What I’m Reading Instead of Working

Actually it’s more like, “what I’m reading instead of going out and buying parts for my computer.” I’m writing this on a backup machine. I work from a home office and consequently keep a spare computer so that if anything goes wrong, I can still get at least some work done. With no coworkers readily available, I try to have some kind of plan in place, although I’m still working the bugs out of this system. So my primary computer died. We ended up reinstalling Windows XP (Gah! Service Pack 2!! ‘Nuff said.) which solved some problems but there also seems to be a problem with the SATA drive adapter. (Yes, I know I need to upgrade my computer.) So my hard drive is now plugged into the backup, which has a few problems of its own. Pretty soon I’ll hit tigerdirect.com and upgrade both… I just haven’t wanted to spend the money because I try to wear things out before I replace them.

In the meantime… I’ve been harping on various aspects of illegal immigration and griping about the North American Union Summit here in New Orleans. Michelle Malkin has more on it.

A hot topic is the FLDS polygamist church raid and the DNA testing of the children. It’s a tough call on how to handle it. With a closed community like that, it’s difficult to enforce the law. A false report by an Obama delegate triggered it, and I can’t help but wonder about her motives. Genuine concern for the rumored abuse of children, a desire to trigger another Waco to tinker with the election, just sheer buttheadery, or something else? The cultists are pushing back with some spin, aided and abetted by Fox News. If they really wanted to be left alone, they should have started by staying off the public dole. Interesting how the media seems to have accepted the polygamy at face value – it’s rarely mentioned that it’s illegal; it’s simply treated as a lifestyle choice.

When this sort of thing is going on

“more than 20 girls, some of whom are now adults, have conceived or given birth under the age of 16 or 17. There is a culture of young girls being pregnant by old men.”

I think there’s justification for state involvement. But when it’s carefully hidden in a closed community on private property, how far can the state go to learn what’s happening and try to stop it? We have the right to do as we please on private property… sorta… except that the Fourth Amendment pretty much stops applying to you when you have a child in the house, as a practical matter, at least in the view of the state. Every homeschooling parent knows that, and we argue vehemently against it.  But in these extreme cases I find it hard to work up the energy to protest.

Anybody care to guess when a raid like this will occur at Islamberg in the Catskills? Possible polygamy and child marriage aside, there are regular reports of gunfire and military training being conducted. How about… never? Any other takers on “never in a million years?” Unless we get an informer and probably not even then.

So Obama’s been hanging out with abortion clinic bombers, and oddly enough, no one on the left seems to mind. Oh, wait – it was an unrepentant Pentagon bomber. That makes it okay, then. But don’t question their patriotism!

Hillary is one of us? I don’t know about you, but I’ve held non-government jobs my whole life, and with the exception of a few months on welfare when I was pregnant and widowed, never taken money from the government; I’m one of those idiots who gives money TO the government. I also didn’t attend an Ivy League school or mock those who value marriage and bake cookies. Or try to get everybody on socialized medicine, promise to take things away from people for the public good, or get away with a number of crimes. If by “one of us” she means the Obamas, who also are elitist liberal semi-socialist schmucks, then maybe so.

Enough of the news… although the computer store is scarcely less depressing. Guess I’ll have to try this:

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