Moving is teh sux0r. Ok that’s about as 1337 as I am gonna get. I just wanted a smile on your face when I tell you how much it sucks to move with no help. The truck arrived today. I asked around work to find some help, been asking all week, but it’s to no avail. If we don”t get some help we may end up leaving major appliances behind because I will not be deterred from the path of return to the Lone Star State. I am way to ready to go.
I moved up my last today to be tomorrow. I will work as short a day as possible so that I can cram the trailer full of stuff and leave Friday. I will be back in Tejas before nightfall if the truck is loaded by around 1000 MST. Well maybe not nightfall but damn close. Right now I am taking a break. Michelle and I just loaded the washing machine. Yes me and my wife loaded a washing machine. It wasn’t easy. We have to get the dryer next. I do not know if I want to attempt the fridge but I may have to try that alone as well. The table is the other heavy thing. We can handle the bookcases easily. Hell I can handle those by myself. The boxes of books are gonna suck but are doable.
Anyway that’s all I got right now. I have all sorts of thoughts on the days news but it can wait. A pox on anyone who thinks their problems are worse than mine right now.
IRVINE, California (Reuters) - 04.24.2006
President George W. Bush said on Monday he doubted a “massive deportation” of foreigners living illegally in the United States would solve the country’s immigration woes, as he tried to revive prospects for an election-year agreement in the divided U.S. Congress.
Of course it won’t work. Under the current system they would all just come right back! This is nothing but posturing at this point Mr. President. You do not want to do anything about the problem. Congress doesn’t want to do anything about the problem. Deporting all the people that are here illegally won’t work if you are not willing to do anything to curb the flow across the border.
“I know this is an emotional debate,” Bush said. “But one thing we cannot lose sight of is that we’re talking about human beings, decent human beings that need to be treated with respect. Massive deportation of the people here is unrealistic. It’s just not going to work.”
Cut the crap! We are talking about criminals here. These are not decent people. They maybe decent people except for that nagging little fact that they are breaking the law and doing so on a daily basis. They have no respect for us or our laws. This goes for anyone here illegally and not just the Mexicans. These people knowingly came here and broke our laws in doing so. Why the hell are we treating them with kid gloves? Why are we trying to keep their feelings intact? They are criminals and should be treated as such.
I cannot even go on commenting on the article. It’s filled with so much liberal crap that I am just too angry to keep quoting it. This is not an issue of immigrant rights. People who are immigrants, legally, have every right that I have. People who are here against the law have no rights save being transported to the border and kicked out. I do not care how long they have been here. How many babies they had here. How old they are. They are criminals and should be expelled from our country. Make it a three strike system for all I care. Take their DNA and send them home on a bus the first time. The second time lock them up for 5 years. The third time lock them up for life without parole. These people are lawbreakers. They are not citizens. They are not afforded the same protections as citizens. They do not get to vote. The have no right to peaceably assemble. They do not have freedom of speech. They are criminals. I am disgusted that our President has chosen to take the liberal view on this and pull out the “they are people” card. Of course they are people Mr. Bush and no-one is arguing they are not. We are arguing that they are criminals and should be treated as such.
I swear to fulfill, to the best of my ability and judgment, this covenant:
I will respect the hard-won scientific gains of those physicians in whose steps I walk, and gladly share such knowledge as is mine with those who are to follow.
I will apply, for the benefit of the sick, all measures [that] are required, avoiding those twin traps of overtreatment and therapeutic nihilism.
I will remember that there is art to medicine as well as science, and that warmth, sympathy, and understanding may outweigh the surgeon’s knife or the chemist’s drug.
I will not be ashamed to say “I know not,” nor will I fail to call in my colleagues when the skills of another are needed for a patient’s recovery.
I will respect the privacy of my patients, for their problems are not disclosed to me that the world may know. Most especially must I tread with care in matters of life and death. If it is given me to save a life, all thanks. But it may also be within my power to take a life; this awesome responsibility must be faced with great humbleness and awareness of my own frailty. Above all, I must not play at God.
I will remember that I do not treat a fever chart, a cancerous growth, but a sick human being, whose illness may affect the person’s family and economic stability. My responsibility includes these related problems, if I am to care adequately for the sick.
I will prevent disease whenever I can, for prevention is preferable to cure.
I will remember that I remain a member of society, with special obligations to all my fellow human beings, those sound of mind and body as well as the infirm.
If I do not violate this oath, may I enjoy life and art, respected while I live and remembered with affection thereafter. May I always act so as to preserve the finest traditions of my calling and may I long experience the joy of healing those who seek my help.
These are the words that doctors utter upon becoming doctors. These are the very words uttered by the doctors that sit on the board of St. Lukes Episcopal (Bible optional) Hospital. These are the words uttered by the men and women who have given Andrea Clarke a death sentence. This is not another Terri Schiavo. This case does not even resemble that one. Andrea Clark was awake and able to make her own decisions prior to the hospital deciding to up her pain medication.
There is a woman who will be put to death at the hands of men and women who are sworn to do no harm. She will die on Sunday if nothing is done. The laws of the great state of Texas are against her (I am ashamed of my state for this) and the other hospitals in Houston are not willing to help (I am doubly ashamed of my hometown). I have no words to express the sheer dread brings unto me. The horror I feel for this woman and her family. Prayer is called for. I ask all of my readers, by they few, to hit their knees right now and lift up this situation, this family, and this woman to the Lord.
Here is some of the story and links:
The hospital ethics committee met the day before yesterday and concluded that Andrea’s treatment (respirator and dialysis) should be discontinued. We have ten days to move her from that hospital or they will “pull the plug” and let Andrea die. Andrea, until a few days ago, when the physicians decided to increase her pain medication and anesthetize her into unconsciousness, was fully able to make her own medical decisions and had decided that she wanted life saving treatment until she dies naturally. We have learned that this is part of the process, when hospitals decided to declare the “medical futility” of continueing treatment for a patient. But, this is not a Terry Schiavo case; not anything like it. Andrea, when she is not medicated into unconsciousness (and even when she is, and the medication has worn off to some degree) is aware and cognizant. She has suffered no brain damage to the parts of her brain responsible for thought and reason, or speech. She has only suffered loss of some motor control. The reason that the physician gave to medicate her so much is that she is suffering from intractable pain in the sacral region (in other words, she has a bedsore that causes her pain). This is not reason enough, in our books, and we are trying, as we speak, to get Andrea’s medication lowered so that she can speak to us.
Go read the whole article.
Hat tip to the Rott for the link.
My wife has also commented.
Ben and Jerry’s, as a company, is a real work of liberal moonbattedness. I will never give a dime to them. Heck I am not even giving them a link here even though I am talking about them. They are bleeding-heart-hardcore-idiotarians. You know the sort of folks who usually get it good and hard around here. But for once I find myself thinking they are being put upon. Let’s look at the evidence:
Ice cream makers Ben & Jerry’s have apologized for causing offence by calling a new flavor “Black & Tan” — the nickname of a notoriously violent British militia that operated during Ireland’s war of independence.
The ice cream, available only in the United States, is based on an ale and stout drink of the same name.
“Any reference on our part to the British Army unit was absolutely unintentional and no ill-will was ever intended,” said a Ben & Jerry’s spokesman.
So let me get this straight. An ice cream flavor that is only available in the United States has offended someone in Ireland? That’s completely and utterly ludicrous. Last year, and I could dig for the link but it’s Saturday and I am lazy, there was an uproar about a British newpaper using the term “fag” to refer to a cigarette. I say uproar but the actual noise was mostly shouting down the American faggot who took offense to a commonly used term from British vernacular. This is much the same. Ben and Jerry’s, in usually bend-over-and-spream-’em liberal fashion is apologizing. I say I am defending them but that’s sort of misleading. I am asserting they didn’t do anything wrong until the shoved their heads up their butts and apologized.
You can walk into any “Irish” bar in just about any city, even those owned by grizzled old men with broad black brimmers in a closet somewhere, and order a black and tan and not have any problems. The flavor is only available in the US. So it’s really not an issue is it? Well according to the capitulators at Ben and Jerry’s it is:
“Ben & Jerry’s was built on the philosophies of peace and love,” he added.
So I guess we can scream about Ben and Jerry’s donations to causes we dislike and get them to stop donating? I doubt it! A few complaints from some whiners that are not even in the market has Ben and Jerry’s rushing to apologize. Of course if this was a US conservative group they wouldn’t be doing anything. They have offended the EUnuchs and they have to keep them happy since we should be emulating them. This whole apology is a farce! Ben and Jerry’s did nothing wrong and yet here we are watching them apologize.
Oh look I didn’t end up defending them after all! I thought I might be able to defend them by saying they hadn’t done anything wrong but they had already run off to find some Eunuch crack to lick. Oh well. Ben and Jerry’s is still a bunch of wimps and likely always will be. I bet they got their lunch money stolen a whole lot…
Today marks one week from us leaving the desert. This time next week we will be traveling through Benson, AZ if we are anywhere close to on schedule and that will mark being halfway to the Texas border. Of course El Paso will only be exciting because we will be back in Texas. I really don’t like the town all that much.
Today is not much of a day off. I have already worked two hours of this lovely Saturday. You see there is a ton of stuff to do before we get out of here. We are over halfway packed so packing is not the big thing. I have things to accomplish for work. They are keeping me on under a 1099 but there are just things that are easier to do when you can get face time with the people you need to have do those things.
Hopefully I am done with work for the day. I have purposefully stayed away from anything press related this morning because I don’t want to get my ire up until after 1200 at least. I have other things to do today. Promises to keep to the Potter Horde. I am getting ready to do a puzzle with my son and I am certain that will be more fun than commenting on the sad state of politics.
So tune back in monday for your regularly scheduled program. But for now enjoy some Trout Fishing In America: (The tall guy [Ezra] played this song at my grandmother’s funeral. It was beautiful)
I have to give props for the reminder to Misha from the Rott
170 years ago today we showed the Mexicans what we can do when you piss off a bunch of Texans. I would strongly suggest that La Raza and any of the other moonbat Mexican groups that believe they will ever see Texas as part of Mexico take a close look at the Battle of San Jacinto Here’s a little taste…
Silently and tensely the Texas battle line swept across the prairie and swale that was No Man’s land, the men bending low. A soldier’s fife piped up with “Will You Come to the Bower,”‘ a popular tune of the day. That was the only music of the battle. [Several veterans of the battle said the tune played was “Yankee Doodle.”] As the, troops advanced, “Deaf” Smith galloped up and told Houston, “Vince’s bridge has been cut down.” The General announced it to the men. Now both armies were cut off from retreat in all directions but one, by a roughly circular moat formed by Vince’s and Buffalo Bayous to the west and north, San Jacinto River to the north and cast, and by the marshes and the bay to the east and southeast.
At close range, the two little cannon, drawn by rawhide thongs, were wheeled into position and belched their charges of iron slugs into the enemy barricade. Then the whole line, led by Sherman’s men, sprang forward on the run, yelling, “Remember the Alamo!” “Remember Goliad!” All together they opened fire, blazing away practically point-blank at the surprised and panic-stricken Mexicans. They stormed over the breastworks, seized the enemy’s artillery, and joined in hand-to-hand combat, emptying their pistols, swinging their guns as clubs, slashing right and left with their knives. Mexicans fell by the scores under the impact of the savage assault.
The Mexican army managed to kill or mortally wound 9 of the Texas freedom fighters. Our heroes slaughtered 630 of them making the death toll better than 63:1. Texans may have gotten a bit lazy these days but a good lot of us have he same hearts beating in our chests that these men had on that day. We lost at the Alamo and we lost at Goliad and we got fed up and killed every one of the bastards that we could. Take note Reconquistas and study history. Your cause is doomed from the start and if you push the rivers will once again run with the blood of Mexicans. All you have to is stay on your side and we’ll stay on ours. You lost. All you have to do be part of the prosperity that is the US is file the right papers. We currently don’t even require you to learn English. We certainly do not ask for too much. But if you keep coming in the dead of night. If you keep burning our flag. We will eventually get fed up. And I promise you on the grave of my grandmother that you do not want to see that.
Minor Threat - Guilty Of Being White
Let me open with some quotes:
They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety. - Benjamin Franklin, Historical Review of Pennsylvania, 1759
The trouble with fighting for human freedom is that one spends most of one’s time defending scoundrels. For it is against scoundrels that oppressive laws are first aimed, and oppression must be stopped at the beginning if it is to be stopped at all. - H. L. Mencken (1880 - 1956)
These two quotes are extremely important. They place into words, much better than I can, very important precepts and noble ideas. Now lets take a look at the First Amendment (emphasis mine)
Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the government for a redress of grievances.
Let us now proceed to the moonbat drivel, mind you keep those three quotes in mind as we will touch on them later in the commentary.
Intolerant Speech Threatens Minority Free Expression
By Ian S. Port
Senior Staff WriterPretend that you are among the 1 percent of black students at UCSD. As you walk to class one Thursday, a white girl casually hands you a newspaper displaying, on its front page, a sloppy caricature of two thick-lipped black girls eating watermelon in slave garb while masturbating each other. Next to them, a black man in gangsta gear holds two pistols to the head of a man who appears to be standing behind a cash register. Above the picture runs a headline reading: “Cocked: A lifestyle rag for nappy Niggas and Hos to spend welfare money on.” Ridiculing your race as being overly fond of fried chicken and handgun violence, this imaginary publication argues that blacks should “be sent back to Africa where they can kill each other and save our tax dollars.”
Or we could look at the lyrics of rap music where they call for the death of police officers, whites, and anyone who opposes their chosen lifestyle. But lets humor the author for a moment and consider the hyperbole. Of course we would be offended. But wait I do not have to be black to be offended. Many things about the described magazine offend me.
The whole premise is flawed. In fact it presupposes that one would have to be black to understand the depths of the offense that this supposed ‘zine would invoke. The writer is using hyperbole and admits it later in the article. But by opening with playing the race card there is little worth to whole of the situation. It matters not what color my skin happens to be the publication in question offends me to the core. And I do not have to pretend to know what it feels like to be a minority on a school campus. I was a white boy in a mostly black high school as are many kids today. The writer automatically supposes that we must be a minority in order to understand discrimination and racism. This colors the whole article and brings doubt to any wisdom contained therein. To be sure there isn’t much if any wisdom but let us proceed further.
Those who oppose banning intolerant statements within the university decry limiting free speech just because it hurts people’s feelings. The First Amendment, they argue, cannot be limited for making others feel bad.
While the backstory is obviously that some are trying to limit the free speech of others it is also apparent that this writer is in favor of doing so. Let’s think about Ben Franklin for a moment. Consider the strong words he used to describe those willing to sacrifice liberty for safety. Now think of what his reaction might be to those willing to limit the liberty of other, not just their own liberty for something as temporal as the feelings of others. I think Ben would be spinning in his grave and shrieking could he hear this liberal nonesense. This is an abomination. This writer is using the very same amendment to publish his thoughts as he wishes to limit. Now before you start trotting out that USCD isn’t congress it would serve you well to know that they accept federal money and therefore are bound in the same manner as the federal government. So don’t bother to trot out that tired old line.
Of course there’s more…
(Read the article)
TUCSON, Ariz. (AP) — If the government doesn’t build security fencing along the Mexico border, Minuteman border watch leader Chris Simcox says he and his supporters will.
You know if Bush and the current bunch of useless morons in Washington would listen to their people we wouldn’t have to be doing this at all. If I weren’t all but broke moving back to Texas the Minutemen would be getting a check from me to cover some of the cost. These guys have the sack to do what our elected leaders won’t do. They are not afraid to confront the situation head on and speak plainly about it and not play nice with words that have no meaning. There are no un-documented workers to the Minutemen there are simply lawbreakers who the federal government simply ignores.
Simcox, whose civilian watch group opposes illegal immigration, said Wednesday he was sending an ultimatum to President Bush to deploy military reserves to the Arizona border by May 25 or his supporters will break ground for their own building project.
I hope this our RINOs attention. May 25th is not that far away and Bush had better listen. He is apprently concerned more about replacing his people that actually doing things that will help public opinion. Are the idiots in Washington so far removed from the people that they can’t see that a single issue like this could turn public opinion? Even liberal numbers show that a majority of people want this fence while the conservative polls show that it’s a vast majority. This is simple politics. If you keep screwing around and not doing anything about the border you are signing the GOPs death warrant in the next election. But our RINO is so concerned that maybe it’s the people around him that he can’t see the real issues.
“We’re going to show the federal government how easy it is to build these security fences, how inexpensively they can be built when built by private people and free enterprise,” Simcox said.
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Simcox said a half-dozen landowners along the Arizona-Mexico border have said they will allow fencing to be placed on their borderlands, and others in California, Texas and New Mexico have agreed to do so as well.
Surveyors and contractors have offered to help with the design and survey work, and Simcox said some have said they will provide heavy equipment for his Minuteman Civil Defense Corps. to build fencing.
Take a good look. Private citizens are donating land, equipment, the design work, and more. These are the people that the GOP seems intent on alienating. The odd thing these are the people that are obviously willing to do something about a problem. Consider that long and hard when you think about elections. This is a hot button issue. The problem is the people that are the most pissed off cannot even vote because they are not citizens. Even the Hispanic community is split over the issue as evidenced by past citations here on this site and others.
It gets better. While Bush is busy cozying up to President Fox Mexico won’t even do anything about human smugglers:
‘Coyotes’ Openly Trolling for Clients
Apr 20 1:57 PM US/EasternSidling up to migrants who arrive at the Tijuana airport and cruising the streets in border towns, “coyotes” in gold chains and dark sunglasses openly find customers for nightly scrambles across the U.S. border.
Mexico’s president offered to crack down on smuggling at a recent summit with President Bush. But close to 100 smuggling gangs are still operating, government officials say, in plain sight of Mexican law enforcement.
So the Mexican president is offering to actually enforce their laws, only offering mind you, and we here in the US have to debate who can enforce the laws and if they should be enforced at all. I wonder why it is so hard to convince Mexcio to do what their laws say they should do?
Smuggling people into the United States from around the world has become a $10 billion-a-year industry, according to U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials. Global crime networks use Mexican smugglers to sneak in Cubans, Brazilians, Iraqis, Africans and Chinese, according to Interpol, the international police network.
With a good chunk of that 10 billion going into the Mexican economy it’s hard to imagine they would want to stop it. We know that Mexico’s police force is by and large corrput to begin with. The empty promise of actual law enforcement is ludicrous at best and an insult at the worst. The Mexican police forces don’t want to get off the criminal teet and they certainly are not loyal to the law as our officers here are supposed to be.
President Vicente Fox’s administration has been caught between promoting itself as the migrants’ protector and bowing to U.S. pressure to crack down on gangs sneaking migrants across the border.
What a load of horse shit! The Mexican government is not caught between being a protector of “migrants”. These people are not migrants they are lawbreakers who care nothing about the laws they are breaking. Leaving Mexico in the manner in which they are leaving is not legal nor does it become legal when they cross the border. They break the laws of two countries and Fox wants to protect them? These assholes (Bush included) need to get their heads out of the sand and realize we have laws for a reason. They need to enforce them!
Although smugglers have been blamed for abandoning some migrants to their deaths in the desert heat, the Mexican government has been hesitant to move against them, knowing the death toll would climb if people crossed on their own, Clark said.
“Migrant traffickers have become a necessary evil,” he said.
You have got to be kidding me! I hate to sound harsh here but these people are breaking the law! If they die while doing so it’s their own damn fault. You don’t break the law and expect protection from your very own personal idiocy. So what if they die while crossing. It’s tragic on one level to be sure but on another level it is a decision they made all on their own. We did not force them to cross the border. We did not ask them to come here. They risked their lives of their own free will and if they suffer the consequences the blame lies solely on their own dehydrated heads. What’s next? Government issued bullet proof vests for bank robbers? There is absolutely no logical difference in the two. To say that there is illogical and self-deceiving.
The article goes on to whinge about Mexico’s trouble with kidnappings, drugs, and so on. The writer blames these things on human smuggling being a low priority. Meanwhile it points out that Fox will not allow the Mexican government to stop people from heading to the border. It’s all a smokescreen in reality. The harsh truth is that Mexcio wants people to come here because it helps their economy.
Time to listen to the Minutemen. Listen close President Bush and listen well. If you do not build it we will. You will be in the position of using the National Guard to stop the citizens of your country from protecting themselves and the blood that flows from that will be on your hands. Get your head out of your ass and build the damn wall. Stop being a pussy.
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