Election Season - the reason for blogging....

First, I think (and I am definitely NOT paranoid, really) that you should check out the Google ads - are they trying to make me completely crazy? or what....
Second, man oh man, do I love election season or what? It reminds me of the white mice my sisters used to have (even then I couldn't imagine anything less appealing. If they didn't act quickly enough, the mice began killing their own. Kinda like the dems these days...Geffen eating Hillary? Hillary eating Obama? "Lies? the Lincoln Bedroom? pay for pardon?" what is not to love???

I don't understand the appeal

The man who brought you The New Incumbents/Millionnaires' Club in Washington D.C. has now apparently decided that global warming will be his next ticket to being the mainstream media's most popular Republican. Forget about terrorism, Iraq, North Korea, or Iran and Syria: John has found the newest debate he will surely win - who would doubt a war-hero on global warming? And there are people, real people, actually real Republican people who are seriously considering supporting him as a presidential candidate?!?

Islam and Western Culture -what to read

I recently spoke to a friend about Mark Steyn's new book, America Alone, and recommended another book, which I had read about a year ago called While Europe Slept by an American free-lance journalist who has lived in Europe for the past 15-20 years named Bruce Bawer. Bawer is no right-wing hack, but is now being pilloried by the liberal book world for this book, which they are calling "racist." The book has just been nominated for a prestigious award and that appears to be what is getting all these libs in a twit. It is well worth reading and anticipated Steyn's warnings about what Europe will soon look like if the multi-culturalists don't begin to insist that "tolerance" is supposed to be a two-way street. Europe's problem with their Muslim "citizens" stems largely from the premise for the Muslim emigration to Europe in the first place - jobs (and a cultural xenophobia) - jobs Europeans were not willing to do being done by people Europeans didn't really want as neighbors, or friends, or colleagues- hence their indifference to whether these newcomers were asked to assimilate at all. We reap what we sow, I guess. I, personally, am delighted to welcome the legal immigrants from Mexico and Latin America and the Caribbean. They come to the U.S. with a desire to be part of America, it's only when they get here that we insist that they keep using their native languages and keep themselves apart. We still have time to learn our lessons from Europe.

 

Peter and Clare

This one is for you, Bules. Just click it. 

Birds and blogging

 
 
 
Have been having problems with Google's "New Blogger" - tedious and stupid and the help is no help at all. Anyway, here are some more bird pics from fladeedah: laughing gull, snowy egret, royal tern resting on a buoy.