tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-52258024433025418202011-07-30T21:07:13.337-07:00He adjusted himself to beams falling, and then no more of them fell, and he adjusted himself to them not falling." ...The Flitcraft Parable from Dashiell Hammett's 'The Maltese Falcon', (1930)Falling Beams Adjustmenthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17917626516110109618noreply@blogger.comBlogger241100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5225802443302541820.post-5399734816627842812010-05-21T10:30:00.000-07:002010-05-21T12:14:02.107-07:00

There has been a great deal of talk about Mexico's poor treatment of Central American immigrants that enter in to Mexico from the south, since President Calderon's speech before the US Congress yesterday. I would like to talk about how Citizens of the USA living in Mexico of which there are about a Million, are treated under Calderon's immigration policies. I have been traveling and visiting

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..Is Bush's TARP a success? If not then why is Obama ready to steal from it?Obama is jones-ing for a shopping spree and those darned Chinese seem to have put a hold on his credit card, so now he has a choice to find discipline, start paying back the money he has borrowed or start scrounging for loose change under the sofa cushions. He is going for the latter.For a year now Obama and his fellow

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We often hear the left make morally relative arguments between what the left does and what the right does. I think Obama's war rhetoric exposes a key difference between GOP candidates and Democrat politicians. Democrats expect their candidates to lie. They want them to lie. In fact they are willing to build an entire false personage of a candidate, if they think it will help hoodwink those bitter

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During the Bush/Blair years, we were told that "the world" no longer respected us,...that our relations with Europe had completely deteriorated to their "all time low",...that if Bush doesn't admit he was wrong and apologize to our former allies, they may never side with us again.Well it appears the glory days of them siding with us might not have been such a solid love affair after all. Drudge

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When I was younger the term Prejudice, Bias and Racist were nearly interchangeable. You don't hear the terms bias and prejudice as much these days. I was listening very carefully to Barack Obama's remarks regarding the arrest of his close friend, Skip Gates and if it does not jump out as racist, or the remarks of a person with a hair trigger racial prism by which he views the world, then at the

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When considering the Obama arguments regarding Health Care, such as "If we don't spend more, our nation will go bankrupt", what if we applied the same arguments to Energy and more specifically Carbon based energy.In the 1970s, they did not say "we need to become energy independent, so green jobs will create a booming economy". They said, "We have an energy shortage". That meant that the demand

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They are called Tax and Spend Liberals, ..........but not necessarily in that order.

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On June 27, 2005, Donald Rumsfeld appeared for the full Hour on Fox News Sunday to talk about the two year old Iraq war. Now four years later the Troops are pulling out of the cities and handing security over to the Iraqis. They will now be stationed at bases in the countryside, not unlike Subic Bay in the Phillipines, or Ramstein in Germany. The War is over. We won.Now the the Iraqis are the Old

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Occasionally, in order to remember, we need to revisit our recent past as the Drive By media fights feverishly to make America forget.George W. Bush was indeed a courageous man...

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One of my favorite Refutations of "Catastrophism" in Global Warming by the late Michael Chrichton. My appreciation for his intellect continues to grow with his passing. Every high school senior should watch this interview. Start at minute 22 for the global warming stuff. The first 22 minutes is about his final novel, "Next", which was about Biogen companies that own a disease as well as its cure

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Throughout Bush's Presidency the left argued that Bush was stubborn, would not admit he was wrong, would not be swayed by public opinion, and ignored the will of the people.So here was a lefty arguing for Demonstrations and protests to force Bush to do what the people wanted, based on polls.In having a president who completely ignores the will of the people, including the views of some of his

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Former First Lady, Barbara Bush, 83, had Heart Surgery yesterday. I met Mrs. "41" many years ago, before she was first lady, and I can honestly say, she was the warmest, most genuine, friendliest woman I have ever met in politics. After reading her book, you realize that she has not lived her life as a leisure seeking socialite. She has been a gritty, hard working woman, who adapted to a rough

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Rule number one of personality cults is the brave leader equals the state and the state equals the leader.If the Leader has desires and wants, then it is the desire of the state.So if you disagree with an opinion of the leader, you oppose the state.I have never in my lifetime heard a new President come in to office and as a rite of passage, the Media roams the city asking for a loyalty oath of

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We have seen how Obama throws his friends and allies under the bus, so how do we describe the rest of the world that has not been thrown under the bus?Read here about Gibbs new assault on private citizens, as well as the Politico article.There are those that are on the sidewalk, which is people that wrongly think they are safely out of the path of the steel wheels of the Obama bus. There are

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In the fall, I posted a thread that Obama would play the part of George Wallace and block poor Black kids from attending the better private schools of DC by catering to his union thugs and destroying School Choice in DC.Well, it only took him a month and nestled in the ginormous budget yesterday was a poison pill that followed through on what Obama had been hinting at last year, the end of the

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One thing I can say about the Democrats, they are disciplined about their talking points.The latest one is if you are speaking to anyone about anything, intersperse every third sentence with,...."The Deficit that Obama inherited”. You can get away with,.."The Debt that Obama inherited”...or the old standby “The Economic crisis that Obama inherited”.Now if we want to behave like Republicans of the

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Some of this is a bit of inside baseball stuff, but seeing the way the Fundamentalists are continuing to lose ground in Iraq's democratic process is an ongoing reminder of the fallacy that Democrats proposed that Iraq was a permanent basket case full of nutty foreigners that were incapable of grasping the concept of liberty. It also is a reminder of the prescience of George W. Bush whose faith in

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On Saturday Feb. 21 through March 1, HBO will be airing "Taking Chance" starring Kevin Bacon.From what I understand, the Film maker stayed fairly true to the true story told by Lt. Col Michael Strobl in a "Blackfive" MilBlog story from 2004 that I read when it came out. Blackfive is a great MilBlog and for anybody that follows MilBlogs, you read incredible stories of Heroism and drama that you

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With the possibility of a new Supreme court seat opening soon, the debate will revolve again around conservatives claims that Abortion is murder and liberals claims that law can not be based on Religious dogma. There is a recent story of a woman that delivered a live child before the abortion doctor arrived and one of the owners of the business, who was not a doctor, cut the imbilical and threw

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My family and I just spent an incredible week experiencing one of the most meaningful Christmas events we have ever seen. We were in Anaheim, California with a group of volunteers helping a group of about 2000 Military families of fallen soldiers. Snowball Express enjoys contributions such as Planes to fly the Widows and their children and parties at Disneyland and Universal Studios. We had the

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I'm sending a post to my blog and this is the first time that I've done that from dial2do. So I guess we'll see how it turns out. How many words that they'll include. What types of things will be put on there. If somebody from the NFL was to throw a pass make a touchdown. Nobody really knows. Powered by Dial2Do. Mp3

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If Obama thinks McCain is a relic of the 60s, then I think its apprpriate that Obama fits in with the "We are the World" 80s.This is one of the funnier videos I've seen in a while.

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I was asked about the meaning of the name "Falling Beams Adjustment". I know its kind of wordy, but it refers to a story within a story by Dashiell Hammett in the Maltese Falcon. It was truncated by Humphrey Bogart in the movie, but in the book it played a prominent role. Sam Spade's dialogue is choppy and to the point, so it stands out when he stops to tell Brigid O'Shaughnessy what has come to

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We have two economic freight trains that have been coming at us for years. How ever you want to argue the Dems or Republicans steered the titanic as it went down, the fact is the original course was set years ago by the Democrats to get EVERYBODY into a home with a mortgage. Nice sentiment, but welcome to the darkside of good intentions.The other freight train is what was once called an "Oil

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