The federal government is now telling American citizens to stay out of three southern Arizona counties.Is anyone answering the phone at "Homeland Security?"
It is too dangerous because of armed smugglers from Mexico.
... opposed to crime. Illegal immigration is illegal. Even LOLcats can do tautologies. Sneaky cat is sneaky:
Illegal alien is illegal. It's not hard to understand. I'm old enough to remember when legal aliens were required to register at the Post Office annually.
Jan Brewer tells Obama that it's no laughing matter:
We are unwilling to enforce our own immigration laws. The Mexican government has much stricter immigration laws, which they enforce. J. Michael Waller in 2006: Mexico's Immigration Law: Let's Try It Here at Home.
About time to set this batch free, and start another.
Skateboard ballet. (via)
Dick Lamm's Plan to Destroy America. It seems to be well underway. And goes well with The White House wants a $1.4 billion stimulus/national security package…for Mexico.
Derbyshire won't stickle over rankling.
Iowahawk hath An Archbishop of Canterbury Tale.
The Path to the Final Solution. From The Jawa Report.
T.J. Rogers adding SunPower to Cypress. (via)
Aesop's fables: more editions than any book except the Bible? (via)
Entrances to Hell in the United Kingdom. (via)
A large and funny collection of Computer Stupidities. (via)
The Return of Sister Flute. Women keep fainting at these Obama rallies.
Video at Townhall. Part 1 is the speech, Part 2 the Q & A. Worth the time (about 40 minutes altogether).
Oh, the panderage! I wish I had not listened to this. But I want to be able to find it again. "I thank you for your soul, and your heart." They look so tasty!
More at the link.
Update, Feb 22 2008: This post has been receiving an inordinate amount of hits in the last couple of days. I finally figured out why; he's done it again. The same song, at an Obama rally. Well, all right, here it is, with live video this time:
Far be it from me to discourage anyone seeking a new career in music. I can let others do that. Simon, what did you think?
The bill has failed, for now. It does not have a stake through its heart yet. What is it about the concept of "illegal" that is so hard for some legislators to understand? You'd almost think there was something hidden about their motivations, the way they keep conflating illegal entry with legal immigration. There, now that it's stated that way, I see that even the expression "illegal immigration" is a conflation, designed to confuse the issue.
Freeman Hunt has an aphorism that could be more widely circulated:
Solving the illegal immigration problem by legalizing illegal immigrants is a little like solving a crime wave by legalizing robbery.Not just a little like, a whole lot like. And: Michelle Malkin foams at the mouth while discussing the "effete conservative elites." No, really!
Better no immigration bill at all than this one. Alfonso Bedoya explains it.
This whole immigration debate makes so little sense, just starting from the basics, that it seems like there must be more to it, that our masters are not telling us about. (How it pains me to write "our masters.") When I was a kid in the 1950's, every winter we would see announcements on the TV urging resident aliens to register at the Post Office. We've come a long way.
Apparently the registration at the post office requirement was dropped in 1981. By that time we had already had the first amnesty sponsored by Ted Kennedy, the Hart-Celler Act of 1965. 21 years later, Kennedy was involved with another massive amnesty program, the Simpson-Mazzoli Immigration Reform and Control Act (Andrew McCarthy has some satirical history). I say Kennedy "was involved" with IRCA because, though he spoke in favor of it, and authored some amendments to it, he apparently claims to have voted against it. (No telling how long that last link will last.) Now, 22 years after that, Kennedy's doing it again.
This post is formless and vague, but I'll post it just to get the link to the article by Fredo Arias-King up. I want to get to the subject of how Ted Kennedy, in particular, learned early on that rules are made to be broken.
Bill Quick linked this article by Fredo Arias-King a while back: Immigration and Usurpation: Elites, Power, and the People’s Will. It seems to connect to the poem by Berthold Brecht:
The SolutionCan our political class have become so removed from their roots in the citizenry that they would rather import a new population than represent the one that's here?
After the uprising of the 17th June
The Secretary of the Writers Union
Had leaflets distributed in the Stalinallee
Stating that the people
Had forfeited the confidence of the government
And could win it back only
By redoubled efforts. Would it not be easier
In that case for the government
To dissolve the people
And elect another?
Is immigration, I asked--especially illegal immigration--good for the economy, or bad? "It's neither one nor the other," Mr. Friedman replied. "But it's good for freedom. In principle, you ought to have completely open immigration. But with the welfare state it's really not possible to do that. . . . She's an immigrant," he added, pointing to his wife. "She came in just before World War I." (Rose--smiling gently: "I was two years old.") "If there were no welfare state," he continued, "you could have open immigration, because everybody would be responsible for himself." Was he suggesting that one can't have immigration reform without welfare reform? "No, you can have immigration reform, but you can't have open immigration without largely the elimination of welfare."So this post is a draft. Alpha minus one. Link dump!
The link dump of an old grump. Posts may be folded, spindled, or mutilated, ad lib.
Pseudonymous only for disambiguation. Thanks for that word, Wikipedia. I am not, in what we laughingly refer to as "real life," a character in a 1933 novel. There was no Internet in 1933, silly!
The list of Monckton vs. Gore articles.
