And hopefully for your edification as well. I’m going to be offline for a good bit of the day as I am being presented an icon of my name Saint by a noted Iconographer. May do a little post about this, as there’s a twist to the story of the Iconographer that you may appreciate.
First up, spiders — for all they do a lot of good in many cases — are not well loved. I suspect that one of the fastest ways to get a female out of her clothes is to tell her a spider is in them. We’ve been overrun with them this summer, and despite one apparently biting me, I’ve let most live as they have been dealing with the gnats, flies, and other abundant insect life quite nicely.
Now, however, there is a new wrinkle. Spiders are firemakers. And the author of this wonderfully worded article gets a bow for the wordplay. It’s worth reading for that alone; but, lot of good info and links in there too. Hat tip and thanks to Sarah A. Hoyt at Instapundit for that one.
Second, is a post by Sarah at her own site. She talks about a concern which I share, and hope can be avoided. As I pull back from pure politics a bit, need to do a post this week on the things that worry me, that I see as entirely too probable.
Enjoy the links, and more soon.
Getting hit by lightning is not fun! If you would like to help me in my recovery efforts, feel free to hit the fundraiser at A New Life on GiveSendGo, use the options in the Tip Jar in the upper right, or drop me a line to discuss other methods. If you want to know some of what it is going for, read here. There is also the Amazon Wish List in the Bard’s Jar. It is thanks to your gifts and prayers that I am still going. Thank you.
Anyone who still believes that “amnesty” for illegal aliens is OK because “they only want the jobs we don’t want” is a complete fool and NOT AT ALL a student of even RECENT history. There was indeed a time when illegals DID do the jobs no one wanted. Then came Reagan in the 1980’s. All of a sudden, hundreds of thousands of illegal aliens who were doing the jobs no one wanted got green cards as a reward, simply for being in this country illegally for more than two years. You can guess what happened next. ‘Give up? Well, THEY TOOK THE JOBS WE DID WANT!!! If you don’t believe me, go to ANY construction site in Southern California and note the DISTINCT ABSENCE of ENGLISH and people of other than Mexican lineage. Giving 20 million or so MORE illegal aliens their “micas” as reward for breaking our laws will only make a bad thing even worse!
My eldest child was cleaning her room and organizing her closet this past weekend when she came across a large-ish spider. Thinking fast, she ran and grabbed the electric bug swatter we keep in the kitchen for eradicating fruit flies. Much to her consternation she discovered that while it is instant and complete destruction to fruit flies, it struggled a bit with the spider. Twas not a clean kill, as it were, and she discovered that her forced application of it against the spider caused it to burst into flames. Grumbling mightily, she returned the electric bug swatter to the kitchen and went looking for something to get rid of the smell of burnt spider smoke.
ROFTL!