We see crazy people

If some of you out there are curious as to why some of us right-wing law and order types are somewhat reflexively opposed to "comprehensive immigration reform"...

Illegal immigrants can continue to pay in-state tuition at California’s public colleges and universities, the state Supreme Court unanimously ruled Monday.

“We’re really pleased with this judgment,” said Constance Carroll, chancellor of the San Diego Community College District, which advocated for that outcome. “As we said in our brief, this is really a matter of California law and California decision making. We feel that these young immigrants, who have bright futures, are being treated fairly.”

The court ruled on a suit originally filed in Yolo County in 2005 by a group of students and parents from 19 states outside of California. The plaintiffs contended that a 2001 state law, AB 540, improperly circumvented a federal law meant to prevent the granting of in-state tuition to illegal immigrants. The state law remained in effect during the litigation.

You see, we would love to "dialog" about "comprehensive immigration reform" but we don't dialog with crazy people and Constance Carroll is crazy. Where exactly does this alternate reality exist where a lunatic like Carroll makes sense talking about the "fair" treatment of people who are not even supposed to be here with respect to their tuition payments? We have illegal immigrants here taking advantage of our education system and we're arguing about tuition?

And don't even get us started on our legal system that upholds this illegal behavior.

Screw these people. Recall the great Amnesty push of the summer of 2007 when an unholy bipartisan political-class cabal tried to ram through an Amnesty bill but which was met and defeated by a bipartisan country-class uprising. It's kind of tough to "dialog" after that debacle in which the well was poisoned, perhaps irreversibly, and when pretty much the same ruling-class cast of characters are still at the levers of power.

Perhaps after the humiliations of 2006 and 2008, the Republicans can recapture their brand as "the Party that actually enforces the laws on the books." That would inspire confidence, no?

Allow us to dial it back for a moment: yes, we do realize that "dialog" is important but where is the middle ground, where is the room for compromise when dealing with a culture and mentality that don't see illegal immigration as... illegal?

And as long as the open-borders set continues to pander to and refuses to marginalize groups like La Raza and Mecha and their thinly-veiled third-world socialist, anti-American and Latino supremacist ways, there is, quite frankly, not a whole hell of a lot to talk about.

All the President's people

It's one of our faves, Bertha Lewis of ACORN, giving us all the unvarnished truth.



For a moment there, we weren't sure whether she was talking in the present or future tense.

And "internments"? Exercised at the behest of the great progressive of the 20th century, last we checked.

We sleep better at night knowing that millions upon millions of our tax dollars have been spent to fund the professional existence of Bertha Lewis and her cause.

Like getting slapped upside the head with a ribeye steak, we'd apologize for the blatant red meat nature of this post but for the fact that we think it's important to, from time to time, point out what is considered "mainstream" and totally-not-fringe in some very large socio-political circles.


P.S. "Socialist" has been nearly branded as hate speech when used by conservatives, especially while describing the president's policies. Given that, could Lewis then possibly be a self-hating black?

What's missing from this picture? (UPDATED)

U.S. director Oliver Stone fears his documentary about Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez, a fierce critic of American foreign policy, will struggle to find a distributor at home.

"South of the Border," which had its world premiere at the Venice film festival this week, portrays Chavez as a champion of the poor, and includes interviews with the leaders of Brazil, Bolivia, Argentina, Paraguay, Ecuador and Cuba.
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Stone, 62, told Reuters in an interview that he anticipated a struggle getting the movie to a U.S. audience, noting how previous films made about Central or South America had shared the same fate.

The reason why you may not be able to see Stone’s movie is perhaps because Stone’s movies stink. Or perhaps because the American public, by and large, is not willing to shell-out $10 and endure the less-than-hospitable movie-going experience in order to suffer through two hours of shameless socialist boot-licking. We could be wrong but that’s just us.

And these overseas premieres and film festivals are curious affairs to say the least. They are a very picture of exclusive social stratification whereby anything less than the utmost beautiful people need not apply but which are attended in droves by the most committed Marxist class-warriors.

As it stands, then, it's a shame that the potential movie distributors refuse to look beyond their short term bottom line and instead, take one for the team by allowing us to view this certain masterpiece for free. Shoot, Hugo's own obscene Citgo profits, alone, could finance this baby.



(UPDATE #1): From the Venice film festival

Two prominent American pictures were shut out of the festival's official jury awards -- Michael Moore's attack on corporate greed, Capitalism: A Love Story, and The Weinstein Company's The Road, which John Hillcoat adapted from Cormac McCarthy's post-apocalyptic novel. This will no doubt affect Harvey Weinstein' release plans for it. Moore's pic did receive the Leoncino d'oro Award from 26 local youths selected by the festival, but nothing from the official jury -- even though he personally came to Venice to premiere his documentary (see trailer here).

Again, the fawning adoration of 26 locals who've never worked a day in their lives aside, we fail to see how the lack of any apparent broader appeal should hinder distribution of these types of movies.



It's not as if Moore is charter member of any sort of "starving film-makers and pseudo-documentarians club" and his willingness to dig into those deep pockets of his would be a lesson in sacrifice and commitment to one's cause in these recessionary times.

What say ye, Mr. Moore?