The other day Hackerboy (who is six) was on the Wii playing a game that looked suspiciously like the Tour de France in its layout. Let’s call it the Tour de Frank.
Anyway, he had moved from 100th place in the beginning to 17th place by the end of Stage 5. I was making dinner and only marginally paying attention but I was following his progress. He was clearly excited by his progress and I heard him say loudly:
I was BORN for this!
Where he got that, I’ll never know.
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I’m not addicted to Red Bull™. I can quit anytime. I like the taste. It is a social thing. I just don’t want to quit. I’m not hurting anybody. I only have a few. Other people? They have problems.
Beautifully creative use of Red Bull™ long after the body has eliminated it.
I only wish I had come up with that idea. It’s elegant. Beautiful. Cheaper than taking it to the shop.
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Note: I’m tired, cranky, and bitchy. I’m going to rant. You might skip over this if you are in a “don’t pop my bubble” mood.
As you know, I listen to NPR to follow the saying “Know thine enemy”.
I end up knowing far too much.
Rodriguez moved to the U.S. with his family when he was 7. He says if he could, he would vote.
“To see people that have that privilege and not take it, and because they don’t take it we have people elected that create laws that hurt me, that hurt my family, that hurt our communities. It can get frustrating,” he says.
“I am practically an American without papers, and because of that I don’t have the power to vote,” says Rodriguez. “So, the best thing I can do now is organize those that can, and make them vote for me.”
Yet another ILLEGAL alien is whinging about the raw deal he’s getting just because he hasn’t gone and become a legal entity in the US. Like it’s the US’s fault that he’s in the situation he’s in. It’s his family who is at fault. They didn’t do a “moved to the US”, they did a “snuck into the country illegally and decided to stay”.
At the end of the evening, Somos America President Daniel Rodriguez took to the podium.
“Raise your hand,” he said in Spanish, “if you know someone who’s not here but needs this information. Raise your hand if you know someone who’s been deported. Raise your hand if you know someone who has the power to vote.”
Across the room, hands shot up at each statement.
“Every question, almost everyone raised their hands, and that just goes to show you that there’s a lot of people that know the pain and the hurt of being deported or having to know someone that was deported,” Rodriguez recounted.
Rodriguez told the crowd of mostly ineligible voters that they need to use that pain and turn it into power by tapping friends and family who can vote.
The pain and hurt of being deported or having to know someone that was deported… I have friends from Germany that were here LEGALLY and they had to go back home. So a large number of hispanics here illegally feel like they are owed the right to break the law and be given a free pass? Well, they certainly won’t be disabused of that notion by our Marxist president and the liberal media.
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Today I heard another thing on NPR.
One of the reporters was interviewing a lady from Yemen.
Turns out a lot of Yemenis hate the US and distrust us.
WHOA! OHMYGODOHMYGODOHMYGOD! This turns my world UPSIDE DOWN! Yemenis somewhere in the world hate us. Oh. My. God.
She said it as if we were suddenly going to have to sit up straight and pay attention. So what? Big deal. Let’s have a head count – the number of Yemenis who have been terrorists who have attempted to kill, want to kill, or have killed – innocent civilians. Ok. Now let’s take a head count of the number of US terrorists who have the same aspirations to kill Yemenis. Yeah, there’s a huge network of people organizing to do just that. Uh-huh. Sure.
Next, the reporter made mention of either $150 or $170 million dollars being spent on aid programs in Yemen – building things, infrastructure, etc. He asked her if that is helping the US’s image in Yemen.
Guess what?
Her response was essentially that no, it does nothing because Yemenis see how much we spend on military involvement in Yemen – troops, equipment, training – and see that it is far more. They also believe that most of that money goes to corrupt individuals in their government.
A corrupt government is a symptom of a corrupt society (the US is not an exception). But why is the US implicitly to blame for their corruption? Why do Yemenis still take money from the US?
And better yet, why do we spend money on a country that hates and distrusts us when it does no good and is going to corrupt individuals? We do it so we can function covertly and overtly in their country. Let’s not couch it in terms of “aid”, m’kay? And Yemen – if it is such a distasteful thing, stop claiming the high road while holding out the hands for money. Clean your house of corruption while you are at it.
Yemen clean up their corruption? But it’s all they have ever known. Allah told them so. They will ALWAYS take what is given to them, and spit upon the open hand. Because to them, it’s taqiyya. The only thing they find distasteful about it, is that it’s not enough, and we live to keep doing it.
Oh Noes! The Yemenis hate us.
That’s kind of stupid on at least two levels.
First off, we killed a lot of Yemenis in Iraq. I’m pretty sure they weren’t there because of a desire to understand Marine tactics.
Second, who cares? Seriously. I like to be liked, but there are just a lot of people who I would be unhappy if they did like me.
I’ve tried to listen to NPR, the problem is that even when I agree with them, they tick me off.
Their smug arrogance and dismissal of any who are stupid enough to disagree with them just bothers me. Especially when you couple that smug arrogance with willful and aggressive ignorance. They don’t seem to be able to attack anything but strawmen even when there are real arguments in their favor.
I have to admit, I use smug arrogance, but usually only on people who deserve it.
You know, like LK. The monarch who’s driving his people into extinction.
Talk to the tail.
Yes, NPR is a mirror of liberals at large. Somehow they are all convinced they are moderates/independents because they are all so rational-minded. Only a very few liberals actually believe themselves to be card-carrying libs. It’s sort of the reverse of everyone believing they are above-average drivers.