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On the Christmas Day Almost-Terrorist Attack in Detroit

Last night, the Facebook status of a close liberal/Democrat friend read:

TSA is now “banning the use of blankets and pillows an hour before landing.” Because you might try to hide under a blanket to light your explosive … What about the rest of your 12 hour flight? F**king idiots. Really? Is this the best we can do?

Yes, my friend. This is the best we can do. Even under the Bush administration, the airlines handled terrorism in many ways, but not by profiling for terrorists, which makes the flying lives of everybody else inconvenient. A few years ago a radical Muslim terrorist snuck onto an airplane a bomb hidden in his shoe. Did that make us look for more radical Muslim terrorists? Nooooo. Instead, before boarding an airplane, everybody now has to take off their shoes! And now, because of another radical Muslim terrorist hiding explosive material in his underwear, everyone will soon be subjected to an all-out frisking at the airport.

A lot of pundits on the rightosphere weighed in over the weekend on the (thankfully) botched terror attack aboard an airplane landing in Detroit on Christmas Day. By Sunday DHS Sec Janet Napolitano was on CNN was spinning the events to make it look like some Obama administration success. The most laughable point of her interview was when the woman who notoriously labeled white Tea Partiers as extremists actually said that the way things went down on that airplane indicated that “the system worked.”

John Hinderaker at Power Line deftly deconstructs Napolitano’s CNN interview here. He writes:

So the “system” consists of hoping there is an alert Dutch filmmaker on board, and that the terrorist’s detonator fails? … The idea that responding to terrorist attacks, rather than preventing them, constitutes “success” is eerily reminiscent of our policies pre-September 11.

Michelle Malkin also scoffs at Napolitano’s laughable assessment:

If the “system” had “worked,” the U.S. consular officials who granted Abdul Farouk Abdulmutallab a short-term visa last June would have revoked it immediately upon being informed by his father that he was a Muslim radical with al Qaeda ties.

If the “system” had “worked,” U.S. consular officials would have never granted Abdulmutallab — a rootless, young, single male — a visa in the first place in compliance with State Department visa regulation 214(b) …

If the “system” had “worked,” Abdulmutallab would have been barred from the U.S. like he had been barred from Britain.

The “system,” like Napolitano, was an epic fail.

And as predicted, Napolitano also played the “lone nut” card — dismissing the Christmas Day jihadist as a single operator not part of “anything larger” despite his own testimony to the contrary.

She’s Obama’s biggest joker. And there’s no Blame-Bush loophole to weasel through anymore.

Not so fast, Michelle. Yesterday, while President Hope&Change was vacationing in Hawaii working on his golf game, WH spokesman Bill Burton told the press this [h/t Verum Serum]:

We are winding down a war in Iraq that took our eye off of the terrorists that attacked us, and have dramatically increased our resources in Afghanistan and Pakistan where those terrorists are. We are putting the pressure on al Qaeda worldwide with all elements of American power, and key al Qaeda leaders have been taken out in Pakistan, Yemen and Somalia. Gibbs also made clear the President refuses to play politics with these issues. As he said in West Point, we must put aside petty politics and recapture the unity that we had after 9/11.

Lastly, Gibbs and Secretary Napolitano announced that the president has asked that the policies and procedures that have been in place the last several years related to watch-listing and all information available on the suspect be reviewed. He has also asked that the Department of Homeland Security, specifically the Transportation Security Administration, review its practices and capabilities as he is interested in learning how the explosive material was brought on board the aircraft and steps that can be taken to enhance the ability of airport screeners to detect and interdict such materials in the future.

So the president’s spokesperson plays petty politics against the Bush administration, then two sentences later says the president refuses to play politics with this issue, and then starting with the very next sentence plays petty politics again at least two more times.

(I not-so-politely mentioned this inconvenient truth on my own Facebook page last night. The result of that was getting an earful from two liberal/Democrat friends for being petulant, partisan, indecent, and vapid.)

UPDATE: As I write this, Napolitano has appeared on the Today show with Matt Lauer conceding they failed misery … but not without pointing her bony finger back at the Bush administration, blaming them for the security procedures they put in place. Jeez, this woman is as unprofessional and immature as her boss. You’ve been DHS Sec for almost a year, Toots. If Bush’s security procedures were so piss poor, why didn’t you do something about it yet? I guess you were too busy putting white U.S. veteran Tea Party protesters on the terrorist lists …

Bill at the Patriot Room isn't satisfied by Napolitano's sudden discovery of that elusive thing called "the truth." He cites the Washington Post:

"Security failed," said Doron Bergerbest-Eilon, Israel's senior-ranking counterterrorism officer from 1997 to 2000 and a former national regulator for aviation security. It is of little comfort that Abdulmutallab was stopped only after he allegedly failed to properly detonate the bomb, instead igniting a fire that alerted fellow passengers, Bergerbest-Eilon said.

"The system repeatedly fails to prevent attacks and protect passengers when challenged," he said, adding that, in the minds of security experts, "for all intents and purposes, Northwest Flight 253 exploded in midair."

Bone-chilling, but truthful.

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Andrew McCarthy at National Review online also weighs in on the incompetence:

… [A]fter 9/11, the 9/11 Commission, etc. — we have Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab: He was in the terrorist “database” because we were warned by his own influential father of his radical ties and proclivities, and he was evidently notorious among associates in Africa and Europe for his jihadist leanings; yet, he was issued a multiple-entry visa. And he claims to have been trained in Yemen — the al Qaeda hub to which the administration has just sent a half-dozen trained jihadists previously detained in Gitmo, and where it hopes to send many more.

I wonder what the media would be saying if George Bush were still president.

Hadn’t Abdulmutallab heard that we are closing Gitmo? Hadn’t he heard that we’re phasing out military-commissions so we can show the world that we give even the worst mass-murderers civilian trials with all the rights of American citizens? Hadn’t he heard that President Obama has banned torture (yes, yes, I know, actually Congress banned it 15 years ago — details, details ...)? Hadn’t he heard that the president has called for “a new beginning” in America’s relationship with the Muslim world? Hadn’t he heard that this is our new, smarter strategy to safeguard the nation from man-caused disasters?

Jonah Goldberg, also writing at NRO, outrightly suggests Napolitano be fired for this glaring display of national security incompetence since … um, Ft. Hood.

… It is her basic position that the “system worked” because the bureaucrats responded properly after the attack. That the attack was “foiled” by a bad detonator and some civilian passengers is proof, she claims, that her agency is doing everything right. That is just about the dumbest thing she could say, on the merits and politically. I would wager that not one percent of Americans think the system is “working” when terrorists successfully get bombs onto planes (and succeed in activating them). Probably even fewer think it’s fair that they have to take off their shoes, endure delays and madness while a known Islamic radical — turned in by his own father — can waltz onto a plane (and into the country). DHS had no role whatsoever in assuring that this bomb didn’t go off. By her logic if the bomb had gone off, the system would have “worked” since it has done everything right.

Napolitano has a habit of arguing that DHS is a first responder outfit. Its mission is to deal with “man-caused-disasters” afer they occur. It appears she really believes it. If the White House wants to assure people that it takes the war on terror seriously (a term Robert Gibbs used this morning by the way), they could start by firing this patenly unqualified hack.

Ouch.

See updates to Goldberg’s post, where he posts some commenter responses.

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Oh, here’s something from the “Why Am I Not Surprised?” Department: The folks at Newsbusters noted over the weekend that major news outlets, most notably the New York Times and Associated Press did not mention that the terrorist on the Detroit-bound plane was Muslim. And on CNN, Rep. Peter King (R-NY) was shushed twice by CNN interviewer Ali Veshi from mentioning Abdul Mudallad’s name.

What do we make of all this insanity from our own politically correct, ideologically-blinded government and media? It seems to me that the one thing interconnecting this incident, the Ft. Hood massacre, the shoe bomber incident from a few years ago, and other such incidents isn’t that our security officials can’t connect the dots; it’s that they won’t. [UPDATE: Full Metal Patriot makes the same assessment] Political correctness and fear of offending the wrong kind of people got people killed at Ft. Hood, and they almost got people killed on Christmas Day. Don’t get me wrong – Bush’s national security people let PC cloud their judgment too. But not as badly as this bunch.

So get ready, all you white blue-haired old ladies with your little crosses or Stars of David hanging around your necks: One hour before the end of your flight you must relinquish your blanket and pillows, and keep your crotch open to view.

You know, for the sake of national security.

Related reading: "Learning From Abdul Mutallab" by Victor Davis Hanson

Listen & Learn: Mark Levin Rallies the Troops - Us (12/15/09)

The greatest sports coaches no doubt have the most inspiring pep talks before an important tournament, the greatest military generals the most motivational speeches before sending his troops into battle.

This, my friends, is Mark Levin’s speech to us, the American people, as we prepare to take our country back from the tyrannical Left who now run Washington. It is passionate, it is heartfelt, and it is truthful. It is also—as a caller subsequently said it—a Reaganesque monologue that should be printed out and placed on every seat at the next RNC convention.

Bookmark this page, dear friends. Download it and send it to Americans just as concerned as you are about the direction Obama, Pelosi, and Reid are taking this country. Listen to this 10¾-minute pep talk again and again. 

The year 2010 must be the year we make comeback. I’ll be doing all I can to contribute, even traveling outside of my own state if need be. 

Who’s with me?

[Edited for commercials, long pauses, and other extraneous content]
 

 

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Ways the Left Has Screwed Up My Country Today: Senate Dems Open Door For Illegal Alien Census Counting

Yet again, the result-oriented, power-hungry Democrat Party put politics over the American people:

Senate blocks census US-citizenship question
By ANDREW TAYLOR, Associated Press Writer – Thu Nov 5, 12:52 pm ET

WASHINGTON – Senate Democrats have blocked a GOP attempt to require next year's census forms to ask people whether they are a U.S. citizen.

The proposal by Louisiana Republican Sen. David Vitter was aimed at excluding immigrants from the population totals that are used to figure the number of congressional representatives for each state. Critics said Vitter's plan would discourage immigrants from responding to the census and would be hugely expensive. They also said that it's long been settled law that the apportionment of congressional seats is determined by the number of people living in each state, regardless of whether they are citizens. A separate survey already collects the data.

The plan fell after a 60-39 procedural vote made it ineligible for attachment to a bill funding the census.

Let’s make one thing perfectly clear here: It is forehead-slapping common sense that the most basic and essential census question is, “Are you a United States citizen?”! There is no principled reason to block acquiring such a basic and essential question

Folks, we’ve got illegal aliens by the millions filling the streets with illicit drugs; the prisons with violent criminals; the hospitals with non-paying patients; and the schools with non-paying pupils. Yet the Democrats couldn’t give a frog’s fat ass about any of these facts because to them illegals are a gold mine of potential new votes. Period. If (or, more accurately, when) they are allowed to hide their illegal status and ultimately get counted in the census in urban areas like “sanctuary cities” and other blue areas, the population in these areas is artificially increased, warranting heavier Democrat representation in Washington.

This is the same type of crap these power-hungry Democrats pull when they block every Republican attempt to require voter I.D.’s. It has nothing to do with “voter disenfranchisement” or any other bleeding-heart buzzword they pull out of their tuchases, and everything to do with allowing people who have no right to vote, to vote. And they know that uninformed, often non-English-speaking illegals will be indoctrinated to vote Democrat. That’s all it’s about, people.

&#*$ the Constitution. &#*$ the American people. This is the motto of your Democrat Party—in the Senate with this sleazy move, in the House with the 2000+ page liberty-obliterating health (s)care bill, and in the White House with everything else.

And they wonder why they got their clocks cleaned on Tuesday. I so cannot wait until next November.

Ways the Left Has Screwed Up My Country Today: DHS Sec Napolitano Seeks to Ax "Illegal Alien" Label

Remember when the April 15 tea parties were about to happen Obama’s DHS secretary Janet Napolitano put out the report listing red-blooded American citizens, from veterans to gun owners, as “terrorists” and “extremists”? These people were (and, to them, probably still are) considered the scum of the earth. A genuine security threat.

Well, guess who is not a security threat to Ms. Napolitano? Read this post by Coach at the Collins Report and find out:

Is this woman insane? Napolitano wants illegal aliens called “newly-arrived asylum seekers”!
10/13/2009
By Kevin “Coach” Collins

As Governor of Arizona Janet Napolitano was always a good friend to illegal aliens trying to sneak into our country. She gave them free college educations and free daycare for their children as any welcoming host would.

As Homeland Security Secretary Napolitano avoids even saying the words “terror” or vulnerability” proving she has no business heading HLS.

Now Secretary Napolitano has passed a new threshold of linguistic gymnastics.

According to her latest announcement the burglars who sneak into our country with their hands out who were once correctly called “illegal aliens” then “illegal immigrants” and more recently “undocumented immigrants” must now be called “newly-arrived asylum seekers.”

This perfect example of Orwellian “new speak” is a trick to make us forget Democrats plan to give illegal aliens “free” healthcare paid for by us. […]

Orwellian indeed. I guess this is how President Golden Calf is going to get illegal aliens covered by government-run health (s)care. Just change their name to “newly-arrived asylum seekers.” So much easier than trying to sell some amnesty bill.

Speaking of asylum—Looks like the inmates are firmly in control of it now. Coach asks “Is this woman insane?” Worse: She’s a liberal. 

Welcome to the future, suckers.

My Day Standing in a "Sea of White People"

There I stood, hundreds of people surrounding me. Chanting. Singing. Listening to the passionate words of our leader and then uttering responses in unison. People came with their children, with their parents. They stayed all day. 

As I looked around at the crowd, it was immediately noticeable that we were all white. No blacks. No Hispanics. No Asians or Indians. It was a sea of white people.

How un-inclusive! How closed-minded! How intolerant we must have been!

What was this entirely white crowd of hundreds I’ve just described? A local RNC gathering? An “angry mob” Tea Party? An NRA convention?

Because that’s how liberals/Democrats view us, right? DNC Chair Howard Dean alone—paragon of civility, open-mindedness, tolerance, and compassion—has said this of the GOP for years, e.g.:

Republicans are “a pretty monolithic party. They all behave the same. They all look the same. It’s pretty much a white Christian party … The Republicans are not very friendly to different kinds of people. … We’re more welcoming to different folks, because that’s the type of people we are. But that’s not enough. We do have to deliver on things: jobs and housing and business opportunities.”
—June, 2005 

“If you look at folks of color, even women, they’re more successful in the Democratic Party than they are in the white, uh, excuse me, in the Republican Party [chuckle] because we just give more opportunity to folks who are hard-working people who are immigrants and come from members of minority groups.”
—August, 2008

“You think the Republican National Committee could get this many people of color in a single room? Only if they had the hotel staff in here.”
—Addressing the Black National Caucus, February, 2005

That last one’s my favorite. Interestingly, it’s Dean who exposes his own racism when he suggests that hotel staff would be comprised primarily of blacks. In addition, who the hell really thinks that the hotel staff at Democrat events don’t include minorities??? But why let a good jab at Republicans get ruined by some inconvenient facts? (Hey, it’s never stopped Democrats before.)

Or how about this one from Donna Brazile, Al Gore’s black presidential campaign manager in 2000: We’re never gonna let those “white boys win.” (Did anyone tell her that Al Gore is also white?)

And now, ever since the start of the Obama presidency, MSNBC talk show hosts, New York Times editorialists, and even former Democrat presidents have declared that Tea Parties and anti-ObamaCare town halls are simply the stamping grounds of white Republican racists.

This issue has been irking me for months, but this morning was the straw that broke the camel’s back: I turned on my local PBS station so my son could watch a cartoon. Instead, the black host of some talk show was interviewing the author of a recent Republican-bashing book. From the onset of the interview the (white) author referred to Tea Partiers with the sexual slur “tea-baggers” and described the Tea Parties as a sea of white.

So, according to many liberals/Democrats in Washington, Hollywood, the universities, TV, and even my own living room at family gatherings—Republicans are a monolithic white party because we are not friendly or welcoming to “different folks” and don’t offer them “opportunities.”

Let’s split this into two parts: (1) The premise and (2) the reasoning for this premise.

First, the premise that Republicans are a “monolithic party” who “behave the same” and “look the same.” (Imagine if someone said this about a predominantly black group: “They behave the same and look the same!” Isn’t it nice being a liberal Democrat? You get to have all the double standards your little bleeding heart desires.)

Dean is technically right that most Republicans are white. But even though the lion’s share of American blacks vote Democrat, there are plenty of proud conservative Republican- (or Libertarian-) voting blacks. Those who are well-known in big circles, such as Larry Elder, Kevin Jackson, Star Parker, Angela McGlowan, Thomas Sowell, Walter E. Williams, Bob Parks, etc., etc., will never get the prominent media attention and respect they deserve. Black conservative/Republican public figures like former Secretary of State Condi Rice, Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas and RNC Chair Michael Steele will be forever smeared, tarnished, and dismissed by the elite leftocracy. Such people—like Sarah Palin because of her gender—are an inconvenient truth and must be quashed.

In fact, it is so important for liberals/Democrats to depict the GOP as a “whites only!” party that they have whitewashed (pardon the pun) black participants from Tea Parties and other primarily conservative events. Most of the Tea Party footage and photos from the mainstream media will show you no one but Whitey as far as the eye can see. If this is the case, how did my guest blogger benjaminTheDonkey, in his video footage of the 9/12 D.C. Tea Party, come across several non-whites? Are amateurs with video cameras merely doing the job the mainstream media just won’t do anymore?

Apparently.

Now let’s consider the reasoning offered by Howard Dean and others as to why the GOP is primarily white (and Christian), namely, that we are not friendly or welcoming to “different folks” and don’t offer them “opportunities.” Perhaps the only vicious and politically-motivated lie bigger than this is that man is causing catastrophic global warming.

The inconvenient truth is it’s the Republican Party that gives more opportunity to hard-working people, regardless of color or ethnicity. When Democrat demagogues like Dean say “opportunity,” they mean handouts and entitlements. Democrats, having learned long ago they can buy votes with other people’s money (i.e., yours) in this way. And those who are not hard-working know which party offers these handouts and entitlements.

I am not saying that blacks and other minorities are not hardworking; what I am saying is that for several decades now the Democrats have brainwashed minorities into thinking they don’t need to work hard (e.g., by getting the most out of their educational opportunities) or take personal responsibility (e.g., by refraining from criminal activity and not having babies out of wedlock). Why be responsible to your family and your fellow citizens when the “friendly” and “welcoming” Democrat Party give a safety net that they insist you’re entitled to?

What the Democrats have done to minority populace in this country for the sole purpose of buying their votes is nothing less than criminal.

 

Thousands in Detroit line up for apply for stimulus money, October 6, 2009
Your Democrat electorate—diverse and dependent, just the way Howard Dean, Barack Obama, and the rest of the Democrat leadership like them

I don’t have the data accessible, but I would wager that most minorities who switch parties during their lives go from Democrat to Republican. That’s at least the case with the black conservative/Republicans I follow, as well as female and Jewish conservatives/Republicans.

Democrats have had a great con game going on for decades. They promise minorites the world—with other people’s money, of course—offering handout after handout and entitlement after entitlement. The result is a permanent underclass of slaves (yes, you read that right; I said “slaves”), of government-dependent minorities who hold out their hand for promises both fulfilled and broken, all in exchange for the simple act of voting Democrat. Because Republicans (ideally at least) refuse to buy the votes of minorities by promising them handouts and entitlements that no one deserves simply by existing, Democrat demagogues use that to convince minorities that Republicans aren’t friendly, welcoming, and “don’t care” about them.

And since Republicans are the party of personal responsibility and individual freedom regardless of your race, gender, or ethnicity, they don’t need to buy votes (ideally at least). Most minorities who switch parties realize this; that’s why they swtich. They don’t want to be condescended to and treated like children and told essentially, “Do whatever you want. We got your back. We’ll protect you from that unfriendly, unwelcoming White Party.”

The GOP is neither unfriendly nor unwelcoming to minorities. They simply don’t—again, ideally!—buy their votes with demeaning handouts, expedient entitlements, empty promises, and spreading lies and fear of the other party.

Minorities who have always been Republican or who have left the “Democrat plantation” as many conservative blacks call it, realize this.

Diversity to liberals is only skin deep. That’s really all they care about. They pat themselves on the back about how “diverse” they are, but it’s a sham. A university faculty packed with whites and blacks, gays and straights, men and women, Hispanics and Asians who all think, believe, and vote the same way is not diverse. Neither is a newsroom or TV studio. If there isn’t diversity of thought and ideas, all you get is a bag of M&M’s: They may be different colors but it doesn’t matter; when you close your eyes, they all taste the same.

OK, you’ve waited long enough. What exactly was the white-only, chanting, singing gathering of hundreds I described up top?

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High Holy Day services at my (left-leaning) synagogue.

Not too many non-white Jews around, has anyone noticed? All those white people. Must be Republicans!

Listen & Learn: El Rushbo Gets the Best Phone Call of His Career (9/30/09)

Listening to Rush’s show yesterday (September 30) was like a nightmare. With every infuriating story, I felt like a frog in slowly boiling water (with apologies to Glenn Beck). For two hours I listened just stunned at all the ways the Democrats nationwide were screwing this country up beyond recognition, throwing this Constitution of ours out the window, and stealing your freedom with every minute they meet.

The fascist Left is on the march, people. From state capitals to the U.S. Capitol and White House, the Democrat Party is in full-speed mode to steal your freedom in order to empower themselves and steal your money to enrich themselves.

Think I’m being hyperbolic? OK, for those of you who get your news from the miserably pathetic New York Times or one of the alphabet news channels, here’s what’s really been going on in this country:

First, Rush cites a WSJ report that the Bill Clinton library (and massage parlor) in Little Rock, Arkansas is getting $2.5 million in stimulus money. What the $&*#? This is not what stimulus money was supposed to be meant for! Clinton got who knows how many millions of dollars in donations, including from the Communist Chinese. What a waste of the American people’s tax dollars.

And if that’s not enough of a waste, consider this exclusive story from the Washington Times: The National Science Foundation, which has 1200 employees and gets $6 billion in tax-payer funding in 2008, is being investigated because its staff, including senior staff, have been spending their work hours surfing internet porn:

One foundation employee paid an unspecified sum last year after investigators found that during a three-week period in June 2008, the worker perused hundreds of pornographic Web sites during work hours. That employee received a 10-day suspension.

In an official notice of the decision, the foundation called the conduct “unprofessional and unacceptable,” but also noted the employee’s work history and lack of any previous disciplinary actions.

As for the unnamed “senior executive” who spent at least 331 days looking at pornography at work, investigators said his proclivity for pornography was common knowledge among several co-workers.

“At the same time, employees were generally reluctant to make any official report or complaint because the misconduct involved a senior staff member and employees feared that they would suffer in some form of complaining,” the investigators later wrote in a summary of the case.

Another employee in a different case was caught with hundreds of pictures, videos and even PowerPoint slide shows containing pornography. Asked by an investigator whether he had completed any government work on a day when a significant amount of pornography was downloaded, the employee responded, “Um, I can’t remember,” according to records.

The employee also said that friends sent him the pornographic files, that he never planned on viewing them and that he never got around to deleting the files, a claim one official later called “simply not believable.”

Suspended for 10 days, the employee unsuccessfully appealed the decision after arguing that it was too harsh. Other employees were terminated.

Another employee who stored nude images of herself on her computer told investigators she mistakenly had downloaded the pictures. She received counseling and was told to adhere to the foundation’s policies on computer use.

By the way, the NSF has gotten stimulus money too! And, being that one of its main jobs is to allocate college grant money, it has been reported that it gave an Oklahoma State University professor $1.1 million in stimulus money to “study Alaskan grandparents.”

But this is the government that keeps telling us they know how to spend your money better than you do.

Next, check out this blatant example of liberal/Democrat fascism run amok in Michigan:

RUSH: We’re all going to become slaves to the government in every aspect of our lives, and I want to give you an example. Irving Township, Michigan. The state of Michigan has told a Michigan mother that she’s running illegal day care by watching her neighbor’s kids before school. 

“Each day before the school bus comes to pick up the neighborhood’s children, Lisa Snyder did a favor for three of her fellow moms, welcoming their children into her home for about an hour before they left for school. Regulators who oversee child care, however, don’t see it as charity. 

Days after the start of the new school year, Snyder received a letter from the Michigan Department of Human Services warning her that if she continued, she’d be violating a law aimed at the operators of unlicensed day care centers.

“‘I was freaked out. I was blown away,’ she said. ‘I got on the phone immediately, called my husband, then I called all the girls’—that is, the mothers whose kids she watches—‘every one of them.’” 

What do you bet this woman voted for Obama? Wild guess here. What do you bet she voted for Obama? 

“Snyder’s predicament has led to a debate in Michigan about whether a law that says no one may care for unrelated children in their home for more than four weeks each calendar year unless they are licensed day-care providers needs to be changed. It also has irked parents who say they depend on such friendly offers to help them balance work and family.” 

How do these people in Michigan think this thing ever got done in the first place? I don’t know about you growing up, but my mom and dad would park me at the friend’s house for sometimes a day and a half while they had to go do something. And vice-versa. And there was no thought anywhere that somebody was violating the stupid law about day care centers.

Can you believe the chutzpah of these power-hungry busy-body liberal Democrat bureaucrats? (How do I know they’re liberal Democrats?Two easy ways: One, this is Michigan and two: no conservative Republican office-holder would pull something so completely authoritarian.) When I was in grade school, my mother left me and my brother at a friend’s house for hours, and paid her, every weekday afternoon until she left work. And there were other kids over at the house too. If these liberal fascists were around then, our family friend would’ve been threatened by the state too.

But it only gets better. Yet another of President Hope&Change’s czars has been caught with a very sordid past. In a past job, Kevin Jennings not only had failed to report a sexual relationship between a 15-year-old boy and an adult male, but he helped encourage the affair!

Where was the mainstream media during all this? As of Rush’s broadcast yesterday, they were hardly anywhere. This Washington Times editorial nails it perfectly:

Sex scandal double standard: What if Kevin Jennings were a Republican?

When Republican Rep. Mark Foley was caught chasing congressional pages, he got exactly what was coming to him. In a blizzard of coverage (1,400 stories, according to Google news), Mr. Foley’s creepy behavior was examined from every possible angle. Nobody wanted to hear that the congressman’s stupid and objectionable behavior was confined to e-mails and text messages. His immediate resignation didn’t quiet the furor. When two years of investigations found no crime, the results got barely a peep.

Whether the press feeding frenzy around Mr. Foley’s disgrace was justified or not, the explosion of coverage was certainly understandable, even predictable. That reality is what makes coverage of Kevin Jennings, President Obama’s “safe school czar” something of a mystery.

Mr. Jennings brings all the sleaze of Mr. Foley. Sex and the underaged? Check. An older man? Check. Potential misbehavior by a government official? Check.

And the Jennings case brings a lot more: A “safe schools czar” who failed to report a statutory rape? An education leader who encouraged a 15-year-old student to be comfortable with sexual abuse? A federal official who ignored a law requiring him to report even the possibility of a crime? […]

All those facts aside, from the media’s perspective, the stories aren’t even remotely similar. Mr. Jennings hasn’t been hit with 1,400 stories or 140 or even 14. With the exception of Fox News, which discovered new audio-taped evidence in the case, Mr. Jennings’ story has been ignored. […]

There’s more on Jennings I’ll bet you didn’t know about. He’s a radical homosexual (not that there’s anything wrong with that) activist who founded the Gay, Lesbian and Straight Education Network, which “makes schools safe for all students, regardless of sexual orientation or gender identity.” Sounds reasonable, right? Sure, until you see what this description really entails. From World Net Daily:

According to the Americans for Truth website run by Peter LaBarbera, the incident involving the 15-year-old was just one among a series of egregious behaviors by Jennings.

Another incident was the “fistgate” scandal in which he led discussions at a seminar where “young teens were guided on how to perform dangerous homosexual perversions including ‘fisting,’“ the website said.

Yet another was Jennings’ address in a New York City church on March 20, 2000. He said:

“Twenty percent of people are hard-core fair-minded [pro-homosexual] people. Twenty percent are hard-core [anti-homosexual] bigots. We need to ignore the hard-core bigots, get more of the hard-core fair-minded people to speak up, and we’ll pull that 60 percent [of people in the middle] over to our side. That’s really what I think our strategy has to be. We have to quit being afraid of the religious right. We also have to quit — I’m trying to find a way to say this. I’m trying not to say, ‘[F—] ‘em!’ which is what I want to say, because I don’t care what they think! [audience laughter] Drop dead!”

Seriously, where the heck does Barack Obama find these cretins???

Now for not one, but two pièces de resistence. First, during Rush’s broadcast, the Hill’s Briefing Room blog reported that:

Senate Finance Committee Democrats rejected a proposed a requirement that immigrants prove their identity with photo identification when signing up for federal healthcare programs.

Finance Committee ranking member Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) said that current law and the healthcare bill under consideration are too lax and leave the door open to illegal immigrants defrauding the government using false or stolen identities to obtain benefits.

Grassley’s amendment was beaten back 10-13 on a party-line vote.

The bill, authored by committee Chairman Max Baucus (D-Mont.), would require applicants to verify their names, places of birth and Social Security numbers. In addition, legal immigrants would have to wait five years, as under current law, after obtaining citizenship or legal residency to access federal healthcare benefits such as Medicaid and the Children’s Health Insurance Program or receive tax credits or purchase insurance through the exchange created by the legislation.

But the would not require them to show a photo ID, such as a drivers license. Without that requirement, the bill “remains dearly lacking when it comes to identification,” Grassley said. “Frankly, I’m very perplexed as to why anyone would oppose this amendment,” he said.

In other words, Joe Wilson Was Right. There is absolutely no logical reason Democrats would have blocked this provision if they’re not planning for illegal aliens to sneak through the system and get government-run health care, paid for by us the taxpayers and benefiting the Democrat Party by buying illegal alien votes. (Illegal aliens can vote? Of course they can. What’s to stop them? Democrats have blocked photo I.D. requirements to vote also.)

Secondly, Rush cites a Human Events article spelling out how Democrats are going to sneak their fascist government-run health care on us by next week, namely, by sticking it in as an addendum to the also fascist bill H.R. 1586, which imposes taxes on people’s bonuses.

The following four-step scenario describes one way liberals plan to work the rules in their favor to get Obamacare through the Senate:

Step 1: The Senate Finance Committee must first approve the marked-up version of Sen. Max Baucus’ (D.-Mont.) conceptual framework. Then Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D.-Nev.) can say that two Senate Committees have passed a health care bill, which will allow him to take extraordinary steps to get the bill on the Senate floor.

During the mark-up last week, members had difficulty offering amendments and trying to make constructive changed because they lacked actual legislative text and Baucus made unilateral last minute changes. For example, the AP reported that “under pressure from fellow Democrats, the chairman of the Senate Finance Committee decided to commit an additional $50 billion over a decade toward making insurance more affordable for working-class families.”

Step 2: Sen. Reid will take the final product of the Senate Finance Committee and merge it with the product of the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions (HELP) Committee, which passed on a party-line vote in July.

Usually, a bill is voted out of committee, and then the Senate takes up the final product of the committee so that all 100 senators can have a hand in the process. With some help from the Obama administration, Reid will decide what aspects of the HELP and Finance Committee bills to keep.

Step 3: Now, Obamacare will be ready to hitch a ride on an unrelated bill from the House. Sen. Reid will move to proceed to H.R. 1586, a bill to impose a tax on bonuses received by certain TARP recipients. This bill was passed by the House in the wake of the AIG bonus controversy and is currently sitting on the Senate Legislative Calendar.

The move to proceed needs 60 votes to start debate. After the motion is approved, Sen. Reid will offer Obamacare as a complete substitute to the unrelated House-passed bill. This means that the entire healthcare reform effort will be included as an amendment to a TARP bill that has been collecting dust in the Senate for months.

Step 4: For this strategy to work, the proponents would need to hold together the liberal caucus of 58 Democrats (including Paul Kirk who was named last Thursday to replace Sen. Kennedy), and the two Independent senators (Joe Lieberman of Connecticut and Bernie Sanders of Vermont). These members will have to all hold hands and vote against any filibuster. Once the Senate takes up the bill, only a simple majority of members will be needed for passage. It’s possible one of the endangered moderate Democrats, such as Sen. Blanche Lincoln (Ark.), could vote to stop a filibuster then vote against Obamacare so as not to offend angry constituents.

Once the Senate passes a bill and sends it to the House, all the House would have to do is pass the bill without changes and President Obama will be presented with his health care reform measure. If this plan does not work, the Senate and House leadership may go back to considering using reconciliation to pass the legislation.

Adopting this secret plan will not strike most Americans as a transparent, bipartisan, effective way to change how millions of Americans get their health care.

After these two hours, I was boiling mad: Inexcusably misspent stimulus money, yet another Obama czar exposes as a radical leftist hell-bend on crushing traditional American values and traditions, moralistic busybody bureaucrats telling people what they can do in their own house, and megalomaniacal Congresspeople imposing draconian and unconstitutional laws on the American people against their will. Plus an Obama-worshiping mainstream media that ignores all of it. I could not bear listening to Rush’s next hour.

Then Twitter, Facebook, and Free Republic began to light up with news of a woman who had just called in to Rush’s show. It seems this woman—Susan from Glendale, California—was voicing the anger and frustration I and millions of listeners were experiencing. The result was one of the best phone calls Rush has ever received:

 

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Thank you, Susan from Glendale. You are a ray of sunshine in the pitch-black abyss that is Obama-Reid-Pelosi’s America. 

Around the Web in 80 Minutes (9/16/09)

It’s one week after S.C. Congressman Joe Wilson shouted “You lie!” during President Hope&Change’s health (s)care pitch. David Limbaugh at NewsMax doesn’t buy the Dems’ outrage for a second and calls them on their own well-documented hypocrisy:

Memo to Dems: Spare Us the Phony ‘Lie’ Outrage
Tuesday, September 15, 2009

While Democratic leaders are wagging their fingers at the Republican Party’s alleged descent into incivility over Wilson’s unplanned, indignant outburst, they have a very short memory about their own party-wide monopoly on incivility, as they savaged Bush throughout his presidency. I researched and wrote a 400-plus-page book documenting the moral and intellectual bankruptcy of these hypocritical scolds in 2006, in case you need a refresher course.

Unlike Wilson, these offending Democrats have never apologized for their outrages. Did Rep. John Murtha apologize for prejudging and slandering our battlefield Marines who were later vindicated? Did Sen. Harry Reid ever apologize for calling Bush a liar? Al Gore? John Kerry? Has suspected tax evader Rep. Charles Rangel apologized for his conduct while devising new ways to confiscate even higher taxes from honest, hardworking Americans who actually pay their taxes?

Did Sen. Dick Durbin retract the substance of his remarks in comparing Gitmo to the gulag? Did House leader Nancy Pelosi repent for defaming the CIA?

There’s plenty more where that came from.

Speaking of government-run health (s)care, Jerome Corsi (author of Obama Nation and Unfit for Command) has a scoop at WND about Congress’ plan to push an immigration bill that will unequivocally make illegals eligible for government-run health care:

‘Obama to make illegals eligible for health care’ 
Upcoming immigration bill seen as ‘backdoor’ to bring millions into plan

September 15, 2009

The Obama administration intends to “backdoor” illegal immigrants into its proposed health-care plan by passing an immigration reform bill that would give legal status to as many as 12 million illegal immigrants currently in the U.S., charged Radio America talk-radio host Rodger Hedgecock today in Washington, D.C.

Calling comprehensive immigration reform the Obama administration’s “second act,” Hedgecock said illegal immigrants initially would be excluded from the healthcare plan but would have access to it once comprehensive immigration reform is passed by Congress.

On a still related note, Armstrong Williams at the Washington Times discusses the current race-baiting, which he regards as a sign of pure desparation on the part of the Dems:

The ‘race-chasers’ strike again
Wednesday, September 16, 2009

It’s the oldest play in the book: Ignore the message; attack the messenger. Drop an “-ism” and watch his or her opponents scatter. What next? Is every criticism of the president now subject to a racial filter? Are we to ask every opponent of the president, “Is there hatred in your heart when you say that?”

If so, then maybe the health care debate is increasingly about race—just in a way that no one is talking about. If the rousing fact of an American black president gives Democrats license to deliberately confuse every contested issue by merely labeling and dismissing their critics as racists, then the national debate will be short-circuited—because of racism. Who could have thought that racial issues would become worse—not better—with Barack Hussein Obama as our president?

Finally, at Townhall Michael Medved outlines the many ways left and right differ and concludes that’s it all boils down to attitude toward America:

The Real Political Divide: Attitudes Toward America
Wednesday, September 16, 2009

[L]iberals and conservatives differ dramatically and profoundly. This is not to say that all liberals hate America, or that all conservatives glorify their country unreservedly. But in questions of emphasis the contrast couldnt be more clear: the left stresses Americas failures, shortcomings, hypocrisies, and embarrassments while the right trumpets the nations achievements, blessings, and distinctive advantages. Nothing enrages liberals more than the conservative tendency for jingoistic flag-waving and super-patriotism; nothing bothers conservatives more than the liberal habit of blaming America first and concentrating on historic guilt and present problems.

Have a blessed day!

Surprise! High-Ranking ACORN Official Pleads Guilty to Conspiracy

This has to be the week’s most underreported story. (‘Cuz I certainly didn’t see it blanketing the front pages of the nation’s most mainstream newspapers or make the evening network newscasts, did you?)

The lefty “community organizing” group ACORN, which already has a mile-long rap sheet of election-related violations, has landed in trouble again. Yes, this would be the same ACORN once legally represented by President Hope&Change and who has been slated assist the administration in the 2010 Census. Judicial Watch [h/t JoAnnMo] reports:

A high-ranking official at the taxpayer-funded leftist group that conducts fraudulent voter registration drives has pleaded guilty to conspiracy for organizing a scheme that illegally paid workers to register new voters.

As a Nevada field director for the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now (ACORN), Christopher Edwards paid canvassers—many of them “lazy crack heads”—to register new voters for the 2008 presidential election. He also set illegal quotas of at least 20 voters a day for canvassers to keep their job and offered an additional $5 for registering 21 or more.

ACORN’s shady quota system is illegal in Nevada as well as most states and the Chicago-based community group with strong ties to President Obama faces criminal charges across the nation. As part of Edwards’ guilty plea, he is cooperating with authorities and will testify against several high-ranking ACORN regional officials.

His testimony could strengthen other pending criminal cases against the group and its crooked method of recruiting new voters in low-income, “underserved” communities. For its corrupt 2008 drives alone, ACORN faces criminal charges in Florida, New Mexico and Pennsylvania. In an effort to dismiss the charges in Pennsylvania, the group actually filed a federal lawsuit claiming that the state anti-quota law it violated unconstitutionally interferes with important political activity.

In previous elections, ACORN has been busted for falsifying information to register new voters in numerous other states, including Milwaukee, Missouri, Ohio, North Carolina and Colorado to name a few. In 2007 the group settled the largest case of voter fraud in the history of Washington State after seven workers were caught submitting about 2,000 fake registration forms.

ACORN’s well documented history of fraud and corruption led to an overdue congressional investigation that determined the community group is a criminal enterprise. A lengthy report recently published by the House Committee on Government Reform reveals that ACORN has repeatedly and deliberately engaged in systematic fraud and that the group hides behind a paper wall of nonprofit corporate protections to conceal a criminal conspiracy on the part of its directors, to launder federal money in order to pursue a partisan political agenda and to manipulate the American electorate.

Incredibly, the radical leftist organization with offices around the nation continues to receive massive amounts of U.S. taxpayer dollars for its various community programs. Earlier this year ACORN got a multi billion-dollar infusion—for “neighborhood stabilization activities”—from the monstrous economic recovery bill that was supposed to create new jobs and offer an immediate tax relief to stimulate the ailing economy.

You know, I love it how liberals/Democrats say they’re all for fair elections and frown upon voter fraud. Yet, here is the extremely unethical ACORN, a taxpayer-funded organization which is solely in the business of electing Democrats and pushing liberal policies. Not to mention Obama’s justice department inexplicably dropping charges against the New Black Panthers, where were caught on video engaging in voter intimidation in Philadelphia on election day.

Liberals/Democrats aren’t for fair elections. They’re for winning elections. By any means necessary. Otherwise ACORN would have been defunded years ago.

Related reading: The Las Vegas Sun, to its credit, reports on what’s going on with ACORN in its own state.

Then and Now: Obama Loses the Spanish-American War

Then:

Instead of worrying about whether immigrants can learn English—they'll learn English—you need to make sure your child can speak Spanish. You should be thinking about how can your child become bilingual.

—Then-presumptive presidential candidate Barack Obama, July 9, 2008

Now:

Obama joked that it was "Cinco de Cuatro," botching a play on the Spanish word for "four" when he meant to say "Cuatro de Mayo," or the Fourth of May. He tried again, but he still did not get it right.

—President Barack Obama, May 4, 2009

The I Hate the Media blog quips:

George W. Bush was pilloried throughout his term by media detractors for his occasional malapropisms and verbal stumbles. One writer even published a collection of W’s gaffes in a book of “Bushisms”.

Will there be a book of Obamisms? We’re not holding our breath, although there’s probably enough material already after the two-year-long campaign and only 100 days in office.

Along the same media double standard theme, Jammie Wearing Fool says:

Oh yeah, and Bush was the idiot. Funny thing is, at least Bush can speak Spanish. As far as I know, Obama and his Teleprompter only speak English. No doubt the cerebral titans over at MSNBC and The Daily Show will be yukking it up over this gaffe.

No doubt, indeed. I was shocked that even AP mentioned it.

In response to President Golden Calf’s assertion that immigrants will ultimately learn English, um, no, they will not! Why should they, considering all the coddling our country does already for non-English speakers: Multi-lingual drivers tests, multi-lingual job applications, and don’t forget that good ol’ “Press 1 for English.” They will not learn English, President Obama. Nor will they learn to appreciate or adopt American culture specifically because liberals like you have made it unnecessary—even undesirable—for them to!

Some advice, President Perfect: Before telling Americans what they should do, as you are so addicted to doing, take your own advice for once.

Ways the Left Has Screwed Up My Country Today: Defense Spending Cuts and Illegal Alien Voting Rights!

What a busy week it’s been for the globe. 

North Korea is getting ever closer to acquiring nuclear weaponry, as is Iran. We have an American hostage situation in the Indian Ocean, for which President Golden Calf and his administration—promised to be the most open and transparent ever—currently have “no comment.” Oh yeah, Obama’s magic negotiation skills, which the mainstream media has fawned over since the 2004 DNC Convention, failed to earn additional military assistance in Afghanistan from the G20 countries.

With all this you’d think Obama and Congress would want to keep our own military as well-prepared and well-funded as possible, right?

Wrong.

While President Golden Calf and the power- and money-hungry Democrat Congress mobilize to pour our tax dollars into every failed social program, economic experiment, pork project, environmental scam, and hostile takeover of the private sector, they’ve concluded—by design, I’d venture to say—that there’s not enough money for the U.S. military and defense. So, get ready for the defense spending cuts.

You have to be a liberal/Democrat to think that, given our world is as dangerous and deadly as ever, that cutting defense spending is a good idea.

Oh, by the way, your American birth certificate doesn’t mean diddly-squat anymore. As you read this Democrats are now planning to give illegal aliens voting rights. Gee, and what party would illegal aliens vote for …? Hmm, I’m stumped. Your vote means nothing. Nada. Because Democrats are about to subvert the Constitution and eschew 200+ years of precedent in order to get a lock on 20 million illegal votes.

Blogger Scipio doesn’t mince words when he states:

Tyranny cannot be stopped in America though whatever remains of the ‘electoral process.’ One might in fact say that rampant and unchecked democracy is what got us into this mess. Ballot rolls are more and more worthless, corruption is rife in urban enclaves, 20 million illegals are being prepped to become members of the Democrat Party, the next census is being set up for manipulation and billions of government funds have poured into a variety of Democrat Party organizations. We are well on our way to becoming a one party state.

There are two methods that can stop this, an armed populace and the US military. Obama and his acolytes are against them both, naturally. A tyrant’s first impulse after he acquires power is survival. Guns in the hand of citizens or uniformed men are a clear and present danger to American tyrants. This is why they support every possible restriction on the 2nd Amendment. An unarmed citizenry can easily be made into subjects. When you read of plans by Obama to control ammo or guns, never forget that the real point is to control you.

Understanding that, this step by Obama makes perfect sense. He is now going after our military.

To review: Obama has indebted this nation for generations. He has seized control of major American industries. He has placed American finance under his jurisdiction. He has shut off every possible way to US energy independence and so has mortgaged this nation to Islamic oil power. He is bringing the entire world system of trade and finance under his guidance. He plans to have his own civilian corps of armed men with the same budget and weaponry as our military. He has stepped right over those hallowed Constitutional checks and balances, the separation of powers and all that fancy talk about federalism and states’ rights. He has plans to control talk radio and the internet. His minions dream of amending the Constitution to allow him as many terms as he likes.

All of this was done in 100 days. More than 200 years of traditions, of liberty, of laws, of republican government—erased in 100 days.

The greatest threat to American liberty does not come from Moscow, Beijing or Tehran. It does not fall from missiles launched by a North Korean cracker bag with weird hair. It does not arise from yet another fatigue-clad buffoon ranting and raving in the South American tropics. It does not spew forth from mosques and Afghani caves. It does not ooze up from Mexico on the backs of illiterate transients.

The greatest threat to American liberty comes from the White House.

We had been warned about such times. Now they have arrived. What we all once said “could never happen here” has happened here.

We Americans are entering a time of our greatest peril. It will end in slavery or freedom, for us and for the world. America has always been the last, best hope for mankind. If liberty dies here it dies everywhere, forever.

Couldn’t have said it better myself. Amazing how quickly it takes for the most beneficent and prosperous nation in world history to be destroyed in just a few months’ time.

Ronald Reagan once said, “Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction.” Those who didn’t believe him are about to learn the hard way he was exactly right.

For all of you who voted for Barack Obama and any of these Democrats in Congress, thanks for nothing.

Liberal Media Bias: CNN's Gutierrez & Drash Sad Economy Causing Illegals to Leave US!

I nearly fell out of my chair when a family member emailed this article found today on the CNN website. Even the title is slanted:

Bad economy forcing immigrants to reconsider U.S.
Thelma Gutierrez and Wayne Drash

Now what does that title imply? Illegal immigrants? Legal immigrants? Actually they try to convince you it’s both. But it’s really illegal immigrants. But they let us know that rather clearly throughout the article.

LOS ANGELES, California (CNN) -- Pedro Pablo slowly folds up his American flag blanket and stuffs it in his duffel bag. With it goes his American dream.

"I left my family and lost four years with them. I will ask them to forgive me," he said.

Pablo is an illegal immigrant from Guatemala who came to the United States to support his wife and five sons back home. When he arrived, construction jobs were plentiful. Over the last year, he says, he's worked three days.

I can’t believe this. Do Thelma Gutierrez and Wayne Drash actually think we feel sorry for this guy? ‘Cuz I don’t. This is journalism? Looks more like illegal immigration advocacy to me.

He recently boarded a bus with a one-way ticket home, paid for by the Guatemalan consulate in Los Angeles. "I thought I could get ahead here. I regret coming."

You regret coming? You f**king ingrate! You came here illegally! You sucked on the teat of the American system for four years and gave nothing back. You took money out of my pocket, paying for your emergency room medical care and your children’s public school education.

And you say you regret coming. That’s like a burgler robbing a house, stealing your money and valuables, and then adding insult to injury by telling you he was dissatisfied with what you had in your fridge.

Across the United States, tens of thousands of immigrants -- those here legally and illegally -- are facing a similar dilemma: Do they continue to search for jobs in a struggling U.S. economy or return home to an even bleaker economic situation?

Whoa whoa whoa whoa whoa! Don’t you dare morally equate legal immigrants and illegal ones! Who do these two writers think they are? Aside from the obvious disctinction. I’m sure they would be hard pressed to find a legal immigrant who’s ready to board a bus back to their country of origin. And sure enough, such a figure doesn’t appear in the article. What Guiterrez and Drash are trying to do is conflate legal and illegal immigrants. Like they're in the same boat together. This is an insulting and politically correct load of BS.

For some immigrants, the experts say, the reasons for toughing out the U.S. economic depression outweigh the reasons for leaving, including: 

• One or two days of work per month at $8 an hour is often better than what they can make back home;
• Tougher border enforcement along the U.S.-Mexico border has made it harder for them to return once they leave;
• Smuggling costs to get into the United States from Mexico have skyrocketed from about $1,500 three years ago to about $6,000 today.

Awww poor babies!!!

Here’s my favorite part. There’s actually a link to a CNN video that’s called “Watch day laborers head home.” Ya know what, CNN, that’s something I’d watch all day. I’ll watch that until the last one of them gets the hell out of my country and comes in the right and legal way and decides she really wants to contribute positively to our country.

Do Thelma Gutierrez and Wayne Drash of CNN really think that regular Americans give a frog’s fat ass that illegal aliens have to leave the country because they’re no longer able to suck off the teat of the welfare pig while contributing absolutely nothing back? And do they really think regular Americans aren’t offended that they are presenting them as poor victims of the unfairness of America instead of the criminals they are?

What a freaking disconnect.

Would you expect any less from leftist media elites?

Ways the Left Has Screwed Up My Country Today: U.S. Citizen Sued for Protecting Own Property from Destructive Illegals

Remember these two names: (1) The Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund (MALDEF) and (2) U.S. District Judge John Roll. The former is representing a gang of 11 illegal immigrants who claim that their civil rights were violated after trespassing on the land of a U.S. citizen, during which they destroyed property, left garbage and human waste, and killed cattle. The latter is a crap-for-brains judge who rejected the property owner’s notion to have the charges dropped.

Here’s the story from today’s Washington Times. This really makes me weep for my country:

An Arizona man who has waged a 10-year campaign to stop a flood of illegal immigrants from crossing his property is being sued by 16 Mexican nationals who accuse him of conspiring to violate their civil rights when he stopped them at gunpoint on his ranch on the U.S.-Mexico border.

Roger Barnett, 64, began rounding up illegal immigrants in 1998 and turning them over to the U.S. Border Patrol, he said, after they destroyed his property, killed his calves and broke into his home.

His Cross Rail Ranch near Douglas, Ariz., is known by federal and county law enforcement authorities as “the avenue of choice” for immigrants seeking to enter the United States illegally.

Trial continues Monday in the federal lawsuit, which seeks $32 million in actual and punitive damages for civil rights violations, the infliction of emotional distress and other crimes. Also named are Mr. Barnett’s wife, Barbara, his brother, Donald, and Larry Dever, sheriff in Cochise County, Ariz., where the Barnetts live. The civil trial is expected to continue until Friday.

The lawsuit is based on a March 7, 2004, incident in a dry wash on the 22,000-acre ranch, when he approached a group of illegal immigrants while carrying a gun and accompanied by a large dog.

Attorneys for the immigrants—five women and 11 men who were trying to cross illegally into the United States—have accused Mr. Barnett of holding the group captive at gunpoint, threatening to turn his dog loose on them and saying he would shoot anyone who tried to escape.

The immigrants are represented at trial by the [traitors] Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund (MALDEF), which also charged that Sheriff Dever did nothing to prevent Mr. Barnett from holding their clients at “gunpoint, yelling obscenities at them and kicking one of the women.”

In the lawsuit, MALDEF said Mr. Barnett approached the group as the immigrants moved through his property, and that he was carrying a pistol and threatening them in English and Spanish. At one point, it said, Mr. Barnett’s dog barked at several of the women and he yelled at them in Spanish, “My dog is hungry and he’s hungry for buttocks.”

The lawsuit said he then called his wife and two Border Patrol agents arrived at the site. It also said Mr. Barnett acknowledged that he had turned over 12,000 illegal immigrants to the Border Patrol since 1998.

In March, [traitor] U.S. District Judge John Roll rejected a motion by Mr. Barnett to have the charges dropped, ruling there was sufficient evidence to allow the matter to be presented to a jury. Mr. Barnett’s attorney, David Hardy, had argued that illegal immigrants did not have the same rights as U.S. citizens.

Mr. Barnett told The Washington Times in a 2002 interview that he began rounding up illegal immigrants after they started to vandalize his property, northeast of Douglas along Arizona Highway 80. He said the immigrants tore up water pumps, killed calves, destroyed fences and gates, stole trucks and broke into his home.

Some of his cattle died from ingesting the plastic bottles left behind by the immigrants, he said, adding that he installed a faucet on an 8,000-gallon water tank so the immigrants would stop damaging the tank to get water.

Mr. Barnett said some of the ranch’s established immigrant trails were littered with trash 10 inches deep, including human waste, used toilet paper, soiled diapers, cigarette packs, clothes, backpacks, empty 1-gallon water bottles, chewing-gum wrappers and aluminum foil—which supposedly is used to pack the drugs the immigrant smugglers give their “clients” to keep them running. [...]

Is this not un-effing-believable?

Roger Barnett is an American hero. There should be a day of the year named after this guy. On that day there should be a 12-gun salute. That’s 12 shots for every thousand of the property-destroying, trash-dumping, cattle-killing, diaper-leaving, pieces of crap illegals he’s turned in over the past 10 years.

But in the topsy-turvy, upside-down, right is wrong, wrong is justified world concocted by the morally bankrupt Left and wrapped around us like the Matrix, the illegals are poor victims whose civil rights have been violated by some gun-wielding xenophobic gringo.

Bona fide, legal, immigrants from Mexico or any country should be appalled by this behavior and be 100% on the side of Barnett!

As Larry Elder, the “Sage from South Central” says: Pass the Tylenol.

From the "Oooo, That's Not Right!" Dept.

My 2-year-old is watching Sesame Street right now. It seems Rosita, one of the newer, Spanish-speaking Muppets, is sad. Big Bird asks Luis why. He explains that she's sad because she misses Mexico. Immediately coming to my mind is the following question: "OK, so why doesn't Rosita just go the %@$* back to Mexico!?"

Oooo, that's not right!

An Immigration Story

P.S. This is my 100th post!

This is a true story about a young woman named Bernadette. "Bee" is a spunky and chatty character who works the bar at the local Starbucks. Whenever I order an Americano, she adds an extra shot, even when I don't ask.

Bee informed me this morning that she won't be here much longer. Her boyfriend, she explained, decided he isn't ready to get married. Why does that mean she has to leave Starbucks?

See, Bee is a legal alien. She came to the U.S. eight years ago. But because Bee's boyfriend isn't ready for marriage, she's unable to procure the green card needed to stay in the country. So she has to leave or face prosecution. She needs to sell her house, her car, and many belongings she's acquired over the past eight years before her visa expires.

How can our government, run by those racist xenophobic Republicans, forgo immigrants like Bee? She's only here to find honest work and make a living. She's doing a job that American's won't do: working the bar at Starbucks. She even doesn't mind speaking English, the de facto official language of this country. In fact, the only time I can tell she's not a native American is when she says words that end in "r" (So, "Here you are" sounds like "Hee-uh you aah").

Isn't Bee the epitome of everything that's wrong with our country's immigration policies?

Yes, she is. But the truth is that it's not necessarily the fault of those racist, xenophobic Republicans. I'd say it's more likely the fault of Democrats.

You see, Bee is from Britain. She's a young white, British-English speaking female and (as far as I know) has no children.

The reason is that Bee is the perfect example of what's wrong with our country's immigration policies is that Democrat demagogues don't give a flying crap about people like her. Because only if you've snuck across the Mexican border, opportunistic Democrats like Ted Kennedy, Harry Reid, and Hillary Clinton and her disgraced friend the former NY governor Eliot Spitzer will care about you. Because to them you're not a human being; you're a potential Democrat vote.

That isn't to say that Bee isn't a potential Democrat vote. But to the Democrats, who live and die by Identity Politics (just ask Obama and his racist pastor Jeremiah Wright), Bee is expendable, worthless.

When Ted Kennedy demagogues in his voice-cracking half-drunk Spanish about the unfairness of deportation, people like Bee are the farthest from his mind.

When Hillary Clinton and her disgraced friend the former NY governor Eliot Spitzer insist that giving illegal aliens driver licenses "just makes sense," people like Bee are the farthest from their minds.

When Boxer, Feinstein, Pelosi, and the ultra-leftists who run California push free in-state tuition for illegals in the name of fairness and compassion, people like Bee are the farthest from their minds.

When spaghetti-spined Republicans like Lindsey Graham join these reckless Democrats in encouraging the above travesties, people like Bee are the farthest from their minds.

For every Bee there are about a thousand jobless, single-with-children people sneaking illegally across our borders who have no plan to contribute to this country, have no intention of assimilating with this country, and are crowding our schools, hospitals, and prisons. These are the people the Democrats are fighting for.

Call me a "racist, xenophobic Republican," but I'll choose Bee any day.

The Lamm with a Plan

Michelle Malkin posted this article this weekend by former Colorado governor Dick Lamm. She adds:

It’s more timely than ever as the differences between the two major political parties on these fundamental issues blurs and as open-borders activists on both sides of the aisle work to marginalize critics and redefine all dissent as “hate.” You will not, after reading and digesting Lamm’s speech, feel like “calming down.”

[The Chomsky quote at the end of the article is a nice touch - ETR]

I have a plan to destroy America
by Richard D. Lamm

I have a secret plan to destroy America. If you believe, as many do, that America is too smug, too white bread, too self-satisfied, too rich, let’s destroy America. It is not that hard to do. History shows that nations are more fragile than their citizens think. No nation in history has survived the ravages of time. Arnold Toynbee observed that all great civilizations rise and they all fall, and that “an autopsy of history would show that all great nations commit suicide.” Here is my plan:

1. We must first make America a bilingual-bicultural country. History shows, in my opinion, that no nation can survive the tension, conflict and antagonism of two competing languages and cultures. It is a blessing for an individual to be bilingual; it is a curse for a society to be bilingual. One scholar, Seymour Martin Lipset, put it this way: “The histories of bilingual and bicultural societies that do not assimilate are histories of turmoil, tension and tragedy. Canada, Belgium, Malaysia, Lebanon all face crises of national existence in which minorities press for autonomy, if not independence. Pakistan and Cyprus have divided. Nigeria suppressed an ethnic rebellion. France faces difficulties with its Basques, Bretons and Corsicans.”

2. I would then invent “multiculturalism” and encourage immigrants to maintain their own culture. I would make it an article of belief that all cultures are equal: that there are no cultural differences that are important. I would declare it an article of faith that the black and Hispanic dropout rate is only due to prejudice and discrimination by the majority. Every other explanation is out-of-bounds.

3. We can make the United States a “Hispanic Quebec” without much effort. The key is to celebrate diversity rather than unity. As Benjamin Schwarz said in the Atlantic Monthly recently, “The apparent success of our own multiethnic and multicultural experiment might have been achieved, not by tolerance, but by hegemony. Without the dominance that once dictated ethnocentrically, and what it meant to be an American, we are left with only tolerance and pluralism to hold us together.” I would encourage all immigrants to keep their own language and culture. I would replace the melting pot metaphor with a salad bowl metaphor. It is important to insure that we have various cultural sub-groups living in America reinforcing their differences, rather than Americans emphasizing their similarities.

4. Having done all this, I would make our fastest-growing demographic group the least educated. I would add a second underclass, unassimilated, undereducated and antagonistic to our population. I would have this second underclass have a 50 percent dropout rate from school.

5. I would then get the big foundations and big business to give these efforts lots of money. I would invest in ethnic identity, and I would establish the cult of victimology. I would get all minorities to think their lack of success was all the fault of the majority. I would start a grievance industry blaming all minority failure on the majority population.

6. I would establish dual citizenship and promote divided loyalties. I would “celebrate diversity.” “Diversity” is a wonderfully seductive word. It stresses differences rather than commonalities. Diverse people worldwide are mostly engaged in hating each other–that is, when they are not killing each other. A “diverse,” peaceful or stable society is against most historical precedent. People undervalue the unity it takes to keep a nation together, and we can take advantage of this myopia.

Look at the ancient Greeks. Dorf’s “World History” tells us: “The Greeks believed that they belonged to the same race; they possessed a common language and literature; and they worshiped the same gods. All Greece took part in the Olympic Games in honor of Zeus, and all Greeks venerated the shrine of Apollo at Delphi. A common enemy, Persia, threatened their liberty. Yet, all of these bonds together were not strong enough to overcome two factors … (local patriotism and geographical conditions that nurtured political divisions …)” If we can put the emphasis on the “pluribus,” instead of the “unum,” we can balkanize America as surely as Kosovo.

7. Then I would place all these subjects off-limits–make it taboo to talk about. I would find a word similar to “heretic” in the 16th century that stopped discussion and paralyzed thinking. Words like “racist”, “xenophobe” halt argument and conversation. Having made America a bilingual-bicultural country, having established multiculturalism, having the large foundations fund the doctrine of “victimology,” I would next make it impossible to enforce our immigration laws. I would develop a mantra –”because immigration has been good for America, it must always be good.” I would make every individual immigrant sympatric and ignore the cumulative impact.

8. Lastly, I would censor Victor Davis Hanson’s book “Mexifornia” –this book is dangerous; it exposes my plan to destroy America. So please, please–if you feel that America deserves to be destroyed–please, please–don’t buy this book! This guy is on to my plan.

“The smart way to keep people passive and obedient is to strictly limit the spectrum of acceptable opinion, but allow very lively debate within that spectrum.” –Noam Chomsky, American linguist and U.S. media and foreign policy critic.