Last 24 post

Tonight will be a very sad night; the last 24 episode for, what, nine months? Better enjoy it. I suspect this one will be pretty good. Logan goes to jail, so he can be used next year. That's my only guess. Except that they manage to recover the recording. Hell, I don't know.

Mexico pulls the shark card

Mexico said today if the National Guard troops on the border rough up any of their expatriots, they will sue us.

"If there is a real wave of rights abuses, if we see the National Guard starting to directly participate in detaining people ... we would immediately start filing lawsuits through our consulates," Foreign Secretary Luis Ernesto Derbez told a Mexico City radio station. He did not offer further details.

"Mexican officials worry the crackdown will lead to more deaths..."

So keep 'em home.

Whole story here.

Sad part of this is, some scumbag lawyer, or rather some dozens of scumbag lawyers, will be willing to take the cases.

No more tears

My wife just emailed me, from New York City. She told me the most interesting thing she did today was visit "Ground Zero".

She said there wasn't much to see, just a big fenced off area. The gravity of what had happened there made her cry. The saddest part is that she looked around and she was the only one crying.

I hate it that we seem to have forgotten.

The Immigration Speech

I'll have to admit, as a conservative, I haven't been real happy with the Republicans lately, and I have not been happy with the president. I still support him, and the speech tonight went a long way on restoring my faith in his conservative credentials. If he follows through, and if the weasels on the left and right allow him to have what he wants, I think it will work.
Problem is, both sides in congress will be scared to death that they are going to alienate a voter somewhere, and they are worried that they might lose some contributions from the scumbag companies that are hiring these people. Companies like Tyson, and Cargill, and the motels, and whoever the hell else that cannot do business by paying decent wages.
It isn't about jobs Americans won't do, it's about companies that can't exist legally.

24 Post

Let's see, where are we...the recording is gone, surely Chloe made a copy? President Weasel didn't off himself... Bet we get a new arrest warrant for Jack.

Courage

There used to be some shame attached to getting knocked up before marriage. Single mothers were usually widows, or at least divorced.
Now it is just no big deal. I know probably five girls I went to school with that had kids while in school. Grandma and grandpa usually raised the kid. And the kids are uniformly screwed up. I know adults now, too, who I know were were raised by one parent, and they are pretty much a bunch of maladjusted mooching insecure loosers.
You people over at the anti-adoption sites keep whining about me calling single mothers less than perfect. Show me a normal kid from a single parent family and I will show you fifty more that are disasters. Kids need two parents, and there is no disputing it. It is just a fact. I am sure the kid would not be unloved, but he is handicapped.
So the whole 'Keep the kid no matter what' arguement is nothing but selfish. The only reason to not give up a kid in this situation is so you can prove 'I can do it' to whoever. Your shortcomings that led you to screw and get pregnant are probably related to a lack of self confidence, and keeping the kid represents an opportunity to prove yourself. It is nothing but an ego trip.
So you have a kid, and probably grandma gets to do some free babysitting while you wait tables. And try to go to school. And have a personal life. Sure.
I am fully aware that it is possible to successfully raise a kid by yourself. There are exceptions to the rule. I think they are rare miracles.
Giving up a child is not about survival. It is not about coercion, or shame. It is about courage. The right thing to do in a difficult situation is usually the hardest thing to do. If you gave up a child, you probably did the right thing. You knew you could not do it alone, and you trusted someone to do it for you, that could do it better. Stop the whining about being forced to give your child up. Stop crying all the time and trying to make the rest of us feel sorry for your choices. You could have changed your mind anywhere along the line. Stop stalking the parents and your ex-kids. You are not going to help anyone but yourself by popping in on someone else's family. Live your own life, and if your ex-kid wants to meet up when they are grown up, fine. The parents of your kid don't need you to pass judgement on them, either.
The winner is not the new parents, or the biological mother. The winner is the child, who is raised by someone who stood in line for years and paid thousands of dollars for the privelage of raising a human. Our responsibility to humanity is to raise more good humans, and it is a team effort.

24 post

OK, OK, I know there haven't been many new posts, but I will get some new ones up this week. And it won't all be about the anti-adoption wackos, either.

For now, tonight's 24 episode; will the plane be shot down? No. Someone will get the recording again from Jack, and this time it'll get destroyed. Chloe gets caught, too.

24: Doctor One-arm

Where did he come from? Last I heard, a helicopter fell on him.

So, what's it gonna be? Jack hijacks a diplomatic flight? That should go over well...