Tag: stupid is as stupid does

Yeh, my Wonder Woman has a (very short) Sping Break, so I’m off to see the wizard with her today. A few interesting posts already noted below alla the PSA stuff. Meanwhile, while you are out and about, today, drop by Christine’s place and wish her a Happy Blogiversary, would you? Actually, on the 16th, but drop by anyway, would you?)

Link to this post all weekend long and track back, ‘K?

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Random Yak almost (yeh, I said “almost”) makes basketball sound interesting. Good Yak. It’s still watching guys in shorts jump around and sweat. Exactly what is the difference to watching Richard Simmons, again? *heh*

Diane explains what it means to be a PERV. Gee, I sure had that one all wrong…

Global Warming/Tunguska link? Now, that’d be explosive… (h.t. Chaos Manor Mail) Of course, the whole problem is really what to call a one degree warming (if that much is really true–climatologists can’t even really agree there, either) over decades… Global warming seems so very… chicken little-ish.

Rick points to a post about ideologies getting in the way of thinking. Good catch, Rick.

Canukistan poses the equation, Left = Wrong. Makes one yearn for the time when the Left wasn’t peopled by reactionary, petty (and not-so-petty) tyrants, but still had a few genuine liberals… *sigh*

For a change of pace, check out Kat’s place, Keep the Coffee Coming, for some Peter, Paul and Mary, then stick around for some more music you may not have heard for a while…

And while you’re listening to some great tunes, in the background, CLICK on over to Rick Lee’s place for a look through his eyes. Not going to single one photo out. They’re all good.

Over at Church and State, Nathan comments about Ruth Bader Ginsberg’s escape… Seems her meds need moderating. OK, he didn’t say that, but why not?!? The lady is absolutely around the bend.

The English Guy finds himself in agreement with *gasp!* Pat Robertson! (Hey, man! I coulda told you even a blind pig finds an acorn every now and then and a stopped clock is right twice a day… ) FWIW, I happen to agree with Robertson on this point too, Rich.

All for now. Have fun and be safe out there!

PSA’d at TMH’s Bacon Bits and Adam’s Blog.

Muslim clerics in UK claim they have won

In an article dated February 19, 2006 (yeh, I’m a month behind on this one), Dr. Patrick Sookhdeo claims that the appeasement of Muslims in Britain over the Mohammed cartoons “… warns Sharia Law will become commonplace in Britain in a decade unless the government takes action.”_¹_

And I don’t doubt it for a second.

Look, folks: getting control over our borders (kicking OUT those who have entered illegally, preventing further illegal intrusions and making gates whereby worthwhile immigrants may enter and become assimilated, truly assimilated, in the old melting pot tradition) is only a part of the task we must tackle if our children and grandchildren are to have an America to live in. Just as with the imminent possibility of “Britainistan” coming to pass, the Balkanization of the U.S. that the multicultural relativists seek is a very real possibility, if not in my lifetime (though I think that’s quite possible, since it is already proceeding apace), in my children’s lifetimes.

The positions in Rick’s immigration post—and more—need to be up front and openly debated, without the false attacks of racism being thrown in, as the disingenuous faux liberals who seek the destruction of the U.S. so often do.

But it’s more than that, even.

Continue reading “Britainistan?”

Marc Cooper has a great and  long piece posted at Truth Dig today on Illegal Immigration.  He  has been writing extensively on illegal immigration for some time. Although we may disagree on some points  we do agree as most Americans do about one fundamental truth, the border is out of control and needs to be fixed.
 
Early on Marc writes:

 

In the simplest of terms, a strategy of enforcement-only measures has made no perceivable dent in the human flow across the border. And there is, therefore, no reason to believe that further measures of fortification are going to work any better.

 

He is half right. No doubt half hearted out of sight out of mind enforcement only measures will not work. However a serious enforcement effort, building an impassable fence along the entire border with proper border guards stationed across its length to monitor any attempts to climb over, dig under, or breach it will bring illegal immigration to a dead stop.
 
As Marc conveniently points out:

Continue reading “The Great Immigration Debate”

OK, you internet search wizards, software sophonts, hardware hackers, here’s what I need (whether the rest of the internet autochthons do or not): a search engine to locate and identify tunes and musical motives. No, not by name, by matching whatever tune I whistle, play or sing into a mic.

I just hate it when I have a tune running through my head that I cannot peg. Just asked my Wonder Woman, “What’s this from”? and whistled a happy tune (no, not THAT one). Her helpful answer was five words of one of the verses and, “It’s from a musical” (I knew that!)—two of them “as a”.

But it might be a motif from the third movement of a little-known Classical or Romantic period composer or some such that haunts my mental ear for hours. If recollection served, I’d have no problem, but my recolecter seems less reliable in rcent years…

So, I need a tunessearch engine. Get busy, folks!

(BTW, this particular one was easy, given the four words my Wonder Woman sang back to me: Oscar Hammerstein II & Richard Rodgers, State Fair, “It Might As Well Be Spring”—appropriate, this close to the Vernal Equinox, Spring Break and hay fever don’t you think? Sometimes my unconscious is flippin’ brilliant… )

It Might as Well be Spring.mp3

BTW, you can purchase and download the full recording of this excerpted performance by Full Spectrum Jazz here.

Whistling in the dark at Conservative Cat, TMH’s Bacon Bits, Basil’s Blog and Jo’s Cafe.

Over at TMH’s Bacon Bits, DL usually keeps alla his shots in the X-Ring. Not so with his recent post, Moby Bush. (Sorry, DL. Close but no cigar. :-)) While he does rightly describe the Democrappic obsessive fantasies about “Bush the selected, not elected” (talk about a psychotic schism with reality!), he then proposes that “… their self-destructive hatred is of the level of insanity of Captain Ahab in Melville’s classic, Moby Dick.”

DL, that’s an unconscionable slur on the good name and character of Captain Ahab. *snerk* A closer analogy might be to envision a ’08 dream ticket for the Democraps: Russell Feinstein and Billary Clinton. Ladies and gentlemen, I give you

Captain Underpants and the Wrath of the Wicked Wedgie Woman

diabolos

Keep that four-syllable Koine word in mind for a while, ‘K?

Krishna at A Deeper Look has some useful references for understanding the lies of Islam. First, he points to “Muhammad’s Dead Poets Society”, an article at The American Thinker that refutes the lie that Mohammend was a model of forgiveness and kindness in his response to critics. The piece is a laundry list of brutality and intolerance, so typical of the Muslim world throughout history, up to the present time.

Continue reading “The Real Islam”

by:Angel

“Black Families, Black Men” takes a courageous look at the Black “family.”

Sounding like a born-again social conservative, president Lyndon B. Johnson stepped to the podium and made this stirring pronouncement: “When the family collapses, it is the children that are usually damaged. When it happens on a massive scale, the community itself is crippled.”

A few months later the Moynihan Report came out. Despite its commonsense focus on strengthening the Black family, civil rights leaders raised a stink that Mr. Moynihan was trying to “blame the victim.” Floyd McKissick, director of the Congress of Racial Equality, insisted, “It’s the damn system that needs changing.”

So the architects of the Great Society not only set out to ignore the formative role of the Black family – they plotted to make things worse.

Continue reading “FatheR SometimeS Does Know BesT”

This is an Open Trackbacks Alliance open post. link to this post and trackback. See the OTA and Linkfest Haven links below the (very) short roundup of posts that have caught my eye. (Hey, I’ve been mostly outa the loop for a coupla days, ‘K? :-))

Alexandra notes a kinship with Mark Steyn (she’s right; they are intellectual sibs :-)).

Beth asks, Is Peace Moonbeam a Fraud? Well, with a name like that, I’d certainly hope so…

“Dave the NCO,” writing in over at Jerry Pournelle’s place, notes the mystical powers of literacy. 😉 He points to an article by John Derbyshire (though unfortunately not with a link) that has gems like this:

“…a few years ago, when I complained to my Wall Street boss, a lady with a degree from a good university and a six-digit salary, that in giving me a project to complete without the proper means to complete it, she was asking me to make bricks without straw. She stared at me uncomprehendingly. “Bricks? Straw? What on earth are you talking about, John?””

Yep. Communicating with the subliterate is like making bricks without straw, indeed.

Why is Africa “poor”? Read this. Western Civilization is better. And one of the key principles of the West can be seen lacking in Africa… and it’s one that’s both essential to creating a society of growing wealth and one that’s particularly despised—in theory and loudmouthed pronouncements and rules affecting other people—by the disingenuous liars and the useful idiots of the Left…

Oh, and you’ll see this too, if you page around enough on Pournelle’s site:

Chicago schools require Drivers Ed for blind students.

I can’t make this stuff up. No one can. Who has an imagination that depraved fecund?

Random Yak holds forth with an English/History lesson. “…when all the sway of earth shakes like a thing unfirm…” and all that. 😉

Yeh, I know there’re lots more (including some good posts linked in on Monday and Tuesday). Link in with some of the good ones I’ve missed, OK?

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Diane’s got a linkfest post up, too. Go check it out and link there, as well.

Well, thanks to my great friend, the Blessed, Holy Caffeine Tree, I survived a day and a half of dialup over third world county telco lines *shudder*. Oh! The horror of it all!

*heh*

Thanks, coffee.

(Yeh, the pic’s low-rez, in nothing but the light coming in the kitchen window. But it’s of my “coffee shrine” and my second-favorite coffeemaker to date. Fav died and not enough parts available… *sigh* If you’re interested remind me to tell ya how I can emulate a French press with this coffeemaker. :-))