COLLECTIVE MADNESS


“Soft despotism is a term coined by Alexis de Tocqueville describing the state into which a country overrun by "a network of small complicated rules" might degrade. Soft despotism is different from despotism (also called 'hard despotism') in the sense that it is not obvious to the people."

Saturday, April 24, 2010

Kill Whitey




April 24, 2010
New hit song in South Africa: 'Kill the Boer, Kill the Farmer !'
Jeremy Schaffner American Thinker

When arriving for The Football World Cup in South Africa in June 2010, do not forget to pick up your T-shirt at customs. Rumor has it that the ANC Youth League will be supplying them free of charge. Not wishing to scare off tourists, they only want to get rid of the local white population.



Seriously: this was part of a peaceful protest carried out recently. Now some people in government want to know who the protesters were, presumably to tick them off for casting South Africa in a bad light. It somehow didn't occur to them that they need to take serious steps against the main perpetrator,

Julius Malema is the head of the ANC (African National Congress) Youth League, and delights in singing the "Kill the Boer, Kill the Farmer" song at public gatherings. They failed to rope him in, so a civil case was brought by an N.G.O. to stop him singing the song. He ignored a court ruling in favour of the plaintiff, and sang it while visiting Robert Mugabe in Zimbabwe.

He had gone there to study their "success;" a country all but destroyed by that socialist dictator. A few days later the National Union of Mineworkers sang it at one of their meetings, taking their cue from Malema. We heard this morning that the disciplinary charges against Malema brought internally by the ANC, are to be dropped. They are powerless to stop him. He and his Youth League are the president's power base. It was they who orchestrated the coup at Polekwane in 2007, putting Jacob Zuma and the radical left in power. If they remove him, they remove themselves. It is out of control.

In the meantime, farm and urban killings continue, as some carry out Malema's instructions. The police try to convince the public that it is just random crime, but this is just an insult to our intelligence. The world will watch with folded arms as South Africa is destroyed, like they watched as Zimbabwe went down the tubes. If it were not for South Africa propping up Zimbabwe economically, and giving work to millions of Zim refugees, legal and illegal, (who are then able to feed their families back home) we would be seeing starvation on a massive scale.

Julius Malema is now on a trip to to see Hugo Chavez in Venezuela, to study their nationalisation model. No doubt he will pick up more than that from Hugo. Can it get worse?




138 comments:

  1. There will be silence from all the usual left wing and liberal sources.

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  2. And for rat and the other vaqueroes out west


    Dylan_One More Cup of Coffee


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  3. The ANC, PLO, Castro, Hugo Chavez et al..

    all scum from the same side of the coin...

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  4. And one for Q

    Who_Emminence Front


    Turn up the speakers and sip the scotch.





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  5. And I'd like to send this one out to our gypsy Melody

    Commitments_Dark End of the Street


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  6. And to the memory of Warren Zevon

    Werewolves of London


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  7. Quirk said...
    Rocky Road To Dublin


    interesting, thks

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  8. Iranian nuclear scientist requests asylum in Israel
    By ABE SELIG
    25/04/2010 00:33



    Speaking at a cultural event in Ramat Gan on Saturday, Deputy Negev and Galilee Development Minister Ayoub Kara (Likud) said that an Iranian nuclear scientist had broken ranks with the Islamic regime and requested political asylum in Israel.

    While Kara refused to reveal the identity of the scientist, he did say that the Iranian national was currently awaiting a decision on the matter in a “friendly country.”

    Kara added that the scientist had passed his message to Israeli sources through a Jewish woman of Iranian descent, and that he would do all he could to advance the request.

    “I will support any source with the goal of removing the strategic and nuclear threat posed to Israel and posed to the enlightened, democratic world [by Iran],” Kara said during Saturday’s event.

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  9. It is all about Africa, the thread.

    And the eternal Thompson Gunner.

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  10. UK NEWS

    GENERAL ELECTION 2010: NICK CLEGG SAYS ‘LET ISLAM PRAYER CALL RIN

    Friday April 23,2010
    By Daily Express Reporter
    THE Lib Dem leader is in favour of mosques being able to broadcast calls to prayer from loudspeakers in towns and cities across Britain.
    He says the Islamic “muezzin” cry should be allowed to ring out just like Christian church bells. He described it as “a joyful thing”.
    His remarks emerged yesterday as another gaffe, just hours after he was exposed as saying British people have “a more insidious cross to bear than Germany over the ­Second World War”.

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  11. - Mohammed's Radio - 1976

    Work all day and still cannot afford the price of gasoline

    Some story lines just don't seem to change, even after 35 years.

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  12. If the knowledgeable Iranian nuclear scientist wishes to emigrate to Israel, that would be indication that he does not consider the nuclear threat to Israel to be extreme, or even worthy of concern.

    In so far as his personal safety, from an Iranian nuclear weapon targeting Israel perspective, would be concerned.

    He knows how far the Iranians are, from a nuclear arms reality, he'd not be moving to the impact area, if he really thought it was one.

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  13. desert rat said...
    If the knowledgeable Iranian nuclear scientist wishes to emigrate to Israel, that would be indication that he does not consider the nuclear threat to Israel to be extreme, or even worthy of concern.

    In so far as his personal safety, from an Iranian nuclear weapon targeting Israel perspective, would be concerned.

    He knows how far the Iranians are, from a nuclear arms reality, he'd not be moving to the impact area, if he really thought it was one.



    You know nothing to which you speak...

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  16. the apprehension to stand up to n. korea after they attacked the s. korean ship due to fear of a nuclear exchange is likely to be the same way iran will behave once they start weaponizing. they'll follow the n. korean model and will get the same reaction from the world, that of timidness.

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  17. I know how rational folks have a desire for self preservation.

    The fear for the SouKs is not a fanciful "nuclear exchange".

    It is a very real concern about chemical and high explosive artillery shells, targeting the major population center of SouK, the Seoul metro area.

    As anyone that studied the situation there for over an hour would come to realize.

    The SouK have mandatory, universal military service of three years for all males. The CIA tells US:
    Manpower reaching militarily significant age annually:
    male: 371,728


    Times three is over one million men in uniform at any given time.

    With every able bodied male in the country over 22 years of age, a trained, three year term of service, military veteran.

    Our 25,000 troops, there, are window dressing. An Army kingdom for the pampered princes of the BDU set.

    A trip wire for an escalated US retaliation, in case of NorK aggression.

    The Iranians are already in place with this military capacity, both chemical and high explosive artillery and short range missiles.

    US troops are already in the impact areas of those capacities.

    Iranian behavior is what it is, because of their conventional capacity, just as it is for the NorKs.

    The basic nuclear capacity of either is questionable, neither even approaching military capabilities.

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  18. I know that no rational nuclear scientist would move to the impact area of the weapon he thought was being built.

    To do so, is irrational, suicidal.

    So either two conclusions can be drawn.

    Either the scientist is puffing his story, looking for a "beach house" instead of a condo in one of the a new J-town settlements.

    Or he's a nut.

    I'd bet on exaggeration for personal and propaganda purposes, rather than insanity, from the Iranian nuclear scientist.

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  19. Iranians not being famous for the veracity, I been told, time and again.

    By that very fella claiming this Iranian is a true blue truth teller.

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  20. The same fella that claims the Iranian is knowledgeable, also tells us that Iranians are insane, that MAD policies will not deter.

    So maybe this Iranian is not afraid of nuclear immolation. Perhaps he is just another Iranian nut case, driven by religion.

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  21. Big Disappointment in Livonia, MI


    Livonia euchre tournament fails to break world record

    Santiago Esparza / The Detroit News
    Livonia -- The Wayne Rotary Foundation tried to break a Guinness World Record for staging the world's largest card tournament Saturday but fell short in its effort.

    The rotary held a euchre tournament at Burton Manor, 27777 Schoolcraft. By 3 p.m., the tally was 589 entrants.

    The current record for a card tournament is 1,024, which was achieved by a group playing mus in Móstoles, Spain, near Madrid in September 2008.

    "We fell short," rotary president Robert Gilbert said as the crowd groaned, "but you're going to have a good time. I really thought we could do it."

    Officials were going to recount the total after they encountered problems during registration. But the recount still was expected to be well below the record...




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  22. desert rat said...
    The same fella that claims the Iranian is knowledgeable, also tells us that Iranians are insane, that MAD policies will not deter.

    So maybe this Iranian is not afraid of nuclear immolation. Perhaps he is just another Iranian nut case, driven by religion.



    rat knows nothing of what he speaks.. he plays checkers, Persians invented Chess...

    Rat doesnt understand the middle east or Iran..

    Nor does Rat understand 3d chess...

    rat runs in a straight line maze...

    Iran play above his pay grade

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  23. There is no pay grade above US citizen, "misdirection".

    If you don't know that, it's your limitation, not mine.

    May be why you're a disaffected Democrat.

    A liberal that does not understand the real price of freedom.

    The sacrifices demanded.

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  24. You know, this is another deal that doesn't exactly rock my shit-o-meter. The Dutch went down there, treated those people horribly, and got rich.

    Now, I suggest they hit the door. Their time is up.

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  25. The Dutch went into South Africa in 1652 three years after Peter Stuyvesant was inaugurated as director general of New Amsterdam in New York, 1647.

    In 2010, white farmers are being targeted and murdered by blacks in South Africa beacuase they are white. The blacks claim that the whites deserve to be killed.

    In 2010 after the fatal shooting of the white Robert Krentz, a 58-year-old rancher by an Illegal from Mexico, Arizona has said they have had enough.

    The Mexicans who have Arizona under siege claim that thye are Indians and are the rightful owners of the American Southwest.

    To use your logic, the white, European settlers in Arizona are in the same predicament as the white, European "settlers" in South Africa.

    No sense in getting upset with white settlers getting killled "by criminals of color"?

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  26. Logically, you are suggesting that rather than immigration control, the white Europeans in the American Southwest just hit the door?

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  27. Is their time up? Is mine, is yours?

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  28. I live in an area where the Lenape Indians lived for 10,000 years. As a boy I could walk to an outcrop on a field gulley and within minutes pick up jasper arrowhead chips, made by Indian woman thousands of years ago.

    Had I decided to stay and farm that land, I would be in the same legal and ethical position vis a vis the fifty Mexican day workers Indians) at the local Home Depot as a "Dutch white farmer" in South Africa.

    Think the logic is twisted, not according to many educated Mexican apologist intellectuals who make the argument that the the US should open our borders to everyone that feels the urge to merge.

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  29. Who is the settler? Who is the occupier? Who is the native?

    We went to war against the Serbs, bombed their modern capital city, because they had the audacity to get rid of the illegal Albanians, Muslims, from the Serbian native lands of Kosovo.

    Serb farmers, in the minority in Kosovo were targeted by the Albanians because they were Christian and Serb.

    We took the side of the occupiers in Kosovo. We took the side of the so called indigenous in South Africa and Rhodesia.

    Whose side are we on in the American Southwest?

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  31. Well, which side?

    My side of course.
    To which I took an oath.

    The protections of the Constitution apply, for the most part, to all people.

    Which consist of ALL the residents that live under its' influence, not just the citizens of the United States.

    At least philosophically.

    As not all people are citizens, even the early days of the Founders, not all persons were complete people, some were only worth 5/8ths, politically.

    Who rules, that's decided by demographics, mostly.

    Most of the Mexicans, in Arizona, are descendants of the indigenous population of North America, prior to Europeon colonization.

    Many US citizens consider themselves to be Mexican, which is marketed to them as "La Raza" or even more generically "Latino", as a race rather than a Nationality. George Lopez of late night TV and Sandra Bullock's employee exemplifies that mind set.

    Identity or hyphenated politics, it is All American.

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  32. A self-identifying minority, that maintains an oppressive political domination over the rest of the people, shall not long endure.

    Which why, in the United States, we have attempted to make progressive gains in granting full civil rights to all of our residents.

    We disdain the two or three tiered society that the white South Africans tried to maintain.

    Even nuclear weapons capacity failed to protect the South African government from demographic pressure.

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  33. Hundreds seek to fill vacant positions at Pro's Ranch Market


    PHOENIX -- Job hunters turned out in the hundreds to fill recently-vacant positions at Pro's Ranch Market stores, where a federal audit led to the firing of some 300 workers.

    Roxanne Nieves, one of the many that came out in search of a job, said she came to apply after she heard about the layoffs.

    "We heard they are firing a lot of illegal people, so we're here to apply," she said.

    Nonetheless, she and many others felt guilty about taking the jobs of the people who had just been fired.

    "To me, it's pretty hard to see everybody losing jobs," one job hunter said.

    About 300 of the 1,500 total employees at the six Phoenix supermarkets were let go this week after an Immigration and Customs Enforcement audit found them to be working illegally.

    Attorney Julie Pace said the company has I-9 forms on everyone and uses E-Verify to check employees' eligibility to work, but that is not always enough.

    "The company wouldn't know if someone is using counterfeit documents," Pace said.

    Pace also called on the federal government to help companies comply with hiring laws.

    "We need an easy program for employers to use to hire people -- safe, easy, quick -- so we don't have to deal with ICE audits," she said.

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  35. The federal audit that spawned the firings has looked at more than 1,600 businesses across the U.S. since July 2009, including 84 here in Arizona.

    Pro's Ranch Market employees about 1,500 people at its six stores in the Phoenix metro area.


    Now in a year the Federals audited 1,600 businesses. Doing the simple math, 250 workdays. they're averaging six per day.

    Six a day, like a beer habit.

    How many businesses are there, in the United States?

    I am not sure, but it's gonna take a lot of days, though, to audit them all, I'm sure of that.


    While there is no story about any of these 300 laid off supermarket workers being arrested or deported.

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  36. Gonna need a lot more than those 15,000 new IRS agents, to be working for ICE, if they're going to check through the employment records of all the businesses in the United States.

    Just the hotels & motels ...

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  37. Supermarkets, car washes, construction companies, man-o-man, the list of potential audits is enormous.

    We're gonna be gettin' a lot of illegals. But not just the amongst the workers.

    Watch and learn what enhanced police power brings, towards generating revenue. The fines and fees, fabulous for both Federal, State and Local governments.

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  38. Graham Pulls Support for Major Energy Bill

    Lindsay Graham, John Kerry, and Joe Lieberman have been working on a bi-partisan energy bill for some time and were due to report on it tomarrow.

    Graham has pulled his support for the bill because Harry Reid refuses to commit to considering the bill before any consideration on immigration reform which has recently become a new priority for the Obama administration.


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  39. Finance Reform.

    The GOP took a lot of heat for refusing to support the Healthcare Reform bill. Much of the criticism was justified if one goes merely on the motives behind their actions or inactions if you will. However, the bill was flawed, and the GOP ended up doing the right thing even if for the wrong reasons.

    Now the GOP is being blasted for opposing financial reform. And on the surface it appears that the GOP is merely supporting the fat cats on wall street. Again those appearances may actually reflect reality. But again, this may be another case of the GOP doing the right thing for the wrong reasons.
    The more I learn about this bill the less I like it.

    Like the HC bill it has a lot of good stuff in it, needed regulation; but on the other hand, it also contains some toxic provisions.


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  40. More on Cowardly Comedy Central

    Fox News is always blasting the ACLU. Yet this is what the ACLU had to say about the Comedy Central's recent censoring of South Park's program on Muhammad.

    "As UCLA law professor Eugene Volokh noted, the consequence of Comedy Central kowtowing to a blatant death threat "is that the thugs win and people have more incentive to be thugs. Behavior that gets rewarded gets repeated."

    Cowardly Central

    And here we have Bill O'Reilly's reaction.

    "Surely it is O'Reilly's responsibility as a leading broadcaster to do that small bit to keep the airwaves free.

    "Alas, this man of the folks doesn't see it that way..."


    [As Bill criticised the South Park producers for trying to put on their show, he said]

    "You don't want to give in to the intimidating forces of evil," he said. "But you got to deal with reality. And these people are killers and they will kill you."

    Media Leaves South Park Creators Out to Dry


    Fair and Balanced?


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  41. The White House appears to be reluctant to come out in support of the Democratic nominee for Obama's old seat.

    Perhaps it is tied to the crime connections (alleged) and questionable business practices of the candidates family bank which just went bust.

    Broadway Bank Bankrupt

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  42. South Korea suspects that a NK mine or topedo sank the ROK vessel.

    "On Friday, the two former presidents suggested dismantling some of the results of the Sunshine Policy, shutting down a joint industrial park in the North and denying permission to some North Korean ships to ply South Korean waters to save time and fuel as they travel abroad."

    Korean Conflict

    Without solid proof the NK intentionally caused the sinking and with NK denying any responsibility, the types of actions mentioned above are about the only type of actions ROK will be able to take.


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  43. US and Japan Make Progress on Base Relocation

    "The U.S. alliance with Japan is the centerpiece of American policy in Asia and has been a foundation of security in the region for decades. As the alliance has wavered, concern has spread across the region, with officials from South Korea to Australia expressing worries about the future of the U.S. security role.

    "The meeting Friday followed a brief and blunt tete-a-tete between President Obama and Hatoyama on April 12 during the prime minister's visit to Washington for the Nuclear Security Summit. During the 10-minute encounter, Obama told Hatoyama that the two countries were "running out of time" and asked him whether he could be trusted. Japanese officials were so taken aback by the toughness of Obama's tone that they did not draw up a written record of the words exchanged between the two leaders, sources said..."


    Air Base Relocation


    Whatever it takes to get it done.


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  44. Top Spanish bullfighter gored in Mexico


    "One of Spain's top matadors was seriously injured in Mexico when a 1,100-pound (500-kilogram) bull gored him in the groin and hoisted him into the air, causing major blood loss, his manager said Sunday.

    "Jose Tomas lost up to eight liters (17 pints) of blood after being gored Saturday by a beast named Navegante in the Mexican city of Aguascalientes..."


    Bullfighter Gored

    I lost my appetite for hunting when I was young, but on my first visit to Mexico I went to see a bull fight. I think there was actually about three fights that day.

    In one of them, the matador wasn't quite quick enough. The bull gored him and threw him about 10 feet right up into the stands. I never did hear what happened to the guy.

    On that day it would have been Matadors 2, Bulls 1 but of course the bull never actually wins.

    A few months back, I heard Spain was actually considering outlawing bull fighting.

    Probably a good thing.


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  45. Consideration is almost always a good thing.

    To outlaw bull fighting, that'd be a mistake. Seems to me.

    The matador knows the risks, the bulls will be butchered, regardless.

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  46. Nope, I'm not making a "Morality" argument. I'm sick of people making "Morality" arguments when dealing with International affairs.

    Here's the thing. When you go in and "take over," and institute an Apartheid scheme against the locals you'd better be damned sure you don't end up on the wrong side of demographics/events.

    They gambled, they took, now the fortunes of circumstance have turned against them. They're toast.

    All of human history has been "Conquest, reconquest, adaptation, advancement, and retreat." We brought the folks, and won the rifles/demographics war. They didn't. We win. They lose. This time.

    Like the Levant - The last thing on my mind.

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  47. Are we leaving Bob's post up in recognition of Confederate History Month, or as a last reminder to all that Bob is beneath contempt and therefor, certainly, any and all engagement?

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  48. Oh yeah, I forgot about that. Deuce, Whit, you need to take that down. We don't need to be associated with that. Let Bob demean himself, not us.

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  49. As for that Naval Fleet. They need to come back to American territory. The last thing in the world we need to be doing is blowing more money in Japan.

    That fleet serves no good purpose in Japan.

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  50. "The Mexicans who have Arizona under siege..."

    I caught a few minutes of stand-up at Comedy Central late last night wherein the comedian enlightened the audience as to the differentiation - or more precisely lack thereof - of various Latin Americans: "South of us, it's ALL Mexico, Jack."

    Well, little known but true is that many Latin Americans in the US claim among their fellows to be Mexican, while indeed being Nicaraguan, Salvadoran, Guatemalan, etc. Mexico has a certain cache.

    As for those who look down on Mexico and the Mexicans, no one beats the Colombians. Fabulously snotty with regard to our southern neighbor, they are.

    Everyone has their conceits.

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  51. I thought it did more good to leave it up than take it down. It is a stupid comment, off topic and was rebuked by WIO.

    I will remove it. Here is the removed comment edited:

    bob said...
    The n____ers ain't farmers. They like music, and starvation.

    Sat Apr 24, 08:33:00 PM EDT

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  52. "It is a stupid comment..."

    Au contraire. It is a vile comment.

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  53. Stupid comments, OTOH, are our daily traffic.

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  54. I accidently purged WIO's rebuke to Bob's comment. Sorry WIO.

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  55. I thought you were travelling down a slippery slope there Red.

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  56. Japan, now the world's 3rd, or 4th largest economy (depending on how you count the EU, and whether, or not, you figure China has surpassed them,) imports ALL of their oil. Around 5 Million Barrels/Day, I suppose.

    China imports about the same amount; and their imports are Growing rapidly every year.

    We import around 10 Million bbls/day, and the EU a similar amount.

    The Exporting nations Peaked in amount available for export in 2006.

    There is not ONE chance in a thousand that there will be as much oil available for "export" in 2012 as there is Today.

    The Department of Defense "Joint Operating Environment" study states that, at our current rate of growth/usage the world will be 10 Million Barrels/Day in deficit by 2015.

    Japan is busy "being Japan." China is busy running all over the world "making deals, and buying oil reserves."

    China is going to crush Japan's bright red ass. Too bad. It couldn't happen to a better group of people. We've got our own set of very real problems. We sure as hell don't need to let Japan suck us into another damned Pacific War.

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  58. We "Specialize" in Stupid Comments.

    Stoopid R' Us :)

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  59. "I thought you were travelling down a slippery slope there Red."

    Which slippery slope would that be?

    It was frankly depressing to walk in here last night to the Kill Whitey headliner followed shortly thereafter by Bob's...observation.

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  60. Let's see how all those oil deals hold up when the countries that made the deals feel that they were hoodwinked by the Chinese.

    Aramco comes to mind.

    Aramco:

    Saudi Aramco dates back to May 29, 1933, when the Saudi Arabian government signed a concessionary agreement with Standard Oil of California (Socal), allowing the company to explore Saudi Arabia for oil.

    Standard Oil of California assigned this concession to a wholly-owned subsidiary called California-Arabian Standard Oil Co. (Casoc).

    In 1936 with the company having no success at locating oil, the Texas Oil Company purchased a 50% stake of the concession.

    After a long search for oil that lasted around four years without success, the first success came with the seventh drill site in Dammam, an area located a few miles north of Dhahran in 1938, a well referred to as Dammam number 7. The development of this well, which immediately produced over 1,500 barrels per day (240 m3/d), gave the company confidence to continue and flourish.

    The company name was changed in 1944 from California-Arabian Standard Oil Company to Arabian American Oil Company (or Aramco). In 1948, Standard Oil of California and the Texas Oil Company were joined as investors by Standard Oil of New Jersey who purchased 30% of the company, and Socony Vacuum who purchased 10% of the company, leaving Standard Oil of California and the Texas Oil Company with equal 30% shares.

    In 1950, King Abdul Aziz Ibn Saud threatened to nationalize his country's oil facilities, thus pressuring Aramco to agree to share profits 50/50. A similar process had taken place with American oil companies in Venezuela a few years earlier.

    The American government granted US Aramco member companies a tax break known as the golden gimmick equivalent to the profits given to Ibn Saud.

    In 1973, following US support for Israel during the Yom Kippur War the Saudi Arabian government acquired a 25% share of Aramco, increased the share to 60% by 1974, and finally acquired full control of Aramco by 1980.

    In November 1988, the company changed its name from Arabian American Oil Company to Saudi Arabian Oil Company (or Saudi Aramco).

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  61. I don't make up the news. That is their language not mine.

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  62. Poor Quirk was desperately driven to a post on the euchre championship as a minor diversion.

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  63. "I don't make up the news."

    No, you select which news to highlight. And how.

    And witting or not, themes emerge.

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  64. March 28, 2010
    White farmers 'being wiped out'
    Over 3,000 have been killed since 1994. Now the ANC is accused of fanning the hate.


    Times on Line

    Dan McDougall in Ceres, Western Cape

    THE gunmen walked silently through the orchard. Skirting a row of burnt-out tyres, set ablaze months earlier to keep the budding fruit from freezing, they drew their old .38 revolvers.

    Inside his farmhouse Pieter Cillier, 57, slept with his 14-year-old daughter Nikki at his side. His 12-year-old son JD was having a sleepover with two teenagers in an adjoining room.

    As the intruders broke in, the farmer woke. He rushed to stop them, only to be shot twice in the chest.

    In his death throes he would have seen his killers and then his children standing over him, screaming and crying.

    Death has stalked South Africa’s white farmers for years. The number murdered since the end of apartheid in 1994 has passed 3,000.

    In neighbouring Zimbabwe, a campaign of intimidation that began in 2000 has driven more than 4,000 commercial farmers off their land, but has left fewer than two dozen dead.

    The vulnerability felt by South Africa’s 40,000 remaining white farmers intensified earlier this month when Julius Malema, head of the African National Congress’s (ANC’s) youth league, opened a public rally by singing Dubula Ibhunu, or Shoot the Boer, an apartheid-era anthem, that was banned by the high court last week.

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  65. It doesn't matter, Deuce. The amounts they are contracting for are relatively small in the general scheme of things. They are, quite simply, grasping at straws.

    Here's the deal. It is, with the newest technology, very easy to "find oil." They are "finding" a ton of it. Here's the problem. It's in small pockets, and it's very, very deep, and hard to get to. Most ALL of it is in "Deep Water."

    I read where the insurable losses on the latest Gulf of Mexico disaster are in the tens of billions.

    It is only a 100,000 bbl/day field (the world uses 86 MILLION bbl/day.) When you go that deep the temperatures, and pressure are enormous. A gazillion things can go wrong. And, they are ALL catastrophic.

    There is virtually zero chance of ever finding another E. Texas, or Ghawar, or Burgan. And if we did find one (the Russian Frontier is our last hope) it wouldn't affect the "peak oil" date, anyway. It would take years to develop, and the "Peak" is upon us.

    I am NOT pro-China, or Anti-China. They are what they are. I'm trying to say we are getting real damned close to the "deep shit." Our leaders know it, and they're afraid to talk about it. They want to redirect your attention (until after their retirement) to whether we should pay some poor sap's doctor bills, or whether we should import "More" future Patients.

    South Africa? The Levant? Gimmee a break.

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  66. Did they mention the guy was a "White Supremacist?"

    Piss on'em. They lost. Time to move on. I didn't like'm when they were "in power," and I don't like'm now. Let'em get their asses back to Europe where they belong. The Neo-Nazis will be glad to take'm in.

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  67. You are correct. I have no subscription to be concerned about, no advertisers and no constituents.

    Most of the American and European Press use euphemism and in many cases ignore what is obvious to many people. Political correctness is nothing if it is not propaganda and outright intellectual dishonesty.

    I say nothing on this blog that I will not say in person and do so in fact.

    If the truth as I see it disturbs, I expect to be challenged, welcome it and respond to it.

    I argue facts and do not disparage an honest disagreement based on conflicting facts and contradictions.

    I know how to admit that I am wrong, but not without a fight. I mostly win most arguments, but when wrong usually go down inflames.

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  68. Deuce said...
    I accidently purged WIO's rebuke to Bob's comment. Sorry WIO.


    Not a problem..

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  69. Sorry, Deuce. It's likely you will not drum up much outrage at the plight of the South African farmer.

    Is it wrong? Of course.

    But South Africa is in a galaxy far far away. How does it really affect world affairs?

    The number of people affected is miniscule in the tragedy that is Africa. You have millions of people dying in the Sudan, Congo, Somalia, Ethiopia, Nigeria, well, one could go on. They are dying of desease, famine, war, ethnic cleansing, you name it.

    Does the fact that it is whites being killed by blacks raise the significance as opposed to blacks being killed by blacks?

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  70. Sorry, Deuce.

    Posted that before seeing you last post.


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  71. Deuce, I love the fact that you make posts like this. It makes for an interesting blog. And, an intereting conversation. I think it's what sets this blog apart.

    No one Ever knows which direction the sentiment will go on this list. You can make guesses, but oftentimes you will be wrong.

    Don't Change.

    as if there was any chance of That. :)

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  72. Oh by the way.

    I once again have to disagree with Trish (although I do love to see her get her mad on. She's so damn cute when she's upset) about your posts.

    I am amazed at the variety of subjects you bring to the blog.
    It keeps things moving.

    And no one here seems to have any compunctions about taking the conversation in a different direction anytime they feel like it.


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  73. "I am amazed at the variety of subjects you bring to the blog."

    It's not a lack of variety that bothers me.

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  74. I think I tend to make comments on this blog that I would make sitting, having drinks, with a couple of close friends. They're a little over the top, quite often, and said more "for effect" than for enlightenment.

    It's in such informal circumtances that you gripe about your "family," bitch about your boss, and rail against the "Guvmint." I've been giving the Publicans hell, recently, because I'm so fucking pissed off that they "screwed the pooch" on the economy. Turns out they were just as dumb as me, and I don't want a government as "Dumb as I."

    I, also, recognize that there are thousands of honest, hard working, in all ways admirable Dutch farmers in Zimbabwe, and S. Africa. I'm just pissed at them as a group for not taking larger steps to avoid the disaster in the making. In all honesty, they didn't "give much back" when they were in control.

    No, posts like this one are, I believe, what make "The Bar."

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  75. Speaking of taking the conversation in a different direction, I am proposing that we have an annual EB awards ceremony. Maybe in mid-January and covering the previous year. In this case 2010.

    For some reason the name Bosco popped into my head.

    The Bosco awards.

    Yea, that's the ticket.

    Maybe in the shape of a small bear.

    Of course any details like that would have to be developed or approved by Deuce and Whit.

    As a time line we would have to get going pretty soon. Within the next couple of weeks we would need to solicit a list of categories for the awards such as;

    "The Best Comic Video Post"

    or

    "The Deuce Life-Time Achievment Award"


    You know, stuff like that.

    Once we have a list of the categories, we can start taking note of the posts here. By say December 1, we could start nominating posts for the various categories and then hand out the awards in January.

    Sweet.

    Or am I going a little crazy here?

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  76. The evidence continues to grow in the case against Comrade Rosie the Rufass.

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  77. John Stossel and the Media’s “Statist Syndrome”

    "“I started out by viewing the marketplace as a cruel place, where you need intervention by government and lawyers to protect people,” Stossel explained shortly after undergoing his transformation. “But after watching the regulators work, I have come to believe that markets are magical and the best protectors of the consumer.”

    In fact, Stossel realized that in most cases regulators and bureaucrats only made matters worse, spending billions of tax dollars on so-called “solutions” that invariably wound up creating larger problems. Needless to say, Stossel’s conversion to free market, libertarian principles – which he trumpeted every bit as loudly as he had previously trumpeted government interventionism – was not warmly received by his colleagues.

    "Once I started applying the same skepticism to government, I stopped winning awards," the 19-time Emmy Award-winner said.
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  78. Quirk,

    How 'bout a Rosie the Rufass Trophy?

    For relentless optimism wrt to the joys, rewards and SAVINGS resulting from our conversion to socialism?

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  79. The late Austrian intellectual Willi Schlamm once said:

    "The trouble with socialism is socialism. The trouble with capitalism is capitalists."



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  80. All suggestions are of course welcome.

    However, in naming them after a current poster we are giving that person an undue advantage in the voting.


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  81. The endearing "al-Bob"

    has been retired from use.

    Replaced by "Farmer Bob"

    Sorry Ass Epitaph.

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  82. He deserves full recognition,
    as reality catastrophically intrudes on his fantasies.

    ...as time goes by.

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  83. Blogger trish said...

    "And witting or not, themes emerge."

    They certainly do and with remarkable consistency.

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  84. doug quoted:

    "“But after watching the regulators work, I have come to believe that markets are magical and the best protectors of the consumer.” "

    doug, I'm curious, Ponzi scheme fair or foul? Caveat Emptor?

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  85. one other question doug - is it okay for bankers to take FDIC guaranteed deposits to wager at a casino? Should we simply do away with the FDIC and let the magical market decide?

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  86. I think you should belly up to the bar and answer doug but somehow I doubt you will. *clang* as the gauntlet is thrown down.

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  87. You want pure "capitalism?" Go to Mejico. You want pure "socialism?" Go to Cuba.

    You want to see something that works? Iowa come to mind. As does N. Dakota, S. Dakota, Minnesota, Wisconsin, Nebraska, . . . . . Even Texas, I guess.

    Missouri works pretty well. Kansas, not bad. Ky, Tn? They'll do. Ohio, Indiana, Pennsylvania? yah.

    Stossel is pretty much a first-rate pitchman, second-rate thinker.

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  88. China builds missile factory In IRAN?

    Yeah, they're gonna sign onto those "sanctions" agreements any day now.

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  89. which exchange operates in Iowa? Is there a commodities exchange there?

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  90. Well really all I said was the truth. They had five percent whites in Rhodesia that knew to farm, now the whites are gone, and the whole country are starving. Same thing is coming to South Africa. Where are the human rights organizations in all this? I know a girl from Rhodesia/Zimbabwe, works in a real estate office here. It's all gone to hell, she will testify. She's lucky, she got out. Sorry for the blunt language.

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  91. From Rufus' link:

    China "has been very successful in offering Iran technology and capabilities that are actually wanted, as opposed to those that might be 'nice to have.'

    "A path has been found through the factions within Iranian officialdom (and its armed forces) to deliver products that build trust in Beijing. In return, China gains influence with Tehran that can be parlayed into access to Iran's natural resources."

    While these Chinese-origin systems have provided Iran with invaluable missile technology, this has had little or no impact on the development of its ballistic missile capabilities.

    "Iran's strategic weapons can only (ultimately) involve it in a losing battle with the United States,' Hewson concluded, "but its tactical weapons have already altered the regional balance of power in a much more practical way."

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    What is not stated and is obvious is that China has a price for sanctions against Iran and it is called Taiwan.

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  92. I meet that black pastor what's his name, you know the guy, and his wife, in garments a flowing Africa, one time in our church here, he gave the big talk, about how whitey was so bad in South Africa, all the church folk got up and clapped. I didn't. They are now ethnically cleansing whitey, and the country is, as expected, going to hell, and where are the human rights organizatios? They are not capable of running their own country, and it is not a crime to say so.

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  93. No, Bob; but it IS racist, and offensive.

    It's THEIR Country and they can run it any damned way they please. It's none of OUR business.

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  94. And, explain to me again why I should "give a shit" about Taiwan?

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  95. Some of the brighter blacks are saying, in South Africa, it was better when the whites run things. Least we had food.

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  96. Let them all starve to death, Rufus. At least, that ain't racist.

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  97. Bob, there are lots of "Confederate" sites on the internet. You would feel right at home, there. Why don't you look them up. And Stay.

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  98. You can tell them all how your wife is dying. Maybe fall in love with an avatar.

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  99. You got to get up about six a.m. and put the socks on, kiss the wife, on the cheek, and put the boots on, and go to work, then come home when the sun goes down. You got to do that forever, till you retire. Then, you blog.

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  100. Costa Rica traded Taiwan for a football stadium.

    Sanctions took down South Africa. Perhaps they could work with the Persians.

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  101. It was just a mention of the fact, you can tell anyone anything on a stupid blog, and meant for her alone.

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  102. Bit I'm the least racist of them all, Rufus, but I am becoming a realist.

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  103. They are starving to death, right now, in liberated Zimbabwe.

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  104. B. FOR ANY LAWFUL CONTACT MADE BY A LAW ENFORCEMENT OFFICIAL OR A LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCY OF THIS STATE OR A LAW ENFORCEMENT OFFICIAL OR A LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCY OF A COUNTY, CITY, TOWN OR OTHER POLITICAL SUBDIVISION OF THIS STATE WHERE REASONABLE SUSPICION EXISTS THAT THE PERSON IS AN ALIEN WHO IS UNLAWFULLY PRESENT IN THE UNITED STATES, A REASONABLE ATTEMPT SHALL BE MADE, WHEN PRACTICABLE, TO DETERMINE THE IMMIGRATION STATUS OF THE PERSON, EXCEPT IF THE DETERMINATION MAY HINDER OR OBSTRUCT AN INVESTIGATION. ANY PERSON WHO IS ARRESTED SHALL HAVE THE PERSON’S IMMIGRATION STATUS DETERMINED BEFORE THE PERSON IS RELEASED. THE PERSON’S IMMIGRATION STATUS SHALL BE VERIFIED WITH THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT PURSUANT TO 8 UNITED STATES CODE SECTION 1373(c). A LAW ENFORCEMENT OFFICIAL OR AGENCY OF THIS STATE OR A COUNTY, CITY, TOWN OR OTHER POLITICAL SUBDIVISION OF THIS STATE MAY NOT SOLELY CONSIDER RACE, COLOR OR NATIONAL ORIGIN IN IMPLEMENTING THE REQUIREMENTS OF THIS SUBSECTION EXCEPT TO THE EXTENT PERMITTED BY THE UNITED STATES OR ARIZONA CONSTITUTION. A PERSON IS PRESUMED TO NOT BE AN ALIEN WHO IS UNLAWFULLY PRESENT IN THE UNITED STATES IF THE PERSON PROVIDES TO THE LAW ENFORCEMENT OFFICER OR AGENCY ANY OF THE FOLLOWING:
    1. A VALID ARIZONA DRIVER LICENSE.
    2. A VALID ARIZONA NONOPERATING IDENTIFICATION LICENSE.
    3. A VALID TRIBAL ENROLLMENT CARD OR OTHER FORM OF TRIBAL IDENTIFICATION.
    4. IF THE ENTITY REQUIRES PROOF OF LEGAL PRESENCE IN THE UNITED STATES BEFORE ISSUANCE, ANY VALID UNITED STATES FEDERAL, STATE OR LOCAL GOVERNMENT ISSUED IDENTIFICATION.

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  105. The way I read this is: If you are "pulled over" for a minor traffic citation, and can't produce a valid driver's license you will be held until your "legality" can be ascertained.

    The only thing I see different from the status quo in this law is, if they get their hands on you, you'd better be "legal."

    I think what would have happened in the past (in some localities, anyway,) was you'd be arrested for driving without a license, ICE would be informed, they would say, "we're not interested," and, eventually, you'd eventually be released (on bail/time served/etc.

    Not a particularly gigantic step, but sure to inflame the sensibilities of the open border, "Razites."

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  106. Do I read it right rufus - you have got to carry valid ID in Arizona or you risk imprisonment.

    "ANY PERSON WHO IS ARRESTED SHALL HAVE THE PERSON’S IMMIGRATION STATUS DETERMINED BEFORE THE PERSON IS RELEASED"

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  107. your "legality" is determined by your Identification is it not?

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  108. In other words the onus is upon you to prove your legal status as opposed to the states onus to prove you are illegal. Might as well require everyone to carry a national ID card eh?

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  109. guilty unless proven innocent.

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  110. I suspect most of the trouble will center around

    "... WHERE REASONABLE SUSPICION EXISTS THAT THE PERSON IS AN ALIEN WHO IS UNLAWFULLY PRESENT IN THE UNITED STATES, A REASONABLE ATTEMPT SHALL BE..."

    One persons idea of reasonable doesn't nessecarily match what another person considers reasonable.

    Given a choice between being stopped on the street for jogging and being arrested for not having ID or letting illegals travel around until they are picked up by some other means, I'll take the latter.


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  111. No, Ash; I don't read it that way. You have to start off with a "Lawful Contact."

    FOR ANY LAWFUL CONTACT MADE BY A LAW ENFORCEMENT OFFICIAL OR A LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCY OF THIS STATE . . . . Then, you have to go to This:

    WHERE REASONABLE SUSPICION EXISTS THAT THE PERSON IS AN ALIEN WHO IS UNLAWFULLY PRESENT IN THE UNITED STATES, . . . . Then, this:

    MAY NOT SOLELY CONSIDER RACE, COLOR OR NATIONAL ORIGIN IN IMPLEMENTING THE REQUIREMENTS OF THIS SUBSECTION

    Would driving erratically, w/o driver's license, or other acceptable ID, and the inability to speak English be "Reasonable" suspicion?" Probably.

    Would a blue-eye, blond lady running a red light, and saying, "oops, I forgot my wallet" be enough? It would probably warrant the action that's taken at present. Run the tags, run the supposed name of the driver, a brief question, and answer. Any more than that and the stinky brown stuff starts flying like "who'd a thot it."

    These guys writing these laws ARE politicians, remember.

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  112. Oops, transposition typo.


    ...necessarily...


    Before the spelling police arrive.

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  113. I think

    FOR ANY LAWFUL CONTACT MADE BY A LAW ENFORCEMENT OFFICIAL . .

    is the key.

    Bothering folks that are "out jogging" is Not "Lawful Contact."

    If the jogger happens to be Jose, and he's "jogging" in his street shoes, you still have this

    MAY NOT SOLELY CONSIDER RACE, COLOR OR NATIONAL ORIGIN IN IMPLEMENTING THE REQUIREMENTS OF THIS SUBSECTION

    I think it's a rather small, but meaningful, step.

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  114. Your post points out the problem Rufus.

    If the two people are handled differently under the law there is a problem.

    The blond-haired blue-eyed lady could be a Canadian terrorist or a Belgian wetback with false ID.

    I suspect the law will be ruled too subjective.

    The Az governor said she expects that the law will have to be modified in some respects after legal review.



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  115. I think the key word is "SOLELY," Q.

    Obviously, under the law (as it now stands) a hispanic-looking guy that speaks reasonably good English, and explains that he left his wallet at home, but that he's a citizen, and a licensed driver would/could be treated differently than a man who drives "erratically," has No license, and Doesn't "Speak English."

    I don't know how that law will turn out. I think it's going to serve to light a fire under some tushes in DC. That seems like a Good Thing.

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  116. Australia Saturday clamped down on foreigners buying property after complaints that a rapid influx of Asian money had helped make its housing among the most expensive in the world.

    The government reimposed tough rules relaxed in 2008 that say temporary residents need permission to buy homes and must sell when they leave, while foreigners investing from abroad can only buy new properties.

    The rules are backed by stiff new penalties including compulsory sell orders, as well as expanded monitoring and a crackdown on real estate agents who help foreigners flout the rules.


    They follow growing disquiet that ordinary Australians are being priced out of the market after a decade-long property boom that has accelerated over the past year.

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  117. do you think it should be the role of the police to be responsible to verify the immigration status of everyone they make "lawful contact" with?

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  118. and to hold all those people in jail until the immigration status is confirmed? again, it seems, you can be held in jail until you prove your status (legally blonde or not).

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  119. Best Idea of the Day

    TOKYO -- Tens of thousands of Okinawan residents and leaders demanded a U.S. Marine base be moved off the island at a mass rally Sunday, inflamed by speculation the government may finally accept a plan to merely relocate it to another part of the southern Japanese island.
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    Tens of thousands couldn't be wrong could they?

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  120. I already mentioned that stopping these guys merely on suspicion that they may be here illegally presents some problems. However, if someone is arrested for some criminal offense, I have no problem with them having to prove they are here legally.


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  121. Again, it goes to "Reasonable" suspicion that a law was broken.

    The word "reasonable" (ie what a reasonable man would do, think, etc) pops up, time, and again, in Anglo Saxon law.

    Of course, this is entirely dependent upon what any given Judge, at any given time, considers "reasonable." There's Always a "luck of the draw" factor in these things.

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  122. Best idea, Ash, is to secure the border and prosecute those who hire illegals.

    Unless and until, the problem will continue to grow, despite what you say, or Pols in DC do.

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  123. Rufus sums up your concerns @
    Sun Apr 25, 01:11:00 PM EDT
    Ash.

    Course in more enlightened Europe, they simply require whatever they damned well please.

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  124. There comes a time when it is best to ask, who are you, and what are you doing here. Then you show your drivers license, or get out of town.

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  125. What do the Canucks do?

    (Other than jailing or deporting those who don't speak PC?)

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  126. Ash asks:
    "Caveat Emptor?"

    Nah, but "regulation" via crony capitalism is worse than no regulation @ all.

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  127. Elite U.S. Units Step Up Drive in Kandahar Before Attack

    Elite forces are picking off insurgents to weaken the Taliban as the looming battle for Kandahar is shaping up as the pivotal test of President Obama’s Afghanistan strategy.

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    The prospect makes my tummy hurt.

    F...... Kandahar.

    Think I'll pay Canoneer a visit.

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  128. re - what Canada does with illegal immigrants? Basically they get deported but, like there, finding and sending them home isn't an easy task. The police aren't checking immigration status and dealing with sending them home at all other than cracking down on Health Insurance fraud, illegal manufacture of SIN numbers (our version of SS number) though most aren't interested in paying taxes so they try to work under the table. There is work for them in the construction industry.

    As to crony capitalism, well sure that is a recipe for bad regulation. In this go 'round the GOP seem to be the cronies shilling for the financial industry.

    I'm glad we agree there is a role for regulation of financial markets.

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  129. Yeah, no connections between Admin and Goldman Suchs.

    No connections at all.

    Money don't mean nothin.

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  130. Moving from the Shadows

    So where are we heading? Hard to say at the moment since we have significant noise with the federal tax credit ending and with the $10,000 California tax credit starting, we’ll have to wait a few more months to see if the market can stand on its own two feet.

    People think that the markets can continue to have unlimited funding backed by the government.

    This is not true. Just look at Greece (or even at our own state budget issues). At a certain point, an event takes place and borrowing is no longer as cheap as it once was.
    This will happen and it is only a matter of time.


    Too much debt is out in the system but for the moment, Southern California has fallen into a trend.

    The above data helps put things in perspective and also shows that the market can only stabilize with massive government support.
    Will that support continue indefinitely?

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