Saturday, September 30, 2006

Mexico furious over border fence vote; Why do we care?

Via Associated Press and King5.com:

Mexico said Friday it will try to persuade President Bush not to sign a bill that would extend a wall along the border in an effort to stop illegal immigrants.

Foreign Secretary Luis Ernesto Derbez strongly criticized the legislation to build a 700-mile border fence, which the Senate approved Friday and sent to Bush to sign.
Derbez said Mexico will send a letter to the U.S. government strongly condemning the measure. Asked by a reporter if the government would try to "dissuade" Bush from signing the bill into law, he replied, "Without a doubt."

Derbez's remarks came a day after his office issued a statement saying the border fence would harm relations between Mexico and the United States. The Foreign Relations Department said that only comprehensive immigration reform would stop millions of Mexicans from sneaking across the border into the U.S.

There's Bush's favorite phrase again. "Comprehensive immigration reform." Whenever the word "comprehensive" is used ... what they mean is 'amnesty and open borders'.

Why does Mexico believe they can meddle in U.S. Security decisions?

The answer to that is ... because they've been successful! George Bush has spent the last six years pandering his North American Union and open borders dream with Canada and Mexico and you can bet this Senate vote violates many secret handshake agreements between the three countries.

A border fence simply doesn't fit in with the plan for open borders, and sleazy Vincente Fox is not happy at all to have something like this endanger his connections to the trillion dollar drug business.

My gut feeling is that he doesn't have much to worry about, and he probably knows it. Even if Bush does sign this bill, it's totally meaningless until the fence is actually built. I'll believe it when I see it.

Two years from now, the 2008 election debate will not be whether to sign these bills, but rather why construction is not completed.

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Friday, September 29, 2006

Dallas School District importing teachers from Mexico; Bypassing Americans
BY GREGOR

I've had about all I can take. What does it take to motivate Americans?

Via the Dallas Morning News:

The Dallas Independent School District has signed an agreement with Mexico's education secretary that will let Dallas hire 40 bilingual teachers next year from south of the border, according to Superintendent Michael Hinojosa. The arrangement clears some red tape by allowing teachers into the United States on three-year work visas.

State law requires that Spanish-speaking students in elementary schools be taught by Spanish-speaking teachers. Last year, 945 classrooms in DISD did not meet that requirement. This school year, the district set out to hire 450 bilingual teachers and is close to meeting that goal.

Are you telling me they can't find any bi-lingual teachers in the U.S.? I'll stipulate that it might be difficult to find 450 bilingual teachers living in the Dallas area, but how about bringing them in from other areas? The answer? Cheap labor!

Where are the teacher's Unions on this? Still supporting open borders?

Read the entire story here.

Hat Tip: Jennifer

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Monday, September 25, 2006

Judge gives away Texan's ranch to illegal aliens

Sick! Just disgusting!

This is over a year old, and I'm not sure how I missed it ... but it's worth reposting for those of you who might have also missed it.

Via ABC7/KIVA.com:

Two immigrants now own a 70-acre Arizona ranch seized from an anti-immigrant activist.

A judge this week signed documents granting the ranch once owned by Casey Nethercott -- to Fatima del Socorro Leiva Medina and Edwin Alfredo Mancia Gonzales.

Nethercott is serving five years in prison stemming from a 2003 incident on a ranch in Hebbronville, Texas, where he confronted the pair.

Nethercott, who's with the group Ranch Rescue, was convicted of being a felon in possession of a firearm.

Nethercott didn't respond to a lawsuit filed on behalf of the two illegal immigrants from El Salvador.

A judge ordered him to pay 500-thousand dollars. The suit also named Ranch Rescue founder Jack Foote and owners of the ranch in Hebbronville -- Joe and Betty Sutton. The Suttons settled for 100-thousand dollars. Foote must pay 500-thousand dollars.

Leiva and Mancia have temporary legal status as crime victims as they seek to remain in the U-S.


Saturday, September 23, 2006

Police chief refuses to enforce immigration laws; even after officer murdered by illegal alien
BY GREGOR

AMAZING!!

Via WOAI.com:

Houston's police chief is standing behind his policy of not enforcing immigration laws after an illegal immigrant was charged with killing a police officer during a routine traffic stop.

Chief Harold Hurtt instead directed blame for Thursday's slaying of Officer Rodney Johnson, who was shot in the face and head in his patrol car, toward federal agencies charged with securing the border.

"If the government would fulfill their responsibility of protecting the border," Hurtt said Friday, "we probably would not be standing here today."

Hurtt's policy prohibits officers from questioning suspects about their residency.

And don’t think THAT’S the worst of it! There’s even more!

According to police, Quintero was deported as an illegal felon in 1999 after being charged with indecency with a child. His record also includes an arrest for driving while intoxicated, driving with a suspended license and for failing to stop and give information following an automobile accident.

If anyone has EVER been more deserving of a full force phone and email attack from the blogosphere … it’s Chief Harold Hurtt. PLEASE contact this moron and tell him to DO HIS JOB or resign!

Call him at 713-308-1600 and/or make an official complaint here.

Read this entire pathetic story here.

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Georgia judge tosses voter IDs
BY GREGOR

Not that I predicted it.

The arrogance!

Via Immigration News Daily:

A state judge yesterday rejected a Georgia law requiring voters to show government-issued photo identification, writing in his decision, "This cannot be." Fulton County Superior Court Judge T. Jackson Bedford Jr. said the law, pushed by Gov. Sonny Perdue (R) to fight voter fraud, violates the state constitution because it disenfranchises citizens who are otherwise qualified to vote. State officials vowed to appeal Bedford's ruling to the Georgia Supreme Court before the Nov. 7 general election. The timing of the judge's decision could have political ramifications in Washington. The House is set today to vote on legislation that would require voters in 2008 to present a valid photo identification that "could not have been obtained without proof of citizenship."

This is meaningless actually, being that it’s sure to be pushed to the Supreme court anyway, but still a good example of what we’re up against with liberal judges who feel their own personal views and desires outweigh the voters wishes.

Liberals want to cry and moan and accuse George Bush of being a dictator, all while being unable to even comprehend the meaning of “democracy.” How exactly DID they claim the title of “Democratic Party” anyway? They should simply be called the “Minority Rules Party.”

Read the full story here.

Contact Judge T. Jackson Bedford Jr here:

185 Central Ave SW Ste Jct4755
Atlanta, GA 30303-3519
(404) 730-4604


Previously: House passes voter ID bill


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More gang rapes by illegal aliens; No media coverage
BY GREGOR

Via Americans for Legal Immigration:

Two more cases of gang rapes by illegal aliens are being quietly adjudicated in Wisconsin and California, as activists and social scientists say the crime wave needs greater attention and national debate.

Read the details and full report here.

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Wednesday, September 20, 2006

House passes bill requiring photo IDs for voters
BY GREGOR

***Scroll for updates***

Via the Associated Press:

House voted Wednesday to require Americans to show proof of citizenship in order to vote, and the Senate moved to build a 700-mile fence along the Mexican border as Republicans sharpened attacks on illegal immigration before the midterm elections.

The 228-196 House vote on a new photo ID plan and the Senate's consideration of the fence were both part of a get-tough policy on illegal immigrants that Republicans have embraced after Congress' failure to agree on broader legislation that would set a path for undocumented workers to attain citizenship.

Things seem to be rolling just months before the November elections, but are these last minute actions by Republican leaders nothing more than an illusion? This is a great first step but I'll believe it when I see it, and even if this bill gets all the way through the Senate and is signed by the President ... the ACLU will make an attempt to drag it through the court system as unconstitutional.

It's not that hard these days to find a judge willing to impose their own personal views over the wishes of all Americans and it's highly likely that someone will slap this down, at least long enough to get through the next election cycle. But even so, it's promising.

Click here to read the full story.

***Update: Not that it's really an update, but more just to point out that democrats actually balked at this bill. The same party which drags every election through the court system arguing about election fraud is opposed to verifying that voters are actually ELIGIBLE TO VOTE. Absurd.

Via the Washington Times:

The House yesterday passed legislation that would require voters to show a valid photo identification in federal elections over the overwhelming objections of Democrats who compared the bill to segregation-era measures aimed at disenfranchising Southern blacks.

The Federal Election Integrity Act was approved on a nearly party-line 228-196 vote. Republicans backed the bill 224-3, with three nonvoters; Democrats opposed it 192-4, with five nonvoters. They were joined in opposition by the House's one independent member.

Again, we hear the nonsensical argument that apparently suggests that Democrats believe Southern blacks are not capable or smart enough to get themselves a valid ID card. It never ceases to amaze me why blacks in America would support these morons.

I'm trying to find the roll call on this. I'll post the names of the three Republicans who voted against it as soon as I find it, but it's not hard to guess who they are.

***Update2: Here are the lone Republicans voting against requiring voters to show valid Identification:

Charles Bass (Hew Hampshire) View website here.

Don Young (Alaska) View website here.

Jeb Bradley ( New Hampshire) View website here.

Feel free to contact them and ask what part of this simple concept they fail to understand.

Federal agents arrest 120 illegals
BY GREGOR

Via the Rocky Mountain News:

About 70 federal agents descended on a site near Buckley Air Force Base today and arrested at least 120 suspected illegal immigrants who were building military housing.

In what may be the largest immigration raid in state history, the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers, some from as far away as California, loaded the men they detained onto three buses and took them away to be processed. Some family members arrived at the construction site, panicked at the possibility a loved one would be deported.

Okay, we've seen this before. Next step ... deportation. Will we actually finish the job now, or will we simply release them back into the county once again? Talk is cheap.

Click here for the full story.

Hat Tip: Msquacks

Tuesday, September 19, 2006

Immigration Gumballs

Due to the number of comments I've received lately from people who want to look at the immigration debate as a moral or emotional issue ... I've decided to repost this video. If you haven't already seen it, please watch it. If you've seen it before, please watch it again.

It starts out very slow, but every person with any interest in this issue should watch the entire length. I promise you ... it's worth it to stick with it and watch it through.

One very important thing to keep in mind while watching.
This video only looks at the impact on the country by LEGAL immigration. It doesn't even take into account the millions per year that come across ILLEGALLY.

For those of you who are not quite sure how you feel about the topic ... this video SHOULD help you to understand the importance.

Friday, September 15, 2006

Conspiracy uncovered; Illegal alien workers being leased out like slaves
BY JIM KOURI

Via the Sierra Times:

Two leaders of a nationwide employee-leasing conspiracy, that leased out hundreds of illegal aliens throughout the United States, pleaded guilty before US District Judge Kenneth Marra in the Southern District of Florida, while a third defendant was sentenced, according to the US Justice Department.

Jaroslaw Sawczuk, 39, a Polish citizen of Coral Springs, FL, and Jozef Bronislaw Bogacki, 43, a native of Poland and naturalized US citizen residing in Clearwater, FL, pleaded guilty to charges of conspiracy to transport, house and encourage illegal aliens to remain in the United States. They also pleaded guilty to visa, wire, mail, and tax fraud, as well as money laundering.

Judge Marra sentenced a third defendant, Pavel Preus, 39, a Polish citizen residing in Pompano Beach, FL, who pleaded guilty to similar charges on September 13, 2005. Preus was sentenced to 37 months in prison, 36 months of supervised release, and ordered to pay $950,000 for unpaid payroll taxes.

The other suspects -- Lucia Kanis, 31, a Slovak citizen; Ivan Kanis, 39, a Slovak citizen residing in the Slovak Republic; and Andor Pikali, 37, a Slovak citizen who resided in Coral Springs -- are federal fugitives and believed to be overseas.

Bogacki pleaded guilty to six counts, Sawczuk to three, of a 26-count indictment that alleges from 1995 to the present, the defendants conspired to provide unauthorized workers, mostly East Europeans who had entered the United States on tourist visas, to American companies with whom the defendants had contracted to provide legally authorized foreign workers.

The indictment alleges that more than 550 illegal aliens were brought into the United States by the defendants. According to the indictment, the alien workers obtained tourist visas to enter the United States and were employed illegally in the midwest and southeastern United States on farms, in dairies and in factories.

The defendants contracted with American employers to provide workers, for whom the defendants were to pay payroll taxes and workers' compensation deductions. During the course of the conspiracy, the defendants failed to pay $6 million in payroll taxes and laundered over $20 million.

The remaining defendants face maximum penalties of up to 20 years in prison and fines of up to $500,000. In addition, the government is seeking forfeiture of the defendants' assets. A forfeiture hearing is scheduled for November 28, 2006. Bogacki and Sawczuk's sentencing is scheduled for December 15, 2006.

"The defendants, as charged, chose profits over compliance with our country's immigration and employment laws," said U.S. Attorney Alex Acosta of the Southern District of Florida.
"In using illegal aliens to generate their profits, the defendants not only took advantage of these individuals, but also potentially compromised the safety of our citizens," he added.

"In this case, the defendants laundered roughly $20 million and failed to pay $6 million in taxes as part of this illegal employee leasing scheme," said Julie Myers, Department of Homeland Assistant Secretary for Immigration and Customs Enforcement.

The joint investigation, known as Operation Pisces, started in 2002. The investigation was led by the Kansas City Office of US Immigration and Customs Enforcement, Group Supervisor Doug Bemiss; the Department of Labor, Office of the Inspector General; Labor Racketeering and Fraud Investigations, Special Agent Sean Kilcoyne; and the Miami IRS field office, Special Agent Kenneth Murphy. The Miami Office of the U.S. Postal Inspection Service also provided support for the investigation, according to the released statement.
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Jim Kouri, CPP is currently fifth vice-president of the National Association of Chiefs of Police and he's a staff writer for the New Media Alliance (thenma.org). He's former chief at a New York City housing project in Washington Heights nicknamed "Crack City" by reporters covering the drug war in the 1980s. In addition, he served as director of public safety at a New Jersey university and director of security for several major organizations. He's also served on the National Drug Task Force and trained police and security officers throughout the country.



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Time Magazine - Political Powers Ignore Immigration Invasion
BY GREGOR

The numbers just keep getting worse, but continue to be ingored. It's a good thing that the mainstream media such as Time Magazine is now picking up on this issue, but it's amazing how many people seem to believe that our leaders simply don't see the problem. They see it, but they ignore it because of a hidden agenda; the North American Union.



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Things you can do to win the issues; Center for Individual Freedom

The following post is republished as recieved from NewsMax, courtesy of the Center for Individual Freedom. Original hyperlinks have been replaced with GOP contact info. PLEASE take the time to read it through, and then write, call, or email every republican representative letting them know they WILL NOT GET YOUR VOTE unless they act. We need every conservative in this country to do whatever possible to send this message to our leaders.



Come November, Nancy Pelosi could become Speaker of the House and Harry Reid could become Majority Leader of the Senate. Worse, our government could be run by the likes of cut-and-run John Murtha, and tax-and-spend liberals like Teddy Kennedy and Hillary Clinton.
That's all the buzz and chatter coming from so-called political experts and talking-head pundits these days. And, it's exactly what is going to happen unless the Republican leadership in Congress wakes up and delivers the conservative agenda that you and the majority of American people have demanded for so many years!

Years ago, conservative leaders in Congress promised the American people that they would pass a conservative agenda. Years later, the American people are still waiting!
The truth is Americans are fed up! And for good reason.

But RIGHT NOW is our best chance to demand that Republicans make good on those promises that have gone unfulfilled all these years! You see, Congress just returned from its summer break and is holding a short, few-week legislative session before adjourning for the November elections. And now, more than ever -- with sagging poll numbers staring them in the face and with the elections right around the corner -- they are willing to listen to the demands of the American people. That means we have less than a month to demand they pass the REAL conservative agenda that they have scuttled all of these years. That means...

We have until the end of the month to pass legislation that will secure the borders and stop illegal immigration ! So-called "comprehensive solutions" and amnesty programs MUST be tabled!

We have until the end of the month to open the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge (ANWR) to responsible oil exploration to reduce our nation's dependence on Middle Eastern Oil. Even with the new discovery in the Gulf of Mexico, the United States needs to assert our energy independence once and for all to control prices and inflation and to end the power that other countries have over us.

We have until the end of the month to confirm the President's judicial nominees to the federal bench. President Bush has started the ball rolling by nominating and re-nominating five judges -- some that liberals in Congress have been obstructing for years. Our conservative leaders MUST confirm these judges this session -- even if that means deploying the "Nuclear Option." There can be NO MCCAIN INSPIRED COMPROMISES!

We have until the end of the month to permanently eliminate the "death tax," which allows the federal government to tax income twice -- once when you earn it and a second time when you die.

We have until the end of the month to finally confirm John Bolton as the United States Ambassador to the United Nations.

And we have until the end of the month to force Congress to enact real measures to support the President and renew our commitment to fight the War on Terror!
Starting today, we will continually bombard Congress with that no-nonsense six point agenda but we need your help!

Our conservative leaders must KNOW -- without a doubt -- that they must pass these six items! And if they fail...

Well, the American people won't be to blame if they find themselves reporting to Harry Reid in the Senate and Nancy Pelosi in the House.

Use the hyperlink below to send the Republican leadership in Congress a wake-up call.

Click on the screenshot below for complete contact info for the GOP:


Remind them they are in session for less than a month before the election and that they MUST use that time to pass a conservative agenda that was promised to the American people years ago.

Tell them that before the end of the month you expect them to:

Pass legislation to secure our borders, use a tiny portion of ANWR to bring in a million barrels of domestic oil a day, use whatever tactics necessary to confirm conservative judges to the federal bench, get rid of the ghoulish death tax, confirm John Bolton and renew our commitment on the War on Terror.

Priority #1: Secure The Borders
Some areas of this country have been taken over by illegal aliens:
In Atkinson County, Georgia, so many illegal aliens have settled in the tiny town of Pearson that Serafico Jaimes opened up a Spanish-language video store and began flying the Mexican flag next to the American flag. "This is our town now, too," he announced.

One Atkinson County resident whose family has lived in the county since the 19th century summed it up: "I have children and grandchildren. They're going to become second-class citizens. And we're going to be a third world country here if we don't do something about it."

During a "SaveOurState" rally in Maywood, CA recently, a group of illegal aliens and their supporters removed the American flag from a post office and replaced it with the Mexican flag. A group of approximately 200 illegal-supporters carried signs reading "We are the only legal owners of this continent."

A coalition of Texas sheriffs recently issued a warning that Arabic-speaking individuals are learning Spanish and integrating into Mexican culture before paying smugglers to sneak them into the United States. The Texas Sheriffs' Border Coalition believes these likely terrorists and drug smugglers are being aided by the Mexican military to get them across the border.

But these types of stories are not just coming out of Georgia, California and Texas. The same thing is happening in the Northwest, Midwest, and New England.

Four border state governors -- two Republicans and two Democrats -- see the problem for what it is and wrote a letter to House Speaker Dennis Hastert and Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist demanding that Congress IMMEDIATELY pass immigration legislation.
Arnold Schwarzenegger of California, Rick Perry of Texas, Bill Richardson of New Mexico and Janet Napolitano of Arizona told the leadership:
"Instead of holding dozens of [congressional] field hearings... we urge you to get back to work and pass legislation that... solves this crisis once and for all."

Writing "from the front lines," the governors said the "explosion" of the illegal-alien population in California, Texas, Arizona, and New Mexico has gone so far that "citizens and non-citizens alike are losing respect for the rule of law."

These four speak for people in all 50 states, as polls continue to show. More than two-thirds of Americans are furious at the Senate for voting earlier to give amnesty, welfare, and Social Security benefits to illegal aliens already in the United States. More than two-thirds of Americans strongly support the House bill, which makes no mention of amnesty and would shut down the border so tight that even a sidewinder couldn't slither through. So what are our conservative leaders waiting for? Are they confused about what their constituents want?

Use the hyperlink below to send the Republican leadership in Congress a wake-up call.

Click on the screenshot below for complete contact info for the GOP:


Remind them they are in session for less than a month before the election and that they MUST use that time to pass a conservative agenda that was promised to the American people years ago.

Tell them that before the end of the month you expect them to: pass legislation to secure our borders, use a tiny portion of ANWR to bring in a million barrels of domestic oil a day, use whatever tactics necessary to confirm conservative judges to the federal bench, get rid of the ghoulish death tax, confirm John Bolton and renew our commitment on the War on Terror.

What will happen if we give amnesty to the 12 million illegal aliens in our midst?
Suppose we continue to let people stream across our borders?

Robert Rector, a highly respected researcher at the Heritage Foundation, said of the Senate amnesty bill:
"[It] would be the most dramatic change in immigration law in 80 years, allowing an estimated 103 million persons to legally immigrate to the U.S. over the next 20 years -- fully one third of the current population of the United States."
That figure was later amended to about 67 million after the Senate passed the amnesty bill -- but if Rector's nightmare becomes reality, what would happen to America?
Consider the fact that illegal aliens make up more than 100,000 convicted felons in our state prisons -- AND MORE THAN 27 PERCENT OF THE FEDERAL PRISON POPULATION!
Consider the story of a Denver teacher who reported that the Denver public school system had a 65 percent drop out/flunk out rate. And 30 percent of the teachers weren't coming back. Why? "The classrooms featured so much incompatible diversity that it created horrific tension, stabbings and death."

The Congressional Budget Office now claims that the cost of enacting the Senate amnesty bill would reach almost $127 billion. And their figures match estimates by Heritage that the additional welfare costs ALONE would reach -- are you ready for this -- $50 billion!

Use the hyperlink below to send the Republican leadership in Congress a wake-up call.

Click on the screenshot below for complete contact info for the GOP:


Remind them they are in session for less than a month before the election and that they MUST use that time to pass a conservative agenda that was promised to the American people years ago.

Tell them that before the end of the month you expect them to: pass legislation to secure our borders, use a tiny portion of ANWR to bring in a million barrels of domestic oil a day, use whatever tactics necessary to confirm conservative judges to the federal bench, get rid of the ghoulish death tax, confirm John Bolton and renew our commitment on the War on Terror.

Priority #2: Reduce Dependence on Foreign Oil, Including Opening ANWR to Responsible Drilling.

If you've gassed up your car in the past couple of days, you may have noticed that the price dropped slightly -- at my station, it's $2.86 for a gallon regular unleaded.
Did you say to yourself, "Hey, that's a great price!" If so, you've run up the white flag. Americans shouldn't be paying nearly $3.00 for gas. We are too dependent on oil controlled by sheikhs, mullahs, ayatollahs and banana republic dictators. That's why we MUST develop a small sector of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge (ANWR)! According to the Department of Energy that area could produce "[A]bout one million barrels of oil per day - about 20% of our domestic daily production."

In addition, experts believe that drilling in ANWR would also:
Replace the oil we lost because of the devastation caused by Hurricanes Katrina and Rita.
Replace more than 30 years worth of Saudi oil imports and 58 years worth of Iraqi oil imports. Moreover, it would take a big bite out of the $150 billion -- that's $150,000,000,000 -- the United States spends each and every year importing foreign oil.

Create over 736,000 new jobs -- that's nearly three quarters of a million -- in the United States.
Raise more than $29 billion in new federal tax revenues -- that's $29,000,000,000 -- and over $31 billion in new state tax revenues over a 15 year period -- without raising taxes.
Yet, Senate liberals voted against ANWR exploration at least nine times over the last five years.
And House liberals voted against ANWR exploration at least six times in the last five years.
Opening ANWR is a win-win issue for the American people. Now our conservative leaders must rally the troops.

Use the hyperlink below to send the Republican leadership in Congress a wake-up call.

Click on the screenshot below for complete contact info for the GOP:


Remind them they are in session for less than a month before the election and that they MUST use that time to pass a conservative agenda that was promised to the American people years ago.

Tell them that before the end of the month you expect them to: pass legislation to secure our borders, use a tiny portion of ANWR to bring in a million barrels of domestic oil a day, use whatever tactics necessary to confirm conservative judges to the federal bench, get rid of the ghoulish death tax, confirm John Bolton and renew our commitment on the War on Terror.

Priority #3: On Judicial Nominations, Stand Up to Senate Obstructionists or Invoke The Nuclear Option to Confirm Conservative Judges. And what about the President's nominees to the federal bench?

Recently, President Bush sent five nominations to the Senate; Terrence Boyle, William Haynes, William Myers, Michael Wallace and Norman Smith. You already know some of these names. Senate liberals have obstructed some of these fine individuals for years -- not even allowing a fair up-or-down vote on their confirmations. When President Bush nominated these superbly qualified people last week, he made the following statement at an event for Bob Corker -- who is running for Majority Leader Bill Frist's seat in the Senate, "I need a U.S. senator who understands that we need people on the bench who will strictly interpret the Constitution and not use the bench to legislate." Truer words were never spoken!

Isn't it time for Bill Frist and the other GOP Senate leaders to tell liberals in their own party like John McCain and Lindsey Graham to quit playing Patty-Cake with Democrats? We should demand that a united conservative majority bring ALL conservative nominees to the floor for fair up-or-down votes! And if that means invoking the "Nuclear Option," then so be it. Let's get these nominees on the bench once and for all, because if Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid get their wish, it will never happen!

Use the hyperlink below to send the Republican leadership in Congress a wake-up call.

Click on the screenshot below for complete contact info for the GOP:


Remind them they are in session for less than a month before the election and that they MUST use that time to pass a conservative agenda that was promised to the American people years ago. Tell them that before the end of the month you expect them to: pass legislation to secure our borders, use a tiny portion of ANWR to bring in a million barrels of domestic oil a day, use whatever tactics necessary to confirm conservative judges to the federal bench, get rid of the ghoulish death tax, confirm John Bolton and renew our commitment on the War on Terror.

Priority #4: Permanently Repeal the Death Tax Once And For All. We pay enough taxes while we are alive. We shouldn't be forced to stick our children and grandchildren with a large tax bill when we die. The relatively small amount of revenue the death tax generates for Uncle Sam cannot justify robbing the graves of hard-working Americans who have earned the right to pass on their assets to their children.

And let's not accept any excuses! We are sick of hearing Republican leaders in the Senate say, "We can't do it. If we try to repeal the death tax again, the liberals will simply filibuster again."
Conservatives control the majority. They must start acting like it! Bring the death tax to a vote EVERY WEEK... force the liberals to filibuster the repeal of the death tax again and again and again before they must face the wrath of the voters!

Use the hyperlink below to send the Republican leadership in Congress a wake-up call.

Click on the screenshot below for complete contact info for the GOP:


Remind them they are in session for less than a month before the election and that they MUST use that time to pass a conservative agenda that was promised to the American people years ago.

Tell them that before the end of the month you expect them to: pass legislation to secure our borders, use a tiny portion of ANWR to bring in a million barrels of domestic oil a day, use whatever tactics necessary to confirm conservative judges to the federal bench, get rid of the ghoulish death tax, confirm John Bolton and renew our commitment on the War on Terror.

Priority #5: Confirm John Bolton. Liberals have blocked the appointment of John Bolton -- our no-nonsense, tough-talking Ambassador to the United Nations -- for far too long.
And just a few days ago, "Republican In Name Only" (RINO), Senator Lincoln Chafee shocked everyone by REFUSING to support John Bolton.

Chafee's actions have massive repercussions. His lack of support will give the liberals the excuse and the ammunition they need to continue to obstruct the nomination of this fine man!
And if Bolton is NOT confirmed before Congress adjourns, there is a good chance he will be forced to step aside and President Bush will be forced to appoint someone to the liking of the hate-America crowd at the U.N. and Kofi Annan.

If Bolton is not confirmed, the United States will be sending a clear message to Secretary General Annan that it's business as usual at the United Nations -- that Oil-for-Food scams, United Nations Internet pedophile rings and sex scandals in the Congo ARE the order of business! That's the wrong message to send!

Iran and North Korea are flexing their nuclear muscle and Hezbollah, Hamas and al-Qaeda are becoming more aggressive against the United States and our allies.
Right now, the world is a very dangerous place!

We need John Bolton's firm hand at the United Nations more than ever!
If Bolton is not confirmed by the Senate, the liberals -- who have obstructed his nomination -- and the America-haters all over the world will WIN and the American people and the world will LOSE!

Use the hyperlink below to send the Republican leadership in Congress a wake-up call.

Click on the screenshot below for complete contact info for the GOP:


Remind them they are in session for less than a month before the election and that they MUST use that time to pass a conservative agenda that was promised to the American people years ago.

Tell them that before the end of the month you expect them to: pass legislation to secure our borders, use a tiny portion of ANWR to bring in a million barrels of domestic oil a day, use whatever tactics necessary to confirm conservative judges to the federal bench, get rid of the ghoulish death tax, confirm John Bolton and renew our commitment on the War on Terror.

Priority #6: Win The War On Terror. Last month, a solitary federal judge appointed by Jimmy Carter had the audacity to tell the President of the United States to stop gathering intelligence from a foreign enemy during wartime.

And five years after 9-11, politicians are still discussing whether it's okay to gather intelligence by monitoring phone calls that known and suspected terrorists make to the United States!
Several months ago, the United States Supreme Court sided with Osama Bin Laden's personal driver -- a blood-thirsty terrorist by the name of Salim Ahmed Hamdan -- and declared that the President did NOT have the authority to conduct military tribunals to deal with these pathetic specimens of humanity.

While it is clear that our judiciary is out of control, Congress can intercede and affirm a simple fact that Americans have known for decades -- that the President DOES INDEED have the authority to conduct war and keep Americans safe from terrorism. In fact, legislation is already on the calendar that will address both of those issues. It shouldn't be a difficult task to pass this important legislation that can save American lives -- yet conservative leaders in Congress have had unexplainable difficulty in the recent past! Enough is enough!

Do we need to continually remind our elected leaders that an election is coming up in a little more than 60 days? The time for excuses is long past.Republican leaders MUST eradicate the death tax, secure the borders, open up ANWR to drilling, invoke the nuclear option, confirm John Bolton and support the President in the War on Terror.

Anything less is simply unacceptable!
Please join me in taking action today!

Use the hyperlink below to send the Republican leadership in Congress a wake-up call.

Click on the screenshot below for complete contact info for the GOP:


Remind them they are in session for less than a month before the election and that they MUST use that time to pass a conservative agenda that was promised to the American people years ago.

Tell them that before the end of the month you expect them to: pass legislation to secure our borders, use a tiny portion of ANWR to bring in a million barrels of domestic oil a day, use whatever tactics necessary to confirm conservative judges to the federal bench, get rid of the ghoulish death tax, confirm John Bolton and renew our commitment on the War on Terror.













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Thursday, September 14, 2006

House approves border fence; but do they intend to build it?
BY GREGOR

Via the Associated Press:


The House voted for the second time in a year to erect a fence along a third of the U.S.-Mexican border, part of a Republican effort to keep illegal immigration an issue before voters.

A new 700 miles of double-layered fencing won approval on a 283-138 vote, a bigger margin than last December when the House passed it as part of a broader bill that also would have made being an illegal immigrant a felony. The nearly 2,000-mile border now has about 75 miles of fencing.

Only one problem ...

The bill passed Thursday doesn't pay for the fence. Republicans, estimating the cost at more than $2 billion, said that will be covered in a later spending bill. Democrats estimated the fence would cost $7 billion, based on information from the Department of Homeland Security on costs per mile of a double-layer fence.

"This is nothing more than political gamesmanship in the run-up to the midterm elections. Sounds good. Does nothing," said Rep. Alcee Hastings, D-Fla.

I have to say that I'm hesitant to jump up and down in excitement. Even if this bill DOES make it to Bush's desk, and even if he DOES sign it ... we all know how little that meant with the National Guard promise.

Not only is this meaningless until it's built, it also fails to cover issues such as enforcing employment laws, or what most conservatives are really concerned with, which is amnesty.

Read the full story here.

Michelle Malkin is also blogging this and hits on another major issue not covered in this bill. She writes:

There are so many other immediate reforms that could have been adopted this year that would have strengthened immigration enforcement, closed deportation loopholes immediately, and provided true relief at the border. (And don't even get me started on this administration's renewed laxity at the front door, which has been thrown open to tens of thousands of new Saudi student visa holders while enforcement against millions of current visa overstayers remain virtually non-existent.)

The 700-mile fence vote is an election season gesture, and grass-roots conservatives who have watched the GOP squander away this issue for six years are not going to be appeased by mid-September 2006 gesture politics.


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Wednesday, September 13, 2006

Vernon Robinson campaign truck sabotaged, bursts into flames
BY GREGORRead the entire story on our affiliate blog at:
http://worldsreality.com

Sunday, September 10, 2006

Patrick Quigley
2996 is a project organized by DC Roe in which bloggers come together, each honoring an individual victim of the 9/11 attacks.
The following is a tribute to 9/11 victim Patrick Quigley; just one of the 65 innocent civilians brutally murdered on flight 175.
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Who is Patrick Quigley?
Via Legacy.com:

Great Brother, Great Friend. Patrick J. Quigley IV lived in 21 places in 40 years, and at school he and his sister, Ruth Quigley-Lawrence, were always in the same grade, though she was 11 months older. "I always knew who I was going to play with on the playground, I always knew who I was eating lunch with," she recalled. "He was the slowest eater."

The siblings had their own version of Korean, different from the one their mother taught them. They ended up together in classes at Rutgers, and she married her brother's roommate and best friend. Mr. Quigley lived with them for a year, when his consulting job brought him to her company, and he took over her desk when she left.

Their older brother, John, said that Patrick chose a few things to do well, and did them very well. " He was just very even, very focused," he said.

Last summer Mr. Quigley, a partner at PricewaterhouseCoopers, and his wife, Patricia, bought a house in Wellesley, Mass., to put down roots. Their two children are Rachel, 6, and Leah, who was born in October.

Mr. Quigley was on Flight 175 on Sept. 11." Some people you like and you don't know why — yeah, he was like one of those guys," said his father, Patrick Quigley Jr. "I guess you would've liked him if you met him."

Profile published in THE NEW YORK TIMES on April 21, 2002.


Via Legacy.com:

Pat and I were teenage and early adult friends who shared a passion for Baseball and good times. I spent many summers with Pat playing baseball for our hometown and traveling around the county for our games.

I also attended high school and college with Pat, then eventually grew apart after college graduation as we each began a new life. Pat was a good friend anda lott of fun to be with. He loved life and was passionate about most things that he pursued.

I will never forget Pat and the many good times we shared. I hope that his family's grief and sorrow will lesson with time knowing that he touch so many people's lives in a positive way.

Ken Cerce (Westampton, NJ)

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Via Legacy.com:

Patti, I still remember walking in downtown Chicago and you and Pat calling out to Gina and I. It seems like yesterday, that we were talking about all of the razzing we were getting about you and your too short for banking shorts and me and my too loud for banking ties.

I know that this has been verydifficultt time for you. Our prayers arecertainlyy with you, seeking strength, comfort, patience and guidance through this storm. If I can ever be of any assistance to you and your family, never hesitate to contact me.

God's Blessing and Comfort,

Raullo Eanes (Naperville, IL )

Family names pet dog in honor of 9/11 victim

Via Petharbor.org:

Patrick's daughter born, one month after death

Via Boston.com:

By Marcella Bombardieri, Globe Staff, 9/11/2002

When Leah Quigley, now 11 months old, started making recognizable sounds, her first was ''da da da.'' As normal as that might seem, her relatives and caretakers did not find it the least bit cute. They tried to distract her with mugging and giggling, hoping to make her say something else, anything else. But only after Leah had mastered her da-da-das did she move on, in her own good time, to the ma-ma-mas.

Thirty-four days before Leah's birth, her dad, Patrick J. Quigley IV, woke up early. He got unusually flustered trying to find and iron a clean pair of pants. He kissed his wife, Patti, goodbye. Then he hopped in a limo to make his plane, United Airlines Flight 175. The 40-year-old Wellesley businessman sat in the first row of first class for the last and unknowable chapter of his life.

In the year since hijackers piloted her husband's plane into the World Trade Center, Patti gave birth. She arranged a memorial service, a baptism, and then, when some of Patrick's remains were identified, a funeral. She had her wedding ring stolen. She got her older daughter, Rachel, off training wheels and through kindergarten, a family vacation, and the beginning of first grade. She clung to her own sanity.

In her even-keeled fashion, Patti found the ''da da da'' episode more funny than heartbreaking. ''It's just the sound babies make first,'' she told her worried loved ones.
Yet the episode reminded Patti of the ordeals that are still to come, the kinds of trials that will strike even after a year or two or three of intense mourning.

''When is she going to ask?'' Patti wonders about her baby girl, who doesn't yet realize whom, or how much, she has lost. How will Patti describe the ''da da'' who tried through two years of doctors and tests and anguish to have Leah, the father who was so convinced of Leah's athleticism - from all her kicking in the womb - that he was already planning a basketball hoop for the driveway?

''I don't even know what I'm going to say when that day comes,'' Patti said.



God bless Patrick Quigley, God bless Patrick's family and friends, and God help all of mankind in defeating terrorism and evil throughout the world.


Tuesday, September 05, 2006

Three Days in Israel
BY GREGOR

The following video is extremely graphic and hard to watch, but I urge everyone to watch it anyway. It is almost impossible to really know what it's truly like to live with terror on a daily basis, and we must do our best to educate ourselves so we don't one day find ourselves experiencing it with our children, or worse yet ... without our children.

I feel compelled to preach a little here, but I must say to anyone who says "I just don't want to subject myself to this stuff"... try to understand that part of the reason we're in the situation we are right now ... is because we've closed our eyes to it for this long. Please, let's open our eyes to the realities of the world, as brutal as they are, and as ugly as they are ... and let it motivate us to do whatever we can to make sure it never becomes a part of our daily lives.



Please start by calling or writing all your representatives and telling them they will not get your vote unless the border is secure and illegal immigration is stopped. If you are still unsure as to why that is necessary ... click here.

Hat tip: Vered

Friday, September 01, 2006

Miller Beer sponsors illegal alien march
BY GREGOR

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Boycott Miller Brewing Co. products

As reported in the Chicago Tribune:

This time, as demonstrators march from Chinatown to House Speaker Dennis Hastert's (R-Ill.) Batavia office this weekend, they will have Miller Brewing Co., as a sponsor. The brewer has paid more than $30,000 for a planning convention, materials and newspaper ads publicizing the event. The support of a major corporation for a controversial political cause shows how fierce the competition has become to woo the growing market of Latino consumers. For Miller, the march offered a special chance to catch up. This spring the brewer drew the ire of pro-immigrant forces over contributions to U.S. Rep. James Sensenbrenner (R-Wis.), who sponsored legislation that would crack down on illegal immigrants. That prompted a short-lived boycott by some Latino groups. Now, march advertisements feature not just the organizing committee's trademark blue globe but Miller's logo and a Spanish translation of its "Live Responsibly" slogan, a company effort to build goodwill among Latinos.

Labor unions remain the movement's backbone with four major unions bringing at least 600 marchers on buses from throughout Chicago. Religious groups have been key too. Some marchers will bed down in churches
and a mosque.

A mosque?! Any guesses as to why a mosque would be interested in helping out?

Jimenez Market, an area chain, had its sign on display as workers passed out more than 5,000 bottles of water and other supplies worth nearly $17,000. Co-owner Jose Perez acknowledged it is good publicity but stressed that "we are supporting our people. Without them, our business would go downhill."

"Supporting OUR people." Imagine the uproar if so called "white Europeans" were to use that phrase. Yet they call US racists?

This weekend, the Los Comales restaurant plans to donate 500 tortas, Mexican sandwiches filled with steak, ham and other toppings. The Laredo Bakery is donating bread while other restaurants are donating water, fruit and other supplies, organizsaid. Thosehose businesses are natural allies--"part of the same brotherhood," as one marketer put it.

Once again "part of the same brotherhood."
Sounds like it's them against us, based on their comments.

Michelle Malkin is blogging this story in-depth and organizing a boycott. Click here for info.

Don't let this opportunity pass without making a statement! Contact Miller here.

Update: Via Michelle Malkin, here is a list of other Miller/La Raza Brewing Co. products to boycott:

More of open borders Miller's beer brands:

Miller Lite
Miller Genuine Draft
Miller Genuine Draft Light
Miller High Life
Miller High Life Light
Sharp's non-alcohol brew
Red DogIcehouse 5.0
Icehouse 5.5
Icehouse Light
Southpaw Light
Leinenkugel's Original
Leinenkugel's Light
Leinenkugel's Red Lager
Leinenkugel's Honey
WeissLeinenkugel's Apple Spice (seasonal)
Leinenkugel's Berry
WeissLeinenkugel's Oktoberfest (seasonal)
Leinenkugel's Creamy Dark
Leinenkugel's Big Butt
Doppelbock (seasonal)
Leinenkugel's Sunset Wheat
Henry Weinhard's Private Reserve
Henry Weinhard's Blue Boar Pale Ale
Henry Weinhard's Classic Dark
Henry Weinhard's Northwest Trail Blonde Lager
Henry Weinhard's Hefeweizen
Henry Weinhard's Summer Wheat
Hamm's
Hamm's Draft
Hamm's Special Light
Olde English 800 Malt Liquor
Olde English HG800
Olde English HG800 7.5
Magnum Malt Liquor
Mickey's Malt Liquor
Mickey's Ice
Milwaukee's Best
Milwaukee's Best Light
Milwaukee's Best Ice
Foster's Lager
Foster's Special Bitter
Peroni Nastro Azzurro
Pilsner Urquell
Sheaf Stout
Sparks
Sparks Light
Sparks Plus 7%
Sparks Plus 6%
Steel Reserve Triple Export 8.1%
Steel Reserve High Gravity
Steel Reserve High Gravity 6.0Steel Six