Today’s Immigration Stack of Stuff October 8, 2007
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1. How dare you Americans have the audacity to think that you actually have a say in deciding your own country’s future. That is essentially what former Mexican President Vincente Fox said in his first book-promotion interview. Ironically, as Senor Fox denouces supposed American “superior race” theorists, he is not only arrogant himself, but his political career consisted of fronting for the even more arrogant and (if you will) racist, and more Caucasian, Mexican plutocracy, which wants to dump its Mestizo population on gringo’s back, hence their obsession with amnesty and open borders on the part of the American government.
Contradictorily:
But he criticized Bush for failing to pass the promised reform.
“There was always a reason for why it couldn’t be done. ‘It is not possible because of the elections.’ He couldn’t touch the topic because this election is very important, or because security was more important,” Fox said.
Evidently, Senor Fox hasn’t been paying attention lately. President Bush is a lame duck, so the 2008 elections don’t matter to him, the 2006 elections were thought to be a victory for the concept of “comprehensive immigration reform,” as Fox defines it, though a massive uproar by American “xenophobes and racists” (i.e. ordinary white people) stopped it. Remember, not long after the Democrats won control of the House and Senate last November, President Bush himself was giddy in media interviews that he thought his “comprehensive immigration reform” would sail through. Bush did everything he could to get this thing passed, short of declaring himself dictator, using the military to disband the House and Senate, and declaring amnesty by fiat — then again, knowing that Senor Fox was once the President of a Latin-American country, where such practices and executive heavy hands are commonplace, perhaps that’s exactly what Fox thought Bush would have and should have done, and was willfully deficient in not doing so.
2. Newt Gingrich must have known what he was talking about when he said that there were about 36 million illegal aliens. Californians for Population Stabilization has released a study, claiming that the number could be as high as 38 million.
3. We Hate Gringos Blog has a list of sanctuary cities. No Missouri city is on the list. In my mind, the politicians or other authorities in these cities who implemented these sanctuary policies should all be rounded up by some Feds with guns, and charged with Federal obstruction of justice, and immigration conspiracy.
In Rarefied Company October 8, 2007
Posted by Webmaster in Black Crime, Left-Wing Extremism, St. Louis Local.comments closed
This is footnote #7 to a long, rambling rant defending Kevin “Rock Head” Johnson, posted today on several local and national far-left anarchist websites:
7. The only organized groups that seem to have rallied to the cause of killing Kevin are the St. Louis County Prosecutor’s Office, the Fraternal Order of the Police, almost all local corporate media, and the Council of Conservative Citizens.
This is pretty good company to be in. Then again, this milieu already thinks that we run the CIA, so all those things listed above are actually a step down by comparison.
And no, you’re not getting a link to the source material, because it contains the name of the presiding judge in Mr. Johnson’s first trial. As ganged up as this character is, this particular judge deserves all the anonymity he or she can get.
Previous Coverage of Kevin “Rock Head” Johnson’s saga on the St. Louis CofCC Blog and the Countenance Blog
The Zimbabwe Dollar Today October 8, 2007
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Today: 30,645.1
Yesterday: 30,692.0
They Forgot: Missouri’s Budgetary House Has a Back Door October 8, 2007
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Lottery payoff of schools falls short
For years, those states have heard complaints that not enough of their lottery revenue is used for education. Now, a New York Times examination finds that lotteries accounted for less than 1 percent to 5 percent of the total revenue for K-12 education last year in the states that use this money for schools.
In reality, most of the money raised by lotteries is used simply to sustain the games themselves, including marketing, prizes and vendor commissions. And as lotteries compete for a small number of core players and try to persuade occasional customers to play more, nearly every state has increased, or is considering increasing, the size of its prizes — further shrinking the percentage of each dollar going to education and other programs.
In some states, lottery dollars have merely replaced money for education. States eager for more players are introducing games that emphasize instant gratification and more potentially addictive forms of gambling.
In Missouri, because the state constitution mandates that at least 25% of state spending must be on education, this means that legally, only 25% of gross lottery revenues have to be spent on education. (Really, since education spending was higher than 25% of the state budget beforehand, much less had to go to education). What happened in reality was that all of the lottery revenue did go to education, but the state legislature took away 75% of that dollar amount of other state revenue sources toward education. For instance, if the lottery realized $100 million, it all went to education, but $75 million of state money from, e.g. state income taxes, that used to go to education, goes to something else now.
