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Dear Jon – A Letter About Open Immigration

Okay, Jonathan, I promised a rebuttal to your article on open immigration, so here it goes (and it might be less of one than you thought):

America isn’t a little island with ten people and limited resources – we are the gorgeous, huge, most prosperous country the world has ever seen and there is room for all. But that “all” needs to come here and obey our laws, including the ones aimed at bringing immigrants INTO the fold. Skirting the protections put in place to protect America and her guests is not being a productive member of society, it’s being a parasite.

Yes, I agree that in a free economy the potential for markets is unlimited, but we don’t live in a free market and we haven’t in quite some time. Before we can have open immigration we must FIRST AND FOREMOST eliminate the entitlement state. But we haven’t done that, and until we do, we can’t have open immigration.

Frankly, I think most people welcome those who want to come to America and who want to be industrious; however, we’re resentful as all heck that these folks waltz across a porous border, expect – nay, DEMAND – that they be given all the benefits of being a citizen, but don’t return the graciousness of their hosts. When 85% of the violent crimes in Los Angeles are committed by illegals, we have a problem! They’re not “coming here to produce,” they’re coming here to loot.

To get back to your island analogy, if those 10 new people came ashore and demanded to be fed, stole from the other 30, killed a few of them, and only 1 or 2 of them contributed to making island life better, then hell yes, it would be an immigration crisis and they should be stopped from ruining the country.

So while I agree with your premise that hard-working (legal) immigrants are an unquestionable asset, I disagree with you putting the cart before the entitlement horse. Let’s rein THAT in before we start throwing wide the doors to our prosperity.

I posted something recently about the Arizona protests (who were against SB 1070) to one of my other blogs, and it goes like this:

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, ’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).

According to the protesters:

• 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 kids
• You are Required to Provide other benefits to me & to my family

My husband will do all of 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 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 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, and I DEMAND that you learn MY LANGUAGE!!! so that you can communicate with me.

Dirty Deeds – Done with Sheep

More great political satire, featuring your favorite Bovidae, the #DemonSheep:

Favorite Quotes from Camille

“You who are so young — where can you have learned about women like me?”

Marguerite: His eyes have made love to me all evening.

Olympe: She’s not easy to get along with, I can tell you, ask anybody… and she has the reputation of being one of the most extravagant girls in Paris as well as one of the most insincere… She’s the kind who says one thing and thinks another.

Nichette: Marguerite, it’s ideal to love, and to marry the one you love.
Marguerite: I have no faith in ideals

Armand: I know I don’t mean anything to you. I don’t count. But someone ought to look after you. And I could if you’d let me.
Marguerite: Too much wine has made you sentimental.

Armand: Don’t you believe in love, Marguerite?
Marguerite: I don’t think I know what it is.
Armand: Oh, thank you.
Marguerite: For what?
Armand: For never having been in love.

Armand: I accepted her favors because I thought she loved me. I had her make sacrifices for me when there were others who had more to give. But bear witness, I owe her nothing. Take it, come on, take it! Buy camellias, buy diamonds, horses and carriages, buy moonlight, buy a grave!

Shuckin’ & Jivin’ at NBC, Yo!

From the “This Stuff Just Writes Itself” Department:

How someone, in this politically-correct charged society, could think this was a good idea is beyond me.

Thank gosh @Questlove, the band leader and drummer for The Roots (the house band on Late Night with Jimmy Fallon) tweeted this picture from the NBC Commissary at 30 Rock, with the comment: “Hmm HR?” -

Carly Fiorina – Ewe Blew Your Political Career

Carly Fiorina managed, in one fell-swoop to unite, on Twitter, Republicans, Democrats, Independents, and all those in between with one of the stupidest political ads EVER.

With hashtag games like #demonsheep and #demonsheepmovies, the sheeple had a bit of fun. Goodbye, Carly.

Chuck DeVore, on the other hand, came up with one of the wittiest comebacks in history.

Let’s hope this political season stays as interesting as it has already started out!

300,000 Million vs. 545

545 PEOPLE
By Charlie Reese

Politicians are the only people in the world who create problems and then campaign against them.

Have you ever wondered, if both the Democrats and the Republicans are against deficits, WHY do we have deficits?

Have you ever wondered, if all the politicians are against inflation and high taxes, WHY do we have inflation and high taxes?

You and I don’t propose a federal budget. The President does. You and I don’t have the Constitutional authority to vote on appropriations. The House of Representativesdoes.

You and I don’t write the tax code, Congress does.

You and I don’t set fiscal policy, Congress does.

You and I don’t control monetary policy, the Federal Reserve Bank does.

One hundred Senators, 435 Congressmen, one President, and nine Supreme Court justices — 545 human beings out of the 300 million are directly, legally, morally, and individually responsible for the domestic problems that plague this country.

I excluded the members of the Federal Reserve Board because that problem was created by the Congress. In 1913, Congress delegated its Constitutional duty to provide a sound currency to a federally chartered, but private, central bank.

I excluded all the special interests and lobbyists for a sound reason. They have no legal authority. They have no ability to coerce a senator, a congressman, or a President to do one cotton-picking thing. I don’t care if they offer a politician $1 million dollars in cash. The politician has the power to accept or reject it. No matter what the lobbyist promises, it is the legislator’s responsibility to determine how he votes.

Those 545 human beings spend much of their energy convincing you that what they did is not their fault. They cooperate in this common con regardless of party. What separates a politician from a normal human being is an excessive amount of gall. No normal human being would have the gall of a Speaker, who stood up and criticized the President for creating deficits. The president can only propose a budget. He cannot force the Congress to accept it.

The Constitution, which is the supreme law of the land, gives sole responsibility to the House of Representatives for originating and approving appropriations and taxes.

Who is the speaker of the House? Nancy Pelosi. She is the leader of the majority party. She and fellow House members, not the President, can approve any budget they want. If the President vetoes it, they can pass it over his veto if they agree to.

It seems inconceivable to me that a nation of 300 million can not replace 545 people who stand convicted — by present facts — of incompetence and irresponsibility. I can’t think of a single domestic problem that is not traceable directly to those 545 people… When you fully grasp the plain truth that 545 people exercise the power of the federal government, then it must follow that what exists is what they want to exist.

If the tax code is unfair, it’s because they want it unfair.

If the budget is in the red, it’s because they want it in the red…

If the Army & Marines is in IRAQ, it’s because they want them in IRAQ.

If they do not receive Social Security but are on an elite retirement plan not available to the people, it’s because they want it that way.

There are no insoluble government problems.

Do not let these 545 people shift the blame to bureaucrats, whom they hire and whose jobs they can abolish; to lobbyists, whose gifts and advice they can reject; to regulators, to whom they give the power to regulate and from whom they can take this power..

Above all, do not let them con you into the belief that there exists disembodied mystical forces like “the economy,” “inflation,” or “politics” that prevent them from doing what they take an oath to do.

Those 545 people and they alone, are responsible.

They and they alone, have the power.

They and they alone, should be held accountable by the people who are their bosses.

Provided the voters have the gumption to manage their own employees.

We should vote all of them out of office and clean up their mess!

Charlie Reese is a former columnist of the Orlando Sentinel Newspaper.

What you do with this article now that you have read it is up to you, though you have several choices:

1. you can send this to everyone in your address book and hope “they” do something about it.
2. You can agree to “vote against” everyone that is currently in office, knowing that the process will take several years.
3. You can decide to “run for office” yourself and agree to do the job properly.
4. Lastly, you can sit back and do nothing or re-elect the current bunch

The 33 Strategies of War

From The 33 Strategies of War by Robert Greene, “an indispensable book, [which] provides all the psychological ammunition you need to overcome patterns of failure and forever gain the upper hand”

1. The Polarity Strategy:
   Declare War On Your Enemies - Learn to spot them; inwardly declare war. Your enemies can fill you with purpose and direction.
2. The Guerilla War-Of-The-Mind Strategy:
   Do Not Fight The Last War - Force yourself to react to the present moment. Do not repeat the same tired methods. Make everything fluid and mobile.
3. The Counterbalance Strategy:
   Amidst The Turmoil Of Events, Do Not Lose Your Presence Of Mind - Make the mind tougher by exposing it to adversity. Learn detachment.
4. The Death-Ground Strategy:
   Create A Sense Of Urgency & Desperation - Place yourself on ‘death ground’, where your back is against the wall; fight like hell to get out!
5. The Command & Control Strategy:
   Avoid The Snares Of Groupthink - Create a sense of participation without falling into the irrationality of collective decision-making.
6. The Controlled-Chaos Strategy:
   Segment Your Forces - Break your forces into independent groups; make them elusive & unstoppable by infusing them with the spirit of the campaign.
7. Morale Strategies:
   Transform Your War Into A Crusade - Involve your people in a cause; make them see their survival is tied to the success of the army as a whole.
8. The Perfect-Economy Strategy:
   Pick Your Battles Carefully - Sometimes it is better to wait, to undermine your enemies covertly rather than hitting them straight on.
9. The Counterattack Strategy:
   Turn The Tables - Let the other side move first, giving you the flexibility to counterattack from any angle.
10. Deterrence Strategies:
    Create A Threatening Presence - Be crazy. If your opponents are never sure what messing with you will cost, they will not want to find out.
11. The Non-Engagement Strategy:
    Trade Space For Time - Sometimes you can accomplish most by doing nothing.
12. The Grand Strategy:
    Lose Battles But Win The War - Grand strategy is the art of looking beyond the battle & calculating ahead. It will bring the ultimate reward.
13. The Intelligence Strategy:
    Know Your Enemy - The target of your strategies should be less the army you face and more the man or woman who runs it.
14. The Blitzkrieg Strategy:
    Overwhelm Resistance With Speed & Suddenness - Striking first before the enemy has time to think makes them emotional and unbalanced.
15. Forcing Strategies:
    Control The Dynamics - Move to control your opponent’s minds, pushing their emotional buttons and compelling them to make mistakes.
16. The Center Of Gravity Strategy:
    Hit Them Where It Hurts - Find what the other side most cherishes & protects – that is where you must strike.
17. The Divide & Conquer Strategy:
    Defeat Them In Detail - By separating the parts of the whole you can sow dissension & division, bringing your enemy down.
18. The Turning Strategy:
    Expose And Attack Your Opponent’s Soft Flank - Bait them into going out on a limb then rake them with fire from the side.
19. The Annihilation Strategy:
    Envelop The Enemy - Create relentless pressure from all sides and close off their access, then crush their willpower by tightening the noose.
20. The Ripening-For-The-Sickle Strategy:
    Maneuver Them Into Weakness - Create dilemmas; devise maneuvers that give them a choice of ways to respond-all of them bad.
21. The Diplomatic War Strategy:
    Negotiate While Advancing - The more you take, the more you can give back in meaningless concessions.
22. The Exit Strategy:
    Know How To End Things - Avoid all conflicts and entanglements from which there are no realistic exits.
23. Misperception Strategies:
    Weave A Seamless Blend Of Fact And Fiction - Control people’s perceptions of reality and you control them
24. The Ordinary-Extraordinary Strategy:
    Take The Line Of Least Expectation - Fix their image of you with the ordinary, then hit them with something extraordinary; the terror is greater.
25. The Righteous Strategy:
    Occupy The Moral High Ground - Question your opponents motives and make them appear evil; narrow their support & room to maneuver.
26. The Strategy Of The Void:
    Deny Them Targets - Be dangerous but elusive, then watch them chase you into the void; deliver pinprick bites & side-attacks.
27. The Alliance Strategy:
    Seem To Work For The Interests Of Others While Furthering Your Own - Create a constantly shifting network of alliances; sow dissention.
28. The One-Upmanship Strategy:
    Give Your Rivals Enough Rope To Hang Themselves - Life’s greatest dangers come from supposed colleagues who scheme to sabotage us.
29. The Fait Accompli Strategy:
    Take Small Bites - Swallow little territories, playing upon people’s relatively short attention spans.
30. Communication Strategies:
    Penetrate Their Minds - Learn to infiltrate your ideas behind enemy lines, luring people into coming to the conclusions you desire.
31. The Inner-Front Strategy:
    Destroy From Within - To take what you want, do not fight those who have it; join them, then stage a coup d’etat.
32. The Passive-Aggression Strategy:
    Dominate While Seeming To Submit - Go along, offer no resistance; hide aggression behind a compliant, even loving exterior.
33. The Chain-Reaction Strategy:
    Sow Uncertainty And Panic Through Acts Of Terror - Cause maximum chaos and provoke the enemy into desperate overreaction.

Election Primary Dates Across the U.S.

*States listed in red are those in which the incumbent voted for Cap n Trade.

	PRIMARY DATE	’10 SENATE ELECTION?	# of REPS
Illinois	2-Feb	Yes	19
Texas	2-Mar	No	32
Indiana	4-May	Yes	9
North Carolina	4-May	Yes	13
Ohio	4-May	Yes	18
Nebraska	11-May	No	3
West Virginia	11-May	No	3
Arkansas	18-May	Yes	4
Kentucky	18-May	Yes	6
Oregon	18-May	Yes	5
Pennsylvania	18-May	Yes	19
Idaho	25-May	Yes	2
Alabama	1-Jun	Yes	7
Mississippi	1-Jun	No	4
New Mexico	1-Jun	No	3
California	8-Jun	Yes	53
Iowa	8-Jun	Yes	5
Maine	8-Jun	No	2
Montana	8-Jun	No	1
Nevada	8-Jun	Yes	3
New Jersey	8-Jun	No	13
North Dakota	8-Jun	Yes	1
South Carolina	8-Jun	Yes	6
South Dakota	8-Jun	Yes	1
Virginia	8-Jun	No	11
Utah	22-Jun	Yes	3
Georgia	20-Jul	Yes	13
Oklahoma	27-Jul	Yes	5
Kansas	3-Aug	Yes	4
Michigan	3-Aug	No	15
Missouri	3-Aug	Yes	9
Tennessee	5-Aug	No	9
Colorado	10-Aug	Yes	7
Connecticut	10-Aug	Yes	5
Washington	17-Aug	Yes	9
Wyoming	17-Aug	No	1
Alaska	24-Aug	Yes	1
Arizona	24-Aug	Yes	8
Florida	24-Aug	Yes	25
Louisiana	August 28 (1st Party)*	Yes	7
Guam	4-Sep	—–	1 Delegate
Virgin Islands	11-Sep	No	1 Delegate
Delaware	14-Sep	Yes	1
District of Columbia	14-Sep	—–	1 Delegate
Maryland	14-Sep	Yes	8
Massachusetts	14-Sep	No	10
Minnesota	14-Sep	No	8
New Hampshire	14-Sep	Yes	2
New York	14-Sep	Yes	29
Rhode Island	14-Sep	No	2
Vermont	14-Sep	Yes	1
Wisconsin	14-Sep	Yes	8
Hawaii	18-Sep	Yes	2

Barack Obama and the Double-Down on Failure

This was originally titled “Barack Obama and the Trifecta of Failure” because, up until Tuesday, he had three Incompletes on his report card, and last I checked, that does not equate a B+. But already I digress.

Obama has proven himself the empty suited failure many of us suspected he would be. T o wit:

1C. Chicago

Obama had the audacity of hope to fly to Copenhagen to pimp the Olympics for his adopted home town of Chicago and couldn’t bring even so much as the Bronze home.

2C. Copenhagen

Another trip to the City of Spires and another failure. Perhaps it should be called the City of Aspires. Climate change will remain exactly where it belongs…where Mother Nature intends it.

3C. Coakley

Investing more than he obviously has, Obama rushed to Boston to invest his unearned capital into an unearned candidate and came away with a big, Brown nosebleed. Not only could he not help Coakley get elected but he’s lost the filibuster-proof Senate…by a nosey.

4C. Cap n Trade

With 3C, above, Cap n Tax is dead in the atmosphere. The wonderfully elusive, positively chilling, ever changing atmosphere that has delivered momentous amounts of snow and cold to the world has abandoned Barack in the most delicious way ever…by proving him wrong, once again.

Obama’s gambles, in one of the most unfriendly-to-gambling times in the history of America, complete the picture of what he has become…and frankly, always was. We love losers in Vegas…they keep our economy alive.

So, I guess I’d like to extend an invitation to our Loser in Chief to come put it all on Harry Reid…you’ll be sure to crap out and America will once again breathe a little easier.