A day without illegals, is like...

M&M's in the jowls of a bulldog, "It's gonna be a good day tater". My apologies to Ron White. It has its plusses per Representative Tom Tancredo, (R) Colorado. For an article in National Review Online, Tancredo states...

Hospital emergency rooms across the southwest would have about 20-percent fewer patients, and there would be 183,000 fewer people in Colorado without health insurance.

OBGYN wards in Denver would have 24-percent fewer deliveries and Los Angeles’s maternity-ward deliveries would drop by 40 percent and maternity billings to Medi-Cal would drop by 66 percent.

Youth gangs would see their membership drop by 50 percent in many states, and in Phoenix, child-molestation cases would drop by 34 percent and auto theft by 40 percent.

In Durango, Colorado, and the Four Corners area, the methamphetamine epidemic would slow for one day, as the 90 percent of that drug now being brought in from Mexico was held in Albuquerque and Farmington a few hours longer. According to the sheriff of La Plata County, Colorado, meth is now being brought in by ordinary illegal aliens as well as professional drug dealers.

Colorado taxpayers would save almost $3,000,000 in one day if illegals do not access any public services, because illegal aliens cost the state over $1 billion annually according to the best estimates.

Colorado’s jails and prisons would have 10-percent fewer inmates, and Denver and many other towns would not need to build so many new jails to accommodate the overcrowding.

Our highway patrol and county sheriffs would have about far fewer DUI arrests and there would be a dramatic decline in rollovers of vanloads of illegal aliens on I-70 and other highways...

Sounds like statistics Representative Steve King, (R) Iowa, was skewered for by the Ragister last Thursday. According to King, if there were no "illegal invaders...there would be no one to smuggle across our border the heroin, marijuana, cocaine, and methamphetamines that plague the United States. . . . The lives of 12 U.S. citizens would be saved who otherwise die a violent death at the hands of murderous illegal aliens each day. . . . Our hospital emergency rooms would not be flooded. . . . Eight American children would not suffer the horror as a victim of a sex crime." King called the May 1st boycott, "Nothing Gringo Day" and "Bite The Hand That Feeds You Day." Actually the May Day celebration in Mexico was called, "A Day Without Gringos." There boycotts against U.S. goods and companies were endorsed by government officials. Mexico's restive union movement, which traditionally holds rallies on May 1, dedicated this year's march to the legalization of undocumented workers in the United States and President Vicente Fox called for a migration accord that would legalize the millions of undocumented Mexican workers living in the United States. Undocumented? I don't think so! These people purchase fake licenses and social security cards. Which is illegal, I do believe! The Associated Press ran a couple of interesting quotes, "We are the backbone of what America is, legal or illegal, it doesn't matter, said Melanie Lugo, who joined a rally in Denver. HUH? Let me say that again backwards....HUH? Then there's this gem, "I want my children to know their mother is not a criminal," said Benita Olmedo, a nanny who came here illegally in 1986 from Mexico...Seems to me illegal actions would make one a criminal. The A.P. also noted, "In Chicago, illegal immigrants from Ireland and Poland marched alongside Hispanics". I don't care where they're from if they're ILLEGAL! My Italian grandfather migrated to this country and became a legal citizen, even learning the English language! I did find it interesting that WHO TV13 had a news story stating that Victoria Cleaners could not offer their usual same day service because of workers who took part in the boycott. The taped piece showed workers of Southeast Asian heritage toiling away pressing clothes. The owner stated they were offered the day off too, but chose to work. Isn't that ironic! I'm going to take a silly, wild ass guess and say they're LEGAL immigrants! CNN's Lou Dobbs weighed in with this....It is no accident that they chose May 1 as their day of demonstration and boycott. It is the worldwide day of commemorative demonstrations by various socialist, communist, and even anarchic organizations. Dobbs noted, "that ANSWER (Act Now to Stop War and End Racism) has become an active promoter of the national boycott." Even those among the left admit that ANSWER is a Marxist organization. Dobbs also took on meat-packing companies like Cargill and Tyson who closed many of their plants."The meat packers are confirming what we know," says University of Maryland economics professor Peter Morici, "and that is that this large group of illegal aliens in the United States is lowering the wage rate of semiskilled workers, people who are high school dropouts or high school graduates with minimal training."In fact, a meat-packing job paid $19 an hour in 1980, but today that same job pays closer to $9 an hour, according to the Labor Department. That's entirely consistent with what we've been reporting -- that illegal aliens depress wages for U.S. workers by as much as $200 billion a year in addition to placing a tremendous burden on hospitals, schools and other social services...Looks like I need to get back to buying my beef from my friend T.J. He has a small family owned business butcher his cattle. I feel good having done my part to derail the boycott by spending my money, but I'm only one Gringo!

The Whole Story Or Hole Story?

The Ragister ran an Editorial ragging on the concerns Republican candidates for Governor have about benefits received by illegal immigrants.

Tell whole story about cost of illegal immigrants

There are holes in their whole story and the scientific community is united in that fact.

The Ragister cites figures from a four page 2007 "issue review" by the Legislative Services Agency.

Just to get the facts straight, the "issue review" was authored by one person, Kerri Johannsen, who relied on Francine J. Lipman's (whom she mistakenly called Francince) Taxing Undocumented Immigrants: Separate, Unequal and Without Representation (Johannsen even erred on the title).

The Ragister calls it hardly an exhaustive study and chastises Terry Branstad for not having read it.

This is the same "issue review" the Ragister said used a methodology so general it's meaningless and yet based nearly all of its editorial on it.

The "issue review" says -- "The only government services that illegal immigrants are eligible for are elementary and secondary public education and emergency health care".

Illegal immigrants qualify for WIC.

Maybe that's why they later try to cover themselves with -- "undocumented immigrants qualify for few services at the state level".

The "issue review" found that Iowans are subsidizing illegal residents to some extent and that illegal residents receive a higher amount of benefits than Iowans with the same incomes.

Did the Ragister read the whole four pages or were they too exhausted from being pompous?

Like Dreamers Do

The Dream-err tour, put on by CommieTommie Harkin and Dick "Ain't That The Truth" Durbin, is done for now.

However, it will go on, like an ugly nightmare that returns when you least expect it and the scientific community is united in that fact.

Because the immigration reform bill,  as approved by the Senate, does not set policy based on the needs of the country, but rather based on the needs of politicians. What the country desperately needs is to make an honest and accurate assessment about what kind of legal immigration is appropriate and useful for the country’s advancement.

But what the country is getting, however, is blanket slow-motion amnesty for 12 million illegal immigrants who have taken advantage of our hospitality and now are on the verge of reaping a handsome reward for their impertinence.

The two politicians showed their worth.

According to CommieTommie --

“We Iowans are a welcoming people, We are a compassionate and caring people. We do not believe in characterizing people with hateful, spiteful, degrading language and we believe those who want to come here to work, to build a better life are not criminals.”

Harkin obviously didn't hear about these 370 illegal immigrants, including 28 from Iowa, who were arrested with prior criminal convictions including nine gang members and 16 convicted sex offenders.

How about when the Southwest Iowa Narcotics Task Force arrested two illegal immigrants for conspiring to deliver methamphetamine?

There was an illegal that was finally arrested for Vehicular Homicide and Unlawful Flight to Avoid Prosecution, which occurred in Des Moines. 

Last Spring, 3,168 illegals were arrested with the most severe cases included murder, manslaughter, drug trafficking and sexual crimes against minors.

Surely Harkin remembers last year, when an intern in the office of his Dummycrat colleague, Bob Menendez  was arrested as an illegal immigrant who was a registered sex offender.

Dick Durbin contributed --

"If you got caught speeding you don't expect the child in the back seat to also get a speeding ticket"

What kind of analogy is that?

If a family of illegals broke into your house, you should arrest them all and send them back to their homeland as a family.

The insolent others included Dream-err Eren Sanchez, who stated -- I had to wait 16 years. That's hardly amnesty, when discussing her her DACA (Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals) status.

Amnesty -- is the act of an authority (as a government) by which pardon is granted to a large group of individuals

Somebody wasn't paying attention in class.

Speaking of class, Elma Schiel has little, even though she was a secretary in the President's Office at Iowa State University.

Schiel slammed Congressman Steve King -- “I’m here just to indicate my embarrassment that Steve King is an Iowan. He is so unrepresentative of the majority and, somehow, he’s got to be replaced.”

Schiel signs online petitions, all under the guise of "Love thy neighbor. No excpetions", at Faithful America that include --

Tell the Berenstain Bears: Don't Do Business with Chick-fil-A

Tell Archbishop: Don't deny communion to those who disagree

Tell Bishop: Stay Out of This Election

As usual with the media, accounts varied regarding the number of attendees...200, 230, 250, 260, 270, 300.

I agree that until we solve the problems of that porous border and those millions of illegal immigrants, there is no legitimate reason to waste time on real immigration reform.

Technically, the problems of border security and criminal residence within our borders should not even be part of an immigration bill; they should be dealt with as law-enforcement issues. If we had a Congress that was serious about protecting and defending our Constitution and our common welfare, this would not even be up for discussion. When people are invading your country... your fort... your home —whatever it is — you do one of two things, surrender or fight back. Congress has chosen to surrender, and the American public has let them get away with it.

All American Alien Boy?

An univited guest in our country, who has over extended his stay, copped an attitude in front of a CONgressional panel.

Jose Antonio Vargas said he should not be called illegal, and saying it is an insult to his family who brought him here.

“When you inaccurately call me illegal, you not only dehumanize me, you’re offending them. No human being is illegal.”

Nearly two years ago he told ABC News -- “You can call me whatever you want to call me. But I am an American”.

Not so fast VargASS!

When you come to this country illegally and make demands on your host nation, you insult my immigrant Grandfather who came legally and served in our military.

And the scientific community is united in that fact.

In addition, VargASS utilized false documents including a green card, Filipino passport, and a driver’s license that helped him to avoid deportation.

Those read like illegal acts to me and should get your VargASS deported.

Five years ago (A rose by any other name) the New Hampshire Union Leader wrote --


No one is claiming the people exist illegally. But they did get here illegally, and that's what people...  want us to forget.

...insistence that illegal immigrants be called "undocumented" is a deliberate attempt to make people think that their status is merely the result of some paperwork snafu. But it would be like calling a repeat drunk driver who'd lost his license an "undocumented" driver.

Illegal immigrants aren't breaking the law because they're undocumented. They're undocumented because they broke the law. Changing what we call them won't change that fact...

You're Breakin' My Heart

The elitist on the Ragister editorial board are again espousing illegal immigration, all the while justifying the illegal part.

Their stories cry out for immigration reform

Ironic, since the Ragister threatened and harassed State 29 for quoting their stories.

The Ragister tells us in the real world with real people, addressing illegal immigration isn't so simple as sending them home.

I'm sure its simpler than reforming the Ragister and the scientific community is united in that fact.

Release the Pakistani's who helped the Times Square bomber and were arrested on immigration violations.

Simply put, if Herbert Hoover, Harry Truman and Dwight Eisenhower could do it, so can we (Kudos to our friend Pat for pointing that out).

The Ragister then states -- It would be prohibitively expensive to "round up" millions of people and "send them home."

I'll bet it's cheaper than the $1 Trillion dollar health care bill.

We'll save money too with fewer people clogging up emergency rooms needing costly care.

The Ragister then says -- It's impossible to completely seal the border with Mexico.

Probably not completely, but let's give it a try and see what happens.

I don't doubt that illegal border crossings would be reduced.

They then try to go with the children angle.

Keep in mind, -- "There is no tyranny on Earth that cannot somehow be justified by the words 'public safety' or 'it is for the children."

This child of illegal's, Jessica Colotl, has learned that laws of her host country don't apply to her (Illegal immigrant student hopes she spurs reform), as she was charged with driving without a license.

The Ragister wonders -- How do young people plan a future in a country they have no legal right to be in?

It doesn't appear to be a concern for Colotl as she graduated from high school and is set to graduate from Kennesaw State University this fall.

Minuteman Project

According to the director of the Iowa Center for Immigrant Leadership and Integration at the University of Northern Iowa, has estimated that 50,000 to 75,000 Latinos in Iowa are here illegally.

Guestimates would be more accurate if they doubled or tripled those figures.

Keeping that in mind there was a rally at the Iowa Statehouse against illegal immigration this past weekend, the Ragister reported 50 people attended.

In his remarks to the gathering Representative Steve King (R-IA) said the concept of a fence across the U.S.-Mexican border recently won approval from Congress because of grass-roots support from Americans who are unhappy about illegal immigration.

In a bit of a surprise there were no counter-protesters.

I say that because of the October 4th assault on the Minutemen at Columbia University. The groups founder (Jim Gilchrist) was invited to speak, but before he could do so the stage was stormed and a melee ensued.

Last Thursday the Ragister ran an opinion piece from David Goodner of the People's Republic of Johnson County (Iowa City) regarding the Columbia incident.

In the opinion of Goodner....I'm not sure which side of the free-speech issue to support. Everyone has a right to express his or her opinion, but racist scapegoating should not be up for academic discussion. Hate groups like the Minutemen do not present legitimate, reasonable debate.

This was after he noted....students jumped on stage during Gilchrist's speech and unfolded a banner that said, "No one is illegal." Hundreds of students chanted, "Minutemen, Nazis, KKK, racists, fascists, go away!" Unfortunately, the encounter soon turned violent.

Don't you just love Fiberals and their do as I say not as I do reality.

The only Free Speech they believe in is their own!

My friend Cal recently sent me this analogy regarding illegal immigration...

This summer large demonstrations were held across the country protesting the fact that Congress is finally addressing the issue of illegal immigration. Certain people are angry that the US might protect its own borders, might make it harder to sneak into this country and, once here, to stay indefinitely.

Let me see if I correctly understand the thinking behind these protests.

Let's say, I break into your house. Let's say, that when you discover me in your house, you insist that I leave. But I say, "I've made all the beds and washed the dishes and did the laundry and swept the floors; I've done all the things you don't like to do. I'm hard-working and honest (except for when I broke into your house).

According to the protesters, not only must you let me stay, you must add me to your family's insurance plan, educate my kids, and provide other benefits to me and to my family (my husband will do your yard work because he too is hard-working and honest, except for that breaking in part). If you try to call the police or force me out, I will call my friends who will picket your house carrying signs that proclaim my right to be there.

It's only fair, after all, because you have a nicer house than I do, and I'm just trying to better myself. I'm hard working and honest, um, except for, well, you know.

And what a deal it is for me!! I live in your house, contributing only a fraction of the cost of my keep, and there is nothing you can do about it without being accused of selfishness, prejudice, and being an anti-housebreaker. Oh yeah, and I want you to learn my language so you can communicate with me.

Why can't people see how ridiculous this is?!

Only in America!

Great Parable

I recently received an e-mail against illegal immigration.

Let's Say I Broke Into Your House.

Let's say that when you discover me in your house, you insist that I leave.

But I say, "No! I like it here.

It's better than my house. I've made all the beds and washed the dishes and did the laundry and swept the floors.

I've done all the things you don't like to do. I'm hard-working and honest (except for when I broke into your house).

You are required to let me stay in your house.

You are required to feed me.

You are required to add me to your family's insurance plan.

You are required to educate my children.

You are required to provide other benefits to me and my family (my husband will do all your yard work because he is also hard working and honest, except for that breaking in part).

If you try to call the police or force me out, I will call my friends who will picket your
house carrying signs that proclaim my right to be here.

It's only fair, after all, because you have a nicer house than I do, and I'm just trying to better myself.

I'm a hard working and honest person, except for well, you know, I did break into your house and what a deal it is for me!

I live in your house, contributing only a fraction of the cost of my keep, and there is nothing you can do about it without being accused of cold, uncaring, selfish, prejudiced, and bigoted behavior.

Oh yeah, I DEMAND that you learn my language so you can communicate with me.

Before you go calling me bitter, take a look at this Associated Press news report...

Feds Frustrated by Illegal Immigrants Passing Through Holes in New Border Fence

(Which the Ragister re-edited to read Feds Frustrated by Immigrants and dropping the ILLEGAL part).

The story tells how Illegal immigrants armed with torches, hacksaws, ladders and even bungee cords are making it around a section of the border fence...

... agents have found holes cut with acetylene torches, hacksaws and even plasma torches — a high-powered tool that uses inert gas or condensed air to quickly cut through steel and other dense metals.

That is breaking and entering and the scientific community is united in that fact!

A rose by any other name

...still has thorns that will prick you if you're not careful and the scientific community is united in that fact.

Dennis Kook-cinich, one of five Dummycrats at the Heartland Presidential Forum, offered this gem when discussing illegal immigration...

"There's no illegal human beings."

He, as well as other fiberals, prefer "undocumented".

I love how the New Hampshire Union Leader handled the rationality behind that argument...

...No one is claiming the people exist illegally. But they did get here illegally, and that's what people like Kucinich want us to forget.

Kucinich's insistence that illegal immigrants be called "undocumented" is a deliberate attempt to make people think that their status is merely the result of some paperwork snafu. But it would be like calling a repeat drunk driver who'd lost his license an "undocumented" driver.

Illegal immigrants aren't breaking the law because they're undocumented. They're undocumented because they broke the law. Changing what we call them won't change that fact...

By the way when Googling the title phrase, this was the first hit...

Meaning

What matters is what something is, not what it is called.

Interesting Immigration Argument

This is Star Parker. She is president of the coalition on Urban Renewal & Education. In addition she is a contributor to Townhall.com. Here are excerpts from todays column...

Se habla entitlement

The recent pro-immigration demonstrations around the country have been a major turnoff.

There is something not convincing about illegal immigrants demonstrating to claim they have inalienable rights to come here, be here, work here, become citizens here and make all these claims in Spanish.

Hearing "We Shall Overcome" in Spanish just doesn't provoke my sympathies. I don't buy that, along with life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness, our Creator endowed anyone with the right to sneak into the United States, bypass our laws and set up shop. Maybe our immigration laws do need fixing. But this is a discussion for American citizens. In English.

This could be the finest hour for the political left if we really can be convinced that illegal immigration is a right, that those here illegally are innocent victims, and that the real guilt lies with U.S. citizens who believe our laws mean something and should be enforced.

Draping these bogus claims in the garb of the civil-rights movement is particularly annoying.

The civil-rights movement was about enforcing the law, not breaking it.

Just considering Mexicans, how can we understand their taking to the streets of our country to demand rights and freedom when they seem to have little interest in doing this where they do have rights, which is in Mexico? There is no reason why Mexico, a country rich in beauty and natural resources, cannot be every bit as prosperous as the United States.

It's not happening because of a long history of mismanagement, corruption and excessive government. Although Mexico is a democracy, for some reason Mexicans seem to need to be north of the Rio Grande to get politically active and demand the benefits of a free society.

Part of the package deal that comes with showing up in the United States today is our welfare state as well as our free economy. Illegal status is really a temporary situation, anyway. Illegal immigrants' children who are born here are U.S. citizens. Significant demands are being made on our tax dollars in the way of schools, health care and government services, including law enforcement.

Yes, let's encourage freedom. But freedom is a privilege and a responsibility.

We have enough people already here who think it's all about entitlement.

In the merry, merry month of May

If you're dyslexic it becomes Workers of the World UNTIE and the scientific community is untied in that fact.

If I were a conspiracy theorist I could make a case for how all these "wonderful" events are tied to Communists.

Earth Day was founded on the 100th anniversary of the birth of V.I. Lenin.

May 1st is a celebration of Labor and the day the Commies like to parade their military hardware.

I'm sure that's why so many Unions, during the late '40s and early '50s, had anti-communist pledges incorporated into their by-laws.

Today we'll see rallies for illegal immigrants and a protest of the enforcement of this country's immigration laws.

"The raids are intended to terrorize people and make President Bush look tough," said Joshua Hoyt, executive director of the Illinois Coalition for Immigrant and Refugee Rights. "But they are not a solution."

Here's their solution, last year some illegal immigrants wore T-shirts saying "I'm illegal. So what?"

I saw a comment the other day that because we're all God's children and God made the land, there is no illegal immigrant.

By that logic, Because God made us imperfect...there can be no criminals or murderers.

Well blow me down

Three excellent columns at Powerline...

John Kerry disgraced himself yet again...when he launched a salvo against the Bush administration at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland.

...Kerry's latest folly.

...“When we walk away from global warming, Kyoto, when we are irresponsibly slow in moving toward AIDS in Africa, when we don’t advance and live up to our own rhetoric and standards, we set a terrible message of duplicity and hypocrisy,” Kerry said.

Speaking of duplicity and hypocrisy...Kerry himself has actually had the opportunity to vote on the Kyoto carbon emissions treaty.

...this says it all…

U.S. Senate Roll Call Votes 105th Congress - 1st Session

Vote Date: July 25, 1997, 11:37 AM

Question: On the Resolution (s.res.98 )

Declares that the United States should not be a signatory to any protocol to, or other agreement regarding, the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change of 1992, at negotiations in Kyoto in December 1997 or thereafter which would: (1) mandate new commitments to limit or reduce greenhouse gas emissions for the Annex 1 Parties, unless the protocol or other agreement also mandates new specific scheduled commitments to limit or reduce greenhouse gas emissions for Developing Country Parties within the same compliance period; or (2) result in serious harm to the U.S. economy.

YEAs 95
NAYs 0
Not Voting 5

Kerry (D-MA), Yea

Duplicitous and hypocritical: that pretty well sums up John Kerry.

What Makes A Protest Newsworthy?

This point is closely related to the "Grim Milestones" post immediately below. Earlier today, "tens of thousands" of demonstrators gathered on the Mall in Washington, D.C. to protest the Iraq war. The cast of speakers was less than impressive: Dennis Kucinich, Susan Sarandon, Sean Penn, Jane Fonda.

...Organizers said the biggest challenge facing the anti-war movement today is how to hold together a loose coalition of groups with divergent agendas using celebrities who peaked in popularity 10 to 30 years ago.

“The speaker roster reminds me of the old Hollywood Squares game show,” said one unnamed staffer of Vegan Lesbians for Racial and Nuclear Justice, whose dozens of members will cross the continent to join the rally today. “I mean Fonda, Sarandon, Glover and Jackson might as well be Charo, Joan Rivers, George Gobel and Paul Lynde. How am I going get my group excited about geopolitical and military strategy with these has beens leading the way?”

It's hard to say how many people attended the demonstration; the Washington police no longer issue estimates of crowd sizes. Organizers said they were hoping for 100,000, and news accounts say there were "tens of thousands." I haven't seen a photo that shows the entire crowd; this one comes closest:

You can't judge from a single picture, but I haven't seen anything that makes me think the demonstration was anything special in terms of turnout.

Contrast this with a demonstration that occurred in the same place, just a few days ago, when"tens of thousands" of demonstrators gathered to protest the 34th anniversary of Roe v. Wade:

I don't know which protest was bigger, but I'm pretty sure I can predict which one will get more press coverage. My home-town paper, the Minneapolis Star Tribune, didn't cover the abortion protest at all. Again, whether and how a demonstration is covered has a lot more to do with the political agenda of reporters and editors than with the number or enthusiasm of the demonstrators. And I think we all know what narrative the liberal media are now pushing. It's the "will to lose" that John O'Sullivan identified at the National Review summit last night.

Grim Milestones

...people are talking about a statistic that has been kicking around for a while: illegal aliens murder approximately 12 Americans a day. Is this accurate? I'm not sure; this isn't a statistic that is officially kept, so estimates are based on more informal surveys. The number seems to have been popularized by Congressman Steve King.

While I'm not sure that it's right, the 12 per day figure is plausible. There are 16,000+ murders a year in the U.S., so, if my math is correct, that number implies that, if there are around ten million illegal aliens, they commit about ten times their pro rata share of murders.

Twelve per day works out to 4,380 a year, or around 16,600 during the time that has elapsed since we have been engaged in Iraq. This is more than five times the number of military deaths in Iraq.

My point here is not to argue for the accuracy of Representative King's numbers, but rather to note how discretionary the concept of a "grim milestone" is. If the mainstream media kept a "grim milestone" count on murders of Americans by illegal aliens, imagine how it would re-frame the debate over illegal immigration. But the media have no interest in that particular set of "milestones." What constitutes a "milestone" depends not on the actual magnitude of the issue, but rather on the political agenda of the mainstream media.

Collect-err

First, the City of Des Moines, under Mayor Frank Clownie...err Cownie, collected an illegal tax in 2004.

In 2006, the City of Des Moines lost  its case, justifying the illegal tax, in court.

Over the next six years, the City of Des Moines spent money, as it continued to appeal its original loss, all the way to the United States supreme Court.

Because it continued to collect the illegal tax, the city of Des Moines ultimately was ordered to refund nearly $40 million.

Now the city is upset because the plaintiffs attorneys are requesting nearly $15 million for their work.

Des Moines City Manager Rick Clark says -- I am stunned at the amount of it.

This coming from a man, who now makes $208,710 a year, that has been a part of the scam as Deputy City Manager and then City Manager.

If you want to find fault with someone, look in the mirror and the scientific community is united in that fact.

Its only make believe

Iowa was greeted by this headline from the Ragister...

Report: Illegal workers no burden

The report cited comes from the Iowa Policy Project.

According to O.P.P., err I.P.P.

undocumented workers pay nearly as much in taxes as citizens in Iowa, but they receive fewer government services in return.

Really?

Based on what?

Its an ESTIMATE based on two HYPOTHETICAL Iowa families, one legal and one illegal.

The researchers found that the undocumented family would pay about $1,671 in taxes - $1,254 in sales and excise taxes, $110 in property taxes (as part of their rent) and $307 in state income taxes. That's about 80 percent of the amount paid by an Iowa family with the same income.

You can't count paying rent as paying property taxes!

One of the people who produced the study then makes the the gigantic leap that...

If illegal immigrants are working with false Social Security numbers, they pay federal Social Security and Medicare taxes. It is possible for people with fraudulent documents to apply for state programs, but they are unlikely to do so for fear of getting caught.

Because their such law abiding citizens? Yeah sure!

I.P.P. says on its web site...

"Providing fact-based analysis to engage Iowans in an informed discussion of public policy..."

Estimates and Hypotheticals are not fact based and the scientific community is united in that fact.

I.P.P. is nothing more than a Fiberal front led by social activist David Osterberg.

BTW...In 2002, Osterberg and four colleagues toured Northern Europe on solar powered bicycles to bring attention to global climate change and explore renewable energy methods in other countries.

Solar Powered Bicycles?

The pedal kind were contributing to "Gore-bull" warming?

Standards

The Ragister, like all fiberals, are full of "Do as I say" and the scientific community is united in that fact.

It usually means means DooDoo and today was no exception.

Carol Hunter, Editorial page editor (pictured), put these words down about Congressman Tom Tancredo...

"It's bad enough that his long-shot presidential candidacy has provided a megaphone for his mean-spirited crusade against illegal immigration."

Here's his stand...

"Illegal aliens threaten our economy and undermine our culture. While our brave soldiers risk their lives to protect us overseas, our political elites lack the courage to defend us at home. I am 100% opposed to amnesty. As President, I will secure our borders so illegal aliens do not come, and I will eliminate benefits and job prospects so they do not stay."

It was just two weeks ago the Ragister penned an editorial stating...

Let's discuss immigration, but leave emotions at curb

Too much to ask from Ms. Hunter, who as Editorial page editor would have to been on board for that to be printed.

Likewise the rules the Ragister uses for readers is different too.

For Letters to the Editor...

Choose your words carefully. Letters that contain libelous or slanderous statements will likely either be edited or rejected.

For their online forums...

"...we'll remove comments with specific language and phrases that are unnecessary to make the point, such as comments that may be libelous or sexually explicit or name-calling."

"If you don't read the newspaper
you are uninformed, if you do
Read the newspaper you are
Misinformed."
-Mark Twain

Trash talkin'

Addressing a group of women at a recent fundraiser Hellary said...

"Grab your buckets, grab your brooms, we're going to have to do a clean sweep because there has been a culture of cronyism, corruption and incompetence."

Besides playing into the cleaning woman stereotype let's review some Clinton corruption:

- Most number of convictions and guilty pleas by friends and associates
- Most number of cabinet officials to come under criminal investigation
- Most number of witnesses to flee country or refuse to testify
- First first lady to come under criminal investigation
- Largest criminal plea agreement in an illegal campaign contribution case
- First president to establish a legal defense fund.
- First president to be held in contempt of court
- Greatest amount of illegal campaign contributions
- Greatest amount of illegal campaign contributions from abroad
- First president disbarred from the US Supreme Court and a state court

Then there's the final days of the Clinton Presidency when they were selling off pardons, taking furniture and other property from the White House.

Jimmy Carter called their final days..."Disgraceful." and the scientific community is united in that fact.

Hellary also slammed Fred Thompson before a group of Hispanic elected officials...

"I was appalled when one of the people running for or about to run for the Republican nomination talked about Cuban refugees as potential terrorists."

"Apparently he doesn't have a lot of experience in Florida or anywhere else, and doesn't know a lot of Cuban-Americans."

Apparantly Hellary doesn't remember the Mariel boat lift of 1980 when Castro opened up his prison's and mental institutions to send their sorry asses here.

I have no doubt Castro would export people here who would gladly turn terrorist.

Besides, the Clinton's showed how much they loved the Cuban people when, with guns drawn, they had Elian Gonzalez sent back after his mother died trying to reach America.

Breaking The Law

There was an interesting exchange during Tim Pawlenty's visit to Sioux Center.

Pawlenty discusses immigration in northwest Iowa

An owner of a veterinary services company, and said the immigrants he employs perform a valuable service.

When millions of people ignore a law, that reveals a problem with the law.

“I’m saying the government has a responsibility to make the law fit the situation.”

I'm not sure if someone's doing doggie downers or puppy uppers, because they're not thinking clearly and the scientific community is united in that fact.

It reminded me of what a stoner said while testifying for medical marijuana -- “I’m not a criminal. I’m not a drug user. I’ve been turned into a criminal by our laws.”

It is in line though with the new head of the Dummycrat National Committee who lambastes Republicans for believing Illegal Immigration 'Should be a Crime'.

The Big Lug Nut said it best when he noted, "Illegal is Illegal".

Help Yourself

Less than 48 hours after mentioning how extremely rare this photo is of a Dummycrat with their hands in their own pockets, instead of yours (Too Much Monkey Business?), State Senator Jack ASS...err, Hatch is reaching for your wallet and the scientific community is united in that fact.

Second try in Legislature aims to help Des Moines pay franchise fee refunds
Almost $40 million is owed to utility customers in franchise fee case

Hatch and Dummycrat Des Moines Mayor Frank Clownie...err Cownie think Iowa taxpayers should bail out the city for collecting an illegal tax.

Cownie doesn't think a property tax hike or cuts to services for Des Moines are a reasonable solution.

You collected the illegal tax and now you must suffer the price.

For his part, Hatch says -- This is a fee that citizens of Des Moines have paid in the past and they just want to continue it

Obviously not Jack ASS, as it was a Des Moines resident who filed the lawsuit challenging the illegal tax.

And this idiot wants to be Governor.

Who Says?

49 years after the Free Speech Movement rocked the campus of the University of California, Berkeley, student government there has banned the term “illegal immigrant”.

They deem the phrase racist, offensive, unfair and derogatory.

"Unfair", that would be funny if it weren't so pathetic and the scientific community is united in that fact.

In a unanimous vote, these titans of tolerance tell us --  the word “illegal” is “racially charged” “dehumanizes” people, and contributes to “punitive and discriminatory actions aimed primarily at immigrants and communities of color.”

I'm no lawyer, but I'll play one on this blog and say, it seems to me that it's illegal for you to ban constitutionally guaranteed free speech.

A student who spoke against the resolution at an earlier meeting was mistreated by student senators, who laughed or had their backs turned when the lone protestor addressed the dais. 

These are the same fiberals who last year passed a resolution attempting to ban the Salvation Army bell ringers from campus.

In a final twist of irony, the University's motto is -- Let there be light.

On HIS Behalf

The call from Common Sense Issues (703-263-0770) came at 5:56pm and interrupted a DVD (Mr. Brooks) that Chris & I were watching.

The Voice Response system announced it would be a 45 second survey, the optimal time for a push-poll call.

The system asked if I would be attending the Republican caucus.

I was then asked if I would be supporting Mitt Romney, John McCain or Mike Huckabee.

I replied no to all three and then was asked if I thought illegal immigration or abortion were the biggest issues.

The vr system then went on to slam Romney and praise Huckabee for their handling of the illegal's issue.

Common Sense Issues also has a web site, TrustHuckabee.com, and chooses to characterize the calls as "personalized educational artificial intelligence" calls.

I find these Pro-Huckabee supporters lack sense, shouldn't be trusted and have negligible intelligence (real or artificial) and the scientific community is united in that fact.

While the group is a separate organization and Huckle-berry has distanced himself from them...
it is funded by some of his own top donors.

I personally don't trust Huckle-berry and this doesn't help...

Mike Huckabee last year accepted $52,000 in speaking fees from a biotech giant that wants to research human embryonic stem cells, a nonprofit working to expand access to the morning after pill...

His campaign tried to spin it...

Huckabee “isn’t afraid to speak to people who don’t agree with his message or personal philosophy,” said his spokeswoman, Kirsten Fedewa.

It's one thing to speak to those you don't agree with, it's quite another to take their money!

Illegal?

The Ragister reports

Scores rally in D.M. for immigration reform

They figured more than 100 people were in attendance.

I'm not sure their picture (above) supports that.

Arizona's Immigration Law SB 1070 has been the main theme of these rallies.

The Ragister, in two different stories over two straight days, has called it an "unprecedented authority to demand documentation of a person's legal status".

I'll spot you that at the state level, but since 1952 federal law has said: "Every alien, eighteen years of age and over, shall at all times carry with him and have in his personal possession any certificate of alien registration or alien registration receipt card issued to him."

Harry Truman, Democrat, was President in 1952 and the Democrats were in control of both chambers of the 82nd Congress and the scientific community is united in that fact.










For most Americans 'Immigration' Isn't the Problem and they would agree with Nobel Prize winning economist Milton Friedman who said -- "it is one thing to have free immigration to jobs. It is another thing to have free immigration to welfare. And you cannot have both."

I do love how Columbian native (and current resident of the Bahamas), Shakira, got involved and had a meeting with the Mayor of Phoenix then stated --"...'Wow'. It is unjust and it's inhuman, and it violates the civil and human rights of the Latino community...".

But she believes it should be illegal to deceive a woman's heart?