Battle of Manassas

From the Washington Post:

Federal housing officials said yesterday that they are investigating whether a two-year-old program to combat crowded housing in Manassas is unfairly targeting Hispanic families in violation of the Fair Housing Act.

The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development filed a complaint Tuesday alleging a pattern of discrimination. Yesterday, a group of Manassas residents and civil rights advocates filed 11 more complaints, saying that the city has selectively enforced its overcrowding rules and other ordinances against Hispanic residents in what amounts to a systematic campaign of harassment.

"We have not heard from white residents that inspectors are knocking on their doors, going in late at night, measuring bedrooms and asking for proof of relationships," said Isabelle Thabault with the Washington Lawyers' Committee, which filed a complaint in conjunction with the Equal Rights Center, another advocacy group. "The only ones we heard from are Hispanic families."

Maybe, Miss Thabault, the reason is because the good gringos of Ciudad Manassas aren't living dozens and dozens of unrelated individuals in a given domicile.

Obama Say Can You See

Illinois's Senior U.S. Senator is prodding Illinois's Junior U.S. Senator to run for President in 2008.

Mr. Durbin said of Mr. Obama that he is the best he (Durbin) has ever seen when it comes to drawing positive responses from crowds, and is in the highest demand of any high-level elected official of the Democratic Party for public speaking events.

Of course, Durbin did not explain that the only tough election Obama has won in his life is the Illinois U.S. Senate Democratic Primaries in 2004;  in the general election that year, his Republican opponent was some screw-loose six short of a six-pack loose cannon that the Illinois GOP trucked in from Maryland.  And as Illinois has become a solidly blue state, Obama's victory in November 2004 was about on par with death and taxes.

There is a simple explanation to why Obama charms crowds and is in high demand:  He's black.  Virtually everyone he meets will pander to him.

The End Of Self-Esteem

As the months and years roll by, this blogmeister is growing to hate the sort of flunky, cocky, big-mouthed, blowhard, self-centered attitude that many people have.

There are certain people in this world who would have that attitude just on pure DNA. But modern society hasn’t assuaged the trend, it has only accelerated the trend. In American public schools today, self-esteem has to be the second loftiest virtue, slightly less lofty than diversity/equality, but just a little more lofty than “safe sex.”

The Bible tells us that when you raise children a certain way, they will not stray from those ways as adults. When you raise any given child to think of themselves highly, they will do just that as adults, mostly to a fault. If you teach people prone to be self-centered to do so, they will be even worse in that regards as adults. And if that child should happen to be black and have athletic talent, they will think of themselves as some superman or some Christlike figure as adults.

This past week, in South Miami Beach, there was an annual event called “Urban Beach Week.” The event is to extol the vices of hip-hop music and the criminal subculture from which the so-called “music” is spawned.

Any time you have a special event with a lot of blacks in attendance, with the possible exception of a seminar of black doctors, or black Republicans, you can expect trouble. Trouble not only comes for the community which was so star-crossed as to be cursed with such an event, but also for the law enforcement authorities of the city.

The white po-leeceseses have to walk a tightrope. They need to enforce the law to preclude anarchy, as many serious laws are inevitably broken at such events, but if they enforce the law, the civil rights industry and their legal papers won’t be far behind.

At “Urban Beach Week,” two professional basketball players from the Washington Wizards were arrested for disorderly conduct. The irony of that is a bit delicious; in the mid-1990s, the Washington, D.C. NBA Franchise changed its nickname from “Bullets” to “Wizards” because of the bad connotation of the word “bullet,” in light of the fact that so many of our brethren of color in the District misuse bullets and the guns that fire them for the sake of hurting people.

I suppose someone in the Franchise figured that if the team wasn’t called “Bullets,” then all the Predatory Thug Babies of the District would suddenly leave the underworld behind and morph into suburban Virgina paper-pushing Federal bureaucrat or Georgetown yuppie lawyer or K Street corporate lobbyist.

Back to the beach, consider these words from one of the players arrested:

MIAMI BEACH, Fla.–Washington Wizards guard Gilbert Arenas and forward Awvee Storey were arrested on charges of disobeying police, part of the crackdown on disorderly behavior among those who have flocked to Miami Beach for Memorial Day weekend.

As Arenas was being arrested, according to reports, he said, “You can’t arrest me. I’m a basketball player. I play for the Washington Wizards, and I’m not going to leave my teammate.”

Mr. Arenas thinks that because he’s good enough to get paid for dribbling a footwide orange ball and putting it in a hoop about half the time he tries (and that’s being statistically generous), that he’s above the law and all creation.

Perhaps Mr. Arenas would have thought that of himself if not for anything else, but I can imagine that, since the day in his childhood that his parent(s) or some elder in his life discerned that he was better in putting that big orange ball into a hoop than all the other 5-year olds, that his mind was filled with the self-esteem equivalent of anabolic steroids. So it’s no surprise that in May 2006, Mr. Arenas has rationalized a fantasy world for himself where he can do no wrong, and is above reproachment.

However, his world is not the real world. In the real world, notwithstanding civil rights laws, lawsuits and prosecutions, when it comes down to a conflict between a man with a badge and a gun, and a man with no badge and (presumably) no gun, the former will win all the time.

Lo and behold:

Both players were then taken to jail for processing.

The two Wizards, and 555 of their highly self-esteemed beach-bound cohorts were each taught a little lesson last week. Neither they, nor anyone else, are the centers of the universe.

Professor Baker’s Bizarro World

From the National Journal:

I'll start with Houston Baker, a Duke professor of English and of African and African-American studies. In a public letter dated March 29, he assailed "white … male athletes, veritably given license to rape, maraud, deploy hate speech" and "sport their disgraced jerseys on campus, safe under the cover of silent whiteness." He all but pronounced them guilty of "abhorrent sexual assault, verbal racial violence, and drunken white, male privilege loosed amongst us" against a "black woman who their violence and raucous witness injured for life."

These words of Prof. Baker are truthful, IF you erase any instance of "white" and write in "black," and vice versa.

Aztlan Redux

All the hubbub over "Dobbsgate" the last few days, as well as the immigration debate of the last few months, have made "Aztlan" a household term again.

This is an opportunity to re-register my personal opinion on the concept, and more accurately, answer the left wingers who think that "Aztlan" is just our delusional imaginations running away from us.

Quoting myself, from this blog, February 13, 2004:

FACT: Radical extremists of the Mexican variety are plotting the “reconquista” of the American Southwest, despite the fact that the American government paid the Mexican government for both the larger land annexation of 1848, which itself was a spoil of our victory in the Mexican-American War, and the peaceful Gadsden Purchase of 1853. Once again, at that time, the Mexicans by-and-large didn’t want what is now the American Southwest; to wit: Those two annexations were only populated by 100,000 Mexicans at the time. But when white people make something of it, all of a sudden they want it back. (Sound familiar?)

Bringing it to today, white farmers and ranchers near the border are under a daily violent assault, in a pincher movement, the pressure from below is coming from swarms of illegal aliens and border-jumpers, (who often commit every sort of violent crime against “gringo”), and the pressure from above is coming from legal American citizens of Mexican descent, who exhibit racial solidarity and sympathy with the illegal aliens, and also white left-wing politicians who want Mexican votes, and the political whores of the white business establishment who want cheap labor. (See also: George W. Bu$h’s “non-amnesty” amnesty plan)

If you’re going to tell us that the Aztlan-on-the-brain reconquista insanity is only a radical movement within the Mexican-American community and the illegal alien community, and that our emphasis on it is an example of our “racist crackpottery,” you may or may not be right, but whether or not you are right is immaterial — even if the Mexes have no overt plans to “take back” the Southwest and drive “gringo” off his land (or kill him en masse), that will be the net effect of an American Southwest that is increasingly Mexican and decreasingly white, even if Southwestern states do not secede formally. Demography is destiny.

To compare it to a local example, East Saint Louis, Illinois is still part of the United States of America, only in the sense that its denizens pay taxes to Washington, D.C. or receive social insurance benefits from there (more the latter than the former), but make no mistake – it’s consummately unlivable for white people, those having been driven out by African-American denizens long ago. And so is the future of the Southwest – one big Chicano barrio, regardless of which country it belongs to.

You would do well for yourself to read the entire post from which this block quote comes — it makes even more sense in context.

Blog Thinners

This blogmeister has removed one entry from this blog's blogroll as of today.  I won't say which one it was, to be tactful.  But I wonder why I am being so reserved towards the supposedly "conservative" jerk, whose blog was subtitled "Hard Right," of all things, who hates the Council of Conservative Citizens.  More like "Hardly Right."

In case you happened to read this errant blog regularly and wonder what I'm speaking of, the blog removed has not itself been updated in weeks.  But that blog's blogmeister has shifted his blogging energies to a new blog, which will not be mentioned here or linked to from here.  In that new blog yesterday, he had an entry that demonstrated his hatred for us, the Council of Conservative Citizens.

If I want to see our good name being drug through the mud, there are plenty of links from my blogroll to left-wing blogs which are far more hilarious in doing so.

Decade Malfunction

That 70s Show on Fox is now history.

Why Fox decided to end it now is baffling, but anyone with a pea-sized brain could speculate a show that began in 1997 in real life with a 1976 beginning in fictional life, and lasted nine seasons, and was still called "That 70s Show" at its end, wasn't fooling much of anyone mathematically.

But that can't be the reason:  After all, this is the same network that debuted The Simpsons in 1990, with Bart as a 10-year old and Lisa as an 8-year old.  Sixteen years out, and The Simpsons is still alive and kicking, Bart is still 10 and Lisa is still 8.  Fox seems to have troubles with temporal accuracy.

No, the real reason why I think That 70s Show was retired was that, for the past two seasons, Fox had two fictional characters named "Eric Foreman" in its prime time lineup.  One of them had to go, for sure.

From Being White To Hating White

First, the Professional Profilers told us that the Beltway Snipers of Fall 2002 were white, possibly right-wingers.  Then when the eventual Snipers were caught, and both found out to be black men, one illegal alien from Jamaica, and one "American" with an Arabic surname, and homosexual lovers to boot, the New York Times still pondered whether the two men had "links" to "white supremacist militias." (Using the Southern Poverty Law Center Big Book of Grammar and Usage, and Jayson Blair's Accuracy Algorithms, for sure.)

Now, the UK Telegraph exposes that the snipings were part of a larger anti-white hate-motivated plan that was slated to become even more sophisticated and violent.

Malvo did display a sensitive, almost human side to himself:

Malvo further testified that Muhammad wanted him to shoot pregnant white women. At one moment, he even had a pregnant woman in his sights in a fast-food restaurant.

"I just couldn't take the shot," said Malvo.

Aww, isn't that sweet?  He couldn't bring himself to shoot a white woman expecting a child, but he was able to "take the shot" when it came to at least ten other white people in the D.C. suburbs.

There WERE racial motivations in the beltway snipings, they were just anti-white.  Fancy that the MSM/ADL/SPLC haven't covered/pontificated/exploited the issue.

Thankless

She has a surname with "Spam" in it, AND she had the most thankless job in St. Louis, that of Chief Academic Officer of the St. Louis City Public Schools. 

Some people do deserve our pity, and deserve to be cut a little slack when they make a mistake.

Call Of The Wild

Medical researchers now think they have confirmed that HIV in humans originated in African chimpanzees.

From the AP article:

Scientists long have known that nonhuman primates carry their own version of the AIDS virus, called SIV or simian immunodeficiency virus. But with one exception, it had been found only in captive chimpanzees, particularly a subspecies that in the wild populates mostly West Africa.

 
There are many diseases that affect humans and chimpanzees, as well as other primates.  The more accurate way of thinking about HIV or SIV is that they are the same thing, and perhaps should be called PIV, or Primate Immunodeficiency Virus.

It was not known how prevalent the virus was in chimps in the wild, or how genetically or geographically diverse it was, complicating efforts to pin down the jump from animal to man.

<snip>

The first human known to be infected with HIV was a man from Kinshasa in the nearby country of Congo who had his blood stored in 1959 as part of a medical study, decades before scientists knew the AIDS virus existed.

Presumably, someone in rural Cameroon was bitten by a chimp or was cut while butchering one and became infected with the ape virus. That person passed it to someone else.

Another fashionable and politically correct theory about ape-to-human transmission of HIV/SIV/PIV is that humans contracted it by eating the meat of infected apes.

However, there is one explanation which is very politically incorrect, but probably more accurate:  Bestiality.   However, the establishment will not consider this taboo.

Draw Another Line

Do me a favor.

Take a look at this post from a few days ago.  In your head, draw a line through "January 2007," and next to it, write in "July 2007."  I wouldn't be so quick to put away that pen, because you might have to cross that one out eventually.

Here's why.

Welcome Lou Dobbs

I knew you were one of us all along. 

Also, thanks for the proper citation, on CNN, no less.

Congrats To Taylor Hicks

For winning it all in American Idol.

In spite of Simon Cowell, I liked him right from the beginning. Also I noticed that as the Top 12 dwindled down in number, Hicks was never in "trouble" in that he never was in the bottom three or bottom two of vote-getters.

Trivia: Hicks is the first white man to win American Idol.

For a show that is supposed to adulate youth, the concept of a gray-haired American Idol does seem oxymoronic, I must admit.

Lizz Brown Favorite

Yaphett El Amin's husband is a deadbeat dad, so it seems.  Yeah, Lizz, it might be a new day for YOU when someone names El Amin gets elected to something, but not a very good day for Mr. El Amin's erstwhile offspring.

What’s New Pussycat

Channel 2's news last night informed us that there are fake license plate registration tag sales going on along various boulevards in north St. Louis city.  "Tag Pimps" are standing along various busy boulevards hawking fake stickers as if they were peddling whores.

The KTVI reporter warned that some of the people buying fake tags and using them on their plates are dangerous because "they might be uninsured drivers."  Gee, Sherlock, YOU THINK????  Why do you think they're not getting renewal stickers through the legit, legal route?

Channel 5 also informed us that student assaults on teachers in the Riverview Gardens school district are at an all time high.  Secret cameras recording the events show a severe pacuity of pale-skinned students doing the assaulting.  What a shock, I'd'a never thought…

Not Just Gay

The San Francisco City Public School Board wants to eliminate Army and Naval Junior ROTC programs from the city's high schools.  While consternation over the (real) Armed Forces "don't ask don't tell" compromise policy on homosexuals serving in the military, one tiny paragraph in the San Francisco Chronicle article on the matter exposes another motivation:

In February, Supervisor Gerardo Sandoval appeared on Fox's "Hannity and Colmes" show and said, "The United States should not have a military. All in all, we would be in much, much, much better shape."

"Supervisor" is the San Francisco equivalent of city alderman or city councilman.

In that case, I wonder if Mr. Sandoval thinks the Bath House Gang can protect him from foreign invaders.

Also from the article:

Supporters such as Twyman say the program helps students develop self-confidence and prepare for the working world, while opponents counter that it's just an easy way for the military to get a foothold in public schools and encourage teens to enlist after they graduate.

How dare the military recruit among people who are very close in age to enter the service!  What where they thinking?  After all, there are a few retirement homes down the block.

The alternative to military recruitment in high schools and colleges is something which would make "recruitment" obsolete, and something the USA had between 1940 and 1973, as well as other assorted times during our history:  A draft. 

Of course, Official San Francisco would go ballistic if a draft came back, or maybe they wouldn't go ballistic, because San Francisco wants to ban all guns.

Without Further Delay

From CNet News:

Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer doesn't expect Symantec's lawsuit to delay Vista, a next version of its Windows operating system.

Asked whether the case would have any effect on the Vista launch, Ballmer told Reuters: "I wouldn't anticipate any, but that will go to the courts now."

Ballmer, speaking in Beijing after a news conference, did not elaborate.

Last week, Symantec sued Microsoft, accusing it of misappropriating trade secrets used in Vista. Symantec is seeking an injunction that would block the further development, sale or distribution of Vista and other products until all Symantec intellectual property is removed.

That's good, because now there will be absolutely no hinderances for Microsoft Windows Vista to meet its scheduled 2003 2004 2005 May 22, 2006 December 2006 January 2007 release date.

As far as Windows Vista itself, if Microsoft can't trust Microsoft with Vista, why should you?

Win Something First

Via Jo Mannies:  The New Yorker magazine is pegging Claire McCaskill as possible national material for the Democratic Party:

State Auditor Claire McCaskill figures prominently in the piece, with author Jeffrey Goldberg spotlighting her as the “disarmingly loquacious'’ type of candidate — wearing Republican red, he notes! — that Democrats need.

One supporter in the story calls her, “The kind of woman who could really jerk Donald Rumsfeld through a knothole.'’

They ought to roll up the welcome mat and get it back in the house until she can demonstrate that she can win a tough election. 

In my opinion, she lucked her way into winning State Auditor in 1998 by being an accidential coattail beneficiary of a riverboat gambling issue on the ballot that day, she won reelection for that post in 2002 because the Republican was a convicted felon, and though she did beat Bob Holden, a sitting governor in the Democratic party primary in 2004, a rare feat on the Gubernatorial level, Holden was a sitting duck anyway.

I thought that she would easily beat Matt Blunt that November because of his young age, her middle age, and the fact that she "looked" more gubernatorial than Blunt.  However, her rancid personality caught up to her, and Blunt and the state GOP made skillful use of the nursing home scandals related to McCaskill's (then) new husband.  A statewide campaign for something a little more significant than beancounter-in-chief will tend to expose people.

Luckily, I was "blogging" (in sorts) in 2004, and you can find my commentaries about the McCaskill affairs here and here.

If Jim Talent keeps his appearances on the right side of the immigration debate, she will lose yet another election this fall.

Rush Limbaugh has always said that the way to advance in the Democratic Party is to be a loser often.  At that rate, Miss McCaskill has a bright future there.

Not Yet

Three Pakistani men have been convicted of a hate-motivated murder of a Negro man during recent riots in Birmingham, England.

I'm surprised that they're not finding some way to blame the BNP for this crime.  They have not yet, but just give them time.

When All Else Fails, Sue

The family of the late Pastor Nathaniel Cole, who died when the car he was driving in north St. Louis one night this past February was rammed by a carload of PTBs fleeing police apprehension, is suing.

"Good!"

Wrong, sorry.  They're NOT suing the PTBs.

They're suing the St. Louis City Police Department, the Police Board, and the three officers that were principal in the high speed chase.

The suit, which the family and their attorney claims is "not about the money," is one where they hope that the end result is that the Police Department and Board weaken their already weak police chase policy.  With that having been said, if the Police decided to chase the three PTBs, they were wanted for something serious.

And, pray tell, if it's "not about the money," then they ought to sue the three PTBs.  Because they have little money themselves in all likelihood, suing them instead of the cops would be the Cole family and their lawyer making the perfect, principled, non-monetary stand, to send a message to the PTB community, and to perhaps deter PTBs from making the bad decision to flee from police apprehension.

The fact that they're suing an institution with money rather than three individuals without money is good circumstantial evidence that it IS about the money.  Of course, it was enough for me when they claimed it wasn't about the money.  Usually when someone claims it's "not about the money," it's about the money.

It also demonstrates that the Cole family and their attorney blame police for police chases rather than criminal suspects for police chases.

A Penny Spent Is A Penny Wasted

One penny spent on rebuilding New Orleans will be a waste.  If the residents of New Orleans can't learn anything, then they don't deserve their city rebuilt.

Incarceration Don’t You Know

According to the AP:

Prisons and jails added more than 1,000 inmates each week for a year, putting almost 2.2 million people, or one in every 136 U.S. residents, behind bars by last summer.

Because…..

The states with the highest rates were Louisiana and Georgia, with more than 1 percent of their populations in prison or jail. Rounding out the top five were Texas, Mississippi and Oklahoma.

The states with the lowest rates were Maine, Minnesota, Rhode Island, Vermont and New Hampshire.

And the reason for that is…..

In the 25-29 age group, an estimated 11.9 percent of black men were in prison or jails, compared with 3.9 percent of Hispanic males and 1.7 percent of white males.

But not everyone is happy:

Marc Mauer, executive director of The Sentencing Project, which supports alternatives to prison, said the incarceration rates for blacks were troubling.

<snip>

"If we want to see the prison population reduced, we need a much more comprehensive approach to sentencing and drug policy," he said.

The easiest way to accomplish Mr. Mauer's goals are to repeal laws, or to make them moot, or unenforceable, or useless.  Thanks to black jury nullification, we're well on the way.

Making The Vashon World Go ‘Round

Sixty of the 68 teachers at Vashon High School in northeast St. Louis City have been caught up in a scandal involving granting passing grades to students who had dozens of absences per semester.  Some of the grades were As and Bs.

So next time you hear the mother of a teenage PTB cry to the cameras that her son was a good boy, an honor roll student, but just got caught up in the wrong crowd, you can probably discern where the "honor roll" part came from.

From the Riverfront Times article on the matter:

Not a single teacher has been disciplined, and only one Vashon instructor would comment on the record for this story.

Of course not.  This is how you make a school look good and make students have high self-esteems.

"I think it's wrong," says Jeffrey Hoese, an eleventh-grade chemistry teacher at Vashon and one of the few instructors not involved in the embarrassing disclosure. "It's not something that I practice, and I think it's setting our society up for disaster."

Mr. Hoese, I would not have let my real name get out if I were you.  I worry for your physical safety now.

St. Louis Board of Education policy permits principals to remove from class rolls any student with more than fifteen absences — but this typically occurs when a youth ends up pregnant or jailed…..

<snip>

"This should not be tolerated from teachers," says Tony Sanders, spokesman for the St. Louis Public Schools. "Certainly, there are cases where students are allowed to do make-up work due to hospitalization — and, in some cases, incarceration.

"Jailed" and "incarceration" — I wonder why I'm reading those words as many times as I am in regards to a St. Louis City Public High School, and why I hardly see these words mentioned when the article deals with most other schools and districts.

Some male teachers find the gender disparity unsurprising. As one teacher (who asked not to be named in this story) observes: "They'll say: 'You know I really like you. Can I get a break on my grade?' I say: 'You need to back up right now,' because I'll be sitting down, and they'll be standing over the top of me with their boobs right in my face."

Grade Hoes!

…..Others don't because of the legacy left by some past administrators who placed basketball at the top of the priority list and academic rigor at the bottom."

Hutchins' report does not name any players on the nationally ranked Vashon Wolverines basketball team.

"The basketball players are like little gods," says one teacher who asked not to be named in this article. "It's known that as a teacher you have to pass them. You can't give them bad grades. If you do, they will be changed by higher-ups."

There have been allegations, and I mean ALLEGATIONS, that the Vashon basketball program is only good because the staff of the team engages in recruiting, i.e. they encouraged talented middle school basketball players to "come" to Vashon, and they will be "eligible" to attend Vashon because, using some pretense, they will "live" in Vashon's service area — for instance, an aunt or grandmother of the basketball player will live in northeast city, and his official residence, on paper, will be with that relative, who is fully cooperative of the scheme.

Several years ago, a young man, 15 years of age, was murdered outside of his WELLSTON home.  TV news said that he was going to be a Vashon freshman and a basketball player the following school year.  Wellston isn't even in St. Louis City.  This news was a "bubbling up to the surface" indication of the Vashon recruiting rumors that had been going around gossip mills for a long time.

Recruiting for high school athletics from junior high schools and middle schools is illegal, according to the Missouri State High School Athletics Association.

Despite the financial backing Vashon receives from its alumni association and deep-pocketed private interests, the school continues to be plagued by gang-related problems and has failed to overcome its reputation as an academic abyss.

Last year not a single tenth- or eleventh-grade student at Vashon proved proficient in science or communication arts, respectively, according to Missouri Assessment Program (MAP) test results. As for math, only 0.3 percent of tenth graders demonstrated competence with figures and equations on the MAP test.

And yet, witness all those A- and B-grade honor roll students.

"Contrary to what's in the news, Vashon is full of smart and ambitious kids," says Bill Carson. But, he adds, sometimes the school fails to prepare students for life in the outside world.

Mr. Carson to a friend:  "Yes, they and I had a meeting in the school's broom closet."

One Vashon teacher went as far as comparing the high school to a zoo: "You get these untamed animals, and you're trying to train them, and they're trying to bite you while you do it."

And when WE say it, we're "racist."

Devious

Edward Nash noted today that African-Americans tend to have a create verve for giving their children first names.

Someone I know very well once told me that a black mother he dealt with named her two sons "Devious" and "Mischievous."  I thought then that I hoped for her sake that she's violating truth in advertising laws.  Another person I know met a black woman whose name on paper was "Syphillis" (real name) but was pronounced "Se-Phyllis."

I recently met a young lady of color who had newborn twins in her family named "Euphemiette" and "Esquelinaette" (sp?).  She herself considered naming her dog "Debrickashaw" (sp?).

Danville, Missouri: 72 Miles Ahead

Danville, Missouri is a town that is 72 miles to the west of St. Louis, along Interstate 70.

Within the past few days, a gas station in town, owned by people with Middle Eastern heritage, was spray painted and vandalized with various racial epithets. The FBI is investigating the matter as a possible hate crime.

Trouble is, as Channel 5’s news showed, the “vandals” misspelled the word “East” in “Middle East” (the context being that the station owners should return to the Middle East).

Two words: Look Within.

Chokehold

If you think American political parties are top heavy with quislings, take a look at England. While you’re reading this article, note the use of the words “defect” and “asylum” — as if the British Tory Party is like a repressive Communist regime.

Distractions

Someone this blogmeister knows very well has told me in the past that whenever the MSM starts harping on a trivial issue, they’re trying to distract people from something bigger.

A fictional example of this, though not relating to the MSM, was found in one episode of last season’s 24. Arab terrorists flooded the internet with streaming video of the Vice President being held hostage, though it was just an electronic distraction for their transferring secret nuclear codes across the world via the internet for use in domestic terrorist attacks.

When MSM started whining about “Bird Flu” 24/7, it made me wonder what they were hiding. As it turns out, while everyone was waiting for Bird Flu, we got hit with a minor mumps epidemic.

This instinct kicked in again when MSM started caterwauling about MySpace.com and sexual predators. It made me wonder what they were hiding. I think I found the answer.

State Of The Border

From President Bush's immigration speech last night:

The issue of immigration stirs intense emotions and in recent weeks, Americans have seen those emotions on display…..At our southern border, others have organized to stop illegal immigrants from coming in.

Not calling them "vigilantes" these days, are you, Mr. Bush? Even the MSM does not slander them anymore.

We must begin by recognizing the problems with our immigration system. For decades, the United States has not been in complete control of its borders.

Because our establishment does not want any controls of our borders.

As a result, many who want to work in our economy have been able to sneak across our border and millions have stayed.

Or many who want to mooch off our economy's social welfare and social insurance, once they inevitably do once they figure out how to work the system.

Illegal immigration puts pressure on public schools and hospitals, strains state and local budgets, and brings crime to our communities.

I thought they call came here to work, and were all vitally necessary for our economic health.

These are real problems, yet we must remember that the vast majority of illegal immigrants are decent people who work hard, support their families, practice their faith, and lead responsible lives.

An even larger share of white Americans are "decent people who work hard, support their families, practice their faith, and lead responsible lives."

It should be noted that for many illegal aliens, "supporting their families" requires a trip to Western Union.

They are a part of American life but they are beyond the reach and protection of American law.

Really? If a Minuteman volunteer would dare touch a border jumper, he (meaning the Minuteman) would be charged with Federal Civil Rights violations. Employers who refuse to hire illegal aliens because they are illegal aliens can be sued by the EEOC for discriminating against illegal aliens.

We are also a nation of immigrants, and we must uphold that tradition, which has strengthened our country in so many ways.

All nations are nations of immigrants. The entire history of human civilization can be summarized as the exigencies and vicissitudes of one group of people getting up from one place and moving to another, and meeting the people that were already there, and the achievements of a people who are in one place and can spend time inventing and innovating because there is no threat of them being invaded by people who are on the move.

Since I became president, we have increased funding for border security by 66 percent, and expanded the Border Patrol from about 9,000 to 12,000 agents. The men and women of our Border Patrol are doing a fine job in difficult circumstances, and over the past five years, we have apprehended and sent home about 6 million people entering America illegally.

In spite of treason from the top levels of the U.S. Border Patrol.

By the end of 2008, we will increase the number of Border Patrol officers by an additional 6,000. When these new agents are deployed, we will have more than doubled the size of the Border Patrol during my presidency.

But will you resolve to clear out the bugs and rats at the top levels of the Border Patrol?

We will employ motion sensors infrared cameras and unmanned aerial vehicles to prevent illegal crossings. America has the best technology in the world and we will ensure that the Border Patrol has the technology they need to do their job and secure our border.

If I were jonesing to cross the border illegally from Mexico, a drone wouldn't much deter me.

Training thousands of new Border Patrol agents and bringing the most advanced technology to the border will take time.

Yeah, I'm sure, and time, and more time, and more extensions, and delays, and extensions, and delays, and the beat goes on and on and on and on…..

One way to help during this transition is to use the National Guard. So in coordination with governors, up to 6,000 Guard members will be deployed to our southern border.

American Patrol Blog informs us that a 5,000 deployment would mean only 500 would be at the border at any one time. That would mean an average of one guardsman for every four miles of southern border. Whooppee.

The Border Patrol will remain in the lead.

Yawn.

The Guard will assist the Border Patrol by operating surveillance systems analyzing intelligence installing fences and vehicle barriers building patrol roads and providing training.

Surveillance and installing fences? At that rate, they will be little more than Minuteman volunteers with a government paycheck.

Guard units will not be involved in direct law enforcement activities that duty will be done by the Border Patrol.

Here's the part about "useless as a teat on a bull."

The United States is not going to militarize the southern border. Mexico is our neighbor, and our friend.

Guatemala is Mexico's neighbor, and friend, but that does not preclude the Mexican government from militarizing that border.

We will continue to work cooperatively to improve security on both sides of the border, to confront common problems like drug trafficking and crime, and to reduce illegal immigration.

Jaws and the Connecticut Water Patrol will work cooperatively to make Amity Beach a safe and fun place to swim.

Another way to help during this period of transition is through state and local law enforcement in our border communities. So we will increase federal funding for state and local authorities assisting the Border Patrol on targeted enforcement missions. And we will give state and local authorities the specialized training they need to help federal officers apprehend and detain illegal immigrants.

And what kind of strings will be attached to this funding, Mr. Bush?

At the same time, we must ensure that every illegal immigrant we catch crossing our southern border is returned home. More than 85 percent of the illegal immigrants we catch crossing the southern border are Mexicans, and most are sent back home within 24 hours.

And they sneak right back across.

For many years, the government did not have enough space in our detention facilities to hold them while the legal process unfolded. So most were released back into our society and asked to return for a court date. When the date arrived, the vast majority did not show up. This practice, called "catch and release," is unacceptable and we will end it.

Promises, promises.

And we are making it clear to foreign governments that they must accept back their citizens who violate our immigration laws.

You're making a totally contradictory message clear to Vincente Fox.

Second, to secure our border, we must create a temporary worker program.

Give me an A. A!

Give me an M. M!

Give me an N. N!

Give me an E. E!

Give me an S. S!

You know the rest.

Third, we need to hold employers to account for the workers they hire. It is against the law to hire someone who is in this country illegally.

It's also a civil rights violation to discriminate against illegal aliens. That needs to go.

A key part of that system should be a new identification card for every legal foreign worker. This card should use biometric technology, such as digital fingerprints, to make it tamper-proof. A tamper-proof card would help us enforce the law and leave employers with no excuse for violating it. And by making it harder for illegal immigrants to find work in our country, we would discourage people from crossing the border illegally in the first place.

I don't see anything here about criminal penalties against employers who hire illegal aliens. Then again, I doubt that the Republican establishment would hurt their campaign donors that way.

Some in this country argue that the solution is to deport every illegal immigrant and that any proposal short of this amounts to amnesty. I disagree. It is neither wise nor realistic to round up millions of people, many with deep roots in the United States, and send them across the border.

It's not difficult or unfeasible to do so. There's just not the political will to do so. But smudge on your income tax returns just one time, and you'll find out how "difficult" it is for Federal Law Enforcement to enforce Federal Law or Regulatory Code.

I believe that illegal immigrants who have roots in our country and want to stay should have to pay a meaningful penalty for breaking the law to pay their taxes to learn English and to work in a job for a number of years. People who meet these conditions should be able to apply for citizenship but approval would not be automatic, and they will have to wait in line behind those who played by the rules and followed the law.

Wouldn't you like to wipe away all your old criminal warrants with a meaningless slap on the hand for a penalty, then have the transgressions wiped off your rap sheet?

Fifth, we must honor the great American tradition of the melting pot, which has made us one Nation out of many peoples.

Look at how well the modern day multiracial version is working.

Americans are bound together by our shared ideals, an appreciation of our history, respect for the flag we fly, and an ability to speak and write the English language.

I can point you to crowds of hundreds of thousands in various American cities in the past few months that would demonstrate otherwise.

English is also the key to unlocking the opportunity of America. English allows newcomers to go from picking crops to opening a grocery from cleaning offices to running offices from a life of low- paying jobs to a diploma, a career, and a home of their own.

Don't expect to pass English-only laws and expect them to work: The city of Miami, Florida has such an ordinance on its books. Look how well it worked.

America needs to conduct this debate on immigration in a reasoned and respectful tone. Feelings run deep on this issue and as we work it out, all of us need to keep some things in mind. We cannot build a unified country by inciting people to anger, or playing on anyone's fears, or exploiting the issue of immigration for political gain. We must always remember that real lives will be affected by our debates and decisions, and that every human being has dignity and value no matter what their citizenship papers say.

Three words: Lump It Gringo.

During the liberation of Iraq, Master Gunnery Sergeant Denogean was seriously injured. When asked if he had any requests, he made two a promotion for the corporal who helped rescue him and the chance to become an American citizen. And when this brave Marine raised his right hand, and swore an oath to become a citizen of the country he had defended for more than 26 years, I was honored to stand at his side.

I could swear that I've heard this story before. I think the author's name was Gibbon.

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Sen. Dick Durbin (D-IL), as part of the Official Democrat response to the Bush speech, said that he believed that Bush's speech was a deliberate and incongruent mish-mash and hodgepodge of policies meant to appease and pander to as many groups and individuals as he thinks he could reach. Relish this, for Durbin rarely speaks truths like these.

Good To Know

This weekend, President Bush told Mexican President Vincente Fox that the relatively small and hamstrung National Guard presence on the border was only temporary, until the Border Patrol can be beefed up.

That is prima facie evidence that the U.S. Border Patrol, "beefed up" or not, is about as useful as a teat on a bull for the purpose of squelching illegal border crossings, thanks to the traitors that run the Border Patrol, not the field level officers.  After all, why would pro-immigration Bush try to relieve pro-immigration Fox that the Border Patrol would soon be back on the job?

Note:  At the time of this writing, the American Patrol blog has an unlinkable story on its front that the 5,000 National Guardsmen Bush will send to the border won't make a difference.  I imagine that is notwithstanding any restrictive rules of engagement.  It's all a Bush dog-and-pony show, I knew it.

It's also good to know that President Bush cares more for the feelings of the President of Mexico than he does for the citizens of the United States of America.

The only reason Bush is going this far with the National Guard on the border is that his party is about to lose its rump in November midterm elections in the House and Senate, as conservative voters will take out their anger at the Republican big money business establisment and its pro-immigration ways on Republicans in Congress, though most House Republicans don't deserve this fate, as they passed the staunchly pro-American H.B. 4437.

Get Him A Voter Registration Card Now

Because from the looks of this, he's smarter than about half the voters out there now.