Mr Obama: Keeping Your Border Safe

From FoxNews.com (thanks, Chris!):
An Arizona sheriff says U.S. Border Patrol officials have repeatedly told him they have been ordered to reduce — at times even stop — arrests of illegal immigrants caught trying to cross the U.S. border.
Cochise County Sheriff Larry Dever told FoxNews.com that a supervisor with the U.S. Border Patrol told him as recently as this month that the federal agency’s office on Arizona’s southern border was under orders to keep apprehension numbers down during specific reporting time periods.
And the truth will out:
The senior supervisor agent is telling me about how their mission is now to scare people back,” Dever said in an interview with FoxNews.com. “He said, ‘I had to go back to my guys and tell them not to catch anybody, that their job is to chase people away. … They were not to catch anyone, arrest anyone. Their job was to set up posture, to intimidate people, to get them to go back.”
Dever said his recent conversation with the Border Patrol supervisor was the latest in a series of communications on the subject that he has had with various federal agents over the last two years. Dever said he plans to relay the substance of these conversations when he testifies under oath next month before the Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs.
“I will raise my hand to tell the truth and swear to God, and nothing is more serious or important than that,” he said. “I’m going to tell them that, here’s what I hear and see every day: I had conversation with agent A, B, C, D and this is what they told me.”
Oddly enough, USBP “officials” had a different take on the matter:

Dever’s charges were vigorously denied by a commander with the U.S. Customs and Border Protection.

Finally, Big Sis weighs in:

There is a perception that the border is worse now than it ever has been,” Napolitano said at the El Paso border crossing last week. “That is wrong. The border is better now than it ever has been.”

As everyone knows, Big Sis always tells the truth.
Read the rest of the story; other people may disagree with that just a tad.
BZ

Fornicalia’s Version of CapNTrade: Halted


Fornicalia, as you might imagine, (and logically so) is populated predominantly with Leftist, soft-brained individuals in concert with illegal voters — to wit, illegal Mexicans. Not “hispanics.” Mexicans. From Mexico. [I have been accused of being a racist with regard to illegals in Fornicalia. I suppose I must be: my wife is Mexican. Clearly I have her mowing the lawns of my neighbors, beating her, making her work at the local motels in Housekeeping. Uh, not; she’s a Vet Tech, former Coroner, former Division Chief in the State of Fornicalia Fire Service, has her MA in Emergency Response.]

That said, it shouldn’t be surprising that, last November, the proposition to stop Fornicalia’s AB 32 failed at the polls. Those few Caucasoids left in the state fall into the GOWP category. They are now, officially, (like myself) in the minority. In Fornicalia, the parasites are about to outnumber the hosts. As businesses flee, so do lawful voters and taxpayers.

Proposition 23, an attempt to suspend AB 32, the “Global Warming Solutions Act,” failed at the polls.

Therefore, AB 32 remained in force.

A bill that would have entirely killed capitalistic concerns in this state. A bill that would have driven productive businesses from the state. A bill that would have embraced so-called “green” businesses — and provided them with capital and cash to the exclusion of all other businesses — whilst, at the same time that businesses absolutely FLEE from Fornicalia.

Now:

A San Francisco superior court judge has put California’s sweeping plan to curb greenhouse gas pollution on hold, saying the state did not adequately evaluate alternatives to its cap-and-trade program.

In a 35-page decision, Judge Ernest H. Goldsmith said the Air Resources Board had failed to consider public comments on the proposed measures before adopting the plan, which affects a broad swath of the state’s economy.

In particular, the judge noted, officials gave short shrift to analyzing a carbon fee, or carbon tax, devoting a “scant two paragraphs to this important alternative” to a market-based trading system in their December 2008 plan.

Some comments from the indicated source:

Businesses are already leaving California in droves due to the high taxes and onerous regulations. The cap and trade taxes will just be the ticket to induce even more businesses to leave California for greener pastures. Pretty soon the parasites in the government promoting tax and trade and their co-conspirators (the elitist envirnomentaists) will have successfully killed their host, businesses and the middle class, and California will become a third world nation. So much, for caring about the little people, when the left’s true agenda is to live in their ivory towers while serfs live in substandard conditions. However, maybe that is what the left wing environmentalists really want with their anti-technology agenda that is cap and trade. After all, with all the jobs gone, the poor won’t have enough money to use air-conditioning, eat very much, or drive gas engine cars which sounds a lot like the Middle Ages where the left can live in their walled off castles and the rest of us poor schmucks in stone huts with nothing to eat. Oh I forgot, the Middle Ages had higher temperatures than we have today. It was called the Medieval Warming Period when Greenland was green and pretty warm compared to today. That is why the leftist environmentalists are really a bunch of anti-human, elitist pigs who want to force their idea of utopia (which is really hell) on the rest of us while they live in luxury immune from all the misery they are forcing others to live under for no good reason.

Another salient and factual comment:

This stupidity is typical of the Air Resources Board.

In the early 1990s, they required gas companies to put MTBE in gasoline, to “clean up the air.” The problem was they implemented that too fast, without sufficient study of the consequences — like the fact the MTBE could NOT be removed from the groundwater after the underground gas tanks started leaking. And they ignored people who were trying to warn them. The result was polluted groundwater, hundreds of closed wells, and the banning of MTBE last year.

Stupidity in Fornicalia? Bureaucratically? Regards the environment?

Imagine that.

BZ

Eric Clapton: Happy Birthday

Guitarist Eric Clapton, sometimes known as “Slowhand,” is 66 today.

One of my all-time favorite Clapton songs:

Another one of my favorite Clapton songs, whilst with Cream:

Born on March 30th of 1945 — a British war baby — he is the only three-time inductee into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. Clapton ranked fourth in Rolling Stone’s Greatest 100 Guitarists Of All Time.

He began his professional life as a guitarist with the Yardbirds in 1963 (which later featured Jeff Beck and Jimmy Page). Clapton, a blues purist of sorts, left the Yardbirds to join John Mayall and the Bluesbreakers in 1965.

He left Mayall to form Cream in 1966 with bass player Jack Bruce and drummer Ginger Baker.

At that time, Clapton was 21, Jack Bruce was 23 (b. 1943) and Ginger Baker was 27 (b. 1939).

From there Clapton went on to the groups Blind Faith, then Derek and the Dominos (1970). That album featured “Layla,” a song inspired by the unrequited love of Clapton to George Harrison’s wife, Pattie Boyd Harrison.

Following, his career was only solo.

God bless, Slowhand.

You’ve given millions of people a diversion from their own personal trials and tribulations.

BZ

Obama: Repairing His Black Relations

A reminder of some recent thoughts by a few of America’s most cogent, honest, insightful, moderate and considered black representatives:

[Pick up the video at 7:15 for the best comments.]

The New Black Panther party weighs in as well:

That “said,” Mr Obama realized he needed to repair his relations with the black community.

Therefore, he held a lunch in New York City’s Harlem district on Monday this week (03-28-11), with fundraising taking a back seat. He felt it was necessary to be seen and heard by his base black constituency and — resultingly — he was. Conversely, he wanted to listen to and observe the common black voters of Harlem in order to better understand the issues and concerns of poor black America.

With one slight exception that few if any in the MSM/DEM have the cojones to point out:

Uh, no. Mr Obama went to Harlem specifically to fundraise for his second term. He used Harlem, instead, as a frontispiece to placate and take advantage of the Ignorant Black Vote. Because the facts, instead, are these:

Mr Obama’s visit was in fact a fundraiser. For only $30,800, you could have had lunch with Mr Obama at the Red Rooster on Lenox Avenue near 125th Street (looks like “poor” Harlem has gentrified to me). And color wouldn’t have truly mattered unless the base color was green. Green clearly trumps black.

As you might guess, local black Harlem residents couldn’t quite afford to pony up that kind of cha-ching:

President Barack Obama will fundraise in Harlem today, but many uptown residents grumble that they can’t afford to see him. The president’s hosting a $30,800-a-head fundraiser at Red Rooster on Lenox Avenue, near 125th Street.

“I think that’s ridiculous,” said Hope Cameron, 52, a stay-at-home mom who lives nearby. “In Harlem, who has that kind of money?”

Others near the restaurant yesterday afternoon echoed her sentiment — even as many said they like Obama.

“I’m an Obama fan but I won’t see him for that,” Lenny Bembry, 53, told Metro.

“I think it’s ridiculous,” added Maurice Lenin, 45, who had just balked at spending $10 on Chinese for lunch. “Harlem has been messed up since way back in the day and now they’re wanting to charge us $30,000?”

“He should be eating with us for free,” Lenin added.

Huh. Imagine that. Mr Obama may in fact be a regular politician who couldn’t give one whit less about poor blacks — unless they can kick down a good $30K for his re-election campaign.

On the other hand, that’s NOT how his “lunch” will be portrayed by the GOWP media.

Damn! I hate it when a good Second Coming turns out to be a racial Socialist who wets his pants at night like the rest of us. In the quiet. In the dark.

BZ

Obama’s War: A War For Oil?


If you recall, Leftists (and then Demorats, later, when short memories had faded) said that GW Bush, 43rd president, went into Iraq for oil. The possibility that he was proffered faulty intelligence from a large number of domestic and foreign sources — then was supported by the US Congress — had little influence on Leftist opinion. Cogent information indicates whatever WMD Mr Hussein possessed moved into Syria. Purposely. Hussein made the threat in order to appear larger than life on screen, then took the step to transfer it from his soil.

Oddly enough, it seems that a far-Left Demorat president, Mr Obama, is treading upon the same identical steps as President Bush with one major difference: Bush didn’t do it for oil. The United States of America gets less oil from Iraq than before 9/11 — contrary to Leftists arguments.

And yet, Mr Obama — the prototypical “anti-war” president — has unilaterally decided to move into Libya under the guise of the UN. He simultaneously attempts to push sole-source code onto the UN but they defer to his move.

Does Libya directly threaten the United States? No. Does Libya even allegedly possess WMD devices and schemes? No. Further, in fact: Libya, during the term of Bush, unilaterally decided it would disarm itself of perceived WMD physicants precisely because it feared, at the time, the GW Bush 43 Focus.

Imagine that.

Senator Obama would NOT have voted or subscribed to the current Mr Obama’s movement into Libya. Does anyone, possibly besides myself, find that just a bit odd and dessicant?

Bueller?


Why Libya? Could it possibly be because of: Brent sweet crude?

Further: why not the US into Tunisia, into Syria, into Yemen, into Egypt, into Jordan, into Oman, into Kuwait, into the EAE, into Qatar, into Lebanon, into Sudan, into Eritrea, into Bahrain?

What makes Libya so special? I ask.

I submit: current OIL production.

And yet former Republican administrations were completely excoriated for this perception. Burned right to the very ground.

Go Obama. Make things right. Make drilling a priority. Make this a Logical Extension of your current policy.

But you won’t.

You hypocritical and ignorant, callow patsy.

And oh yeah: Trump asks for your certificate. He’s got his. You got yours?

BZ