RSSThe Minutemen (The Ultimate Volunteers) are Coming to the Volunteer State
After their successful campaign against illegal aliens on the Us border of Arizona, the Minute men are coming to Tennessee.
Those behind the effort say volunteers will patrol local businesses, looking for employers that are hiring people who’ve illegally crossed the border.
The US Boarder Patrol says they’ve never endorsed the activities of the Minutemen in Arizona, stressing that it’s the Border Patrol’s job to catch illegal immigrants.
Some in East Tennessee say these kinds of tactics amount to begging for trouble.
“I worry they’ll come up here and start some kind of chaos,” says Hispanic activist Luis Crespo.
WHAT PART ABOUT ILLEGAL DO YOU NOT GET MR. CRESPO?
It is sad that it takes the actions of caring Americans rather than politicians, both Republican & Democrat, to secure our borders. This has nothing to do with anti-Hispanic or anti-immigrant hostilities on the part of Americans. It is about ANTI-ILLEGAL IMMIGRATION. It is sad that people opposed to the Minute men feel the necessity to harass them rather than have any form of constructive criticism. All this even after 9-11. Illegal immigrants and anyone for that matter crossing US borders freely. Have we learned nothing from the deaths of thousands of Americans?
Despite the objections, the Minutemen are moving forward. They hope to have as many as 600 volunteers in just two months.
These are the actions by Americans that represent what our country is all about. Civic responsibility to do the right thing for America rather than what both political parties seem to care about and that is to capture the Hispanic vote.
Hat Tip: PoliPundit
More Euro Love to America From The Cannes Hate Fest
Should we expect anything different from these idiots?
Danish director LARS VON TRIER shocked crowds at the CANNES FILM FESTIVAL yesterday when he branded US President GEORGE W BUSH “an a**hole” and launched into a bitter tirade against globalization.
The DANCER IN THE DARK film-maker, who has been promoting his new film MANDERLAY at the movie showcase, hit out when he was asked why his movies take an anti-American stance.
Von Trier said, “Mr Bush is an a**hole. So much in Denmark is American. We are a nation under influence.
Hey Lars you may want to worry about your own < strong>countries problems. Doesn’t look like Denmark is beyond reproach when crime is compared to other Scandinavian countries. Lars, worry about yourself because frankly we in America really do not give you a second thought.
Laura Bush, GWB’s Not So Secret Weapon
The First Lady, Laura Bush continues to amaze. This time she wows them in the Middle East. Laura’s popularity has skyrocketed, (“scoring approval ratings of 80 percent or higher”) and it would probably be the most opportune time for her to do a speech in one of the most volatile areas of the world, where “perhaps her most important mission will be trying to repair America’s suffering image abroad“.
“We’ve had terrible happenings that really, really hurt our image of the United States,” she said as she launched a five-day solo diplomatic mission to this volatile region on Friday. “People in the United States are sick about it. They’re very sorry that that’s the image that people in the Arab world got of the United States.”
One thing is interesting though is the media’s misunderstanding of Laura Bush’s popularity. They seem to think it just occurred after the White House Correspondents’ Association dinner.
Ever since, the president has started nearly every speech with a laugh-line reference to the event. “I am sorry that Laura is not here — you probably think she’s preparing a couple of new one-liners,” he said at a Roman Catholic prayer breakfast in Washington on Friday. “But in fact, she’s winging her way to Jordan and Egypt and Israel to spread the freedom agenda.”
Seems to be that most Republicans knew this way before the dinner. Actually I cannot remember one speech that GWB has not mentioned Laura if she was not present and not because of her popularity, but because of their close relationship. Seems to me that I can remember ever speech that President Bush has done long before this dinner that if Laura was not present he would always say, “I am sorry that Laura is not here …”
More Unanswered questions about Newsweek’s false story
Marvin Olasky from Town Hall has some great questions for Newsweek that still need to be answered. Frankly the answers that Newsweek have given have been at best lame. An interesting read and furthers the point that Newsweek has a long way to go still before their false Koran story is going away. Have these media outlets learned nothing from the CBS fiasco? The false story and its ramifications are one thing, but to then become defensive and play dumb is sad.
Here are some of the questions posed to Newsweek:
Newsweek reporter Michael Isikoff says no one “foresaw that a reference to the desecration of the Koran was going to create the kind of response that it did.” Newsweek assistant managing editor Evan Thomas says Muslim reaction “came as something of a surprise” to the magazine’s editors.
As the writer ponders and many of us as well, “Why are national magazine editors so theologically illiterate”? Hasn’t the media for the better part of the war criticized the Bush war effort and policy in the Middle East as not understanding their way of life and culture? With as much criticism as they have offered, shouldn’t they maybe know what such an inflammatory story would do? Newsweek saw the reaction of prison abuse stories, didn’t they have an obligation to understand that their words had consequences and that the story should have been full-proof before going to print? The mainstream media elites tell us they know more then we do. Shouldn’t they already understand and know that a majority of the Muslim World is anti-American? The media has fanned this flame from the outset of the war in Iraq, now some how they are surprised by their actions?
Many young Muslims said they admired Osama bin Laden, while views of President Bush were uniformly negative. All focus group members rejected U.S. views of the war in Iraq, saying the United States invaded on a false premise to further its own regional goals.
Further questions to Newsweek are as follows:
If Newsweek claims a responsibility to print the truth, even when it’s likely to lead to riots, why didn’t it try harder to ascertain the truth? Sourcery — the use of anonymous sources — has long been a journalistic problem, and going with one spectral speaker on something explosive like this seems particularly questionable. (The biblical standard is the testimony of two witnesses, and they have to be willing to come forward.)
This is one that is a bit troublesome. Balancing a false story with maybe an even worse one.
Why did Newsweek, after getting this story wrong, report new Quran-into-the-latrine charges made by terrorists and their allies? The magazine “balanced” the new allegations by reporting a U.S. colonel’s statement that “If you read the Al Qaeda training manual, they are trained to make allegations against the infidels.” But since terrorist testimony is not credible, why quote such charges without independent investigation?
The best question of them all,
Is there a sickness at the heart of press liberalism that leads many journalists to want the Guantanamo story to be true? Given the way Islamofascists act, do these journalists have a death wish for themselves and Western civilization?
More Economic News From Hooverville
According to the Labor Department, first-time claims for state jobless aid fell to 321,000 in the week ended May 14 from an upwardly revised 341,000 the previous week.
Wall Street economists had forecast new claims to fall 10,000 to 330,000 from the originally reported measure.
“It’s an indication that broader job growth is holding steady in the 175,000 to 200,000 range for nonfarm payrolls each month,” Hembre said.
See the full report from the Department of Labor.
This coupled with other great news in the economy like Crude price slides as stockpiles hit six-year high.
Let’s take a look at some other beneficial economic indicators.
Other interesting economic information can be found at PoliPundit.
