSTITUTIONAL WRIT. Monies given to folks who ought instead to get it by earning it legitimately.)

Well, I guess I’ll just focus on one aspect of The War on Democracy. Democracy, as Jerry Pournelle often reminds his readers, is rightly “rule by the middle class”-those citizens whose productive lives add value to the republic and who have a stake in its health.

Democracy, when it works, is rule by the middle class, the middle class being those who possess the goods of fortune in moderation: those who have enough that they don’t want to risk it trying to take more from the wealthier. Democracies can tolerate a spread of wealth so long as there are not too many very rich and very poor people in the society.

[N.B. Click the link and read Dr. Pournelle’s review of the SOTU address.]

The federal tax structure in this country (as well as how those monies are spent) is one of the most potent weapons the enemies of a democratic republic could ever have devised to effect its downfall. By robbing its productive members of the fruits of their labors for use for anything not specifically designed to protect those citizens from “enemies foreign or domestic” or mediating disputes among the states or other legitimate responsibilities of federal government, the feds grow stronger at the expense of the republic as a whole.

Briefly scan a history of the federal income tax, from Lincoln to the present day, and tell me it isn’t unjust, unfair and antithetical to the Founders’ democratic republic.

There is a better way, and The FairTax is a start down that path. I urge you to get and read this book:

Then call AND write your congresscritters, join a local FairTax group (or just go to a meetup) and do something to get this ever more in the public eye.

Your children and grandchildren will bless you.

Since tbs seem to be working well there today *s*, here’s another at TMH’s Bacon Bits, eh? 🙂

[NB. This is an 0pen Post. See the info below.]

Hollyweird has been influenced too much by mixed academia nuts and isolated from the real world by its own preoccupation with celebrity. Witness the behavior noted by Where Have You Gone Ronald Reaganwherein the Hollyweird “academy” nominated Brokeback Mountain for four times as many Oscars as The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe. Seems Hollyweird missed the point of Holly Lisles’ “Thirteen Sacred Commandments of Suckitudinous Fiction” and took those “commandments” as their bible for “art”.

… the quest for good fiction is not the only way. There is … another path. A dark path. And it is a path rich in tradition and esteemed by many. It is the Path of Suckitude.

Not all bad fiction is Suckitudinous. Some of it is simply bad — written by people who are completely tone-deaf to the language, blind to character and motivation, and incompetent with conflict.

Unlike bad fiction, Suckitudinous Fiction takes a dedication to the fine art of sucking that, if pursued with sufficiently rabid fanaticism, can win Pulitzers. (Yes, I think an inordinate number of recent Pulitzer-prize-winning novels suck. Hugely.)

It’s as though Hollyweird and its suckophants (no, I did not mean to write “sycophants”) among the “critics” read Holly Lisles’ rant and thought, “Hey! These are really good ideas! Let’s follow these commandments as much as we can, at least a little at a time, until no one will even know when the Emperor is walking around in his birthday suit… “

This is an Open Trackback Alliance-affiliated Open Post. Link here and trackback.

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Auditioning for the part of Critias “with Prometheus setting up a democracy and arming the peasants against their masters” at TMH’s Bacon Bits.

This week’s Stop the ACLU post is from Gribbit.

http://www.aclu.org/safefree/general/24023prs20060201.html
http://www.aclu.org/lgbt/discrim/24032prs20060201.html
http://www.aclu.org/safefree/spying/24037prs20060201.html
http://www.aclu.org/safefree/general/24040prs20060201.html
http://www.aclu.org/safefree/spying/24029prs20060201.html
http://www.aclu.org/safefree/spying/24028prs20060201.html
http://www.aclu.org/safefree/spying/24009prs20060201.html
http://www.aclu.org/safefree/spying/24036prs20060201.html

Also crossposted to the other third world county..