Tag: stupid is as stupid does

when I read this I heard, in my mind’s ear, Tennessee Ernie Ford singing

Sixteen tons and what do you get?
Another day older and deeper in debt.
St peter don’t you call me, ’cause I can’t go;
I owe my soul to the company store

Chinese man tries to sell his soul online

The man, in his late 20s, from Jiaxing, near Shanghai, attempted to sell his soul on Taobao, China’s top online auction site.

He attracted bids from some 58 potential buyers before the posting was pulled, reports China Daily.

I wonder what the bids were…

See today’s linkfests at Linkfest Haven

Why don’t alla youse guys who are on blogger who have me blogrolled and multi-linked in posts go ahead and switch over to WordPress. Here’s how ya do it (to benefit ME, of course! :-)):

1.) Set up your new WordPress Blog
2.) Make sure I’m the first one you put on your blogroll (that’s a very important step! Don’t forget: this is all about ME. heh)
3.) Import alla your old Blogger posts.
4.) Go back through all of ’em and change the links from any old Blogger twc links to the New! Improved! twc address.
5.) Make sure you leave your old Blogger blog up forever (after all, you DO want folks to find you, and I can tell ya, about half my traffic is still folks finding me from my Blogger blog… )

See? You’ve just doubled your links to me. Thank you very much!

Oh, and you would have helped me in my nevernding search for Truth! justice! and The American Way! as I keep trying to get Technorati to let me claim my own blog…

Just an idea. Now, get busy, ‘K?

John Stephemson sent out a lil note about this monument to educratic stupidity:

Schools Ban Patriotic Clothes, Flags

Reason given?

“According to school officials, some students are using the garments and flags to taunt classmates.”

If the students wear/wave the American flag AND taunt kids who identify with the “reconquistas” movement, THEN they are ENGAGING IN POLITICAL SPEECH, WHICH IS SPECIFICALLY THE _ONLY_ KIND OF SPEECH THE FIRST AMENDMENT ADDRESSES, apart from religious practice, which can contain speech and other aspects of expression.

(Minor apologies for the “shouting” but it’s either that or increase the font size by an order of magnitude… at least *sigh*)

I do with our judges and justices had the sense God gave a head of cabbage and could actually read what the First Amendment says, what the Framers said they intended it to mean (which is, shock!, exactly what it does say, no more and no less), and then say clearly: “Political SPEECH (not “expression”—the Framers SPECIFICALLY excluded that as an interpretation!) is protected by the Constitution. For protection of other speech or expression, look to state or local government.”

School officials who do not

a.) expel students who provoke AMERICAN students by proclaiming allegiance to another country and intent to conquer (at least portions of) America and
b.) affirm and support students who proclaim their alliegiance to the U.S.

…need an introduction to Dr. Tarr and Mr. Fether… and “rail transport” out of town… and across the nearest border to “Aztlan”.

Students waving a Mexican flag and proclaiming allegiance to “reconquista” are engaging NOT in free political speech but in sedition and should be punished… or deported to the land of their affections.

Hoisting the AMERICAN flag at Basil’s Blog, The Real Ugly American and Jo’s Cafe.

Yeh, yeh: it took me forever to catch the typo in the post title. Fixed now.

I mentioned, in today’s Open Post, that the Fair Tax could both provide a (small) disincentive for “undocumented workers” and recoup some of the costs in social services caused by illegal aliens. Here’s this week’s Fair Tax Blogburst post dealing with some aspects of that in detail:

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In light of the recent events transpiring over the course of the last two weeks, Terry and I thought it would be prudent to discuss the implications of the Fair Tax and how it would possibly cooperate with the immigration discussion. Rest assured, we strive to remain non-partisan, as we both firmly believe that the Fair Tax is an issue that liberals, conservatives, and libertarians can all come together on. This is why I will attempt to refrain from inserting some of my beliefs into this week’s burst as it pertains to the immigration policies Congress is grappling with.

What is one of the most explosive issues within this raging debate? Personally, and I am sure most of you share the concern with what, and to what extent do “illegal immigrants” or “undocumented workers” enjoy in entitlements and governmental resources? Whether you believe that this is a problem or not is somewhat moot, for it is an argument that is infused within the debate.

Insert the Fair tax into the equation, and this argument is nearly gutted in its entirety. With the Fair Tax, and as Mr. Boortz and Congressman Linder state in a better manner than I:

The underground economy, which currently escapes taxes on about $1.5 trillion, would no longer enjoy its tax-free status. The illegal activities in which they engage would not be legalized, but every retail purchase the criminals made – whether a mochachino or a Mercedes – would be taxed the same as yours and mine.

Herein, Mr. Boortz and Congressman Linder are specifically addressing such activities as tax evasion, drug dealing, et al; however, it is not outside the realm of imagination to see just how this would correlate to the problem of “illegal immigrants” not paying their “fair share” of taxes. It is undisputed that they pay little or no taxes based on the arrangement they have with their employers. It is argued frequently that many of them do pay portions of their taxes via fake and counterfeit social security numbers, but this is just a portion and it pales in comparison to what many hard-working Americans pay year in and year out under our current tax system. The Fair Tax would be a definitive solution, for it ensures that every new purchase or service would generate tax revenue. Furthermore, it would arguably create an incentive for these immigrants to seek the legal recourse for they would more than likely be precluded from the “prebate” we have discussed before.

Thus, with the advent of the Fair Tax, much of the political rhetoric and strife may be gutted since a tremendous concern of many Americans would be alleviated in the short term.

The FairTax Blogburst is jointly produced by Jonathan of Publius Rendezvous and Terry of The Right Track Blog. If you would like to join us, please e-mail Jonathan or Terry. You will be added to our mailing list and blogroll.

FairTax Blogroll

• Ogre’s Politics & Views
• Blue State Conservatives
• Oblogatory Anecdotes
• Euphoric Reality
• Slobokan’s Site O’ Schtuff
• Right Truth
• Liberally Conservative
• United Conservatives of Virginia
• Third World County
• Ms. Underestimated
• The Buzz Blog
• Area 417
• Stuck On Stupid
• Publius Rendezvous
• The Right Track
• Cao’s Blog
• Right Wing Nation
• Kim Priestap
• Don Surber

…and in spite of myself, even I kinda like this. Just go watch it. I’ll either be here when you get back or meet you there. 🙂

I’ll put my critique of the piece as music elsewhere… maybe in comments, but I will say this, the lyric hook and the “Nyah-nyah” guitar lick are perfect for the piece.

Seen all over the web… h.t. to Romeocat for being the first place I saw it. (although I am playing off Jay Tea’s lead in).

Putting up concert posters at Adam’s Blog, Blue Star Chronicles, Conservative Cat, Diane’s Stuff, Stuck On Stupid and TMH’s Bacon Bits (have a nice trip, bud!).

(Yeh, Wednesday’s Open Trackback Alliance post—link to this post and trackback. See more info below the post body.)

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The “Keep it at home” in the post title is about our economy… and about our government’s failure to perform an essential function: guarding our border. But it’s not quite what you may think…

Here’s the narrow focus of this post: Illegal aliens not only make disproportional use of social services, as against most other segments of society, they pay little in the way of taxes in support of those services. And worse, many illegals don’t even let much of their income circulate here in the U.S. where it can benefit our economy. Instead, they send it home.

Surpassing oil and tourism, the estimated $20 billion in US dollars that Mexicans sent home last year is the mainstay of Mexico’s economy. When your main export is your citizens, your nation is in big trouble._1_

Continue reading “Wednesday OTA/Keep it at home”

This is my Tuesday Open Post. Link here and track back See info below the post.

“We have seen the enemy… “

This is not a rant. Nor is it any kind of schadenfreude-filled humorous stab at the most obvious enemies of the U.S. and of Western Civilization (oh, go ahead and say it, David: CIVILIZATION, period). So if you do not want to read as I point out who the enemy is, just read no further. Warning: no cheer here.

Continue reading ““We have seen the enemy… “/Open Post”

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… :-))

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.

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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.

That’s all for now. Link to this post and track back. And note the other fine blogs featuring linkfests at

Linkfest Haven.

*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…