Step Up and Meet Henry A: Purveyor of Fine Racist Bile

Many years ago, in my hardhat-wearing days, I had the opportunity to meet one of the finest examples of a hate-mongering minority racist. I was glad to have met him, even though an hour of talking to him was like a year in some kind of intellectual Hell. I was glad because I learned things from him that more taciturn and thoughtful minority racists would never say to a WASPy blue-eyed devil such as me. He was not my usual partner, but because we usually worked in isolated two-man teams and I worked for that company for six years, I can honestly say that I had to spend literally weeks of my life with the man. He would often be friendly, but stated explicitly that we weren’t friends and that he held my race, my culture, my nation, and my religion in the utmost contempt.

I’ll just shorten his name to Henry A.

Henry was a Mexican, not a Mexican-American, by his own declared convictions. As deplorable as all good Americans find the dreaded hyphenated American, Henry was worse. He didn’t want the good name of Mexico sullied in such an association. Even though his family had lived in the US for generations.

Henry had an ex-wife he liked to badmouth. She was a black woman of similar attitude and they produced one child who looked just like the curly-headed kid in the old Oscar Meyer commercials (“My bologna has a first name…..”) After a session of particularly vitriolic denunciations of her, I asked him how the hell two such incompatible people had ever gotten together in the first place. He looked at me as if I had lost my mind and told me they had plenty in common. Naturally, I asked what, to which he replied condescendingly, “We both hate white people.” Of course, if I applied that logic to my life my dating pool would be restricted to the Aryan Nations or some such unsavory racist groups. Logic was not Henry’s strong suit, and he considered consistency to be a tool of white oppression.

Even I, however, never fully grasped the depths of illogic and unreason that lurk in the minority racist’s mind and soul until Henry showed them to me. One day Henry was “treating” me to a diatribe about the injustice of American society that compelled him to live an impoverished lifestyle in the scummiest part of town. Then, to my shock and horror, he invoked me as an exemplar of that injustice. Of course, I demanded to know what he based that on. My offense, as it turns out was that I owned my own home (and I had since I was 19), lived in a good neighborhood by the river and the biggest park in town, and worst of all I drove a new car. Henry, on the other hand lived in the slummiest neighborhood in town with a sky-high crime rate, few amenities, and he drove a 10-year old car. Since we both worked the same job at the same rate of pay for the same number of hours and lived such disparate lifestyles, he proclaimed that disparity as ironclad proof of the viciously unfair nature of American society.

I probably just should have pointed out that dozens of Latinos at the company lived as well or better than I did and dropped the issue. But no, I had to try to help the guy out. It was obvious to me; Henry had no clue about the real reason that he was poor. So I started asking him questions.

I asked him if he and his woman drank, then smoked cigarettes, then snuff, then smoked marijuana, used other drugs, and if they gambled. All of which questions were answered in the affirmative along with angry demands to know why the questions were relevant. Henry daily drank beer, tequila, and whiskey. He smoked multiple packs of cigarettes a day and “dipped” snuff as well. He and his wife smoke numerous ounces of marijuana per week, along with other drugs as availability permitted. He also enjoy losing a few bucks at the card table.

I had Henry right where I wanted him, I thought. I was sure my logic would show him the error of his ways and he would either change, or at least stop being such an insufferable bigot. I questioned him about the price associated with each of his “hobbies” and he reluctantly gave them to me. When he was done, I added them all up and came up with a figure I was certain would prove my point. The combined costs of his and his woman’s vices alone were higher than my first and second mortgages, car payments, all utilities, and food and gas costs—combined. I happily announced that he could live as well as I did in my neighborhood if he quite drinking, doping, smoking, dipping, and gambling as I had done. What did I get for my efforts? The following statement:

“That’s just like you peckerwoods. Always trying to tell us people of color how to live.”

Naturally, Henry doesn’t speak for his entire demographic group. Doubtless, not even the majority of it. But he does hold and speak the thoughts of millions of people that live in this country. It is bad enough when we have people who can’t understand that having your cake and eating it too are mutually exclusive. It is worse when we have people like Henry who believe, and demand, that he have his cake and eat it too. Also, that you make the cake, deliver it to him, feed it to him, and then apologize because the cake wasn’t chocolate. My point? Once again it is simply this:

I’ve put forward this example, and will put forth others, to illustrate that America’s false reverence for compromise and accomodation need to end. Certainly we should try to come to a mutually beneficial agreement (not compromise or appeasement) whenever possible. If, however, it isn’t possible then you must strive to win the conflict, or you’re an idiot. Six years of reasoning with Henry A. never availed me of anything, except unnecessary stress. In the end, his heart and mind were as rotten with hate as when I started. Henry A., and others of his ilk, can only be beaten. If we don’t fight them now, we’ll be obeying them later.

Just for the Record

Just for the record. If the Obamessiah does win the presidency, I predict a decades-old position of mine will be disproven. For over 30 years I have confidently stated that there will never be a worse president that Jimmy Carter. I expect Jimmy will be bumped to 2nd place all too soon unless Obama can be put on a short leash like Clinton was when the Democrats lost control of Congress in 1994.

The Memo Writers’s Observations on Life #2

Students at the Michael Moore Elementary School proudly display their winning entry in the Independence Day banner contest. By the way, God created dirty words so liberals wouldn’t be mute.

1. People shouldn’t drink and vote.
2. Voting for Democrats is nothing to be ashamed of, as long as you do it in the dark and wash your hands afterwards. (Apologies to Robert A. Heinlein.)
3. To liberals it will always be 1969.
4. Fifty-year-old men shouldn’t wear pony-tails.
5. Public schools have turned into giant under-staffed day care centers.
6. Left-wingers keep shrieking the same old tired talking points for the same reason that skydivers keep yanking on the ripcord of a parachute that has failed to open.
7. Why aren’t more open-border proponents studying Spanish and Arabic? They’re going to need it.
8. Liberals deeply resent the religionization of Christmas.
9. Feminists hate women.
10. Children don’t want freedom as much as they want parents.
11. Liberals think failure is a virtue.
12. Real life lesbians don’t look like the ones in the movies.
13. Most university professors have lost their key to the clue locker.
14. The concept of an objective reality makes liberals wake up screaming at night.
15. The French still think they’re significant.

Who Is Dumber, Charlie Rangel or the People Who Keep Electing Him?

I just tortured myself with 4:22 of Charlie Rangel positing, in typical leftist fashion, that the only solution to a problem is much more of the problem. In this case, illegal immigration. Charlie states, literally and explicitly mind you, that the “bad guys” in the immigration issue are the border sheriffs trying to enforce the law. These folks, Rangel says, arrest people purely for the purpose of getting on TV.

Rangel further compares the status of illegal immigrants to slavery, naturally. Most likely because he doesn’t know any other analogies. He claims that opposing illegal aliens is like wanting to get rid of all the slaves and still benefit from the work that they do. I think a better analogy would be a liberal who cooked and ate the goose that laid the golden eggs because he didn’t feel like going to the store—and then threw a tantrum when it wouldn’t lay golden eggs any more.

I’m starting to think that universal suffrage was an idea whose time didn’t come.

Left-Wing Wasteland

Because it’s time for another song parody. I would actually record these but the only musicians I’m friends with are Left-wingers.

sung to the tune of Baba O’Reilly

Left-Wing Wasteland

Out here on the streets
After Left-wing conceits
We push our cars to keep them moving
But we’ve got no rights
Humanity’s a blight
If we’re gone, the Earth’s improving

Don’t whine
Don’t waste your time
Finally, Left-wing wasteland

Daughter, take my hand
Let’s run while we can
Don’t look behind
It’s just Atlas Shrugging
Now the Ummah is here
Children tremble in fear
The Chosen Ones are raging
Our girls’ hopes are ending

Left-wing wasteland
It’s just a Left-wing wasteland
A Left-wing wasteland

Citizens and Starship Troopers

Recently a memory popped into my head and I felt compelled to write about it. It’s the sort of thing that will probably earn me friends and enemies in equal measure. I was busy letting the border situation and amnesty nonsense burn a hole in my stomach lining when the memory of reading a certain book popped into my head. Perhaps it was the rose petal strewn “Path to Citizenship” proposed by the professional dullards of the Left.

The book was Robert A. Heinlein’s “Starship Troopers” and I stumbled across it in the school library when I was 15. It was a pivotal moment in my life and affected a great change in my thinking and beliefs. I devoured the book and was delighted to find a chunk of common sense in a world seemingly devoid of it in 1975. Though the effect on me lingered, the memory of the book itself faded over time. I was occasionally reminded of it from time to time. But mostly it was lost in the deep caverns of my mind.

When I was 25 it popped up again in a Mainstream Media article I was reading and was referred to as, “the highly controversial Starship Troopers.” I was totally surprised that there could be any controversy so I asked fellow science fiction people about it. Many of them were hostile to it as well.

A little research and I learned it had been roundly condemned as Fascist propaganda, among other things. The society it described was very disciplined and had a common social order. The society was pro-military, pro-business, and pro- just about everything a conservative or libertarian believes in.

But the main sticking point was that citizenship was not automatic. Citizenship had to be earned through personal achievement or public service, frequently military service, and we all know how the Left feels about that. Non-citizens were guaranteed specified rights, but could not vote. To be citizens, one had to have something invested in their nation, be it time, money, blood, sweat, or tears.

Ever since I was 15 I have thought that idea had a great deal of merit, and not just because I’m a military veteran. It has been noted that in a democracy, the plebes will “vote themselves bread and circuses” till there is none left. Most of the immigrants I’ve meet, no matter how nice they were, firmly believe in the “zero-sum” theory of wealth, including even those from English speaking countries. They want their slice of the pie and will vote for whoever will slice it for them.

My point is that automatic citizenship, even for the native-born, has its downside. Though I’m not sure that policy should be changed. What I do know is that a blanket amnesty would create a huge mob of voters all clamoring for their piece of pie and with no concept of wealth creation and capital accumulation. We wound up with a semi-socialist government during the Red Decade of the 30s, and we are still trying to slough off that drag on the nation. Uncontrolled immigration, blanket amnesties, and vote for illegals would result in an even “redder” decade, or longer.

If I was calling the shots, I would end automatic citizenship under certain conditions, as well as dual citizenship. Automatic citizenship could only be conferred if both your parents are native or naturalized. If either parent was a foreign national or an illegal, citizenship could not be conferred at birth. If I could push it through I would insist on some kind of service to the country as a token of loyalty by those who didn’t qualify for automatic citizenship.

Legalize Crime!

Memorandum

From: Memo Writer
Topic: Eliminating Crime with Amnesty Programs

Abstract: The Illegal Immigration advocate have finally convinced management of the wisdom of blanket amnesties. We must admit that we can’t understand why we never saw the wisdom of getting rid of 12 to 20 million law breakers, just by waving a magic wand and saying, “abracadabra, you’re legal,” and giving the former lawbreakers a spiffy new name. After due reflection management thinks we can apply this principle to all crime and eliminate it everywhere, forever. To this end, management submits the following suggestion:

Item 1:
Old Name: Murderer
New Name: Afterlife Facilitator

Item 2:
Old Name: Rapist
New Name: Rough Sex Specialist

Item 3:
Old Name: Pedophile
New Name: Nomadic Sex Instructor

Item 4:
Old Name: Carjacker
New Name:Vehicle Performance Spotchecker

Item5:
Old Name: Drug Dealer
New Name: Freelance Pharmacist

Item 6:
Old Name: Tax Evader
New Name: Tax Evader (There’s got to be limits!)

Item 7:
Old Name: Traitor
New Name: Multiple-loyalty Citizen

Item 8:
Old Name: Embezzler
New Name: Alternative Finance Technician

Item 9:
Old Name: Kidnapper
New Name: High-initiative Travel Agent

Item 10:
Old Name: Fugitive
New Name: Jurisdiction Connoisseur

Modular Culture

I read a post on monoculturalism once upon a time. Naturally I forgot to mark it and can’t remember where I found it, so I’m cheating someone out of a link. I found it an intriguing term since I had never heard it before. The link referred to an increasing rejection of multiculturalism, something that all good Americans hate. It reminded me of a concept of mine that I’ve intended to post about for a long time, modular culture.I not sure we’ve ever had a true monoculture, and if we ever did we definitely don’t have one now, and it’s unlikely to ever return. I have for years believed that American Culture is not one monolithic whole, that in fact it is compartmentalized into a hierarchy of “modules”. I DO believe that there is a core culture that every American needs to understand and be able to function in. Past that, however, there are so many different flavors of American life that one could never know them all.

If I had been motivated enough I might have made this my life’s work and published brilliant research papers on the topic, but I’ve had bigger fish to fry. The gist of my theory is that past the core culture there can be any number of sub-modules attached to it, and others attached to those. As long as those subordinate modules conform to the values outlined in the higher order modules we’ll all be OK. For instance, your Satanic Cult module won’t fly if you do human sacrifices. That would be a gross violation of American core culture. An extreme example, no doubt, but it does make my point.

If a certain module isn’t for you, another will be. The “vampire chic” and team sports modules absolutely baffle me. My renaissance faire and old muscle car modules might baffle you. The important thing is that these harm no one and can co-exist. Certain groups that have been getting a lot of attention lately believe that shouldn’t be allowed to drink, eat bacon, or let women wear bikinis (by itself proof of their insanity). However, they are allowed to kill all the people they want. Another gross violation of American core culture. If you can’t wrap your head around the idea of not killing people who disagree with you then you shouldn’t be allowed to come here. If you’re already here, get the hell out. Have a nice day.

Hispano-Fascism

The Hispano-Fascist Flag

Things have been slow here in the blogosphere, so I took the time to do some reading up on all things immigration. I spent hours on it in fact. I checked out the American Patrol Report and spent some time cruising MEChA’s web site. My reading took me from one extreme to the other, from laughter at the lunacy of their positions to gut-wrenching concern that so many people believe the tripe they’re spewing.

My calling them Hispano-Fascists isn’t just a ploy to annoy them or make them angry. They generate plenty of those emotions on their own. No, I call them that because the hatred and bile that spews out of their mouths reminds me ever so much of the words of other fascists from the past. I’m certain of one thing if nothing else. If it walks like a fascist, talks like a fascist, thinks like a fascist, and acts like a fascist, then it’s a damn fascist!

I’ve always subscribed to the theory that as soon as someone in a debate compares his opponent to Hitler or the Nazis, he or she just lost the debate. Very rarely is the comparison legitimate. Usually, it’s just a rhetorical technique to inflame someone else’s passion. But in the case of the deluded Reconquistas and certifiable psycho MEChA sociopaths, the comparison is dead-on.

The blather about the bronze race and the people of the sun invading and occupying my little piece of the country in order to fill out their inevitable destiny. That sounds an awful lot like invading Poland to get a little “living room” for the “master race” on the way to creating the world-encompassing German order. I say if the swastika fits, they should wear it.

I think that the invaders are getting a little bit too cocky for their own good. Just because our government doesn’t see any need to protect us and keep us sovereign, it doesn’t mean that we’ll just stand by while it happens. I fear the pussies in our government will let this continue until the rank and file citizens have no choice but to act on their own. I don’t know about you folks, but there is no way in hell I’m going to live as a second-class citizen in my own country. Nor will I stand idly by while people who have no clue as to what makes the country work reduce it to third-world nation status.

Remember, Mexico isn’t poor because of lack of resources, lack of labor, or any intrinsic genetic flaws. They are poor because they run things like Mexicans. And no, I’m not saying they don’t have the right to live however they want. What I am saying is that the way you live carries certain consequences with it. If you choose a self-destructive path, then you have no one to blame but yourself. And if you choose not to see the connection between your condition and your actions, that’s your problem too. However, your choices in no way obligate me to let you come to my country and impose those choices on me.

If things suck down there, that’s not my problem. Even more so, It’s not our problem. I would suggest that you stop electing kleptocrats for a nice beginning.

It’s Not Racism—It’s a Software Problem

It’s a pity that we don’t teach rhetoric in school anymore. Not too long ago it was considered one of the 7 constituents of a good classical education. These days not much is left of that curriculum and what is left has been bled dry of substance by pseudo-enlightened teaching methods.

I’ve taken a course on rhetoric, which was helpful, but I’ve learned the most about it by countless hours of pondering mind-bendingly inane pronouncements trumpeted by people who should have known better, and the enthusiastic and unbelievably uncritical acceptance by all the nodding heads in attendance.

The best working definition of rhetoric that I’ve come across is as follows: The art and science of persuasion. Note that word: persuasion. This has nothing to do with logic or logical argument whereby, if properly done, one arrives at a correct conclusion. Rhetoric is convincing someone that some conclusion is the correct one whether it is or not. Considerable rhetoric has been expended talking teenage girls out of their virginity in the backseats of cars. Just about any abandoned single mother struggling to get her life back on track will tell you that going along wasn’t the correct conclusion.

It’s been a long road for me, but I’ve figured out our adversaries well enough that I can spot the flaws in the reasoning and their rhetorical legerdemain fairly easily. However, I see many good folks around me struggling with the Left’s tricky arguments, then shrugging their shoulders and going on, leaving the asinine pronouncements unchallenged. For all our good qualities, American’s lack of ambition toward intellectual rigor is a serious national flaw. One that scares me more than a little.

Leaving the jargon aside for the time being, I’ve noticed two things that people on the Right/Conservative/Libertarian side need to watch out for. First are false dichotomies, or taking something that has to be considered as a whole and splitting it into parts that can’t stand on their own so as to knock them down more easily. Second is the flip-side of the first. Taking separate elements and deliberately conflating them so as to use valid (maybe) criticisms of one to drag down the other. All of which brings me to my point. Racism, culturalism, nationalism, and any other number of –isms are frequently entirely separate issues that need to be considered, debated, and accepted or rejected as separate entities.

Conflating racism and culturalism is one of the biggest problems today and a current favorite rhetorical tap dance of the Left. The Left insists on treating these as two sides of the same coin making it impossible to condemn one without condemning the other. This, of course is insane in general, and never more insane than when it is applied to the United States.

Racism against Hispanics? Hispanics are not a race. The word itself has traditionally meant Spanish-speaking, thereby referring to a linguistic group as opposed to a genetically similar group of people. A conveniently forgotten fact is that Spain, the source of Spanish, is a Western European country, further west than England, the source of the “Gringo” language. Spaniards are Caucasians.

What about Latinos, as in Latin America? Well, what about it” In Latin America ethnicities range from pure Caucasian (who are the elites that run the show and own just about everything), through pure Amerindians, through Mestizos (mixed race people) to black folks. Besides, I’m not so sure we should call it “Latin” America. After all, for the Amerindians, they didn’t pursue anything Latin, it came and conquered them.

What about Islam? The same principal applies. Racially, Muslims range from the whitest of Caucasians in Eastern Europe, a relic of Islamic imperial conquest, to the darkest of Africans on that continent. Islam is not a race; it is a fascist ideology masquerading as a religion.

When I try to explain the difference to someone, I usually use a computer analogy. Culture is to race as software is to hardware. Despite what poverty pimps and professional grievance-mongers may tell you, racism is all but beaten and progress is still made everyday. If the Republican Party is the Party of hate and the status quo, why are so many of them begging a black woman to be their presidential candidate in 2008? Why did Walter Williams, a famous and distinguished black economist, go on the radio and announce to white liberals, “You’re forgiven, you can stop acting stupid now”?

You would have to have been living under a rock to avoid people of minority persuasions that have long since disproved the “hardware” theory of racism. I have met people of all races who are significantly smarter than I am, and I dwell on the lonely fringes of the right side of the bell curve.

So what is the crucial difference? Software. Or as it applies to human beings—culture. Millions of people want to immigrate to the United States to partake in its freedoms, material wealth, and opportunities. Sadly, many of these folks no longer want to assimilate. In fact, they consider it an outrage that they would be expected to do so. Rather the existing culture is expected to change to accommodate their presence. In essence they expect this country to load their cultural “software” over our own. All this reminds me very much of my experience teaching in a rural school. Frequently, parents would move there hoping to get their children away from the bad big city influences. More often than not, those children were the big city influences. I recall one girl in particular who lasted only 4 days before being arrested for dealing cocaine.

So, what does this all mean? I suppose somebody has to have the guts to say it, so I will. Mexicans, your hardware is fine, just as good as anybody else. Your software, on the other hand, sucks. When you come here, legally of course, check your cultural baggage at the door.

There’s an old saying that says something like, “If the people knew what it was that they wanted, they wouldn’t want it.” The same applies here. If American culture is swamped and displaced by Mexican culture, or just about any other for that matter, in 10 years this country will be a “has-been” like France. In 20 years it would be a Third World nation. Then who would the rest of the world “borrow” money from then?

Democractic Party Solutions Applied to Everyday Situations

• Effective immediately all Caucasians and successful minorities will be required to practice the “open garage” policy. Garage doors must be left open at all times. The inner door must be unlocked as well. After all, trespassers just want a cold beer and to watch some TV, just like everybody else.
• Due to government concerns about the health of the petroleum transfer industry, gas station attendants will be paid $5 per gallon not to pump your gas, if they don’t pump 10 gallons or more they get double trading stamps.
• Universities will immediately desist from the discriminatory practice of limiting the number of students that can register for a given class and thus oppressing the punctuality-challenged. All interested students must be allowed to enroll. In an unrelated matter universities will be fined $10,000 per student per semester for each instance of insufficient seating.
• To prevent the undue hardship of a disconnection, delinquent utility bills will be paid by the neighbors living on either side of the financially distressed person.
• All accelerated and advanced placement courses in public schools are hereby canceled. Students with higher aptitude will be required to tutor remedial students. After all, it’s only fair. They won in life’s lottery. Failure to comply will result in the forfeiture of any future student grants and loans.
• The concept of the checkout counter “Leave a penny, take a penny” dish has proven so popular that the legislature has passed a bill applying the principle to the pockets of people standing next to you in line. Despite the name, the law permits any denomination to be taken. Participation is compulsory.
• In order to comply with health regulations restaurants and grocery stores are henceforth required to give a sponge bath to any homeless person that may wander into the building.
• Newspaper boys are required to charge their subscribers on a sliding scale determined by means testing. If the subscriber is illiterate, the paper boy is required to read it to the subscriber. To insure good service to the underprivileged, stiff penalties will be assessed for late delivery.
• In order to put a stop to the scourge of racial profiling, identification cards will no longer be required to cash a check, buy cigarettes or alcohol, buy guns or ammunition, attend adult movies, sign a contract, or pick up children from any daycare facility.

Deep Thoughts 3

If 90% of the descendants of illegal aliens voted for Republicans, not only would we already have a border wall, it would be 10,000 feet high.

Virtual Compliance

Liberal politicians spare no effort when denouncing the proposed (now partially done—very partially) border wall, saying it was impractical and unnecessary. Ted Kennedy and others have suggested a “virtual” wall using high technology which would be cheaper, less inflammatory, and much more secure. I have decided to extend this principle by paying my taxes with virtual money and obeying federal law with virtual compliance. I won’t be doing these things in the physical world, but we’re way beyond the physical world anyway.

It’s my understanding that the Kennedy family is going to apply this principle in sexual matters. In the future, a woman passing out and slumping over in her seat will be considered “virtual” consent. At least they won’t have to whack her in the head with a golf club.

Useful Idiots

Another of my favorites from the old site.

…and six months after being exiled to that barren wasteland they had established the worlds 3rd largest economy, 4th largest military, and the best medical system on the planet. After seven months hordes of uninvited “guests” swarmed into the new republic claiming that the Republicans had tricked them and taken all the jobs with them. (And for the love of God, somebody slap that smug smile off of that bitch’s face.)

Beware Political Bait and Switch

In talking to the various Joe Six-Packs that inhabit my world, I’ve learned that many have not caught on to the political tactic of first obfuscating then, if caught, baiting and switching. This tactic has been most egregiously applied in recent years on the topic of immigration. Putting the issue of obfuscation aside for the moment I’ll take up the ‘bait and switch”.

You’ll notice now that the general public has belatedly caught on to the issue of runaway illegal immigration, and once the politicians stopped howling in agony, they’ve suddenly seen the light and want immigration reform too. As a matter of a fact, they want it more than you. As a matter of fact, they’ve wanted it longer than you. Hell, now that they think about it, they’re the ones that talked you into it. But we can’t go at it haphazardly! No, the reform has to be comprehensive!

Comprehensive, that’s the new weasel word. It’s a word that automatically gives people a warm, fuzzy feeling. Probably from the warm, fuzzy feeling you get when you hear the phrase, comprehensive insurance. However, according to the dictionary it means, “covering completely or broadly”. Yes, even the definition is made of weasel words.

So beware, in the Leftist and RINO Bizarro Worlds comprehensive means legislation with a “poison pill” inside. You want actual border enforcement against illegals? Fine, it comes packaged with changes to “legal” immigration as bad or worse than illegal immigration ever was.

Bad things happen to those who don’t follow Ayn Rand’s dictum, “Define your terms.” When the government finally agrees to “do something” about the 12 to 20 million criminal invaders in our country, it’s just natural for reasonably intelligent law-abiding citizens to assume that means extensive deportation along with measures to convince the hold-outs to leave on their own. Unfortunately, politicians assume that means wave a political magic wand over those folks and ,through the magic of blanket amnesty, they’re legal. Then they proudly brag they’ve reduced the illegal population by millions, so vote for me.

Too Much Flux in Government Policy

I’ve been doing my bit, watching the news, reading the paper, listening to talk radio, and trying to keep up with what the hired help in Washington is doing. But I must admit I’m growing impatient. I would really like for our government to make up its mind on a course of action so that I’ll know whether to start teaching my children Spanish, Chinese, or Arabic. I don’t think it’s too much to ask, really.

Britain Tries, Weighs, Measures the United States and Finds It Wanting

In the time honored tradition of network television, I bring you a rerun. Actually, I’m reposting some of my favorite posts from my old blog, and this one July 3, 2006 is near the top and no doubt still entirely valid. Unfortunately. In it I take the article and give it a brutal Fisking. It was described as snarky, but was pure venom on my part. I’m a loyal American if nothing else.

July 3, 2006

I found an AFP article about a poll in Britain that shows our cross-Atlantic brethren have a less than stellar opinion of us. One: I’m not so sure how objective it was because if a Leftist polling organization conducted the poll the phrasing was most likely rigged. Two: Even if they do, who cares? Three: I seriously doubt these figures are accurate.

LONDON (AFP) – People in Britain view the United States as a vulgar, crime-ridden society obsessed with money and led by an incompetent president whose Iraq policy is failing, according to a newspaper poll.

1. Vulgar? I’ve seen your TV shows and commercials. Benny Hill? Gag!
2. Crime-ridden? Crime rates vary from year to year but have declining steadily since the beginning of the Reagan era.
3. Incompetent? Maybe in some areas. After all, there are some issues he agrees with Europeans on.
4. Iraq policy failing? If you’ll notice the bombs have been going off on your soil. Besides, what part of “generational conflict” don’t you get? We’re fighting people who are “frothing at the mouth mad” about stuff that happened 900 years ago. Over here we refer to stuff that happened 5 years ago as “ancient history”.

The United States is no longer a symbol of hope to Britain and the British no longer have confidence in their transatlantic cousins to lead global affairs, according to the poll published in The Daily Telegraph.

1. Just when the hell did we apply for the job of “Symbol of Hope for Britain”? How about you guys spend some time putting teeth back into the phrase “Rule Britannia”?
2. Furthermore, leading global affairs is like herding cats. The only common purpose the globe seems to have is lining up when the US is handing out “cat food”.

The YouGov poll found that 77 percent of respondents disagreed with the statement that the US is “a beacon of hope for the world”.

1. Good. Then you guys won’t mind stopping moving here. Please!
2. Since we’ve failed to be that beacon of hope, you shouldn’t mind if we divert all aid money toward more worthy goals. Finishing Reagan’s 600-ship Navy comes to mind or more combat aircraft. You know, something people can be proud of.

As Americans prepared to celebrate the 230th anniversary of their independence on Tuesday, the poll found that only 12 percent of Britons trust them to act wisely on the global stage. This is half the number who had faith in the Vietnam-scarred White House of 1975.

1. Appeasement, capitulation, surrender, and treason are not synonyms for “wise”.
2. The reason the poll numbers are half as large for GWB is that, all things considered, Nixon was still twice the president he is.

A massive 83 percent of those questioned said that the United States doesn’t care what the rest of the world thinks.

1. That’s because we don’t care what the rest of the world thinks.
2. If what you think was important, you would already be states.

With much of the worst criticism aimed at the US administration, the poll showed that 70 percent of Britons like Americans a lot or a little.

1. Actually, that has been my experience too. Most Europeans I have met have usually indicated that they like American people just fine. It’s our government they hate.
2. Unfortunately, Europeans have abandoned their own patriotism and consequently can’t wrap their heads around the idea that Americans identify with their government to a much greater extent than most other people in the world.

US President George W. Bush fared significantly worse, with just one percent rating him a “great leader” against 77 percent who deemed him a “pretty poor” or “terrible” leader.

1. He isn’t a great leader, but he is a fair one.
2. He also serves as a placeholder president for future elections.
3. Thanks to Jimmy Carter and Bill Clinton, GB doesn’t have to worry about going down in history as a terrible president. Mediocre maybe, but not terrible.

More than two-thirds who offered an opinion said America is essentially an imperial power seeking world domination. And 81 per cent of those who took a view said President George W Bush hypocritically championed democracy as a cover for the pursuit of American self-interests.

1. More than two-thirds of Americas wish our government would stop bowing and scraping to the rest of the world and start pursuing America’s self-interests. Perspective is amazing isn’t it?
2. Imperial power? Ha! I wish! If I had my way Canada, Cuba, and the Philippines would be states by now and Japan and Germany would be US provinces.
3. Furthermore, as far as I’m concerned, we own the moon. We expended the money and lives, got there first and planted a flag. If I could figure out a way, I would charge all you conceited bastards just to look at it.

US policy in Iraq was similarly derided, with only 24 percent saying they felt that the US military action there was helping to bring democracy to the country.

1. We deride your suicidal your immigration policy, but hey, it’s your funeral.
2. US military inaction wasn’t bringing democracy either.
3. Furthermore, as a rock solid believer in constitutional republicanism, I find democracy a little overrated at times. What good is freeing a nation just so that it can vote itself back into slavery?

The article goes on to quote an American Embassy spokes who stated that they had conducted their own polls which disputed the negative results of the YouGov poll. But still…

In answer to other questions, a majority of the Britons questions described Americans as uncaring, divided by class, awash in violent crime, vulgar, preoccupied with money, ignorant of the outside world, racially divided, uncultured and in the most overwhelming result (90 percent of respondents) dominated by big business.

1. This one always blows my mind. Every time this topic is researched the United States come out on top for private charitable giving. On top of this is the insanely generous giving of our government. We pick up the largest portion of the tab for the (hack, spit!) United Nations. We spend as much time defending and protecting our “allies” as we do ourselves. As I recall, at one time the United States Department of Defense was the second largest employer in the Philippines.
2. There are fewer class distinctions here than just about anyplace else, which is further ameliorated by having the highest degree of mobility between classes.
3. Crime? Already talked about it for the most part. Only addition, we’re importing a lot of it through runaway illegal immigration. Oops.
4. Vulgar? By that you probably mean we don’t do things the way you would do them. Contrary to popular opinion we do have a culture here. You should know, the world spends half its time aping it. Besides, anybody that drinks warm beer is a friggin’ barbarian in my book.
5. Preoccupied with money? Maybe. It’s how we Americans keep score and part of the famous American work ethic. Besides what would you have us do. Be a nation obsessed with stamp collecting or “Antique Roadshows”? Who would you borrow money from then?
6. Ignorant of the outside world? That’s probably because you guys aren’t interesting.
7. Don’t believe what the poverty pimps of the Left tell you. The issue gets better every year. People get along better and associate more freely. Interracial dating and marriage become more common every year. I’ve dated interracially myself. So give us a break. After all, the British Empire wasn’t thrown away in a single day.
8. Uncultured? Moving past the Benny Hill thing, I would put an hour of a custom car show up against an hour of “Footballers Wives” any day.
9. Dominated by big business? We’re a capitalist country, so welcome to real life. We are also rapidly becoming a nation of business owners. The majority of Americans have some financial interest in business, either through direct investment or participation in retirement funds. Meet America Inc.

Ah! I feel better now. Please bear in mind that I like British people, for the most part. As individuals.

Top 20 Reasons Liberal Democrats Fear Immigration Reform

1. Literacy rate is too high among the native-born.
2. Fear of paying market price for fruits and vegetables.
3. Fresh immigrants have no clue when you’re ripping them off.
4. The native-born know embezzling and bribery when they see it.
5. American-born maids know that they don’t have to have sex with you to keep their jobs.
6. Their wives are extremely close to the pool boy.
7. Their daughters are extremely close to the pool boy.
8. Their sons are extremely close to the pool boy.
9. They secretly have feelings for the pool boy.
10. Their last pool boy quit without notice.
11. They feel a need to cancel out Linda Chavez and Michelle Malkin.
12. They have a neurotic fear of unmodified ‘64 Chevy’s.
13. Asian food cooked by a guy named Bob Johnson just doesn’t taste right.
14. Thomas Sowell, Condaleeza Rice, Clarence Thomas, and Star Parker are bad omens.
15. They need someone to translate the Spanish language ballots for them on election day.
16. Recent immigrants don’t understand the concept of itemized deductions.
17. Their mothers have been crying since the pool boy left.
18. Native-born legislators read the fine print on the legislation liberals sponsor.
19. MS-13 has established a sleeper cell in their basements.
20. They just can’t go back to smoking substandard weed.

Everybody Lives on Stolen Land

The English arrive in England uninvited—Thank God

• Conquest has gone on throughout history.
• It goes so far back that you can’t set it “right”.
• It’s time to let bygones be bygones.
• How far back in time does one go before it’s “right”.
• Many Mexicans don’t even bother to hide their anti-Americanism anymore.
• They’ve been warning us for decades it falls on deaf ears.
• Mexicans envy our prosperity but still don’t understand where it comes from.
• The Reconquista is doomed from the beginning but will do much harm before it dies.
• Rising resentment against the Reconquistadors does not bode well for anyone.
• MEChA and Reconquistadors are blatantly racist.