Some words of optimism, sort of, from Victor Davis Hanson.
In part, history is on his side, we have an impressive record of overcoming significant challenges and it probably isn’t different this time. In part, history is not on his side. No nation retains hegemony in perpetuity.
The U.S., as in the taxpayer, is on the hook for $59.1 trillion of liabilities, vastly underfunded. That works out to $516,348 per household. Just make your check out to the U.S. Treasury.
Isn’t it wonderful to spend your way to prosperity? What idiot sees no problem with this? There’s also the little matter of each household owing on average an additional $112,043 in other forms of debt.
We may be supporting Chinese slave labor through our Wal-Mart purchases but before too long the roles of slave and master will be reversed as our lives increasingly consist of Chinese debt service. Might be a good time to brush up on your Mandarin.
Hey, Joe Middle-America-Popular Culture-Mind Rot, how’s that American Idol going? Party on.
You broke our laws and have the audacity to parade through our streets propagating this garbage? Go home. And if you continue to refuse to respect our laws, fine. We’ll mine the border and place robotic machine gun towers every 500 yards. Either a nation can decide for itself whom to allow in or it can’t. I welcome the legal immigrant. But disrespect our laws and we will squash you like bugs. Your choice.
Better it than our continued suffocation by its obsolescence. Here’s hoping it reports on its increasing irrelevance instead of flaccidly ignoring the stink in the room.
Our United States Congress is now hard at work drafting legislation that would grant amnesty to illegal immigrants.
I guess they’ve earned it. They broke the law, slipped in through some fence hole at night, and didn’t get sent back yet. Just plain deserve it. Entitled to it. Their reward for lawlessness.
Meanwhile, the rest of us just get this “kick me” sign planted firmly on our backs. Consolation prize, I guess.
Wretched politicians.
Here’s my solution to illegal immigration: deportation.
This is a beach house currently under construction in the western United States, a ridiculous hodgepodge of competing styles, each crying out for attention, like a hydra with multiple personality disorder, or an incoherent run-on sentence that never ends.
Someone is paying a lot of money for this house. Someone paid an architect a lot of money to design this house. These people are not well. If you know who they are, please extend my sympathies. It’s not too late to tear it down and start fresh.
You can take your husband’s name. You can take your wife’s name. You can both keep your original names. You can make up a single new name. I don’t care. Just pick one. Do it for the rest of us who otherwise will have to live, painfully, with the ridiculous, guttural result of your indecisiveness.
Divinely inspired by J. Robert Oppenheimer’s quotation of the Bhagavad-Gita in reference to the Trinity Test, the first nuclear explosion, “Now, I am become death, the destroyer of worlds.”
A special message for our many readers in sub-Saharan Africa: patronize no butcher dealing in bushmeat. The monkey is your friend. Not food. And if the shoe were on the other foot, well. . . it would be good for you to have some favors to call in.
The end of foreign interventionism. The enforcement of immigration laws. The repeal of the Patriot Act. The repeal of the Sixteenth Amendment and end of the IRS. The return to a commodity-backed currency and end of the Federal Reserve. The end of the idiotic war on drugs that has eviscerated the Fourth Amendment. And above all, the limited government envisioned by the Framers. For all these reasons I support Ron Paul for President in 2008.
Thousands of endangered Moon Bears are cruelly imprisoned on Chinese bear farms. The bears are kept in ridiculously small cages and farmed for their gall bladder bile, used in traditional Asian medicine. Permanent catheters are installed or abdominal holes are surgically created for the bile to be harvested. The bears suffer brutal lives of confinement and pain, sometimes lasting 20 years or more.
Animals Asia is a nonprofit organization dedicated to freeing as many bile farm bears as possible and closing the farms. The freed bears are well cared for by veterinary professionals and placed in special bear sanctuaries to live out the remainder of their days humanely. Animals Asia has helped free 219 bears so far.
Support Animals Asia in saving these bears and encouraging the Chinese government to ban this horrible practice.
Below is Jasper, one of the freed bears, in his new habitat.
