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Mar 2006
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Lo creeré cuando lo veo
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Fri 31 Mar 2006 8:14
by Kevin McGehee
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Promises, promises.
Mexican President Vicente Fox yesterday promised President Bush that his country will do more to control the U.S.-Mexico border and will strengthen its own southern border to reduce the number of aliens crossing into Mexico to reach the United States.
“It is a shared, shared responsibility,“ Mr. Fox said at the end of a meeting with Mr. Bush at this Mexican resort town.
The two leaders, along with new Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper, have gathered to talk about security and economic cooperation, and Mr. Bush thanked Mr. Fox for “such a strong statement.“
“The president understands and I understand we have an obligation to secure our borders,“ Mr. Bush said.
The emphasis on border security reflects the political climate in the United States on immigration, where the only point that nearly all voters agree on is that the borders leak and the U.S. government has failed to control them.» Washington Times: Fox pledges more border control
The only “assurance” from Fox that will assure me, is if he fires those various Mexican government officials who have been talking about eliminating the U.S.-Mexican border entirely. And I’m not convinced their radicalism is purely ideological—I think they need to be investigated for corruption and held subject to criminal penalties.
That won’t happen. Fox couldn’t care less about the security of our shared border—he’s talking like this to take some of the heat off him and Bush on the issue.
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Maybe He Could Add a Restaurant
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Fri 31 Mar 2006 7:23
by Kevin McGehee
in Coweta County, GA
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...and he could call it The Redneck Supper Club. (Since “Cracker Barrel” is already taken.)
The sign directs motorists to the Tanger Outlet Center, where, between Nautica and Rack Room Shoes, they’ll find the Foxworthy Store: an emporium devoted to Atlanta comedian Jeff Foxworthy and his buddies on the Blue Collar Comedy Tour.
Ted and Susan McNabb of Barrie, Ontario, spotted the billboard on their way home from Disney World and pulled in with their two children. For half an hour, they heehawed over the clever T-shirts, humorous hunting paraphernalia and novelties built around Foxworthy’s “You might be a redneck” shtick — everything from camouflage camisoles for the ladies to a “redneck jack-in-the-box” that pops out of an outhouse.
“We had to check it out,“ said Stephanie McNabb, pointing toward her gimme-cap-wearing teenage brother, who was buying a DVD. “Christopher’s a redneck.“
The Foxworthy Store opened late last year in Locust Grove and two other outlet centers in Myrtle Beach, S.C. Business has exceeded expectations, and more locations are planned, including several in Georgia.» AJC: Foxworthy shtick has new outlet
Best part:
One shopper, a bride-to-be, came in and made a list of all the hunting decor she’d like to see in her boudoir. She wanted everything from the camouflage bedspread and shams to the toilet paper holder made of deer antlers.
“She was doing a wedding registry,“ Horton said. “I was just rolling.“
Sounds like Foxworthy has another redneck joke.
“If your bridal registry is at the Foxworthy Store ... you might be a redneck.“
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We’re Back
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Fri 31 Mar 2006 6:57
by Kevin McGehee
in Coweta County, GA
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Beats me why we were gone. These sudden disappearances are beginning to get on my nerves (wonderful way to start a morning, don’t you think?)—the others were attributable to a bug that was triggered by some javascript poll code I was showing from GOPbloggers.org, but this morning’s adventure seems to be related to the archive links that I had in the left sidebar. They’ve been removed temporarily until EE support can help me determine what’s wrong and I can fix it. Meanwhile, the search box will allow you to find archived posts that are in the EE database.
Anyway. At least it’s Friday.
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Ethnic Humor
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Wed 29 Mar 2006 9:58
by Kevin McGehee
in Coweta County, GA
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Growing up, I believed I was basically just Irish—or as we put it these days, Irish-hyphen-American.
It was reasonable to think that; my father didn’t do any genealogy so he looked at the “Mc” in the surname and accepted the general assumption that it was an Irish name. And his mother’s maiden name was Dugan, and my mother’s side was Irish too. Add to that the fact we were Catholic, and it was fairly easy to go along with being Irish.
There was just one problem. I didn’t seem to fit the really entertaining Irish stereotypes. I could drink and get drunk, and I got into fights, but I never got into fights when I was drunk.
Later, of course, I learned that the McGehees to which I belong were Scottish in origin, and it all made sense—because if there was one thing I most definitely was, it was stingy. It took me until relatively late in life to get anything remotely like comfortable with the idea of spending money. I’d see something I wanted, and even though I might have the money to buy it, I wouldn’t.
The reason was, if I did buy it, I’d have this thing I wanted, but I’d also have less money. <bloodcurdling scream>
So I’d pass it by, figuring maybe I’d buy it later. Like, when somebody invents a way that I can buy stuff and end up with more money.
That would be an invention people would like, right there.
Anyway, this meant that I’d be out with my friends, and they’d have their nice clothes and stuff, and be driving nice cars, and I’d show up dressed junkyard casual in my old clunker. I’d actually be the only one with actual cash money in my possession, but they were always the ones who were buying.
Whenever it came to be my turn to buy, I’d be in the can.
Counting my money.
(Hmm, let’s see. I could buy nine or ten rounds before I’d be running low, but payday’s like, tomorrow. I wouldn’t have very much to get me through until then, only four hundred or so. Maybe I should only buy four rounds and then tell them I need to get up early in the morning. ... Nah, maybe three.)
And by the time I got back to my friends somebody else had already bought. Dangedest thing. And nobody seemed to mind because they’d look at my clothes and my car and assume I was always broke.
Over the years, though, I’ve mellowed. Now I can actually bring myself to buy things. But now I don’t have any money.
I just don’t understand it.
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Homeland Security
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Wed 29 Mar 2006 7:08
by Kevin McGehee
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If you’re planning to run for local office in Dillingham, Alaska, make sure you do all your nosepicking behind close doors.
From Anchorage it takes 90 minutes on a propeller plane to reach this fishing village on the state’s southwestern edge, a place where some people still make raincoats out of walrus intestine.
This is the Alaskan bush at its most remote. Here, tundra meets sea, and sea turns to ice for half the year. Scattered, almost hidden, in the terrain are some of the most isolated communities on American soil. People choose to live in outposts like Dillingham (pop. 2,400) for that reason: to be left alone.
So eyebrows were raised in January when the first surveillance cameras went up on Main Street. Each camera is a shiny white metallic box with two lenses like eyes. The camera’s shape and design resemble a robot’s head.
Workers on motorized lifts installed seven cameras in a 360-degree cluster on top of City Hall. They put up groups of six atop two light poles at the loading dock, and more at the fire hall and boat harbor.
By mid-February, more than 60 cameras watched over the town, and the Dillingham Police Department plans to install 20 more — all purchased through a $202,000 Homeland Security grant meant primarily to defend against a terrorist attack.
Now the residents of this far-flung village have become, in one sense, among the most watched people in the land, with — as former Mayor Freeman Roberts puts it — “one camera for every 30 residents.“ » L.A. Times: 80 Eyes on 2,400 People
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Own a Piece of History
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Wed 29 Mar 2006 7:05
by Kevin McGehee
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What a conversation piece one of these would make.
Starved for cash, the New Orleans school district is taking a long shot and hoping to sell its flooded, unsalvageable school buses on eBay.
Some submerged to their roofs in the black flood waters, the yellow school buses were widely photographed in the days after Hurricane Katrina and have become an icon of the city’s devastated school system.
School officials acknowledge the sale of the buses on the Internet auction site may puzzle some people used to more traditional school fundraisers like bake sales.
“There’s no shame in it. Not one bit,“ said school board president Phyllis Landrieu. “This is a new mechanism for selling things. I think it’s very upbeat what we’re doing.“ » AP: New Orleans to Sell Flooded Buses on eBay
Upbeat. Right.
If I were Ray Nagin, I don’t know if I’d want these “icons” to be making headlines ahead of the upcoming elections. Know what I’m saying?
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Treason (Updated)
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Wed 29 Mar 2006 6:59
by Kevin McGehee
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I have no sense of humor about this. I am utterly disgusted and pissed off, and about ready to start voting Democrat just to wake these damn fools up.
Except I don’t think they can be made to wake up. I think they’re in a persistent vegetative state.
A key Senate panel broke with the House’s get-tough approach to illegal immigration yesterday and sent to the floor a broad revision of the nation’s immigration laws that would provide lawful employment to millions of undocumented workers while offering work visas to hundreds of thousands of new immigrants every year.
With bipartisan support, the Senate Judiciary Committee voted 12 to 6 to side with President Bush’s general approach to an immigration issue that is dividing the country, fracturing the Republican Party and ripening into one of the biggest political debates of this election year. Conservatives have loudly demanded that the government tighten control of U.S. borders and begin deporting illegal immigrants. But in recent weeks, the immigrant community has risen up in protest, marching by the hundreds of thousands to denounce what they see as draconian measures under consideration in Washington.
“There is no issue outside of civil rights that brings out the kind of emotions we have seen,“ said Sen. Edward M. Kennedy (D-Mass.), one of the bill’s primary sponsors, who called the controversy “a defining issue of our times.“
Judiciary Committee Chairman Arlen Specter (R-Pa.) rushed committee members to complete their work to meet a midnight deadline imposed by Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist (R-Tenn.), who favors a tougher approach more in line with the version passed by the House last December.» WaPo: Senators Back Guest Workers
Apparently Specter and his fellow judiciary committee Republicans want to see a Spanish-speaking version of the Muslim rioting seen in France a few months back.
This isn’t about race and it isn’t about economics. It’s about the sovereignty of the United States of America. It’s about whether a bunch of fist-waving by people who have no legal right to be in this country, gets to overturn the rule of law.
It’s about who decides the future of this country—voters, or demonstrators.
According to the Senate Judiciary Committee, it’s the demonstrators.
UPDATE: And it just keeps getting better. Sons of @#$!!es.
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