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I wrote about voter fraud at Right As Usual, linking to a site at The Next Right.

I'm planning to take a personal day off next year, and do my part to monitor the polling stations.  I know that vacation days are precious, but so it our right of selecting our representatives in government.

The Conservatives are at a crossroads (Whoops, is that too non-PC?).  We've just about crashed and burned, taking down the infrastructure of the Republican Party with us.  The 2008 election revealed that the Republican Party has drifted far from its roots, and ignored the conservative base enough so that they didn't turn out for McCain.

Which, actually, isn't a bad thing.

By decisively rejecting the Man-in-the-Middle, conservatives have spoken - loud and clear - about their desire to have the RNP hear their concerns.  We can't keep nominating mushy, half-way conservative-on-some-issues, wannabe leftist-on-other-issues to represent conservatives to the uncommitted voters.

It isn't what we are.

So, I propose using the bulk of any money laying around for the next 2 years for the purpose of explaining who, and what, we are to the voters (and unregistered bystanders).  That means educational activities, agressive networking, and old-fashioned, walk-around the precinct, face-to-face meetings.  One on one.  Mano a mano.

This smackdown the party was given is a golden opportunity to reach out to new blood.  If the insiders who ran McCain's campaign could pull their finger-pointing hands out of their ears long enough, they might even qualify to join in.

If they'd rather find ways to blame Someone Else (Palin) for their mistakes, well, good riddance.  They weren't that effective anyway.

Obama is set for a major media buy - $ 5 million - for the August Olympics.  What isn't available, yet, is where the ads will run, what times, and how many.

Neither NBC nor Obama are talking.

It would serve Obama right if he gets stuck with the rythmic gymnastics spot.

I was getting tired of reading about McCain's age in the media.  Just about everyone who brings it up treats a 71-year-old man as though he were on the verge of being a doddering old fool.

So, I decided to run both McCain & Obama through the Death Clock.  I posted the results at:

Right As Usual

I agree with Scalia - this is a major setback.  On the positive side, the Bush administration has managed to keep some very dangerous men locked up for over 6 years.

One other positive aspect is that litigating these cases will tie up the courts and liberal lawyers for some time - I'd rather have them messin' around with that than re-writing the Constitution.

I've been reading the reviews of Sex & the City (hereafter referred to as SATC).  Now, understand, I only watched the show 1 time - just so I could understand what all the single women were raving about - still don't understand.

It seems that the NEW SATC, as opposed to the OLD SATC, is mostly focused on clothes, sex, clothes, slutty remarks & actions, clothes, a wedding, clothes, and, well, clothes.

Judging from the original, I'm having a hard time (oh, how Samantha would smirk at that) seeing what's different about it.  Except the "girls" are in their 40's and 50's.  Which, as we all know, is just the age that makes men salivate - you know how anxious they are to bed the menopausal woman.

Must be that misty glow we get when the power surges kick in.

Why am I, along with many other Americans, against unbridled, illegal immigration?

To hear the pro-illegal pro-undocumented almost-citizen crowd tell it, I'm against those black brown  people of color who make up the majority of illegals.

Well, that's a flaming lie not quite correct.  I come from a long line of native Americans (by that term, I mean someone whose parents were born here).  But, as I was born in 1951, I knew many recently arrived immigrants.

And those were actual immigrants - people who filled out the paperwork, waited their turn, and, finally, arrived - ready to work.  The overwhelming majority of them became citizens, as soon as they qualified.  Even before that, they started learning the language - it was considered essential to being able to manage in the new country.  Most of them still used the former languages, in their homes.  With me, and others who were not able to speak that language, they switched to English - heavy accents, broken syntax, and all.  They did that, knowing their acceptance was enhanced by adopting the language and culture of their new land.

Their children were, like the rest of my friends, gung-ho (yes, I realize that's a Japanese phrase) Americans.  They seldom spoke the old tongue, except with grandparents.  They resisted dressing in the native costumes of their parents, rolled their eyes when parents started talking about "the old days" (not unlike American kids - we don't "get" that ancient history), and worked hard to fit into the new culture.

Parents were torn - on one hand, they wanted to pass on traditions.  On the other hand, they took pride in how well their children fit into the mainstream.

In general, immigrants brought a little of the Old World, and blended it into the New.  They liked to keep the same religion and foods, but added on new tastes, a little at a time.  By the time the 3rd generation came along, they had become just another American.

Not so today - too many immigrants feel that Americans are the ones who need to make the changes.  They expect that they will be able to keep their language intact, and pass it along, unchanged, to the next generation.  They want to keep ALL their heritage in place - including that part that directly contradicts the laws of America.  Hence, Americans are being called "narrow-minded" for not recognizing multiple marriages.  It must be racism to not celebrate the wonderful, women-friendly practices of polygamy, clitorectomy, and "honor" killings.

Further, immigrants too often feel that all government services should be theirs, by right.  They seem not to understand the concept of rights that are limited to citizens.  Funny, that - in their home countries, if I were the immigrant, I would have NO rights.