Arch Pundit tells us that Cook County (Ill.) Republicans are “rolling in cash.”
If I had a lot of money, and the Hobson’s choice, I would rather trust all the monkeys at the Zoo with about $190,000 than the Cook County Blue Blood Club. The monkeys could better engineer a rightward trend in public policy with those nearly 200 big ones than the Cook County Republicans.
Remember, it was the Cook County Republicans that bought us those scintillating success stories of George Ryan and Alan Keyes.
Normally, I won’t watch Oprah, nor do I waste perfectly good videotape or TiVo hard drive space on her show. But I made sure I taped this afternoon’s show; it was about the “crisis” in American public education.
If you saw the show, then my commentary will make sense. If you didn’t, then what I have to say will probably give you implications on the nature of what Oprah had to say about the matter.
(1) At two different instances in the show, we saw delapidated conditions in public high schools in Chicago and Washington, D.C. In the Chicago example, its plight was juxtaposed with a public high school in Naperville, Ill., suburban Chicago.
Remember, Chicago and DC’s urban districts probably spend per pupil far above the national average, and somewhat higher than “well off” white suburban districts. If there is anyone to blame for their schools being in as bad of a shape as they are, it’s the people or groups somewhere down the line that is getting a hold of that money before it can be used to fix restrooms and hot water pipes.
(2) One of the Chicago city students, who earned an A in Trigonometry at black inner city high school, sat in Trig class in that Naperville high school, and she was confused about the subject matter. This is anecdotal evidence that black schools tend to hand out good grades like candy.
(3) Here’s the most perturbing part: Oprah said that (pph) “Every child deserves the best education.”
Really?
If you owned two horses, one was a thoroughbred, and one was a swayback nag, on which one would you spend time, money and effort to develop speed for the race tracks? Right.
But we have dysgenic public policy in public education that seems to spend more money on swayback nags than thoroughbreds. It behooves a society to aim more resources in education at smarter and brighter children, so that it has a deeper pool of highly talented, inventive and innovative adults whose ideas and lives’ works will improve the standard of living for everyone.
But taking Oprah at her word, we should spend just as much money (if not more) trying to make the swayback nag run quickly as we do the thoroughbred.
(4) The whole tenor of the show is that we have to “do something” because “things are getting worse.” Aside from the idea I just stated, I don’t know what Oprah or Bill Gates or anyone else thinks could be “done” that will prevent “things from getting worse.”
Lost in all the Oprah hoopla is that maybe, just maybe part of the reason why academic achievement among American public school students is declining is that with each passing year, the body of American public school students is becoming regressively more non-white.
(5) During the show, several people from Japan, several from India, and three from the United States (two of whom were black) were asked who the first five Presidents of the United States were. The Japanese and Indians knew more correct answers than the Americans.
I can believe that most Americans can’t name the first five Presidents. But I can hardly believe that the average Japanese or Indian knows any better.
This particular segment was just pure, unjustified sensationalism.
(6) Oprah also featured Jonathan Kozol and his latest book, The Shame of the Nation: The Restoration of Apartheid Schooling in America. Like any good fanatical egalitarian, Kozol espouses the thesis that the fact that racial inequalities of achievement exist is prima facie evidence that there is some nabob ne’er-do-well sitting in some building somewhere consipring to resegregate the public schools, and this supposed segregation is itself to blame for poor academic achievement among non-white pupils.
Since Oprah featured his book, and praised it, this must mean that Oprah, too, is an advocate of racial equality. (“No kidding, Sherlock.” — Peanut Gallery) The irony of it all is that the relentless pursuit of equality can be blamed partially for the predicament that American public education finds itself in, and the continued obsession with equality instead of quality precludes us from solving the woes.
V-Dare informs us today that Los Angeles Mayor Antonio “Reconquista” Villaraigosa and London (England, UK) Mayor “Red” Ken Livingstone have signed an agreement. You will be disappointed to learn that this does not mean that the two cities are swapping Spanish speakers for those that speak the Queen’s English.
Chris Simcox, writing in Human Events Online:
Recently, the Minuteman Civil Defense Corps, Inc. (MCDC), and our fiduciary accountability has been called into question in reports in the Washington Times newspaper. Its editors continue to misrepresent the facts and have purposely based their reports and editorials on information that is inaccurate.
If it were the New York Times or the Washington Post doing it, I would question their motives. But it’s the Washington Times doing it; therefore I would give it more credibility off the bat, notwithstanding what we already know thanks to Joe McCutcheon.
A year ago, people called us racists and vigilantes.
And how is that germane to the fence-fundraising hustle and the accusations thereof? I don’t think any of the Minuteman movement individuals or affiliates are racist, and that’s precisely the trouble. Neo-conservative “non-racist” Beltway outlets are turning parts of the MM movement into a fundraising hustle.
The leadership of the Minuteman Civil Defense Corps and its officers continue to have full faith and confidence in American Caging, Inc., who acts as our comptroller, and in our other accountability and legal professionals and their adherence to federal regulation in their handling of our financial matters.
I think I heard this line about five years ago, and it went something like this:
The executives and Enron Corporation continue to have full faith and confidence in Arthur Andersen, who acts as our auditors, and in our internal accountability and legal professionals and their adherence to federal regulations in their handling of our financial matters.
Nowhere in this piece do you see any substantive address or redress of the specific allegations about the rathole known as the border fence construction hustle.
Apparently some Satanist nut sent the NAACP an email warning them of doom about to befall them and that got the Federal wheels grinding.
What it means, however, is that there is now no privacy of email communication. Anything you have ever written may have been stored and may be used against you later. I hope loud protests will be forthcoming but in the meanwhile I am not going to be sending anything much out from my Gmail account.
The MSM article blockquoted within this Tongue Tied blog post concerns the FBI obtaining Google’s records of the GMail account of the “Satanist nut” in question.
The more pertinent question is this: Why is the FBI so interested when the NAACP receives an e-mail threat? Why isn’t the FBI interested when the CofCC gets an e-mail threat? If they were, then the FBI would probably not have time for anything else.
Photo credit San Francisco Chronicle
It’s the peak of summer throughout most of the country, so most of you have your air conditioners running. This question will therefore be relevant to you.
If somebody suddenly opened your front door and then tossed a brick through a rear window, what would you do?
Obviously, since you’re not cooling the great outdoors, and you’re not intending for your life’s possessions to become a free flea market for every goober in the neighborhood, you’ll FIRST close and lock your front door. Then and only then will you tape up the hole in the back window with plastic, until you can get the window replaced.
Local authorities in Richmond, Calif., and their Federal helpers, have demonstrated they can tape up the rear window quite well. But they’re leaving the front door wide open.
Larry Elder, in World Net Daily:
President Bush addressed the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People – after five years of invitations – and blew it. He pandered, he condescended, all to show blacks that, yes, the president feels your pain.
“I consider it a tragedy,” said President Bush, “that the party of Abraham Lincoln let go of its historic ties with the African-American community. For too long my party wrote off the African-American vote, and many African-Americans wrote off the Republican Party.”
Actually, the Republicans did not “let go” or “jettison” the black vote, which they were almost the universal benefactors of from 1865 to 1932. What happened was that the Democrats figured out how to outbid the Republicans for black votes, an advantage that Democrats will probably have until Judgment Day, even considering that 21st Century Republicans have become spend-happy themselves.
Several members of a notorious local crime gang are unlikely to forget last week’s storm. They were arrested at a hidden “chop shop” by police officers of the anti-crime unit scant hours after the first big storm passed through the City. The officers recovered several stolen cars (or their parts) and seized another. All the men had criminal records; several had pending warrants; at least one was on parole.
The officers were in the neighborhood as part of an intense and on-going effort by the Police Department and the Circuit Attorney’s office to target the worst criminals operating in the most dangerous neighborhoods.
This is an expensive operation – and it strains the current resources of both the police and the prosecutors. But, it works.
Yes, now you better hope and pray that a black jury doesn’t “chop shop” all those arduous and expensive efforts of the City Police.
Maintaining the effort is the reason I will ask City voters to approve increases in the graduated fees charged for Business Licenses. The increases in the fees will pay for more police and prosecutors: a bigger violent offenders program, more police officers on the streets and in specialized units, a new unit in the Circuit Attorney’s office, more cooperative programs with the feds, a strong program to combat truancy, and a greater effort to identify and prosecute the owners of problem properties.
You ought to ask City voters to approve a 100-IQ minimum and a literacy requirement for serving on juries and California-style “mandatory minimum” sentences for certain violent and proto-violent criminal acts. That would negate the need for special police forces, special prosecutorial units, and more recreation centers.
Microsoft says it won’t be so heavy-handed with Internet Explorer 7. The update blocker won’t expire after a certain date, and the company plans to support Internet Explorer 6 in some way at least through 2014.
This means Microsoft anticipates having to support the IE 6 lemon for 13 years after its release, in a software realm where better alternatives release new versions every 12 to 18 months.
Then again, at the slow rate Microsoft is going not only with IE 7 and Vista, it won’t be until 2014 that they will release IE 8 and their next version of Windows.
But I will.
And behold this list of traitors funding the National Council of La Raza Unida, an extremist hate group oriented toward Aztlan.
Something to think of when certain people whine about the supposed top-down secret funding of the anti-immigration sector of American society.
Al Sharpton is a kook. You knew that already, 87 million times over.
Your honor, I present to you Exhibit 87,000,001.
Think about this. Ameren UE, their crews, their local private contractors’ crews, out-of-town power utility crews (from a dozen states at least), out-of-town private contractors’ crews (e.g. one from Baxter Springs, Kansas, that got this blogmeister back to the civilized world this past Saturday night), are all working 16 or more hours a day to put the Humpty Dumpty of the St. Louis area power grid back together again.
On top of that, at about eight this morning, a 56-year old Ameren UE worker from St. Peters was electrocuted to death while trying to restore power in Ladue. Another workman from Wichita, Kansas was shocked but not killed while restoring power in Spanish Lake.
And what is their reward?
Rev. Al Sharpton, while in town for another rabble-rousing function, joined with some of his ACORN minions and picketed in front of Ameren UE headquarters near Downtown this morning, demanding that the power utility roll back its rates to compensate people for their trouble.
This is in spite of the fact that Ameren UE has among the lowest electricity rates in the country.
If Ameren UE would raise or lower their rates, who among today’s Sharptonites would really notice? Many Al Sharpton followers have never actually paid a utility bill in their lives; after all, they have better and more illegal designs on their welfare checks.
Sharpton also whined that Ameren UE “had no plan” to deal with the crisis. What Sharpton, a resident of New York City, really knows about the internal workings of Ameren UE is beyond me, but I would like Sharpton to say those things to the widow of that late Ameren UE worker.
I suppose working all your people 16+ hours a day and working them into such a tired frazzle that they lose their wits and judgment isn’t really a plan, huh, Al?
And to show you how much Sharpton really knows about suffering, read this line from the Post-Dispatch article linked to above:
Sharpton arrived at Ameren Corp’s headquarters on Chouteau Ave. in style, pulling up in a black BMW sedan that stayed parked in the street while Sharpton addressed the media.
Police in France said they had thwarted an attempt by a group of marijuana smokers to roll the world’s longest joint by seizing a work-in-progress measuring 80 centimetres (32 inches) in length.
I would like to know what agency or organization monitors and publishes such world records relating to dope.
This is actually good news, because it gives many denizens of north St. Louis City a goal to work toward when all the power gets restored. I know they have it in them to Go For The (Tijuana) Gold.
An Antonio French post today caused me to do a little research.
In the period of 1857-1917, or 60 years, the St. Louis City Public School System had five Superintendents: Ira Divoll (Who also founded the institution that eventually became the St. Louis City Public Library System), William Harris, Edward Long, Frank Soldan and Ben Blewett.
Later, Phillip Hickey would have an incredible 21-year run as Superintendent, from 1942 to 1963.
That same school system has had five Superintendents in the last three years.
I have held for sometime now that if there is a group of people in the country you can safely attack and ridicule without fear of a media backlash it is conservative Christians. Ensconced as most of them are in their wealthy, urban, liberal cocoons, the media approaches people of faith as if they were aliens – strange and threatening.
Watching the news, reading the paper, or listening to NPR it is not uncommon to hear terms like theocracy, dangerous extremists, and intolerant minority tossed around rather freely in reference to politically active Christians. The so called Religious Right is one of, if not THE, most popular bogeyman of the commentariat.
Factoring loopy NPR out of the equation, I disagree with this analysis. The MSM isn’t really that harsh or unfair towards the “religious right” as they are towards groups and individuals who are further to the right.
I think the reason the MSM is this way is Machiavellian (on their part, not mine). I think the MSM spotlights the RR to try and convey the (false) message that RR is as right-wing as could possibly be, and the way to be really hard-core rightist is to be RR. We all know better.
But the MSM hopes that gets enough people to hang around RRville and away from Raceville in order to distract people away from the true winning political issues, i.e. racial issues.
By the way Blogmeister how are you doing? I was worried about you and wondered how you survived the storms up there in St Louis. I checked in to see what nice things you had to say about me and notice you have been having a tad of trouble.
You might find it worthy to know that power restoration crews from Louisiana and Mississippi made the trek up I-55 to help, and they told the local MSM that the damage in many parts of St. Louis was eerily similar to what Hurricane Katrina wrought on their own power grids.
I also noticed that it’s easy to confuse my power company (http://www.ameren.com) with one of my favorite websites (http://www.amren.com).
TPA also added:
Their volume of racist, kooky and down right bizaree content is so much a day, it is hard for me to find if they mentioned this blog. But it is time to return to them and expose them again. They make our extreme paleoconservative friend, the Blogmeister of St Louis, look like a member of Jessie Jackson’s rainbow coalition in comparision.
This is not good. Power out for seventy-two, that’s a problem. Me being eqivocated to Jesse Jackson, that’s a crisis. I suppose I better have a double helping of Kookdum Flakes tomorrow morning to untangle my brain. Contrary to popular belief, my Kookdum Flakes are high in Vitamin C, not Vitamin K.
Ironically, during the 1998-9 CofCC-Lott-Barr media-driven “scandal,” when the Council itself and CEO Gordon Lee Baum were items of media interest, Jesse Jackson himself, whose “Two Sides” (Of The Same Coin) show on CNN had Baum as a guest, was far nicer to Baum and other CofCC leaders than white liberal hosts. The reason is that Jesse Jackson has nothing to prove to anyone; white liberals think they have to prove their liberalism all the time, and are insecure about it.
In what can be best described as a drive-by FUD-ing, Dave Marcus, the security research manager for anti-virus company McAfee claims that malware developers have embraced the open source development model.
(snip)
McAfee wants you to believe that those pesky anglers phishing money out of your bank account learned their trade from Firefox, Apache and Linux developers.
There is a simpler answer to why an anti-virus software vendor is opposed to open source operating systems and internet browsers. The answer is that the combination of Microsoft Windows and Microsoft Internet Explorer, and their historically and fundamentally insecure architecture, is responsible for the promulgation of viruses, the fear of which drives the market for McAfee Anti-Virus software.
Should most people adopt something more secure, e.g. the open source programs cited above, then viruses would be far more difficult to promulgate, and the market for McAfee Anti-Virus will shrivel down to zero.
Question: How do you know when Pennsylvania Gov. Ed “one gun a month” Rendell put his foot in his mouth?
Answer: His lips moved
Eddie, need I remind you about Kennewick Man and Penon Woman, both Caucasian, and both predating Indians on the North American continent, and both probably deprived of their lives by the peace-lovers who were at one with nature.
Be that as it may, if Gov. Rendell has his way on the issue, it won’t be much longer until the new non-white majority puts us gringoes/honkeys/crackers into reservations. I just hope I don’t end up in one with anyone named Rendell.
The next time you hear anyone griping about lynchings of blacks in the years of a less enlightened America, (many of which happened in the west, and nearly all of them were vigilante justice in the absence of legitimate law enforcement), drop this little gem to respond.
Democrats think they have found their GOTV magic wand for 2006: The minimum wage, or the fact they think it should be raised.
This means that Democrats think that their base is only worth the minimum wage. If I voted for Democrats as a matter of habit, I would be insulted.
This blogmeister saw a sign today, reading “RAISE THE WAGE. AFL-CIO.” Missouri will have a statewide proposition in November to raise the state’s minimum wage, and the AFL-CIO supports the idea.
Of course, most people who are AFL-CIO make much more than the minimum wage, and their union sees to that. So it begs the question: Why is the AFL-CIO so interested in the issue?
There are two answers: An expedient one, and a Machiavellian one.
The expedient answer is that many labor union contracts are based on multiples of the minimum wage. So a minimum wage increase also means more pay for those whose wage scales are so contractually set.
The Machiavellian answer is that a relatively high minimum wage, somewhat above the price floor, creates a surplus supply of low-waged workers, i.e. it factors them out of the job market, and means less competition for unionized labor.
A very heated discussion between Mama Lopez and J.Lo ensued. From the Spanish that I’d picked up over the years, the conversation consisted largely of the mother telling J.Lo stuff like “I told you not to go out with that moreno, this moreno is trouble” – moreno being a Spanish slur for “dark-skinned black man.”
And we’re racist when we equivocate blackness with trouble or danger. If a white woman would have said “I told you not to go out with that n****r, this n****r is trouble” to her white daughter while daughter was in custody of a NYPD cop, the cop would have arrested the mother on the spot for a hate crime.
The context here was a NYPD cop specalizing in crimes emanating around the NYC “hip hop” community spilling the beans in the NYDN about the night in 1999 that Sean “P. Diddy” (then known as “Puff Daddy”) Combs, the moreno that is cited in the above block quote, and his girlfriend of the time, Jennifer “J-Lo” Lopez, were arrested as suspects in a triple shooting at a NYC night club.
Or, more properly speaking, while this blogmeister was deprived of electricity, these news events struck a chord with me:
1. Rioting and looting in the blacked out areas of St. Louis was apparently at a minimum. However, when Governor Blunt declared a disaster area of the city and deployed the MO National Guard, most of those deployments were in north St. Louis City. And I know for certain that those Guardsmen on this “humanitarian” mission were trolling north city in full fatigue/camouflage uniforms and boots, and maybe hidden firearms. Perhaps that kept the Negroes in line.
2. The number of “Americans” “trapped” in Beirut, as reported by the MSM: 20,000. Isn’t that a lot of Americans to be in a foreign city?
The unraveling of this riddle came when I heard an MSM reporter on my battery-powered radio say that most of those “Americans” “trapped” in Beirut were from the Detroit area.
Bingo.
NOT “Americans” in the sense of John and Jane Doe from lilly white suburbs taking a vacation in the Holy Land (though St. Louis University President Fr. Lawrence Biondi was stuck there as he was giving the commencement address at another Jesuit institution in Beirut).
Most of them were Arab-Americans, probably playing around with Hezbollah, probably illegally, but who could prove it. And when you consider that the “Americans” were whining about how Yankee government wasn’t paying their freight back, and that Yankee Government capitulated and paid up, it upsets me to say the least.
3. Alan Keyes said that questions raised about the financial scandals around the Simcox affiliates of the Blob Formerly Known As The Minuteman Project are based on “racism” and “anti-Semitism.” So, NUMBERS themselves hate blacks and Jews. And to think, the Illinois GOP just had to truck this thing in from the People’s Republic of Maryland in order to have a Senate candidate two years back.
4. The Democrat Party is thinking about moving the Nevada and South Carolina primaries up around the time of Iowa and New Hampshire. Yep, race is the issue. The black and tan usual suspects are whining that “lilly white” early primaries and caucuses in IA and NH are unfairly weeding out black and Hispanic Presidential candidates.
The trouble with that line of thinking is that it assumes that early primaries are necessarily a “launch pad” or a “big mo’ builder” for later ones. Pat Buchanan found out the sad unreality of that fact in 1996.
Truthfully, if a “rogue” candidate in bad taste of the Party Bosses wins IA or NH or any early party primaries or caucuses, the Party Establishment will circle their wagons around their chosen standard bearer.
The reason why a black or Hispanic won’t win the Democrat nomination for President any time soon is that the Dem bosses know that a non-white face at the top (or even at the bottom) of the ticket will surely lose the electoral college — this is why they gravitate toward slick looking liberal white men and women, those whose liberalism keeps the principled progressives and non-white blocs in line, but also those whose images can be obfuscated and/or “made over” to fool the unwashed masses.
4. Ray McBerry — 11%. I said that a third would be a moral victory, but he only got a third of that. There’s always that ole drawing board.
5. What world am I living in? Someone named Wallace lost a statewide election in Alabama because his no-name opponent accuses him of being an “out of touch liberal.”
But this no-name opponent spent a ton of money on a Lieutenant Governor’s race, which seems odd. A lot of those pieces don’t fit together, but it seems to me that somebody wanted to stop Wallace by any means necessary. Thank goodness for George Jr. that this no-name candidate didn’t go as far as Arthur Bremer in deciding what means were necessary.
Yes, if you’re wondering, though this blogmeister deludes himself into believing that he is really one in a million, he was really one of a half million customers in the St. Louis area currently without power, and I doubt power will be returning soon. Thankfully, a nearby public library has power.
Thank goodness we sued ‘em.
“If the political parties use immigration as a wedge issue, there might be a very big backlash,” said Marcelo Gaete-Tapia, senior director of programs for the National Association of Latino Elected and Appointed Officials, or NALEO.
(snip)
Still, a NALEO analysis concludes that Hispanic voters can prove critical in competitive Senate races in New Jersey and Washington, and House contests in Connecticut, Illinois, Louisiana, New Mexico, Texas and Washington.
White voters are actually more pivotal when it comes to close (and not so close) elections.
Also from the LAT:
About four in 10 adult Hispanics are not citizens, which means they are ineligible to vote.
That didn’t preclude 3 million of them from voting in November 2000.
And:
Before California’s Republican governor tried to get tough on illegal immigrants in the 1990s, the state had supported GOP candidates in all but two presidential elections since World War II.
California has been a solid blue state ever since the attempted crackdown, in part because of a backlash by the growing number of Hispanic voters.
Pete Wilson’s “crackdown” certainly helped Pete Wilson in 1994; he won re-election when polling data suggested otherwise. It is only when Official Republican California (in the mold of the “subway canary” for sure) abandoned anti-immigration stances in 1998 that they started losing almost universally, save a certain Austrian-born movie star. Complicating matters were resultant increases in “arrivals” and whites leaving California in earnest.
The notion that the Wilsonian (Pete, not Woodrow) “crackdown” (really, support for Prop 187) cost the Republican Party California is a bromidial agitprop.
Now, I suppose, if you’re a juvenile delinquent young man with legal issues in Wolverhampton, England, UK, the cops will haul you off to jail you will be escorted to a residential facility for young men where you will be disrespected and violated in more ways than one and where discipline is harsh and stern where your guidance counselors and advisors will call you “Mr” and you’ll work your rump off day after day repaying your debt to British society and you can further enhance your career skills by playing Grand Theft Auto on a Sony Play Station 2 provided by the residence’s budget.
From the original article, which is worth reading by itself, I found this interesting line:
All roll boards, cell cards and documentation will now carry offenders’ Christian names.
Forgive me for my lack of fluency in British idiom, but what is the significance of the phrase “Christian name?” If I had to guess, it has something to do with the fact that many non-whites and recent immigrants into England are responsible for a large percentage of the sort of crimes that gets you carted off to the hoosegow earns you a stay at the residence hall, and that Brit authorities want to cover this fact up by using the Christianized name of the thugs young gentlemen of color on their official jailhouse residence hall paperwork.
Police are setting up a 24-hour hotline for victims of so-called ‘hate’ crimes only.
The free phoneline will deal primarily with racist crime, but will also cover homophobic offences or those targeted against the disabled.
I imagine that this phone line will get a lot of calls from those in England that are the real victims of hate crimes: White people who are victimized by Negro or Muslim (“Asian,” in Brit parlance) hate-motivated criminality. But I also imagine that most of those complaints will be sent to File 13.
But maybe those justifiable phone calls won’t be allowed:
Victims of crimes such as robbery, burglary or criminal damage will not be able to call – despite concerns members of the public can not get through to an officer to report these offences.
OK, so no “robbery,” no “burglary” and no “criminal damage.” That pretty much takes care of all violent crimes. I also wonder why the public “can not get through to an officer” to report these offenses — this must mean that there is so much real violent crime in England that telephone lines to police authorities are often jam-packed.
Except for that hate hotline whose operators will have about as much work as the Maytag Repairman.
The following is reportedly a letter submitted by former Vice-President Dan Quayle to a major American newspaper, about his actions this past weekend.
Dear Editor,
I was at the John Koogur Melon Camp concert at Lake Taho last weekend, and he made an inuppropriute pulitikul statemant about the Busch Administration. Therefore, I had no choise but to walk owt.
However, if I would have had a rotten tomatoe, I would have thron it at him.
Signed,
Dan Quayle
Day laborers, who are often regarded as the face of illegal immigration and the so-called informal economy, are organizing themselves. Steering this initiative is Alvarado, a former illegal immigrant determined to prepare this diffuse underground work force for a role in the political debate over immigration. ”Organizing immigrants and other low-wage workers can improve conditions for all workers,” said Alvarado, 38, who co-founded the network in 2002.
(snip)
Partly to fight back, Alvarado and his team of organizers at 30 affiliated groups — which include day-laborer centers, immigrant-advocacy organizations and church-based groups — are striving to integrate the immigrant workers into the broader labor movement.
Get ready for a shocker.
I am FOR the unionization of every illegal alien worker in the United States, in the absence of any real enforcement measures.
But fear not, I haven’t gone soft. The reasoning is Machiavellian.
If illegal alien workers were unionized, then they would not anymore accrue to the “cheap labor” advantage they serve our Establishment currently. This means The Powers That Be would quit pressing for amnesty and open borders, and “enforcement only” immigration reform measures like the one the House passed would become law.
The irony of “immigrant-advocacy organizations” lobbying for this plan is that, if the Machiavellian dominoes would fall as I predict, it would result in more closed borders and restricted immigration, not the opposite.
AP:
A Dutch court refused Monday to ban a political party whose main goal is to lower the age of sexual consent from 16 to 12. The judge said it was the voters’ right to judge the appeal of political parties.
You might want to read the rest of the article, and as you’re absorbing the content, stand in awe of the hypocrisy of it all, and remember that Dutch courts, in recent years, HAVE banned right wing anti-immigration political parties, using the pretense that they “inflame hatred against new arrivals.”
Four companies in Japan have created a low-cost, user-programmable humanoid robot targeting educational and research applications. The HRP-2m Choromet uses technology from Japan’s National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST), and is user-programmable thanks to open software running on a user-space real-time Linux implementation.
At least they had good sense not to use Microsoft Windows on the robot, else when you’re expecting it to bring you and your date that Sauerbrauten entree you worked hard all day to make, it would have a kernel error, and drop the platter onto the carpet.
V-Dare Blog today gives suggestions on how to fight back against banks that support the illegal alien invasion, such as Wells Fargo.
When it comes to banks, or rather, how to get their attention, all you need to do is to follow the NRA Plan from several years ago.
Citibank announced that it was cancelling the accounts, and no longer accepting business from, firearms manufacturers and gun shops.
To protest, NRA members and other gun owners who had personal Citibank accounts closed them, and asked for their account balance IN CASH.
It didn’t take long before Citibank reversed its position.
Banks engage on what is known as Fractional Reserve banking. They only keep a small percentage in cash of the amounts of savings and checking accounts that people have with the bank, because most people use non-cash methods of transferring money.
Therefore, if the Reserve requirement is 10%, and there comes an aggregate demand for 11% of what people have stored in all banks, the banking system becomes insolvent. Think: The “run on the bank” in It’s A Wonderful Life.
What the NRA provoked was a run on Citibank, which would have resulted in financial insolvency for Citibank had it gone on much further. That was why Citibank reversed itself so quickly.
If the bank you do business in is on the wrong side of the immigration issue, close your account, and ask for your funds in cash. And by all means, encourage your friends to do the same, and let the bank management know why you no longer want to do business with them. You’ll see how quickly they change their policy.
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