We've had a number of pro-illegal immigrant marches today. All around the world we have had a lot of demonstrations. The old Soviet model all over again. It's rearing itself again. The monstrous evil that stood over the last century.
Yet, most, if not all who marched today fail to understand what communism stands for. Too many are sporting Che T-shirts. Che, who was nothing more than a murderer. To many turning a blind eye to the damage, the death, the destruction that communism caused. Too many who excuse the monsters - or worse, deny the monsters existed.
May Day should be a day to mourn the lost souls who the communists killed. Not a day to celebrate the killers of at least 100 million people.
This is getting serious folks. While our media, driven further to the left by the left, continues to distract attention, Iran is rushing ahead with it's plans.
Oh, so what, they're trying to get nukes, right? No big deal, right?
How about forming an alliances with China and Russia? No problem, right?
How about Iran trying to bind Pakistan to itself? The Times of India is reporting that Iran and Pakistan have penned an agreement to build a gas pipeline to Pakistan.
This is looking more and more, every single day, like the build-up to World War II.
Quit fighting the last election and start thinking about your country.
UPDATE: Trying to bind India as well.
And don't check some of my blogroll friends often enough. When I get a moment, I try to catch up. Jim over at Gateway Pundit has been very kind to me and my relatively new blog and has linked to me several times. Today I went by his place and found two extraordinary posts that should be widely read.
The first one blows the meme that went around over the weekend about all the Iraqi's who had been displaced. The MSM reported huge numbers. (I did not cover that. I was waiting to hear from my son about it, since he would know if the roads were choked with refugees). Well, let's put it this way. It just ain't so. As in completely fabricated. As in they couldn't find these refugees - and they looked.
The second one is very, very disturbing. The new Black Panthers have decided to play the race card in a really big way at Duke. They presented a list of eight demands. One of which is that the lacrosse players be tried and convicted (those were the exact words quoted) immediately. Oh and expel the indicted players right now. So much for the constitution.
Go over and pay a visit.
From Lou Dobbs. In 1980 jobs in a meatpacking plant paid $19 per hour. Today that same job pays closer to $9 per hour. A lot of meat packing plants closed today.
Connect the dots.
Americans won't take the jobs? At $19 per hour, they'd be lined up out the door.
Only the "F" doesn't stand for Friday in this case. It stands for finger. A customer at a TGI Fridays in Bloomington, Indiana was inadvertently served part of the kitchen manager's severed finger after an accident in the kitchen. The company has acknowledged the accident and has apologized, promptly and publicly. (Lesson for companies that have a PR problem - like Hilton - this technique works.)
The customer did not eat the food, incidentally.
Odd thing in the story, the customer called the police. I have no idea why they would do that, it doesn't sound like the restaurant did anything illegal. It's not like they were serving human intentionally. Or were they? Bwahahahahahaha.
Well, there have been marches across the country at this point by people supporting illegal immigration. A side note is that a number of businesses that employ large numbers of illegals have now identified themselves by closing today or by complaining publicly that their workers didn't show up. That's a hint to the INS.
I have maintained all along that this was an appalling strategy that would result in an enormous backlash. As of right now Rasmussen is reporting that a third party candidate running on a tough immigration platform could pull off a win in a race for the White House.
Republicans and Democrats both better be scared of this. All of your jobs are in danger. All of them. My guess is that the turn out today will galvanize the majority against any politician that blocks meaningful reform. Start with the fence, folks or face reality at the polls.
UPDATE: Well, this will about guarantee an enormous backlash. Mexican unions are now calling for a boycott of US goods. No longer content with the foot as a target, they decide to shoot themselves in the head.
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Michael Totten on his trip to the powder keg that is the Lebanese border with Israel. I guess it would be more correct to say the Hezbollah border, though.
Has been forced out of the Capitol Hilton.
List of Hilton Brands:
Conrad Hotels
Doubletree
Embassy Suites
Hampton
Homewood Suites
And any of the varieties of Hilton Hotels and resorts.
If this poll reported by CNN did, indeed, ask the question as worded in the article, this is the most blatantly ridiculous poll I have ever even heard of. According to the story, the poll asked whether people thought the mission in Iraq had been accomplished. It states 9% said yes, another 40% said not yet, but it would be.
Well, duh.
Of course the damned mission is not fully accomplished yet. They dishonestly bring up the speech made on the USS Abraham Lincoln where Bush declared the end to major combat operations. Calling it his "Mission Accomplished" speech. Note the use of quotes, since they know darn well they are being dishonest about the speech. That old canard has been flogged to death.
That question is specifically designed to provide a low numeric answer. Dishonest polling at it's best. Or worst.
Clint Taylor over at Nail Yale reports what may be a good sign that Hashemi will not be admitted as a regular student at Yale. It's still very non-committal, but is at least a sign that something is up.
I've been laying low on photoshopping Yale-related items since Levin announced the policy, but I may yet start them up again….
I see a couple of comments out in the blogosphere and even from movie analysts that say, in effect, that Flight 93 didn't live up to it's hype. Well, aside from the obvious "spoiler" activity in these posts, they're also misleading.
According to Box Office Mojo, flight 93 opened on 1,795 screens and grossed over $11 million. Average is $6,465 per screen. The total gross puts it in second place.
But the first place film, RV, opened on twice as many screens, 3,639 and grossed $16 million for an average of $4,506 per screen.
Flight 93, in fact, is on fewer screens than any of the top ten movies listed on Box Office Mojo. These are very respectable numbers, indeed.
UPDATE: I should finish my thought before I hit the publish key. Flight 93 also only cost $15 million to make. So it has already covered 73% of it's production cost. RV cost $50 million, therefore covered only 32%. Flight 93 is going to be a very profitable movie by the time it's all said and done.
Update: Gary at Ex-Donkey has a review.
Or the women of the world will become extremely unhappy. Well, those women that prefer men anyway. One researcher, quoted in the London Free Press says that pesticide use can lead to diminished penis sizes.
A renowned U.S. scientist who has documented fertility and sex changes — including decreasing penis size — due to environmental contamination says he wouldn't apply pesticides on his own lawn.
Delivering a special series of lectures this week at the University of Western Ontario, Louis Guillette has been drawn into London's lawn-care debate during question periods and talk-show interviews.
"The use of these compounds just for cosmetic reasons, just because you don't want to make dandelion wine from your yard or whatever, I think is inappropriate," Guillette, who is associate dean for research at the University of Florida, said in a lecture yesterday at UWO's Schulich School of Medicine and Dentistry.
So, it's not lawn envy - it's a different envy altogether! By the way, this particular "next big crisis" pops up every now and then, like a trial balloon. I've read about this particular scare several times in the past few years. Now if researchers would just get to work on something that would really generate some interest.
What causes the opposite effect? Inquiring minds want to know.
Today's Washington Post takes note of the Blogads survey that was just conducted. A lot of other blogs commented on that when it came out. I did read the survey results. The WaPo people correctly points out that the poll was heavily skewed toward Democrats since a lot of the major conservative blogs were not part of the survey.
I'm always leery of self-selecting polls since they tend to skew very easily, but I suppose the folks at Blogads got some interesting demographic data. What is rather funny is that the media who routinely diss the blogosphere have got to be rather surprised at the average demographic - it's likely better than most media!
Andi over at Andi's World has a post up about a movie that opened at the Tribeca Film Festival called The War Tapes. It follows three members of our military and the families they left behind.
After Mike returns home, Randi tells us that her husband is frustrated and wants her to "understand what he's been through." Randi says she can't, she'll "never understand", but adds that she would like Mike to understand what she went through back home. While Randi is right, none of us will ever completely understand what the other has endured, I think this film goes a long way in helping us to understand as much as we can, and that's a valuable gift to military families. The War Tapes takes us to the front lines. It's a film everyone should see, especially military members and their families.
Andi is calling for everyone in the military community to see this film. I know I plan to.
Here's a link to The War Tapes blog.
The family has had their lawyer send a pretty strongly worded letter demanding a change in physicians. John Hawkins at Right Wing News has the very latest news on this case. It really is time to call the hospital if you have not already done so. It's time to call them again if you already have. As always, be very, very polite. Remember, the person you talk to will not be one of the people who are trying to kill Andrea.
St. Luke's contact information.
UPDATE: Well, at least the Washington Times picked up this story.
