TC the Terrible NOW Saber Squelch

Despite having a disclaimer on the lower right of this page I generally try to post much work related stuff.  Today, I am going to make a small exception to that policy.

I have two or three small fires burning on my desk right now.  If I was still ‘out in the field’ they would be snuffed in under ten minutes.  Because I now work in the ‘Institutional Army’ I am going thru living hell trying to get them put out.  The bureaucratic twists and turns are driving me up the blinking wall!  

Days like today, I really long for the Army that actually gets to shoot people and blow things up.

Out.

Faithful readers of TCtT know that for the most I try to keep the blog at about a PG-13 rating.  Excluding some comments made by, or directed at, Freakdaddy.  Still, if the DCist can get go all potty talk then why can’t I?

The restroom at my office, as bad as it is, sounds like a true paradise compared to the crypt of horrors that exists over at Media Matters.  Of course, it’s not like I’ve used it a lot lately.  Conditions were so bad a couple of months ago that I began going all the way to gym on the ground floor when I needed to “sit and think for a couple of minutes.”  

THE BOY is only six, but even he does a pretty good job of keeping the toilet area clean and his underwear a “skid free zone.”  On the off chance that a couple of you might not have mastered this feat yourselves (Freak, BSG, Scott the Scared) then you might want to check this page out.

Later.

Normally, I agree with George Will, but today I’m not so sure.  Yes, we do have to help the ones that are already here, but living on the fringes, to incorporate themselves into our society but is pardoning past bad acts the right thing in this case?  If it is how do we stop the tide of illegal immigration that is rolling up from Mexico? We are already underwriting a group of people that do not put anything back into the American system.  The nation needs to determine how much farther we are willing to go into our own pockets to subsidize this population.

There are hundreds of job types that Americans no longer are willing to do and we need a group of people that are willing to do them.  But if we continue to ‘out-source’ that work how long is it before we end up with the type of class/ethnic riots that hammered France last year?  

If someone wants to come to the U.S. and earn a better life, I think that’s great.  It’s the way that the vast majority of our families got here to start with.  But I do think that there should be a concerted effort by that person to give up what they are leaving behind and becoming an American.  We do only have one flag, and we all should stand tall and salute it.

What we are seeing the American Southwest these past few days is only the precursor to events similar to those last summer outside of Paris.  Events which have their roots in Nero’s Rome, where the empire’s foundation had rotted out below the surface and collapsed under the added weight of non-Romans.

More.  Later.

Just yesterday CZ and I were talking about how former Presidents have fared when they left office.  Most just fade into the background (Ford, Truman, Ike, Johnson), other write books (Nixon), and others do non-controversial good deeds (Carter, Bush I, Clinton).  Reagan’s illness pretty much keeps him out of any of the above groups.  

As long as they stick to those lanes, CZ and I agreed, they tend to do alright, getting out of their lane causes problems.  We both thought President Carter is great at building houses for poor people, but a blooming idiot at any other time.  Today we were validated.  As best as I can tell Carter’s real beef is that some of the work he did while in office is being undo by the current administration.  It would seem to me that as times change our policies need to change too.  Some times it is hard to see that when you are emotionally connected to your own works.

In a nutshell, Carter needs to stick with building houses.  If he wants to be President again then he needs to run for office again.

Speaking of a guy that probably should be the President some day, but probably won’t, John McCain seems to be taking a tremendous amount of heat these days.  In the past weeks he’s been lining himself a bit more to the right so he can better run in the primaries.  In my mind he’s got to pull more to the right to get the Republican nomination but he’ll lose the general election by doing so.  McCain is the one major Republican that can cross the aisle right now and not lose his integrity doing so.  He’s got to find a way to hang on to that quality.

More. Later.