Now it just needs spinners

This is quite possibly the most brilliant and amusing thing I've seen in quite a while.

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Here They Grow

Now that I've gotten my big rant off my chest, I need to record some big family milestones. On Sunday, Jack got his first big-boy bed. It's one of those little tykes ones that looks like a blue Ferrari. His eyes lit up like spotlights when he saw it and he immediately jumped on it and pulled a blanket over himself, telling me he was going 'Nye-night.' My little man is getting so big; he deserves a bed that cool.

Aeryn still has two teeth. Sort of. I don't think she's ever actually going to get any more. She's 14 months old and has one bottom front tooth and half the corresponding top tooth. She's so ridiculously cute. Her big event: I picked her up after her nap and as usual, she danced and raised her arms and called me 'Da-da'. I replied with'Hi Aeryn...can you say Aeryn?' and she stunned me with 'Ahwah.' Not once, but three times.

These are moments you just don't get everyday. It's hard to see them grow and change, but yet it's so fulfilling. Every day I get to learn a little more about them, and although I am bristling with excitement about the day they're old enough to really talk with them, I can wait. I love watching them get there, it's the greatest show on Earth.

The Disjointed States of Meximerica

I know for a fact I'm going to be labeled a racist neocon hatemonger for this, but only by people too stupid to understand what I'm about to say. If you are a democrat, communist, or even remotely liberal, please do yourself a favor and read this twice, then ask someone else to go over it with you. Ok, that being said here we go.

Evidently myself and a limited number of other Americans are the only ones who've noticed that something is not rotten in Denmark. Quite the contrary, they're the ones flipping the bird to people out to destroy their culture. Here in the good ol' USA, we're standing by and letting it happen while left-wingers cloak the immigration issue in the guise of the all powerful and mystical 'Civil Rights' aura. It's disgusting how we as a nation have become not a nation of principle, but a nation of tolerance. Tolerance is not something to be proud of. You 'tolerate' a child acting up in public until you can discipline him without making a scene. Our culture has come to view closely held principles as ideological hatred of differentiation. Somewhere along the line, we've been told that we should soften our beliefs, and be tolerant of things we might disagree with. This is precisely why America no longer has a spine and is suffering from a major global identity crisis. We're no longer capable of speaking with one voice; we're barely capable of speaking with one language.

Case in point; the immigration protests. According to the Christian Science Monitor, this Monday, April 10th, illegal immigrants are again planning to protest in some 90 cities nationwide alongside legal immigrants, pleading for a change to US immigration policy. Specifically, they are complaining about crackdowns on border security and the reclassification of illegal entry into this country as a felony offense.

Illegal Immigrants are attempting to change US policy, and for some reason, we're listening. Imagine the headlines if Americans started sneaking into Canada en masse and then demanding Canada give them welfare, college tuition breaks and other subsidies. Oh and while they're at it, start protesting their border restrictions and immigration laws. Ok, well, Canada being the liberal nirvana it is might not be the best example, but you get the point. Even Canada would tell us to get the hell out and go home.

Adding insult to injury, at least one high school has banned the display of the American flag as it may incite violence. Here's a clue; it's not the American flag that is pissing people off. It's the illegal immigrants and their supporters tearing down the American flag and raising the Mexican one over US territory.

We have immigration policies in place for those who want to come in and be a contributing member of our society. Those who sneak in and violate that law should be treated as criminals. They violated the damned LAW to get here. Why is that so astonishingly hard to grasp? It's very simple. If you want to change our rules, play by them.

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Is it a lung? An intestine? No, it's Mohammed!

I caught this on Drudge last night. Lying there in the blood and gore next to a single sandal and what appears to be, of all things, a rosary, what should appear but a picture of - could it be - Mohammed? It almost appears to be one of those little personal fans like they used to give out at church when I was a kid; the ones with the happy scene on a piece of cardboard stuck to a popsicle stick.


I was under the impression that pictures of Mohammed were bad. Very bad. Jihad bad. But there, lying in the guts, there he is. In the middle of Iraq, someone decided that it would be a good idea to carry a picture of Mohammed? Interesting, no? Even more interesting is that the person who wore the sandal and carried the picture of Mohammed was apparently blown off the face of the planet by someone who was inspired to kill by Mohammed's religion of peace.


I guess you could say it takes guts to be a Muslim.

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The Christal Ball Was Right

Not too long ago, I predicted that Apple would somehow enable windows apps to run natively on OSX 10.5 Leopard. It looks like I was at least partially correct, as Apple just released a beta version of their 'Boot Camp' software which enables Intel-based macs to boot Windows XP.

I personally have no desire to do such a thing as I spent plenty of years using Windows and itching to get away from it. I often found myself needing a shower after using it. Now that I've been away for over a year, I really don't think I'd ever particularly care to use it again if I can at all avoid it. Hackers and advocates of 'choice on the desktop' everywhere are relishing the news, no doubt. More power to them, but I'll stick with OSX.

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Somnambulent Sputterings

I might be off base here given the fact that I'm relatively sure I'm already asleep - but wouldn't it make sense to be able to swipe a credit card at a laundromat? My thigh's got a bruise the size of an apple from lugging laundry up and down three flights of stairs to our non-change-machine equipped in-building laundry room with twenty dollars worth of quarters in the pocket of my cargo shorts. 

Yes, I said twenty dollars.  We had a lot of laundry to catch up on.  Moving always seems to mess with that first.  On top of the sheer aggravation of having to waste a large chunk of a perfectly nice day washing clothes, I had to suffer the additional pain in the ass of having to find a place to actually GET that many quarters at one o'clock on a Saturday afternoon.

With something on the order of 14 trips up and down the stairs, I finally wrapped up just after midnight. Now completely quarterless, bruised, and thoroughly drained of energy I'm infinitely more aware that some cardio training would be a good thing.

San Francisco Sucks (Oh, the Irony)

If you're like most people, you probably didn't hear much if anything at all about a huge Christian rally called 'Battlecry for a Generation' in San Francisco recently.  Approximately 25,000 young Christians met up to worship together and make a statement against the glorification of drugs, alcohol, promiscuous and risky sexual behavior, selfish humanism and perversion in youth culture. 

Judging by the response of the city government, you'd think Adolf Hitler himself had spontaneously returned from the grave, materialized a legion of black-shirted SS troops and announced the creation of the Fourth Reich.  According to the San Francisco Chronicle, Assemblyman Mark Leno, Democrat and gay activist (wow, imagine those two terms in the same sentence) condemned the event in no uncertain terms saying "they're loud, they're obnoxious, they're disgusting, and they should get out of San Francisco." In fact, the city actually issued an official condemnation of the event.

Obviously, it bears repeating at this point that the democratic/homosexual agenda will fight tirelessly for freedom of expression, but this extends only as far as it does not involve allowing anyone to publicly disagree with their cause.   What's truly sad about this attitude is the stunning degree of hostility toward this event, especially in light of the city supervisors' statement that San Francisco is 'America's most tolerant, progressive city.'

Evidently that tolerance doesn't apply to anyone who is not gay, didn't vote Kerry, or is Christian.  The type of tolerance San Francisco practices has proved fruitful, especially to those who like a staggering HIV/AIDS rate, and more gay prostitutes on the streets than cops.  I suppose these young Christians would seem disgusting to someone of Mr. Leno's persuasion.  After all, they are out there encouraging such hateful behavior as compassion, sexual purity, and accountability.

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