So the infant that Obama picked out of some middle school to bust out GM saw fit to sell Hummer to a Chinese company. They plan on building Hummers in American plants, still, and selling them to Americans. The H2 and H3 were always such a profitable pair, after all.
Surely China has no interest in having access to the machinery used to make the H1. No, they would have no interest in the most capable military truck we've ever fielded. They are just good capitalists like us!
Wednesday, June 3, 2009
Sure, Why NOT? Illegal Aliens Can Vote In Georgia.
Yet another deafening, echoing, resounding -silence- from the mainstream press over an issue that *will* lead eventually to the balkanization of the U.S.A. To choose from an unbiased and completely uncontroversial source for your further reading: Atlas Shrugs. She, the Georgia press, and Boortz are the ONLY sources I have heard/seen mention this story.
Cliffs:
In Georgia, the State worked a deal with the Bush Justice Department:
When someone applies for a drivers license, they state whether or not they are a US Citizen.
When someone registers to vote, they are checked against the list to see if they said they were a citizen. If they said they were not, the State looks closer.
If they are not a citizen, they are not allowed to register to vote.
Unsurprisingly, the preponderance of those thus "disenfranchised" in this manner wereillegal Mexican immigrants medium brown so this is CLEARLY raaaaaacism.
Now that the leftiest of the lefties is in the oval orifice, the DOJ has reversed itself and said Georgia MUST ALLOW ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS TO VOTE.
Are you going to call the producers of your nightly newscast and ask them why this doesn't merit their broadcast time? No. Ho-hum, oh well, America was kinda nice while it lasted.
Cliffs:
In Georgia, the State worked a deal with the Bush Justice Department:
When someone applies for a drivers license, they state whether or not they are a US Citizen.
When someone registers to vote, they are checked against the list to see if they said they were a citizen. If they said they were not, the State looks closer.
If they are not a citizen, they are not allowed to register to vote.
Unsurprisingly, the preponderance of those thus "disenfranchised" in this manner were
Now that the leftiest of the lefties is in the oval orifice, the DOJ has reversed itself and said Georgia MUST ALLOW ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS TO VOTE.
Are you going to call the producers of your nightly newscast and ask them why this doesn't merit their broadcast time? No. Ho-hum, oh well, America was kinda nice while it lasted.
September 25, 2006
My birthday. Also the day Col. Cooper died; a very sad gift to me indeed. He would admonish me, telling me to instead rejoice that he had lived.
A tribute to the man.
My disappointment was that my Great Awakening happened too late for me to be able to meet him in person. Going forward, as time, commitments, and budget allow, I hope to try and NOT repeat the failure.
The problem currently is: To whom does one look up anymore? I know of some great men, but giants like Cooper are very far between, and hard to get ahold of.
A tribute to the man.
“There is a saying that one should never meet one’s heroes because of the inevitable disappointment. That was not the case with Jeff Cooper; not even close.”
My disappointment was that my Great Awakening happened too late for me to be able to meet him in person. Going forward, as time, commitments, and budget allow, I hope to try and NOT repeat the failure.
The problem currently is: To whom does one look up anymore? I know of some great men, but giants like Cooper are very far between, and hard to get ahold of.
After-Action Report 06/03/2009
So there I was, all ready to leave the house in time to get to work early for a change, opening my car door when I noticed a disturbance in the force. The leaves of the tree above the end of my driveway rustled and I looked up. A pigeon took off and crossed the street, and alighted on the street light by the mailboxes.
What could I do? I went and aired up my pellet rifle. Presented with a clear shot like that on a varmint accustomed to making doody on my car, there was no question. As I was pumping (it's a 10-pump pneumatic rifle) a fight broke out. My pigeon was young and smallish, and another came over and said 'Hey that's MY streetlamp!' My quarry decided its previous perch was preferable and came back to my tree, this time almost directly over my car. So, I took aim and fired. Hit. The bird decided that was a noise unrelated to itself and settled down immediately. Disbelieving the stupidity of the thing, I reloaded as the bird hopped to my neighbor's tree (the two trees intertwine) and watched me take aim and fire again. Hit. Clump of feathers sent flying out the other side. Pigeon again decides this is some random noise that has nothing to do with it. It watches me reload from the safety of 12 feet away, turning slightly to present a better target angle (approx. 20). I take aim again and fire. Hit. The bird decides that one hurt pretty bad, and drops flapping from the tree. I reload and finally it decides to get away from the big moving thing that makes noise. It walks under my neighbor's truck and out the other side. I shoot it in the neck point-blank and it flaps STILL! WTF Die Hard Pigeon Edition! I reload AGAIN and shoot it in the F'ing HEAD and it flaps STILL!
Okay fine, this is stupid and you're getting your head chopped off. I picked it up by the tailfeathers and the pitiful thing noted it was free of the ground somewhere in the most basic part of its brain. It made feeble flapping motions with both wings as if it were flying, until I dropped it on the grass where it lay still. I decided it was about dead by then, and went back in the house to grab a plastic grocery store bag in which to wrap it up. #1 and #2 were reading quietly, #3 was complaining about being alone in his crib with a wet diaper and Mommy was tending to personal business prior to getting #3 out of bed. I got #3 and the bag, changed his diaper and took him out to pick up the bird. My Darling Wife took him from me as I went back in to drop the baby off, and they saw me off to work.
Where I delivered the bird to the fellow here pragmatic enough to eat them if they are fresh. Why not? They're doves! I just don't think they're worth the effort to clean, to eat, while he does.
Note on shooting pigeons: if your rifle can reliably deliver a head shot, I generally recommend you take them. Mine has a recent history of being good enough for 2' groups from offhand at 20 yards at least. I usually go for center of mass shots on pigeons however, because this is a suburban area and a miss could lead to property damage. It's easy enough to hit the center of a pigeon at reasonable distances, even though my scope is a pretty dim piece of glass. As it turns out, this one didn't even go with a head shot, so . . . .
What could I do? I went and aired up my pellet rifle. Presented with a clear shot like that on a varmint accustomed to making doody on my car, there was no question. As I was pumping (it's a 10-pump pneumatic rifle) a fight broke out. My pigeon was young and smallish, and another came over and said 'Hey that's MY streetlamp!' My quarry decided its previous perch was preferable and came back to my tree, this time almost directly over my car. So, I took aim and fired. Hit. The bird decided that was a noise unrelated to itself and settled down immediately. Disbelieving the stupidity of the thing, I reloaded as the bird hopped to my neighbor's tree (the two trees intertwine) and watched me take aim and fire again. Hit. Clump of feathers sent flying out the other side. Pigeon again decides this is some random noise that has nothing to do with it. It watches me reload from the safety of 12 feet away, turning slightly to present a better target angle (approx. 20). I take aim again and fire. Hit. The bird decides that one hurt pretty bad, and drops flapping from the tree. I reload and finally it decides to get away from the big moving thing that makes noise. It walks under my neighbor's truck and out the other side. I shoot it in the neck point-blank and it flaps STILL! WTF Die Hard Pigeon Edition! I reload AGAIN and shoot it in the F'ing HEAD and it flaps STILL!
Okay fine, this is stupid and you're getting your head chopped off. I picked it up by the tailfeathers and the pitiful thing noted it was free of the ground somewhere in the most basic part of its brain. It made feeble flapping motions with both wings as if it were flying, until I dropped it on the grass where it lay still. I decided it was about dead by then, and went back in the house to grab a plastic grocery store bag in which to wrap it up. #1 and #2 were reading quietly, #3 was complaining about being alone in his crib with a wet diaper and Mommy was tending to personal business prior to getting #3 out of bed. I got #3 and the bag, changed his diaper and took him out to pick up the bird. My Darling Wife took him from me as I went back in to drop the baby off, and they saw me off to work.
Where I delivered the bird to the fellow here pragmatic enough to eat them if they are fresh. Why not? They're doves! I just don't think they're worth the effort to clean, to eat, while he does.
Note on shooting pigeons: if your rifle can reliably deliver a head shot, I generally recommend you take them. Mine has a recent history of being good enough for 2' groups from offhand at 20 yards at least. I usually go for center of mass shots on pigeons however, because this is a suburban area and a miss could lead to property damage. It's easy enough to hit the center of a pigeon at reasonable distances, even though my scope is a pretty dim piece of glass. As it turns out, this one didn't even go with a head shot, so . . . .
Tuesday, June 2, 2009
Yet Another Stem Cell Therapy WITHOUT Killing Babies: Restoring Sight
From gizmag.com:
It's a bit more complicated, but here's the gist of it:
If you are blind from corneal damage, get a leave-in contact lens and smear some of the stem cells from the other eye's cornea, or another part of the same eye onto the lens. Wear it for 10 days and repeat 2x. Two blind patients can read the big letters on an eye-chart and one who could see the big letters can now pass a drivers license eye test.
Without killing any babies.
That puts the number of adult stem cell therapies currently in use at somewhere closer (make that closer yet) to 100 than 50.
Dead baby therapies: still 0.
Tell me again why we are putting taxpayer dollars to killing babies for their cells, and intentionally excluding adult cell therapy research from getting taxpayer dollars? Hmm?
It's a bit more complicated, but here's the gist of it:
If you are blind from corneal damage, get a leave-in contact lens and smear some of the stem cells from the other eye's cornea, or another part of the same eye onto the lens. Wear it for 10 days and repeat 2x. Two blind patients can read the big letters on an eye-chart and one who could see the big letters can now pass a drivers license eye test.
Without killing any babies.
That puts the number of adult stem cell therapies currently in use at somewhere closer (make that closer yet) to 100 than 50.
Dead baby therapies: still 0.
Tell me again why we are putting taxpayer dollars to killing babies for their cells, and intentionally excluding adult cell therapy research from getting taxpayer dollars? Hmm?
British Home Secretary Smith Announces Resignation
THE SAME DAY Michael Savage was interviewed on BBC. Normal call-in time is 5 minutes, they went 30. Feedback was overwhelmingly in Savage's favor.
She had other problems but she has suffered a breakdown in her victim selection process this time.
She had other problems but she has suffered a breakdown in her victim selection process this time.
A Few Thoughts On Tax-Deductable Charitable Donations
The Obama administration is considering removing your ability to write off your charitable donations on your income tax return. They want the activities of the charity to happen through the State.
There are at least a half dozen major problems with the current status quo, but the plain truth is, this is another example of how BHO is an evil statist, the benevolent dictator de Toqueville warned you about. But that's a discussion for another time.
Charitable giving is not something you should do for beneficial tax treatment. You should be giving to a charity because you have charity.
Some people can only "afford" to give to charitable organizations because of the ability to get favorable consideration at tax time. Some people only "give" so they can get into a different taxation rate. By the amounts that those categories of people give to charitable organizations, donations will be reduced if the favorable tax treatment is deleted.
Note: this happens if the fascisti in office transfer do-gooder functions to the State, OR if the Fair Tax (which latter proposal I endorse) is implemented as designed.
Some people give because they care. The VFD clan has an income stream that is reduced by xx% because we believe in and want to be a part of the work that our church and its associate groups do. Removing favorable tax treatment of charitable donations would reduce our giving by the following amount:
When we do our taxes, we run the numbers two ways: with and without our charitable donations deduction. There is usually a return both ways, but it is bigger with that deduction. The difference in the two "refunds" is put straight into a check to our favorite charitable organization.
Now, if they started making charitable organizations start paying taxes, THAT would be a problem. There are probably hundreds of thousands of Good Things being done by private charities that will NEVER be done by the State. Taxing the charities will shut down (I presume) MOST of them. Therefore taxing charitable organizations will cause the Good that they do to STOP.
Making Good Things stop happening is EVIL.
Taxing charitable organizations is therefore EVIL.
Have a nice day.
********
Of course I know the plan was unanimously defeated when our Elected Heroes voted on it. That doesn't mean The Lightworker doesn't want to do it anymore, it just means he's going to have to wait, probably at least until 2010.
There are at least a half dozen major problems with the current status quo, but the plain truth is, this is another example of how BHO is an evil statist, the benevolent dictator de Toqueville warned you about. But that's a discussion for another time.
Charitable giving is not something you should do for beneficial tax treatment. You should be giving to a charity because you have charity.
Some people can only "afford" to give to charitable organizations because of the ability to get favorable consideration at tax time. Some people only "give" so they can get into a different taxation rate. By the amounts that those categories of people give to charitable organizations, donations will be reduced if the favorable tax treatment is deleted.
Note: this happens if the fascisti in office transfer do-gooder functions to the State, OR if the Fair Tax (which latter proposal I endorse) is implemented as designed.
Some people give because they care. The VFD clan has an income stream that is reduced by xx% because we believe in and want to be a part of the work that our church and its associate groups do. Removing favorable tax treatment of charitable donations would reduce our giving by the following amount:
When we do our taxes, we run the numbers two ways: with and without our charitable donations deduction. There is usually a return both ways, but it is bigger with that deduction. The difference in the two "refunds" is put straight into a check to our favorite charitable organization.
Now, if they started making charitable organizations start paying taxes, THAT would be a problem. There are probably hundreds of thousands of Good Things being done by private charities that will NEVER be done by the State. Taxing the charities will shut down (I presume) MOST of them. Therefore taxing charitable organizations will cause the Good that they do to STOP.
Making Good Things stop happening is EVIL.
Taxing charitable organizations is therefore EVIL.
Have a nice day.
********
Of course I know the plan was unanimously defeated when our Elected Heroes voted on it. That doesn't mean The Lightworker doesn't want to do it anymore, it just means he's going to have to wait, probably at least until 2010.
Nothing To See Here, Move Along Citizen.
From Wired.com
The line between enough and too much OPSEC is very hard to find.
A fiber optic cable that was not supposed to be there was cut during construction work. The ubiquitous black SUV's (probably Suburbans) showed up within minutes (Highly Irregular #1). AT&T technicians showed up the same day (Highly Irregular #2) and repaired the line. They billed the construction company $300,000 for the work. The company protested because, after all, the lines were not on anybody's map. AT&T suddenly doesn't want the money any more (Highly Irregular #3).
These irregularities are, I'm sure, not related to at least THREE (that we know of) areas with high-level security clearance action! going on inside.
The line between enough and too much OPSEC is very hard to find.
A fiber optic cable that was not supposed to be there was cut during construction work. The ubiquitous black SUV's (probably Suburbans) showed up within minutes (Highly Irregular #1). AT&T technicians showed up the same day (Highly Irregular #2) and repaired the line. They billed the construction company $300,000 for the work. The company protested because, after all, the lines were not on anybody's map. AT&T suddenly doesn't want the money any more (Highly Irregular #3).
These irregularities are, I'm sure, not related to at least THREE (that we know of) areas with high-level security clearance action! going on inside.
White House: Your Second First Amendment Rights Are CANCELLED.
Van Helsing draws our attention to the latest ignore-it point for the mainstream media:
The white house wants to regulate speech by "all persons" regarding the spending of the 'stimulus' package monies.
The title, it's not a joke
The white house wants to regulate speech by "all persons" regarding the spending of the 'stimulus' package monies.
The title, it's not a joke
Monday, June 1, 2009
Word Phrase of The Day: Crosshair Evaluation
Crosshair Evaluation: what you do when a potential enemy approaches you on the battlefield and you're not sure if his intentions are to harm you or to peaceably surrender. Pass 'em if they're peaceable, kill 'em if they're not.
From Sipsey Street Irregulars
From Sipsey Street Irregulars
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