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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.


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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?

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Bring It On Home ...

Since the 1970's, the Yankee Nation has seen a monumental societal change.  Many Black families are migrating to the South.  This movement of people is in direct opposition to decades of traffic going the other way.

The bad news for the Yankees is that the majority of Blacks fleeing the harsh environment of their own country are college-educated (50.5%).  Those with less education tend to stay on the Yankee Plantation.  The chief reason for this dynamic is that the South offers much more employment opportunities for the educated than it does for the uneducated.  Does Barry Soetro know that there is a "brain drain" going on in his country?

Many Blacks who migrated North in the first half of the 20th Century chose their destinations according to where they had access via local railroads and where other family members and friends had migrated before them.  Dwayne Walls, in Chickenbone Special, recounted an old quote about the Black residents of a rural community in North Carolina" "These people know only three palces to go: Heaven, Hell, and Baltimore."

Some of the migrants returning South follow the same paths their ancestors had carved out when they moved North.  But not all Blacks are returning home.  Most were actually born in the North and, consequently are heading for rapidly growing metropolitan centers.

The Black migration has resulted (for us in the South) in an increase in direct proportion to the overall Black population in the Yankee Nation.  Our problem is not the Blacks moving Southward; it's the non-Black population moving here.

The non-Black migration (read "White") is the largest change agent for Southern culture.  Those Yankees are bringing with them their strange tastes in food, their off-the-wall ideas about social paradigms, their strange political ideations, their insufferable accents and their offensive tastes in music.  It would be much better if Barry were to encourage them to stay in the North and to encourage all the Copperheads to come here in their place.

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Georgia In The Vanguard

U. S. Crane in Waco, Georgia has declared that their new company policy is that there will be now new hiring taking place until Barry The Pretender is sent away from the Yankee nation's capitol city.

The article (clickable above) includes an editorialized rant concerning Bill Looman, the company's president.  They believe that Looman is a certified member of the lunatic fringe.  For all I can tell, the man is a patriot of the highest order.

Soetoro's economic policies have place small businesses in an impossible position when it comes to even the most rudimentary functions of both maintaining production and expanding their market base.  The comments at the end of the referenced article tell the woeful tale of those who have imbibed Barry's Kool-Aid.

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Please, Sir, More Gruel?

Yankee Nation Congressmen - especially Henry Cuellar (D), Laredo, are beginning to beg ask the Yankee Nation governmental functionaries to deploy some returning military non-human assets to the Mexican border.

These people never seem to learn that technology is not the solution to the problem.  The solution is as follows:

• DHS must remove administrative sanctions which prevent Border Patrol Agents from exercising their statutory authority.
• Yankee Nation Congress must re-institute the Bracero Program of the 1950's.
• CPB re-institute Line Operations exactly as they were before Jimmy Carter.
• OTM's and Mexican nationals to be repatriated to the interiors of their respective nations.

Of course, the absolute best solution would be a new Southern Confederation.  With that, whatever DHS, CPB or the Yankee Nation Congress thought or enacted wouldn't matter at all.

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Been There. Done That

Actor and Terry had worked a long, long time in the desert that night.  Because of Jimmy Carter's gas rationing for the Border Patrol, no Agents had been assigned to work day shift on the desert area East of  the Port of Entry at San Luis, Arizona.  It is a vast region which included a few asparagus farms, citrus groves and the MCAS Yuma bombing range.

When they finally got to their AO on the 4P-12A shift in the desert, it was 1730 and the last recorded sign cutting run had been at 0800 that morning.  Terry picked up a drag at Avenue 5E and Actor picked one up by the airstrip near the Port and, to save time, they started dragging toward each other.

When you're working a drag there's not much to do.  If you do it right, you're not driving move than 5 miles per hour so time passes slowly.  Since Terry was dragging toward the sun, the lines and shadows of the sign he was dragging-over appeared more prominent than if he had the sun at his back.  He crossed-over numerous pieces of sign that was obviously hours old.  Each time he did, he called the characteristics of the sign in to the station to be labeled as "got-aways".  Actor did the same.

Along about 1E,  a different sort of sign caught Terry's eye.  It was sign of Tonks carrying burdens.  Terry un-hooked his drag and followed the sign a short ways into the desert.  Then he called Actor.

"Actor", Terry said, "I've got a group of ten headed for the groves.  It looks as if they're mules."

Actor knew the drill.  He had to finish the entire drag by himself (somebody had to do it) while Terry started following the sign.  Actor speeded-up his drag to ten miles per hour so as to get in on the big chase as soon as possible.

By the time Actor had completed the drag,  Terry has already found the sign in the citrus groves and was on foot (by then, it was somewhere around 2130).  Actor cut for sign perpendicular to Terry's route of travel in the groves and found it on the other side: back in open desert and heading for still more groves.

This time, it was Actor who was on foot; going through grove after grove of lemon trees - on the sign.  Terry cut perpendicular to Actor's route of travel and found the sign leaving those groves and headed for a hard surface road.  Actor raced back to his vehicle (a dodge Ramcharger) and joined Terry in following the sign.

In the end, it was Actor who found the mules.  They were hunkered down in a drainage ditch by the hard surface road.  In the ditch with them were bales of kilos of marijuana with ropes attached to them to make them into huge backpacks.  Near the road was a overturned Coca Cola can (the marker for the driver of the load car so he'd know where to stop and take on the load).

Processing Tonks is easy enough but processing a drug load is a huge headache.  The Agents have to take sworn statements from everybody - translating them from Spanish into English and then back again.  After that, the apprehending Agents have to "mark" all of the kilos.  Actor and Terry marked each one with their initials and the date of apprehension.  After all that was done, they had to transport the drugs to the DEA (in those days, that's the way it was done).  Actor and Terry photographed the load, put it into their vehicles and drove it to the DEA's office in San Luis.

The story didn't end there; at least not for that particular load of drugs.

About a month later, Actor was working the railroad yards and Terry was working the area around Morelos Dam.  The Patrol Agent In Charge called both of them on the radio to report to the station.  When they arrived, what they saw made them angry; angry enough to loose any trust they had ever had in the DEA.

There, on the Station floor, were numerous kilos of marijuana.  Each had Actor's and Terry's initials on them along with the original date of apprehension.  A couple of Agents working the 12A-8A shift had apprehended that load.  No one said anything.  They just stood there and fumed.

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Big Mac Attack

You thought that they'd gone away and died, didn't you?  Hardly.

Freddie Mac has just asked the Yankee Nation functionaries for a further "loan" of  $6 billion.  This money is in addition to all the money given to The Mac previously and to the millions of Yankee dollars that have recently been paid in bonuses to F.M.'s top executives.

The story in Habledash relates the sordid details of Barry The Pretender's out-of-control Yankee Nation administration being more than ready to distribute your money into a black hole without so much as asking your permission to do so.

A year from now, you can pretend that you're getting rid of big government Democrats by voting for, what is right now, any one of the numerous gaggle big government Republicans who want to serve the Federals.  In the end, there can be only one who'll be nominated; it probably won't be the one who needs to be.

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Eric Holder Has No Shame

In testimony today before the Yankee Nation Senate,
John Cornyn (R), Texas asked Soetoro's Attorney General if he had apologized to Agent Brian Terry's family.

Holder, ever the lawyer, replied to the question that he wished would have been asked instead of the one actually asked.  Not only has the Yankee Nation Attorney General not apologized to anyone (Terry's family, the Border Patrol, Yankee Nation citizens) but it appears as if the man is willing to take no responsibility for BATFE's misadventures that were conducted during his watch.

"When we are born, we cry, that we are come to this great stage of fools" - William Shakespeare

It is a truly sad thing to realize that the Bard was correct.  Barry The Pretender and his coterie of fellow fools do not even possess the requisite ethical thought to even know that they should have shame.

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Barry's People Wasting More Time ...

Of all the matters that the Yankee Nation's Chief Executive's staff does to occupy the time of day, this has got to be one of the more time-wasteful.

Barry's staff engages itself in catering to the bizarre ideations of the fringes of our culture.

If Space Tonks actually existed (and the Yankee Nation government knew of them) is there anyone who believes that the adults who maintain the secret would share it with a fool such as Barry Soetoro?  The fact that there were around 17,000 signatures on the petition is scary enough; that's equal to the population of Canton, GA.

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Border Patrol "Trespassing" In Yankee Nation Parks?

The Yankee Nation Department of Agriculture and the Secretary of the Interior have barred the Border Patrol from normal operations in "protected" areas.

They are afraid of Border Patrol vehicles tearing-up the landscape as Agents chase Tonks and smugglers of all types.  Maybe the real reason is that Barry The Pretender has decided that he needs many more new Democrats for 2012.

Details here.

Next thing you know, there'll be brand new voting precincts in all of the Yankee Nation parks close to the border.

Deo Vindice

Zombie-In-Chief

NBC in the Yankee Nation Capitol has carried the story of how some folks in Mosby's Confederacy have taken umbrage to a recent depiction of Barry The Pretender as a zombie.

Loudoun County Democrat Party members have appealed to none other than Governor Robert F. McDonald who has pronounced the artist's conception of Barry as being "shameful and offensive".

In philosophical circles, the discussion of zombies is real and on-going.  They (those caught in zombiehood) illuminate problems about consciousness and its relationship to the physical world.  Zombies, in fact, raise epistemological difficulties: their existence reinstates the problem of "other minds".

Barry's tenure as the Yankee Nation's Chief Executive has been a continuous illustration of the dynamic of "other-mindedness" within political leadership.  The Mind of Barry seems incapable of accepting the simple facts of his own rejection by those he supposes that he leads: us.  When everything within his ambient culture points to the fact that one thing is true, Barry persists is conducting himself as if it weren't.  Economics and Constitutional Law are two areas in which he has not only exhibited zombie-like behavior but has proven that he is a victim of the condition as well.

My own family's roots are in the Loudoun County area and I stand in awe that any of those good citizens there would take offense at the truth.  After all, Barry as a zombie isn't all that much different from Richard Nixon crawling our of a sewer:

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All Saints

Today, 1 November is the feast of All Saints.  Tomorrow, is the feast of All Souls.

I have never mentioned religion on this blog before but, as a faithful Anglican, I'm making note of it here.

the Saints are not divine, omnipresent or omniscient.  However, because of a Christians' common communion with them (with and through Jesus Christ), we remember what they bore while they still on their earthly pilgrimage.  We also celebrate the fact that they, right now, are enjoying eternal life with The Lamb of God.

May all people everywhere turn to Him and find
"the crown of life that fadeth not away".

Deo Vindice

The Cost of Illegal Aliens

Mexico's largest revenue stream is the money sent home by illegal aliens working in the Yankee Nation.  In actual terms, the yearly amount is around $8 billion.  What they earn and spend here is somewhere around $52 billion.  Naturally, they tend not to file and pay income taxes.  Totaled-up, the wage cost to unemployed Yankee Nation citizens is $60 billion that those Yankee Nation citizens could have made if the Mexicans weren't making it.

El Presidente,  Felipe Calderon, and his predecessors in that office have preferred to let things stay the way they have been for the last fifty years.  Rather than develop their sorry third world nation into a productive member among the community of nations, they have been content to become the primary leach among the three countries that comprise what we know as "North America". Jack Kennedy, Richard Nixon, Gerald Ford, Jimmy Carter, Ronald Reagan, George H. W. Bush, Bill Clinton, Beorge W. Bush and Barry Soetoro have, each, seemed to agree with their economic philosophy.

As it now stands, the Yankee Nation can no longer sustain the loss of the financial blood that has been sucked by these fiscal vampires.  The problem here is: no one in charge seems to want to do anything about it.  The ears of the Yankee Nation "leadership" have long been deadened to the cries of the public for redress of this most foul condition.  The few sovereign States that have enacted their own legislation to solve the problem within their own borders have been met with threats of prosecution by the Federals for their courage to draw a line in the sand.  More than that, the Federals of the Yankee Nation (including Barry The Pretender) have suggested that such attempts are racist, bigoted and thoroughly un-befitting of such a melting pot of diversity as the Yankee Nation believes itself to be.

It's almost as if the Federals of the Yankee Nation would be greatly relieved if we would simply go away.  The time is rapidly approaching when we will have to do just that.

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Banjo Work

It isn't Texas music, but it's the music of my own family's roots; you'll either enjoy it or you'll hate it.  It's Frank Fairfield doing Poor Ellen Smith.

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Texas SCV

The Aggie (James "Rick" Perry) has made his decision: he will not support the adoption of  a Sons of Confederate Veterans license plate in Texas.

In an earlier blog post, I noted that the prospect looked dim.  The Motor Vehicle Board was locked in a 4-4 tie.  Now, apparently, there has been another appointee (by the Governor) to the Board and the issue may not even come up for another vote.

Jerry Patterson, the Texas Land Commissioner, is running for Lieutenant Governor (the office of which, in Texas, wields more power than that of the Governor), supports the SCV plate and has hinted that the issue may not be as dead as The Aggie would like it to be.  Patterson suggested that the whole affair may end-up in court as a First Amendment issue.

NAACP, of course, has collected 22,000 signatures against what they have named the "hate plate".   The SPLC will probably show up here sooner or later.   Meanwhile, the Texas Division of the SCV has been lending its support of the Buffalo Soldiers' sons to have their own plate.

The Aggie is on the losing end of this affair.  His opinion is, obviously, for sale.

Did you hear that a skeleton was found in an old building in College Station, Texas?  Yep, it was the Texas Aggie Hide-And-Seek champion of 1938.

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If You're A Moslem, Forget It.

This is a must listen ... (it's only a minute).  You'll be glad that you did.

The speaker is a Texan and teaches classes which lead to a Texas Concealed Handgun License (CHL).

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