Tag: stupid is as stupid does

by Debbie of Right Truth

John Edwards is running for president of the United States on his same old theme, ‘two Americas‘. He hopes to get votes by pitting the ‘haves’ against the ‘have nots’. He even chose New Orleans to make his announcement, with the unspoken message that the government failed the poor people and he has stepped in to be their savior.

Edwards is promising universal health care, pulling out of Iraq ,taxing oil company profits and eliminating President Bush’s tax cuts to pay for his priorities. Edwards is not alone in his thinking about the evil rich (of which he happens to BE ONE). Yesterday Thomas Sowell had a wonderful article that relates to this, titled ‘A Dangerous Obsession’.

Mr. Sowell picked up on the media, the left, and academia’s continuous obsession with “gaps” and “disparities” in income. ‘As one talk-show host put it, “It makes no sense” that a corporate executive makes over $50 million a year.’ Sowell says, “Ninety-nine percent of all the things that happen in this world “make no sense” to any given individual.”

If you cannot understand something as simple as making a lead pencil, why should you be surprised that you don’t understand why someone is making a lot more money than somebody else?

Moreover, if this obsession with income disparities is to be something more than mere hand-wringing or gnashing of teeth, obviously the point is that somebody ought to “do something” to change what you don’t understand.

That’s what the left, liberals, and Edwards wants to do. They want to correct what they perceive as something wrong, …some people having more money than others. And how would one go about correcting such an atrocity? That’s easy. Take away the excess from one, and give it to another. Or as Mr. Sowell puts it, “Usually that means that the government — politicians — should impose policies based on your ignorance of what is going on.”

Continue reading “Fair Tax:”

…for more of this:

“…An unborn baby in America is 125 times more likely to be murdered by its own mother than a US soldier has of being killed by an insurgent in Iraq! If our soldiers died at the rate we slaughter unborn children, in the 3 years and 9 months of the Iraq war we’d now have 140,625 dead, not just 2,415.>

Dims Dim on Numbers

Let me draw your attention to the comment quoted in the header of this blog:

“An excellent plumber is infinitely more admirable than an incompetent philosopher. The society that scorns excellence in plumbing because plumbing is a humble activity, and tolerates shoddiness in philosophy because philosophy is an exalted activity, will have neither good plumbing nor good philosophy. Neither its pipes nor its theories will hold water.”—John Gardner

Consider that for a while as you use it to filter Angel’s post on New York chic. Oh, come back for the rest of this post, would you (otherwise, my wonderfully wise “philosophical” observations will have been in vain. *LOL*)

Continue reading “Honor Where Honor Is Due”

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I want you to ponder a question from left field. Have you ever known someone so in love with their self-image that they simply cannot confront their own flaws? At all? Yeh, yeh, besides jean Fraud Kerry, Teddy “I’ll get the lifeguard!” Kennedy and all their ilk in the political class.

But you know the kind of people I mean. The kind of people who are so willfully blind to their own character that they’d cheat at solitaire. *sheesh* Who does that? Ya cheat at solitaire, the only person you’re cheating is yourself.

Yeh. That kind of person.

GTB EXCLUSIVE

Heidi, of Euphoric Reality has the beat:

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Mexican Gunmen Involved in Arizona Border Incident Actually Uniformed Mexican Force

By Heidi at Euphoric Reality

The excursion into U.S. territory last week by “Mexican gunmen” was not a chance confrontation between the Arizona National Guard and untrained illegal immigrants, but a deliberate “perimeter probe” by an infantry-trained, uniformed Mexican force, officials say.

Euphoric Reality has learned in exclusive interviews with high-ranking sources within both the Arizona National Guard and the U.S. Border Patrol that the incident the mainstream media calls a “standoff” was in reality a military-style operation, carried out by a unit of Mexican troops dressed in military uniforms, flak jackets, and armed with AK-47s in an apparent operation to probe the border defenses and test the limits of the National Guard troops. Using easily recognizable infantry movement tactics (such as arm and hand signals and flanking maneuvers), the Mexican unit deliberately moved in a military formation across the border from Mexico, where they were picked up by National Guard surveillance.

As the hostile force moved north over the next three hours, deeper into Arizona, National Guardsmen wearing night vision goggles were able to ascertain that the approaching gunmen were indeed uniformed (including PAGST helmets) and heavily armed. When the Mexican unit came within approximately 100 yards of the EIT site, the Guardsmen repositioned themselves in order to maintain surveillance and tactical advantage. They observed the Mexican unit sweep through the EIT site, and then rapidly withdrew back into Mexico. No shots were fired by either the Mexican gunmen or the Guardsmen. Border Patrol was on the scene within minutes of the Mexican unit’s withdrawal.

The Guardsmen, through an Arizona Border Patrol official, confirmed that the incident appeared to be an intelligence-gathering exercise designed to ascertain what the National Guard’s response would be to certain tactics. It is not an isolated incident, and many such probes have been reported by the Guardsmen assigned to the area. Though no shots were fired during this particular incident, shots have been fired near and in the vicinity of the soldiers at the EIT site in other situations, though not at the soldiers themselves. It is not clear from the uniforms if the Mexican soldiers were official Mexican federales or mercenaries hired by the drug cartels.

Since then, follow-on news reports have included statements from the Border Patrol that no shots were fired. This was confirmed today by Major Paul Aguirre, a Public Affairs Officer (PAO) for the Arizona National Guard. Rumors have circulated that the Guardsmen were not armed, and thus unable to defend themselves – and that is not the case. Both Major Aguirre and Rob Daniels, a Public Information Officer (PIO) for the Arizona Border Patrol, state that all Guardsmen assigned to EITs are armed, specifically with M16s and sometimes a sidearm. As well, there have been some contradictory news reports that stated the gunmen came “within yards” of the Guardsmen, while other reports state that the gunmen were approximately 100 yards away. Mr. Daniels clarified that the gunmen came as close as 100 yards to the Guardsmen. He also stated that the Guardsmen did not “retreat” but tactically repositioned themselves to maintain surveillance of the group of armed men while simultaneously radioing for Border Patrol agents. He asserted that the Guardsmen had followed their protocols perfectly, and that their services were invaluable to the Border Patrol agents.

Continue reading “Guard the Borders: Explosive!”

Passing lunch post…

“Truth is the only currency which has any value.”

I can’t claim the words as mine, and I wish I could attribute the quote, but such powerful… truth doesn’t need an authority figure for false validation, anyway.

“Truth is the only currency which has any value.”

Not what we normally think of when we consider currency, but how true does it ring with you?

“Truth is the only currency which has any value.”

Not nice, polite lies.

Not mealy-mouthed excuses.

Not political *spit* speech of any kind (it seems), as divorced from truth as that has become.

Things of value will one day rot or rust or break down.

“Friends” will desert us. (Well, the real ones know the truth of friendship and do not, except in death.)

Even our loved ones will die.

The one honest portion of that Unitarian Battle Hymn that Julia Ward Howe unintentionally included is that God’s truth is marching on (it just wasn’t the false “truth” her propoganda song was promoting in the Great Unitarian-Baptist Shootout).

“Truth is the only currency which has any value.”

Consider that the next time you are tempted to tell a “white lie”–just whose feelings are you really sparing and what harm are you really doing by not telling the truth?

“Truth is the only currency which has any value.”

Consider that the next time you are tempted to give a politician (or employer or employee or fellow church member, family member or friend) a “bye” on an obvious lie told to your face. Consider how many OTHER people you are harming (including, ultimately, the liar himself) by not calling the lie what it is.

“Truth is the only currency which has any value.”

This isn’t the “real” Monday GTB post; that’s awaiting some source confirmation of points of fact that Heidi is seeking.

Meanwhile, consider some broad strokes:

As the millions of illegal aliens swell our population with an invasion that is mostly from points south (aided and abetted by Mexican government sponsorship), consider this lil Q&A from CFIF.ORG:

Question: Thousands of illegal aliens — many of whom are drug smugglers, gangsters and other criminals — cross our borders every single day. But what happens to our brave border patrol agents who aggressively pursue and try to capture these criminals?

Answer: 11-12 years in prison!

And when hundreds of citizens lined up, out the door and down the street, for jobs at a Swift meatpacking plant vacated by illegals arrested in a recent raid, President Bush’s lying meme about “jobs Americans won’t do” was even further discredited. As if it needed discrediting to anyone with more working synapses than a head of cabbage…

See anarcho-tyranny. (Yeh, READ the whole thing.) A very tiny morsel:

“…the ordinary criminal, as well as the illegal immigrant, is at least an honorary member, if not a full-fledged officer, of the revolutionary class…”

Heidi will have the real GTB post for your reading later, but meanwhile, consider blowing a big fat raspberry at the criminal “justice” system that sends border control agents to jail for attempting to do their jobs… and claims that Americans are too lazy or finicky to do jobs that… Americans do day in and day out, and that Americans LINE UP to do when illegals are treated properly, as the criminals they are. (Now, if only someone in the fedgov would get some testosterone injections and deal a Draconian blow to employers of illegals… )

“In the first place, we should insist that if the immigrant who comes here in good faith becomes an American and assimilates himself to us, he shall be treated on an exact equality with everyone else, for it is an outrage to discriminate against any such man because of creed, or birthplace, or origin. But this is predicated upon the person’s becoming in every facet an American, and nothing but an American … There can be no divided allegiance here. Any man who says he is an American, but something else also, isn’t an American at all. We have room for but one flag, the American flag … We have room for but one language here, and that is the English language … and we have room for but one sole loyalty and that is a loyalty to the American people.” —Theodore Roosevelt 1907

Yeh, I added the emphasis. Illegal aliens are, by definition, NOT here “in good faith”.

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I hate working on laptops.

Lovely Daughter’s (out-of-warranty) Sony Vaio is a nice lil computer. Suits her needs to a “T” and has been ultra reliable for her.

Will not power on.

Haven’t seen it yet, but among the likely candidates one candidate is a standout: loose or bad (or corroded or otherwise damaged) power jack.

Have I mentioned I hate working on laptops? Especially the tiny lil ones like this Vaio that have really squirrely access procedures and teensy-tiny work spaces for sausage fingers.

Oh, well. If it’s the power jack, at least it’ll be relatively simple and easily accessed, for this computer at least. “Relatively” being the operational word. And it’s not as though I’d be spattering the mobo with all kindsa solder or anything. *heh*

I can hardly wait.

Have I mentioned I hate working on laptops?

🙂

Oh, well, for Lovely Daughter, nearly anything, of course.

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Check out Msunderestimated’s post on a Texas pig farmer who has the right response to a Muslim building a mosque next door (and attempting to shut the pig farm down–yeh, yeh, he says just move it, but that’s b.s.).

h.t. Blue Star Chronicles–in a blog roundup that’s “must read” for this weekend.