The Anchoress

I have all these open tabs of stories/blogposts I meant to get to today - yes, of course they’re all must-reads - so let’s get to it!

Start here, with Sensible Mom who has some strong ideas and good questions for all of us: The last two lines of P. J. O’Rourke’s book Parliament of Whores are “Every government is a parliament of whores. The trouble is, in a democracy the whores are us.” Meaning, we get what we choose.
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How many times have you turned a contractor away after he arrived at your home with illegal immigrants to start the job? How many times have you refused to frequent a restaurant when you realized the busboys couldn’t speak English? Did you even notice most times? Have you refused to stay in hotels that employ illegal immigrants as maids? Did you complain to your local McDonald’s, or do you still visit it because it’s convenient?

How many presidents have gotten off the hook for not enforcing our immigration and employment laws because we Americans had different priorities? Well, that attitude has come back to bite us in the butt.

Hello, you’ll want to read the whole thing. This is everyone’s fault, absolutely.

Maxed Out Mama: Talks cultural racism: Examples of these norms include defining white skin tones as nude or flesh colored, having a future time orientation, emphasizing individualism as opposed to a more collective ideology, defining one form of English as standard, and identifying only Whites as great writers or composers. Your education tax dollars at work. This PC crap has got to stop. I say put it on the list, right after we get the immigration thing taken care of.

Fausta is watchin’ tv!

Kobayashi Maru: This is a priceless piece on the Democrats who want to save the rats. Really, you must read it. You’ll laugh. Then you’ll think about it and you’ll want to cry.

AJ Strata is having his first blogoversary!

Siggy is throwing Part I punches and promises (or threatens) more. Funny and dead serious.

Melanie Phillips: This brill lady gives us the heads up on how out of control things are in the UK. You know, the UK…where President Clinton recently said everything is “so much better than in America” (paraphrased).

Instapunk: He says the MSM is winning and he may be correct. They’re huge, they’re organized, and they do not deviate from their agenda to fight amongst themselves like - ummm - some political parties and blog-posters.

Kitty Litter: Are you part of the problem? Well, are you?

Democracy Project gives you a heads up re Lorie Byrd and DJ. Speaking of Lorie, if you haven’t read her latest at Townhall, you should.

Dr Helen and Bettnet both talking about Helicopter Parents. I guess they go with the Indigo Children, or something. When will the boomers stop, just stop trying to control everything?

AJ is thinking that things are getting a little peacable re conservatives and the illegals situation. Maybe. I can see my emailers have calmed down a little, so maybe he’s right.

John Murtha is opening a reckless mouth again. The Marines are already investigating. Frank Martin has some frank words that you’ll want to read. Laura Lee is spitting mad (I like her!) Meanwhile Missouri honors a Marine. Flopping Aces, a former marine writes about honor.

Watcher of Weasles: has some exceptionally fine writing on display this week, and I’m not just saying that.