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The Birds: Author Unknown

I do not know the original author of this piece, but I agree wholeheartedly. It came as a forward in my morning email today from a friend who normally doesn't usually care all that much about the invasion. Perhaps yesterday's lunacy has raised the hackles of more fence-sitters. I certainly hope so:

I bought a bird feeder. I hung it on my back porch and filled it with seed.

Within a week we had hundreds of birds taking advantage of the continuous flow of free and easily accessible food. But then the birds started building nests in the boards of the patio, above the table, and next to the barbecue.

Then came the poop. It was everywhere: on the patio tile, the chairs, the table...everywhere. Then some of the birds turned mean: They would dive bomb me and try to peck me even though I had fed them out of my own pocket. And others birds were boisterous and loud: They sat on the feeder and squawked and screamed at all hours of the day and night and demanded that I fill it when it got low on food. After a while, I couldn't even sit on my own back porch anymore. I took down the bird feeder and in three days the birds were gone.

I cleaned up their mess and took down the many nests they had built all over the patio. Soon, the back yard was like it used to be...quiet, serene and no one demanding their rights to a free meal.

Now lets see...our government gives out free food, subsidized housing, free medical care, free education and allows anyone born here to be a automatic citizen. Then the illegals came by the tens of thousands. Suddenly our taxes went up to pay for free services; small apartments are housing 5 families: you have to wait 6 hours to be seen by an emergency room doctor; your child's 2nd grade class is behind other schools because over half the class doesn't speak English. Corn Flakes now come in a bilingual box; I have to press "one" to hear my bank talk to me in English, and people waving flags other than "Old Glory" are squawking and screaming in the streets, demanding more rights and free liberties.

Maybe it's time for the government to take down the bird feeder.

Yesterday was another example of how inhospitable to its owners our leaders are making "America's back porch." But it's still nothing that some consistent, dedicated effort cannot overcome - no matter what the sad sack in the White House might say to the contrary.


Technorati tags: illegal immigration, illegal alien, immigration reform,immigration

Happy Socialist, Anarchist, Illegal Alien Day

I'm not going to get a chance to post much on this new day of arrogance. I've let my U.S. Senator from Cuba know I loathe him. I've ranted to a few friends who still don't see the threat that the interlopers pose to their children, and I wrote one comment on a blog.

That's what I'm copying over here. First, I'll repost the original pabulum:

howl

Count my voice among those who are today marching and asking for a path to citizenship for immigrants in this country. Look, I know they broke the law by coming here (I won't even get into how suspect it is for countries to set their own laws on immigration and expect citizens of another country to just follow them), but what right do we have to demand that they not enter our borders? For all America is doing wrong, it is still the most free country in the world and the one most able to provide a good life for its inhabitants. How can we expect people to not come to this country if we can offer them such a better life than the one they have in other countries? How can we, and especially myself and other Christians, tell people to not come to us even though we can help them? Since when is the saying on the Statue of Liberty about "bring me your huddled masses..." a epithet without meaning?

Too often we americans forget that our history is, in certain areas, largely one of breaking laws and theft and questionable citizenship. We stole land from the indians and just arbitrarily said it was ours; it's not like we Americans were the first ones on the scene here. We fought wars to gain our own independence because we believed that America could hold a better life. We welcomed immigrants from Europe from the thousands, laying the groundwork for the America we have today with our rich differing cultures and dialects and traditions. We are not a nation of indigenous peoples. We are a nation built on a history of huddled masses, immigrants, poverty-stricken farmers, religious freedom-seekers, soldiers, land-grabbers, and dreamers.

How can we deny anyone else in this whole world the same thing? Happy May Day, everyone.

Posted by Brother Joshua at 2:46:00 PM

There was just so much here that needs to be beaten, physically, from the squalid ideations that infest the minds of so many who feel that they must kowtow to all others from all nations in order to feel good about being American. The guy made my skin crawl with his matter-of-fact lunaticity. So, I replied thusly:

Katie's Dad said...

When Emma Lazarus rises from the dead and proves she was a founding father, not some PR-Stunt poetry contest winner, then I might have a thimble of compassion for an illegal alien. But probably not then, either. For she was nothing more than a foil for a newspaperman's quest for profit. No figure in American history is more over-promoted. It's just sick to base policy that determines who we are, and what sort of fate-in-nation awaits our ancestors, upon that blithering tripe of a poem. Really.

Being romantically distracted by baseless ideals while deadly serious issues like sovereignty and societal cohesiveness are at stake is the epitome of stupidity.

Instead, I'm informed by Thomas Jefferson who wrote:"In proportion to their numbers, they will share with us the legislation. They will infuse into it their spirit, warp and bias its direction, and render it a heterogeneous, incoherent, distracted mass."

George Washington said, prescriptively: "Citizens, by birth or choice, of a common country, that country has a right to concentrate your affections. The name of American, which belongs to you in your national capacity, must always exalt the just pride of patriotism more than any appellation derived from local discriminations. With slight shades of difference, you have the same religion, manners, habits, and political principles."

John Jay wrote, also prescriptively: "I have as often taken notice that Providence has been pleased to give this one connected country to one united people -- a people descended from the same ancestors, speaking the same language, professing the same religion, attached to the same principles of government, very similar in their manners and customs, and who, by their joint counsels, arms, and efforts, fighting side by side throughout a long and bloody war, have nobly established general liberty and independence.

"This country and this people seem to have been made for each other, and it appears as if it was the design of Providence, that an inheritance so proper and convenient for a band of brethren, united to each other by the strongest ties, should never be split into a number of unsocial, jealous, and alien sovereignties."

As a Christian, you'd be better served by thinking about the plight of the people these interloping opportunists leave behind; the poverty they exacerbate back home; the broken families; the elderly with no youth to support them in a a community; the tacit support your compassion gives to despots who are relieved to see the departure of those who are most physically able to threaten their corrupt status quo; and, most importantly, the detrimental impact upon the futures of America's children that such an unprecedented influx surely portends. Do you ever think about that stuff? Or has the romanticism for the "needy other" completely made you blind to
the needs and best interests of your own?

Is it OK if one in five of our residents has no connection to, empathy for or sense of stewardship on behalf of those who fought and bled and died to start this grand experiment? Even if that assures that heritage is erased? And even if the loss of that heritage puts an end to the experiment?

If so, please send your kids to schools built in the shadow of your new Tower of Babel; but, please, make provisions for mine to go to schools in which english is the only language allowed to be spoken. While you're at it, give my little girl a place to grow up in which this nation's sense of Providence is allowed to thrive without being held hostage to the influence of those who would sell it all out on a whim.

I was tempted to beat the author up over his asinine "we stole the land from the indians" crap, but I figured he'd not be able to digest any additional de-programming thoughts in one post.

Technorati tags: illegal immigration, illegal alien, amnesty, immigration reform, immigration, employer sanctions, reconquista, MALDEF, La Raza, sovereignty

Something Bush Won't Ask an Iowan

I'm still amazed at the gutters into which this this rat-bastard we've elected President will slither to pander to people who do not belong here in his unceasing effort to transmogrify the nation of my ancestors into a third-world cesspool. And here it is reported that he's found some new pond scum to fertilize:

Bush seeks grads' help on immigration - Yahoo! News

Bush gave the commencement address at Miami Dade College, where more than half the students were raised speaking a language other than English. He gave the Class of 2007 an assignment: Tell their elected representatives in Washington to get going on immigration legislation. "You see every day the values of hard work, and family, and faith that immigrants bring," the president said. "This experience gives you a special responsibility to make your voices heard." Bush said the immigration system is deeply broken: Employers are not held accountable enough; borders are not secure enough; businesses need workers willing to do low-paying jobs; and the 12 million people estimated to be in the U.S. illegally cannot all be deported and so must be dealt with "without amnesty and without animosity."

Obviously, this son of a bitch would never give such a speech to youth at a community college in Iowa! Why is he asking first-generation Americans, those who have a Cubanisimo-warped sense of nation and almost zero exposure to people who are descended from American patriots, to play a pivotal role in immigration reform? Why will he not ask the same of people who have a sense of American stewardship? And, as Jake correctly points out, why will he not lead us an open and honest debate among all citizens to be the means of deciding the solution - with all real options placed on the table?

(Hint: It would take "leadership" and he wouldn't get what he wants)

Here's another nagging question: Why does this prickish waste of the "conservative" mantle get a free pass from the media to mouth garbage like the " they cannot all be deported" fallacy when every other utterance of his gets picked apart like road-kill beset upon by vultures? God forbid the media ever call him on it and let news consumers know about the effectiveness of "attrition through enforcement."

President Bush, what the f**k makes the poorly-Americanized offspring of immigrants more special to you than my child? What you are saying to these graduates is that they have more value to you than children in my family who share my ancestry.

Mr. President, you make me sick.

Technorati tags: hispanic vote, illegal immigration, illegal alien, amnesty, immigration reform, immigration, conservatism

The Ultimate Goal of Tolerance: Self Extinction?

From Lawrence Auster's View from the Right, a commenter posits this gem:

Is the Islamic takeover of Europe inevitable?

In the end, I think things are going to get much, much worse before they get better, precisely because liberals refuse to accept the most common sense limitations on the principle of tolerance. They risk discrediting tolerance altogether by making it synonymous with self-extinction. An outpouring of hatred and violence is almost certain to erupt at some stage, since nowhere do people gladly suffer replacement of their own people civilization by that of others. A tipping point must eventually be reached, and when it does, the reaction could be spasmodic and bloody. This can easily be avoided, but liberals are determined to see this suicidal path through to the bitter end, such is their devotion to a program which I think even they suspect is daily darkening the future of mankind.

I'd not considered the end game that comes part and parcel with today's politically-correct definition of the word tolerance. While I have to ponder it a bit, my initial thought is that this is probably true. While the post thread from which this comes is in regard to the Islamification of Europe, I think it equally applicable to the United States.


Technorati tags: tolerance

McCain Wouldn't Know Conservatism If...

...it bit him on the ass.

This just doesn't square.

G.O.P. Candidates Lay Into Democrats, Not One Another - New York Times

“The Republican Party — and conservatism generally — are a philosophy of strength,” he said. “Military strength, economic strength, personal strength and family strength.”

-Senator John "I never met an amnesty I didn't love" McCain

How could a person with any scruples whatsoever fish for votes with such soaring language when what he says runs so contrary to his grandest desire as a politician: giving amnesty to 20 million illegal aliens and setting off an unprecedented chain migration?

Please bear with me as I parse this quote and expound on the double meanings:

1. "Conservatism is a philosophy of strength," but I believe our nation is weak and needs help from millions of indentured servants.
   
2. "Conservatism is a philosophy of military strength," but let's disregard the fact that America's political-philospher founders warned against submitting to or leveraging into too strong influences and alliances with foreign powers.
   
3. "Conservatism is a philosophy of economic strength," as long as the government is made stronger than the people through control of people's purse strings.
   
4. "Conservatism is a philosophy of personal strength," as long as people don't display it in the form of speech too close to an election.
   
5. "Conservatism is a philosophy of family strength," and we can't get enough of those strong Mexican families and we can't be deterred by mere citizens who because they want to keep their heritage will stand in the way .

It seems like every day Senator McAmnesty just keeps giving this Conservatives like me more reasons to despise him. Even if I didn't believe with all my heart and soul that the man truly wants to sell my child's future to the highest big-business bidder via amnesty, there's always his McCain-Feingold subversion of the First Amendment, his opposing tax cuts that work and his support for the gay agenda.

But even if none of those things were the case I'd still oppose him with all my being; my political gut and human instinct tell me that he is an evil person. When I see or hear him speak, it sets off alarms within me that have never been wrong in the 27 years I've been involved in political campaigns. It took an awful lot of working for candidates who set off my "creep-o-meter" before I started paying attention to my senses. The lesson has sunk in: I won't ever again vote for someone for whom I have such a visceral distrust.

The bottom line: I loathe John McCain and wouldn't vote for him if satan himself were on the other side - how would I choose between two equal evils?

Technorati tags: conservatism, John McCain, amnesty, gay agenda, antipathy,

Quote of the Day Double Header!

I'm a big fan of clarity, which is probably the element most lacking in this debate over mass and illegal immigration. If our ancestors could witness it, they'd think it was some bizarre case study in how not to govern the nation and the liberty for which they pined and bled and died.

Here are a couple of fantastic quotes from two equally important op-eds I found today:

RealClearPolitics - Articles - Bush's Immigration Defeatism

Bush’s failings at the border mirror his failings in Iraq. In both places, he underestimated the need for security and order and has undertaken a push for them only belatedly. In both places, he was motivated by a good-hearted belief in the essential fungibility of people. He thought that Iraqis naturally would have the same desires as Westerners; and on the border, he assumes that Mexicans are seamlessly interchangeable with Americans, since they seek employment here. In Iraq, he has tried to compensate for his mistakes. On the border, he seems hopeless.

Those who hold that there is any form of ethics, morality or human good in promoting "the fungibility of people" are probably the most evil people around these days. Lowering humanity to commodity status is a very subtle evil; there is little that would torture me more than having to associate with people who have no qualms that their path to enrichment subjugates the most vulnerable and helpless while displacing those just marginally less vulnerable and helpless.

And while I'm on the topic of subjugation...

An immigration bill for 'plantation owners' - Newsday.com

Now, we have neo-plantation owners, inheritors of the "Gone With the Wind" class, seeking to set national policy. Perhaps, in their greed and shortsightedness, those who depend on non-free labor - slaves back then, illegals and "guest workers" today - are so blindly eager for short-term profit they are willing to saddle the rest of the country with long-term problems of multiculturalism and balkanization, made all the worse by welfare-state dependency. Exploitative employers brought the whirlwind to this country once, and now they want to do it again.

Let me reiterate a portion of the immediately previous post:

How many American children must have their lives permanently altered for the worse before their plight starts to matter to those who misplace their compassion only with interlopers while ignoring the needs and futures of our native sons and daughters?

I rue the repurcussions of our having huge, slave-labor-class diasporas living adjacent to our neighborhoods when the next serious economic downturn happens or when the next inevitable well-coordinated attack comes courtesy "the religion of peace" and requires both our unified diligence and ability to communicate with each other clearly. We now have huge resident masses of other-tongued, foreign-allegiant peasants who think that and behave as if the United States exists solely for their convenience. Is it reasonable to think they will be easily pacified when their jobs, their access to the government teat and our tolerance for anyone lurking in the shadows disappears due to calamity?

I'm afraid it's going to get really, really ugly if we don't remove them fairly, incrementally, and soon.

Technorati tags:immigration reform, immigration, cleft society

Core Principles: Duty to our similars and our families

Today, I'm passing on a quote of mine from Jake's comments in response to a post about the Heritage Foundation's latest findings about the costs we all bear thanks to illegal aliensa and their enablers:

It's unconscionable that we have American kids being shortchanged by schools beset by the challenges imposed upon them by increasing numbers of illegal aliens. Perhaps the most lamentable travesties occur every time an American child is denied the opportunity to achieve the best results that his or her abilities might allow because the children of alien criminals forced costs shifts or social discordance in a public school.

How many American children must have their lives permanently altered for the worse before their plight starts to matter to those who misplace their compassion only with interlopers while ignoring the needs and futures of our native sons and daughters?

For me, this gets to the crux of the matter of both illegal and mass immigration. I believe that those who promote the mass movement of cheap labor and demand amnesty for huge masses of foreigners do so for reasons that have nothing to do with the best interests of today's American children or its future generations. Coincidentally, while human nature holds imperative the need for us to place our families, tribes and familiars first, we see similar self-defeating movements taking root in every nation that is a part of Western Civilization.

Why is this bizarre form of self-destruction not happening to any other set of brethren cultures on earth? Is the "white man's burden" so toxic that it demands our own end?

It takes an incredible amount of greed, ignorance and calculated misindoctrination of those susceptible for such a culturally-immolating set of ideas to become established and considered normal in common discourse. As I see it, these efforts to supplant the peoples of Western Civilization with people erroneously assumed to be "more compliant" to the desires of ruling elites are the most conspicuous evils ever perpetrated by groups of people against their similars and families.

I'd rather not think it of my fellow man, but can it really be that people raised in the crucible of liberty have become mere inconvenient obstacles to instant profit gratification now that elites have discovered that willing dupes are available for import?

Technorati tags: Western Civilization

Demographers Bassackward

This is laughable:

Census: Immigration helps big metros - 04/05/2007 - MiamiHerald.com

"Immigrants are filling the void as domestic migrants are seeking opportunities in other places," said Mark Mather, a demographer at the Population Reference Bureau, a private research organization.

Might it ever occur to demographers that a big reason for the "void" is the characteristic "otherness" of the very influx of immigrants they suggest that cities need? Here, and in most current dialog regarding immigrants and cities in America, demographic cause and effect are presented as ass-backwards as possible by "experts."

For a counter-example, here is my own experience: I truly loved my hometown while growing up and as a young adult in S. Florida as it morphed from a small city into part of a vital coastal megalopolis. But in recent years, thanks to bad immigration policy and lax enforcement of law, the character and culture of the growth factors took a turn for the worse. My family and I came to view the large foreign-born population infusion as not a healthy or neighborly benefit at all; rather, we learned it presented contrary belief system wedges that frequently made us uncomfortable in our own home. When culture, language and heritage are first challenged by others in a subtle manner and eventually overtly denigrated by ungrateful "wretched refuse," something has to give.

And in our case, it was us who gave in and fled. The rapid demographic shift fomented such a cultural arrogance on the part of the newcomers that living there became intolerable. Our reaction to mass immigration is not unique, it is prevalent and growing.

It only takes quick a look through my old MS Outlook contacts and retired Rolodex cards to see the obvious: I held out hope for my former home a lot longer than most of my high school classmates, college friends and former business associates. The exodus of my social and business cohort from South Florida was caused by the "otherness" of alien immigrants and our correct perception of their disrespect for our way of life, and that of our ancestors. Now our replacement population shows every intention of remaining allegiant-in-diaspora to their former homelands through the generations.

I'd like to tell the demographers where they can stick their asinine assumptions.

The article continues:

Advocates for stricter immigration laws question whether a stable, or even a shrinking population, is bad.

"Don't we have concerns about congestion and sprawl and pollution?" asked Steven A. Camarota, director of research at the Center for Immigration Studies, which advocates for stricter immigration policies.

"Maybe those metro areas should think about what it would take to make Americans want to live there," Camarota said.

If only our leaders understood that this last point is far more important to cities' health than importing cheap labor that spurs the rancor that accompanies diversity and multiculturalism. I suppose the onerous aspects of mass immigration are felt more keenly by those of us who were raised to believe, correctly, that a nation exists to promote and strengthen its culture; that is has a duty to honor ancestral legacy; and that it carries a prescription for a pathway to assure that there remains a birthright legacy for future generations to cherish.

It is traditional Conservative impulses that lead people to flee cities inflicted with the results of the mass-immigrationist mentality, regardless of the evacuees' political persuasion. The unwelcomed replacement of Americans in metropolis should serve as a forewarning that all is not well with the status quo.

Screw political correctness. This invasion must end.


Technorati tags: white flight

A Troll Gets His Due

I've been following, and participating, in a tit-for-tat with a troll who has taken up residence at FreedomFolks using the nom-de-keyboard "hannitized." He's not really worthy of the level of respect I usually demand to bring up such lunacy; he ran away from this blog's comment section after I made it clear that he would not be allowed to post non-sequitur and/or nonsensical Leftist links to make his feeble points. I'll not be a party to driving traffic, and its related profit, to the DailyKos or Indymedia crowd. The only reason I bring him up now is that this troll's comments serve as the archetype evil for anyone who is trying to make a point about the vital dangers of multiculturalism, the cultural emptiness of diversity, and the inescapable primacy of tribal instinct - hard-coded into human nature - that makes promoting a too-heterogeneous society so horrifically wrong.

A couple of weeks ago, I decided that it was beneath my standards to address this quasi-sentient infestation directly at my friends' blog, so I began to comment on his comments in the third person. I also assumed a mocking tone and made every effort to find a more appropriate moniker for him. Eventually, I settled on "hispandertized" because it best described his position on most things: He's got a monumental inferiority complex that exhibits itself in puffed-up "my people are superior to your people, but your people STOLE OUR LANDS and made us less great than we ought to be" attitude. Every time another "American-by-technicality" is born into a family like that which begat this hispantertized pathogen, there is made another weak link in the chain that binds Americans together.

We are made less when such trolls have sex, except with themselves.

What's most laughable, and sad, about Jake's week-kneed little parasite is that he really doesn't know to what tribe he belongs. Sometimes he's a Spaniard, sometimes he's an indigenous Mexica, sometimes he's a Native American. But never, no never, is he an American - even though ours is the nation to which he was born, and he probably would swear to which he remains allegiant. But his rantings betray him. He hates America. He hates it's origins. He hates anything that might be a byproduct of Western Civilization's success especially if its origin is even tangentially Anglo Saxon.

But he loves all things Mexican.

Mexico's indigenous tribes can do no wrong in his book. America would be best served if that third-world nation's people could freely retake the lands America won, then purchased 150 years ago. To him, the "indigenous peoples" still own it depite the fact that the mythical lands of Atzlan were Mexican territory for barely a quarter-century before America fought and won them in a war. Most of us know that reconquista is not a salient point of view for a true American; however, it is an unwavering belief for most Mexicans.

Hispandertized is walking, talking proof that some tribes just will never assimilate fully to the American way. The longer we allow the alien invasion, particularly from our south, to proceed at such breakneck pace, the harder it will be for this nation to remain unified throughout its next generations. I have to thank this troll for being exemplar of how foolishly wrong the notion that "all peoples are compatible with American ideals" really is.

Seeing that hispandertized lives to browbeat us with the wonders and moral superiority of the indegnous people's of Mexico, I thought I'd close with an brilliant example of those "wonders."

Enjoy:

Mordida, Bribes - Some Things in Mexico Seem To Never Change

In Chiapas, the Chamula Indians obligate their tribesmen to be members of the ruling PRI party. Anyone in the tribe who prefers membership in a different party or even criticizes the PRI is ostracized and driven from their tribal lands. The PRI maintains this loyalty by providing the Chamulas with the Coca Cola franchise for the region. Big time mordida.

When creatures like hispandertized call me a "racist," it's confirmation that I'm correct in my analysis of the alien invasion. How ironic is it that he cannot acknowledge the tribal preference for one's own kind that motivates him! Only someone filled with equal parts hate for his nation and self-loathing would invade someone else's Internet domain, build a soapbox there and do nothing but berate the virtual townsfolk who happen by.

Technorati tags: illegal immigration, illegal alien, immigration reform, immigration, employer sanctions, reconquista, diversity, multiculturalism, reconquista

The Open-Border Asshats' Conundrum

First, the standard asshattery:

Dueling LA immigration rallies mark anniversary of massive march

"We all know this is Mexican land," he said. "They didn't cross the border. The border crossed them."

Now, my questions:

Would any of these low-lifes be here without the accomplishments of British protestants based on their innovative ideas about the potentialities of liberated man? Would there be cause for alien presence if first colonists, then the intrepid American settlers, did not spread European values and culture forged over hundreds of generations, what we now call Western civilization, and create this nation and all that it is? Would there be a "Federal Building" for them to despoil with their presence? Would there be any reason for these people to be at that spot on God's good earth?

No.

Or, are they just here for our "stuff" because they have no contemporary history of being able to do it on their own?

Yes.

The border crossed them, my ass.

HT: FreedomFolks

Technorati tags: reconquista

Core Lessons: Dismissing The Liberal Naysayers

I wrote this as the introduction to the Politics Section of my original American Kernel site. As I recall, this took less than 15 minutes to write. As was my practice in the days before blogging made immediacy more important, I put this aside for a couple of days, made only a couple grammar tweaks and posted it.

"America's viability will forever depend upon its institutions, laws and leaders remaining mindful of the historical values and morality to which our forefathers were dedicated. While crafting the Constitution, then campaigning for its ratification, the framers knew that 'The People' would never adopt a system of government that lacked an irrevocable attachment to the Christian mores and ideals prevalent in and shared between the various contemporary denominations that dominated colonial and revolutionary era cultural discourse.

'During the 150 years preceding the revolution, the foundation for America's future success was forged by determined people who shared a very narrowly diverse set of morals, values and beliefs. This common consciousness paved the way for us to join together and create a whole new way of thinking about liberty that had not existed before on this earth. Had Madison, Hamilton and Jay written the Federalist Papers in denial that our freedom was won by Providence, or had our other founders neglected to humbly assume an appropriate Christian comportment in asking the several states to join as United States, this nation would not exist.

But modern liberals don't want you to know about any of this, and they don't want your children to be exposed to concepts or monuments that represent the facts. That's why the ACLU descends like locusts upon any public symbol that might remind Americans about the ideals that fertilized the fruits of our ancestor's labor.

'The secular left rabidly hates the fact that biblical ideals are so tightly woven into the intent of our Constitution, our culture, our values and everything that is or has ever been "good" in this land. Ongoing efforts by liberal, subversive, America-hating groups and misguided, activist jurists attempt to undermine the foundations of what we stand for as a nation and a people. The judicial bastardization of the establishment clause of the First Amendment is prima facie evidence of their intentions.

'Today, our Supreme Court spews forth one onerous ruling after another that infringes upon areas that are legally the purview of Congress and the states. They have even begun to cite the opinions of foreign courts as rationale for rulings that restrict the rights of Americans. Such decisions are a grave insult to the intentions, efforts and legacy of our founders.

"It is clear that the scheming naysayers on the left have had their way for far too long by misrepresenting the moral and cultural circumstances present at the time in which this nation was born. The left's modus operandi relies upon being able to divert the focus of debate toward bits of out-of-context minutiae, such as their stubbornly repeating a mantra that consists of one line from a politically motivated letter that Jefferson wrote to the Danbury Baptists. Liberal thought offers nothing to America that doesn't require our abandoning the things that made us a great nation.

"It is pleasing to see that most true conservatives no longer suffer lightly the lunacy espoused by liberal leaders and their dupes. Christian precepts are integral to the events that led to this nation's birth and they sustain us still. Every day, more true patriots are finding the resolve to restore truth to social discourse by vocally exposing political correctness for the socially corrupt lie that it is. To me, there is nothing more absurd than liberals who prattle on about "tolerance" as they plot the next step in their campaign to banish the Ten Commandments and other important symbols of our particular brand of freedom from public institutions."

Technorati tags: core lessons, politics,

Attrition Strategy: Phased Redeployment

Jeff Jacoby, ersatz "Conservative" for the Boston Globe, writes another wee bit of tripe today about illegal aliens. He relies on the old canard "we can't deport them all! there are too many!" Which is really getting tiresome to read considering there are 237 THOUSAND references to the attrition strategy on Google.

I don't know if Jeffy took a shrill pill before writing this drivel, but I'd like to set him straight.

What if we deport them all? - The Boston Globe

"Some 1.2 million illegals are believed to work in construction," Holman Jenkins wrote in the Wall Street Journal last June. "If the cost of home building goes up, demand goes down: Less wood is sold, fewer nails, fewer power tools, fewer pickup trucks. Contractors would make less profit; ergo, Harley-Davidson would sell fewer Road Kings with all the chrome and finery."

Lord know's we've tried to explain the idea of getting most illegal aliens to leave by choice via enforcement-compelled attrition: Start enforcing the law and the jobs will disappear; if the jobs disappear, millions will leave as they did in the 1950s when Eisenhower succeeded in ending the problem of illegal immigration then. Perhaps because the word "attrition" is often used as a military term that connotes we're winning, the Leftists just can't get it and the Neo-Conservatives have no stomach for it because it suggests we aren't winning fast enough.

Let me try to put this in the language that both a Leftist (or one posing as a conservative like Jacoby) and a Neo-Conservative will understand. We need to implement a strategy of "phased redeployment" of our valiant illegal immigrant criminals. Over a five-year period, I propose we shift the majority to Mexico, some to other South and Central American Nations, some to Ireland and still other smaller groups to various nations around the globe. Their redeployment destinations will be dependent on their knowledge of the language and customs of the nation to which they go. For the Leftist, this is a benefit because it creates a wedge within the populations of poorer nations who can later be recruited to assist Leftist American youth who arrive to do their Peace Corp stints. For the Neo-Conservative, it creates a core bloc of potential insurgents who can be recruited by the CIA when the next Wilsonian President with "we can democratize the world" delusions is elected.

On the home front, the five-year-plan goes as follows: A blue ribbon panel investigates which types of businesses are employing illegal aliens, which should take all of about 15 minutes using the data already collected both by government agencies and by private foundations. From this list, they create a schedule working backwards from the five-year deadline that allocates Border Patrol and ICE business enforcement resources in an ever-increasing web of pressure on companies that are skirting our laws. The final list will start with the business types with the fewest illegal aliens in their work forces and provides for enforcement resources to be ratcheted up over four and a half years, finally getting to the business types with the most illegal aliens in their work forces in year five.

Why four and a half years of enforcement activity, not five? Simple. The first six months is the publicity phase; we advertise and promote the schedule the panel creates so that the businesses are all given fair warning and roughly know when their "deadline" is for getting illegal aliens off of their under-the-table payrolls. This should make the transition as orderly as possible. These businesses relied on American labor at some time in the recent past, and they will have to get used to a less slave-like work force again. And their prevailing wages will have to go up.

I know it will be tough for construction companies to again see themselves as pathways to the middle class for young and less skilled Americans, but I know that we can do this. It will take some time for our hospitals to get used to not having an overflow of non-paying patients in their emergency rooms, but I have faith they'll get through it. I don't know what they'll do in California when they stop having to build one new school a day and gang members are as easy to spot as a red wine spill on a white carpet, but the Americans there have always been a hearty lot. Maybe they'll have to call Dr. Phil to console all of those state legislators who lost their power bases and probably won't be re-elected. But I never said this would be painless.

Setting things right after letting them be wrong for so long is never painless.

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Core Lessons: Unique American Culture

This piece was originally written either in the late 1990's or in 2000. It has existed in various versions, most of which were longer. When it came to writing something I wanted to leave for my kids to read, I decided to pare it down and tighten it up.

This is the result from early 2002:

Yes, there is a "unique American Culture"

Patriotic Americanism must continue to prevail over the desires of those who wish to deny that there is such a thing as "a unique American culture." Our ancestors anticipated attempts to lead our nation down a path to balkanization and expected us to stand fast against them. We must consistently refute lies that contend America was founded by and populated by people possessing broadly diverse perspectives and ideals. The ideas behind concepts like multiculturalism and diversity were anathema in the America of 1776 and for nearly 200 years thereafter.

In their faith, habits and principles, the first American citizens were a most narrowly diverse lot, separated only by slight variations in Christian denomination. In their ethics, morals and values, the first Americans could only be described as virtually homogenous. It was the similarity not the diversity of our forefathers and founders that set the stage for America to become a great nation.

Those who advocate diversity and multiculturalism as being historically important to this nation's greatness are dangerously wrong. Using their twisted logic, we are to believe that the ideals driving Islamic terrorists to fly planes into buildings are societally compatible with the motivations that drive Presbyterian women to have fundraising bake sales. Diversity theory places Christian Baptism on par with Animist ritual mutilation of baby girls' genitalia. Diversity theory blindly accepts into our midst hordes of incompatible, poorly educated, virtually aliterate(if not outright alingual) illegal alien border-jumpers from third-world Kleptocracies because it is supposedly in keeping with "the things for which this nation stands." There is no doubt that our founders would be nauseated by such absurd notions.

Thomas Jefferson expressed concern about this issue in "Notes on Virginia" (brackets added for clarity):

"…But are there no inconveniences to be thrown into the scale against the advantage expected from a multiplication of numbers by the importation of foreigners? It is for the happiness of those united in society to harmonize as much as possible in matters which they must of necessity transact together. Civil government being the sole object of forming societies, its administration must be conducted by common consent. Every species of government has its specific principles.

Ours perhaps are more peculiar than those of any other in the universe. It is a composition of the freest principles of the English constitution, with others derived from natural right and natural reason. To these nothing can be more opposed than the maxims of absolute monarchies [the equivalent of today's despots, tyrants and kleptocrats]. Yet, from such, we are to expect the greatest number of emigrants. They will bring with them the principles of the governments they leave, imbibed in their early youth; or, if able to throw them off, it will be in exchange for an unbounded licentiousness, passing, as is usual, from one extreme to another. It would be a miracle were they to stop precisely at the point of temperate liberty. These principles, with their language, they will transmit to their children. In proportion to their numbers, they will share with us the legislation. They will infuse into it their spirit, warp and bias its direction, and render it a heterogeneous, incoherent, distracted mass."

Jefferson chafed at the thought that we could, by inaction, surrender our homogeneity and he was greatly concerned that we might! All this banter about diversity and multiculturalism would have given him fits.

Nothing exemplifies how far we have strayed from the intentions and dreams of our founders more clearly than our current immigration policy. Yes, immigration is an important part of our history. But nobody from the pro-immigration camp wants to discuss the fact that the none of the signers of the Declaration of Independence were immigrants, they were colonist and British subjects. Every member of the Constitutional Convention of 1789 except Alexander Hamilton was born in the colonies. The absolute truth is that the vast majority of our first citizens were Americans by birth and the vast majority of Americans have always been "citizens by birth." We have never had as many as 15 percent of our residents being of foreign origin.

Cast in this proper light, the "nation of immigrants" mantra to which we are constantly subjected becomes tritely idiomatic. If we are to be strictly precise, our history is one forged by colonists who became the first American citizens via revolution. These originals were augmented by immigrants who were eager assimilants: All Americans. Before and until the immigration reforms of 1965, between one quarter and one third of all migrants to this land could not adapt and ended up leaving. Those who came here "seeking a better life" without possessing the all-important corollary "dream of becoming American" were roughly cast aside by a society that was decidedly intolerant of selfish opportunists who didn't want to "get with the program." Promoting diversity for the sake of diversity is as accepting of malignancies as it is of the benign; it will always be an utterly stupid practice.

The only way in which we can assure America's long-term continued success as a sovereign nation is to establish new policies promoting American cultural homogeneity via imposing strict limits on the number of immigrants, demanding rigorously-enforced visa and border laws and insisting that all new arrivals submit to and successfully complete compulsory "patriotic assimilation" courses soon after their arrival. Those who cannot accept our unique culture, mores and values as their own, forsaking all others, should be summarily returned to their countries of origin.

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Core Lessons: Introduction

In my dealings with a serial troll over at FreedomFolks, I've been challenging him to back up his rantings by writing expository pieces on where his so-seemingly muddled ideology comes from. Not giving in to the tempation to hunt snipes with him, or respond directly to his ad-hominem-dependent way of writing, I've attempted to nudge him into giving us a hint about what his core beliefs are and to explain to us what it was that led him to internalize them...and perhaps what possesses him to stalk bloggers.

Alas, he's just a troll. We can't expect him to skip out from under the bridge to write cogently about what stirs his soul, what drives his intellect or what truths he holds sacred. Surely if had the nerve, he'd be starting up loving conversations with the Kos-sacks.

But if I am to challenge him, perhaps I need to let it all hang about a bit more here. And so I shall.

The ideas that led to my creating what was first a web site that morphed into a blog obviously did not simply arrive as my ideology one day out of whole cloth. All of my early writings on this site - especially the pre-blog version - were of those things I deduced from experience, the ideals imparted to me by my family, those that emerged as I allowed my sense of stewardship to guide me toward the works of great Western Conservative minds, and, of course, what my exposure to people who stood for or promoted things with which I disagreed but piqued my curiosity to study despite my aversions.

With this in mind, because I think it's always good to revisit an earlier self and because there is just a lot of stuff I wrote before the Internet provided a broad and tag-word attracted audience, I'm going to start posting some of my older work and will continue to do so until I've picked through all of my older work that I'd like to re-examine. I'll post it unedited from it's original form. There will be things with which I now disagree, and there will be things I know more about now. Comments are welcome. Trolls are not; if you have something critical to offer, please include some background regarding how you came to your point.

What follows in this post is the original introduction to the old web site. While it is not close to being the earliest work I'm going to republish, I think it's the best place to start.

So, warts and all, here goes:


Introducing the Journal of The American Kernel

Dear Readers,

January 1, 2002 was no ordinary New Year's Day for me. It was life-changing! My wife woke me, a little white plastic stick in hand. A thin pink line was visible through its window. At 42, I was going to be a first-time father! Happy New Year! The first few days of 2002 were filled with a joy that allowed no intrusive deep thought. But soon I began to contemplate what kind of father I would be. And there were questions: What kind of life will she have? What will I do to nurture her growth? What kind of person will she grow up to be? In the aftermath of September 11th, what kind of world, and more importantly, what sort of America am I leaving for her? The questions came one after the other and they kept on coming for many days.

My daughter's ancestors had a hand in the sowing the seeds that grew into this great nation, not just in one, but all three of the major colonial groups: the northern, middle and southern colonies. All of her ancestors and relatives were duty-bound to carefully hand down family traditions with a sense of pride, responsibility and solemn stewardship.

I realized that this duty was now in my hands and that I had a long-standing commitment to take it very seriously.

So, I began to consider how I would handle my mission. What is the best way for me to make sure that I pass down the things I consider to make up my true "American soul?" My daughter is integrally connected to the blood, toil and sacrifice contained in each and every seminal event that made this great nation. It is important that this thread remain unbroken. How do I make sure this is so?

Well, one of the things that I think I do best is put words on a page. The advent of the Internet offers the opportunity and the means for me to establish a permanent record in a manner that my ancestors did not have. So, I have decided to keep an ongoing record of my thoughts about both my ancestry and current events viewed through the lens of what I know in my heart to be things true to the "real" American traditions.

What is "The American Kernel?"

I believe that there began a unique culture that sprang forth very early in the American colonial era. The people who were ancestors of those who fought to free this land and found a nation were diverse only in the narrowest of senses; they shared far more commonalities than differences. The hardships of frontier and geographic isolation from the nearby foreign influences common in the rest of the world soon produced a people who were more "American" than they were anything else. These hearty people cobbled together something different from anything that came before it in the history of the world. With a nod both to history and to technology I decided to call this essence "The American Kernel."

With all these things in mind, I dedicate this site to my daughter and, hopefully, the rest of my children and their descendants. I have decided to communicate to them in a series of letters. In addition, through this web site I will entertain and post the thoughts and ideas from others who share a similar desire to cherish and preserve the American Kernel.

So, let us begin.

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Bush's Mexican Sell-Out Redux

Bush's goal regarding "migration" for this hemisphere, as made crystal clear by his remarks the other day, can only result in the growth of a metastatic fifth-column of those who while being technically "American citizens" will pledge their allegiance to Mexico.

Linknzona (newly added to my blogroll) noted that several bloggers have posted Bush's promise to the Mexican people to do all he can to grant amnesty under the guise of "comprehensive immigration reform." I published an article on March 13 as did TBC here, and Linknzona here.

My comments on Linknzona's March 13 post are repeated, at his request, here, and at his site:

"Over at my blog, I've expressed similar outrage regarding Bush's commitments to Mexican citizens. As soon as I read what he said, it started the wheels turning; there was so much concern on the part of the founding fathers about the risks involved in allowing foreign interests to influence this nation's sovereign responsibilities.

The first five Federalist Papers were warnings against allowing alien interests too much say in our affairs. Jefferson expounded in Notes on Virginia similarly. I knew there was a lot of source material out there that would, when placed in juxtaposition to Bush's words in Mexico, reveal why this president has become a threat to our sovereignty and a possible scourge who will be reviled by future generations of Americans. If he gets his way on Amnesty, his legacy will be to be remembered as the man who forced us to take the first big step toward our nation's dissolution.

After looking through my favorite historical quotes, I decided that George ashington gave us the best example to use for determining what's wrong with this president. He said in his farewell address:

"Against the insidious wiles of foreign influence (I conjure you to believe me, fellow-citizens) the jealousy of a free people ought to be constantly awake, since history and experience prove that foreign influence is one of the most baneful foes of republican government. But that jealousy, to be useful, must be impartial, else it becomes the instrument of the very influence to be avoided, instead of a defense against it. Excessive partiality for one foreign nation and excessive dislike of another cause those whom they actuate to see danger only on one side, and serve to veil and even second the arts of influence on the other. Real patriots who may resist the intrigues of the favorite are liable to become suspected and odious, while its tools and dupes usurp the applause and confidence of the people to surrender their interests."

Bush sounds more like a man who thinks of himself as president of the Western Hemisphere, not of our sovereign nation. I believe that were Washington, Jay, Madison and Hamilton here today, they'd conclude that this man is behaving as a traitor and fight to have him removed from office.

It's tough to swallow, but his words and actions really have sunk to the depths of treason."

Others are expressing outrage in the Blogosphere, here, here, here, here and here, for a start. There are a lot of folks who are appalled by these comments. I imagine it's really hard to finally wake up and realize the president you supported and voted for doesn't care about you or your nation at all.


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Quote of the Day

Heck, this could be the quote of the month and year:

"There is an emerging hierarchy in the world economy in which the best-paid jobs are clustered in certain nations. If America wants to be a sustainably rich nation with well-paid workers, we must explicitly compete for these jobs.

"This cannot possibbly be a matter of laissez-faire indifference in any society. The fundamental problem with laissez-faire is that it doesn't care who wins.

"And it is impossible to be too blunt about the fact that $5/hr. workers at McDonalds are not going to vote Republican. If we want a conservative society, we need to make sure we have the kind of economic base that will produce Republican voters. End of story."

-Robert Locke

Man, that's so right on.

Technorati tags: patriotism, economics

Ruining The Jobs That Americans Do

I've got to give credit to Arizona Republic columnist Robert Robb for picking through another spew from the Pew Hispanic Center. What he found was surely not made clear by the study's authors; it had to have been found in the data. That's a lot more work than I'm used to seeing reporters do.

Every other article I can find about the study, and even the Pew press release, sings the praises of our great labor saviors who only do the jobs Americans won't do, or that the Mexican government deems that black Americans are incapable of doing. Here, it becomes clear that Pew found out that both illegal aliens and low skilled legal immigrants are both taking American jobs and lowering wages in construction jobs, which used to be the bridge to the middle class for many Americans.

Not so much any more. Thanks to illegal aliens:

Tilting the labor market

Nowhere has the demand for construction labor increased faster than in Arizona. Yet, most construction jobs in Arizona now pay below the state's median hourly wage, which was not the case in 1990. A stagnant or declining price of something is not an indication of a shortage of it. Contrary to the contention of immigration liberals, in almost all cases illegal immigrants do compete with native-born workers. A previous Pew study attempted to ascertain the percentage of the workforce illegal immigrants represented in various job categories. The highest was insulation workers, at 36 percent. That means in virtually all job categories in which illegal immigrants are prominent, at least two-thirds of the workers are legal.

But this is where my kudos end. Robb goes on to end his piece with the standard drivel about how we cannot deport millions of illegals and even comes up with a new heartstring that he tugs generously.

Yep. There are lots of anchor babies and it would be wrong to deport the parents and leave the kids, even though we send the parents of American kids to prison every day for the crimes they commit and leave them with relatives or in foster care. It would be wrong to weigh down overburdened state foster care systems with these anchors. The direct answer to this is that the kids would have to go "home" with the parents until they reach the age of consent; then they can return, if they choose to do so.

That's the way things work.


Technorati tags: illegal immigration, illegal alien, amnesty, immigration reform, immigration, guest worker, Pew Center

Impeach Bush Over Ramos and Compean?

I'd not have thought of it, but when a Republican Congressman draws the scenario...

Bush facing potential "Watergate" over refusal to pardon Agents (OneNewsNow.com)

"Congressman [Dana] Rohrabacher said if either Ramos or Compean were to be killed in prison by the inmates, that impeachment proceedings would be started in the House of Representatives," Corsi notes. "Now, that's the first time impeachment has been mentioned by a responsible public official," he says, "so I know this is a case that has high stakes for the White House."

...it makes a lot of sense. I'd go so far as to say that if either agent were seriously wounded while being held captive by the Bush weasels, then let the proceedings begin.


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It's Official: Bush Is A Mexican Mole

Today, our President revealed quite clearly what he is actually up to; he is serving as an agent for a foreign power.

I just don't see any other way to view crap like this:

Calderon tells Bush Mexico needs more - Yahoo! News

My pledge to you and your government, but more important to the people of Mexico, is I'll work as hard as I possibly can to pass comprehensive immigration reform," Bush said during a sun-splashed arrival ceremony that opened two days of meetings with Mexican President Felipe Calderon in this Yucatan Peninsula tourist haven.

This immediately brings to mind something George Washington said in his farewell address:

Against the insidious wiles of foreign influence (I conjure you to believe me, fellow-citizens) the jealousy of a free people ought to be constantly awake, since history and experience prove that foreign influence is one of the most baneful foes of republican government. But that jealousy, to be useful, must be impartial, else it becomes the instrument of the very influence to be avoided, instead of a defense against it. Excessive partiality for one foreign nation and excessive dislike of another cause those whom they actuate to see danger only on one side, and serve to veil and even second the arts of influence on the other. Real patriots who may resist the intrigues of the favorite are liable to become suspected and odious, while its tools and dupes usurp the applause and confidence of the people to surrender their interests.

I think what is happening in this nation in regard to its leaders' odious relations with foreign states, Mexico in particular, is an imminent threat to us all. Washington was right. The "real patriots" surely those who speak out, and act out, against the outright corruptions in which Bush & Co. engage with nations to our south. Minutemen and those who support them are surely being cast as "suspected and odious." And Bush is counting on their being an ample supply of "tools and dupes."

I hope and pray that the son of a bitch does not find them.


UPDATE: TBC has more good stuff on this here. I find it fascinating that if we account for the time zone differential , we posted within a minute of each other. And we both called Bush a traitor. Great minds think alike!

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The Stats Tell the Tale About Gangs

I'm not surprised that the LA Times pussyfoots around the issues and again fails to find a quote from someone, anyone, who will speak the truth: LA's gang problem is a direct result of its status as a sanctuary city.

Gang crackdown raises touchy issue - Los Angeles Times

The immigration agency began last month, for the first time, to identify deportable gang members.

For the month of February, 290 inmates at Los Angeles County jails were determined to be in this country illegally, and 24 of those, about 8%, were determined to be associated with street gangs.

A similar survey was done for the 816 inmates red-flagged in jails in the seven Southern California counties served by Hayes' office. That survey, which includes Orange, Riverside and San Bernardino counties, identified 59 gang members, or 7% of those facing deportation.

On any given day, Los Angeles County jails have about 19,500 inmates, including about 4,500 gang members, said Steve Whitmore, a Sheriff's Department spokesman. He said up to 25% of the inmates in the jail are believed to be foreign nationals.

Actually, I'd be more than happy to write LA off. I'd say let's wall it off in certain places and let Crips and the Craps kill each other off, but the bastards are exporting their criminal enterprises across the country. We've imported a culture that spawns dangerous subcultures that is being excused by local officials. The sooner we take this gang war out of the hands of LaRaza Mayor Villaraigosa, and let Americans of less politically correct persuasions put their boots down, the better.

Technorati tags: illegal immigration, illegal alien, amnesty, La Raza, Gangs

Gates Sells Whine At Microsoft

It's a sad statement that one of this nation's greatest innovators has joined in our Plutocratic Overlords' quest for cheap labor.

FT.com / World / US & Canada - Gates warns on US immigration curbs
Mr Gates said he felt “deep anxiety” about the US’s ability to remain competitive if it did not act quickly to improve education, invest in basic science research, and reform its immigration ­policies.

The key fallacy here is that if Gates and his greedy globalist cohort get more labor via visa workers there will be no incentive for our bastions of higher learning to improve the educational lot of the average American. More visa slots means more chances to sell higher-priced tuitions to aliens - and that is where they will focus their efforts. Any "improvement" and new investment in research will disproportionately be skewed to benefit the very aliens who would come here on student visas knowing that there was a work visa waiting at the end of their educational journey. It's a closed loop that shuts American kids out. If there had never been a student visa program to begin with, we'd be growing our own engineers and scientist much more capably than we are today.

If the Visa programs were eliminated completely tomorrow, we'd not only start educating more American kids and force colleges to presssure state school systems to improve their results, we'd also stop making people who want to kill us more capable of doing so. When I was in school, there were tons of Iranians on my campus. My bet is that at least some of them are now involved in building nuclearn weapons for Iran. And how come nobody ever points out that Al Quaeda sorts are highly educated, many of whom have had their educations underwritten by the boneheaded leadership of Western nations that now can't seem to figure the proper way to define our war against radical Islam. Who cares if we look less magnanimous to the rest of the world? Does it really make them hate us less if we look helpful?

Uh. No.

It's not as if figuring this stuff out takes a rocket-science-level intellect; in fact, I'm sure that most Congresscritters know exactly the way this crap works. They just won't say it for fear that your knowing would hurt them.

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Oh dem RACIST Cherokees

This news item should have some PC heads exploding today. Imagine, a people determining by vote as to whom qualifies for being part of their nation! It's almost as if they would wish to have immigration and citizenship laws or something - and that they be enforced! OMG!

Cherokees vote out slaves' descendants - Yahoo! News

"'The Cherokee people exercised the most basic democratic right, the right to vote,' tribal Principal Chief Chad Smith said. 'Their voice is clear as to who should be citizens of the Cherokee Nation. No one else has the right to make that determination.'"

Seriously, the Cherokees are right. But I'll bet that nobody, even the most mentally-challenged Leftist, has the gall to wage a war of political correctness upon them.

If only so many American citizens were not so wussified...


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Welcome to Another Cavalcade of Conservatism

Now, for another honor roll of Internet tidbits, blogging brilliance and other general Conservative crispness **:

LinknZona: From High Positions

At what point does [Bush's] stubbornness in disdain for his country and its supporters and in love for and support of a foreign power, Mexico, cause many American patriots to lose faith in their president? I don’t know, and I doubt if anyone does. But sometime between 9/11 and 2006 it happened. Many came to wonder how effective it was in protecting America to fight a war on terror in one part of the world and encourage everyone, including those same terrorists, to cross our borders at will.

Let's hope that enough people stop drinking the Kool Aid to stop this man of mundane intellect on a fools errand from ruining the nation we leave to our children.

Becoming American

The question of American national identity and the strength of our attachments to the American national community is, given our diversity, perhaps the most important domestic national question facing this country. Some dismiss these concerns as being based on “outdated theories.” Others urge Americans to accept other possible platforms for solidarity like “new diasporas, transnational civil society, and other identity groups” and the “thinning out of national ties” and argue that “it is time to accept an America . . . whose bonds are secondary to other forms of association.”

For the sake of the viability of this republic and its people and institutions, let us hope not.

There's a key point here: There are a lot of Americans - even a lot of Conservatives - who must be disabused of contemporary and too widely accepted leftists beliefs that diminish the importance of Citizens having primary and sole allegiance to this nation if they are to be truly American, and for America to continue to exist.

UN opposes proposed Nigerian ban on same-sex relationships - Africa

Four UN special rapporteurs on racism, violence against women, xenophobia and related intolerance said in a statement that the draft bill is 'an absolutely unjustified intrusion of individuals' right to privacy' and goes against the UN Universal Declaration of Human Rights.

The same folks who want to force the world to pay for global warming want to be the definers of what is morally proper. Nope, no global government aspirations to see here folks. Move along.

Free Trade and Funny Math by Patrick J. Buchanan - HUMAN EVENTS

Economic nationalism is the policy of rising powers, free trade the policy of declining powers. For great powers have ever regarded trade as an arena of struggle in the clash of nations. It is no accident all four presidents who made it to Mount Rushmore were protectionists.

That's powerful. Right now, being protectionist is not in favor. Why? Because those who control the information flow are pure, free-trade globalists who think the concept of a "soveriegn nation" is quaint.


Townhall.com::Prosecutor's discretion::By Debra J. Saunders

Last month, when Border Patrol Agents Ignacio Ramos and Jose Compean began serving 11-year and 12-year prison sentences, respectively, for shooting at a fleeing drug smuggler, many Americans were outraged that the federal government would prosecute two agents for doing their jobs. Their trial uncovered policies that seem designed to undermine success -- such as the rule that prohibits agents from pursuing a speeding suspected smuggler without a supervisor's authorization.

Drug smugglers know that if they speed to the border, they'll likely get away. Former U.S. Border Patrol Agent David Ham points toward the location at Fabens, Texas, on Monday, Feb. 5, 2007, where former Border Patrol Agents Ignacio Ramos and Jose Alonso Compean shot drug smuggler Osvaldo Davila last year. The agents began serving prison sentences in January after their convictions in the incident.

But the real outrage in this story is how federal prosecutors used their discretion to shelter a drug smuggler and go after two men who, at the worst, should have been fired for shooting at the smuggler and then not reporting what they had done. The outrage is that this case ever came to trial.

Once this is cleared up, can we shoot the freaking prosecutor in the ass with salt-buckshot in the public square? When I was a kid, there was a kooky old lady in the neighborhood who would shoot kids in the ass with the stuff if they rode bikes on her property. While I was never hit, I recall seeing the results. Painful.


Atlas Shrugs: KENT STATE:IN THE NAME OF OBL. THE YEAR OF ISLAMIC VICTORY!" YourTaxdollars at Work

He was drawing a paycheck from the people of the State of Ohio while trying to launch a Jihad against people like me. In fact, just five minutes before I called he posted an entry under the title "Crusaders Can’t Take Anymore in Afghanistan!"

Two Word Solution: National Guard


Lincoln Tribune - Bank Boycott Coalition Releases List of Illegal Alien Banks - Politics - News

A coalition of over 100 anti-illegal immigration groups that are boycotting Bank of America are releasing a broader survey of banks, in order to assist consumers in relocating their money to banks that are not in the business of aiding and abetting illegal aliens!

They should at least change their name to Scumbank of America.


Muhammad Dressup

Praise Allah! It's the Prophet Muhammad riding his flying donkey up to heaven, and he wants you to dress him up in something special before he gets there! It's so easy! Just drag the items to him with your mouse and they'll snap right into place.

This is actually kind of fun to play around with!


blonde sagacity: A Rape Tree Grows Out West

It seems that when woman employ the "guides" that take you across the Mexican -U.S. border (called "Coyotes"), one thing these women must endure is the routine practice of being raped and as a visual reminder to all that come after --her bloodstains are left in the dirt and her panties are hung from the branches of a tree.

This was news to me. You've gotta see the pictures!


From My Position... On the way!: What Carren thinks of Senator McCain

Senator is not a word I would use for McCain. JERK (or asshat, as Chuck usually says) is more like it. When Chuck was in the hospital, Jerk came to "visit" us.

A quick story before I tell you what happened: A few weeks before Chuck was wounded I watched a TV movie that protrayed Jerk's time as a POW during Vietnam. I was intrigued by the story and developed a lot of respect for what he endured, and the fact that his wife waited all those years for him to return home. I knew bits and pieces of the story before watching the movie, and I knew his arms were badly damaged due to the torture he received. I had a lot of respect for the man... then I met him.

When he first walked in I was honored to meet him. He shook my hand and Alice's hand, then walked over to Chuck's bedside. After a lousy 5 minutes or so, the Jerk said (and I quote):

"Well, we all know what we're here for... let's do the photo op."

EXCUSE ME!!!??? The PHOTO OP???!!!!

What an effing loon...and he want's to be your president!


American Chronicle: Amnesty The Day Bush Killed America, If 30 million Ilegals are Good, Why Not 300 million?

President Bush, you defined your legacy well. Your name will live in perpetual infamy as the man that killed America. You have already replaced Benedict Arnold as the example of traitorous behavior but you have not gone as low as you can go. The ignoble day legislation granting amnesty or guest worker status to millions of illegals is passed, will go down in history with recognition equal to the day John Kennedy died, the Alamo, Pearl Harbor, 9-11, and Neville Chamberlain’s “peace in our time” declaration. All will remember where they were when Bush killed America. Mark that day well; you will need to explain to your children why you did nothing to stop it.

Bush is actually worse than all of those formerly breathing traitors put together. But let's not quibble about degree when we're so far immersed in Hell.


American Chronicle: Approve Amnesty? Then Drop the White House American flag, Spit,