Month: April 2006

Oh, I wish it were possible to boycott all the B.S. out there (Mass Media Podpeople, Political Poltroons, Academia Nuts and other Loony Left Moonbats), but what I mean by the post title is that the boycott scheduled for tomorrow in support of reconquista is B.S.

*sigh*

You see, the “boycotters” are asking permission from workplaces and schools for workers and students to take the day off… Some demonstration, eh? Yeh, a demonstration of employers who are illegal themselves caving in to illegal employees’ demands and schools that are little more than prisons for kids giving kids time off for… bad behavior.

Oh, BTW, I’ve scheduled a shopping trip for tomorrow. I figure it’s time I bought some Mexican flags to burn on May 5.

h.t. WatchDogAmerica

Flag-waving at Adam’s Blog

Note: This is The second in the “Mending Walls” series, and is being crossposted at The Real Ugly American. Some of the following may depart a bit from Rick’s personal views. I know we have a few differences on rthe practical limits of immigration enforcement, for example. But this post is not about a border fence or wall, but walls and fences of a different kind. And yes, this does devolve into something of a rant.

You figure out from what follows where the walls need to be erected, where old walls need to be repaired and who needs to be shown the door and have a swift boot up their ass on the way out. The only way, now, I fear, to repair the walls, build up proper protections for American culture and even simply provide protectionm for our nation is to start simply, plainly and bluntly throwing the stupidity and the insults back in the faces of the invaders, the corrupters, the destroyers. never back down. No compromises. Hard lines.

Yeh, it’s all over the place. Even CNN and Fox have taken note! *heh* Seems some reconquistadores think rewriting our National Anthem is just hunky dory. No, not just translating it into Spanish. Uh-uh. That isn’t enough of an insult for them. They have to change the words and still claim it’s our national Anthem… only in kinda hip-hop-reggae-mariachi-rap drag.

But it’s not just insulting.

Here’s the real thing. Click on the mp3 file and sing along, if you want. (You’ll need to restart the mp3 file for each verse you want to sing with, though.)

First Verse

Oh, say, can you see, by the dawn’s early light,
What so proudly we hail’d at the twilight’s last gleaming?
Whose broad stripes and bright stars, thro’ the perilous fight,
O’er the ramparts we watch’d, were so gallantly streaming?
And the rocket’s red glare, the bombs bursting in air
Gave proof thro’ the night that our flag was still there.
Oh, say, does that Star-Spangled Banner yet wave
O’er the land of the free and the home of the brave?

Second Verse

On the shore, dimly seen thro’ the mists of the deep,
Where the foe’s haughty host in dread silence reposes,
What is that which the breeze, o’er the towering steep,
As it fitfully blows half conceals, half discloses?
Now it catches the gleam of the morning’s first beam,
In full glory reflected now shines in the stream;
‘Tis the Star-Spangled Banner, O long may it wave
O’er the land of the free and the home of the brave.

Third Verse

And where is that band who so vauntingly swore
That the havoc of war and the battle’s confusion
A home and a country should leave us no more?
Their blood has wiped out their foul footstep’s pollution.
No refuge could save the hireling and slave
From the terror of flight, or the gloom of the grave:
And the star-spangled banner in triumph doth wave
O’er the land of the free and the home of the brave.

Fourth Verse

Oh, thus be it ever when free men shall stand
Between their loved homes and the war’s desolation!
Blest with vict’ry and peace, may the heav’n rescued land
Praise the Pow’r that hath made and preserved us a nation!
Then conquer we must, when our cause it is just,
And this be our motto, “In God is our trust”
And the Star-Spangled Banner in triumph shall wave
O’er the land of the free and the home of the brave!

(Do note the lines with emphasis added.)

Not so the “Pachuco Hymn”… witness the dazzling wonder of its departure from translation to insulting parody:

Continue reading “The Pachuco Hymn—Repair the wall and show the PH the door”

Life. Quite a lotta rain the last coupla days. Mostly shut up inside. Not quite cabin fever, but the animals feel it, too.

Been keeping Buttons mostly inside since Tuesday the 17th, when he looked two ticks shy of doggie heaven. Oh, he seems perfectly fine, now. Wants to go for runs, not walks, etc., but the vet seems to think it’ll be another week or more before we can be sure it really was just a localized infection interfering with/placing pressure on his spine.

So, medium-sized “outside” dog learning about living indoors. Been mostly mannerly, well-behaved.

*Flip*

Our (once-was) boy cat loves to play fetch with some lil superballs. They bounce off things like crazy and he just loves chasing them and bringing ’em back to me to throw again. He even drops them right in my hand most times. Was playing fetch with Jaxson a while ago and… Buttons decided he wanted to play the game, too.

Surprised lil (once-was) boy cat.

*heh*

Now Jaxson’s just “throwing” the ball for himself.

We’ll see. I found this email in my inbox from Jim Talent, Senator for Missouri:

Sen. Talent Opposes Senate Amnesty Proposal

The Senate is debating immigration reform. Many Missourians have contacted me to express their views on this issue and I wanted to share mine with you. This is a nation of immigrants, but it’s also a nation of laws. I oppose the amnesty measure being considered in the Senate. Congress should not give the benefits of citizenship to those who have entered the country unlawfully; and it’s especially unfair to put them at the front of the line ahead of those who have waited patiently for years to enter the country lawfully.

I share the concerns of many Missourians that the United States requires a border control system that protects us from terrorist attacks, illegal immigration, illegal drugs and other contraband. A lot of people view border security as an immigration issue. It’s not. It’s a national security issue. That is why I introduced the Border Security and Modernization Act, which authorizes $5 billion over five years for security fencing and surveillance along the border, increases penalties for human smuggling, and increases the number of jail beds available to detain those who cross illegally. I will continue to support strong and effective measures to secure the border.

We’ll see if he can stick to his guns. Somebody need to have the stones to tell the reconquistadores to pack their bags an go home. Either that, or this country needs to see what a Texas Tea Party looks like…

Hmmm, seems to me that someone has already written a book about a modern Texas secession…

Since we all know California (one of the other hardest-hit states) isn’t going to do anything about the reconquistadores, maybe it’d be for the best if Texas did secede… and annex Mexico.

Just a thought, since I don’t think a few seantors and other congresscritters swimming upstream will stem the tide (another mixed metaphor. I’ll hit my stride this week, yet!).

First, the poem by Robert Frost, then some comments in the extended portion of the post. Hang on, folks, cos this one takes a few twists and turns, ‘K?

Mending Wall

Something there is that doesn’t love a wall,
That sends the frozen-ground-swell under it,
And spills the upper boulders in the sun,
And makes gaps even two can pass abreast.
The work of hunters is another thing:
I have come after them and made repair
Where they have left not one stone on a stone,
But they would have the rabbit out of hiding,
To please the yelping dogs. The gaps I mean,
No one has seen them made or heard them made,
But at spring mending-time we find them there.
I let my neighbor know beyond the hill;
And on a day we meet to walk the line
And set the wall between us once again.
…

He only says, ‘Good fences make good neighbors’.
Spring is the mischief in me, and I wonder
If I could put a notion in his head:
‘Why do they make good neighbors? Isn’t it
Where there are cows?
But here there are no cows.
Before I built a wall I’d ask to know
What I was walling in or walling out,
And to whom I was like to give offence.
Something there is that doesn’t love a wall,
That wants it down.’ I could say ‘Elves’ to him,
But it’s not elves exactly, and I’d rather
He said it for himself. I see him there
Bringing a stone grasped firmly by the top
In each hand, like an old-stone savage armed.
He moves in darkness as it seems to me~
Not of woods only and the shade of trees.
He will not go behind his father’s saying,
And he likes having thought of it so well
He says again, “Good fences make good neighbors.”

Continue reading “Mending Walls”

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In a WSJ/OpinionJournal piece, “Educating From the Bench” we find these lil mals mots *heh* The lede:

FAYETTEVILLE, Ark.–Spending on public schools nationwide has skyrocketed to $536 billion as of the 2004 school year, or more than $10,000 per pupil. That’s more than double per pupil what we spent three decades ago, adjusted for inflation–and more than we currently spend on national defense ($494 billion as of 2005).

Imagine that. “Adjusted for inflation”–more than double the expenditure per pupil than thirty years ago.

Is anyone prepared to argue that the results are students who are twice as well-educated? Anyone, I mean, apart from a complete idiot. And is there anyone who can reasonably argue that, since more than doubling the expenditure per pupil–remember, adjusted for inflation–has resulted in LESS literate, LESS capable students, that we should spend our way out of the education mess we are in by throwing more good money after bad money?

Well, the idiots in the courts are saying exactly that:

In 2001 the [Arkansas] state Supreme Court declared the amount of money spent at that time–more than $7,000 per pupil–in violation of the state constitutional requirement to provide a “general, suitable and efficient” system of public education.

And just who did the court there (as courts elsewhere have done) hire as “outside consultants” to determine what should be spent?

A firm led by two education professors, Lawrence Picus and Allan Odden, was paid $350,000 to put a price tag on what would be considered adequate.

Talk about setting the foxes to guard the henhouse! If “education professors” were competent to “fix” the problems they have largely been responsible for creating, then they’d not be education professors but professors of something useful, like physics or chemistry or math or (non-post-postmodern deconstructionist/non-feminist, etc.) professors of history or English literature (who had actually read, you know, real English literature or real history, such as Shakespeare or Johnson or Macaulay or Herodotus or…you get the drift) instead of pseudo-babble for the lowest common denominator.

A pox on all their houses: judges, education professors, administrators all.

And a special curse for parents who let themselves be scammed out of an education for their children because they are too stupid, lazy or uncaring to demand better: may your children grow up to an awareness of just how horribly you have let them be cheated.

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Going an extra mile with Blue Star Chronicles

From Stop the ACLU, a little newsbreak:

A professor and six students at Northern Kentucky University were charged Wednesday with misdemeanors related to the April 12 destruction of an anti-abortion display on campus.

Read the rest at the link. My thoughts immediately sprang to developing tactics to elicit more charges against moonbats…

Purchase a few Mexican flags. Burn them in a demonstration against *reconquistas* (after all, if leftists think _Americans_ burning an American flag on American soil is OK, what’s the problem with burning the flag of a country whose government is actively aiding and abetting in criminal invasion of our soil?)

Build a “fence” separating “Mexico” and “the U.S.” for a campus demonstration against *reconquistas*. Include life-sized depictions of deportations, etc.

Publish and distribute leaflets showing what happens in late-term abortions. Distribute them at a college pro-life rally. etc.

Keep plenty of “film crews” on hand to show how moonbats react. Use the video to bring charges for assault, etc.

Could be fun. Of course, it wouldn’t fly here in America’s Third World Countyâ„¢. *heh* In America’s Third World Countyâ„¢ we’d be hard-pressed to find any leftists at all (outside the school system or the one state social services agency), and none that are willing to swim upstream in public. Absolutely none who would become violent or attempt theft at a pro-right rally of any sort.

Cos the rest of us are armed.

Love that 2nd amendment.

Manning the barricades at Freedom Watch, Blue Star Chronicles and TMH’s Bacon Bits

(No, not the Swiftian proposal.)

Since it looks more and more as though the President and our wonderful congrescritters have no desire to actually control our borders or enforce the laws of the land where invaders are concerned (only where they can selectively enforce laws against American subjects, since apprently we are no longer citizens), perhaps it’s time as many of us as can hilight the feebs’ distaste for enforcing the laws against piecemeal invasion by a foreign nation (does anyone doubt the Mexican government encourages and aids the invaders from its country?) already on the books.

(Long enough sentence for ya? :-))

Some citizens (well, at least they are acting like citizens, not subjects of a political elite) are attempting to address the problem in a substantive way, apparently. The Border Fence Project is an attempt

To patch and extend U.S.-Mexico border fence along all 1952 miles of southern border using high-tech TV cameras, microphones, lighting, motion and other electronic sensors, with voluntary civilian labor, donations, private border-ranch fencing profits, and maintenance teams, for less than $2.50 per foot or $23 million

More power (and donations) to ’em. But that’s only half the problem. We also need to get the illegals, the invaders, OUT. You can help there, too.

1.) If you know of any business employing “undocumented workers” drop a dime on ’em. Seriously. Report ’em to local authorities, the INS and the U.S. Attorney’s office for your district.
2.) If arrests aren’t made, follow up with letters to your area newspapers and to your local/area AND various national news outlets detailing the issue and the lack of response by authorities.
3.) Follow up with contacts with local, state and national political critters, preferably with signed petitions demanding the arrest and prosecution of law enforcement officers who failed to enforce the laws.

Make a stink. Make noise.

My bet, though, is that no matter how much of a noisy stink you attempt, LEOs, Mass Media Podpeople, Political Poltroons will one and all sweep the thing under the rug and not a ripple will surface to rock the open borders/reconquistas boat. (Like the mixed metaphor? It’s what metas are for, IMO.)

*sigh*

h.t. on the fence project thing to Code Red.

A “reprint” from John Stephenson this week.

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Many of us find it disturbing to hear the sympathetic apologists defend the ACLU’s work to protect pedophiles over our children. We watch the ACLU fight for sex offenders to live next to Elementary schools, and playgrounds. We watched in horror as the ACLU defended NAMBLA, under the banner of free speech, to plan and talk about how to rape young boys. It doubles the anger to hear the apologists defend the ACLU with some twisted talk perverting the Constitution.

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