Jeb Bush gets stupid with his “act of love”

Jeb Bush Act of LoveSome Republicans won’t like this but I couldn’t less: we don’t need another Bush as president.  And we certainly don’t need someone as blatantly stupid as Jeb Bush.

From the WashingtonPost.com:

Jeb Bush: Many illegal immigrants come out of an ‘act of love’

Former Florida governor Jeb Bush said Sunday that many who illegally come to the United States do so out of an “act of love” for their families and should be treated differently than people who illegally cross U.S. borders or overstay visas.

Right.  An “act of love.”  But wait; it gets better.  Or should I say: more idiotic.

Asked about immigration, Bush started by saying that a bipartisan bill passed by the Senate last year made “a good effort” at proposing ways to ensure that people overstaying visas leave the country.

“A great country ought to know where those folks are and politely ask them to leave,” he said, adding later that properly targeting people who overstay visas “would restore people’s confidence” in the nation’s immigration system.

So: wait.  Am I the only one seeing this?  Jeb Bush wants to kick people out who have “overstayed their visas,” but wants to continue to allow those who entered completely illegally to remain?

How starkly insane is this?  Is Jeb Bush completely ignorant of the statistics across the nation and, specifically, in highly-populated Fornicalia?

People who have visas are generally here for education.  To try to contribute something.  People who are illegal have little to contribute except low skills and potential disease.

Is Jeb Bush completely ignorant of the fact that, on any given day, the Los Angeles County Jail’s population consists of roughly 40% to 50% illegal Mexican immigrants arrested for physical crimes against the lawful citizens of the state of Fornicalia and residents of the United States?

Is he aware that, prior to the current rough economic times, LA County and Orange County and other SoCal jails were populated by up to 70% illegal Mexicans?

Is he ignorant of the fact that Fornicalia Mexican gangs have striated themselves into, at base, Nortenos and Surenos (north and south) and a myriad of gangs in between?  And that they rule local jails and state prisons?  Because they are illegals from Mexico?

Surenos believe in the Mexican Mafia or La Eme.  They hold to the color blue.  They outnumber Nortenos demographically in the state.

Nortenos hold the color red and align with the NF, or the Nuestra Familia.  Their “territory” is north of Bakersfield but even that isn’t enough to hold “their line.”  MS-13 generally aligns with Surenos because of their geographic origin.  MS-13 has, at minimum, 60,000 members.

Is the phrase “demography is prophecy” yet ringing true with anyone?  Bueller?

Is Bush ignorant of the fact that, in Fornicalia, because of AB 109, Mexican gangs consisting of illegal immigrants are now major players in gang politics and power and deaths and are now aligning with the ultra-violet MS-13 and — because my county has sucked at the national DC tit — federal “detainees” now have more rights and perks and benefits than American citizens in our county jails?  How many have EBT cards?  How many are on SSI?  How many are on Worker’s Comp?  How many are pumping the “system” for all they can?

Yes.  Most of them.

The days of Juan Valdez picking coffee beans are done.  Juan now drives a 2001 Lexus and has more discretionary spending money than you do.  He shops at your local store and buys steaks and beer.  On the EBT card that you purchased for him.

Charles Krauthammer weighed in on Jeb Bush.  He thought the comment was bizarre, indicating he believed Bush was sincere but leading with his chin.  There are other people in the world waiting patiently in line and are not violating laws.  Realistically, the situation involves not just one family but 11 million.  Sovereignty means something.  We should control who actually comes into the country.  But apparently Jeb Bush believes this is inconsequential.

And that was one of my quite precise points.  Thank you, Charles.

Further: just when did we conclude as a nation that a certain segment of society can decide, at will, to ignore our laws?  And when did we, as a nation, decide that this ignorance of our laws was to be tacitly condoned and then, further, promoted in public?

My final two sentences for this post: Jeb Bush, you are a moron.  An uninformed and unrealistic moron.  Sir.

Was “sir” the third sentence?

BZ

P.S.
Thanks to Michael Patrick Tracy for the graphic at the top of this post.

 

One plane, one trip, another continent

Ebola VirusI’ve said: this is all it would take.  Discovered yesterday in Mali.

And it has now occurred.

Were the tests accurate?

You’d best hope so, with every fibre of your being.

BZ

 

Did the “Gay Mafia” go after Mozilla CEO Brendan Eich?

Gay MafiaThe Chief Executive Officer for Mozilla (which provides the Firefox browser that I personally prefer to Internet Exploder), Brendan Eich, contributed $1,000 to a Fornicalia Proposition 8 campaign six years ago.  This was — shock of shock — in 2008, at a time when Mr Obama was still not supporting gay marriage himself.

Proposition 8 consisted of two brief sections:

Section I. Title

This measure shall be known and may be cited as the “California Marriage Protection Act.”

Section 2. Article I. Section 7.5 is added to the California Constitution, to read:

Sec. 7.5. Only marriage between a man and a woman is valid or recognized in California.

Proposition 8 passed in November of 2008 by a majority of Fornicalia voters.  And, oddly enough, it was ruled constitutional by the California Supreme Court in the Strauss v. Horton case in 2009.

Fast forward six years to April of 2014, as CNET.com brings us up to speed:

by Charles Cooper

Brendan Eich’s short stint as chief executive officer of the Mozilla Foundation came to an abrupt end this week. All things considered, his ultimate undoing might have been more a matter of his personal style than his personal opinion.

Eich’s resignation on Thursday ended a storm of controversy that whipped up after public records revealed he made a $1,000 donation in 2008 to an organization that promoted a ban on gay marriage in California.

Many, including Mozilla employees and independent Firefox developers, viewed Eich’s support for California’s Proposition 8 as condoning a mean-spirited campaign to prevent gay couples from enjoying the same rights held by other US citizens. (Until it was overturned last year, Prop. 8 had rescinded the right for gay couples to marry.) Dating site OKCupid even publicly urged Firefox-using members to switch Web browsers and called out Eich on its Web site as “an opponent of equal rights for gay couples.”

Others were just as upset that a supremely talented technologist — Eich invented the JavaScript coding language in 1995 — lost his job simply because he exercised his Constitutional right to free speech. After all, he wasn’t contributing to the Nazi Party. In a widely circulated piece, Andrew Sullivan gobsmacked Eich’s critics: “[Eich’s fate] should disgust anyone interested in a tolerant and diverse society…If we are about intimidating the free speech of others, we are no better than the antigay bullies who came before us.”

Andrew Sullivan, not one to customarily embrace Hard A-Starboarders, wondered where we were ultimately going with this.  So did Hard A-Porter Bill Maher, as he threw down the term “gay mafia” for the first DEM/AMM time:

Ultimately, the arguments go on in Silicon Valley and throughout the nation.

One dollar, one thousand, one million — apparently the size of the figure means naught.  You are damned if you not only place a quarter where your thoughts are, but if you even have the thoughts themselves.

Cooper focuses the crux of the biscuit here:

Everything is context, and when you’re sitting on top of the corporate pyramid — especially in Silicon Valley — there are always consequences to free speech. How this squares with the First Amendment, not to mention this industry’s counterculture roots, is a question that calls for a serious airing.

Please allow me to translate Fornicalia EmoSpeak.

The First Amendment can go straight to flaming fucking Hell.  Our foundational documents, the Constitution, the Bill of Rights, mean nothing compared to the elevated and “spiritual” sentiments of Leftists.  They believe that emotions trump facts in every circumstance and, most certainly, in common and everyday situations.  Facts and statistics are nothing more than impediments to an enlightened state.

Another point of focus from the article:

“We never expected this to get as big as it has and we never expected that Brendan wouldn’t make a simple statement,” Rarebit said. “Seriously, we assumed that he would reconsider his thoughts on the impact of the law (not his personal beliefs), issue an apology, and then he’d go on to be a great CEO. The fact it ever went this far is really disturbing to us.”

An apology.  Yes, there it is.  An apology for placing a mere $1,000 towards a campaign he felt — freely and lawfully — to support six years ago in 2008.

An apology that was demanded by Leftist Emos.

But then, apparently, the “gay mafia” intervened.

And instead of obfuscation, my view and the views of others like me regarding technology and Leftists and Silicon Valley and business in general acquired much more clarity.  Like a brand new windshield untouched by wind or rain or dust.

Bottom line: did the “gay mafia” go after Brendan Eich?  That depends upon whom you ask.  To some, the “gay mafia” doesn’t exist in the same universe that the “Amish mafia” doesn’t exist.  And therein lies the rub.

I’m certain you can do that math.

BZ

 

Leland the Headless Thompson Gunner:

Headless Thompson Gunners(thanks to BobNox)

“Talkin’ about the man.”

From the LATimes, shock of shocks:

Grand jury indicts Sen. Leland Yee, 28 others in corruption probe

SAN FRANCISCO — A federal grand jury indicted 29 suspects, including California state Sen. Leland Yee, with a wide range of crimes, including firearms trafficking and public corruption, U.S. Atty. Melinda Haag announced Friday.

Yee, a Democrat who represents parts of San Francisco and San Mateo County, and other suspects were arrested last week on a criminal complaint that outlined the charges behind the grand jury indictments. Yee was indicted on charges of corruption, wire fraud and gun trafficking, the same charges laid out in the complaint.

Yes.  Fornicalia Senator Uncle Leland Yee who said “It is extremely important that individuals in the state of California do not own assault weapons. I mean that is just so crystal clear, there is no debate, no discussion” — has been indicted.

So, Yee was allegedly involved in gunrunning, murder for hire, and the acquisition of rocket launchers.  No problem or hypocrisy there, yes?

In truth no problem.  Another day in Sacramento’s Belly of the Beast, historically run by Demorats.

I already wrote about Uncle Leland here and here.  CLA did a wonderful audio mash-up here.

Yes indeed; Uncle Leland got caught up in lawyers, guns and money — dad, get me out of this!  He was nothing more than an Innocent Bystander and got caught down on his luck.  He’s a desperate man, the shit has hit the fan.

He is also Leland the Headless Thompson Gunner.

The best part?

If convicted, Yee would face more than 100 years in prison and more than $1 million in fines.

But, of course, these are nothing more than my impertinent opinions.

BZ

P.S.
The actual Roland The Headless Thompson Gunner, on David Letterman:

 

Opie and Anthony don’t love ObamaKare any more:

Opie and Anthony, a radio show on satellite radio in New York City, and historically rather Left leaning, are no longer smitten by ObamaKare.  I wonder why.  [Caution: “bad” rangruage.]

Imagine that.  Reality comes crashing down onto the heads of more and more Leftists.  “It’s gotten ridiculous.”  They admit: Obama lied to the American people.

“THEY WANT THIS TO BE CONFUSING.”

“It exists to penalize people, to bring in revenue.”

I am really enjoying the schadenfreude on this one, folks.

BZ