Damn. One of my biggest peeves about most of us as American Citizens is that a great portion of the populace is ready for the government to make all of their decisions for them instead of taking some responsibility for what happens to them. This entry over at The Bitch Girls mirrors my feelings on the subject.
The Bitch Girls
It’s Easier When Someone Else Thinks For You
That’s what the Boston Globe wants you to believe. Let’s travel back long, long ago to July. Regular columnist Ellen Goodman was horrified at the thought that she should have to take responsibility for eating well and watching her own weight. Now she’s pissed off because she’s being given back the money she earned and told that she can probably find a better use for it than the government. What’s worse is that she claims that she supports the idea of “personal responsibility,” but this at least the second time that she’s published in a major newspaper bitching about it and claiming that it shouldn’t apply.
January 2004
Always one in a crowd
My wife will probably read this and kick my ass, but that’s ok. Only read the extended entry if you are a male chauvinist pig. If you are a female, or in touch with your sensitive side, be warned.
Just remember, I told you so. Don’t f’ing email me with complaints after you were warned.
Landover Baptist Church
Landover Baptist | Where the Worthwhile Worship. Unsaved Unwelcome.
Hehe, check out this site only if you are not easily offended.
Abducted girls safe, suspect wounded
CALHOUN, Georgia (CNN) — The man sought by the FBI in the abduction of three girls and charged with killing four people apparently shot himself while being pursued Thursday evening, police said.
Georgia Bureau of Investigation spokesman John Bankhead said Jerry William Jones is in serious condition but the three girls are safe following an auto accident on Interstate 75 at the Tennessee state line.
Good. Let him get all healed up, then fry his ass.
Girls feared taken by quadruple killing suspect
ATLANTA, Georgia (CNN) — Authorities in northwest Georgia were searching across the Southeast on Thursday for a man suspected of killing four people, including his 10-month-old daughter, and abducting three girls who investigators said are in “extreme danger.”
They need to find this piece of shit, castrate him, and then burn him alive.
More on Immigration
CNN.com – Democrats: Bush immigration plan not enough – Jan. 7, 2004
One of the key points of the immigration proposal that I overlooked earlier is that it is going to be administered by the Department of Homeland Security. Damn. Sooner or later they will all have to wear the Star of David, the way this sounds.
I am not against immigration, no matter how I rant. I just think it needs to be done by following the law. If the law needs to be changed, then change it.
I do know that if I were here illegally, I damn sure would not want the Dept. of Homeland Security to know where I was.
Illegal Aliens
CNN.com – Bush calls for changes on illegal workers – Jan. 7, 2004
WASHINGTON (CNN) — Saying the United States needs an immigration system “that serves the American economy and reflects the American dream,” President Bush Wednesday outlined an plan to revamp the nation’s immigration laws and allow some eight million illegal immigrants to obtain legal status as temporary workers.
Perhaps if they had legally applied for visas in the first place, they would not be illegal aliens. Notice also that he is not calling them aliens now, but illegal immigrants
“Over the generations, we have received energetic, ambitious optimistic people from every part of the world. By tradition and conviction, our country is a welcoming society,” he said. “Every generation of immigrants has reaffirmed the wisdom of remaining open to the talents and dreams of the world.”
On this I agree. Our nation would not be what it is today without the millions of immigrants to this country.
“As a nation that values immigration and depends on immigration, we should have immigration laws that work and make us proud,” he said. “Yet, today, we do not.”
Perhaps that is so, but we need to follow our current laws until they are changed. Grandfathering in thousands of people, many of whom cannot even speak english, much less pass the citiizenship test is not the way to go about it. We have thousands of non-violent drug offenders in our prisons. Our government will not realease them, but will welcome illegal aliens with open arms?
Bush said the reform confronts “a basic fact of life and economics — some of the jobs being generated in America’s growing economy are jobs American citizens are not filling.”
Then perhaps all of the six million unemployed need to take a good hard look, get off of welfare and unemployment and get a fucking job. ANY job is better than no job at all.
Handgun Control
This is what happens when you ban handguns.
The Spoons Experience: CHICAGO IS 2003 MURDER CAPITAL OF U.S.
Governors 4, Senators 0
Govs 4, Senators 0. Tough Odds (washingtonpost.com)
This was an interesting read about the comparison between legislators and Governors when they run for president. Of course, running against a sitting president is already going to be hard enough for any of them.
Pete Rose
Pete Rose finally came clean about having gambled after 14 years. I still have great respect for the man as a great athlete. Anyone that believed him about having not gambled has no respect for facts anyway.
Commisioner Selig has said in the past that all Rose has to do is come clean and all would be forgiven. Now we will see if he is a man of his word or not.