May 1: A good day for shopping

Planning a big ticket purchase? Make it tomorrow (May 1). This is the day our uninvited guests have selected to show us how bad it will be if they drop out of sight. They intend to not purchase anything or go to school or work. Should be a little easier to park, or get into the emergency room. Hospitals may lose less money tomorrow. Maybe if you get into an accident, the chances will be better that the person who hits you will have insurance. Except that the illegals will be driving anyway, to go to their protests.
If this sounds bigoted, sorry. I am done with illegal immigrants telling me how they have a right to break into my home and steal. No se puede! GO HOME!

How many words does it take?

Congressman Tom Tancredo of Colorado has a blog. This is shamelessly stolen from it;

Pythagorean theorem: 24 words

The Lord's Prayer: 66 words

Archimedes' Principle: 67 words

The 10 Commandments: 179 words

The Gettysburg Address: 286 words

The Declaration of Independence: 1,300 words

U.S. Government regulations on the sale of cabbage: 26911 words

24 post: Predictions, anyone?

I say Martha is dead. Or put away somewhere, firmly.

Palmer's brother may be a goner, too.

And the secret service guy, he is... not dead, but hurt bad. Or dead. Yeah, he's probably dead.



Standard 24 links:

Blogs for Bauer - Usually live blogging the episode every Monday.

Dave Berry - Usually a 24 thread here.

Light posting

Posting has been a little scarce - we are in the process of installing a sprinkler system and laying down sod. This is a good job for illegal immagrants to do, 'cause I damn sure don't want to. But I am too cheap to pay someone else to do it.

Listen to those who know

I noticed on the anti-adopters' blogs they are mostly pro-choice. They also uniformly feel guilty for giving up children into adoption. The kicker for me is, some of them have also had abortions, and don't really seem to feel anything about that.

The Washington Times has an article about the fact that women who have had abortions tend to back abortion bans. By something like 99 to 1.

I know there is a suicide connection to abortion, and there seems to be a breast cancer link, too. Other business in American with consequences like abortion has is knee deep in regulations and warnings and disclaimers, but abortion has a bye on that.

Wizbang has more on the storyhere.

24 Thread

My mom just sent me a 24 mousepad, and a checkbook cover. And a dry-erase board. She kept the keychain, though.

I feel like a ten year old.

No live blog tonight, but feel free to post your ideas on tonights episode.

Taxes...

...suck. This year I had to farm out the processing of our tax return. I could have done it, but it is a more complicated return than I am used to, and I want someone to go to the audit with me.

You'd think that the genuises that write this crap could understand it. But no, they hire people to do their taxes, too. See here.

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I can't even remember what happened last week...

Oh yeah, the Prez... He can't be dirty and gutless. I think that whole thread is a distraction, just like Audrey.

Here's an idea. There is a protest going on here, over immigration. If they can get enough folks together for that, I think we could get enough people together to march and demand Kim's death.

Jack Bauer links again;

Blogs for Bauer - Usually live blogging the episode every Monday.

Dave Berry - Usually a 24 thread here.

I think I will try to live blog it...


Here we go...

11:00PM Martial law...

11:04PM Logan IS dirty!!

11:06PM Dr. Jack Bauer... Paging Dr. Bauer...

11:08PM Wow, Logan really is dirty...

11:10PM Wow, Logan really is an SOB...

11:12PM Wow, Cruella is clever... Bet it doesn't work.

11:20PM So we'll see Audrey's dad next week.

11:22PM Crap, the tracer worked...

11:23PM Oh, she found it. Told you!

11:23PM Bet there's two tracers.

11:32PM Crap, phone call, what did I miss?

11:37PM Bet the banker dies.

11:38PM Robocop, you suck.

11:41PM Martha will castrate him now... Again.

11:45PM Martha knows he's lying...

11:47PM Anita Hill is gonna bust it wide open...

11:48PM Yeah, right, they are trying to kill Jack. Sure, Wilbur.

11:50PM The banker just figured out Logan sucks.

11:55PM Yea, Chloe, try to look guilty.

11:56PM Chloe fuzzin the sats... Cool.

11:57PM She's so smooth.

11:58PM Why doesn't Jack call someone with the audio on the tape?

11:58PM Banker dead. Told you. (OK, easy prediction.)

12:00 Whew.

Hybrids clogging HOV lanes

California recently decided to allow hybrid drivers to use the HOV lanes. It isn't going well, because they drive slower.

Carpoolers accuse them of driving too slowly in order to maximize their fuel efficiency, and of clogging diamond lanes that were once clear.

Typical. Thinking only of themselves and their fuel efficency, and slowing the rest of us down.

"There's a mentality out there that we're a bunch of liberal hippies...

You are.

"...or we're trying to make some statement on the environment..."

You're not?

said Travis Ruff, a real estate agent from Newbury Park who drives a Toyota Prius. "People are a lot less friendly than when I drove a Mercedes."

That is because a Mercedes is not a hippie car.


Read it all here.

Guilt and choices

Reading a lot of the anti-adoption blogs, I noticed a common thread that I finally realized explains the passion of these people.

Guilt.

Guilt is probably the most useless emotion there is. Why in the hell would they feel guilty? I have always heard the hard thing to do is usually the right thing. In most cases, I think if you are thinking of giving a kid up, you probably need to, because you are probably thinking about giving it up because you don't think you can raise the kid successfully. If you think that you probably can't.

Some of the blogs don't specifically mention feeling guilty. Most do. This saddens me, because they are being unfair to themselves. I don't see any reason whatsoever to feel guilt for giving up a child for adoption. I know it is natural to feel it, and I can't understand the depth of what they feel. Saying they shouldn't feel guilt is not going to assuage the feeling. But to give up a child should not be seen as something done selfishly, it is something done with a great amount of courage. I am not talking about the losers, the "Nuts and sluts" as one blog put it, women that give up a child due to substance abuse or mental health problems. But even those women have to be applauded for making a choice that, at least in the end, is unselfish. I have another family member that is adopted. My dad told me the family member's biological mother was a drunk. Not an alcoholic, just a worthless stinking drunk. I am sure she is dead now, given the math, and I am sure he is better off not ever knowing her. What she did may have been to her at the time simply convenience, but she did the right thing. It took courage at some level. No mother gives up a child, or aborts one, without feeling something, I hope.

I think some of them may feel this way because they were able to pull it together after being in a bad situation, and realized that they could have been a parent after all, and they want to prove it. Most of the bloggers have children, in fact, and seem to be very loving parents.

They want to destroy closed adoption because they can't stand the thought of having a kid they can't see. The curiousity must be unbearable, and I suspect that explains their passion. I would think that having a kid in front of you that needs you would temper the obscession over the adopted-out kid, but I am sure the mother urge is strong even when it isn't your kid anymore.

Iran is teeing themselves up

Little Green Footballs notes a story here about Iran making noise about closing the Straits of Hormuz. The whole story is here at Iranfocus.

This would seem to me to be a major whoopsie for the mullahs. If they tried this, about half of the world (the half that matters) would come down on them like never before. I kind of hope they try it, and just maybe we can clean out the whole stinking region.

What the hell is Anahuac?

I ran across one of the most offensive websites I have ever seen this morning.

I knew that the anti-immigration reform crowd was pretty well organized, but I had no idea how delusional they were.

These pictures are a warning. I don't see how you can look at this and not be a little worried about their plans for America.

Go here to see for yourself.

Immigration 'Reform' and Democrat games

Follow this: The dems are screaming that the repubs are trying to make it a felony to break into the U.S.

Well, the origonal bill made it a felony. The republicans tried to clear that provision from the bill. The democrats defeated that attempt.

Apparently, they want this to use as ammo when this debate gets closer to election time.

See this.

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Predictions, anyone?

BTW, I sure hope Jack isn't dead. [Snort]