Author: David

The following is an important announcement from John Stephenson of Stop the ACLU.

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We’ve got a double treat for you today folks! Nedd Kareiva, founder of our parent site Stoptheaclu.org will be on the radio! But first we’ll be having a live stream of Alan Sears, the president of the Alliance Defense Fund debating Barry Lynn of Americans United for the Separation of Church and State.
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Alan Sears will be on Barry Lynn’s radio show Culture Shocks from 5 to 6pm Eastern Time, 2 to 3pm Pacific time. He will be discussing issues such as the the ACLU’s policy to legalize child porn, their defense of sexual predators, and their positions on sick organizations like NAMBLA. If you haven’t heard of Alan Sears take a look at The Alliance Defense Fund’s website. They are one of the biggest forces out there fighting the evils of the ACLU. You can also check out his interview with Bill O’Reilly, or his interview with Frontpage magazine.

If you want to listen, tune in from 5 to 6pm Eastern Time, 2 to 3pm Pacific using KCAA’s live MP3 feed. Choose between the free iTunes or Winamp players to listen.

If you want to talk to call in live on Culture Shocks, call them at 1-800-259-9231. Don’t forget to mention Stop The ACLU.COM!

You can also hear Culture Shocks weekdays on your radio station, including KCAA 1050AM in the Los Angeles area, WCBR in Tennessee, KGGM in Louisiana, WASN in Youngstown Ohio and Newcastle, PA, and WARL in Providence RI. I wouldn’t encourage listening to this guy’s station everyday, but definitley tune in today. I’m thinking Alan will rip him apart.

And now, for the good news about our movement!!! I put this last because it will be later in the night, but our own Nedd Kareiva of Stop The ACLU.Org will be on WRWL Radio with Pastor Ernie Sanders to discuss the ACLU and our plans to cripple them. Pastor Sanders has the longest running radio show in Ohio (28 years per his site), has been in court with the ACLU over 20 times and not paid one dime to them. He fiercely opposes the ACLU’s agenda and he is looking forward to speaking with him. He will be taking your calls so let’s show Ohio and America we mean business against the ACLU. He will be on as long as they wish. He will mention the blog, so everyone try to call in and talk to Nedd.

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A Precision Guided Humor Assignment from The Alliance of Free Blogs: How can you tell if someone is a terrorist?

Now, admittedly, I’ve modified this a bit to exclude waning IRA terrorists and others by narrowing the assignment further to islamofascist murdering savage SOBs, but I think I may be forgiven for that. If not, what’s the Alliance going to do? Send a splodydope to America’s Third World Countyâ„¢? We’d welcome one or twelve. There are always stumps to clear from fields, you know, and some fish just won’t bite and need to be persuaded to “come to papa”—heh. The idea that an islamofascist murdering savage SOB terrorist could slip by the Third World Countyâ„¢ detection system is laughable.

The Third World Countyâ„¢ Profiler’s Politically Incorrect Guide to Detecting an Islamofascist Murdering Savage SOB Terrorist.

See a suspect? Maneuver to get the wind on ’em. (Scent’s your first clue apart from the fact that the guy looks like an Ay-rab.)

Step 1.) Does the goober smell worse than… well, Goober? If so, he’s either a Loony Left Moonbat or a islamofascist murdering savage SOB. Bag ‘im either way.

Step 2.) When you perform a “cranial echo test” (whack ‘im on the head with an axe handle) does a “thunk” or no sound at all procede from his pie hole? If a “thunk” then it’s a Loony Left Moonbat and good for catfish feed or for bait for wild boar. If no sound at all issues, then there’s nothing inside (sound doesn’t travel in a vaccuum, you know) and you have a splodydope. Remove any useful explosives and see uses for Loony Left Moonbat, above. If the critter attempts to bite the axe handle, it’s an osama and should be doused with gasoline and burned (after removing any useful explosives for later use fishing or blowing stumps).

Do bury any remains of an osama in pig manure and turn the compost frequently. Use this compost to kill kudzu.

“Confession is good for the soul and bad for the reputation”

There are some folks who will forever dismiss me as anathema, nekulturny, for what I am about to confess. So be it. They have a right to be elitist snobs.

heh

As anyone who has read this blog for a while knows by now, I have a love-love relationship with coffee. I love coffee and it loves me. Indeed, I would perhaps stretch only a tad in saying that without coffee, life loses its focus, its clarity and meaning becomes difused, almost inaccessible.

It’s the only form of chemical therapy I engage in or want to.

And I love the taste, aroma and textures of coffee.

That being said, I have a confession, one that will, as I stated above, probably brand me as nekulturny for life in the eyes of some.

I drink my coffee most often with creamer and sweetener. No longer with cream (alas!) and never with sugar (yech!). In the case of creamer, it is for the texture it imparts, not flavor. That’s why milk in coffee so frequently leaves me flat. A milk froth, however, has some texturizing benefits, just not as much as creamer (and BTW, of creamers without real cream *sigh* only Coffeemate imparts the texture I like. Go figure.)

In the case of the sweetener (only calcium saccharine) it is almost entirely for the way it emphasizes and elicits the high notes of a coffee bean’s flowery fractions, not for any sweetness. And NOT sugar because it neither enhances the high notes nor the texture. In fact, I find the syrupy nature that sugar imparts to drinks offensive in just about any drink, though in coffee the most.

There. That’s a load off my chest. I’ve been living this secret life so long that the burden’s become a part of me. Now that it’s lifted, I feel almost giddy.

Almost. Don’t count on my curmudgeonly nature being fundamentally affected.

Oh, BTW, I’m not entirely gone over to corruption.  Just finished my second cuppa black joe of the day a minute ago. Yeh, I still appreciate the Dark Side.

Something a tad different today…

In fact, this is so out of character for this blog, I probably ought to post it over at my much-neglected Whistling in the Light. heh

Here it is, then. I have posted here a few times about the amazing photographic eye of Rick Lee, so this is appropriate here, too. Prochein Amy’s mom-in-law *s* has a great site filled with beautiful things. HereBeautiful Pictures”.

Want more? Well, Elsa (Amy’s MIL) has a site with links to her photos, paintings, ceramics and more, including her blog. Elsa’s Gallery.

Definitely worth a visit or three.

Shut up and let the lady speak!

I find I am in agreement with David Limbaugh more than anyone else concerning the Miers nomination: if the president proposes someone as a judge or justice, the Senate’s role in “advice and consent” should be as close to the Framers’ intent as possible, that is, as Hamilton voiced in The Federalist, determine of they are qualified as to ability and character. Political and philosophical considerations are simply none of the Senate’s business as concerning presidential appointments. (That is to say, a little more bluntly, if the Senate wants appointees to pass some political or philosophical litmus test(s) then the Senate should just bugger off.)

That being said, if the lady’s own representations are to be believed (and no one has—yet! But wait—advanced charges of mendacity in her direction), then, given the unassailable facts of her legal experience and capabilities, she also brings one stellar qualification to the position. Riffing off her experience clerking for Judge Joe Estes of the U.S. District Court for North Texas, she had this to say:

Now, that’s what I want in a judge. Any judge. Someone who will decide a case based solely on the facts and the law. Period. Ya want something else, and that makes you someone who only appreciates the law for what you can twist it into to suit you, that is, someone who ought to belong to the ACLU.

Oh, yeh. Forgot *sigh* A tip o’ the hat to Hugh Hewitt for the link to the Miers questionaire pdf linked above (whence the quick and dirty jpeg of Miers own words).

Linked at Outside the Beltway and Basil’s Blog

[NOTE: “omnibus—Including or covering many things or classes: an omnibus trade bill.” Guard the Borders, John Kerry’s 180 (see Cao’s post), a well-deserved dig at the ACLU and its ilk and a Fairtax note, plus a few–all in one handy dandy slightly longer than usual post. And no, I’ll NOT post it with an extended entry. So there]

Top four, in no particular order

• National Security
• Taxation and the Economy
• Education and Culture
• Civil liberties and Justice

But let’s take them in that order, anyway, shall we?

National Security

On the national level, apart from our armed forces, which are doing an admirable job in Iraq and Afghanistan of cutting off the heads of snakes before they enter our country, the federal government is performing not only under par but so badly that the very words “national security” make this observer choke. “Homeland Security”? A farce. A cruel farce. Something on the order of 15 million illegal aliens resident in this country? How can our federal government be considered to be serious about its number one constitutional job when they have no idea who and where these people are? (Or, knowing anything, do nothing serious about the problem.) _1_, _2_

“Homeland Security”? Native Americans (nah, can the PC crap: not American Indians, native Americans—you know, people who were born and raised here, speaking English, etc.) are harassed at airports by officious terrorist aides working for the Thousands Standing Around (making trouble for and transforming good citizens into either cringing sheep or unwilling rebels), do nothing substantive to  enhance security and waste enormous amounts of tax dollars providing full employment to self-made idiots. _3_, _4_, _5_.And those are the good points of Homeland Security.

Taxation and the Economy

I received this in email from fairtax.org

Time to tell Washington that we want the FairTax! If you don’t tell them – nobody will and they will hurt us with more oppressive taxation again! If you have called, faxed or written your congressman on the disappointing results of the tax panel, now is the time to CALL the White House. Tell them NO flat tax, no income tax – ONLY the FairTax. Call today when the panel is meeting!!

After last week’s disappointing news from the Tax Reform Commission, we need to let President Bush know that the FairTax is the only plan that we will accept. There is a story out today saying the panel is entertaining a 30% graduated? Flat tax (still keeping all of the other taxes)! That’s just unbearable and wrong. [see LINK]

“The “X tax” proposal would end taxation of investment income and interest deductions for businesses and individuals. It would also set a single rate for all businesses and allow unlimited write-offs for equipment purchases. Individuals would be taxed only on their wages. In his proposal, Bradford set graduated tax rates on wages with a top rate of less than 30 percent.”

Call! Be polite, be strong, ask for the FairTax and please let them know what state you’re calling from.

The number for the White House switchboard is 202-456-1414 – let’s be sure to light up their switchboard all day Tuesday.

You may also call the “comments “line. Do BOTH today.Call The President’s Comment Line:Monday through Friday 9:00am through 5:00pm EDSTTelephone number 202-456-1111

Get The FairTax Book today! Please visit http://www.fairtax.org/boortz_book.html

If you are as yet unfamiliar with the FairTax proposal, go, get the Linder/Boortz book and read it. Visit the FairTax site linked above (and here) and study the information there. Get involved with your state FairTax organization (if any) or get in on the ground floor of organizing your state FairTax organization. Just do it. See also FairTax linked blogs at Technoratti.

As to other economic issues, start here and then ask yourself, what happens when we “outsource” essential secuurity-related manufacturing/infrastructure to… slave labor in Red China? How is that different to exporting essential infrastructure/manufacturing in general? Are the two interrelated?

Education and Culture

I have a simple two-step proposal for remedying most of the failures of “public education” in the United States.

• Get Washington D.C. out of your kids’ classrooms. Heck, get your state out of your kids’ classrooms. Return complete control to the local level. Sure, there will be some poorly-funded schools. Some poorly-run. But the overall level of real learning of useful things will rise dramatically when those whose children are in the local schools have a genuine say in the process and when the buck for their children’s education truly does stop with them.
• Fire all the educrats. School administrators (principals, superintendents) are by and large not useless drones. They are a cancer. A big suck on a sour lemon. They are infectiously stupid. In the classroom, school administrators are the single largest immediate stumbling block in the way of your child’s education. Stupid (or simply incompetent) teachers are way, way down the list. Other educrats include all the blowhards from Washington D.C. on down to the local level as well as most of the brainwashing (and brainwashed) loons in education departments of colleges and universities nationwide.

Get rid of them all and put them in labor camps breaking rocks or something. With their heads, perhaps. As to other cultural issues… aw, gee… We’ve been manufacturing stupidity in public schools for decades, so it’s no wonder mush-mouf (heh), tone-deaf (non-)”singers” dominate the musical culture of our day and movies, TV and even novels (cf. any Dan Brown book) are so often mind-numbingly stupid. And still popular. *sigh* Even Mass Media Podpeople—whose job you might think would entail wordsmithing at some level—can’t speak literate (or even grammatical) English, so why expect popular culture to do better?

And at a more fundamental level, dishonesty and a lack of commitment to any real ethical standard is so endemic in our culture that only a credulous idiot (or an idealist—often synonymous terms *sigh*) would take their neighbor’s word or a handshake “contract” on the most trivial of exchanges, and “everyone knows” that the cop who speeds on the way to his donut break will lie about a convenient (for him) traffic ticket. Enough.

Civil Liberties and Justice

*profound sigh*

When an organization that disingenuously calls itself “The American Civil Liberties Union” campaigns to obstruct free speech* and free exercise of religion, seeks to endanger that greatest of rights—life itself—and can get YOU to pay for their misbehavior, can civil liberties long survive?

When the feds (or state or local) authorities can place serious obstructions and limitations on even Constitutionally-guarranteed rights, are those “rights” even rights any more or have they been remanufactured as licenses?

(*You may experience a momentary cognitive dissonance when clicking that link. Yes, I am saying that flag-burning is NOT speech–unless accompanied by actual, you know, like, WORDS SPOKEN. And pejoration of the term “free speech” into “free expression” is a crime for which the ACLU should burn in hell, along with the assinine Supreme Communists of the United States from the court that ruled in agreement with the ACLU. Destruction of the language of protecting our rights is among the chief of the ACLU’s accomplishments in its goal of ultimately destroying America).

And on the other end of the equation, governments at all levels are doing everything they can to create an atmosphere of what Jerry Pournelle calls “anarcho-tyranny” through encumbering the citizenry with so many laws and regulations that we are all outlaws whether we desire or intend to be or not. Rule of law? Rule of bureaucratic whim. With so many legal snares that NO ONE knows them all, any time a bureaucrat wants to find a way to “get you” he can.  And that kind of chaotic goonery spawns ever more and more scofflaws, as people see that the law is more and more only about whatever you can get away with. See this (or this or this) for another rant on the topic… *sigh*

And who, ultimately (at least in what is putatively a democratic republic) responsible for these problems and their resolutions?Look in the mirror, as I do, and you’ll see who’s responsible.

As long as, as an electorate, we insist on being short-sighted, greedy, lazy S.O.B.s; as long as we as a people continue to tune into THESE S.O.B.s (Mass Media Podpeople-a; Mass Media Podpeople-b; Mass Media Podpeople-c) and their ilk and actually give them any of our air/ear time; and as long as we continue—as an electorate—to evidence our short-sighted, greedy stupidity by electing such as this (where are your records, you lying S.O.B., Jean Fraud sKerry?), then we’ll deserve what we have.

And what we have coming to us.

*sigh*

Update: Edited the lead-in; added to the last paragraph and two lines above.

Also: linked at “Jo’s Cafe, Tuesday Specials”.

…And linked at Cao’s Open Trackback Wednesday party and at Stop the ACLU.

So, heard the one about the “valley girl” who was turned on by guys who spoke a foreign language to her? Well, since she was educated in public schools, raised by MTV and Top 40 listening, it was inevitable.

She fell hard for her sophomore English teacher.

Let this hold your attention for a tad. Kit Jarrell’s Guard the Borders post for today, crossposted here from Euphoric Reality

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Some of you may have heard about the woman in Florida who was violently raped by fourteen men at the beginning of this month. Then again, maybe not. The MSM doesn’t want to really touch it. Guess why?

All 14 men were illegal immigrants.

They were originally listed as “White” by the Sheriff’s department. I’ll let you be the judge as to whether that was a correct assessment.

After a veritable email smackdown flood by VDare readers, the Sheriff released a statement. Here’s an excerpt:

A Sheriff’s Office inquiry with United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) has disclosed that the 14 arrestees are all Guatemalan Nationals and are in the United States illegally. Federal detainers from ICE have been placed on all 14. The federal detainer is in addition to criminal charges in Collier County. For those accused who are sentenced to serve prison time, ICE will begin removal proceedings upon their release from custody.

Due to the grievous nature of this alleged crime and the immigration issues, we have received extraordinary interest and inquiry from people throughout the nation. We will continue to provide factual updates and seek information to complete our investigation and perfect our case. We ask everyone to permit the process to work for a just conclusion and avoid oversimplifying the case, or worse, creating unproductive innuendo and rumor. Anyone with information on this or any crime is asked to contact the Collier County Sheriff’s Office immediately at 774-4434. Updates on this case will be posted to our website, www.colliersheriff.org , in an effort to best communicate our position concerning this incident to all interested persons.

Is the MSM picking up the story yet? Of course not. it doesn’t fit their pro-illegals agenda. News flash for the clueless: These people are not “undocumented workers”. They are, in many cases, criminals. This could have been your daughter. Your sister. Your wife. Your mother. Raped, beaten, and left for dead in the street by a bunch of thugs who aren’t even supposed to be here. It was someone’s daughter that this happened to.

The border problem is out of control. We need to demand answers, demand action. We need to continue to demand it until it happens.

This has been a production of the Guard the Borders Blogburst, which takes place every Monday on Euphoric Reality. The purpose is to keep immigration issues at the forefront and to apply pressure to our elected officials to get the problem fixed. If you’re concerned about the state of our borders, email kit.jarrell at gmail dot com to join.

Blogs on board…

Blogs Already on Board:

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More later on other border news.

A few of my favorite things… not

Trivial yet urgent, niggling and pressing;
Pain in the (a-hem), ugly and messing;
Wild trips to purchase the stuff that I need,
These ain’t a few of my favorite things.

(John Coltrane: “My Favorite Things” sample)
Yeh, before I could do a darned thing else this morning, a trip outa town to get (well, “a trip to get” is almost always joined at the hip with “outa town—in this case, outa the county) a 50-amp circuit breaker so our washer/dryer will a.) spin the water outa that load of clothes Wonder Woman washed last night and b.) dry ‘em.

Better than having a load of clothes just sit there and mold. And don’t tell me we could hang ‘em out.  Nah.  Way too muggy today.

*sigh*

I do the electrical work, sure. But I hate working with the service entrance/service panel. Frankly, I know the safe procedures, know it’s safe when I follow safe procedures. Have the necessary equipment to test for live wires, etc. But. I hate working on that kinda AC voltage.

Still, I know I’m going to finally rewire this whole house (yeh, and have a retired master electrician friend check my work before calling the electric company to put in new 200-amp service) sometime in the next coupla years… Soooo looking forward to hooking up the new service to the new panel. If they’d let me (and they won’t) I’d run all the new stuff outside and just let ‘em hook into me. But nooooo. They’ve gotta run their stuff, then I have to hook up to their live service. *sigh*

Oh, well. Today just started with a 50-amp 220 breaker changeout. No biggie.

But not one-a my favorite things.

On to better things. (Guard the Borders coming up later today.)

(Minor edits, still probably missed some spelling/typos. Coffee deprivation. Need. More. Coffee.)

Weekend roundup of some of the articles/commentary I found interesting

News relating to the Iraqi vote:

Wapo—reports something positive? The world is coming to an end tomorrow, no doubt…

Even “Terrorist Promo Central” (Reuters) takes a mostly positive tone. (Yep, that confirms it: the world is coming to an end.)

More confirmation of a world turned upside down as the Strib, and The Seattle Times manage to choke out mostly upbeat stories. Wonders never cease.

Of course, the good news from Iraq contrasts starkly with politics here.

Thomas Sowell, “Spoiled brat politics: Part I” and “Spoiled brat politics: Part II”.

Sowell’s comments on spoiled brats leads rather well into David Limbaugh’s observations, “More thoughts on Miers”.

The Anchoress points out the hypocrisy of (“the egregious”*) David Frum of neocon infamy—praised Miers and prophesied her nomination back in the summer, now flip–flopped and attacking her.

*”the egregious Frum” is Jerry Pournelle’s stock reference to someone (oddly, David Frum—heh) who he believes to be unprincipled and unworthy of his place and influence in the public forum. Quite apart from Pournelle’s commentary, the evidence the Anchoress presents of the egregious Frum’s lack of principle is enough to damn him in my eye, were he not already in disfavor with me. (As though the egregious Frum cared. Heh)

TMH’s Bacon Bits rounds up some thought-provoking info on the Asian Bird Flu and illuminating information drawn from experiments with the Spanish influenza virus that caused the 1918 pandemic. I do think some of the comparisons being made to the worldwide flu pandemic of 1918 may be overblown, though. For one thing, sure, transmission via fast and easy transportation systems available today may spread the stuff faster and more widely, but medical technology has advanced too, and so have public health measures. It remains to be seen just how much of the alarmism is Chicken Little behavior and how much is of substance. This is definitely one to follow, and The Mary Hunter is doing yeoman’s work in his posts on the topic—watch his blog for roundups and insight.

Well, there’s a whole big buncha other news and views out there that certainly ought to be included here, but I’m feeling just too darned lazy to post any more.  Read my Blogroll, eh?

Oh, but I can’t close without this. Hie thee to The Carnival of the recipes #61.  It’s a very special Ramadan edition!!!

🙂

Oh, and you’ll kick yourself if you miss some of the fine posts noted over at Stop the ACLU’s Open Trackback Sunday.