Wednesday, February 28, 2007
A Haven for Illegals
Read the whole thing.
Two publications that impress me on a regular basis are the Los Angeles Daily News and LA Weekly. While LA Weekly has a definite political slant to the left, they --- along with the Daily News --- have no fear in tackling corruption on both sides of the aisle.
When you get 15 minutes of free time, read this 7-page article about the City of Cudahy. Cudahy is a 1.2 square mile city stuck right in the middle of Los Angeles County. My agency used to handle law enforcement activities until we were thrown out in favor of a citywide police force. Here’s what has happened since:
Cudahy is a strange little city; some say a scary one. In 2003, city leaders fired the L.A. County Sheriff’s Department — which had policed Cudahy for 14 years, focusing on gang and drug crime — in favor of a nearby municipal police force that recently erupted over public allegations of police brutality and kickbacks to police and city officials from a towing company.
In Cudahy, the U.S. Drug Enforcement Agency has seized almost 20 times more cocaine over the past five years than in Bell, a bordering city of similar size, and the city suffers more crime per capita than small towns nearby. It’s a city with 200 active gang members, where shootings are common though homicide rare — that is, until 11 killings occurred in the wake of the sheriff’s departure in 2003.
And speaking of corruption and dirty illegal immigrants:
Cudahy resembles a Mexican border town more than it does a Los Angeles suburb. Entrenched gangs and Mexican drug trafficking have trapped working-class legal and illegal immigrants in a cycle of violence and fear, in a city where less than a quarter of the 28,000 residents are eligible to vote. An uneducated city council, a deeply troubled police force imported from Maywood two towns over, and the raw power of the 18th Street Gang — a complex criminal organization with a knack for setting up business fronts and obscuring underground drug activity — make Cudahy residents seem like hostages in their own city.
The facts are disturbing at best. Take a few minutes and read the expose. It’s eye opening.
In honor of “True Conservatives” everywhere
Let’s make this an Argumentum Ad Hominem thread.
Fling your best poo for Dear Leader! (Since that’s all we care about, y’know...)
Tuesday, February 27, 2007
Anyone who jokes about the attempt on Dick Cheney’s life….
is a turd-sucking, anti-patriotic, America-hater. You want to see who falls in that catagory...read it here, with the help of Michelle Malkin.
It is because it is so easy to put your opinion on the Internet, and have practically no consequence....the mental weaklings that are so cowardly to post such intellectually vapid thoughts are cowards and hide behind the thick technical skirts of the Internet.
These are the same ass clowns that hate Christianity, defend ‘women’, (yet are markedly silent when women’s rights in Islamic nations are abused), and advocate unilateral withdrawal from Iraq. They are post-nationalist, socialist, quasi-European, arrogant, leftist pieces of un-cerebral feces, and they make me sick.
Monday, February 26, 2007
Torturing Nigerians
As easy as 1-2-3.
After all of those e-mails I got from various Nigerians who claimed that my great uncle Scott Smith (my last name isn’t even Smith) died and left me $1.5 million dollars, I figured payback was in order. Steve H. took care of it for me.
Saturday, February 24, 2007
Uh, Mr. Kettle? It’s Senor Pot
Seems Mexico has a problem with Americans crossing the Mexican border without authorization… 
The new border fence that will (hopefully) run from the Pacific Ocean to the Gulf of Mexico is being built, but Mexican authorities are carefully monitoring their activities, ready to demand that their territorial sovereignty be respected at all times.
Of course, the other direction? Not so much.
Better Living Through Modern Chemistry
This will cure what ails ya… 
I scored a 40 on their exam, too, for what it’s worth…
Tuesday, February 20, 2007
Okay, Weird Question Time
If you had to pick a “superpower”, but only one, which one would you pick?
(Hey, what can I say? It’s 1:15am and I can’t sleep.)
Comic book, movie, television series, pop culture, manga, hentai - whatever the source, but a few provisos and limitations.
First, it would actually have to be a “super” power, not an ability gained by technology. Something inherent. And it would have to be a completely different ability that people can’t normally do, not just hyper-accelerated natural processes (such as healing) or hyper-acute natural senses (such as hearing).
Second, it would actually have to be a super “power” - an ability, not just a condition. For example, Superman can fly - an ability - while at the same time, his skin is impenetrable, which is a condition.
Made ya think about it, eh?
Good. Think about it and leave your reply in the comments.
Monday, February 19, 2007
You’ve got to be kidding me
Hey, how’s that “sending a message” working out for you “real Conservatives”?
We, I think, will be looking at a modification of that authorization in order to limit the mission of American troops to a support mission instead of a combat mission, and that is very different from cutting off funds.
That is a quote from Senator ‘Hot’ Carl Levin, explaining the most recent tactic by the Dems to cut off any chance that our combat troops will actually be able to carry out its mission. They intend to “amend” the original Authorization for Use of Military Force (AUMF) passed back in 2001 (which was merely a affirmation of the ones passed by Congress in 1998) to allow the additional use of military force against Iraq (text can be found here).
Seriously, what kind of bullshit is this? “...Limit the mission...”? That doesn’t change the threat against them, just their ability to defend themselves against it.
It’s almost as though the people who keep calling Iraq “Bush’s Vietnam” are doing everything they can to make sure it turns out the same way - with the utter devastation of America’s military ability and the slaughter of millions of innocent civilians by the incoming despots. It also does nothing whatsoever to increase the safety factor here at home. If you thought the attacks of 9/11 were bad, just wait until we have the ongoing attacks like those in Chapel Hill and San Francisco and Salt Lake City and Seattle and Los Angeles and ... oh, wait.
Why, it’s almost as though there was a WAR on!!! 
Sunday, February 18, 2007
Again…sorry for the delay
I was really planning on blogging more.....about the Democrats that are handing away our national security, about the Surge (change in TACTICS, not numbers), and about a few other things....but life got in the way.
My wife was in the hospital for four days and has developed an impressive case of high blood pressure....don’t know why. That and I started a new job within my department. All these things have contributed mightily to my light blogging.
I have every intent on getting a few posts in here and there. Sorry I’ve been away.
Thursday, February 15, 2007
Can we finally stop pretending?
Or, more accurately, can they stop pretending that they “support the troops”?
What’s the difference
between a “Producer”, an “Executive Producer” and a “Supervising Producer”? I get “Director” - he’s the one that decides the action on-screen. I get “Writer” - he’s the one who puts the words into the mouths of the characters being bossed around by the director. I even get “Best Boy” - he’s the one in training to serve as the chief assistant to the guy getting married.
I always thought the Producer was basically the Money Man. He made sure that those producing the art had what they needed to perform at their best.
So why all the superfluous adjectives?
Somebody out there has to know about this stuff…
Those Who Forget History
Cruising through the Vault while checking trackbacks and I ran across this gem.
1. An armed person is a citizen. An unarmed person is a subject.
2. A gun in the hand is better than a cop on the phone.
3. Glock: The original point and click interface.
4. Gun control is not about guns; it is about control.
5. If guns are outlawed, can we use swords?
6. If guns cause crime, then pencils cause misspelled words.
7. Free men do not ask permission to bear arms.
8. If you do not know your rights, you do not have any.
9. Those who trade liberty for security have neither.
10. The United States Constitution 1791. All Rights reserved.
11. What part of “shall not be infringed” do you not understand?
12. The second Amendment is in place, in case they ignore the others.
13. 64,999,987 firearms owners killed no one yesterday.
14. Guns have only two enemies: rust and liberals.
15. Know guns, know peace and safety. No guns, no peace nor safety.
16. You do not shoot to kill; you shoot to stay alive.
17. 911 - government sponsored Dial-a-prayer.
18. Assault is a behavior, not a device.
19. Criminals love gun control--it makes their jobs safer.
20. If guns cause crime, then matches cause arson.
21. Only a government that is afraid of its citizens tries to control them.
22. You only have the rights you are willing to fight for.
23. Enforce the ‘gun control laws’ we have, do not make more.
24. When you remove the people’s right to bear arms, you create slaves.
25. The American Revolution would never have happened with gun control.
26. ‘...A government of the people, by the people, for the people...’
Always worth remembering…
UPDATE: I forgot one: “27. Democracy is two Wolves and a Lamb voting on what to have for lunch. Liberty is a well armed Lamb contesting the vote.” (Benjamin Franklin)
Tuesday, February 13, 2007
And another
These seem to be coming more and more often…
I was just in a large “Box-type” department store (who shall remain nameless) trying to special order some new stuff, and ran across this nice young lady who was extraordinarily helpless in the face of what seemed (to me, your average customer) to be quite ordinary requests.
“You’ll have to forgive me, sir, but this is my very first day - like, just three hours, y’know?”
I’ve been in her shoes - first day on a new job - but I wasn’t asking for anything out of the ordinary. Just some bathroom stuff, straight out of the catalog. I could point to the picture on the page and everything! It wasn’t that they didn’t offer this stuff, just that they didn’t have that particular item in stock at the local branch!
Yet she didn’t even TRY to help - choosing instead to stand helpless while waiting for a more senior employee to wander back from wherever they had ventured during the “rush” (I was the only customer I could see within 20 yards). I was patient and polite and had a pretty cool new audiobook on the mp3 player (Thuvia, Maid of Mars by E.R. Burroughs) so I didn’t cause any hassles during the ten minutes it took to be waited on by someone who was willing to touch the keyboard.
Maybe I should have been a little more vocal…
Monday, February 12, 2007
Talk about Ironic
I was just driving to the local hardware store (I’m looking for a Valentine’s Day gift) and ended up in the left turn lane behind a vehicle obviously driven by someone who hates the terrorists controlling the oil pumps. There were two bumper stickers and a window decal. (I’ll get back to that decal in a second.)
One bumper sticker had a cute-sy little cartoon of a smiling sun and read “One solution rises every morning” and the other had a bright, shiny rainbow and read, “SOLAR ENERGY Clean Energy Now”.
Now, the ironic part. (Those of you who have been here for a while could probably guess this next part.)
The vehicle? A badly out-of-tune and moderately dented Ford F-150. With a lumber rack.
Oh, and that window decal? “GO RAIDERS”
God is an iron.
How long does it take to swallow a pill?
I see this commercial for some women’s calcium supplement…
...and Sally Field (yes, the Flying Nun herself) is telling us a story about how her friend “has to schedule time every week to take her calcium pill” (from a competing calcium supplement making company, no doubt), and how the calcium supplement she is currently touting is better because “you only have to take it once a month”.
Look, ladies, how long does it take to swallow a freaking pill? Three seconds? Five? Is it really that much of a hassle to have to spend that handful of heartbeats once a week that you would honestly believe that it’s going to improve your life by saving those weekly seconds and only spending those seconds on a once-a-month basis?
Why, with the time you will have saved, you might even be able to finish reading this sente........ Oops, too late.