Look who's talking

Undocumented immigrants and activists say they are concerned and angry about the possibility that Florida will enact an Arizona-style immigration-control law.

. . . Julio Salgado, an undocumented immigrant worker from Nicaragua, has been questioned by the police in the past after business owners called authorities to complain about the presence of day laborers. But Salgado says that until recently none of the police officers had asked him for immigration papers.

Now Salgado is worried that they may start asking him for papers if the Florida Legislature adopts an immigration-control law similar to the one Arizona lawmakers passed earlier this year.

http://www.miamiherald.com/2010/07/01/1709628/call-for-arizona-style-law-in.html

Say what you will about Arizona-style immigration laws - - can we at least all agree that illegal aliens don't get a say on the laws we citizens enact in our own country?

Why didn't Gore run again in '04 or '08 . . .

or get a big job in the Obama administration?

Now we know.

In a two-sentence statement released tonight, the Portland Police Bureau announced it is re-opening its investigation into sexual assault allegations made against Al Gore by a massage therapist in 2006.

The police had previously declined to pursue an investigation following an extensive interview with the woman in 2009, citing "insufficient evidence."

http://www.talkingpointsmemo.com/archives/2010/06/portland_police_re-open_gore_case.php?ref=fpblg

Jobless claims still increasing

New claims for state unemployment aid unexpectedly rose last week, heightening fears the U.S. economic recovery is stalling.

Initial claims for state unemployment benefits increased 13,000 to a seasonally adjusted 472,000, the Labor Department said on Thursday.

Analysts polled by Reuters had expected claims to slip to 452,000 from the previously reported 457,000, which was revised slightly up to 459,000 in Thursday's report.

http://www.cnbc.com/id/38034750

Remember the most important broken promise in years - - if we pass the stimulus bill, unemployment will stay below 8%.

As that South Carolina Congressman yelled, "You lie!"

Criticizing Christians

Read what the folks at mydd, one of the oldest and most respected progressive blogs, have to say about certain basic Christian beliefs and believers:

http://mydd.com/users/qtg/posts/jesus-christs-return

In the words of one of the moderators of that blog,

This just says something about the mindset of those people [Christians] - their detachment from rationality, their self-centeredness, their narrow-minded certainty about most things.

Now, imagine if any other group was referred to as "those people", or if those comments were made about any other religious group. I can think of at least one religious group whose members might kill you for writing similar comments about them.

Of course, it's fair game to criticise religious people for what they do. But, it's wrong to criticize people for their religious beliefs.

America haters

Manuel Zelaya was the leftist / populist president of Honduras.

He was an ally of Castro, Chavez and all the other America-hating "revolutionaries".

The Honduran Supreme Court and the Honduran legislature determined Zelaya was illegally subverting the Honduran Constitution, and Zelaya was kicked out of office by the Honduran military.

New elections were held, and a new president was democratically elected.

Throughout this drama, in an effort to make new friends, our new president took Zelaya's side in the dispute. America refused to recognize the legitimacy of the Honduran action or government. Aid was cut off and we joined international boycotts.

Our reward?

Former president Manuel Zelaya today reiterated comments he made last week accusing the United States military's Southern Command (Southcom) of planning his overthrow on June 28, 2009. In a letter written from the Dominican Republic where he has been in self-exile since January 27, Mr. Zelaya said, "Everything indicates that the coup was planned at the [joint Honduran-US] military base in Palmerola by US Southcom and awkwardly executed by bad Hondurans." He added, "The causes and the masterminds of this crime that had previously been concealed are now clear", and what was suspected has now been confirmed: "The United States was behind the coup d'état." According to Mr. Zelaya, at first the US Department of State denied any connection, while the US embassy in Tegucigalpa "expressed its condemnation". But he noted, "The intellectual authors of this crime answer to an illicit relationship between the Hawks in Washington and Honduran business people and their subsidiaries -- North Americans and financial institutions."

http://hondurasweekly.com/international/2717-zelaya-accuses-us-military-of-masterminding-coup

America-haters hate America.

They're not going to start loving us no matter how far we reach out to leftist anti-Americans.

And, they're never going to thank us for anything.

Tamaulipas

Have you ever heard of Tamaulipas? It's the Mexican state just south of Texas on the Gulf of Mexico.

Tamaulipas (Spanish pronunciation: [tamauˈlipas]) is one of the 31 states of Mexico and is located in the central-northeastern part of the Mexican federation. It borders the U.S. state of Texas to the north, the Gulf of Mexico to the east, Veracruz to the south, San Luis Potosí to the southwest, and Nuevo León to the west.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tamaulipas

Why does Tamaulipas matter?

Mexican officials say they will hold state elections as planned - a message to drug cartels who are believed to be behind a gubernatorial candidate's assassination that they will not let criminals destroy the country's democracy.

Gunmen ambushed Rodolfo Torre's campaign caravan less than a week before he was expected to win the governor's race in Tamaulipas, a state torn by a turf battle between two rival drug cartels. Four other people were killed: three of the candidate's bodyguards and a state lawmaker.

President Felipe Calderon called the attack an attempt by drug gangs to sway Sunday's elections for governors and mayors in 12 states. He renewed an appeal for unity in a televised speech Tuesday, his second on Torre's assassination.

http://www.miamiherald.com/2010/06/28/1704927/report-governor-candidate-killed.html?utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_medium=twitter

While we're chasing our tail in Iraq and Afghanistan, and while administration after administration keeps our Mexican border open, porous and unprotected, drug gangs and terrorists are running wild on the border of Mexico and Texas.

Hypocrites

Coalition forces killed in Afghanistan topped 100 in June, the war's highest monthly toll and approaching some of the deadliest months in the Iraq war.

The deaths of 102 servicemembers included a record 59 Americans. Nine of the 46 nations in the U.S.-led coalition suffered fatalities, the most countries to lose troops since the conflict began nearly nine years ago.

http://www.usatoday.com/news/world/afghanistan/2010-06-30-afghan-deaths_N.htm

Now that the major "anti war" politicians are done using the issue to gain power, and now that the "anti war" groups have unlimited access to their allies in power . . . they're no longer "anti war".

Remember "General Betray Us"? He was just unanimously confirmed (with the votes of all the "anti war" senators and with the silent acquiescence of those "anti war" absolutists who gave him that nickname).