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Author Archives: Pierre Legrand

Don Quixote’s letter to the President, tilting at windmills can be fun

UPDATE: September 22, 2003 was the original publish date for this missive. I believed back then and events have done nothing to convince me otherwise that the Administration was making a grevious error by trying to justify the war in Iraq using the violations of UN sanctions as justification. I guessed and apparently got it right [...]

Secrecy and Stealth, fighting ghosts with rules and September 11, 2001

UPDATED AGAIN BECAUSE ANDREW NEEDS A LASHING: Andrew Sullivan is just about the worst offender of the don’t use torture bunch. And today he attacks Dean Barnett’s defense of mere waterboarding a technique mild enough that we demonstrate it on our very own soldiers. But effective enough that not a single hard assed terrorist was able to stand up [...]

Cindy Sheehan, is she nuts?

Does a bear crap in the woods? The Cindy Sheehan Watch is going live and needs your help with inbound links.
Cindy Sheehan, is she nuts?

Palestinian Suffering or Staged Photo Shoot…I report you decide!

Seeing that the Palestinians have been absolutely cold blooded killers for decades now and further that they celebrated 9/11 I see no reason to mourn them. Cold blooded I admit but I don’t buy what they are selling. What they are selling is that I should feel sorry for a people who want to exterminate [...]

How cool is a GM Blog? It’s even cooler than you think, they are a target of the NYT

The Grey Lady comes out swinging with the twits at the New York Times and it is a lovely thing to see. General Motors has always seemed to me to be a great gentle giant whose aversion to violence left it prey to all sorts of critters who don’t deserve to be on the same [...]

Holding up low wages, no insurance and unsafe workplaces to blame for our expansion…hmmm.

John Podhoretz can be counted on to defend the Bush Administration, that much is sure. But not sure that I would want him defending me if he actually means what he posted here.
The Corner on National Review Online: “Um, Mark Krikorian… [John Podhoretz]
You write: ‘Watching a show with that Honda robot walking up and down [...]

Selling arms to both sides…cynical realist foreign policy back in style?

So we sign a 10 year pact with India, who by the way has been fighting the Islamic facists much longer than we have, to provide them with missile defense among other things, then we sell Pakistan the missiles to shoot at India’s new Missile Defense. Hmmm is this some sort of test? Geopolitical nonsense [...]

Trust an easy thing to lose. Why did President Bush fritter it away on illegal immigration? Ver 2.0

UPDATE ON RADIO SHOW INTERVIEW: I will be on the Tammy Bruce Radio Show tomorrow 6/2/2006 at 10:05 Pacific 12:05 Central. Scheduled for one 10 minute segment but if I sound especially brilliant or absolutely, hilariously, idiotic they might hold me over for 2 just to keep people laughing. Bumped this back up to the [...]

I panicked and got the Katrina story wrong…lesson learned I hope.

Reading this story on Katrina I am struck by how badly I did in reporting this story. Perhaps being in the middle of the story isn’t the very best way to report a story? Nevertheless other more professional sorts are able to be inside of a story like Katrina and report the truth, I failed. [...]

Nagin wins, proves New Orleans filled with the dumbest people in the world

All we need now is for Blanco to win and it will prove beyond a shadow of doubt that inbreeding is a disaster of biblical proportions. Really this is too much. Flabbergasted. Maybe we should make a law that marrying your cousin gets you 25 to life?
At this point New Orleans shouldn’t get a single [...]

Are you Bushed by Anxiety, and Depression in regards to Immigration???

Then take a wiggle over to this blog and read all about the sorts of things you can do to self medicate…oops wrong site. In any case this site looks really interesting with their latest article covering “Insufficient Sleep Tied to Obesity in Children”
Yea I know, lame ass title but its late and I am [...]

Ditto…American Workers lazy bums who need Mexicans to help!

We be a bunch of lazy bastards and we need the help of those brave souls who have done such a fine job with their own countries to the south of the great states of California, Arizona, New Mexico and Texas. Been wanting a cardboard city set up in Ft. Worth for quite some time [...]

PJ Media will be all over the Immigration story today keep a close eye on them for the latest!

Not sure that there is anything this President will say that will have me singing his praise but hey stranger things have happened. At this point I cringe when he talks.
Naturally this has a lot of people upset, no not because I have a lot of power but because a lot of people feel like [...]

Doing the work that Americans won’t do…and other Bush Fables

According to the President Mexican illegal aliens are doing the work that Americans won’t do. President Bush likes to paint these workers as people merely struggling to help us keep our hands clean. The truth is a bit dirtier than what Mr. Bush would have us believe.
At the bottom of the page I am highlighting [...]

Sitting out the election…why we might do such a thing!

In response to Captain Ed’s article I left this comment. First a snippet of a well reasoned article instead of the usual polemic which compares people with my views to Kos kidz…course what else would we expect from Captain Ed.
Captain’s QuartersBy all means, if faced with a choice between Hitler and Mussolini on the November [...]

A letter on Instapundit that captures my feelings…

This letter to Glenn Reynolds lays out one of my beefs with the Bush administration.
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If “jobs Americans won’t do” is a central part of Bush’s address his approval ratings may be in the single digits Tuesday morning. I honestly do not understand where are political class has gotten the idea that calling the average [...]

Reagan on immigration…

To those who bemoan my repudiation of the Republican party for among other things its stance on illegal immigration. Let me remind you that I have Reagan on my side. You have Senator Kennedy. Congrats. This article on Foxnews deserves a read.
In exchange for legal status for the group, Reagan insisted that the magnet attracting [...]

Malkin smoking hot…

Michelle Malkin video report is sweet to watch. Course I bet that the Bush administration doesn’t think so since it is their Dept. Of Homeland security that is alerting the Mexican government to the positions of US Citizens, vigilantes according to our fearless leader Bush. Something smells rotten here and the Bush administration better do [...]

Republicans need to put the crackpipe down!

Updates: A response to AJ below.
Article at Tapscott’s got me to thinking about being in the minority or the alternative accepting what is defined as a Republican these days. Here is my answer.
Now, with another legislative subterfuge in the offing, we see all too clearly that we’ve been taken for a ride. Come November, the [...]

Bush administration on border security, not wrong, merely on the other-side!

President Bush not happy with his 31% poll numbers is working hard on making them even worse. Talk about pissing on your base! Try having your Border Patrol people reporting to a foreign government on the efforts of Americans to control our border. Yea sure lets trust President Bush to actually enforce any sort of [...]

Nextonthelist

Feels good to have inspired someone else to blog. One thing for sure Nextonthelist sure is a lot easier on the eye’s than this blog. Working on that…
While I fix this blog make sure to include Nextonthelist in your rounds.
Nextonthelist

Winning’s Everything

A commenter over at Belmont pointed me to this terrific article on winning. This is exactly correct. Our leaders either don’t know how to win or don’t think its important. Read this article right now.
desert rat said…
There is a piece by the “Style” Editor, over at the WaPo.
Usually, I’d skip over the “Style”, but what [...]

Another reason to not respect President Bush’s second term…caving in to bureaucrats

Goss who was doing what needed to be done in the CIA, firing lots of people, was replaced because he clashed with a career Diplomat who was for some bizarre reason the head of all of our intelligence agencies. Negroponte’s qualifications for running the most crucial arm of our government during the most brutal war [...]

The Belmont Club: Rummy “lied”

Belmont Club has a good take down of Andrew Sullivan’s wet dream that the moonbat proved that Rumsfeld “Lied”.
The Belmont Club: Rummy “lied”

United Flight 93 vs Returning to normal…we are at war don’t you know!

Not sure that this response to DANIEL HENNINGER’S terrific article will get published so thought to archive it here. Btw if you have not seen United Flight 93 yet ask yourself why. It is important. Perhaps more important than any other movie yet…
First a snippet of Daniel’s article then my response.
‘United 93′ and the 20th [...]

Bush as Nixon and it aint a good thing!

Jonah with a terrific article on exactly why Bush’s numbers are falling faster than a porn stars pants.
Jonah Goldberg on National Review Online

Heather MacDonald on illegals…err undocumented aliens…oops undocumented Americans.

This article by Heather does her typically thorough job of asking all the right questions. But of course even people as conservative as Captain Ed buy into the impossibility of illegals being deported. Captain Ed: We cannot possibly forcibly deport 12 million people, and they won’t leave the US voluntarily unless we make America a [...]

Michelle Malkin vents on Islamic Terror and Hollywood Liberals, don’t miss it!

Saying what needs to be said over and over again, Michelle Malkin speaks truth to power to borrow a moonbat phrase. The genocide in Darfur is another arena in our war against Islamic Fascism and it is both sad and funny to see Hollywood Limousine Liberals arriving to save the day.
Michelle’s new venture Hot Air [...]

The Pink Flamingo Bar Grill

Wow no posts in a week someone better get me up off my lazy ass. Been working on a longish post about the contradictions of Candidate Bush compared to President Bush…but everytime I look at it I find something else I want to change.
Had a good mini vacation with the Wife in San Destin…amazing resort. [...]

Another barnburner of an article on Eurabia

Fjordman hits one out of the park in this latest post over at Gates of Vienna.
Gates of Vienna: A New Oslo Peace Process?: “Leftist”

The Cult of Death and how it may claim you!

Imagine that you go into the hospital for a heart surgery and after the surgery you develop an infection. Then imagine that you declare in your own voice while sick that you want to live and want to keep trying. Then imagine exactly what sort of death cult declares against your wishes to murder you! [...]

Sub-Citizens or how we ignore our workplace laws

Highly recommend this article found over at Brussels Journal, linked at the end of my article.
My views regarding immigration run along these lines.
Muslim immigration by and large is legal and our problem revolves around their intent. I cannot state it any better than the article at Brussels Journal: With that in mind, why not [...]

Why isn’t she in cuff’s indeed! Because the Bush administration is giving a pass to Clintonistas?

This constant softness by the Bush administration is getting dreary. Sandy Burglar gets a pass… Now Mary McCarthy gets a pass. Everyones making a big deal about her being fired as if that is adequate punishment for leaking our nations secrets during wartime. Lock her up. And while we are asking questions riddle me this? [...]

It is terribly depressing reading European Blogs these days…

This is where Multicultural nonsense being passed to us by our elite leads to, the dissolution of a culture. We are under attack and our very own elite are passing out the valium so that we go quietly into the good night.
Van Holsbeeck Murder: Bending Over Backwards in Brussels | The Brussels Journal

Mom victim of DHS Bullshit…yea she is a terrorist at 74 years old.

Glenn points to an article by Strategy Page on airport security just in time to add fuel to the fire. Today my mother flew in to Baton Rouge from Las Vegas for her after Taxes holiday with her Grandchildren and I would like to think to visit me (ed. doubt it). My mom is 74 [...]

Explosive revelations regarding Chinese attempts to smuggle weapons inside USA!

So far this appears to be the work of corrupt officials inside of China. On the other-hand in the last decade with releases of information such as the papers from the Venona project we should be aware that it is not outside of the bounds of possibility that this is actually an official project being [...]

DHS caught arresting people doing the work that Americans won’t do!

Looks like a bit of PR work by the Open Borders Crew at the Bush administration. Arrest a few illegals, make a good show then the public will go back to sleep and the Open Borders Crew can get back to importing people to bust up the Minimum Wage and Workers Comp laws. This sort [...]

Mohammed “Statue” in Belgian Church

Uh oh someone better call the art police because our dear favorite religious figure who cannot be named is caught under the heel of Christianity in this 17th century wooden sculpture. Goes to show you that it is possible to unlearn good habits since these days we wouldn’t be caught dead denouncing Islam. We would [...]

WaPo blames Right Wing, Halliburton, 9/11 for angry left

Besides telling us what we all know, the left is very angry, today we find out why the left is angry. It is all our fault!
The Left, Online and Outraged: “What’s notable about this isn’t only the level of anger but the direction from which it is coming. Not that long ago, it was the [...]

The Freedom of Speech. We allow it to wither at our peril!

For a study of where the United States is headed one merely has to look towards the EU. Our cowardly actions in regards to the Mohammed Cartoons have put us firmly on the same road to dhimmitude as the EUSSR.
Perhaps we do not deserve the blessings that our Founding Fathers fought so hard to give [...]