The comments are up to close to a hundred over at the original space politics post on the Perils Of ESAS. Al Fansome provides a little useful bit of history:
Playing Outside
Ann Althouse has a post about a byegone day.
I didn’t like playing outside that much myself–I’d always rather stay inside and read a book, but I did have a good time, generally, when I did.
We overtoy our kids. At the risk of sounding like a codger, or worse, Grandpa Simpson (“Let me tell you how it was in my day, sonny”), we used to go over to my grandmother and grandfather’s house to visit. In the basement he had taken a steel rod, bent a handle at one end, and on the other, put a wagon wheel (a children’s wagon, not a Conestoga). He made two of them. One would grip the handle end, and push it up and down the driveway, sidewalk and street, often at high speeds. One would also attempt to do it on the softer lawn, but this was a rapid education in physics.
We used to fight over them. One of them, for reasons long forgotten, was considered superior. We had a great time. And turned out all right, I think, comments from the anonymous loons here notwithstanding.
The Absurdity Of The Immigration “Compromise”
Like abortion, I’m one of those folks who don’t have strong opinions/feelings about immigration, but I think that Mark Steyn makes a great point here:
Is that This-background-check-will-self-destruct-in-24-hours clause for real? If the entire “undocumented” population of, say, Falls Church, Virginia wanders into the local immigration office at 4pm on Monday, the clerks have got till 5pm on Tuesday to find anything on the guys or they’ve got no choice but to issue the Z visa? For the agency that takes the best part of a decade to process nanny applications and which sent Mohammed Atta his visa six months after he’d died, this is, to say the least, a massive cultural change.
If the 24-hour dry-cleaner standard were to be mandated for every government agency, I might reconsider my position. But it seems curious, to put it at its mildest, that only the lucky members of the Undocumented-American community will get to enjoy the benefits of express service from the US government.
Regardless of one’s opinions on immigration, legal or otherwise, we should all be appalled at how such an important issue is being railroaded through the Congress with so little review, or time for it.
The Absurdity Of The Immigration “Compromise”
Like abortion, I’m one of those folks who don’t have strong opinions/feelings about immigration, but I think that Mark Steyn makes a great point here:
Is that This-background-check-will-self-destruct-in-24-hours clause for real? If the entire “undocumented” population of, say, Falls Church, Virginia wanders into the local immigration office at 4pm on Monday, the clerks have got till 5pm on Tuesday to find anything on the guys or they’ve got no choice but to issue the Z visa? For the agency that takes the best part of a decade to process nanny applications and which sent Mohammed Atta his visa six months after he’d died, this is, to say the least, a massive cultural change.
If the 24-hour dry-cleaner standard were to be mandated for every government agency, I might reconsider my position. But it seems curious, to put it at its mildest, that only the lucky members of the Undocumented-American community will get to enjoy the benefits of express service from the US government.
Regardless of one’s opinions on immigration, legal or otherwise, we should all be appalled at how such an important issue is being railroaded through the Congress with so little review, or time for it.
The Absurdity Of The Immigration “Compromise”
Like abortion, I’m one of those folks who don’t have strong opinions/feelings about immigration, but I think that Mark Steyn makes a great point here:
Is that This-background-check-will-self-destruct-in-24-hours clause for real? If the entire “undocumented” population of, say, Falls Church, Virginia wanders into the local immigration office at 4pm on Monday, the clerks have got till 5pm on Tuesday to find anything on the guys or they’ve got no choice but to issue the Z visa? For the agency that takes the best part of a decade to process nanny applications and which sent Mohammed Atta his visa six months after he’d died, this is, to say the least, a massive cultural change.
If the 24-hour dry-cleaner standard were to be mandated for every government agency, I might reconsider my position. But it seems curious, to put it at its mildest, that only the lucky members of the Undocumented-American community will get to enjoy the benefits of express service from the US government.
Regardless of one’s opinions on immigration, legal or otherwise, we should all be appalled at how such an important issue is being railroaded through the Congress with so little review, or time for it.
Nasty Email Spam Alert
I just got a message from “Greetings.com”:
Hello friend !
You have just received a postcard Greeting from someone who cares about you…Just click here to receive your Animated Greeting !
Thank you for using www.Greetings.com services !!!
Please take this opportunity to let your friends hear about us by sending them a postcard from our collection !
If you “click here” it takes you to an executable at some web site. I don’t know what it does, and I’m not in a mood to experiment. When you get an email like this that’s generic (that is, it wasn’t specifically addressed to you by name, and it doesn’t tell you who sent the greeting) it’s a good bet that it’s spam of some kind. If you wave the mouse over the link, and it’s a different link than the one it purports to be (particularly if the end of the URL is “exe”) stay far away from it.
[Update a few minutes later]
Jeez. Talk about people who shouldn’t be allowed on the Internet:
To see how easy it was to lure in users via Google’s AdWords, Stevens bought the drive-by-download.info domain and placed an AdWords ad reading:
Drive-By Download
Is your PC virus-free?
Get it infected here!
drive-by-download.info
Stevens has run the campaign for six months now, with 259,723 ad displays, and says he has had 409 clickthroughs.
The ad has cost him only 17 euros so far, which by Stevens’ reckoning adds up to €0.04 per potentially compromised machine. Most of the systems visiting the site, 98 percent, ran Windows.
“I’m sure I could get much more traffic with a higher Google Adwords budget and a better-designed ad,” Stevens said in a blog posting.
Look Who’s Talking
Dictator snuggler, Islamic extremist coddler and anti-semite Jimmy Carter says that George Bush is the worst president in history.
Look Who’s Talking
Dictator snuggler, Islamic extremist coddler and anti-semite Jimmy Carter says that George Bush is the worst president in history.
Look Who’s Talking
Dictator snuggler, Islamic extremist coddler and anti-semite Jimmy Carter says that George Bush is the worst president in history.