Wednesday, June 30, 2004
Why isn't it illegal to break the law?
A new man is in charge of border relations for Mexico and he has some radical ideas for change at the border with the United States. Arturo Gonzalez Cruz, a 52-year-old Tijuana businessman, says many improvements are needed at the border to benefit trade, including creating more lanes and adding border crossings. Ultimately, Cruz says flat out, he wants to see the border disappear.
So that they can more easily send us their tired, their poor, their huddled masses yearning for free medical.
Mexico has agreed to take part in a program beginning July 12 that will provide free flights home for illegal Mexican immigrants arrested in the Arizona desert, U.S. officials said Tuesday.
Officials hope the program will both reduce deaths in the Southwestern desert and the attempts by illegal immigrants to enter the United States. ...Asa Hutchinson, the Homeland Security Department's undersecretary for border and transportation security, said the program would save lives "by safely returning Mexican nationals to their homes, away from the dangers of the Arizona-Sonora desert where smugglers and the harsh summer climate contribute to the deaths and injuries of illegal border crossers."
Asa, please. Think! Are the planes gonna land in the Sonora Desert and pick these people up??? These people don't die in the desert on the way back! They die in the desert [in the "care" of coyote] on the way here! On those occasions when they are caught, they are not forced to wander back across the Sonora Desert to the border. [...and that is not the origin of the phrase, "Run for the border."] So hows about you not make me pay for their plane tickets home? Howz about a nice Greyhound, at least? Bettah yet, howz about we make the Mexican government come get 'em? That might encourage some border controls on their side of the Rio Grande.
William Strassberger, Homeland Security Department spokesman, said the program's estimated cost is $12 million to $13 million, which will be paid by
the United States.you and me.
Their penalty for breaking the law of the US is that I get to pay for a "charter airplane" flight back. [do they stack people up 'til the plane is full, or it it one at at time?]
[Strassberger] said many immigrants will want to return home because of the harshness of their journey and exposure to the desert. "Many of them have spent several days crossing a desert with blast furnace temperatures, struggling to get through,"
Don't give me that "dumb brown people" bull-caca. These people have a pretty good idea what they're in for [they know what a desert is, even though they're Mexicans] and they're making the choice to come here on purpose. I doubt, given a choice, they would want to return home after having finally made it through. [it'd sure piss me off] At least not before they've accomplished their goal.
Mexico's Interior Ministry called the program "part of the humanitarian efforts by Mexico and the United States to aid and protect migrants who traverse high-risk zones, to prevent deaths and avoid abuses by migrant traffickers." The program includes "full respect for the human rights" of migrants, ...
You're so interested in "humanitarian efforts," pal, you pay for it. Otherwise you're interfering with my "humanitarian rights" not to be invaded by law-breakers, then hafta pay for it. And howz about y'all initiate some penalties for those "traffickers in humanity" right there in Mexico, eh?
The lateral repatriation program last year moved 6,000 Mexicans from Arizona to the Texas border cities. ...Mayors of the cities on the Mexican side complained that the migrants were dumped, often without money for food or a bus ticket home.
...just like they came across the border to US. Mexican mayors don't like it. I don't see them taxing the citizens of their cities to pay for these people's tickets home. But we're expected to be just fiiiiine with these people arriving in the US "without money for food or a bus ticket" to anywhere.
—Mexicans will be returned home in a safe, humane and dignified manner. Homeland Security officers will not handcuff or restrain Mexicans unless warranted in individual cases. Those charged with a crime, excluding illegal entry, are ineligible.
Cuz "illegal entry" is clearly not a crime anymore... Unless I tried to sneak into Mexico...
—The program is only available to Mexicans. —Migrants who tell immigration officials they want to be returned to Mexico will be referred to the Mexican consul. Mexico plans to increase its consul staff in Arizona. —The Mexican consul will interview the migrants and confirm they have asked to be returned to Mexico's interior. —Those who decline will be deported by way of a port of entry on the U.S.-Mexican border.
So the only possible benefit I could have derived from my [ok, our] $12 million bucks is having them taken far, far into Mexico where it will be difficult for them to return. But if they don't want to go there, we'll just drop 'em off right near the crossing where they'll give it another shot tomorrow night. And since most of these people aren't necessarily the bon vivant, high society folk from the big cities, but people from hard-scrabble mountain and desert small towns where records are hare to access and not kept as well, howindahell are the "authorities" gonna be certain that they even *are* Mexican citizens. A native speaker of Arabic can learn Spanish as easily as English... Seriously; as sorry as one can feel for some of these folks -- the honest, hard-working people just trying to get some bucks for the huge, starving family back home -- how is this situation fair? I've hired them, I've had them to dinner, I even baked a birthday cake once. The decent men are damn decent. The skeezy ones scare even the decent men -- and they're no "pussified males." It's a rough life and these are pretty tough fellas. There are some seriously hard customers and quite a few outright head cases among the illegals. But how is it right when someone trespasses against us/US that we are then supposed to pay for it? When it comes to human dignity, you gotta give as good as you want to get. signed, Tired of Being the World's Patsy . So taking all this into consideration, there must be something I am missing. Why is our government ignoring its own laws in this area? There must be a reason -- a payoff for this behavior, this choice. What *is* it??? . ADDENDUM: McCain panders to La Raza [remember? For the people, everything; for those not of the people nothing" "We must remember the horrible things those gringos have done to us!" yeah. that La Raza [aka, "The Race"]
"Lead us, Hillary, for we are blind!"
"Many of you are well enough off that ... the tax cuts may have helped you," Sen. Clinton said. "We're saying that for America to get back on track, we're probably going to cut that short and not give it to you. We're going to take things away from you on behalf of the common good." [emph mine -C]
Ah, Hillary, Hillary, Hillary . . . How stupid you think know we are. I can't imagine how awful it would be to walk around the world "knowing" in your heart of hearts that each and every person you see is too gol-dang stoo-pud to walk and chew gum, much less make his own life choices. Not to even mention having a casual conversation with You, dear blonde Hillary. It must be so heart-wrenchingly lonely . . .
And isn't it amazing -- a miracle of nature, really -- that these self-same people manage to create all this wealth that you plan to take from them at the point of a gun and give to people who cannot/will not create their own. "For their own good," of course?
What a burden You bear, worse even than the Briton's "White Man's Burden" of the late 19th century, when all people around you must be cared for like the foolish, naive children they are. It's not just the "little brown people" anymore!
What a difficult and torturous job You have chosen to do, and we just thank our lucky stars that You are there, giving "strong, independent women" a scary good reputation, and showing us forcing us onto the right way -- Your way.
Tuesday, June 29, 2004
Continuing to Spread the Big Lie
I saw Terry McAuliffe, chair of the DNC, on the Daily Show, Monday evening. Even Jon Stewart, the mugging chimp, had trouble with the "official cheerleader of the DemoParty," as McAuliffe calls himself. You could see Jon wanted him to cut it the hell out and get real... Day-uhm -- this fella could earn a joint-beating from Pollyanna and Mary Poppins. He repeated the Big Lie about the "bad economy" and the US being "down 3,000,000 jobs. He just slid it in in his final words "cheer," sorta under-the-radar like. As Bastardsword demonstrates, that is an error in perception of5,886,000 jobs
as we have actually gained 2,886,000 jobs during the Bush Administration. I'm just sayin' . . .
War Profiteer Michael Moore
I'm starting a new google-bomb, wanna help? It's certainly more on-target than "fat, lying bastard," doncha think?
FilmmakerWar Profiteer Michael Moore said Friday he wasn't sure he did the right thing by saving footage of U.S. American soldiers' cruelty toward Iraqis for his controversial documentary, "Fahrenheit 9/11,'' instead of releasing the evidence earlier when it might have helped halt such abuse. "I had it months before the story broke on '60 Minutes,' and I really struggled with what to do with it,'' Moore said in a telephone interview with The Chronicle. "I wanted to come out with it sooner, but I thought I'd be accused of just putting this out for publicity for my movie ."
"So I decided to just keep the footage for my movie and make a million more bucks. Fuck them little brown people, and fuck them GIs, too. I'm really rich!!" continued war profiteer Michael Moore. "hu hu hu hu snort hu hu hu" This article pointed out by SondraK -- ThanQ!
Halp?!?
My side column suddenly repositioned itself on the bottom, yesterday. I've changed nothing on any of my templates for months! Any ideas on what happened? And how to fix it?!?Monday, June 28, 2004
Condolences and Rage -- again
They did it again:
BAGHDAD - Iraqi
militantssavage, ruthless terrorists have killed another hostage, U.S. marine Keith Maupin, according to Arab satellite channel Al-Jazeera. [correction mine -C]
"Yer doin' fine, Ed!"
Ed Koch weighs in on F911Disagreeing with America’s foreign policy and seeking to change it, responsibly or irresponsibly, is a fundamental right protected by the First Amendment. Shaming those who do it irresponsibly is our only lawful recourse and rightly so. The most significant offense that movie commits is to cheapen the political debate by dehumanizing the President and presenting him as a cartoon. The movie’s diatribes, sometimes amusing and sometimes manifestly unfair, will not change any views. They will simply cheapen the national debate and reinforce the opinions on both sides.
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What MMoore is actually saying with F-911 is, "Look at me! I can throw mud! Look at meee!" Nothing deeper than that. The Democratic Party has long demonstrated its contempt for "the little people" whom it purports to "want to help," while advancing policies that make citizens more dependent and less capable, and the country weaker. Unfortunately, the alternative is to assume every individual is worthy of respect and capable of doing valuable work, and that it is up to all of us to work together to keep America strong and good. Hard to feel superior from that perspective. Now parts of the Democratic Party have overlapped with the Me-Mine-MMoore-Now! / MoveOn crowd and are being treated as serious participants in the American political discussion. This is a mistake. To treat the whole BusHitler meme as though it were serious is to validate garbage. To dismiss it as the tripe it is would be to fail to recognize the serious corrosive effect it has on citizens' confidence in the respectability of political discourse. Without the confidence of the citizens, political discourse devolves into the "roobba roobba roobba" noise of a looting mob. The business of citizens running our country does not get done. The country falls into the hands of those with the strongest stomachs and highest tolerance for the irrational, emotion-based approach. Decisions based on irrational, emotion-based appeals to the lowest common denominator are not good decisions. If we ignore the tactics of MMoore and MoveOn, we will have to live with those decisions. If we fail to call them on using these vile techniques in their efforts to arouse the mob rule mentality of the "consumer" we are, in effect, supporting them. The only counter to that approach is the high road. Appeals must be made for the return of the responsible citizen who is busy conducting his own life in a respectable manner and who has stepped back from political discourse out of disgust. The responsible, adult citizen must be encouraged to rejoin the fray or we will be left at the mercy of the omnivorous, media-driven gimmie-whimsey of the consumer. Otherwise we will live in a country run by the decisiveness of Kerry, the compassion of Hillary and the honesty of Teddy. . For more in this vein, Go See . . . Patio Pundit's BushCheney '04 "F"-bombs the Michael Moore Democrats . He calls it for what it is and proceeds to document it nicely.yick.
Here's another creepy site -- with a link-list to a pile of the rest of the creeps: http://www.evilgopbastards.com/ A sample of the treats in store there:"Exposing the ugly truth about the Republican Party's diabolical plot to replace constitutional democracy with an oligarchic fascist theocracy... It's the only rational explanation! "
"rational." Gotcha...
Put Up or Shut Up
I have heard much of late by the Me-Mine-MMoore-Now! whiners about the connection between Move America Forward and the GOP. I have yet to see any documentation, proof or factual indications that there is any connection between the two groups other than having some individual members in common. If there is any demonstrable financial connection, perhaps it ought to be spelled out, documented and made public. If you can not substantiate your claims, kindly STFU -- you are just making yourselves look like silly conspiracy theorists. Go bother Art Bell.Sunday, June 27, 2004
The penny dropeth
Andrea articulates beautifully the reason MMoore gets so many otherwise rational people's panties all a-bunchie:[this] smug, pompous, smarmy, ruin-the-Oscars, grandstanding, knowitall ...This liar, who thinks he can lie about something I have seen and watched on teevee with my own eyes and yes replayed in my head a million times and tell me that I didn’t know what I was seeing, here is he , with his Magickal Cameras of Psychic Power, to tell me “how it really was.” Not only is he lying, he is playing me and everyone else for stupid. Playing me for stupid gets you on my shit list.
Nail. Hammer. *smacko*
Friday, June 25, 2004
uh oh
check me -- I may be slipping a cog... I seem to [eek] agree with MMoore on something. And it ain't the high deliciousness-factor of rare roast beast... check me -- I may be slipping a cog... I seem to [eek] agree with MMoore on something. And it ain't the high deliciousness-factor of rare roast beast...[MMoore] appeared on the CBS Early Show this morning and was asked if he thought his anti-Bush film could be called "propaganda." Moore disagreed. "No. I consider the CBS Evening News propaganda. Why don't we talk about the news on this and the other networks that didn’t do the job they should have done at the beginning of this war, demanded the evidence, asked the hard questions...
From an interesting site called "Rather Biased.com ." Geddit -- it's about Dan Rather and ...
Did I mention . . .
. . . It's like 9,000 degrees out today? I didn't need to? oh.Roo Too Too Too Do Roo Too Too
What is up just south of the Great White North, eh?Terrorists With Minnesote Ties Mohamad Kamal Elzahabi, who came to Minnesota in 2001, ... lying about shipments of communications equipment to Afghanistan / Mohammed Warsame, living in Minneapolis, charged [fighting alongside alQ and eating dinner with ObL] / Zacarias Moussaoui,... arrested in Minnesota after [911], awaits trial on federal conspiracy charges / Abdel-Ilah Elmardoudi,...lived in Minneapolis...convicted of conspiracy to provide material support to [the 911 19]
It's the funnel cakes, right?
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