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June 28, 2007
Schools don’t let applicants decide the admissions policy. Job seekers don’t decide who a business will hire. And passers-by don’t decide who a homeowner invites in.
This country is our home. We have a right and a responsibility to ensure that those crossing our borders do so with good intent. They should enter legally, and we should ensure their entrance is in the best interest of this nation, its institutions, social systems and traditions.
Follow current law. Get control of our borders. It is a security issue. It is a social and economic issue. When we no longer have untrackable, untold millions violating our border every year, then, maybe then we can entrust the politicians to deal with immigration reform. I won’t be holding my breath.
June 17, 2007
As I mentioned above in the audio links, Levin was breathing fire on Friday. And he had more than a few choice words for Senator Lott who thinks the talk radio audience is something that needs to be dealt with. Lott has thrown in with other Republicans who have not just abandoned their base, in favor of covorting with Kennedy, but feel the need to daily insult and ridicule their base.
Rush too, has pointed out that the people Lott insults are the people who defended him when he was in trouble a few years ago. But more importantly, Limbaugh said, “The notion that people freely expressing their opinions on radio is a “problem,” should scare every one of us that loves liberty. This is the exact sort of thing — people expressing their opinions is a problem — that gave us McCain-Feingold, a government signed, government passed and the president signed assault on free speech . . ”
But back to Levin. You can catch the several segment audio of Levin on MarkLevinFan.com. Here are a few choice tidbits Mark addressed to the not-so-good senator.
“I know this bill better than you ever could.
I don’t have a political motive when I review something like this. I”m smarter than you. As a matter of fact your constituents are smarter than you.
We happen to know what’s in this bill. We’ve been lied to about this border before, by you and your likes, and we’re not going to be lied to again. You just want a bill because McCain wants a bill.
You think gang meembers should be legalized?
You think the border fence should be cut in half?
What does chain migration have to do with doing jobs Americans won’t do?
If talk radio were running this country, sir, maybe we’d get something done. Maybe we’d secure the border. Maybe we’d revamp the bureaucracy that can’t handle existing law. At least we’d have the will and the desire to do the right thing.
If you know whats in this bill and you support it, you’re a disgrace. If you don’t know what’s in this bill and you support it, you’re an incompetent.
You can lash out against talk radio all you want. You can lash out against your constituents . .
You disgrace yourself.
This is America’s future we’re talking about. Not your puny political future.
Trent Lott’s only the latest to smear the American people. And I mean the American people because the American people don’t want this. Republican, Democrat, Independent, they don’t want it.
Who is it that you want to silence?
We demand that you treat us with the respect that you treat illegal aliens, sir.” |
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Senator Lott won’t have to worry about the misguided conservatives speaking out on his behalf the next time he gets in trouble. And there will certainly be a next time for this jerk. But then, I’m not as informed and enlightened as our imperial senate that wants to shove this bill down our throats.
A recent Rasmussen poll showed that just 20% of American voters want Congress to pass this bill. As Levin said to Lott and his friends, “your constituents are smarter than you.” Yes, and talk radio will remind the public of the Senate’s condescension and insults come election time. They’re the ones that need to be dealt with.
June 6, 2007
These bastards have no intention of ever slowing the invasion. And now they vote to grant amnesty to felons.
Craig, Domenici, Graham, Hagel, Kyl, Lugar, Martinez, McCain, Specter and Voinovich,, and of course, most dems. – via Malkin.
EXTRA: Malkin addresses the hot air coming from the Wall Street Journal elite.
March 4, 2007
From a sobering article mentioned in a discussion thread on Free Republic. –
Cudahy resembles a Mexican border town more than it does a Los Angeles suburb.
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In Cudahy, the U.S. Drug Enforcement Agency has seized almost 20 times more cocaine over the past five years than in Bell, a bordering city of similar size, and the city suffers more crime per capita than small towns nearby. It’s a city with 200 active gang members, where shootings are common though homicide rare – that is, until 11 killings occurred in the wake of the sheriff’s departure in 2003.
. . . “The Sheriff’s Department is a large, professional organization,†says former Cudahy City Attorney Michael Colantuono, who was fired by Perez. “But the city manager does not have as much control over the Sheriff’s Department… the sheriff won’t protect your friends or punish your enemies.â€
. . .The city reserve climbed to $3.8 million in 2006 – an unusually high reserve for any California city with an $8 million annual budget. . . . Perez presided over another community event in which he once again acted as the benevolent political boss: free turkeys and bags of food for everyone – compliments of the city with a $3.8 million reserve and one of the highest unemployment rates in Los Angeles County.
. . . Drug police say that many drug shipments crossing the Mexican border make two stops in San Diego and head straight for Cudahy. Drug runners from Cudahy return from Arizona and Texas and bring new guns into the community, police say.
• After the third call, Mendoza pulled out of the March 6 race. “I have my family to think about,†he said.
• “It gets a lot worse than that,†says a local cop, acknowledging that criminal threats are so common that police are hard-pressed to investigate them.
• “Some things are not worth getting killed over.â€
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It’s a well-named article – “The Town the Law Forgot.” I’m sure we can expect quick appropriate action from State Attorney General Moonbeam.
July 16, 2006
A few days ago Mark Levin noted, “The US Senate has done more damage to America than terrorists could ever do.” He was talking about this.
A few months ago most of the 83 senators who voted to build the southern border security fence, did so in order to lie to their constituents. Most of those same pieces of garbage have now voted against funding the construction. The full roll call is here.
And here is the list of those who voted for the construction and against the funding. These hypocrite bastards include some interesting names. Remember them.
Alexander (R-TN)
Allard (R-CO)
Baucus (D-MT)
Bayh (D-IN)
Bennett (R-UT)
Biden (D-DE)
Bond (R-MO)
Boxer (D-CA)
Byrd (D-WV)
Chafee (R-RI)
Clinton (D-NY)
Cochran (R-MS)
Coleman (R-MN)
Collins (R-ME)
Conrad (D-ND)
Cornyn (R-TX)
Dayton (D-MN)
Domenici (R-NM)
Dorgan (D-ND)
Feinstein (D-CA)
Frist (R-TN)
Graham (R-SC)
Gregg (R-NH)
Hagel (R-NE)
Harkin (D-IA)
Hutchison (R-TX)
Johnson (D-SD)
Kerry (D-MA)
Kohl (D-WI)
Kyl (R-AZ)
Landrieu (D-LA)
Leahy (D-VT)
Levin (D-MI)
Lincoln (D-AR)
Lugar (R-IN)
Martinez (R-FL)
McCain (R-AZ)
McConnell (R-KY)
Mikulski (D-MD)
Murkowski (R-AK)
Nelson (D-FL)
Pryor (D-AR)
Reid (D-NV)
Salazar (D-CO)
Schumer (D-NY)
Smith (R-OR)
Snowe (R-ME)
Specter (R-PA)
Stabenow (D-MI)
Stevens (R-AK)
Sununu (R-NH)
Voinovich (R-OH)
Warner (R-VA)
July 6, 2006
So you think you’re hot stuff if you do well on those citizenship tests that ask about the number of stripes on the flag or how many Men In Black are there? I’ve taken those a few times too. Like this one. And frankly, I only got 95% on this test. Do I have to leave the country? I missed one because I really rushed through it, honest. And of course, there were one or two lucky guesses.
Well anyway, get ready to take on a slightly more challenging set of questions posed by Neal Boortz. If I start in on this test right now, I might be able to get back to you with the results in a few months. You have to do your own answer checking and scoring too. And maybe, just maybe if Neal is in a good mood, he might let you stay in the country. Me, I better start packing.
June 2, 2006
Great article by Boortz in Nealz Nuze today about Bush and immigration(invasion) reform. Here is the heart of the issue. As Boortz posits, “This particular invasion force doesn’t need guns. They’re going to have a more potent weapon, the ballot.”
“Never in my 37 years of talk radio have I seen a time when the politicians inside the beltway have been so completely and thoroughly out of touch with the American people.”
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Boortz goes on to explain uses of ballots: “to change our very way of life . . . gain access to the pockets of every single working American . . . open the floodgates even further and destroy our rights to property.” So, in other words, the typical pastime of Congress.
The article was posted on Free Republic and has garnered a lengthy list of comments, beginning with “I totally agree with him” and “Absolutely! Boortz rocks!.”
April 10, 2006
As noted by Michelle Malkin, this is next.
Its just one more type of fraud to promote and normalize.
April 5, 2006
Now even the John Batchelor program is referring to people who want illegal immigration laws enforced as klan-like. Apparently a lot of people want immigration to be absolutely unlimited. Alright, how do we get most of the Mexicans here? Yes nearly all of them, and especially their crooked government, who by the way will feel right at home here in Jersey. As soon as the traffic lets up – we head south. I got a beautiful spot picked out on the Yucatan coast, I mean, the New New Jersey Shore.
All I need is a little cottage, a rowboat, a wide-brimmed hat and a throw net. I can fish by day and in my spare evening time, I can make fancy ceramic tiles to sell to the nuevo-gringos up north. Just don’t expect me to wear that stupid white cone hat.
As Congress prepares to betray the American public on the issue of illegals, Neil Boortz presents a radical and unique way to deal with illegal immigration. Now get this. He actually proposes that we try enforcing existing laws.
Yes, Boortz agrees with the extremist proposal of Rep. Tom Tancredo who spoke today with Neil Cavuto.
• “First of all, here’s a radical proposal … I know some people are going to suggest is just impossible … how about enforcing the law?” he asked rhetorically.
• “How about actually enforcing the law that today is on the books that says, ‘Employer, you can’t hire people who are here illegally.’
• “The borders? They should be secured, we simply choose not to enforce those laws. If you enforce the law – especially with regard to employers – you immediately begin to deal with the issue of how many are here, because millions will go home,” he said.
• “If you cannot get a job here because you are not in this country legally … you go home. Those that don’t, you deport. Why? It’s the law,” Tancredo added.
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Tancredo sure is radical. Congress is only supposed to pass laws, not call for laws to be enforced, except for the IRS of course. Oh well, if only it were that easy, . . and that benign for the American public.
March 1, 2006
On little green footballs we have a story centered around the Council on American Islamic Relations, their defense of the port deal, and the “title holder” to their Washington headquarters. It seems that the individual who put up just under a million dollars for CAIR’s building is UAE defense minister Gen. Sheik Mohammed Bin Rashid Al-Maktoum. The point made in the excerpted article from FrontPage Magazine is that Cair has quite a conflict of interest in their port deal defense. Of course, this also highlights deeper problems with CAIR and who they are truly representing.
What I find interesting is that our good friends in the UAE have another very direct link to al-Qaida.
“On one trip in 1999, roughly half the UAE royal family was the guest of Osama bin laden at his camp near Kandahar. They flew in on an official UAE aircraft, according to a recently declassified CIA memo dated Feb. 19, 1999, and titled, “Recent High Level UAE Visits to Afghanistan.” The memo also determined that Dubai officials had lied to U.S. officials about visiting the camps. And they were believed to have even tipped off bin Laden about a coming strike on his camps. Mind you, this was just months after bin Laden blew up the two U.S. embassies in Africa (a plot which was financed in part through Dubai banks), so they knew they were in bad company. Just like CAIR knows it’s in bad company.”
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So we have the UAE Royals as good hunting buddies with Binney, kinda like Cheney and his political soul-mate hunting buddies. Maybe Cheney can give Sheik Maktoum some hunting tips for the general’s next outing with his good-ol pal Bin Laden. You can read the full article at FrontPageMagazine.com.
I’m fed up with the disparate cast of characters portraying anyone opposing the port deal as Islamo-phobic or racist. We’re at war. Why isn’t the standard – what will this deal do to improve security?
February 21, 2006
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February 15, 2006
The [expletive] port sale that I commented on a few days ago is still being reviewed by the administration. I find it incredible that this issue is getting only scattered attention, though press coverage has picked up over the past two days. Rep. Peter King of New York has expressed his concerns to the White House today.
from Newsday – Rep. Mark Foley, R-Fla., said, “If our ports are the most vulnerable targets for terrorism and if we are at war, as the president says, we should be overly critical of handing over management of our ports to any foreign countries, post 9/11.”
Mark Levin briefly addressed the issue on his show today saying flat out, “this should not go through . . . this is a clear-cut national security issue.”
today From WEBCommentary by Diane Grassi –
But most puzzling to lawmakers is how Dubai, which provided most of the financing for the 19 hijackers on 9/11/2001, will now be overseeing the very port where nearly 3,000 lives were claimed that day. And Dubai was the base for much of the terrorist planning and operations for the attacks in New York and Washington, according to the FBI. . . . Steve Coleman, Port Authority of New York/New Jersey spokesman stated, “We need to take a real close look at security before we approve such a company.”
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A New York Post opinion piece yesterday began, “Do the feds really want to place the ports of New York and New Jersey in the hands of a Middle East country with ties to the Sept. 11 hijackers?” And in an ironic twist we have Sen. Charles Schumer appearing to take the same side as Mark Levin, saying, “this is a case where it’s better to be safe than sorry.” He added that, “we should be very careful before we outsource such sensitive homeland security duties.” He’s probably been diligently searching for an issue to utilize the recent “outsourcing” talking point.
And the New York Daily News yesterday noted that “ports are considered one of the nation’s weakest security links, with only about 5% of the cargo coming in inspected.’ The article also said that the Port Authority, as landlord, may also have a controlling interest.
Frank Gaffney, president of the Center for Security Policy, and a frequent contributor to the John Batchelor program weighed in today in an article in the New York Sun. Among other considerations, Gaffney addressed the issue of energy security, noting, “a very large proportion of the nation’s oil imports come through the Atlantic and Gulf State ports that the UAE company hopes to take over.”
He also mentions a potential conflict that has been mentioned in earlier articles. It seems a former director of operations for the Dubai company recently became the administrator of the Tansportation Department’s Maritime Administration.
Another Sun article ended with, “The chairman of Dubai Ports World, Sultan Ahmed Bin Sulayem, told the Guardian newspaper that references to terrorism at a general meeting of the British company’s shareholders on Monday were “bad,” and that such stereotyping could not be condoned.” Well I don’t give a god damn about political correctness. And what cannot be condoned is placing diplomatic niceties above security. I asked in my last post, does this help our nation’s security or hinder it?
Other comments from the New York area, which is only one of the six ports involved -
“This shouldn’t happen. It really boggles the mind.”
And in better New Yorkese – “On its face, this looks like [expletive] insanity to me,”
Now that is well stated.
February 12, 2006
What the hell is this? Some, unfortunately, not those in Washington, are concerned about the possibility of WMD coming through sophisticated border tunnels. Now this country is going to cede major US port operations to Mid-Eastern control? This is lunacy. If you wanted to do everything you could possibly do to improve security, would you allow US ports to be operated by a company from the most unstable part of the world with the highest percentage of people that worship death and want to kill Americans?
According to the AP, the United Arab Emirate company Dubai Ports World is poised to take over port operations in New York, New Jersey, Baltimore, New Orleans, Miami and Philadelphia. The UAE company’s purchase of British P & O may be approved as soon as Monday.
If this happened during a Democratic administration, the Republicans would be screaming about it just like the transfer of missile technology during the Clinton years. Lets hope the Longshoremen’s union is better at security than the government.
from the Press of Atlantic City -“Does this pose a national security risk? I think that’s pushing the envelope,†said Stephen E. Flynn, who studies maritime security at the New York-based Council on Foreign Relations. “It’s not impossible to imagine one could develop an internal conspiracy, but I’d have to assign it a very low probability.†Okay what probability would he have assigned five years ago for 19 terrorists to hijack four airliners, attack the freaking Pentagon and demolish both towers of the World Trade Center?
We can’t control security leaks in the administration and military. What expectation can there be of any port security measures (if there are any) maintaining confidentiality? Does this help our nation’s security or hinder it? These are not normal times. The worst case scenario is horrific. The best case is simply another question mark. Nuts.
September 29, 2005
According to the Miami Herald, Jeb Bush would use two “fairy godmother” wishes for more scholarships for foreign students and to make the immigration service “more efficient.” If anyone spots any of these godmothers, or if you find any genie bottles along Florida beaches, make sure you keep either of them far from Jeb.
| "MIAMI, Florida (CNN) — Six months to the day after Mohamed Atta and Marwan Al-Shehhi flew planes into the World Trade Center, the Immigration and Naturalization Service notified a Venice, Florida, flight school that the two men had been approved for student visas. " |
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I’d rather see the border patrol more efficient. And I don’t care how many e-mails the governor gets about Miami International being less “user -friendly” than it used to be. The system was real user-friendly for the September 11 terrorists. What the hell is he talking about when he says tightening was necessary after 9/11, but “enough time has now passed for a systematic review of policies and procedures?” Of course we should always review procedures, but if he is suggesting that we should loosen security, then he’s nuts.
Remember this? Bush is “troubled” by limits on foreign student visas and doesn’t want to “choke off” international ties. I’m more troubled by our immigration policies being played by terrorists, and by public officials that think enough time has passed to loosen policies that aren’t tight enough to begin with.
- tip from Lastango at Daily Pundit
