This is Now.

Read:

America used to know how to assimilate immigrants

What he leaves out is how easy it is today (and how hard it was then) to enter the country.

And the fact that the trip was, essentially, one way. Then, it was 2 weeks or more travel to get to the US (and roughly the same home) and cost about half a years wages. One left friends and family behind forever, for the most part. One had to commit to living in the “new World” for the rest of your life….

Today you can fly “home” anywhere in the world in less than 12 hours (maybe a bit more if you live in Australia) and easily return, at less than a months wages for most people.

And while thre may have been Irish Ghettos and “Little Italy” and places where only the Polacks or the Hunkies lived, they worked alongside other American…..and had to learn at least some english to communicate and survive….A common language that helped make them all one people. No one accommodated them, they accommodated their new world and new home.

The kids were mixed in together in school and learned English and by the second or third generation were truly amalgamated Americans, even if they held to the cultures of the old home country.

Accommodating our recent immigrants has prevented them from assimilating.

So I’m drivin’ the Dodge Diesel today (actually delivering some used Veggie oil to a guy who uses it to heat with)

Anyway, I stop to buy my usual lottery tickets at the local gas station, and, seeing as how the truck hadn’t warmed up yet (it was 3 above F this morning when I started it) I left it run while I went in.

Some woman came in and was grumbling about the asshole letting his diesel truck “spew fumes across the landscape”…. and “burning carbon and wasting energy”. (not that she was riding a bicycle or anything, mind you….

“But it isn’t diesel” I said.

“What?” she asked

“It’s whale oil. Humpback whales, actually… I buy it by the 55 gallon barrel. Burns cleaner and it is a renewable resource”.

Kinda fun watching her face kinda screw itself up.

I smiled and left.

***I hate EnviroNazis….Especially those who like to lecture on Carbon Footprint. I’ll go against nearly anyone when it comes to carbon emissions. Unless you live in a yurt I probably have a smaller carbon footprint than you. Most EnviroNazis really don’t live the lifestyle their stated belief would suggest.

Not actually whale oil. Can’t use it in the winter….gets too thick below 30 F.

Seems that things aren’t as we thought in Burns, Oreagon.

SO again NO ONE WON the big PowerBall prize.

leaving us with a projected prize of $1.3 Billion. (yes, with a B) (I bet it goes much higher than that, actually)…

Now I gotta buy tikets again.

Sure hope I win this time. The waiting is killing me…..

ETA: this will (should he be the lucky one and all that), at least make for a bigger Island for Murph….and more warriorettes…and bigger awarships and better warplanes.

Didja buy yer PowerBall Tikket?

current estimates put the prize at $800 MILLION.

so, lessee, lump sum payment, so $450 Million…

Taxes on that at what? 40%,,,, SO you go home with something like 270 MILLION dollarz, all taxes paid.

That really wouldn’t suck. I’m not sure I could spend it all …Even helping Family and Friends.

I mean, one can do only so much partying….

But it will be fun trying to spend it.

Here’s hopin’

But, in this case, it is true.

Show this to EVERY person you know. If you Facebook or whatever, post it there.

Make sure the truth get out there.

With your help, we can make the truth known.

“Can’t stop the signal”.

HT: Komrade Karl

Zaevion William Dobson’s example, to be precise.

He’s the young hero whose corpse Barry held up  who Obama used as a prop so he could shed a tear.

Kid WAS a hero. Might have become someone according to reports…. (if he didn’t fall prey to the Black Culture that destroys so many young black men) His killer(s)? They were gang members. Probably would have looked like Barry’s sons, had he been able to sire any…..Didn’t have their guns legally. Barry’s new pronouncements would not have changed anything, were that to happen 6 months from now instead of in Mid December 2015.

If Barry really wants to fix the “gun problem” then he needs to deal with drugs, gangs, and yes, Black culture.

Blacks do more killing of each other (both with and without guns, actually) in their neighborhoods (percentage wise) than any other demographic. Hard to admit for many, especially blacks, but that is true.  They commit more crimes, and therefore encounter police officers more often than the rest of us….

Few legal gun owners commit crimes. Lots of illegal gun owners do. A fairly high percentage of those illegal gun owners are black.  Fix the illegal gun owners issue, and nearly every one of your gun problems will go away.

Unless the end goal is civil disarmament, of course.

Hears this referenced on the radio and had to research it when I got home:

The Case For Civil Disobedience in Oregon

It is an interesting article detailing the excesses that the folks in Burns are protesting.

If NPR is trying to be sympathetic to these folks, then there has been, and is an issue with the behavior of the BLM….but we knew that already, didn’t we?

Microsoft Warns Windows 7 Has Serious Problems

You should “upgrade” to windows 10 immediately….

Of not, because there really aren’t any issues with Windows 7. In fact, it operates over 50% of the WORLDS computers.

But Microsoft wants you to upgrade. Because. Borg.

(Me, I hear that they will support it ’til 2020, so if my hardware lasts that long, I’m gonna stay right here in 7 land).

(YMMV, past results are not indicitatve of future earnings, always practice safe sex. brush daily, and wear your boots)