Link via Howard Weaver.
Mike Huckabee reacted to the Bhutto assassination by explaining it was just one more example of the urgent need to crack down on illegal immigration.
In light of what happened in Pakistan yesterday, it’s interesting that there are more Pakistanis who have illegally crossed the border than of any other nationality except for those immediately south of our border. [Americans might] look halfway around the world and say, ‘How does that affect me?’ ... We need to understand that violence and terror is significant when it happens in Pakistan, [and] it’s more significant if it can happen in our own cities. And it happens if people can slip across our border and we have no control over them. The immigration issue is not so much about people coming to pick lettuce or make beds, it’s about people who could come with a shoulder-fired missile and could do serious damage and harm to us.Here’s the litmus test:
If that brand of idiocy strikes you as bothersome, you’re not voting for Huckabee (and you’re probably a decent way along the path to sanity).
In a recent biography on OvationTV, abstract and pop artist Robert Rauschenberg provided a description of the role New York City plays in his art. Anyone who loves the town has felt this way as they moved along the city streets.
Everything starts out on the street. And New York was, I thought, so incredibly rich in materials that whenever I started working instead of going to the paint store or anyplace else, I would just walk around the block. And if I didn’t have enough to start work if I walked around one block then I walked around another block.For several years in my early twenties, New York was by far my best friend. No quality art came out of my walks, but I’m still working on a few things (including this post). It just takes some folks a few more blocks than others.
If you’re looking for a good way to round out your charitable giving year (and to score a pretty cool deal for yourself), head over to the Give One Get One offer that is part of the One Laptop Per Child program.
From now through December 31, 2007, OLPC is offering a Give One Get One program in the United States and Canada. This is the first time the revolutionary XO laptop has been made available to the general public. For a donation of $399, one XO laptop will be sent to empower a child in a developing nation and one will be sent to the child in your life in recognition of your contribution.
You don’t necessarily have to give the laptop to a child in your life either (you can always just keep it for yourself or throw it into the cage of a programmer you’re looking to tame in the new year). It’s a cool little linux box that should be fun to play with (I just ordered mine) and and it comes with a free year of T-Mobile hotspot access (which would run you more than 200 bucks if you bought it over the counter).
Best of all, some kid with less than nothing will be getting his or her laptop in early 2008. In many villages, at night, the only lights you can see are the screens of these laptops that provide a connection to the rest of world. It’s a cool program and this is cool way to be a part of it.
This was a particularly cool evening in San Francisco. Unfortunately, it was also the night my gas furnace stopped working. The regional power company let me know that they could have a guy out here next Thursday (it’s this Friday), so I loaded the kid into layers: Crazy Striped Footed Sleeper beneath the unrivaled Banana Hannah Fleeced Body Gear (we call it the rocket suit around these parts). I changed into my work clothes – t-shirt, undershorts, crocheted hemp hat (what can I say, I’m a blogger). Then I headed downstairs to the basement.
I read the how-to on the side of the gas furnace and I basically rebooted the thing. And the heat started up. I essentially pressed apple, control, power button on my home’s heating system. And as it did with the ipod and Mac before it, it worked.
The wife is sound asleep. The kid is toasty warm.
Will it last? Will I be freezing or gassed out by morning? Who knows? At the very least, I gave you two excellent kid sleepwear products above.
At most, I may have come the closest to being a man since I absolutely killed my haftorah portion in the early eighties.
Shit, it’s starting to get a little chilly in here…
I’m pleased to introduce Dave’s Drive-In where I will be featuring free, full length movies and TV shows for your viewing pleasure. There is no better way to launch the Drive-In than with the 1979 classic, Breaking Away. Just a tremendous movie. Sit back and enjoy.
Other cool new features around the all new Davenetics include:
Rockenetics – My latest all-rock, all-awesome, playlist. The player’s got shuffle and loop and cool graphics. The only thing left is for me to bring you a few beers while you’re listening.
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