Who’s really behind amnesty?

I got one of those emails last week.  You know.  The ones that have really inflammatory comments supposedly made by the guy across the aisle politically.  The over-the-top comments that are supposed to ignite a fire and passion in the reader so that he becomes a one-man vigilante, a political crusader. 

Usually, I ignore those emails and when I do choose to read them through, I invariably check the source. This time I read the message and immediately typed www.snopes.com into my web browser’s address bar.  I was surprised to find verification of every single quote in the email. 

The email contained quotes from “Hispanic Leaders” speaking out about immigration and issues involving the growing Mexican immigrant (legal and illegal) community.  Most of the quotes are from the nineties but seem particularly relevant when you consider the current immigration issue.  They reveal a mindset that is extremely radical and disturbing. From the email:

Augustin Cebada, Brown Berets; “Go back to Boston! Go back to Plymouth Rock, Pilgrims! Get out! We are the future. You are old and tired. Go on. We have beaten you. Leave like beaten rats. You old white people. It is your duty to die . . . Through love of having children, we are going to take over.

Richard Alatorre, Los Angeles City Council. “They’re afraid we’re going to take over the governmental institutions and other institutions. They’re right. We will take them over . . . We are here to stay.”

Excelsior, the national newspaper of Mexico, “The American southwest seems to be slowly returning to the jurisdiction of Mexico without firing a single shot.”

Professor Jose Angel Gutierrez, University of Texas; “We have an aging white America. They are not making babies. They are dying. The explosion is in our population . . . I love it. They are shitting in their pants with fear. I love it.”

Art Torres, Chairman of the California Democratic Party, “Remember 187 — proposition to deny taxpayer funds for services to non-citizens — was the last gasp of white America in California.”

Gloria Molina, Los Angeles County Supervisor, “We are politicizing every single one of these new citizens that are becoming citizens of this country … I gotta tell you that a lot of people are saying, “I’m going to go out there and vote because I want to pay them back.”

Mario Obledo, California Coalition of Hispanic Organizations and California State Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare under Governor Jerry Brown, also awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom by President Bill Clinton, “California is going to be a Hispanic state. Anyone who doesn’t like it should leave.”

Jose Pescador Osuna, Mexican Consul General , “We are practicing ‘La Reconquista’ in California.”

Professor Fernando Guerra, Loyola Marymount University; “We need to avoid a white backlash by using codes understood by Latinos …”

Are these just the words of a few extremists? Consider that we could fill up many pages with such quotes. Also, consider that these are mainstream Mexican leaders.

I encourage you to click the link above (Hispanic leaders) and to read the rest of the email, if for nothing more than curiousity’s sake.  As for my take on it, here goes:

I wonder if Sr. Cebada has considered the ramifications of old white men packing up their toys and leaving the playground.  After all, it is the old white men who are funding the FREE education his kids are getting and who are giving housing and benefits to his illegal and legal border crossing compadres. 

I wonder if Sr. Cebada would consider it difficult to make such radical statements in a country where old white men hadn’t written free speech into the most powerful political document ever penned.  I wonder, if those white men hadn’t come with their outlandish ideas about liberty for all,  if Sr. Cebada would live in a country free enough to publicly declare his racist opinions without fear of retribution. 

Old white men have made many mistakes, but as far as I can tell, they did a hell of a lot better job than say, those nicely tanned folks in your homeland.  Oh by the way, how is that country that your own people ran into the ground doing these days?  Rumor has it they are on the verge of electing a die hard communist as the national president.  I guess lining up for toilet paper will make even more of your people flock to old white man’s land. 

Let me make it clear, Sr. Cebada and you other idiotas who are speaking such hate filled non-sense.  I don’t care if you are black, white, or purple.  This land is for people of any color who value freedom and liberty.  It is not an institutional sugar daddy like you seem to think.  And the only people holding Mexican immigrants back are people like you who are determined to make victims out of lawbreakers and hard working law abiding immigrants alike.  You are hurting the people who want a free future.  You are hurting the cause you claim to espouse.  You are the racist bigots who are undermining the cause of those who, but for their own illicit entry into the nation, could be enjoying the liberty and upward socio-economic mobility that my parents achieved for their children in one generation.  You, Sr. Cebada.  You.

And while we’re using racist rhetoric, Sr. Cebada, why don’t we address the racism that exists in latin America where fairer skin is at a premium.  I lived there for years.  Alone, as a non-citizen. Not as a military wife but in my younger pre-wife and mommy days and I know exactly what it is like.  There, where you “populists” condemn anyone darker than a very creamy cup of java.  Don’t come here using colorful talk like that when your apple doesn’t fall far from the same historically racist tree. 

As for the whole idea of reconquista, well, you can’t reconquer something that the idiots in Washington are willingly giving away. 

That’s how I feel, unabridged, uninhibited, uncensored. I still believe that we need some humane and reasonable immigration policy but I also believe we need much stronger enforcement of the laws keeping illegals out.  They must come through the system.  They need to be paying taxes and paid at American wage rates.  They need to be assimilated and welcomed as future Americans not as Mexicans living abroad.  They need the same legitimacy and possibilities that are open to all Americans – that is what drives assimilation and pushes people to move out of the ghettos and barrios and into the suburbs.  And once they have earned their way into the middle class (which usually takes a generation) and are enjoying the American Dream they will be hard pressed to give it up for the likes of Sr. Cebada.  

America – write to your congressmen and senators and lets get some reasonable and humane immigration policies on the books, remove the disincentives to legal entrance, and demand some serious enforcement measures.

 

 

 

New York politics: just another day

A little rated R Democrat on Democrat rumble is happening in Brooklyn.  I’d make more of a comment but hey, what can you say?  It’s New York.

 

Foul-mouth pol

Weiner goes bleepin’ wild

BY ELIZABETH HAYS DAILY NEWS STAFF WRITER

State Sen. Karl Kruger (below), recipient of verbal beatdown from Rep. Anthony Weiner (top). –> –> Anthony Weiner’s mother is probably reaching for the soap right now. In a moment that went far beyond the usual frank dialogue among politicians, the Brooklyn congressman publicly laced into a fellow Democrat – using language that would make a sailor blush. “Do you have a f—— problem with me?” the 2005 mayoral candidate said to state Sen. Carl Kruger at an annual Mill Basin fund-raiser Thursday night, witnesses said. Weiner, thought to be an early mayoral 2009 favorite, also called the Brooklyn senator a “p—y,” witnesses said. “I’m going to give you a bad hair day,” Kruger shot back, apparently vowing revenge. The exchange, which occurred in the lobby of Temple Shalom, was prompted by Weiner’s fierce opposition to acting legend Paul Newman’s proposal to bring Grand Prix-style racing to Brooklyn. “They were screaming at each other. It got very close, chest to chest and nose to nose,” said one shocked observer. Kruger supports Newman’s proposal to bring auto racing to the long-closed Floyd Bennett Field in Gateway National Recreation Area. Weiner has called it “illegal.” But what apparently annoyed Weiner was an earlier incident during an April 21 briefing on the Champ car project by Newman himself. At that briefing at the Brooklyn Marriott, witnesses said Kruger tore into a young Weiner staffer in front of the roomful of honchos after he conveyed Weiner’s objections to the project. “It was totally inappropriate. He was just a kid and Kruger started screaming at him in front of everyone,” said a local pol who was at that meeting. “Weiner was just giving it back to Kruger. If he did it to a member of my staff I wouldn’t have waited a week,” quipped the pol. Weiner acknowledged he blew a fuse at the 41st Assembly District Democratic Club dinner, but stressed that it was over his staffer’s treatment by Kruger. “The conversation I had with Sen. Kruger, I’m sure made it very clear to him that I will not tolerate him abusing my staff,” said Weiner. “I don’t recall using any profanity. However if the language was too salty for some ears I regret that.” Kruger said he was “shocked” by the outburst and said that at the previous meeting he was just trying to send a clear message to Weiner through his staffer. “His temper is a known fact, but to act as he did in a temple in front of a host of community leaders, I thought was very inappropriate.” One attendee at the dinner acknowledged that staffers “had to close the door to the banquet room because the dinner was going on and everybody could hear it.” When Weiner ran for mayor last year, his mother, a retired public schoolteacher, occasionally appeared with him – making headlines once when she publicly corrected her son during an education speech. Political consultant Hank Sheinkopf said he didn’t think the eruption would hurt Weiner’s career – but tangling with Kruger could pose problems. “Weiner is showing he can’t be pushed around and that’s a fine thing, but Kruger … tries to settle all scores behind the scenes,” Sheinkopf said. “That’s the way politics works in that part of Brooklyn.” With Jotham Sederstrom Originally published on April 29, 2006

"The evil of the world is made possible by nothing but the sanction you give it."

Ayn Rand, the Russian born novelist penned those words, and this week in an effort to refuse sanction to the evils of the world, a band of bloggers has dedicated itself to exposing hate-filled terrorist rhetoric.  You could hardly log on to bloghi this week without noticing a post about Dr. Julio C. Pino, apparently known to some as Lover of Angels, and the individual behind the global-war blog.

Tonight’s post is less about Pino and more about us.  Our little band.  We’ve never met except for online encounters and we have no relationship other than a likemindedness when it comes to protecting our nation.  Our views on politics vary wildly on some issues and on others we wholeheartedly agree.  We are ordinary citizens.  With one exception, we are not widely known and wouldn’t even know each other if we met on the street.  In spite of our seeming insignificance and our almost absolute anonymity, we found a common purpose this week in denouncing the online writings of Lover of Angels and demanding that his employer, a public university, be held to account for using our tax dollars to fund his anti-American elocution.

As for myself, I find the most offense in the writings that describe, in vivid detail, the torturous pain and suffering he hopes will be visited upon our troops. But, then, it is the job of an Army wife to worry about her man in uniform.  And I do.  And that is why I ask that you speak out.  Don’t wonder if your voice matters.  Don’t wonder if the ACLU will come to this man’s defense.  Don’t wonder if signing your name to a petition is enough to stem the tide of hate and anti-American sentiment.

Just believe, as we do, that whether or not it is enough, it is right.  And that is all that matters.

Please read the following posts and then consider whether or not your tax dollars should subsidize speech such as this.

Have you forgotten?

Who is Lover of Angels?

 

Tony Snow: Man of the Hour (or hour-long daily press brief)

Okay, I’ll admit it.  I love Tony Snow.  It’s not his opinion, it’s his presentation.  He just comes across as a nice guy.  And he knows it.  He is hoping to bring a return to civil discourse and I applaud him for the noble desire.  I only hope it holds up when confronted with the likes of Helen Thomas and David Gregory. 

From his interview in Examiner.com:

Snow said he hopes his upbeat outlook helps restore some civility to the political debate.

“It’s all about tone,” he said. “A lot of the people who are caught in the middle of this fight are sick of it.”

The negative tone has resulted in low job approval ratings for politicians in both parties.

“When you have a president in the 30s and Congress in the 20s, that’s bad,” Snow said. “And I think one way you restore it is by behaving, by acting in a genial way.”

Snow decried the “vicious, personal and sometimes unfocused warfare between Democrats and Republicans, or the press corps and the political class.”

“People at home are saying to themselves: ‘This isn’t what I remember when I was looking at the civics book,’ ” he said. “People still have a more exalted view of what government ought to be.”

Snow said he will try to uphold that view.

Mommy moments

Over the course of this year I have been trying to instill within my 3 young sons an appreciation for the blessing that it is to live in the land of the free and the home of the brave.  We have studied geography and American history, they know the pledge and many patriotic songs better than most adults in this country, I’d wager.  You should hear my four year old sing “America the Beautiful”,  it’s really something.  In spite of my best intentions, it became clear today that some ideas were still a little muddled. 

We’ve been learning the song “This land is My Land”  and so I pulled the map off the wall and spread it across the table to talk about where the redwood forests are and to help them identify just exactly where the gulfstream waters lie.  We got carried away discussing all the places we have lived and where mommy and daddy were born.  I showed each of the kids where they were born and we talked about those states.  My four-year old began crying when I reminded him he was born in Georgia.  “No,” he said,  “I wanna be from Texas!”  We finally calmed the situation by assuring him that while he was born in Georgia, he definitely had the soul of a Texan.

Later this afternoon, my five year old was playing trains on the porch with a neighbor friend.  “Hey Sarah, this train is named Peter Sam.”  He told her, showing off on of his Thomas the Tank Engine trains.  “But he’s a little different.” he virtually whispered,  “He’s from California.”

Needless to say I almost wet myself laughing so hard.  I’m sure that must’ve been something heard on t.v. because I’ve never said anything that funny in my life, much less around my kids.  I love home schooling.

 

Some things are just plain wrong.

Men having babies – wrong!

Paying a man to speak seditious words and undermine the very government that writes his paycheck – wrong again!

Freedom of speech, particularly the political and religious speech that we prize so highly, should be afforded every human being.  With only minor exceptions for inciteful speech, people ought to be able to speak their minds freely and without fear.  That includes condemning America and her government’s policies.  It includes speech expressing anger and hate for the military and the commander in chief.  It even includes waging a personal war against this nation.  What is does not include is a government funded platform or an institutional endorsement, implied, if not explicitly stated,  through silent tolerance. 

If you feel that Americans should not pay a salary to people who declare themselves threats to national security,  please take a stand and read about one way you can announce to our institutions of higher education that you are tired of being taxed to subsidize terrorist rhetoric.

From this week’s blogburst for academic accountability:

Lover of Angels, apparently known to some as Dr. Julio C. Pino of Kent State University has attracted the gaze of anti-terrorist activists.  While LOA hasn’t shown anything but reasonable deference in his comments on this blog, (much obliged, Dr.)  he has definitely used his own blog, global-war, as a stump for pro-islamofascism.  His anti-American writings have many readers incensed and determined to see him removed from his post as a professor at a public university in Ohio.  For a look at the petition making its way around the country, click here

As an Army wife myself, I admit to being particularly disturbed by LOA’s calls for the death of American troops.  In one post, he prays for a hurricane of fire “to tear their soldiers to bloody shreds with our shells; help us to cover their smiling fields with the pale forms of their infidel dead; help us to drown the thunder of the guns with the shrieks of their wounded, writhing in pain; help us to lay waste their humble homes with a hurricane of fire”

 

His poetry includes descriptions of the sailors who were bombed on the USS Cole.  “The heads, arms, legs and other limbs of the bodies of the infidels flew like dust particles into outer space.”

 

And if that doesn’t give enough cause for alarm, he republishes previously released terror manual excerpts in his post, “How can I train myself for Jihad?”

 

For more information about LOA and his online antics, please peruse write-ups on the following sites:

Elmer’s Brother

A Small Dose of Reality

Conservative Central

Movin Out, Moving On

Always on Watch

Sixth Column

Democracy Frontline

Infidel Bloggers Alliance

Birdblog

Flightpundit

Neocon Command Center

Joe Gringo

Democracy Frontline

 

 

The Bush Effect

Supply-side conservatives are calling it like is it with respect to the national economy. President Bush’s biggest failings in office have less to do with the war on terror, immigration policy, or hurricane Katrina and more and more to do with the nominal changes to the tax code which have created an even more bloated system of loopholes and regulations than ever. 

President Bush isn’t alone in his failures at fiscal policy – Congress, as always, is mostly to blame.  But, then, Congress didn’t promise to simplify the codes and improve the American tax system either.  The policy, albeit it warranted in some areas, of excessive spending combined with tax cuts has left the nation with a projected deficit that is astounding.  The number of tax regulations has grown over Bush’s term by 40%.  The failure to remain true to fiscal conservatism has many Republicans outraged and demanding a return to tighter purse strings and much more accountability and restraint in Washington.

Supply-siders have pointed for nearly thirty years to the failings of the high-rate, progressive tax systems and yet the government has done little or nothing to bring about reform.  The Bush tax cuts were a good start but they will not likely become permanent and the increasing number of allowances and loopholes only creates more wiggle room for those who wish to avoid handing their money over to the IRS.

President Bush is left with egg on his face over this issue and Congress, always the real villain when it comes to tax legislation has failed miserably.  And yet, we can only wonder if the midterm elections will reflect any of the discontent felt by conservative economists.  The vast majority of Americans are concerned with issues other than the national deficit and the real impact of global finance is an almost abstract concept to middle class workers for whom having enough is, well, enough.  The long-term impact of living in the red nationally, much like living on credit at home, is fixable.  But it requires restraint and an overwhelming will.  With three more years of George W. Bush in the White House, conservatives need to push the envelope when calling for limited government spending.  And the President needs to prioritize the agenda with a much stricter hand.

Very good articles on this issue:

http://www.usnews.com/usnews/opinion/articles/060501/1edit.htm

http://www.economist.com/displaystory.cfm?story_id=E1_GRDNGRG

Thanks for all those years of hunting and gathering but we’ll take it from here

According to last week’s The Economist, women workers are making up an increasingly higher percentage of the labor force.  “A Guide to Womenomics” suggests that the change is due in some measure to the shift of the class of work required in developed nations.  With the expanding number of jobs in the service sector, more women are employable on an equal footing with their male counterparts.  Apparently, girls are proving to be better students, more women are getting college degrees than men, and women are filling most new jobs.  “Arguably, women are now the most powerful engine of global growth.”

The most interesting segment of the article, in my opinion, was a section discussing the relationship between fertility rates and the percentage of women workers. While some argue that encouraging women to enter the workforce will result in a fertility decline, the numbers seem to prove the exact opposite.  The nations with the highest percentage of women workers also enjoy the higher fertility rates.  Personally, I don’t know how you can make a direct correlation because averaging the number of children born to working women and the number born to stay at home moms seems very disingenuous.  According to the national average, I have born my share and another woman’s as well.  But I certainly wasn’t thinking of carrying some other lady’s statistic when I was in that labor and delivery room. 

The article makes the assertion that countries that make a concerted effort to make motherhood compatible with a career will see marked improvements in national prosperity.  “This may mean offering parental leave and child care, allowing more flexible working hours, and reforming tax and social-security systems that create disincentives for women to work.”  The countries that offer less support for working mothers find lower rates of working women and lower birth rates because many women postpone childbearing.  “Japan, for example offers little support for working mothers: only 13% of children under three attend day-care centers, compared with 54% in America and 34% in Britain.”

The article also suggests that as women grow in number and value in the labor market, they can provide “a sounder base for long-term growth” and help to finance rich countries’ welfare states.

My take:

Okay so women are supposed to have children turn them over to day-care centers and then public schools to raise so that they can fund the lifestyles of people on the welfare roles?  And 54% of American toddlers and preschoolers in day-care is a good thing?

I would argue that if we paid men enough to support their families, then fertility would rise because women would have the liberty of raising their own children.  I would also argue that the welfare roles – and by this I mean all of those government subsidized handouts to people who ought to be working – would be a lot shorter if mother’s were educated and skilled women who chose to stay home because they saw the wisdom in teaching young human beings to be self-reliant, responsible and prosperous with the work of their own hands.  Furthermore, if women were at home to teach their children and took that task as the most significant opportunity available to any human being, there would be fewer sons and daughters living out their lives in prison cells.  There would be fewer junkies in need of government funded treatment and services.  There would be fewer runaways and child prostitutes.  There would be substantially fewer social ills requiring government money made on the backs of women who have abandoned the most sacred duty afforded them by God, evolution or the universe.

But that’s just the opinion of one educated, skilled and capable woman, who has chosn to see the long term value in walking away from a paycheck in exchange for something of much greater worth.

Have You Forgotten?

Have you Forgotten?

 

   

Reminder:  This post will be headlining every day this week (and twice on Thursday ba-dum-bump).  If you have already signed – Thank you for standing up for the dignity of those who serve and for the nation of tax payers who deserve to know what their money is paying for at KSU.  If you have not yet signed – What are you waiting for?  Get reading! 

 

Who is Lover of Angels?

 

In a twisted version of “local boy makes good”, a blogger from our very own blog service, bloghi, is quickly gaining notoriety across the internet.  Lover of Angels, apparently known to some as Dr. Julio C. Pino of Kent State University has attracted the gaze of anti-terrorist activists.  While LOA hasn’t shown anything but reasonable deference in his comments on this blog, (much obliged, Dr.)  he has definitely used his own blog, global-war, as a stump for pro-islamofascism.  His anti-American writings have many readers incensed and determined to see him removed from his post as a professor at a public university in Ohio.  For a look at the petition making its way around the country, click here.

 

As an Army wife myself, I admit to being particularly disturbed by LOA’s calls for the death of American troops.  In one post, he prays for a hurricane of fire “to tear their soldiers to bloody shreds with our shells; help us to cover their smiling fields with the pale forms of their infidel dead; help us to drown the thunder of the guns with the shrieks of their wounded, writhing in pain; help us to lay waste their humble homes with a hurricane of fire”

 

His poetry includes descriptions of the sailors who were bombed on the USS Cole.  “The heads, arms, legs and other limbs of the bodies of the infidels flew like dust particles into outer space.”

 

And if that doesn’t give enough cause for alarm, he republishes previously released terror manual excerpts in his post, “How can I train myself for Jihad?”

 

For more information about LOA and his online antics, please peruse write-ups on the following sites:

Elmer’s Brother

A Small Dose of Reality

Conservative Central

Movin Out, Moving On

Always on Watch

Sixth Column

Democracy Frontline

Infidel Bloggers Alliance

Birdblog

Flightpundit

Neocon Command Center

Joe Gringo

 

The only thing plunging faster than Bush’s approval ratings

That sucking sound you hear isn’t just the President’s poll numbers going down the toilet.  That loud whooshing is Randi Rhodes’ audience switching off the radio and running for the door. 

Matt Drudge reports: “the just released radio Winter Book [Jan-Mar 2006] from ARBITRON shows AIR AMERICA in New York City losing more than a third of its audience — in the past year!  Among all listeners 12+, it was a race to the bottom for AIR AMERICA and WLIB as mid-days went from a 1.6 share during winter 2005 to a 1.0 share winter 2006.  During PM drive, host Randi Rhodes plunged to 27,900 listeners every quarter hour, finishing 25th place in her time slot, down from 60,900 listeners every quarter hour in the fall.“ 

The book touted as revealing the progressive movement’s takeover via the blogosphere isn’t doing so hot either. “A book hyped by major media as documenting a progressive revolution of “blogs” and political power, DAILY KOS ‘CRASHING THE GATE,’ has sold only 3,630 copies since its release last month, according to NIELSEN’s BOOKSCAN. [NIELSEN claims only 2,062 copies of DAILY KOS have been purchased at the retail level; the rest coming through 'discount' outlets.]“ 

Sounds like the only thing crashing is the movement.