Tag: stupid is as stupid does

Ice storm. Broadband (heck, cable TV–no real loss there) down. 28.8 backup dialup. (Essentially, “no access” *heh*)

See ya later when I’m not in a chokehold on sloooooowwwww dialup. Y’all play nice now, y’hear?

Mini-micro update: Well, ALL power is out, now–across the whole town, apparently. Went down just as I had finished paying for a fillup on my car. Folks pumping gas at the time? Stuck holding the bag, cos power’s not coming back on for a while, apparently.

Here updating w/my Wonder Woman’s ntebook, on battery power, via dialup…

Been having “Summertime” melody floating through my mind, whstling it, etc… while scraping windows, freezing my ____ off outside, while pumping gas, etc. About time t’ be thankful for a gas water heater (recall last summer’s “water heater installation from hell”?).We can always jump into a nice, warm tub and defrost…

🙂

Have to use candles or break out the oil lamps, though…

Nice day for snuggling. (*Oh Joy!* :-))

Well, probably oughta save WW’s battery. TTFN.

Laconic Blog has THE post on the Iraq War this week. Must-read. Do NOT just read the excerpt below and move along. CLICK over to the post and READ IT.

…let patriots criticize this president and his administration when decency and reason demand it; remember always, though, the shame that the Left has brought upon itself and trust them never with the security of this nation and your family.

Yeh, I added the emphasis. Go, READ.

Repeat after me:

“Liberalism* is a philosophy of consolation for Western civilization as it commits suicide.” (James Burnham)

“Liberalism* is a philosophy of consolation for Western civilization as it commits suicide.”

“Liberalism* is a philosophy of consolation for Western civilization as it commits suicide.”

Continue reading “THE Iraq War Post of the Week”

Several weeks ago, I pondered actually sitting down and toying with a revisionist history piece titled something like “What If There Was No America?” The most difficult part, not being a sociologist, economist, engineer, historian, scientist, etc, would be to find a point in time to “separate” the American experience from the actual history and then commence to postulate on the path “history” would have then taken with some degreee of credibility for the purpose of the article/essay.

I guess it was all spawned by the History Channel “Engineering an Empire” series. What it took, and how nations formed and developed, and then had to come up with innovations to continue their growth is facinating. As I watched the episode “Britian: Blood and Steel,” I began to consider what we have contributed to civilization and the genesis of my essay idea.

Well, as luck would have it, some called about three days ago, while they were discussing the Sandy Berger song writing contest on the Bill Bennett show (this week – and you have until midnite tonight to get your entry in), someone suggested Bill write a book “A World Without America.” Bill’s response was to say he will set up and essay contest for submissions of 1000 word essays for this 4th of July time frame – $1000 to the winner.

So, the question is: Do you have a flair or passion for writing fictional history? Maybe, just maybe, you’ll get rewarded for your efforts…but…based on some of the lyrics submitted for the Sandy Burgler song contest, be ready for some seriously competent competition from the listeners to that show…

Cross posted from: Chaotic Synaptic Activity

Will Marie “Let them eat cake” Antoinette be the next Speaker of the House?

Too late. Nancy wants to usurp Marie’s best line.*

Because Speaker Pelosi just does not like that niggling lil thing called the First Amendment.

Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the government for a redress of grievances.

An oft-forgotten but very important portion of the First Amendment is bolded above. Where McCain-Feingold *spit* sought to limit freedom of (political) speech—and largely succeeded due to President Bush’s unwillingness to use the veto (he apparently wanted to play nice with congresscritters, hoping for a Supreme Court “veto”) and a Supreme Court that feels too little debt to the Constitution—Nancy Pelosi’s plan would simply excise the last clause of the First Amendment almost entirely.

Pelosi has already stated she is planning to push through major legislation during the first 100 session hours after the Democrats take control of Congress this week.

At the top of the list is seemingly good legislation intended to curb the power of lobbyists. But the Pelosi law goes far beyond bridling Washington influence peddlers. Under her proposed legislation, Pelosi will seek to control and limit any organization in America from encouraging citizens to communicate and influence Congress.

Well, from Pelosi’s standpoint, it makes perfect sense. Why subject herself to calls, emails and faxes from the little people? She–and her office–has much better things to do than to listen to “the people,” after all!

Let them eat cake.

Continue reading “Chipping Away at the First Amendment”

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The following is something that’s all over the place, in my inbox multiple times, and probably in yours as well, but just in case you’ve not yet seen it, here ’tis. As so many of these sorts of things tend to be nowadays, the apparent attempted burlesque falls short of the reality. *sigh*

A Tale of Two Times: 1963 and 2006

Jack pulls into school parking lot with rifle in gun rack.

1963 – Vice Principal comes over, takes a look at Jack’s rifle, goes to his car and gets his to show Jack.

2006 – School goes into lockdown, FBI called, Jack hauled off to jail and never sees his truck or gun again. Counselors called in for traumatized students and teachers.

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Johnny and Mark get into a fist fight after school.

1963 – Crowd gathers. Mark wins. Johnny and Mark shake hands and end up best friends Nobody goes to jail, nobody arrested, nobody expelled.

2006 – Police called, SWAT team arrives, arrests Johnny and Mark. Charge them with assault, both expelled even though Johnny started it.

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Little Jeffrey won’t be still in class, disrupts other students.

1963 – Jeffrey sent to office and given a good paddling by Principal. Sits still in class.

2006 – Jeffrey given huge doses of Ritalin. Becomes a zombie. School gets extra money from state because Jeffrey has a disability.

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Billy breaks a window in his father’s car and his Dad gives him a whipping.

1963 – Billy is more careful next time, grows up normal, goes to college, and becomes a successful businessman.

2006 – Billy’s Dad is arrested for child abuse. Billy removed to foster care and joins a gang. Billy’s sister is told by state psychologist that she remembers being abused herself and their Dad goes to prison. Billy’s mom has affair with psychologist.

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Mark gets a headache and takes some headache medicine to school.

1963 – Mark shares headache medicine with Principal out on the smoking dock.

2006 – Police called, Mark expelled from school for drug violations. Car is searched for drugs and weapons.

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Mary turns up pregnant.

1963 – 5 High School Boys leave town. Mary does her senior year at a special school for expectant mothers.

2006 – Middle School Counselor calls Planned Parenthood, who notifies the ACLU. Mary is driven to the next state over and gets an abortion without her parent’s consent or knowledge. Mary given condoms and told to be more careful next time.

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Pedro fails high school English.

1963: Pedro goes to summer school, passes English, goes to college.

2006: Pedro’s cause is taken up by ultra-liberals. Newspaper articles appear nationally explaining that teaching English as a requirement for graduation is racist. ACLU files class action lawsuit against state school system and Pedro’s English teacher. English banned from core curriculum. Pedro given diploma anyway but ends up mowing lawns for a living because he can’t speak English.

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Johnny takes apart leftover firecrackers from the 4th of July, puts them in a model airplane paint bottle, blows up a red ant bed.

1963 – Ants die.

2006 – ATF, Homeland Security, FBI called. Johnny charged with domestic terrorism, FBI investigates parents, siblings removed from home, computers confiscated, Johnny’s Dad goes on a terror watch list and is never allowed to fly again.

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Johnny falls while running during recess and scrapes his knee. He is found crying by his teacher, Mary, who hugs Johnny to comfort him.

1963 – In a short time Johnny feels better and goes on playing.

2006 – Mary is accused of being a sexual predator and loses her job. She faces 3 years in State Prison.

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As an attempt at satire, this fails because it falls short of the truth. Please re-read Samuel Francis on anarcho-tyranny…

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Jerry Pournelle posted a link to copy of this “From a Navy source,” and I thought y’all’d enjoy it:

Be SURE to stay for the “credits” at the end… *heh*

TTFN

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Well, almost. After I finish jamming my “life” on a thumb drive, I’m outa here for the day.

By John Stephenson
I just finished reading Indefensible: 10 Ways The ACLU Is Destroying America by Sam Kastensmidt. I highly recommend it for everyone.

The book covers most of our own top ten reasons to stop the ACLU, however much more extensively. It covers everything the ACLU stands for. From the agenda of silencing the churches and abortion to the sexualization of children…the book covers it in excellent detail.

There have been many great books written on the ACLU. Most focus on the social and religious issues that are under attack. Alan Sears’ book, ACLU Vs. America, focused on mainly on these issues, however it did touch upon how the ACLU attacks our sovreignty. This book, Indefensible, also focuses on the social issues, but I was happy to see that it devoted an entire chapter on how the ACLU is Impeding America’s War On Terror. I’m going to share a few excerpts from sections within that particular chapter.

ACLU Fights Measure To Halt Terrorists’ Funding

Only weeks after the tragedy (911), Congress acted to dismantle the financial infrastructure supporting known terrorist organizations. On October 3, 2001, U.S. Rep. Michael Oxley (OH) introduced the “Financial Anti-Terrorism Act of 2001,” seeking to freeze all accounts directly linked to the “financing of terrorism.”

The need for such legislation was deemed so vital to national security that it passed the U.S. House on a vote of 421-1. Almost the entire Congress recognized that this legislation’s passage was imperative. Still, on the day before the vote was scheduled, the ACLU delivered letters of opposition to all members of Congress.

“We urge you to oppose the ‘Financial Anti-Terrorism Act of 2001,'” the letter began. Why? One portion of the bill made it a federal crime to conceal large amounts of “illegally obtained” cash (over $10,000) while traveling. In a desperate and shameful attempt to justify its stance, the ACLU played the race card. The letter argued, “This provision may impact, disproportionately, people of color and immigrants….[because] these groups of people often have a more difficult time getting access to sources of credit and bank accounts and so use cash transactions more frequently than others do.”

Under the ACLU’s reasoning, impoverished people would be discriminated against by this bill. The likelihood of impoverished minorities carrying around more than $10,000 in cash and concealing it was supposedly a grave concern for the ACLU. Thankfully the ACLU’s efforts to stop this were unsuccessful.

A little more from the book:

Later in the war, the ACLU actually volunteered its legal services to represent suspected terrorists!

In 2001, the U.S. Supreme Court heard arguments from several alleged “illegal combatants,” including two cases involving U.S. citizens and one case involving 14 foreign “illegal enemy combatants.” The ACLU filed amicus briefs on behalf of the suspected terrorists in each case, arguing that ll “enemy combatants” cpatured during a time of war should have access to American courtrooms-regardless of their citizenship.

The Pentagon contended that “enemy combatants” should face military tribunals-the standard procedure in all previous international wars. U.S. Solictor General Theodore Olson, whose wife, Barbara Olson, was killed on September 11, when Flight 77 crashed into the Pentagon, reminded the Supreme Court Justices that the plaintiffs were requesting a “jurisdiction that is not authorized by Congress, does not arise from the Constitution, and has never been exercised by this Court.”

Though the U.S. Constitution does not extend rights to non-citizen enemy combatants, judicial restraint did not prevent the moder Court from creating this new right out of thin air.

Thankfully this decision was made moot by the passing of the Military Commission Act. However, the ACLU’s war on National Security continues, and giving habeous corpus to non-American citizens is on their New Year Resolution list. It is actually number one on the list, followed by destroying the NSA terrorist surveillance program, and destroying our ability to keep secrets.

Overall the book was well put together and very informative. I highly recommend checking it out.

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The title of this post refers to the text of I Peter 4:17, a call to truth, justice, repentance. Take time to look it up and then read on…

Below is the text of an email from a “retired blogger” *heh* that I’m choosing to pass on, as he suggests, in email but also here:

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The left continues their struggle to turn the liberation of Iraq into a defeat of our military by starting a petition for active duty service members to vote for surrender.

http://www.appealforredress.org/

Blogger patriot Antimedia has taken up the challenge and started his own counter petition.

As a patriotic American proud to serve the nation in uniform and place my life on the line in defense of freedom, I respectfully urge my political leaders in Congress to unconditionally support all American military forces and to cease denigrating us by comparing us with Nazis and followers of Pol Pot and calling us murderers. I further respectfully urge my political leaders in Congress not to abandon the Iraqi people as we so shamefully abandoned the South Vietnamese. The time for all Americans to pull together, take a stand for freedom and support us in the war on terror [sic] is long overdue.

http://www.ipetitions.com/petition/ar96892/

Don’t let the left wing redefine the hard work and sacrifice of our men and women in Iraq as a wasted effort! Don’t let them make Baghdad into another Saigon! Please pass this e-mail on.

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Woody
http://alanwoody.blogs.com

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OK, Woody, it’s passed here (as well as to an email list).

Now, folks, what are YOU going to do with this? It’s time to call our representqatives to do justice, discover the true meaning of mercy (and I’ll give you a hint: it’s NOT appeasement! “Mercy” shown ONLY to the offender and not the victims is cruelty) and humility.

IOW, they need a swift kick in the pants, a slap upside the head or a strong right cross to get their attention and call them back (back? Most have never viewed their “service” as true servants ought) to actually serve the citizens of this country, instead of simply viewing us as sheep to be shorn… or worse, fleeced.

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Sharpton Considers Running for President

Having this crooked racist run as a Democrat would be all too fitting. Almost as fitting as having a serial slanderer and monumental dumbass in the running for the Democrats’ nomination. Oh, wait, it looks like that could happen, too!

Kerry Prepares Another White House Run

The only potential dark spot in these two creeps seeking to represent the Demicraps’ hopes in ’08 is that they could make Billary (Two crooks for the price of one!) Clinton and Barack Hussein (“Yeh, I was a druggie for most of a decade. So what?”) Obama look attractive… to dumbass Democraps who just aren’t paying attention (or do not have the mental or moral ability to do so).

Continue reading “Wednesday OTP/Oh, please, let it be so!”