March 2005 Archives

Well Folks,

No posts today, I have a lot of stuff to do to get ready for MidSouthCon and not a lot of time to do it in. The con starts in about 24 hours and I'm going to love living this weekend. I am going to game until I puke, then get back up and game some more. I am going to live off of Bawls and snacks, and I am going to get the T-shirt that says I was there.

If you have never been to a Con of any type, then you haven't lived. I've been to several Star Trek Cons, comic book Cons and gaming Cons. The gaming Cons are by far the most fun, as you are an active participant in a whole bunch of stuff.

I am going to play in at least a dozen different types of games, from ancient to the far flung future. Card games, miniatures games, board games, you name it, I'm playing it.

I'll be sure to bring my camera and take a bunch of pictures this year so I can show you the fun.

That's it for now, I need to get things in order and ready to go. I'll make my usual posts tomorrow and give you a report by Monday afternoon. Hey, I gotta sleep sometime....

I found this and wanted to share this good idea with you. I think I've already discussed it, but it's been a while and it doesn't hurt to bring it up again. If You Sue And Lose, You Pay The Bill!

I think this would cut down on the frivolous lawsuits if the loser had to pay all of the court costs. It would put a down side on what has been until now all gravy.

Let's do it.

Restraining Orders are a joke. A lot of them are filed frivolously as part of a divorce decree, diluting the effect of those who are for real and imminent dangers. But even then RO's are not worth the paper they are written on. It is up to the citizen taking out the RO to enforce it, not the police.

Here is a story about a woman suing the police for failing to enforce a RO. Mother Sues Cops For Failing to Protect Kids. Here in Memphis, we also had a heart wrenching story about a woman who also had an RO against an ex-husband/boyfriend. He found her dropping their kid off at the baby sitters and he shot her in the head, in front of the kid. Later on, he killed himself over it.

I doubt this case will fly, as South vs. Maryland (1856) and DeShaney v. Winnebago Cty. Dept. of Soc. Servs. (1989) both lay out the fact that police cannot be held responsible for protection of private individuals. The police cannot be everywhere, nor can they enforce every RO on the books.

From todays Neal Boortz:A Disaster for Race Relations in the State of Georgia.

I quote it all here because it's short and it will scroll off tomorrow:

Race warlords in Georgia are screaming. They are mightily upset. "Governor Perdue, don't sign this bill!!!!" Oh the humanity. This hideous and horrible bill is being cast by race pimps as "a disaster for race relations in the State of Georgia." One black legislator said that this new bill was "spitting on the grave of Martin Luther King, Jr." This bill is so bad that black lawmakers staged a walkout when the measure was debated earlier this month. They said that it could turn back the clock on civil rights. "It's an attack on the rights of minorities."

So, what's going on? Well, it seems that both the Georgia House and Senate have passed bills requiring all voters to show some kind of picture ID before they can cast a vote. [HB 244 | SB 84] Any one of six different types of picture ID will do. A driver's license will work, even if it is expired. The law provides for free state-issued picture IDs for anyone who wants one. Still, the race pimps aren't satisfied.

You know what's going on here, don't you? Voter fraud is a reality, and across this country most of the votes that are illegally cast are cast for Democrats. It is Democrats who are driving the demands that non-citizens be allowed to vote in local elections. It is Democrats who are even insisting that illegal aliens be permitted to vote in some areas. It is Democrats who have opposed each and every move, no matter where, to attempt to clean up the election process by making sure that people who vote are actually legally qualified to vote. It is Democrats who want felons to vote! They know that felons will, by and large, vote for Democrats.

I'll say it again. Most illegally cast votes are cast for Democrats. Democrats have been at the forefront of every move to loosen voting restrictions and to counter any attempt to combat voter fraud.

Now .. if you really want to hear Democrats howl ... make it easier for military personnel to vote. Military personnel, you see, usually vote Republican.

You can't argue with the truth. 9 out of 10 times when someone got their hand caught in the cookie jar of voting fraud, it's been the Democrats. They stand behind every bill and measure that franchises those who shouldn't be voting. If I recall correctly, the Dems also want illegal aliens to be able to vote.....

All of these efforts to extend the franchise to those who don't deserve it are absolutely horrendous. And the Democrats proudly stand up for it. Let them do that and get smacked down.

Voting is a sacred duty, and it is every citizens duty to do so. But let's keep those who don't need to be voting out of the mix, okay?

Here you go. The Rule Of Law V. The Rule Of Judges.

What we need are judges who interpret the law instead of making up their own minds. Constructionists vs. deconstructionists you might say.

I can't advocate term limits for judges, as this would exacerbate the swings we already see, as far as Conservative vs. Liberal biases, depending on who was in power at the time.

But I do think we should make it easier to impeach judges for cause. The recent arbitration of the Terri Schiavo is a good case in point. Congress passed a law, and the judge who was supposed to hear the case because of the law just ignored the law.

Maybe we could elect our Federal judges, just like we elect our local judges. But that could throw a wrench into the works. I don't know, I'm just a crazy guy with a blog.

Judges are not the final arbiters of the law. They took that job on themselves, and we need to take it back. There are too many judges who are intent on legislating from the bench, furthering their pet causes because they have the power to, and we need to stop it.

Please help. Convince your lawmakers to pass the appropriate legislation to make it easier to impeach judges for cause. Use the button to the right and find out who your lawmakers are.

Here is a three part investigation by Frosty Wooldridge into how often police come across illegal immigrants and how much the illegals respect our laws: From an Officer's Squad Car: Illegal Immigration Crime Wave.

It's a sad story about how the police are fighting a losing war against illegal immigrants. They flagrantly violate our laws, seek out the weak spots and take advantage of us en masse.

This has got to stop, and it has to stop now. The laws need to be changed 180 degrees. We need to immediately arrest and deport these illegals, confiscate their property and sell it to recoup costs.

While normally I have a problem with seizure without due process, in this case their lack of citizenship is a de facto proof of the crime, i.e. they are illegal immigrants and have no right for them or their possessions to be in the country.

We must make this country inhospitable to illegals. Otherwise there is no reason for them to go through the process of becoming legal residents if they don't have to.

President Bush is going to royally screw up this country as far as illegals go if he isn't set straight. Email him at President@whitehouse.gov today.

I am bringing this subject back up again because of some information in this article: Gun Banners Shooting Themselves in the Foot.

I've already talked about how the gun-control groups (called "The Brady Bunch" in the article: I like that) keep calling for the disarmament of citizens when we are our own first line of defense. Like the old adage goes, there is never a cop around when you need one. Also, it is better to have and not need then to need and not have.

The armed citizen is proven to stop or drastically reduce the number of casualties in a mass shooting like we have seen here in just the past couple of weeks.

This [arming school administrators and faculty] is the solution that works in the real world, where at least two massacres have been prevented by law-abiding gun owners. First there was Joel Myrick, an assistant principal, who defied the law and used his own gun to stop Luke Woodham's shooting spree at a Mississippi high school in 1997.

Then there were two law school students at the Appalachian School of Law in Virginia, who similarly used their own personal guns to stop Peter Odighizuwa's rampage in 2002.

Real world solutions to real world problems.

I've been seeing a commercial for Burger King lately with Darius Rucker, lead singer from Hootie and the Blowfish in it. He's singing some sort of lame Country and Western song, complete with Whoppers growing on trees and Dallas Cowboy Cheerleaders.

Anyway, if you watch his face, really carefully, right at the end of the commercial, just before they cut away, you see a "PLEASE HELP ME, WHAT HAVE I DONE?!" look in the strained smile and glint in his eyes. It used to hang there for a bit, but I think the execs saw the look as well and shaved a few frames off so you can't see it as well. But it's still there.

Hat tip to Mike for telling me about it.

This is interesting. Selective Restraint: Liberals cheered when Janet Reno defied the courts to seize Elian Gonzalez.

This is but one of the excesses of the Clinton Administration, the Elian Gonzalez case. This pretty well sets it up:

The sad case of Terri Schiavo has raised passions not seen since five years ago. Then another bitterly divided family argued in Florida courts over someone who couldn't speak on his own behalf: Elian Gonzalez.

In both cases, those who were unhappy with the courts' decisions strained to assert the federal government's power to produce a different outcome. The difference is that in Mrs. Schiavo's case, Congress backed off after passing a bill that merely asked a federal court to hear the case from scratch, something that U.S. District Judge James Whittemore declined to do. By contrast, those who wanted the federal government to intervene in Elian Gonzalez's case went all the way, supporting a predawn armed federal raid on the morning before Easter to seize the 6-year-old boy despite a federal appeals court's refusal to order his surrender.

Hm. Here we have two cases, where the future of innocents lie in the balance. One administration abides by the courts decision, the other does not. Can you guess which one did what?

But liberals have gotten off easy for some of the somersaulting arguments they have made on behalf of judicial independence and states' rights to justify their position that Terri Schiavo should not be saved. Many made the opposite arguments in the Elian Gonzalez case.

Liberals can do triple-backflips while standing on the ground when it comes to comparing cases like this. They side with whomever appeals to them and consistency be damned. Either the administration should abide by the ruling of the courts or they should take action to "protect" the innocent.

Of course, there are differences between the Gonzalez and Schiavo cases. But clearly many of the people who approved of dramatic federal intervention to return Elian to Cuba took a completely different tack when it came to the argument over saving Terri Schiavo. Rep. Frank makes a compelling argument that Congress took an extraordinary step when it met in special session to create a procedure whereby the federal courts could decide whether Ms. Schiavo's rights were being violated. He may have a point when he accuses Republicans of "trying to command judicial activism and dictate outcomes when they don't like" rulings. But where were Mr. Frank and other liberals when the Clinton administration decided to sidestep a federal appeals court and order an armed raid against Elian Gonzalez? While Mr. Frank allowed that the use of assault rifles in the Elian raid was "excessive" and "frightening," he also defended the Justice Department's view that "of course [agents] had to use force."

According to some reports, Gov. Jeb Bush considered seizing Mrs. Schiavo, à la Elian, and taking her to a hospital so she could be fed. But he did not do so. "I've consistently said that I can't go beyond what my powers are, and I'm not going to do it," the governor says. Janet Reno and the Clinton administration showed no such restraint when it came to Elian Gonzalez.

It just goes to show you who is more appreciative of the Constitution. Conservatives passed a law, Liberals just use force.

For those of you, like me, who have trouble getting up in the morning comes this: Clocky.

A motorized clock that after you hit the snooze button, it runs off the nightstand and hides in a corner of your bedroom, forcing you to get out of bed to shut it up.

It might work for me if I didn't sleep on the floor.

The eco-nuts are stepping up their attacks on development of the Third World. Bank Must Take Stand for Third World.

Last week, RAN expanded its campaign against the U.S. financial services industry into tiny Greenwich, Conn., to the very street where J.P. Morgan Chase's CEO, William Harrison, lives.

RAN activists put up old-fashioned Wild West-type "Wanted" posters featuring Mr. Harrison as "Billy the Kid." The posters criticized the bank for "reckless investment in environmentally and socially destructive projects in dozens of countries" and urged Mr. Harrison's neighbors and friends to "ask him to do the right thing."

RAN wants to control J.P. Morgan Chase's lending policies in developing countries, especially with regard to energy projects and logging. As an extremist group that rails against oil, wood, and meat consumption, RAN wants to block lending to projects it claims may contribute to global warming or involve logging in "sensitive" areas. [emphasis mine]

Chase is trying to develop the Third world and bring those people out of no less than the Stone Age. They want to improve the standard of living of these people, and the people want it to happen. But these eco-nuts think people are better off in the Stone Age.

The World Health Organization reported in May 2002 that 5,500 children die every day from consumption of food and water contaminated with bacteria. The WHO painted a shockingly bleak picture for millions of third-world children: 1.3 million under the age of five die annually from diarrheal diseases caused by unsafe food and water; another 2.2 million die from respiratory infections caused or exacerbated by poor sanitation.

This death toll equates to about 40 jumbo jets filled with kids crashing every day — a death toll that can only be alleviated by economic development.

That's the cost that RAN wants them to pay. 5,500 children a day. Every day. That's working out to a child every 15.7 seconds.

Something must be done to stop these eco-nuts.

I've been jumping up and down about this for a while now. Immigration Without Assimilation Equals Invasion.

We are rapidly unbecoming the great melting pot. Our national uniqueness as the home for everybody in the world to come and be American is rapidly becoming lost.

Unless the illegals are ejected and our legal immigrants assimilate into our culture, we risk fracturing into regional states and the downfall of the United States will not be far behind. Oh, we'll be a superpower for a long time, but there will be a sea change and a gradual decline will ensue.

Let's not let that happen.

Finally, something from Cox and Forkum:

I can't put my finger on it, but something is wrong with me this morning. I can't concentrate, can't get excited, can't get mad. I'm going to curl up for a while and see if I can't start again later.

The shooting in Minnesota is a tremendous tragedy. But it only highlights something. It is extraordinarily difficult to stop a person who is committed to a particular course of action. The only way to stop a person on such a course as this kid was is by violence.

Minnesota is one of the states that have a 'shall-issue' CCW law. That means that as long as the applicant meets the tests of the law, they must be issued the permit.

It has been shown time and time again that armed citizens stop such rampages. But when you declare a particular area "gun-free" you are inviting such massacres to happen. And so it is with schools. By federal law they are gun-free, which means only police can have guns near schools. But the police can't be everywhere, and there are times when an armed citizen must step in.

If there had been an armed teacher there, there wouldn't have been 10+ dead. There would have been likely only 2-3 dead, including the shooter. While 2-3 dead is still tragic, it is better by far than 10-15 dead.

There are some people who say a safe would have prevented this, but I don't think so. There was a case, in Arkansas I believe, where a school shooting took place. The kids doing the shooting used a cutting torch to get into a safe where the firearms they used were kept. You can't stop someone who is fully committed to such a course of action like this, especially when they know they will die at the end of the rampage.

Guns in the right hands prevents things like this from happening. Start arming teachers like airline pilots and watch this not happen again. Or if it does, it ends quickly with only the gunman paying the ultimate price.

Here you go. Just to prove how screwed up the "health care" system is in Canada. The 'Junkification' of Canada by the Left.

It talks about giving free heroin to addicts. What a stupid idea. Here's a snippet on Canadian Journalism:

Every leftist politician I've spoken with, and every Canadian media report I've seen, parrots the "success" of the same Swiss study as justification for this lunacy. Hardly surprising, given that the Canadian media usually behave like high school seniors doing term papers: One guy writes the story directly from a press release and praises a particular study, and the rest just copy it.

And here's the truth about the study that the Canadian press is so glowy about:

What no one has pointed out is that this Swiss study that the lefties rave about was deemed to be an abject failure in 1999 by a World Health Organization External Evaluation Panel report.

The rest of the article goes on. I especially like how the article starts out with the author being a fitness instructor. When confronted by an obese person with no willpower, instead of helping the person develop some self-worth and willpower to change their life, the Canadian way is to hand them the keys to a McDonald's and say, "Drive."

Here's the true despair about the Canadian system:

Leave it to the Canadian "harm reduction" leftists to advocate in favor of using Canadian citizens as guinea pigs to essentially duplicate a failed experiment. And while the government is funding heroin injections for junkies, diabetics can't afford needles and addicts who want into treatment centers to get off heroin end up on a waiting list. [emphasis mine]

So the people who don't need the "help" get first bite at the apple, but those who really need help in a life-threatening way, are told, "Sorry, all of your resources are used up by this other program."

Pitiful.

I just might sign up for HBO for this. From the Drudge Report:

HBO is set to air a behind the scenes look at the launching of liberal radio network AIR AMERICA.

The DRUDGE REPORT has obtained a director's cut of LEFT OF THE DIAL, a grossly entertaining docu-drama of life on the other side of the AIR AMERICA microphone.

The doubts. The lies. The bounced checks. The heartbreak.

The viewer is taken upclose to witness the ugly business of media ambition.

The main character, Evan Cohen, founding chairman and main investor, is depicted as a complete fraud.

The documentary shows Cohen arriving in the middle of night at AIR AMERICA offices to sign over the company and disappear again, but not before lying about how many ads have been sold and how much money is the bank [zero].

Dead Air.

It shows how AIR AMERICA executives lied and lied again about not bouncing checks to their Chicago and Los Angeles affiliate owners. [The network was quickly thrown off the stations.]

The film captures AIR AMERICA staff first learning about the Chicago and LA nightmare by reading a DRUDGE REPORT exclusive on their computers.

It shows midday host Al Franken at a staff meeting being told there is no money left, hilariously, just moments after ranting about George Bush's ethics.

The HBO crew is told to shut down their cameras -- but they don't -- and the 'We're Broke!' meeting is filmed raw.

LEFT OF THE DIAL shows an angry meeting of the writing staff being told how money was deducted from their checks to pay for health care -- but the money was never paid to the HMO and they were never covered!

Host Janeane Garofalo looks suicidal in nearly ever scene which she appears.

"What am I going to do, just ramble on and on," panics stand-up-comic-morning-drive-host Marc Maron, as he deals with the reality of becoming a talkshow host.

But every drama must have a hero: Enter Randi Rhodes.

Highlight. The camera captures pm drive Rhodes in her classic PMS mood, but this time at home, in her newly rented NYC apartment.

Wearing a leopard-spotted robe, bra-less, smoking and crying "I'm so f*ckign lost," the relocated Floridian steals the show.

Talking to herself in the bedroom mirror, Rhodes whispers "You can do this."

She bemoans throughout how she is not being featured in any AIR AMERICA press. "No CNN. No USATODAY. No YAHOO wire story." How she is the only one hired at AIR AMERICA that's even been on radio before.

When she attempts to introduce herself to director Michael Moore [rushing out of a Franken Radio interview], Rhodes quickly realizes he does not even know who she is.

The heartbreaking scene is easily a frontrunner for this year's EMMYs.

The HBO film is set for air March 31.

Actually, there's no way I could afford the hookup fee to get HBO, then the unhookup fee for taking it off after I've seen the movie. If anybody has HBO out there, I am willing to buy a tape and postage if you would record it for me.

Thanks.

From The Museum of Left-Wing Lunacy:

"We have wished, we ecofreaks, for a disaster or for a social change to come and bomb us into Stone Age, where we might live like Indians in our valley, with our localism, our appropriate technology, our gardens, our homemade religion -- guilt-free at last!" -- Stewart Brand (writing in the Whole Earth Catalogue)

Of course, there is nothing from preventing these people from living like that now, except their own laziness. They like their Central Heat and Air houses, SUVs, health care and supermarkets right down the street. These people would be the first to die from starvation if such an event were to occur. They can only imagine a "pristine" world, not the dirty reality of no clean water, not enough food, 50% of babies who die in their first year because of childhood diseases. Not to mention all of the women who die in childbirth.

These people are freaks. Despite all of the cars and factories today, our air is way cleaner than it was 30 years ago, and that was way better than it was 100 years ago. Medical technology is letting us live longer and longer lives, even with obesity breathing down our necks.

Besides, they were predicting an Ice Age about now, from Global Cooling. When that didn't work out, the switched to Global Warming. They're wrong about that one as well. The Earth will get warmer and colder according to its own schedule, not from any contribution from Man.

As we discussed yesterday in "The plan to destroy the US," one of the ways to stifle the discussion was for the pro-illegals to call the normal citizens "racists." Well, here it is in black and white, from Frosty Wooldridge:

Two weeks ago, after hearing 28 Colorado citizens speak in favor of Representative David Schultheis’ H.B. 1271, which prohibits illegal aliens from gaining taxpayer benefits—Democrat Terrance Carroll stood up and announced that all 28 men and women in favor of upholding the law—were racists.

But again, these people, illegal immigrants are invading my homeland. They steal our cars, take our medical services (which bankrupt the hospitals), our social services, sell drugs, murder and all kinds of heinous things.

Their very existence in this country poses an extremely grave security risk. Something must be done and it must be done now.

Locate your representatives over there to the right. Write them and demand action against the tide of illegal immigrants. There are plenty of ways this crisis can be brought under control by using existing laws and not violating any Constitutional rights.

The tide of unassimiliated illegal immigrants will tear this country apart if something isn't done about it very, very soon.

From Fox News: PC Protects Predator.

The Arizona Daily Star paints a chilling portrait of a sexual predator who ran amok at the University Medical Center in Tucson in part because staffers who suspected foul play were afraid to speak up for fear of being labeled racists.

Daniel Lugo Perez, a former UMC patient-care technician, was convicted of sexual assault for raping and sodomizing a number of patients during the 23 months he worked at the Arizona hospital.

Investigators attempting to figure out how he was able to do this under the staff's noses said one of the reasons is political correctness. At least three UMC nurses thought Perez was staying too long in female patients' rooms, but the one who spoke out was immediately pegged a racist and shouted down by the rest of the staff.[emphasis mine]

Just how crazy can Political Correctness get? I mean, you have suspicious activity by a person and yet you don't check up on it because he's a minority? And the majority of the staff ostracizes the lone staff member that dares bring it up? I hope when the lawsuits come piling in the people who did the shouting down get named as co-defendants.

I found this on The Political Digest and since it was at the bottom and ready to be deleted, I would save the whole thing and let you read it.

We all know Dick Lamm as the former Governor of Colorado. In that context his thoughts are particularly poignant. Last week there was an immigration-overpopulation conference in Washington, DC, filled to capacity by many of American's finest minds and leaders. A brilliant college professor named Victor Hansen Davis talked about his latest book, "Mexifornia," explaining how immigration - both legal and illegal was destroying the entire state of California. He said it would march across the country until it destroyed all vestiges of The American Dream.

Moments later, former Colorado Governor Richard D. Lamm
stood up and gave a stunning speech on how to destroy
America. The audience sat spellbound as he described eight
methods for the destruction of the United States. He said, "If
you believe that America is too smug, too self-satisfied, too rich,
then let's destroy America. It is not that hard to do. No nation
in history has survived the ravages of time. Arnold Toynbee
observed that all great civilizations rise and fall and that 'An
autopsy of history would show that all great nations commit
suicide.'"

"Here is how they do it," Lamm said: "Turn America into a
bilingual or multi-lingual and bicultural country. History shows
that no nation can survive the tension, conflict, and antagonism
of two or more competing languages and cultures. It is a
blessing for an individual to be bilingual; however, it is a curse
for a society to be bilingual.

"The historical scholar Seymour Lipset put it this way: 'The
histories of bilingual and bi-cultural societies that do not
assimilate are histories of turmoil, tension, and tragedy.'
Canada, Belgium, Malaysia, Lebanon all face crises of national
existence in which minorities press for autonomy, if not
independence. Pakistan and Cyprus have divided. Nigeria
suppressed an ethnic rebellion. France faces difficulties with
Basques, Bretons, and Corsicans."

Lamm went on: "Invent 'multiculturalism' and encourage
immigrants to maintain their culture. I would make it an article
of belief that all cultures are equal. That there are no cultural
differences. I would make it an article of faith that the Black
and Hispanic dropout rates are due to prejudice and
discrimination by the majority. Every other explanation is out of
bounds.

"We could make the United States an 'Hispanic Quebec'
without much effort. The key is to celebrate diversity rather
than unity. As Benjamin Schwarz said in the Atlantic Monthly
recently: 'The apparent success of our own multiethnic and
multicultural experiment might have been achieved not by
tolerance but by hegemony. Without the dominance that once
dictated ethnocentrically and what it meant to be an American,
we are left with only tolerance and pluralism to hold us
together.'" Lamm said, "I would encourage all immigrants to
keep their own language and culture. I would replace the
melting pot metaphor with the salad bowl metaphor. It is
important to ensure that we have various cultural subgroups
living in America reinforcing their differences rather than as
Americans, emphasizing their similarities."

"Fourth, I would make our fastest growing demographic group
the least educated. I would add a second underclass,
unassimilated, undereducated, and antagonistic to our
population. I would have this second underclass have a 50%
dropout rate from high school."

"My fifth point for destroying America would be to get big
foundations and business to give these efforts lots of money. I
would invest in ethnic identity, and I would establish the cult of
'Victimology.' I would get all minorities to think their lack of
success was the fault of the majority. I would start a grievance
industry blaming all minority failure on the majority
population."

"My sixth plan for America's downfall would include dual
citizenship and promote divided loyalties. I would celebrate
diversity over unity. I would stress differences rather than
similarities. Diverse people worldwide are mostly engaged in
hating each other - that is, when they are not killing each other."

"A diverse, peaceful, or stable society is against most historical
precedent. People undervalue the unity it takes to keep a nation
together. Look at the ancient Greeks. The Greeks believed that
they belonged to the same race; they possessed a common
language and literature; and they worshiped the same gods. All
Greece took part in the Olympic games. A common enemy
Persia threatened their liberty. Yet all these bonds were not
strong enough to over come two factors: local patriotism and
geographical conditions that nurtured political divisions. Greece
fell. "E. Pluribus Unum" -- From many, one. In that historical
reality, if we put the emphasis on the 'pluribus' instead of the
'unum,' we can balkanize America as surely as Kosovo."

"Next to last, I would place all subjects off limits ~ make it
taboo to talk about anything against the cult of 'diversity.' I
would find a word similar to 'heretic' in the 16th century - that
stopped discussion and paralyzed thinking. Words like 'racist'
or 'xenophobe' halt discussion and debate."

"Having made America a bilingual/bicultural country, having
established multi-culturism, having the large foundations fund
the doctrine of 'Victimology,' I would next make it impossible to
enforce our immigration laws. I would develop a mantra: That
because immigration has been good for America, it must always
be good. I would make every individual immigrant symmetric
and ignore the cumulative impact of millions of them."

In the last minute of his speech, Governor Lamm wiped his
brow. Profound silence followed. Finally he said, "Lastly, I
would censor Victor Hanson Davis's book Mexifornia. His book
is dangerous. It exposes the plan to destroy America. If you feel
America deserves to be destroyed, don't read that book."

There was no applause. A chilling fear quietly rose like an
ominous cloud above every attendee at the conference. Every
American in that room knew that everything Lamm enumerated
was proceeding methodically, quietly, darkly, yet pervasively
across the United States today. Every discussion is being
suppressed. Over 100 languages are ripping the foundation of
our educational system and national cohesiveness. Barbaric
cultures that practice female genital mutilation are growing as
we celebrate 'diversity.'

American jobs are vanishing into the Third World as
corporations create a Third World in America - take note of
California and other states - to date, ten million illegal aliens
and growing fast. It is reminiscent of George Orwell's book
"1984." In that story, three slogans are engraved in the
Ministry of Truth building: "War is peace," "Freedom is
slavery," and "Ignorance is strength."

Governor Lamm, walked back to his seat. It dawned on
everyone at the conference that our nation and the future of this
great democracy is deeply in trouble and worsening fast. If we
don't get this immigration monster stopped within three years,
it will rage like a California wildfire and destroy everything in
its path, especially The American Dream.

We must stop illegal immigration and stop it NOW. Stop giving American citizenship to children born in the US of illegal immigrants and cut off ALL services to them. Then start enforcing the law at all levels and get these people out of here! They are a drain on us, morally, culturally and financially. They will tear the US to pieces like Canada if nothing is done about it.

I am not a racist. I am trying to protect MY HOME against foreign invaders who are not wanted here. I don't care who they are, if they enter this country illegally, then they need to be branded and booted back across the border as quickly as possible.

You heard me right. Branded. With a big "I" on the cheek where they can't hide it. If that is what it will take to keep them out, then I'm sorry to say that those are the measures that are required. As of today, an illegal that is caught and deported can be back in his LA apartment in less than a week. He just sneaks across the border like he's done several times before.

Sure the government of Mexico will be outraged, but they are the ones complicit in the flood of illegals we are getting. They are telling their own citizens how to sneak across the border.

Something drastic must be done to stop this. If you don't like my idea, feel free to present one of your own.

An interesting article from Vin Suprynowicz at Review Journal.com:

Las Vegas police Lt. Steve Franks is concerned about the midnight smash-and-grab theft of 1,700 blank Nevada driver's licenses from the DMV office on Donovan Way on March 7 -- along with a digital camera and all the other paraphernalia necessary to turn them into realistic IDs -- asserting last week the purloined documents could easily be used to pass through airport security checkpoints, etc.

Kind of like the way all those Arab hijackers got through our security checkpoints by showing their fake IDs, three-and-a-half years ago?

This follows the conviction last year of a Nevada DMV clerk who took $300,000 in bribes to sell unauthorized licenses and IDs to some 1,000 illegal aliens -- that they know of.

So, do we have this straight?

1) All that billion-dollar "check-your-ID" crap at the airport has improved our safety and security not one iota, instead accomplishing nothing but creating jobs for thousands of new blue-gloved butt-gropers-in-training while further conditioning the American populace to be ready to show our "government-issued photo ID" on demand, any time, anywhere, and ...

2) The "driver's license" is nothing of the sort, but rather constitutes the nine-digit nationally coded "internal passport and travel document" which Franklin Roosevelt solemnly promised our Social Security numbers would never be turned into?

Just checking.

I had a commenter a while back on one of my other posts about the "slippery slope" and his words were, in essence, "just because they can doesn't mean they will." Then you look at this and all I have is a mental picture of several lawmakers on a toboggan taking a running start to get down to the bottom of that slippery slops as fast as possible.

Yeah.

Well, Mike and I attended the "Ides of March" Epic:Armageddon tournament Saturday at the Memphis World of Battle.

We were judged on a variety of matters, not only on winning or losing, but by army appearance and composition as well. Below is a picture of my army (click on picture for larger view):

I actually won 2nd place (I missed 1st by a tenth of a point!) in the painting and composition part of the competition, something I was totally unprepared for. It makes me want to repaint everything to add even more detail.

Anyway, onto the battles.

My first match was with Neil, who traveled 3 hours from Nashville to play in this tournament. His orks wiped me from the board in the first turn. It was a slaughter, the only high point was my terminators teleported in behind his main force and killed his supreme commander.

Battle two was with Ben, who also played Space Marines. We slugged it out, doing major damage to each other only to tie on objective points. We had to go to victory points where he won by a slim margin.

The third battle was with Danny, also from Nashville, who played Chaos Space Marines. This one was marred by Danny failing several activation rolls, severely hampering his plans. I managed to engage his titan with my Assault Marines and Devastators, giving it a total of 4 points of damage, out of the 6 that it had. If you know how tough titans are, this was a remarkable effort for infantry to inflict that much damage. Danny made a critical mistake, however in two things: He didn't summon daemons to help out with his combat, and he teleported his terminators into combat with one of my tactical detachments instead of trying to take an objective. This gave me a 3 objective point victory, worth a whopping 20 battle points!

I went 1-2, my first ever losing tournament record, but that hit-it-out-of-the-park third game coupled with the "magnificent" painting I did, it catapulted me into a tie for 5th place, but I got 6th place out of 11 after a dice roll-off. Not perfect by a long way, but something to be proud of.

And I had fun, which was the object of the exercise. I need to save up so I can participate in the E:A tournament at Nashcon this Memorial Day weekend.

Mike also had a wonderful time, but I'll let him tell it to you when he posts it on his blog.

Senator McCain really stepped in the dog doo now. He wants a new Kyoto Protocol, one that will include China and India. Second Global Warming Treaty Makes Less Sense Than First.

Here is the meat of the story:

The vast majority of the greenhouse gas effect — perhaps 99.7 percent — is beyond human control. There’s no direct evidence that the minuscule manmade contributions of greenhouse gases to the environment are having any measurable or significant impact on global climate.

In addition to the scientific shortcomings of global warming hysteria, the economic consequences of the Kyoto Protocol can be summed up as “all costs and no benefits.”

The global warming treaty is estimated to cost 100 trillion real dollars for the hypothetical prevention of a 1 degree Centigrade rise in the average global temperature.

For those of you who don't know how many zeros it takes to represent 100 Trillion dollars, here it is:

$100,000,000,000,000

The British would probably refer to this as "A hundred Million Million." While not quite a googol (1x10¹⁰⁰) the number is still staggering. With that number you could give 1 million dollars to about 1/4th of the people in the US. But Kyoto is a cost, so it would cost that many people a million dollars to have no appreciable benefit.

Here's some more science for you:

Climatologist Tom Wigley, a global warming disciple from the National Center for Atmospheric Research, reported in the journal Science this week that even if we could somehow magically “freeze” the atmospheric concentration of greenhouse gases at today’s levels — an unrealistic scenario where greenhouse gases are not added to or removed from the atmosphere — global warming would still occur because of the heat stored in the oceans.

Because the ocean responds relatively slowly to climate change, it will continue to contribute to global warming even if we do stabilize greenhouse gas levels in the atmosphere, according to Wigley. He estimates the ocean’s “warming commitment” to be 1 degree Centigrade by the year 2400.

Wigley further estimates that, even if we freeze greenhouse gas emissions at current levels — another unrealistic scenario — average global temperatures will rise between 2 degrees Centigrade to 6 degrees Centigrade by 2400.

But then Wigley disingenuously concludes that, “in order to stabilize global mean temperatures, we eventually need to reduce emission of greenhouse gases to well below present levels” — even though his own data purport to show that global warming would still occur even if we completely stopped emitting greenhouse gases.

So the global temperature is going to go up even if we shut down all greenhouse gas emissions. The only way we could dependably do that is to wipe out 3/4ths of the world population and reduce the rest to a caveman level of survival. Without the nuclear war.

So this stuff is going to pretty much happen, even if we don't want it to. The question is, is this a bad thing? Is global warming a bad thing, and if so why? This will take place over the next 400 years, so I don't think it will sneak up on anybody, but what does it mean for and to us?

We need these answers before we go off screaming like Chicken Little.

Soon we will be inflicted with Episode III, and according the news is, Lucas calls new 'Star Wars' a titanic tearjerker.

I've already posted the storyline on it a week or two ago, so you can decide for yourself.

But what I haven't revealed is a secret held so deeply that only a few outside of LucasCorp has any access to it.

Do you want to know what it is?

Episode IX will be a musical. Yes, the wrap-up of the final trilogy, released 19 May 2020 will be a musical. Why not? After eight of these movies, Lucas can get away with anything.

Don't believe me? I'll be around to take your money. Bet on it.

Something interesting from Students Walk Out on Race Warlord.

You know the story, but here is the entire entry, so it doesn't scroll off:

An interesting development out of the Paul VI Catholic High School in New Jersey. New Jersey Secretary of State and race warlord Regena Thomas was there giving a speech last week on "racial justice" (whatever that is.) Apparently, in her speech, she blasted one student for not knowing his black history, and insinuated that the students were racist.

So what did the students do? Did they cower in the face of the mighty scepter wielded by the race warlord? Did they accept being made to feel like guilty white liberals? Nope.

At an assembly Tuesday where the principal supposedly tried to heal the rift, the students let the administration and the secretary of state know exactly how they felt about their multicultural psychobabble: they walked out.

By the way, many students are reporting that the racial problems began only after the speech on race. True to form, race warlords never want the problem of racism to go away, for it is where they draw their power. Nice to see the kids not putting up with this nonsense.

By the way, Regena Thomas has an interesting background. She was sworn in as the Secretary of State by the now-disgraced former Governor of New Jersey James McGreevey. She's also worked for Senator Corzine, and for The Torch, Senator Slimeball himself, Robert Torricelli. But if you inch just a little further back in her bio, you find that she worked for 12 years for.....drum roll please! ... The National Rainbow Coalition, and its founder, Jesse Jackson.

It always comes back to the same place, doesn't it? [emphasis mine]

Racism is trying to die, I know it is. But these "black leaders" won't let it die, because that would mean that they would be out of a job. Just look at MoveOn.org. They were founded to get people to "move on" during the Clinton Impeachment. That is long over, but they are still around. They just won't close the doors and go away, or come back as something else.

This is extremely disturbing. Property seized to pay drug tax.

Tennessee has started collecting taxes on illegal drugs, and are seizing property without due process and surrendering the proceeds to local law enforcement (75%, 25% goes to the general fund).

The rate of the tax is as follows: $3.50 per gram for marijuana, $50 per gram for cocaine, $200 per gram for meth and crack cocaine, $50 "per 10 doses of low-street-value drug not sold by weight, and $200 per 10 doses of "controlled substance not sold by weight."

The mere possession is enough to trigger the tax, like I said, without due process. I don't know of anybody stupid enough to walk up to the Department of Revenue and say, "I'm here to pay the taxes on my illegal drugs..." I doubt they will get any amnesty for paying the taxes.

This is outrageous. This may sound like a good idea, but there is a big difference between ideas that sound good and good, sound ideas. This is a bootstrapping way to punish anybody they want. It's been known for years that you can't travel with large amounts of cash, because it will be seized as "drug money," again without due process, and you will never see it again.

Of course, they say, "If he pays the tax, the property will be released back to him," but the legalistic hoops they will have to jump through will be nearly impossible to do before the property is sold off and lost forever.

Bad, bad idea.

It's been suggested that I don't blog enough about Epic:Armageddon.

This is a variant of the wargame Warhammer 40,000, but where everything is in 6mm. You can see a comparison here:

Instead of dealing with units of men, you deal with entire companies and armies. Strategic thinking, instead of tactical thinking, is a must. I actually prefer this to the regular 40k game as you have to think in chess terms, several moves ahead, and remember your objectives. I have won more games by my opponent not paying attention to the objectives than I have by straight up fighting. For example, I got mauled last night by my opponent. but he didn't pay attention to the objectives, and left two unguarded, enough for me to capture them and win the game.

Anyway, I bought real-life friend and fellow blogger Mike a Space Marine Battle Company and took him out to play his first game last night. He used to play the old Avalon Hill board games, but hasn't played in years. Both of us had a great time and Mike ended up in a tie with his opponent, who this was also his first game, so Mike is quite pleased with himself, as he should be.

Anyway, he's hooked now. Like I said, the first hit of crack is free, then you have to pay for the rest. I've got him wanting to flesh out his "Black Sun Legion" with more stuff and get into the thick of the fighting.

We're heading out to a tournament Saturday and I suspect Mike and I will make this a semi-regular habit.

Social Security reform is a hot button issue with everybody today, and it should be. But as Dave Ramsey says, this is a math issue, not a political issue. Social Security Reform: A Cost-Benefit Analysis.

Roosevelt himself said the Social Security program would have to be fixed or ended in the 60's. He himself saw the inherent flaws in the system and knew it was a short term solution.

Like the article says, if we would have started Bush's program in 1982 (or better yet, 1962) then we wouldn't be facing this crisis today. And believe me, it is a crisis. It is a crisis of politics, where the Socialists want to go around the merry-go-round just one more time, after the power has been cut.

In navigation, when you see a problem on the horizon, it is an easy fix to correct your course by just a degree or two to miss the rocks ahead. But the closer and closer you get, the bigger course change you need, and the danger of you not making it also increases.

Every day we wait now means less money when we retire. You should get out of debt as soon as you can, and once you are out of debt, invest all of that money and by the time you retire you will have enough to live on the interest alone. Plus a nice nest egg to pass on to your family.

No one can guarantee the future, and that includes the politicians who "promise" that SS will be there when I retire. I don't think so. I am on the tail end of the baby boomers and I don't think I'll be able to retire like my parents did.

Get off your butts and start investing every penny you can now, because you will need them later.

I found this article, Deficits Make You Poorer, written by a member of the US House of Representatives. He details how the government generates money and how all of them are bad for the People.

The printing and borrowing of money increases the total pool of dollars and makes each dollar less effective in its purchasing power. That is exactly what inflation is, the destruction of the worth of your money.

The Federal government spends almost half the tax money it takes in as transfer payments, i.e. taxing many people to give to a few. By and large, this has to be brought under control, as this "bread and circuses" will lead to our downfall.

Socialism doesn't work. Oh, it does in the short term, but not in the long haul. You can't sustain the transfer payments indefinitely. Eventually something has to give, be it the currency, the tax rates or the people being taxed.

You work from January 1 until some time in May or June exclusively for the government. Don't believe me? Take a look at your last paycheck and extend it out for the year. Then figure in sales taxes, sin taxes (if you smoke, etc.) gasoline taxes (~70 cents a gallon) and property taxes. It's a staggering amount when you see it as one number, as a percentage of your total pay.

The government needs to be reined in. But more importantly, we need to be weaned off the promise of Federal Tax dollars coming from Washington. The more we look to Washington to solve our problems, the more we are diminished and the worse the problem will get.

I'm agreeing with all of the people who make sense. Hand-To-Hand: The Atlanta Incident.

This is a glaring example as to the idiocy of Political Correctness. Four people died because of it, another was shot in the face. Common sense is not so common anymore, and it needs to make a comeback. You can't have a 115 pound woman guarding a 230 pound man, it just doesn't work and I could have told you that before this all happened.

And what they did in response to this tragedy is even more stupid. They tightened security for the people coming into the courthouse. Typical knee-jerk reaction. Increase security where there was no problem and make it look like you did something to make things safer. The 10+ deputies on this one guy was overkill, but after what happened, maybe not.

Women personally guarding prisoners is a bad idea. Put them up in the towers and gun galleries. Get them off the streets as cops. Get them out of front line units of the Army and Marines. These are places where physical strength and size matter in life-and-death situations. If they are allowed to remain there they will die, unnecessarily.

With that being said, there are exceptions to every rule. If a woman can meet the mans physical requirements, then let them take the same chances. I do not want women out of these situations because I am sexist, but because they are physically unqualified.

Cutting corners in this case means lives.

Here I am at the central library. I had to bring some clients on an outing here and I thought I would just check in and see if I could blog from here, you know, just in case I become homeless again.

I guess I can, so I'll let you get back to your reading. Enjoy!

Our lawmakers can't manage their own finances, as well as they can't manage the public debt. A Hill of credit-card debt.

Debt strangles you. It even says in the Bible, Proverbs 22:7, "The borrower is slave to the lender." We, as a nation as well as individually, are in debt up to our eyeballs. It is up to us to get ourselves out of debt so that we may grow rich. You're doing your taxes about now, look at your house note and your credit cards, and see just how much you paid in interest so that you can have your things now instead of later after you've saved up for them and paid cash.

Just look at who you've elected. They have so mismanaged their own finances that there is no way they couldn't screw up ours.

Feh.

It seems that we are running out of religious holidays. Bunny Busters.

I include the entire article here, because it is so short:

The Palm Beach Post reports that a mall in South Florida is making bunnies available for pictures this week and next but none of them will include the word "Easter" in their names because, well, we all know why by now.

The Gardens mall in Palm Beach County has an "egg hunt" and mascots with names like Garden Bunny, Baxter the Bunny and Peter Rabbit. No mention of that upcoming religious holiday, though.

"Because we're such a multicultural community, it's good just to remain neutral," mall General Manager Sam Hosen said.

This is sickening. We discard the religious parts of the holiday, but keep the pagan portions of it. If you didn't know, that was how the Catholic church got to convert pagans to Christianity, the priests would hitch one of their religious holidays (Christmas, Easter, etc.) to a pagan ritual so the pagans could be eased into Christianity. Once the move was complete, the icons of the pagan parts became harmless shadows of their pagan history.

We need to start sticking up for our religious heritage, and it needs to start now before any more damage is done. We do not need to destroy our holidays to accommodate someone elses religion. Christianity is a religion of tolerance. I am perfectly happy to let other religions have their holidays as long as I can have mine.

Here you go. An 8th grade test from 1895. Back before we had computers, ball point pens and almost before automobiles.

In 1895, the 8th grade was as high as you could go, unless you were going to college. Then the next 4 years (9-12) were preparatory to college. But it seems to me that the 8th grader of 1895 is smarter than 95% of the population today, including myself.

How many of these questions can you answer?

8th Grade Final Exam: Salina, KS - 1895

Grammar (Time, one hour)

1. Give nine rules for the use of Capital Letters.

2. Name the Parts of Speech and define those that have
no modifications.

3. Define Verse, Stanza and Paragraph.

4. What are the Principal Parts of a verb? Give Principal
parts of do, lie, lay and run.

5. Define Case. Illustrate each Case.

6. What is Punctuation? Give rules for principal marks
of Punctuation.

7. Write a composition of about 150 words and show
therein that you understand the practical use of the rules
of grammar.

Arithmetic (Time, 1.25 hours)

1. Name and define the Fundamental Rules of
Arithmetic.

2. A wagon box is 2 ft. deep, 10 feet long, and 3 ft. wide.
How many bushels of wheat will it hold?

3. If a load of wheat weighs 3942 lbs., what is it worth at
50 cts. per bushel, deducting 1050 lbs. for tare?

4. District No. 33 has a valuation of $35,000. What is the
necessary levy to carry on a school seven months at $50
per month, and have $104 for incidentals?

5. Find cost of 6720 lbs. coal at $6.00 per ton.

6. Find the interest of $512.60 for 8 months and 18 days
at 7 percent.

7. Find bank discount on $300 for 90 days (no grace) at
10 percent.

8. What is the cost of a square farm at $15 per acre, the
distance around which is 640 rods?

9. Write a Bank Check, a Promissory Note, and a
Receipt.

U.S. History (Time, 45 minutes)

1. Give the epochs into which U.S. History is divided.

2. Give an account of the discovery of America by
Columbus.

3. Relate the causes and results of the Revolutionary
War.

4. Show the territorial growth of the United States.

5. Tell what you can of the history of Kansas.

6. Describe three of the most prominent battles of
the Rebellion.

7. Who were the following:

Morse, Whitney, Fulton, Bell, Lincoln, Penn, and Howe?

8. Name events connected with the following dates:

1607

1620

1800

1849

1865

Orthography (Time, one hour)

1. What is meant by the following:

alphabet, phonetic, orthography, etymology,
syllabication?

2. What are elementary sounds? How classified?

3. What are the following, and give examples of each:

trigraph, subvocals, diphthong, cognate letters, linguals?

4. Give four substitutes for caret 'u'.

5. Give two rules for spelling words with final 'e'. Name
two exceptions under each rule.

6. Give two uses of silent letters in spelling. Illustrate
each.

7. Define the following prefixes and use in connection
with a word:

bi, dis, mis, pre, semi, post, non, inter, mono, super.

8. Mark diacritically and divide into syllables the
following, and name the sign that indicates the sound:

card, ball, mercy, sir, odd, cell, rise, blood, fare, last.

9. Use the following correctly in sentence:

cite, site, sight,

fane, fain, feign,

vane, vain, vein,

raze, raise, rays.

10. Write 10 words frequently mispronounced and
indicate pronunciation by use diacritical marks and by
syllabication.

Geography (Time, one hour)

1. What is climate? Upon what does climate depend?

2. How do you account for the extremes of climate in
Kansas?

3. Of what use are rivers? Of what use is the ocean?

4. Describe the mountains of North America.

5. Name and describe the following:

Monrovia, Odessa, Denver, Manitoba, Hecla, Yukon, St.
Helena, Juan Fermandez, Aspinwall and Orinoco.

6. Name and locate the principal trade centers of the
U.S.

7. Name all the republics of Europe and give capital of
each.

8. Why is the Atlantic Coast colder than the Pacific in
the same latitude?

9. Describe the process by which the water of the ocean
returns to the sources of rivers.

10. Describe the movements of the earth. Give inclination
of the earth.

Look to the right and see my new feature!

Just enter your 9 digit ZIP code and you will find a one page result of your federal and state representatives. Each link has a comprehensive contact information page for your representatives.

If you don't know what your full 9 digit ZIP, click on the link below it and it will take you to the USPS site where you can enter your address and get your full ZIP.

Now that you know who your representatives are, you have no excuse as to not contacting them. We'll talk about the how and what later.

Many of the homeless today are mentally ill people. Weather suffering from schizophrenia, PTSD, or whatever, these people either can't or won't (because of their distorted view of reality) avail themselves of todays treatments of these and other illnesses.

The Left are the ones responsible for shutting down the sanitariums back in the 60's and 70's, when there were no effective treatments for many of these people. True, there were abuses of the patients in the system, but the result has been far, far worse.

Now these people are being arrested and held in jail, where they still do not receive the medical treatment necessary to bring their conditions under control. They are being warehoused, just as they were at sanitariums, but this time at the sadistic hands of other prisoners. They serve their time and are unceremoniously dumped back on the street, again without medications or treatment, homeless and ready to be arrested and reincarcerated again, a cycle that never ends.

There are no easy answers, but an attempt should be made to get these people the treatment they need to become functioning members of society, and to humanely hold those who cannot or will not function.

I myself was one of those homeless crazy people, but I am more stable now and functioning almost normally. If my meds were to stop, I don't know what would happen, and I believe they are going to stop in June or July when Tenncare completely collapses. I can't afford these medications, so I will have to try and live without them. Maybe I will end up back on the street, I don't know.

But jail is not for these people. Luckily, I live in Memphis:

Memphis’ police force has a special crisis intervention team which personnel specifically are trained to handle people with mental illnesses. The Treatment Advocacy Center states that police’s Crisis Intervention Team (CIT) personnel “learn to interact with people with mental illness who are in crisis in a way that de-escalates, rather than inflames a tense situation. CIT officers can also divert a person to a mental health treatment facility rather than jail when appropriate.” Portland, Oregon, Seattle, Houston and San Jose are some other cities that are u