Kindle The Flame

Fahrenheit 451 has reached the electronic age. A friend of mine recently purchased a Kindle book reader. Basically it's a wireless device that can be used to download entire books as well as periodicals like the Wall Street Journal and read them off of a computer screen. Much handier than carrying an armload of books to a restaurant or on a plane etc. These things are not cheap, although the books you can buy for them can be.

Right after she got it she proudly showed it off to me. Her very first book purchase? Ayn Rand's Atlas Shrugged for $1.99. I had to admit it was pretty cool.

Just the other day she called me pretty upset. Atlas Shrugged was no longer on her Kindle. Amazon had pulled it and refunded her money... Without notifying her in advance.

Their excuse? It was a faulty file and that book will no longer be available. I opened it up when I was examining her Kindle and it seemed to work just fine. Granted I didn't read the whole thing while sitting in a restaurant with her, but it seemed OK.

Atlas is a rather conservative book. A book whose sales jumped dramatically with the results of the last election. She called conspiracy theory, and she is very level headed and not wont to go off on black helicopter rants or anything. I thought it was strange, and a little disturbing that they could take it back with out telling her and agreed to write this post. Imagine you were to turn on your computer and some recently purchased and installed software was just gone, and the company who provided it refunded your money, without advance notification or explanation until you called them. Disturbing.

Well, this story has taken a left hand turn:

Fox News online this morning had a story. The headline? "Orwell's '1984' and 'Animal Farm' Deleted From Kindles" Click for the story.

That's right. Deleted, money refunded with no advanced warning.

Amazon's story? Pirated copies. The publisher's story? No returned call.

Both of these Orwellian tales are very spooky to me in these times of political and social turmoil. As a student of history, I know how dictatorships take over. Read Animal Farm for God's sake... While you can still find a hard copy. Can't do it on a Kindle.

"No one believes more firmly than Comrade Napoleon that all animals are equal. He would be only too happy to let you make your decisions for yourselves. But sometimes you might make the wrong decisions, comrades, and then where should we be?" - George Orwell, Animal Farm, Ch. 5

The New Communist Par-Tay

I'm fed up and tired. I'm convinced that the people representing the conservatives in this country are a bunch of spineless, weak-willed bootlickers. I'm damn glad I'm independent and not a Republican... Bunch of two-faced backstabbers.

God damnit, this country fought not one, but TWO rebellions to be a free capitalist country. Granted the second one failed in 1865, but we made a strong point.

After that we fought in two GLOBAL conflicts, the second one only 65 years ago and it specifically against the evils that a socialist government can inflict.

We have sent troops around the world fighting communism and protecting democracy... Two Asian countries come to mind almost immediately.

And yet...

And yet...

Then it came to me... The systematic destruction of the American psyche...

The dumbing down of the American educational system... We're all familiar with it, so I won't go into it here, but Base curriculum like basic math skills and grammar (I won't mention spelling because I am so notoriously bad at it) have gone to Hell while promoting good feelings has gone to the front of the class.

You want to know what will make you feel good? Having the skills to earn a damn living after you get out of school.

It seems now most schools spend most of the year preparing the students to take standardized tests, the TAKS test being notorious here in Tejas.

I have friends who are educators and I have nothing but the deepest respect for them (Mr and Mrs Doc), and yet I meet teachers and college professors here in Austin that I wouldn't trust to proof read my 100 word stories or add up my tab at the local bar. What the Hell happened?

Then you have the labor unions. Maybe, and I do mean maybe they had their place in the past to protect unskilled laborers, but now they are nothing but money sucking promoters of poor work ethic. More money for less work. What happened to the way it should be. More money for more work. Work hard. Learn a skill. Do a good job. Get paid more. That too capitalist for you? That's how I came up the ladder. Do more, get more. Period.

You know why these unions fight so hard for more for the workers? It's so they can raise the union dues and get more for themselves.

It's no shock to me, nor should it be to any rational human being why non union foreign owned car manufacturers can make better products for less... and avoid being bailed out... and going bankrupt.

Side note... How many of you out there know that the US Government owns stock (unconstitutionally, I might add) in over 500 companies? Hmmm?

The last thing I'll mention today is the destruction of the competitive spirit in this country. We were a nation of fighters. Now we have youth leagues and teams who don't keep score. Classes where everyone gets a gold star. everyone is equal. There are no winners and there are no... Nope. I won't finish that sentence... Because if we keep this up, everyone loses. Everyone.

A Democracy

...cannot exist as a permanent form of government. It can only exist until the voters discover that they can vote themselves largesse from the public treasury. From that moment on, the majority always votes for the candidates promising the most benefits from the public treasury with the result that a democracy always collapses over loose fiscal policy, always followed by a dictatorship. The average age of the world's greatest civilizations has been 200 years. These nations have progressed through this sequence: 'From bondage to spiritual faith; From spiritual faith to great courage; From courage to liberty; From liberty to abundance; From abundance to selfishness; From selfishness to apathy; From apathy to dependence; From dependence back into bondage.

-Alexander Fraser Tytler (1747–1813)

I make no great secret of my contempt for most of my fellow man. Sheeple I call them. I like individuals... I really don't like people very much.

In a Democracy, the people get the government they deserve

- Alexis de Tocqueville

Well congratulations, you are going to get what you deserve... And most likely more. What pisses me off, is that thanks to you, I'm going to get it too.

Bou, The picture will be up Friday.

Wagers Of Sin

It's on like Donkey Kong, Baby!
Bou of Boudicca's Vioce has this unfounded fear that the Obamanation is going to win the presidency. I say no way. Never. Gonna. Happen.

She made the poor choice as to go so far and say to her sister that if McCain won she'd post a picture of herself in a bathing suit and let it get out.

Well, Hell... I jumped all over that. Comments were posted and emails sent. Challenges thrown and offers to let the other back out given.

So, Dear Readers, rules were outlined, and a wager placed.

McCain wins the election, we will all get to click over and see the bou-dacious babe in a bathing suit and high heels ala 1940's pin-up.

On the other hand... And an ugly hand it be...

Obama wins. It'll be a sad day for America, made sadder by the fact that there will be a picture over here of yours truly wearing nothing but a pink speedo in my best Mr. Universe pose.

Good God, people, if the thought of my fuzzy carcass in pink grape smugglers isn't enough to make you get out a vote for McCain, we may be truly lost.

Politiks

I have been asked why I stopped writing any political commentary here. Easy answer: Why bother?

The America that I grew up believing in is not represented in government today. Oh, it still exists... For now... But has no representation.
As far as I can tell, every facet of American government from the school boards and city councils to congress and the president is full of lip serving, two dimensional sound byte artists.

I once called Abraham Lincoln the father of modern American politics... Promising everything to everyone with no intention of delivering anything to anyone. Now, I admit that is harsh, and somewhat overblown when it comes to Father Abraham. Not so when it comes to the political offspring of such policy.

Obama, McCain... Each one is saying what they think wants to be heard by whomever is listening at any given time. Unfortunately most of the people still listening are the ones who think they are owed something, or have an agenda.

McCain blathering on about not drilling in anwar to appease the global warming nutjobs, while saying we need to lower gas prices.

Obama's message is all about change. That man can take more time to say nothing and make people eat it up better than any used car salesman I've ever seen, and I've known some good used car salesmen. "Blah, blah, blah change, blah, blah believe!"

Spin, spin, spin. Much sound and fury signifying nothing.

How can one expect to be a leader of men by bowing to the much changing whim of an uneducated and mostly appathetic populace?

Bah. I wash my hands of the lot of them. Come November we'll see if I still hate McCain less than I love my country. We'll see.

Highway Robbery

Austin has decided to add toll roads to ease the congestion on the I-35 corridor from just north of Georgetown to south of Austin. Toll road 130 now runs from Georgetown to hwy 71... Just north of downtown where all the congestion actually is. Well the good news for me (or so I thought) is that I live just west of where the toll road stops, so maybe I could save time and headaches.

My commute is about 30 miles all total. I'm driving against traffic both ways, so with a 65mph speed limit on the interstate it takes me 25-35 minutes on a normal day. Add 15-20 minutes going home around the Christmas season due to all the shopping centers I pass. I keep hearing on the news how few cars use the toll road, that and a lack of shopping would seem to make it ideal for me. The blue route on the map is I-35, the red Route is the 130 toll road.

A week or so ago I hopped on the toll road for a test run. There were three cars going the same way as I, and I passed about three cars a mile going the other way. No traffic at all. This was great.

First toll booth... $1.50. OK, three dollars a day to save time on a big empty six lane highway, no big deal. I handed the girl my quarters and off I went.

Second toll booth... $1.50. Now it's three bucks each way. That's a little more than I wanted to pay, but, oh well... no traffic at all around me because the other cars had a TXTag (a prepaid account that allows you to keep driving instead of stopping at the booth).

Third toll booth... $1.50. Now I'm scrambling in my cup holders and on the dash to find enough change. Not only that but I'm up to $4.50 each way. That's $9 round trip. That's almost double what I spend on lunch.

I work six days a week. That comes to $54... About the same amout that I spend on gas in the same time period.

Over $200 a month. That's more than my light bill... And I have an old, non energy effecient house.

Totaled up that is a whopping $2800 a year. I could buy a huge Plasma screen TV. I could fly home to North Carolina to see Ma every other month. I could go to Europe on vacation.

Not to mention that because I had to stop at each booth it added ten minutes to the drive, and it dumps me out on regular roads several miles further from my house than 35 does so add another ten minutes. Now it's nine bucks a day, and as much as twenty minutes longer each way on a normal day.

What about the TXTag? that'll save time and money. You get a 10% discount if you use TXTag. So instead of $2800 a year it's only $2500 a year and it'll only take 10 extra minutes. Whoopie.

I'll take the traffic. If I ever figure out this ipod thing, I'll just carry some cool tunege. Hell if I don't use the toll road I can buy the best ipod out there in under two months.

Dependance Day

I don't often do it, but on days like today I wonder how the men who gave up so much to free our nation would view Americans of today. What would Thomas Jefferson think of Bill Clinton or George Bush. What would John Hancock's view of Rosie O'Donell be. How would Thomas Paine see Jesse Jackson.

The founding fathers of these United States risked everything, including their lives and the lives of their families to be independent of the constraints of an oppressive government. Their ideals were for a nation of people to have the government of themselves. That's why we say that elected officials represent their cities, counties, states, and this country... They are to be leaders, not rulers.

The war with Britain didn't end on July 4, 1776, it began. Declairing independance was the first step, not the last. It was a dangerous, and some thought foolhardy, thing to do.

The fighting was brutal, and viscious. The rules of engagement were few and far between. It was win or die... Period.

Some thought it was a bad idea. There were loyalists aplenty... Working, Spying and fighting for the British.

Some of our own changed sides in the middle. Benedict Arnold is considered a traitor not because he sided with the British, but because he was an American hero who on more than one occaision handed the Brits defeat, then he lost faith and sold out. He could have been one of our first presidents, maybe the first president had he believed and fought for that belief.

The founding fathers didn't fight for socialized medical care. They didn't fight for welfare or social security. They didn't fight to encumber America with big government that costs so much to run it would bankrupt itself if it didn't take away from its citizens the very things it puports to provide them.

Thomas Jefferson said "Any government large enough to provide everything you need, is large enough to take away everything you have." Remember that the next time they raise your taxes to give you something "free". Remember that the next time they tell you that you don't need a gun, the police are there to protect you. Remember that the next time your elected officials call you stupid, or racist or uninformed when they try to pass laws that you know aren't right or fair.

Remember why those men of yore came here in the first place, why they fought and died to free us, and why so many since then have fought and died to keep us free. Remember... Remember.

Have a safe and happy 4th.

Pile Of Duke-y

Nifong has been disbarred. Not saying he didn't deserve it, but his life as a lawyer and a prosecuter is over... At least for now... Not to mention the accused lacrosse players are going after him. Nifong will be lucky not to see jail time and/or be wiped out financially.

Speaking of the three young lacrosse players, their families are hundreds of thousands of dollars if not millions of dollars deep in legal debt from fighting an unjust accusation. Their reputations will always be marred due to false claims... Innocent or not, that stigma will always be attatched to them.

The Duke lacrosse team lost a season. A winning season. Every player on that team got punished by losing time out of their lives doing what they were good at.

The coach, Mike Pressler had to resign. He is now coaching at another college up north, but it's not Duke with the prestige that holds for some.

The university lost face, as well as an undisclosed settlement to the accused players.

What about the accuser? The girl who started all this. The stripper who made up a story in order to get out of a public intoxication ticket and possibly a DUI. The girl who falsely cried rape after having consensual sex with at least three other men within a 24 hour period. The person with the record which included theft, larceny, drug charges, attempted assault charges and so on. The girl who hurt Duke University in general, cost a team a season, cost a coach his job, cost three men their reputations and tons of money, and destroyed the career and life of a district attorney. What about Crystal Magnum?

Nothing. That's right. Nothing. No charge for filing a false police report. Not even a reinstatement of the PI or DUI. Nothing. The only one to walk away from this no worse for wear... The one who started it all.

Now, tell me how you feel about justice.

Politically Homeless

I am registered as an independant/unaffiliated voter. I am neither Democrat nor Republican. I suppose I've been a conservative most of my life. I went through stages where I didn't agree with certain policies, but from a very early age I identified with the rebublican agenda more than the democratic one. I loathe welfare. I always think of wild animals raised in captivity when I think of welfare. Once you have an animal used to being fed every day, it's hard to make it hunt.

I despise political correctness. Does anyone really believe that making it bad to say a word or use an epithet will make people stop thinking them? Racism, sexism, discrimination. These things are big business. If racism disappeared overnight what would all the people who work for anti-racism orginizations do? Go work at Walmart? Of course not. So they have to make things seem bad in order to keep the money rolling in. Ask Don Imus. I think Imus is a schmuck, but holy crap. Hank Hill on the cartoon King of the Hill said it best, "What the Hell kind of country is this where you can only hate a man if he's white?"

When did it get to the point that if you are against illegal immigration you hate all immigrants? How is it that anyone could think it's a good idea to offer amnesty to illegals breaking the law and at the same time raise the fees and costs for all the immigrants trying to do it the right and legal way.

Which brings me to my point. The Republican party has almost ceased to exist. Yeah, I'm independant, but we don't have a party, or any good candidates. The George Bush in office is not the one I voted for. The RINO's in congress and the senate make me cringe. (Looking at you, McCain et al)

The current administration failed to live up to what the people who put them in office wanted from them. As such in '06 a lot of voters stayed home and the democrats took over both houses. After that the republicans began to fold like towels on laundry day.

I feel abandoned. I feel abused. I feel as though my choices for the governing of the country I love and the place I call home are politicians who hate me because of what I believe and those that ignore me because they can. I fell I have nowhere to hang my vote.

Steal This

I see tons of yard signs around Austin that say "Support The Troops, Bring Them Home". Because of that I'm starting "Bloggers For Lasting Peace". I say support the troops by letting them finish the job. Give them the equipment, the numbers, the money, and the freedom from over scrutiny to win.

All you have to do to join is steal this logo (or make your own) put it on the sidebar of your blog and vote for government leadership that doesn't want to surrender and start learning the koran.

To bring the troops home without a victory is to re-enforce the enemy's notion that we can't win. If you don't support victory, you don't support the troops.

Sure, we want to go home. We want this war over with. The quickest way to get it over with is to go get the bastards who started it. The quicker they are whipped, the quicker we can go home. -Gen. George Patton

I'll Second That Amendment

As most of my regular readers know, I was victim to a burgulary last year. I have a sneaking suspicion that my house may be cased for future invasions from time to time. Nothing concrete mind you, just a moved flower pot here, a candy wrapper in the yard there. I have taken steps to prevent these things from happening, but I can't be around 24-7. I was happy to read this in the paper:

AUSTIN – Gov. Rick Perry signed into law Tuesday a bill that gives Texans a stronger legal right to defend themselves with deadly force in their homes, cars and workplaces.
Both chambers of the Legislature overwhelmingly approved the measure earlier this month. The bill, backed by the National Rifle Association, states that a person has no duty to retreat from an intruder before using deadly force.
“The right to defend oneself from an imminent act of harm should not only be clearly defined in Texas law, but it is intuitive to human nature. You ought to be able to protect yourself,” Perry said, surrounded by lawmakers who pushed for the law.
This is the first bill-signing this legislative session by the Republican governor. The law takes effect Sept. 1.

You may want to take your larceny elsewhere. I won't call the cops, I'll call the coroner...

Trifecta!

I saw it! Finally, I saw it. A year and a half ago I posted this about bumper stickers.

I'm a little disapointed that it was a Chevy Suburban instead of an old volvo, but there it was. A big ol' SUV sporting anti-republican propaganda covering the back doors from windows to trailer hitch... I saw "Hillery '08" plain as day, and so I started to read and search... There close to the bottom on the bumper (it must have been one of the first ones) "Gore 2000". That's when I knew I had it. Sure enough snuggled in between a "No blood for oil" and an "Impeach Bush" was "Kerry/Edwards 2004". Gotta say this about Austin liberals, they're tenacious.

My Iran Policy

PUSH THE BUTTON

The Last Boy Scout

Last week we said a final farewell to President Gerald Ford. I was just a little kid when he was president, so all I know about him and his presidency I had to learn after the fact. Everything I read has led me to believe he was a good guy sucked into the machine.
An accomplished athelete, after a couple of televised slips and falls he was typecast as a bumbling clutz. Chevy Chase made his career by portraying him as all thumbs and two left feet. (how many of you out there are glad there aren't cameras following you around?) Through it all he grinned and bore it.
His congressional record is one of a man of integrity, and the programs he tried to introduce as president (as well as the spending bills he vetoed) scream of good intentions. Even his pardoning of Nixon (however decried it was) was the act of a man trying to do the right thing.
He wasn't elected either to VP or to POTUS, but by most accounts he performed adequately and steadfastly. I think it's a shame that in today's partisan political scene a good man's passing will be marred by insults and slurs simply due to the party with which he was affiliated.

Goodbye Mr. President.

Reminder

There are people out there who want you dead. Not just individual people, but organized groups of people. Multitudes of people who don't even know you, want you dead. They hate you. They hate your family, your friends, your neighbors. They want you dead, and are willing to die to get that job done. Do I have your attention yet? Probably. Will I keep it? No chance.

Today is the anniversary of 9/11 2001. It will be on TV ad nausium. Already has been for a couple of days. Do you remeber how you felt when you first heard? You have let a lot of that go though, havn't you? How about when they bombed the USS Cole. That wasn't such a big deal though, was it. It wasn't NYC... It wasn't home. What about the marine barracks in Lebenon? Remember that? Oh, well... That was a long time ago.

These people want you dead beacuse you are a fat, lazy, decadent, self absorbed westerner. They also don't just think they'll win. They know they'll win. Why? Because they have patience. You have adult ADD.

They were afraid of us once. Back when we were One Nation, Under God, they trembled. What are we now. A bunch of back biting, self agrandising, quasi political, partisan cowards.

There are people out there who want you dead. They don't care who you voted for. They don't care if you are a democrat or a republican. How can you forget that? How can you be so careless of your own skin, and the lives of your friends and families that you have to be reminded? They don't even want to convert you like the Nazis did, or the Comunists did. They want you dead. They plan to out breed you, kill you, take your land and home and make the world their own. They want you dead. This is just a friendly reminder.

Happy Birthday America

Happy Birthday America. I remember the bicentennial, vaguely. I was only six, almost seven, a small town kid. we went to the grade school to see the fireworks. The first time I really remember seeing them. American pride was at a premium, something that's slipping away now.
Everywhere I go, everywhere I look, people are telling me that America needs to become part of the global community. One world. Think globally, act locally.
Read almost any regular publication and you'll quickly learn how much the rest of the world hates and fears us. We seem to be the bullies of the planet.
Yeah, OK. How dare we send you money and food and have our soldiers die to protect you. We are horrible people. We mercilessly allow other peoples to illegaly enter our country, and then provide schools and medical care for them. We ruthlessly send aid to nations in need and then force the natives of those lands to hate and curse us. We unrepentantly don't obliterate nations that threaten us with a few nuclear warheads, when we have more than enough missles and bombs to go around. On top of all that we blindly hold on to our sovrenty, the thing that makes us America.
And yet, as terrible as we are, thousands, nay tens of thousands of people want to come here to live. Why is that? Because we ARE America, the greatest, most powerful nation on earth. If we become like the rest of the world, where will the rest of the world go for help?

¿Excúseme?

Many of the 500,000 people who crammed downtown Los Angeles on Saturday to protest legislation that would make criminals out of illegal immigrants learned where, when and even how to demonstrate from the Spanish-language media.

Read that carefully.

OK, once more.

That does say "make criminals out of illegal immigrants". Right?

Imagine, trying to make criminals out of people doing something illegal.

Why don't we just have some nice INS officials checking ID's and green cards before they are allowed to protest... just sayin'.

Because if you want to be a citizen you should know the oath.

I hereby declare, on oath, that I absolutely and entirely renounce and abjure all allegiance and fidelity to any foreign prince, potentate, state, or sovereignty of whom or which I have heretofore been a subject or citizen; that I will support and defend the Constitution and laws of the United States of America against all enemies, foreign and domestic; that I will bear true faith and allegiance to the same; that I will bear arms on behalf of the United States when required by law; that I will perform noncombatant service in the Armed Forces of the United States when required by the law; that I will perform work of national importance under civilian direction when required by the law; and that I take this obligation freely without any mental reservation or purpose of evasion; so help me God. In acknowledgement whereof I have hereunto affixed my signature.
(emphasis mine)

Get A Clue

FREE! A few things you should know about the real world:

Making it harder to get legal guns does not deter criminals nor lower crime rates, it just creates more helpless victims.

More laws do not lower crime rates, they just make more things illegal.

Giving someone something extra because of the color of their skin or their heritage is just as racist as withholding something from them for the same reasons.

People are more likely to take your political views seriously if you bathe somewhat regularly, and change clothes every so often.

There are no "do-overs" in real life.

There is no such thing as "Fake but Accurate".

Yes, it would be nice if the whole world would live in harmony. No, it won't happen any time soon.

To the Islamofascist (Koranimal... Ha!) you are an infidel and you must die. No, it doesn't matter to them if you hate Bush, you are still an infidel, and you must die.

Pelosi, Dean, Kerry. No, I guess three lefts don't make a right.

There is no such thing as free health care. Somebody has to pay for it. That somebody is the people who work for a living. We don't want to. Besides, do you want the same people who came up with the DMV and the IRS responsible for your health?

Saddam Hussein's army has killed more Iraqis than George Bush's.

These are the left wing mantras: Bush is an idiot. He fooled the liberal politicians into going to war. Does that mean the liberal politicians were fooled by an idiot? Or are they liars? Which is worse?

Homelessness increases as fast or faster than the support we give the homeless. Maybe there is a correlation.

Hitler was a socialist. That's what Nazi stands for: National Socialist Party. Mussolini was a fascist. Bush is a Republican and a capitalist.

Hitler was a vegetarian.

Protesting soldiers that were injured fighting for your freedom to protest makes you look like an asshole.

No one is a bigger pain in the ass than someone who is trying to make you do something "for your own good". If you are this person, stop.

One country that did not have a big anti-war protest last week: Iraq.

Working at McDonald's is not beneath you if accepting welfare isn't.

Historically democracies have relatively short lives. Communist and socialist countries have even shorter ones.

Reality TV is an oxymoron.

Burning Bush

Being a conservative in a very liberal area I catch a lot of crap from friends and aquaintences. Well... not a LOT, I do have plenty of conservative friends. (Whoda thunk ten years ago that when refering to my friends "con" would mean conservative not convict?) ANY-how, one thing that I hear so much of (from friends, on the radio, in bars &tc) is how "All you conservatives blindly follow Bush and his administration, no matter what he says". One word... BULLSHIT! I have a lot of problems with the Bush administration. I am just so distracted defending it from all the made-up wonky MSM-Air America-Al "if I only had a brain" Franken-Cindy "it's all about meeeee" Sheehan-Hollywood is smarter than you garbage that I rarely have enough energy left to point out its real honest to God failings. And it has plenty.
First off I should say that I am more of a financial conservative than a social one. Gay marriage? Big deal. I'm pretty damn sure that homosexuals couldn't do any more harm to the "sanctity of marriage" than all those divorced heterosexuals did. Me included. That is more of a religious argument, and religion is not my department. That being said even with his tax cuts Bush's people spend money like a drunk at a strip joint. Get the Hell out of my wallet. Where the Hell is all the cheap oil that the lefties scream we went to war for? Why are we still pouring money into that Amway pyramid scam we call "social security"? How about a little personal security? What part of SMALL government do you people not understand? Screw hybrid and hydrogen cars. Drill for that oil in Alaska. I hear Mexico has oil.
Speaking of Mexico, isn't there supposed to be a border there? Why do we have hundreds of private citizens patroling Arizona's southern border? Because the government we elected DOESN'T. You call 'em vigelantes, I call 'em concerned citizens. You want them to stop? Put some troops down there, build a wall, dig a ditch- SOMETHING. Calling them "undocumented workers" doesn't change that they are "Illegal aliens"... Get that? ILLEGAL. Against the law. You remember law, right? I am not against imigration, it built this country. I oppose ILLEGAL imigration. Let them come, just make them do it the right way. Sneaking into this country to get the benefits that I pay for is stealing from me. Get that? Stealing. That's why it's illegal, damnit.
The war. You call that a war? I call that babysitting. Kick the media the Hell out of there, do what needs to be done to get rid of the bad guys, get their government rolling, get the hell out. We are getting our soldiers killed by all this peacekeeping BS. They are trained soldiers. Let them fight. Bush the elder didn't help anything by halting at the border with a stern warning the first time either.
Katrina? I blame the president. What? No, not Bush, Jefferson. If he hadn't bought that fetid swampland way back when, that could very well have been all France's problem.
Each and every one of those examples is a big picture of a lot of small problems. I follow no one blindly. That is why I am a conservative. I don't trust the media to tell me the whole truth, I don't think the high school dropouts in Hollywood should make policy, I don't go along with the crowd. I read. I research. I think. I pay attention to the world around me. That's why I think even with all his faults, he was a better choice than than the other guy. Both times.

Vocabulary

I learned a new word today. Koranimals. Now isn't that nicer than Raghead.
Maybe I can get me a fatwah. Woo-Hoo!