Almost Perfect!  Mark Buehrle throws the year’s first no-hitter.  If it hadn’t been for a walk to Sammy Sosa he would have been perfect.  

Miss Piggy the kitten diva, is developing nerves of steel.  She did not budge today when Jody was banging, hammering, and putting up shelving.  Maybe she opened one eye, and glared, but that was about it. The main book shelf is finished!  The one I had Jody put up today under the bar in my dining room is wonderful.  I checked and the rest of my shelving and brackets are due to be delivered on the morrow!  With luck, Sammi and I can get everything put in place Sat. afternoon.  Sammi is working for a stereo system (5 hrs work @ ten bucks an hour!).  Next week we start on my office! 

More pet food recalls.

MY MINI RANTS FOR THE DAY

I was talking to one of my best friends today.  She teaches 6^th grade here in town.  She was telling me the school system has spent the entire week doing lock-down drill and working on ‘code yellow’ alerts. Evidently the kids are a wreck, not from the VT shooting, but the local response.  These things are nothing new.  When I was in high school (Nixon was in office) we had bomb scares every year around this time.  A few kids would know about it so they could skip class.  I remember one time when Mr. Puckett (one of the GREAT all-time journalism teachers – I’m a writer because of him) was so mad he marched back into the school and hauled these two kids out by the scruff of the neck!

 Patrick Haynes over at Ankle Biting Pundits is having heart palpitations because 78% of American citizens support a half-way decent path to citizenship for law abiding illegals.  While this sounds like a contradiction in terms, it isn’t.  How on earth can you penalize a person for wanting to give his/her family a better chance at life.  Let’s also face the fact that only an idiot would remain in a place like Mexico working a week for what his/her illegal relative here in the US makes in a day! 

I posted this over at GOP Progress: I think the poll #’s are significant in two ways: 

1.  It completely disproves the hard-line conservative anti-immigration sentiment.

2.  Is this a sign that “hard-line” conservatives are losing control? 

These #’s are absolute disaster for conservatives who are anti-immigration.  I think they prove exactly where people stand on this specific issue.  Considering all the anti-immigration hot air that has contributed to Algore’s global warming theory, I think conservative Republicans has best step back and re-examine their stand on this issue.

If I were “conservative” I would be very concerned about these numbers.  I do truly feel sorry for people like “Digger” who are so far behind the curve on immigration.  Peter Brimlow is exploiting the VT shooting to further his xenophobic anti-immigration agenda.   Digger mentions a Frosty Woodbridge News With Views piece.  What you need to know is that Woodbridge is one of the most racist, anti-Hispanic, hysterical, henny-pennys of all the anti-immigration wacko “celebs”.  Woodbridge is just play incomprehensible, with his cross-country bike tour, to point out all the evil illegals among us.  He is also a shill for John Tanton. 

Brent Bozell has an excellent article over at Townhall today. I have my differences with him, but I think he has something with his piece about the Pulitzer and why young ‘conservatives’ rarely go into journalism.  

Mark Noonan at Blogs for Bush has a very interesting and I think must read post about the Holocaust, deniers, and the EU.  (Dingy red-head laugh – have you noticed that “EU” rhymes with “Pee-U”)

 “…There is no room in our civil society for people who adhere to or apologize for Nazi ideology - a three year sentence for denying the Holocaust is, in my view, only the least we can do in such circumstances. There is no debate about such things as the Holocaust - anyone asserting that the fact of its happening is an open question is either insane or evil and in either case locking them up is the only sound thing to do. There is no debate that Nazi ideology is evil from start to finish. There is, therefore, in my view no need to debate about what to do with people who advocate Nazism...no less than there would be no debate on what to do with people who advocate slavery or cannibalism.”