New Post

I feel like I need to put up a new post. Usually I find some kind of inspiration. Lately I haven't really felt any inspiration. I suppose I could rant for awhile, but really I don't feel like it. But with the nationalization of GM, I just feel much like Senator Amidala commenting on the creation of the Empire in Star Wars: Revenge of the Sith; "So this is how liberty dies; with thunderous applause." Our Republic is being destroyed by the Obama Administration, and far too many Americans are happy about it. It will be too late before we realize that we have given power over not to a benevolent dictator, but an evil one. But I pray that I am wrong. I hope that our leaders make the right decisions for America and I hope they can keep us safe.

St. Patty's Day

“An Irishman is never drunk as long as he can hold onto one blade of grass and not fall off the face of the earth” - Old Irish Toast

Moderated Again

I'm getting pretty irritated at being continually moderated at CNN.com. The last time I ranted about it, they actually posted my comments, but they've been 'moderating', aka repressing free speech, my comments fairly regularly. Especially Jack Cafferty. Now on CNN, you can say something like: "Sarah Palins evil she kill Caribou" or "Sarah Palins dum" and they don't moderate that. But if you have an insightful comment that goes against the viewpoint of their moderator, then you can't get your comments through.

So I put up this comment which was 'awaiting moderation' on the Michael Steele-Abortion thread on the political ticker.

"The liberal philosophy; Killing babies is OK, but the death penalty for convicted murderers and rapists is not.

I like Michael Steele, but he's not a very solid conservative, he's a moderate. Chairman Steele, you need to get some convictions on this issue. Your base has convictions on it. Abortion is not a state's right issue.

"We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness."

It doesn't say we are BORN equal, it says we are CREATED equal. Created by God in the womb. Every man (and woman) was created by God and has the RIGHT to LIFE. It is not a choice. If someone is innocent, death can not be imposed as a sentence, but that's what abortion does, imposes the death sentence on a human who has committed no crime. Their only fault is being created in a woman with no convictions, and a country with no convictions.

Roe v. Wade has killed 50 million Americans. More than Hitler, more than Stalin, more than Mao. Wake up Chairman Steele and develop some conviction on this issue."

OK, so in the middle of putting this post together, I decided to check back at CNN and it went from 'awaiting moderation' to being posted. I think I should turn my posts into blog posts every time and maybe I wont be moderated anymore.

Ant Cemetary

Well, we ran into a little problem with our vegetable boxes. One of the boards was ridiculously hard and I'll have to scrap it, meaning another trip to HD. I also used the last nail on the last box I put together, which also means another HD trip. (well I'll get them both on the same trip of course) The last problem was the fire ant colony right in the spot of one of the boxes. The way we usually deal with fire ants is to get a big pot of boiling water and pour it on the mound. Then we use the hose to destroy their tunnels and hit with another pot of boiling water. Usually this will get them to move, but they usually come back. After two days and four pots of water, the and casualties were in the tens of thousands, but they were still fighting for survival. Death from Above (aka, boiling water) had failed to root out the most hardened and well dug in ants, so I had to resort to biological warfare. Keep in mind however that we plan to grow food on this spot in which I am using the most ruthless eminent domain tactics. So what did I use next? Instant Grits! You heard me correctly, Instant Grits. But not any old instant grits, Hill Country Fare Instant Grits. Apparently when the ants eat them their digestive juices cause the grits to expand and well, bye bye ants. So far it looks like they are going for it, and I see many more dead ants piled up than yesterday. But it's hard to tell if its from the grits or residual from the 'Napalm' Death from Above. Anyway, I just took 3 packets and poured a circle around their mound and they are going after it. We'll see soon how well it works.