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Illegal Immigration around the world in 60 seconds!

Hmm…looks like that illegal immigration thing might be an election winner. First Switzerland then the NPD in Germany making a strong showing, now Italy…hmm a trend? And obviously with the rise of the NPD not always a great trend but when you spit on the locals by importing new voters they can always return the favor and get new politicians.

Some party hack decreed that the people
had lost the government’s confidence
and could only regain it with redoubled effort.
If that is the case, would it not be be simpler,
If the government simply dissolved the people
And elected another? Bertolt Brecht.

Hat tip to Brussels Journal the most stalwart blog in defense of Europe.

This week’s operation appeared to signal the new conservative government’s intention to keep its election promise to crack down on illegal immigrants. Many Italians hold them responsible for numerous crimes. Berlusconi’s People of Freedom coalition includes the anti-immigrant Northern League party. AKI - Adnkronos international Spain: Italy accused of ‘racist’ measures against immigrants

Consider this from Bloomberg news:

Berlusconi was helped to a bigger-than-expected victory thanks to his ally, the anti-immigration Northern League, which posted its best result since 1996 with a projected 8.7 percent of the upper-house vote and 22 senators. That will give the Northern League a big say in molding the new government’s agenda. It advocates devolving central-government powers over schools, police and taxes to local authorities and greater controls against illegal immigrants.

Shows us the path here in the States to stopping illegal immigration. We need new politicians. Because as soon as these parties got into power they started shaking the tree.

Italy’s new conservative interior minister Roberto Maroni said on Friday the country needs “firm measures” to tackle the “security emergency” caused by illegal immigration.

“The country demands immediate and effective answers form all political forces, working together to resolve the problems afflicting our communities,” said Maroni (photo), who belongs to the anti-immigrant Northern League party.

“Firm measures” are needed to renew police trust and prevent people taking matters into their own hands, Maroni said. He pledged to bolster the resources available for Italy’s police and security services.

Renew the peoples trust in the police…hmm. Prevent People from taking matters into their own hands. Lots of wisdom in those words. After all humans agreed to police forces a long time ago because they promised to keep the order. If they fail to keep order the reason for them fades and people will believe they need to take matters into their own hands. Not a good scenario as you might well imagine.

Earlier this week, people in a low-income suburb of the southern city of Naples set fire to a Roma Gypsy camp, forcing them to flee, after a report that a teenage Roma girl allegedly tried to kidnap an Italian baby.

“It is time to intervene with force to prevent anger taking over… and to avoid episodes of the unjustifiable violence that we saw in Naples,” Maroni stated.

Naturally there will be some who scream the same tired epitaphs at those who try and fix the problems of the clash of cultures. Problems caused in large part by the same sorts of people who scream those epitaphs the loudest.

Spain’s vice-president Maria Teresa Fernandez de la Vega has accused the Italian government of racism and xenophobia.

“The [Spanish] government rejects violence, racism and xenophobia, thus it does not agree with what is happening in Italy,” said Fernandez de la Vega at a media conference on Friday.

“Immigration is a necessary phenomenon, which is positive as long as it is orderly and legal,” said Fernandez de la Vega.
“The government does not share the deportations without respect for laws and rights.”

This statement while not a response to the Spanish Vice President certainly could be!

“For some time Italy has been the gateway of the Mediterranean, but this door now needs to be slammed shut because we have a duty to defend our citizens and guarantee their safety” affirmed Italy’s Minister for Community Policies, Andrea Ronchi, in an interview given to daily ‘Il Corriere della Sera’. “We - he went on - shall punish illegal immigrants, irregular stays by foreigners who commit crimes on our territory. And this is our full right as a nation, because there is not any contravention of international law. We don’t want to erect barriers, but our objective is that a culture of law and order comes to be shared across Europe”.

If only that realization hit our politicians it would be revolutionary! Imagine that, not allowing illegal immigration because of the crime it introduces into the center of our civilization! 

Of course there is a point of no return. A point where if we don’t control illegals quickly enough they control the government. Witness California where Proposition 187, a state wide initiative to control illegal immigration, passed with over 58% of the vote in state wide elections.

California Proposition 187 was a 1994 ballot initiative designed to deny illegal immigrants social services, health care, and public education. It was introduced by assemblyman Dick Mountjoy (Republican from Monrovia, California) as the Save Our State initiative. A number of other organizations were involved in bringing it to the voters. It passed with 58.8% of the vote,[1] but was overturned by a federal court. The measure prompted support for similar bills in Illinois, Florida, New York and Texas.[1]

But the measure was challenged in court and ultimately defeated by Grey Davis who simply stopped the appeal process allowing the measure to die. Thus even when the people spoke in overwhelming terms their desires were ignored. Makes one wonder exactly what does it take for us to  win?

Where is our Berlusconi? Where are the politicians who will stand up and stop the transformation of the United States into a third world country? We must understand that we will be called the most vicious names in out fight to preserve our culture. It is worth the price.

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She does it so much better than I can…another media Round Up.

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Because Republicans are just incredibly stupid…how else to explain 29 Republican Sponsors to this abortion!

Obviously if as a United States Congressmen you are NOT willing to stop illegal immigration you should make damn sure that no pesky state or local officials go around you and take care of the problem themselves. More obviously if you are a hopelessly stupid political party getting its ass handed to it in every single goddamn election held you should GO OUT OF YOUR WAY TO PISS ON YOUR BASE. Naturally. So that explains these 29 clowns wearing the Republican badge sponsoring legislation to take away States rights to police up a problem they refuse to face. After all when you aren’t collecting much money from your base because you have foot tapped your way into hell then corporations like Tyson Foods and Mohawk Fabrics who employ thousands of illegal’s are your only hope. So you better please them by trying to pass this shitty legislation. Take a good look at the wording of this…

(b) Enhancement of Federal Preemption Standards- Section 274A(h)(2) of the Immigration and Nationality Act (8 U.S.C. 1324a(h)(2)) is amended to read as follows:

    `(2) PREEMPTION; NO NATIONAL IDENTIFICATION CARD-

      `(A) PREEMPTION- The provisions of this section preempt any provision of any law of any State or political subdivision thereof or any contract entered into by any State or political subdivision thereof which–

        `(i) imposes civil or criminal sanctions upon employers for actions governed by the Act;

        `(ii) requires, authorizes or permits a system of verification of the immigration status of employees or employment applicants;

        `(iii) requires, authorizes, or permits the use of a federally mandated employment verification system for any other purpose other than that required by Federal law, including verifying status of renters, determining eligibility for receipt of benefits, enrollment in school, obtaining or retaining a business or other license provided by the unit of government, or conducting a background check; or

        `(iv) requires or prohibits the use of an immigration status employment verification system for any purpose, except as required by Federal law, including without limitation, such purposes as–

          `(I) a condition of receiving a government contract;

          `(II) a condition of receiving a business license; or

          `(III) the basis of assessing a penalty.

Here are the sponsors of the above nonsense…and this is only part of the nonsense. This is a blatant attempt to nullify the great work being done locally to deal with the huge influx of illegal aliens. The efforts of states like Arizona and Oklahoma will be killed by this legislation! Now is as good a time as any to remind these clowns that while Tyson and Mohawk and the others that are donating money to them won’t be able to replace all the votes they are losing. Call these clowns up now and ask them just exactly why do they crave losing?

Rep. Samuel Johnson [R-TX]hide cosponsors Rep. Marsha Blackburn [R-TN] Rep. Jo Bonner [R-AL]  Rep. Kevin Brady [R-TX]  Rep. David Camp [R-MI] Rep. Eric Cantor [R-VA] Rep. Barbara Cubin [R-WY] Rep. John Doolittle [R-CA]  Rep. Philip English [R-PA]  Rep. Tom Feeney [R-FL]  Rep. Virginia Foxx [R-NC]  Rep. Trent Franks [R-AZ]  Rep. Sue Myrick [R-NC] Rep. Paul Ryan [R-WI] Rep. Addison Wilson [R-SC] Rep. John Gingrey [R-GA]  Rep. Louis Gohmert [R-TX]  Rep. Virgil Goode [R-VA]  Rep. Ralph Hall [R-TX]  Rep. Walter Herger [R-CA]  Rep. John Kline [R-MN]  Rep. Ron Lewis [R-KY]  Rep. Frank Lucas [R-OK]  Rep. Donald Manzullo [R-IL]

Rep. Kenny Marchant [R-TX]  Rep. Michael McCaul [R-TX]  Rep. James McCrery [R-LA]

Rep. Harry Mitchell [D-AZ] Rep. Dennis Moore [D-KS]  Rep. Gabrielle Giffords [D-AZ]

So while folks all over the country scratch their heads and wonder why the Republicans are losing, these Republicans are giving a graphic example. Poll after poll show that rank and file Republicans want our borders controlled and want the illegal alien problem taken care of. Naturally to these Republican politicians that means killing local laws to suit their multicultural fantasies. Gosh I wonder why they are losing?

Oh and by the way some wags have been advocating that Republicans are losing because they are NOT advocating Amnesty and other bullshit. To that crazy shit let me just say that even Hillary ran as fast as she could from Spitzers loony idea to give Illegal’s drivers licenses. Even liberals like New Yorkers didn’t think that was a great idea. Some of them have claimed that the election in Mississippi proved that being tough on illegal’s was a losing strategy. Not sure how they can claim this with a straight face given that the positions of the candidates were so similar that even the RHINO wag making this absurd claim had to admit it.

I can tell you that at this point I don’t even look at Republican efforts at fundraising. I just toss them into the garbage…I hope they are getting enough money from those border jumpers to make up the difference!

King Memorial Outsourced to China…naturally. “I was confused as to why they chose this particular artist from another country and another culture,” Shocked Black Artist Declares…Irony Abounds in D.C.

 In an article of funny quotes this might be the funniest. Hat tip Hot Air

Mr. Lei also defended Mao. “He isn’t as bad as some people think,” the artist told Cox, while acknowledging that the man who led China from 1949 to 1976 “had made some mistakes.” Outsourcing of King Memorial to China Is Probed | The New York Sun

He made some mistakes…oops just killed 60 million folks. Great Leap Forward and Cultural Revolution killed more people faster than any other government in history, well at least they did something right.

Mao blithely comments on the deaths “People who try to commit suicide — don’t attempt to save them! . . . China is such a populous nation, it is not as if we cannot do without a few people.”[32] 

But back to the King Memorial and the NY Sun’s article. The issue is a memorial in Washington DC to Martin Luther King has been outsourced to China. Naturally creativity being what it is in China, they killed all the creative people in the various purges, they produced a statue that looks remarkably like MAO after all he isn’t as bad as people think.

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“I was confused as to why they chose this particular artist from another country and another culture,” a Georgia artist working to rescind the decision, Gilbert Young, said. “My position is, they don’t have the sensitivity, the nuances to complete this statue the way it should be completed. This artist is a member of the Communist Party.”

I am surprised anyone is surprised or confused by what Washington DC does. After all the memorial to some of the victims of the most terrible terrorist attack in history was styled to honor the religion which is the main motivator for the attackers.

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Such is the corruption of Washington DC and our political and cultural elite. Are the people of the United States so out of touch with their “representatives” that they are surprised by the corruption?

Mr. Young said it would have been preferable for the memorial to be made by a black American, but that if an American of another race had been selected, there “would be no controversy.”

Uh Oh…what’s so special about being “American”? The Cultural Elite of Washington certainly don’t want to hear about their being anything unique about being American. Good thing it was a black man who declared such a blasphemy. After all according to them there is nothing unique about being American. Well nothing worth saving.

Perpetually Offended Religion (Guess which one), Offended…Brussels Journal at Fault for Hounding the Poor Dears…naturally

The Sun comes up in the East and goes down in the West and just as reliably the Western Press finds fault with those who point out the Flaws of the Religion of the Perpetually Offended, not with the religion.

From the Who saw that coming? file, it would appear that the pulpit we mentioned a few days ago is now being targeted by outraged Turks. [Ed.:—Okay, maybe not “Turks,” so much as they’re “Practitioners of the Religion of Peace.”] Of course, rather than dealing with the problem (i.e., people who constantly rage against inanimate objects), Belgian authorities have decided that treating the symptoms is sufficient:Police Protection for Provocative Pulpit · snapped shot

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Mohammed sculpture in Belgian Church. This was commissioned after the battle of Vienna to celebrate the Christian victory over the Muslim Hordes. The battle marked the turning point in the 300-year struggle between the forces of the Central European kingdoms and the Ottoman Empire. Over the sixteen years following the battle, the Habsburgs of Austria gradually occupied and dominated southern Hungary and Transylvania, which had been largely cleared of the Turkish forces.

Bush wasn’t kidding when he declared we are in a long war…honestly don’t think he understood how long.

According to the Belgian press the pulpit controversy has been deliberately caused by [the Brussels Journal], which is being described as “pretending to be neo-conservative” but run by “neo-fascists.” Piet Buyse, the mayor of Dendermonde, told the media that he deplores that the pulpit “figures on websites which aim to provoke negative reactions from Muslims.” The mayor said that the depicted man represents an unbeliever and may also be Luther or Calvin

Makes sense, after all a blogger from Brussels Journal, isn’t likely to cut your freaking head off for calling him a fascist. Sadly the same cannot be said of the other side of the equation. So if you are some sort of pissant government functionary it is much easier to attack the guys who won’t be cutting your head off than it is to attack those who just might.

Btw go over and support the Brussels Journal since they are fighting such a good fight on the front lines.

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Freedom of Speech For Thee Not For Me…

Isn’t this sweet. The Minutemen offered to clean up a stretch of the California Hwy. The State Highway Patrol coincidently offers them a portion of highway near the main border crossing for the vast hordes of illegal’s overrunning our country. Well obviously since the Minutemen are known to be fighting against illegal’s streaming across our borders the illegal’s defenders in California got offended when the Minutemen, like every other group that offers to clean highways, got their sign on the highway thanking them by name. We must not offend the poor dears illegally crossing the borders. So down came the sign.

California assemblywoman Lori Saldana of San Diego said she was considering legislation that would stop the transportation department from accepting new sponsorships until it develops standards governing who qualified to participate in the highway adoption program.

“We want them to say what constitutes a legitimate group,” Saldana said after the hearing. “Do we want these people allowed on a highway near a security checkpoint?” My Way News - Anti-illegal immigration group wants San Diego highway sign

And now naturally California must make a law that says that “certain” groups are not welcome to clean up California Highways. It is A-Ok for illegals to overrun our country, so that rich folk have cheap labor to watch their unwanted children and to keep their lawns mowed, but law abiding Americans are not allowed to speak out against it.

That freedom of speech thingy is such a bothersome bit of law….I am betting they don’t have a lot of that where those illegals come from.

Multicultural Nirvana Just Over the Next Mountain of Illegals so says Obamamessiah!

I’m guessing that the black students parents will be voting for Barak Hussein Obama. Wonder if they realize that his intent is to bring even more Illegals from Mexico to steal their jobs and beat up their children? Nah probably not…after all he is the Obamamessiah!

Police teams dispatched
School district police brought in about 60 officers to the scene, while the Los Angeles Police Department dispatched about 50 officers and more than a dozen patrol cars.

Ronald White, a 17-year-old senior, said that when police arrived some of the students began fighting the officers, who responded with their batons. Another student said he saw police use pepper spray.

Locke has been marred by almost daily fights during much of the academic year, but students and teachers said Friday’s brawl was the worst in years.

About 65 percent of the 2,600 students enrolled at Locke are Hispanic, and 35 percent are black. Police break up 600-student brawl - Crime & courts- msnbc.com

Slip Sliding Away…Slip Sliding Away…you know, the less you defend Freedom of Speech the more it slip slides away.

Depressing when France is more courageous than the United States. But the truth hurts…witness this editor who was fired for publishing the cartoons in the French Newspaper France Soir. We are at war right now and since this is largely an ideological war, words matter. The ability to speak freely matters. Here is Flemming Rose commenting on the failure of the American Press to publish the cartoons in solidarity with the fight to keep speech free.

“It reads on the top of the New York Times, ‘All the News That’s Fit to Print,’ but it’s very hard to argue that this was not news on February 1, 2006,” the culture editor of Denmark’s Jyllands-Posten, Flemming Rose, said Wednesday night during a speech at Stanford University. Most American newspapers did not publish the cartoons, which include images of Muhammad with a bomb in his turban and of suicide bombers being greeted by the Muslim prophet in heaven.

Europe has usually been criticized for being politically correct and on the defense when it comes to Islam, but more European newspapers published the cartoons,” he said. “We might not have had the kind of ongoing crisis if more newspapers around the world would have published the cartoons at the same time because by doing so you would have drawn a clear line. … Instead, it was pretty unclear what people in liberal democracies thought of this issue.” Cartoon Editor Disillusioned With U.S. Press | The New York Sun

Our press grievously failed to live up to their responsibility of being the guardians of free speech. By appeasing the easily offended muslims they have ceded ground in our fight that we will not get back. We should have published those cartoons. Weasel little nothings like James David Dickson editor of The Michigan Review making sorry excuses for not living up to his responsibility did us no favors. Witness this poor excuse for failure and notice that it is the National Review that gives him a stage to embarrass himself. Did they agree with his stance?

The Danish cartoons arose from a desire to combat European self-censorship, but the almost-uniform refusal of American editors to reprint the cartoons speaks to the extent to which our press truly is free. In the case of The Michigan Review, this meant freedom from the sophomoric, macho impulse to offend for the sake of it, as if to pretend that discretion isn’t the better part of valor. Americans self-censor because we don’t see the need to offend; Europeans self-censor because they fear an Islamic backlash. The Danes profane the prophet Mohammed to include Muslims in their culture; we don’t profane Mohammed because, frankly, we wouldn’t do it to anyone else.

Absolutely incredible. This twit exercises his freedom by avoiding confrontation with those who would steal it away.

Here are the French, endlessly portrayed as cowards:

Under the headline “We have the right to caricature God,” a French newspaper today reprinted the Danish cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad that have ignited extraordinary anti-Danish protests, death threats and boycotts across the Muslim world. France Soir published the drawings, first printed by Jyllands-Posten, a right-of-centre Danish broadsheet last September, across pages four and five of this morning’s edition with an editorial that defended the freedom of the press. “The publication of 12 cartoons in the Danish press has shocked the Muslim world for whom the representation of Allah and his prophet is banned,” the newspaper said. “But because no religious dogma can impose its view on a democratic and secular society, France Soir publishes the incriminated cartoons.”

Hmm…

If you are wondering what we can expect if Barak Hussein Obama wins the election here is a taste of who he will be listening to.

Progressive radio host Mario Solis-Marich wrote Tuesday, “As a member of the largest minority ethnic group and a member of the media, I am continually puzzled and outraged by the idea that anyone can say anything about Latinos without fearing any consequence.” PR Web Version

Apparently all those folks who warned us about importing people from countries with no tradition of Freedom of the Press were right. Notice that this slug believes that people who disagree with his stance should “FEAR” consequences. Well that is peachy.

Words of Wisdom, direct from a soldier in Iraq to his wife in the states who is every bit as brave.

This just about covers this subject.

“Wars aren’t fought in the halls of Congress, on oped pages, or during dinner conversations. They are fought by courageous but desperately tired Americans living day after day in mortal danger, with families who live with constant fear for their safety and bear the entire burden of their absence.” Nancy French on Military Families on National Review Online

The Republican Party’s Real Problem In A Nutshell…ding ding ding…give Hawkins a read, he gets it!

Great article on why I have not sent any money to the Republicans this cycle. I don’t trust them. Course John Hawkins article over at Townhall is a bit broader in focus than little ole me but hey, enough about me, what do you thing about me!

However, there is one overriding problem that dwarfs all the others, a problem that few people in the leadership of the Republican Party seem to have come to grips with. That problem is that conservatives, who are the heart and soul of the Republican Party, no longer believe that the GOP has their best interests at heart. Townhall.com::The Republican Party’s Real Problem In A Nutshell::By John Hawkins

Go now and read this article McCain. I know you are reading my site.

Emily Litella Does Global Warming Update…Never mind.

Can I get a big OOOOOPS.

Ocean Cooling to Briefly Halt Global Warming, Researchers Say

April 30 (Bloomberg) — Parts of North America and Europe may cool naturally over the next decade, as shifting ocean currents temporarily blunt the global-warming effect caused by mankind, Germany’s Leibniz Institute of Marine Sciences said.

Average temperatures in areas such as California and France may drop over the next 10 years, influenced by colder flows in the North Atlantic, said a report today by the institution based in Kiel, Germany. Temperatures worldwide may stabilize in the period. Bloomberg.com: Worldwide

Next thing you know those clowns will be claiming that the coming Ice Age will be delaying Global Warming for 5000 years and that will give us just enough time to get all those crappy flourescents installed. Bastards who have been pushing the shitty theories about man made global warming should be run out of town on rails after a combination of tar and feathers is liberally applied. But there is no justice…assholes will simply switch claims and keep on trying to destroy Western Civilization. All because they didn’t get laid in school.

Arabs, easiest folks in the world to offend are offended again…the truth sucks eh hajji? 19th Nervous Breakdown of Muslims on the waaaaaaay!

Pierre Legrand’s Pink Flamingo Bar

Oh gee let’s see a bunch of Arabs hijack a bunch of planes and commit the worst terrorist act in history…and so Hollywood that bastion of reality makes some movies about Arab terrorists and they are offended. Fuck them, no really.

“In the United States, you can say anything you want about Islam and Arabs and get away with it. In other words, as someone said, ‘You can hit an Arab free’,” said Shaheen — also author of “Reel Bad Arabs — How Hollywood Vilifies a People”.

 

OKEY DOKEY….that just about covers these crazy bastards.

Shaheen, an American of Lebanese descent, has examined the treatment of Arabs and Muslims in some 1,000 films, including more than 100 shot since September 11.

From action movies such as “True Lies” (1994) to comedies including “Father of the Bride Part II” (1995) and Disney’s animated “Aladdin” (1992), Shaheen identifies films that have perpetuated damaging stereotypes of Arabs and Muslims.


“The images have remained primarily fixed and have only been changed in the sense that they have become more vindictive and damaging,” he told Reuters in an interview in Beirut.

“What enables these images to persist and prevail? One of the primary reasons is silence,” said Shaheen, a retired professor of mass communications who worked as a consultant on “Syriana” (2005) and “Three Kings” (1999).Critic accuses Hollywood of vilifying Arabs | Entertainment | Reuters

The 9/11 Generation

Glenn Reynolds Chef to the Elite…not content blending puppies Glenn moves to Turkey Roasting Arrrggh.

Classical values has a funny post that captures the lunacy of Democrats in general.

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Sort of shocking that Glenn Reynolds is part of the vast left wing puppy blending, turkey roasting elite. I am guessing that Clinton didn’t know about dear old Rev Wright…nor did Hillary. Ooops getting serious…sorry!

Classical Values :: A Wright-wing conspiracy?

Free Speech for Thee but not for me….Color Me Confused.

Ignorant and stupid…

(CNN) — A teenager pleaded guilty Friday to a federal hate crime of threatening and intimidating civil rights marchers near Jena, Louisiana, last year by displaying hangman’s nooses from the back of a pickup truck.

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A photo taken by I-Reporter Casanova Love shows a noose hanging from a pickup in Alexandria, Louisiana.

more photos » Federal authorities announced Friday that Jeremiah Munsen, 18, of Colfax, Louisiana, admitted that he placed two large nooses on his truck on September 20.  Teen pleads guilty to intimidating ‘Jena 6′ marchers - CNN.com

Ignorant and stupid…

“It just came to me within the past few weeks, y’all, why so many folks are hating on Barack Obama. He doesn’t fit the model. He ain’t white, he ain’t rich, and he ain’t privileged. Hillary fits the mold. Europeans fit the mold, Giuliani fits the mold. Rich white men fit the mold. Hillary never had a cab whiz past her and not pick her up because her skin was the wrong colour. Hillary never had to worry about being pulled over in her car as a black man driving in the wrong… I am sick of Negroes who just do not get it. Hillary was not a black boy raised in a single parent home, Barack was. Barack knows what it means to be a black man living in a country and a culture that is controlled by rich white people. Hillary can never know that. Hillary ain’t never been called a nigger. Hillary has never had her people defined as non-persons.”

One goes to jail, the other one goes to the White House if his man wins. Hmm…methinks that might just beget more of the first sort of ignorant and stupid behavior.

Course maybe I am just ignorant and stupid. Maybe we have already gone past the point where we can rein it back in. After all did you read about the Wichita Massacre?  I think it is pretty damn insulting to law abiding black folks that dumb white folks buried this story.

Terrific Article on Computers at PJ Media…One comment got me to thinking.

This is strikingly true. I know in my house most of our photos are kept on disk. Perhaps it is time to start printing them out. Then there is my 600 vinyl albums…that I have been promising myself to digitize. At least they will still exist in 400 years even if the means to play them will be gone.

Morton Doodslag:

If the geometric proliferation of media formats remains a constant, the in a mere 10-20 years most of the storage formats we now use will be so obscure that much data will be lost. I’ve been thinking for years that we may be entering a peculiar kind of fugitive age, not really a dark age, where information will continue to be available, but very erratically.

For example, nearly all personal documents such as photos and personal/business correspondence will be lost in a very short time frame. They will be stowed in attics and garages in much the same manner as any kind of former documents, but we’ll have few means to easily access them. Eventually most will be discarded.

More generalized data will probably persist however. In a strange way, although the reasons for each are different, this loss of private assets mirrors the loss of privacy itself. Future generations will not really know what it’s like to happen across a box or drawer full of long hidden family documents or photographs. Lacking the means to translate ancient private media, the past will seem far more ephemeral than ever before. This will probably have huge consequences for society. Pajamas Media » What Will Your Next Computer Be Able to Do?

Why Bitter Voters Do Not Respect College Professors and Cling to Our Guns!

Glenn Reynolds is probably one of the most valuable resources in the Blogsphere…but every now and again he checks out and comes up with something loony. We should expect it since he is after all a member of a class of people whose grip on reality sometimes slips…alot. Witness this ”piece” that Glenn points us to this morning.  Glenn bestows the coveted “read the whole thing” link to a piece so badly argued that I will be forever questioning the abilities of lawyers coming from the University of Penn.

Read the whole thing. Including this: “Criminal justice works badly when the voters whose preferences govern the system are not the voters who feel the effects of crime and punishment most directly.”

WTF???  Glenn have you perused any crime statistics lately?

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Bush bashing…Peggy Noonan and me pile on. Bother you? Make something of it!

There were two critical spots in this overall terrific piece that Peggy Noonan struck a nerve.

And, as always: Why do we do this when you know I am not a terrorist, and you know I know you know I am not a terrorist? Why this costly and harassing kabuki when we both know the facts, and would agree that all this harassment is the government’s way of showing “fairness,” of showing that it will equally humiliate anyone in order to show its high-mindedness and sense of justice? Our politicians congratulate themselves on this as we stand in line.

When I stood there helplessly as TSA pukes patted down my 74 year old Mom and Step Dad I knew that it was indeed, as Noonan puts it, mere Kabuki theater. This nonsense being foisted upon us by idiot politicians was useless. We would never catch anyone like this….

But then she reaches full song and hits right to my heart. I do not like this man we call President, this man to whom I have given more money than was prudent. In 2000 because I thought him the better man. In 2004 I gave because the other man was so much worse. Now comes 2008 and again there are no choices.

He has left on-the-ground conservatives – the local right-winger, the town intellectual reading Burke and Kirk, the old Reagan committeewoman – feeling undefended, unrepresented and alone.

This will have impact down the road.

I finally understand the party nostalgia for Reagan. Everyone speaks of him now, but it wasn’t that way in 2000, or 1992, or 1996, or even ‘04.

I think it is a manifestation of dislike for and disappointment in Mr. Bush. It is a turning away that is a turning back. It is a looking back to conservatism when conservatism was clear, knew what it was, was grounded in the facts of the world.

The reasons for the quiet break with Mr. Bush: spending, they say first, growth in the power and size of government, Iraq. I imagine some of this: a fine and bitter conservative sense that he has never had to stand in his stockinged feet at the airport holding the bin, being harassed. He has never had to live in the world he helped make, the one where grandma’s hip replacement is setting off the beeper here and the child is crying there. And of course as a former president, with the entourage and the private jets, he never will. I bet conservatives don’t like it. I’m certain Gate 14 doesn’t.Declarations - WSJ.com

YES YES YES….and more. The man I gave so much of my loyalty and money to tried to betray me with the immigration fiasco’s. He did the unthinkable, he lied. I know it is a cliché to claim that politicians lie but they are not supposed to be proud of it. President Bush lied to my face repeatedly…I do not like liars. Never have, never will.

Then the President came to Baton Rouge the other day and it struck me that we have created monsters of our Presidents. This man, yes he is a man, absolutely locked up the City of Baton Rouge for hours. He did this because one of the Republicans running for office needed Bush to raise money for him. So this man, the President, got into his big taxpayer funded 747 and flew from New Orleans, 73 miles away probably closer as the crow or President flies, to Baton Rouge. Royalty cannot be more royal. Our President is not supposed to be royalty. While our President flew his huge taxpayer funded jet the 73 miles other tax payer funded Military jets flew circles around his path, armed to the teeth, reminding one and all that this was a man of power…then insult was added to injury.

When the freeways were shut down whilst this man, just a man, rode from the airport in his huge convoy towards this very exclusive fundraiser. Then when this man, just a man, decided to leave the freeway was locked up again….royalty does not gain you these sorts of privileges.

When did we agree to this?

Enoch Powell: the Great Lie survives - Telegraph

Perhaps Ralph Peters was correct when he said not to worry about Europe becoming Islamic cause the Europeans would rise up and smack them down. Course Enoch Powell was not hoping that the Nazis would rise up to throw out those who would change Britain instead of rising to the standards of the British people. We will face similar circumstances someday soon…

And yet perhaps there is hope. Perhaps there is a sign of fight left in Europe? Maybe the alarm bells are ringing?

Sunday is the 40th anniversary of perhaps the most significant speech made in British politics since the Second World War: Enoch Powell’s “Rivers of Blood” speech.

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  • The full text of Enoch Powell’s ‘Rivers of Blood’ speech
  • Three Line Whip: Not in the tradition of Enoch Powell

    It is also, therefore, near to the 40th anniversary of one of the greatest lies in British politics since the Second World War: that this remarkably accurate prediction of the dangers of enforced multiculturalism has “prevented” a rational debate on immigration, since anyone who seeks to engage in it will be branded as a “racist”.

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    It would be a comfort if this position were merely ignorant. It isn’t. Powell is used by the Left - and that includes many people in the Conservative Party - as a cynical excuse to conceal their own failures in imposing proper immigration controls and maintaining social cohesion.

    They start by saying Powell was a racist, which is also a deliberate lie. They then say that anyone who mentions immigration will now be tarred with that brush, which must therefore be a lie as well. This is convenient for those who have betrayed the people of this country by imposing an immigrant community so large upon it that it struggles to integrate - and, indeed, who have betrayed many of those immigrants too. Yet it won’t wash.Enoch Powell: the Great Lie survives - Telegraph

  • Thoughts on building a better Earth Day Birthday

    Asking the right question just the right way.

    Tell me, pray, why must Earth Day always fall on Lenin’s birthday?Classical Values :: Thoughts on building a better Earth Day Birthday

    I realize that there is still some dispute over whether the placement of Earth Day on Lenin’s birthday is just a coincidence. The case can be made that it isn’t, of course (and I have made that case in previous posts, including one in which I noted another coincidence — that the very first Earth Day was held on Lenin’s 100th Birthday). But let’s give the green devil its due and assume for the sake of argument that the Lenin Birthday Earth Day is “just a coincidence.”

    Wow I didn’t know that Earth Day fell on Lenin’s birthday. One more reason to hate that bullshit holiday, which btw I celebrated by pouring some gasoline down Gaia’s throat…but hey I need to be careful. Next thing you know I will be worshipping guns, religion and hating illegal’s because I am so bitter…oops.

    Coming Soon to a Country Near YOU! Enoch Powell’s ‘Rivers of Blood’

    Instapundit linked to a story today that sparked a memory a speech and the unfortunate accuracy of the prediction. First the Instapundit Link:

    POLL: Britons Fear Racial Violence: “Almost two-thirds of people in Britain fear race relations are so poor tensions are likely to spill over into violence, a BBC poll has suggested. Of the 1,000 people asked, 60% said the UK had too many immigrants and half wanted foreigners encouraged to leave.” The multi-cultural progress meets with its usual success.

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    Islam’s Hordes Learn How to Attack White Guilty West…Scream RACISM!

    By allowing colleges in the United States to push the speech codes that are sweeping the country are we training our young to accept that there must some sort of legal limitations to plain speech? Will we end up in these sorts of ridiculous situations soon?

    Girl irritated boy, boy pushed girl and told her to go away.” But girl is a Muslim — an “Asian” in British PC-speak — and so boy is charged with racial assault and hounded. He has been cleared, but the whole thing is a travesty from beginning to end. Who made sure these charges were brought? What is being done about them to ensure this kind of thing will not happen again? Nothing, of course. Dhimmi Watch: UK: Down’s syndrome boy charged with racism and assault after playground incident with “Asian” girl

    Ask the Scold

    Captures the idiocy of our age…take a look right now.

    Dear James,
    I’m sorry, but I can’t help you with this one. Given the facts that the vendor was selling falafel and that he mentioned 74 lashes (a popular punishment for sodomy in Iran), there is a good chance he is a practicing member of the Islamic faith.
    While I like to think that all minority groups are special and equal, the plain truth is that his minority group is more special than yours. A very few, radical members of his minority group are easily upset and have been known to commit acts of violence and murder when they are riled. As your minority group, the LGBT community, generally buys new curtains when upset, I’m going to have to side with the Islamists on this issue. I don’t want my head cut off.
    No hard feelings, I hope?
    Ta.
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    Saddam and Al Qaeda Sitting in a Tree…of course they had a Collaborative Relationship, duh.

    Time to remember why we went to war again since the Bush Administration cannot be bothered to make the case. 

    This was published as a blog post to commemorate the 5th Anniversary of 9/11. It is time to remember why we are fighting in Iraq.

    Why did I make this list of Saddam’s Connections and Collaborations with Al Qaeda?

    This list started out as just an area to drop links that I found relevant regarding the most obvious reason for taking Saddam out of power, his use of Islamic terrorists to wage war by proxy. This aspect of Saddam’s madness has always been the central reason for deposing him. We could not allow any Dictator who believed in using Islamic terrorists as proxies to have any sort of major weapons. The crux was his desire to use Islamic terrorists as proxies in wars against us, which he states as a viable strategy against us in his conversations with Ambassador Glaspie prior to Former President Bush’s war to take back Kuwait.

    As a father it struck me early on how important it was to have valid reason for going to war. Theorists, policy makers, and various bureaucrats might believe UN Resolutions were important enough to go to and sustain war but as a father I knew it wouldn’t be. None of my children mattered so little to me that I would waste them upholding such a cynical organization as the UN. But showing clear connections and collaborations between a nation and those terrorists we knew to be attacking and I would support going to war.

    Our war is far from over. To do our part at home we need to respond against those who try and stop our battle for survival by discrediting our war in Iraq specifically, and against Islamic totalitarians in general. Fight back against those who try to say that Saddam was not linked to terror, either in private conversations, letters to the editor, radio talk shows or wherever they make themselves known. Now when you hear someone make the claim that there was no evidence of Saddam’s links to terror you have at your fingertips enough evidence to make effective counterpoints. Keep Reading »