Sotelo's DHS Makes An End-Run

Immigration and Customs Enforcement for the Yankee Nation (ICE) has opened a 24/7 telephone line.  The purpose of which is for apprehended persons who "believe they may be" citizens of the Yankee Nation to call and receive counseling from an on-duty ICE Agent.

How is it that someone does not know of what country he is a citizen?  By establishing such a service, the Yankee Nation's Executive administration is doing a naked end-run around existing law.  As with much of what comes out of the mouth of Barry The Pretender, this new service is all for show.  Any advice that the Tonk may hear over the telephone would be neither admissible nor germane to proceedings in an Immigration court.

Also, it would be interesting to know what instructions have been given to those worthies who are manning the phones. Are they giving legal advice, or are they simply on duty to mollify the ruffled feathers of Tonks who are too stupid to know their nationality?

Certainly, this new development mandated for ICE personnel is nothing new.  During the administration of Carter The Incompetent, INS Commissioner Leonel Castillo placed faux Tonks along the border to document supposed brutality on the part of law enforcement people.

Even though it is nothing new, it is still a step farther toward a totally demoralized cadre of Border patrol Agents.

Deo Vindice

Barry and Christmas

Barry The Pretender, ever the vacationer, has taken a new low in military relations.  Sunday, 12/25/11, the Yankee Nation's Chief Executive appeared at the Base Chapel as MCAS, Kaneohe Bay to celebrate Christmas under the watchful eye of the Navy Chaplain on duty and as many cameras as possible.

We are told that, for twenty years, Barry was a frequent attender for the "worship" services conducted by the Rev. Mr. Jeremiah Wright in Chicago.  As the Yankee President, he seems to have developed into a "Christmas and Easter" attender at Christian worship.  One wonders what was going through the minds of the Marines and sailors who were also present as they witnessed the cheap and tawdry camera-mugging behavior of their Commander-In-Chief.

One may also wonder that, if Barry really is a Christian (as he proclaims), why was he not in attendance at worship services last Sunday at St. John's in the Yankee Capitol city?  After all, St. John's is just right across the street from the Yankee's Executive Mansion.

Deo Vindice

The Empire

The Yankee Nation is an empire.

An empire is a political unit composed of a number of territories that are ruled by a single supreme authority. Tempting as it may be, placing a date/time stamp on the beginning is not possible.Some may desire to take the "empire date' back to the Jacksonian period.  Others may choose the infamous tenure of the delusional Lincoln.  Still others may want to date the beginnings during the time of Theodore Roosevelt.  In the end, it's impossible.  The Yankee Nation didn't start out as an empire; it slowly morphed into being one.

Gradually, the several States became less and less important and decreased in their measure of sovereignty as their respective citizens allowed the gigantic maw of Leviathan to gobble-up most shreds of self-government.

More recently, when Texas drew a new map of Yankee Nation Congressional districts, the Yankee Nation legal thugs jumped on her with both boots (with hobnails affixed).  The Yankee Nation Supreme Court has frozen Texas' Yankee Nation elections and Eric Holder (the unindicted criminal of "fast and furious" fame) has flown to Texas to utter a rant speech on the subject.  The fact that our Department of Public Safety has allowed him entry into the State is humiliating for all Texans.

The first of the last gasps of the 10th Amendment is just as difficult to date as is the Yankee Nation's transition from being the United States to the Yankee Nation Empire.  Was it the 18th Amendment.  How about 1867's Ex Parte McCardle?   Was it the 14th Amendment?  The debate can go on for a long time with good and scholarly support for all contentions.

What is certain is that The Yankee Nation is a very different entity than was envisioned by the Founders and Framers.  The Yankee nation is no longer simply a Union of sovereign States.  It is now an empire composed of territories/states (which have the names of States).  Each of them and many of their composite citizens owe and pledge total fealty to the powerful overlord that is known as the Federal Government.  Such a state of affairs is no longer a Union; it is an Empire.

Deo Vindice

Big Government Republicans

Just out of the photo (to the viewer's left), is another Big Government Republican: The Aggie.  It is a continuing source of wonderment to my that these three are as popular as they seem to be among Yankee Nation Republicans.

The Aggie gained his ascendancy to the governor's office solely due to Bush 43's decision to seek to inflict his own big government ideas upon an unsuspecting electorate.  He has, recently, dropped in the polls but has not yet bowed-out of the contest.

Gingrich has comported himself as what he is: an educated political prostitute.  (You may read more on the whore on Old Rebel's blog.)  Romney, ever the patrician, seems to have maintained an aloof attitude and is strangely reminiscent of Bush 41 (who was described by a former Texas Governor as having been "born with a silver foot in this mouth").

Each of them: The Aggie, Gingrich and Romney are held to be one kind of "conservative" or another.  What, though, does a "conservative" do?  The conservative conserves or maintains what has been handed to him.

Should any one of these Big Government clowns become the Yankee Nation President, there is little doubt that he would mostly conserve that which Barry Soetoro will have handed-over to him.

Deo Vindice

Barry's Sinking Ship

Posted on the VOA website is the story that in a television broadcast broadcast (today), Barry Soetoro 

"said the structural problems in the economy have been building for two decades and that repairing them would take more than one term in office and "probably take more than one president"

Barry The Pretender is half-right on this one.  It will take a long time for the Yankee Nation to repair the damage done to their economy for which Soetoro has consistently blamed his predecessors.  The damage done to the economy by Slick and by Bush 43 is undeniable, but Barry's fiscal carnage has made both of them look like Greek gods of statesmanship in comparison.


Barry continues to blame the newly-recalcitrant members of the Yankee Nation Congress who are valiantly attempting to prevent him from wreaking even more Progressive havoc upon the hapless and mostly willfully ignorant citizenry.


In his speech, Soetoro likened himself to a ship's captain whose vessel is going through a violent storm.  If that is true (which it is), the storm is one of his own creation.  November of 2012 seems a very long time to wait for a mutiny.


Deo Vindice 

Yankee Nation Exceptionalism

It appears as if Barry Soetoro has been shamed into stating a belief in something his actions and previous statement indicate that he doesn't really believe.  The belief?  That the Yankee Nation is  endowed with what Republicans refer to as "American Exceptionalism".

From a rag in Atlanta

"We don't just think about what's good for us, but we're also thinking about what's good for the world.  That's what makes us special.  That's what makes us exceptional".

I'll bet that that's not exactly the definition of
"exceptionalism" you learned when you took your history course in school.  That's allright.  Barry can alter any definition to fit his own warped sense of purpose.

It's bad enough that most of the Republican candidates for the Yankee Nation President's office believe in the standard definition of "American Exceptionalism": that it is the Yankee Nation's duty to export their corrupted notions of what the Founders envisioned and put into place.  Now, we see the Yankee Chief Executive declaring the same thing.  What further proof is needed for one to become convinced that there is no real difference between Barry and the majority of his Republican antagonists?

Deo Vindice