Stated Agenda vs Actual Agenda

Mark Steyn:

I think socialized health care is the single biggest factor in transforming the relationship of the individual to the state....

Socialized health care is the biggest cause not just of the infantilization of the citizenry but of the state.

...the unloveliness of any British city after six in the evening - the dolly birds staggering around paralytic, the pools of “pavement pizza”, the baying yobboes gagging for a shag and hurling bollards through the bus shelters to impress the crumpet - is a natural consequence of what happens when the state relieves the citizen of primal responsibilities.

“It appears we have appointed our worst generals to command forces, and our most gifted and brilliant to edit newspapers! In fact, I discovered by reading newspapers that these editor/geniuses plainly saw all my strategic defects from the start, yet failed to inform me until it was too late. Accordingly, I’m readily willing to yield my command to these obviously
superior intellects, and I’ll, in turn, do my best for the cause by writing editorials - after the fact.”

You’re not supposed to call them “Beer” popsicles, but government regulators say that’s what they are. Now, their investigators are trying to stop an Alexandria restaurant and bar from introducing the adult treats to their patrons.
Chef Frank Morales makes the popsicles by cooking the beer with bits of fruit and a liquid that he calls his secret ingredient.

“It’s meant to be refreshing,” he says, “It’s not meant to be intoxicating.”

One restaurant-goer says, “I think it’s a great idea! It’s refreshing and tasty. You can’t go wrong with it.”

~SNIP~
Rustico is promising to play by regulators rules, but if they allow the popsicles, the chef says he’ll be adding Beer Banana Splits and Peanut Butter and Beer Jelly sandwiches to the menu.

*bangs head on nonexistent wall

The Senate immigration bill could mean reparations for German Nazis. No, I’m not making this up. Look at Title IX, the “Study of War Time Treatment of Certain People,” also cited as the “Wartime Treatment Study Act,” Sections 901-916, pages 409-415 available through the Heritage Foundation.

...The Senate immigration bill would establishes a Commission on Wartime Treatment of European Americans to investigate U.S. policies that the bill describes as “devastating to the Italian American and German American communities.”

Section 903 declares that, the “term German Americans” includes “resident aliens of German ancestry” who numbered about 300,000 in total. The same definition is used for the term Italian American.

...This section of the Kennedy-Bush-Kyl immigration bill is a textbook case of what happens to legislation that is created in secret, without hearings, and with only limited debate. These six pages reveal the politically correct mind-set animating this 418-page monstrosity.

It’s beginning to dawn on me that the ‘Whole Purpose’ behind this stupid bill is not “low wages,” [once they’re citizens they’ll demand the same damned wage the rest get] or “keeping families together” [they’d be together in their country of origin, too] nor not being “raaaacist” [ whateverrr].

Seems to me the “Whole Point” is to devalue American Citizenship. 

In preparation for what?  To what end?  I got no clue.

And if that isn’t the “Whole Point” - or one of ‘em - it sure is one hell of an unintended consequence.

Meatballs. . .

Herr Signore Schlongiammo

Sunday Noonish

Comment Of The Week at e-C:

...One of the big agendas that has grown up in the last fifty-sixty years as part of the political correctness agenda is the elimination of American “exceptionalism.”… If America is not “exceptional” then there is no reason to view American citizenship as something special on the world stage.

If there is a single keystone problem with America, it is that it has lost its focus:  America is a pilot project in self-governance for the rest of the world and for all of human history, and that agenda is far and away more important than anything else we could conceivably be doing.  Each of us is God’s vicar on earth through every choice we make; devaluing American citizenship is a betrayal of all humankind.

^ROLLOVER^
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Reminds me of the time I walked into the local co-op where they had their big display of OUTRAGE when we were going into Afghanistan with placards insisting that we stay out of the Middle East with their “free” no war signs that required a donation to cover the costs.

DougM

Actress Cameron Diaz appears to have committed a major fashion crime in Peru.

The voice of Princess Fiona in the animated Shrek films may have inadvertently offended Peruvians.

They suffered decades of violence from a Maoist guerrilla insurgency by touring there on Friday with a bag emblazoned with one of Mao Zedong’s favourite political slogans.

While she explored the Inca city of Machu Picchu high in Peru’s Andes, Diaz wore over her shoulder an olive green messenger bag emblazoned with a red star and the words ‘Serve the People’ printed in Chinese on the flap, perhaps Chinese Communist leader Mao’s most famous political slogan.

While the bags are marketed as trendy fashion accessories in some world capitals, the phrase has particular resonance in Peru.

The Maoist Shining Path insurgency took Peru to the edge of chaos in the 1980s and early 1990s with a campaign of massacres, assassinations and bombings.

Nearly 70,000 people were killed during the insurgency.

Boazo

emptying the sea with a teaspoon, walking to the moon, taking the train to Hawaii . . .

now we gotta go to the back

The 12 million or more who entered the United States illegally, and would gain United States citizenship under the current immigration proposal, Senate Bill 1348, will qualify for race preferences and privileges for which the majority of Americans are not eligible

..."This is huge,” [Ward Connerly of the Sacramento-based American Civil Rights Institute] told Frontpage. “All this talk of going to the back of the line is B.S.. They would go to the front of the line. The minute they are Americans, they move in front of white males and in some cases white women.” Legalized Hispanic immigrants, Connerly says, would also gain privileges over immigrants from nations such as Russia because they would be part of an officially sanctioned “underrepresented minority.”

...This is one of those things that people have not thought through.” Connerly said. “A group that has never had the historic discrimination of blacks would be given the status of an underrepresented minority in this country.”

..."It is not numerical,” he said, “you are a minority if you are presumed to be socially and economically disadvantaged. We will have in California a circumstance that one group is a numerical majority but still classified a minority. You would be hard pressed to say they are disadvantaged. The premise is that minorities are politically powerless.”

MILK BEER

10 Most Bizarre Beers

Yes, today’s hurl made the list.

FARK

(emitter= the new shame phrase)

“I think that when China is recognised as the largest emitter — it may have happened this week or it may happen next year — it will produce a subtle but significant change in the pressure China feels from the rest of the world to be part of a solution to this crisis,”

Al,

they run their people over with tanks.


And put anti-freeze in their toothpaste.