Author: David

Stop Illegal Immigration! (Let’s just call it what it is, shall we? Stop Border Outlaws! heh)

Here are a (very) few of the organizations and resources concerned citizens are manning:

California Border Police Initiative A site seeking to promote the organization of a new state police force in California strictly for the purpose of enforcing California’s border against illegal immigration: “It’s time to stop complaining about Washington not doing its job. It’s time to ENFORCE THE LAW and PROTECT OUR OWN BORDER…” An interesting idea.

FAIR: Federation for American Immigration Reform “FAIR seeks to improve border security, to stop illegal immigration, and to promote immigration levels consistent with the national interest—more traditional rates of about 300,000 a year.”

IllegalAliens.US “This site, besides mocking the term undocumented, is an illegal immigration primer whose goal is to provide information on illegal immigration prevention, enforcement, and attrition.”

IllegalAliens.US has a sister site, Report Illegals that offers a one-stop form “…to report illegal aliens (‘undocumented immigrants’) and illegal employers to the appropriate U.S. government agencies.”

A few more:

ProjectUSA
Americans for Immigration Control
American Immigration Control Foundation
Coalition for the Future American Worker
English First
9/11 Families for a Secure America

These are literally just a few of the many sites and resources available. Explore them. Consider the information they present. Discover just what a serious issue this is and make a committment to become in involved: Guard the Borders!

Blogs on Board:

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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.

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Well, she can’t seem to make up her mind what to call her blog (Just a Girl, now ;-), but Mel has the scoop on the inane names celebs gave their kids.

Hey, Mel: maybe they’re just trying to capture the real essence of the person. You know, like Gwyneth Paltrow wants her kid’s name to say “Bite me!” or something… I dunno, maybe the kid’s nickname can be “Sauce” or “pie a la mode”—heh

Just reading on through her blog, I hadda ask myself why I hadn’t blogrolled her yet.  Well, apart from the obvious, “What’s she calling her blog this week?” issue… (Just kidding, Mel. 🙂

Oh, as long as I’m noting new-to-my-blogroll blogs, how about that Mauser Girl? Heh.  You just have to check out the G.I. Love Chocolate Ice Cream.

Seen Dafydd ab Hugh’s new  blog, Big Lizards?

Well, what are you waiting for? Get outa here and go check it out! Well? GO!

(Sheesh… some people. 😉

Oh, BTW (what a thing to forget—guess I was in a hurry earlier)—thanks to Romeocat for the reminder. I had visited Big Lizards earlier this week, meant to go back and just flat lost track of it. *sigh*

In the wake of Katrina especially, more folks are thinking through what they might do if some sort of disaster struck their community…

Dean Ing is my go-to guy in that arena. He’s the kinda guy who can rehabilitate the pejorated term “survivalist” all by his lonesome with his down-to-earth approach to self-sufficiency.

I often recommend his novel, Pulling Through, as a painless way to be introduced to preparing for disaster (while not being caught up in some silly “Chicken Little” soap opera.) If you don’t need the fictional sugar to take some preparedness medicine, his OOP book, The Chernobyl Syndrome would fit the bill nicely as a comprehensive overview of small-scale, personal disaster preparedness. The link above is to four amazon.com affiliated selers who each have a copy of the hardback for sale. That’s not a lot of availablity, eh? I can tell you that I’m not selling my paperback copy!

A good thing about the book is Ing’s virtually painless “hobbyist” approach to self-sufficiency/disaster preparedness/survivalism. I think most of the readers of this blog would find his approach fun, if nothing else, and—what the heck!—you’d end up being more prepared to survive a disaster than probably 99% of Americans.

(Pulling Through is also available from some private sellers via amazon.com, and The Rackham Files—featuring more in a similar vein—

is available from amazon.com and from Baen Books, directly.) [UPDATE: I had read the first two chapters of The Rackham Files in an online preview. Just got the book.

Pulling Through

is included in it. Oh, and note the books were written in the 1980s (so references to political issues may be out of date) but are nevertheless pretty good disaster relief primers.

That last is “rolling on floor kicking myself in the butt”

Such a delish Chiles Rellenos recipe I posted for the Carnival of the Recipes this week…

And then didn’t submit to the Carnival.

Oh. Well.

OH! Can stop kicking myself, now: this just in from SWWBO:

September 21, 2005
Important Announcement

Okay- from now on, the Carnival of the Recipes’ deadline for recipes sent to recipe dot carnival at gmail dot com is noon Central on Saturdays.

Whoever is hosting can have it up anytime on Saturday or Sunday of their week.

I was stuck on stupid thinking that I (or anyone else) could easily put it together on a Friday morning!!!!

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Just go.

Rich, The English Guy, has another blog that I’d missed (how many do you have, anyway, fella? ;-). Cool! what’s hot! Is a neat place to stop by and check out! Man, Rich, I don’t know how I missed the banner announcement! (Must be early oldtimers’ disease *sigh*)

Justa thought (courtesy of The Cave of Adullum): during the 16th/17th century slave trade, somewhere around 600,000 to 650,000* African slaves were transported to what is now the United States (although some were transported to French and Spanish territory, now U.S.).  During that same time, Muslims captured and took to Africa as slaves, between 1,000,000 and 1,250,000 Europeans.

I’m sure that had some kind of deleterious effect upon my European ancestors.  I want reparations. The Saudis have deep pockets. Let’s all sue them.

*note: yeh, there were 10,000,000 or more African slaves taken/transported during the same time frame, but most went elsewhere, not to what turned out to be the territory of the U.S. Brazil? Jamaica and Haiti and Cuba, ya think? Tons. Etc.

Sadly, very sadly, this is not shocking.

If the story (documentation at The Smoking Gun linked above and here) shocks you, you just haven’t been paying attention to this space’s occasional warnings that stupid people (school administrators-duh) are running public schools.

Oh, a preview of the link? How about:

“…Columbus, Ohio public school officials–found only that Wedgewood Middle School educators drank booze during the school day, got kinky with each other in the boiler room bathroom, and spoke about where to score cocaine….”

The ringleader of this lil coven of kink? The principal, of course. A principal who reportedly once told a teacher at the school, “she smoked pot daily en route to school because ‘I can’t stand those kids.’ ”

Yeh, well, that’s probably why she was a crappy teacher before she became a crappy administrator. (It’s natural selection, you know: those who can’t teach become school administrators so they can obstruct the efforts of teachers who can teach and children who want to learn.)

h.t. NIF

This is another, different hosting service that’s in alpha right now. I have NO idea what’s gonna happen when I blog this mp3 file…

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Hmmm… I think I like this better than the embedding process I had to go through with putfile.com, even though I had to come back and manually edit to add a title for the post.

Those of y’all who are regulars will recognize this file as one I posted earlier. Had it handy. Arr copyrighted 2003 DWN–if you hunt down my post listing and find it below, I think I posted a link (somewhere) to the words. 19th century gospel tune. Actually, this was kinda fun to do. I was on a music e-list where someone requested a copy of the sheet music cos an older saint in their church had asked them to find/sing it for her. Found the sheet music (tune/lyrics) and thought, hmmm… I think I’ve heard some of the old folks around here mention this tune. Sure enough, I had. So, wrote out/recorded this lil thing for them (and for the person who’d requested the sheet music) and that’s making a short story long.

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A quick question: those of y’all using Internet Exploder (The World’s Crappiest Browser, as the title bar in myversions read :-), tell me, please, does this load without problems for you or not? One comment I’ve recieved resulted in my experimental loading of Internet Exploder (the World’s Crappiest Browser) to test it, and I had a very unsatisfactory experience with it. Just wanna know how it works/doesn’t work for you.