``¿Dónde está el Rep. Tancredo?'' (``Where is the toilet?'')

``Salga de mi camino, usted Rep. Tancredo.'' (``Get out of my way, you stupid idiot.'')

 

 

SPRING TRAINING - T Minus 19 Days and counting!

 

 

CAT SOAP OPEAR UPDATE

Rumsfeld’s god-mother, Auntie Willa is going to help me catch cats if I need help.  He will have a blast.  This evening driving home from his grandparents he climbed into the back of the Durango and went snooping around in the groceries.  The sliced deli ham did not survive!  GeorgieW poked her head out from under the batcave this evening to beg for some of the ham.  I think she’s getting tired of her self-imposed exile.  I may be busting out the cabinet under the kitchen sink to get her out if she doesn’t come out on her own in a day or two.  The babies are doing fine – but I think they’ve decided to use the bathroom floor as a giant tile piddle pad.  Their mommy is not doing an good job on the litter training.  I think it’s time for Auntie Doc to take over.  They are growing and playing like crazy.  I’ve named the little calico one Miss Piggy.  It suits her.  When I go into the bedroom aka nursery, she follows me.  She has the same disposition as Bat Masterson. 

 

Oh, I need to tell you about  my sister's rescue cat.  A few months ago she managed to get locked into the freezer.  Then about a week ago Cathy put a few things in the dryer and heard this thump thump meow!  She opened the dryer and the cat jumped out, shook her head and then flounced out of the laundry room.  This morning Cathy took Pig (pug) for an early morning walk.  She heard this faint meow.  So, she kept meowing until she located the cat - locked inside the grandfather clock!  Tom was winding the clock yesterday and the cat jumped inside it, then he closed the door!

 

Don't forget I have two Blog Critics articles:  The Tancredo Expose, and a baseball piece.

 

Archaeologists are digging for proof of Bigfoot. 

The Hobbit people were a different species - now they think. 

Beltway traffic jam

Funny commentary about Libertarians.

 The Libby Trial

The New Moon Race

Is the Biden surge protector DOA?

Andrew McCarthy on why the Broder Patrol Two deserve jail.  At last - someone agrees!

 

FROM  YESTERDAY – GWB AND IMMIGRATION - MY RANT OF THE DAY

This is an absolutely fascinating take on GWB and immigration reform in TX.  I think it is a must read to understand why the man is the way he is on immigration.  Bottom line, when he was Governor, no immigrant bashing was allowed in TX.

 

"..A bill filed in the Texas Legislature would cut off public assistance to children of illegal immigrants, including public health care and education. The measure parallels California's bitterly won Proposition 187.ush lambasted Proposition 187 at the time, insisting that even children of illegal immigrants deserve an education. Bush "didn't think it was morally justifiable to punish the kid for a decision that he had no say in," said West Texas state Rep. Pete Gallego, a Democrat..." "...Part of Bush's approach to immigration policy stemmed from his respect for the Mexican culture, and the strong work ethic and family ties it fosters, said Vance McMahan, Bush's policy director in the governor's office. "A big part of it is growing up in West Texas and understanding the culture of both Texas and Mexico and recognizing that the vast majority of Mexicans ... want to come to the United States and ... secure a better future for their families," said Ray Sullivan, Bush's press secretary in Texas...."

 

And that's the rub - morality.  Is it morally justified to punish a child for something their parents did?  If so, then send 'em all back to Mexico and be done with it.  If morality is involved, then we need to treat them as decent, viable human beings who, like any other child, is subject to his parent's domination, therefore has no say in why he/she is here illegally. 

 

The more I thought about it the more impressed I am with President Bush.  He is more concerned with doing what is morally right than a legacy or the hysteria of the anti-immigration RIGHT.   In other words, children who are MINORS when they are brought into the US illegally have ended up here at the whim of their parents.  They are MINORS, not adults, not free moral agents.  The same conservative anti-immigration pundits and talk show hosts (O’Reilly and Hannity come into mind) who constantly – and rightfully – complain about high school students who are victims of predatory sexual practices of their teachers, being minors and there-fore are powerless.  Doesn’t the same thing apply, or are non-Hispanic students more important and more innocent than Hispanic students?  These kids are not responsible for the actions of their parents. 

 

I don’t see why (illegal) Hispanic students are any different from (legal) non-Hispanic students when it comes to innocence.  They are in the US because of their parents (for the most part).  We live in a world where, since the last slaves were freed, the sins of the fathers, or the status of the father does not apply.  We do not live in a caste society. 

 

Please follow the logic.  I know it is difficult for those who are so blindly devoted to anti-immigration they cannot see reason.  Please open your brain, eyes, and heart for a moment.  The illegal children of illegal immigrants are not responsible for their lot in life.  Ergo – why should they be forced to pay for the sins of their parents?  If they have grown up in a community and consider themselves American and could never be able to function back in the Third World from which their parents came  here, illegally, then shouldn’t they be given the same consideration as natural born Americans.

 

Like the woman who is raped, these kids were not asking for it.  They are innocent.  They should be treated as innocents.  If they are innocent they certainly deserve a little consideration.  If a kid has grown up say in TX and is illegal, but his parents have worked, he’s a good kid, why not get in-state college tuition? 

 

It’s like this.  We can take the vengeance is mine approach and throw these kids, who are basically American, to the Third World wolves where, if they do survive they will hate this country forever.  We could be breeding a whole new generation of anti-American activists.  But – if we take the long view and treat them the way we treat ‘legal’ kids, we are grooming the future.

 

Why not give them tuition breaks and even scholarships?

 

Okay, pull your head out of the toilet and quit flushing.  Think this thing through.

 

1.  We give illegals scholarships.  To pay them back they sign up for “X#” of years of military service, and a fast track to US Citizenship.  The scholarships are paid back, and we have loyal Americans, who are willing to fight for and die for this nation.  Don’t close your mind.  It worked for Rome – for centuries.

 

1A.  Those kids who don’t pay back their scholarships by military service must do the same number of years either in community service here, or better yet, doing a Peace Corp type thing back in the country and village of their birth.  We’re talking doctors, nurses, lawyers, teachers, scientists, experts who can give back and help their birth place, and serve this country by paying back their loan.

 

2.  If they wish to return to their birth land, they can keep their US Citizenship. 

 

Don’t you get it?  The only way we are ever going to change the plutocracy and drug cartel culture of Mexico is to change it from within.  Educate good, loyal Americans of illegal Mexican descent and make it easy for them to come and go, and make a better life for themselves and the people in the land where they were born.

 

Unfortunately, their parents did break the law, and in this no amnesty climate, the innocent children must be punished to the fullest extent of the short-sighted racist xenophobic anti-Hispanic demands.  The future doesn’t matter.  Common sense doesn’t matter.  Their parents broke the law, and like the children of England’s debtors of old, they must go to prison with them.  Sounds a little draconian doesn’t it?  Well, it does if you have an ounce of mercy about you.

 

But – mercy towards illegal Mexican immigrants, even their innocent children is in short supply today.

 

PRESIDENT BUSH

Will there ever be another President Bush?  From the Opinion Journal’s Political Diary: 
“…While Mr. Bush made it clear he's not running for president in 2008, he didn't flatly turn down the idea of joining the ticket as a vice presidential running mate. As for the future, one of his friends in the audience noted that Mr. Bush is still young. In 2020, he would be 67 years old, younger than Ronald Reagan was when he successfully ran for president.”

 

Juan Williams NPR Intereview

 

 

 DEMS AND LIBERALS GONE MAD

The weekend peace march where the trashed the Capitol and spat on disabled Vets – way to go Left! 

 Wake Up America

Black Five - on the spitting

Captain's Quarters on spray painging the Capitol.

Malkin on the protests.

 

IRAN, ISLAM, TERROR

Iranian Guards threaten to kidnap US Troops 

More on the subject. 

GWB tells Iran to bug off Iraq.

Is Islam ready to take over Europe?

A Must Read from RightWingNuthouse about the David Bell was 9/11 all that bad piece.

Strata says Litvinenko was poisoned in London.

RCP Blog on some stats about radical Islam in the UK

 

IRAQ

Hedgehog on Iraq - I like a person with a sense of history.  Great piece!

 

BUSH-HATE

AJ Drummond on the bad polls.

Powerline on bad polls.

 

PRIMARIES 2008 (NOTE:  I am supporting Giuliani and am biased toward him)

Krusty on Huckabee.  The Jawa Report says Romney was not ready for prime time at the big meet this weekend - and came across as a (smarmy - my description) game show host.  Perfect description!  John Edwards is living proof chasing ambulences pays off - check out the estate.  Ruffini on why he and I are both supporting Giuliani.  And - a breakdown of Giuliani's appeal in NH. More on Romney's tanking.  Romney attacks Brownback.  Why Brownback might do better in Iowa than Romney.  Will Tancredo run for re-election?  Dave Barry slams Tancredo!  Curt Schilling  (potential GOP against Kerry) has endorsed McCain.  Obama's Islam problem.  Giuliani fundraisers.  Draft Newt?  Is McCain tanking?