Friday, February 04, 2005
sotu
I'm not as cross today, got the insurance premium down by 43% ($280/year or only $0.62/mile, ought to drive more? ;o).
Mighty fine speech by the Prez night before last. All the usual suspects have blogged and live-blogged on it, and I've got nothing significant to add except for my concern about what seems to be his push for what appears to be a open-borders policy. No meat in last night's speech about it and honestly, I don't have a reasonable idea of what can be done. Considering there are nearly as many illegal aliens in the US at present as the entire population of Iraq, the situation is pretty-much out of control. Lots of laws on the books already with heavy penalties making criminals out of so many, just never much enforced. *sigh*
Don't know if you've ever read "Uncle Al", Alan Schwartz. He mostly posts 5 essays every Friday and has for years. Some are funny, some esoteric, some sting, and his page is headed by:
He has his own take on Social Security. It doesn't quite conform to what Harry Reid said last night!
Steve H. of Hog on Ice has a few interesting comments as well.
Between CSI: Las Vegas and the local news last evening, MoveOn.arg ran an ad saying the Evil Bushies are going to steal 43% of everybody's SS and to call Alan Boyd (local lefty congresscritter) and howl at him to fight. If MoveOn is fer it, you just KNOW it's farked. Boyd's voting record looks like he cribs from Pelosi's sheet so I don't know why they wasted the money.
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Osama's Valentine (from FR)
Little Melissa comes home from first grade and tells her father that they learned about the history of Valentine's Day. "Since Valentine's Day is for a Christian Saint and we're Jewish," she asks, "will God get mad at me for giving someone a valentine?
"Melissa's father thinks a bit, then says, "No, I don't think God would get mad. Who do you want to give a valentine to?"
"Osama Bin Laden," she says.
"Why Osama Bin Laden?" her father asks in shock.
"Well," she says, "I thought that if a little American Jewish girl could have enough love to give Osama a valentine, he might start to think that maybe we're not all bad, and maybe start loving people a little bit. And if other kids saw what I did and sent valentines to Osama, he'd love everyone a lot and then he'd start going all over the place to tell everyone how much he loved them and how he didn't hate anyone anymore.
"Her father's heart swells and he looks at his daughter with new-found pride. "Melissa, that's the most wonderful thing I've ever heard."
"I know," Melissa says, "and once that gets him out in the open, our Marines could blow his ass to Kingdom Come."
Mighty fine speech by the Prez night before last. All the usual suspects have blogged and live-blogged on it, and I've got nothing significant to add except for my concern about what seems to be his push for what appears to be a open-borders policy. No meat in last night's speech about it and honestly, I don't have a reasonable idea of what can be done. Considering there are nearly as many illegal aliens in the US at present as the entire population of Iraq, the situation is pretty-much out of control. Lots of laws on the books already with heavy penalties making criminals out of so many, just never much enforced. *sigh*
Don't know if you've ever read "Uncle Al", Alan Schwartz. He mostly posts 5 essays every Friday and has for years. Some are funny, some esoteric, some sting, and his page is headed by:
These are works of fiction. There is no attempt made nor desire extant to libel or otherwise cause malicious damage, loss, public contempt, defamation, blasphemy, treason, sedition, or ridicule to persons, cabals, governments, institutions, corporations, or assemblies of inanimate objects, alien lifeforms, microorganisms, clergy, vegetables, animals, or observed spatio-temporal reality.
If it is found that any extant entity or collection of entities maintains an uncomfortable congruence to the caricatures and ridiculous comedic exaggerations contained herein, the author offers his apologies and condolences...
...and if you are still pissed off, you are invited to go pound sand up your ass.
Conciliation has its limits.
He has his own take on Social Security. It doesn't quite conform to what Harry Reid said last night!
Steve H. of Hog on Ice has a few interesting comments as well.
Between CSI: Las Vegas and the local news last evening, MoveOn.arg ran an ad saying the Evil Bushies are going to steal 43% of everybody's SS and to call Alan Boyd (local lefty congresscritter) and howl at him to fight. If MoveOn is fer it, you just KNOW it's farked. Boyd's voting record looks like he cribs from Pelosi's sheet so I don't know why they wasted the money.
* * * * * *
Osama's Valentine (from FR)
Little Melissa comes home from first grade and tells her father that they learned about the history of Valentine's Day. "Since Valentine's Day is for a Christian Saint and we're Jewish," she asks, "will God get mad at me for giving someone a valentine?
"Melissa's father thinks a bit, then says, "No, I don't think God would get mad. Who do you want to give a valentine to?"
"Osama Bin Laden," she says.
"Why Osama Bin Laden?" her father asks in shock.
"Well," she says, "I thought that if a little American Jewish girl could have enough love to give Osama a valentine, he might start to think that maybe we're not all bad, and maybe start loving people a little bit. And if other kids saw what I did and sent valentines to Osama, he'd love everyone a lot and then he'd start going all over the place to tell everyone how much he loved them and how he didn't hate anyone anymore.
"Her father's heart swells and he looks at his daughter with new-found pride. "Melissa, that's the most wonderful thing I've ever heard."
"I know," Melissa says, "and once that gets him out in the open, our Marines could blow his ass to Kingdom Come."
