Surprise b-day party: Today is Son & Heir’s birthday anniversary. Go on. Head on over to Random Rambling and leave him a “Surprise! Happy B.D.!” comment.
🙂
(And no, I don’t expect to keep it a secret long, cos he does read this blog… :-))
Monday Open Post/Roundup
Yep. Open trackback post. You either know what to do by now or need coaching. Just link to this post and track back. Leave word in comments or send me an e- if you need help. See further info below the short roundup of interesting news/posts.
Thanks to DL, I now know that Austrailian scientists have used a worm gene to engineer high levels of Omega-3 fats in pigs. Wouldn’t it be ironic if the worm gene they used came from trichinella spiralis?
Vicente Fox’s blatant hypocrisy is now mysteriously disappeared from the WaPo article cited by Allapundit (filling in for Michelle Malkin), but still available in a transcript found in a search of the WaPo site:
We are working in the inner part and in the southern part of the country to stop migration flows that come from Central America that are crossing illegally the southern border of Mexico. And with all due respect to the dignity of these people, respecting their human rights, they are stopped, they remain on temporary basis in the stations. We offer them services with dignity. And then we send them back to their communities of origin: 240,000 people, people that were detained, and then they were sent back to Central America.
Yeh. Guard HIS country’s borders, refuse entry to “undocumented immigrants” and ship ’em back home. As long as he can hornswaggle President Bush into NOT doing the same with OUR borders…
David Bresnahan has a lil commentary on the hypocrisy of Fox and the gullibility of Bush. (h.t. Cathouse Chat.) An excerpt
I’m about to plan a little trip with my family and extended family, and I would like to ask you to assist me. I’m going to walk across the border from the U.S. into Mexico, and I need to make a few arrangements. I know you can help with this.
I plan to skip all the legal stuff like visas, passports, immigration quotas and laws. I’m sure they handle those things the same way you do here.
So, would you mind telling your buddy, President Vicente Fox, that I’m on my way over? Please let him know that I will be expecting the following:
1. Free medical care for my entire family.
2. English-speaking government bureaucrats for all services I might need, whether I use them or not.
3. All government forms need to be printed in English.
Be sure to read the other 10 points and attendant commentary…
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I made brief mention of this in my weekend open post, but you guys NEED to read this, so I’m mentioning it again: Right Wing News’ Answering 13 Frequently Asked Questions About Illegal Immigration. It answers all the major (and moonbatterific) opposition to proper border control, exposing some of the stupidity, cupidity and downright morbidity of moonbats, politicians, “racists” and all the others who seem intent on insuring America is conquered by illegal aliens. I’ll not excerpt any of it here, because you need to READ THE WHOLE THING.
Somehow, Jonah Goldberg managed to get an op-ed published by the LA Slimes excoriating legislators who oppress blacks.
I’M THINKING of a cabal of radical legislators who don’t reflect the views of average Americans or even the interests of their own constituents. They use wedge issues, play the race card and push their party to the ideological extreme. They collude with outside activists, many of whom use religion as a Trojan horse for a radical political agenda.
Well, well…
A couple from The Random Yak demonstrate why that blog ought to be on your “daily reads” schedule: “For Crying Out Loud!” is the Random Maniyak’s regular weekly biblical ,exegesis/exposition. (For a lawyer, he’s a surprisingly better “preacher” than 99% of that critter I’ve known.) And Random Yak’s Yak of the Week Award: Education and Tolerance elicited a loooooong email response from me (cos comments are still turned off at TRY). DO read the post, though. Another good example of the validity of calling public schools “prisons for kids”.
Just go ahead and consider The Random Yak my pick for “Most Under-read Blog of the Week Deserving Mucho Highaliffic Traffic” (but keep in mind: if The Random Yak had 10,000 readers a day, I’d still consider it under-read, eh?).
How to Escape Senility, at Jerry Pournelle’s place, was sorta encouraging. I still think the plan needs coffee.¹ ²
Peggy Noonan’s column for March 30 is moving AND well-thought. Imagine: reason and emotions melded into another typically Noon-sh must-read in, Patriots, Then and Now. A sample? OK:
I had a great experience the other night. I met some of the 114 living recipients of the Medal of Honor, the nation’s highest military award. It was at their annual dinner, held, as it has been the past four years, at the New York Stock Exchange…
…It’s the broad public knowledge, or intuition, in America, that we are not assimilating our immigrants patriotically. And if you don’t do that, you’ll lose it all.
We used to do it. We loved our country with full-throated love, we had no ambivalence. We had pride and appreciation. We were a free country. We communicated our pride and delight in this in a million ways–in our schools, our movies, our popular songs, our newspapers. It was just there, in the air. Immigrants breathed it in. That’s how the last great wave of immigrants, the European wave of 1880-1920, was turned into a great wave of Americans.
We are not assimilating our immigrants patriotically now. We are assimilating them culturally. Within a generation their children speak Valley Girl on cell phones. “So I’m like ‘no,” and he’s all ‘yeah,’ and I’m like, ‘In your dreams.’ ” Whether their parents are from Trinidad, Bosnia, Lebanon or Chile, their children, once Americans, know the same music, the same references, watch the same shows. And to a degree and in a way it will hold them together. But not forever and not in a crunch…
Go. Read it all. Then re-read the Teddy Roosevelt quote in my weekend open post, again.
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*heh*
I’ve been waiting on this day since last Fall. When “fall back” time began screwing with my biorhythms, my venerable (*heh*) SkyScan clock stopped correcting for DST on/off, and it wouldn’t let me manually set it, either. Every time I corrected it, it’d reset itself an hour ahead.
So, I just learned to subtract and hour from the readout. The rest—days, moon phase, minutes, seconds—remained accurate.
Well, today the semi-annual “screw with my biorhythms” day has come around again and NOW the thing has the right hour as well as minutes. seconds, etc.
FINALLY!
*heh*
Doing a time-check at The Crazy Rants of Samantha Burns, where Sam, in a time warp to match the craziest of her rants, is living a month in the future…
Carnival of the Recipes #85
…At Blog o’Ram (every time I see that I wanna say, “baaah” :-))—a very special edition that includes a few recipes you definitely haven’t run across before, like,
Make a moderately thick syrup of April by combining a couple cups of fresh April with about a cup of water and enough sugar to make it sweet. Cook until moderately thick and syruppy.
Well, what did you expect? This carnival edition was posted on April 1, after all.
But there are a coupla (more than, actually) cool, more “normal” recipes, too. Take Pears Mazama, for example. Any recipe requiring a fire extinguisher is right up my alley.
Anywho, lots more good stuff at the carnival post, so just go there and add some more stumbling blocks to your attempts to diet.
In other news… (it’s related, really, though not in an immediately obvious way), Christine made Feedster Feed of the Day. Nice. WTG, Christine!
Here’s yer sign, “reconquistadores”
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BTW, before some asshat accuses me of being a racist, let me just say this. Anyone who makes that sort of accusation is, well, stupid and probably belongs to the race of Moonbatius Dementis from the planet Democrappia, and so are simply demonstrating that they can pass flatus via their faces.
I will admit to being “prejudiced” (to stretch the meaning of that word almost out of reason) against people who enter this country illegally, refuse to assimilate and demand that America submit to being “reconquered” by them.
Remember the Alamo, pachucos.
I do.
Death by Remote Control
Air Force Predator UAV Engages Insurgents Placing IED
Balad Air Base, Iraq — An MQ-1B Predator unmanned aerial vehicle engaged three anti-Iraqi forces in the process of placing an improvised explosive device along a road near Balad Air Base yesterday evening. The Predator launched an AGM-114 Hellfire missile against the group.
Result: Three dead terrorists. A very good thing.
Even better? After the in-theater guys have launched the Predators in Iraq, control of the vehicles are handed off to teams of controllers based… at Nellis AFB, Nevada. So these terrorists were taken out from literally thousands of miles away, by remote control.
Handing off to Adam’s Blog.
Egg-Potato-Sausage Whatchacallit
Yeh, yeh: I don’t have some kinda fancy name for this. It’s a variation of other dishes I make, but the twists make for enough of a difference that it’s a handy thing to have in my hip pocket for one of those “What the heck do I make for dinner tonight?” days. Fast, easy.
Ingredients:
- 2 LARGE (or three medium) baking potatoes
- 1/2 pound smoked (pre-cooked) sausage
- 2C shredded jack, cheddar colby cheese–or any mix of 2 or 3
- 6 medium or larger eggs
- up to 3/4 cups milk or cream
- 1/2 medium yellow onion
- 2 cloves garlic (or more if your taste is like mine)
- 1 or 2 carrots
- 1/8 tsp celery seed (the stuff has a really strong flavor, so while you can use more, start on this low side)
- olive oil
- your fav Italian seasoning. For this I like the McCormick’s Pizza “Grinder”—herbs n spices in a handy grinder container. Not bad & better than pre-ground stuff. You can crush/grind fresh or dried Italian-style herbs in your fav mix, though.
- 1-2 pinches of rubbed sage.
Tagged again!
I’ll work out just who I’m going to inflict with this a lil later, but for now, just a quick correction of the graphic Lady Diane tagged me with… seems she had the wrong name on the thing…
What’re you listening to?
If I make the time (there’s always time to blog if I re-prioritize my life ya know :-)), I want to do a roundup of some interesting posts later, but for now a lil musical post and the question: What are you listening to these days?
This lil tune, Davenport Blues, is a Bix Beiderbecke number from 1927, the year Bix began playing a Vincent Bach Strad (Apollo model #660). This isn’t my fav style of music, although it’s among my favs of 20th Century musical styles, but the musicianship of this ensemble is really appealing. You hear the unique trombone stylings of Tommy Dorsey, for example, in this old 78 recording (in a highly-compressed mp3 format), only where they complement Bix’s play—just as good backup should do. Another of my fav brass players had this to say of Bix:
“All I’ve ever called the dear boy was Bix … just the name alone will make one stand up—also their ears. And when he played—why, the ears did the same thing …” –Louis Armstrong
Get more Bix here:
BTW, if you want more Bix that includes Davenport Blues, try this CD:
Here’s Davenport Blues from a poor mp3 recording off an old 78:
Take a lil time, if you would, and review the Principles of Classicism. See how many of them apply to Davenport Blues as opposed to current Top 40 crap. Bix is surprisingly closer to “Classical” than some might think. DB is no Die Zauberflöte, but I think Mozart could relate to Bix (in more ways than just musical, alas!)
Sounding the trumpet call at Blue Star Chronicles, TMH’s Bacon Bits and The Real Ugly American.
Friday-Weekend OTA Post/Citizen of the World
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UPDATE:
“In the first place we should insist that if the immigrant who comes here in good faith becomes an American and assimilates himself to us, he shall be treated on an exact equality with everyone else, for it is an outrage to discriminate against any such man because of creed, or birthplace, or origin. But this is predicated upon the man’s becoming in very fact an American, and nothing but an American… There can be no divided allegiance here. Any man who says he is an American, but something else also, isn’t an American at all. We have room for but one flag, the American flag, and this excludes the red flag, which symbolizes all wars against liberty and civilization, just as much as it excludes any foreign flag of a nation to which we are hostile…We have room for but one language here, and that is the English language…and we have room for but one sole loyalty and that is a loyalty to the American people.”
—Theodore Roosevelt, 1919
(Yeh, I added the emphasis, but I can imagine Teddy Roosevelt emphasizing those things… )
Is it just me or are there a few other folks who are dead tired of President Bush and our congrescritters spouting lies about illegal immigrants? Deporting them would be “impossible” according to words I heard dripping from Senator McCain’s fangs earlier today—oh! and our economy would be kneecapped too, apparently.
Bushwa.
What was lost in cheap labor could be made up easily on the back end from not having our social services, schools, law enforcement, etc., strained by millions of illegals who export much of their income SOUTH, where it does our economy no good, anyway. Run those numbers, Mr. McCain, before you spout your bullshit. Heck, the monies saved in the pubschool arena alone would be HUGE.
I guess U.S. citizenship doesn’t mean anything any more. How about alla us taxpayers simply declare ourselves citizens of the world and tell the IRS to take a hike. All it’d take would be 50 or 60 million truly fed up taxpayers declaring themselves illegal aliens, claiming all the social net benefits the other illegals do and refusing to play the political elite’s game any more.
Yeh, yeh. Never happen. 60% to 80% of Americans supposedly want real border control (depending on who takes the poll and how much the pollsters wanna lie for their clients). 75%-80% of congresscritters wanna give away the store.
Who do you think will carry the day? The sheeple or their masters?
Well, at least McCain and his lying cronies are hilarious liars. That way we can laugh our way into subjugation to the reconquistas or the muslims. Whichever ends up as our eventual rulers.
UPDATE: This from Jerry Pournelle, today:
If what we want is control of the border and deportation of illegal immigrants, the remedy is obvious. Close the borders with a wall, station several regiments of light cavalry along the southern border, and be serious about people showing up for immigration status hearings. Require local sheriffs to inform the federal authorities about illegal immigrants. Have the Border Patrol agents do sweeps in the obvious places. Change the Social Security laws to require the Social Security Administration to inform the Border Patrol when payments show up for non-existent social security accounts (at the moment they aren’t even allowed to make such reports, so it’s safe to make up a Social Security number). Make it a federal crime to assume the identity of a citizen.
And offer bounty hunters $2,000 a head for illegal immigrants delivered to a suitable internment camp. Deport those turned over if they don’t protest; if they do, intern them until their status is determined.
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