BZ
Happy Easter!
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US unemployment is at an historic five-year low: 4.4%.
BZ
No More Disney
No more Disney for me. Walt is turning in his grave even as I write this and his mouse is certainly moribund.
First, in an ongoing battle with lunacy, (thanks to Gayle in her Fractured Friday post), Disney-ABC continues to support Rosie O’Donnell and her completely uneducated, Left-leaning, positively stupid and hateful comments on The View. Courtesy of Gayle, if you wish to see Rosie responsible for her idiocy, sign the online petition at stoprosie.com.
Second, just yesterday (Friday) Disney announced that Fairy Tale weddings will be open to gay couples:
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – The Walt Disney Co. has changed its policy to allow same-sex couples to participate in a popular Fairy Tale Wedding program it runs mainly at its two U.S. resorts and cruise line, a Disney spokesman said on Thursday.
I spent a wonderful time on the very first cruise of the Disney Magic in 1999 with my mother, father and one brother, three years prior to my mother’s passing in May of 2002. But I think the days of my sending dollars to Disney are gone. Gone, gone.
BZ
One Trick Pony
Okay, it’s a given: Tom Tancredo (who has now officially thrown his hat in the ring for President) is pretty much the quintessential One Trick Pony. His gig is Illegal Immigration and Illegal Immigration only.
On Wednesday, Hugh Hewitt interviewed Tom Tancredo and did his best to excoriate the man. I missed the interview but, courtesy of Hewitt’s blog, you can capture the entire interview here.
I only heard the aftermath, but I had never before been present for the literal negative crescendo of Hewitt’s callers expressing their displeasure. So many callers made their voices heard that Hewitt began to dismiss them simply out of hand. I’ve never before heard Hewitt, a massively well-spoken, credentialed and educated man, succumb to the Talk Radio Host Standard ‘Pass Them All Off As Moonbats’ ploy. But he actually stooped this low. I instantly transmigrated from grinned to chagrined.
First, the up-front insult:
HH: Well, you’re shortening the Hugh Hewitt Show, Tom, but nevertheless, I’ll get right to the chase. Is this a protest candidate or is this is a real campaign?
TT: No, sir, it is for real. I mean, once you make the decision to do this, to actually announce, you’ve got to do, you can do everything you can to win the race. And if you just simply say I’m running because of an issue, one issue, and I want to make a statement? Forget about it. I do want to do that, and it is certainly an issue that propels me. But no, you have to do it 100%.
Please bear with me, and continue reading the following:
HH: Congressman, tough question for you. We’re going to get an immigration bill this year.
TT: Yeah.
HH: It’s going to be…McCain-Kennedy is back, and I’m calling it, as radio talk show hosts are oft to do, it should be called the McCain-Kennedy-Tancredo bill, because I think your opposition last year to compromise made certain this year what is in essence rolling amnesty. In other words, you fought so hard against everything, that we’re now going to get stuck with Kennedy’s bill.
TT: Actually, I didn’t fight hard against everything, I fought hard for the passage of the House bill, and the House bill was a great bill. And it was an enforcement only bill. And it got a majority of Republican support. And of course, we couldn’t get the Senate to go along with it, but that’s exactly where we should go again, and we should fight just as hard against a McKennedy bill this time. And we should not, you know, the idea that we’re going to get rolled, and that we’re going to get this bill, I don’t agree with you. I think that frankly, we’ve got as much strength now in the House. I talked to the leadership in the House. They’re not happy with this, they’re not going to go along with it, and so the battle is enjoined. We will see what happens, but I don’t think it’s a given.
HH: If, in fact, I’m right, though, and that because the Republicans lost the House and lost the Senate, we get stuck with McKennedy again, as you call it, that’s going to be at your feet, isn’t it, Tom?
TT: Are you saying, do you believe, Hugh, honestly believe that we lost the House because we lost the Hispanic vote?
HH: No, I’m saying that we lost a majority because you scared so many people with anti-illegal immigration rhetoric into not compromising at a critical moment, that we lost all sorts of momentum, all sorts of credibility, we’re not getting the fence built, that you played to win. You tried to shoot the moon in Hearts terms, and we ended up with nothing, and we’re going to end up with Kennedy’s bill.
TT: So if you stand for principle, if you actually believe in what you’re saying, and you’re not willing to compromise on something of this nature, then of course you, in some way, have harmed the nation? Well, I’ll tell you, if that’s the case, then I do not for a moment, well, I don’t believe for a moment that that is the case. I think that if everybody in this Congress, and the past one would have stood on principle, then…and everybody in this Congress does so, and especially Republicans, we will be rewarded with a great win in the next election.
HH: I mean, that’s Goldwater rhetoric, and I appreciated Barry as much as anywhere.
TT: Well, I’m sorry. Am I supposed to be, apologize for Goldwater rhetoric? Too bad.
HH: Well, no, I mean, do you believe that extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice, right? I mean, not a bit of compromise, and thus, if prudence is out the window…
TT: No, not on this issue. It’s the country we’re talking about. It is the nation.
Hewitt is essentially blaming Tancredo for a watered down version of an immigration bill because Tom refused to compromise.
This is beneath Hewitt. And many of his listeners realized it. Myself included. And they subsequently took him to task — whereupon he blew them off collectively as airheads.
Then Dear Reader, I too must be a Moonbat.
Perhaps I should place myself into my own Moonbat of the Week category.
Yes, TT is the proverbial One Trick Pony. C’mon, that’s a given.
But we ignore Tom’s message to our entire National Detriment.
Consider, just Thursday on Paul Harvey’s nationally-syndicated “The Rest of the Story” show, he clearly stated that for every dollar paid in tax by illegal immigrants, they drain three dollars in various social services and benefits. A direct quote:
Homegrown Americans are moving out of the metropolitan areas of the United States. Homegrown Americans are moving out of Battle Creek, Michigan, and Ames, Iowa, and Corvallis, Oregon, and New York City. Americans want out. And yet, all of those places have a greater population than a year ago.
Because the Census Burea says immigrants are moving in, taking their places. Metro New York has added a million immigrants in five years. Atlanta added the most population in the last five years, then Dallas, Fort Worth, then Houston, Phoenix, Riverside, California — they continue to sprawl and congest and pollute because they added 36 million immigrants.
About a third of whom are illegal.
Recent immigration reforms, by the way, are in their favor. For every dollar they pay in taxes, they will collect three dollars in government benefits: Medicaid, food stamps, public housing.
I suggest you read that again:
For every dollar they pay in taxes, they will collect three dollars in government benefits, Medicaid, food stamps, public housing.
Tancredo is indeed a One Trick Pony. But I suspect his bet is to make all of us think about this topic:
That, if we are to survive as a nation, fiscally, collectively, proudly — illegal immigration simply cannot stand. And that does not even take into account the extreme Mexican Aztlan goal.
Racist, eh? As MEChA wrote: “Por La Raza todo. Fuera de La Raza nada (For the Race, everything. For those outside the Race, nothing).”
“Aztlan” is the group’s term for the vast southwestern U.S. expanse, from parts of Washington and Oregon down to California and Arizona and over to Texas, which MEChA claims to be a mythical homeland and seeks to reconquer for Mexico (reconquista).
Note to potential GOP candidates: this issue had BETTER be on your screens.
BZ Presidential Goals For 2008:
1. Protect this nation from external danger;
2. Protect this nation from internal danger.
Simple as that.
BZ
Clinton: Insufficiently Left
Fourteen-year veteran City of Berkeley (Fornicalia) council member Dona Spring appeared yesterday on the Michael Medved Show. Whilst present, speaking about the recent passage by the BCC to place a measure to impeach President Bush into an upcoming election, Mizz Spring clearly stated:
“Clinton is nothing more than Bush in drag.”
And she has subsequently spoken a mouthful there. Translated: Hillary Clinton is insufficiently Left for the Left.
This view, predominant in the Left and actually verbalized here, is coming to roost in a number of ways. And Hillary had best be on guard and aware. My guess is that the Hillary Camp is not pleased at all. Consider the following:
April 4, 2007— ABC News has learned that the $23.5 million Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., raised for his presidential campaign for use in the primaries is more than that raised by the Democratic frontrunner, Sen. Hillary Clinton, D-N.Y.
Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger on Thursday moved California’s presidential primary from June to February, giving the most populous U.S. state a greater stake in selecting nominees and shaking up the 2008 political calendar.
What this means?
More than any other time, the presidential primary is under more pressure, faster, earlier, than ever before. It is theorized that the next three months will be critical for all candidates. And since Fornicalia moved up their primary other states have either passed or are considering the same move. The primaries really might be decided by February or March of next year on the heels of what’s to transpire in the next few months. Hillary and Her Handlers had best be paying maximal attention.
FROM THE “I TOLD YOU SO” CATEGORY:
Ahmadinnerjacket recently released the UK15. I posted Tuesday about Pelosi visiting Syria and responded in the comment section of Little Miss Chatterbox (who posted about the same issue):
“Pelosi — we expect this kind of US nation-state erosion from her. And just wait — think she might claim some kind of “influence” on Dinnerjacket’s recent verbal decision (believe it when you see it) to free the UK15?”
Guess what?
Syria: We Helped in Iran-Britain Dispute. And as Drudge indicated: “Pelosi Diplomacy”. I wonder who might be chirping up soon?
NewsMax indicated: “The order to capture the British sailors and marines was given by Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei himself. Khamenei’s top advisers argued that by striking out against a U.S. ally in Iraq, they would be sending a message to other European nations to step back from supporting the U.S. strategy of increasing pressure on Iran over its nuclear program. They saw the move as a clear test of Western resolve.
So what actually turned the tide of the UK15? Perhaps: “. . . at that meeting, Revolutionary Guards commander Maj. Gen. Rahim Safavi reported that the deployment of the USS Nimitz suggested that a U.S. military invasion of Iran was being prepared for early May. He urged the Council to order the release of the British hostages as a gesture to defuse the tension in the region.”
Oh, but that would be wrong, wouldn’t it? Shouldn’t we have all gotten together, Iranians and the UK and US, and spoken in low, soothing whispers at a nice wooden table with our Starbucks and hookahs?
BZ