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Good Question November 25, 2007

Posted by Webmaster in Immigration, Police & Law Enforcement.
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Letter to the Editor, from one Joel Walker to the Chattanooga Times Free Press:

Let me get this straight. We’ve been told that local and federal law enforcement doesn’t have the resources to address the illegal immigrant problem, but both the Chattanooga Police Department and the local field office of the FBI have time to do a joint investigation into someone hanging a noose from a new building. Not hanging himself or another person, mind you, just the rope.

Perhaps President Bush’s and Julie Myers’s decision to reassign ICE agents to other duties means that they, too, can help investigate nooses.

The Florida Effect November 25, 2007

Posted by Webmaster in Immigration, Welfare, Social Insurance and Transfer Payments.
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From the hot-off-the-presses December 2007 dead tree and ink edition of American Renaissance, pps. 3-4:

Similar research has uncovered what has come to be known as “The Florida Effect,” or the unwillingness of taxpayers to fund public projects if the beneficiaries are of a different race.  Maine, Vermont and West Virginia are the most racially homogeneous states, and spend the highest proportion of gross state product on public education.  “There does seem to be a correlation,” says Mark Mather of the Population Reference Bureau.

James Poterba of MIT has found that public spending on education falls as the percentage of elderly people without children rises.  He notes, however, that the effect “is particularly large when the elderly residents and the school-age population are from different racial groups” — which is notably the case in Florida.

An oft-repeated bromide from the open borders lobby and their shills is that we need more immigration from Latin America, in order to have more young people, to have enough workers, to have enough taxpayers, to fund Social Security and Medicare through the coming baby boom crunch.

Aside from all the other problems with that notion, the “Florida Effect” sword can cut both ways.  If elderly whites are relatively unwilling to fund public education for young non-whites, then it stands to reason that, when they become politically strong enough, younger Hispanics will be unwilling to pay Social Security for old gringoes.  And when that happens, it won’t be simply a matter of all those old white people in Florida and elsewhere voting down the occasional school bond and property tax issue that would increase the already bloated funding for public schools, it will be a matter of Hispanic-run governments completely cutting off old gringoes, and letting them rot on the streets.

What About Hate Speech? November 25, 2007

Posted by Webmaster in Armed Forces and Military, England, Britain and the UK.
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UK Daily Mail:

Wounded Iraq veterans driven out of public pool when told they might scare children

Soldiers who suffered appalling injuries in Iraq and Afghanistan were verbally abused as they swam in a public swimming pool.

During a weekly rehabilitation class at a council leisure centre, 15 servicemen – including several who have lost limbs or suffered severe burns – were heckled and jeered by members of the public.

One woman was so incensed that the troops were using the pool at Leatherhead Leisure Centre in Surrey that she told them they did not deserve to be there.

She became increasingly abusive, screaming that it was wrong for staff to rope off a lane exclusively for the injured personnel from the nearby Headley Court rehabilitation centre.

I thought we weren’t supposed to insult people for their physical disabilities.  In fact, in some American states, including Missouri, physical disability is a category that can bring hate crimes riders.

And since England is even more liberal, and just saying the wrong thing can get you into trouble, then why aren’t we reading about criminal charges?

McCaskill: Why HRC Will Win Missouri November 25, 2007

Posted by Webmaster in Campaign 2008, Missouri.
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Sen. Claire McCaskill (D-MO) was a guest on the Charles Jaco show this morning on Channel 2, and Jaco pressed her about HRC’s prospects of winning Missouri.  The question was how can HRC appeal to the Republican-oriented religious conservatives in southern Missouri.  McCaskill turned the question around on Jaco, and reminded us that Rudy Giuliani, the Republican “front-runner,” is a “kissing cousin” with HRC on those social issues, and that the Presidential election between RG and HRC would therefore be decided on other issues.

Bob Patterson’s Second Axiom states that if one of the two major political parties doesn’t campaign on racial issues (and when he said this, the “religious right” didn’t exist, but the axiom might as well include their watered-down brand of “social conservatism”), then the election will be decided on economic issues, and voters voting their pocketbooks tend toward the Democrats.

HRC wins if RG gets the Republican nomination.