May he rest in peace…

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From the pages of the Olpin Hoopes Funeral Home, Heber City, Utah…

Who are the 81 Socialists in Congress?

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Chilling summary and history of Socialists aka ‘Progressives.’ This is a good one to save on your computer for future reference. The facts are irrefutable, and so this is a valuable resource. (Hat tip – Charlotte)

http://www.c4strategies.com/whoarethesocialists.pdf

AGENDA: Grinding America Down. The docu-movie.

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I almost can’t wait to see the full length version of this film.

Terresa from The Noisy Room is urging us to view the trailer and pass along the word.

What is it?

See for yourself.  And then pass it along to your circle of influence.

AGENDA:  Grinding America Down.

Related:
Chilling summary and history of Socialists aka ‘Progressives.’ This is a good one to save on your computer for future reference. The facts are irrefutable, and so this is a valuable resource.

http://www.c4strategies.com/whoarethesocialists.pdf

Coming soon to a town near you

Mexican soldiers display seized weapons after a raid operation on a drug hit men training camp near the municipality of Higueras, some 50 km (31 miles) away from Monterrey May 11, 2010. The army seized machine guns, rifles, four rocket-propelled grenade launchers, two rockets, grenades, ammunition, twelve trucks and communication radios during the raid, according to local media. One drug hit man died during the operation. REUTERS/Tomas Bravo (MEXICO - Tags: MILITARY SOCIETY CRIME LAW)

A friend emailed me this morning with these disturbing photos.  It had been sent to him with the following note included.  I’ve left it in so you can read what I did, and draw your own conclusions.  Slide show of photos taken by Border Patrol follows. (Chopper pilot Pitchpull has a border prediction).

Very interesting information!  This came from a good friend who now lives in  Arizona  – He and I became acquainted when I was flying and he was here with Civil Air Patrol, and he has since gone to better things.  He is VERY involved with aviation and travels the world consulting and helping with aerial involvements.  He is not particularly ‘political’ and, when he thinks we are in deep stuff, I believe him.

Hey Gang,
Got this last week and made a call to a friend in a high place at HLS in WDC and he verified this is real and it is close to home town  Arizona .  He could not reveal the actual location or the date, but it is recently.  We are in DEEP Do Do!
Eslinger

Tue, 6 Jul, 2010 11:56:03 -0700

Our country is in BIG trouble.

Anybody want to boycott Arizona now?  This can happen in your state, too.

Why was there no news coverage of this raid on the  Arizona  border?  More importantly, where did all these weapons come from and why were they being brought into this country?

People wonder why we want enforce our laws in Arizona or anywhere along the border?

This is exactly why we MUST support our friends in ARIZONA.

This seizure was just five days ago, located on the Arizona border!  This is but one seizure that has taken place along the border over the past year.  There have been many more like this.

Exactly where did you hear about it in OUR media?  NOWHERE!  Not a mention on ABC – CBS – NBC – MSNBC – or CNN news!  These photos and reports come from a Spanish language news source. Thank God for the border patrol and they did not allow this to come over the border.  This is one ‘graphic picture’, but it tells the true story of just how serious border control really is!

Let us ENFORCE the laws across the board for EVERYONE who violates them – nothing discriminatory about that at all, amigos!

What would motivate anyone to object to protecting our borders after they have seen this?  Sadly, many still will object to laws like the one  Arizona  recently adopted.  Our own Federal Government intends to sue  Arizona  over their law but the Feds’ law reads almost word for word as do many other states laws already on the books.  Problem is, they refuse to enforce the laws already in effect.

Sorta makes you wonder who our real enemies really are, does it not?

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Stash of assault rifles

The border area has become so dangerous that it resembles a war zone.

Enough ammunition to outfit a small army was confiscated.

Military caps and equipment were among the cache of weapons.

All types of assault weapons were among the cache.  Many were military grade weapons with plenty of ammo.

There were enough guns to open a gun shop.

It was a major arsenal of weapons including grenade launchers.

Not only weapons, but also vehicles believed to have been stolen were found at the site.

One smuggler was killed during the operation when he fired on the border patrol agents.
Numerous Police style bullet proof vests were found in one vehicle.

More than 200 large weapons were confiscated along with about 30 smaller arms.

2 grenade launchers were among the cache.

It appears these guys intended to portray themselves as police officers or military men.

Each vehicle checked had been reported stolen in the  USA  in the recent past!

$380,000 worth of stolen vehicles were recovered.

More than 60 grenades of varying size were found.

Some contained Arabic writing on them.

Numerous hand guns with loaded clips were also found in the cache.

A single grenade like this could bring $5,000 on the streets of the  USA .

Each of these weapons could be sold for as much as $5,000 on the black market in the  USA .

More than 80 stolen cell phones were found.

These could be used for detonating bombs remotely.

Still more rifles were found stuffed in several SUV’s.

Clips loaded with live bullets were just too numerous to count.

All types of weapons include Afghan – Russian – Chinese and many others.

Glenn Beck hosts Tea Party, serves dish of divisiveness

On his TV show Friday, Glenn Beck explored the Tea Party movement, bringing together representatives of the various tea party organizations.

Joining Glenn on the set were Mark Skoda, Nat’l Tea Party Federation;  Jenny Beth Martin of  Tea Party Patriots;  economist Matt Kibbe of Freedom Works;  and Yvonne Donnelly, national chair of 9-12 Project.  Amy Kremer of Tea Party Express joined by phone later in the program.

The show opened with Glenn at the chalkboard illustrating a 1970s Leftist map depicting the eight various stages of social movements.  Glenn pointed to  Stage #5 — Perception of Failure — a sense of powerlessness, an identity crisis, saying that is where the Tea Party movement is right now.

Beck compared what’s happening within the movement to the pre-revolution colonies, and 18th century minister George Whitefield’s attempts to bring the 13 colonies together — they didn’t much like each other, were quite independent and separate entities that preferred to stay that way.

Glenn asked “Are we (Tea Party movement) at a crucial point?  Absolutely.”

Glenn said, “It’s not about politics, but some of you have endorsed candidates or gotten rid of others?”

Tea Party Express chairman Amy Kremer joined the discussion from a remote location in Alaska for a brief telephone “appearance”, during which she was placed in the unenviable position of having to defend former TPX Chairman Mark Williams’ recent comments.

Amy Kremer was introduced and asked by Glenn about Mark Williams’ statements about the Muslims, the President, and the NAACP.

“Do you reject those statements and those ideas?” Glenn asked her.

And instead of seizing the opportunity to be a “George Whitefield”, Glenn threw in with them.  So much for Tea Party unity.

Of note: The Tea Party Express is preparing to launch its 4th national tour, unofficially titled Tea Party Express Tour IV – “Liberty at the Bailout Box”.

Glenn, Tea Parties, and International Economy

Tonight on my radio program —

On his TV show today, Glenn Beck took a look at the Tea Party movement, bringing together representatives of the various tea party organizations.

Joining Glenn on the set were Mark Skoda, Nat’l Tea Party Federation;  Jenny Beth Martin of  Tea Party Patriots;  economist Matt Kibbe of Freedom Works;  and Yvonne Donnelly, national chair of 9-12 Project.

Tea Party Express’  Amy Kremer, who is in Alaska working on a political campaign there, joined the discussion by remote  for a brief telephone “appearance”, during which she was placed in the unenviable position of having to defend former TPX Chairman Mark Williams’ recent comments.

AND…

Bob Chapman, the International Forecaster:

Housing bubble histories, Now the Fed runs the system, the system has not improved, despite claims, gold a better shelter than T-Bills, how long will nations tolerate US monetization? Seven banks seized, Goldman Sachs Counterparties described and named, Majority of counterparties were foreign entities.

Join me at 9p et

http://www.blogtalkradio.com/askshow/2010/07/31/the-andrea-shea-king-show

For the Left, God is dead

I had a conversation yesterday with an angry, frustrated and depressed friend about politics and  technology.  He claims we all began with the Big Bang (no pun intended). He doesn’t believe in God.  I knew that right there we couldn’t go any further with our discussion as we were coming at it from totally different understandings of life. We left the conversation where it started.

Amazingly, within 24 hours, Rush Limbaugh was talking about that very thing.  Did my friend hear it?  I don’t know.  But I did, and it resonated with me.

BEGIN TRANSCRIPT

RUSH: I was asking myself the other night, — I’m serious about this — you can have a political figure or a celebrity involved in one of the most embarrassing, illegal or borderline legal things, take your pick, truly despicable things, and yet they become famous, they become the focus of even more attention, they become wealthy, with genuine reprobate behavior.  I was asking myself, “At what point in our culture did it change?”  It used to be that there was a stigma, an embarrassment to being a reprobate, or to have broken the law or to have just engaged in utter moral depravity.  When did it change that this became a resume enhancement?  I can’t put my finger on it.  All I know is that ever since I started this show in the late eighties, early nineties, I have watched this happen, and I have watched this deviancy in our culture get defined downward.  We’ve just given up. As Moynihan said, “We’ve defined deviancy down.”  We can’t fix that so it’s now normal.  Bad behavior, we can’t stop it so we’re just going to say it’s normal now.

I have been waiting for the day when society finally says, “Enough!  We’re going to stop rewarding this kind of behavior.”  There’s not only been no stop to it, it’s getting worse and worse and worse, and it’s epitomized by Mr. Hillyer’s summary here.  Half the people he writes about should be in jail, or impeached, or convicted of treason.  He’s also right when he says there’s a whole lot of people on our side of the aisle that are not revved up enough about it.  In fact, a little personal illustration of this.  When I moved to New York in 1988 to start this program, this program nationally started August 1st of 1988, you will remember, those of you in New York and some of you around the country, you will remember that there was a phenomenon on television at the time, the Morton Downey show.

Now, I replaced Morton Downey Jr. in Sacramento.  He got fired for telling a joke using the word “Chinaman” about a city councilman, he wouldn’t apologize, so they blew him out of there.  They brought me out, they said, “Look, we want controversy. We’ll back you up, but not if you make it up.  If you’re going to say things just to incite riots, just to make people mad, if you’re going to say things just to rile ‘em up but you don’t really believe it, we’re not going to back you up.  But if you’re honest about it, and you stay sane, we’ll back you up,” and they were true, they were honest about that.

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RUSH: So I get to New York in 1988, and shortly after the summer ends, sometime in September, I’m invited to a cocktail party on the Upper East Side at the townhouse home of the noted Lou Lehrman, who was not there. He had just given the use of his home.  It was a bunch of the conservative print media that I was being introduced to, and I can remember a number of them came up when they were introduced to me and had it explained why I was in town and what I was there to do they said, “Oh! Are you going to be the Morton Downey Jr. of the radio?” and they seemed to be excited about that prospect.

Now, here these world class models of decorum in print getting all excited about in-your-face, insult broadcasting.  You know, putting cigarettes out on people’s hands and spitting in their face. I said, “No, no, no. I’m not going to do that. There’s no way I’ll succeed.  I want to be just as classy on my radio show as you are in print,” and I said, “That stuff is not going to have a lifespan, that stuff is not going to survive — and even if it does, I don’t want to be part of it.  I have no desire to be part of insult broadcasting or insult radio. I don’t want to be that far gone into showbiz,” and it was at that point I started thinking that the deviancy that was occurring in media would eventually bottom out and there would be a rebound — and it hasn’t bottomed out.

We’re still pluming the depths. We’re below the gutter.  Most media is in the sewer.  I don’t care what media you’re talking about, books, movies, television shows, newspapers.  There are examples, rare examples of the opposite.  There are exceptions and so forth, and I’ve always thought of myself as one.  But it’s not just in broadcasting. It’s just the overall cultural decline, the depravity — and with that decline and that depravity comes increased fame and notoriety. Not for anything but the erratic, depraved behavior become famous for — and that has given rise to what? My Face, My Butt, My Mouth, My Book, Facebook this, Facebook that. Nobody wants any mystery about themselves anymore.

In fact, there was a piece — I forget what paper it was; it might have been the New York Times — about the absence of mystery. Nobody wants any mystery about themselves.  I think this paper used the example that it’s not possible for there to be a Greta Garbo anywhere.  Greta Garbo was a recluse.  It was the biggest deal in the world to see Greta Garbo walking the dog or go to the grocery store. It hardly ever happened.  Now you couldn’t survive as an entertainer, an actor. You couldn’t survive living a normal life. You have to be on display and you have to be making a mess of your life in order for the paparazzi to be interested in you.  You have to be throwing up bird seed every night. You have to be going in for drug rehab overdoses in the hospitals.

I mean, I’m on the way to the hospital in Hawaii, and before I get there the media vans are waiting outside the hospital emergency room. Before we get there! (interruption) Well, obviously.  Reporters pay off EMT people.  It’s just the way it is.  How do you think they get these pictures of Michael Jackson on the gurney?  Somebody has to let ‘em in there.  My point is that this is what Quin Hillyer’s writing about here today.  No matter where the depravity is — be it in our media culture, entertainment culture, now the political culture — there’s utter depravity, and it’s rewarded! It wins.  Lying, cheating, stealing, anti-Americanism wins — and face it, this is what’s got everybody so discombobulated, because none of it makes sense. None of the things that we were raised with, none of the manners we were told to exhibit and live by seem to be rewarded.  If you live the life that you were raised to live — Golden Rule, be polite — you are a boring.

The MTV Awards. If somebody doesn’t drop the F-bomb every ten minutes the critics say, “What a boring show.” You go back and look at some of the old Academy Awards presentations (you know, before Marlon Brando brought the Indian babe up to not accept the award and they went politically nuts.) The Cary Grant, Grace Kelly era was bigger than life, the epitome of class.  There’s no class anywhere anymore, and we certainly don’t have class at the highest levels of our politics.  All we have is a bunch of people seeking attention in a whole bunch of ways, but they all add up to one thing: “I can’t be who I am and get noticed.  I have to be outrageous here or do this. I can’t even be honest. I gotta come up with an opinion that nobody else has that could be totally wrong but I want to be perceived as the smartest guy in the room ’cause I want to get noticed because my middle name is ‘Notice Me! ‘Notice Me! ‘Notice Me!’”  It’s an affliction that everybody has, and I’ve kept waiting for this to bottom out, and it doesn’t.

We keep sinking lower.

BREAK TRANSCRIPT

RUSH:  I think I do.  I think I do know why it’s happened.  I think I do know what caused it.  In fact, I have very little doubt about this.  In fact, I’ve even said it in so many words on this program when discussing abortion over the years.  But I really think the reason for this sinking, spiraling-down deviancy and depravity that gets rewarded — and people seeking fame on that basis rather than achievement.  Back in the old days there wouldn’t be a Paris Hilton or Kim Kardashian.  I don’t have anything against them, fine and dandy. What have they done?  They haven’t done anything.  They’re circus acts, and life is filled with more and more circus acts.  But I think all of this can be traced back to God being shunned, to God being removed from people’s lives, to there being no God or false gods or what have you.

You’ve heard of Nietzsche. In 1882, “God is Dead,” he wrote the book.  The ruling class has been teaching this. TIME Magazine did a cover: “Is God Dead?” The book was called “The Gay Science,” and in it he postulated God was dead.  Once you take God out — once you take conscience out, once you get rid of morality, once you get rid of reasons larger than your own existence, once you get rid of judgmentalism — then there’s nothing left. There no guardrails. There’s nothing to keep you on the road.  Who cares?  Now, the “death” of God. These people had always promulgated it. The death of God is a way of saying that humans are no longer able to believe in any cosmic order. There’s no such thing as anything larger than ourselves. There’s no concept of intelligence design. No God.

“No, this is all an accident!”  I think you have to be brain-dead to believe this also an accident. You have to be brain-dead to believe this all a coincidence.  I don’t know how anybody, particularly educated people who study the human body, can think that this is an accident.  I don’t know intellectually how anybody can come to that conclusion, but millions of people have.  But if you succeed in convincing people there is no God or that God has died, that will lead not only to (this is what Nietzsche said) the rejection of a belief of cosmic or physical order, but also to a rejection of absolute values themselves because where do they come from?

Where do absolute values come from?  Where is the notion of absolute right and wrong? Where does it originate?  You go to any religion in the world you want. There aren’t too many areas of gray.  For example they are not the Ten “Suggestions,” and a lot of people we know do not want to live under any kind of judgmentalism at all from other human beings, certainly not from a force that they can’t understand.  The whole concept of a universal morality, that’s scary. That’s scary.  That means there’s a price to pay, and we don’t want to pay the price.  We don’t want to have to pay the price for being who we are, and this is what’s happened.

Ever since the whole notion that there is no God has taken hold or that God is dead or that God’s just a creation of a bunch of freak wackos that the true intelligent people know that there’s no such thing as intelligent design.  Allan Bloom. You remember him? I’ll never forget this guy. Allan Bloom wrote a book called “The Closing of the American Mind” on campus at the university, and he traced it back to this. I remember watching him on Firing Line. The thing I remember is Alan Bloom was a chain smoker on Firing Line, and nobody made him put the cigarette out.  A chain smoker! University of Chicago I think he came from.

If it’s not that, if it’s not the absence of God that explains the triumph of depravity then it has to be that liberalism breeds insanity. It’s one of the two.  I happen to think it’s the absence of God, because when you boil it all down, if you don’t stand for something, you will believe anything — and doesn’t that describe the buffaloed, fooled idiots on the left?  They will believe anything! They will believe the most unrealistic, wild things like a Chevrolet Suburban can destroy the climate.  They will believe it and they will live their lives that way. They’ll become zealot evangelists about it because nothing else has meaning to them.  They stand for nothing so they fall for anything.  You know, people have asked me, “How are you so sure that global warming is all made up?”

I say, “Because I believe in God.”  I’ve been through this riff with you thousands of times. It’s ’cause I believe in God.  I do not believe I have more power than God.  I don’t believe God even notices me, much less creates all of this that insignificant microbes like us can destroy. I just can’t get my arms around that intellectually.  Yet people who stand for nothing who want significance and want to matter and want to think they’re all important will buy into the notion. The most insignificant people in the world, the most inconsequential people in the world… I’m talking about the average, run-of-the-mill American liberal. The most inconsequential people in the world, look what they believe!

They are so hungry for relevance that they actually believe that they and us are destroying a planet! It’s insane to believe this, and they are so caught up in it that they demand that everybody live an equally inconsequential, irrelevant life like they do — and their anger and their rage at all of us is really nothing more than fear.  Because people like you and me show them daily that they’re irrelevant and inconsequential and wrong.  We’re happy. We’re pursuing happiness. We try to live by a standard.  It’s all a big threat.  So the objective is to get rid of anything that equals black or white.  Get rid of any truth, because truth is giant, giant threat.  Can’t live with threats.  Threats make us nervous.

Moral values?  “Ah, that could be explained away.  Yeah, you can explain moral values. That’s just the opiate of the masses. That’s just a bunch of irrelevant people trying to tell themselves they’re good people. Morality?  Morality, that’s for the great unwashed.  We intellectuals, we members of the ruling class, we understand (haughty laughing) what a joke morality is,” and yet the people that are heralded as the Wizards of Smart — the unifiers, the people who are gonna save the country and save us — are in the process of destroying it.  Some people do think that it’s being done purposefully, and it’s a hard thing to tell ‘em it’s not ’cause the evidence is incontrovertible.  The worst thing that you can be in society today is judgmental.  That’s why people like us are so hated, folks.  The worst thing you can be is judgmental and right.  That’s why TIME Magazine writes “the obnoxious Rush Limbaugh” was right about the Gulf oil spill.

Obnoxious?  Why obnoxious?

Why not be heralded?

No, can’t do that. That doesn’t fit the template.

I can see November…

Via Vanderleun, where I always find goodies like this.  Perfect, ain’t it???

The reptilian side of Obama’s brain

Glenn Beck TV Show 7-28-10

From Glenn’s radio program this morning, he talks about what the Obama Administration is doing to poke into your emails and “electronic communication”.  BIG BROTHER?  He’s here.

GLENN: Yesterday we found out that the SEC no longer has to take any Freedom of Information Act seriously. They don’t have to, they don’t have to respond to it. The SEC in the new financial regulation, the SEC does not have to respond to freedom information. So in other words, they can come in and close down a business that they find dangerous, that they deem dangerous, they can close them down.

These are the people that should have caught Bernie Madoff but did not. These are the people that should have been looking into Freddie and Fannie but were not. These are the people that oversee all mergers, all acquisitions. These are the people for the antitrust. This is, this is the big agency that is supposed to be the watchdog. They no longer have to respond to press inquiries.

Now, when we pushed them on this yesterday, their response was, well, but all the rules haven’t been written yet. This is just what the new financial regulation says, but the regulations haven’t been imposed or put in yet. That’s left to Cass Sunstein.

So now we have this from the SEC that we told you yesterday. Now here is even more disturbing news. They are trying to change four words in an existing law, and mark my words: This will happen. They are trying to change now four words in the existing law that this existing law stops people from going in and seizing Internet records. Now, let me give you a scenario. Let’s say my company, Mercury, where we have Internet records, you know, for all of our business. We also have all of our e‑mails and everything else. Let’s just say that the government decides that I’m a threat to the United States and that there is some sort of, you know, “Well, Glenn Beck has been communicating with a gentleman in Canada and this gentleman in Canada has ties to a terrorist organization.” Remember, they get to define a terrorist organization.

Here, let me use a better one. An NRA member uses their gun and shoots something. The United States government decides that they are going to make the NRA a terrorist organization. Don’t think they wouldn’t do it. They make the NRA a terrorist organization. Now, anybody who has contributed to the NRA could be in theory scooped up and held indefinitely without a trial or a warrant. We already have that one going. They are already arguing for these things right now. It’s how they define terrorist.

So let’s say I’m ‑‑ because I write a letter to Wayne La Pierre and he writes me back, they say, you know what, Glenn Beck has been in communication with this terrorist organization. With this four‑word change they now cannot only go into the NRA without a warrant, no judge involved, on the president’s word, they can go and take all Internet records and seize them, plus this new change in the law would force the NRA or me, my company, to not be able ‑‑ we would be bound by law, we would not be able to disclose that the government had just done that. So they could come in and take all of my e‑mail, all of my Internet records, everything, seize it, and I couldn’t come on the air the next day and say the government has taken everything. Four words changed in a law. That’s what they are trying to do today.

Here’s Glenn’s TV show from Wednesday, 7-28-10…

RightOnline Speaker videos are up

Over 1,100 grassroots activists and bloggers from 34 states converged on Las Vegas for the third annual RightOnline Conference.

Americans for Prosperity has posted all the videos of the featured speakers. Do NOT miss the one by Judge Andrew Napolitano. It’ll have you on your feet, cheering.

Linkage to viewage here:

http://rightonline.com/highlights/

If you missed the RightOnline Conference, be sure to join AFP Foundation for its 4th annual Defending the American Dream Summit taking place on August 27 and 28 in Washington, D.C. Click here for more details.

(By the way, I’m in the front row of the photo above, beside the gentleman in blue jeans and white shirt.  The skirted woman is passing in front of me).

Oliver Stone – Jew hater trips on his, ah…

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From The Reliable Source at the Washington Post:

Given Mel Gibson‘s recent woes, you’d think that other Oscar-winning directors would be a little more mindful about veering into crazy talk. Or not.

Last weekend Director Oliver Stone got into some hot water over remarks he made during an interview with the Sunday Times of London regarding the Holocaust, Russian deaths during WWII, and the “Jewish denomination of the media.”

He’s sorry, though.

Oliver Stone apologized for making anti-Semitic remarks. (Max Nash/AFP/Getty Images)

From reader DF in NYC:

“In Hollywood, being a leftwing anti-American nut is an asset, but being a public Jew-hater is not.

No sooner did Oliver Stone complain about “Jewish domination of the media” did he understand just how right he was.

Realizing he had just crapped where he ate, Ollie quickly had his flacks pull up the Word document named “apology.generic” and fill in the blanks.

But that missive focus-grouped poorly, and its thin storyline bombed in the Valley, so Ollie hired the always reliable hack, Abe “ADL” Foxman, to punch up his “apology,” then Abe turned around and gave his own rewrite two thumbs up (but we don’t yet know up where).

As the movie moguls are fond of saying, gornisht mit gornisht.

It’s time for you, me and the rest of the little people to let Stone’s showbiz enablers know where their paying customers stand.

Email Showtime at this address, Matthew.Blank@showtime.net and tell them where Oliver Stone (“Stein”) and his new Showtime series can go.

After it gets pulled we can all enjoy Stone’s rant about the Jews’ power to “censor the debate.”

Minnesotans flee from “undocumented” Somalians

Responding to my post titled Well isn’t this just ducky, I received this from a local merchant who makes her living in Cocoa Village, FL:

I looked with interest at the map “Locations of unauthorized migrants living in US”. The map tells a fraction of the story showing illegal “migrants”.

Minnesota and Wisconsin (and other mid-western states) have HUGE populations of illegal aliens – Somalians.

Several years ago at our shop, a repeat customer came in and was buying items for her new home here. We got into a conversation why she was moving here. I was shocked (why I still remember her story). She and her third generation family all moved out of Minnesota because they were scared of living there and many long time families were leaving the state! I thought “Minnesota?”

She said “In the 1990′s Somalians began migrating to Minnesota (cheap labor). Soon after, illegal Somalians began arriving by the thousands through Canada, and up from Mexico. The Somalians set up hundreds of large compounds housing tens of thousands of illegal Somalians. Even the police won’t go near these compounds.”

I cringed when this customer said many of the Somalis in Minnesota were the extremists waging war against the West (the US) and cheered after 9/11. She added “because the Somalians are black everyone was afraid they’d be labeled racists and the crimes committed by the Somalians are just listed as black”. (Somali crime rate is very, very high.)

Securing the borders isn’t about Mexicans and Hispanics sneaking into the U.S. We need to secure the borders – period.

I’d be stating the obvious if I said we are being overrun by illegals. But more than that, we’re being overrun by the criminals in Washington.

You’ve awakened a sleeping giant

(hat tip Doug Powers)

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After posting the video above, I came across an article about Marco Rubio, Florida’s Republican candidate for the US Senate seat currently being held by appointee George Lemieux (he of Florida Gov. Charlie Crist’s staff, sent in as a seat warmer when Mel Martinez decided to take a hike).

Photo by Will Dickey, The Times Union

I am not particularly enamored of Rubio, as his record on immigration is vague and suspect… and… he’s just a little too “darling” (i.e. slick and packaged) for me to trust him.  Not only that, but the media loves him.  That’s a huge red flag, doncha think? Fox News’ Sean Hannity fawns over Rubio as much as Greta does over McCain (gagging here). Florida’s and national talk show hosts are pushing Rubio BIG time as the guy with a conservative halo.  Me? I’m not convinced.

After talking with a friend about Rubio’s immigration record when he was speaker of the Florida House, I did a little digging and found this at a website called Conservative Times.  I could have written it:

“I keep receiving emails from various conservative email lists advertising that Marco Rubio is a “real conservative” – versus Charlie Crist, “a liberal in disguise.” (If you haven’t been following, Rubio is a white Cuban-American vying with Charlie Crist in the Florida Republican primary for Mel Martinez’s U.S. Senate seat.) What never is discussed in these emails, however, is Rubio’s ambiguous record on immigration.
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In 2008, patriotic Florida state legislators proposed over a dozen bills to crack down on illegal immigration, but as Speaker, Rubio stalled them in the House:

“Florida lawmakers looking to pass bills targeted at curbing illegal immigration faced one major hurdle this session—convincing South Florida legislators, who hold key leadership positions in the House and Senate, to support their cause.

“Without the backing of House Speaker Marco Rubio, the first Cuban-American to hold the position, the bills failed to get any major play in their committees. Six weeks into the session, a three-hour workshop was held on the six House bills, but even that failed to produce its desired intent of combining the bills into one larger committee bill.

“‘Speaker Rubio outlined the priorities of the session and this didn’t fall under that list,’ said Rivera, one of Rubio’s lieutenants.”

[Miami-Dade lawmakers stymie immigration bills, by Laura Figueroa, Miami Herald, April 17, 2008]

A comment left at the post by “Brittancus” on 03 Feb 2010 encapsulates what I, my friend, and many others are thinking about the slate of candidates out there… not a lot to be excited about.   See if you don’t agree?

#Will the politicians that we elect ever carry out the interests of the American people? I read today on the AMERICAN PATROL website that President Obama is in a discussion to cap government money such as cutting back on NASA appropriations… Yet we are still spending–BILLIONS–on illegal immigrants who have managed to settle here? If we cannot afford to go back to the moon, how can we afford to pay for illegal immigration?

Obama can find billions to Prop-up States like Sanctuary California to pay for illegal immigrants, but he cannot find the cash to pay for space exploration. How can we allow millions of poor people to continue to cross our borders?

So why are taxpayers forced by pariah lawmakers to pay for education, health care and even now anticipating BILLIONS more dollars to enact a ominous Comprehensive Immigration Reform?

We all know by now, that this is a very crafty way to pass another AMNESTY. These people who have entered this country without permission? Every time a new immigration enforcement is passed, the open border Liberal-Democrats-Republicans use their influence to water the law down.

How many of us know that the controversial border fence is by law supposed to be–TWO SEPARATE–FENCES? Senator Obama voted for it. more than three years ago, but only 35 miles of double-layered fencing is in place and much of the remaining 360 miles of the border fencing is badly constructed–without real barriers.

The Truth is the government is lying to us.

The Secure Fence Act of 2006 (Pub.L. 109-367) was enacted October 26, 2006 in the United States. The act allows for over 700 miles (1,100 km) of double-reinforced fence to be built along the border with Mexico across cities and deserts alike, in the U.S. states of California, Arizona, New Mexico and Texas in areas that have experienced illegal drug trafficking, human slavery, gun peddling, illegal immigration and the threat of terrorism.

Rep. Duncan Hunter of California who was the originator of the double fence, has not seen this happen, nor the complete wall that is just open areas, with the old barbed wire strands. Underfunded from its inception, the border fence was compromised by the open border organization, that includes American business consortium’s.

As in Washington today, a team of intelligence operatives stated to Speaker Pelosi that a El Queda attack was imminent within the next 6 months. This is the time to enforce our borders with the National Guard fully armed and obviously apparent along the whole 2000 feet length.

The majority of our State economies are broke–with California leading the pack. Arizona lawmakers realizing the main cause of their financial dilemma, the support of illegal workers and their families.

E-Verify is one of the most successful mechanisms to remove illegal workers, but as yet it is not mandatory. It costs nothing to use it and it has been demonized by every pro-illegal immigrant group, along with corrupt politicians and their financial clients in the business consortium’s. E-Verify must be national, with no exclusions.

THIS SHOULD BECOME THE No.1 PRIORITY FOR EVERY SMALL AND LARGE COMPANY, THAT KNOWINGLY HIRING A FOREIGN WORKERS CARRIES PENALTIES SUCH AS HARSH FINES AND PRISON SENTENCES. THERE SHOULD BE NO EXCEPTIONS TO THIS RULE?

Our GOVERNMENT HAS SOLD ITSELF TO WALL STREET AND BOTH WALL STREET AND THE UNITED STATES ARE DEBTORS TO COMMUNIST CHINA.

We cannot afford to subsidize every illegal family member, every Mother with a child who becomes an instant citizen, when 15 million Americans and residents are jobless, when our own people live in poverty. Yes! We always need exceptional highly skilled engineers and scientists, but not the indigent and desperate that we must endlessly financially support. Not semi-skilled labor that will take less wages, than our own people, who themselves will end up in the unemployment benefits line.

Call the Capitol Switchboard at 202-224-3121 to be connected to your Senator and Congressman and use the voting power of THE PEOPLE.

Go to NUMBERS USA AND JUDICIAL WATCH for more information about this catastrophe that could overwhelm this country in the coming months.

Latest Immigration news: President cuts border security budget
While telling the American people that national security is a priority in his administration, President Barack Obama submitted a 2011 budget proposal that includes cuts to U.S. border security. — The proposed budget cuts include a reduction in Border Patrol agents and a cut in the amount of money allocated for the so-called “virtual fence” on the U.S.-Mexico border…

And now we see how an activist judge in Arizona has gutted perfectly Constitutional immigration legislation that mirrors that of the federal government. The same law the Feds refuse to enforce. We have lost the Judicial branch. We have lost the Congress. And it’s for damn sure we have lost the executive branch and the press.

Is what radio squawker Mark Levin said on his show yesterday true?  Is our country — as we’ve known it — over???  Is there no recourse, when we are left with the same old, same old to vote for and elect???

Well isn’t this just ducky…

“According to a report by the Pew Hispanic Center, Florida ranked third after California and Texas in unauthorized immigrants in 2008, with a little over 1 million, compared with Arizona’s 500,000. A more recent report by the Department of Homeland Security pegs the number of unauthorized immigrants here at 720,000, or 7 percent of the state’s population. That’s down 10 percent from a decade ago, in what is seen as a reflection of the economic downturn.

With an 11.7 percent unemployment rate — among the nation’s highest — and a projected $6 billion budget shortfall this year, Floridians have become keenly aware of the cost of illegal immigration.”

Read it all.

(Hat tip – Barbara “Hair on Fire” Espinosa)

Glenn Beck TV Show 7-27-10

“If you aren’t watching Glenn, you don’t know what’s going on in this country.”

Just finished watching Glenn Beck’s TV program.   My heart’s in my throat, a furrow in my brow, and blood pressure up whenever I do.  And I’ll let you in on a secret: I salute him at the end of every show. I do.  A smart salute and a tap over my heart for the work he’s doing to alert and educate us about what’s really going on.  Thank you Glenn.  God bless you Glenn.

From his radio show this morning, this excerpt.  Read the entire transcript here.

Glenn Beck: Where Are the Weathermen Now?

July 28, 2010 – 0:13 ET

I believe there’s one document that explains the reason for many of the actions we’re seeing from this administration. It’s the June 18th, 1969 manifesto from The Weathermen.

I know this will seem to many like ancient history, but if you don’t know history you won’t know where you are and you won’t know your future. This manifesto sounds crazy to us, sure, but judging by their actions, there sure are an awful lot of people in and around the administration who buy into the philosophy contained in these pages.

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Where is this hatred for America coming from? From people who share the ideology found in this manifesto. It was “submitted” by a handful of Weathermen radicals, most notably Bill Ayers, Bernardine Dohrn and Jeff Jones.

The Weathermen were an offshoot of the radical group Students for a Democratic America (SDS). They formed in 1969 and the main goal for their “revolution” was “the destruction of U.S. imperialism and the achievement of a classless world: World communism” and to “achieve the dictatorship of the proletariat.”

They talk about Cloward and Piven and collapsing the system from within. This is very important, because that’s where we are headed. People in the media will say that these people are not directly connected to the White House. But they won’t ask a more important connection: Have the views from the radicals of the ’60s, ’70s ’80s, ’90s — and even more recently — changed? What was their pivot point?

These guys wanted to destroy America. What caused them to act this way?

• Jeff Jones grew up in California. His dad worked for Disney and was a pacifist and conscientious objector to the war. His beliefs were not well thought out and he was easily swept into the radical movement when he went to college in 1965

• Bernadine Dohrn grew up in Wisconsin in an upper class suburb and attended college — the time of her first-known dive into radicalism. She’s known for uttering this unfortunate statement about the Charles Manson murders: “Dig it… First they killed those pigs then they ate dinner in the same room with them then they even shoved a fork into the victim’s stomach. Wild!”

Dorhn, now a respected member of society, says she was “lucky they didn’t kill anyone.” Apparently she doesn’t consider Ted Gold, Terry Robbins and Ayers’ girlfriend, Diana Oughton “people” because they did die in a premature explosion of some bombs they were making in 1970. Dohrn was also an FBI 10 most-wanted fugitive from 1970 to 1973.

• Bill Ayers grew up in the upper-middle class suburbs of Illinois. His dad was CEO of a giant utility company, Commonwealth Edison. He attended an exclusive prep school — maybe that’s why he uses such fancy language — but says he “hated every minute there” and liked the “free thought” he found at the University of Michigan. Ayers was key in turning towards militancy. He now says about the bombings that he doesn’t “have anything to apologize for. I wish we had done more”

More?

In 1969 they bombed The Haymarket police statue; they bombed several Chicago police cars parked in a precinct parking lot. Then they decide to go underground. In 1970, they were suspected of a bombing at the San Francisco Police Department. It was about that time that the three Weather Underground members were killed when the bomb they were preparing for Fort Dix went off.

Ayers ran from the law and went deep underground. It was during that time he married Bernadine Dohrn. But the bombings continued: The National Guard Association building in D.C.; an NYPD headquarters. And let’s not forget the 1981 armored truck robbery which they stole $1.6 million and eventually led to a shootout with police, leaving two police officers and one Brinks guard dead and wounding several others.

Their most notorious bombings were:

• March 1, 1971: The United States Capitol in “protest of the U.S. invasion of Laos”

• May 19, 1972 (Ho Chi Minh’s birthday): The Pentagon in “retaliation for the U.S. bombing raid in Hanoi”

• January 29, 1975: The bombing of the United States Department of State Building in “response to escalation in Vietnam”

If there is a turning point in any of these people, I haven’t heard it. And it matters. Why? Just look where they are now. These violent radicals aren’t just washing cars. We’ve flipped places. The Man is now the activist and the activist is now The Man:

• Jeff Jones has his own consulting firm that helps “progressive groups achieve their goals.” He’s on the board of Movement for a Democratic Society, working closely with SDS (which is growing the new Weathermen and Weather Underground — now available possibly in your child’s high schools now) and he’s a member of the Apollo Alliance. They, with funding from Tides, helped write the stimulus package. Unconstitutional, sure, but Jeff Jones helps decide where your tax money through the stimulus is going

• In 1997, Bill Ayers won citizen of the year award for his work on the Chicago Annenberg Challenge project. He’s a professor at the University of Chicago. He served on the board with President Obama at the Woods Foundation. They were neighbors and Obama attended a campaign event at his house. He’s now a respected and influential member of society

• Bernadine Dohrn, married to Bill Ayers, she is now associate professor of law at Northwestern University School of Law and was director of Northwestern’s Children and Family Justice Center. Teaching kids — that’s great. Dohrn (and Ayers) played a key role in organizing Free Gaza Movement, which launched the flotilla whose crew attacked Israeli soldiers who boarded, stabbing them violently and even throwing one over the deck

By the way, they have two adult children and have legal guardianship of Chesa Boudin, son of Kathy Boudin and David Gilbert. Boudin and Gilbert were also former Weather Underground members. Kathy was convicted in 1984 of felony murder for her participation in an armed robbery that resulted in the killing of three people. She later became a public health expert while in prison. She was released from prison in 2003. David Gilbert is still in prison, serving 75 years to life.

Speaking of prison, let’s talk about:

• Linda Sue Evans, a Weather Underground member. She was sentenced to 40 years in the 1981 cop-killing that I mentioned earlier. In 1990 she was convicted of other violent acts. Her sentence was commuted in 2001 by Bill Clinton. Today she’s out there campaigning for inmates’ rights as an organizer for “All of Us or None,” a group that “combats the many forms of discrimination that [felons, prisoners and former prisoners], as the result of felony convictions.” She’s pushing for felon voting rights.

In 2008, Evans spoke at a nice event — the Soros Justice Fellowships meeting, on a panel for prison reform alongside the executive director of the Ella Baker Center, which is Van Jones’ organization. In fact, Evans received the Soros Justice Fellowship in 2001, awarded to “outstanding individuals” who will implement innovative projects to reform the United States’ criminal justice system.

Soros… Soros… where have I heard that name before?

Anyway:

• Mark Rudd, another Weather Underground member, now teaches at a junior college in New Mexico

These violent radicals have dropped the radical prose for the radical ends. They’ve been washed, shined up and put back on the shelf as normal members of society.

The most dangerous man in America, Cass Sunstein, says of Bill Ayers and Bernadine Dohrn: “I feel very uncomfortable with their past, but neither of them is thought of as horrible types now — so far as most of us know, they are legitimate members of the community.”

“So far as most of us know” — who talks like that?

No one is asking the question: Do you still hate America and want to destroy it? And the whole dictator thing, I’d like to call that a crazy theory, but have you noticed the trends that we’re heading toward?

During the progressive Netroots convention, President Obama said there’s still work to be done:

(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP)

PRESIDENT BARACK OBAMA: I’m confident that America is once again moving forward…

Still, change hasn’t come fast enough for too many Americans. I know that. It hasn’t come fast enough for me either.

(END VIDEO CLIP)

What more is there to be done? Have we not given you everything you asked for in order to “save” us? Health care? Done. Stimulus? Done. Financial reform? Done.

He said he didn’t want single-payer. So why do we still have to work on health care? After financial reform, government controls 70 percent of the economy. How much more control do you want? Well, Phase 2 of the Weather Underground plan: Install a dictator.

Oh, I know that’s “heavy” — to use ’60s lingo — but is it possible? That’s for you to decide. The only thing you can go by are their actions.

— Watch Glenn Beck weekdays at 5p & 2a ET on Fox News Channel

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Over at Free Republic, a live thread is initiated every day for Freepers to comment on the show. There are some gold nuggets there. Here are a few:

Weather Underground logo.  See anything there?

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Prairie Fire & other documents can be found here at Horowitz’s site:

“WEATHERMAN” @ David Horowitz’s DiscovertheNetworks:

http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/groupProfile.asp?grpid=6808

900 Groups and counting.

See: http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/summary.asp?object=Organization&category=

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“Glenn is exposing their radical communist take over more and more everyday, no wonder the left hate him so much Love it..Tell everyone if you aren’t watching Glenn you don’t know whats going on in this country. Better wake up Our Republic is teetering on the brink.”

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“We can start to put our govt. back in it’s place, but it will be the next generation that will do most of the work.

Look at how they are being indoctrinated!  Our homeschool/parochial school kids will be the salt and light. We must raise them up to be strong and to lead.

(Anyone reading this with a child/grandchild in a public school, you have your work cut out for you in setting their minds on the right path. God bless you in this struggle. We are going to need your children to carry on the work too!)”

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“Glenn is hitting grand slam after grand slam. He’s so far ahead of other conservative commentators at this point, that, like The Clash, he’s the only band that matters. Go Glenn. Expose the revolutionaries. I’ll be praying for you, because you’re battling principalities and powers.”

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“Tell everyone if you aren’t watching Glenn you don’t know what’s going on in this country.”

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Black Americans stand with TPX’ Mark Williams

William Owens and Conservative Radio Host Herman Cain

Both Lloyd Marcus, self described “Unhyphenated Black American” and William Owens have published pieces defending former Tea Party Express chairman and spokesman Mark Williams and criticizing the unceremonious bashing Mark took for his accurate remarks about the NAACP.

I will tell you that having traveled — and lived with — all three of those gentlemen during our three weeks on the road with the Tea Party Express III national tour last April, I know first hand the camaraderie, respect and mutual admiration all had for each other and the rest of the 30+ team members.

Owens’ piece today in News With Views takes a stand, and calls out some of our fellow Americans for their absolute idiocy and inability to see how they’re being manipulated by the Leftist bunch who would like nothing better than to foment a civil war, pitting brother against brother, Black against White, illegal aliens against American citizens.  Fools, every one of them.

Americans cannot afford to be intimated and therefore, shroud our lives with props that make us into someone we’re not. Whenever we shy back, it takes an eye-opening perspective to jolt us into a reality that is, many times, like a cold splash of water to our face. America is in a wicked state of being right now. With a government that has concocted Lord knows what against our freedoms, liberties and wealth, we are existing on borrowed time, and most of us don’t have a clue. It is so absurd and devious what is unfolding right in front of our eyes, that if you spoke of the possibilities of a take over—the America that we have come to know—you would be assigned to the nut house. Then maybe I’m wrong. I hope I am.

America’s only hope is for those who are fearless to create a dialog that is sometimes rude and rogue. While I admit that it brings with it a tremendous amount of risk, I argue that the alternative makes the risk worth it. In fact, in this hour, anything less than revolutionary is pointless. Why? Because the era we are living in warrants radical intervention, lest we become lulled into a silent walk towards demise as a nation.

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Truly the NAACP has failed most miserably to demonstrate a small element of character and guiding principle that reflects ALL people.

This fallout really shows how shallow we have become as a nation; I mean, really shallow: frail, thin-skinned, brains that are drained, hearts that are fearful, and no patience whatsoever.

Right on, brother William.  Right on.

Lloyd Marcus is taking it a step further:

In light of the NAACP resolution accusing the millions of Americans who attend Tea Parties of embracing racists, Tea Party Express is hosting a National Black Conservative Press Conference.

Black conservative leaders, organization spokespersons, authors, entertainers and activists from across America will gather in Washington DC to introduce themselves and their individual roles in fighting the good fight promoting conservative principles, values and patriotism.

I have posted details of the National Black Conservative Press Conference and a list of speakers in an earlier post:  Black Conservatives push back against Progressive Racists

National Black Conservative Press Conference

Date: Wednesday, August 4, 2010
Time: 8-11am
Place: National Press Club, Washington DC

If 60 Minutes Employed Journalists – Director Blue

Doug Ross at Director Blue has a beauty.  What would it be like if 60 Minutes employed journalists?  Link over to read.  Tick… tick… tick…

Meanwhile, the Media Research Center has this.  Are you surprised???

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Networks Protest Arizona’s Immigration Law With Cameras and Microphones

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By Almost 10 to 1, ABC, CBS, and NBC Stories
Support Amnesty for Illegal Aliens in Arizona
The TV networks have aggressively demonstrated their dislike of Arizona’s state law “cracking down on illegal immigrants,” a law that “pits neighbor against neighbor.” An MRC review of morning and evening news programs on ABC, CBS, and NBC from April 23 to July 25 found the networks have aired 120 stories with an almost ten-to-one tilt against the Arizona law (77 negative, 35 neutral, 8 positive).

The soundbite count was also tilted over the last three months — 216 to 107, or an almost exact two-to-one disparity. Network anchors and reporters sided against defenders of border control and championed sympathetic illegal aliens and their (usually American-born) children. In 120 stories, they never described “immigrants rights activists” as liberals or on the left.

Between them, the three networks described the Arizona law as “controversial” on 27 occasions, despite its popularity in opinion polls. The Obama administration’s decision to sue file a lawsuit against Arizona to crush the law was never described as “controversial.”

Stories were evaluated as positive or negative if the talking-head count (and the themes forwarded by the reporter) slanted at more than a 1.5 to 1 ratio in favor of either side. A number of network reports were either unanimously in favor of illegal immigrants or titled by ratios like ten to one (as in one NBC report).

On May 19, all three networks highlighted how Michelle Obama sympathized with a second-grader who said her mother doesn’t have any citizenship papers and “Barack Obama is taking everybody away that doesn’t have papers.” Mrs. Obama replied, “We have to fix that.” ABC anchor Diane Sawyer underlined that “a child’s fear brings a new focus to the debate” since “the First Lady had to respond to a child’s poignant question” which, reporter Jake Tapper relayed, “immigration reform advocates called…the most meaningful exchange of the day.”

This school visit was part of a trip by Mexican President Felipe Calderon, who attacked the Arizona law both at the White House and before a joint session of Congress, where he received a standing ovation from congressional Democrats, Attorney General Eric Holder, and Homeland Security secretary Janet Napolitano. Calderon’s remarks on Capitol Hill drew speeches of protest from congressional Republicans like Rep. Tom McClintock, who pointed out Calderon was a hypocrite since Mexico’s immigration laws are “brutally exclusionary.” But only ABC noticed Calderon’s speech, and Diane Sawyer only highlighted his accusations of imported American guns causing violent crime in Mexico.

The networks highlighted the “army” of protesters against the Arizona law and ignored their sometimes radical connections. As with sympathetic media coverage of large amnesty rallies in 2006, none of the stories allowed anyone to suggest it was improper for illegal aliens to petition the government whose laws they’re breaking or cancel out the votes of law-abiding citizens.

On May 30, ABC anchor David Muir asked, “Will an army of protesters be heard?” Reporter Jeremy Hubbard began his story for World News: “In their most massive numbers yet, a deluge of adversaries rally and rail against what could soon be the law of the land in Arizona.”

On NBC, Telemundo correspondent Janet Rodriguez featured a woman holding a sign from Answer LA, the far-left/communist-affiliated group. Rodriguez, however, described her simply as “from Long Beach.” The woman smeared opponents as “racists.”

Network correspondents routinely mourned how illegal aliens didn’t feel welcome in Arizona, and felt they had to move back to Mexico or other friendlier states. On July 8, NBC reporter Lee Cowan sympathized with Marcial Bolanos, who didn’t think Arizona was a good place any more. “He took his 15-year-old son out of school and is headed back to Mexico, which brings Hugo to tears. But you’re really going to miss your friends?” Hugo said “Yeah.” The networks didn’t apply this blatant emotional appeal on behalf of families who’ve lost loved ones in crimes committed by illegal aliens.

In 18 of 120 stories, the networks mentioned the public opinion polls, in which broad majorities favor the Arizona law. One poll question the networks didn’t ask was if it might seem odd for the Obama administration to sue Arizona for trying to enforce immigration laws, but would not sue cities that vowed to ignore immigration laws, which call themselves “sanctuary cities.”

A Rasmussen poll found 54 percent favored the Justice Department suing “sanctuary cities,” and 61 percent favored cutting off federal aid to them. But the three networks haven’t used the words “sanctuary city” since 2007, when it was a hot topic in the Republican primary debates. It was never mentioned, so was never described as “controversial.”

– Tim Graham

It’s no longer illegal to be illegal in Arizona

I’m back on the air/stream again tonight at 9p ET. And you can bet we’ll be discussing this with Elizabeth Letchworth of GradeGov.com Rush says this will kill the Democrats in November. But by then, Obama will have implemented amnesty with the stroke of an executive order pen. People are ready to ignore this judge’s ruling… What’s your opinion? Call in tonight @ 646-478-4604.

The ANDREA SHEA KING SHOW at 9p ET

http://BlogTalkRadio.com/ASKShow

Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio:

Is not surprised by Bolton’s ruling, says it will have little impact on his planned “crime-suppression” operation scheduled for Thursday.

“That’s not going to affect our human-smuggling or employer-sanction investigations, that wasn’t addressed in that law,” he said.

Arpaio said the only thing Bolton’s ruling changed is the ability for Arizona law enforcement to use a state charge – willful failure to carry documents – to book someone into jail. Now, Arpaio said, the agencies can continue to contact Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials to determine if federal agents will take custody of the suspect.

Everyone booked into Maricopa County Jail will continue to have their immigration status screened by federally trained sheriff’s deputies through an agreement with ICE. ” We’re going to determine on our 287(g) (agreement), whether they’re illegal anyway,” he said.

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http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/us_arizona_immigration

PHOENIX – A federal judge on Wednesday blocked the most controversial parts of Arizona’s immigration law from taking effect, delivering a last-minute victory to opponents of the crackdown.

The overall law will still take effect Thursday, but without the provisions that angered opponents — including sections that required officers to check a person’s immigration status while enforcing other laws.

The judge also put on hold parts of the law that required immigrants to carry their papers at all times, and made it illegal for undocumented workers to solicit employment in public places.

U.S. District Judge Susan Bolton ruled that those sections should be put on hold until the courts resolve the issues. Other provisions of the law, many of them procedural and slight revisions to existing Arizona immigraiton statute, will go into effect at 12:01 a.m.