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"...Among the many factors that led to the dissolution of the United States was its refusal to guard its borders. The influx of cheap workers displacing citizens from jobs; the strain on the economy of government social programs supporting these workers (large prtions whose wages often returned to their countries of origin instead of recirculating in the U.S. economy); the drag on educational systems caused by "bi-lingual" programs; the dissolution of the "American melting pot" and resultant dilution of citizen status; illegal aliens importing not only non-assimilating cultures but large numbers of criminals; porous borders allowing active enemies of the United States easy entry (Islamic terrorists and others): these and many other deleterious effects of the de facto "Open Borders" practiced by the United States in the late 20th and early 21st centuries were major elements contributing to its downfall..."-The Rise and Fall of the United States of America, translated from Chinese, 2150.

Think it couldn’t happen that way? It’s happened before. As has famously been said, those who fail to learn from history are doomed to repeat its mistakes… in endless, but predictable, variations.

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Yeh, what he said.

Dittoed at Bloggin’ Outloud, The Land of Ozz, Committees of Correspondence, Pirates! Man your Women!

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This has been a production of the Guard the Borders Blogburst. It was started by Euphoric Reality, and serves to keep immigration issues in the forefront of our minds as we’re going about our daily lives and continuing to fight the war on terror. If you are concerned with the trend of illegal immigration facing our country, join our blogburst! Just send an email with your blog name and url to kit.jarrell at gmail dot com.

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"...Among the many factors that led to the dissolution of the United States was its refusal to guard its borders. The influx of cheap workers displacing citizens from jobs; the strain on the economy of government social programs supporting these workers (large prtions whose wages often returned to their countries of origin instead of recirculating in the U.S. economy); the drag on educational systems caused by "bi-lingual" programs; the dissolution of the "American melting pot" and resultant dilution of citizen status; illegal aliens importing not only non-assimilating cultures but large numbers of criminals; porous borders allowing active enemies of the United States easy entry (Islamic terrorists and others): these and many other deleterious effects of the de facto "Open Borders" practiced by the United States in the late 20th and early 21st centuries were major elements contributing to its downfall..."-The Rise and Fall of the United States of America, translated from Chinese, 2150.

Think it couldn’t happen that way? It’s happened before. As has famously been said, those who fail to learn from history are doomed to repeat its mistakes… in endless, but predictable, variations.

This is an open post. Link here and trackback. Have questions about open posting? The MaryHunter says it as well as anyone:

(What’s a trackback? Bad Example explains.) If your blog software can’t send trackbacks you can use Wizbang’s Standalone Trackback Pinger. If you have trouble, please leave a comment.

Yeh, what he said.

Dittoed at Bloggin’ Outloud, The Land of Ozz, Committees of Correspondence, Pirates! Man your Women!

_______________________________

This has been a production of the Guard the Borders Blogburst. It was started by Euphoric Reality, and serves to keep immigration issues in the forefront of our minds as we’re going about our daily lives and continuing to fight the war on terror. If you are concerned with the trend of illegal immigration facing our country, join our blogburst! Just send an email with your blog name and url to kit.jarrell at gmail dot com.

Blogs already on board:

"...Among the many factors that led to the dissolution of the United States was its refusal to guard its borders. The influx of cheap workers displacing citizens from jobs; the strain on the economy of government social programs supporting these workers (large prtions whose wages often returned to their countries of origin instead of recirculating in the U.S. economy); the drag on educational systems caused by "bi-lingual" programs; the dissolution of the "American melting pot" and resultant dilution of citizen status; illegal aliens importing not only non-assimilating cultures but large numbers of criminals; porous borders allowing active enemies of the United States easy entry (Islamic terrorists and others): these and many other deleterious effects of the de facto "Open Borders" practiced by the United States in the late 20th and early 21st centuries were major elements contributing to its downfall..."-The Rise and Fall of the United States of America, translated from Chinese, 2150.

Think it couldn’t happen that way? It’s happened before. As has famously been said, those who fail to learn from history are doomed to repeat its mistakes… in endless, but predictable, variations.

This is an open post. Link here and trackback. Have questions about open posting? The MaryHunter says it as well as anyone:

(What’s a trackback? Bad Example explains.) If your blog software can’t send trackbacks you can use Wizbang’s Standalone Trackback Pinger. If you have trouble, please leave a comment.

Yeh, what he said.

Dittoed at Bloggin’ Outloud, The Land of Ozz, Committees of Correspondence, Pirates! Man your Women!

_______________________________

This has been a production of the Guard the Borders Blogburst. It was started by Euphoric Reality, and serves to keep immigration issues in the forefront of our minds as we’re going about our daily lives and continuing to fight the war on terror. If you are concerned with the trend of illegal immigration facing our country, join our blogburst! Just send an email with your blog name and url to kit.jarrell at gmail dot com.

Blogs already on board:

Romeocat’s Advent Meditation at CatHouse Chat today is about the first missionaries of the Good News… from Luke 2:15-18.

Here’s another lil piece from Winterlude to listen to as you read her thoughts on the scripture passage.

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There’s a star in the East on Christmas morn,
Rise up, shepherd, and follow.
It will lead to the place where the Christ was born,
Rise up, shepherd, and follow.

Refrain

Follow, follow, rise up, shepherd, and follow.
Follow the Star of Bethlehem,
Rise up, shepherd, and follow.

If you take good heed to the angel’s words,
Rise up, shepherd, and follow.
You’ll forget your flocks, you’ll forget your herds,
Rise up, shepherd, and follow.

Refrain

Romeocat’s Advent Meditation at CatHouse Chat today is about the first missionaries of the Good News… from Luke 2:15-18.

Here’s another lil piece from Winterlude to listen to as you read her thoughts on the scripture passage.

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There’s a star in the East on Christmas morn,
Rise up, shepherd, and follow.
It will lead to the place where the Christ was born,
Rise up, shepherd, and follow.

Refrain

Follow, follow, rise up, shepherd, and follow.
Follow the Star of Bethlehem,
Rise up, shepherd, and follow.

If you take good heed to the angel’s words,
Rise up, shepherd, and follow.
You’ll forget your flocks, you’ll forget your herds,
Rise up, shepherd, and follow.

Refrain

Romeocat’s Advent Meditation at CatHouse Chat today is about the first missionaries of the Good News… from Luke 2:15-18.

Here’s another lil piece from Winterlude to listen to as you read her thoughts on the scripture passage.

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There’s a star in the East on Christmas morn,
Rise up, shepherd, and follow.
It will lead to the place where the Christ was born,
Rise up, shepherd, and follow.

Refrain

Follow, follow, rise up, shepherd, and follow.
Follow the Star of Bethlehem,
Rise up, shepherd, and follow.

If you take good heed to the angel’s words,
Rise up, shepherd, and follow.
You’ll forget your flocks, you’ll forget your herds,
Rise up, shepherd, and follow.

Refrain

(I am NOT Scrooge! Really! 🙂

Recently a new “dollar store” opened in America’s Third World Countyâ„¢. Man! Is it ever busy with Christmas shoppers! Just about every tightwad in America’s Third World Countyâ„¢ can be found there completing their Christmas shopping.

Including me.

Of course, most of the stuff is “made by slave labor in China (or some other such place)” in frank imitation of name brand products (“Nelson chocolate” could fool some folks’ eyes… )… just not as well. Other stuff is perfectly fine for the uses one needs it for. I got a set of seives for my kitchen and some funnels. $1 per set. Perfectly good. Other stuff…

Let me put it to you this way. You know that neighbor who borrows tools but never quite gets around to returning them? Now, I can afford a rather complete set of hand tools (a buch apiece–sometimes a buck for a small set of tools) that I can loan to such persons… preserving the good wrenches, sockets, etc., for my own use. (Hey! if a $4 socket or a $20 wrench goes missing, it adds up, especially as against a couple of bucks for a socket set and a wrench… heh)

Heck, if you could shop here, Christmas presents for inlaws would be a snap.

Of course, nothing could match the Christmas present I gave a really crappy boss one year. Snooty as all get out-he and his wife both. Soooo proud of their good (and expensive) taste in decorating. (Yeh, right. Over-the-top Thomas Kincaidish kitsch home at MUCH higher than Kincaid prices.) I took a Christmas card I’d gotten as an advertizing promo from my insurance agent (knowing his agent was with another company, in another town, etc.), trimmed the front, framed it in a junk frame I had sitting around in stuff my parents had dumped off on me in a “we don’t have room to move this” gesture.

Saw it prominently displayed in their entry on several later “come on by so we can brag on our gauche taste” visits to their home.

Warmed the cockles of this tightwad’s heart, it surely did.

Openly confessed (after much weeping and wailing and gnashing of teeth) at Peakah’s Provocations, Basil’s for Brunch, Sunday Specials at Jo’s Cafe.

(I am NOT Scrooge! Really! 🙂

Recently a new “dollar store” opened in America’s Third World Countyâ„¢. Man! Is it ever busy with Christmas shoppers! Just about every tightwad in America’s Third World Countyâ„¢ can be found there completing their Christmas shopping.

Including me.

Of course, most of the stuff is “made by slave labor in China (or some other such place)” in frank imitation of name brand products (“Nelson chocolate” could fool some folks’ eyes… )… just not as well. Other stuff is perfectly fine for the uses one needs it for. I got a set of seives for my kitchen and some funnels. $1 per set. Perfectly good. Other stuff…

Let me put it to you this way. You know that neighbor who borrows tools but never quite gets around to returning them? Now, I can afford a rather complete set of hand tools (a buch apiece–sometimes a buck for a small set of tools) that I can loan to such persons… preserving the good wrenches, sockets, etc., for my own use. (Hey! if a $4 socket or a $20 wrench goes missing, it adds up, especially as against a couple of bucks for a socket set and a wrench… heh)

Heck, if you could shop here, Christmas presents for inlaws would be a snap.

Of course, nothing could match the Christmas present I gave a really crappy boss one year. Snooty as all get out-he and his wife both. Soooo proud of their good (and expensive) taste in decorating. (Yeh, right. Over-the-top Thomas Kincaidish kitsch home at MUCH higher than Kincaid prices.) I took a Christmas card I’d gotten as an advertizing promo from my insurance agent (knowing his agent was with another company, in another town, etc.), trimmed the front, framed it in a junk frame I had sitting around in stuff my parents had dumped off on me in a “we don’t have room to move this” gesture.

Saw it prominently displayed in their entry on several later “come on by so we can brag on our gauche taste” visits to their home.

Warmed the cockles of this tightwad’s heart, it surely did.

Openly confessed (after much weeping and wailing and gnashing of teeth) at Peakah’s Provocations, Basil’s for Brunch, Sunday Specials at Jo’s Cafe.

(I am NOT Scrooge! Really! 🙂

Recently a new “dollar store” opened in America’s Third World Countyâ„¢. Man! Is it ever busy with Christmas shoppers! Just about every tightwad in America’s Third World Countyâ„¢ can be found there completing their Christmas shopping.

Including me.

Of course, most of the stuff is “made by slave labor in China (or some other such place)” in frank imitation of name brand products (“Nelson chocolate” could fool some folks’ eyes… )… just not as well. Other stuff is perfectly fine for the uses one needs it for. I got a set of seives for my kitchen and some funnels. $1 per set. Perfectly good. Other stuff…

Let me put it to you this way. You know that neighbor who borrows tools but never quite gets around to returning them? Now, I can afford a rather complete set of hand tools (a buch apiece–sometimes a buck for a small set of tools) that I can loan to such persons… preserving the good wrenches, sockets, etc., for my own use. (Hey! if a $4 socket or a $20 wrench goes missing, it adds up, especially as against a couple of bucks for a socket set and a wrench… heh)

Heck, if you could shop here, Christmas presents for inlaws would be a snap.

Of course, nothing could match the Christmas present I gave a really crappy boss one year. Snooty as all get out-he and his wife both. Soooo proud of their good (and expensive) taste in decorating. (Yeh, right. Over-the-top Thomas Kincaidish kitsch home at MUCH higher than Kincaid prices.) I took a Christmas card I’d gotten as an advertizing promo from my insurance agent (knowing his agent was with another company, in another town, etc.), trimmed the front, framed it in a junk frame I had sitting around in stuff my parents had dumped off on me in a “we don’t have room to move this” gesture.

Saw it prominently displayed in their entry on several later “come on by so we can brag on our gauche taste” visits to their home.

Warmed the cockles of this tightwad’s heart, it surely did.

Openly confessed (after much weeping and wailing and gnashing of teeth) at Peakah’s Provocations, Basil’s for Brunch, Sunday Specials at Jo’s Cafe.

Missed Romeocat’s Advent Meditation yesterday while Typepad was down. Here are yesterday’s and today’s Advent Meditations. DO do yourself a favor and pop on over for a read. I’m posting mp3s for you to have musical accompaniment while there. Just CLICK on one of the links to her posts (above) after starting one of the files (below).

Note: the two cuts below are from OOP albums. The first, Go, Tell It on the Mountain, is from a Dalas Brass album, Christmas Brass, that is available in a re-issue… minus a couple of songs (bummer). The second cut, Come, Thou Long-Expected Jesus, is from Winterlude, another all-instrumental album that is available for a rather stiff price from Amazon.com, and perhaps elsewhere, though it’s out of print (OOP).

Enjoy!

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