Can The Loons Get Any Loonier?

A California congressman is investigating a government proposal to upgrade immigration detention centers to include unmonitored phone lines, dance and cooking lessons, continental breakfasts, freedom from lockdown and other amenities.

The upgrades were detailed in an e-mail between CCA, a contractor that runs the facility, and ICE officials. The e-mail was obtained by the Houston Chronicle, which outlined the following additional changes:

Self-serve fresh vegetable and beverage bars.
Arts and crafts lessons and movie nights.
Eliminating lockdowns and lights-out for low-risk detainees.
Allowing visitors to stay as long as they like in a 12-hour period.
Providing a unit manger so detainees have someone to report problems to other than the guard.
Allowing low-risk detainees to wear their own clothing or other non-penal attire.
Providing e-mail access and Internet-based free phone service.

"The federal government doesn't provide that for our seniors who have worked legally all their lives, why should we do that for people who have violated our sovereignty?" U.S. Rep. Brian Bilbray, R-Calif., said.

ICE spokeswoman Gillian Brigham stated that "any of the reforms will not include additional taxpayer funding."

Considering the government has NO money other than that which they collect from taxes, that is literally impossible, and therefore an outright lie.

You, the reader, may or may not be a liberal, but no one can justify this sort of thing. As a life-long "born here" American, I do not get treated this well by the government. And while the detention centers may not be prisons, they ARE "holding cells" for suspects. If illegals can get this in their detention centers, why are not American lawbreakers, being held on suspicion, gettiung the same?

This is absurd and outrageous. To give arts and dance lessons, a salad bar and Bingo nights to people who violated our laws is the ultimate in liberal lunacy.

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I Am An American

I Am the Liberal-Progressives Worst Nightmare.
I am an American. I believe in God.
I ride Harley Davidson Motorcycles and believe in American products.
I believe the money I make belongs to me and my family, not some Liberal governmental functionary be it Democratic or Republican!
I'm in touch with my feelings and I like it that way!
I think owning a gun doesn't make you a killer, it makes you a smart American.
I think being a minority does not make you noble or victimized, and does not entitle you to anything. Get over it! I
believe that if you are selling me a Big Mac, do it in English.
I believe everyone has a right to pray to his or her God when and where they want to.
I don't hate the rich. I don't pity the poor.
I know wrestling is fake and I don't waste my time watching or arguing about it.
I've never owned a slave, or was a slave, I haven't burned any witches or been persecuted by the Turks and neither have you! So, shut up already.
I believe if you don't like the way things are here, go back to where you came from and change your own country! This is AMERICA .We like it the way it is!
If you were born here and don't like it you are free to move to any Socialist country that will have you.
I want to know which church is it exactly where the Reverend Jesse Jackson preaches, where he gets his money, and why he is always part of the problem and not the solution. Can I get an AMEN on that one?
I also think the cops have the right to pull you over if you're breaking the law, regardless of what color you are.
And, no, I don't mind having my face shown on my drivers license.
And I'm proud that 'God' is written on my money. I think if you are too stupid to know how a ballot works, or that Arizona is a border state or that Guam will not tip over if you send more troops, I don't want you in government or deciding who should be running the most powerful nation in the world for the next four years. Either get informed or stay away from the voting booth.
I dislike those people standing in the intersections trying to sell me stuff or trying to guilt me into making 'donations' to their cause. Get a Job and do your part!
I believe that it doesn't take a village to raise a child, it takes two parents - one good man and one good woman.
I believe 'illegal' is illegal no matter what the lawyers and liberals think.
I believe that the American flag should be the only one flown in AMERICA! If you must fly another, the American flag should be flown ABOVE it.

If this makes me a BAD American, then yes, I'm a BAD American and proud of it.

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These People Are CRAZY!

(June 23) -- "The Mexican government has thrust itself into the legal battle against Arizona's controversial immigration law, joining U.S. advocacy groups in federal court to argue that the measure is unconstitutional and violates the basic rights of Mexican citizens.

"Lawyers for Mexico filed a brief supporting a lawsuit brought by the ACLU, the National Immigration Law Center and others against the Arizona law

"Mexico has a duty to protect its citizens and ensure that ethnicity is not used as criteria for discriminatory acts," the court document states. Mexico argues that the Arizona law threatens "the human and civil rights of its citizens when they are present in Arizona."

Now that's what I call unbelievably arrogant. What part of "illegal" do these Mexican morons not understand? Mexicans do NOT have any right to even be IN this country unless they enter legally. And if they enter legally, they need not fear the Arizona law.

If they enter illegally, they have BROKEN THE LAW. And when you break the law, just about the only right you have is the "right to remain silent".

Moreover, the Arizona law specifically states, in four different places, that ethnicity may NOT play any role in enforcing the law. These Mexican idiots and these anti-American advocacy groups like the ACLU are intentionally coloring the issue with non-truths in order top create fear. They KNOW it will not result in racial profiling, but they say it will, anyway.

I would suggest to the Mexicans to stay OUT of American legal issues, particularly when the law-breakers are Mexican. And I would suggest to the advocacy groups that if they cannot be honest, to just shut the Hell up. If you have to lie, obfuscate the truth or spin the issues in order to push your agenda, then your agenda is WRONG!

The ONLY thing the Mexican government should be doing is telling their people to NOT break American law, and to help control their own side of the border. After all, if they do not want their citizens to be accosted in the U.S., simply keep them OUT of the U.S. That solves the problem for both sides.

As a side note, people who illegally enter Mexico are subject to two years in prison. They should consider themselves fortunate that our laws do not mimic theirs.

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Where Have We Seen This Before?

In today's news, the following:

"Newly proposed legislation by Democrats would give the federal government authority to seize and even switch off the Internet during a national crisis."

Now let's see - wasn't it Rahm Emanuel that said "Never let a serious crisis go to waste"?

The problem, while overlooked by many, is simply this - WHO determines what constitutes a "crisis"? The Feds, of course. And in the past 18 months alone the Obama administration has noted a "crisis" no less than 6 times. So, according to this bill, they could shut down the internet WHENEVER they wish, for whatever reason(s) that appeal to them.

Imagine if in 1776 the British were able to shut down communications between the colonies, thereby preventing Americans from participating in the Revolution.

Now I will ask just one simple question:

"Where have we seen this before - a government that sets itself up to be able to shut down the internet in their countries?"

The answer: Communist China, Communist Venezuela, Communist Cuba, Communist North Korea, Pakistan & Iran.

Is that where America wants to go? Are those the countries we wish to emulate?

Tell your congress persons to reject this tyrannical idea. The free flow of information is the greatest protection of freedom for us all.

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They Just Won't Quit

Just when sane and intelligent people thought a little truth and sanity were beginning to come through, the far-left lunatics who touted ETHANOL are at it again. Once again they are pushing ethanol as a viable solution to petroleum, and they even have the liberals in Congress considering passing legislation that would put 15% into all gasoline products instead of the current 10% requirement.

It does not matter to these loons that ethanol has already been proven to be a very bad idea.

First, it is more expensive to produce than oil - about 80% more expensive, which is why the government pays out billions of your tax dollars as subsidies to those who make it.

Next, it takes MORE petroleum to actually make ethanol - the oil for the equipment to plant, irrigate, harvest, transport and convert plants to ethanol requires roughly 1.4 gallons of oil to produce 1 gallon of ethanol.

Next, it has already been determined that ethanol is corrosive to vehicle engines built before 2001.

And then there is the simple fact that in order to produce enough ethanol just to fuel cars and trucks would require more farm area than is available in the entire country.

And finally, it is just plain stupid to use our food supply as fuel. Since the inception of ethanol, food prices across the board have risen greatly - ice cream, pizza, beef, cheese, milk - you name it. Corn used for ethanol cannot be used to feed livestock, dairy cattle or people. Doubt it? Read the next "gallon" of ice cream you buy - you will note that it is no longer a gallon, or even close to it. It is only 3/4 of a gallon, but the price has still increased, though the amount has decreased.

Ethanol is just another lie the liberals and "greenies" tell in order to push their own insidious agenda designed to bring America down to the level of the rest of the world, all in the name of "saving the planet". Even though America is polluting less than any other industrial nation - and the greatest polluters have already stated they will not reduce their own emissions.

Wake up, America. In almost every case, anything "green" is not green at all. Those curly lightbulbs that reduce electricity usage? Forget it. It costs three times as much to produce them, requires nearly 5 times as much glass (which is produced by heat, created by fuel), and includes a toxic element (mercury) which requires the used bulbs to be disposed of only at hazardous waste sites - and more than 95% of the population lives about 1-2 gallons of gas away from the nearest site.

Green? Not a chance.

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His Marxism Is Showing - Again

In Obama's speech this evening, he stated that he will "inform BP that they are to put money aside" in an escrow account, to insure payment of debts caused by the oil spill.

Excuse me, Mr. President, but I guess you forgot. This is America, not Venezuela or Cuba. In America, not even the President of the United States can order a private company to place funds into escrow without a little thing called "due process". That's right, Mr. Harvard graduate, professor of Constitutional studies. You cannot order a business to put funds aside, no matter how good of an idea it may be. Only the courts can order that, and only after BP is legally found at fault.

I do agree that BP needs to pay for all damages. But if forced to put billions into escrow, they will have less available to drill for oil that brings in that money. If you hamstring someone, they simply cannot produce effectively. And the last thing we need is for BP to be so emasculated by Obama's lust for power to the point that they become UNABLE to pay.

But in any case, Mr. Obama has neither the authority nor the right to order that they put money aside. He is not KING, and this is not yet a dictatorship. He would do well to remember that, and leave his Marxism in the closet.

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Maine Offered

Shortly after the BP oil spill began, a Maine company, Packgen, offered to provide 20 miles of booms, with the capacity to produce another 20 miles every day.

The government ignored them, and the booms are not being used.

Just 3 days after the spill began, the Dutch goverment offered to provide skimmer ships that could clean up 20,000 tons of crude every day.

Our government turned them down.

A Texas businessman offered to send 25 skimmer ships.

Our government turned them down.

The Saudi's offered to clean up the spill.

Our government said, "No, thanks".

And Obama says we are doing everything possible, and BP is culpable.

I could be wrong (but I'm not), but it looks like the Obama administration is trying to guarantee terrible damage from the spill. If the spill is bad enough, and long enough, he increases his chances of passing his "Cap & Trade" bill that controls the energy industry, and he would be able to further the agenda of environmentalists who would let Mankind go extinct in order to protect some endangered snail somewhere. He could shut down drilling (which he has done), which is what the liberal environmentalists have wanted for a long time.

And I see that is exactly what is transpiring - the administration is using the oil spill, and demonizing the oil industry for strictly political purposes.

For those of you who voted for the bumbling, incompetent imbecile who cannot lead a thirsty horse to water, and who values political agendas above the welfare of America I say, "Thanks - for nothing!"

Since Day One, Obama has been playing the "blame game". He and his liberal cohorts in Congress only want to place blame, then punish.

Pardon me for stating the obvious, but a REAL leader would lead, and put all efforts into solutions. Placing blame and punishing, if appropriate, can come later.

Yes, BP has a lot to make up for, and we should hold them accountable. But our government also has made huge mistakes here, and should be held accountable. But right now, all eyes should be on solving the problem, not pointing fingers.

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America's "New Image"

One of Obama'a main "selling points" during the 2008 election was that he would improve America's image in the world, and build friendships and cooperation with other nations.

When I awoke this morning and turned on the news, I saw that Mexico is royally pissed at us, the UK, our staunchest ally is even angrier at Obama's politicalization of the BP disaster that will harm millions of Brits, and Israel is questioning, rightfully, whether America is still on their side.

The best and closest allies America has had, and Obama is successfully alienating them faster than the oil is spilling in the Gulf.

We have two other trusted allies - Canada and Australia. I'm waiting to see how he will turn them against America.

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