Merry Christmas, Happy Holidays

Bank of America bonuses, ATM charges, and Struggling to Endure the Dodd-Frank Bank Attack Bill

Let me start this, my first post in a long while, by saying that because of my experiences with Bank of America, I am definitely not a fan of Bank of America.

In short, I found their customer service to be non-existent. Their tellers are… condescending at best, and more times than not – just plain rude. And don’t even think of applying for a loan from them unless you have enough money to buy the bank.

All of this said, I am completely on their side in this idiotic onslaught of the media and these “protesters” (read George Soros and MoveOn.org rent-a-mob morons).

What has Bank of America done wrong? They are paying bonuses that they are legally obligated to – and if they didn’t follow through on those contracts? They would be faced with litigations that would cost them millions to defend and they would still have to pay those bonuses. These are bonuses which were legally negotiated to bring high quality people to Bank of America, and in turn those people earned Bank of America a lot of money. Money which made Bank of America a more viable institution and better investment for all the various entities who invested in Bank of America. I hope I am not loosing anyone yet.

Ok, well I will forge on – wanna guess who some of those investors are? Union pension plans, teachers’ pension plans, government pension plans… wanna guess whose IRA’s and 401K’s are taking a hit and who, when they figure this out, won’t put two and two together and realize they are the cause of their own destruction? The very teachers, union members, IRA, and 401K owners who are screaming about how vile Bank of America is for paying these bonuses. I doubt that they were bitching when Bank of America’s stock was leading those same investment instruments.

This brings me to another issue that the business of any company is to make a profit, and as Bank of America is a business entity; its primary mission is to show a profit. Without a profit the employees won’t have jobs, the shareholders (those teachers, union members, government employees, retirees… whose pensions have been invested in business entities like Bank of America) will not have anything more than what they have been able to stuff into their mattresses.

Where am I going here?

Well, like I said: Bank of America is in business to make money and how they do that is operating as a financial institution.

Now, let’s look at one of the latest problems facing the US banking and financial system: HR 4173 – Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act.

In a nutshell, this is legislation that is completely detrimental and harmful to the banking system and ultimately, by extension – the US banking consumer.

How?

Well, this “financial regulatory reform act” imposes all kinds of new charges and taxes on the banking system while at the same time forcing it to reduce charges to its consumers. Now, one of the amendments included in the Dodd-Frank bill was placed there by when it hit the Senate by Illinois Senator Richard Durbin. This amendment mandates a reduction in transaction fees and 44¢ to 24¢ every time a credit card’s swiped.

What was the expected cost to banks for this reduction to the US banking system? 14 Billion dollars a year.

And it is specifically this cost that caused Bank of America to institute a monthly $5 charge to use their debit card.

So what happened when Bank of America tried to recoup these costs?

Everyone begin whining and complaining about how Bank of America is mistreating their customers – let’s get real, Bank of America is only doing what it is SUPPOSED to be doing : protecting its revenue flow, protecting its shareholders, and protecting the investments pension plan managers have made on behalf of their clients.

Senator Dick Durbin even went to the floor of the US Senate and called for the customers of Bank of America to “Get outta that bank! Go to a smaller community bank where they’re not charging you these fees and ripping you off,”.

Which is real sad when you think back and realize that it was his amendment that brought all this about in the first place.

The Morning after the Rapture

So here it is the morning after the supposed Second Coming or Rapture or End of the World or whatever… and now Christians of all denominations are going to be painted with the same broad brush that should only be applied to the ‘preacher’ who devised this money grab.

Other Christians are going to be laughing at the people who followed this man and his ‘teachings’. Society at large are finding this as just another reason to laugh at ALL of those stupid Christians and their silly beliefs – I would love to, but won’t go into some of the tenants other religions hold near and dear…

Do I, as an Atheist, see this as a good reason to laugh? Does it re-enforce my belief that ‘God’ is created in the image of Man, by Man, and for Man to oppress and subjugate his fellow Man…? It could go a very long way to furthering my philosophies…

Again – am I going to laugh at these people who followed this man?

No, I will admit that I will shake my head and wonder why someone lets themselves be duped like this.

I fully understand that we each need something to base our lives on – whether it is religion, power, whatever. If we did not, we would be as lawless as rabid dogs in the wild. Instead, a set of social mores and standards have risen up and are based on philosophies of “do good here and you will have a wonderful afterlife”. This is understandable for the betterment of society and the human condition as a whole.

Sadly though, people who base their lives on the Christian religious philosophy are now going to be painted with the same brush as the followers of this nut-job who ran around spewing this nonsense.

At least he did not have his followers get purple sheets cut into triangles or have them meet and all have a celebratory drink of purple Kool-Aid.

The problem is that ALL Christians now have another stain against them as they are lumped in with the very people who had their followers commit those every acts.

We are also going to see a lot of Christians doing something that I refer to as trying to “out Christian” each other – ie: “I’m a better Christian than you are!”, or “God loves me more than he does you because…”.

Ye-eah… ri-ight… “Pride goeth before a fall…” and that fall will be the further vilification of the Christian religion, and its followers.

I don’t think I need to remind Christians everywhere that the Bible tells them not to listen to or follow false prophets and that no one knows the exact day or time for their Rapture…

I guess it all boils down to this – these were a very few people who were grasping at a wisp of smoke in the wind, and not the mainstream Christians who stolidly lead their lives in the face of adversity and now, with a little more humiliation piled on – even as an unbeliever who would undoubtedly been led to the stake first in other times – I still don’t se a reason to ridicule or de-ride even the people who fell for this.

Instead, these people are in need of our – Christians and non-Christians alike – sympathies and support. How would you like to find out that all you have believed in and based your live on is but a scam? Their faith, their… everything may have just been thrown on the ashe-heap of their lives.

Nothing is worse than to take a man’s self-respect – today those people are not only having to deal with a loss of faith, but a loss of their self-respect.

Girl Scout Cookies versus the heavy hand of Hazelwood, MO and over-reaching liberalism

As they have for the last six years, two Hazelwood, MO teenage girls had set up their Girl Scout cookie stand. Their goal – sell 2000 boxes of Girl Scout Cookies – lofty, but doable.

Now, you know where this went – an “anonymous” neighbor along with a local bureaucrat (who believes it is “…the responsibility of every good citizen to respect the laws that we have.“) have brought the heavy hand of an over-reaching government down and shuttered their cookie stand.

The mother of these young ladies said that this is “important as a learning opportunity. This is teaching leadership, communication, entrepreneurship,”

This has probably taught these girls all of that, but I’d be willing to bet that it taught them something even more important:

“A government big enough to give you everything you want, is strong enough to take everything you have.” Thomas Jefferson

While the government, indoctrination schools tell these girls how bad Capitalism is and how our glorious leader will lead them to the promised land of living in a Third World Economic country – they are seeing first-hand how their over-reaching, intrusive government is affecting their lives.

Conservatives can rant and rave all day about the evils of this intrusive government and those words will fall on deaf ears. Instances of meddling, even at this level, will do more to teach the young people who to look to for their future – Conservatives who believe in their right to pursue any opportunity to better themselves or liberals, who believe that these girls should be held down and forced to submit to governmental regulations which do nothing but limit and deprive them of their freedoms and liberties.

Yes, it is sad that these girls have to endure this, but I rejoice at the fact that there are now two more people (not counting all their friends) who will look at the leftist agenda with a jaded eye and not buy into the propaganda spewed by their NEA ‘educators’.

These same people will continue to rise up and say “Enough is ENOUGH!” to bureaucrats who live to write still more oppressive and freedom-robbing laws in order to further their own petty power-trips. It is one thing to lookout for our neighborhoods in order to make sure they are safe. it is something completely different to watch your neighbors in order to find something to use against them in a pursuit of denying them the pursuit of their life, liberty, and happiness.

These young ladies, their families, their friends, and some of their neighbors are the ones who will take up the struggle and work to overturn moronic regulations which hobble the American spirit of entrepreneurship and liberty – Good on them!

More and more we see regulations and mandates of this nature and people who will ‘anonymously’ use them to enjoin someone else – wait a minute, what am I complaining about?

Tarriffs, excise taxes, prohibitive entry restrictions, legislations, OSHA, EPA, HOA’s… all American traditions in stifling the entrepreneurial spirit.

Add to those all the bureaucrats sitting in their tiny offices working to further regulate the masses they see as only cattle who need to be restricted in all aspects of their lives.

I just hope that these two young ladies learned the lesson of Thomas Jefferson and Ronald Reagan when he said, “The most terrifying words in the English language are: I’m from the government and I’m here to help.”

Wikileaks dump – scandal, setup, or just plain irresponsibility?

So everyone is wringing their collective hands over Julian Assange, his Wikileaks organization, and the massive document dumps this site has been involved in.

The list of people this dump of primarily U.S. diplomatic cables has pretty much everyone… UPSET, let’s go with that instead of my first choice. Everyone from the Chinese to the Russians, to the Saudis are extremely upset with Assange and some, like the Saudis are probably looking for this guy and if they ever find him – well, I doubt that anyone else will find him. Same goes for the Russians, they don’t seem to have much patience with people who tell their secrets. The White House…? Well, they have condemned the action and say that they are looking into what can be done about it…

And just what are all the secrets that everyone is all up in arms about?

Well, The Saudis want someone (read: the evil Satan – America) to take care of Iran and the threat Ahmadinejad and his whack-job cronies pose.

Oh, they also don’t like being outed as the biggest supporters of groups like the Afghan Taliban and Lashkar-e-Taiba. Now the Saudis would like the rest of the world to think that they are helpless to fight the demands of these terrorist groups when they come calling for money.

Ye-eah… ri-ight… now we know what a lot of people have suspected for a long time. And you can add the countries of Qatar, United Arab Emirates and Kuwait to those who fund Islamic terrorists in the region and around the world.

The Russians – they’re just upset (same as usual) so no news there – move along folks. Funny thing though: they are trying their very best to downplay the whole thing. They are saying that they don’t see it having a lasting effect on their improving ties with Washington… I wonder how warm that makes Assange feel when he snuggles into bed at night?

And the Obama regime… well, they are upset, disturbed, and well… what do you expect them to do beyond condemning the action? I mean, it is putting the lives of US troops in danger and threatening America’s national security… but… oh well, Big Barry has to go to… where DID he run off to this time.

I wonder… if someone leaked his school and employment records… what would the White House response be then?

And Rep. Peter King (R-N.Y.), the incoming chairman of the House Homeland Security Committee, feels that Attorney General Eric Holder has no “sense of urgency” to stop this and other leaks like it.

I disagree – there are other cables in this disclosure that EVERYONE is quietly PISSED OFF! about.

All those cables detailing how the US used some VERY serious strong-arm tactics to pressure other countries to fall into step on the man-made global warming HOAX
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Yeah, haven’t heard much about those have you? Well, I doubt that ABC news will go bat-crap-crazy in their twirling Dervish dance to spin this and thereby make everyone so dizzy and dazed by it all that they won’t notice the thuggish tactics employed in forwarding the MMGW hoax.

Oh, everyone is wringing their hands and trying their best to sound upset at the revelations concerning how bad the military is – like I am really going to buy THAT!

Just wait, a couple months from now and on into the 2012 campaign season – ABC will be using every one of those documents to show how bad everything in Iraq, Afghanistan, is – all because Bush took us there.

And what of Army Pvt. Bradley Manning? Now here is a guy who has admitted that due to the official policy of “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” he felt that this would be his best way to get back at the military (THAT HE JOINED!) for not letting him be an open gay.

In all the hubbub about Assange what about Manning?

Yeah, Assange has dealt a brutal blow to this country and some of its operations abroad. Should he be prosecuted? I believe so – in the criminal court system for willful disclosure of classified documents, and in civil courts for the damage he had done.

Should the Wikileaks website be allowed to go on being available on the Internet? Oh… now there is a good one.

Let’s look at that and consider that it’s odd that at the very time the US Congress is looking at ‘Net Neutrality’ and in effect, regulating the Internet here, maybe not to the extent the Chinese do – this whole Wikileaks scandal lands with a giant wet PLOP! on everyone’s shoes.

I can hear it now: “Why if there are people out there that will disclose something this damaging, we NEED to do something to stop them!” “We cannot allow this kind of information to be in the public domain!”

What kind of information?

The atrocities that have occurred during a war (it’s a WAR – people get hurt, killed, and things are destroyed) – puh-lease, don’t blow smoke up my skirt on that one. The American media is almost orgasmic over all that they can do with the information gleaned from these documents to slander and smear the Republicans and Conservatives.

Will they go bsc over the revelations that Hugo Chavez thinks that Fidel and Mahmoud are really nice guys? I doubt it.

Will they and others in the government start caterwauling for regulations and censorship of who should have access to the Internet and just what they should be allowed to post on the Internet? There are a number of people who don’t believe that you should have the right to express what you think.
I hope that level heads will prevail here and not fall for the argument that if he wasn’t allowed the access, this would never have happened and that we need to restrict that access so that it doesn’t happen again.

That is not the answer. The answer lies more in the security systems that were breached by the Army Pvt. Bradley Manning, and the callous irresponsibility of Julian Assange.

Rahm leaving the White House – is he just the first to leave?

Rahm Emmanuel is leaving the Obama White House…

Photo: GETTY

I’m just wondering if he is just the first to leave this sinking ship.

And yes, I am going to ask: How long before we hear that the Secretary of State – you know, that gal that was First Lady at one time… yeah, her… haven’t heard much about her lately… Geez, I hate getting old, you forget peoples names so quickly.

Anyway, her name will come to me, what has she been doing and how long will it be before she packs her bags and leaves? What about some of the others in this White House – who will next to realize that the second half of the Obama tenure is going to be nothing more than two years of flailing in quicksand?

Question: if, as it is being reported, Rahm is so upset with getting nowhere in moving the Obama agenda forward, and he sees no change in this situway… why is he staying on for another “six to eight months”?

Is he throwing himself on the sword of failing his “Glorious Leader”? From what I have read: Rahm may not be the most likable person, but no one questions his intellect or his ability to get things “taken care of”.

I can see how the White House and the Democrat Party would like to see him stay until after the midterms: when they loose both the House AND the Senate, and everyone is beginning to see this as a reality – they can use Rahm as the scapegoat for that outcome.

Oh, don’t say “Oh poor Rahm”. This is a guy that has brought a lot of animosity upon himself. Does anyone remember the story an aide to Bill Clinton told of Rahm stabbing a knife into a table while screaming the names of the president’s enemies and yelling “Dead! Dead! Dead!”

According to the reports Rahm is wanting out because no one wants to listen to him anymore, to do his bidding, and that he thinks Obama has not gone far enough pushing HIS agenda…

Hmmm… what about all those Obama bribes and blackmail for votes. Guess that wasn’t enough… Can anyone say ‘SEIU’, I mean brown shirts with clubs and knives bullying people at townhall meetings around the country?

You know what this sounds like to me? An early warning sign from Rahm… the rats are leaving the ship.

Who really can blame him? I mean; he has got to see what is coming and is just beating the rush to the door.

Yeah, there are those who will look on this and say that his leaving is another sign of how the Obama presidency is and has been a LOT more troubled than people have been led to believe. Say that ain’t so…

The latest Rasmussen Reports daily Presidential Tracking Poll for Sunday June 20th show that “28% of the nation’s voters Strongly Approve of the way that Barack Obama is performing his role as president. Forty-four percent (44%) Strongly Disapprove, giving Obama a Presidential Approval Index rating of -16″.

Oh YEAH! I remember what her name is now! Hillary Clinton! I KNEW that it would come to me. Where HAS she been?

Deepwater Horizon oil spill – the crisis Obama is wasting

The news first made national attention when a woman called in to the Rush Limbaugh Show reporting that the Coast Guard had shutdown the entire fleet of barges working to skim the oil from the surface of the Gulf of Mexico.

It seems that the Coast Guard had the bright idea to shutdown the ENTIRE fleet to verify that they all had the required fire extinguishers and life-vests.

Couldn’t do this barge at a time as they came into port or left out… couldn’t go barge to barge checking them out… nope, had to shutdown the ENTIRE fleet.

Ya know… I wonder… while the Coast Guard was inspecting these barges for equipment (that NO Captain of any boat, ship, or barge would ever THINK of leaving port without), did they also check to make sure that the crew had the right mix of the correct gender(s), racial and ethnic mix, did they check to make sure that these barges are all handicapped accessible?

What Obama goon squad is going to shut them down today checking the sexual harassment policies for each boat to make sure they are current to Obama administration dictates? What about verifying that all the workers are members of the appropriate unions… OH! and by far the MOST important = has anyone checked on the barge owner(s): did THEY give the requisite donation, not to the Democratic Party, but to Obama.

Just in case you want to blame BP – remember ONE thing: this WAS an ACCIDENT!

Well, that is, unless you want to put on that cool colander you stole from your mother, covered in foil, and attached a few battery-powered LED lights to, on…

To the rest of you: check out the facts folks: This was an accident! Accidents are not your everyday, run of the mill occurrences. There are usually plans and procedures in place to deal with them in case they happen. Should this one HAVE happened? Well, let’s see: NO! But, when you have been FORCED to go to what essentially is outer space to perform your work… “manure” is going to happen. And when it does, it generally is going to get on more that just your shoes.

I refused to watch the oval office address which I understand was, as usual setup to look as smooth and polished as possible… What I have heard of the speech makes me ask, once again: “did this guy pass economics 101?”. Does he EVEN have any idea of economics?

His “brilliant” answer to this crisis is a moratorium on drilling which at it’s heart makes absolutely no sense. He/it will destroy the remains of the Louisiana economy with this unecessary move. This oil spill was not a failure of technology, it was a failure in decision making by human beings who have instantly learned a great lesson because of this catastrophe.

Guess what – with a couple of exceptions, this is an industry that is over 50 years old, and just HOW many accidents have they had… not just major accidents but minor ones too? Less than you have had in your own home.

They have PROVEN that they can drill safely, they’ve been doing it for over 50 years, but based on this one incident; a moratorium has to be put in place… a moratorium that serves but ONE one purpose: the president’s political agenda to remake energy policy in his idealogical imaginings. This country is dependant on oil because of marketplace forces. The day we stop wanting to use oil to run our cars and fuel our power plants is the day things will change… NOT ONE DAY EARLIER.

And does anyone REALLY think that these deepwater drill rigs are just going to sit idle in the Gulf – HA! Think about the investment the owners and operators of them have there, are they going to just say “Yup, yup, you dohn wan us ta get no mo earl outta them so we’s gonna shut’em down and walk away frum ‘em… yup, yup, yup…”

Ya know Obama has pledged $400 million in aid to Brazil for…… DEEPWATER OIL EXPLORATION.

Wanna guess who is going to be doing that exploration? Petrogas.

Wait! doesn’t George Soros own Petrogas?

Connect the dots folks.

(Yeah, I know – I need to go to the closet and get that cap that I covered in tinfoil last year out and put it on.)

This makes me ask: is Obama really WASTING this crisis?

…all depends on how you look at what is being wasted and what is being gained: he might be throwing the US economy, the ecology of the Gulf shores, and basically the American way of life in the trashcan to follow his dream… but what is he gaining?

George Soros, Hugo Chavez, Fidel… I wonder if they think that this crisis is going to waste or if they are looking at it through the spectrum of how this will bring America down…

Afghanistan: was Bin Laden REALLY there or did Bush know that it is the richest mining region on earth?

Researchers from the University of Pennsylvania and the Smithsonian Institution say that at least 50,000 years ago early humans were living in what is now Afghanistan, and that farming communities in Afghanistan were among the earliest in the world.

Now, did being part of the birth of humanity and civilization help the early Afghans, or Aryans? Not really: these are a people who have had their butts kicked around from day one!

The Medes, the Achaemenid Persians, Alexander the Great and Seleucids, India’s Chandragupta Maurya… from the EARLIEST of history, it seems that everyone has invaded and kicked these people around a little. Some have left with their tails between their collective legs – can we say the Soviets…?

And ya gotta ask: what is it about this barren, heat scorched, windy, sand-pit on the backside of Hell that makes everyone want to risk skin and sanity to control it?

Well… Afghanistan… a country in the middle of the most hellish of places on this Earth… its people beaten down by not just centuries but rather MILLENNIA of every despotic moron or ideology to come with the scorching heat is on the verge of becoming one of the most important mineral areas in the world.

Anyway, here is the latest story: straight from the pages of The Independent:
Recently released surveys conducted jointly by the Pentagon and the US Geological Survey show that Afghanistan could be sitting on as much as $1 trillion of untapped minerals.

Afghanistan has always been known for certain minerals, precious and semi-precious stones (lapis lazuli has been mined from the Afghan mountains since the years were still in the three digits). Some of the incredible range of minerals, stones, and stuff under the scenic Afghan landscape includes barite, chromite, coal, copper, gold, iron ore, lead,salt, sulfur, talc, and zinc, emerald, lapis lazuli, and ruby. Afghan emeralds are considered to be some of the best in the world.

Oh… by the way – they also have alot of that filthy petroleum stuff: you know oil… natural gas, the stuff President Bush supposedly took us to war with Iraq over… never mind that a bunch of ISLAMIC TERRORISTS (funded partially by and trained in Afghanistan and IRAQ killed American citizens – on AMERICAN soil)…

Now, this report comes out that there are vast untapped reserves of everything from copper, gold, iron, cobalt, lithium… that’s the key component for a lot of the batteries that go into cell phones, cameras, laptops – oh no, that means Bill Gates is probably involved! Could this be that I smell some kind of a CONSPIRACY here? (Go Mac!)

“DO WHAT?” You ask, bare with me a bit…

Think of this: China’s demand for any and all metals, minerals, as much oil as they can get has driven prices on some of the very commodities under that parched dirt skyhigh! With new deposits elsewhere growing scarcer by the day (you know we are depleting the earths resources faster than she can replace them)… miners are beginning to consider that operating in a combat zone might just be worth the risk.

The existing war-ravaged economy in Afghanistan is based largely on opium production and narcotics trafficking. Yeah, there is some aid from the United States and other industrialized countries going to help the people there, but when you consider that Afghanistan’s GDP (gross domestic product) is only about $12 billion… the value of the newly discovered mineral deposits will make for an entirely new picture in Afghan politics and its role on the international scene.

Some of the early risers to see this include India’s Hindalco Industries Ltd., Arizona copper giant Phelps Dodge Corp. and Hunter Dickinson Inc. of Vancouver. Nine different foreign mining companies have already applied for and been granted permission to participate in the bidding process.

Problem is: Two years ago the Chinese government-owned conglomerate China Metallurgical Group Corporation won a bid of $3.4 billion — $1 billion more than any of its competitors from Canada, Europe, Russia, the United States and Kazakhstan — for the rights to mine copper deposits near the village of Aynak, 20 miles southwest of Kabul. The valley around Aynak contains what is believed to be the world’s second largest remaining copper deposits – 240 million tons of it.

And now the Afghan government has a second great mineral project, a behemoth called Hajigak that is said to contain 60 billion tons of iron ore. There are seven finalists — and guess where they are all from: companies in China and India.

So how long do you think it will take before there will come a cry and hue from the far left that Bush knew AAAALLL along that Afghanistan was nothing but a vast untapped resource of mineral wealth? hmmm…?

How long before we hear the screams from the ‘truthers’ and every other crackpot bunch of wingnuts:

* “BUSH KNEW!” that there is this vast untapped wealth!
* “The Afghan/Iraq war was not a ‘War for Oil’ but rather an even more insidious Cheney/Halliburton plot to plunder Afghanistan for its vast mineral wealth!”
* Bush flew the Bin Laden family out of the US to save them and secure his stake in the future pillaging of Afghanistan’s mineral wealth.
* The aliens Bush was always entertaining at the White House instructed him to invade this pastoral land, inhabited as it was by the peace-loving Taliban…

I know I am missing a vast number of the moonbat brigades here, and to you – please forgive me. Drop me a line and tell me what your favorite tin-foil-hat theory is. IF its crazy enough, I’ll pass it on.

Oh, nevermind… these people started their pathetic Bush/Cheney/Halliburton screeching the instant this hit the wires. Don’t believe me? Do a Google search and find out for yourself… they are there, and these fools walk among us…

Sad thing for Afghanistan: this ‘discovery’ may not pan out for them for years to come.

* Security – although Afghanistan is, for all intents and purposes, called a sovereign country, most of it is controlled by drug/warlords who have REAL issues with letting anyone from the outside come in.

* Oh… add in that The Taliban are waging this religious war based in ideology and nothing more…

* Geography – getting the ore, oil, gemstones… out of the ground is nowhere as easy over there as it is just about anywhere else in the world. And being that Afghanistan is at the western end of the Himalayan mountain chain, a virtual no-man’s land where it’s a long way to or from anywhere, the infrastructure is exactly what you would expect in a country essentially stuck in the 7th century. And from what I’ve heard: communications REALLY SUCK there too!

But will this stop the nutjobs who think that Bush and Cheney personally caused Hurricane Katrina, that he and Rumsfeld directed the ISLAMIC TERRORIST attacks of September 11th, that the BP/Transocean Gulf of Mexico mess is his doing… ?

So… whattya think, did Bush know all about this treasure trove of goodies all those years ago and made up the whole bin Laden/Taliban/ISLAMIC TERRORIST attack thing to have an excuse to invade Afghanistan…?

Whatever…

Immigration Protests… What are they protesting – their “Right” to live in this country ILLEGALLY?

May 1st… International Workers Day, a day when all the downtrodden workers of the world march in a global celebration of the social and economic achievements of the labor movement. It was also a day when the old Soviet Union used to parade out all of their latest, greatest, fiercest, and (butt)-UGLIEST war machinery… and i am not talking about the women in the Soviet military.

Maybe i’m getting my wires crossed here but… someone tell me: what does May Day, or rather International Workers Day and the Communist Party ruled Union of Soviet Socialist Republics have in common with all the protests for “Immigration Reform” have in common?

Oh! Oh! Wait, wait… i know this one!!!

“Gimme, gimme, gimme… and if you don’t, we’ll do our damnest to tear you down and destroy everything we can to show you that we are just the people you want invading your country”.

Have you noticed just WHO it is that is doing most of the whining and cry-babying about being reminded that they are in this country ILLEGALLY?

Who is it that is yelling the loudest that they want to get the same rights as all Americans, but they forget that they have done nothing legally to earn those rights?

Who is it that stands before a camera and threatens that they “will take up shovels and pick-axes’ and “use them against you (sic)Americans”.

Hint: it is NOT the illegal immigrants from Russia, China, Thailand, England, Somolia, Sweden, Japan, Greece… no, these people are just ecstatic to be and even though illegal, to live a piece of the dream which is America.

Do these people bring with them a mass crime wave in the form of some of the most violent and vicious gangs history has ever plagued us with?

MS13, Raza Unida, Barrio Azteca, Latin Kings, Mexican Mafia, Texas Syndicate… (the list goes on and on).

Oh, because we don’t REALLY have a secure border, they bring along members of Al Qaeda into our SOVEREIGN nation. Remember Al Qaeda: they are the radical Islamic TERRORISTS to whom murder is just a way of life – especially the MURDER of American citizens. That’s us; you, me, your children, my little cupcake, our loved ones (wives, husbands, girlfriends, boyfriends…) – ALL OF US are their targets.

Pointing to the Friday attack about 50 miles south of Phoenix on Pinal County Sheriff’s Deputy Louie Puroll as proof something had to be done, supporters say the Arizona law that is being protested is necessary.

Deputy Puroll was shot and wounded when he came across a band of suspected drug smugglers. Arizona Governor Jan Brewer acknowledged that the attack shows a growing problem with the porousness of the border.

“The horrendous violence we see by narco-terrorists is uncontrolled, and our own federal government refuses to fulfill its responsibility to secure our border,” Brewer said in a statement.

Yeah, it’s just one of many stories we can all think about that surrounds a small percentage of the illegal alien population: remember a few years back when we heard all about how the Russian Mafia was terrorizing everyone in Brighton Beach, NY? Small time hoods compared to the vast network of Hispanic gangs out there now.

And before you start to whine about racial profiling: explain this one to me – is it racial profiling when almost invariably members of ONE group/Nationality (56% of the illegal alien invasion) is responsible for the above-mentioned crime-wave?

Now, you ask: “What was all this rambling about?”

Good question – This past Saturday (May 1st, May Day, International Workers Day…) was the day members of the invading illegal alien force of Mexico chose to gather to protest the Constitution and laws of the Untied States.

They protested in Los Angeles, Chicago, Seattle, Denver, Houston, Miami…

All saying the same thing:

‘Change your laws, or we will take up shovels and pick-axes and hurt you’ with them.’

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“Give me what i want or i will, with force, TAKE it from you.”

And we are to respect someone who is on our doorstep illegally and threatens us if we don’t give them more… ?

OR… do we kowtow to them and their threats of “Give me what I want or I will boycott you and your businesses…”?

There is a list (you knew i’d link to it) that is being passed around in an attempt to intimidate Arizona companies with.

Don’t know about you, but i definitely know who i’m going to be supporting as much as possible. May even drop them an email telling them how much i appreciate spending my money with them… just a thought.

i know that i am a simple man, and i may be a beat behind sometimes… but can someone PAH-leeze tell me why we should bow to this thug/gang mentality.

But then… Every time they march, more Americans unite against them.

In the state of Washington, Craig Keller, is heading up an initiative I-1056 that will bring Washington into the fracas on immigration reform. His effort will result in an initiative that would require state and local governments to enforce immigration law. It would also require the verification of immigration status before public benefits and driver’s licenses could be issued. I-1056 uses Arizona SB 1070 as its model, which was drafted in part by a University of Missouri law professor: Kris Kobach.

Similar measures are also being considered in Texas, Utah, Georgia, Illinois to name a few of the states who have had enough and are not waiting any longer for the federal government. In fact, isn’t it the federal government who is looking into how this law can be circumvented?

I also want to make one thing PERFECTLY CLEAR: not ALL illegal aliens are bad people. Most of them come here in search of a better life for themselves and their children… Good for them that they care about their children’s futures. They just NEED to it within the LEGAL framework of the law. It’s what millions have done before them. We could not slither across the border into Mexico, walk to Guatemala, fly to Venezuela… and stand on a street corner shouting that ‘I am here, you owe it to me to take care of me!’.

If you do try that: gimme a call when you get back here after a number of years of having to endure, i mean, enjoy the ‘hospitality’ they will force upon you…

Oh, be sure to smear some refried refrieds on their cars and office windows in your showing them what an exemplary citizen you will be.

Arizona’s Immigration Law – the Wave of the Future

So the legislatures of Arizona drafted, passed, and then the Governor signed an immigration law (SB 1070) which has as its purpose: “Requires officials and agencies of the state and political subdivisions to fully comply with and assist in the enforcement of federal immigration laws and gives county attorneys subpoena power in certain investigations of employers. Establishes crimes involving trespassing by illegal aliens, stopping to hire or soliciting work under specified circumstances, and transporting, harboring or concealing unlawful aliens, and their respective penalties.”

Now, if you haven’t read the law, i have already linked to it above… but i will probably link to it a couple more times before i’m done on this rant.

Are they superseding the Constitution? Not that i can see; it sure looks a lot like they are standing up for a document that a LOT of poll-iticians in Washington are ignoring.

Could this legislative action be a pre-emptive strike against an adminstration they see as having no respect for the document upon which this country was founded?

Are the lawmakers in Arizona looking at the example of how ObamaCare was Rahmed down the collective throats of an unwilling public? Then, after the fact; States banding together to mount a fight against Obama’s government HealthCare?

Are we seeing a State asserting sovereignty and saying “NO MORE!”?

Are the people of Arizona, and their representatives just sick and tired of the destruction the illegal alien masses have wrought upon their state: its resources and economy.

Does this one State have the Right, the DUTY to stand up for its citizens, its taxpayers, when IT KNOWS that the federal government is doing EVERYTHING possible to abolish those Rights?

OH WAIT! “This is racial profiling!” some are already screaming. IT is? Against who? The MAJORITY of illegal aliens are pretty easliy spotted: and ESPECIALLY in the southwest. Yeah, there are a LOT of natve born people of Hispanic descent living down there. And yes, some of them will feel some brunt of this as enforcement will look upon them also.

After about the third word out of their mouths it will be REAL obvious that they are here legally and that will be that. ‘Move along folks – there’s nothing here.’ And for those of you who missed on the reason for that: These people learned to speak the ENGLISH language long ago! THEY are AMERICANS! They are not of that group who thinks that to learn the ENGLISH language (that’s the one spoken by a predominance of the people in this country), is below them.

Growing up in New Mexico i can, and am VERY PROUD to say that i had and still (hopefully even after this rant) have some very dear friends who are of Hispanic descent. And ya know sump-thin’? I do not know a single one of them who welcome this invasion of illegal aliens to our/their homeland.

Oh, and do not start on me that we are all immigrants to this country so we should just open the flood gates to these people… no no no!

Yes, we ARE all descended of immigrants to this country, i take that back: some are here as LEGAL immigrants to this country.

These people; people who have worked within the law, done what they had to do to show that they were worthy of this great land… you have my open arms to welcome you and be there in support of you. To those who are unwilling to meet your dedication, your love of this country and what it stands for – i say they can GO HOME! Come back when they are willing to put out the effort to be here as LEGAL members of society. When they do not look upon this country as owing them something just because they are here.

Look at the mess that California is in: it’s a crater of economic devastation!

And why? The illegal alien invasion.

I could go through and list all the states which have not felt MAJOR negative impacts from the influx of the illegal alien invasion but with the exception of maybe North Dakota, they have ALL suffered.

Oh, by the way… actually the Hispanics from the south are not the only group invading this country: lest we forget – there are people from Asia, northern and southern Europe, Africa (Somolia, Nigeria, Ethiopia…)… about the only place that isn’t suppying the US with as many illegal aliens as they can is Australia.

So… back to the Arizona law that they just enacted last Monday: (SB 1070) – is it Constitutional? Will it stand up against the onslaught of people inside and outside our country who want to tear down the borders of our SOVEREIGN nation? I would love to think so.

Do i think that this is just the beginning salvo in the States standing up and saying “No More!” we have had enough federal meddling and mandating from Washington? Yeah… i think it’s just one of many to come. The States are being crushed under the weight Washington is placing on them and looking at the loss of power that they are experiencing over their own citizenry. To any poll-itician this itself is inexcusable.

How soon can we expect Georgia, South Carolina, Texas (I’m surprised they didn’t beat Arizona to THIS one!), and any number of other States to get on this bandwagon in the anti-Obama revolution?