The Blarg

Looks like we have something to celebrate. Illegal immigrants are being deported at an increasing rate, which is very good news. In case you don’t read the article, this is my favorite line. An illegal alien mother is talking about her anchor baby son.

“He needs to be educated in American schools, to speak English. He needs this country.”

My response: This country doesn’t need him. Am I cold hearted? Is that unchristian? Should anyone be able to come here, regardless of the laws they break? I’m sure you know my answers, but I would love to hear yours.

It’s been awhile, but I’ve got a good one!

Obama: Ahhh! My neck doesn’t bend!
Hillary: Dearest Jesus, please give us National Healthcare to help Obama.
Biden: Crap, is that marinara?

I feel like posting, but I’ve used up my allotment of words for the day. I think that was around third period actually. Regardless, I will think of something.

Peaches. Millions of peaches. Peaches for me.
No, scratch that.

Attorney General Alberto Gonzales is in “trouble” for firing 8 or something district attorneys, and Democrats are having a field day. It wasn’t a big deal when Janet Reno fired ALL 93 when Clinton took office. They serve at the pleasure of the President. There’s nothing illegal about getting rid of them. See, elections do matter!

No, scratch that. Nobody comments on my political posts, as evidenced by “Blarg Stats.” According to that, teaching and television garner the greatest amount of responses. Let’s give that a go.

Have you seen that new TV show about TEACHING. Oh man, the comments are going to roll in now! I’ll try them separate now.

Teaching is going well. State testing is coming up. I might have time to chew through some more of the Dark Tower series. I’m stuck on book 5. Oops, that’s about books, not teaching. I cut up a soda can today to explain that the lateral side of a cylinder is a rectangle. It was cool!

Oh look, this paragraph is about television. Heroes resumed last night. WOW. Oh, and last week’s survivor was downright awesome. It was possibly the greatest episode ever. Trent knows what I’m talking about.

I cleaned the laptop yesterday because it was really gross looking. The I key on the laptop is completely without the letter I. The letters O, L, N, S, and E are also rubbing off. Good thing I know how to touch type. I guess I should stop going around typing “E LIONS” all the time. That’s all I could spell using those letters.

The only movie I’m super excited about right now is TRANSFORMERS. Holy cow that looks sweet.

Super cool band called All Time Low.

THE END

This post has two goals. The first is to give the Dodgers a shot out for getting off to a great start. They’ve been playing some great baseball lately. I have to say that when everyone in their lineup is playing well, we’ve got a very difficult 1-8 hitters. Even Randy Wolf lit it up last night in the ninth spot. Even with a few injuries I still see the Dodgers being rock solid. We’ve got players in AAA that could be great at the MLB level.

The second goal of this post is to bring Nixon out of hiding. Look, DOYERS!!!

Here’s more bait for the leftists.

I’ve heard it said that “the rich are getting richer, and the poor are getting poorer.” But a recent article I read has confused me. Hopefully someone can straighten me out. Here’s an excerpt.

**The number of U.S. households with a net worth of more than $5 million, excluding their primary residence, surged 23 percent to surpass one million for the first time in 2006, according to a survey released on Tuesday.

The survey by Chicago-based Spectrem Group found that the number of U.S. households with more than $5 million rose from 930,000 in 2005. In 1996, there were only 250,000 U.S. households in the “ultra-rich” category, Spectrem said.**

Here’s where I need help. How could more people be getting rich? If there is a small group of people at the top hoarding all the money, how could this group have grown by over 750k people? Where on earth are NEW rich people coming from? It doesn’t make any sense.

Hmmm, maybe this is a good answer. I bet it’s President Bush! He gets all the money from Iraq’s oil, and then he buys the whole world! And he’s like “hey you, come here and give me your money!” And all the poor people have to sell their Escalades and Jordans and have to start eating dirt. It’s so sad.

I expected the gun bashing to start shortly after the horrible murders at Virginia Tech. yesterday. Something bad happened with a gun, so people who think with their emotions automatically assume guns are the cause of violence.

What I did not expect was the USA bashing. Here’s an excerpt from the Times of London:

“Only the names change—And the numbers,” read a headline in the Times of London. “Why, we ask, do Americans continue to tolerate gun laws and a culture that seems to condemn thousands of innocents to death every year, when presumably, tougher restrictions, such as those in force in European countries, could at least reduce the number?”

YOU FREAKING IDIOT. Read some of the data for pete’s sake. What a downright fool.

If someone is determined to obtain a gun and kill someone or rob a store, they’ll find a way. But when you take guns away from private citizens, you are taking away their ability to defend themselves! The lunatics that kill people will find a way to kill people.

What if a student at that school had been carrying a gun? What if the teacher that died trying to hold the door shut was carrying a gun? Would 32 people be dead? No, probably not.

Not all opinions are created equal. Everyone is entitled to have one, but you can still be a total idiot. Any gun haters out there? Anyone think guns are the devil and fly around shooting people all by themselves? Anyone want to argue that countries with stricter gun control are safer?

Bring it.

UPDATE: Heard about this story today. A few years back two students retrieved guns from their cars and successfully subdued someone on campus killing people. Imagine that…guns saving lives!

UPDATE 2: Here’s more data about how England’s crime rates have increased dramatically since they outlawed handguns. My favorite fact is “53 percent of English burglaries occur while occupants are at home, compared with 13 percent in the U.S.”

I’ll start with the Dog. She has serious separation anxiety issues, so we started working yesterday on addressing those problems. Basically she freaks out a lot when you leave, and this leads to problems like barking and her using the inside as a toilet. We’ve started to crack down on some bad habits like letting her sleep on the bed, and we’ve been practicing “fake” leaving the house, to show her it’s not a big deal. We’re crossing our fingers that we start to see some results.

This is probably the last post you’ll see about “the book” in quite a while. I’m posting today to say that I’ve started it. If all goes according to plan you’ll probably see another post in a couple months saying I’m done. But between now and then, you probably won’t read a thing about it. So far I’m pleased with how it’s starting. I thought my brainstorming was fairly specific, but now that I’ve started writing, it’s fun to see it come to life. Also, I’m amazed that people wrote books before the internet and wikipedia, especially more technical books. Kudos to all those people.

Spring break is just about over, but that means we start working on closing out the year. Yay to that.

There’s one bad word right at the beginning, so cover your ears.

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