"In a democracy (‘rule by mob’), those who refuse to learn from history will be the majority and will dictate that everyone else suffer for their ignorance."
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
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 Already on Board:
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 IIâ€.
Sowell’s comments on spoiled brats leads rather well into David Limbaugh’s observations, “More thoughts on Miersâ€.
The Anchoress points out the hypocrisy of (“the egregiousâ€*) David Frum of neocon infamy—praised Miers and prophesied her nomination back in the summer, now flip–flopped and attacking her.
*â€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.
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!â€
Where in the world did that come from? you ask. (Of course you do.)
Here.
Will wonders never cease? Life. At Microsoft.
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.â€_*_
What was this horrible experience, this horrific event that quite possibly scarred poor, dear Pinky for life?
Pinky—along with 32 other “teens and tweensâ€â€”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.