February 28, 2006
I don't know HOW I missed this important day! I really didn't know about it until just now, but I'm going to leave work early today so I can get out and celebrate with the best of them! Today IS International High-Five a Muslim Day. The Jawa Report has the video explaining the day (and more details like "Show Muhammed: death. Show Jesus: thumbs up!"). PLEASE do go watch the video and participate! I know I will.
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You see, one of the few things actually IN the Constitution is that it is illegal for states to put up barriers to trade with one another. That was one of the primary ideas behind these "united" states.
Article I, Section 10:
No state shall, without the consent of the Congress, lay any imposts or duties on imports or exports, except what may be absolutely necessary for executing it's inspection laws: and the net produce of all duties and imposts, laid by any state on imports or exports, shall be for the use of the treasury of the United States; and all such laws shall be subject to the revision and control of the Congress.
So states are very clearly prohibited from charging a company from out of state any duty on interstate goods. As to be expected from today's non-Constitutional Republic, states have been violating the law left and right -- with their "tax breaks" for businesses.
For example, NC just gave over $250 million cash to Dell to get Dell to put a plant in NC. That means they just charged every other business $250 million to DO business in North Carolina -- and that's illegal.
In 2004, a federal appeals court agreed -- a state cannot take money from one business and give it to another to take that business from another state. It's a clear violation of the commerce clause. The Supreme Court has agreed to hear the case. They very clearly should uphold the appeals court ruling. I don't know if they will.
On the other hand, even if they do, state governments will surely continue doing exactly the same thing, they'll just call it something else. Government really, really, really stinks.
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Can someone please explain why we're sending Billions of dollars to these people? Clearly they're not struggling. If these people truly needed money, they'd be trying to work, working for food, or at least sitting on a freeway off-ramp with the old "Will do nothing for food" sign.But no, we'll continue trying to buy their votes with billions of *MY* money. This shows, yet again, that government is utterly incapable of administering any sort of charity program. And keep in mind -- it's NOT charity, love, or even helpful in any way, shape or form, when you're using someone else's money.
Oh, and just down the road from me, in Salisbury, NC, there are hundreds of trailers with giant "FEMA" signs on them. They're supposed to be free trailers for "victims" of the hurricane to live in for free. No, really, free houses to anyone who wants one -- but you see, they're in Salisbury because government (that's who owns them) has a rule that says they cannot put mobile homes in "flood-prone" areas.
So that enormous pile of government cash will sit here, doing nothing but rusting away... until, of course, the North Carolina government finds out about it -- you see, there's laws against "unsightly" rusting mobile homes in this state. When the state finds them, if they're rusty, the state can fine the owners and tow them away to the junkyard.
Is there anything that government can actually do right? I really don't think so. I'm not an anarchist, but if I need to be to get "compromise" and meet where the Constitutional Republic exists, I'm all for it. Remember this when you're looking at your paycheck and listening to Congressmen saying they can't cut taxes because they can't afford it.
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So, let's see -- I am forced at gunpoint to pay to file the lawsuit. I am forced at gunpoint to pay the lawyers who do the suing. I am forced at gunpoint to pay for the defense. I am forced at gunpoint to pay for the court costs. Heck, if there's a fine or financial penalty involved, I am forced at gunpoint to pay that AND the lawyer's fees.
It's just beyond comprehension. There is a 0% chance that anyone can win here, and a 100% chance that huge piles of taxpayer money will be tossed down the drain. I wish there were somewhere on earth that I could go that had a Constitutional Republic where this sort of utter insanity doesn't happen.
Oh, how I long for freedom.
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February 27, 2006
As a parent with two kids in Texas schools, I have a pet peeve. I really, really resent that their education is hampered by kids who canÂ’t speak English. IÂ’ve seen classes that move mind-bogglingly slow as teachers have to work one-on-one with children who shouldnÂ’t be there in the first place. ItÂ’s enough to make me grind my teeth in frustration!
I am a big proponent of the immersion method of learning a language. It is my firm belief that once in America, immigrants should learn our language, and the best way is by complete and total immersion. When we lived in Mexico, we placed my son into a public school in the local village so that he could learn the language more rapidly. I continued to teach him at home what he needed to know to keep his education above American standards, and his classroom experience was for language purposes only. We asked for no special considerations, we just did what was necessary. It was not easy, but it worked.
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You Are From Saturn |
 You're steady, organizes, and determined to achieve your dreams. You tend to play it conservative, going by the rules (at least the practical ones). You'll likely reach the top. And when you do, you'll be honorable and responsible. Focus on happiness. Don't let your goals distract you from fun! Don't be too set in your ways, and you'll be more of a success than you ever dreamed of. |
Found at Poetic Acceptance
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1. Violation of allegiance toward one's country or sovereign, especially the betrayal of one's country by waging war against it or by consciously and purposely acting to aid its enemies.
Sheikh Ismail Nawahda, preaching in Jerusalem, directing all followers of Islam around the world:
...unite all the Moslems in the world against the infidels...[to] restore the Moslem dictatorship using a system of small groups around the world
How much more clear does that need to be? People who are of the religion of Islam are actively working to overthrow the American government. If you are of the Islam religion and are not, you are disobeying your own leaders. Either way, Islam is not about freedom of religion, it's about treason.
Islam in America should be declared what it is: a treasonous organization that exists to overthrow the government. You have a right to freedom of religion, but you do not have the right to organize with the sole purpose of destroying the government.
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There's no word on how much money the NCDOT spend on this exhaustive study. And of course, being a government agency, their next suggested step is obvious: fine working people to get more money to fix the roads.
Oh, but want to see a real interesting number? This "report" claims that these trucks do approximately $77 million a year in damages to roads. And yet the Democrat-controlled North Carolina legislature votes each and every year to take tens of millions of dollars OUT of the fund that repairs roads!
In other words, we already had the money to fix all these roads -- it was already collected in taxes -- but the NC Legislature stole the money to NOT spend it on the roads. Democrats in North Carolina are directly responsible for the crappy road conditions -- NOT the trucks!
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February 26, 2006
The US finished in second in the medal count, with 25, 9 of them gold. Germany owned the games with 11 gold medals and 29 total. I didn't watch all of NBC's coverage, but I sure racked up the hours.
And since the US has NEVER won a medal, EVER in the biathlon, I think I need to start training for the 2010 games. Heck, who wouldn't like skiing and shooting? And so what if I'm just using training as an excuse to ski and shoot?
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My Mom (yes, Ogres have mothers) gave me this birdhouse -- only it's completely and totally decorative -- not practical at all. The inside dimensions of the house were for a small horse, while the entrance holes were for chickadees.
So, I got out the saw and started cutting and adjusting. Now (despite how the holes look in the picture), the house it set up with 3 bird apartments that are closer to an actual useful size. I'm not sure anyone but the purple marlin will want to live so close to anyone else, but I'll put out the yarn and see who grabs it up...
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February 25, 2006
The Observer editorial staff hates cars. They honestly and seriously want to eliminate automobiles from the state. Why? Because cars support freedom and they despise freedom. Cars give mobility to people and allow people to move and escape from totalitarian regimes, like the one that the Observer would have in Charlotte.
Just one sample from the article that shows how much that staff will do and say anything to advance their anti-freedom agenda:
It may come up with a proposal to require that lower-emission vehicles be sold in this state.Good. It's time the General Assembly seriously considered ways to clean up vehicle emissions and give consumers more choices.
So in the twisted world of this group of socialists, when government requires and forces manufacturers to make less-efficient and more expensive cars, the consumer has more choices.
Woe to those who call evil good, and good evil;
Who put darkness for light, and light for darkness....
Woe to those who are wise in their own eyes,
And prudent in their own sight!
It's 2006, but again the words of George Orwell are shown as prophetic from 1984 (the book).
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February 24, 2006
Ruins?
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Anyone care to hazard a guess as to the type of birds here?
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It seems a woman got home from the welfare office somewhere. When she got home, she looked at the mail on her porch and attempt to step over it to unlock her door. She instead, stepped on a letter and fell. Therefore, according to the morons on the US Supreme Court, she is now entitled to piles of taxpayer money.
So, let's look at the logical results of this crap.
1. The US Postal Service will have to pay out piles of money. They will have to spend (and have already spent) tons of cash defending the lawsuit, even if they win. If they lose, they will have to pay out truckloads more cash to the woman who won the lottery lawsuit. And where does the US Postal Service get money? From taxpayers and people who pay to mail things.
Result from 1: Higher taxes, more government waste, and higher postal mailings costs.
2. The Postal Service will have to take "remedies" to ensure this doesn't happen again. If they do not, the next time someone slips on a letter, they will have to pay out MORE cash.
Result from 2: More postal regulations and restrictions -- if you don't have the right size and shape mailbox, they will not deliver your mail. If they have a package that doesn't fit in your mailbox, instead of leaving it, they will have to hold it and you will have to pick it up in person.
Great. The only way these morons who start these lawsuits with the sole intention of getting a lottery-sized winning is to seriously and heavily penalize both the person who brought the lawsuit AND the scum-sucking lawyer who represents them. No, I didn't say to limit lawsuits -- let anyone sue for anything -- just when you lose, you, AND THE LAWYER have to pay.
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Case in point -- I'm reading an article on Fox News about the recent rioting in Iraq. In the blurb on the front page (what do they call that -- the teaser?) and in the story, it says:
The motive for the killing was not immediately clear.
Right.
Hello?
McFly?
Bueller? Bueller? Anyone?
The next thought is to wonder if these people are intentionally dense or just playing dumb. The situation is really very simple. Someone tell the Fox News writers to head on over and read this before they write the next article about something which they are clearly ignorant.
In Iraq there are competing factions. The two largest are the Shiites and the Sunnis. The Sunnis are friends of Insane dictator Saddam. They hate the Shiites. While Saddam was in charge, the Sunnis ruled the country and killed Shiites whenever they felt like it, with the approval and direction of Saddam.
The U.S. entered the country and stopped the blatant slaughter of thousands of innocents. They got the people to make an uneasy truce -- the Sunnis hoping they could get control of the government once again. They did not.
So, the new government ends up being made up of a majority of Shiites. And that really annoys the Sunnis, who had been enjoying majority uncontested rule for decades. They are at relative peace, perhaps because they're finally all sick of the dying and the killing.
Wednesday comes and the Golden Dome gets destroyed by someone. It may have been some radical Sunnis, or it may have been al-Queerda, trying to stir up some killing. The Shiites have finally had enough of being killed and start fighting back, attacking their enemy of so long -- the Sunnis.
So, what's the motive? These people have been fighting for decades. Saddam's iron fist isn't in charge, so now the Shiites can actually fight back without being shot with chemical weapons, so they are.
Feel free to yell about this being America's fault in the comments, I will be sure to laugh at you for missing the entire post and the part about these two groups of people having been at war with one another for decades.
In addition to these two groups, there is another group, basically in the north, that doesn't like either one of these two (the Kurds).
So, what's the solution? When people are willing to die for their radical causes, there's not a lot that can be done. One idea is to go ahead and split the darn country up into three countries and let everyone have their own country. That would work fine for the Kurds (at least until they were taken over by Turkey), by the Shiites and the Sunnis would argue, at gunpoint, over who gets what land.
Is it a bad situation? You bet -- it's horrible. Blame it on the US? Sure, but if you do, then you'd also blame Cain and Abel's little spat on George Bush, too, wouldn't you?
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Black’s response is that new election laws are needed. “I think we need to clarify the laws and the rules,” he told members of the Board of Elections.
Are there any legislators that DO NOT think they are above the law?
I really hate the idea of term limits. I like to believe in people. But total B.S. like this really bothers me. People like Jim Black have been in the legislature so long, passing all the laws they want for their personal use, rather than for the public good, that they honestly believe they are completely and totally above the law. And in cases like this, where the Democrats pass and enforce the law, they clearly ARE above the law.
But I think this points out that term limits really are needed. Otherwise Democrat legislators will continue to break the law and call for more laws. Go read the whole article.
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February 23, 2006
intriguing essay on floor-sweeping techniques.
Now long ago, in fact as long as time has existed, people were known to sweep their floors. You may even have seen the occasional show or movie set in the previous decades in America where you even saw people sweeping dirt floors with their brooms.
The first brooms, of course, were simply made of a number of coarse materials, such as straw, bound together. There have been improvements on that design, but the same basic design can still be found today, mass-produced and sold in big chain stores.
In 1878, Melville Bissell invented a "carpet sweeper" to attempt to get rid of the dust in their crockery shop. It worked well on dust, but it didn't do much to really clean the carpets, and required the worker to be on their hands and knees. It was also expensive and difficult to assemble.
The first vacuum cleaners were actually invented for use with steam engines on the railroad. The steam from the locomotive was used to generate suction through a hose that was used to clean the dust out of the railroad cars.
Nearly every household today has at least one vacuum cleaner of some sort -- yet they also still have brooms for sweeping the floors. Why? Because it's much easier to get out a broom and a dustpan for a quick cleanup than to lug out a heavy vacuum cleaner and plug it in.
So what method of using these archaic inventions (the broom) works the best? The biggest problem with using brooms comes from the intended use of them -- to clean up dust. In many cases, dust is actually very light, so when pushed across the floor, it tends to rise and float in the air for a period of time from a few moments to a minute.
In addition, corners seem to present a rather difficult challenge in floor-sweeping. Large amounts of dust and other materials seem to collect in the corners, and only certain types of specially-designed brooms, or a special floor-sweeping technique seems to work at removing the dust from those hard-to-reach locations.
Searching the various internet search engines gives very few useful results on actually HOW to sweep the floor. Apparently, it's such a basic task that anyone can do it -- but have you ever watched a 4-year old try and sweep the floor?
When sweeping, it helps to have a broom that's a good length -- it should be no taller than your shoulders. The best way is to lightly grasp the end of the broom -- the end without the straw, Patrick -- in one hand and hold the middle part of the broomstick with your other hand.
You need to guide the broom with the hand at the top end, while powering the broom in a sweeping motion with the other hand. At the end of each stroke, be sure to keep the end of the broom near the floor, or you will throw dust into the air, making a possible re-sweeping necessary.
Start at one end of the room, in the corner, and sweep towards the other end. Be sure to turn the broomstick so a pointed corner of the straw will reach deep into the corners of the floor. If you have a large or wide area to sweep, sweep in lines, pushing the dirt and dust along the floor.
Once you have swept all the dust to one end, turn 90 degrees and sweep the dust into one large pile -- once again being very careful to control the dust and dirt to ensure you do not push it too hard and push the dust into an area that has already been swept. Your goal here is to make a small pile of dust -- small enough that it's width is less than that of the dust pan.
Use the broom to sweep the dust into the dustpan -- but be sure that the dustpan is at an angle above that of the ground -- two people may be required for this step. Once you have swept one pile into the dust pan, back the dust pan up slightly and sweep again, as some dust is small enough to slip below the edge of the dust pan. Continue and repeat until you cannot see any more dust under the dustpan.
Be very careful, also, when emptying the dust pan -- it is full of dust (hence the name), and careless dumping will spew that dust back into the air, necessitating the need for sweeping once again.
There are other ways and methods, but most other ways all require some sort of liquid or electrical power -- and I just don't have all that fancy stuff in a cave...
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Jacqueline Escobar, an intern to DCFS, was fired because she openly spoke about her religion WHEN SHE WAS NOT WORKING. She was also told to sign a document that said she had "an inability to separate her religious beliefs from her role" as an intern. She refused to sign.
I'd love for someone to go to the DCFS and see if there is anyone there that doesn't murder. If there is, those people aren't correctly separating their religion from work. Oh, and there better not be a single person working there with a dot on their forehead from any Indian religion. Robes? Yarmulkes? Are all those banned as well? Not likely.
Only the Christian religion, NOT EXPRESSED at work, but by simply BEING a member of that one religion, is not allowed.
So, if you are a Christian, and actually believe your religion, you are not permitted to work for the government in CA. Apparently the Civil Rights Act of 1964 only applies to blacks and muslims.
A lawsuit has been filed, but it will likely be settled and the anti-Christian hate-mongers who fired her will very likely be promoted instead of fired. But no, Christians aren't hated and aren't persecuted, ever -- at least that's what the left claims.
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For a year now, Stop The ACLU has been bringing information to you about the evil ways of the ACLU. We've been telling you about their war on religion, the Boy Scouts, Christmas, religious icons in public, the 10 Commandments, children, and the United States. But are you listening?
Judging by the comments that we receive, I'd say the only people listening are our own members and those who are poised to argue the ACLU cause. But we must have some readers who are in shock or out-right disbelief that any organization called "American" Civil Liberties Union would be fighting for causes contrary to the best interests of this nation. But they are.
Their latest alliance is with CAIR (Council on American - Islamic Relations). Op/Ed writer Sher Zieve had this to say in The American Daily.
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