Bloodthirsty Liberal

No, that’s not some sort of necrophilic come on, it’s how military people talk:

Had Obama said this just one time and corrected it afterward in his remarks, then I’d have bet that some helpful staffer had loaded the Teleprompter with an incorrect phonetic spelling. However, after the first time “corpsemen” came out of his mouth, any speaker with even a passing knowledge of the military would have realized that the word had been mispronounced. After the second one, it should have been obvious. Instead, Obama went for the hat trick.

It’s no biggie, at least not like having an aunt living here illegally (in public housing, no less), having ignored two deportation orders, and who illegally (as a foreign national) contributed to your campaign—especially after you (factually incorrectly) berated the Supreme Court live on national TV when they had no way to respond.

If something like that ever happened, that would be a bigger deal, and would, I’m sure, get great coverage in the mainstream media.

Especially if they thought she was faking (or at least exaggerating) a disability.

And lest I seem cruel and heartless to a poor old lady, let me show you her in a moment of candid, honest, unrehearsed, vulnerability (and… action!)

It’s just a pity she doesn’t have any family to support her, no one who came into some money ($1.4 million) recently, and could see that she lives out her days comfortably and peacefully in a Nairobi condo.

And when we get behind closed doors
Then she lets her hair hang down
And she makes me glad that I’m a man
Oh, no-one knows what goes on behind closed doors

The illegal alien aunt of President Obama could learn this week whether she can put down roots in Boston - or start packing her bags for a one-way trip back to Kenya.

And, save for U.S. Immigration Court Judge Leonard I. Shapiro, she’ll know before anyone else. Zeituni Polly Onyango has persuaded Shapiro to bar the public from her removal proceeding Thursday morning at the John F. Kennedy Federal Building, though it’s unclear why.

“I assume (Shapiro) thought it would be a three-ring circus. She’s the aunt of the president of the United States - the most famous man in the world,” said Mike Rogers, spokesman for the Ohio law firm defending Onyango, 57, against the Department of Homeland Security.

So, who’s going to be the one to load the president’s auntie on a plane back to Kenya? Hope he likes the cold, because he’ll be transferred to Ice Station Zebra before you can say “George Obama’s shack”.

Not a very clever or insightful title, I admit, but WTF am I supposed to say about this?

A group of California artists wants Mexicans and Central Americans to have more than just a few cans of tuna and a jug of water for their illegal trek through the harsh desert into the United States.

Faculty at University of California, San Diego, are developing a GPS-enabled cellphone that tells dehydrated migrants where to find water, and pipes in poetry from phone speakers, regaling them on their journey much like the words of Emma Lazarus did a century ago to the “huddled masses yearning to breathe free’’ on Ellis Island.

The Transborder Immigrant Tool is part technology endeavor, part art project. It introduces a high-tech twist to an old debate about how far activists can go to prevent migrants from dying on the border without breaking the law.

Immigration hard-liners argue that the activists are aiding illegal entry to the United States, a felony. Even migrants and their sympathizers question whether the device will make the treacherous journey easier.

I don’t want wetbacks to die either (a word I apply only to those literally caught in the act of illegally entering the country), but why can’t these “artists” apply their “skills” to discouraging them from trying? Surely, Shephard Fairey’s Obey poster plastered across the banks of the Rio Grande would give “dehydrated migrants” (really, is that any less offensive than “wetbacks”?) pause before violating our sovereignty.

The effort is being done on the government’s dime - an irony not lost on the designers, whose salaries are paid by the state of California.

“There are many, many areas in which every American would say, ‘I don’t like the way my tax dollars are being spent.’ Our answer to that is an in-your-face ‘So what?’ ’’ says UCSD lecturer Brett Stalbaum, 33, a self-described news junkie who likens his role to chief technology officer.

Count to 10, BTL, count to 10. Really, don’t you just want to punch him in that smug face of his?

Brett Stalbaum and Micha Cardenas hope to create water-guidance software for cellphones to be given away in Mexico.

But no, we are a nation of laws (or used to be). And he may get his in the end (which something tells me is how he likes it—BTL, bad!):

“If it’s not a crime, it’s very close to committing a crime,’’ said Peter Nunez, a former US attorney in San Diego. “Whether this constitutes aiding and abetting would depend on the details, but it certainly puts you in the discussion.’’

Let’s hope it puts them in jail.

Given the proclivities of his father, it’s no wonder President Obama has to ration his exposure to the myriad members of his extended family.

But it’s kind of sad that Auntie Zeituni is persona non grata:

President Barack Obama’s aunt buried her face in her hands and sobbed as she described her anguish over no longer having contact with him and his family after the revelation she had been living illegally for years in the United States in public housing.

Zeituni Onyango told The Associated Press in an exclusive interview that she is troubled that her immigration woes have made her a political liability to her nephew.

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Onyango helped care for the president’s half brothers and sister while living with Barack Obama Sr. in Kenya. She moved to the United States in 2000 and applied for asylum in 2002, but her request was rejected and she was ordered deported in 2004.

However, she did not leave the country and continued to live in public housing in Boston. She had been a health care volunteer but not since her status became public. She refused to discuss how she affords to live now or who is paying for her attorney.

Onyango said she previously had no trouble visiting Obama when he was a state senator in Illinois or after he became a U.S. senator, though she declined to discuss details of how often she had contact with Obama and his family.

I’m no fan of the president and no fan of illegal immigrants ignoring deportation orders (much less those staying in public housing), but if a nephew doesn’t have the courage to give his auntie a hug once in a while, he should be led by said auntie around by his ear until he shapes up.

Oh wait, it looks like he already has been:

Yes, Mr. President, we see. Looks like she gave it quite a tug.

Speaking of Massachusetts, as we just were, below, see if these two stories, juxtaposed, don’t tell you all you need to know about our benighted state.

Story one:

Maria Bonilla - who has trouble walking because of a congenital heart defect - feeds, houses, and clothes her two young children with $942 of state and federal cash assistance every month, though it barely covers her rent, utilities, and everything else her family needs to survive, from diapers to subway fare. But in a few months the 27-year-old victim of domestic violence expects to be homeless.

The Bonilla family is one of thousands of low-income families who will suffer from steep budget cuts.

The state estimates that the children of 9,100 families with parents so severely disabled that they qualify for federal Supplemental Security Income benefits will lose their state cash assistance as a result of the $600 million in budget cuts that Governor Deval Patrick announced late last month. The $15.8 million reduction of the Transitional Aid to Families with Dependent Children program, on top of $8 million in cuts made earlier this fiscal year, means families who receive the assistance will lose an average of more than $400 a month.

“I don’t want to be out on the streets,’’ said Bonilla, of Boston, whose family will lose $238 in state assistance Jan. 1, and she cannot work because of her heart. “That little amount of money helps a lot. If they take it away, my kids will suffer. I’m scared.’’

Wow. S**t man, I mean, sucks to be her. Although am I heartless, mean, insensitive, and cruel to wonder how a person so ill she can barely walk delivered two children and survived beatings? Is her congenital heart defect intermittent?

No, I take it back. That’s too heartless, mean, insensitive, and cruel.

Anyhow, I want to use the unfortunate Ms. Bonilla to make a point, so she’s fine by me.

Story two:

Governor Deval Patrick today will unveil a state-commissioned report that urges him to push for driver’s licenses and in-state tuition for illegal immigrants, as well as English classes for foreign-born Massachusetts residents who need them.

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It is unclear whether Patrick will embrace the recommendations, which he has declined to release since he received them in July. He will refer the list to his Cabinet for an action plan within 90 days, said his spokesman Kyle Sullivan.

The majority of the 912,310 immigrants in Massachusetts are here legally; almost half are naturalized US citizens and other legal residents are waiting in line. But the authors of the report also urged Patrick to press federal officials to create a path to legal residency for immigrants here illegally, saying the harsh national debate casts a pall over all immigrants.

“We need to get past the rhetoric of hate that has dominated this debate and instead strive for policy choices that are in the best long-term interests of our nation,’’ Westy Egmont and Eva Millona, cochairmen of the Governor’s Advisory Council for Refugees and Immigrants, which authored the report, wrote in a letter to Patrick.

“The rhetoric of hate” seems to have deafened the governor, since he’s ignored your ridiculous recommendations for a good four months.

I just wonder how much these “policy choices” are going to cost the state—going to cost poor Ms. Bonilla, who may be an immigrant herself (the story doesn’t say). Is she going to go hungry so that a criminal immigrant can drive legally, park illegally (their disrespect for the laws of the land already well established), and get cut-rate prices for our state colleges and universities? ‘Pears so.

It’s a given Ms. Bonilla won’t be able to take advantage of our generosity—she’s not here illegally (we assume), and she can’t walk to her classes. Metaphorically speaking (and liberally speaking), she’s taking another beating from a Latin male.

But I also heard a former cop call into a local radio show. He said that withholding licenses from criminal immigrants gave the criminal justice system at least the tiniest hold on them. If they were pulled over for any violation (you think their cars are up to code?), and they didn’t have a license, they could be cited for that, and the record would at least indicate they had crossed the system at some point. (Whether immigration officials decided to act on that information is an entirely separate—and largely moot—issue.)

The ex-cop also pointed out that drivers licenses are also “gateway” IDs, that with an official certificate from the state, one could essentially document oneself, transforming from illegal immigrant to a legal resident in all but name.

Of course, with Brookline and Cambridge declared “sanctuary cities”, and Somerville and Orleans not far behind—not to mention Amherst’s active solicitation of Guantanamo inmates—local illegals have nothing to fear as it is.

It’s the rest of us, rich and poor, well and ill, that have to watch out.

PS: Leave us not forget the president’s sainted Aunt Zeituni, who is in the country illegally, illegally ignored court orders to leave, and lives illegally in Boston public housing. She’s the public face of our illegal immigrant “policy choices.”

We’ll all get sick evenly and fairly:

The Patrick administration has trumpeted its salvaging of health insurance for 28,000 legal immigrants, but the company hired to cover this group has been late assigning doctors and sending enrollment information to many patients, health and immigrant advocates say.

Even some patients who received the necessary information are facing significant hurdles connecting with the doctors CeltiCare Health Plan of Massachusetts assembled in its new network, which sharply limits the community health centers and hospitals available to patients.

“Often the new providers are a long way from where they live, and this is a problem for immigrants who have to use public transportation,’’ said Franklin Soults, a spokesman for the Massachusetts Immigrant and Refugee Advocacy Coalition, the state’s largest immigrant group.

“The new places,’’ he added, “don’t have the translator services that their former providers do.’’

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CeltiCare, which is being paid $36.5 million over nine months, defended its performance yesterday, saying that delays in mailing enrollment information and doctor assignments to patients were the state’s fault, because it was tardy providing a list of immigrants’ names and addresses.

“We have 15 days, once we receive the list from the state, to send patients their packets,’’ said Brian Delaney, a CeltiCare spokesman.

Richard Powers, a state spokesman, said that on Oct. 27 CeltiCare was provided with a list of patients whose coverage began Nov. 1. “We were not late,’’ he said.

Nyah-nyah! Did not! Did so!

But what’s a story about abused immigrants without a picture of a particularly unfortunate one?

Amparo Villa, 51, of Lawrence takes 16 medications and now must travel to Methuen for doctor visits.

Wow, that’s really sad. For her.

And soon for all of us. Maybe we’ll have to go to Canada.

You knew it was coming.

You just wonder why it took so long:

Already under fire from the Right on the issue of illegal immigration, President Obama is now coming under fire from the Left for making it harder for undocumented workers to buy private health insurance.

My colleagues, ABC News’ Elizabeth Gorman and Teddy Davis, have more:

President Obama was blasted by a top Latino ally on Monday for modifying his health-care plan in the face of conservative criticism.

The criticism was leveled in Spanish by Rep. Luis Gutierrez, a Democrat from Illinois who was the first Latino member of Congress to endorse Barack Obama for president.

Referring to the Obama administration, Gutierrez said: “Those who should be our friends, our allies, are more and more giving Rep. (Joe) Wilson, R-S.C., exactly what he wants to continue with this prejudice against our community.”

Gutierrez, who made his remarks in Washington, D.C., while participating in a panel discussion on immigration reform sponsored by the Congressional Hispanic Caucus Institute, was incensed by the Obama administration’s announcement over the weekend that it was going to bar undocumented workers from participating in the health insurance exchange.

Excuse me if I’m stuck on the outrage of his speaking Spanish at a Congressional panel, Hispanic or not. English may not be federally recognized as our official language, but I would have thought it was the official language of the federal government.

English or Spanish, he wasn’t done:

[T]he administration has told us that if we’re going to have reform of our health care system … all those that go to the private sector in order to get their health care, that they will verify them. They will verify Social Security; they will verify their status in the United States of America.”

“So, and remember, we’re not talking about government health care, we’re talking about everybody is going to be required to get health care insurance,” said Gutierrez. “And so as we go to this big store, right, where everybody is required. And this exchange, the health care exchange, where if you don’t have health care you are required to go purchase it. When you go and attempt to purchase it, what does the administration say? The administration says, ‘You will have to prove that you are legally in the United States and have a Social Security number and a right to that.’”

“Some immigrants, and let me say it – hundreds of thousands of them — who have businesses, who are prospering, who are paying taxes— even when they wish to buy because it’s going to be a requirement to buy it, this administration has told them don’t buy. You can’t. You can’t buy.”

“Some immigrants”? Which ones? Show me a “documented” immigrant who is outlawed from buying insurance. People here illegally are not immigrants, they are interlopers, trespassers, breakers-and-enterers. And we’re supposed to offer them the silver? Let them steal it, fair and square, like honest criminals.

Got that? Will not.

Not no way, not no how.

Just so we’re clear:

In what he called the “first myth” being spread by critics of his proposal for a government-run health care system, Obama said they are wrong in claiming illegal immigrants will be covered: “That is not true. Illegal immigrants would not be covered. That idea has not even been on the table.” Obama said.

Well, Mr. President, that idea must have been tucked under a stack of background briefing papers over there in the corner of the table because the Congressional Research Service (CRS) says this about H.R. 3200, the Obamacare bill approved just before the recess by the House Energy and Commerce Committee chaired by Rep. Henry Waxman, D-CA:

“Under H.R. 3200, a ‘Health Insurance Exchange’ would begin operation in 2013 and would offer private plans alongside a public option…H.R. 3200 does not contain any restrictions on noncitzens—whether legally or illegally present, or in the United States temporarily or permanently—participating in the Exchange.”

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The bill contains no verification requirement or enforcement process for citizenship or legal residency, as exists for other federal benefit programs. The only verification required for the subsidies pertains to family income.

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House Democrats defeated all attempts in committee to add an enforcement mechanism that would require proof of citizenship or legal residency for those getting subsidies.

CRS also notes that “undocumented aliens” who have a “substantial presence” in the US would be REQUIRED to buy health insurance (page 4) through the exchanges in HR3200.

I feel so reassured.

I know we no longer require our lawmakers to read the bills on which they vote. Most of them can barely read the back of a box of cereal. But our president is a former professor of Constitutional Law. I know he can read. He has the teleprompters to prove it.

Hey, there’s an idea. Load the health care reform bill(s) on TOTUS and he’ll read that sucker through start to finish, without stopping. He won’t know what he’s reading, but that’s nothing new. Maybe he’ll stop lying if he actually knows the truth.

Yeah, right.

Aunt Agatha and I have noted the virulent strain of anti-Semitism now thickly settled over the sceptr’d isle of Britain.

I wonder if these observations from Mark Steyn are coincidental?

Here’s another one of those stories about that demographic transformation that Newsweek, the BBC, and all the other experts insist isn’t happening.

In Britain, many “public” (in the American sense) primary schools fall under the aegis of the Church of England or the Roman Catholic Church. But, increasingly, only nominally. Because these days the only children in the neighborhood are of, ah, other persuasions:

Christian Pupils Outnumbered By Muslims Even In Roman Catholic Schools.

The Tablet, a weekly Catholic magazine, found that in Oldham, Blackburn, Wolverhampton and Birmingham there has been a sharp decline in the proportion of Catholics being educated in local faith schools.

At English Martyrs in Sparkhill, Birmingham, just 36 of the 410 pupils are Catholic while the vast majority are Muslim.

At Sacred Heart Primary in Salford, there are only seven Catholic pupils and moves are under way to remove it from the diocese’s jurisdiction… An inspection by the diocese in 2007 said the situation was “seriously affecting the school’s ability to provide a traditional Catholic education”.

You don’t say.

Last year the Catholic Education Service said Catholic schools should provide multi-faith prayer rooms for Muslim, Jewish, Hindu and Sikh students.

It also suggested bathrooms should be adapted to accommodate ritual cleansing.

In further nothing-to-see-here news:

In inner London, 54 per cent of primary pupils and 48.5 per cent in secondary institutions do not speak English as their first language…

He added: ‘In inner London it’s hard to know who immigrant children are supposed to integrate with since they heavily outnumber local children.’

There’ll always be an England, to be sure, although it may soon be a colony of Pakistan.

Proponents and opponents of immigration (in England and elsewhere in Europe, as well in the USA) ought at least to discuss what sort of country they wish to leave for their children. Be a sanctuary for economic and political refugees if you wish. But don’t expect your new Muslim and Sikh neighbors (as hard-working and God-fearing as they may be) to put up with Marmite, Benny Hill, real ale, or the gap on the Northern Line trains. What you see as traits defining your national character they rightly see as defects to be ignored or “ritually cleansed”.

Pity these poor Africans. They cross hundreds of miles of hostile and unforgiving country to enter the land of milk and honey—only to find it curdled and crystalized:

The policy of deporting African refugees from central Israel into the periphery should continue as long as the matter is being debated by the High Court of Justice, the State Prosecutor’s Office said in a response submitted to the court on Wednesday.

The “Hadera-Gedera law” states that foreign workers and African refugees must live outside of Israel’s central area, bound by Hadera in the north and Gedera in the south

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According to data presented by the State, 500-600 Africans infiltrate the country every month. More than half of them are from Eritrea, and 30%-40% come from Sudan.

While only a small part of the infiltrators come from Darfur, all of them are defined as asylum seekers because they are unable to return to their country of origin. Almost all refugees enter Israel through the Egyptian border.

FYI, we’ve provided ample evidence of what happens to those who don’t make it across the border—usually an Egyptian bullet or bayonet in the back.

Now, Israelis are free to make whatever policy they deem appropriate for themselves and their refugees. I would point out that it is difficult for them culturally and economically to absorb just any old number of destitute illegal immigrants, no matter how endangered they may be. Israel seems rich only by comparison to its impoverished neighbors.

But you have to wonder what newspapers the Eritreans and Sudanese are reading if their goal is a racist, apartheid, militaristic, colonial enclave, rather than those paragons of liberty, Egypt, Libya, Araby, etc.