The border fence is going up in El Paso:
The US Department of Homeland Security is racing to meet a December 31 deadline to raise 670 miles of steel fences and vehicle barriers along the 3,200 kilometer (2,000 mile) long southern border. About half has been completed, including this six kilometer (four mile) segment at New Mexico's Santa Teresa Port of Entry.
That's good. Of course, the mainstream media has their usual theme, ignoring the identity theft committed by these people who steal Social Security numbers in a "peaceful" manner:
The overwhelming majority of the half-million people believed to cross the border ilegally each year are peaceful, mostly Mexicans seeking low-wage jobs. About 12 percent of those caught in the El Paso sector in 2007, Hernandez said, have a criminal background or were previously deported from the United States.
Tuesday, August 5, 2008
Slow times
Posting will be slow around here since I'm going out of town for a few days. More of the usual crap when I come back.
Monday, August 4, 2008
Review of Swing Vote
So there is this new movie out called Swing Vote, starring Kevin Costner. Since whenever Hollywood steps up with a political movie it makes conservatives look like crooks or buffoons and liberals look the opposite, I was quite skeptical of it. (Ever seen Dave? What dreck.)
The good news is that Swing Vote works really hard to be balanced and is a pretty good movie, or so says Mark Hemingway. It sounds like the key was that the writers didn't deal with a lot of ideology in the movie. Given that it's about a presidential race, that's not easy to do but it sounds like they pulled it off. With one of my favorite actors ever cast as the incumbent Republican president, Kelsey Grammar (aka, Sideshow Bob!), it could be pretty good. Dennis Hopper (aka, Shooter the alcoholic!) is the Democratic candidate, too.
Of course, I still won't see it in the theater, but I'll be sure to check it out when it comes out on DVD.
The good news is that Swing Vote works really hard to be balanced and is a pretty good movie, or so says Mark Hemingway. It sounds like the key was that the writers didn't deal with a lot of ideology in the movie. Given that it's about a presidential race, that's not easy to do but it sounds like they pulled it off. With one of my favorite actors ever cast as the incumbent Republican president, Kelsey Grammar (aka, Sideshow Bob!), it could be pretty good. Dennis Hopper (aka, Shooter the alcoholic!) is the Democratic candidate, too.
Of course, I still won't see it in the theater, but I'll be sure to check it out when it comes out on DVD.
Too bad, so sad
The illegal alien news just keeps on coming today. The New York Times has an article about how some hospitals are deporting illegals who require costly care. The government won't pay for care, so if they don't get forced home, the hospitals have to just eat the cost, which would raise everyone else's costs. Of course, the government paying for it just leads to higher taxes for those of us who actually pay them, so Americans get screwed either way.
Being a Times news story, it features the most heart-wrenching story possible, and one that never mentions the various crimes committed by the illegal alien (Social Sceurity fraud and violation of immigration laws, along with probably tax evasion and others). What a surprise. Luckily, most people can fight through that garbage and see how this is a good thing. It's unfortunate for illegals with no insurance who get hurt, but then if they followed our immigration laws they could probably have jobs with insurance. I don't feel much pity for them, given that they've been leeching off our country for so long.
So yes, hospitals have to do the job of our federal government. Nice, right Obama and McCain?
Being a Times news story, it features the most heart-wrenching story possible, and one that never mentions the various crimes committed by the illegal alien (Social Sceurity fraud and violation of immigration laws, along with probably tax evasion and others). What a surprise. Luckily, most people can fight through that garbage and see how this is a good thing. It's unfortunate for illegals with no insurance who get hurt, but then if they followed our immigration laws they could probably have jobs with insurance. I don't feel much pity for them, given that they've been leeching off our country for so long.
So yes, hospitals have to do the job of our federal government. Nice, right Obama and McCain?
There are probably too many illegals in New York City
It appears that Univision's evening news broadcast has the highest ratings in New York City. But Barack Obama and John McCain and all of the other open-borders advocates tell me they will assimilate!
Could they wrong about yet one more topic in illegal immigration?
Could they wrong about yet one more topic in illegal immigration?
Saturday, August 2, 2008
I love Dragnet
In 1990, cable TV finally made it out to the country and my parents' house. One of my favorite channels was Nickelodeon, as it allowed to see shows that I'd never seen before. My favorite was Dragnet.
I loved the straightforward way they solved crimes and such. Plus, they were always taking down hippies. That ruled.
Thankfully, MeTV on channel 23 here in Chicago has become a latter-day version of Nick At Nite, but with old shows on all day. It must be the cheapest station in the country to run, considering all they show are old episodes of shows no one else wants. Anyway, every Saturday morning they show back-to-back episodes of Dragnet that record. I should just get them on DVD and be done with it.
What made me post this? The episode I am currently watching is titled "Community Relations". They are spending the episode trying to convince some high school graduates to take the police entrance exam. The fun part? Check out who is playing "Student (uncredited)". That's right, it's everyone's favorite acquitted double murderer, OJ Simpson! Maybe his experience on the show helped him avoid prosecution.
I loved the straightforward way they solved crimes and such. Plus, they were always taking down hippies. That ruled.
Thankfully, MeTV on channel 23 here in Chicago has become a latter-day version of Nick At Nite, but with old shows on all day. It must be the cheapest station in the country to run, considering all they show are old episodes of shows no one else wants. Anyway, every Saturday morning they show back-to-back episodes of Dragnet that record. I should just get them on DVD and be done with it.
What made me post this? The episode I am currently watching is titled "Community Relations". They are spending the episode trying to convince some high school graduates to take the police entrance exam. The fun part? Check out who is playing "Student (uncredited)". That's right, it's everyone's favorite acquitted double murderer, OJ Simpson! Maybe his experience on the show helped him avoid prosecution.
Thursday, July 31, 2008
Favre may go to the Vikings or Bears after all
The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel is reporting that the Packers may end up trading Brett Favre to either the Vikings or Bears if they can't find a suitable deal with any other team. This makes sense for the Packers.
Current season be damned, if the Packers can't get a 3rd rounder for him from anyone else but can from either of those two teams, they should take it. It would be better for the long-term health of the franchise. If they cared about this year or next year so much, they would probably welcome back Favre and name him the starter anyway. It's time they apply the (correct, I think) longer view to a trade just as they are doing with their QB situation.
Current season be damned, if the Packers can't get a 3rd rounder for him from anyone else but can from either of those two teams, they should take it. It would be better for the long-term health of the franchise. If they cared about this year or next year so much, they would probably welcome back Favre and name him the starter anyway. It's time they apply the (correct, I think) longer view to a trade just as they are doing with their QB situation.
Griffey to the Sox? UPDATED
Ken Rosenthal is reporting that the Sox and Reds have agreed to a trade that would send Ken Griffey, Jr. to the Sox. No other details are available. Griffey has to waive his no-trade clause.
I should wait until it's finalized (if that even happens), but I don't see the fit. Griffey can't play center field any more, so he's limited to the outfield corners and DH. Including first base, the Sox are currently set at those spots. I don't see Griffey as an upgrade over any of Carlos Quentin, Jermaine Dye, Nick Swisher (who has the odd combination of skills to play either CF or 1B), Jim Thome, or Paul Konerko. Not that they are all having great years, but then one of them has to sit every day. Maybe that's the point, to get them all more rest and give them a thumper off the bench every game. But then why can't Josh Fields to a reasonable impression of that when Joe Crede gets healthy?
This trade is too confusing to think about without hearing the details, so no more from me on it now.
UPDATE: It's Griffey for Nick Masset and Danny Richar. That's not much to give up, but I still don't understand what Griffey brings to the team that they don't already have.
I should wait until it's finalized (if that even happens), but I don't see the fit. Griffey can't play center field any more, so he's limited to the outfield corners and DH. Including first base, the Sox are currently set at those spots. I don't see Griffey as an upgrade over any of Carlos Quentin, Jermaine Dye, Nick Swisher (who has the odd combination of skills to play either CF or 1B), Jim Thome, or Paul Konerko. Not that they are all having great years, but then one of them has to sit every day. Maybe that's the point, to get them all more rest and give them a thumper off the bench every game. But then why can't Josh Fields to a reasonable impression of that when Joe Crede gets healthy?
This trade is too confusing to think about without hearing the details, so no more from me on it now.
UPDATE: It's Griffey for Nick Masset and Danny Richar. That's not much to give up, but I still don't understand what Griffey brings to the team that they don't already have.
Wednesday, July 30, 2008
Dudes wearing eyeliner
The latest sign of the collapse of Europe is that in England, a company is selling mascara for guys. I can just picture it: "You know what? half the potential market isn't being addressed!"
Tuesday, July 29, 2008
Babytalk to old people
Rachel Lucas (clearly one of the few bigger misanthropes than me) writes about a study showing that old people hate being talked to like they are 2 years old. She does so very colorfully, so I recommend it to all.
When my grandmother was in her later years, I remember people talking to her like that. I hated it about as much as Rachel did. I always talked to her about normal things in a normal voice and I think she appreciated it.
When my grandmother was in her later years, I remember people talking to her like that. I hated it about as much as Rachel did. I always talked to her about normal things in a normal voice and I think she appreciated it.
More romantic: men or women
John Hawkins and Dr. Melissa Clouthier have a little debate over IM or something about whether men or women are more romantic. I found it interesting. I can't believe it, but I actually agree more with the doctor.
Sick people on the CTA
This morning I'm on the Blue Line headed to work on a jam-packed car. We get to the Chicago stop and all of a sudden, at the other end of my car some of the passengers are forcing the doors open and getting off. I wonder what's happening (luckily I tend to have a good vantage point), and it becomes apparent that someone is "sick" on the train.
From what I could tell it was a little Hispanic lady who wasn't terribly old or fat. Yeah, the train was kind of warm, but when it's full of people that's going to happen. So the conductor and someone else (I guess the guy who was working at the station) come down and are just kind of talking to her for a few minutes. After this goes on for about 10 minutes we finally take off with this lady still on the train!
Now...
Unless someone is having a seizure or heart attack or stroke or something, why in the hell can't they just get up? Why can't we carry them off? This lady looked OK to me (not that she wasn't sick, but she could have gotten her ass up and off the train). We had to hold up morning rush hour for her to catch her breath or whatever? Meanwhile, the rest of the train was getting hotter and we were all getting warmed up while she had tons of room to calm herself down or something.
I'm quite aware that this may be my most misanthropic post yet, but I just don't get it. She wasn't going anywhere, so why not just get the train two more stops to Clark and Lake where everyone else can get off and she can be attended to? The whole thing is just done with no consideration of the hundreds of other passengers on the train sweating our asses off, not to mention the other trains behind us now getting clogged up.
From what I could tell it was a little Hispanic lady who wasn't terribly old or fat. Yeah, the train was kind of warm, but when it's full of people that's going to happen. So the conductor and someone else (I guess the guy who was working at the station) come down and are just kind of talking to her for a few minutes. After this goes on for about 10 minutes we finally take off with this lady still on the train!
Now...
Unless someone is having a seizure or heart attack or stroke or something, why in the hell can't they just get up? Why can't we carry them off? This lady looked OK to me (not that she wasn't sick, but she could have gotten her ass up and off the train). We had to hold up morning rush hour for her to catch her breath or whatever? Meanwhile, the rest of the train was getting hotter and we were all getting warmed up while she had tons of room to calm herself down or something.
I'm quite aware that this may be my most misanthropic post yet, but I just don't get it. She wasn't going anywhere, so why not just get the train two more stops to Clark and Lake where everyone else can get off and she can be attended to? The whole thing is just done with no consideration of the hundreds of other passengers on the train sweating our asses off, not to mention the other trains behind us now getting clogged up.
Monday, July 28, 2008
Video of the day
This is going to be the best video you see all day. Trust me. I can't describe it any better than has been done by Ufford at With Leather, so I'll quote him in full:
This elaborate unveiling of soccer uniforms (fine, fine: kits) comes to us from Bayern Munich, aka Bayern München, aka The Adventures of Bayern Munchausen. And I don't want to spoil anything, but if you hate soccer and Germans -- and most Americans do -- this isn't going to improve your view of either.
I just don't know how team officials arrived at this monstrosity. "We need to show off the new kits." "How about a fashion show?" "That's a terrible idea." "How about a fashion show... with choreography!?" "NOW you're talking!"
Even the presence of beautiful models in the video can't save it.
This elaborate unveiling of soccer uniforms (fine, fine: kits) comes to us from Bayern Munich, aka Bayern München, aka The Adventures of Bayern Munchausen. And I don't want to spoil anything, but if you hate soccer and Germans -- and most Americans do -- this isn't going to improve your view of either.
I just don't know how team officials arrived at this monstrosity. "We need to show off the new kits." "How about a fashion show?" "That's a terrible idea." "How about a fashion show... with choreography!?" "NOW you're talking!"
Even the presence of beautiful models in the video can't save it.
Friday, July 25, 2008
The Green fad may be ending
Has anyone noticed that everything everywhere is green (or should I write, Green)? I was just thinking about it last night. There I am, watching Special Report with Brit Hume, and I get pummelled with another goofy gas commericial by BP or somebody. In it, I am told that they do all kinds of things to "protect the environment".
What does that even mean? What do they mean by "environment"? Anything specific? Also, how are they "protecting" it, and from who or what? See what I mean when I write that this stuff is just plain goofy? I also think it's meant to appeal to idiots who don't think about things like this, but that's another issue.
Anyway, I was thinking about how everything has to be Green. It's so annoying. Can't anybody just sell me some gas or burgers or beer and leave it at that?
I am glad the fad is dying. And yes, environmentalists, it was always fad. I knew people were smarter than that, and they are proving me correct:
As global warming was first becoming a cause célèbre a few years ago, many serious environmentalists worried that green was in danger of becoming a fad -- something that would inevitably recede from consciousness after overtaxing our limited pop-cultural attention span.
Sad to say, that prediction shows signs of coming true. Last week, The New York Times noted that the advertising industry is pulling back from green-themed marketing, having "grasped the public's growing skepticism over ads with environmental messages.
What does that even mean? What do they mean by "environment"? Anything specific? Also, how are they "protecting" it, and from who or what? See what I mean when I write that this stuff is just plain goofy? I also think it's meant to appeal to idiots who don't think about things like this, but that's another issue.
Anyway, I was thinking about how everything has to be Green. It's so annoying. Can't anybody just sell me some gas or burgers or beer and leave it at that?
I am glad the fad is dying. And yes, environmentalists, it was always fad. I knew people were smarter than that, and they are proving me correct:
As global warming was first becoming a cause célèbre a few years ago, many serious environmentalists worried that green was in danger of becoming a fad -- something that would inevitably recede from consciousness after overtaxing our limited pop-cultural attention span.
Sad to say, that prediction shows signs of coming true. Last week, The New York Times noted that the advertising industry is pulling back from green-themed marketing, having "grasped the public's growing skepticism over ads with environmental messages.
Fatass whiners
What a bunch of babies. Big, fat babies:
In late April, Troutman learned an unfortunate side effect of his healthy weight gain: After entering the Michigan Avenue Gap store, he was told that they no longer carried his size, XXL.
"I'm not sure what I felt at that moment, but part of it was embarrassment," Troutman wrote on his blog, My View from the Jeep. "Regardless of the words the associate used, all I heard was, 'We're not serving your kind anymore.' "
The horror. It's like Jim Crow all over again.
The Gap was Troutman's favorite retail spot, and shopping there provided him with relief from the stresses of working as human resource manager at a Chicago not-for-profit. Now, he says, the local store on his block is a reminder of where he is not welcome anymore. "At my size, I don't have many options for shopping, and this was just one more limitation," he said. "The Gap is making it harder for a group of people who already have difficulty shopping to purchase their product."
Paul McAleer is a Chicago Web designer and developer who created and writes for My Big Fat Blog, which aims to report on "fat awareness and fat rights." He said the Gap's decision to pull the XXL from stores is part of a retail trend to make the bricks-and-mortar store less plus-size friendly. "To me it says that fat people, both men and women, do not fit within the Gap's brand image," McAleer said. Last year Old Navy, a youth-oriented brand of clothing owned by Gap Inc., pulled women's XXL from its stores, making it available only online.
What I'm about to write is not because I hate fat people and make fun of them (though they can be funny sometimes). It's because I'm 6'9" and can't find clothes everywhere I want to shop either:
All right, fatty, here's the deal. Stop being such a whiner. First, you are fat because you eat too much and don't exercise enough. If it's really just due to muscle gain, no one has to subsidize your roided up body. To complain about not finding clothes because of your lifestyle is ridiculous. That's like if you chopped off your arm on purpose and started complaining because stores don't carry one-armed shirts.
Second, why is Gap a bad guy? They are trying to be more efficient in their inventory. You can still buy your clothes online. Besides, since you are a guy you should appreciate not having to go to a store. It sucks poop, and only gays and metrosexuals enjoy shopping for clothes. Online shopping is SO much easier and better. Trust me, I do it all the time.
Third, this isn't Russia (to turn a phrase; I know they have a market economy now). We have a free market. If there are so many fashionable fatties out there who want to shop, open a store for them where you design the clothes. You should be fabulously rich benefitting from all of the fat discrimination out there.
Wait, what's that you say? You wouldn't get rich from it? Well no kidding. I guess there's not that much demand for it. Now do you see why Gap is not carrying that stuff any more?
Why should a store be required to carry everything they have in your size? Where does it end? Can I get some size 15 shoes, or 38 inch inseam pants, or XLXT shirts too? How about Shawn Bradley? How about Yokozuna? Hey, they've got rights and shouldn't be inconvenienced either, correct?
Yeah, dude, everybody today is a victim. Everybody has to bitch about something. Why don't you stop complaining and either fix the problem (by opening your own stores) or deal with it? You do that by finding out where you can find clothes that fit. It was quite a disappointment when I was a 6' 6" junior in high school and I figured out I had to buy all of my pants and shoes (and most of my shirts) from a catalog for the rest of my life, but I GOT OVER IT. Life goes on. With the internet, it's easy to find all kinds of big and tall stores.
In late April, Troutman learned an unfortunate side effect of his healthy weight gain: After entering the Michigan Avenue Gap store, he was told that they no longer carried his size, XXL.
"I'm not sure what I felt at that moment, but part of it was embarrassment," Troutman wrote on his blog, My View from the Jeep. "Regardless of the words the associate used, all I heard was, 'We're not serving your kind anymore.' "
The horror. It's like Jim Crow all over again.
The Gap was Troutman's favorite retail spot, and shopping there provided him with relief from the stresses of working as human resource manager at a Chicago not-for-profit. Now, he says, the local store on his block is a reminder of where he is not welcome anymore. "At my size, I don't have many options for shopping, and this was just one more limitation," he said. "The Gap is making it harder for a group of people who already have difficulty shopping to purchase their product."
Paul McAleer is a Chicago Web designer and developer who created and writes for My Big Fat Blog, which aims to report on "fat awareness and fat rights." He said the Gap's decision to pull the XXL from stores is part of a retail trend to make the bricks-and-mortar store less plus-size friendly. "To me it says that fat people, both men and women, do not fit within the Gap's brand image," McAleer said. Last year Old Navy, a youth-oriented brand of clothing owned by Gap Inc., pulled women's XXL from its stores, making it available only online.
What I'm about to write is not because I hate fat people and make fun of them (though they can be funny sometimes). It's because I'm 6'9" and can't find clothes everywhere I want to shop either:
All right, fatty, here's the deal. Stop being such a whiner. First, you are fat because you eat too much and don't exercise enough. If it's really just due to muscle gain, no one has to subsidize your roided up body. To complain about not finding clothes because of your lifestyle is ridiculous. That's like if you chopped off your arm on purpose and started complaining because stores don't carry one-armed shirts.
Second, why is Gap a bad guy? They are trying to be more efficient in their inventory. You can still buy your clothes online. Besides, since you are a guy you should appreciate not having to go to a store. It sucks poop, and only gays and metrosexuals enjoy shopping for clothes. Online shopping is SO much easier and better. Trust me, I do it all the time.
Third, this isn't Russia (to turn a phrase; I know they have a market economy now). We have a free market. If there are so many fashionable fatties out there who want to shop, open a store for them where you design the clothes. You should be fabulously rich benefitting from all of the fat discrimination out there.
Wait, what's that you say? You wouldn't get rich from it? Well no kidding. I guess there's not that much demand for it. Now do you see why Gap is not carrying that stuff any more?
Why should a store be required to carry everything they have in your size? Where does it end? Can I get some size 15 shoes, or 38 inch inseam pants, or XLXT shirts too? How about Shawn Bradley? How about Yokozuna? Hey, they've got rights and shouldn't be inconvenienced either, correct?
Yeah, dude, everybody today is a victim. Everybody has to bitch about something. Why don't you stop complaining and either fix the problem (by opening your own stores) or deal with it? You do that by finding out where you can find clothes that fit. It was quite a disappointment when I was a 6' 6" junior in high school and I figured out I had to buy all of my pants and shoes (and most of my shirts) from a catalog for the rest of my life, but I GOT OVER IT. Life goes on. With the internet, it's easy to find all kinds of big and tall stores.
Thursday, July 24, 2008
Link make goodness funny
The headline above is my weak attempt at humor by pretending that it could be an example of the way some Japanese phrases translate to English so horribly. (Sort of like the Three Happiness restaurant in Chintown visible from the Red Line.)
This website collects other such examples from people. It's pretty funny.
This website collects other such examples from people. It's pretty funny.
Reason ranks the 35 biggest cities by freedom
Guess which city comes in last in personal freedom? If you don't know, you are new to this blog. How about this apalling part:
Shortly after taking office in 1989, Mayor Richard Daley blew the dust off an ancient ordinance allowing individual city precincts to vote themselves dry. Today, nearly one quarter of Chicago’s precincts are alcohol-free; the number of Chicago taverns has dropped from some 7,000 in the late 1940s to just over 1,300 today.
Shortly after taking office in 1989, Mayor Richard Daley blew the dust off an ancient ordinance allowing individual city precincts to vote themselves dry. Today, nearly one quarter of Chicago’s precincts are alcohol-free; the number of Chicago taverns has dropped from some 7,000 in the late 1940s to just over 1,300 today.
Don't want to deport illegals?
Don't drive around San Franciso, or you'll probably be gunned down by one of them.
The best is this a-hole's lawyer, who just couldn't stop lying to the press about his client:
Shortly after that, police arrested Ramos, a native of El Salvador and reputed member of the Mara Salvatrucha gang, known as MS-13. Investigators believe he was the gunman, though two other men were seen in the car with him...
Ramos' attorney, Robert Amparan, said his client was not the shooter. "They have the wrong person," he said.
Amparan declined to discuss details of the case, but he denied his client was involved in gang activity and said Ramos entered the country legally. Federal authorities contend Ramos is undocumented.
Sure. How did he avoid deportation? Through the same type of law that we have here in Chicago:
The victims' family learned that Ramos had been arrested at least three times before the shooting and evaded deportation, largely because of San Francisco's sanctuary status.
The policy, adopted in 1989 by the city's elected Board of Supervisors, bars local officials from cooperating with federal authorities in their efforts to deport illegal immigrants.
Despite his history, the city turned him loose only four months ago when he was in the middle of being deported:
Ramos was arrested in late March with another man after police discovered a gun used in a double homicide in the car Ramos was driving.
The district attorney's office decided not to file charges against Ramos, and he was released April 2 even though he was in the process of being deported after his application for legal residence was denied, according to the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement.
Not that deportation would matter when this animal could just scurry back across the border. Here's the big finale. Mayor Newsom should be impeached or recalled or whatever they do over there:
"We need to remember always that a death-dealing policy like 'sanctuary' hides behind the false mantle of compassion," Hull said.
Nathan Ballard, a spokesman for San Francisco's mayor, said city officials were wrong to shield undocumented, juvenile felons from federal immigration authorities.
"The sanctuary program was never intended to shield felons," Ballard said. "The policy was inappropriate."
However, Newsom "still supports the worthwhile aims of denying the federal government" assistance in deporting otherwise law-abiding undocumented residents, he said.
"Otherwise law-abiding undocumented residents"? WHAT?!?!?!? That's like saying I'm a swell guy other than all of my liquor store robberies.
The best is this a-hole's lawyer, who just couldn't stop lying to the press about his client:
Shortly after that, police arrested Ramos, a native of El Salvador and reputed member of the Mara Salvatrucha gang, known as MS-13. Investigators believe he was the gunman, though two other men were seen in the car with him...
Ramos' attorney, Robert Amparan, said his client was not the shooter. "They have the wrong person," he said.
Amparan declined to discuss details of the case, but he denied his client was involved in gang activity and said Ramos entered the country legally. Federal authorities contend Ramos is undocumented.
Sure. How did he avoid deportation? Through the same type of law that we have here in Chicago:
The victims' family learned that Ramos had been arrested at least three times before the shooting and evaded deportation, largely because of San Francisco's sanctuary status.
The policy, adopted in 1989 by the city's elected Board of Supervisors, bars local officials from cooperating with federal authorities in their efforts to deport illegal immigrants.
Despite his history, the city turned him loose only four months ago when he was in the middle of being deported:
Ramos was arrested in late March with another man after police discovered a gun used in a double homicide in the car Ramos was driving.
The district attorney's office decided not to file charges against Ramos, and he was released April 2 even though he was in the process of being deported after his application for legal residence was denied, according to the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement.
Not that deportation would matter when this animal could just scurry back across the border. Here's the big finale. Mayor Newsom should be impeached or recalled or whatever they do over there:
"We need to remember always that a death-dealing policy like 'sanctuary' hides behind the false mantle of compassion," Hull said.
Nathan Ballard, a spokesman for San Francisco's mayor, said city officials were wrong to shield undocumented, juvenile felons from federal immigration authorities.
"The sanctuary program was never intended to shield felons," Ballard said. "The policy was inappropriate."
However, Newsom "still supports the worthwhile aims of denying the federal government" assistance in deporting otherwise law-abiding undocumented residents, he said.
"Otherwise law-abiding undocumented residents"? WHAT?!?!?!? That's like saying I'm a swell guy other than all of my liquor store robberies.
Where's the John Edwards news?
The National Enquirer said last fall that John Edwards fathered a love child with a woman who isn't his wife. They reported this week that they caught him exiting the woman's hotel room in the wee hours of the morning. Haven't heard about all this?
Jack Shafer wonders why, especially compared to what Larry Craig and his wide stance went through. (He even throws out Jesse Jackson and his bastard child.) He thinks this:
Or are they observing a double standard that says homo-hypocrisy is indefensible but that hetero-hypocrisy deserves an automatic bye?
Or could it be that Craig is a Republican and Edwards and Jackson are Democrats? Methinks that's the much more obvious explanation.
As an aside, it's easy to laugh at this and say that the Enquirer is just a bunch of fake news. If so, why doesn't Edwards sue the crap out of them rather than just try to ignore it and change the subject when asked about it? He IS a trial lawyer, and a very successful one at that.
Jack Shafer wonders why, especially compared to what Larry Craig and his wide stance went through. (He even throws out Jesse Jackson and his bastard child.) He thinks this:
Or are they observing a double standard that says homo-hypocrisy is indefensible but that hetero-hypocrisy deserves an automatic bye?
Or could it be that Craig is a Republican and Edwards and Jackson are Democrats? Methinks that's the much more obvious explanation.
As an aside, it's easy to laugh at this and say that the Enquirer is just a bunch of fake news. If so, why doesn't Edwards sue the crap out of them rather than just try to ignore it and change the subject when asked about it? He IS a trial lawyer, and a very successful one at that.
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