Just a quick question

wouldn’t it be a nice lil diversion from the normal press of almost unremitting bad news generated by political loons if the feds, instead of spending billions of dollars harrassing ordinary citizens, would spend a few billions searching the world for a pin whose head was small enough to contain the Clintoons’ moral precepts (and leave room for the contents of the intelligence expressed on the Demoncrappic Underpants)?

It’d be quite a thing to watch: nightly updates on the exploits of intrepid adventurers in the nanoworld.

Now, back to our regular programming. (Oh, BTW, one small light in the darkness: the House passed the Public Expression Of Religion Act: 244 to 173, today. On to the Senate, where poltroons, buffons and those who are bent on modeling Evil Incarnate can have a chance to pull its teeth… *sigh*)

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Next One Up: The Hillarybeast?/OTP

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Is Hillary next?

Now, that’s a catfight I’d pay to see…

Condi responds to Clinton’s lies in the Chris Wallace interview.

Although it’s possible the Hillarybeast will make some response, I doubt it’d have much effect. In fact, if the Hillarybeast wanted to significantly increase her chances for a white House bid, she’d divorce Bill, blame Whitewater on him (with conveniently “found” documents… probably found in a travel case) and talk about all the times she told Bill (over and over, hectoring, nagging and throwing of plates) to “‘Get that goat-loving Osama’ but he just wouldn’t listen. Too busy chasing skirt.”

*heh*


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Guard the Borders

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by Toni at Bear Creek Ledger

All of these stories were found in the last couple days posted to Lucianne.

‘Border Baby’ boom strains S. Texas – There’s a picture with the story of an illegal alien who’s given birth to her fourth child on American soil at American taxpayer expense who thinks it’s owed to her!

Of course the real story is how ‘anchor babies’ are breaking the backs of South Texas hospitals. Continue reading “Guard the Borders”

Gotta love it…

No, I’m not going to link it, but I just love it when a guy brags about being “self-employed as a software developer” and “web site designer”… and the page those boasts are on doesn’t load/display properly in two different browsers.

Oh, yeh. Mac user. (Apologies to both of my readers who aren’t typical Mac users… :-))

Still having a hoot with the al-Qaeda>Saudi>Al Jizeera>Fwench news chain of “credible sources” in the “OBL is dead (again)” story. No sane person can write great material like that.

Oh, and for more “gotta-love-’em idiocy” take Congress (please!). One “word” (for those who can’t count): Arlen Specter. How better to sum it up than this comment by one of the great minds of the 20th Century?

(BTW, ya know there are three kinds of people in the world, dontcha? Those who can count and those who can’t.)

Well, enough for a drive-by. Just remember: if you need a laugh or three, there’s plenty of stupidity to ridicule in the news, on the web—even here at twc. ;-)—and just driving down the road. After all, as Woody reminds us, at least 42% of Americans are complete morons. (Really, Woody? Ya think it’s that low? :-))

Very Short Roundup/Monday OP

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UPDATE: N.B.—I inadvertently (got inna hurry paging through mky SPAM moderation queue, ya know) deleted a TB from Bernie at Planck’s Constant. That’s a no-no in my book, so here’s the link and lede:

Muslim Humor-Muslim Jokes

I have taken it upon myself to supply the world with more Muslim jokes. It goes without saying that Muslims are perhaps the least humorous folk on Earth; whereas Jews have learned to laugh at themselves, even turning that laughter into a business: Vaudeville.

There ya go, Bernie. I’ll be more careful in the future.

Amid alla the brouhaha about the information from France, via Al- jizeera, from Saudi Arabia saying its source is Al Qaeda (damned liars reliable sources one and all *cough-spit*), let’s keep our eye on the ball in the GWOT—Truth and Justice and Iraq, in particular: Mensa Barbie offers a lil timely aid in that effort.

About that GWOT, Clinton’s apologia for his eight years’ inaction, balancing civil rights and national security, etc., STACLU comments on “Learning From The Past”.

A heartwarming link (with typical commentary) from Conservative Cat. Makes me wanna do a happy dance. *heh*

Planck’s Constant shares with us his grief over the report of bin Laden’s reported death. I agree, Bernie, though I feel perhaps your “grief” may not be quite deep enough; the proper treatment of OBL’s burial would involve a bit more, I think… *heh*


Suggested “bedmate’ for OBL’s final resting place

Daffyd (Big Lizards) notes the award of the laurel wreath to the Champion of Terrorist Rights, today. Indeed.

Blue Star Chronicles reminds us of who the real heroes are in the GWOT (Hint: they’re not found among Political Poltroons, Mass Media Podpeople, Loony Left Moonbats or Academia But Fruitcakes).

On a slight *a-hem* change of pace, Woody’s News and Viewsd has a couple of “see ’em to believe ’em” posts. OK, one is simply a graphic that strikes a resonant chord in me, the other’s a video that’s worth a lil break time.

Even further along the curve away from the GWOT (or is it, really?), Angel’s weekend open trackbacks post has some good thoughts, calming pics. Head on over to Woman Honor Thyself for a lil time of quiet contemplation of the splendor of creation.

Alexandra’s Rosh Hashanah post at All things Beautiful is one of the weekend’s “must reads” IMO.

And finally, head on over to Basil’s Blog to test your knowledge of Ramadan.


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OBL dead?

[Maybe NSFW, unless in a medical establishment… Definitely not to be read while eating ice cream. Or chocolate. Or chocolate ice cream.]

Yeh, it’s been all over the news, blogs, etc. for the past coupla days. OBL dead? I’m not exactly sanguine…

OTOH, if he died of typhoid, then he died as he lived… running off at the mouth… or what passes for one among Al Qaeda circles.

typhoid fever… loss of appetite, nosebleeds, cough, and diarrhea… [b]y the end of the third week the patient is emaciated, abdominal symptoms are marked, and mental disturbance is prominent

Hmmm… there’s quite a bit of that that sounds like SOP for Al Qaeda and their ilk. Of course, the normal Al Qaeda scum is marked by prodigious reverse peristalsis diarrhea, since every word they utter is spewed feces.

Arrrggghhhh!!!

I just started reading a book by an author who is new to me.

I think I’ll probably not be able to finish it, despite the fact that the premise is interesting and the characterization of the protagonist is also interesting.

The problem? The author is just too darned subliterate for me to ignore her abuse of language.

Second paragraph: “…they did peak her interest about other areas…”

That’s “pique” not “peak”. A peak is a high point, not an arousal or excitement (as of interest, e.g. “pique my interest”).

*sigh*

My disinterest begins to peak…

Further down the page, one of my favorite gripes: “…there’s bound to be different interpretations…”

Nope. “There ARE (there’re) bound to be different interpretations” would be correct. “There IS (there’s) bound to be A different interpretation” is also correct, but “there’s bound to be different interpretations” is just stupid.

There’re more such stupid usages. All in the first coupla pages.

The author of this book (and no, I’ll not name either the book or the author; I’ll not inflict that pain on anyone else) shouldn’t get any play until she learns her craft properly. And since this author’s somewhere in her 60s, time’s running out for her.

Oh, and her editor/publisher should use hemp neckties to rid the world of their subliterate incompetence as well.

*profound sigh*

People who murder the English language for pay (and, of course, politicians and Mass Media Podpeople and Academia Nut Fruitcakes all fall into this category as well) really need to be introduced to Dr. Tarr and Mr. Fether for remedial instruction.

Highly intelligent stupidity

When viewing Bill Clinton’s recent defense of his eight years of inaction and ineffective waffling in the face Islamic terrorism, I was reminded of words put into the mouth of Antonio Barberini* by Eric Flint and Andrew Dennis in 1635: the Cannon Law. It seems to me that, like the character referred to in the fictional account, Bill Clinton has the uncanny ability to

“…bring more brain-power to bear on being a fool than most men could exert in the profoundest philosophical inquiry.”

*Yeh, the book’s an “alternate timestream” kinda thing and Antonio Barberini was a real person in history suited out to play a part in it.

More on Puppy Linux

OK, I’ve mentioned Ubuntu Linux (6.06 “Dapper Drake”) several times and Puppy Linux a coupla times. For “Aunt Tilly” easy, either qualify. Ubuntu is slicker and a lil more “Windows-like” (though distinctly different), but Puppy Linux 2.10 is… really, really nice.

For one thing, running Puppy Linux off the CD (no hard drive install) is really FAST compared to other “Live CD” experiences. Puppy sees more of my actual physical memory than Windows does and uses that to its advantage. Plus, as opposed to other Live CD Linux disks, Puppy makes saving my changes and configurations in a Live CD session almost transparently easy. And while I’m not all that tickled with the Seamonkey browser, it’s still about as capable as Firefox, and having it remember my logons (like to this admin account) between live CD sessions is really nice.

Highly recommend y’all who use Windows at least download Puppy and try it out, especially since IF (and/or WHEN) your Windows install refusews to even boot into Safe Mode (I had another client computer with a set of issues that resulted in that just this week), you can still boot into a Puppy Live CD session and rescue data files, at the very least.

Download Puppy Linux here and give it a try. At the least, it’ll be fun (or interesting), and it might just save your bacon to have something like this sitting in your toolbox.

Puppy Linux 2.10 is definitely getting installed on the next box I build for testing here.