Reverse migration?

Mexican Attractions

I'm curious about specifics of the newly proposed Mexican drug bill. For instance does it apply to all people in possession of drugs or just Mexicans? We've had the opportunity to learn that Mexico has one attitude towards immigration status in the U.S. and quite another within its own borders.

A number of drug users in this country, I would think, have the money to move to Mexico and become Mexicans as a lot of American retirees are doing these days. By legalizing small amounts of drugs and thereby eliminating a source of bribery income for the Mexican police, is it possible that the Mexican government has its eye on a larger prize of American dopers with money? Like I said, I'm just curious.

Cop a Laugh

Cows with Guns

Our own real mike from Sir Prize sent along this funny animation link: Cows with Guns. The title reminded me that the Plains Feeder gets a fair number of hits from folks doing a Google Image search using the query: niggers with guns. For some reason, Google figures this post from the Feeder and the picture that goes with it is just what these folks want. The only other results are really stupid or highly offensive. I thought the post was enlightening. I wish I knew who was doing all the searching for pictures of armed negroes.
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Note that there is a degree of confusion regarding the gender of the cattle depicted in the animation. Skip it.

Canadian crap causes quirky computer crash

Insulting Canadian Error Message

The main Feedlot computer crashed out a couple days ago. It is back up and running now, no thanks to the 'new and improved' software controls for the ATI graphics card (with the built in TV and mucho RAM). The rotten ATI software caused my newly patched Windows XP installation to lose it's tenous grasp on functionality. A nasty BSOD, an errant click and even my BIOS lost its memory. After that, it would not even beep, let alone boot. I sorta fixed it, but now I have to look at the message copied above every time I boot up. And, like the stupid message says, I can't access many of the tweaks the fancy graphics card offers.

My next build will use nVidia graphics to run my flight sims. No more Canuck computer components for me.

The sky is falling

Al Gore's Car of the Future

Al 'Chicken Little' Gore's new flick An Inconvenient Truth will be released on May 24. As it's designed to scare us into believing the theory of global warming the release date at the beginning of summer hardly seems a coincidence.

Mark Steyn has taken a few shots at Al and his fellow yardbirds. It seems Al is even behind the curve in his own flock who have decided that global warming may have peaked in 1998, therefore they've decided to call it simply "climate change". That way whatever happens will be the fault of vehicle emissions and an excuse to get the government involved.

Don't let Al fool you into thinking he deserves a cut out of your gas money to build bicycle paths. Let him and his bike riders pay for it themselves. And let me say I've got nothing against people riding bikes to work. It's got to be good for you as long as you're not doing it to please that angry old Democrat who's still trying to make some kind of difference using your tax dollars.

Women to admire

I could do a full paragraph of naming names, but there are three who I've come to depend on and perhaps it's no accident that they each have an international aura about them. They are Michelle Malkin, Fausta Wertz and Alexandra von Maltzan. In my mind they are tireless sentries who have their eyes and ears attuned to issues that I consider to be the greatest threats to these United States.

I'm a house painter and a shade tree mechanic. I drank too much, indulged too much and usually feel like I accomplished too little. My appreciation of these women doesn't mean that I think I'm like them or would even feel comfortable talking to them for any length of time. It's more like the feeling I get from watching a raptor circling overhead, if the raptor had a blog and could tell me what it saw from up there.

But that's just me. PT's another breed of cat. Sometimes I think He's a raptor but of course that's another story.

Gas gripes

Tia Nelson

Didn't expect to find myself agreeing with Tia Nelson, daughter of Earth Day founder Sen. Gaylord Nelson, when she said gas prices are not too high, that we've still got the cheapest gas in the world. I wouldn't expect us to agree on much else though.

The Chris Wallace show on Fox discussed gas prices last night. Juan Williams, the panel's black liberal Democrat perpetually on loan from NPR, was outraged that we're sitting on huge oil reserves and that the prices are being driven up by speculation, causing undue hardship on way too many people. Juan annoys me to no end but he seems like an honorable person, and he always manages to come up with an argument I hadn't considered before.

I'm going to take him at his word on the huge oil reserves. As for his objection to investors speculating on oil futures and driving up prices, it's about what you would expect to hear from a Democrat these days. Of course people are trying to make money on oil, Juan. That's what gets it out of the ground and into your gas tank. For every Lee Raymond who walked away with $400m for his efforts there are probably 1000's of others who lost their shirts.

I think it's great that we have large oil reserves, but the speculation won't last forever. At some point the high rollers are going to start losing money and prices will come back down and there will still be gas available for us to buy. I suspect Juan's solution runs along the line of price controls. We're fortunate that gas is as cheap as it is IN THIS COUNTRY, but artificially cheap gas will encourage people to drive anywhere and everywhere until the supply is exhausted and we have long waiting lines at the pumps. People like Juan never seem to look that far down the road.

I admit I know practically nothing about political strategy, ruthless oil companies, and the stock and futures markets. If there's gas available and I got the money then I'll go ahead and drive. If I can't get it or can't afford it then I damn well better be figuring something else out real quick.

Sheen Legacy

Charlie Sheen, Denise Richards

Charlie's wife is spilling the beans on her pathetic excuse for a husband. Read the story if you haven't. This is the guy who thinks he knows what really happened on 911, not that there aren't other credible idiots who would agree with him.

Son of the West Wing president, Martin. Never could bring myself to watch that show, nor could I ever take an interest in all the times he's been arrested for one cause or another. The liberal's liberal, or communist if you prefer. It's not that he hasn't done some nice things for people, even gangsters are capable of that, I just don't like the political agenda that's behind his actions.

What will happen? My guess is that the rich commie's kid will go into treatment, the wifey will be paid off, and a few months later a rehabilitated Charlie will reappear with a movie contract or a TV series. Another Charlie rerun, if you will.

Hanoi Jane Fonda's Baggage

Baggage? What baggage?

As seen in da news and blogged by Michelle Malkin: Viet-Nam war era communist anti-war agitator and traitor to her country Jane Fonda has handed the Marxist baton off to Cindy Sheehan. Hanoi Jane says it is because she carries "too much baggage." No kidding.

Matt Attack

Exxon Chairman Lee Raymond's fat chin

I happened to hear Drudge on the radio last nite whining about the Exon chief Lee Raymond retiring with $400m, as if that little pile of dough would affect gas prices to the tune of one red cent. I don't know squat about the jowly Exon dude but he's got to be at least a little more fun to be around than mad Matt.

So Matt, speaking as one who once sold a pint of blood to put gas in his car to go look for a job, take a tip from an old fool here at the Plains Feeder. Learn to laugh at yourself and your stupid-ass Drudge Report (which I'll continue to read because you're good at it). You said Mr Exon doesn't have a conscience, which presumes he doesn't share your elevated moral stature. Excuse me while I fart. When the day is done, Mr Drudge, we're all going to look like dried up turds at the edge of the feedlot. So if your self-righteous whimpering makes you feel good so be it, but it doesn't impress me a damn bit. Now get the hell out of here and get back to work.

I think PT's got the right idea by getting outside and digging into the earth as she warms up for another year. Us humans are somethin' else. Evolution hasn't reached its peak with us....Hope I wasn't too hard on Drudge. I'm pretty much just like him; in fact I think that's him at the other end of the manure spreader. Wish I could say I smell a little nicer than he does but that would be hard to prove, even if he is making all that money.

Angst macht Frei

Moon Rise Last Evening

This week's full moon marks the beginning of soil preparation and planting here at the feedlot. I expect to be too busy for very much blogging. That is just as well, because the news is starting to make me sick. People in general are not only No Good , but downright stupid as well. Add to that a number of us who seem to be stuck on wicked. I have quit reading and watching the news again. I'm even deleting e-mails from my self-described "Liberal Democrat" cousin in Ohio unread. Blood is thicker than water, but it isn't thicker than politics. People Are No Good. (Link to philosophical hot air supporting this thesis.)

Here's a timely tip: don't forget to shake out your shoes and clothes. Look them over before putting them on. You don't want one of these to bite you. Bugs are no good either. Time to take my nerve pill and get back to work.

Mob Rule Coming to the United States

Criminal Mob

From the looks of yesterday's marches all over America, the criminal wetback element and their fellow travellers would like to see violent mob rule here in the US, too. Well, take a lesson from the French, Americans: we can't let these criminals get away with it! Deport the lot of them. Build a wall, if that is what it takes to keep them from coming back. Michelle Malkin, as usual, provides most excellent linked-up coverage of the march in Washington, D.C. She was there.

It's official: mob rules in France

Drudge Headline: "Riot-weary Chirac rips up job law..." The old feeder said they would capitulate, and Chirac didn't disappoint. It's so French.
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File under: Ain't Democracy grand?

A Civics Lesson from the Electoral College Professor

Out here in the somewhat sparsely populated states like Nebraska, most folks don't like to hear talk of eliminating the Electoral College. Ken Blanchard has the Electoral College Professor at South Dakota Politics lay out the reasons why. He also reassures us, explaining how such a Constitutional calamity is inherently unlikely to occur.

America's Feedlots: Breaking the US Foreign Oil Habit

Gasoline from Manure

A Japanese researcher has developed a process for producing gasoline from manure. This is wonderful news, especially for those who were disappointed to discover that America's grain farmers weren't going to be able to solve our myriad energy problems with ethanol.

Sakae Shibusawa, an agriculture engineering professor at the Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology, said his team has successfully extracted .042 ounces of gasoline from every 3.5 ounces of cow dung by applying high pressure, a catalyst, and heat.

Cattle produce plenty of manure. I can only hope the Japanese process is efficient, unlike the net energy consuming process for producing the less powerful ethanol currently in vogue. Instead of making relatively low-energy alcohol from grain, we could feed the grain to cattle and let them help turn the grain into good old high-test gasoline.

An added bonus, which should be considered in the efficiency calculus, we would get to eat the cows as they fatten. Effectively, we would be eating that part of the grain which the cows couldn't turn into manure. It sounds efficient.

Give us real gasoline and real meat!
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I tip my hat to Scott Segal at nerac for this great news.

We should deport these bums

Take Names

This disrespect for our laws and our flag is outrageous. These Mexicans and their hopes for a better life in America have been hijacked by cats with plans that bode ill for both the Mexicans and the United States. You can see pictures of some of them posted here by the feeders favorite: Michelle Malkin. Some of these miscreants, like the Che-mmunists, want to ruin the very aspects of America that made it attractive to the Mexicans in the first place. Others, such as the Aztlanists, insidiously distort the traditional American concept of diversity as symbolized by the 'melting pot'; they would convert America into another Mexico. You can see these and more, (including even some sorry-assed "Black Panthers") in the pictures Michelle has posted.

These interlopers only sour any sympathy I might have had for decent, hard-working Mexicans who were lulled into the crime of illegal immigration by years of US neglect of it's own border. For decades, there has been a de-facto legalization of their crime. We are supposed to call them 'undocumented' instead of 'illegal', as if they were only guilty of having left their immigration papers in their other pants. We are supposed to let the kids out of school to watch hate-mongers disrespect the flag as they trash our nation's laws , curse it's institutions and threaten our leaders. These big demonstrations don't scare me or move me. I take that back, they do move me. I am moved to suggest that we deport them as fast as we can catch 'em, and spend what it takes to prevent their return.
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Update: MM says the Mohammedans are muscling in on the Mexicans' cause. Everyone who hates America is jumping on the immigration bandwagon. The Mexicans are certainly big suckers for letting this happen to their demo. We might as well tar them all with the same brush, its too late to try to sort them out. For analysis, check out this post at All Things Beautiful.
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New slogan:
¡No lo creo!

Camping in America

From Fausta I see that the ACLU doesn't want the Boy Scouts to camp on government land because they discriminate against gays. And from the Militant Islam Monitor I see that the Muslim Youth Camps of America has leased 114 acres of land in Iowa for 25 yrs at a price of $1, and intends to build facilities worth nearly $1,000,000.

The Monitor also points out potential church-state problems and the MYCA's ties to Islamic extremism. Living in northwest Iowa I was unaware of the strong Muslim presence on the other side of the state, nor did I know that the oldest mosque in America is located in Cedar Rapids, not far from the proposed Camp Heritage.

Will the MYCA Camp Heritage be similar to the YMCA tradition as its abbreviation was meant to convey? Or will be be more like Islamberg near Hancock, New York? This is a place where large caliber weapons are fired on a regular basis and the Muslims who run it make a point of intimidating their infidel neighbors. Neighbors who would gladly move away if they could only find buyers for their property that nobody wishes to live on.

Camp Heritage is to be the first in a network of similar camps across the country. Given the federal government owns only 0.8% of Iowa land (only Connecticut is lower at 0.5%) they should have no trouble accomplishing this. The feds own 47% of California, for example, 50.6% of Wyoming, 66.5% of Utah, and so on.

So who owns America, besides the federal government? We worry a lot about "the rich" and their excesses and the things they get away with, and we don't like outlaw squatters in national forests who grow marijuana, not to mention all the Mexicans among us these days, but I think a much larger problem is looming and that it could be well out of control before enough of us have faced up to it.

Daylight Saving Time: a Really Stupid Idea

Day/Night as of 5:00 pm DST Today

The old feeder is just getting over the unpleasant effects of changing the damned clocks. Daylight Saving Time is just about the stupidest thing in the world. If people want to get up an hour earlier, they should simply do it. If they want to start work earlier and go home earlier, ask their boss. Just don't make me change all my clocks to suit. Sure, having everyone get up an hour earlier in Summer saves energy. I'll accept the stats that seem to support this claim. But why change the clock?

I hate to admit that I have known such ignoramuses, but there are supposedly educated adults who harbor a belief that implementing Daylight Saving Time actually provides more hours of daylight. Or that DST somehow allows us to "get more from our sun." If only the laws of men had such power! We would all live like kings in peace and harmony. Actually adding an hour of daylight would be a terrific disaster. The resulting Day/Night distribution for today would look more like this:

Improved DST

If DST actually made for more sunshine, the most immediate result would be global warming of an alarming magnitude. Unless the added hour in the summer were compensated, either by reducing daylight during some other season or by diluting the intensity of solar radiation during the increased hours. This would have to be done with very carefully crafted legislation to avert catastrophe. How much do you trust the legislature?

I happen to think that the Creator of days and nights did it right. In the Summer, when the sun rises earlier, so do I. You might want to get up early to enjoy the naturally long days of Summer yourself. Why change the clock?

Terrorism, Babar, Supergrass, and the Ruby Yacht

What do terrorism, Babar, supergrass and a ruby yacht all have in common? You can find them all in this story from the BBC . The yacht is a stretch, but...

No more risk of seeing Katie Couric on my TV

Katie gets crapped on in Italy

Drudge had a gross headline today announcing that skanky newsertainment star Katie Kouric is actually moving from NBC to CBS. What made Drudge's headline gross was that he likened Katie to the Mary Richards character in the Mary Tyler Moore show. The thought made me gag.

At least I'll not have to suffer having her mug appear unexpectedly on the Feedlot TV any more. I never watch CBS.

Gratuitous Insult directed at Senator Ted Kennedy

Expert Swimmer

Senator Edward Kennedy takes a swim at Hyannis, in an effort to wash away his guilt. "I tried to save Mary Jo Kopechne that awful night, by diving into Poucha Pond to free her from the car. The problem is that I am so naturally buoyant, I couldn't get deep enough."
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More evidence that People Are No Good, and are only fit for ebola fodder.
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Updated: Ted Kennedy at the Democrat Convention in Denver.
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Updated: Ted Kennedy dead. Hopefully, it marks the end of the corrupt, amoral and disreputable Kennedy dynasty. Its time to take a critical look at the damage these awful people did to America and the world.

Adios Tom DeLay

Tom "the Hammer" DeLay is out. He's finished, and says he won't run again; too much damned scandal. Only just the other day he was trying to get his suspended gun carry permit reinstated. Perhaps he still has his bug exterminator's license to fall back on.
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Another distasteful bug exterminator.

Gratuitous Insult directed at Castro

Cuban Dictator Fidel "El Feo" Castro

It has been a while since I said something nasty about Fidel Castro, the most hideous commie remnant of the 60's in the western hemisphere. Not only is he getting old and ugly, it is said that his mind is deteriorating very fast, (although I can't imagine how they could tell). If he would have the decency to die any time soon, he would get to have his obituary written by the 60's style leftists currently in vogue with the Old Media. He should hurry, though, before the commies at the New York Times and their ilk are flushed out by the internet like Dan Rather. Anyhow, I thought I'd post this unflattering photo of the old goat, just for the hell of it.

Divorce by subconscious

I've been requested by our blog captain to come up with a Sunday morning post. I've got less than an hour to do this so not much time to research or put much thought into it. Given those circumstances I've decided to do a default post which, by any other description, is an excuse to pick on Muslims. I know Muslims won't mind because they're known for their sense of humor and relish any opportunity to laugh at themselves.

In Jalpaiguri, India, we find Aftab Ansari who spoke the word 'talaq' three times while sleeping. Of course 'talaq' translates to 'I divorce thee'. Aftab and his wife, Sohela, couldn't keep this to themselves so they've been ordered to divorce. Apparently there are loopholes that would allow them to remarry but only after Sohela spends 100 days at her father's house, then sleeps with another man, marries him, and later on manages to get a divorce from him.

Aftab thinks all that his wife will have to go through because he couldn't keep his mouth shut while sleeping isn't unreasonable at all, but Sohela really doesn't want to leave her home and the husband she loves. Obviously I have no way at all of knowing what's going on but that needn't keep me from offering an opinion. Aftab wants to divorce Sohela but has been afraid to tell her to her face so he said 'the word' while pretending to be asleep, after which Sohela shook his ass awake and demanded to know what was going on. Aftab feigned mortification that such a word could come out of his mouth and confessed his distress to the religious authorities who gave him the resolution he had been secretly hoping for.

Muslims! You gotta love 'em. I wonder if Sohela's dad is going to be pissed off when his divorced daughter shows up for a hundred days.

Feedlot Raided by FBI

Notice: the Plains Feeder has been ordered to provide IP numbers and other site counter and comment related data to the FBI. They already took my computer; I'm posting this from Mike's place. I'm not in any trouble, but it seems they are after someone who has been visiting the Plains Feeder, maybe leaving comments. They wouldn't say exactly. You can check a copy of the search warrant here. I hope the aren't looking for anyone I know.