Why?

Why do children born to illegal immigrants automatically become legal citizens of the United States? I just sayin'.

*thumbs nose at terrorists*

Web site shows defiance to terrorists who bombed the London Underground and a bus, killing over fifty innocent civilians and injuring hundreds.

The Beeb

As usual, Michelle Malkin has the goods. In "The 7/7 Attacks: The BBC Backslides," she details how the British Broadcasting Corporation is back to their old trick of whitewashing terrorism.

Terrorism

FOX News has an article entitled, "Coping With Psychological Effects of Terror." Here's an excerpt:

"The use of terrorism as a tactic is predicated upon inducing a climate of fear that is incommensurate with the actual threat," says Middle Eastern historian Richard Bulliet of Columbia University.

Ergo, the logical thing to do is to realize what level of fear would be appropriate and not allow one's fear to escalate above that level. Thus, terrorism is defeated. Q. E. D.

Supreme quotas?

Dr. Thomas Sowell on Supreme court nominations:

It wouldn't matter if all nine Justices of the Supreme Court were women, if these were the nine best people available. But to decide in advance that you were going to appoint a woman and then look only among women for a nominee was a dangerous gamble with a court that has become dangerous enough otherwise.

Pocket Contents (w/pic)

This photograph is of the coffee table in the living room of my Mother's house. I had just mowed her back yard, my clothes were soaking wet with sweat, and I had emptied my pockets, prior to changing into some dry clothes. Well, not everything on the table was from my pockets, e. g., the battery-powered electric shaver, the paperback book (about which I will have more to say in a later post), the glass bowl, and the cardboard box.

Some of the things that did come out of my pockets (from bottom-center, clockwise): my wallet, some cash (coins and bills), my cellular telephone, keys, more coins, a red comb, a ballpoint pen, my checkbook, a yellow pencil, my belt, my glasses, and a fingernail clipper.

Vacation Fun! (w/pic)

This is where I spent part of my afternoon this Fourth of July holiday--the coin operated laundry, or, as the sign says, COI_ L__NDR_! Also, I spent a good part of the afternoon mowing my Mother's back yard. In a light rain. 

Edjumakashun

From FARK.com:

Toyota building new plant in Canada despite massive subsidy offers from American states. Reason: southern Americans too dumb and illiterate to train; need directions in pictorial form.

FARK entry links to this article:

He [Gerry Fedchun, president of the Automotive Parts Manufacturers' Association] said Nissan and Honda have encountered difficulties getting new plants up to full production in recent years in Mississippi and Alabama due to an untrained - and often illiterate - workforce. In Alabama, trainers had to use "pictorials" to teach some illiterate workers how to use high-tech plant equipment.

Smuggling

FOX News is carrying an Associated Press story, on the Internet, which deals with how easy it is to smuggle people into the United States.

A restaurateur in this border city [Tijuana, Mexico] ran another business smuggling Lebanese compatriots into the United States, some with connections to Hezbollah. A Sept. 11 commission staff report called him the only "human smuggler with suspected links to terrorists" convicted in the United States. But he is not unique, according to an Associated Press investigation based on government and court records and scores of interviews.

Supremes

For Independence Day, Supreme Court Slams Founders