The Blarg

All my future illegal alien readers in border towns across the Mexico-USA border, this post is for you!

Something productive actually came out of the Senate (that’s part of our government here). They approved a bill that oks a 700 mile border fence. I had a little chat with Kevin about whether or not it will do any good, and I think we both decided it was the best we’re going to get right now. I would support much stronger measures like action against employers who hire illegals, and stopping of all welfare to illegals, and eventually they will have no choice but to deport themselves. Since there is little chance of those things happening, I will gladly take a border fence.

I’m curious to see if the illegals start marching again. This is the same thing they flooded the streets about earlier in the year, and that was only after passing in the House. Now it’s headed to the President’s desk, so what will they do now?

I believe the following is a perfect example of why the liberal mindset is so dangerous.

Social programs that are created with the intent of helping people often have the opposite effect. To a liberal that thinks with their emotions the choice is simple: When someone is in need, you give them the resources to fulfill that need. If a person is poor, give them money. If a person is homeless, give them government subsidized housing. If a family can’t afford to feed their children, give them free lunch at school. But is any of this actually helping people? Feeding starving school children couldn’t possibly be bad, could it?

It’s all a matter of motivation and responsibility, which are two things the liberal mental disorder never considers. It is pathetic and disheartening that parents are no longer required to feed their own children. Do you realize the magnitude of that statement? Parents do not have to feed their children because the government will do it for them. How low have we sunk as a society that something as basic as feeding your children is no longer expected of people? If you tell someone you’ll do something for them, they have little motivation to do it for themselves.

"Oh but Mr. Blarg, the poor children are starving because they’re below the poverty line. How can you be so heartless?" School lunches here cost $1.25 a day, and at five days a week, that’s a whopping $6. When I was growing up, buying lunch was a luxury. How much would it cost to bring PB&J everyday? I bet you could get the weekly cost down to $5 if you really tried. But instead, liberals would rather play Santa Clause with other people’s money. You’ve probably paid for a kid’s lunch whose parents drive a leased Navigator. You’ve probably paid for a kid who has cable at home, or Jordan’s on their feet, or an Xbox 360 in their room. Not only have you had to pay for it, but these "needy" people have not had to make the tough decision between lunch for their child and a big screen TV.

What liberals and this mentality have done is excuse people from taking responsibility for their own actions. You no longer have to rise to the occasion, work harder, get an education, make sacrifices, plan for your future, or be responsible. When the government does that for people, the people won’t do that for themselves.

In case you’ve been living in a cave the whole Summer, you should know that Heroes starts tonight at 9 pm on NBC. This is the only new show that I’ve been excited about. It looks like X-men meets normal people. It’s got the guy from Felicity, the guy from Gilmore Girls, and the girl from Final Destination. I love sci-fi stuff, and you can bet when the odd sci-fi show makes it to primetime I will give it a chance. Though I didn’t give Surface or Invasion a chance last year, which is probably why they were cut. But as I look at the Nielsen Media Research website, apparently they don’t let people volunteer. I guess posting here on this blarg will be the best way I can help out a new show. Hopefully they can’t tell I’m skipping past all their ad-revune, err, commercials.

As I was saying, my fingers are crossed that the show will be decent. I’m expecting some special effects beyond what they’ve shown in the commercials. If Smallville can show Clark flying, one of the big networks better be able to show the guy from Gilmore Girls flying, not just a camera hooked to a helicopter flying around. Don’t miss it, tonight at 9 on the peacock!

Update: Originally this thread was titled "Hereos," which sounds like Oreos. My bad.

Last night we watched the Dateline NBC show "To Catch a Predator." If you’ve never seen it, what happens is Dateline goes to a certain house and sets up hidden cameras. Then with the help of a group called Perverted Justice, they convince men that they are chatting online with an underage girl that wants to have sex with them. The men are then invited over to this specific house with the expectation of having sex with a 13-15 year old girl.

When the men arrive there is an "of age" decoy that waves from the front door, letting the man know he has the right house. When he comes in she’s inside waiting to duck behind a curtain. From behind the curtain she’s keeps talking to the man until he is comfortably inside. Right about now the host of the show walks out from behind the curtain and starts grilling the man. "What were you going to do here today?" "Why should I believe this is the first time?" Once the host is done with the individual he tells them they are free to go. As soon as they walk out the door they are swarmed by a group of law of enforcement and arrested. They only show some of what happens after the arrest, but their bail is set and they go before a judge for trial. Whether they are found guilty and locked up, they didn’t say.

The entire show I’m watching these despicable characters show up, get caught, and get arrested. As much as I want to not like these guys, something just wasn’t sitting right. They were never talking to a minor online about sexual material, and in fact they never had a single interaction with a minor. They thought they were, but they were talking to an adult posing as a child, and they were being fed every sexual fantasy they wanted to hear.

Here’s my question to the rest of you, and hopefully you’ve seen the show and have some background. In this one episode in a single town in Georgia they had 20 men come to the house. The problem I have is that there was no minor actually soliciting sex. Is the show creating a need that doesn’t really exist? Obviously the men wouldn’t mind having sex with a minor if the situation presented itself, but what if that situation never does present itself? What if every parent was doing their job and making sure their 13 year old daughter wasn’t online chatting with old men perverts? These men might be twisted enough to show up given the proper temptation, but what if there was no temptation?

What if the above situation never presents itself to these 20 men? Does that mean they’re all going to turn into rapists someday, or will they’ll never act on these desires that they have? A little analogy I can think of is, what if Dateline did the same thing to catch crooks? They could setup a man on the street with a million dollar bill hanging out of his pocket. As people walk by and are presented with temptation, that otherwise never presents itself, of course some people are going to give in and try to steal it. The problem is that situation never presents itself and most people never become crooks.

The men in this show are guilty of being disgusting people, but are they guilty of an actual crime? Are they truly a danger to society, or have they been setup beyond reality to give in to their greatest temptations?

Antonio Villaraigosa (the toilet guy) has called out John and Ken for "dividing" the nation and said "shame on you, shame on you." This is classic liberal speak about how it’s ok to have an opinion…until a liberal disagrees. What Villaraigosa and all the illegals who marched in downtown LA did was great, but when John and Ken argue the issues everyday on the radio it’s "shame on you, shame on you." Instead of arguing the facts, he’d rather just paint John and Ken as bad guys.

I’m curious what people think of the CIA’s use of "torture" that has been in the news lately. They must be doing god awful things to the poor terrorist prisoners right? Maybe poking them with burning things, ripping off nails, gouging out eyes, that kind of thing right?

Anyone agree that what the CIA is doing to terrorists is wrong, and they deserve the same rights as any US citizen enjoys?

Update: You didn’t really think I’d leave it at that, did you? I’d heard reports about the atrocious things that the USA was supposedly carrying out in secret torture camps around the world. Of course those reports were never specific and left everything to your imagination. So what’s really going on there?

Luckily there’s been an independent investigation by ABC that not only explains what types of coercion (not torture) are being used, but how it has produced information that has stopped upwards of 12 terror plots. I won’t even bother touching on the fact that we face an enemy who beheads POWs and doesn’t give a crap about the Geneva Convention.

Video at HotAir.com

I have a new project…to turn my desk setup into a setup that’s worthy of a transparent screen. How cool are those? Unfortunately there is nothing worth looking at behind my monitor, so I must find something to put back there. A picture or hang something or a vase of something or who knows. Hmmm, maybe I could hang a beanie baby or some sort of stuffed animal. I’ll find something.

Friday marks the beginning of Fall….or Autumn if you’re a rebel. Autumn seems to embody all the feelings and emotion of the final months of the year, more than Fall does I think. I’m sad to see Summer go, but I enjoy this time of year. Autumn really has a monopoly on all the great holidays…Thanksgiving, Christimas, Wii Day, Veteran’s Day, and New Year’s. The temperature starts to ease and the mornings start to require a jacket. That warm coffee feels and tastes better when it’s freezing out. Sometimes there’s rain, which slows life down and begs for a good book. Days are shorter and night comes sooner. Colors start to change outside from green to brown and then things start to fall.

Here’s to a new season.