tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-381909822024-03-13T10:30:20.331-07:00Kirly (not a bald stooge)Conservative Christian Zionist Capitalist AmericanUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger610125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-38190982.post-54669960655646962122016-01-02T17:07:00.001-07:002016-01-02T17:07:48.046-07:00Christmas 2015<div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">And now for something completely different. It's been a long time since I posted anything here. The world is going to hell and 2016 looks like it'll be full of more of the same. I needed a break so I've enjoyed two solid weeks off work just enjoying what good surrounds me and working around the house. It's been far too short.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">For Christmas decor this year, I made some things but I was also in a position to use some of my adopted Mothers decorations from many years ago.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">I started out with this very tiny ornament and called it done.<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiuAfLtu4sp46XnM3ZM-YUfusfrXVD274uDEXcyKd2t_e6fyK_9WPZNaYQwwqNdUQG2clWDNZZlqFDP7lyU4T7rcGwD2jExkQZkufiFGQi-I2xhUlH_-dREyJabFszv55gHHf0Kag/s640/blogger-image-978784556.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiuAfLtu4sp46XnM3ZM-YUfusfrXVD274uDEXcyKd2t_e6fyK_9WPZNaYQwwqNdUQG2clWDNZZlqFDP7lyU4T7rcGwD2jExkQZkufiFGQi-I2xhUlH_-dREyJabFszv55gHHf0Kag/s640/blogger-image-978784556.jpg"></a></div>But then I decided I needed to make this to hang on the front door in lieu of a wreath.<div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiI7Muxzzx-7zqXNjbzRmjtGezUC2ozqgnvyEPft5y5H5CsBb7UFetOyG7se_m6YIALxL1e5wkQPT_4s-iiYXxQqFwAtrWxJuz6vluqynKW9yYLjeuPR-UOVHS89dZYaX_lBwl1Vw/s640/blogger-image--1213621787.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiI7Muxzzx-7zqXNjbzRmjtGezUC2ozqgnvyEPft5y5H5CsBb7UFetOyG7se_m6YIALxL1e5wkQPT_4s-iiYXxQqFwAtrWxJuz6vluqynKW9yYLjeuPR-UOVHS89dZYaX_lBwl1Vw/s640/blogger-image--1213621787.jpg"></a></div><br></div><div>And then I remembered I had this. It was made many years ago by my Aunt who adopted me. It needed some repairs.</div><div><br></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhibaaGE-wCy5yVCjEjKdqv7w62HVrMdQlTnj-Nl8fxXHYmqgpRnaxQ9cyf-CPmyxwo7c_sAkGPlHjhZgDeh4XJ5gs8RUFPe5S2nDZlckUPb0tSEv8cnD_L8cB58JOk_EV7WFQG7w/s640/blogger-image--1286925350.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhibaaGE-wCy5yVCjEjKdqv7w62HVrMdQlTnj-Nl8fxXHYmqgpRnaxQ9cyf-CPmyxwo7c_sAkGPlHjhZgDeh4XJ5gs8RUFPe5S2nDZlckUPb0tSEv8cnD_L8cB58JOk_EV7WFQG7w/s640/blogger-image--1286925350.jpg"></a></div><br></div><div>And the lights needed replacing.</div><div><br></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhhhAlLnykoXD6e0iF6VWZBMkWB-s4aJDsBPvn70CFopUTdo5X3qNxGRIQy-vmeZlwmOQg6kv3cYk4ONds87OmoO3n7gLMDmEHtcNOR6nBPQx_CsB1frM0jQ4b4xSznqmjjkuZNtQ/s640/blogger-image--1262132554.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhhhAlLnykoXD6e0iF6VWZBMkWB-s4aJDsBPvn70CFopUTdo5X3qNxGRIQy-vmeZlwmOQg6kv3cYk4ONds87OmoO3n7gLMDmEHtcNOR6nBPQx_CsB1frM0jQ4b4xSznqmjjkuZNtQ/s640/blogger-image--1262132554.jpg"></a></div><br></div><div>Since the bug to create had bitten me, I put my plan in place to build a silk arrangement in my Aunts old heart shaped aluminum roaster.</div><div><br></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiKrFNR6pnqYdS-qQFOtlEUkllUifGPZ55EW-LOHCxwr5L0vukkOQUXo6me8H6xDn-SBggf-fplQPEXwFfBuq0kx6H5DlIKfuvfy5ahpuYVq6yyNl3SAzW8vzUqoX_mcSBH-pMf3Q/s640/blogger-image--97495999.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiKrFNR6pnqYdS-qQFOtlEUkllUifGPZ55EW-LOHCxwr5L0vukkOQUXo6me8H6xDn-SBggf-fplQPEXwFfBuq0kx6H5DlIKfuvfy5ahpuYVq6yyNl3SAzW8vzUqoX_mcSBH-pMf3Q/s640/blogger-image--97495999.jpg"></a></div><br></div><div>I had to glue the lid in place but nothing will be damaged so I hope it holds!</div><div><br></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiBD1lC50-bs4ojNTKbbcCSzWf7apPGEaYmY_O-5q1zDBJRiraMZhn3rbBBx6kWR01gb3akXegGTmpbcbzL1lz4r6G7Sp6dAbv1gRzb8LU4ROydQnCNCIiylSS6XAqm_0NZjRDlfQ/s640/blogger-image-1986938910.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiBD1lC50-bs4ojNTKbbcCSzWf7apPGEaYmY_O-5q1zDBJRiraMZhn3rbBBx6kWR01gb3akXegGTmpbcbzL1lz4r6G7Sp6dAbv1gRzb8LU4ROydQnCNCIiylSS6XAqm_0NZjRDlfQ/s640/blogger-image-1986938910.jpg"></a></div><br></div><div>Still looking for silk Hydrangeas of the correct color though.</div><div><br></div><div>And now to clear out the craft room so I can resume making my own Christmas cards by next year. Hopefully, I can stay healthy and get that done quickly.</div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-38190982.post-91151511936186278502012-12-29T14:01:00.000-07:002012-12-29T14:01:20.681-07:00What is wrong with people??<div style="text-align: justify;">
Haven't posted in... wow, a year. Been busy. Anyway, I observed something last night that I feel compelled to share. I believe it's one of the core causes of the problems which plague our society. We seem decadent, hedonistic, selfish, greedy. Our children seem selfish and spoiled beyond anything I ever imagined growing up. I know not all people are as I describe, but my "faith in humanity" is all but gone.</div>
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Yesterday morning, as I was packing up to come home from the relatives, my just-a-few-months-old iPhone seemed to have a slight software malfunction. When I got home I made an appointment at the nearest Apple Store - no walk ins allowed it seems. I was directed to sit at a table with other customers waiting their turn. Naturally, being the friendly sort, I started chatting with the other customers. We all began exchanging reports of why we were there - some for purchase, some for software malfunctions (like me), and some for replacements due to damage.</div>
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It was that last situation which will stick with me. A man and his son were sitting across the table from me. The man started telling a rather confusing story of his sons and how one had thrown his iPhone at the other. It seems that the kid sitting next to the dad got mad at his brother for eating his soup or doing something to it and threw his brand new iPhone across the room. The iPhone was one of his Christmas presents. There sat the dad saying bizarre things like, "well, I didn't want to replace it" and "he's got a bad temper" and "he's got red hair so ...". And there sat that little brat smiling smugly saying, "that's right. no one messes with my soup." It was obvious that the kid knew that what he had done was wrong, that he really didn't deserve a replacement iPhone, and that his father was WEAK. The little brat wasn't even trying to conceal his smugness.</div>
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Once I got that all sorted out, I said to the little monstor who will be inflicted upon society within the next ten years, "You're one lucky kid. You better be grateful to your father. If you were MY kid, I'd beat your ass with a wooden boat oar and you'd NEVER get another cell phone EVER". Yes, I really said that. And yes I really meant that if he were my child, not only would I never supply him with an iPhone but he would not be allowed to possess any cell phone as long as he lived in my house not matter his age or even if he paid for it himself. The wooden boat oar idea came from my sister who has three sons and beat their asses with a wooden boat oar when necessary.</div>
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Parents, kids, and people in general like that are a huge problem. These people clearly have more money than brains. How can someone so stupid make enough money to supply iPhones for little kids at Christams?? The only thing that will cure them and their monstrous brat children is flying off the fiscal cliff at about a million miles an hour. And it looks like that's about to happen.</div>
Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-38190982.post-5400577982182629812011-12-22T08:21:00.003-07:002011-12-22T08:24:02.017-07:00Happy Hanukah, Merry Christmas and nothing else<div style="text-align: justify;">It's been quite a while since I posted anything due to life intruding on what I'd rather be doing. But, I'm hoping to get back to blogging first thing next year. Meanwhile, I wish all a Happy Hanukah and a Merry Christmas - yes, both since my adopted mother was Jewish and I am Christian and do my best to show respect and appreciation for the Jewish people who are, after all, the Jewish people are the Apple of G-d's eye who preserved the Scriptures for all the world, and who gave us the Messiah (no, not the pres).</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">If you're wondering why I didn't wish anyone happy "kwaanzaa" or however you spell that, I don't participate in fake, made-up-to-foster-separatism celebrations.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">If you're wondering why I haven't wished moslems well on one of their days, well that would be due to my not embracing evil, the devil himself, nor idol worship - that's right, they worship a stupid piece of black meterorite which they've enshrined in a replica of what they fear most - a vagina (<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Blackstone.JPG">look it up</a>!). Weirdos. They must not fear it too much though since they are replicating like cockroaches (yeah, i said it - not like you'd expect me to use an analogy to something sweet, soft, cudly, and relatively harmless like a bunny, did ya?).</div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-38190982.post-20504166894336332692011-08-25T22:37:00.000-07:002011-08-25T22:37:27.378-07:0053 Mexicans Murdered in Monterrey<div style="text-align: justify;">I wonder if any of those guns are of the Fast and Furious variety?</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">Obama, Holder, et al, I hope you're happy with overt act of war in arming the internal enemies of our neighbor, Mexico. You should all be extradicted for your crimes.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><a href="http://news.yahoo.com/53-dead-attack-casino-northern-mexico-042850298.html">53 dead in attack on casino in northern Mexico</a></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><blockquote><div style="text-align: justify;">MONTERREY, Mexico (AP) — Two dozen gunmen burst into a casino in northern Mexico on Thursday, doused it with gasoline and started a fire that trapped gamblers inside, killing 53 people and injuring a dozen more, authorities said.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">The fire at the Casino Royale in Monterrey, a city that has seen a surge in drug cartel-related violence, represented one of the deadliest attacks on an entertainment center in Mexico since President Felipe Calderon launched an offensive against drug cartels in late 2006.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">"This is a night of sadness for Mexico," federal security spokesman Alejandro Poire said in a televised address. "These unspeakable acts of terror will not go unpunished."</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">Calderon tweeted that the attack was "an abhorrent act of terror and barbarism" that requires "all of us to persevere in the fight against these unscrupulous criminal bands."</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">Nuevo Leon state Gov. Rodrigo Medina told the Televisa network that 53 people had been confirmed dead in the attack.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">"But we could find more," said state Attorney General Leon Adrian de la Garza, adding that a drug cartel was apparently responsible for the attack. Cartels often extort casinos and other businesses, threatening to attack them or burn them to the ground if they refuse to pay.</div></blockquote>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-38190982.post-8870733115958497352011-08-20T10:21:00.000-07:002011-08-20T10:21:40.608-07:00Did Justice Department Know About Fast and Fuirous?<div style="text-align: justify;">In my opinion, there is no doubt that Holder knew. Watch this video and watch him say that he learned of it a few weeks before the scandal broke and yet he bragged about it in Mexico long before.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">Mexico wants to indict those responsible for letting the guns walk and I don't blame them. This was an act of war arming the internal forces aligning against the Mexican people and the government of Mexico.</div><br />
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And those in charge are being <a href="http://video.foxnews.com/v/1116961960001/behind-the-fast--furious-program">promoted and moved to other parts of the country</a>, some in positions invented just for them. While the whistleblowers are being retaliated against which is against Federal law. Of course, we already know from the voter intimidation charges against the black panthers stemming from the '08 PA billy club swinging incidents that Holder won't enforce Federal law if the accused / guilty are "his people".</div><br />
Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-38190982.post-10798651441252769422011-08-09T17:35:00.001-07:002011-08-09T17:37:51.979-07:00All of MiddleEarth Angry at McCain<div style="text-align: justify;">Yesterday the Tea Party Hobbits (you know, US, the good guys who save the entire world!) <a href="http://kirls.blogspot.com/2011/08/mccain-apologizes-if-hobbits.html">politely asked</a> Senator John McCain for an apology for turning the word Hobbit into an epithet. Today, the Morder Orcs (Democrats) expressed their anger at him too. In typical John McCain fashion, the venue was way too small and the doors locked 45 minutes before the event began.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">I heard a clip of it on the radio where McCain said "...everyone wants to be rich..." and the crowd howled that no, they did not want to be rich! LOL</div><br />
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</div><blockquote><div style="text-align: justify;">If U.S. Sen. John McCain's town hall on Tuesday had a theme, it's that Greater Tucson has been dipped in a big vat of angry.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">And the heat isn't just the domain of the tea party anymore, with progressives showing up in force, just as torqued as their conservative counterparts.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">It didn't help the tenor that there were far too many people for the 150-seat venue at St. Marks United Methodist Church on the far Northwest Side. The doors were locked and people turned away 45 minutes before the event even started.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">As McCain entered, waving, he was greeted by the standard applause, as well as the not-so-standard chant of "Where are the jobs?"</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">Although the crowd by applause agreed to some ground rules - no yelling, no shouting, respecting one another - they didn't mean it.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">The catcalls and interruptions started early into his introductory comments, which McCain largely used to make his case that the economic situation has deteriorated under the Obama administration. Using a chart with the title, "He's making it worse," McCain said there are fewer jobs, higher gas prices, more regulations and lower housing values since the inauguration.</div></blockquote>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-38190982.post-42037127003338295302011-08-08T17:29:00.002-07:002011-08-08T17:33:19.018-07:00McCain Apologizes if The Hobbits Misunderstood<div style="text-align: justify;">But he's not sorry he said it...why should I, he said, when it's the facts. Do you understand that? He's sorry that you <a href="http://youtu.be/XvdRuRHXBVQ">hobbits are too stupid</a> to understand what his highness said.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">And, obviously, he fails to understand that the <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rBtzudk40pE">Hobbits save the entire world</a>. <a href="http://kirls.blogspot.com/2011/07/john-mccain-wsj-hobbits-win.html">The Hobbits win!</a></div><br />
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I think John McCain might be Saruman.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-38190982.post-5283984406265051582011-07-30T08:03:00.001-07:002011-07-30T08:05:50.678-07:00John McCain & WSJ - The Hobbits Win!<div style="text-align: justify;">Anyone who has known me for any length of time knows I already can't stand John McCain, his recent years border enforcement posturing with Pinal County Sheriff Babeu notwithstanding. Every six years McCain runs to the right and then spends his six year Senate term sliding to the left and insulting the right, reaching across the aisle to those whose policies are, at best, Socialistic, and, at worst, Communisitic (yeah, I said it).</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">Anyone who has known me for more than 5 minutes knows that I have been a fan of J.R.R. Tolkien since I was a child. I have read The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings more times than I can count. I have watched the movies at least 20 times. I even went on a <a href="http://www.redcarpet-tours.com/">Lord of the Rings Movie Location Tour of New Zealand</a> and intend to go on another after The Hobbit movies are released. Seriously, I love the story which is, at it's core, a story of Good vs. Evil. On the side of Good are the Hobbits. The Hobbits represent innocence and purity and all that is Good in the world.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">For the <a href="http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424053111903591104576470061986837494.html?mod=WSJ_Opinion_LEADTop">WSJ</a> to attempt to turn "Hobbits" into an epithet is outrageous. How dare they mock The Tea Party as "Hobbits". To be called a Hobbit is not an insult. It is a compliment of the highest order. It is saying you are Good and Righteous. For John McCain to agree with the statements from the WSJ so much that he chose to read the statement on the floor of the Senate thus preserving the sarcastic insult for all posterity is infurirating!</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">Clearly, the idiots at the WSJ editorial board and John McCain either didn't read the Lord of the Rings, or didn't watch the movies, or don't believe in Good and Evil, or are just too stupid to comprehend the point (that must be it since they don't even seem to understand that Mordor is actually part of Middle Earth). The Hobbits win in the end. Sure, it's a long hard road and they are mocked along the way and given little help by the elites, but they win in the end. <a href="http://hotair.com/archives/2011/07/27/wsj-tea-party-hobbits-need-to-go-back-to-middle-earth-or-something/">HotAir</a> did a great job of pointing out that inconvenient fact.</div><br />
<a href="http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424053111903591104576470061986837494.html?mod=WSJ_Opinion_LEADTop">What the WSJ said</a><br />
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<blockquote><div style="text-align: justify;">But what none of these critics have is an alternative strategy for achieving anything nearly as fiscally or politically beneficial as Mr. Boehner's plan. The idea seems to be that if the House GOP refuses to raise the debt ceiling, a default crisis or gradual government shutdown will ensue, and the public will turn en masse against . . . Barack Obama. The Republican House that failed to raise the debt ceiling would somehow escape all blame. Then Democrats would have no choice but to pass a balanced-budget amendment and reform entitlements, and the tea-party Hobbits could return to Middle Earth having defeated Mordor.</div></blockquote><br />
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RedState has a very funny piece titled <a href="http://www.redstate.com/absentee/2011/07/28/photoshop-contest-one-does-not-simply-mock-into-mordor/">One Does Not Simply Mock Into Mordor</a>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-38190982.post-36607954149549314472011-07-19T19:19:00.000-07:002011-07-19T19:19:49.177-07:00Another Dust Storm for PhoenixAnother dust storm blew through Phoenix yesterday.<br />
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This is what I normally see looking south from my home.<br />
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And this is what I saw yesterday looking south from my home.<br />
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</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><a href="http://www.kfyi.com/cc-common/news/sections/newsarticle.html?feed=118695?feed=118695&article=8834782">Illegal Immigrant Arrested Inside Palo Verde</a></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><blockquote><div style="text-align: justify;">Sheriff: Security allowed him in with fake ID</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio says his deputies arrested an illegal immigrant working inside the Palo Verde Nuclear Power Station, the nation's largest nuclear plant.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">According to Arpaio, 32-year-old Cruz Loya Alvares was denied entrance at the facility's security checkpoint on Monday, when he was the driver of a work truck belonging to a private contractor doing work at Palo Verde. Security guards noticed the man's Mexican driver's license was expired. On Tuesday, Alvares was admitted to the plant as a passenger in a work truck, using an Arizona ID card. However, at a secondary checkpoint, Arpaio says further examination by authorities determined that the Arizona ID was falsified.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">The sheriff says he doesn't know how long Alvares had been working inside Palo Verde, and whether Monday was the first time he had attempted to get in.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">"To some extent," Arpaio says, "security at this nuclear power plant worked. But still, an illegal immigrant was permitted to gain access. This raises the question: how safe is Palo Verde really if an illegal alien can gain access to this nation's largest nuclear power facility?"</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">The sheriff says the incident brings into question the effectiveness of the security at other government facilities.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">Arpaio says his deputies have been made aware of other incidents of illegal immigrants working in buildings containing various federal, state, and local government workplaces.</div></blockquote>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-38190982.post-61641479951186629182011-07-07T19:41:00.000-07:002011-07-07T19:41:30.190-07:00AZ Dust StormClick the picture to see it all since my blog format cuts off nearly half of it. It's incredible. Looks like The Mummy That Devoured Phoenix. I heard reports that this storm was 2 miles high and up to 100 miles around / wide.<br />
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</div><blockquote><div style="text-align: justify;">Sheriff Paul Babeu came on the Mike Broomhead Show Thursday to talk about a meeting he, among others, had with Secretary of Homeland Security Janet Napolitano in Arizona.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">As soon and the secretary opened for questions, Sheriff Babeu jumped on the opportunity to tell her how our border is ACTUALLY doing.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">Babeu also thinks that this sudden interest in increased boarder security is just an “election stunt.”</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">“Poll data should not run national security, and be at the forefront of decision making when it comes to protecting families here in America,” said the Sheriff. “And Oh! The third year into our four year term, we think this is a real issue now? You got to be kidding me!”</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">According to Babeu, he said that he needed at least 6,000 men and women on our border, now.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">How did our Secretary of Homeland Security respond to that?</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">“You’re never going to seal it…you’re never going to seal the border.”</div></blockquote><div style="text-align: justify;">Well no, you can't seal the border if the HEAD of Homeland Security believes you can't! If she believes you cannot seal the border, then why would she even try? This is what you get with Napolitano, America! And Babeu is right, this is just an election stunt by a government which committed an act of war against Mexico and her people by arming the terrorists inside Mexico via "Fast and Furious" aka "GunRunner".</div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-38190982.post-68494471692305978942011-06-06T17:48:00.002-07:002011-06-08T19:01:22.978-07:00Arizona Boycott - FAIL!<div style="text-align: justify;">Last year about this time there were calls across the land to boycott my beloved state of Arizona. Just look at my own blogging on the topic from <a href="http://kirls.blogspot.com/2010_05_01_archive.html">May</a>, <a href="http://kirls.blogspot.com/2010_06_01_archive.html">June</a>, and <a href="http://kirls.blogspot.com/2010_07_01_archive.html">July</a> of 2010 for a sampling. Well, well, well, here we are a year later and we find that pretty much no boycott happened. Few contracts were cancelled in the face of city councils being ordered to review contracts with firms in Arizona. Typical leftsts counting on the ignorance of their constituents.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><a href="http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-arizona-boycott-20110605,0,1317691.story">What happened to L.A.'s boycott of Arizona?</a></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><blockquote><div style="text-align: justify;">A year after the City Council approved the sanction, little has changed. There's not even an ordinance specifying how the boycott should work.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">In May 2010, Los Angeles was a part of wave of cities that voted to boycott Arizona after lawmakers in that state passed a controversial law targeting illegal immigrants.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">City Hall staffers were <strong>ordered</strong> to review contracts with Arizona companies for possible termination, and official travel to Arizona was supposed to be suspended.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">But a year later, little has changed in the way Los Angeles does business with the state next door.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">The city still buys street sweeper parts from one Arizona firm and has a contract for emergency sewer repairs with another, officials say. The Harbor Department alone has four contracts with Arizona companies that total nearly $26 million.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">A similar pattern can be seen across California. Boycotts in Oakland, San Francisco and Los Angeles County made headlines last year but have since delivered little punch.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">None of those jurisdictions has canceled a contract with an Arizona-based company because of the boycott — leading some <em>immigrant-rights activists</em> to dismiss the high-profile calls for economic sanctions as empty symbolism.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">The disappointment is especially felt in Los Angeles, where Latino elected leaders strongly backed the sanctions.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">"This is a moment of <strong>hypocrisy</strong> if the city of Los Angeles says one thing and does another," said Rabbi Jonathan Klein, executive director of the Los Angeles chapter of Clergy and Laity United for Economic Justice. Klein was speaking to a crowd of protesters gathered at City Hall to demand follow-through on the business ban.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">Protesters have complained about several <strong>exemptions</strong> the City Council has granted in the last year, including approvals of contracts for made-in-Arizona Taser guns and red-light traffic cameras, as well as a contract with a Los Angeles International Airport shuttle provider that has offices in the state.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">Councilman Ed Reyes, who wrote the boycott, voted to approve those exceptions. He said the deals were in the best interest of the city. Reyes said he, too, was disappointed with the boycott's slow progress, but he blamed City Atty. Carmen Trutanich's office for taking more than a year to draw up an ordinance specifying the terms of the ban. A spokesman for Trutanich said an ordinance is still in the works. <em><span style="color: magenta;">(Kirly - what a hypocrit Reyes is! He WROTE the boycott and then voted to approve exceptions!)</span></em></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">Despite the lack of clear guidelines, Reyes said there had been at least one boycott victory: Last year the Los Angeles Police Department opted not to send a team of helicopter pilots to a training conference in Phoenix.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">Reyes also pointed to a March letter sent to the president of the Arizona state Senate by several dozen leaders of companies with headquarters or major subsidiaries in Arizona. The letter urged rejection of five proposed anti-illegal-immigration laws, saying that when controversial laws are passed, "unintended consequences inevitably occur."</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">Dozens of local governments across the country imposed boycotts on Arizona after the state passed SB 1070, which required police to check the status of those they suspected of being in the country illegally. Critics said the law would promote discrimination; state officials disagreed.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">In their letter, the Arizona business leaders wrote that the boycotts cost the state jobs and hurt its economy, and that further anti-immigration legislation could do more harm. None of the five laws passed.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">Lawrence Glickman, a boycott expert at the University of South Carolina, said <strong>boycott organizers should count that as a success.</strong> Most boycotts end more ambiguously than the Montgomery, Ala., bus boycott of the 1950s, which ended segregation on buses, or the grape campaign of the 1960s, which won fieldworkers contracts with growers, he said.<span style="color: magenta;"> <em>(Kirly - a letter should be counted as a success??? uhm, ok, lefties, you got your letter so you're "winning".)</em></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">In the case of the Arizona boycotts, he said the target — an entire state — is less clear than a company or industry. "As an entity, a state is pretty amorphous," Glickman said.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">Los Angeles city officials have struggled to define what it means for a company to be "headquartered in Arizona," the language used in the council's boycott motion. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">The issue came up recently when the Board of Public Works considered a $100-million contract for a wastewater treatment plant with Honeywell, a multinational corporation that has divisions and employees based in Arizona. The board approved the contract. <em><span style="background-color: black; color: magenta;">(Kirly - typical leftist idiots. Honeywell is not headquarted in Arizona.)</span></em></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">The boycott movement lost some urgency last year when one of the law's most controversial provisions was struck down in federal court. That ruling, which halted the requirement that police check the status of suspected illegal immigrants, was upheld in the U.S. 9th Circuit Court of Appeals.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer said she plans to appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court. Several California entities, including San Francisco and Los Angeles County, voted to suspend their boycotts until the court case is decided.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><strong>More than 20 Los Angeles County contracts were approved while the boycott was active because they met certain exemptions, records show.</strong></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">In one report to the Board of Supervisors, the county's chief executive said a contract with an Arizona company that makes undershirts for jail inmates was exempted because "additional cost, time and resources are required to resolicit the services or supplies." <em><span style="color: magenta;">(Kirly - so they were basically too lazy to do the work to support their own boycott!)</span></em></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">Ellen Sandt, an L.A. County deputy chief executive, said the boycott was important even if it had produced few tangible results in the way the county spends its money. For the supervisors who passed it, "it was important for them to take a stand," she said. <em><span style="color: magenta;">(Kirly - yep, all symbolixm and no substance with leftists.)</span></em></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">The boycott has been more than symbolic for at least one city. Last year, Santa Monica officials chose not to award a $3-million contract to an Arizona-based firm to replace 20 mobile homes in a city-owned park, according to Kate Vernez in the city manager's office.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">They gave the business to a California company instead.</div></blockquote>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-38190982.post-47542859641009301512011-05-31T19:24:00.000-07:002011-05-31T19:24:35.489-07:00The Idiocy in Pinal County: Pete Rios<div style="text-align: justify;"></div><div style="text-align: justify;">This is the kind of idiot that Sheriff Babeu has to deal with.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">Pinal County Supervisor Pete Rios lost control when a citizen called him out for ignoring the citizens of Pinal County.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><a href="http://sonoranalliance.com/2011/05/30/supervisor-pete-rios%e2%80%99-popularity-death-spiral/#comments">Supervisor Pete Rios’ Popularity Death Spiral</a></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><blockquote><div style="text-align: justify;">At the close of the Board Meeting last week, a Pinal County citizen stood to address the Board of Supervisors. As usual, Supervisor Rios told the citizen that he had only three minutes.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">The Pinal County citizen began by mentioning that over a year ago, State budget cuts and cost shifts could be anticipated. The citizen continued to respectfully address the Board of Supervisors. Suddenly, Pete Rios and fellow Supervisor David Snider started laughing and smiling at some inside joke, totally ignoring the citizen speaker. It was a display of utter contempt to and for a citizen of Pinal County.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">Finally, the Pinal County citizen addressed Supervisor Rios directly: “Supervisor Rios, do you want to share with us what is so funny?”</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">Pete Rios immediately grabbed the gavel, pounding it furiously on the desk, yelling,” You’re out of order,” repeatedly. Spittle could be seen on Supervisor Rios’ quivering lips. Rios lost control. His behavior was bizarre and reflected badly on himself, the Board of Supervisors and Pinal County.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">The Pinal County citizen stood his ground proudly. He had not disrespected the Mr. Rios or the Board. It was Pete Rios who brought disgrace upon himself and his fellow Board Supervisors.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">Almost immediately, the Board of Supervisors meeting degenerated to a close and fellow citizens rush to congratulate not Pete Rios but Vince Leach, the honest citizen who called Pete Rios on his disrespectful behavior.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">Leaving the Supervisors’ meeting room, I overheard a disgruntled citizen commenting about Pete Rios and his behavior, ‘These guys think they walk on water . . . until you flush it.”</div></blockquote>What an arrogant ass.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-38190982.post-13407883584675517282011-05-27T19:55:00.001-07:002011-05-28T08:12:21.029-07:00Pima County Sheriff Dupnik, Why is Jose Guerena Dead?<div style="text-align: justify;"></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Sheriff Dupnik, of Pima County, Arizona has gone from unavoidable for offensive unfounded hateful comments against Conservatives when Jared Loughner murdered 6 and shot several including Arizona Congressional Representative Gabrille Giffords to unavailable for comment in the case of a SWAT raid on a Tucson home which resulted in more than 70 shots fired in 7 seconds with 60 hitting and killing <a href="http://www.google.com/search?q=Jose+Guerena&rlz=1I7DNUS_en&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&sourceid=ie7">Jose Guerena</a>. Dupnik has hid behind a spokesman and issued as many as 5 different versions of the incident.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">I don't know if Jose Guerena was a good guy or a bad guy. I do know that he was a Marine and served our country in Iraq. I know that he was in bed asleep in his home with his wife and 4 year old son in a neighborhood alleged to have a problem with home invasion attacks. And the video below seems to indicate that this was a "no knock" and no announcement can be heard that it was the police. I know that the safety was on Guerenas weapon and he never fired a single shot. And I know that nothing illegal was found in his home. And that <a href="http://www.kgun9.com/story/14629829/medical-care-blocked-for-man-killed-by-swat">medical attention, which arrived within 2 minutes of being called, was kept on hold for more than an hour and then sent away</a>. I don't know if anyone could have survived 60 gunshot wounds, but some effort should have been made to help the poor man whose wife said he was still alive. Allegedly, Guerena lay there dying for an hour and fourteen minutes.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">Dupnik. You're done. Resign in disgrace. Go home. Go away. And take the officers who denied medical treatment to a dying man wtih you.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><a href="http://www.kgun9.com/story/14629449/family-of-tucson-man-killed-by-swat-hires-attorney?clienttype=printable">The family has hired an attorney</a>. No amount of money will replace this young man, husband, father. But, they deserve to know the truth of why their home was raided. They are going to sue Pima County, Arizona for all it's worth - probably for all it'll be worth for the next 100 years.</div><br />
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Update: <a href="http://www.blackfive.net/main/2011/05/murder-of-a-marine.html">Blackfive</a> has a lot of information and links to even more.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-38190982.post-9491380763488651712011-05-26T19:44:00.000-07:002011-05-26T19:44:50.591-07:00Sheriff Babeu: Mr. President - Protect America First<div style="text-align: justify;"></div><div style="text-align: justify;">If you wish, you can download a copy <a href="http://www.kfyi.com/cc-common/mlib/622/05/622_1306443100.doc">here</a>.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">Here is the text, but definitely go and <a href="http://www.kfyi.com/pages/broomhead.html?article=8629764">download</a> a copy to see the seal and the picture at the bottom.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">May 26, 2011</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">President Obama says the border is more secure than ever, declared the border fence complete and said, “these people will never be satisfied, until we build a moat and put alligators in the moat.” We don’t need a moat or alligators in Arizona – we simply need the federal government to do their job and secure the border! </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">Last year, 219,300 illegal immigrants were apprehended in just one sector of Arizona and many with violent felony criminal records. The US Border Patrol estimates another 400,000 made it safely past them in Arizona and now reside in your community. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">If the majority of regular illegal immigrants can sneak into America, what does this say about the ability of terrorist sleeper cells? The porous US/Mexican border is the gravest national security threat facing America. This is no longer just a political fight to stop Barak Obama from giving amnesty to over 12 million illegals, it’s also about protecting our nation from terrorist threats. Thousands of illegal entrants hail from State Department countries of interest--Iraq, Iran, Afghanistan, Somalia, Saudi Arabia, Yemen, and others. In some cases, we have confirmed their troubling ties to terrorism. Yet for those we apprehend, how many today live amongst us?</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">If the border is secure, why did the feds post 15 Billboard signs in Pinal County warning American citizens; Danger – Public Warning – Travel Not Recommended, due to armed drug cartel smuggling? This is 70 miles into Arizona, where Homeland Security confirms that no fewer than 100 of our beautiful mountains have been repurposed as lookouts for the Mexican Drug lords. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">America can secure the border if we replicate the success of what was accomplished in the Yuma Sector. The Yuma Sector has now attained a 96% reduction of illegal border crossings. The Senator McCain/Kyl 10-Point Border Security Plan is developed largely from the learned successes of the Yuma Sector during Operation Jump Start. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">This plan calls for immediate deployment of 6,000 armed soldiers for a period of two years. While soldiers are deployed, the double barrier fence is completed with video surveillance, lighting, sensors and roads to support rapid deployment of US Border Patrol. Thirdly, fully enforce the law without any diversion option. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">We need focus on the solution to secure our border, not on a path to citizenship or amnesty for 12 million. If President Obama were sincere, why did he not pass immigration reform in his first two years, when he had supermajorities in the House and Senate? Instead, in a purely politically and racially divisive manner, he says he’ll fight now when there is little hope of passage. The President has failed to fulfill his core constitutional duty to protect America. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">President Obama led us to believe he would end the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. We’re no closer to leaving than when he made these false promises. He bombs Libya for humanitarian reasons and yet ignores the outcry of neighboring Mexico in their war against the drug cartels, which have claimed over 35,000 lives and nearly toppled their government. Mexico is America’s second largest trading partner and we share nearly 2,000 miles of porous border, which presents a far graver national security threat than anything we face in the middle east. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">Mexico is not our enemy. The cartels are the enemy of Mexico and America. They have brought their violence here to America. Local Sheriffs can’t fight them alone. We can address this growing threat, or we can make jokes, laugh and believe the border is more secure than ever. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">Respectfully,</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">Paul Babeu, Sheriff</div><div style="text-align: justify;">Pinal County, Arizona</div><div style="text-align: justify;">President, Arizona Sheriff’s Association</div><div style="text-align: justify;">2011 National Sheriff of the Year</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">(Sheriff Babeu is also a retired Army Major and served as the Commanding Officer for Task Force Yuma) </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-38190982.post-49795604070305953492011-05-26T18:51:00.001-07:002011-05-26T18:51:44.986-07:00AZ Employer Sanctions Law Upheld by US Supreme Court<div style="text-align: justify;"></div><div style="text-align: justify;">This is not directly related to SB1070 but theories abound that the 5 who voted to uphold Arizonas Employer Sanctions Law (all employers in the state of Arizona must use e-Verify or they could lose their business license) would also vote to uphold SB1070.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><a href="http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2011/may/26/supreme-court-ok-arizonas-business-immigration-law/">Supreme Court OKs Arizona’s business immigration law</a></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">(have to click the link and read it at the washington times or else they'll sue me for copyright infringement. heh.)</div><br />
<blockquote><div style="text-align: justify;">In a weighty case with far-reaching implications, the Supreme Court on Thursday upheld an Arizona law that requires all businesses to check to make sure new workers are in the country legally — and in the process signaled the states can have a greater say on immigration issues.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">The 5-3 ruling did not directly address a second Arizona law that granted police broader powers to check immigrants’ status and set off nationwide protests by immigrant rights groups last year. But the decision does touch on many of the same issues of federal versus state authority, and seemed to show an openness by a majority of justices to action by the states.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">Kris W. Kobach, a lawyer who helped write both laws and who last year won election to be Kansas’ secretary of state, said the decision signals the court majority could look favorably on the far more contentious 2010 Arizona law, known as SB 1070.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">“The Supreme Court today said that as long as the state relies upon federal definitions of immigration status and relies upon federal determinations of any particular alien’s status, then that state is not in conflict with federal law. That is exactly what SB 1070 does,” he said.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">He said the court also signaled it will set a high threshold before ruling that a state law conflicts with federal law.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">At issue in Thursday’s ruling was whether Arizona can require businesses to use E-Verify, a voluntary program the federal government offers businesses to check whether their job applicants are work-eligible. The Obama administration and the U.S. Chamber of Commerce said the requirements went too far.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">But Chief Justice John G. Roberts, writing the majority opinion, said that while federal law makes the checks voluntary, it does not specifically bar states from making them mandatory. Because Arizona’s law doesn’t impose criminal penalties and deals only with businesses’ licenses, it doesn’t impinge on federal authority.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">“Arizona’s procedures simply implement the sanctions that Congress expressly allowed the states to pursue through licensing laws,” the chief justice wrote. “Given that Congress specifically preserved such authority for the states, it stands to reason that Congress did not intend to prevent the states from using appropriate tools to exercise that authority.”</div></blockquote>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-38190982.post-72585125962570656492011-05-22T09:43:00.000-07:002011-05-22T09:43:47.646-07:00Lindsey Graham(esty) cannot be trusted on immigration<div style="text-align: justify;">Why I do not trust Lindsey Graham when it comes to immigration reform... because he called those of us who oppose amnesty "bigots".</div><br />
<iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="349" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/yw3CLZuYqRk" width="425"></iframe>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-38190982.post-60863818263834482822011-05-15T07:56:00.000-07:002011-05-15T07:56:27.502-07:0051% say USA safer now than before 911 attacks<div style="text-align: justify;">Buried in a report about Janet Incompetano being the most unpopular member of the Obama administration (at 23% favorable), is this little gem:</div><blockquote><div style="text-align: justify;"><a href="http://www.rasmussenreports.com/public_content/politics/obama_administration/may_2011/just_23_have_a_favorable_opinion_of_napolitano">Still, 51% of voters nationwide now say the United States is safer today than it was before the 9/11 attacks. That’s up from 39% in April and is the highest level of confidence measured since April 2009.</a> </div></blockquote><div style="text-align: justify;">With our borders more porous than ever, with more smuggling than ever - of people, drugs, terrorists and their supplies, 51% actually think we are safer than before 911. This is insanity. When the car bombs start, will these fools wake up? When the suicide bombs begin at crowded weekend eateries, will these fools wake up? When Beslan-style attacks on our public schools begin, will these fools wake up?</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">Or are these fools destined to be perpetual victims and beggars for government handouts on the backs of the tax payers? Most of whom are not rich!</div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-38190982.post-33655072295590318062011-05-14T08:32:00.000-07:002011-05-14T08:32:16.844-07:00S.C. gives voter ID bill final approval<div style="text-align: justify;">Every voter should be verified as the real person on the voter rolls in every election. State or Military photo ID seems to be the only way. And the rolls need to be purged of the deceased as well but that's another topic.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">South Carolina is the latest state to demand that you prove your identity when voting. All that is needed now is for Governor Haley to sign it. And look for the ACLU and other idiotic entities to say it's an "undue burden on the poor". Right, like a $10 state ID is too expensive. Most states will give them to you for free if you are truly destitute because they are required for so many benefits. Hell, I have to show photo ID every time I go to the doctor or the dentist!</div><br />
<a href="http://www.aikenstandard.com/State/m1094-BC-SC-XGR-VoterID-2ndLd-Writethru-05-11-0527">S.C. gives voter ID bill final approval</a><br />
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<blockquote><div style="text-align: justify;">COLUMBIA -- State or military photo identification will be required to vote in South Carolina under legislation heading to Gov. Nikki Haley's desk.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">With a 26-16 vote, South Carolina's senators adopted a compromise version of the legislation that the House agreed to two weeks ago. The vote broke along party lines, with Republicans supporting it and Democrats voting against it.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">To vote, people will have to show a state or military ID, a passport or new voter registration cards with pictures the state will issue. If they don't, they can cast a provisional ballot. They have to show a photo ID at their county voting office a couple of days later to have that vote counted.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">Republican Haley has pushed the legislation for months, and it was a top priority for the GOP in the House and Senate. They say the bill is about voter integrity.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">Democrats say it suppresses turnout by minority, disabled and elderly voters who lack a license, and they argued educating people on the measure and supplying a free photo ID will be expensive.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">Sen. Brad Hutto, an Orangeburg Democrat, said the legislation is destined for court challenges.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">"What this bill does is institutionalizes voter suppression," Hutto said.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">He said a list of 178,000 voters that don't have photo identification will create problems because it is an invasion of privacy and creates the potential for identity theft.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">Sen. Chip Campsen, an Isle of Palms Republican, said Democrats created that problem by insisting on the creation of the list to help identify people who don't have the credentials needed to vote.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">Senate Democrats had gone along with the legislation because their version of the bill created early voting in South Carolina. The House refused to go along with that measure but is considering separate legislation to allow early voting. </div></blockquote>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-38190982.post-181459250549493272011-04-27T18:10:00.002-07:002011-04-27T18:14:08.221-07:00Next Generation of Socialists Assert Themselves in Tucson<div style="text-align: justify;">The Tucson Unified (heh) School District has been out of control for years. Former State Superintendent of Public Instruction Tom Horne, who had the legal right and responsibility to review curriculum, was repeatedly denied access to the socalled <em>Ethnic Studies</em> program for years. And, of course and as usual, called a <em>raaaacist</em> for demanding it in the first place.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">I haven't followed recent events involving the TUSD and the <em>Ethnic Studies</em> program since it's well over 100 miles from where I live and I believe in local control - ie, the parents of the students should be involved in the schools. It seems the TUSD board was to have a meeting on the <em>Ethnic Studies</em> program last night. And it also seems that these high school <em>students</em> were paying close attention to the recent events in Wisconsin (watch the video).</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">The article below says that the news organization is working to find out <strong>why the students weren't arrested</strong>. Good question. And why aren't these out of control anarchist teens punished by their <em>parents</em>? Because the <em>parents</em> are probably <strong>Democrats used to screaming and whining and pounding their fists and stomping their feet demanding more freebies from our tax dollars. Damn commies.</strong></div><br />
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<a href="http://www.kvoa.com/news/community-reacts-to-ethnic-studies-protest/">Community reacts to ethnic studies protest</a><br />
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<blockquote><div style="text-align: justify;">TUCSON - An unruly crowd of frustrated students at the Tucson Unified School District Headquarters last night forced the meeting on ethnic studies to be postponed.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">Ten minutes before the meeting was scheduled to start last night, students barged into the meeting room and shackled themselves to board members' chairs.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">So, what happens now? News 4 is still waiting to hear when and where the rescheduled meeting will be held.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">Last night, in a brief note, the board said it will be rescheduled in a bigger venue to better accommodate so many people.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">As for the students' actions last night, there are still a lot of questions, and even more reactions are coming in today.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">News 4 is working to find out why the students weren't arrested, and why the meeting was ultimately cancelled. Students say their voices just weren't being heard, so they had to do something extreme to get the board's attention.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">But critics say their actions were just wrong.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">"They're being taught not to respect any other point of view. To respect the laws, to respect their elders, they are acting like a mob," said Pat Sexton, one Tucson resident against the student protect.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">But one student who spoke to us thought he was well within his right.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">"We're here to fight for an education, for human rights," the student said. "Human rights is ethnic studies, and we should be allowed to have a say in our education, because our education is our future."</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">Coming up tonight at 5 p.m. and 6 p.m., you'll hear from former Arizona superintendent Tom Horne, who led the charge against these ethnic studies classes.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">In the meantime, log on to the <a href="http://www.facebook.com/pages/News-4-Tucson-KVOA/110660902299929">News 4 Tucson Facebook</a> page and tell us what you think.</div></blockquote>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-38190982.post-6505258504456018042011-04-23T16:14:00.001-07:002011-04-23T16:17:28.669-07:00Pima Community College has released heavily redacted Jared Lee Loughner emails<div style="text-align: justify;"></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Pima Community College has released heavily redacted emails from/to Jared Lee Loughner, the Tuscon shooter of Representative Gabrielle Giffords. The <a href="http://documents.nytimes.com/jared-loughner-pima-community-college-documents">NYSlimes has 51 pages of related public safety reports and documents as well</a>.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><blockquote><div style="text-align: justify;">Pima Community College Redacts Jared Lee Loughner Emails (<a href="http://www.kfyi.com/pages/broomhead.html#ixzz1KOHe7CMc">here</a> but you may have to look for it on that page about in the previous entries)</div><div style="text-align: justify;">Friday 04-22-2011 8:18pm MT </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">PHOENIX (AP) — The community college that the Tucson mass shooting suspect attended released hundreds of emails Friday but withheld dozens of others, leaving gaps about what was going on inside the school's administration during the hours and days after the shooting.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">Pima Community College released a 900-page document that included completely or heavily redacted emails among school administrators, links to news stories about the shooting and previously released Internet postings from the suspect, 22-year-old Jared Lee Loughner.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">Loughner has pleaded not guilty to charges stemming from the Jan. 8 shooting that left six people dead and 13 wounded, including Rep. Gabrielle Giffords.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">Loughner began attending classes at the college in 2005 but was eventually kicked out because of behavior campus police considered disturbing. He was told to get a mental health evaluation or not return.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">At 2:05 p.m., several hours after the shooting, campus police Cmdr. Manny Amado wrote to Executive Vice Chancellor David Bea, "Just heard on radio that gunman in custody is Jared Loughner."</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">After what appears to be an email exchange of news reports mentioning Loughner, there is a page listing an email from Jana Kooi, president of the school's northwest campus, at 2:18 p.m.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">Shortly thereafter, more than 60 pages of emails that appear to be from Kooi are blacked out, though it's not clear what day or time they were sent because the text is blocked out.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">Shortly after the shooting, The Associated Press requested all of the college's emails mentioning Loughner in 2010, prompting the school to hand over six emails from late December, most of them sent by campus police. Earlier this month, the AP expanded its request by asking for all emails mentioning Loughner that were received or sent by school employees from 2005 to 2011.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">The emails show that school officials rapidly exchanged information about Loughner, including previously released police reports describing Loughner's bizarre behavior on campus.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">In one report from Sept. 23, 2010, shortly before Loughner was banned from campus, an officer describes finding him confused after a classroom outburst, his head tilted and eyes bobbing.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">Some emails documented the distress within the school community with the disclosures about the shooting.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">In one email, nursing faculty member Ceanne Alvine writes to department chairwoman Patricia Murray, "Please tell me we don't have a student by the name of Loughner."</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">Another email from Harry Muir, the school's dean of instruction, was sent just hours after the shooting to college Chancellor Roy Flores and other administrators.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">"I'm sure by now you are aware of the terrible tragedy that occurred at Gabrielle Gifford's 'Congress on the Corner' gathering here in the northwest part of Tucson," Muir wrote, adding that his son Brandon called him to say he found YouTube videos of Loughner online that mentioned he attended the community college.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">"Just thought I would give you a heads-up," Muir wrote. "I don't know if he was in fact a student at PCC or if he was if he ever had any conduct issues, but I thought I would pass on the information," he wrote.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">Charlotte Fugett, the college's east campus president, wrote back: "Good heads-up. Thanks."</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">He replied: "Thank you, Char. It's a terrible situation. I'll see you Monday."</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">Earlier this month, the school released nearly 3,000 pages of documents that showed how administrators struggled to keep up with a flood of media requests and protect its image just after the shooting rampage.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">Those records also included many redactions.</div><div style="text-align: justify;">Blood reported from Los Angeles.</div></blockquote>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-38190982.post-66774712311525139372011-04-14T08:02:00.001-07:002011-04-14T08:03:45.993-07:00Mexico Ambassador Equates Cartels to Capitalists<div style="text-align: justify;">Can you see what the Ambassador has done here? He has equated the Cartels with Capitalists.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><a href="http://dallasmorningviewsblog.dallasnews.com/archives/2011/04/mexico-ambassad.html">Mexico ambassador: Our cartel leaders are businessmen, not terrorists </a></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">ByTod Robberson / Editorial Writer </div><div style="text-align: justify;">trobberson@dallasnews.com | <a href="http://dallasmorningviewsblog.dallasnews.com/authors.html#Tod Robberson / Editorial Writer">Bio</a> </div><div style="text-align: justify;">10:48 AM on Tue., Apr. 12, 2011 | <a href="http://dallasmorningviewsblog.dallasnews.com/archives/2011/04/mexico-ambassad.html">Permalink</a></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">wanted so badly to include some other photos with this blog item. Our files are full of the most gruesome photos imaginable. There are dismembered corpses dumped on the sidewalk. There's one of a mother and her child dead on the floor, their bodies bloodied and pockmarked by bullets. This one is the least offensive I could find while still making the point that <a href="http://www.dallasnews.com/opinion/editorials/20110407-editorial-lets-call-mexicos-cartels-what-they-are-terrorists.ece">Mexico's drug cartels are terrorist organizations.</a></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><a href="http://letterstotheeditorblog.dallasnews.com/archives/2011/04/on-mexico-and-v.html">In a letter to the editor today, Mexico's ambassador, Arturo Sarukhan</a>, comes to the defense of these mass murdering, torturing, dismembering, bombing, beheading, kidnapping and drug trafficking organizations, arguing that they are businessmen, not terrorists. Folks, we have a first here. You will not, until now, have seen any top Mexican official actually defending the cartels to this extent. But Sarukhan, taking issue with our editorial last week in defense of a bill before Congress to put Mexico's six biggest cartels on the <a href="http://topics.dallasnews.com/topic/US_State_Department">State Department's</a> list of Foreign Terrorist Organizations, strongly disagrees.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">Yes, they are very violent criminal organizations, he says. But "<strong>they pursue a single goal. They want to maximize their profits and do what most business do: hostile takeovers and pursue mergers and acquisitions.</strong>"</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">Again, in their defense, he says they have "<strong>no political motivation or agenda whatsoever beyond their attempt to defend their illegal business.</strong>"</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">So, when they kill dozens of mayors, police chiefs, soldiers, journalists, newspaper editors, businessmen, mothers, children, American visitors, immigrants, farmers, truck drivers, musicians, dancers, teachers, etc., etc., etc., we are to believe this is just business? Part of a new mergers-and-acquisitions strategy? And when they hang signs from overpasses, along with a body to punctuate their point, warning that this is their territory, not the government's, there's no political message there?</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">Perhaps the ambassador should read up a bit on these entrepreneurial business groups to see what they're really up to. There's any number of articles, in English or Spanish, describing their political motives. Here's something I found from a <a href="http://mexidata.info/id2344.html">2009 piece by John P. Sullivan and Adam Elkus</a>, two guys who know the difference between terrorists and businessmen:</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><blockquote><div style="text-align: justify;">Unlike <a href="http://topics.dallasnews.com/topic/Pablo_Escobar">Pablo Escobar's</a> Colombian reign of terror in the 1990s, the Mexican cartels are engaged in serious insurgent campaigns. Armed with military infantry weapons, their gunmen use complex small-unit tactics that differ from the usual "pray and spray" methods beloved by criminals. Cartels run training camps for assassins on the border. They attempt to agitate the populace against the Mexican military through political subversion. And they control towns and neighborhoods that the military tries to retake through force. </div><br />
<div style="text-align: justify;">Mexico's cartels are evolving distinct political aims. La Familia is exemplary in this regard. Using social services and infrastructure protection as levers in rural areas and small towns, they are building a social base. In urban areas, they are funding political patron-client relationships to extend their reach. Reinforced by corruption, propaganda, political marches and demonstrations, as well as social media such as "narcocorridos," such activity helps to shape the future conflict.</div></blockquote></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
This is no longer about drug policy. This is about fighting terrorists. And they are present right across the border in Mexico, and we need to call them what they are</div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-38190982.post-59108213089595129382011-04-12T16:59:00.000-07:002011-04-12T16:59:46.781-07:00Georgia About to Enforce Immigration Laws<div style="text-align: justify;">Georgians, don't let the "thousands" protesting disuade you! The millions of productive citizens are with you but had to show up at work instead of at a protest.</div><br />
<strong>Georgia Senate Passes Arizona-Style Bill to Restrict Illegal Immigration </strong><br />
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<blockquote><div style="text-align: justify;">ATLANTA - Despite thousands of residents expressing their opposition to the legislation, the Georgia Senate Monday approved an Arizona-style crackdown on illegal immigration.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">The Senate approved House Bill 87 after almost three hours of debate in a 39-17 vote, the Atlanta Journal-Constitution reported.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">However, lawmakers eliminated a contentious piece of the bill which would have required businesses to register their workers on a federal program called E-Verify. The program determines if they are eligible to work in the US.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">Because it was substantially amended the bill must now return to the House for its approval, before it can be signed by Gov. Nathan Deal.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">Like the law enacted in Arizona, Georgia's bill would allow police to question suspects about their immigration status.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">It would penalize people who transport or harbor illegal immigrants or use fake identification to get a job in the US.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">It is estimated Georgia is home to about 425,000 illegal immigrants -- more than Arizona.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">Thousands of residents of Georgia have protested the bill -- both in demonstrations outside the Capitol and in petitions.</div></blockquote>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-38190982.post-66238495128036093962011-03-22T21:39:00.000-07:002011-03-22T21:39:04.891-07:00TX Assistant DA found dead in Mexico<div style="text-align: justify;"></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Seriously? Why the hell isn't this huge news?? An Assistant DA from Texas is found dead in Mexico and it's not all over the radio, tv, internet??</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><a href="http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/03/23/us-prosecutor-suicide-idUSTRE72M03420110323">Texas prosecutor's death was suicide: Mexican official</a> </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><blockquote><div style="text-align: justify;">(Reuters) - Autopsy results show a South Texas prosecutor killed himself by ingesting poison over the weekend in Mexico, according to the Mexican state of Tamaulipas attorney general's office.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">Cameron County Assistant District Attorney Arturo Jose Iniguez was found dead Saturday in Matamoros, Mexico.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">Tamaulipas officials said in a press release posted on the state website that they would share the results of the investigation into Iniguez's death with U.S. authorities.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">Cameron County District Attorney Armando Villalobos said in a written statement on Tuesday that he expects to receive case information from Tamaulipas officials early next week.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">He added that a second autopsy would be performed by a pathologist in Texas, and it would not be possible to make a final determination on Iniguez's cause of death "until we conclude the review of all evidence" in the case.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">Iniguez, 26, lived in Laguna Vista, Texas, with his wife and 2-year-old daughter. His funeral is set for Thursday.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">Matamoros is a city of about 489,000 residents across the U.S.-Mexico border from Brownsville, Texas.</div></blockquote>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com6