Tag: stupid is as stupid does

I still have all of the posts from last week, as well as all of the comments (which incloude trackbacks), but reloading them “breaks” the blog every time.

Sooo… I’ll try to restore as much of that as I can, bit by bit, perhaps even post/comment at a time. (Not all that much: something like 30 posts and 120 comments for just about a week.) First up will be Romeocat’s posts, the last one of which was one I do not want out of sight for long.

Meanwhile, I think I’ll take a short nap befor my Monday ramps up on me.

🙂

It’s been a good year and a quarter at Blogger, and I plan to do some “transitional posts” as I try to train those of y’all who are regular readers to Go Where The TWC Action Is.

Please update your links to reflect http://www.thirdworldcounty.us/ as the REAL address for third world county.

I’ll still blog other things on Blogger (what with six or so other blogs including a recipe blog for my extended family), though much less as two or three of those blogs need to be shut down/consolidated with http://www.thirdworldcounty.us/.

Meanwhile, thanks for all the fish!

MAKE A NOTE OF THIS URL:

http://www.thirdworldcounty.us/

All future third world county action will be there. Linkfests, curmudgeonly rants, wise posts from my co-conspirators (Diane, The English Guy and Romeocat), snark, oh-so-witty humor from yours truly (well, I laugh at my humor! 🙂 and more.

Bring your own stuff on over there for the party. Grand opening this weekend with an All Weekend Open Post Party (topic to be announced pater–make suggestions there.

Talk w/y’all later… over here.

I feel so left out. Musselmen are awefully angry at a few Danes for speaking (well, drawing) their piece in some cartoons. Where the hate spewed my way? Would I have to say something on the order of “Mohamed was the bastard offspring of a sypillitic dog having anal intercourse with a gonorrhetic sow”?

Do you think that would do it, or should I have that translated into Arabic?

Come on, Islamic camel lovers! Surely you have some hate left over for me! Come on over to America’s Third World Countyâ„¢. We would welcome y’all with open… gunsights.

Asking for trouble at Pirates! Man Your Women! and Cathouse Chat’s “Glass Parking Lot. Seriouslty” (where Romeocat almost gets on board with something I’ve advocated for a long, long time… 🙂

[This is a combo “Guard the Borders”/Open Post. See Open Post info below or in my Left sidebar.]

Emmigration may just be the key…*heh* No, really: think about it for a second. Yes, we do need a wall and better (more) Coast Guard and Navy protection of our borders. Heck, we need thousands more customs agents to inspect imports.

And that’s just for proper security.

But we do need gates in the walls and barriers. Gates that swing both ways. Some recent estimate hold that, although America is still by and large a technology leader, but the Business Roundtable has presented a study that asserts “If current trends continue, by 2010 more than 90% of the world’s scientists and engineers will live in Asia… ” Not only that, but most college grads today are, if not illiterate, severely subliterate, unable to read and comprehend simple printed information. BTW, we’re not alone. Despite John Stossel’s recent presentation of “Stupid in America” demonstrating that European kids outpaced American students in academic accomplishment at accelerating rates the longer each group was in school, Britain, at least, is experiencing a severe dumbing down of its population, too. Despite the rather shallow “analysis” in the article linked, I have little doubt that at least some of the “enstupiating” of British youth has something to do with the changing mix of immigrants.

We should have stronmg walls and gates that swing both ways. For those coming in, let them first demonstrate that they have something of value to contribute, and we should especially concentrate on recruiting high caliber immigrants in the hard sciences, recruiting them to become full citizens and fully assimilate into their new country, to become real Americans and not hyphenated Americans.

On the other side of the coin, why not do everything possible to encourage the stupid among us, most especially those who once had the native intelligence to become good citizens but who have chosen to allow the American “education” system and “pop culture” to make them into functional idiots… to emmigrate. Yup. Leave, go elsewhere, buh-bye!

Might I suggest we start with offering every congresscritter, pubschool (prisons for kids) administrator and “education” school academia nut retirement packages to emmigrate to Mexico? (With a concommittant seisure off all other assets under the justification that they are incompetent idiots, as evidenced by, well, darned near anything “accomplished by congress in too darned long a time and the shambles educrats and academia nuts have made of their end of education in this country.). Followed by foceably dumping Hollyweird celebrities, writers and producers, en masse, across our southern border? Then, get out invitations to a party held by Dr. Tarr and Mr. Fether to alla the Mass Media Podpeople intent on running the U.S. down at every opportunity and give them free “rail” transportation to Vicente Fox’s home state of Guanajuato. Along with every illiegal alien his government has aided across our southern border…

For a start…

Just a thought. We need more smart people, and we are more and more manufacturing dummies through our schools and pop culture. Let’s get rid of the worst idiots and “import” some good folk in their place.

(Ah, heck, let’s throw out at least 90% of the country’s federal bureaucrats while we’re at it. Hard enough that they bounce a few times after hitting the ground across ANY border… )

This is my contribution to the Guard the Borders Blogburst. Like it or lump it. 🙂

As I said, Open Post. Link here and track back.

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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 euphoricrealitynet at gmail dot com.

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TMH’s Bacon Bits
Part-Time Pundit
The Right Track
Cao’s Blog
Ogre’s Politics and Views
In The Bullpen
Stuck on Stupid
NIF
Kender’s Musings
Watchman’s Words
Third World County
Gribbit’s Word
Right on the Right
Team Swap
Gina’s Rantings
The Irate Nation
Publius Rendezvous
Freedom Folks
Bear Creek Ledger
Something and Half of Something
Mover Mike
Independent Conservative
The Neo-Con Blogger
Ravings of a Mad Tech
Parrot Check
Curley’s Corner
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Intergalactic Source of Truth
Woman Honor Thyself

Green-carded at Bloggin’ Outloud and Committees of Correspondence.

Yeh, yeh, I know: it’s the biggest day of the year for some folks. It’s a great party day for others. And very likely most folks with a TV here in the U.S. will at least catch parts of the Superbowl.

But I’m not likely to.

It’s not that I think it’s a waste of time (for me it would be) or that I don’t have some appreciation for the game of football (I do). It’s just that I’m not very interested in watching someone else play sports. No, I’ve never been hyper-athletic. Football? “Touch” football that was more akin to rough housing in the grass was a lot of fun when I was younger, and about the extent of my personal play. I like to play tennis, swim, other things. But watching someone play a game… well, it was interesting watching Ken Rosewall play tennis when I was picking the game up, but that’s been about it for my interest in watching others play games, except for a few high school and college football games that held my interest briefly 30-40 years ago (and my kids’ soccer games—but then, I was an assitant coach for my son’s team. Soccer: another fun game to play that’s MUCH less fun to watch.).

Different strokes. If I’m not playing—a game, an instrument, whatever—or actively learning how to play, I’m much less interested in watching someone else have all the fun. (Not that alla the pro athletes view playing as fun, although I’m sure some do).

Same deal with the olympics. Watching other folks do stuff has never been a biggie with me. Heck, I’d rather read a book and imagine other folks doing stuff… *heh*

Others feel differently. I have a sister who is strongly emotionally invested in how “her” football team performs (why it is “hers” I haven’t figured out: she has no familial or financial ties to the team and doesn’t even live in the state it harks from). That’s fine. No skin offa my back.

Variety in food and in people is the spice of life.

So, for alla y’all who’re planning on having a rip-roaring time this evening watching a buncha guys getting all the action somewhere else, more power to ya. Have fun. I’ll be doing something else.

Inciting to riot over at Conservative Cat and Basil’s Blog. Root, root, rooting for the home team at The Crazy Rants of Samanthat Burns.

Had several things I’d thought of posting for Carnival of the Recipes, but I’m outa time. let this stand in:

Recently, I’ve been using a rather full-bodied dark roast coffee. Rich flavor. But it needed… something.

Hand grater.

Nutmeg.

Atop coffee grounds before brewing: a few scrapes of freshly-grated nutmeg. (Addendum: DO NOT use pre-ground sawdust packaged as “ground nutmeg”. *spit* You really might as well just use sawdust. Old sawdust.)

Very nice. Adds a distinct high note that is a nice addition to the dark roast coffee.

S’all, folks. Have to stagger off to “St. Mattress Cathedral” now to dream of The Holy Brew.

…I don’t care. It’d be the truth. Why, the other day, before I’d had even one cuppa The Holy Brew and hence was operating at a serious caffeine-deficient level, I wanted the square root of 232, but my wheels stopped spinning at 15 (common square 15X15=225. Knew cos I had to memorize squares of whole #s up to the square of 25 in gradeschool). So, caffeine-deprived and lazy, I did what anyone with two brain cells to rub together would do:

I typed “square root 232” (w/o the quotes, of course) in my browser’s Google search box. To seven decimal places: 15.2315462.

So, call me lazy. I rounded it up (for my purposes) to 15.25.

Confessed (“Sign ze papers, old man.” “But I cannot sign the papers!…”) at Bloggin’ Outloud, where the Best So Far 2006 awards show will close ballots tonight.