Thursday - September 09, 2010

LA LEADS NATION IN VACANT LOTS AND BRITS GET READY TO BOOT SOME QUANGOS. THEY SAY.

It’s getting late and I forgot to check my mail till late. Busy with other things. Good grief ... 8:32pm. I have to get outta here. Up too many hours again.

So … I checked the mail before shutdown and got something from Rich K. Oh great Rich. Thanks.
Now I have to stay at this darn machine cos what you sent seems to tie in with something different but similar over here.
So, I had to run out to the trash bin outside and retrieve one of our papers I threw away, forgetting I needed something from that paper.  Rich’s mail reminded me.

H/T Rich K

Faster than you can say “We’re from the government; we’re here to help,” along comes the Community Redevelopment Agency of Los Angeles with another expensive boondoggle that a) has already turned productive land fallow, b) has dragged on for decades without progress, c) destroyed a rare successful business in South L.A., and d) will almost certainly end up producing the one thing the CRA is good at producing: empty urban prairieland.

Fall in love all over again with the Slauson Central Retail Center, a project that has been kicking around since the 1992 riots, and which is up for a new round of approvals and taxpayer soaking. The L.A. Times’ Patrick McDonnell tries to tell a tale that—another hallmark of any deal involving the CRA—is about as straightforward as your intestines:
About $7 million in public subsidies are committed to the $15-million project, according to official figures. Advocates say it’s worth it. They envision 300 “living-wage” jobs at a 6.5-acre site that is now a fenced-in eyesore at a busy intersection in South Central Los Angeles.
“What the community is going to get here is a wonderful reuse of an industrial site,” said Jenny Scanlin, project manager for the Community Redevelopment Agency.

The agency seized the affected parcels through eminent domain from the former owners, including Kramer Metals, a family-run scrap-metal recycling business that has long been a fixture in the industrial zone.

This is not a long article, and I urge you to read it at …

http://reason.com/blog/2010/09/07/los-angeles-leading-the-nation

I’m always tempted to say, unbelievable. Tempted till I give it a seconds thought.  Very believable.
Well, here’s something in the same vain but different.

Are there “QUANGOS” in the USA?  Or maybe the same thing but a different name.
How’s this for a job.  Two days a week BMEWS. As in, 2. A week.  Some put in as many as three days a week. Poor dears.

And get paid £130,000. As in, one hundred thirty thousand pounds which in USA dollars comes out to one hell of a lot of money. You think that’s a lot?  Yeah.  Well one lefty lady gets £140,000. Pocket money guys.  Another quangocrat gets £200,000. Yikes.  Two hundred thousand ….  In a country where the present govt. says some services must be cut, money must be saved somehow as this country has financial problem that need fixing.

The govt promises at least four are getting the chop. My question is, are they gonna be replaced?  There are ten listed in the article, four are to go we’re told.  We’ll see. But the whole damn quango thing is quicksand that devours only money. Taxpayer money.  And these quangos were put in place by the former left leaning Labour govt. But it would not surprise me to hear from our LyndonB, that the cons have had their hands greased in the past in the same way.
Here. Take a gander at this.  Unbelievable?  Nope.

Go to the link and enlarge the photos you see and read about these people and what they are soaking the public for. And oh yes I forgot to mention it.  Some of them have no real workplace experience.
One of these bloodsuckers was appointed head of the regulatory body for aviation and declared she knew nothing about aeroplanes. Hey, I’m reminded of the song, “Nice Job If You Can Get It”

Bonfire of the quangocrats: Four more public sector chieftains facing the chop

By Steve Doughty

Four more public sector chieftains face the axe following the decision to sack ‘incompetent’ quango queen Jenny Watson, Whitehall sources said yesterday.

They include a former Labour cabinet minister as well as the head of an agency devoted to squeezing more money out of council tax payers.

Miss Watson was first on the hit list. The ‘modern militant’ angered ministers when, as chief of the Electoral Commission, she blamed others for the election night polling fiasco that saw hundreds deprived of the chance to vote.

‘She is not fit for the role. The Audit Commission has lost its way and the last thing we need is someone like her on board. She has no previous experience outside the public sector.

‘We have had a bonfire of the quangos; now we are having a bonfire of the quangocrats.’

Officials have also been criticised for taking expensive trips abroad to discuss tax with foreign counterparts.

Now let’s take the axe to this smug lot...

He may not have film star looks, but Eric Pickles, the rotund Communities Secretary, is painting himself as a hero of the Coalition.

The straight-talking Yorkshireman’s decision to dismiss Left-wing quango queen Jenny Watson from the Audit Commission is a welcome salvo against these unelected and scandalously wasteful bodies.

Here’s a tiny example, at the link you will read way more. And you should if for no other reason then your entertainment if you live outside the UK.
For the folks here, ain’t nothin’ funny about any of this.
See this goofy looking guy?

This is Sir Clive Booth.

He only gets £38,000 a year. Small pots compared to many.  One of his claims to fame, well, He took over the lottery fund in 2004 after his predecessor was removed following disclosure that money from the fund was going to failed asylum seekers and for breeding guinea pigs.
Under his reign, among other things, millions go to encouraging policemen to play football with asylum seekers and to train judges in Siberia to compensate battered women.  Honest, I am in favor of helping those unfortunate women. But look, this is Brit money and aren’t there any battered women here as well as kids, that could use that money? 

So take a peek at the link. I HAVE got to get outta here, it’s 9:25pm and I’m not too sure I even know what I’m about anymore. Tired for sure.
All the photos of 10 of these folks can be enlarged and you will be able to read the unbelievable yourselves.

QUANGO PHOTOS AND TEXT

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   Wednesday - September 08, 2010

burning the koran might not actually be the best idea, but not for pc reasons …

The American church, if you want to call it that, has I am to understand, only 50 members. Is that a church or a cult?
Whatever, I see no point to burning the koran.  Whats it do for our side?  Naturally, half the world will see it as an American thing and blow it out of all proportion.
Then the president will have to go on TV and apologize.

The only reason I’d be for it to be truthful, would be to get up the noses and annoy the folks who don’t like us anyway and won’t no matter what we do.
Downside of course is that it just gives our enemies grist for their mill.  Not so sure I like that idea.
How do you feel about it?

Vatican condemns Koran burning

Irish Times

The Vatican added to world condemnation of plans by a Florida church to commemorate the September 11th attacks on the United States by burning a Koran, calling it an “outrageous” act.

The Vatican added to world condemnation of plans by a Florida church to commemorate the September 11th attacks on the United States by burning a Koran, calling it an “outrageous” act.

Leaders ranging from US secretary of state Hillary Clinton to the head of the Islamic Society of North America and the top US commander in Afghanistan have denounced plans by the pastor of a tiny Florida church to burn a copy of the Koran.

In a statement today the Vatican said it had heard with great concern of the planned commemoration of the attacks in 2001 which killed 2,752 people.

“These deplorable acts of violence, in fact, cannot be counteracted by an outrageous and grave gesture against a book considered sacred by a religious community,” it said.

“Each religion, with its respective sacred books, places of worship and symbols, has the right to respect and protection.”

Pastor Terry Jones, who heads a congregation of 50 at the Dove World Outreach Centre in Gainesville, Florida, says he scheduled the Koran-burning on the anniversary of the 2001 atrocities to stop what he sees as the encroachment of Sharia in the US and because “we must send a clear message to the radical element of Islam. We will no longer be controlled and dominated by their fears and threats.”

The Obama’s administration made clear that it deplored the planned event, which State Department spokesman P.J. Crowley described as “un-American.”

“I am heartened by the clear and unequivocal condemnation of this disrespectful, disgraceful act that has come from American religious leaders of all faiths,” US secretary of state Hillary Clinton told American Muslims at the State Department last night as she hosted an Iftar, the meal at which Muslims break their daily fast during the month of Ramadan.

US attorney general Eric Holder reportedly called the planned Florida event “idiotic” during a closed-door meeting with a small group of religious leaders.

General David Petraeus, the head of US and Nato forces in Afghanistan, said the burning could “endanger troops and it could endanger the overall effort” to stabilise the Afghan situation.

“It is precisely the kind of action the Taliban uses and could cause significant problems, not just here, but everywhere in the world we are engaged with the Islamic community,” Gen Petraeus said.

I kinda think I’d want to pay more attention to the general. He’s in a position to know what he’s talking about.

MORE AT THE IRISH TIMES

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folks who just do not understand the tea party …

If you follow the link to her editorial and scroll down, there are tons of comments from both Brits and Americans.  And there is let us be honest please, quite a bit of race involved among many people who just can not abide a president of color. A Negro. 
As Drew once pointed out some time ago.  And I agree btw, it shouldn’t matter and it doesn’t to many, if a person is a Martian and green. What he says and what he does count. And for me personally, no matter what color, if he or she is one the left I am automatically against them.  I don’t like the left, I can hardly tolerate liberals and in fact, I can’t tolerate them.  But I do honestly think that our critics have some basis in truth for once.  There are an awful lot of plain old fashioned racists who have found a legitimate cover to hide behind in the TP.  I think it’s wrong to try and hide that.  On the other hand, there’s lots of folks who don’t hate anyone but just naturally prefer to hang out with other folks just like themselves.  And they are tagged as racists, unfairly I think. 

With regard to the BBC and radio which is often what I listen to, it isn’t so much that their on air ppl say or pontificate about the TP.  No. But what I often hear are interviews with Americans who are mostly on the left side of things.  Not so much screaming Marxist activists.  But rather soft spoken and well speaking Americans who, when they are not hinting at race and the TP, still manage to paint a pretty racist picture of the USA.  Some smart asses on the left who are on panel shows almost always find a way to say something not altogether kind about my country and of course, they are still blaming Bush for the state of the world. And still mentioning how inarticulate he appeared. One even suggested he’d never read a book.

And that’s how things are.

Janet Daley was born in America where she began her political life on the Left as an undergraduate at Berkeley. She moved to Britain (and to the Right) in 1965 where she spent nearly twenty years in academic life before becoming a political commentator: all factors that inform her writing on British and American policy and politicians.

The BBC completely fails to understand the Tea Party movement

By Janet Daley

With the smug incomprehension in which it takes so much pride (can’t understand – won’t understand!), the BBC sets about the American Tea Party Movement as if it were a cross between the Klu Klux Klan and the German neo-fascist brigade. Not once in all the demonic depictions I have seen and heard (last week’s Newsnight package was particularly outrageous) have I heard a mention of what the TPM is actually about: taxation. (Note to BBC editors: the movement is named after the Boston Tea Party because it is protesting about the imposition of higher federal taxes and over-weening controls on citizens who believe their voices have been ignored.)

The British generally and the BBC in particular have a real problem understanding the obsessive suspicion in which the power of central government is held in the US. This is not some funny redneck eccentricity: it is fundamental to the Constitution which gives individual states much greater sovereignty than the countries of the European Union enjoy.

The states have independent judicial systems (some states have capital punishment, others do not) and separate taxation systems (some have sales taxes, others do not). Only a Supreme Court ruling can over-turn state law by, for example, declaring something (such as abortion) to be a legal right which a state legislature may not deny.

Traditionally there is only one nationally imposed tax - federal income tax – which is designed to pay for those functions that must be carried out by national government. Resistance to the Obama healthcare reforms is as passionate as it is precisely because it imposes a federal requirement to purchase health insurance which seems to contravene the basic economic freedom guaranteed by the Constitution.

The BBC obviously finds it impossible to believe that ordinary people could actually take issues like this seriously. (They can only be racists or hillibilly know-nothings.) The Corporation really ought to encourage its correspondents to get out more and talk to some of the articulate Americans who don’t spend their lives in liberal salons.

SOURCE AND COMMENTS

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   Monday - August 30, 2010

RAY STEVENS ON IMMIGRATION ….

H/T OldCatMan

OCM gave us the link and this is well worth posting here.  Always liked Ray Stevens ....  The music alone takes me back to my Nashville years.  Miss that but not the climate.

Enjoy folks ....

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   Sunday - August 22, 2010

Just a Common Soldier

My old high school buddy flapjawman sends me stuff constantly. I’m still about 100 emails behind. He sent this poem a couple of days ago, complete with apology:

(sorry, no reference, someone emailed it to me)

I’ve chewed him out several times for sending me stuff w/o references or links.

Here’s the poem as sent:

He was getting old and paunchy
And his hair was falling fast,
And he sat around the Legion,
Telling stories of the past.

Of a war that he once fought in
And the deeds that he had done,
In his exploits with his buddies;
They were heroes, every one.

And ‘tho sometimes to his neighbors
His tales became a joke,
All his buddies listened quietly
For they knew where of he spoke.

But we’ll hear his tales no longer,
For ol’ Bob has passed away,
And the world’s a little poorer
For a Soldier died today.

He won’t be mourned by many,
Just his children and his wife.
For he lived an ordinary,
Very quiet sort of life.

He held a job and raised a family,
Going quietly on his way;
And the world won’t note his passing,
‘Tho a Soldier died today.

When politicians leave this earth,
Their bodies lie in state,
While thousands note their passing,
And proclaim that they were great.

Papers tell of their life stories
From the time that they were young
But the passing of a Soldier
Goes unnoticed, and unsung.

Is the greatest contribution
To the welfare of our land,
Some jerk who breaks his promise
And cons his fellow man?

Or the ordinary fellow
Who in times of war and strife,
Goes off to serve his country
And offers up his life?

The politician’s stipend
And the style in which he lives,
Are often disproportionate,
To the service that he gives.

While the ordinary Soldier,
Who offered up his all,
Is paid off with a medal
And perhaps a pension, small.

It is not the politicians
With their compromise and ploys,
Who won for us the freedom
That our country now enjoys.

Should you find yourself in danger,
With your enemies at hand,
Would you really want some cop-out,
With his ever waffling stand?

Or would you want a Soldier--
His home, his country, his kin,
Just a common Soldier,
Who would fight until the end.

He was just a common Soldier,
And his ranks are growing thin,
But his presence should remind us
We may need his like again.

For when countries are in conflict,
We find the Soldier’s part
Is to clean up all the troubles
That the politicians start.

If we cannot do him honor
While he’s here to hear the praise,
Then at least let’s give him homage
At the ending of his days.

Perhaps just a simple headline
In the paper that might say:
“OUR COUNTRY IS IN MOURNING,
A SOLDIER DIED TODAY.”

Now, I did find a source for this. I ‘binged’ the first verse. (I use Bing instead of Google these days.) Bing returned the following hit:

Just a Common Soldier

© 1985 A. Lawrence Vaincourt

A. Lawrence Vaincourt (WW II Air Force veteran) wrote this poem in 1985 for his newspaper column and it was reprinted in his 1991 book RHYMES AND REFLECTIONS (available from its publisher at http://www.dialogue.ca).  For information regarding reprints or to contact Larry, please e-mail vaincourt@canada.com.

Veteran’s Day will be coming soon. This would be perfect for recitation at any Veteran’s Day event.

I’m also hoping that Mr. Vaincourt won’t be too upset. After all, I did some research and found the proper person to credit. This is apparently making the email rounds sans credit.

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   Tuesday - August 17, 2010

a toon from the telegraph’s comment page ….

Saw this today, have nothing to add. Something to ponder.

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Re-discovered. A treasure trove of JAZZ.

OK, this short posting is for anyone else out there who is as wowed and fanatically tied to early Jazz as I am. I can never get enough of this stuff, I know there are others who feel the same.

I got this heads up from a friend stateside.

A treasure trove of 100s of unique and often previously unheard recordings of 1940s jazz musicians such as Benny Goodman, Billy Holiday and Louis Armstrong have found a new home at the National Jazz Museum in Harlem. Recorded from radio broadcasts (often surreptitiously) by William Savory, a broadcast engineer, these recordings were left for decay in a basement and finally resurrected by one of Mr. Savory’s sons. To the jazz aficionado, this is Really Big News ---not unlike finding the Titanic to the treasure hunter. Musicians and jazz lovers alike knew they were “out there somewhere,” but no one knew where and if they would surface. Although releasing the material in any form will be a royalties and licensing nightmare, the mere fact that there are almost 1000 discs which are, for the most part restorable, will be wonderful news for music scholars and jazz lovers everywhere.

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/08/17/arts/music/17jazz.html?_r=1&hp

Yes I know. The N.Y.Times.  Hey, this is what I got and anyway, the page is music and music history and a great find. Be sure and watch the video here too.
I hope they make this available for sale and at my age, I haven’t got forever.

This won’t mean a thing to anyone not a fan of Teddy Wilson, but WOW.  Teddy Wilson on harpsichord was a first for me. It never ever entered my thinking that the BG group would have that instrument.  I know Artie Shaw did with Johnny Guarnieri. Who by the way was a terrific player of Boogie-Woogie. Awful sounding name, great music.

No matter, for Jazz fans this is truly a very major find.

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   Monday - August 16, 2010

OBAMA?  KAPUT?  ALREADY?  We’ll see come elections …

No point in reprinting everything here so ....  Read the whole thing here.

IS OBAMA KAPUT?

I can only hope that liberalism is actually growing weaker.  You sure don’t see that in California, and I’m from a pretty conservative place there. I’ll believe liberalism is weaker when I see those 5th column SOBs like the aclu, the splc, amnasty (sent packing out of our country) and the like lose power and influence. Sadly, I do not see that in the future.  Those bums will remain as they are now. A cancer on the body politic. 

Anyway, this is worth a peek.  Although I suppose it confirms what we’ve all known for awhile. So maybe there isn’t really anything new here.

Off topic ....
Thanks much Christopher for keeping us alive this wkend.  I haven’t been up to much lately. 

Barack Obama has made it clear that he doesn’t believe in American exceptionalism, and has made apologising for his country into an art form.

The stunning decline of Barack Obama:

10 key reasons why the Obama presidency is in meltdown

By Nile Gardiner

The last few weeks have been a nightmare for President Obama, in a summer of discontent in the United States which has deeply unsettled the ruling liberal elites, so much so that even the Left has begun to turn against the White House. While the anti-establishment Tea Party movement has gained significant ground and is now a rising and powerful political force to be reckoned with, many of the president’s own supporters as well as independents are rapidly losing faith in Barack Obama, with open warfare breaking out between the White House and the left-wing of the Democratic Party. While conservatism in America grows stronger by the day, the forces of liberalism are growing increasingly weaker and divided.

I read something interesting re. elections and O. come 2012.  Someone has suggested a good move to save his presidency in 2012, would be to dump Biden and get Hillary to run as VP. Say whatever we will about both, but that would make one interesting ticket. And a scary one too cos ya know, it just could work.
Never discount anything as not possible.  Hey ... the sky could actually damn well fall. Just cos it hasn’t yet doesn’t mean ....

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   Saturday - August 14, 2010

AT GROUND ZERO …. IS THIS A CASE OF A MOSQUE WHOSE TIME HAS COME?

In a free country, I believe folks have a god given right to be stupid without being arrested for it.  Unless that is, their stupidity causes harm or danger to others.
Being being just plain silly is another right everyone has.  And I suppose being insensitive to others should not be thought of as a crime. 
Now then ... Brit papers have been covering the angst and anger with regard to a muslim center along with an attached mosque, or perhaps it’s just a room in a building, to be built near ground zero in N.Y.

I think if muslims own the property, and they apparently do, they have a right to do whatever the heck they want to do with property they paid for. They have that right in law.  But it’s quite insensitive and inconsiderate to go ahead with that project.  The idea of a muslim anything in or within miles of ground zero, I find intolerable.  But they have the right.  If they have the brains god gave a tennis ball, they would realize how Americans might feel about their plans to build a mosque there.  So the right to be stupid also comes into play here. 

I’ve heard any number of ppl say that on 9/11, there were muslims who also were killed but who go ignored.  In fact, there were quite a large number of them killed that day.  There were even some who were members of fire and police depts and deaths among them too.  I acknowledge that and btw, some were actually Americans but members of the ROP.  We can not hold that against them.  BUT ....  Somehow deep inside I still do not approve of people exercising their right to be insensitive in this particular case.

Sometimes, some things are beyond the pale.  Sometimes, people should not be allowed to exercise a right in so sensitive an area.  Or a right to do stupid things.
Someone didn’t think this one through.

Or, Maybe they did.

Barack Obama’s Ground Zero mosque plea will cost him and the Democrats votes

President Barack Obama’s intervention in the row over the Ground Zero mosque plan will cost the Democrats votes, argues William Lowther in Washington

by William Lowther in Washington

By charging headlong into the ferocious controversy over the plan to build a mosque near Ground Zero, President Barack Obama may have further damaged Democratic Party prospects in the upcoming mid-term elections.

For while his return to the soaring rhetoric that won him the White House in the first place will be popular with hard-core liberal supporters, it is unlikely to capture the hearts of middle-America this year.

According to the NBC News-Wall Street Journal poll, 52 per cent of Americans disapprove of Mr Obama’s handling of the economy; 45 per cent disapprove of his handling of the Afghanistan war; 40 per cent say the country is worse off since he became president.

Mr Obama has lost the political high ground and on the mosque issue - where emotions are far more likely than logic to win the argument - his stand will not go down well at the voting booths in November.

THE MOSQUE AT GROUND ZERO

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   Monday - August 09, 2010

A view of America thru the eyes of an ass**** and spoken thru the same orifice.

I don’t know why, how we handle things in our country (USA), should be the business or concern of flippin foreigners. 

Cardinal ka-ka Keith O’(Ofal) (pardonem all) Brien , the highest ranking Catholic in Britain, does not like how the USA runs itself and especially doesn’t like the death penalty.  The article does not say whether or not the most rev. card. likes little boys, but I’ll give him the benefit of the doubt. 

The cardinal is especially upset this time, and I mean he’s really on a roll, over American anger with regard to the release of the Lockerbie bomber last year.
This would be that murderous bastard who brought down Pan Am, the airline and the victims, and killed a number of ppl on the ground. Cardinal Ofal says America has a vengeful attitude towards the killer.

Some of you may have followed the story and know that he was given three months to live due to cancer, and the Scottish govt. allowed him freedom to die in his home country as a compassionate gesture.  Cardinal O’ Fal believes that was a nice thing to do, never mind that all those dead folks lost their future and received no compassion then, or apparently now. And the bomber is still alive btw.  So Americans are pissed off and rightly so I believe. Most especially pissed of course are the families. 

The holy man (the holes are in his head) says ...

“revenge is not a path we should take”.

“In Scotland over many years we have cultivated through our justice system what I hope can be described as a ‘culture of compassion’.

Sure.  And you can be certain the bad guys know that and will use it every chance they get. And why shouldn’t they?

Here’s more from Cardinal O’fal Brien.

“It is in these moments of grief and despair that we must show the world that the standards of the murderer and his disdain for human life are not our standards.

Up yours goofball.  The would be bombers and killers of this world will not be impressed, and there is no reason including “humanity” that certain life forms should be thought to be human and deserving of anything. Including life. Ppl who blow up planes or attempt to do so, forfeit any of the religious mumbo-jumbo spewed by the likes of Cardinal Ofal.

Here’s some more wisdom from the shit eating wonder of the western world.

The state of Ohio now takes the lives of so many prisoners that its “execution team” has to be given time off after each one to recuperate.

Some states operate a “virtual conveyor belt” of executions.

1,221 people have been executed in the US since 1976, putting “the world’s leading democracy” in the “invidious company” of Saudi Arabia, Iraq, Iran and China.

The article that set me off is HERE

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   Wednesday - August 04, 2010

The Perpetuation of Stupid

from Politico, but posted everywhere else as a news item:

Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) on Tuesday night argued that the 14th Amendment no longer serves the purpose it was designed to address and that Congress should reexamine granting citizenship to any child born in the United States.

The 14th Amendment was passed following the Civil War out of fear that southern states would try to find a way to deny citizenship to freed slaves.

Pointing to that history, Graham said during an interview with Fox News’s Greta Van Susteren that birthright citizenship should not be applied to babies born in the United States to parents who are illegal immigrants.

“I’m looking at the laws that exist and see if it makes sense today,” Graham said. “Birthright citizenship doesn’t make so much sense when you understand the world as it is.”

“You’ve got the other problem, where thousands of people are coming across the Arizona/Texas border for the express purpose of having a child in an American hospital so that child will become an American citizen, and they broke the law to get there,” he said. “We ought to have a logical discussion. Is this the way to award American citizenship, sell it to somebody who’s rich, reward somebody who breaks the law? I think we need to look at it really closely.”

To further justify having that “discussion,” Graham also pointed to tourists who, he says, come to the United States on 90-day visa during the later stage of pregnancy in order to give birth to a child with U.S. citizenship.

“You come to a resort, you have your child at a hospital within the resort [and] that child is an American citizen,” Graham said. “That, to me, cheapens American citizenship. That’s not the way I would like it to be awarded.”

Republican Senate leader Mitch McConnell has called for “taking a look” at changing the 14th Amendment as well.

The line in question in the amendment reads: “All persons born or naturalized in the United States and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States …”

70 or more people commented on the post at Politico, and NOT ONE saw any error in Graham’s “understanding” of the 14th. Fox News’ Megyn Kelly, bless her blond roots, said that the 14th does give citizenship to anyone born here, then the camera went to Rosen out in DC who instantly parroted that remark.

I surrender. My nation has drowned in stupid.



Hey Graham, you dumb cracker: READ THE GOD DAMNED AMENDMENT:

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.

Didn’t I just post on this two weeks ago? Why, yes I did. I guess “reading comprehension” must be subject to majority rule that the plain and simple words that I read in the first section of the 14th DO NOT MEAN WHAT THEY SAY, and that millions and millions of people have turned the meaning INSIDE OUT because they only repeat what they are told, understand things the way they want to, are just plain lazy and/or stupid, or at least have never spent one whole minute making the smallest of efforts to try and think and understand what the Constitution ACTUALLY SAYS.

So, I’ll post it again.

It sucks being alone sometimes though.

Oh, and Bob Menendez? What’s he got to do with this? He was asked to comment on Graham’s statement. He said that if we stopped giving citizenship to all the children of foreigners born here, then this would result in millions of children having no citizenship in any nation at all.

Horry clap.               

UPDATE:
Hey, Ann Coulter agrees with me! She even traces it all back to 1982. Michael Zak writes me that there will be an article up at Grand Old Partisan tomorrow. So I am not alone. But I still fear we [the VRWC] are a choir standing in a circle, singing to ourselves. Isn’t anyone else listening?

Posted by Drew458     on 08/04/2010 at 01:21 PM   
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The weather has pretty much matched my mood today …

Pardon me but I’m just a bit pissed off today.  Sometimes things get to me and I have this problem shakin-em-off.  That ever happen to you?
Take a look at the headlines, which isn’t what got me going early today.  Not at all. Well almost not at all.

I went with the wife on her weekly grocery hunt as she needed some help today, and frankly I needed to get out and off the old duff for a couple hours.
I went to the magazine rack for a computer magazine, and went to the check out while my wife surfed the isles of the market.  I had in mind to read the magazine in the store’s coffee shop for a few minutes and then rejoin her.  So I mentioned to the cashier that I’d be walking around the store with the mag in my hand and needed the receipt so nobody would think I was lifting it.
And the bastard says, and you just fuckin well know when someone isn’t joking.

“Oh don’t worry about that. We don’t shoot people who don’t have a receipt in this country.” Really?  Like we do you mean? “ Well, seems so.” You’ve been reading the wrong comic books. Jerk!

OK, small thing I guess. Not a lot to get too worked up over I guess.  Well, sorry. I can’t really help how I feel about some things. It’s the old euro attitude with regard to those mad Americans and their guns.  Never mind that most Americans really do not own guns.  I’ll bet the majority don’t. But this isn’t about if we do or don’t.  It’s about attitudes held and passed on by asswipes like they have some kind of special knowledge about us, when they in fact know next to nothing at all.  Cept what they read in the left wing press. 

* A-ONE-MAN CRIME WAVE who burgled almost 700 homes was finally jailed for five years today after a judge who previously gave him ‘one more chance’ finally saw sense.

* The 100,000 under-24s living on state benefits because they claim they’re too ill to work
SOME ARE GETTING HANDOUTS because they are obese, get headaches, indigestion or blisters, employment minister Chris Grayling claimed.

* Baby thrown in front of double-decker bus by teenage girl thug during attack on family
A seven-month old baby was thrown into the path of a double-decker bus by a teenage girl after he was ripped from the arms of his terrified sister.

* Drunk yob torched £1m thatched cottage with pensioner couple inside then boasted: ‘This will get on the news’

* Convicted of 14 counts of downloading indecent images of children, but the judge insisted prison would be an ‘appalling’ experience for the transsexual. So no jail time as would be the case with other criminals in this category.  In fact, this is the 2nd case of a transsexual avoiding jail due to … ah …. which jail? Male? Female?

* Thousands of illegal immigrants escape deportation because police fear being called racist.
Police fear asking questions about their nationality because they will be hung out to dry by politically correct regulations.

* TV executive who killed wife after row over ‘burned roast beef’ locked up for 18 months… but he’ll be out by Christmas
He then fled the scene before launching a foul-mouthed tirade at police officers trying to arrest him, telling them: ‘My wife is dead. I may have killed her. Do you really think I give a flying ****?’
But yesterday, a judge praised Wicks for leading a ‘respectable and successful’ life and described the fateful argument as a ‘tiff’ as he handed down sentence.
Jonathan Wicks, 48, hit his petite wife Sarah, 49, so hard he ruptured an artery

These articles and more can all be read at > http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/index.html
And they only scratch the surface.  But all of this is still NOT what the average Brit is all about.  But it is what the average Brit is forced to face in the overly liberal/pc world the left has left them with.  It’s what they have to endure unless the new govt. can turn things around over the next few years.
Frankly, I am not hopeful.  But I’m still pissed.

Posted by peiper     on 08/04/2010 at 11:03 AM   
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   Tuesday - March 30, 2010

IF THEY’RE THE MOST HATED FAMILY IN THE USA, THEN WHY ARE THEY ALL STILL BREATHING?

Far as I’m concerned, this filthy,vile verminous slimeball with the big mouth has shouted FIRE in a crowded theater.  I don’t understand a law that says what this miserable bastard turd and his family do, are merely practicing free speech and expression. NO THEY ARE NOT!  They all know god-damn well what they are doing.  Intentionally causing more grief and more stress to a family already hurting beyond measure.  I’d even go so far as to say I don’t believe they are really Christians nor do I think they actually believe what they are doing has religious reason behind it.  Religion is their shield. No more then that.  But never mind.  The burning question is, when oh damn when is some stand up patriot or group of patriots, gonna silence this nest of vipers once and for all?  When?  Why is it taking so damn long? Wouldn’t you just love to ram a shotgun into this open mouth? 

(I don’t know what the rate of exchange is but roughly you can figure just under $22,000 USA )

Father of US Marine killed in Iraq is ordered to pay £11,000 to protesters who held up ‘Thank God for dead soldiers’ sign at son’s funeral

By Paul Thompson
Last updated at 6:27 PM on 30th March 2010

The father of a U.S. Marine killed in Iraq has been ordered to pay £11,000 to anti-gay protesters who picketed his son’s funeral.

Albert Snyder had launched legal action against the religious group led by preacher Fred Phelps after they disrupted the service and held up signs reading ‘God Hates F**s’ and ‘Thank God for dead soldiers’.

The funeral of Marine Lance Corporal Snyder, 20, who died in Iraq in March 2006, was one of many picketed by the group.

Mr Synder was so outraged by the disruption that he filed a lawsuit against Phelps in an attempt to bankrupt him.

He said he wanted no other family to suffer the indignity of having a funeral ruined by their antics.

Phelps and members of the Kansas based Wesboro Baptist Church are known as the ‘most hated family in America’ for their extreme beliefs.

They regularly demonstrate at military funerals, carrying inflammatory signs to draw attention to their anti-gay message.

The religious group protest at the funerals of soldiers, regardless of the sexuality of the deceased military personnel, and use the events to bring publicity to their campaign.

MORE ON THE TURD FAMILY

Posted by peiper     on 03/30/2010 at 03:12 PM   
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   Monday - March 29, 2010

One little sign and twelve words that say it all.  And does so very well.

H/T RichK

I was sent this a few days ago and was looking for a story to fit it. They are out there in plenty lord knows. However, I still was not able to fit it to any article I had. But that shouldn’t matter anyway. Should it?  This little sign says everything, and what it says is so true that I felt it could stand all by itself as a post.

Posted by peiper     on 03/29/2010 at 06:17 AM   
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