I simply could not resist skewering the DEM again — what would have happened had our current DEM been with George W. on Christmas night, 1776:

Thanks to Deke for the e-mail!

BZ

Photos that you won’t seem in the so-called Mainstream Media or, as I term them, the Defeatist, Elitist Media (DEM).

The caption to the top photograph (thanks to Michalle Malkin):

Whittier area students from Pioneer, California and Whittier high schools walked out of classes to protest the proposed federal immigration bill March 27, 2006. The protestors put up the Mexican flag over the American flag flying upside down at Montebello High School.

The caption to the second photograph:

Michelle Marques (left), a student at Lamar Middle School in Irving, Texas, was criticized for having a US flag during an immigration protest at Kiest Park in Dallas. “My heart is with the Mexican flag and Mexico but I’m standing on American ground and I’m Mexican-American,” she said.

BZ

Not only the Democrats, but the Republicans are about to pay a price for not listening to the American electorate.

Not the vocal, visible minority; no.

I mean the persons Who Pay The Bills.

You and I.

See:

• The Washington Times
• Thomas Sowell, Part I
• Thomas Sowell, Part II

Also:

WASHINGTON, D.C. – House Majority Leader John Boehner (R-OH) issued the following statement today on the “security” agenda offered by Democrat leaders Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) and Harry Reid (D-NV):

“The Democrats’ years of negligence in addressing the real safety and security needs of the American people provide a very clear choice between Republicans and Democrats on security issues.

“While Democrats have openly advocated cutting and running from our efforts to support democracy in Iraq, Republicans continue to build upon our strong record on national security by funding our troops fighting terror around the world and supporting Operation Iraqi Freedom and Operation Enduring Freedom.

“While Democrats seem more interested in protecting the rights of terrorists than the American people, Republicans passed the PATRIOT Act to give law enforcement the tools necessary to combat terrorism, protect our citizens, and secure our communities.

“While Democrats focus more on protecting the rights of illegal immigrants than enforcing our immigration laws, Republicans have voted to secure our borders, give law enforcement new tools to enforce our immigration laws, and help prevent terrorist and criminal aliens from moving freely throughout our society.

“The Democrats, led by Nancy Pelosi, opposed the Patriot Act, opposed REAL ID legislation, and opposed efforts to strengthen and secure our borders. And they remain unable and unwilling to articulate a cohesive strategy for supporting our troops and winning the War on Terror.

“When it comes to national security, their answer is the same as it is for everything else: no. A media stunt will not eclipse their record of obfuscation and neglect on national and border security.”

BZ

At left, French rioters try to wrestle a video camera from a journalist during a continuing national protest by students and unions, demanding that the French government scrap a contentious youth jobs law, during a demonstration in Paris on Tuesday.

In Britain, almost two million local government workers went on strike Tuesday, closing thousands of schools and disrupting travel. Eleven labor unions combined to stage the 24-hour protest which, they said, would be the biggest strike since 1926.

UK workers are demonstrating against a plan to force some public sector employees to work longer, or face a reduced pension if they retire at 60.

Though Bill Clinton says that Britain’s government, economy and social system is the envy of the United States, Britain’s state and private pensions system is straining from the rising cost of an aging workforce. The UK faces a 57 billion pound ($100 billion US) shortfall in retirement savings which is around five percent of the country’s entire Gross Domestic Product.

Here, protests are still occurring over the illegal immigration issue, though the Senate Judiciary Committee panel broke with the House’s “get-tough” approach to illegal immigration on Monday and sent to the floor a broad revision of the nation’s immigration laws that would provide lawful employment to millions of illegal workers while offering work visas to hundreds of thousands of new immigrants every year — ending up with a granting of citizenship if the immigrant does in fact have a job, can pass a criminal background check, learn English and pay fines and back taxes — essentially what President Bush has proposed.

Republicans are widely split on the issue. Only 4 of the 10 Republicans on the committee supported the bill. They were the committee chairman, Senator Arlen Specter of Pennsylvania, and Senators Lindsey Graham of South Carolina, Mike DeWine of Ohio and Sam Brownback of Kansas. All eight Democrats on the committee voted in favor of the legislation.

In all, citizens of many western nations, the United States included, believe they are due certain inalienable rights, to include:

• The right to cross into any nation and become a lawful citizen by dint of feet on soil;
• The right to enjoy any and all benefits of that nation, as any other naturalized citizen;
• The right to proclaim no allegiance to the nation inhabited;
• The right to refuse to assimilate;
• The right to complete healthcare, a “living wage” equal to that of any middle class tenured employee;
• The right to obey only those laws one wishes, whenever one wishes;
• The right to be assured of a job and not be fired, even for cause;
• The right to be catered-to throughout one’s lifetime by government;
• The right to owe nothing to the government or surrounding taxpayers for largesse enjoyed;
• The right to change these rights at any time and, of course, to always demand more.

People, all I’m seeing is this:

Screeching masses demanding more. More. MORE.

And government having the temerity to actually consider not granting these demands.

Woe be to us all when governments cave, for this does nothing but imbue these governments with their primal fuel: power.

And then we will well and truly be lost and adrift.

BZ

(An aside: you think the Balkanization of the US, BTW, isn’t pondered? Go here.)