Thursday - July 15, 2010
“In lieu of flowers…”
From the Las Vegas Review-Journal:
Emphasis addedCHARLOTTE MCCOURT Charlotte M. Tidwell McCourt, 84, of Pahrump, passed away July 8, 2010, after a long illness. She was born Dec. 25, 1925, in Wellington, Utah, and was a 40-year resident of Nevada. Charlotte held a zest for life and loved serving her family of five children; 20 grandchildren; and 65 great-grandchildren. She had been the wife of Patrick L. McCourt for 67 happy years. Active in her community, she assisted in many political figures’ campaign efforts. As an active member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Charlotte served as a leader in the Relief Society for over 20 years. She and her beloved husband also served a full-time mission in the Cabanatuan Mission in the Phillipines. Charlotte is survived by her husband, Patrick; children, Pat and Nellie McCourt, Dan and Lanny Shea, Bill and Marsha Sortor, David and Sherry d’Hulst, and Tom and Ann McMullin; and many grandchildren. A memorial service was held Saturday, July 10, at the LDS Chapel, 921 E. Wilson, in Pahrump. We believe that Mom would say she was mortified to have taken a large role in the election of Harry Reid to U.S. Congress. Let the record show Charlotte was displeased with his work. Please, in lieu of flowers, vote for another more worthy candidate.
I don’t think I’ve ever seen a newspaper write an article about an obituary before. But then I’ve never seen such a political slap from the grave either. The reporterette writes:
McCourt’s from-the-grave call for Nevada voters to reject Reid is a sign of how difficult it might be for the unpopular Democrat to win a fifth Senate term…
No kidding? 
H/T Neal Boortz
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Yeah, what they said. A short list of links to some new essays worth a look.
Ann Coulter can actually act like a lawyer on occasion. In her latest, New Black Panthers, You’re Free to Go—Not So Fast, Arizona she pulls up legal precedent that shows that the Holder/Obama suit against Arizona’s new illegal immigrant law is nothing but a nuisance / harassment suit. If the glove of “pre-emption” don’t fit, you must acquit! Much ado about nothing, other than wasting more money and generating a media event to get the minorities riled up in hopes that they will stay that way and actually vote come November.
If Obama thinks there’s a conflict, I believe he’s made a damning admission. There’s a conflict only if the official policy of the federal government is to ignore its own immigration laws.
Only slightly less preposterous is the argument that although Arizona’s law agrees with federal law, Congress has engaged in “field pre-emption” by occupying the entire field of immigration, thus prohibiting even harmonious state laws.
But the point is: According to the Supreme Court’s most recent pre-emption ruling, Arizona’s law is not pre-empted because Congress did not expressly prohibit state regulation of illegal aliens.
In fact, the Supreme Court has repeatedly rejected the pre-emption argument against state laws on immigrants—including laws somewhat at odds with federal law, which the Arizona law is not. In the seminal case, De Canas v. Bica (1976), the court held 8-0 that a California law prohibiting employers from hiring illegal immigrants was not pre-empted by federal law.
So there’s no “field pre-emption” of state laws dealing with aliens, nor is there an explicit statement from Congress pre-empting state regulation of aliens. On top of that, the Supreme Court has repeatedly upheld state laws on immigrants in the face of pre-emption challenges. Arizona’s law is no more pre-empted than the rest of them. Unless, of course, Obama is right and it’s a violation of federal law to enforce federal immigration laws, which is the essence of the Department of Justice’s lawsuit.
Newly appointed black person (read her columns) Michelle Malkin gives the NAACP a smack upside the head in The National Association for the Advancement of Coddled People . Slap yo ho Michelle!
In just a few short decades, the stalwart strivers for equality have turned into coddled whiners for hypersensitivity. The NAACP is a laughingstock. The group no longer represents the best interests of oppressed minorities, but the thin-skinned whims of the black elite and the ravenous appetite of the Nanny State.
To compensate for squandering the proud history of the civil rights organization on innocent greeting cards, NAACP leaders introduced a much-hyped resolution at their annual convention this week attacking the nation’s biggest racial bogeyman: the tea party movement. It’s a tried and true tactic of worn-out grievance-mongers: When you can’t find evil enough enemies to blame for your problems, manufacture them. (Just ask hate crimes huckster Al Sharpton.)
VDH points out the obvious to those not paying enough attention: Eric Holder is a racist hypocrite. No shit. Read Victor Davis Hanson’s Holder’s Hypocrisy for just a few of the more egregious examples.
On matters of race, the attorney general castigated Americans as “a nation of cowards” for not engaging in a national conversation on his own terms. This was an odd accusation since at present we have a black president, attorney general, EPA head and NASA chief, Hispanic secretaries of Labor and the Interior, and a recent Hispanic Supreme Court appointment, not to mention that the two previous secretaries of state were black.
The president himself accused police of stereotyping minorities and acting “stupidly” in arresting his friend, Harvard professor Henry Louis Gates. Some conversation.
Can I get an eye roll and a head shake everybody? From the $600 ghettotastic sneakers to the slob outfits on Air Force One to the green polyester stretch pants with major panty lines and camel toe to the garden party happy dress for a post-humus Medal of Honor ceremony, I just don’t understand why the fashionistas like the two at GFY haven’t created a whole new category for Michelle Obama, FKOTUS (K for Klingon). What the hell, the only real duty of that implied office is the implied duty to look elegant at all times. Multiple layers of irony expressed via couture are just too much for us dumb plebes; we don’t see the delicious humor in her sartorial splendor. We only see that she seems to be flipping off the whole nation at every opportunity. Here she is in Florida, in a fashion disaster that seems to mock the fashioned disaster right off the beaches of Panama City, urging people to come and vacation in the few unpolluted spots left in the Gulf, just prior to her own family’s jetting off to Maine for their own vacation as far from it as possible, while wearing what looks like her own personal oil spill. This is too nuanced for me, so I’ll link you over to Moonbattery. At least the theme of her talk there wasn’t her Let’s Move® rallying drive, which would be too ironic a message to the economically suffering folks living along the Gulf, but the name of her anti-obesity campaign. No, that bit was delivered to the NAACP convention, and I’ll give her double props for that, not just for looking good but for talking sense and trying to motivate her peeps. (and I love how this was covered at the blog I linked to. Maybe this shows how certain black people truly feel about the NAACP? I hope so. ( Note to me and you other out of touch crackers who take that link: “pop it” is an expression of support that’s used as a verb. Like “kudos”, “props” or “daps” I think; it indicates appreciation of a job well done, like the simple co-joined double declaratives “Represent.” “Respect”. Hey, it’s hard being white sometimes you know? Nobody sends us the updates to the elocution manual. )
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Beats me what happened. I thought I put this up yesterday. So I’ll try again before I blame the government watchbirds.
Too true. I would have drawn the guy in the back to look a lot more like Eric Holder though.
The first time I did this post I put in a link to IBD’s From The Left column, written by D.J. Dionne, so you could all have a laugh at his expense. He wrote an essay supporting the NAACP’s accusation of racism in the Tea Party movement and calling for a purge from within that group. Pure projectionism and moonbattery. Perhaps suffering from his own form of White Guilt, Dionne agrees with everything that Jealous said the other day, takes Sarah Palin to task because she commiserated with the Tea Party folks because she herself has been the target of baseless accusations, and lashes out at Tom Tancredo because it was soooo racist of him to opine that BHO got elected because most Americans haven’t the slightest inkling of what Socialism, Communism, and Tyranny are all about. But let’s crucify Tancredo because he expressed that thought by brandishing the racial tar baby and calling such a lack a “civics literary test”. The irony was completely lost on Dionne. And the NAACP/NBPP I’m sure.
Ok, links restored. Let’s see if this iteration survives.
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Permalink • Wednesday - July 14, 2010
stomped but working
We lost last night, 2-5. It was hard fought, but that’s how it goes sometimes.
Conditions were really strange the first game. I can’t really describe it, but the whole league had really bad scores that game. We did terribly, 3 of us throwing a 139 and me scrubbing the toilet with a 124. Our opponents didn’t fare much better, even though every one of them has a 200+ average - we had a 123 pin handicap. But the lanes just weren’t cooperating. We did a lot better in game 2, but to no avail. One guy on the other team threw 11 strikes. I got lucky and matched him for most of the game, throwing 8 myself, but leaving an open in the 5th, so my 211 came out far shy of his 275. So we got slaughtered in that one, even though our team total was well over 800 for that game. Game 3 saw a lot of splits and lots of weird splits all up and down the lanes. I took a straighter line and pulled a 170 something, while the guys on the other team didn’t adapt. So we pulled ahead a little, and held onto that lead even through their 8th frame surge. Woo hoo, we won a whole 2 points. But it was hard competition so that’s Ok.
Back to work again; I’ve got a 2-3 day window job. It’s going to be a challenge, since it’s raining today and might rain more tomorrow. That makes going up on a ladder a no-no, so I’ll be working inside. Hope her A/C is working well; doing windows in high humidity is difficult because nothing evaporates. That leads to a whole lot of wiping, which tends to leave streaks. See you in a couple of days.
Update: Rats! Customer called me up as I was loading up the Satrun. It’s pouring for the 2nd straight day at her place and her windows are all fogged. So let’s push the job back. And she has carpet cleaners and painters coming in next week, so let’s push it back further. Hey, that’s how it goes. I try not to let customers push me around, but I can’t control the weather. And it really does suck trying to do windows in the rain. Well, at least I got up nice and early, so maybe I’ll spend the day doing stuff around here. Or go bowling. Or something. I know, I can call Sears for the great Dishwasher Recall Event
Incidents/Injuries: Maytag has received 12 reports of dishwasher heating element failures that resulted in fires and dishwasher damage, including one report of extensive kitchen damage from a fire. No injuries have been reported.
Description: The recall includes Maytag®, Amana®, Jenn-Air®, Admiral®, Magic Chef®, Performa by Maytag® and Crosley® brand dishwashers with plastic tubs and certain serial numbers. The affected dishwashers were manufactured with black, bisque, white, silver and stainless steel front panels. The brand name is printed on the front of the dishwasher. The model and serial numbers are printed on a label located inside the plastic tub on a tag near the left side of the door opening. Serial numbers will start or end with one of the following sequences.
SERIAL number STARTING with
NW39, NW40, NW41, NW42, NW43, NW44, NW45, NW46, NW47, NW48, NW49, NW50, NW51, NW52, NY01, NY02, NY03, NY04, NY05, NY06, NY07, NY08, NY09, NY10, NY11, NY12, NY13, NY14, NY15, NY16, NY17, NY18, NY19OR SERIAL number ENDING with
JC, JE, JG, JJ, JL, JN, JP, JR, JT, JV, JX, LA, LC, LE, LG, LJ, LL, LN, LP, LR, LT, LV, LX, NA, NC, NE, NG, NJ, NL, NN, NP, NRSold at: Department and appliance stores and by homebuilders nationwide from February 2006 through April 2010 for between $250 and $900.
Consumer Contact: For additional information, contact Maytag at (800) 544-5513 anytime, or visit the firm’s website at http://www.repair.maytag.com
It took us 5 years to wrangle a new dishwasher out of the landlord. And it’s a pretty decent model that works well and is fairly quiet. And it hasn’t set the condo on fire, not even once! But a recall is a recall, so you’ve got to do what you’ve got to do.
PS - 6 different “brands” of dishwasher listed are all actually the same company. So much for competition in the free market, what what?
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Permalink • Monday - July 12, 2010
Hippie Idiots
What do you get when you combine a park full of goose poop, some frustrated park officials, a generous amount of carbon dioxide and a group of bleeding heart animal lovers?
On Thursday in Bend’s Drake Park, Oregon a group of people gathered to mourn the euthanization of 109 Canada geese. Days before, officials had rounded up the geese and killed them by stuffing them into canisters filled with carbon dioxide. The geese (and the large amount of poop they produced) were a nuisance in the park and month-long attempts to scare them away had failed.
But some of the more sensitive Bend locals were shocked by the killings. So they organized a funeral singing songs, reading poems and saying prayers for the 109 fallen fowl.
“I think a memorial like this will help people console each other,” Bend resident Foster Fell told the local Bend Bulletin newspaper. “I, myself, in the last few days have been nursing a tear in my eye and a lump in my throat.”
While having a goose funeral is rare, euthanizing nuisance geese is becoming more common. The same thing is going on in New Hampshire where 21 geese were euthanized in June, and last summer New York officials euthanized about 800 geese after a flock caused the famous Hudson River crash landing.
Euthanizing geese horrifies animal lovers and baffles most hunters. Couldn’t officials have closed the park and allowed a select group of hunters to knock down the population in a weekend? And euthanizing geese isn’t cheap either. It cost $22,000 to kill the 109 geese in Bend Drake Park.
You have got to be goose pooping me. $22,000 to use evil CO2 to asphyxiate 9 dozen geese? $202 per goose? Horry Clap.
I’d do the job for the price of a half brick of .22LR HPs. Heck, I’d do it for minimum wage and the price of some leather chaps and a pair of rawhide gloves. Grab, snap, drop. Next! A #1 wood should work well too. Or a medium samurai sword. Heck, I already own a hammer and a hatchet. That’s all that’s really needed. Ok, maybe I’d need a weighted net to throw over them. Maybe not - the ones around here show no fear of people; they act as the aggressor. Lay out some corn and just wait a few minutes.
I’d like to invite these moonbat econo-loons out here to NJ, where they can go street by street, block by block, and hold funeral services for the dead deer by the side of the road. Maybe set up a drum circle and do some primal screaming in the wee hours of the night. No, on second thought, nix that one. But I will pass out whips so they can flagellate themselves.
Hey, wait a second ... greenie hippie leftists praying in public? Arrest them! The nerve, how dare they!!!
(h/t to Moonbattery for the story and the picture below)
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Breaking - Fox News has been reporting for the past hour that BP has their latest cap on the broken oil pipe, and that it appears to have contained the leak. BP has not yet released a statement. The latest cap has not yet been pressure tested as a stop valve; right now it is merely letting the oil flow to a takeup pipe. But nothing seems to be leaking, and that’s the important story.
BP Lowers New Cap on Busted Well in Latest Attempt to Stop Gushing Oil
NEW ORLEANS—A new cap has been installed on the leaking well in the Gulf of Mexico, offering hope of containing the gusher for the first time since BP’s deepwater rig exploded in April.
BP officials said Monday evening the cap was mounted on the well after two days of preparing the site and a day of slowly lowering it into place.
The company plans to run tests starting Tuesday to see if the cap can withstand pressure.
The old cap, removed Saturday, did not have a tight fit and allowed crude to escape.
The new cap will enable BP to capture all the oil and funnel it up to ships.
BP is drilling two relief wells so it can pump mud and cement into the leaking well for a permanent fix.
Not mentioned here, but heard earlier this afternoon, is that BP says the relief well that they are drilling is less than 50 feet away from intersecting the broken well pipe, a good distance underneath the sea floor. Plans are to inject several hundred feet of concrete down the old bore hole from the new line, sealing the broken well permanently.
Personally, I don’t understand why they don’t just pump the well dry ASAP, and then fill it with seawater or whatever they do with wells once they go dry.
Oh, and in “celebration” perhaps of this, Oblamblam and his thugs issued another drilling moratorium today, reworded they hope so that it passes court muster. They will do whatever is necessary to bring this country to it’s knees. Thanks for jack shit, 52ers.
Obama Administration Issues New Moratorium on Offshore Oil Drilling
The Obama administration issued a new moratorium Monday on deep-water offshore drilling that is no longer based on water depth and stresses new evidence of safety problems, hoping the revised ban will pass muster with the courts after the initial one was rejected.
“More than 80 days into the BP oil spill, a pause on deep-water drilling is essential and appropriate to protect communities, coasts, and wildlife from the risks that deep-water drilling currently pose,” Interior Secretary Ken Salazar said in announcing the new moratorium. “I am basing my decision on evidence that grows every day of the industry’s inability in the deep-water to contain a catastrophic blowout, respond to an oil spill, and to operate safely.”
The new moratorium was panned by industry groups and supported by environmentalists. [ yeah, well nooooo shit ]
Last week, a federal appeals court rejected the government’s effort to restore its initial offshore deep-water drilling moratorium, which was issued after the catastrophic Gulf oil spill in April. The moratorium was blocked first last month by U.S. District Judge Martin Feldman.
This looks like another loser from Team Loser. Especially if this industry, has now shown that it does have the ability to contain a catastrophic blowout like this one. Fargin bastige.
UPDATE: CNN has a statement from BP, and video of the new cap going on.
New Orleans, Louisiana (CNN)—BP says it has placed a new containment cap on its crippled well in the Gulf of Mexico that’s been gushing oil since an explosion and fire April 20.
The company hopes the new cap will be able to completely contain the leaking oil, but tests are still needed to determine its effectiveness.
Video supplied by BP showed robotic arms gingerly lowering the new 18-foot, 150,000-pound cap over the well, with little oil appearing to escape.
If the new cap does not completely contain oil from the crippled well, some may have to be brought to the surface to waiting containment ships. But under a worst-case scenario, there could be new damage to blowout preventer.
The “well integrity” tests are due to begin Tuesday morning, CNN’s Ed Lavandera reported on “The Situation Room.” The process could take anywhere from six hours to two days.
BP said in a statement Monday night that, “It is expected, although cannot be assured, that no oil will be released to the ocean for the duration of the test. This will not however be an indication that flow from the well bore has been permanently stopped.”
As efforts continued Monday to get the new cap in place, Allen and BP executives emphasized that work was also continuing on two relief wells, which he called “the final solution” to shutting down the leaking well.
The first relief well is now five feet away from the main well and, at 17,840 feet deep, it’s 30 feet above the hoped-for final casing point, BP’s Suttles said Monday. That’s where BP will run additional tests, then aim for the final intersection point. Given the closeness to the target, he said that BP was estimating “kill” operations to shut down the main well could take place at the end of the month.
real-time video is here, and a zillion other places as well.
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Felons Voting Illegally May Have Put Franken Over the Top in Minnesota, Study Finds
The six-month election recount that turned former “Saturday Night Live” comedian Al Franken into a U.S. senator may have been decided by convicted felons who voted illegally in Minnesota’s Twin Cities.
That’s the finding of an 18-month study conducted by Minnesota Majority, a conservative watchdog group, which found that at least 341 convicted felons in largely Democratic Minneapolis-St. Paul voted illegally in the 2008 Senate race between Franken, a Democrat, and his Republican opponent, then-incumbent Sen. Norm Coleman.
The final recount vote in the race, determined six months after Election Day, showed Franken beat Coleman by 312 votes—fewer votes than the number of felons whose illegal ballots were counted, according to Minnesota Majority’s newly released study, which matched publicly available conviction lists with voting records.
Furthermore, the report charges that efforts to get state and federal authorities to act on its findings have been “stonewalled.”
“We aren’t trying to change the result of the last election. That legally can’t be done,” said Dan McGrath, Minnesota Majority’s executive director. “We are just trying to make sure the integrity of the next election isn’t compromised.”
He said his group was largely ignored when it turned over a list of hundreds of names to prosecutors in two of the state’s largest counties, Ramsey and Hennepin, where fraud seemed to be the greatest.
A spokesman for both county attorneys’ offices belittled the information, saying it was “just plain wrong” and full of errors, which prompted the group to go back and start an in-depth look at the records.
“What we did this time is irrefutable,” McGrath said. “We took the voting lists and matched them with conviction lists and then went back to the records and found the roster lists, where voters sign in before walking to the voting booth, and matched them by hand.
“The only way we can be wrong is if someone with the same first, middle and last names, same year of birth as the felon, and living in the same community, has voted. And that isn’t very likely.”
The report said that in Hennepin County, which in includes Minneapolis, 899 suspected felons had been matched on the county’s voting records, and the review showed 289 voters were conclusively matched to felon records. The report says only three people in the county have been charged with voter fraud so far.
Shit piss and corruption! I’ve said it a hundred times, and I’ll say it again: Every town, every county in every state need to purge their voter rolls and re-register everyone all over again. This time with proper ID, proof of citizenship, SSN matched to the Social Security database, and a criminal background check. A photographic ID card needs to be issued, and no one will be allowed to vote without it.
( I leave it up to you to solve the absentee voter problem, but it isn’t very hard. Make Election Day the last day of Election Fortnight and 80% of absentee balloting would be unnecessary. Clear out those laws that allow for Motor Voters and Lazy Voters: absentee voting is for actual disabled folks and soldiers oversees only. Make the military vote first, perhaps a month ahead of time for those oversees, and put in validation checkpoints along the way so those votes don’t evaporate. That should handle another 10% of it right there. You figure out the rest. )
You provide more information to the credit card companies and the DMV than you do to your local board of elections. But without ensuring that the people who do vote are the people who are allowed to vote and no others, then the system is a fraud. And the results ... see above. And in many other places, like the state of Washington.
This garbage is by no means limited to Minnesota. It’s in your state too. In your county. Right in your own town. Mine too. The people hired by the government to keep the voter rolls clean and up to date do not do their jobs. This is done purposely: the technology already exists and the computer systems are in place. It’s no bet at all that Visa and MasterCard have a far better list of their members than the government has of it’s voters. It’s the same technology too, which means the whole job could be outsourced to Discover, who could do the work for nothing more than a tax write-off. Social Security could do it as well, and so could quite a few other government databases.
Anyone who has ever gone through the background search process while applying for a gun permit or a security clearance knows what I mean. There are databases out there that the rest of us don’t even know exist. Adding just one bit and 4 characters to the NCIC database record - a Y/N flag for whether a conviction denies the criminal the right to vote, and if Y the 4 digit year when that denial expires; 9999 = “never”, and Y2K-aphobes should see that’s good for another 8000 years - and sharing those 1 Y/N value with the elections people when an SSN inquiry is made is all it takes. Heck, many polling places have a cop nearby or on hand, don’t they, and it’s certainly fine for any cop to access that database. Double Heck, just have NCIC build an external hash table and let the elections people access that. Concerned citizens or criminals coming off of probation would be advised to make sure their number is in the clear before the voting starts. You don’t even need a day-month-year code in the NCIC database, since you’d write the table entry code to look at Election Fortnight and judge accordingly. Probation ends in June? You’re in. Ends October 25th? Sorry, you get your voting rights back the year after. You don’t have to be smarter than a fifth grader to write code like that. Third graders could probably do it these days.
It really is that easy. The technology is there. Are you kidding? The technology is there so that any citizen ought to be able to walk into any polling station in the country and vote in their local election, and then not be able to vote anywhere else in that same election. All that would take is one more flag bit (voted/didn’t vote yet) at NCIC and a flag-clearing operation run the day after. And that’s one line of code, m’kay? Piss simple stuff here people.
Meanwhile in Missouri it’s the same old dirty story:
Last year, Justice abandoned a case it had pursued for three years against Missouri for failing to clean up its rolls. When filed in 2005, one-third of Missouri counties had more registered voters than voting-age residents. What’s more, Missouri Secretary of State Robin Carnahan, a Democrat who this year is her party’s candidate for a vacant U.S. Senate seat, contended that her office had no obligation to ensure individual counties were complying with the federal law mandating a cleanup of their voter rolls.
The case made slow but steady progress through the courts for more than three years, amid little or no evidence of progress in cleaning up Missouri’s voter rolls. Despite this, Obama Justice saw fit to dismiss the case in March 2009. Curiously, only a month earlier, Ms. Carnahan had announced her Senate candidacy. Missouri has a long and documented history of voter fraud in Democratic-leaning cities such as St. Louis and Kansas City. Ms. Carnahan may now stand to benefit from voter fraud facilitated by the improperly kept voter rolls that she herself allowed to continue.
Mr. Adams’ allegations would seem to call for the senior management of Justice to be compelled to testify under oath to U.S. Commission on Civil Rights. But Justice is making none of its officials available and is refusing to enforce subpoenas issued by the commission. The more this story develops, the more it appears Justice is engaged in a massive coverup of its politicization of voting rights cases.
Elected officials should be trotted out to the pillories once per year, everyone from the town clerks or is whoever responsible for the rolls, all the way up to the governor. Are the voter rolls clean, accurate, and up to date (accurate to within 60 days)?
Yes? Great! You may keep your jobs. And your skin.
No? 10 lashes for each of the clerks, and 2 lashes more for each level of administration above that. In some states I think that would mean about 100 lashes for the governor. Punish them, then send them on their way, unemployed. Draw names from a list of unemployed college graduates and give them the jobs at the same pay and benefit level. Call a special election in 45 days to replace the elected officials.
One step towards restoring America is restoring people’s faith in America. Guaranteeing clean elections and up to date voter rolls would go a long way ... and we’d never ever be plagued by an Al Gore “selected not elected” month of hell again. With broadband just about everywhere, and computers already everywhere, it should not take more than about ... half an hour after the polls close for anyone in America to know the exact vote count in every state, county, and town. WTF, they can do it for American Idol. How about doing it for American Democracy?
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Permalink • Cut The Anchor Chain
The opening section of the Civil Rights Act of 1866:
An Act to protect all Persons in the United States in their Civil Rights, and furnish the Means of their Vindication.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That all persons born in the United States and not subject to any foreign power, excluding Indians not taxed, are hereby declared to be citizens of the United States; and such citizens, of every race and color, without regard to any previous condition of slavery or involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall have the same right, in every State and Territory in the United States, to make and enforce contracts, to sue, be parties, and give evidence, to inherit, purchase, lease, sell, hold, and convey real and personal property, and to full and equal benefit of all laws and proceedings for the security of person and property, as is enjoyed by white citizens, and shall be subject to like punishment, pains, and penalties, and to none other, any law, statute, ordinance, regulation, or custom, to the contrary notwithstanding.
Note the “and not subject to any foreign power” part. This one paragraph grants full equal rights to all, regardless of color or gender.
This Act was vetoed by President Andrew Johnson (D-TN), but the veto was overridden by the Radical Republicans in Congress. This Act is still alive today, as 42 U.S.C. § 1981. Because the actions of this Act were not specifically empowered by the Constitution as it then existed, the ideas of the Act were quickly duplicated by the 14th Amendment. That’s a bit of a chicken-egg thing, but it worked.
Amendment XIV
Section 1. All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside. No State shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States; nor shall any State deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws.
While the 14th is most famous for overturning Dred Scott it also overturned Barron v. Baltimore, an 1833 decision wherein the Supremes ruled that the Bill of Rights did not apply to the States. [ Barron was also the Kelo of it’s day, and that decision was just as wrong as Kelo regarding property rights. ]
So it is blatantly obvious that the later Slaughterhouses decision was wrong because it was over-focused. Slaughterhouses specifically only “incorporated” those rights that the federal government had granted, not those rights that it “merely” recognized. And this started the nation down the long slow road of incorporation. At this point in time, Amendments 1 through 9 have been incorporated, although the 3rd Amendment (quartering soldiers in your home) has only risen to the 2nd and 10th Circuits; it has never come before SCOTUS. The 10th Amendment deals with the States themselves, and thus it’s incorporation would be redundant. So in effect Slaughterhouses has been mostly nullified even if it hasn’t yet been explicitly overturned. I’m waiting ...
But back to that “and not subject to any power” bit from the Act. That’s the same meaning as the “and subject to the jurisdiction thereof” language in the 14th. It takes an act of willful blindness to not see the real meaning, and that meaning is this: foreign nationals who are in our country and who give birth do not magically bear American citizens. They are “subject to any foreign power” because they are citizens of that other nation; they are “subject to the jurisdiction thereof”. This means that the “anchor babies” thing is bass-ackwards, dead wrong, and always has been.
Hey, that’s not just my opinion. The smallest bit of research shows that this was the original intent. Here are the words of the author of that part of the 14th Amendment, Senator Jacob M. Howard (R-MI):
The first amendment is to section one, declaring that “all persons born in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United State and the States wherein they reside.” I do not propose to say anything on the subject except that the question of citizenship has been so fully discussed in this body as to not need any further elucidation, in my opinion. This amendment of which I have offered is simply declaratory of what I regard is the law of land already, that every person born within the limits of the United States, and subject to their jurisdiction, is by virtue of natural law and national law a citizen of the United States. This will not, of course, include persons born in the United States who are foreigners, aliens, who belong to the families of ambassadors or foreign ministers accredited to the Government of the United States, but will include every other class of persons. It settles the great question of citizenship and removes all doubt as to what persons are, or are not, citizens of the United States. This has long been a great desideration in the jurisprudence and legislation of this country.
Talk about your “original intent” - it’s all in the congressional record, the whole debate, right here. Senator Doolittle (R-NY, Chairman of the Committee on Indian Affairs) then tries to put in words that exclude the Indians, and Howard argues against that. The debate rages on for 7 long-winded pages before the bit about the indians is voted down. And eventually, the amendment was voted on, and passed, using Howard’s language for that section; after intense amounts of debate and bloviation about Chinese in California and Digger Indians and so forth, the words of that section - and their meaning as explained in excruciating detail - were accepted.
So why do we have these anchor babies? Willful blindness and judicial activism. And so, 142 years later, Virgil Goode was moved to essay in today’s Front Page Magazine
In his address to the country on immigration last week, President Obama said that “being an American is not a matter of blood or birth.” Our current government policy of giving automatic US citizenship to the children illegal aliens who are born on American soil makes being American solely a matter of birth.
Americans are quickly waking up to the disaster that is the arbitrary government policy of guaranteed automatic citizenship to the children of illegal aliens. A Rasmussen Poll found that 58% of Americans opposed granting citizenship to the children of illegal aliens, while only 33% supported it.
Birthright citizenship creates a massive fiscal burden on the American taxpayer.
This is why I have used the term “anchor baby” to describe them. The critics of this term are the same people who are trying to make the anchor drop even deeper. During his speech last week, President Obama stated we cannot deport illegal aliens because “it would tear at the very fabric of this nation—because immigrants who are here illegally are now intricately woven into that fabric. Many have children who are American citizens.”
The costly policy of granting birthright citizenship is based upon a misinterpretation of the Citizenship Clause of the 14th Amendment. It states, “All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside.”
This was clearly designed to guarantee for the purpose of ensuring that the children of freed slaves could not be denied citizenship. Granting citizenship to the children of illegal aliens is a completely arbitrary interpretation that has never been ruled on by the Courts or passed by statute.
I think it’s long past high time that our children’s Social Studies education be geared far more to actual civics and the study of our founding laws than to feeewings and how evil white men oppressed the world. And I cast the first stone also at the Supreme Court for being lazy and not actively taking up this misinterpretation and ruling on it, instead waiting through generations for some lower court case to work it’s way upward. I do not think that SCOTUS is legally precluded from proactively clarifying an obvious wrong, but if we are to have any valid and useful immigration reform in this nation then without question it must begin there. It’s all there in black and white and completely unequivocal: the 14th Amendment does not allow anchor babies. Citizenship once given can not be taken away however, so let’s just admit our mistake, and stop making it. Then we can move forward.
Oh, and Obama “the constitutional scholar” surely merits a big fat flaming F for missing this one. Whether it’s through willful blindness, or via the misguided beneficence of social justice types like Deady Kennedy, the giving of birthright citizenship is not constitutionally based. And thus it can not be a valid law. It is not now, nor has ever been, a right. It is merely a policy, an act of generosity that we can no longer afford to make.
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Permalink • Saturday - July 10, 2010
Colorado Town Takes Style From UK
WHEAT RIDGE, Colo. - Admitted thieves are going free, while an elderly Wheat Ridge man is facing the possibility of spending the rest of his life behind bars, all, he says, for trying to defend his property and his life.
82-year-old Robert Wallace said in February that he looked out his window and saw two men hooking his flatbed trailer up to their pickup. He yelled at them to stop, but they sped away, stealing his trailer. He told police he fired two shots at the pickup.
Minutes later, police say 32-year-old Damacio Torres dropped 28-year-old Alvaro Cardona off at a hospital emergency room with a gunshot wound to the face.
Torres did not stay to talk with police, but they caught up with him later. According to court documents, he admitted he and Cardona stole the trailer.
Wallace did not want to talk on camera, but when we asked him if the two men threatened him he said, “They almost ran me over.”
The Jefferson County DA’s office said that neither Torres nor Cardona have been charged with anything at this point, even though Torres confessed to the crime. However, the homeowner, Wallace is facing twelve felony counts, including four counts of attempted first degree murder. If convicted, he could spend the rest of his life behind bars.
Sources say Torres and Cardona are believed to be in the country illegally and both have an arrest record. Cardona’s record includes public fighting and numerous traffic offenses like driving without a license or insurance. Torres’s record includes agricultural trespassing as well as a 2005 arrest for aggravated motor vehicle theft for which he was given a plea bargain to a lesser crime. Sources say Torres is also under investigation for being part of a major auto theft ring.
I so hope this doesn’t become our new national anthem. Especially since we like to believe we started with it. I don’t want to ironically end with it as well.
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Permalink • Friday - July 09, 2010
The Circle Closes
By the time you read this Peiper should be back in England. I got a postcard today, mailed Monday, that said he was flying back Thursday. So give him a few days to unpack, then a few days more to set up electric service at home, then a few days more to fight with British Telephone over the internet connection, etc. And then extra time to kick the Travelers out of his house. But he should be back here soon.
Damn, and I put off writing him the whole time. What a schmuck I am. But I thought about it almost every day, and I even went out and bought pads of paper to write on. Handwriting? I’m not sure I remember how. Heck, I don’t even know where the stamps are. We might use one a month. Maybe. Everything else gets done online.
Oh, I hear the price of stamps is going up again too, to 46¢. Buy those forever stamps now!
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Hey, was I asleep? This happened back on June 1st, and the only way I found out about it was through an intense Googling I did in reaction to some comment over at Human Events. But it fits the MSM meme to a “T”; it should have been headline news for a week. Was this a huge story on all the major networks but not on Fox News? A bit hit across the Leftosphere, but unmentioned by the VRWC? Or is anything and everything that happens down at the border ignored on general principle? Beats me.
In a team effort, the Laredo Police and the Webb County Sheriff’s Departments seize one of the biggest weapon seizures in ten years. Over the weekend, the Webb County Sheriff’s Department received information that there was a vehicle transporting illegal contraband. That contraband was all of these riffles, specifically AK 47’s, fully-automatic.
“It carries high capacity of ammunition and we are very happy to have done this seizure.”, says Sheriff Martin Cuellar.
The total number of weapons seized included 147 assault riffles, 263 high capacity magazines, and 10 thousand rounds of ammunition.
“With this seizure we predict that it was going across since they are having a lot of trouble over there at this point...getting a hold of these arms.”
Texas police say they acted on a tip-off and stopped a truck. Inside, they found 147 assault rifles, 53 bayonets and more than 10,000 rounds of ammunition they believe were heading across the border to Mexico.
“This is one of the biggest cases we’ve ever seen here in this city,” Laredo police officer Alberto Escobedo told Reuters.
“It’s a tremendous blow to drug traffickers and organised crime.”
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Drug-related violence in Mexico has left some 23,000 people dead since President Calderon came to office in December 2006 and launched a crackdown on drug gangs.
The first link is to the local TV news and has a video. The two guys in the truck ran away but were later captured. The FBI is involved and the investigation continues. Were the guns actually select-fire AKs? Were they brand new, because they look that way in the video and this picture, many in what look like factory boxes:
The vehicle was stopped heading east on International Boulevard. The passenger of the vehicle, who has not been identified, attempted to flee on foot before being apprehended. Officers then discovered the arms cache inside the van.
In a press conference on Tuesday announcing the seizure, local and federal authorities said this was the largest assault rifle bust in the U.S within the last 10 years.
I pulled up Google Maps, and “east on International” is heading away from the border crossing point in the SW end of Laredo, and away from the local airport, but it’s also heading towards the border crossing point at the NW end of town. So who can say? Gang bangers in the US want these guns just as much as the drug scum down in Mexico.
And while this was a pretty huge bust, it was by no means the only one. Just 3 days before this a Marine Reservist was caught trying to sneak about 60 ARs and AKs across, 100 miles up the road in La Pryor. And 180 miles up Route 277, just 3 weeks later Del Rio police stopped a couple of Mexicans with 15 assault rifles, 4 pistols, 61 loaded magazines and 123 boxes of ammo in the trunk. Now, how did that happen? Are Mexicans even allowed to buy guns in the US?
Some months ago a lot of right leaning blogs denied the claims that the vast majority of assault weapons going to the drug gangs down there came from the US. Couldn’t happen we said. Not possible. Well ... maybe we put too fine a point on it, bitterly clinging to the actual definition of assault weapon instead of the common use one. It looks like we may have been wrong. 3 busts in a month, 225 guns seized. And that’s a) the stories that I found in only a couple of minutes, and b) the shipments that got caught. How many more got through? And while these weapons may not be the “vast majority” it’s pretty obvious that enough guns to arm several small armies are getting through.
I owe the picture and several of the links here to the excellent Borderland Beat Blog. I think this is a new daily read. It will scare the crap out of you.
And no, legalizing any and all drugs is not the answer. Not unless you want anarchy and even more useless lay-abouts. Securing the border, and if necessary burning out the rat’s nest of northern Mexico is only answer I can see. No entrada, no pista, no problemo.
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As former President Ronald Reagan might have said, “Obama, there you go again.”
The current occupant of the White House claims to know how to create jobs. He claims jobs have been created. But so far the score is Great Obama Depression 2.2 million lost jobs, Obama 0—a blowout.
Obama is as hopeless, helpless, clueless and bankrupt of good ideas as the manager of the Chicago Cubs in late September. This “community organizer” knows as much about private-sector jobs as Pamela Anderson knows about nuclear physics.
Oh I dunno; I’d give Pam a break. Who knows more about the dangers of two critical masses colliding? But give the rest of it a read just in case you’ve forgotten for one whole day about the BS, the union favoritism, the political payoffs, and how much the real economy is tanking.
Hey, speaking of tanking, how about that oil spill in the Gulf? Day 81. And the latest I hear is that the government continues to test that A Whale ship ... which could have sucked up and processed 168 million gallons of corrupted water by now had it been put to work when it arrived a week ago. Next thing we’ll hear is that the Coast Guard grounded them for insufficient life jackets. Or too much salt in the crew’s oatmeal. Or some other bureau-wienie nonsense.
Oh, and by the way, have you heard that the vast majority of cleanup workers along the beaches of the Gulf are either American blacks or illegal aliens? How about that one? With Americans suffering from near 10% unemployment, they have to hire foreigners? And guess who is doing that hiring? The government of course! Or was it BP? Or were these jobs only funded by BP? And then they (gov) have the moxie, the gall, to let the Labor Secretary, Congresswoman Hilda Solis, publicly complain about their working conditions, and that they don’t have ENOUGH interpreters!
She said workers cleaning up BP’s oil spill on the beaches of the Gulf of Mexico include minorities who often don’t have the interpretation services they need to understand how to handle contaminants.
Solis said the workers, some of whom she visited recently, are a “vulnerable population” that needs to be protected and that her office is directing BP to give them proper training in their spoken languages.
“What I heard overwhelmingly was that there were no interpreters that could provide them with information on how they could go about understanding what safety measures that OSHA (the Occupational Safety and Health Administration) is requiring them to take so they could be certified to be part of the cleanup,” Solis said.
She said the workers are often minorities, including African-Americans, Asians, Mexicans and Central Americans who work in 109-degree weather while wearing plastic coveralls.
I have heard elsewhere that these beach cleaners are paid $25 per hour, and because of the heat and OSHA rules they only work 1 hour in 3 but get paid for all of them. So it takes 3 of them to do one guy’s work for a day, at triple the price. Well, that’s for the ones who actually get assignments. The rest of them are still in training, forced to sit through the aptly named and federally mandated HAZWOPER 40 hours of training, so that they learn how to properly put a shovel full of sand in a plastic bag while someone else ties it off. And even that’s a circle jerk, rife with claims of payoffs, false training certificates, poor training and extortion.
Here’s a slide show from Al Reuters.
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