Author: David

*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.”

Given Jean Fraud sKerry’s penchant for loose talk (and insistence on NOT being accountable for what he says and does—where are your records, John boy?) I thought it’d be appropriate that I pick up a few “talking points” from The Progressive People’s Truth Generator, the site devoted to framing everything in “progressive” language.

Jean Fraud sKerry, you are a baby-killing troglodyte and an ethnocentric racist pig because you are not enraged by phrases like “International Monetary Fund!” You are a hateful hillbilly because you think O.J. was guilty! You are an arrogant sexist because you don’t openly pine for the reconstruction of the Berlin Wall! You are a chain dog of the bourgeoisie because you do not militate for government elimination of McDonalds fast food and daily required consumption of granola and tofu!  You are a baby-killing child murderer and a chauvinistic red-meat eater because you voted to invade Iraq! You are a polluting elitist because you think that you’re entitled to own private property! You are a homophobic opportunist because you think the Rolling Stones are better than the Beatles! You are a selfish chain dog of the bourgeoisie because you’re just stupid, stupid, stupid!

heh
There. I feel better, now. Don’t you? Playing by Jean Fraud’s own rules (it’s just words, so who cares what I say?) allows one to say anything at all with no accountability.

Of course, if Jean Fraud ever developed a sense of decency, characterized by accountability and a responsible agreement between his words and deeds, I’d have to retract some of the above. But as it is, “liberalist-speak” applied to Jean Fraud seems… fitting.

Where are your records, John Kerry?

h.t. to Idunno who for the tip to the “progressive-speak” site. Hey! If you read this and think you’re the one who pointed me to the thing, give me a whack upside the head, eh?

From Cao’s Blog, this lil notice:

We’ve formed a blogburst group and here are the bloggers who are contributing so far. If you want to join the blogroll for Free Kerry’s 180, click here to email me, include the url for your blog. The blogburst is every Tuesday, so don’t forget to blog about it. All you have to do is encourage Kerry to set his 180 FREE, I’ll send you the code for the blogroll.

The more people we have, the merrier!

Some may call it ADHD, ADD, AADD or whatever. I call it non-linear thinking.

So, there I was setting a possible battery replacement for Lovely Daughter’s car up for a recharge, when a series of pinballing connections fired through my brain (outside installing the battery, front yard, used tire-based retaining wall landscaping project, mole problem, etc.) resulted in thinking, “I want one of these.  Maybe two.”

Yep. These lil guys just LOVE to eat moles. And other small animals (including poisonous snakes). Common kingsnake. Gotta get me some.

[Here’s a retread from May 2005 that approaches the problem of guarding out borders from a slightly different, uhm, angle.]

In the never-ending search for the best way to protect our borders, the U.S. government has explored many options for sealing our borders.
 
Some  of the earliest leaders in the race emerged from the idea of adapting proven technologies from the food service industry.

Containment

Field Wrap

 
Those proved impractical for various resasons, but our intrepid leadership was not deterred. Rapid advances in new technologies showed some promise.

Force Field  

Finally, congresscritters and their ilk decided the best method would be to simply require citizens to meet the ravening hordes, bowing and scraping in efforts to serve their every whim… while remaining bowed to serve the perverse desires of congresscritters from behind…

“May I serve you?” 
 
 
heh

This has been a production of the Guard the Borders Blogburst, held every Monday at Euphoric Reality and other blogs. Our mission is to keep immigration issues at the forefront. If you’d like to be a part of it, send your blog URL and name to kit.jarrell@ gmail dot com.

Blogs already on board:

Note: with the rare exception such as Tom Tancredo (congressman from Colorado), the snark above is an example of taking illegal immigration more seriously than our esteemed cpngresscritters do. For more sober takes on the issue, see Kit Jarrel’s Guard The Borders Blogburst post today, or perhaps THM’s Bacon Bits’ post, “Guard the Borders: Fixing a Broken System”. Or, CLICK on others in the blogroll to check out what folks are discovering/saying.

Linked at the Stop the ACLU Open Post and at Basil’s Blog

Where does GM find this stuff?

(Oh, I see: here.)

The new and improved tinfoil hat!

Here’s my contribution: since the “new, improved” thingy-ma-whopper cuts off all “alien mind control,” let’s do an experiment with Mass Media Podpeople. Put a few “new, improved” thingy-ma-whoppers on some MMPs and watch ‘em keel over as their remote control operators’ Waldos fail to work.

I’d pay to watch that.

On a lead from Random Rambling, I found this.


It’d make the perfect new mascot for a Republican Party that’d discovered some backbone. What fun to watch all the loony left moonbats run away! Run away!

Unfortunately, the Republican Party ought to have this for its mascot:

Well, James Lileks was in fine form Thursday…

Concerning the Miers confirmation hearings,

There will be attacks, but they’ll be mild. Usually criticism of a professional woman would the tar the critic as gynophobic sexist, but in the case of conservative women you can attack all you like, because conservative women have to give up their uteruses to join the party. Totally true, dude. There’s this big ritual in front of a giant owl and everything.

And, of course, conservative moonbats (yeh, there are some on the right end of the wagon, too) come in for some prime snark, too:

The wailing! The gnashing! The rending of garments! If the conservative reaction to Harriet Miers is any indication, Bush has no chance of winning a third term.

Just toodle on over and catch the Snarkmeister at his best.

Go ahead. If you’re not familiar with the story, just CLICK HERE and read it.  Then come back for my observation re: the Saturday, October 8, 2005 Day by Day cartoon.

OK, back now? 🙂

The dialog in the Chris Muir DbD cartoon for today reads,

Zed: I’m successful, I shoot, open doors for women, yet society looks down on me because I’m a white hetero male.
Zed: I need… I need…
Sam: Dramatic lighting?
Zed: No. Too metrosexual.

So, what’s wrong with this picture? 🙂

Sam’s line ought to read: Just tell “society” to take a long walk off a short pier.

It’s been months… I thought these things had died out…

But then, just yesterday, doing an introspective retrospective (yeh, I just wanted to say tht), I recalled the spate of memes I was tagged for a few months back.

Well, the tagging thing is back… and Romeocat  tagged me for this one: Five Things About Five Things

Five things I plan to do before I die:

1. Sleep through at least one whole night. heh
2. Learn patience. Like now, OK?
3. See some grandkids. Preferably my own.
4. Fly. Ultrtalight will do.
5. Finish this house (no, really! I do plan to… )

Five things I can do:

1. Make anything I can “draw out” in my head.
2. Play some musical instruments
3. Write music
4. Fix most mechanical or computer things
5. Cook

Five things I can’t do:

1. Be a woman. (Or understand them 🙂
2. Drive behind slowly moving roadblocks (Park it off the road to count your cows, Jasper!)
3. Speak gently to a jackass
4. Lose those last few pounds (apparently)
5. Run a marathon (unless perhaps I got new knees 🙂

Five things that attract me to the opposite sex:

1. It’s the eyes, baby…
2. A genuine smile
3. Intelligence
4. Good legs
5. Reminds me in some way of my Wonder Woman (all the above plus any of her characteristics)

Five things I say a lot:

1. “Nothing is an awe-inspiring yet essentially undigested concept… ” and the rest of the P.L. Heath piece until I get the point across that “Nothing” is rarely an appropriate response to a query.
2. Would you like an apple or cherry pie with that; fries or a shake?” (No, never worked at McDonalds)
3. I’m sorry. (Well, probably need to say it more often, especially after #1)
4. Wanna buy a vowell?
5. What was your first clue, Sherlock?

And here’s where I deliberately introduce a viral mutation in this “meme”—when you post your “Five Things” take the top name/link off the list of five below and add your blogname/link at the bottom spot.

1. ArmyWifeToddlerMom
2. Fuzzilicious Thinking
3. Flight Pundit
4. Cathouse Chat
5. third world county

Then trackback—if you can–to the “meme” post of the person who tagged you to let ‘em know you high- (or low-) fived the thing. (If your blog interface doesn’t “do” trackbacks, you can get a free account at Haloscan or use the Whizbang! Trackback tool.) Not necessary, but a nice touch, I think.

Tag five. So, who to tag…

Christine of BTW, Diane of Diane’s Stuff, Rich of The English Guy, Mel of I’m Just a Girl, Dr. Phat Tony and Kat of Keep the Coffee Coming.  There, in case one just doesn’t feel like playing, I’ve tagged an extra. (But folks, don’t take that as an easy out. Even though I do have others I’d like to tag, too.)

Alpha Update: Rich gets to say “First!” 🙂

Beta Update: Mel’s on the ball, too… but I’d better watch my back for a while from the way she sounds. heh

Gamma Update: Diane has her 5X5 up, now, too.

Stop the ACLU

“In 1920, two German professors published a small book advocating the killing of people whose lives were “devoid of value.” Nineteen years later, the professors’ proposal became reality when Nazi Germany established a euthanasia program targeting physically and mentally disabled children, elderly patients in long-term care, and invalids from World War I.”_1_

Others worldwide agreed, among them such “leading intellectuals” as  George Bernard Shaw, Margaret Sanger, Francis Galton, Woodrow Wilson, Oliver Wendell Holmes and Louis Brandeis. Oh, and the not-so-intellectual Adolf Hitler and Joseph Stalin came on board as time went on, too.

“The theory of eugenics postulated a crisis of the gene pool leading to the deterioration of the human race. The best human beings were not breeding as rapidly as the inferior ones — the foreigners, immigrants, Jews, degenerates, the unfit, and the ‘feeble minded’ … As Margaret Sanger said, ‘Fostering the good-for-nothing at the expense of the good is an extreme cruelty … there is not greater curse to posterity than that of bequeathing them an increasing population of imbeciles.’ She spoke of the burden of caring for ‘this dead weight of human waste.’ ”_2_

Among other tools for eliminating “this dead weight of human waste” (“unwanted” human lives “not worth living”), eugenicists espoused euthanasia as a positive value.

Fast forward…

Euthanasia today is represented as a positive choice for people whose lives are a burden to themselves or others, but

“Informed consent is a sham, says Dr. Chevlen, ‘behind which doctors may hide the awful fact that it is really they who make the life-and-death decisions for their patients. Legalized euthanasia is not freedom to choose; it is not even freedom to die. It is freedom to be killed.’ “ _3_

and Lucy Gwin puts the issue firmly in perspective with an account of a group of disabled folk (of which she’s a member) fighting to retain their right to life.  Fighting, among others, the ACLU

“Harder for them to accept was the fact that the Right to Die is mis-named. Hey, I told them, you’ve got that right already. What’s missing now, and what the Right to Die provides, is the right for physician to kill patients without criminal penalty.” _4_

The whole thing is worth reading.

So, is the ACLU really philosophical bedfellows with Stalin, Hitler and Sanger on the issue of euthanasia?

Yep.

_5_, _6_, _7_

“Remember, it is the American Civil Liberties Union which is now behind all abortion on demand, euthanasia, and coming soon perhaps, infanticide for impaired babies.” (an O’Reilly’s Talking Points Memo excerpt)

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