What would you think of the following as the official policies of the United States?

1. If you migrate to this county, you must speak the native language

2. You have to be a professional or an investor. No unskilled workers allowed.

3. There will be no special bilingual programs in the schools, no special ballots for elections, all government business will be conducted in our language.

4. Foreigners will NOT have the right to vote no matter how long they are here.

5 Foreigners will NEVER be able to hold political office.

6. Foreigners will not be a burden to the taxpayers. No welfare, no food stamps, no health care, or other government assistance programs.

7. Foreigners can invest in this country, but it must be an amount equal to 40,000 times the daily minimum wage.

8. If foreigners do come and want to buy land that will be okay, BUT options will be restricted. You are not allowed waterfront property. That is reserved for citizens naturally born into this country.

9. Foreigners may not protest; no demonstrations, no waving a foreign flag, no political organizing, no bad-mouthing our president or his policies, if you do you will be sent home.

10. If you do come to this country illegally, you will be hunted down and sent straight to jail.

Harsh, you say? The above laws happen to be the immigration laws of MEXICO!

Just remember these facts the next time you might feel a little sympathy toward those that are invading OUR country and playing the race card when they are held acountable for their actions. Compare their actions here and the policies of their home country and ask yourself whether or not they have earned any sympathy.

H/t to Catfish

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I thought a lot of us denizons of the the Empire got pickled at the Blog Fest, but THIS GUY truly was!

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FINALLY! Two elected officials are actually applying the law to invaders.

I admired Sheriff Arpaio before, but this most recent development serves to heighten that admiration. He saw a problem, devised a solution, and was willing to make use of the citizenry when it was obvious that his enforcement resources were too limited to accomplish the goal without them.

This is a true demonstration of the right of every American of self/community protection in action.

As Neal Boortz said: "Nothing like a good old fashioned posse. Government of the people, by the people, for the people."

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A man went to the dental surgeon to have a tooth pulled. The dentist pulls out a freezing needle to give the man a shot. "No way, no needles, I hate needles!" the patient said.

The dentist starts to hook up the laughing gas and the man again objects. "I can't do the gas thing. The thought of having a gas mask on is suffocating to me."

The dentist then asks if the man has any objection to taking a pill. "No," the patient says, "I am fine with pills.

The dentist then returns and says, "Here is a Viagra tablet."

The patient says, "Wow, I didn't know Viagra worked as a pain pill!"

"It doesn't," said the dentist, "but it will give you something to hold onto when I pull out your tooth!"

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After a night of drinking, Ron crept into bed
beside his wife Ann who was already asleep. He gave her a peck on the
cheek and fell asleep.
When he awoke he found a strange man standing
at the end of his bed wearing a long flowing white robe. "Who the
hell are you?" demanded Ron,"and what are you doing in my bedroom?"

The mysterious man answered, "This isn't your bedroom. I'm St.
Peter."

Ron was stunned, "You mean I'm dead! That can't be! I have so much
left to do. I haven't even had a chance to say goodbye to my family. You've
got to send me back right away."

St Peter replied, "Yes, you can be reincarnated but there is a
catch--we can only send you back as a dog or a hen."

Ron was devasted, but knowing there was a farm not far from his house
he asked to be sent back as a hen. A flash of light later and he was
covered in feathers and clucking around pecking the ground.

"This ain't so bad," he thought until he felt this strange feeling
welling up inside him.

The farmyard rooster strolled over and said, "So you're the new hen, how
are you enjoying your first day here?"

"It's not so bad," replies Ron, "but I have this strange feeling inside
like I'm about to explode."

"You're ovulating," explained the rooster, "don't tell me you've never
laid an egg before."

"Never," replied Ron.

"Well just relax and let it happen."

And so he did and after a few uncomfortable seconds an egg popped out.
An immense feeling of relief swept over him and his emotions got the
better of him as he experienced motherhood for the first time. When he
laid his second egg, the feeling of happiness was overwhelming and he
knew that being reincarnated as a hen was the best thing that had ever
happened to him!

The joy kept coming, and as he was just about to lay his third egg he
felt an enormous smack on the back of his head and heard his wife shouting,

"Ron, wake up you drunken bastard! You're shitting all over the bed."

H/T to Jack

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Three third graders - an Irish kid, an Italian
Kid and a Redneck kid - are in the playground at Recess.
One of them suggests that they play a new game.
"Let's see who has the largest weenie," he says.
"Okay." They all agree.
The Italian kid pulls down his zipper and whips It out.
"That's nothing," says the Irish kid, whipping His out.
His is a couple of inches longer.
Not to be outdone, the Redneck kid pulls his out.
It is by far the biggest.
That night, eating dinner at home, the Redneck Kid's' mother asks him what he did at school today.
"Oh, we worked on a science project, had a math Test and read out loud from a new book . And During recess, my friends and I played 'Let's see Who has the largest weenie'."
"What kind of game is that, honey?" asks the Mother.
"Well, me, Anthony and Patrick each pulled out Our weenies and I had the biggest!
The other kids say it's because I'm a Redneck. Is That true, Mom?"
Mom replies, "No, honey. It's because you're Twenty-three."

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Yeah, she's SUCH a grieving mother that she hasn't placed a marker on her son's grave.

She can travel the world denouncing the war and the Bush administration, she can go have her picture taken with anti-American polititions in Venezuela, she can vacation in Hawaii, she can buy a new VW convertable....she can accept $250,000 in death benefits from the DoD, but she's just grieving too much to even mark her son's grave...after all, it's only been two years.

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"It takes four aspects for a free and democratic society to maintain itself."

"It requires a highly educated population that can write, read, think and vote intelligently."

"It takes a similar moral code whereby everyone adheres to the common good."

"It requires a similar code of ethics whereby citizens adhere to honesty, doing what is right and maintaining those ethics throughout the social fabric."

"Finally, it takes a similar language that allows citizens to discuss, debate and resolve problems."

"We compromise all four with an invasion exceeding four million new people into the USA annually. 20 million illegals to date and climbing. We allow the disintegration of our nation without a whimper."

Go read the entire letter at GuyK's.

One problem, the NEA has promulgated and accelerated the erosion of the "four aspects" for longer than the problem of the ILLEGAL immagrants exacerbated it. We need to revamp the entire educational structure, regardless of what we do about the invasion by illegals.
And we need to do it soon, or this nation will not last another generation.

I would contend that the poor educational system is one factor in why we are even arguing over what to do about the Invaders; had there been an effective education of this last generation, there wouldn't be any question about our course of action.

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Here are some random thoughts from Thomas Sowell. He's always worth the read, no matter what topic he is expounding upon.

I honestly believe that Thomas Sowell, William Buckley Jr., John Gailbraith, and Ayn Rand should be required reading before anyone even attempts to consider themselves as starting to be educated.

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We hear once again from the King of the Moonbats, Howard Dean. Seems that he's more willing to give the benefit of the doubt to Osama Bin Laden than to Karl Rove. Thank G-D that the Democrats still have Dean as the spokesman for their Party; as much as the Republicans have shown themselves to be disappointments to their base, Dean may be the only thing to allow the GOP have a second chance of straightening their act out.

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Neal Boortz has a great example of how are schools are not educating our children, and demonstrates the he's correct when he calls them "government indoctrination centers".

The ONLY true option for the bulk of the populace, should they wish their children to recieve a true education is to home school. Too bad that governmental policies make that option so difficult to do.

We need to abolish the NEA and the Federal Dept. of Education and return choice back to where it belongs, the parents and local communities.

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Well, gas around the Citadel is averageing at around $2.84 a gallon, with only the prospects of furthur rises in sight. The chickens of inane past policies have finally come home to roost, and our current crop of polititians are arguing only over more of the same.

The latest proposal from Dennis Hastert includes a $100. "rebate" to be given to every family to "help them over the hump". EXCUSE ME?!? Given the increase in the costs of all goods due to increased costs of production and transportation absorb that paltry amount faster than a drop of water falling on a hot rock under a desert sun. It's an insult to any logicaly thinking person.

Another part of the proposal resolves to change the tax structure on oil company reserves; effectively imposing a huge tax increase on those companies....and increasing the cost of doing business lowers gas prices at the pumps how? It's bad enough that the general populace should be so ignorant of economics, but for a supposedly highly educated man to pursue such a course is
bordering on the criminal.

Prices are a function of supply and demand, and for at least the last twenty years, the government has fostered policies that served to limit domestically produced supply and making us hostage to the vageries of a volatile Middle East and/or South America.

The Politicoes are trying to blame the oil companies for "gouging", citing "record profits"....and with an uninformed populace, they are getting away with the scapegoatism yet once again. The numbers on the profit side of the ledger do look high, but when you delve into it and determine the profit margin after expenses, you will find that oil is among the lowest returns on investment of any commodities. And when you realize that the GOVERNMENT'S
"profit" from a gallon of gas in the form of taxes is between four and five times higher than the profit realized by the companies themselves, we need to ask ourselves just WHO is doing the gouging.

Government has restricted the oil companies from developing most areas of domestic production; made it economically impossible to increase our refining capabilities for the last twenty two years,mandated "special blends" that increase the cost to the consumer and have made the costs of marketing and distribution much higher than need be.

While some practices of the oil companies are reprehensible, what the government has done is even more so.

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Well, I just got back in the door after a 2125 mile round trip to the Austin Blog Meet. Erin and I both had a GREAT time (even though I still couldn't talk Erin into doing a little range time, she opted to check out some of the retail facilities).

Special thanks to Beth for bringing the wheell chair; it sure came in handy! And extra special thanks to Lord Spatula for increasing my armory by a much needed easy carry piece.

Erin and I had a special adventure on the way home...we drove all those miles, and had an accident only 44 miles from home.

We had just crossed the Indiana state line and were doing splendidly, when for an undetermined reason,(NO I did NOT fall asleep at the wheel, and I have a witness to that!) the car decided it wanted to violate the rules of highway travel and attempted to move laterally instead of a forward motion, taking us over a 15 foot embankment....it then decided that lateral WASN'T a smart move and attempted to move foward over the head sized chunks of limestone in the drainage culvert at the bottom of the embankment. I did manage to keep enough control to keep it from flipping, and neither of us was hurt, except for some hard bumps and bruises. I managed to drive the car out of the culver and up the embankment back onto the highway, but the right front wheel was cracked and the tire was losing air. no way of telling what damage may be hiding on the undercarriage. Erin is covered by AAA, so we just had ourselves towed to the dealership; we should find out the total extant of damage sometime this evening or tomorrow. I really dreaded that call to my Ex to tell her that her car almost got totaled, but wasn't that bad, really....She took it all in stride; her only concern was that neither of us was hurt. I stood there and cried in the dealers lot...I had expected to have to try to run as she atttempted total evisceration on me for damaging her beauty, but instead, I got a hug and a "don't worry about it; thats what insurance is for".

I'm going to take a hot shower and then sleep for about 20 hrs or so, talk to ya'll when I return to the land of the concious.

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Hot Air.com has the lowdown on just WHAT an ugly baby our border policy is and how it became that way.

Spew alert is in force on this one, so don't send me any bills for ruined keyboards if you fail to heed it.

H/T to Jack

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Seems that Dr. Karen Weatherby carried out a five year study in Germany on the health effects that ogling a nice set of mammary glands can have on old dogs like me.

Her conclusion?: a ten minute ogle at a womans breasts is as healthy as a half hour workout in the gym. She stated that a "few minutes a day could cut the risk of stroke and heart attack almost in half", and that by "consistantly engaging in this practice, an average man could extend his life by as much as five years"! "There is NO question that gazing at breasts makes men healthier".

So the next time you want to go out on the town for a night of leering with the boys at the local "gentleman's club", just tell your wife that your doing it to improve your health and longevity. (Hmmm, I wonder if this could be considered as a medical expense by my HMO....)

UPDATE: Per request of one of my favorite citizens, I added something just for her under the fold. more...

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Today is a special day...it's Holocaust Rememberance Day in a number of countries (unfortunatly not observed in the US).

This is the day set aside to remember all the victoms of the Nazi atrocities during WW2. It's a day of special meaning to me, as my own father was almost a fatality of those atrocities...as it is he was a victom of experiences that no human being should ever have to undergo. It's important to remember that ordinary human beings are capable of such bestial behaviour if we are ever going to reach the point that it will never happen again.

Dad was interviewed by Rev. James Dobson in two segments of his Focus on the Family radio program last week. I learned quite a few things about my father I had never known prior to listening to this broadcast. Use the link and go to the archives for April 24 and 25 to hear it for yourself.

I hope that after you hear it, you will try to delve more deeply into that period of time and learn more about what happened, and even more importantly, WHY it happened. As my Dad noted, most of the people involved weren't monsters; they were ordinary people in extraordinay times and under pressures that many of us of the baby boom generation and beyond can't even conceive of in our nightmares.

Oh, and it's also my birthday; and getting to gain some insights into my father through this broadcast was one of the best presents I've ever gotten.

52 years young. Battered and bruised, but still ready to fight the fight.

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Mexican Constitution, Chapter 3, Article 33:

"The Executive of the Union (The President) has the exclusive right to expel from the national territory, immediately and without necessity of judicial proceedings, all foreigners whose stay it judges inconvenient. Foreigners may not, in any manner, involve themselves in the political affairs of the country."

Now match this legality to the words of Vincente Fox:
)President Vicente Fox) was quoted on Dec. 14,2005, as saying the United States’ attempt to secure our southern border by building a wall was “shameful and disgraceful.” Fox also said the U.S. action was an “increasing violation of human rights.”

Media reports on Dec. 21 quote Foreign Secretary Luis Ernesto Derbez as saying, " Mexico is not going to bear, it is not going to permit, and it will not allow a stupid thing like this wall.”

Hyprocracy isn't a stranger in the course of politics anywhere, but at least most U.S. polititians at least try to hide it (Kennedy exempted), and are often discarded at the next election when they are found out engaging in it...

The strangest thing to me is that groups such as La Raza are blatent in their goal of "taking back" a large portion of the American south-west and creating a new country known as "Atzalan", yet they bleat about their "rights" whenever they are confronted on anything. And that fact isn't stressed in any of the major media...after all, if you try to point out the hyprocracy of hiding behind "rights" while attempting to overthrow the basis of those rights, you'll be labled a racist, and that just isn't the thing to do in todays PC culture.

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HERE is just ONE reason I'm proud of my dad.

He never talked about his childhood with us when we were growing up, except in the most general terms; it's only in the last two years that we have started to learn just some of the horrors he endured as a boy.

His main message is that we can never allow such horrors to occur again, and that God (HOWEVER you should choose to believe in him/her) is the only thing that can help you endure such experiences with (at least a semblance) of sanity afterwards. My Dad has never been religious, but he's always been a staunch believer in Christ and God.

There were many things I could never understand about my Dad when I was growing up, but now that I have begun to learn about his past, I can begin to understand him a great deal better. I'm glad he has broken his silence about the past, so I can, now that he's in the last years of his life, at least start to know the person he really is and why he is as he is before it's too late. Thats a gift that many children never have in their relationships with their parents, and I'm truly grateful for that.

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Having just read a fisking by the undisputed master of the genre, I feel compelled to try my own feeble skills at it too, albeit on an easy target.

Mayor Michael Bloomberg, an outspoken gun control advocate, said Friday there is "nothing wrong with people having guns" for recreational shooting, and even recalled his days as a Boy Scout marksman.

Be careful there your Honor..."seeing nothing wrong with guns" won't sit well with your fellow travelers on your side of the gun control issue, and I guess they didn't inform you that the Boy Scouts are a totally "Politically Incorrect" group these days; admiotting you were once a member in good standing might just hurt you with the "Progressive/(un)Reality Based" set.

Bloomberg is convening a summit of big city mayors next week to discuss what he calls the "scourge" of illegal guns.

Yes...."ILLEGAL GUNS" ARE a scourge. But Your side of the gun control debate just can't seem to apprehend the simple fact that guns are "illegal" when used by CRIMINALS, and CRIMINALS ARE CRIMINALS because they don't obey laws. You can try to make the guns the focus all you wish to, but unless and until you hold the CRIMNALS to account, with enforcement of laws ALREADY on the books, that "scourge" will continue unabated.

On his weekly radio show, the Republican explained that he still supports the Second Amendment and said he has no problem with hunting and target practice.

Thank you SO much for allowing us to assert our 2nd Amendment RIGHT...Your smugness can't be any more evident than in that statement.

"You want to go hunting and have a gun _ you know, I'm not opposed to that," he said.

Smugness reiterated? How gauche!

The 64-year-old mayor, who grew up in Medford, Mass., and occasionally refers to fond memories of Boy Scout camp, said he participated in riflery there and also owned a .22 caliber rifle for target practice on a shooting range.

WHAT!?! A young "skull full of mush" was allowed acces to a firearm?!?! Those camps you attended must have been straight out mayhem as depicted in some horror movies; after all, isn't it the contention of the gun control lobby that if citizens were allowed free access to fire arms that there would inevitably be a "Wild West" scenerio with "blood running in the streets"? What, you say that that DIDN'T happen, and you all had fun? HOW can this be?!?!

"I see nothing wrong with people having guns, but that doesn't mean you can have a gun every place, and concealed weapons _ or even weapons out in the open in big cities on city streets _ does not make a lot of sense to me," he said.

Hmmm...nope, I just checked, your honor, and there is nothing in the 2nd Amendment that says, "you may bear arms, EXCEPT when you are _______"
I see why it "doesn't make sense" to you, since from your standpoint, guns that are used for self-protection are, ipso facto, "illegal". Ever stop to consider that "illegal" guns are the biggest problem in those areas where the average citizen isn't allowed to own/carry a weapon?

Next week's gun summit will bring together about a dozen mayors, including those from Boston, Dallas, Philadelphia, Milwaukee, Seattle and Washington, D.C., to trade information and form a loose coalition for lobbying on Capitol Hill.

The other cities I understand, but Dallas?!? Hopefully those representatives from that fair city are attending just to let the other cities know just how full of crap they are in attempting to limit legal ownership/carrying of weapons they are. All the residents of my aquaintence from that fair city are definately on the opposit side of the issue from Mayor Bloomburg. Maybe he meant Austin?

"We want to talk about best practices, and how the mayors of all the big cities can get together and pressure Congress to do something about it, because it's a national issue," Bloomberg said.

Let's see "pressure Congress to restrict our 2nd Amendment rights".....Yep! JUST what I want MY local officials to do! Your correct in that this IS a National issue, Mayor. Just keep your nose out of it, YOU were hired to provide for YOUR city, not other cities.

My suggestion for "best practices"?

1) Provide supervised firing ranges for your citizens so that they may become proficient with their firearms. Training IS important.

2) ENFORCE those laws on the books pertaining to the use of a firearm in the commission of a crime.

3) Let the average citizen know that HE/SHE is responsible for his/her own protection against crime in the final analysis. "911" police response is a great concept, but the Police CAN'T, and NEVER HAVE been able to protect you at the time that a crime is being commited against your person, all they can do is deal with the aftermath.

4) Again, enforce laws against criminal acts involving weapons with severity and surety. NO plea bargains in gun charges.

We are all responsible for ourselves; no matter how much we may think we live in a society where that is not true, to deny that fact is to deny reality, let us have the tools to accomplish that goal of self protection.

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Kim du Toit for Press Secretary!

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