5/23/2010

Thoughts On A Sunday

A busy weekend for us all, especially for BeezleBub. He worked the farm all day Saturday and spent a good portion of the day today driving, working towards increasing the total of hours he needs in order to qualify for his drivers license. A good portion of that time was spent on the road between The Manse and the WP In-Laws in the southwestern part of the state. He also had a driving lesson later in the day.

If he's lucky he'll have his license by the end of June. It also means he'll be driving his Jeep, assuming all the work needed to get it ready to put back on the road is done.

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You know government is broken when bedbugs have more rights than humans.

The EPA also has a propensity to kill jobs for no good reason.

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Pun Salad has the right of it: Michael Kinsley's article in The Atlantic about the Tea party and its many supporters was poorly researched and does not reflect the reality of the movement.

As the post says, “Kinsley got sloppy.” I'd say he also got lazy.

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Bogie reminds us that if you have to hit a moose with a vehicle, it's best to hit one while driving a truck or SUV. Cars don't do very well against moose.

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Could the type of rioting we saw in Greece in response to the government's austerity programs happen here? It appears the SEIU is working hard to make sure it does.

Here's a taste of what they have in store for us:

The SEIU sent four busloads of Washington D C protestors (sic) to a Bank of America attorney's home last week, where they stormed his property and had the homeowner's teenage son hiding in a bathroom until they left. Fortune Magazine's Nina Easton lived next door and documented the attack. As one blog commenter noted, there are thousands of towns and cities in flyover country where this sort of assault would not have ended well for the SEIU thugs. The union's leadership knew that, however (they had a District of Columbia police escort) and terrorized a citizen's home safe in the knowledge that no violence would be visited upon them.

As the article also goes on to say, in other parts of the country (specifically flyover country) such an action would be met with well deserved gunfire. That would certainly be the case if a bunch of union thugs tried that here at The Manse.

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Cap'n Teach tells us the story of a rapist who also happens to be an illegal immigrant. What makes it worse is that this scumbag has been deported nine times yet he's still walking the streets.

If nothing else this guy is a prime example of why we should lock down our borders and stop the flood of illegal immigrants.

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Count musician Dave Mathews as yet another celebrity environmentalist hypocrite.

About the only celebrity I've ever come across that also walks the environmentalist walk is Ed Begley, Jr. He doesn't just talk about environmentalism, he lives it.

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In America's present culture war, which side will win: Free enterprise or Washington's version of Euro-socialism?

(H/T Instapundit)

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Is it arrogance or hubris driving both Mexico and the racists in Washington DC to condemn Arizona for passing a law identical to federal immigration law? (Yes, I called the leftists in Washington racists because they do not actually believe all races are equal. Therefore, they believe all minorities need to be 'protected' by means of discriminatory laws that do not create equality but institutionalize racial discrimination against non-minorities.)

Mexico's protest is hypocritical considering its immigration laws are far more harsh and draconian than US law. Talk about the pot calling the kettle black.

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Speaking of Arizona's immigration law, what about California's immigration law which closely resembles it? Why isn't Mexico or Arizona or Washington DC making a fuss over their law?

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BeezleBub and I watched the season finale of Lost, or at least the first two hours of it which consisted of a retrospective of all six seasons. We'll watch the last two and a half hours some time tomorrow evening, as well as the Jimmy Kimmel special that will air after the late Sunday news.

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And that's the news from Lake Winnipesaukee, where summer weather has reasserted itself, our boat is almost ready to launch, and where Memorial Day Weekend is fast approaching.