Couldn’t Help But Notice (061507)

It’s nice to be noticed by the Great One, Mark Levin, over at National Review, but next time I hope he links to a page on the blog and not a separate saved file, in this case The Wall Street Journal’s infamous 1984 “There Shall Be Open Borders” editorial.

Solution: Make separately saved linked files very, very rare — which is why the separately saved file isn’t linked. :–>

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Speaking of The Wall Street Journal, this subscription-only editorial shows that the senselessness of those who want us to be effectively borderless appears to be boundless:

Americans tempted to clamp down on immigration ought to take a look at Germany. The closed-border policy there leaves businesses unable to fill important jobs and threatens to scupper the country’s economic recovery.

Although 3.8 million Germans are on the dole, the country’s recent growth spurt has left businesses unable to fill 600,000 vacancies, including many high-skilled jobs. Among them are 48,000 missing engineers, whose absence last year cost Germany about €3.5 billion ($4.6 billion) in lost annual output, according to the IW economic institute in Cologne. At the other end of the spectrum, Germans aren’t responding to want ads for 80,000 to 90,000 unskilled jobs.

Germany is the world’s largest exporter. Companies may soon find it too difficult to fill orders and risk losing market share. The solution is simple: Bring in labor from abroad.

Huh? The fact that the welfare state is too generous (which the Journal does point out) and employment laws too inflexible proves the need for immigration?

Besides, you ninnies, try as you might to throw the “nativist” label around, the opposition to the secret deal they’re trying to slip past us in in Washington is about ILLEGAL immigration, not immigration in general. Zheesh.
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This is indeed “pathetic,” and is probably going to hurt Apple’s cred more than a little.

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This little nugget about exactly how EA’s games are going to run on a Mac also makes you wonder if everybody’s got their head on straight in Cupertino.

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I can’t be the only one getting real tired of the “You’re not watching Katie Couric, so you’re a sexist” garbage coming out of CBS as the network’s Evening News is stuck at 6 million viewers and badly trails ABC and NBC. Captain Ed responds:

It makes no sense, in any case. Plenty of women successfully anchor local news shows in big-market cities. They don’t appear to have problems with women reporting in any corner of the nation.

….. Moonves should stop spending so much time blaming his audience for their taste, and spend more time fixing his organization and the show.

To really fix the CBS show, and to put a stop to the slow and steady quarter-century slide in combined evening news viewership at all three networks that continues (at 21.14 million, almost as low as last year’s low-water mark, and we’re not even seriously into summertime yet) they’d all have to get rid of their borderline-BDS bias. Fat chance.

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Another Day for George Voinovich, another $2 million in pork that the recipient wasn’t even that excited about:

The Dayton International Airport on Wednesday won a $2 million U.S. Department of Transportation grant aimed at protecting its runways from errant critters.

….. Irene Porter, a project manager for the Department of Transportation, said it’s not that the Dayton airport is particularly troubled with wildlife.

Look at the bright side — we now have evidence that Mr. Voinovich supports at least one fence that will keep interlopers out.

Update: A couple of commenters noted that the Irene Porter paragraph above has now been scrubbed. I really resent it when a publication does that. It was there; I saw it; I copied it.

While on the subject, I make edits after posting semi-frequently, but they are either language clarifications or additional text, and almost never (probably never, but I’m not absolutely sure) deletions. That, and true updates are segregated at the end of the post, even if they partially contradict what is in the original (which is labeled with a reference to the update in longer posts). It wouldn’t seem that difficult for a big-journo pub like the DD News to at least do the same….. would it?