Articles from April 2006



Brilliant not so smart

It’s campaign season, and the dirty tricks are starting already at Wikipedia. See the Fox news story here.
“My campaign manager Morton Brilliant, who is responsible for all the work in my office, has offered me his resignation and I have accepted it,” Cox said in a statement.
Republicans should know better, and Cox did the right [...]

The Immigration debate is on

 
Here are Senator Bill Frist’s comments on Illegal Immigration in Podcast, and here are the written comments at the Volpac blog — you can see how the sentiment is running. A quote from Senator Bill Frist:
We are a nation of immigrants built upon the rule of law. And so many legal immigrants have played by the rules [...]

NO Fetal Stem Cells were used to Clone President Bush

At the White House Correspondent’s dinner President Bush and Steve Bridges rocked, and Colbert fumbles lead balloons. See it at:

Libs and Loons

It seems that local issues have now come to the forefront — LA Mayor figures out how to do math: 294 Million Americans, 11 million Illegal Immigrants who can’t vote (except in democratically controlled precints… like California. ) hrmmm maybe he’ll go talk to those NFL guys in Dallas instead hanging out with his friends at the [...]

Will Spirit and Opportunity make it through the cold of winter?

While you are at the beach or enjoying a ball-game this summer, please keep Spirit and Opportunity in mind, and hope they make it through the winter. Story here.

The Last Bloody Century

The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere
The ceremony of innocence is drowned;
The best lack all convictions, while the worst
Are full of passionate intensity. - Yeats 
**WARNING: Contains graphic pictures of the results of ultimate evil. Do not continue if you are tender of heart or weak of spirit.
 The last century was the bloodiest in all of [...]

Greens are Watermelons

Here’s a great article from the Brussels Journal, educational in that I finally learned the real reason that greens are called watermelons…

May Day — Burn a Mexican Flag

And then go shopping….
 As I warned in and earlier article, “Liberal Rites of Spring“  The communist/socialist groups ANSWER and UFPJ (united for peace and justice) are organizing a mass demonstration and boycott by illegal immigrants scheduled for May 1st.
ANSWER and UCFP sympathies can easily be determined by scrolling through this photo-essay at Zombies’ site. There is nothing [...]

When government fails, citizens rise

When foreigners march on US soil carrying their flag, and the government fails to respond, then you can expect the citizens to do so. See the article on how the illegal immigrant rallies are swelling the ranks of the minutemen.
This is an election year, mid-term for many congressmen and senators — you can expect the [...]

School-bus Nagin disallows trailer trash by his gated communities

Another episode in the FEMA trailer drama, School Bus Nagin finally allows some trailers in after a stern talk from Chertov.
In an excellent article, Von Mises institute explains better than I did last night why Congress is responsible for the gas shortage, and why they are the only ones who can fix it.
Meanwhile, 73 percent [...]

Oil burning you up?

There you are reading this, fuming mad about the forty bucks it took you to fill your tank on the way home… and looking for someone to blame.
Big oil is not to blame. The biggest oil company in America, Exxon, sells about 2-3% of the oil sold worldwide in any given year. Compared to the [...]

Body Armor Debate

This is from an email from my dad, a Viet Nam veteran who usually doesn’t vent about things unless they are important, so I thought I better share this one with all. Thanks again for the two tours Dad, I am proud to be your son.
From someone who’s been to the valley of the Jolly [...]

If you can’t deport them all, at least send Reconquistas home

President Bush has said that we can’t send all illegal immigrants home, story here. If we can’t send them all, can we at least send these communist revolutionaries & reconquista fascists home? Scroll down through the pictures below the article, note the Swastika like Z in the Aztlan mural.
In other developements: Brussels Journal report on [...]

Alas Babylon

This via Jerry Pournelle’s UK correspondent, Roland Dobbins.
In an act of at least partial contrition, an officer in charge of the US military occupation of Babylon in 2003 and 2004 has offered to make a formal apology for the destruction his troops wrought on the ancient site.
Colonel John Coleman, former chief of staff for the [...]

Dems in Denial — The Fox effect; UBL surfaces

There’s a new study out from National Bureau of Economic Research purporting that in areas where Fox News broadcasts that people vote Republican more often. Original story here at Betsy Newmark’s.
The study appears flawed to me in many ways, first a correlation is not proof. They do not norm or analyze several major factors that [...]

Imperial Islam

It’s not about Al Qaeda, it’s not about Israel, or any singular terrorist group. It’s not the Taliban, or other states like Iraq, Syria, Libya, Iran etc. who supported terrorism in the past, or those who still do.
It’s all about Islamic Imperialism — all of these groups and countries are allied in ideology, Israel is just their stalking [...]

Sense of Wonder

Some days I need to re-acquire my sense of wonder, many times I end up here.

I’m a sucker for a good turn of phrase

I am really a sucker for a good turn of phrase, great poetry, or good lyricism in a song. Growing up I read “Look Homeward Angel” to rags simply because Thomas Wolf’s prose is so good. I completely disagreed with his manic depressive angst, sturm and drang, but I kept coming back for lines like [...]

The Tell

“This you knows: the years travel fast and time after time I done the tell. But this ain’t one body’s tell; it’s the tell of us all, and you’ve got to listen it and [re]member, ’cause what you hears today you gotta tell the newborn tomorrow.
I’s lookin behind us now, into history back. I sees [...]

Exit strategy for Iraq and Afghanistan

Poor Harry Reid isn’t getting much notice in the press, even after his master plan for Dem congresscritters during Spring break. In his latest attempt, he states that we “don’t have the resources” for a military response to Iran.
Ignoring the fact that our troops not involved in Iraq and Iran number aproximately 2 million, we [...]