Sunday, June 25, 2006

Monday Musings and Ramblings

Musings from the road, as I am rambling on vacation this week, expecting to spend a couple of days enjoying a sunny beach and the gentle winds from the Gulf.

If you think price controls and windfall taxes are the answer to rising gasoline prices, you need to study history. Remember, Santayana said, “Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.”

It is not what you wear, it is how you take it off.

A great article about the fools who are chanting about impeaching Bush.

Artificial intelligence is no match for natural stupidity.

A comic yet serious list of drivers’ top pet peeves

99% of the time when something isn't working in your house, one of your kids did it.

“Morale is slipping in Iraq.” Fighters are “disorganized and lack a comprehensive strategy.” There is a “clear lack of a plan to capture an area” controlled by the enemy. These things sound familiar? Is this a leftie newspaper report on the US troops in Iraq? Nope. These are words from an internal report assessing the dire straits facing the terrorists, captured by US troops. What’s that? You never heard about the capture of this report from two months ago? Well, read on.

There is a fine line between genius and insanity.

What would happen if someone were to characterize Barack Obama as a “spearchucker”? The roar of indignation would be immense. Cries of racism would resound as protests sprung up across the nation calling for the immediate dismissal of anyone who dared utter that slur. Now, what if it were a leftie using the racial slur to describe Colin Powell? Do you think the media would even notice? Or would the only result be a mild discussion on whether or not the usage was appropriate that winds up excusing the racism?

The people you care most about in life are taken from you too soon, but the real pains in the butt are permanent.

You hear it constantly from the lefties – Fox News is right wing. Now here comes a major leftie defending the organization.

Monday Funny

Johnny was not a very good speller. One day at school, the teacher wrote the word “new” on the blackboard. “Now”, she asked Johnny, “what would we have if we placed a “k” in front of that word?” Johnny thought about it long and hard before the answer finally came to him. He smiled and said, “canoe!”

Monday, June 19, 2006

Monday Musings and Ramblings

Those lefties who keep thinking diversity is the end-all answer to everything have really come up with one now. A calendar that lists birthdays to “recognize the diversity of people of different beliefs who have had an impact on the world.” According to the spokesman, this not only includes Yamamoto (the mind behind Pearl Harbor), Lenin and Marx, but could also include Hitler, Pol Pot, John Wilkes Booth, and Tim McVeigh.

Be nice to your kids. They will choose your nursing home.

For all you fishermen out there, here is quite possibly the world’s largest catfish

Do not sweat the petty things, and do not pet the sweaty things.

Headline found in the New Haven CN Register – Brawl at anti-violence rally preceded shootings. Doing a quick search I also found this story, and this one, and yet another. You have to be wary of those anti-violence people, they’ll hurt you.

If you have a lot of tension and get a headache, do what it says on the aspirin bottle – “take two aspirin” and “keep away from children”.

A great article by the always entertaining Mike Adams, on the hypocrisy of a gay Georgia Tech group who show their true colors.

Age is a high price to pay for maturity.

They were planning on one heck of a graduation party.

Monday Funny

Boudreaux was fishing down in the bayou. He had been there all day and had run out of nightcrawlers. As he was preparing to leave, he spied a cottonmouth snake with a frog in its mouth. Knowing that large mouth bass love to eat frogs, Boudreaux decided to steal the frog from the snake. He was very careful so he would not get bitten. Boudreaux grabbed the snake from behind. The cottonmouth squirmed and tried to get away, but Boudreaux had a good hold on him. The trouble was the cottonmouth had a good hold on the frog. Neither side was winning until Boudreaux, in an act of desperation, pulled his flask from his back pocket. He dropped a couple of drops of moonshine in the snake’s mouth. The snake went limp and released the frog. Boudreaux tossed the snake into the bayou and resumed his fishing. A little while later, Boudreaux felt a tapping on his foot. Looking down, he saw the cottonmouth looking up at him with two frogs in his mouth.

Friday, June 16, 2006

Profiling is bad for whom?

Recently, Bill O’Reilly had two guests on his show. One was a fifteen year old Hispanic girl, and the other was her lawyer. They were very upset at America. We had wronged the girl and her family and they were on national television to explain just how we had done so.

It seems the girl was traveling near Barstow CA with her mother. A border patrol officer pulled them over and found the mother to be in the country illegally. The mother was deported.

What was the grave injustice? Was the mother beaten? Abused? Manhandled? Treated unfairly in any way? Not afforded her ‘rights’?

The injustice done to this poor unfortunate woman that drove the girl to seek representation by an attorney was two-fold, as explained by the attorney, Mr. Castillo. He held up a map and showed us with his right finger where Barstow is on a map. He kept repeating over and over how the border patrol was up there instead of being at the border where they belonged, catching drug smugglers. The second offense was that they dared to profile.

According to the lawyer, they would pull up beside a car and if they saw Hispanic occupants, they would pull them over and ask politely to see identification, in order to find illegal immigrants.

The horror! How dare they offend someone in such a cold, callous manner.

So here we had a woman who was knowingly and willfully breaking the law, a criminal on the run hiding from law enforcement, with her daughter, and they are pulled over by the border patrol. When the woman is found to be committing a crime, she was sent back to her country where she is a citizen, according to our laws (and the laws of her country as well).

On a side note, I wonder how the girl became an American citizen. Could it have been that her mother snuck across the border in order to give birth in America, making her baby an immediate citizen? That happens countless times each year, and remains a law that should be rescinded or altered. It’s long past time that the law should state that a child should have the exact same citizenship at birth as her mother.

Back to the story. Attorney Castillo was upset, repeating over and over how the border patrol was up near Barstow and Las Vegas, implying their jurisdiction was only at the borders. Mr. O’Reilly called him on this but did not pursue it, because Castillo simply began harping on his other point. How dare the border patrol look in passing cars and only pull over Hispanics when searching for illegal immigrants in California.

I am sure that all those pesky Norwegians who have snuck into California over the years are breathing a sigh of relief over the actions of the border patrol. Ditto for all the Japanese who slip across the American border from Mexico each night.

When did profiling become a dirty word? It used to mean the authorities were doing their job. There was a television show on a few years ago called Profiler, about an FBI agent who excelled at her job of analyzing data and figuring out who they should be looking for. I would venture to say the show could never be made today, if only because of the name. Lefties would have a fit.

Profiling saves time, money and effort. It results in criminals being caught earlier. It results in more criminals being caught. It results in a safer society for us all. So when the criminals and those who support them go on TV proclaiming it to be a bad thing, where is the laughter? Because the notion that it’s wrong to be looking harder at Hispanics for illegal immigrants in California is just plain silly. It’s on par with the idea that terrorist sympathizers can act indignant about authorities checking credentials of three young men of Middle Eastern descent. No, they would rather we waste time and resources checking the baggage of the elderly grandmother from Nebraska.

Assume a bank is robbed. People in the bank give a description to police that the robbers were four young black males. The police set up a roadblock, and two vehicles approach it. In one car is one white female in her late fifties. In the other car are four black males in their early twenties. Answer honestly – which car should the police check? You see? Profiling isn’t so hard.

The story boils down to this. A woman was in this country committing a crime willfully and intentionally. She was caught and was punished accordingly. Her punishment amounted to being sent back to her home. She was not mishandled in any way, nor was she incarcerated. Her daughter then hired an attorney for unknown reasons and the two of them began a campaign to smear America.

They should have been laughed off the show. This is not Bizarro World, where up is down, left is right, and it’s wrong to narrow your search for criminals by approved methods simply because they work.

Sunday, June 11, 2006

Musings and Ramblings

"i before e except after c” – man, society is weird

Some great examples of why college campuses are breeding grounds for lefties. I especially love the university president who uses his Orwellian logic when he declares that shouting down someone on stage and causing a disruption are actions that exercise ones right of free speech.

The early bird may get the worm but the second mouse gets the cheese

Ted Kennedy says you play by the rules, and you don’t change the rules in the middle of the game. I think he left out the part where he means, unless your home on Nantucket might be bothered by those stupid windmill machines, or you drive into the water off Chappaquiddick, or you have sex with the 14 year old babysitter, or you stand accused of rape on the beach of southern Florida, or you are pulled over for a drunken accident in DC. In other words, unless your name is Kennedy.

Children seldom misquote you. In fact, they usually repeat word for word what you shouldn't have said.

Mike Adams never disappoints with his writings. Here, he lists his favorite conspiracies that blame everything on whites. My personal favorite is the Coast Guard using their boats during Katrina to ram the levees in New Orleans under direct orders from the President.

Depression is merely anger without enthusiasm.

I find it quite interesting that Radio Shack has posted huge losses for two consecutive quarters, and blamed the latest reporting on their new partner, Cingular. Not exactly the best way to begin a long-term relationship, is it? This all comes as the company announces closings of 480 stores nationwide and the resignation of the CEO after admitting to lying on his resume about having a college degree.

The main purpose of holding children's parties is to remind yourself that there are children more awful than your own.

Have we really gotten to the point where kids are charged for ketchup in public schools? While I might can see the point about ketchup packets being stomped on, I just have to chuckle when reading that kids are bringing in their own ketchup from home, only to have it confiscated. Sheesh.

We childproofed our home, but they are still getting in.

Has Hillary ever just told the truth? She tells an audience that she tried to apply to NASA but was told they “don’t allow girls” (Sally Ride was only 3 years younger and she made it). Does Hillary even recognize the truth? Will any leftie media ever call her on her lies?

Monday Funny

Another picture from Alabama, obviously of an Auburn fan's vehicle

Monday, June 05, 2006

Musings and Ramblings

Someone recently came up with a win/win/win solution to three problems. First, dig a moat the length of the US-Mexican border. Second, take the dirt and use it to raise the levees in New Orleans. Last, take the alligators from Florida and put them in the moat. Sounds reasonable to me.

There are two seasons in Florida – Tourist and Construction. The state animal is the barrier horse. The state mineral is asphalt. The state motto is, “Single lane next 100 miles, be prepared to stop.”

Did you know that those big mean bad oil companies have paid three times more in taxes than they have made in their “windfall” profits over the last 28 years? How would you like to pay three dollars in taxes for every dollar you take home from your paycheck? If you still doubt that the government bears more blame than oil companies in this, read this. Of course, the environmentalists still bear the most blame.

Whatever hits the fan will not be evenly distributed.

Some good news for those who hate all the pork in runaway government spending. Let’s see if it holds up.

Eagles may soar but weasels don’t get sucked into jet engines

How sad is it that the most anti-American newspapers are located in America?

Parents of teenagers now know why some animals eat their young.

If you think illegal immigrants are great people and we are all just racists for not giving our country over to them lock, stock and barrel, then you need to read this account of parents who pay people to stuff their children into gas tanks in order to smuggle them across the border. Also read the account of the child who wants to see his father who abandoned his family 9 years ago to break US law by entering the country illegally.

You shouldn't compare yourself to others - they are more screwed up than you think.

News blackout alert – have you heard anything about the stunning revelations that Scooter Libby’s defense lawyer says he has found at least five people who will testify under oath that Joe Wilson told them that his wife worked for the CIA before Novak’s column was printed. Incredibly, Wilson is now “suggesting instead that it no longer mattered who first outed his wife.”

Monday Funny

This is an actual picture I took a couple of years ago. It’s located in Southern Alabama, where people really do take care of their hunting dogs.

Saturday, June 03, 2006

Group Blame

If a handful of young black men rob a store, would you condemn all black people for being criminals? Of course not, and I know you recoiled at reading that. That would be racist and stupid.

If a couple of baseball players use illegal substances, changing their bodies and suddenly doubling their home run power, do you condemn every baseball player? Of course not. Some would even continue to defend the player with the home runs and the huge head, but that’s another ramble.

If a small group of Iraqis kidnapped a journalist and cut their head off and posted the video on the internet, would you insist all Iraqis are to blame? Never.

If you own ten dogs, and one bites you, do you have all ten put down? Don’t be ridiculous.

If two dozen teachers are found to be having sex with children, does that mean every teacher in every school is guilty of pedophilia? That would be absurd.

I think most people can see the point here. Then answer this last question. If a handful of soldiers kill some civilians, does that make all soldiers guilty, and would you condemn the entire military?

I’d be glad to get an answer from the mainstream media and the lefties, even if it means waiting for them to stop spewing their hatred of the military before they will consider answering.