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Activists Block Bus In Protest Near San Francisco Immigration Office

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Immigrant Reform RightsFrom SFCBSLocal.com:

SAN FRANCISCO (CBS SF) — Dozens of protesters surrounded a bus believed to be filled with immigrants slated for deportation at the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services office in San Francisco, a protest organizer said Thursday.

The protesters included dozens of undocumented immigrants and immigrants’ rights advocates who rallied for the expansion of a national movement to pressure President Barack Obama to halt immigrant deportations, according to Jon Rodney, a spokesman for the California Immigrant Policy Center.

But here is the brazen paragraph:

“We are not going to wait for Congress anymore. We are not going to wait for Obama. This is a humanitarian crisis, two million people deported in 5 years,” protester Hairo Cortez told KPIX 5.

San Francisco, if you recall, is a so-called “sanctuary city.”  San Francisco’s attitude about the whole thing is exemplified here.  One interesting point from SFGate.com, however:

Sanctuary-city policy enables dangerous drivers

by Debra J. Saunders

Drew Rosenberg became a victim of San Francisco’s immigration policies on Nov. 16, 2010. The second-year law student was riding his motorcycle in rush-hour traffic when a car driven by an unlicensed driver made a left turn and hit him. That evening, Don Rosenberg of Westlake Village received the phone call every parent dreads. His precious son was dead.

Then another nightmare unfolded.

As Rosenberg investigated driver Roberto Galo‘s background, he discovered that San Francisco’s policies regarding immigrants have served as an enabler for dangerous drivers.

Road to death

Nov. 1, 2009 – San Francisco announces a policy allowing unlicensed drivers to avoid an automatic impound if a licensed driver will get their car.

June 14, 2010 – Police stop Roberto Galo, 52, for driving the wrong way on a one-way street and driving without a license. He pays a $220 fine.

Nov. 16, 2010 – Galo hits and kills Drew Rosenberg at Harrison and 16th streets.

Imagine that.  Consequences for short-sighted actions.

Further, the continuing and unrelenting demand by persons involved in criminal activity — such as entering the United States illegally — to be granted public entitlements such as free tuition, free healthcare and the numerous freedoms enjoyed by actual citizens grows and grows, unabated.  Illegal Mexicans are proving they are here for the Free Cheese and not to work honestly.

They are making demands that rights given to lawful Americans automatically apply to themselves.  And that no illegals should be deported.

I say: be truthful, United States of America.  Either remove the laws against illegal entry into the US, or enforce your laws.  At this point Mr Obama and his sycophants want it both ways.

Otherwise you are essentially requiring that people like me shall decide, independently, which laws we shall keep and which laws we shall violate, at will.

If we are not a nation of Constitutional laws, then we have no United States.

BZ

 

 

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Obamacare shock: $12,600 deductible, 40 percent co-pay, zero competition

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Obamacare Testimonials From DemoratsNow that the Republicans caved as we all knew they would, making every bit of a stand — up to this point — entirely point-less, we have the above headline to assuage any further fears we may possess.

From the WashingtonExaminer.com:

by Paul Bedard

Many Americans shopping for better health insurance deals promised by the two-week-old Obamacare system are instead being slapped with rate shock, including savings-sapping deductibles and co-pays, according to multiple reports from around the country.

For some able to get the problem-plagued Obamacare website to work, the so-called “deals” the system is coughing up around the country include $12,600 deductibles, co-pays of up to 40 percent, zero competition, and rate hikes of 260 percent.

The huge cost increases that some Obamacare applicants are seeing are feeding the effort in Congress to change the system and delay implementation until January 2014.

But wait; didn’t Mr Obama promise we could all keep our doctors, and healthcare would be easier to acquire and less expensive as well?

This, folks, is why Mr Obama had the bill written: so he could “Cloward-Piven” the system, crash it, then start entirely over towards his goal of single-payer government-run insurance, once and for all.

BZ

P.S.
After having its Obamacare rolls open for 16 days, Delaware had its very first person sign up on Wednesday.

 

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Newsflash: President Bush had a health plan before Obama — killed by Demorats

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Obama Care Side AffectsGoing through the various internet archives, I chanced upon this little tidbit from Forbes.com, should you or others be cornered and braced for information — or perhaps I should just forward it to the GOP in DC?

Seriously? The Republicans Have No Health Plan?

Too many people conveniently ignore that in his 2007 State of the Union message President Bush proposed a sweeping health reform plan that would have replaced the current tax exclusion for employer-provided coverage with standard tax deductions for all individuals and families. The Bush plan called for a tax deduction that would have applied to payroll taxes as well as income taxes. Moreover, if one were worried about non-filers, the subsidy could easily have instead been structured as a refundable tax credit in which case even those without any income taxes would have gotten an additional amount. This is the kind of policy detail that easily could have been negotiated had the Democrats been in a cooperative mood in 2007. They were not. On the contrary, President Bush’s health plan was declared “dead on arrival” by Democrats in 2007. Yet it is Republicans who were tagged as being uncooperative and intransigent when they resisted the misguided direction that Obamacare seemed to be headed.

What’s sad is that the Bush plan actually was superior to Obamacare when it comes to providing universal coverage. Remember, Obamacare actually does not provided universal coverage. The latest figures from CBO says that when it is fully implemented in 2016, Obamacare will cut the number of uninsured by only 45%, covering 89% of the non-elderly. Even if illegal immigrants are excluded, this percentage rises to only 92%. In contrast, the Bush plan (without a mandate!) would have cut the number of uninsured by 65%. But that’s ancient history. Consider one of the newest market-oriented health reform plans put on the table by Jim Capretta and Douglas Holtz-Eakin. Compared to Obamacare, this plan would cost roughly the same amount yet cover 22% more (8 million!) uninsured. If there’s a superior alternative to the slow-motion train wreck now being implemented, why wouldn’t the President and Democrats in Congress want to seriously consider it as a replacement?

Instead, Mr Obama decided it was important to completely tear apart American healthcare for 15% of people, when 85% had rather things been left in place.

BZ

 

 

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China: GOP responsible for giant killer hornets

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From the Guardian.com:

The Chinese city living in fear of giant killer hornets

Jonathan Kaiman visits Ankang municipality where swarms of highly venomous hornets have killed 41 people in three months

by Jonathan Kaiman in Ankang

Chen pointed with a shaky hand at the small plot of cabbage, scallions and corn where his friend Yu Yihong was stung to death by giant hornets.

“When he got to the hospital, there were still two hornets in his trousers,” says Chen, a local farmer who, like many villagers, declined to give his full name to a foreign journalist. “The hornets’ poison was too strong – his liver and kidneys failed, and he couldn’t urinate.”

Vespa mandarinia is the world’s largest hornet, around the size of a human adult’s thumb, yellow and black in colour and highly venomous. Their 6mm-long stingers carry a venom potent enough to dissolve human tissue. Victims may die of kidney failure or anaphylactic shock.

vespa mandarinia An Asian hornet (vespa mandarinia) eats a honeybee. The sting of the highly venomous giant hornet, which measures about the size of a human thumb, can dissolve human tissue and cause kidney failure. Photograph: Scott Camazine

Yu’s story is a tragic but increasingly common one in north-west China‘s Shaanxi province where, over the past three months alone, hornets have killed 41 people and injured a further 1,675. Ankang, a municipality in the province’s south, appears to be the epicentre of the scourge. While hornets infest its mountainous rural areas every year – 36 residents were stung to death between 2002 and 2005 – locals and municipal officials say this year is tantamount to an epidemic, the worst they have ever seen.

Chinese leaders, in consultation with Harry Reid, have decided that the GOP is responsible for the invasion of the giant flesh-eating and deadly hornets.

Meanwhile, back at the ranch, from HuffPo:

Here’s A Tally Of Which House Republicans Are Ready To Fund The Government, No Strings Attached

WASHINGTON — In the hours since the government shut down, House Republicans have slowly but steadily been coming forward to say they’re ready to pass a bill to fund the government with no strings attached.

Who might those House GOP members be?  Try:

Rep. Pat Meehan (R-Pa.), Rep. Scott Rigell (R-Va.), Rep. Jon Runyan (R-N.J.), Rep. Mike Fitzpatrick (R-Pa.), Rep. Lou Barletta (R-Pa.), Rep. Peter King (R-N.Y.), Rep. Devin Nunes (R-Calif.), Rep. Charlie Dent (R-Pa.), Rep. Frank Wolf (R-Va.), Rep. Michael Grimm (R-N.Y.), Rep. Erik Paulsen (R-Minn.), Rep. Rob Wittman (R-Va.), Rep. Frank LoBiondo (R-N.J.), Rep. Randy Forbes (R-Va.), Rep. Jim Gerlach (R-Pa.), Rep. Leonard Lance (R-N.J.), Rep. Mike Simpson (R-Idaho), Rep. Bill Young (R-Fla.), Rep. Mario Diaz-Balart (R-Fla.), Rep. Richard Hanna (R-N.Y.), Rep. Rodney Davis (R-Ill.), Rep. Tim Griffin (R-Ark.).

It’s heartening to see that so many House Republicans are willing to give away the store for absolutely nothing in return.

It’s also invigorating to note that the east coast is well represented by GOP Surrender Monkeys in the form of Pennsylvania, Virgina, New York and New Jersey.  Closer to their paychecks and pork, they realize the Demorats may not be so willing to drink heavily with them at the end of the day in various local DC watering holes.

BZ

 

 

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