In late April, Arizona governor Jan Brewer signed into law one of the, if not the most, stringent laws on immigration in this country; a law that several communities and states are considering adapting. The key point of the law is that the word illegal in illegal immigration means enforcement. Many against the law decry broader powers with law enforcement to question people that they suspect as being undocumented. Many bemoaned that police would be racially profiling, therefore civil liberties are in danger.

[SB 1070s]

But the question is this: Is Arizona doing what the Federal Government wouldn’t? Several sections in Arizona’s Immigration Law actually use and refer to Federal statutes within the United States Code.

The legal scholars we spoke with told us to take a close look at two key sections of Title 8 of the U.S. Code. Section 1304e requires that "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." Those who fail to comply will be guilty of a misdemeanor and will be fined $100 and can be imprisoned up to 30 days.

Section 1306a says that, "Any alien required to apply for registration and to be fingerprinted in the United States who willfully fails or refuses to make such application or to be fingerprinted, and any parent or legal guardian required to apply for the registration of any alien who willfully fails or refuses to file application for the registration of such alien shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and shall, upon conviction thereof, be fined not to exceed $1,000 or be imprisoned not more than six months, or both."

What many are failing to neglect — just as people forget that 11 lives were lost during the explosion that caused a rupture on the oil pipeline in the Gulf — is why this law was needed. Is Arizona worried undocumented workers? Financial troubles? No. Too many crimes are being committed by illegal immigrants for the Arizona government to sit idle. Arizona had asked for Federal help before passing the law, which fell on deaf ears.

Arizona took matters into their own hands. They actually enforced the "illegal" part in illegal immigration and gave police broader powers to enforce the law. Once they did, the Federal government stirred from their slumber with their rusty sword and wooden shield. Unfortunately, it was to react to Arizona’s Immigration law rather than comprehensive national immigration reform that deals with illegal immigration.

In late March, Robert Krentz, a rancher along the Arizona-Mexican boarder was found dead. Murder by an illegal immigrant was suspected. The family released a statement:

“We hold no malice towards the Mexican people for this senseless act but do hold the political forces in this country and Mexico accountable for what has happened,” the family said. “Their disregard of our repeated pleas and warnings of impending violence towards our community fell on deaf ears shrouded in political correctness. As a result, we have paid the ultimate price for their negligence in credibly securing our borderlands.”

The murder, in large part, caused the Arizona state government to act — I know, a governmental body that actually reacts to protect their citizens, physically, mentally and financially without being all up in your face about it? The Pinal County Sheriff echoed concerns about illegal immigrants.

“We’ve had numerous officers that have been killed by illegal immigrants in Arizona,” Pinal County Sheriff Paul Babeu said Monday at a Capitol Hill news conference. “And that shouldn’t happen one time.”

The ACLU issued "travel advisories" to anyone traveling to Arizona during the Fourth of July Weekend. Executive Director Anthony D. Romero writes on the organization’s website:

"ACLU affiliates across the country are issuing these alerts because it is imperative that individuals understand their rights before traveling in Arizona. Under Arizona’s racial profiling law, people who look ‘foreign’ are more likely to be stopped for minor infractions and then asked for their ‘papers’ if police believe, based on their appearance or accent, that they could be in the country unlawfully. We hope the alerts provide people with some measure of protection from illegal harassment from law enforcement and inform them of their rights should they encounter it."

Through all of this, the Federal government, the entity whose duty it is to protect American borders reacts by trying to file a lawsuit against Arizona, who only wants to protect herself. Protestors gather around the nation — protestors that are unlikely to have actually been affected by the dangers illegal immigration in Arizona. You even have to wonder if they’ve stepped foot in the state.

President Barack Hussein Obama said:

“I’m ready to move forward, the majority of Democrats are ready to move forward, and I believe the majority of Americans are ready to move forward. But the fact is without bipartisan support, as we had just a few years ago, we cannot solve this problem."

Five bucks to anyone that can correctly point out the topic he’s talking about. Is this the card he uses when giving a speech on everything? The quote comes from a speech in front of a 250 immigration-rights advocates at American University in Washington. But I wouldn’t be so willing to believe that Americans are "ready to move forward" with Obama in the lead. It’s rarely an occurrence these days that Obama speaks for even a majority of Americans. As a result of the Federal government’s offensive against Arizona’s immigration law — you know, the law that the Federal government also has in the United States Code — Arizona is forced to spend $250,000 of tax dollars to help clean up the state’s immigration image, due to lowering tourism and businesses being affected. You can thank the Federal government’s blatant disregard of its own laws for this.

Again, Obama and the Democrats in charge of the Federal Government worries more about people that are in-state illegally than they are their own American citizens. Look at the eventually rising costs of energy services thanks to a ladder to recoup costs once the energy companies are exponentially taxed in Gas-and-Tax. Gas prices will rise. Travel and tourism will decline because it makes more economic sense for families to refuse the punishment from energy companies who are in-turn punished by the Federal Government. Furthermore, added taxes on companies will surely cost jobs and one report shows that over 125,000 jobs were lost in June. Not a good time to implement policies that will cost even more jobs.

Juan Leonardo Qunitero was charged with molesting a 12-year old girl. Deported in 1999 as an illegal, he returned in 2006.

Rodney Johnson was a 12-year veteran on the Houston police force. Married with five children, he was big, kind-hearted and unafraid of working the toughest gang beats or late-night shifts.

On Thursday, Sept. 21, around 5:30 p.m., he pulled over a white Ford pickup driving 50 mph in a 30 mph zone in what should have been a routine traffic stop. The driver, Quintero, had neither a driver’s license nor any other identification so, after a pat down, Johnson handcuffed him and placed him in the back of his patrol car. But Johnson missed the gun in Quintero’s waistband. The prisoner pulled it out and fired four times at Johnson at close range.

The story continues, deaths caused by illegal immigrants. This is what the Democrats are trying to protect, and what the Republicans indirectly failed to address. Inaction by reaction to a law that makes sense for a state in a warzone is self-defeating. No, it’s depressing to learn that through all of this time, our Federal government’s stance to not get involved with America’s protection while people die is appalling; considering that one likely refusal to address the issue is the fear of upsetting the latino vote.

When people throw political arguments against the wall hoping that it makes sense to some half-wit, they forget that born out of this is the death of good people, the destruction of whole families, all because the immigration vote is worth more than the lives of Americans. This is Obama’s change. And this is why we’ll see a lot of change in 2010 and 2012.

Nate Davis takes a look at both sports.

Call me the Ugly American, but a 3-0 tally in the NFL is a slow first quarter. In soccer, it’s a blowout.

Well said, Nate. Well said.

Still, I’m trying. If not a good friend of mine, who is a soccer fanatic, becoming overly impressed with my initiation to discover something outside my box, then my growing affinity for reality television (aka, in my world… sports) is growing. It helps explain why I accidentally watched Tennis for over 15 minutes not staring at Serena tree trunk legs.

Meet the Ultimate Grilled Cheese BurgerMelt — "Black Angus burger topped with lettuce, tomato and mayo between two whole grilled cheese sandwiches". Friendly’s newest offering, a 1,160-calorie cheeseburger heavenly bliss, is being criticized for it’s "high levels of saturated fat, cholesterol and salt."

The Wilbraham restaurant chain is “thumbing its nose at its customers’ health” and should be “shut down by the health department,” said Michael Jacobson, executive director of the Center of Science in the Public Interest, a Washington-based consumer health advocacy group.

With 83 grams of total fat and 36 grams of saturated fat, the BurgerMelt well exceeds the U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s recommended daily allowances. It’s also very high in salt, with more than 80 percent of the daily recommended level.

“It’s almost a parody of itself,” Jacobson said. “It’s so high in calories, fat and salt that it’s just shocking that a company, in this day and age, would market such a harmful product. These are the kind of products which show up on ‘Saturday Night Live.’ ”

Thank god this is America. But I’m sure some self-indulgent idiot — the same shithead that mimics a cough walking by a smoker outside — will agree with Jacobson. Some idiot will say, "you know what, we should do more things to limit the free choices of hard working Americans who just want a 1,160-calorie burger on their way home." If this is the best you got, trying to dictate what free Americans can choose, then I almost feel sorry for you. Seriously.

So I did some extensive research (aka, Google search) and found out that Center for Science in the Public Interest is another faction from the group We Love Being Dicks. For example, the CSPI is preparing a lawsuit because McDonalds sells toys to children to promote their happy meals.

“McDonald’s is the stranger in the playground handing out candy to children,” said CSPI litigation director Stephen Gardner. “McDonald’s use of toys undercuts parental authority and exploits young children’s developmental immaturity—all this to induce children to prefer foods that may harm their health. It’s a creepy and predatory practice that warrants an injunction.”

What. The.

After doing more extensive research (aka scrolling down on my mouse after Google search), a website was created that countered CSPI called CSPIScam.com. The site writes:

The Center for Science in the Public Interest (CSPI) and its founder, Michael F. Jacobson, are not as nice, sweet, and unbiased as CSPI’s name might imply. The group routinely uses scare tactics justified by "junk science" and media theatrics as part of their ceaseless campaign for government regulation of your personal food choices.

They also write that "willful manipulations and junk science calculations that CSPI used in its petition to the FDA over acrylamide in food. The Center for Consumer Freedom (CCF) submitted a reply brief to the FDA, detailing how CSPI arbitrarily “adjusted” government statistics and made faulty assumptions about the minimal risk to consumers from dietary acrylamide."

So CSPI aren’t just dicks, they’re liars.

The White House’s claim that large and boisterous protests against health care reform over the past week have been scripted performances, underwritten by industry lobbyists and the Republican Party, continues to run into a stubborn reality check: public polling on the matter.

For more than two weeks, polls have consistently shown growing resistance to President Obama’s reform proposals, largely because of concerns about the nation’s deficit and debt.

“There are a number of statistically valid public opinion polls that show that there has been a dramatic increase in public concern about escalating deficits and debt levels and our nation’s increased reliance on foreign lenders,” said David Walker, the nation’s former comptroller general.

[Washington Times]

From Drudge

On Thursday, Chelsea Premium Outlets opened a $100 million 400,000-square-foot shopping mall in the city of Monroe. And I’m thrilled. The mall is located south of state route 63, less than a mile off interstate 75. Several months ago construction began on state route 63, which reduced the road from two lanes to one. The area is a haven for Semi-trailer trucks because it’s a massive trucking stop. The construction has made turns for trucks especially challenging; sometimes they have to stop, back up, because some dope in the turn lane had crawled too far forward which doesn’t allow room for the truck to swing around into the lane. Not that I’m some bleeding heart truck lover; it creates congestion — and pissed off computer technicians that just wants to get onto the highway.

Additional construction on I-75 removed the need for any exit lane — instead cars exiting 75 South and just turn onto the exit ramp from the slow lane. Along with having only one lane to cross the bridge and onto the road that gets you to the mall, the mall traffic caused cars exiting 75 to cause the entire interstate into a crawl because traffic bleed onto the highway. Exit lanes. Who the fuck needs them?

Then there’s cops, cops, cops. I counted, at least, five. Directing traffic. One of whom stopped a major road with a decent flow of cars — a major thoroughfare for Monroe — allow just two cars (TWO!) to turn onto the mall road. Screw us. We just live here. They’re potential buyers.

I so thrilled.

In truth, it looks like the mall opening was a big success.

More than 300 people stood outside Nike Factory Store, where the first 200 customers received free water bottles and $10 gift cards. Basketball legend Oscar Robertson is scheduled to make a 1 p.m. appearance.

Ultra Diamonds gave a free pearl necklace to their first 100 shoppers, and Banana Republic Factory Store has marked everything 40 percent off through Sunday.

Good for them. Good for the city. Good for everyone, right? The Enquirer did acknowledge the traffic problem.

Traffic to the outlet mall started backed up along northbound Interstate 75 after the Ohio 129 exit in neighboring Liberty Township. At the exit ramp onto Ohio 63 in Monroe, traffic appeared to snarl mostly during the morning rush hour from semi tractor-trailers stacked up to turn westbound onto Ohio 63, not cars headed to the mall. As of 10 a.m., traffic was flowing smoothly off the exit ramp.

Well, as long as it’s only rush hour. After all, I’m sure people are thrilled at waking up earlier in the morning. I’m sure people are thrilled to be late into work. We’re all just thrilled.

It’s official. The U.S. is no longer engaged in a “war on terrorism.” Neither is it fighting “jihadists” or in a “global war.”

President Obama’s top homeland security and counterterrorism official took all three terms off the table of acceptable words inside the White House during a speech Thursday at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, a Washington think tank.

“The President does not describe this as a ‘war on terrorism,’” said John Brennan, head of the White House homeland security office, who outlined a “new way of seeing” the fight against terrorism.

The only terminology that Mr. Brennan said the administration is using is that the U.S. is “at war with al Qaeda.”

“We are at war with al Qaeda,” he said. “We are at war with its violent extremist allies who seek to carry on al Qaeda’s murderous agenda.”

So if you’re a terrorist that doesn’t have links to Al Qaeda, you can rest easy. Continue with your bomb making, suicide killing ways because the White House no longer views you as the enemy. You’re just another group with passionate beliefs. And count yourself lucky that you’re not an American with right-wing views. Otherwise, you’d be on lists, databases while Nancy Pelosi shakes her head at the swastika that you pray to. (bitch)

Liberals know the threat to America. And it’s not terrorists. It’s those god damn informed Americans, screwing everything up.

The new offensive started early Tuesday morning when the White House posted a video response to a hodgepodge of clips on the Drudge Report that portrayed President Obama as favoring the elimination of private insurance. On the White House blog, Obama’s director of new media, Macon Phillips, asked supporters to send in leads for debunking chain e-mails or anything else that “seems fishy.”

It continued through the day with press secretary Robert Gibbs and Democratic National Committee spokesman Brad Woodhouse both saying a series of confrontational town hall meetings were manufactured by Republicans, conservative groups and lobbyists who are paid to drum up opposition.

Woodhouse described them as “angry mobs of rabid right-wing extremists” that populated McCain-Palin rallies last year.

Macon Phillips wrote on the White House’s official site:

There is a lot of disinformation about health insurance reform out there, spanning from control of personal finances to end of life care. These rumors often travel just below the surface via chain emails or through casual conversation. Since we can’t keep track of all of them here at the White House, we’re asking for your help. If you get an email or see something on the web about health insurance reform that seems fishy, send it to flag@whitehouse.gov

For what purpose would they need this information? What would the “White House” do with this information? Bill Collier wrote this email to “flag@whitehouse.gov”.

Greetings, sir, I pray for your health and that God may grant you peace and wisdom.

I am writing to you at this email address because of a post at the White House blog that, frankly, sir, has me a bit concerned.

I am certain that you are committed to freedom and liberty and do not intend on decreasing the level of freedom or the participation of citizens in the process of deciding public policy for our nation, even if that might mean that some of your initiatives have to be scaled back or simply abandoned.

Some might, however, question your commitment to freedom and the participation of citizens in the decision making process and this is why I am writing, respectfully, in the hope of seeing a happy resolution to what I hope is merely a poorly stated appeal for help in support of your health care initiative.

I understand you are asking people, through your staff, to email flag@whitehouse.gov to report people who oppose your health care plan, even though, Mr. President, you have NOT actually sent out a specific proposal and there are multiple different proposals.

Your appeal, which I sincerely fear is a call for informants (http://www.whitehouse.gov/blog/Facts-Are-Stubborn-Things/) was cloaked in what seems to some, myself included, doublespeak, and to my mind this appeal carries the implication that the White House wants to capture the names of opponents, which has a potentially chilling effect on open debate.

As part of this appeal, you tell your readers, basically, that people who are citing video of yourself calling for a single payer system and detailing an incrementalist approach ‘liars’, something that is both impolite and, frankly, juvenile and beneath contempt. Those statements were made by you, Mr. President. If indeed you are opposed to a single payer plan and have changed your mind, it is useful to you, and citizens who may even support you but for this perception, it is wise, I submit, to clear this matter up rather by clarifying yourself rather than blaming others for a reasonable and logical assumption based on what you actually said.

Mr. President, facts ARE stubborn things and unless or until you publicly disavow a single payer system and actually ANNOUNCE and put in print YOUR health care proposal, it is only reasonable to think that all those things you have said are still on the table and part of your overall plan. If, however, you want a single payer system, please tell us and put in writing what your plan is so that we can have a civil discourse.

Mr. President, are you willing to state what your plan is then publicly disavow any plan that involves single payer plans in any fashion?

Further, Mr. President, would you be willing to solemnly swear that the minute you propose or even SIGN any bill that includes a single player plan or a precursor thereto that you will resign your office? Are you willing, sir, to resign your office if the implementation of your plan results in anything more than a 10% decrease in the number of people enrolled in private plans within 4 years after whatever bill is passed?

Please be advised, Mr. President, I will not be monitored: I oppose what some refer to as ‘Obamacare’ on the basis of my conviction that the Federal Power has no business sticking its nose in such things, a point of view that I sincerely believe is consistent with the original intent of our Founders. I respect that you feel differently and read that differently, but to dismiss our point of view with juvenile and petty name-calling that is clearly beneth contempt and that is simply not professional is a reflection on the content of your character that will not turn Americans against those who oppose state-run or regulated and managed health care by ANY name.

I am NOT afraid to stand up for my convictions, I respect you and your office, and I rightfully and justly demand that you and your staff respect me and my office, the office of “elector”, one of your 300 million “bosses”.

I respectfully request that you stop asking people to become informants, please spend a few minutes and re-read your constitution which you swore to uphold, and which is a condition of your tenure which must be adhered to.

I am enclosing a copy of this email to my member of Congress, my Senators, and my Governor as well as any local media and asking them to investigate WHY the White House is trying to capture names of opponents and asking people to inform on opponents.

If your office is seeking to obtain names of people who oppose your plan and to engage other Americans as informants or agents I would, and I am sure many others would, consider this to be a SERIOUS offense against the Bill of Rights if indeed your objective here is to do this, so, with this in mind, sir, please cease and desist and respect even those who oppose you in a civil and fair manner.

I pray that this communication is seen as a friendly appeal for a quick and amicable resolution of my concerns or, at worse, a friendly rebuke, if you will, due to what is clearly impolite behavior that is beneath of the dignity of the Presidency or the White House.

May you continue to be in good health and good spirits as you lead our free nation of free and sovereign citizens who wish you, and America, godspeed within the reasonable constraints of liberty, justice, and our Constitution.

Yours in service to the Republic,

Bill Collier,
By the Grace of God, Citizen and Elector, The Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, The United States of America
Marysville PA

PS I have BCC’d this to other individuals and hope that they, too, stand up by name and without fear, knowing that your White House, Mr. President, would never seek to in any way censure or persecute in any manner any citizen for simply questioning your policies or conduct: I am sure you will agree with me that the best way to dispel such myths is to reply in a cordial and civil manner to such citizens, even your loyal opposition.