Enlightenment Reactionary

Things have been slow here in the blogosphere, so I took the time to do some reading up on all things immigration. I spent hours on it in fact. I checked out the American Patrol Report and spent some time cruising MEChA's web site. My reading took me from one extreme to the other, from laughter at the lunacy of their positions to gut-wrenching concern that so many people believe the tripe they're spewing.

My calling them Hispano-Fascists isn't just a ploy to annoy them or make them angry. They generate plenty of those emotions on their own. No, I call them that because the hatred and bile that spews out of their mouths reminds me ever so much of the words of other fascists from the past. I'm certain of one thing if nothing else. If it walks like a fascist, talks like a fascist, thinks like a fascist, and acts like a fascist, then it's a damn fascist!

I've always subscribed to the theory that as soon as someone in a debate compares his opponent to Hitler or the Nazis, he or she just lost the debate. Very rarely is the comparison legitimate. Usually, it's just a rhetorical technique to inflame someone else's passion. But in the case of the deluded Reconquistas and certifiable psycho MEChA sociopaths, the comparison is dead-on.

The blather about the bronze race and the people of the sun invading and occupying my little piece of the country in order to fill out their inevitable destiny. That sounds an awful lot like invading Poland to get a little "living room" for the "master race" on the way to creating the world-encompassing German order. I say if the swastika fits, they should wear it.

I think that the invaders are getting a little bit too cocky for their own good. Just because our government doesn't see any need to protect us and keep us sovereign, it doesn't mean that we'll just stand by while it happens. I fear the pussies in our government will let this continue until the rank and file citizens have no choice but to act on their own. I don't know about you folks, but there is no way in hell I'm going to live as a second-class citizen in my own country. Nor will I stand idly by while people who have no clue as to what makes the country work reduce it to third-world nation status.

Remember, Mexico isn't poor because of lack of resources, lack of labor, or any intrinsic genetic flaws. They are poor because they run things like Mexicans. And no, I'm not saying they don't have the right to live however they want. What I am saying is that the way you live carries certain consequences with it. If you choose a self-destructive path, then you have no one to blame but yourself. And if you choose not to see the connection between your condition and your actions, that's your problem too. However, your choices in no way obligate me to let you come to my country and impose those choices on me.

I could go on for about twenty more paragraphs but I'm getting tired. I will make some more observations about this as time goes by.

Post summary:

• Conquest has gone on throughout history.
• It goes so far back that you can't set it "right".
• It's time to let bygones be bygones.
• How far back in time does one go before it's "right".
• Many Mexicans don't even bother to hide their anti-Americanism anymore.
• They've been warning us for decades it falls on deaf ears.
• Mexicans envy our prosperity but still don't understand where it comes from.
• The Reconquista is doomed from the beginning but will do much harm before it dies.
• Rising resentment against the Reconquistadors does not bode well for anyone.
• MEChA and Reconquistadors are blatantly racist.

Every lives on stolen land. By that I mean the land was stolen from somebody at some time or another. Undoubtedly, all of us in the Americas live on land stolen from the Indians at some point. Just as millions of Muslims live on land stolen from Christians and Jews. This morning I got myself thoroughly depressed by reading up some more on the Reconquista and open-borders bunch, particularly the Baldwin Park incident in California.

Muslims baffle us by still being angry about events that occurred some 500-odd years ago (expulsion from Spain and Portugal, or even 1,000 years ago (the crusades.) It has been noted by some that the Muslim world is as angry about those sorts of things as if they happened yesterday. Americans, as I have noted previously, scoff at holding a grudge from 60 years ago (Second World War). Rational people know that at some point you have to let bygones be bygones. Besides, where would one stop? Why stop at Mexico? Why don't we help Spain recover their lost territories? How far back do we have to go before everything is as it should be.

Setting those issues aside, we have another problem equally as bad. Mexicans are still steaming about the loss of the American Southwest over 150 years ago. The only thing that will assuage their rage is to get the mythical land of Aztlan back. To their credit they've been very forthcoming about their intentions in print, in speeches, and on the internet--and in English no less. It worries me what they might be saying in Spanish. Of course Hitler did the same thing in Germany, but few paid attention to him either.

I've been told to my face by Mexicans that the only reason Mexico is a poor country is because the United States stole all the "good land". The real reasons for their poverty is contempt for capitalism and the cronyistic kleptocracy that passes for a government. A free market, more investment, less consumption, and a lowered birthrate would solve their problems faster than and imagined benefit of Reconquista. It's usually pointless to debate them since their minds have been made up since the cradle.

I must say for the record that Reconquista will fail. The United States is a power to be reckoned with and can't afford to let those states go. What reconquista can do is get lots and lots of people killed before it is suppressed. In a way it would be good even if they were partially successful because la raza would show our "it can't be done" government just how easy it is to deport 10 million people.

It seems to me that many Mexicans feel that they have reached some kind of critical mass which makes the Reconquista inevitable. Some have already said as much publicly. Even going so far as to warn those of use who are fair-skinned to get out while we still can. The pictures and video of the Baldwin Park mob frothing at the mouth with rage and screaming anti-American slogan and praising Muslim terrorists should be more than sufficient to wake up the densest liberal dullard.

Mexicans aren't the only ones feeling rage right now. There is growing resentment in the rest of the US population, which is slowly turning to rage. No matter how much the voting public leans on it's elected representatives and groups like the Minutemen prove the feasibility of choking off the flow of intruders, the government still does nothing. I think that at this point we have to face the fact that the "living in a bubble" theory doesn't adequately explain government thick-headedness. They have a definite agenda and it is being rammed down our throats.

The MEChistas and Reconquistadors are only concerned about themselves. Their motto says it for all to see and hear, "For the race, everything. For those outside the race, nothing." Only la raza or the people of the sun will matter. As a final note, I can't help but notice how chest-thumpingly proud they are of their race. The problem is that race is what you're proud of if you have nothing else to offer. Hispano-fascism has arrived.

This virgin will soon be off the market.

Just Another Suicide Bomber In Paradise

Hakk ibn Yakkin has just successfully martyred himself by blowing up a commercial vehicle filled with people.
Unfortunately for Hakk, he isn't too bright and just blew up a truck filled with infidel manikins. Nevertheless, when killing
and maiming, it's the thought that counts and Hakk soon finds himself hurtling through the cosmos and landing at the feet of the Great Imam of Paradise.

Hakk: Daaa-aa-aa-amn! That hurt a lot more than they said it would! (Hakk looks at the gates of Paradise only to see the
previous martyr, Gakk, sobbing inconsolably as he is led into Paradise.)

Great Imam: Crap! Another one already? We just finished the last one! (The Great Imam checks the temperature of his
low-fat double-shot cafe mocha.) And my coffee's cold! Just blew another wad at Starbucks.

Hakk: (Prostrating himself in from of the big guy) Oh, Great Imam! I am here to collect my 72 virgins.

Great Imam: (Sneering) Yeah? You and every Tom, Dick, and Zarqawi.

Hakk: Great Imam, you seem quite a bit more cynical that I had expected.

Great Imam: Yeah, well boredom and fatigue will do that to ya. I've been working double and triple shifts trying to process all of you geniuses.

Hakk: (angry now) Great Imam! We have been promised honor and many pleasures in paradise, yet you mock me. Have I not traded my life to eliminate many infidels.

Great Imam: (insincerely) Sorry, spent a year on a field assignment to New York City. I've never been quite the same since. In fact, I'm constantly fighting the desire to grab my crotch, shake it, and tell you guys to "Martyr this!"

Hakk: Great Imam! You've been corrupted by the infidel West, how could you have made it to Paradise, much less become Great Imam?

Great Imam: I was a legacy. My uncle Achmed used to be Great Imam. The had to take me.

Hakk: But weren't you martyred for the cause of Islam as well.

Great Imam: Well, you see, that's the problem. They told me my bomb was a pizza I was supposed to deliver to one of our cells in Tel Aviv. Naturally, they set it off remotely while I was still on the bus.

Hakk: But still! You are a martyr for the one true religion.

Great Imam: Well, sort of. There were only three other people on the bus and they moved to the back when they saw me get on. I only succeeded in killing myself and the bus driver. We both took an anchovy to the head.

Hakk: But still, you took at least one Israeli oppressor down.

Great Imam: Yeah I know. We spent a lot of time together in the Paradise waiting room. Great guy. His name's Murray.

Hakk: Enough of this! Obviously, my respect for you was misplaced. I want my 72 beautiful virgins.

Great Imam: Uh, yeah. You see, that's been a part of the problem here lately, the beautiful virgins are kind of picked-over. We've been having to give out what we have left. Why do you think your buddy Gakk was crying?

Hakk: Well then, I'll take virgins that are merely pretty.

Great Imam: Sorry, they're pretty picked over too. And before you ask we've kind of had to back off on that whole virgin thing too.

Hakk: But what's the problem? Surely Allah is all powerful?

Great Imam: (squirming a bit) Well, that true, but it seems male and female souls are created in equal number. I think Allah may have over-committed a bit. So for you to get 72 virgins, 71 non-martyrs have to give up their women. They're starting to get a little testy since there aren't any camels up here.

Hakk: (frightened now) When can I see my virgins then?

Great Imam: (yelling back over his should) Bring 'em in!

Hakk: Oh, merciful Allah! Couldn't you give me some with teeth?

Great Imam: (yelling over his shoulder again) Hey! Hakk wants some virgins with teeth! (There is much laughing in the back.) Sorry, we ran out of virgins with teeth last year. I'm told the virgin market is a little tight these days.

Hakk: Then I renounce my martyrdom. I want to go back to Earth and resume my normal life.

Great Imam: That's going to be a problem, your body is spread over about 6 city blocks and your friends and family have already scooped up the parts. But look at the bright side. You going to get 12 different funerals. You should be honored.

About that time the portal to Paradise is opened and another fresh martyr drops to the floor.

Newcomer: Daa-aa-aa-aamn! That hurt a lot more than they said it would. Hey, where's my virgins?

Great Imam: (burying his face in his hands) Next!

The newcomer observes Hakk being led through the gates of Paradise by his new women. He is sobbing hysterically.

Newcomer: (tilting his head towards Hakk) What's his problem?

Great Imam: Same as your problem.

Three moderate Republican senators from the gang of 14 celebrate their Republic-saving compromise.

As more details of the wonderful compromise of Bush's judicial nominees, the less I like it. I can understand the drive to protect the filibuster by those who fear we may need it ourselves someday. What I don't understand is why this compromise is such a deal for our side. We had to leave 70% of our nominees twisting in the wind and all we get is a promise that they'll only use the filibuster if it's really, really, important.

I'm sorry but Federal judgeships, most particularly Supreme Courtships are by their very nature extraordinary. We're being assured that the "nuclear option" is still available to use later, assuming we have any credibility left to use it. I suggest in the meantime that we find a new name for that option. Nuclear conjured up bad images in the minds of lots of people. I suggest we change the name to the "Fluffy white purring kitten option."

Staggering off of the reservation.

I started my morning by looking for the daily outrage to blog about. So I started with FoxNews.com. I didn't have to look long. The first thing I checked out was a video clip from O'Reilly's show. Apparently Amnesty International is gunning for us. It seems that our holding facility on Guantanimo is the "Gulag of our time." They also rank us down there with the Sudan and Haiti on human rights.

The really gutsy thing was their warning for our leaders to watch where they go for vacation because they might find themselves arrested and taken away, just like Augusto Pinochet. He happens to be another guy that we're equivalent too. That's the problem with saving the world. Do it once, it's a favor. Do it twice, it's your job. After that point the world start complaining about how poorly you do you job.

Why isn't there some kind of vaccine for idiocy?

An Orwellian Moment in Italy

Read a jaw-dropper on The Jawa Report. An Italian-born New Yorker by the name of Oriana Fallaci has been charged in ther native Italy with the "crime" of defaming Islam in her book "The Force of Reason". Let that sink in for a moment. She is being charged for something she said. In a book. That she wrote here.

Local prosecuters had dismissed the charges saying that she was merely exercising her freedom of speech, but were overruled by a judge who ordered her indicted. Yes, everybody is equal, but some are more equal than others. It appears that it isn't just the American judiciary that has gone stark raving mad.

It would be interesting, and instructive, if they try to extradite her back to Italy. If I was her, I would apply for US citizenship as quickly as possible, assuming she hasn't done so already.

I saw the cartoon and it reminded me of something very important. The majority of studies done on concealed carry laws shows that crime goes down when the common people are allowed carry a piece. While the studies show that concealed carry laws have a correlation with an increase in property crimes, crimes against persons invariably decreases. It's speculated that criminals switch to non-confrontational crimes in order to avoid an armed victim.

While I'm not so sure that I would want to go to the extreme depicted in the cartoon, I do believe that pilots should carry, and possibly the flight attendants as well. While we're at it, let's get an air marshall on every flight. I don't know, maybe I'd feel better about the whole situation if I was carrying a "Dirty Harry" gun. You know, the kind that can "take your head clean off"?

Zoologists and Political Scientists working jointly prove the existence of liberals in the beaver population.

The victim was reported to have been working under a jobs program administrated by the beaver government. When the government's spokeman was asked about their culpability in the tragic accident, he just pointed at a muskrat across the river, then ran and hid in his burrow. We do not know if any further comments are expected.

(ER-News Service)
It appears that the government is giving up on convincing the American Public to eat healthy foods in reasonable amounts. They've announced the newest and last food pyramid will conform to the actual eating habits of Americans. The new pyramid will be as follows:

• Salts and Sugars Group--representing the crystalline foods.
• Fats, Greases, and Cholesterols Group-- representing food that needed killing.
• Caffeine, Nicotine, and Stimulants Group--because Starbuck's and Phillip-Morris bribed us.
• Alcohols and Intoxicants Group--mostly because we're tired of doing without too.

Contrary to what you may have heard, fresh fruits and vegetables are allowed on the new pyramid as long as they aren't organically grown. Such fruits and vegetables represent the newly created Pesticides and Chemical Fertilizers Group.

Government nutritional experts say they expect the compliance rate with the new pyramid to be quite high.

Of all the irons we have in the fire right now I can't believe we can take the time to go nuts over Paris Hilton's Carl's Jr. commercial. Paris is the living refutation of the belief that you can't be too rich or too thin. She is too rich, too thin, and too blond. One objection that has been raised is that her swimsuit is too revealing. Let me to be the first to point out that the poor girl has nothing to reveal. She is a stick figure made flesh. Besides, there is enough material in that swimsuit to make 3 bikinis and no one has declared war on the bikini to my knowledge.

As far as the suggestive behavior in the commercial, I guess my coming of age in the 1970s is showing again. I found it to be scarcely worth looking up from my book for, much less having a stroke over. I think there are a lot of things that were better in the past, but a return to 1950s prudishness is not one of them.

Arrrgggh! What was so bad about the nuclear option? No, they had to reach a "compromise" (hack, spit). Naturally the compromise is only 3 of 10 nominees without a filibuster, and no promises on the other 7. Thanks for nothing.

It's becoming increasingly clear to me that critics such as Limbaugh are dead-on right. These wobbly-kneed Republicans in Congress still haven't gotten the memo that they're in the majority now. So they sold us out again. What was it? They couldn't fight a filibuster because it might mean losing some beauty sleep? That's what Starbuck's is for.

I wish our elected representatives had the backbone to show some "huevos".

So what's so controversial?

Citizenship and Starship Troopers

This morning a memory popped into my head and I just had to blog about it. It's the sort of thing that will probably earn me friends and enemies in equal measure. I was busy letting the border situation and amnesty nonsense burn a hole in my stomach lining when the memory of reading Robert A. Heinlein's "Starship Troopers" popped into my head. It was a pivotal moment in my life and affected a great change in my thinking and beliefs. I devoured the book and was delighted to find a chunk of common sense in a world seemingly devoid of it in 1975.

Though the effect on me lingered, the memory of the book itself faded over time. I was occasionally reminded of it from time to time. But mostly it was lost in the deep caverns of my mind.

When I was 25 it popped up in an article I was reading and was referred to as, "the highly controversial Starship Troopers." Surprised that there could be any controversy, I asked fellow science fiction people about it. Many were hostile to it as well.

It had been roundly condemned as Fascist propaganda, among other things. The society it described was very disciplined and had a common social order. The society was pro-military, pro-business, and pro- just about everything a conservative or libertarian believes in.

But the main sticking point was that citizenship was not automatic. Citizenship had to be earned through personal achievement or public service, frequently military service and we all know how the left feels about that. Non-citizens were guaranteed specified rights, but could not vote. To be citizens, one had to have something invested in their nation, be it time, money, blood, sweat, or tears.

Ever since I was 15 I have thought that idea had a great deal of merit, and not just because I'm a military veteran. It has been noted that in a democracy, the plebes will "vote themselves bread and circuses" till there is none left. Most of the immigrants I've meet, no matter how nice they were, firmly believe in the "zero-sum" theory of wealth, including even those from English speaking countries. They want their slice of the pie and will vote for whoever will slice it for them.

My point is that automatic citizenship, even for the native-born, has its downside. Though I'm not sure that policy should be changed. What I do know is that a blanket amnesty would create a huge mob of voters all clamoring for their piece of pie and with no concept of wealth creation and capital accumulation. We wound up with a semi-socialist government during the Red Decade of the 30s, and we are still trying to slough off some of that drag on the nation. Uncontrolled immigration, blanket amnesties, and vote for illegals would result in an even "redder" decade, or longer.

If I was calling the shots, I would end automatic citizenship under certain conditions, as well as dual citizenship. Automatic citizenship could only be conferred if both your parents are native or naturalized. If either parent was a foreign national or an illegal, citizenship could not be conferred at birth. If I could push it through I would insist on some kind of service to the country as a token of loyalty by those who didn't qualify for automatic citizenship.

O.K., here's the scenario. We've done research to determine how early in life the disease of liberalism first manifests itself. Groups of children were instructed to touch a hot stove and their reaction were observed. Half of the conservative children said, "Are you high?", half said, "Ow! That hurt! You tricked me, you're a bad man!" The response of 100% of the liberal children?
Ow! Ow! Ow! Ow! Ow! Ow! Ow! Ow! Ow! Ow! Ow! Ow!.......etc.

Young Butt-Ugly Troglodyte Marries Midde-Aged Family Deserting Psychotic Woman

This Letourneau travesty just hasn't made sense since day one. I'm with just about everybody else being creeped out about the whole underage thing, especially how much underage he was. That's all been covered, but I have another thing that I'm having a hard time wrapping my head around. The kid is just-so-damned-ugly. If I met him on the street I would rate him as "sex-proof".

I know that women cheat on their husbands and abandon their kids all the time. Probably every day. While that's not right either I could understand how temptation can lead someone to make very poor decisions. After all as they say, nothing is new under the sun.

But here we have a woman who was quite attractive when all this started going down, had a reasonable attractive husband, four kids, and apparently an above average life. So if your going to give all of this up it would have to be someone really special, right? But no she gloms onto a 12-year old elementary school student who was repeatedly beaten with a large caliber ugly stick.

Where' all that stuff that women are said to look for? Success, education, ambition, employment, social status, and the whole spiel? I have a hard time believing that she threw it all away for that kid.

I can only think of one thing. I was once told about a multiply-married woman who had gotten involved in a very ill-conceived marriage, which lasted quite a while. I asked what kept them together and I was told, "He was her 'sex husband.'" That's all I can think of. Hope that's not it. I think we all know what happens eventually.

Dear God, or any lesser deity filling in, please let the Saddam-in-his-underwear thing blow over soon so I can safely read my favorite blogs again. Amen.

Arianna Huffington without her makeup.

Just read a post on RedState.org that Arianna Huffington, who flosses her teeth with hundred dollar bills, has been jacking his bandwidth and graphics by hotlinking to his site. Excuse me while I break out in a fit of not being surprised.

I know your not supposed to do that, and I'm so new that my blogosphere umbilical cord hasn't dropped off yet. In her defense, somewhat, I'm pretty sure she wasn't intentionally trying to be a jerkette. It probably never occurred to her over-indulged mind that someone might object and she just didn't know any better.

But what else can you expect from a turncoat, backstabbing, Al Franken schmoozing, neo-leftist, liberal-bubble dwelling, traitor like her. That enough. I'd better stop before I say what I really think.

The next victim?

The Other Cross in San Diego

Just read Malkin's piece on the cross controversy in San Diego. For those who have been following ridiculous brouhaha over the cross on Mount Soledad over San Diego way, here's a tidbit of information. There's another cross on another mountain in San Diego.

I've never been particularly religious but it never occurred to me that the Cross on Mount Soledad could ever offend anyone. It's historical if nothing else.

I lived in San Diego for 8 years and I made frequent trips up the mountain for the view and to show visitors the rather imposing cross. I hope the locals can save it. Still, I find myself wondering what will happen if the opposition succeeds in having it removed. Will they start gunning for the cross on Mt. Helix. I'm sure they'll be after it next.

Speaking of the Nuclear Option, here's something that I hope will amuse you until we land that ever elusive third branch of government. Sung to the tune of Meat Loaf's "Two Out of Three Ain't Bad"

"Two Out Of Three Branches Ain't Bad"

You're Honor let's end this fight,
You know you ain't being so fair.
You never let our legislation stand,
Ruling in our favor's so rare.

You say we're infringing their rights,
But that doesn't justify their appeals.
Behind your black flowing robes you hide,
When our legislation's doom you'll seal

They voted it on and I signed it out,
But to let it be law you just can't bear,
You read the words and began to pout.
You've been obstructin' us for so long,
We're drinkin' hemlock instead of beers.

And yet you keep on telling me,
You ask me,
You beg me,
But there'll be no day,
You'll be getting your way.
Now don't be mad,
'Cause two out of three branches ain't bad.
Now don't be mad,
'Cause two out of three branches ain't bad.

All our policies you've gone and overruled,
And your outrageous conditions we can't meet.
I know you're just waitin' out my term
So you can play me for a fool.
'Cause at the ballots me you can't beat
'Cause our demographics are holding firm.

You can try,
But three more years in office still I've got,
We'll hold out until you die.
Then we'll be able to enforce some things,
Some things that you've always fought.

We know that in college you were a dove
And that patriots were your foe,
But now the people you think you're above
Are provin' how much you don't know.

We remember how you invented those rights,
It was for our own good you said.
And though we pleaded and begged you
Not to snuff out those lives
You banged you gavel and said we're done for the day.

And yet you keep on telling me,
You ask me,
You beg me,
But there'll be no day,
You'll be getting your way.
Now don't be mad,
'Cause two out of three branches ain't bad.
Now don't be mad,
'Cause two out of three branches ain't bad.

You say the bench is your right,
And our judges are goin' nowhere.....

Hey, they were just asking for it.

For the love of God people, it just a rule change! If you've got the 'nads you can change it back. We've got bigger fish to fry than a few judicial nominations.

What an unbelievable bunch of sore losers. For most of the 20th Centruy, the moonbats were flapping their leathery bat-like wings through history unimpeded. When in all that time did they ever hesitate to ram a rabid ideologue down our throats? A strict constructionist poses less threat to them than Ruth Bader Ginsberg does to us.

Saddam's rights have been violated. The injustice reverberates throughout the universe. I shall grieve for his shattered dignity. OK, I'm done. Have a nice day.

Just watched the season finale of CSI-Las Vegas on the DVR. I don't watch much television anymore because, quite frankly, I've outgrown most of the raw sewage you see these days. My wife, however, got me hooked on CSI when we met and I've been pretty faithful.

My only worry was that Quentin Tarantino was going to direct the final episode. I've seen some of his movies, but not all. That's because I learn quickly and it didn't take long to figure out Tarantino's involvement just about guaranteed a piece of crap. The episode was quite good for the most part, a definite departure from standard fare, but still good.

Just as I was beginning to think that old Quentin had finally pulled one off (possible spoiler ahead) along comes this funky black-and-white hallucination scene with even more gut-wrenching gore than standard CSI fare. I don't know what this guys true calling is, but it sure the hell isn't directing, or acting. I would call him a no-talent hack, but that would be an insult to hard-working no-talent hacks the world over.

Ah! Remember the collapse of the Soviet Empire? What heady days those were. The only possible enemy that could ever threaten us throughout the ages was gone. At last we could reduce the military to its proper role as a jobs program, then use the money to buy votes with reckless abandon. Yes, it was a simpler time. But alas, simpler times simply do not last. These more complex times are being documented a new expanded edition of the Koran, which follows:

And so it came to pass that He whom is evil incarnate, George W. Bush, as well as his hordes of infidel followers, offended peace-loving Muslims the world over by their ostentatious display of paved streets, flush toilets, and buildings blasphemously taller than any mosque, forcing us to incinerate unbelievers who had committed the crime of having jobs and good dental hygiene.

But the Evil One sinned and rebelled against his just punishment and made war on Allah's chosen people, al-Qaeda, so nobly engaged upon the holy work of ridding the world of infidels and Islam of collaborators who wanted to send their daughters to school.

But the joke was upon the Evil One and his nation of henchmen for verily Allah has filled the world with useful idiots who will one day be consumed in their turn. These sacred useful idiots began to be emboldened because they could see that the Evil One was up to his profane neck in alligators in our holy lands because he was short-staffed with warriors. Upon defeating the previous Evil One, the new Great Satan gleefully abandoned many of his warriors and used their lucre to build museums of the history of toilet bowl plungers and Pop-Tart Art in towns that even he had never heard of.

So, the Russian unbelievers, who will one day be beheaded, as well as the Chinese unbelievers, who will one day be beheaded, as well as many lesser infidels who will one day be beheaded, began to feel courage and rattled their sabers at the Evil One. The Chinese infidels looked at the Taiwanese infidels and licked their chops. The Russian infidels looked toward Eastern European infidels and began filing their teeth. The Mexican infidels looked toward the lands of the Great Satan and said, "What the hell are you talking about? We were taking over long before you came along."

And so it came to pass that the even the Great Satan couldn't help but notice his peril, and began to consider placing defenses in the heavens themselves. The enemies of the Evil One in the land of the Great Satan began pummeling the Evil One with their purses, but alas, they were brushed off with casual disdain.

The Russian and Chinese infidels looked and trembled, for they had not yet made sufficient progress in filing their teeth to points and as yet their swords lay unsharpened. They drew themselves to their full heights, then strained their necks looking up at the Great Satan and said, "Don't make us beat you up." At which time the Great Satan stifled a mighty yawn. They looked at the Great Satan is disbelief and said, "Let's talk." Whereupon the Great Satan began filing his fearsome fingernails in a haughty manner, disconcerting them greatly.

So these lesser Evil Ones went to their lackeys in the lands of the Great Satan, those that go by such names as Minority Leader, who swarmed the Evil One distracting him from his work. Gleefully, those that will be beheaded when we are done with them resumed their teeth filing and sword sharpening with much rejoicing.

Well, my brothers and sisters in common sense, the final chapters in that new edition aren't written yet and we still have time to do something about it Read this excellent article from WorldNetDaily and decide for yourselves. It concerns a possible return to a Strategic Defense Initiative. If you're like me you're watching the WoT pretty closely, but can still see in your peripheral vision that the Chinese are getting a little too cocky.

I think we need to bear in mind what the late great Robert A. Heinlein wrote about a possible conflict with communists, particularly Asian communists. To paraphrase, he said that if their was indeed a conflict, say with China's huge population, that there was no way American mothers could produce male babies fast enough to save the country. His point was that America needed an equalizer (just nukes back then) to survive in a hostile world.

We live in a world that still doesn't understand how wealth and prosperity are created. A world where the ludicrous zero-sum theory of wealth is considered indisputable fact. In the face of that kind of envy, we will always resemble a fat turkey that desperately needs carving up. Until such time as the majority of the world accepts those elements of our culture that make our unprecedented wealth possible, they will be deprived and feel deprived and believe themselves entitled to their piece of our pie. In other words, for our continued survival we will always need an edge.

No matter how articulate you are, sooner or later you meet someone more articulate still who can make your point better than you can. Some people are threatened and react accordingly. Others, like me, are delighted to have a sharper arrow in our rhetorical quiver. This was the delightful experience I had this morning when I read a commentary on CNSNews by Christopher G. Adamo. He makes my various points about illegal immigration more eloquently than I've done so far in the following excerpt:

Primarily, they (open border supporters--ER) operate under the noble sounding premise that "illegal immigrants are only doing jobs that Americans will not do." More accurately, they do jobs Americans refuse to do for Mexican wages.

In any case, how many jobs of this nature could there possibly be? Do they suggest that the twelve to fifteen million illegals already in this country are insufficient to perform such work? The stark truth is that illegals only linger briefly in such jobs, thereafter occupying higher rungs of the economic ladder, where they further displace American workers.

Which succinctly state the two main points I've been trying to make for years. One, Americans are perfectly willing to do any job if they can live decently on what it pays. I've had some pretty miserable jobs in the past, but they paid well by way of compensation for that misery. Unfortunately, that is no longer the case. Two, whatever else you can say about illegal immigrants, they are still fellow human beings and as such the one thing they want more than any other is for their kids to have it better than they did.

I'll elaborate some on those points. In the first case it is undeniable that over-immigration displaces American workers at the bottom of the socio-economic rung of society. It's basic the basic supply and demand principle. Even at a depressed US wage newcomers are usually better off than they were in their native countries. However, very few native Americans will accept the decline in their living standard required by those very depressed wages. So, in that sense, the detractors are right. Americans won't do those jobs anymore for a good reason. It would be stupid to do so.

Ah, but there's the rub. Many people seem to forget,those displaced don't just conveniently disappear into the ether. They have to go somewhere. If you're on the bottom rung of legitimate society, you only have three places you can go. The first two are a life of crime or the public dole, both of which hurt society as a whole. The only other alternative is to improve and reinvent yourself and move up the social ladder. Many displaced persons do this, which increases competition for jobs at those levels and consequently puts downward pressure on wages.

In my own experience, I was stunned when I graduated college and found that all the Bachelor's level jobs in my new field paid less than my old blue-collar job, a lot less. My whining about the situation prompted one of my college professors to inform me that the supply of college graduates was exceeding the demand in most fields and that, consequently, the Bachelor's degree was the new high school diploma, and that I needed to get a Master's to even have a hope of a high-paying job.

As for the second point, I have noticed that many native American citizens just assumed that the son of the guy that mows his lawn will mow the lawn of his sons and daughters. Uh-uh. Ain't no way. Nix-na, nein, no way, uh-uh. That guy working three jobs isn't doing it so his kids can work three jobs. He's doing it so that his kids can compete with your kids for middle-class jobs, and so that his grandkids can compete with your grandkids for admission to med and law schools.

No one can blame immigrants, legal or otherwise, for wanting to come here. But it is unfair to those of us already here, and our descendents. Any immigration past the point required to relieve labor shortages is ultimately harmful to the country. Just like Castro took advantage of the Mariel Boatlift of 1980 to flush out his prisons and mental hospitals, Mexico and other countries are using our dysfunctional borders to flush out their chronically unemployed who, if they stayed in their own country's, could very well become a threat to the entrenched leadership. In essence, despite what apologists say, these countries are exporting their problems to us.

These countries will keep exporting their problems to use because from their perspective it would be foolish to do so. Not only do they get the unemployed out of their hair, those same people send billions of dollars back to relatives in their home countries. As an example, Mexico is reported to get one-fifth of its GNP (gross national product) from remittances sent by immigrants here in the United States. This is done at the expense of our own GPD.

No matter what the naysayers say, Americans are not against immigration as such. What they are against is an unrelenting invasion.

I'm not much of a fan of Donald Trump, even if he does have the same first name as me. He just rubs me the wrong way, which is odd because I usually respect people who have gotten themselves rich, especially those that have done it more than once. Maybe it's the unbridled vanity aggravated by his mega-idiotic TV show. But he may yet redeem himself in my eyes.

Trump and I agree on at least one thing. The proposed replacements for the WTC were all pretty pathetic, and the powers-that-be settled on one of the most pathetic as their choice. His opinion on the Freedom Tower mirrored mine:

The plan "looks like a junkyard, a series of broken-down angles that don't match each other. And we have to live with this for hundreds of years?" he said. "It is the worst pile of crap architecture I've ever seen in my life."

I firmly believed, as did many others, that the only acceptable response to the attack was to rebuild the towers and rebuild them bigger, better, stronger, and if possible more ostentatious. All of which should have been done as quickly as possible. No better message could have been sent, but that opportunity was lost.

It seems that now there is a strong possibility that Trump may make exactly this scenario finally take place. If he does so, I'll likely be a Trump fan for the rest of my life. This would be the best monument to those who died and it would send exactly the message we need to send to Islamic terrorists. It would be the nation's way of saying, "Kiss my ass."

I've been very curious lately. Every time I read an article that refers to the 9-11 attacks the number of people that died is lower. We started out somewhere in the vicinity of 3,000, but in the latest article I read the number is down to 2,479. So what's going on? Are people being raised from the dead? I thought an official number had been determined a couple of years ago.

How many liberals does it take to screw in a lightbulb?

Thirteen. One to hold the bulb, 2 to turn the ladder, and 10 to fill out the environmental impact statement.

Enlightenment Reactionary's Observations on Life #6

1. Empirical evidence supports the theory that marriage is the only known cure for nymphomania.
2. When environmentalists seek to gain the support of Joe and Mary Sixpack, they show pictures of cuddly deer and bunnies, along with the occasional bald eagle, never the disgusting slug, snails, biting insects, and weeds that stop or hold up highway construction and commercial development.
3. Liberals hate everything that makes life worth living.
4. Most liberals that support getting back to nature have never even been on a camping trip.
5. It's odd that the only marriages the left doesn't support are those between men and women.
6. A liberals relationship to the MSM is equivalent to that of a parrot to its owner.
7. All liberals secretly want to be French.
8. Environmentalist consider your recently restored muscle car to be the moral equivalent of a bloody axe.
9. Women are the way they are because of the way men, which is because of the way women are.
10. Your children will manifest your worst habits and qualities before any other.
11. Teenagers consider ignorance and inexperience to be virtues.
12. Liberals have their development arrested at the teenager phase.
13. Americans are too trusting.
14. Minority conservatives deserve our utmost respect for their bravery.
15. The only thing a feminist hates more than a man is a happy woman.
16. Women are right about cuddling.
17. Your mother will spend the first 20 years of your adulthood trying to plug the umbilical cord back in.
18. Leftists can't see the connection between the housing shortages and rent control, restrictions on land usage, and high property tax rates.
19. Most people can't make a rational choice about a lifetime mate until they're in their 40s.
20. We'll have to save Europe again--soon.

Some moonbats you just have to like in spite of yourself.

Actually she's at a Renassaince festival here in Texas. Despite the objections of purists, Renassiance festivals are occassionally called Renaissance and Fantasy Faires. The now defunct Hawkwood Renaissance and Fantasy Faire was an excellent example. (That one died due to ongoing vandalism during the off-season.) I'll be visiting the Scarborough Renaissance Faire myself very soon. It's some of the most fun I have in any given year.

If you've never been to one and have a nature that is the least bit playful. I would encourage you to attend one. One caveat, even at the more traditional faires prudish folks might become a tad offended. The Renaissance was a bawdy time (remember Shakespeare) , but they usually give you a warning. Besides, you're conservative, not dead.

Yes, there is a high moonbat per square miles population density, but I've never seen anybody discuss politics at a Faire. Truth be told, this is a venue where the dreaded and evil Political Correctness rarely raises its ugly head. This year I hope to remember to bring my camera and I'll post some pictures. Is this a great country or what?

In case you haven't heard yet, Antonio Villaraigosa was elected mayor of Los Angeles. In case you didn't know, Villaraigosa is a former gang member and MEChA leader. I won't waste time debriefing you on this tragedy. American Patrol has done a magnificent job of deconstructing Villaraigosa already here.

What I will do is tell you that I'm very sad. I used to live in Southern California and miss it every day. There are thousands upon thousand of loyal Americans of Mexican extraction in Los Angeles. If the voters of Los Angeles were determined to have a mayor with a Spanish surname, then there was no need to elected a man of questionable integrity, who will likely only consider himself answerable to Mexico City.

Villaraigosa says he wants to bring the city together, but one has to remember that he was a higher-up in an organization whose motto roughly translates to "For our race, everything, for others, nothing." As I pointed out very recently, when they say viva la raza, it isn't your raza they're talking about.

I rarely make predictions. OK, I make them but I don't reveal them because I don't like to have to eat my words later if I'm wrong, but I'll break with that policy here. Like other politicans, Villaraigosa has promised to solve the city's problems. Like others of his ilk (leftists, not Mexicans, so spare me your hate mail) he has no clue as to the actual sources of those problems. So, again like others of his ilk, his "brilliant" and "original" idea will be to propose more of the problem as the solution to the problem. Don't believe me? Look at public education.

Also, like your typical leftist, he will attempt to solve problems by throwing money at them, other people's money of course. Whose money? If you're not Mexican, it'll probably be yours. Despite all his rhetoric to the contrary, Mexican culture is deeply racist. Just look at El Presidente Fox's recent brain-dead comments as a recent example. So, most likely there will be a honeymoon period before his policies begin to be implemented, followed by confusion as his monochromatic priorites become obvious, followed by hate and discontent and possible violence, and finally, the trickle of people leaving California will become a torrent which will contract the tax base of the city. All of which will be attributed to white racism.

It all reminds me of an old saying, "If the people knew what it was that they wanted, they wouldn't want it." Let's go to work people, there are other cities to save.

That's me in the title. Sometimes I'm racking my brain for the next post topic then I see someone else blogging on something I thought was so obvious that it required no blogging. My point in case here concerns the Newsweek scandal, or rather the reaction to it.

I've seen several people post that Newsweek is not to blame because Muslim extremists are looking for any excuse to kill, burn, rape, riot, etc. I hate to behave like a gum-snapping teenager, but I must. Well, duh! That's kind of been our point guys. Newsweek gave them that excuse, and from their perspective it was a damn good one. If you're so dense that it wasn't obvious to you that Muslim extremists are constantly chomping at the bit for excuses to do their evil, then God help you!

As a side issue, if Newsweek was blissfully unaware of Muslims fanatical devotion to their holy book, then they need to be put back a grade and let adults take over their news business. Morons.

1. ...your favorite video game is a first person shooter in which you toast embryos with a laser.
2. ...you've kicked a man in the groin because he found you attractive.
3. ...you've stalked a heterosexual woman because she didn't.
4. ...you're raising your only child on lawsuit money you got from your abortion clinic.
5. ...you once got the president of a major university fired for saying the sky is blue.
6. ...you believe that the vote should be restricted to childless lesbian Democrats.
7. ...you're plotting against your own uterus.
8. ...you believe that your menstrual cycle is proof that God exists, he's male, and a sexist.
9. ...you got a breast reduction even though you were a natural AA cup.
10. ...you've ever drop-kicked a doctor for refusing to give your male foster child a sex change operation.
11. ...you consider any woman with hair longer than 2 inches to be a traitor and a sell-out.
12. ...you believe the Founding Fathers were women dressed as men to overcome 18th Century sexism.
13. ...you're the only one who knows where your father is buried.
14. ...you deeply resent being treated as a sex object even though no one ever would.
15. ...you won't wear a bra but you do own a jockstrap.
16. ...you deliberately trip women who shave their legs.
17. ...you believe high-heeled shoes are the moral equivilant of the swastika.
18. ...the sight of a happily-married heterosexual couple has actually made you vomit.
19. ...you've failed a strength test for the fire or police departments and blamed sexist free weights.
20. ...you had to go into therapy when you found out that your fathers wasn't an anonymous donor.
21. ...you've ever had a dream about nursing a male baby and then woke up screaming.

So there I am, drinking my morning coffee and checking my overnight blog traffic when I come across something I think must be a put-on. A terse response to my "Vicente Fox Opens Mouth: Inserts Both Feet" post. It was posted anonymously, of course, and reads in its entirity:

Who controls mexico?(sic)

http://www.aztlan.net/castakip.htm
Anonymous | 05.17.05 - 12:35 pm | #

That someone would quote La Voz de Aztlan to rebut one of my points naturally left me slack-jawed and glassy-eyed with disbelief. The specific article linked made it more so. What's Mexico's biggest problem and the source of their woes? Jews, of course. Linking me to this article is like a condemned man offering to buy bullets for his executioner. I don't think that he thinks things through thoroughly. (Awesome alliteration don't you think?)

Now if you will please close your mouths and refocus your eyes, contemplate this for a while. What the hell people? I didn't even know they had Jews in Mexico, much less had been "infiltrated" and "betrayed" by them. Seems that there is nothing these folks won't stop at--not.

First, even if the Jews were plotting world domination, they would definitely have bigger fish to fry than a corrupt backwater like Mexico. Perhaps the Reconquista/Aztlan brigade is having delusions of adequacy again. Second, I've never had any problem with Jews, most I've known personally seemed as concerned for my welfare as they were their own. I only have three grievances with Jews: Most still thrown their votes away on Democratic Party candidates, the ones I asked out for dates turned me down just because I wasn't a Jew, and I've never seen one who drove an American car. (Please keep all hate mail on this issue brief.)

So please, read the article and let its meaning sink in. Then, ask yourself what they must be saying in Spanish if they're saying this in English. If you've never been there, check out the "La Voz de Aztlan" website. On the rare occasions that they take a break from anti-American and anti-Semitic bile, they spend their time waxing poetic about Islamo-fascists like giddy star-struck adolescent girls. Apparently, hate isn't hate if its your hate.

So just as a gentle reminder, bear the following in mind at all times: Mexico is not our friend, Mexico is not our friend, Mexico is not our friend, Mexico is not our friend, Mexico is not our friend, Mexico is not our friend, Mexico is not our friend, Mexico is not our friend, Mexico is not our friend, Mexico is not our friend, Mexico is not our friend, Mexico is not our friend, Mexico is not our friend, Mexico is not our friend, Mexico is not our friend, Mexico is not our friend.

The preceding has been a subtle reminder from the Enlightenment Reactionary.

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I was going back over some of my old posts and was aghast to discover that my proofreading in the wee hours of the morning leaves a lot to be desired. As a personal favor to me, please leave a comment if you find spelling, grammar, syntax, or other errors in my posts, including this one. Especially in my posts where I'm pointing out how incredibly stupid the left is. I would really appreciate it.
Thanks,
ER
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Fact checkers? I don't need no stinking fact checkers!


Top Ten Signs That Newsweek Is Doing a Story on You

1. You catch Michael Isikoff burying a body in your backyard.
2. You find pages from the Koran lining your bird's cage.
3. Newsweek editorial staff asks if they can come in and measure your toilet.
4. You wake up one morning surprised to find yourself wearing an "Islam Sucks!" t-shirt.
5. Someone tries to talk your son into killing his sister to protect the family's honor.
6. A smelly guy with cheesy mustache delivers a package from a company called "Martyrs R Us".
7. A nervous chick with a press pass asks if she can make a copy of your fingerprints.
8. You keep finding kilo bricks of hashish in your trunk.
9. The truck from the police crime lab keeps circling your house.
10. A total stranger offers to give you a pig named "Mohammed".

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How do you know that your debate with a liberal is about to start?
Somebody yells "Food fight!"

This one was hard, but I'm sick of working on it. It's sung to the tune of Aerosmith's "Walk This Way".

Vote My Way

Mailman's bringin' stuff that's got my doorbell dingin',
Just another stack from the DNC.
They say I oughta be votin',
For the candidate they've been a-floatin,
'Cause they really hate the powers that be.

I met their ringleader, was a real poll reader,
Believes in all the issues they list.
Then he started groovin,
And really started movin'
When he really let himself dis'--Bill Frist

You see, the propaganda keeps comin',
But I keep shovin' it back out the slot,
Don't ya know they want all the money I got,
And I'm getting sick of all their bummin'.

Got student grants so I jumped at this Berkeley chance,
To get a degree that really pays,
But my roommates droolin'
'Cause of the drugs he's been doin'
And I know what he's gonna say.
He'll tell me to...

Vote my way, vote my way
Vote my way, vote my way
Vote my way, vote my way
Vote my way, vote my way
Toss your vote in the abyss--like this!

College skanky's eyes all glassy kinda nasty,
Dirty t-shirt hangin' below her knees.
She got a shocker when she saw my Dockers
So she stomped over just to spit on me.

She was a bull dyke bruiser,
Goin' by the name of Katie,
"You're just a fascist bastard!" she hissed.
"To the world you're a traitor,
And environmental raper,"
So I maced her face with my fist--like this!

The crowd starts screaming, "You're oh so cruel!"
Then grabbed my feet'n threw me down the stairs,
Saying, "Hey right winger-dinger we know you're a ringer,
So be gettin' the hell out of our school.

Got student grants so I jumped at this Berkeley chance,
To get a degree that really pays,
But my roommates droolin'
'Cause of the drugs he's been doin'
And I know what he's gonna say.
He'll tell me to...

Vote my way, vote my way
Vote my way, vote my way
Vote my way, vote my way
Vote my way, vote my way
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Newsweek finally retracted the Koran down the toilet story. It was just a few days late, a dollar short, and a few dozen bodies too many. Idiots.The "read more" thing is always there. Hopefully, someday I can fix it. But keep checking, there is frequently stuff here.

Mexican president Vicente Fox joins a fraternity.

Vicente Fox Opens Mouth: Inserts Both Feet

Sometimes it's just great to be alive. If you haven't heard yet, El Presidente Vicente Fox de Mexico recently made the Freudian slip to end all Freudian slips. In one of his tirades against the United States putting up the slightest resistance to his invasion of our country, he dropped this stink bomb into the immigration debate:

"There's no doubt that the Mexican men and women -- full of dignity, willpower and a capacity for work -- are doing the work that not even blacks want to do in the United States."

Don't you just love it when an bigoted idiot forgets to not say what he really thinks? This towering intellect has proven that he's a egalitarian racist. He condescends to all non-Mexicans equally, not just Caucasian-derived gringos. Ah, equality!

All of which brings me to my main point. People often seem to make the mistake of thinking that prejudice is a "white thang", and that all the various races lived in peace and harmony till the blue-eyed devils were vomited out of the bowels of hell. Seems to me history is filled with data about various groups cutting throats with reckless abandon before they ever encountered their first European.

So, I'll bring those folks up to date. Some minority groups hate each other more than they hate "Euro-Americans". When I was in the Navy I experienced first hand the hostility between a Mexican-American and a Puerto Rican-American. The Puerto Rican fellow even went so far as to tell me in the presence of the other that Mexicans weren't human. Ouch!

Other examples? When I was working on my Bachelor's degree, one of my TA's was from Peru and told me that Mexicans were animals. The Mexican wife of a friend of mine is from the central part of Mexico. Her opinion? The people that live just south of the US-Mexico border aren't really Mexicans, they're animals. I could go on and on but what's the point?

Many may think that this Reconquista thing would be just the comeuppance that mainstream American's deserve. Well, be that as it may. Just bear in mind, when MEChA says viva la raza, they aren't talking about your raza.

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Hatin Surucu just wanted to live her own life. Instead, she became Berlin's latest victim of honor killings. Her Turkish Muslim brothers allegedly gunned her down for adopting Western ways.

Found this little gem via Ankle Biting Pundits which gets to the heart of what I've been saying. We can no longer afford the comforting delusion that all cultures are basically the same and all have the same right to exist. The attractive young woman shown here wasn't killed by coalition bombs in Iraq. She was killed by her own brothers for doing things we naturally expect our sisters to do in the Western World

I don't think any of us would even remotely consider killing anyone for dating someone of a different faith or race. Much less for moving out on her own or wearing different clothes than we might prefer. But to murder your own sister in cold blood for exercising the God-given rights she was born with? Unthinkable.

As you read into the article from der Spiegel you'll see that killings of this sort are not considered shameful, but in fact elevate the perpetrators to celebrity status in the Muslim community. They are "honor heroes"--for life. Parents often send their youngest sons to do the killing so that he'll get a reduced sentence or adjudication because he is a juvenile.

So what's my point? Simple, some of these poor souls are just too far gone. The Pollyannas among us need to understand that you just can't redeem everybody. This girl died a totally unnecessary and unjustifiable death. We need to do more to insulate our society from this kind of fanaticism, and we need to do more to protect those Muslims that are still reachable when they choose to fully assimilate into their new home. This kind of Intra-terrorism is yet another thing making real redemption impossible

Addendum to below. If you've been reading my blog chances are you've figured out that I an pretty contemptuous of diplomacy in general and diplomats in particular. I'm definitely a walk softly/carry big stick kind of person. But the more I think about the Newsweek thing, the sadder I get. The MSM gives lefties so many passes on so many things, you think they could ignore their faulty intel, just this once. It wasn't true, but even if it was common sense seems to dictate that you ignore it if possible or lie if necessary. Stupid. Stupid. Stupid.

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What can I say? Newsweek runs their unsubstantiated story about American guards flushing a Koran down the toilet like it's no big deal. With just a few sentences they undo work in the Middle East that was paid for with blood, and cause fresh blood to be spilled. God damned idiots.
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Don't Panic!

I finally saw The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy tonight. I think all of the doom and gloom reviews were a little overwrought. I actually found it enough like the books that there was little surprise and as a consequence I really didn't laugh that much because I knew what was coming. I found Marvin the Paranoid Android the most amusing. Alan Rickman, Snape from Harry Potter, did an excellent job voicing the mopey robot.

I say its a definite must see, if for no other reason that completeness for Adams fans. If you somehow managed to avoid reading the books (if so, you must have been living under a rock) I think you'll get a big kick out of it. It kind of helps to have a dry, understated, snarky sense of humor. Like me.
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I'm one of those people that believes when someone invokes Hitler and/or the Nazi they just lost the argument. I'm ashamed to say that even our side does this sometimes. However, I'm going to have to break with that policy at least this once.

One of the greatest tragedies of World War II was that Hitler pretty much laid out his plan in advance. In fact, he wrote a book about it, Mein Kampf. I think that when he came to power someone in charge might have taken a look at it and reacted accordingly. I've heard that some did but were laughed off, of course.

So, now we have a looming disaster that threatens us as surely as Europe was threatened then, and still our leadership personifies those who inspired the old saying, "There are none so blind as those who will not see."

I don't know what else the Reconquista and Mecha guys can do to warn us. At least they're being fair about that. They write books, give rally, have TV shows, and have their leadership get up and tell us we're doomed, all on the record. Kind of makes you want to choke a politician, doesn't it. Well, as you can see above, they've even gone so far as to engrave it on monuments duly erected in American cities. If you want to see the whole monument you can go to Blue State Conservatives.

Somebody, some how, some way, needs to whack our leadership upside the head with a clueX4. Otherwise, they'll be stunned when the get bypassed and frustrated Americans of all stripes take action directly and they're left sitting there shaking their collective heads and saying, "Who could have known?"

Women at Work
Hat Tip to the Ladies

Been cruising the net reading up on some issues concerning abortion and it got me to thinking. I just wanted to tell you lady folk out there that would never dream of doing such a thing that I have the greatest respect and admiration for you. You do the right thing even if it is difficult or inconvenient. Some even follow their consciences when it life-threatening. So I bow to you fine ladies.

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Crusaders at War

Kingdom of Heaven

Just saw Kingdom of Heaven a couple of hours ago with my wife. I had heard so much negative publicity about it I was kind of worried. We actually had gone to see Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, but we missed the showing. Kingdom was coming up so we went to see it.

All the reports I've seen and read indicate that the movie is falling flat at the box office. It kind of sad really, it really wasn't so bad. Ridley Scott just blew a great opportunity to pump up the Western world for the times to come. Sadly, he chose the politically correct way. Living in the bubble that is Hollywood and the entertainment industry at large he must have been oblivious to how the majority of people really feel.

I think the complaint that the movie played Christians for blood-thirsty barbarians was a little overblown. Some of the Christians were blood-thirsty barbarians, but not all. There is further grousing about the Muslims being played up as noble people just defending their land. I don't think this is so. I think Scott played them morally neutral for the most part. I saw an interview that old Ridley gave and naturally he doesn't see it that way. He views it as a sort of cautionary tale for all sides.

Scott, who is not an American by the way, is trying to be the cooler head that prevails here, which under ordinary circumstances might be laudable. The problem is, these are not ordinary circumstances. This is definitely not the time to be making the Muslim world out to be just like the Joneses next door. I don't, and unlike most of you, I have Muslims that live next door to me. Very unfriendly and rarely come out of their house. Ain't multiculturalism grand? But I digress.

The production values of the movie were excellent, as well the special effects. The acting was first rate. I'm not far enough along in my studies of history and the Middle East to know if it was historically accurate. I'm told that it is with the exception of a few liberties taken in the screenplay.

The best thing about the movie is a speech given by Orlando Bloom before the final defense of the remains of the Kingdom of Jerusalem. In it he actually says some of the same things I've been saying for years and years. One that land is and was theirs only by right of possession. Sure the Crusaders stole it from them, but Bloom also points out that their ancestors had stolen it from someone else who had stolen it from someone else in their turn. On down to the Romans and the original Jewish inhabitants. I'm a little weak on my biblical history, but if I remember correctly God let the Ancient Jews come and take that land from other people still.

Bloom's character goes on to say, that most of the people in Jerusalem had no known no other home, and that their were none still living who had driven out the Muslims, or Saracen as they called them. He went on to point out that no member of the army besieging the city had ever set food within its walls as all of those people were dead as well. Valid points all, and now it is a thousand years later and they still don't get that point. Far worse, our leaders and most of our peers don't get that they don't get it.

I know from personal experience that occasionally you will met someone that is still holding a grudge against our enemies from World War II. When they start bad-mouthing the "Japs" most people groan and roll their eyes. We, as a people, get it that 60 years is a long, long time and that it's long past time to get over it, but it's not so with most Muslims. I have known some personally and, strange though it may seem to us, they are still steaming mad about things that happened a thousand years ago. Ridiculous? Hell yes! But that is their way and their culture.

My beloved half-communist wife (love you, honey) misses no opportunity to tell me that I'm painting with too broad a brush. That not all Muslims are bad. Yes, that is true. I've been friends with a couple, but in a way that makes it even worse. If they like you, they are just that much more determined to convert you because they're worried about your soul and so forth. Also, ask them about Israel. No matter how calm, cool, and collected they are you'll see a whole new person. In my own experience they just go nuts. I swear, you can see the light of reason in their eyes going out and something kind of scary taking its place.

So in the final analysis, I say go see the movie, enjoy it, and take its message with a grain of salt. Then study everything you can on the that part of the world in general, and the Crusades in particular. That's what I'm doing. I'm hoping that the story gets a little more upbeat because it's been pretty depressing so far.

I decided to post my picture on my profile instead of the graphic of the All Seeing Eye. Strangely, my hits dropped from nearly 100 the day before to 7 the next day. I'm hoping this is a coincidence, but just in case it's not I'm posting a even better graphic of the All Seeing Eye.
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Hudan Mohammed Ali, 6, screams in pain while undergoing circumcision in Hargeisa, Somalia, June 17, 1996. Her sister Farhyia Mohammed Ali, 18, holds her so she cannot move. (AP Photo/Jean-Marc Bouju)

A Gambian Muslim Leader Declares Female Genital Mutilation to Be An Honor

You know, not too many years ago I was blissfully ignorant of just about everything having to do with Muslims. I pretty much figured they were like everybody else with the added bonus of getting four wives. Things can change a lot in less than 4 years.

When I first heard about female genital mutilation (FGM) I was flabbergasted. Mostly because I couldn't believe someone would carve on an unanesthetized half-grown girl with a non-sterile instrument. In fact, in the first article I read on the subject the girl in the story had been "operated" on with a broken bottle.

Now I read in the Dhimmi Watch that this sick buffoon in Gambia wants to make this insane practice into some kind of a virtue, a friggin' honor he says? It is wrong on so many levels one can hardly know where to begin. So, that I will leave to you.

Why would they do this? Apparently there are a number of reasons, but the primary reason mentioned in that long ago article was the necessity of preventing the girl from experiencing sexual pleasure. The theory being that if she couldn't feel pleasure, she wouldn't be tempted to sin or cuckold her husband. You have to be seriously insecure to follow that line of reasoning.

The "enlightened ones", you know who they are, tell us that we cannot judge another culture, that what is right for some is wrong for others, and that all cultures are more-or-less equal. When I was young and dumb I used to believe this, but no longer. As the father of a daughter, this whole thing sickens me.

The conflicts that we have had with the Muslim world have taught me something I have long suspected. Not all cultures are created equal and some of them are downright evil. We have moved past cultural differences, minds who can conceive of such things are practically a different species, and a malevolent one at that. Ayn Rand once wrote that an old adage had it wrong, that one should "always judge and be prepared to be judged". Well, I've long since gotten sick of trying to understand these people. I'm judging these people and I don't like what I see.

Since there are judicial appointments looming in the future I thought this little tune would help to set the proper mood. Sung to the tune of AC/DC's "Back in Black"

Robed in Black

Robed in black,
I'm quite a hack,
Objectivity is what lack.
Yes, I've got views,
And a ruse,
A lifetime job to abuse.

No matter how hard you try,
Murderers won't fry,
You're stuck with me until I die.
I'm just one judge,
But never budge,
Losing every election makes us hold a grudge.

CHORUS:
'Cause I'm in black,
Yes, in black,
Well, I'm a hack,
Dressed in black,
A party hack,
Don't give me flack,
'Cause I'm robed in black.

Gavel the bench,
It's a cinch,
Quick with the rulings that'll make you flinch.
It's all a game,
I've got the fame,
So the constitution I will gladly maim.

Appointed by a sap,
So I'm beatin' the rap,
Ignorin' all that strict constructionist crap.
So listen when I say,
Just get out of my way,
I've got some really cool rights to invent today.

CHORUS
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I was looking back at my archives and realized I had left a loose end concerning my wife's quest for a mutually agreeable church/religion. As you may recall, I had agreed to my wife's wish to start going to church because it is so important to her. Unfortunately, what she wanted in a church was exactly what I most hoped to avoid.

I happy to say the issue has been resolved. I broke with tradition and engaged in a very French-like capitulation. We now attend a ridiculously huge, hyper-contemporary, mega-church. Nothing like getting lost in a crowd.

Let's give you an idea of the scale of this place. They conduct four weekend services and have an average attendance of 7,000 per weekend. The mall-sized parking lot has dozens of people in little orange vests directing the traffic coming in. When the services let out, the local police turn off the nearest stoplights and direct the outgoing traffic manually.

Driving past it I had never realized it was a church. From the outside it looks like a warehouse, a big one. On the inside it looks like a mall. No, that's not right, it is a mall, complete with a bookstore and coffee stands, as well as an information kiosk with 6 or so people working it.

They use an auditorium where more mainstream churches would have a sanctuary, which is set up just like any rock concert you've ever been to, complete with the multi-colored blinking lights. The minister, who I must admit is quite funny and quite knowledgeable, definitely does not dress nor act like a traditional minister. The first time I saw him he was wearing a pair of blue jeans (complete with tears) and a t-shirt that he admitted was 25 years old.

My wife is delighted with the place. I'm more ambivalent. The place is just too slick to make me feel even the least bit spiritual. But it is more important for her to go than for me not to, so out of my love for her I'll be attending. I'm not being noble. Well, maybe just a little bit noble, but don't give me too much credit in that regard. It's a beautiful example of capitalism in the emotional realm. The benefits to me far outweigh the costs. Besides the place isn't all that bad. I haven't heard the minister say that my Catholic friends are going to hell. It's a start.

OK. I feel a little better now.

(Enlightenment Reactionary New Service) Conservative firebrand Ann Coulter gave a speech to a group of professors, students, and administrators at the University of California-Berkeley yesterday. The gathering was expected to be hostile and didn't disappoint. Local grocery stores and bakeries reported they had been sold out of pies for at least two days.

In the beginning, Ms. Coulter's speech was frequently interrupted by hecklers but later proceeded without difficulty when Ms. Coulter began savagely beating students in the head with their own pie plates.

Trouble soon rose again, however, during the question and answer period. Angry students were egged on by Ms. Coulter's stubborn insistence on being allowed to answer a question before the students began their rebuttal.

In a stunning development, Ms. Coulter, who is not a surgeon, performed the worlds first verbal mass castration on the audience. How she accomplished this is still unknown.

Strange as that development was, a far stranger one was in store for the recently gelded student body. Mere moments after the last testicle had rolled to the front of the auditorium the entire male student body developed the ability to speak fluent French.

More on this as it develops.
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I am so f*****g mad! I was on a post-Minuteman Project high like so many other people until I read this:

Border Patrol told to stand down in Arizona

By Jerry Seper
THE WASHINGTON TIMES

U.S. Border Patrol agents have been ordered not to arrest illegal aliens along the section of the Arizona border where protesters patrolled last month because an increase in apprehensions there would prove the effectiveness of Minuteman volunteers, The Washington Times has learned.

More than a dozen agents, all of whom asked not to be identified for fear of retribution, said orders relayed by Border Patrol supervisors at the Naco, Ariz., station made it clear that arrests were "not to go up" along the 23-mile section of border that the volunteers monitored to protest illegal immigration.

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It seems that nothing succeeds at offending like success. This has gone beyond insane. We've moved into a realm far beyond dingy moonbats who have yet to feel the loving caress of a ClueX4.

I've given the opposition on the immigration issue the benefit of the doubt all along. I've tried to convince myself that they are just naive and simple-minded dullards with good hearts and good intentions, though deep inside I knew that was a lie.

When law enforcement officers are ordered not to enforce the law because it will make it look like the law can be enforced, there is evil afoot. The arrogance and hubris of the Mexican government and their occupying forces here defies belief. Just recently a minister in the Mexican government said that we couldn't build a wall high enough to keep them out. Fortunately we have calibers large enough.

I have m****r f*****g had it! I don't care how much good W. is accomplishing in other realms. It won't do us much good to free other people when we're under someone else's thumb ourselves. As of this moment, I am now a single-issue voter. Border security and immigration reform are my first, last, and only priorities.

I'm not going to miss a chance to pontificate on this topic, and I suggest that all of you do the same thing. Aaargh! You guys have no idea how pissed off I am! Forget kicking the cat, I'm going to go blow her up.

Enlightenment Reactionary's Observations on Life #5

1. Say no when someone asks you to smell the milk to see if it's still good.
2. Credit card companies only love you for a short while.
3. People who have never voted decry the injustice of the outcome louder than anyone.
4. People who have never had a real job don't think Dilbert is funny.
5. There are people still alive today that have actually seen a music video on MTV.
6. The Muslims who live across the street from me eat the toadstools that pop up in their lawn after it rains. Make of that what you will.
7. Once women develop enough that wearing a bikini has a point they switch to one-piece swimsuits.
8. Even the most dignified man turns into a pig when he goes to a public restroom.
9. Beware of the man that tries to give you a pager.
10. The dozens of frozen corpses below the summit of Mount Everest are evidence that evolution occasionally kicks in the afterburners.

Just was checking my comments and trackbacks. It appears that Atlas Shrugs left me a comment and a link about the same time I was writing a hagiography about her. It must be true that great minds think alike. Or are they evil minds? Must query the Democratic Underground on that one.
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The Enlightenment Reactionary's hand concurs. "This guy is friggin' brilliant," it says in frantic sign language which had to be translated because the Enlightenment Reactionary doesn't know sign language.

If I had known it would take me this long to get to 1,000 hits, I might not have even started, but I'm glad I did. I've been having a great deal of fun and it's proven to be quite cathartic. I'm pleasing the people I want to please and annoying those I want to annoy, so I'll count myself as a success, albeit a small one.

Thanks to everybody that has left a kind word or given me a link. Those first several days when I might get just one hit a day kind of shook my confidence. It took a while to find my voice and it seems to have found an appreciative audience. Now on to 5 figures, away!

ER
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As Jeff Goldblum said in a movie, "This is the worst idea in the long and sad history of bad ideas." It appears that many of the enlightened rulers of the Southern Hemisphere and equally enlightened practitioners of the Religion of Peace got together in Brasilia to discuss common issues and how to deal with the big bad blue meanie of the world. You shouldn't require more than once guess to figure out who that is.

I wouldn't want to spoil the article for you but here is a particularly delicious excerpt for your dining and dancing pleasure:

Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez, a vocal critic of the U.S. and its policies in Iraq, had to contend with the presence of the new Iraqi government, represented by President Jalal Talabani in his first trip abroad since taking office.

Addressing the gathering, Chavez called for the creation of an Arab-Latin American Front to "challenge the Empire," according to Venezuelan media reports. Both regions had been the victims of imperialist aggression because of their oil wealth, he argued.

Yes, that's right "victims of imperialist aggression", and yet they keep cashing the checks. Go figure. I don't know about you, but I've spent a lot of my life, especially during the years of 1977-81 (no particular reason, why do you ask?), wishing that my country would be just a tad more aggressive and imperialistic.

I do believe, however, that these two groups have one thing in common--jealousy. No wait! There's another. In addition to basic jealousy there is also the agonizing cognitive dissonance that occurs when your culture teaches you that you're more (insert any machismo related quality here)than anyone else.

I think this was best described this way. (Forgot the source--anyone? Bueller?) We should try to imagine what it is like to grown up in a culture where you are constantly brain-washed to believe anything that any cleric of the dominant faith tells you. And those clerics tell you that you are god's chosen people, that all others are inferior to you, that you're smarter and more moral than them, that your civilization is the pinnacle of all civilizations,that it is your god-given duty to kill, enslave, or forcibly convert others.

Now imagine that you can see with your own eyes that none of this is true. Every where you look there is proof that the enemies of you god prosper while you suffer and that, except for your oil, you're culture is the laughing stock of the planet. To paraphrase the guy's main point, theirs is a failed civilization, and they know it.

I'll leave you with an important safety tip my family taught me before my first hunting trip. There is nothing more dangerous than a wounded animal. Be wary.

Top Ten Reasons Why Democrats Fear John Bolton as United States Ambassador to the United Nations

1. He's so undiplomatic he just might snap Kofi Annan's bra.
2. The last time he was there he stole the French ambassador's lunch money.
3. He's much prettier than Madeleine Albright.
4. They're sure the uncanny resemblence to Captain Kangaroo is just a devious ploy.
5. Dan Rather can't get the fake documentation just right.
6. Senior ambassadors are still humiliated from that time when Jeane Kirkpatrick bitch slapped them.
7. He once negotiated an unconditional French surrender during a layover in Paris while flying to Moscow.
8. Western Europeans are afraid he'll tick off the Germans and they'll name something "Panzer".
9. He spurned a UN invitation to join the Neville Chamberlain Appreciation Society.
10. When he walks into a room they could just swear they heard the sound of spurs jingling.

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For a while they were kicking ass and taking names, but I knew it couldn't last.

Why I Don't Love Star Trek Anymore #2

As I said way back in my previous post, "I will love Star Trek no more, forever." I let the newest series, Enterprise, suck me back in for a while. I dismissed the show early on as more PC crap in the guise of entertainment and quit watching it. Some time later, my wife encouraged me to give it another try. She told me that they seemed to be getting away from the PC thing and were actually putting out a quality product.

So I gave it a shot. Lo and behold, they crew of the Enterprise had abandoned their pseudo-enlightened ways and there was actually conflict in the plot. Ah, action, adventure, clearly defined right and wrong. Good good-guys and bad bad-guys. It was sweet. But I knew it couldn't last.

Turns out I was right. I hadn't been able to watch the show in quite and while and decided to catch the last few shows since the series was being cancelled. Apparently the war is over and everybody is back to being smarmy again. I watched an episode entitled "Terra Prime". Guess what. There was concern about the alien problem on Earth. Not from any country, but honest-to-god from another planet aliens.

I'm not the spoiler type so I won't ruin the ending. The gist of it is that there are quite a few humans on Earth who haven't been blessed with indoctrination into the Liberal Orthodox religion. A reactionary group of narrow-minded folks has formed what essentially is a domestic terrorist group called "Terra Prime". That means Earth First if you didn't know.

If you can get past the cheesy dialogue you quickly realize who the Terra Prime group represents. It's us. Sigh. This show can't go off the air fast enough for me now.

Liberals tremble at the only symbol that terrifies them more than the swastika.

Top Ten Reasons Liberals Fear Religion

1. God failed to get advice and consent before appointing this Jesus guy.
2. He strikes people dead when they try to filibuster Him.
3. The clergy have poor fashion sense.
4. Christians naively think just 10 rules pretty much sums it up.
5. That Pope guy just doesn’t get simple concepts like moral relativism.
6. The flock refuses to ask them for forgiveness.
7. Narrow-minded Christians get hostile when they try to deconstruct the Bible.
8. Christendom hasn’t updated their core beliefs in over 2000 years.
9. God defies conventional wisdom by insisting that there is a time for war.
10. Jesus was a blue-collar worker and didn’t go to an Ivy League University.

Say team, it just occurred to me. Lately,we've been all wrapped-up on issues about the budget, terrorism, social security, murdering the handicapped, and runaway brides. Is anyone still minding the "line-item veto" store. Just curious.

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First Australia--Then You

Does anybody besides me find it curiuous that practitioners of the Religion of Peace are terrified of free speech.
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Babe-a-licious Republichick Shames Enlightenment Reactionary By Having a More Impressive Set of Big Brass Ones Than He Does

The Enlightenment Reactionary genuflects and makes the sign of the dollar to the exalted Atlas Shrugs.

You know, I almost gave this site a different name, but I chickened out. I was going to call it Atlas Shrugged or Atlas Still Shrugs or something equally witty in honor of someone who probably saved my life, literally. I was drowning in a sea of insanity that I just couldn't figure out when my Government and Economics teacher in high school turned me on to Ayn Rand's novel Atlas Shrugged. After reading it I have always wondered how he managed to become a public school teacher.

I didn't read it right then. I looked at the book and saw on the blurb that it was about "the man who stopped the motor of the world". Being your standard uber-literal teenager of the time, I completely missed the metaphor and assumed it was some kind of fantasy. Out of respect for Mr. Baldini I put it on my "to do later" list and went about my hormone-crazed business.

Not too many years later I read in the local newspaper that Ayn had died and was surprised by the very respectful op-ed written about her by the typically over-liberal paper. I remembered my promise to my teacher and walked down to the nearest bookstore. I looked at Atlas Shrugged, noticed that it was 1084 pages long, then decided to keep my promise with a thinner book. So I picked up the Virtue of Selfishness instead. I was terrified to check out with the book because I didn't want the checkout girl to think I was selfish, but I bought it anyway.

I took it home and started reading. By the second or third page is was saying to myself, "This is it! This is [expletive deleted] it!" I devoured the book in one sitting and walked back to the store for the second time and bought everything else they had on the shelves. Over the next few weeks I read all of her books. I was delighted. I wasn't alone after all. I had the zeal of a new convert and wanted to tell everyone about it. They hated it, and they hated me for not hating it.

Needless to say, I was stunned. I was stunned that people I knew had known about it and never thought to turn me onto it. I was stunned by the mindless hostility, but most of all I was stunned that even the most calm and rational people began frothing at the mouth when her name was mentioned. It was then I most realized that I wasn't insane, but rather an sane man living in an insane world.

My admiration for Ayn and her philosophy of Objectivism caused me my most tense moment when I was in my teacher credentialing program. We were doing one of those irksome round-robin things in which we were to tell whom we most admired and why. I was one of the last in line so I listened as all of these future teachers told their stories.

I was amazed that almost none of them most admired a fellow American. Almost all of them said Gandhi or Mother Teresa. The very few that mentioned an American all said Martin Luther King. These were all admirable people I'm sure, but I felt that future American teachers of American students in American schools could have done much better. Nonetheless, everyone received appreciative applause for saying exactly the same thing as everyone else.

Then, sadly, it was my turn. I smiled and proudly told them I most admired Ayn Rand. Nothing. No applause. Stone silence except for a couple of muted female gasps. If it had been a cartoon you would have heard crickets chirping in the background. After a few awkward moment, our professor thanked me for my input and then moved us on. A few more Gandhis and Mother Teresas and it was mercifully over. For the rest of my time in the program I was a persona non grata.

So, I come across Atlas Shrugs site and felt shamed. Her site apparently has only been online a little bit longer than mine and she has something like 30 times as many hits. It's a valuable lesson, timidity is not a virtue. Naturally, and possibly regrettably, time has moderated my passion for the philosophy, though it does form a huge part of my being. Ayn did have her embarrassing moments. She wounded me once when I read that she believed that men with beards couldn't be trusted. Ouch. I frequently wear a beard, particularly during the Renaissance Faire season. But still, I think she was 99% dead-on.

In case you're wondering how I came up with the name for the site that I did use. It's because I'm very interested in the Enlightenment Era. The reactionary part is because we've abandoned too much of the Enlightenment Era thinking that founded our country and I'm firmly convinced that it needs to be rediscovered and revived in our national spirit. How did I get "turned-on" to the Enlightenment? I read about it in an Ayn Rand essay.

I saw this photo and I had to share it. I know that sometimes it gets a little discouraging because of what's going on in the country and the world at large. But then I remember that I've lived through times that were much worse. I'm encouraged despite the challenges ahead of us, because most of the country can see those challenges. There have been times where that was not the case. No matter how the Left screams in protest, we live in an exceptional nation and we are an exceptional people. We still have the spirit that has long since died in Europe and we'll be free and independent people long after they've become slaves in their own land.
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1. Literate constituents might read the legislation they're sponsoring.
2. Voters who can properly cast a ballot will remove the main pretense for recounts.
3. People with basic math skills scare the hell out of the budget committee.
4. Can't take the risk that civics students will be exposed to the constitution.
5. Social Studies might be dropped and reality-based subjects like Geography and History reinstated.
6. People who read books are just freakin' weird.
7. There are still copies of the Federalist Papers unaccounted for.
8. They believe that reading the n-word in Huckleberry Finn will cause students to spontaneously combust.
9. Feminists terrified that girls will like Home Ec. and Family Development.
10. Reinstating vocational education might make students employable and thus apathetic toward the welfare state.

Senator Kennedy enjoys a tasty snack.

Massachusetts Mistress Killer Flunks Civics

Just heard a recording of young Tedward on Limbaugh's show. In it he gives the country a civics lesson. He prefaces his brilliant point by admitting that Republicans have taken control of the Presidency, Senate, and House fair and square by means of free elections. I'll salute him for that, it must have been very painful.

But then he tells us that there is no election for the Judiciary so why Bush's current nominees are so outrageous and that there is an obligation to appoint judges that aren't so far out of the mainstream. Tragically, as we all know, Tedward lives in the East Coast liberal bubble so he wouldn't recognize mainstream if it came up and punched him in the face.

His argument is hollow because judges are elected by the people indirectly. The voters elect representatives to do their constitutionally defined jobs. They elected the President who is obligated to nominate judges he thinks best suited to the positions. They also elected Senators to do their constitutionally defined jobs, that being to advise and consent. In other words, they vote on the nominees are well-qualified in the law. So they are indirectly elected by the people, but they are selected nonetheless.

Kennedy is just trying to hang on to the last vestige of the Democratic agenda. If they lose the Judiciary, they're screwed. The last remnants of the New Deal and the New Society will be swept away, and the country will be the better for it. They live in terror that things will get better, because if they do the country will change in ways such that they won't recognize it anymore. They're afraid because their ideology is more important to them that the well-being of the country.

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Here's a little ditty dedicated to those that protect us from the ravages of capitalism.

Sung to the tune of Bachman-Turner Overdrives's "Taking Care of Business"

Regulating Business

You had a great big yearnin’,
So you did a lotta learnin’,
And then you were feelin’ really witty.
Well, I’m workin’ for the Gov.
And I’m a-doin’ what I love,
So profit’s are gonna be a pity.

And if you make a dime,
I’m gonna declare it a crime,
And be filin’ a lawsuit within a day.
So now I’m feelin’ overjoyed,
And your staff is unemployed,
And so they’ll stay, no matter what you say.
And I'll be…

Regulating business—every day,
Regulating business—every way,
I've been regulating business ‘cause it’s all crime,
Regulating business and banning overtime.
Work less!

No matter what you’re wishin’,
You’ll be charged with price-fixin’,
And fined until it makes you bellow.
Your reputation I’ll mar,
‘Til you’re drinkin’ in a bar,
And your CFO’s a convicted felon.

Though they say I’m a Hun,
You’re just jealous ‘cause I won,
When I notified the EPA.
Now of work you are devoid,
And you’re all unemployed,
But maybe you’ll work for us someday.
Then we’ll be…

Regulating business—every day,
Regulating business—every way,
I've been regulating business ‘cause it’s all crime,
Regulating business and banning overtime.
Work less!

Repeat till you puke.
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Kleptocracy to the South

I learned a great new word today from the Investor's Business Daily: kleptocracy. It was used to describe Mexico's dependence on US money sent from legal and illegal aliens. Here's a quick down and dirty definition from Wikipedia:

Kleptocracy (sometimes Cleptocracy) (root: Klepto+cracy = rule by thieves) is a pejorative, informal term for a government so corrupt that no pretense of honesty remains. In a kleptocracy the mechanisms of government are almost entirely devoted to taxing the public at large in order to amass substantial personal fortunes for the rulers and their cronies (collectively, kleptocrats), or to keep said rulers in power.

To that I think we can extend the definition to include the lust for foreign cash, whether well- or ill-gotten. To summarize, the most salient points are:

1. Remittances from workers in the US are now Mexico's second highest source of revenue.
2. These remittances have increased an average' of 17.6% a year for the last decade
3. This rate is expected to increase to 20% per year over the next decade.
4. This money accounts for almost a fifth of Mexico's entire Gross Domestic Product.

If you hate transfer payments, and all good Americans do, this one is even worse. The money is siphoned out of the country. At least welfare recipients spend most of their cash in the US. The article then goes on to describe why Vicente Fox has no incentive to help with the problem, in fact, he would be stupid to do so.

I'm including the entire article under the "read this" below if you're interested.

America: Mexico's ATM


US worker remittances to Mexico

Immigration: That "giant sucking sound" you hear isn't the jobs that Ross Perot warned we'd lose to Mexico due to NAFTA. It's from all the cash Mexico is collecting from illegals working on this side of the border.

Funds sent home from Mexican immigrants, both legal and illegal, now outstrip revenues from foreign investors and tourism in Mexico (see chart). And "migradollars" are on course to surpass even revenues from Pemex, the state oil company, making them the country's largest source of income.

Revenues from Mexican workers in the U.S. are critical to Mexico's economy, accounting for nearly one-fifth of its GDP. They've grown at a 17.6% annual clip over the past decade — thanks to an explosion of illegal immigration encouraged by the Mexican government and winked at by ours — and are expected to grow by more than 20% a year over the next decade.

U.S. banks are aiding the shakedown by offering Mexican workers ATM cards — such as Wachovia's Dinero Directo card — that make it easier for them to transfer money home to relatives. This year they'll wire as much as $20 billion in cash.

For lucky recipients south of the border, where the average wage is below $2 an hour, remittances account for 80% of household income.

No wonder Mexican President Vicente Fox calls illegal aliens "heroes." They're no less than his economic plan. So long as his frustrated poor have the escape valve of America, he can postpone much-needed reforms at home, such as privatizing Pemex and other state industries. Why change Mexico's corrupt feudal system when there's a giant ATM open next door?

Fox, who's as dumb as his name, is channeling the migradollar withdrawals to rural sectors mired in poverty through a "padrino," or sponsorship, program. Last month, he also set up a mortgage plan to let Mexican workers here buy homes in Mexico.

Both point up the inadequacy of his government to provide for the needs of its people.

But Fox isn't fazed. He's hoping to get us to pay for their retirement, too, by pushing a totalization deal with President Bush to permit even Mexicans who have worked in this country illegally to draw U.S. Social Security benefits.

Right now, 5 million illegal aliens from Mexico work in the U.S. Letting them take Social Security would create a huge drain on a system that's already careening toward bankruptcy.

No matter. Bush signed the deal last June and is expected to present it to Congress for final approval.

House Immigration Reform Caucus Chairman Tom Tancredo, R-Colo., strongly opposes the idea. He says the administration has already moved ahead with plans to set up an office at the embassy in Mexico City to process benefit claims. The Social Security Administration denies it, but allows that its sole benefits officer down there will need help handling the crush of new claims from Mexicans if the deal goes through. The agreement is now with the SSA's general counsel, who's preparing it for Congress.

Mexico's own social security system pales next to ours. Mexicans have to work more than twice as long to become fully vested, and benefits aren't nearly as generous.

So Fox prefers U.S. taxpayers pick up the tab, as if paying for the retiring baby boomers weren't enough in our pay-as-you-go system.

The best way to reform the kleptocracy south of us (to say nothing of Social Security) is to secure our borders — remember 9-11? — and pressure it to fix its own economy.

I haven't seen Kingdom of Heaven yet but I've really been looking forward to it. I've always had a passionate interest in history, but now this period in particular because I've recently joined the Masons. A lot of their history and ritual is supposed to date back to this period.

Unfortunately, I'm hearing a lot of bad feedback on the movie. Supposedly the Muslims are getting a whitewash in the film while the Christians are getting splashed with mud. Today I read it on Variety's website. In the article a British historian who specializes in the Crusades referred to it as "Osama bin Laden's version of history." He further states that it will fuel the Islamic fundamentalists we are trying so desperately to subdue.

It seems that the movie will be opening this week all over the Middle East. I'm amazed at that. It would have never occurred to me to open a movie about the Crusades in the Middle East, period, so much the less during a time of war. Of course I'm saying that taking it for granted that a Western film about the Crusades would portray Westerners in a good light, or at least a neutral one. Not so, I read in another article today. It seems the film has a segment where the Crusaders attack a village and hack everyone to death, apparently for the hell of it. Makes you wonder where that Hollywood moral relativism is when you need it.

I'm not sure what Ridley Scott is trying to accomplish here. Since the is a movie director, I'm going to take the safe route and assume he is a political liberal. Surely you wouldn't want to undermine your cause making a movie that glorifies the enemy and his cause. Even though it is a historical film (maybe), it still matters today because their mission is the same as it was then, but without Saladin's magnanimous nature toward his enemies.

This proves beyond a doubt what many have said about liberals lately. There are living in a bubble. I'm beginning to believe that they are completely unaware that the political and social tide is starting to run against them. In the news, even the MSM news to a certain extent, you can see that the rage is building. I believe we are heading for a tipping-point in our culture and those folks are going to be blindsided by tsunami of change.

In the meantime, I find myself wondering why there isn't a movie studio somewhere that can serve as a counter-balance to Tinseltown lockstep. A studio that has the same kind of relationship to the entertainment industry that Fox News has to the MSM. Ironically, not even Fox studios do this. If the Left Behind series can surpass Tom Clancy in book sales, then I think there is a gaping hole in the movie market to be tapped.

Hang tough good people. The opposition isn't in the bunker yet but he soon will be and then we'll be reminded that the enemy fights hardest when his back is up against the wall.

More proof that we have a lot of hard work to do, my brothers and sisters. Apparently, Disney's smear of the defenders of the Alamo in their infamous putrid movie was insufficient. The Nickelodeon Channel took a break from their usual fare of mind-numbing pap to do one of the "Nick News Bumps" that informed their audience of indiscriminate impressionable youngins' of the news that the Battle of the Alamo was to defend slavery.

That's right, slavery--not liberty, not freedom, not independence or self-determination, just slavery. I had planned on seeing the movie when it came out, but I was informed by trusted sources that it was standard politically-correct revisionist tripe, so I opted out. From what I hear the defenders of the Alamo are portrayed as truly sleazoid types that spent the whole time shaking in their boots.

So, my brother and sister Americans, if you love your kids, kill your @#*&^$$!@ TV set. That cable running into the back has turned into an electronic sewer pipe blasting full force into your home 24-hours a day. If you can't do that, at least be sure to tell your kids afterwards that it isn't true, even better, don't pull any punches and tell them it's a lie.

Now, if you'll excuse me, I have to go pull my hair out.

Just read a post on Malkin's blog, then followed all the links. There was an illegal alien rally held in Rockville, Maryland, publicly held and announced, and given police protection. Apparently no one was arrested. (sigh) I know. I don't understand either. I don't understand how law enforcement can wink at a rally of law-breakers just because they have "only" broken immigration law. Simply insane. How frustrating for the non-moonbats present who watch and think, "They're there! They are right freakin' there! Why don't you get them? How much easier could it be?"

To help my brothers and sisters in this cause out allow me to provide this script you can use to debate any Open Border Lobby leftish loon:

1. You: (Insert any factual well-reasoned point on immigration here.)
2. Them: Shriek! Shriek! Shriek! Bigot! Racist! Fascist! Shriek!
3. Repeat this cycle until you drop from exhaustion and they claim victory.

Feel the rage brothers and sisters, then let it flow.The "read more" thing is always there. Hopefully, someday I can fix it. But keep checking, there is frequently stuff here.

Before I forget, I saw Juan Williams on Fox News last night, commenting on the upsurge in secure border activity and protest. He was actually angry. I thought he was going to start frothing at the mouth. It did my heart good to see an NPR hack suffering from such cognitive dissonance. He attributed the whole thing to racism, which surprises none of you I suppose. Have you guys ever noticed that the left's reply to anything they disagree with goes something like this? "Racism, bigotry, intolerance, extremism, jingoism, nationalism, heartlessness, exploitation, and Haliburton."
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Since I'm on the topic of things I don't know, perhaps you good folks can help. I'm always striving to build a better blog and improve my other web site as well. I would be very grateful if you folks would comment, e-mail, or refer me on the following topics (so far):

1. How can I fix this "read me" thing below so that it doesn't display when I don't need it?
2. How can I get my profile graphic to display on the address field, comments, and trackbacks like other people?
3. Do you folks have any suggestions for terms for me to define in my Leftist Lexicon website?
4. Who are these *.mu.nu domain people and why are they significant?
5. How does one configure a blog (or any website) for that matter so that people can download content from you?
6. Life keeps steering me away from my passions, history, languages, history, philosophy, and classical education. I've determined I'm going to have to become an autodidact in those areas. Does anyone have any leads on a curriculum and any decent contacts?
7. I'm making an Ivy League university parody, but I don't know of enough insanities and outrages. Could you write to, or direct me to, such insanities and outrages?

Thanks,
Don, The ER
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Just cruising the blogosphere this morning and yet again I see hate and discontent about this Glenn Reynolds fellow. I read his blog early on and found it to be dull and tedious, so I stopped reading. What I didn't see is why he generates so much hostility. So please, if you hate Glenn, drop a comment and tell me why I should too.

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Democractic Party Solutions Applied to Everyday Situations #2

1. To mollify the 2 to 10-year-old demographic the EPA declares brussel sprouts and spinach to be endangered species.
2. The government mandates mandatory carpooling because of environmental and fuel conservation concerns. On Thursday, you and 3 other people ride to work strapped to the roof of your neighbor's Geo Metro.
3. To improve the self-esteem of inner-city high school students, gang fights are declared a team sport while knifing and shooting are added to track-and-field.
4. As a fuel saving measure the government declares that no airline flight can leave before it is completely full. To avoid fines for late departures, your airline places you on a flight to Boston, even though you were going to Sacramento.
5. To prevent children from languishing in foster care, the government institutes compulsory adoptions. Your new son's middle name seems to be "The Cannibal".
6. Government concern about rising unemployment prompts the government to form a Full Employment Investigative Committee. Budget concerns prompt them to outsource it to Bangladesh.
7. Democrats tired of being hassled about their border policy push through a policy that allows the United States to be annexed by Mexico. When questioned about the wisdom of the policy they reply, "Hey, it's their problem now."
8. When there is a shortfall in the city budget the police are compelled to hire gangbangers because they already have guns and spend a lot of time on the streets anyway.
9. They solve the teacher shortage by forcing school districts to hire people who are in a coma.
10. To check on the efficacy of their new anti-telemarketing legislation, they call everyday at dinner time to ask if there have been any violations.

It rare that I read a blog post that makes me angry but I just read one on Michelle Malkin's blog tht still has my blood boiling. A high school science teacher by the name of Larry Neace has been fired for refusing to raise a football player's grade. I was a high school science teacher for three years and consider it to be 3 of the most wasted years of my life. I had lots of wonderful kids, but I rarely had time to spend on them due to the usual rogues gallery of miscreants in my classroom, of which apathetic and contemptuous "student" athletes were well represented.

The administration defends itself by saying that his actions were against district policy. This in and of itself is symptomatic of the problem. How long must we build a wall between fools and the consequences of their folly. My brief time as a teacher taught me that public education is about just about everything except education. No one has the guts to say it, but education is just a convenient excuse for what public schools have become, publicly funded daycare centers for near-adults and publicly funded sports teams. As I have written elsewhere, I have never heard a mother say that she can't wait for school to start because she's afraid Johnny is forgetting his Algebra, but I have heard plenty say they couldn't wait because the brat was driving them crazy.

I catch hell about this every time I bring it up, but more often than not the objections just prove my point. One of my favorites is when I'm told that problem students need to be kept in school because when school is out the crime rate goes up. Think about it. This is liberal "logic" at its best. Putting out the fire with gasoline.

Excuse me, I have to go kick the cat now.

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Debate Transcipt: Ann Coulter vs. Congressman Anthony Farkleworth (D) Vermont
Editor's Note: Rep. Nancy Pelosi (D) California relieved Rep. Farkleworth when he tragically became unable to fulfill his role in the debate.

Moderator: Good evening ladies and gentleman and welcome to this evening's debate. Our guest tonight are Ann Coulter, conservative columnist and author, and Congressman Anthony Farkleworth, Democrat of Vermont. Tonight's topic is the diametrically opposed agendas of their respective political parties. Ms. Coulter, Congressman Farkleworth, thanks for being with us this evening.

Farkleworth: My pleasure Jim, any time.

Coulter: Mine too Jim, There's nothing I enjoy more than a good liberal evisceration.

Farkleworth: (laughing) I think we're a little overconfident tonight Ann.

Moderator: Easy now Ms. Coulter, save something for the actual debate.

Coulter: First, we're not on a first name basis, Farkleworth. Second, I'm always debating, Jim.

Moderator: (laughing) I suppose you are Ms. Coulter, you're well known for your aggessive style.

Coulter: (laughing) That's just a viscious rumor started by my victims, Jim.

Moderator: ...er...well, be that as it may Ann, we need to get started. Mr. Farkleworth won the coin toss back stage, so he'll go first.

Coulter: Not until the ratfink gives me my quarter back.

Moderator: (scowling) Mr. Farkleworth?

Farkleworth: (sighing) OK. Fine. Here you go cheapskate.

Coulter: You throw like a girl Farkleworth.

Farkleworth: I'll bet you do too.

Coulter: Maybe because I'm am a girl, you numb nut.

Moderator: (angry) That's enough you two! Don't make me get out the rubber hose!

Farkleworth: (excited) Ooooooooooooo!

Coulter: I floss my teeth with rubber hoses, Jim.

Moderator: (nervously) Tragically, I'm inclined to believe that, Ms. Coulter. Anyway, let's get started. You first Mr. Farkleworth.

Farkleworth: Certainly, Jim. Ms. Coulter, you've been aptly described as a conservative Pit Bull. I think that's an excellent analogy. What makes you think a GOP hack such as yourself is qualified to debate on this important topic?

Coulter: (Grrrrr. Snarl. Snap, snap, snap.)

Moderator and Farkleworth: Excuse me?

Coulter: (Grrrr. Snarl. Grrrrrrrrrrrr! Gnash! Gnash! Gnash!)

Farkleworth: Jim, she's making me nervous.

Moderator: Ms. Coutler, don't make me ring my bell. I'm not afraid to use it.

Coulter: (chewing) (Crunch. Munch. Crunch. Munch.)

Moderator: Ms. Coulter, why are you eating my bell?

Coulter: Women need extra iron. Everybody knows that, Jim.

Farkleworth: You see, Jim? That's what passes for intelligent discourse on the right.

Coulter: (angry) You want a piece of me, weenie-boy?

Farkleworth: (equally angry) Bring it on, bitch!

Coulter: (leaping from behind podium) ed. note: At this point Ms. Coulter articulated an untranscribable blood-curdling scream.

Farklesworth: (shrieking like a girl) Shriek! Shriek! Holy Mother of God! My arm! My arm!

Moderator: (fainting) Uuuuuuh. (thump)

Coulter: (ripping, rending, shredding, and tearing flesh) (Rip. Rend. Shred. Tear.) Die, you liberal chum bucket!

Farkleworth: (fainting from blood loss) Uuuuuuh. (thud)

Moderator: (reviving) Jesus, Joseph, and Mary! Somebody call 911, now! You! Apply pressure to that stump. Now! You! Run down to the end of the hall and get all the ice you can! We've got to pack the arm in ice!

Coulter: Jim, could I have a tissue? There seems to be some blood on my chin.

Ed. Note: At this point Ms. Coulter was tackled by 6 security guards. Three of them lost fingers. Police were called and Ms. Coulter was hauled to City Jail. The debate resumed the next day.

Moderator: Welcome back to our debate ladies and gentleman. Due to Congressman Farkleworth's unfortunate accident yesterday, the liberal side will be represented by Nancy Pelosi. How do you do Ms. Pelosi?

Pelosi: (patting pocket) Fine, Jim. I've got my Taser right here.

Moderator: (patting pocket) Me too, Ms. Pelosi

Coulter: (comtempuously) Hrrmmph! Sissies.

Moderator: (offended) I must say I'm surprised to see that you were able to post bail.

Coulter: The bondsman came around after I body-slammed him across his desk.

Moderator: (surprised) You body-slammed the bondsman?

Coulter: Yeah. Then I put him in a spinning toe hold. The little wimp couldn't cough up the money fast enough.

Moderator: That doesn't really fit in with your image, Ms. Coulter. If you're so adept at hand-to-hand combat, why did you need those men to defend you at the pie-throwing incident.

Coulter: I like to be lady-like in front of the men folk. They really like that sort of thing. Jim. By the way, do you have a toothpick? I think I have a piece of Farkleworth stuck in my teeth.

Moderator: No sharp implements for you, Ms. Coulter. So, are you ladies ready to start?

Pelosi: (stepping out from behind the podium) Absolutely.

Coulter: (stepping out from behind the podium) Same here.

Moderator: Um, if you ladies would stop circling each other and get back behind your podiums we could get started.

Pelosi: (grumbling) This isn't over, Coulter.

Coulter: (snarling) Any time, Pelosi.

Moderator: (muttering under his breath) I'm too old for this crap.

Pelosi: Beg your pardon.

Moderator: Nothing. Nothing. After the debacle yesterday we've decided to dispense with the opening statements.

Coulter: (glaring at moderator) That's what I thought.

Moderator: (gulping) Gulp. The first question is for you Congresswoman Pelosi.

Pelosi: It had better be.

Moderator: (muttering under his breath) I should retire.

Pelosi: (clenching teeth) What?

Moderator: (moving two steps closer to the exit) Very well. Ms. Pelosi. You've stated that the defense budget needs to reigned in to provide additional funding for social programs. How can you justify this during a time of war?

Pelosi: Very easily, Jim. The United States is a big ol' mean bully, and we deserve whatever we get. A strong defense just makes it harder for us to learn our lesson.

Coulter and Moderator: (groaning) Groan.

Pelosi: Furthermore, we need the funding for vital foreign aid programs. Particularly for countries in the Middle East.

Coulter and Moderator: (stunned) What the hell?

Coulter: Are you insane, Pelosi. The terrorists would intercept the money and buy sophisticated weapons with it. Is that what you want to accomplish?

Pelosi: Well, they need those weapons to defend themselves against us.

Moderator: (banging head on desk repeatedly) Kill me now, Lord. Kill me now.

Coulter: (bewildered) And just why should we have to pick up the tab for their weapons?

Pelosi: Well, it just seems fair, after the way we've cheated them on the price of oil.

Moderator: (beating head on table harder) I want to die! I want to die. I want to die!

Coulter: (holding up hands) Put your throat in here. Please. I'm begging you.

Pelosi: You're a psycho.

Coulter: Moonbat.

Perosi: Skank.

Coulter: Man-proof.

Moderator: (losing consciousness and slumping to floor) Uuuuugh!

Pelosi: Should we help him?

Coulter: You'd like that wouldn't you Pelosi, any excuse to to avoid honest debate.

Moderator: (reviving) Woman! Give it a rest.

Coulter: (cheerfully) Jim! You're up! How's the head?

Moderator: Never mind. Let's move on to your rebuttal Ms. Coulter. What do you have to say about the defense budget?

Coulter: We need to increase it at least 200%

Pelosi: (choking) Gag! Ack! Ack! (coughing fit ensues)

Moderator: My thoughts exactly Ms. Pelosi. Ms. Coulter, what would the Defense Department do with all of that money?

Coulter: We need to build a destroyer base in Kansas and a carrier base in the Dakotas.

Pelosi: You lunatic! Those are land-locked states.

Coulter: Precisely why the enemy would never see it coming, Pelosi.

Moderator: (putting his bottle of vodka back on the desk) Sounds reasonable to me Nancy.

Pelosi: It's insane. We'll never stand for it! Never!

Coulter: Well I suppose we could compromise.

Pelosi: Now you're finally making sense. Compromise is what we Democrats do best. Have you seen what we do with our principles and ethics? It's amazing. What are you terms?

Coulter: (grinning maliciously) Well I suppose we could settle for a 100% increase in funding and two Air Force bases at those locations.

Pelosi: (smugly) That's better.

Moderator: I think you've been had, Nancy.

Pelosi: (scandalized) Leave my sex life out of this, Jim. Hey! Coulter, where are you going?

Coulter: Home. I got what I came for.

Moderator: Well, that looks like it concludes our debate. I must say that in all my years in broadcasting I've never seen a debate with just one question, much less one that took two days to answer it, and don't get me started on thecasualties.

Pelosi: I need a drink.

Moderator: I've got you taken care of right here, baby.

Pelosi: Give me that bottle!

Moderator: Say! You're kind of cute when I'm drunk.

(fade to commercial)

Michelle Malkin reports this in her blog:

Michael Malone of ABC News asserts that "[m]any blogs enjoy readerships larger than some major metropolitan newspapers."

Wow! That's great news for bloggers! But is it true?

The circulation of most major metropolitan newspapers is 200,000 or more. Many average more than 400,000. By comparison, Instapundit currently averages about 130,000 visits (not unique visitors) a day. Assuming Instapundit's readers check his site, on average, twice a day, that's "only" 65,000 readers. So right there, the newspapers have at least a 3-to-1 advantage in readership.

That's only part of the picture, though, since major newspapers also have web sites that draw far more traffic than top political blogs (see, e.g., Seattle Times vs. Instapundit and Houston Chronicle vs. Daily Kos).

I wish Malone were correct, but it's clear that the combined readership of any major metropolitian newspaper's print and electroinc editions dwarfs that of even the mightiest political blog.

What she says is undoubtably true, but I think the point should be made that, because of the vast and ever growing numbers of bloggers, there collective power will soon exceed that of traditional papers.
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Students at the Michael Moore Elementary School proudly display their winning entry in the Independence Day banner contest.

1. A short skirt makes a persuasive argument.
2. God created dirty words so liberals wouldn't be mute.
3. People shouldn't drink and vote.
4. Voting for Democrats is nothing to be ashamed of, as long as you do it in the dark and wash your hands afterwards. (Apologies to Robert A. Heinlein.)
5. To liberals it will always be 1969.
6. Fifty-year-old men shouldn't wear pony-tails.
7. Public schools have turned into giant under-staffed day care centers.
8. Left-wingers keep shrieking the same old tired talking points for the same reason that skydivers keep yanking on the ripcord of a parachute that has failed to open.
9. Why aren't more open-border proponents studying Spanish and Arabic? They're going to need it.
10. Liberals deeply resent the religionization of Christmas.
11. Feminists hate women.
12. Children don't want freedom as much as they want parents.
13. Liberals think failure is a virtue.
14. Real life lesbians don't look like the ones in the movies.
15. Most university professors have lost their key to the clue locker.
16. Dating a liberal will make you reconsider your opinions--on dating.
17. Liberals think "The Rocky Horror Picture Show" was a documentary.
18. The concept of an objective reality makes liberals wake up screaming at night.
19. When a Democrat utters any phrase or sentence with the word "social" in it your should put your hand over your wallet and start beacking slowly toward the door.
20. The French still think they're significant.

Muslim spokesman gives a vague but comforting press conference in NYC.

Death Dealers of Jihad spokesman Ah-chew Blesyu ibn-Koffin called a press conference yesterday, allegedly to make an important announcement. But despite hours of grilling by crack New York Time reporter Joseph "Blind Joe" Blair, ibn-Koffin revealed precious little new information. Koffin merely repeated commonly known facts about Islam's peaceful nature and long history of tolerance and unparalleled willingness to accept new ideas.

Reporters from rival newspapers continued to press Koffin for details but none were forthcoming. One reporter's rude persistence angered Koffin enough that he was forced to decapitate the woman and toss her head into the street. When New York City police fined him for littering, Koffin abruptly ended his press conference, picked up his machete, and stormed off. The New York Times regrets the misunderstanding and will try to arrange for another press conference as soon as possible.

(via Enlightenment Reactionary News Service) A CIA spokesman revealed today that England's guilty plea had been disallowed due to the discovery of her involvement in a severe disruption of the flow of incoming intelligence data concerning al-Qaeda. Further investigation has showed that, in addition to the abuse for which she has been charged, England also threatened to make love to the detainees. The resulting flood of false confessions to non-existent crimes made it virtually impossible to sift out the legitimate confessions. An angry source at the Pentagon reported that the incidents set the War on Terror back at least a year.

Abu Farraj al-Libbi waiting to be announced as the winner of the Sexiest Man in Libya Pageant.

High ranking al-Qaida terrorist Abu Farraj al-Libbi was arrested in Pakistan yesterday after being lured out of hiding with an offer to be a contestant at the Mr. Jihad Beauty Pageant for men. As authorities suspected, the former Sexiest Man in Libya Pageant winner couldn't resist the temptation to further stroke his ego. Libbi's identity was confirmed during the swimsuit competition when his Speedos handily revealed the tattoo on his left buttocks of a severed head surrounded by the words "What would Allah do?". As Pakistani authorities dragged the scantily clad al-Libbi away he was heard to repeatedly scream, "Where's my damn tiara? I want my damn tiara!" More on this as it develops.

How Do I Hate Thee?


With apologies to the memory of
Elizabeth Barrett Browning

How do I hate thee? To tell takes all day.
I hate thee for I must shift to the right
As polls do teach there is voter fright,
For the fiends are seeing our taxing pace.
I hate thee as the rebel, opposed to our raise
Which we most need, to fund our vandals fight.
I hate thee really, for you are the Right.
I hate thee surely, for your hymns of praise.
I hate thee for discovering of our ruse
To dupe these knaves, and the ballot box steal.
I hate thee slaves to the Israeli Jews,
Who care not how it makes Muslims feel.

Enlightenment Reactionary's Observations on Life #3

1. The car I was pressured into selling for $300 in 1983 now routinely sells for $30,000 at auto auctions.
2. The toughest thing about being a man is that your wife won't but your daughter might.
3. The chatty guy that hates Republicans will always sit next to you on the plane.
4. Young liberals are always stunned when they find out that conservatives have sex.
5. Young liberals are even more surprised when they find out you know "that" position too.
6. Children and liberals think everything they see on TV is real.
7. Psychotics can supress their symptoms for as long as it take you to marry them.
8. "Father" means never being able to find your tools.
9. Elderly people never retire stories.
10. People who have the least time left in life spend it driving, in front of you, in the no-passing zone.
11. Your wife will start pressuring you to sell your dream car starting the day after your wedding.
12. Your serving wench at Medieval Times is always the one with the least cleavage.
13. Wives periodically ask if you feel as sorry for that poor woman with the gigantic breasts as she does.
14. Standing in an elevator stimulates the body's production of gas.
15. Lesbians in real life aren't as pretty as the ones in the movies.
16. Steven King writes a book every 15 minutes.
17. I reality shows were really real we would be watching people watch TV.
18. The cynics are right, marriage really does cure nymphomania.
19. It's true that youth is wasted on the young but it's equally true that retirement is wasted on the old.
20. Boring college courses have the most exciting sounding names in the catalog

Liberal wacko environmentalist first woman to admit that size does matter.

The ceremony will be held in the grove so that the groom's family can attend.

Astronomers discover a giant meteor on a collision course with Earth. The meteor is too big and it was discovered too late to do anything about it. They solemnly announce that all life on Earth will be incinerated, down the the last microbe. The Earth will become a sterile charred rock orbiting the sun. The next day the New York Times runs the following headline: Giant Meteor to Destroy all Life on Earth: Women and Minorities Hardest Hit

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(Exclusive from ER News Service) Senate Democrats debated long into the night as to which committee Senator Lipshitz would chair. Due to his qualifications and background he is considered a shoe-in for any committee, however, rumor has it that Democratic leaders in the Senate are leading toward either the Ethics or Appropriations Committees.

The "read more" thing is always there. Hopefully, someday I can fix it.

Top 10 Reasons Liberal Democrats Fear Social Security Reform

1. If Social Security dies they'll have to admit that nothing good came out of the New Deal.
2. The ghost of Elenor Roosevelt told Hillary it was a bad idea.
3. Concern that the elderly can still swing a bat.
4. They'll lose their best means of disguising tax increases.
5. It's fun to watch retirees grovel for help.
6. If things get better it will be even harder to convince the voters that they can't live without the Democratic Party.
7. Reagan thought it was a good idea.
8. Osama bin Laden sent an e-mail saying that Allah thinks it's a bad idea.
9. The fervent belief that transfer payments are good for the economy.
10. Franklin Delano Roosevelt's ghost told them if they would save it he would run for another term.

The "read more" thing is always there. Hopefully, someday I can fix it.

Mary and Joe Sixpack

I'm going to throw out something I think will help you in your future debating success. We all hear and talk about "traditional values" or "traditional American values", and when we do something very specific pops into our minds. What I don't think we are aware of, however, is that those ideas can be and are very different from person to person. Simply said, American values have never been codified in such a way that you have something objective to refer to.

For example, I was born in 1960 and don't remember much from before I was in Kindergarten. That means I grew from childhood to adulthood in an environment of ever increasing permissiveness, so for many years halter tops, hot pants, and sex on the first date were traditional values for me, along with almost everything else the super-decadent 70's had to offer.

These days I've turned away from such things. Becoming a father, especially the father of a daughter, does such things to you. These days I'm a firm believer in God, family, and country. Despite this, there are lingering effects from the debauched environment of my youth. Skimpy, revealing clothing doesn't bother me. Where I see a very nice outfit on a woman, others insist that she is brazenly wearing fetish clothing in public. I was both stunned and amused by the fuss surrounding that "controversial" photo of Condeleeza Rice in a pair of black boots.

Contrast that with my recently departed grandmother, who lived through the Depression and the Second World War and raised 7 kids on a single income while doing it. She was a loyal Democrat to the bitter end, even after the party became the symbol of everything she was opposed to. She tenacious clung to a Democratic Party that no longer existed. She believed that America was doomed if it didn't get back to traditional American values, defined of course by what the world was like when she was a young girl.

So, I've found that any time you're discussing something, especially a liberal, and an appeal to tradition American values is invoked the very first thing you should do is demand that he/she define what those values are and be prepared to define your vision of those values as well. If you do, you'll be astounded at what you hear. I've found that no matter how far out on the fringes of reality some people are they a firmly convinced their beliefs are what the Founding Fathers had in mind while forming the country.

I just can't stop myself. See if you can guess who it's about.


This one stands on its own.

Sung to the tune of Styx's "Lady"

Shady

Shady, you're office you are defiling
The law you're above
Your blow-dried hair-do, it is stylin'
Destroy the files, but wear your gloves.

Shady, I gasp at the size of the cigar you're smoking,
If you want, I'll be your humidor.
Under your desk I'll be lurking,
Then we'll be rolling on the floor.
You're my...

Shady of the moaning,
Lust's starting to rise.
My dress you are staining,
You're my shady.

Shady, for your lovin' I'm Jonesing,
So unhook my bra.
My pretty blue dress will need cleansing,
I open my mouth and say ah.
Youre my...

Shady of the moaning,
Lust's starting to rise.
My dress you are staining,
You're my shady.

Just for the record: I don't give a flying flip about Jennifer Wilbanks. 'Nuff said.

Stephanie had a big surprise for her husband on their wedding night.

1. Women will always hack off their hair and switch to frumpy clothes after you marry, then claim they just wanted to look nice for you.
2. Auto mechanics will always think that you're an idiot.
3. Liberals will club you in the head repeatedly in you refuse to join their peace protest.
4. Radical Liberals abhor violence and are willing to commit any act of violence to prevent it.
5. Environmentalists firmly believe that by burning SUVs, multi-million dollars homes, ski resorts, industrial sites, and other places of employment constitutes helping their fellow man.
6. Liberals who successfully sue tobacco companies will celebrate by firing up a joint and holding the smoke until they faint.
7. Cashiers at fast-food restaurants can't speak English.
8. Cashiers anywhere are not hired for their math skills.
9. Complaining about cashiers does no good because the manager can't speak English.
10. In California you can entered into a long-term intimate relationship with a goat but adjusting the fast idle screw on your carburetor will get you the death penalty.
11. Celebrities are unimportant people who make their living pretending to be important people.
12. People who violently oppose petroleum drilling, transportation, exploration, pipelines, tankers, storage facilities, and refineries bitch the most about high fuel prices.
13. People who live in states with the most punitive anti-business laws attribute their unemployment to corporate greed and government conspiracies.
14. Nobody will ever live long enough to see an unscrewed-up order at a fast-food restaurant drive-through.
15. Liberals will always believe that the only justification for having a military is as a jobs program.
16. Drivers in New Mexico have their turn-signal levers welded in the off position.
17. Women with large breasts want small ones, those with small breast want large ones, medium-sized women can go either way, and they all want you to pay for the surgery.
18. Men will never end their quest for a virgin nymphomaniac.
19. Ex-wives will still call you and demand that you do chores around what used to be your house.
20. Cars only break down when you take a short-cut through the most dangerous part of the city.

Submitted for your Minutemanning pleasure.


His delivery completed, quick jaunt back across the border, and it's Dos Equis time.

Sung to the tune of Wall of Voodoo's "Mexican Radio"

Mexican Coyote-oh

I feel a tapping, on my shoulder,
Oh no! It a border patroller!
I turn and run back, across the border,
The chase makes my blood run all the colder.

The open border, I abuse it,
So no American would choose it.
I see the stalking, of the coyote,
I can't afford what he makes me pay.

I hired a Mexican coyote-oh,
I hired a Mexican coyote-oh, whoa-oh,
I hired a Mexican coyote-oh,
I hired a Mexican coyote-oh, whoa-oh,

I can't find a job, in my nation,
'Cause they all are rationed,
So I'd sit, and just whittle,
Then have a rabbit for vittles

I hired a Mexican coyote-oh,
I hired a Mexican coyote-oh, whoa-oh,
I hired a Mexican coyote-oh,
I hired a Mexican coyote-oh, whoa-oh,

I wish I was in, San Diego,
'Cause I really wanna go vote,
So I could elect, a Reconquista,
We could treat the natives like turistas

I feel a tapping, on my shoulder,
My coyote is feeling much bolder,
He's really sneaky, this my hombre,
Still I do hate what he makes me pay.

I hired a Mexican coyote-oh,
I hired a Mexican coyote-oh, whoa-oh,
I hired a Mexican coyote-oh,
I hired a Mexican coyote-oh, whoa-oh,

Coyote-oh, coyote-oh,
Coyote-oh, coyote-oh...

...he makes me pay.

The beer's in the fridge and the remote is on the coffee table.

• Effective immediately all Caucasians and successful minorities will be required to practice the "open garage" policy. Garage doors must be left open at all times. The inner door must be unlocked as well. After all, trespassers just want a cold beer and to watch some TV, just like everybody else.
• Due to government concerns about the health of the petroleum transfer industry, gas station attendents will be paid $5 per gallon not to pump your gas, if they don't pump 10 gallons or more they get double trading stamps.
• Universities will immediately desist from the discriminatory practice of limiting the number of students that can register for a given class and thus oppressing the punctuality-challenged. All interested students must be allowed to enroll. In an unrelated matter universities will be fined $10,000 per student per semester for each instance of insufficient seating.
• To prevent the undue hardship of a disconnection, delinquint utility bills will be paid by the neighbors living on either side of the financially distressed person.
• All accelerated and advanced placement courses in public schools are hereby cancelled. Students with higher aptitude will be required to tutor remedial students. After all, it's only fair. They won in life's lottery. Failure to comply will result in the forfeiture of any future student grants and loans.
• The concept of the checkout counter "Leave a penny, take a penny" dish has proven so popular that the legislature has passed a bill applying the principle to the pockets of people standing next to you in line. Despite the name, the law permits any denomination to be taken. Participation is compulsory.
• In order to comply with health regulations restaurants and grocery stores are henceforth required to give a sponge bath to any homeless person that may wander into the building.
• Newspaper boys are required to charge their subscribers on a sliding scale determined by means testing. If the subscriber is illiterate, the paper boy is required to read it to the subscriber. To insure good service to the underprivileged, stiff penalties will be assessed for late delivery.
• In order to put a stop to the scourge of racial profiling, identification cards will no longer be required to cash a check, buy cigarettes or alcohol, buy guns or ammunition, attend adult movies, sign a contract, or pick up children from any day care.

Here is a follow-up to my previous post based on an article written by Thomas G. Tancredo who represents Colorado's 6th District and is chairman of the Congressional Immigration Reform Caucus.

He points out some interesting facts on US Latino voting patterns. Such as:

Last November's election gave momentum to the movement in a way not widely reported in the media but very much understood by political analysts and lawmakers. President Bush increased his share of the Latino vote from about 32% to 40% in that election — without using the immigration issue. A New York Times analysis of the Bush-Cheney campaign ads aimed at Latinos revealed that the issues used to attract Latino voters were economic empowerment, educational opportunity and traditional moral values. Not a single Bush-Cheney campaign ad mentioned Bush's guest-worker proposal or liberalized immigration rules.

Also this scarcely mentioned gem:

Then on Nov. 2, a political earthquake occurred when Arizona voters approved Proposition 200, which denies state welfare benefits to illegal aliens and strengthens voter registration requirements. Forty-seven percent of Latino voters and 59% of Latino Republicans voted for Proposition 200.

All of which reminds me of a common complaint I used to hear frequently many years ago, but never hear anymore. Back then people would often say something like, "everybody's for immigration up until they get in. Then they want to keep the foreigners out."

The Conservative/Republican movement gains increasing support with minorities with each subsequent election. Apparently, once they get to be one of the "haves" in society, confiscatory taxation, excessive regulation, and affirmative action programs suddenly lose their charm.

It makes sense when you think about it. Naturally, the Reconquista/Aztlan faction have different motivations; however, those who did immigrate for employment and opportunity are as ill-affected by the runaway border as anybody. The newcomers depress their wages as well and suck up various resources that will no longer be as available to them and their families. Remember, Latinos were well represented among the Minutemen.

Beware: This newfound support in traditionally liberal constituencies is probably the weakest spot of the immigration reform movement. Liberals can sniff out weakness like a Pit Bull can smell fear. If the trend continues the Left will mount a massive campaign to drive a wedge between us and minority people who are sympathetic to our cause.

The Left will try to shout us down. Even though it really isn't our style, we have to shout louder and longer. When they push, we must push back. If we win, everybody wins. Everybody except poverty pimps and class-warfare generals that is.

Just like Rush Limbaugh is show-prep for the MSM, Michelle Malkin winds up being blog-prep for me. Plus I like looking at her picture. I try to mix it up a little bit but no one does this topic like her, so I visit her site frequently.

Today there is a post by a Professor Bainbridge, whom I've never heard of, scoffing at the Minutemen and saying that he supports all immigration legal or otherwise. He claims he does so for pragmatic reason. That being, of course, that it can't be stopped so why even try? No matter how many times I hear this argument it sets me to gnashing my teeth and cursing the exploits of Obliviousman. For the record: They--just--don't--get--it.

To support his claims he submits the following chart. Ironically, it could be a campaign flag for our side. They--just--don't--get--it.


We hear the same old tired rhetoric equating our support of border security and regulated immigration with nativism and racism. It's a tried-and-true tactic: Tell a lie often enough and the people will believe it. Nobody I associate with is anti-immigrant or anti-(insert ethic group here). The Best Man at my wedding was half Mexican. He's been my best-friend for 24 years. He was my roommate for quite a while as well. I have no problem with Americans of Mexican (or any other) extraction. I've befriended them, dated them, even made love to them. So don't give me that crap. We need to repeat the truth as often as necessary until it drowns-out their lies.

We could start with this damn notion that assimilation is a bad thing. It's a great thing. It has been pointed out many, many times that being American doesn't denote a racial group. The crux of being an American is philosophical and cultural. We've found a system that works and we've stuck with it. My acquaintence Henry A. (of whom I've blogged) always claimed that Mexico was a poor country because we "stole all the good land". Fine we'll take Acapulco off your hands.

If you've ever been through El Paso you'll see that this isn't true. Same kind of land, same kind of climate, and to a great extent the same kind of people. On one side of the border are skyscrapers, elaborate malls and shopping centers, a major university, and beautiful apartments and homes. On the other side of the river you'll see shacks. I'm going to go out on a limb here and say the unsayable. The people in Mexico aren't poor because they are Mexicans, they are poor because so many of them think like Mexicans. It is a hell of a difference.

New immigrants arrive in the US without much of an idea of how the country works. That is why they usually join the Democratic Party. They don't have a clue either. It takes a while for them to learn the ropes. If they come faster than they can be assimilated, they swamp the native culture and the same ideas that hinder the country of their birth become dominant in this country. It wouldn't take too long before this country would become an economic backwater.

Professor Bainbridge says the tide is unstoppable so we just have to live with it. If we follow this spurious line of reasoning we could make the following conclusions:

1. Why bother to eat? We'll just get hungry again.
2. Bacteria always develop resistance. So why keep developing new antibiotics?
3. There will always murderers. So why bother to prosecute them?
4. There will always be bank robberies. So why bother to have guards?
5. ...and in general: There will always be problems. So why bother to solve them?
   

Professor Bainbridge's line of thinking has been so ingrained in the minds of many Americans, they could probably use some kind of intervention but we'll just have to stick with persuasion. In the meantime, would somebody please get Professor Bainbridge and others of his ilk a key to the clue locker?