Author: David

As more and more manufacturing leaves these shores for slave labor shops in China…

Visit JibJab and CLICK on the Big Box Mart (you know who they really mean).

But ask yourself the question JibJab alludes to but elides over: who, really, is responsible for the loss of manufacturing to slave labor (yeh, I know much is merely low-paying sweatshop labor, but some truly is slave labor—prison slave labor) in China: “Big Box Mart” or the greedy cheap bastards like you and me who shop there for cheap crap—NOT made by the same folks as before, and usually not made as well as before?

As with threats to our political or religious freedoms, the long term, serious threats to our economic freedoms are not from Bid Bidness, government, politicians, Mass Media Podpeople or socialist/communist NGOs but from ourselves.

Linked at The Political Teen

Well bumfuzzle me and call me a twapsidoodle…

“Warning: Don’t ever change a value in the registry. Ever. We know we just told you to do that, but would you jump off a cliff if we told you to? Don’t ever change a value in the registry. Don’t even say the word registry. We know a guy once who said the word registry, and three days later he was hit by a bus. True story. As a matter of fact, you shouldn’t even have a registry on your computer. If you suspect that you do have a registry on your computer, call us and a trained professional will be dispatched to your office to remove the registry immediately. If you accidentally touch the registry, wash your hands with soap and water and call a doctor. Do not swallow the registry or get it in your eyes!”

Where in the world did that come from? you ask. (Of course you do.)

Here.

Will wonders never cease? Life. At Microsoft.

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Precision Guided Humor Assignment from The Alliance of Free Blogs: Devise a “better” strategic plan for Al-Qaeda.

Ah, this is a fiendishly clever assignment… on the one hand, it’d be easy to devise a plan that would yield success for Al-Qaeda by 2008 or 2009. On the other hand, devising a plan that would sucker Al-Qaeda into thinking they’d achieved success while simply miring them further in defeat is a different critter.

Let’s just address the easy one. I think they already have the other one covered.

Train all Al-Qaeda operatives to say “No hablo Ingles” in convincing Mexican accents. (OK, that part may be hard; after all, we’re not talking about people who approach WalMart class intellects, here.) Send them over the border with Mexico along with the Great Tide of La Raza and get ’em settled in with full welfare benefits, as registered Democraps, etc. Heck, multi-register to vote under multiple variations of MoHAMedic names honoring their woo-hoo moon god or whatever.

Bingo! Instant landslide for Billary and the “defeat America” crowd hosted by the Democrapic Party, Mooooveon.orgy, the Demoncrapic Untermensch, The Anti Constitutional Lawyers Union, et al. The Republicants can be driven from the land; churches closed; TV, Hollyweird and the RIAA closed down (OK, so the news wouldn’t be all bad); Islamic “jurisprudence” put in place.  The whole megilla.

It. Could. Work!

“That was the hardest day of my life,” wrote 10-year-old Pinky from Deltona, Fla. “I felt like I was missing my arm. I never want to do that again. Please do not ask me to do that again.”_*_

What was this horrible experience, this horrific event that quite possibly scarred poor, dear Pinky for life?

Pinky—along with 32 other “teens and tweens”—was a part of an experiment that deprived children of their cell phones for a period of 24 hours._1_

Puh-lease! Unhook these drogue-heads before it’s too late! Surgically remove their phones, if necessary…

h.t. Jerry Pournelle

Very limited blogging today. In fact, this is it.

Anywho, on a whim, I just sat down here and CLICKed on over to Statcounter.  Can anyone hazard a plausible reason why this is a significant traffic driver this week? In fact, searched back through Statcounter and it’s a pretty regular draw… apparently, people are searching for this kinda thing…

Weird.

I found this at Jenna Thomas-McKie’s place.
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Funny. I would’ve thought Joel or Amos… maybe Jeremiah. heh

N.B. Thanks to Diane for suggesting the name for this dish in comments.

And thanks also to Blonde Sagacity (and to SWWBO 😉 for this week’s themed Carnival of the Recipes—Pork: The Infidel Meat

Infidel Casserole

In recognition of “the religion of peace” I’m eating as much ham and other pork-based products as possible during Ramadan. (Hey, if Muslims were serious about this “religion of peace” thing, they’d at least ostracize the barbaric savages who commit mass murder and other atrocities in the name of Islam.)

Enough of the politics. On to Ham and Potatoes (or in this case, piling injury onto insult, SPAM and potatoes).

Ingredients:

• 6 potatoes, sliced (NOTE: Since I’m lazy, that’s six moderately small potatoes, to fit in the feed tube of my food processor. I love my chef’s knife, but more than a few thinly sliced potatoes is asking too much of me 🙂
• 2 cups shredded cheese (your fav, just so long as it melts well)
• 1 medium yellow onion, diced and sautéed
• 1 clove garlic, minced and sautéed
• 1 can cream of mushroom soup
• 1 can SPAM, sliced thinly or diced, small chunks

Cooking the stuff:

In a crockpot, layer the ingredients, potatoes, onions (the garlic’s already well-mixed with the onions from the sauté-ing, I hope :-), SPAM and cheese in thin layers. Top with the mushroom soup.  Cook on low until the potatoes are done. Variations: a can of Rotelâ„¢ tomatoes and chiles or just a can of green (annaheim) chiles, chopped (can also roast green annaheims, then peel and chop them). Also, a couple of dashes of Chinese Five Spice don’t hurt this dish any.NOTE: I was reminded last night as we ate this that a special step was left out above: a grind or three of pepper on every layer of potatoes/onions/cheese. It makes a big difference. Oh, and Romeocat asked about baking this dish: great! 325-350 degrees for an hour ought to do it. It’ll have a different texture and need more watching than a crockpot, but just as good–maybe better.

Of course, any previously cooked ham could be substituted for the SPAM.  But if I were to entertain any Muslims during Ramadan, I’d serve ‘em SPAM.

Unless they had turned in some imam for inciting violence in the name of islam. Then they’d get some respect. (OK, I guess I haven’t had enough of politics.)

‘Nother update: What would a SPAM recipe be without The Spam Song?

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Note all the updates and additions–credits to Beth and to ALa and Diane… Also the Free Piglet! graphic found at Blonde Sagacity and, of course, the Spam Song.

Of course, I was ahead of the curve on this whole theme (see here). heh

Yeh, yeh, it’s all over the place, now.

Terror Plot Was A Hoax

Lead: “The informant who sparked last week’s New York City subway threat alert has admitted it was a hoax…”

Give the “informant” a one-way ticket to Mosul. But first tatoo “Mohamed was a pig” on his forehead.

Happy Ramadan!

(Yeh, I know it was an Iraqi “informant” but no one said where in Iraq he was located. If already in Mosul, hey great! Smaller expense in dispensing a lil poetic justice… )

*sigh*

Every time I read, see or hear another whining so-called “conservative” bitchin’ and moanin’ about Harriet Miers, I just want to say, “Grow up folks.” Republican senators, for example, who’ve let the Democrats push ‘em around forever on the subject of Bush’s judicial nominees. They want him to push the envelope while they’ve still not got the stones to stand up to the dems themselves?

So-called conservative (or originalist or whatever) media pundits who nevertheless blanche not one whit at tons of unconstitutional federal over-reaching demonstrate their hypocrisy more than anything else. (The one-issue—whatever the issue of the day might be—“originalists” are perhaps the worst.)

Academics who—well, I guess that said it all. They’re darned near all too full of themselves, assuming that the sort of expertise they value is essential to a justice of the SCOTUS. Pettifogging elitists.

And bloggers who open their fat mouths and begin chewing away at whatever presents itself without taking thorough stock first are likely to discover that what they’ve been eating away at is their own feet. (Yeh, I’ve done it myself. So? Doesn’t make my argument invalid. 🙂

See Beldarblog for a smart lawyer’s take. Yeh, he’d have been happier with someone else, too, but he’s smart enough to know the difference between a Souter and a Thomas—something all the stuck pigs squealing about Harriet Miers aren’t.

If the enmity of the Loony Left Moonbat Brigade minions of the Demoncrapic Underground and Moooveon.orgy aren’t enough to convince one to reserve judgement on Miers, perhaps Markos Moulitas’ (of DailyKos infamy) antipathy toward Miers could persuade Loony RIGHT Moonbats to chill a bit, ya think?

Gee, as easily as the thought of a Justice Miers inflames the doofs on the Left AND the doofs on the Right, it seems she might be just the centrist to pull a divided court together…

Romeocat has some commentary to check out re: the Miers nomination flap. You oughta kick yourself if you miss it. I like her comment, “I’m firmly on the fence, and adopting a wait-and-see attitude.”