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Archive for November, 2005

I got some tips from a pro over the weekend and tried to put them to good use last night. First game was good. Second was bad. Third was excellent. Here’s a clip of a printout of the game. Notice frames 7 – 10.

Sorry, W, but anything short of prison or deportation for everyone who enters this country illegally is, by definition, an amnesty program. Just repeating that it isn’t an amnesty over and over does not make it so.

Any time liberals get caught red-handed, they start whining about how what they’ve done is being “taken out of context.” I think the context is pretty clear in this story about a liberal high school teacher who gave his students a vocabulary quiz taking jabs at the President.

Ugh…

I’m sure you’re all just dying to know what annoys me… Here’s my latest list of two things:

1. People who back into parking spaces
2. The awful words “gifting” and “efforting”
   (not to be confused with the sacred words, Ni!, Peng and Ni-Wom!)

The first I encountered again this morning. As I pulled into the parking lot for my company’s weekly meeting, I was behind a rather nice sedan. The guy zipped to the left, apparently heading for one of the 9,000 open spaces on that side. I prepared to slide in behind him — but wait! What are those?!? Backup lights, that’s what. I had to stop my car and wait for this yahoo to back into the bloody parking space. That’s very annoying. Had there not been any spaces on the left, then it would have been obvious what he was doing (i.e. being an annoying twit). But since there were the aforementioned 9,000 empty spaces on that side, it wasn’t obvious. And I don’t suffer idiots lightly or patiently…

The second (and, OK, third…) are these new “words” that are creeping into our language. The use of “gifting” has suddenly gotten heavy, though checking Google shows that it has been around for a while. It’s just a stupid word. I mean, is it really that hard to say giving? The other I’ve only heard once, and I’m not the only one annoyed by this ridiculous word used by some talking head on CNN or some other news station during coverage of Katrina. He used it instead of saying “trying.” Now I ask you, what’s so wrong with “trying?” That’s doubleplusungood, indeed.

The left is always telling us how amazingly compassionate and tolerant they are, and how mean and intolerant those of us on the right are. They usually tell us that when we try to save babies from being murdered or when we try to stop people coming into this country illegally. Anyway, here’s a story about a worthless ass-clown college professor who really shows his true stripes. Not only should this guy be fired (which he won’t be) but he should probably be beaten by an angry mob (which also won’t happen).

The airwaves are being inundated with ads for the new George Clooney flic Good Night, and Good Luck which is supposed to be an illuminating piece about the “Black Night of Fascism” under Senator McCarthy. The ad states something along the lines of “liberals and conservatives alike should see this film!” I’ve run that statement through a SuperSecret Decoder Ring I stole from a liberal friend and this is how it translated that statement: “liberals should see it to reaffirm what they already know, and conservatives should see it so they can be shown ‘the truth’.” Yeah, the truth. Ann Coulter wrote a book about McCarthy called Treason that is an excellent read on the topic. She also has a great article today about the Clooney film.

Michelle Malkin has a story today about flippy liberals tripping all over themselves to remain PC, even when the facts of the story don’t need it. Go read it here and prepare to laugh.

This article quotes whiny French President and head surrender-monkey as saying that his country needs more “diversity” to quell the Muslim riots that have been going on in his country for three weeks now. Sorry. He’s wrong. It’s this absurd liberal quest for “diversity” that is causing his problems. When people move into a country and absolutely refuse to assimilate, you are headed for disaster. Those Muslims in France (and yes, the vast majority of the rioters are Muslim) don’t want to be French. They want a Muslim state inside France. No amount of coddling or government “action” is going to change that. Well, unless the police are allowed to start shooting the rioters. That might change things, but “dialog” and combating “discrimination” aren’t going to help.

We are rapidly moving towards the same problem here in America, although here the problem is Mexicans, not Muslims. I live in the South. We have ever-growing pockets of Mexicans who will not learn English if their lives depended on it. And why should they? We as a country are bending over backwards to accommodate them so they don’t have to. Government forms in Spanish, driver’s license tests in Spanish, restaurant menus in Spanish. This is America, dammit. We speak English here. The Congress is too gutless to pass a law mandating English as our official language (though the French, the heroes of the left, mandate French), and we are rapidly losing our national identity.

In times past, people came to this country for opportunity. They came to America and immediately started trying to assimilate. That meant learning English. It didn’t mean abandoning their culture and heritage. It simply meant trying to fit in to their new country. That doesn’t happen any more. We have people who have lived in this country for 20 years and still can’t/won’t speak a word of English. That’s despicable, not something to be “celebrated.”

Last Friday I visited a local government elementary school. As I was walking through the halls, I was greeted at one point by an enormous banner which read “Celebrate Diversity.” Gag me. The motto of this country is “e pluribus unum” which means “out of many, one.” The idea of America as a “melting pot” is all but lost. We are so wrapped up in “celebrating our differences,” so worried about “offending” anyone that no one is willing to say that we need to get back to having a national identity. And you need to learn English to be a part of that identity.

Last night was a disaster. My entire team bowled like crap…

Why is it that so many liberals worship at the alter of Che Guevara? I laugh openly when I see some moronic liberal chick/guy walking around wearing a t-shirt with the “classic” image of Che, because they are either so stupid that they really think he was a good guy, or they have no idea who he was and just think the shirt is “cool.”

I bring this up because there’s a link on boing boing today to a t-shirt that mixes the image of Che with that of Mario. Yeah, it was kind of cute, but what set me off was the text that Cory Doctorow wrote as his introduction:

This t-shirt mashes up the canonical Che Guevara image with Mario — sure, Che helped liberate Cuba and Bolivia, but what did he ever do to save Mushroom Princesses?

I just love the line about “liberating” Cuba. Cuba is so liberated that they had to build a fence to keep the people from leaving. Moron. I just may have to buy one of these shirts that gets it right.

Go here, scroll down to the story entitled “I Also Have a Bridge to Sell You” and read it. Then come back here. I’ll wait…
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OK. Did you catch the problem with that story? Here’s the relevant sentence

Forlemu, an illegal immigrant from Africa, had no prior felony convictions and was released on personal recognizance.

This man was in our country illegally! For this ass-hat judge to release this scumbag on his own bloody recognizance is a joke! The sentence should have read like this

Forlemu, an illegal alien from Africa who had no prior record since violating our laws to come into this country, was promptly turned over to Immigration Services and deported back to whatever 3rd World paradise he came from.

If you enter this country illegally, you are a criminal. Criminals need to be dealt with.

I did fairly well this week. Last week was Halloween, so I had pre-bowled and thus was not present last Monday night. Apparently the other team had only one person show up, and the rest of his team had not pre-bowled. This means that they had to forfeit all three games. But wait! That does not mean that we won all three games. No, our scores had to be within some number of pins of our team average and since we all had rather lame weeks, we only “won” one game. In most sports, when the other team forfeits, the other team wins. Period. But not on our league…