"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."
Jim Geraghty slaps Anne Rice with a big fat cluebat.
“To my country I want to say this: During this crisis you failed us…†–Anne Rice
Yeh, right.
“We failed you? No, oh brilliant creator of Exit to Eden, you failed. You might not think of it this way, but: Your leaders failed to upgrade the levees. You elected a bunch of weepers and blame-shifters who lost their head in a crisis.â€â€“Jim Geraghty
Just read it all.
Stop the ACLU Blogburst mini-roundup
Understand: this is a very partial mini-roundup, from blogs selected semi-randomly out of the 100 or so blogs that are a part of the Stop the ACLU “family,†so to get more, browse through the Stop the ACLU Blogroll (separate post below) or on my sidebar. (Yeh, some of them post more-or-less on Thursdays, some at other times of the week. Poke around a bit.)
GribbitOnline posts a potential victory.
Pirate’s Cove hits us with a Cluebat about what the ACLU Whackjobs are up to now.
Stop the ACLU notes another cozy lil ACLU-Islamofacist terrorist cuddle.
Elephant in my Coffee trips through the blogospheric tulips tracking down Views of the ACLU…Scotland.
Sweet Spirits of Ammonia asks Where Were You, ACLU?
More of course in various of the Stop the ACLU Blogroll blogs.
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Stop the ACLU Blogburst Blogroll
A Lady’s Ruminations **A Tic In The Mind’s Eye American Dinosaur American Patriot 9/12 **And Rightly So Angry Republican Mom **Bad Hair Blog Birth of a Neo-Con Blog Talker Blogicus **Blonde Sagacity California Conservatives 4 Truth Cao’s Blog **Carolyn Hileman’s Work Christmas Ghost **Conservative Angst Conservative Dialysis Craig’s Reflections Crosses aCross America **Daily Inklings Def Conservative Elephant In My Coffee **Euphoric Reality **Evil Conservative Blog **Flomblog Freedom Of Thought Freedom-Of Fundamentally Right GINASRANTINGS GM’s Corner **Gribbit’s Word **In My Right Mind **Info 4 Beer Is It Just Me? **Is This Life? It Is What It Is JackLewis.net Jo’s Cafe Just Mitch Kender’s Musings Kill Righty **Knowledge Is Power Lady Madonna- Headlines **LEAVWORLD legal redux Mad tech **Making Tomorrow’s Military Today **Mean Ol’ Meany Merri Musings **Middle America’s Worldview **More Sense Than Money **Mr Minority **Museum Of Leftwing Lunacy Musing Minds My Political Soapbox My Truth Machine **MyView NIF **NY Girl Obiter Dictum Blog Oderint dum metuant **Ogre’s View Our Stars and Stripes Parrot Check **Part Time Pundit Patriots For Bush PBS Watch Pettifog **Pirate’s Cove Pulpit Pounder RAGE 4 Truth Real Teen Red State Rant **Regular Ron **Release The Hounds Right On! A Conservative Opinion Right Wing Nation **RightFaith Smithereen’s Files Steve’s Blog **Stop The ACLU Stop The ACLU Montana **Swap Blog **Sweet Spirits of Ammonia The American Patriots **The Conservative UAW Guy **The Kevin Show The Lesser of Two Evils The Life And Times The Nose On Your Face **The Original Gobbleblog The Uncooperative Blogger The View From Firehouse The Wide Awakes third world county **This Space For Rent Time Hath Found Us **TMH’s Bacon Bits **Twenty First Century Paladin Undiscovered CountryVista On Current Events What Attitude Problem? White Lightning Axiom: Redux Xtreme Right Wing Zipcard2’s Blog
Hugh Hewitt, shooting fish in a barrel:
“You have to hand it to the Dems, they are nothing if not conbsistent [sic]–consistently hysterical, and consistently wrong.â€
As some now nearly forgotten commenter of the blogosphere might say, “Heh. Indeed.â€
With all the Katrina (and other) stuff, I’ve gotten a bit behind on the *cough* important news.
Dinosaurs may have been a fluffy lot
THE popular image of Tyrannosaurus rex and other killer dinosaurs may have to be changed as a scientific consensus emerges that many were covered with feathers.
“S/he eats like a bird†is a phrase that may have to, uhm, go the way of the dinosaur.
h.t. Jerry Pournelle’s Chaos Manor Mail (On another note, the same link leads to a first hand report w/photos on Katrina’s aftermath from Lt. Cdr. Phillip Pournelle, Exec of USNS SWIFT)
“When out in the yard there arose such a clatter”…
Well, actually, it sounded like mayhem. The Boys were making my late lunch an exciting one. So, I schlepped on out and saw what appeared at first to be a badger, cornered in the southwest corner of the year, under a not-so-sheltering grapevine-covered mimosa. Just a VERY large ground hog.
*sheesh*
Leo, near the site of his latest “mighty hunter” exploit
Have these small animals no sense of self-preservation? Granted, Leo’s pared down to a (for him) svelte 100 pounds and Buttons is a mere 50 or so pound (12-year-old) puppy, but surely these small invaders can figure out what the squirrels have: Don’t go messing in The Boys’ yard.
A Precision Guided Humor Assignment: Why is Hurricane Katrina George Bush’s fault?
OK, I guess I’d better get this outa the way right up front: my answer to this is not funny. It’s not even humorous. It’s deadly serious.
Unfortunately, Loony Left Moonbats may have a point in blaming Bush for a “global warming-caused†Katrina. Since the primary human cause of global warming is hot air and other “greenhouse gas emissions†resulting from the bloviation by jackass politicians, Mass Media Podpeople and eco-freak wackos, George Bush is to blame for not having them all arrested and summarily executed for any damn reason he can trump up. If he’d take this rational step, I’d vote for him for Emperor for Life.
Not funny. Not even remotely humorous. Just serious.
Actually, no. Fixing the way emergency response to natural disasters like Katrina is handled is easy. In a thought exercise.
If someone a tad more rational than Mass Media Podpeople or *spit* politicians had any input into the handling of emergency relief, we’d see some long-term thinking. Let’s look at some of the problems that cropped up in the wake of Katrina as examples in this lil thought exercise, shall we?
Looting: simple answer—shoot looters. Kindly. That is, do not wound and leave to suffer. This might well have a salutary effect upon other considering a career move into looting in the wake of natural disasters, but it only addresses surface causes. One approach toward underlying causes would be to require people sucking at the welfare teat to work for their “freebies.†(OK, make exceptions for the comatose, quadriplegic and other profoundly physically disabled for whom work cannot be found in some gummint project.)
A corollary of the “shoot the looters†(kindly) proposal is to take any and all Mass Media Podeople who bitch ad moan about the practice into manacles and chain gang ‘em in cleanup efforts. Keep ‘em too tired to flap their jaws.
People who are warned to leave an area of impending disaster but do not. These fall into two general classes: those who have the means and ability to leave but choes to stay and those who do not have means or ability to leave on their own. Those who have the means and ability to leave but chose not to ought to be viewed as having abrogated their claim to any aid. Those who do not have the means or ability to leave ougt to be viewed as the focus of aid efforts.
Flood/hurricane, etc. aid: people who chose to live in flood/hurricane prone areas certainly should be allowed to receive aid from government sources. Once. People who have received flood or hurricane, etc. relief from government agencies and chose to return to the scene of their stupidity, rebuild and try for another suck at the government teat should be left to wallow in their own resultant mess.
Make the feds, by clear statute provision, the responders of LAST RESORT. Heavens, the New Orleans mayor certainly screwed the pooch during Katrina and ought to be publicly pilloried. No, I do not mean that metaphorically. The Louisiana governor ought to be next. Jerks.
Tag people who refuse aid with implanted RFIDs and when they whine later about not receiving timely aid, remove their right to exercise the franchise, and put ‘em on a chain gang in the cleanup efforts. If they just bitch and moan about such things as getting a sub sandwich instead of a MacDonald hamburger or water instead of beer or pop, issue a warning with a dye marker. Next bitch and moan by a dye-marked whiner gets an RFID, etc.
But these are just surface issues (well, except for the underlying causes of looting and bitching and moaning about free food, etc.) What’s really needed is a supercharged economy, free from external sabotage, and beefed up Good Samaritan laws so that private responses to emergencies can be even more robust than they are.
Take the supercharged economy first. The two biggest barriers to an American economy that’s truly robust, instead of being the paper tiger the U.S. is on the road to becoming are stupid, short-sighted, greedy energy policy and *spit* politicians who refuse to ditch the income tax in favor of a rational tax plan like the Fair Tax. Think about it: what if your tax bill were offset by lower costs of goods and services and higher wages? What if a revenue-neutral plan actually allowed elimination of the 22%-25% hidden taxes in all the goods and services you purchased? Can you say “booming economy�
Add to that scenario cheap energy. Yes, cheap. Manufacturing oil for about $20 per barrel. Electricity at rates lower than today’s. Both done in a way that actually enhances clean air and water. Doable with today’s technology.
Heck, with those two assets in place, Wal-Mart might actually buy more of its manufactured goods from U.S. companies instead of from Chinese and other slave labor economies.
Barriers? See this post, cos I’m tired of writing about the barriers. *sigh*
Oh, one other thing that might help future relief efforts. Change laws applying to Mass Media Podpeople’s spreading of lies. Right. Catch one uttering a falsehood, on the chain gang they go. Oh, I wasn’t intentional? I do not care. Let ‘em do their homework before spouting off. Just quoting a “public figure†who’s spouting lies? If they don’t identify the quote as a lie, chain gang ‘em. Heck, make it a requirement that any Mass Media Podperson who wants to “report†(or otherwise editorialize) on a natural disaster has to spend equal time manning a spoon at a soup kitchen, mucking out houses, shooting looters, etc.
That’d shut ‘em up.
Update: RomeoCat points to a “Squirrel Report” that speaks to my comments on Mass Media Podpeople. The usual warnings and disclaimers apply, that is: the language used is entirely appropriate, and so must be rated “R” or some such for the nancypants who can’t take plain speech where plain (thus vulgar) speech is required.
Hurricane exploitation – the quotes. And more.
All the sleeze you could ever hope not to read from Jesse Jackson, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., Muhammad Yousef Al-Mlaifi, Ross Gelbspan, various D’udergrounders, and more from the Moonbat colonies of the Left and their fellow travelers among the Jihadist murdering savages.
Whether if was Mother’s fried okra or Me-Ma’s, summer was the time for this special treat
Fried Okra
about a pound of okra
2 eggs
1/4 cup milk or buttermilk (if using milk, make fake buttermilk by putting a tablespoon of vinegar in the measuring cup before measuring out the milk—often, Mother just used milk, cos that’s what was on hand)
~1 cup all-purpose flour (See note)
~1 cup cornmeal (See note)
2 teaspoons baking powder
1 teaspoon salt
Freshly ground pepper (A dash or three of cayenne makes a nice variation with a tad more zip)
Vegetable oil
(Note: the flour/cornmeal ratio can be skewed either way by about 1/4 cup to your taste. (Me-Ma’s fried okra seemed to have more flour than Mother’s—or maybe it just depended on what was in the pantry 🙂
Wash and slice the okra. Dry it with (paper) towels.
Mix the eggs and buttermilk, then add the sliced okra, and let the mess stand for a while. (7-10 minutes, while the pan’s heating.)
Mix the flour, cornmeal, baking powder, salt and pepper separately.
Drain the okra, a tad at a time, using a slotted spoon or small seive.
Coat the okra in the flour mixture a bit at a time. (One method: large plastic zip lock bag, flour mixture, some okra, shake. Don’t knock it. It works.)
While the okra’s soaking in the egg/milk mixture, heat your cast iron skillet to medium high heat. Pour about 2 to 3-inches of oil in just a lil bit before you need to start the okra cooking. (Medium high heat, for all the anal-retentives out there, is about 350 fahrenheit). Fry the okra until it’s golden brown. Drain it and serve it while its hot.
The recipe I adapted this from said it’d feed four. Yeh, right. Once ya taste it, it won’t go so far. Folk’ll put down the fried chicken for this stuff. Make more.