BoldlyRide

Things that I did, or would have like to have done, on Earth day:

Mowed the yard with a gas engine mower.
Barbecued meat on a grill over charcoal.
Cut down a tree and used it to build a table, chairs, and swing set.
Built a wood fire and burned styrofoam on it.
Bulldozed a weedy lot and filled in a fetid pond (aka wetland).
Poured used motor oil over noxious weeds.
Dropped a boulder on a solar powered car.
Trapped or shot and skinned a wild animal varmint and used the hide to make useful leather goods.
Shot a deer or an elk and put the meat in the freezer.
Give an extreme environmentalist a wedgee.
Burned ditch banks and fields.
Delivered a couple tons of manure to Al Franken and Michael Moore -- just returning the favor.

Traveling frequently by plane, I overhear many things. Last week some moron two seats back was loudly proving that adage about opening one's mouth and removing all doubt (about being a fool). My favorite litte gem was this statement:
What Europe learned from WWII that the U.S. failed to learn is that war doesn't solve anything; the military is a useless tool.

I invite your comments.

The loud one obviously does not possess a knowledge, or even a vague familiarity of the actions abroad of the European nations after WWII. I'm tempted to rant on but the lateness of the hour whispers restraint.

I must confess that I have stopped reading Pascal's thoughts. Thus the progression:

1. Great thoughts
2. A great many thoughts
3. A great many boring thoughts

Right-Wing of the Gods: "Those whose country this is, have every right in the world to say 'no' ... That's what ownership means - one has the right to make one's own choices, even bad ones - and the citizenry owns its country. Please do not insult anybody's intelligence by pretending to believe otherwise. Note that Mexico, whose government has long screamed a blue streak about US limitations on Mexican immigration, has not been shy about limiting immigration into Mexico from Central America, from countries whose emigres often have had a far stronger claim to refugee status than the vast majority of would-be Mexican immigrants. "

I expect to hear from my friend Mike on this issue. I think that quite some time ago I did a post or two on the founding father's views on the immigration issues. I will renew that one or post another. In the meantime, RWOTG is worth the read.