Power tends to corrupt; absolute power corrupts absolutely

 Lord Acton... you are soooo right!

Pete Stark Congressman from CA.

This arrogant, smug, son-of-a bitch, had the audacity to talk down to

people gathered at a townhall meeting as if they were "serfs" in his kingdom. The only prop missing was a golden goblet in his "lefty" hand.

Californians... how much border protection do you think your going get from this asshole?

Christ...I can't wait until November!

Power tends to corrupt; absolute power corrupts absolutely

Delivering the high hard one for 90 years

Delivering the high hard one for 90 years

As Holiday Weekend Approaches, ACLU Affiliates Issue Alerts To Individuals Traveling To Arizona

Arizona Racial Profiling Law Threatens Civil Liberties FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
CONTACT: (212) 549-2666; media@aclu.org

NEW YORK – In response to civil liberties threats caused by the recent passage of Arizona's racial profiling law, state-based American Civil Liberties Union affiliates across the country are issuing travel alerts informing individuals of their rights when stopped by law enforcement when traveling in Arizona.

The unconstitutional law, known as SB 1070, requires law enforcement agents to demand "papers" from people they stop who they suspect are not authorized to be in the U.S. If individuals are unable to prove to officers that they are permitted to be in the U.S., they may be subject to warrantless arrest without any probable cause that they have committed a crime. 

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The American Civil Liberties Union. A name can be so "catchy" sometimes. I copied the above and pasted it from their website. I would like to address the paragraph highlighted in red which is issuing a "travel alert" for anyone traveling in AZ. This paragraph is deliberately misleading and vague. 


"The unconstitutional law, known as SB 1070, requires law enforcement agents to demand "papers" from people they stop who they suspect are not authorized to be in the U.S." 


Now if I was an Hispanic here legally planning a trip to AZ to see the Grand Canyon I would tell my wife....Better not go honey we might get arrested!


 demand "papers" from people they stop who they suspect are not authorized to be in the U.S." They conveniently left out demand "papers" from people they stop who BROKE THE LAW. 


A tale of two Hispanic couples. The Garcia's are pulled over for going 70 in a 55 mph zone. The cop asks for a driver license, registration, and insurance. They produce it and are issued a warning or a ticket.


Same situation with the Lopez's. But he can't produce a driver license, registration, or insurance. He has liquor on his breath and the cop notices Corona bottles lying on the floor. He is arrested and taken to jail and after futher investigation it is determined they are here illegally.


I don't see a problem here. Lets say it was you or I pulled over for speeding  (IN ANY STATE) and we could not produce a driver license, registration, or insurance. Would we not be arrested?

Delivering the high hard one for 90 years

Paul Krugman speaks

"We are now, I fear, in the early stages of a third depression," the Nobel laureate wrote in a NY Times Op-Ed Sunday, dipping his toes into a pool we've been sloshing around in for some time.

What... Klugman is actually making sense? Wait a minute... he is an economist…... and he did win the Nobel Prize in Economics. Right?

That is, until he follows his comments up with this piece of shit of advice to G-20 meeting attendees: "This depression will actually be "a failure of policy... governments are obsessing about inflation when the real threat is deflation, preaching the need for belt-tightening, when the real problem is inadequate spending."

Thank God. For a minute there I was getting worried. He was beginning to make sense.

Paul Krugman speaks

Liberalism...Ain't it great

California Tax dollars at work.

California welfare recipients withdrew $1.8 million at casino ATMs over eight months 

California welfare recipients using state-issued debit cards withdrew more than $1.8 million in taxpayer cash on casino floors between October 2009 and last month, state officials said Thursday.

Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger issued an executive order requiring welfare recipients to promise they will use cash benefits only to "meet the basic subsistence needs" of their families. The order also gave the state Department of Social Services seven days to produce a plan to reduce other types of "waste, fraud and abuse" in the welfare program.

The moves came after The Times reported Wednesday that officials at the department failed to notice for years that welfare recipients could use the state-issued cards to withdraw taxpayer cash at more than half of the tribal casinos and state-licensed poker rooms in California. The state initiated the debit card program in 2002.


Casino withdrawals, which represented far less than 1% of total welfare spending during the eight months for which the department released data, averaged just over $227,392 a month.

Schwarzenegger has already ordered the vendor that runs the state welfare system's ATM network to prohibit the cards from working at casino machines. Republican lawmakers are now calling on the administration to track down the people who withdrew cash at gaming centers and recover the money.

"I'd say that $227,000 per month is an astounding waste of taxpayer dollars," said Seth Unger, spokesman for Assembly Republican Leader Martin Garrick of Solana Beach. "To me it is absolutely clear that the department failed in its duty to provide oversight. We should explore all options to get the money back."

The electronic benefit transfer cards allow welfare recipients to access two accounts: cash offered through the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families program and an electronic version of food stamps, which comes with strict rules governing how the money can be spent.

The cash benefits, however, can be withdrawn and spent just about anywhere. A Times review of state records found that the cards work at ATMs in 32 of 58 tribal casinos and 47 of 90 state-licensed poker rooms.

Most of the ATMs impose a withdrawal limit of about $300 a day. The monthly cash grant for a family of three ranges up to $694, while families with more than 10 people can get as much as $1,469, documents from the Social Services Department show.

Some Assembly Republicans called Thursday for assurances that welfare recipients can't access ATMs at other "seedy" businesses. "If they're going to shut down … the casinos, why not also shut down the ATMs at liquor stores and bars?" Unger asked.

Schwarzenegger spokesman Aaron McLear said the point of the executive order was to force the department to examine the program for all manner of abuse, but did not specify any other kinds of businesses that might be weeded out of the network. "We're going to eliminate any waste, fraud and abuse that makes sense to eliminate," he said.

Democrats, who have been fighting to preserve the state's fraying social safety net in the face of a $19-billion budget gap, angrily rejected a Schwarzenegger proposal last month to eliminate the cash portion of welfare.

That was before anyone in Sacramento realized the money could be withdrawn by someone strolling from a poker game to a blackjack table.

Democratic leaders steered away from specifics while discussing calls for reform.

"We will conduct timely legislative oversight," said Senate President Pro Tem Darrell Steinberg (D-Sacramento). "We want to make sure all families are spending the money on the children it's intended to serve."

Liberalism...Ain't it great

Governors Criticize Obama's Border Security Plan

(Every time I see this guy I want to reach into the TV and choke him)

Juan Williams

"It's a civil rights issue."

This is not the reincarnation of the civil rights movement here. We're talking about illegals Juan. You brain dead dumb ass! 

PHOENIX -- The Texas and Arizona governors criticized the Obama administration's border security plans Monday, saying not enough National Guard troops are being deployed to their states.

"What we heard wasn't anything what we hoped to hear," Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer told reporters after a 90-minute briefing by federal officials sent by President Obama.

Texas Gov. Rick Perry, a Republican like Brewer, said the deployment to his state was "insufficient to meet the needs of securing the Texas-Mexico border."

A White House statement said plans to deploy 1,200 additional National Guard soldiers along the U.S.-Mexico border would "complement the unprecedented resources and additional efforts already devoted by this administration to securing the Southwest border."

Arizona would get 524 National Guard troops, Texas would get 250, California 224 and New Mexico 72, officials said. Another 130 would be at a national liaison office.

Brewer has said the deployment should total 6,000, including 3,000 in Arizona, the state with the most illegal border crossings. Perry asked in January 2009 for 1,000 National Guard troops to help with border security in Texas alone.

The White House statement said the extra Guard troops would be used to provide intelligence surveillance and reconnaissance support as well as backup to counternarcotics enforcement until more civilian officers are trained and stationed at the border.

The federal officials briefed Brewer, her senior aides and several state agency heads after an hourslong meeting in Tucson earlier Monday with Attorney General Terry Goddard, U.S. Rep. Gabrielle Giffords and dozens of local law enforcement officials. Goddard and Giffords are Democrats.

The federal team was led by John Brennan, a national security adviser whom Goddard said has the job of evaluating "the whole picture."
"He never said this is all," Goddard said. "He said this is what we're going to do right now."

The meeting with Brewer resulted from her June 3 visit to the White House, where she and Obama discussed border security and immigration. Brewer asked for specifics on plans for Arizona.

The president previously announced plans to send 1,200 troops to the border, and he asked Congress for $600 million to pay for 1,000 more Border Patrol agents, 160 new federal immigration officers and two unmanned aircraft. The figure includes $500 million in new spending and $100 million of redirected spending.

Brewer said after the June 3 meeting that Obama gave assurances that the majority of the 1,200 troops would go to Arizona. She sought them to help stem the flow of illegal immigrants and drug smugglers across the border, and she reacted to Obama's initial announcement by saying 1,200 wouldn't be enough. She also urged Obama to send National Guard helicopters and surveillance drones to the border.
Santa Cruz County Sheriff Tony Estrada, whose county abuts on the border, called the federal effort "long overdue."

"We've never had the attention, and we've never had the response or resources along the border that we have had recently," Estrada said after the Tucson meeting. "And once we have the right match, the right combination, I think we'll be able to claim some victories. It's not going to stop, the border will never be sealed. It will be safer, maybe more secure, but it will always be active."

The meetings follow months of heated debate over illegal immigration sparked by the passage of a new Arizona law in April. The law generally requires police investigating another incident or crime to ask people about their immigration status if there's a "reasonable suspicion" they're in the country illegally.

The meetings were held as Arizona officials awaited word on a widely anticipated federal legal challenge to the measure. Obama has called the law "misguided." Brewer has called its enactment necessary due to federal inaction on border enforcement.
Goddard said the federal officials clammed up when asked during the Tucson meeting about a possible challenge. Brewer said the subject didn't come up during the Phoenix meeting.

Governors Criticize Obama's Border Security Plan