FISHING REPORT ON FUN FRIDAY

SEA ANGELS CAST OFF

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On Monday 9/19/2011 the Sea Angels conducted a trial run aboard the boat Blue Angel. I captained The Blue Angel, a 26 foot Aquasport powerboat, with my friend and first mate JB in hopes of seeing how well our service would be received and to iron out any kinks in our seamanship and fishing skills. Our guest was a young man from Texas and at the end of the day he was thrilled with his deep-sea adventure.

We cast off at 8:30am and passed through the Lake Worth Inlet on a course of 162 degrees SSE in 2 to 4 foot seas and 10-15 knot East winds, planning to troll weed lines or find working birds in the Gulf Stream. The chop prevented us from running to deep water at full speed, so I asked JB to put out one green-yellow and one pink-purple high speed trolling feathers. In 185 ft water we passed many flying fish and scattered weeds and then began getting strikes by Bonitos hooking up two at a time.

 Bonitos are very strong fighters and fun to catch and release but they are not table fare. After giving the kid a workout by catching five boneheads (bonito), we hauled out of that area and proceeded to deeper water in search of dinner; dolphin (no not flipper, the fish Mahi Mahi), Wahoo, kingfish or tuna. The odds of success while trolling the Gulf Stream are against the fisherman who does not locate flotsam, weed lines or working birds (birds diving to the surface).

Off the starboard beam, in a depth 535 feet, I spotted a large bamboo log bobbing in the sea. The ocean had calmed a bit dropping down to 2-3 foot swells. I told JB and the Kid to get ready for a knock down (strike), hoping that fish would be under that log. The trolled baits, two artificial feathers and 2 rigged ballyhoo, passed by the log with out inducing a strike. I made a slow turn and passed the log a second time, closer, but still no hits. Ton the second pass, through the crystal clear deep blue water, I could see small tripletail fish swimming under the bamboo log.

If weed lines had been prevalent on this day, I would have proceeded on to find fish elsewhere, but the bamboo log was the only thing we had seen on the empty ocean. I decided to stick with the log so I maneuvered the boat right next to it. I began chumming with cut sardines as the guys switched the trolling baits to cut bait chunks. After about 5 minutes the Kid yelled “I got one!” and in the distance a nice 8-pound dolphin began putting on an aerial display of repeated jumps. He was fishing with a light-spinning outfit that allowed the fish put on quite a show, by jumping all around the boat flashing the bright neon, rainbow colors unique to the beautiful dolphin. Then JB and I each hooked one about the same size. The idea was to let the kid catch all the fish but when multiple hookups happen we are forced to help land the fish. A dirty job but someone has to do it.

After landing the triple-header, we could see larger fish deep down in the crystal clear water. JB who has fished with a professional sport fisherman for a few years knows some slick tricks and hooked egg sinkers to the line in seconds by using a piece of broken rubber band. In short order, the kid and JB each were fighting larger dolphin. I was about to gaff JB’s when it got a second wind and dove under the boat wrapping the monofilament line on the skeg and eventually breaking the line. The kid still using the light spinner had his fish break off the 12 lb line when his rod tip touched a rod that was sticking up from the gunnels rod holder. Just then a big tripletail nailed JB’s bait from under the log. JB fought the fish to the stern where the kid did a good job gaffing the Tripletail through the lip after having trouble piercing the armor like skin. Tripletails are one of the best tasting fish in the sea. JB caught an Ocean Triggerfish which was about the same time that the kid became sea sick.  We began working our way back to the inlet some eight miles west. On the way back we caught three more Bonito, and a lesser Amberjack.

That night JB’s wife Deb made an awesome fish fry on their grill (so I’m told, remember I’m a hermit at heart) and they took the kid to the airport the next morning. The kid said it was the best day he had in a long time, so I must declare the Sea Angels maiden voyage was a great success.

SOLYNDRA; LOTS OF GREEN, NO ENERGY

SOLYNDRA LINING THE POCKETS OF OBAMA WITH GREEN!

            The Associated Press reports “The Obama administration restructured a $500 million dollar federal loan to a troubled solar energy company in such a way that private investors – including a fund-raiser for President Obama – moved in ahead of taxpayers for repayment in case of a default.”

In other words, once again this administration has screwed the taxpayers to take care of the Obamanistas and the Democrat party. The A.P. report is entitled “Administration reworked loan to solar firm to favor donors”.   

The restructuring of the loan was done after it was clear that Solyndra would go bankrupt and put the taxpayer behind Obama’s cronies, in violation of federal law, yet the Democrat tools who edit The Palm Beach Post chose to bury this scandal on page 21A of Sunday’s 9/18/2011 edition. Those involved in the loan restructure reach high into the White House and the donors have ties to Michele Obama. The scandalous misuse, by Obama, of taxpayer funds to reward his political supporters is apparently ignored or condoned by the horde of leftists at the Post just as the huge Fast and Furious cover-up has been.

One would think that the self-proclaimed fiscally conservative Palm Beach Post would print this possibly criminal scam and waste of taxpayer money above the fold on page one. This possibly illegal waste of stimulus is big news right? No, not to the Obama butt boys at the Palm Beach Post. One must flip past front-page propaganda pieces about “Health costs devouring income”, (hello Obama care?) or the class warfare piece “The Great Economic Divide” (tax the rich), or “Familiar fear for Social Security” (scare the elderly) and “Perry on the Hot Seat”(another Texas dunder head) all reported on page one. Wow, apparently the Palm Beach Post’s pro-Democrat 2012 political campaign is already underway. They crammed all the key Democrat talking points onto page one! Beyond the front page, one must then suffer through twenty more pages of mediocrity and slanted gruel disguised as news-reports, including obituaries, before finding the most important story of the day; yet another huge Obama scandal at the bottom of page 21A!

The Palm Beach Post recently opined on how the stimulus bill has been a great success even as more and more details emerge on how our national treasure has been looted by this corrupt administration and used to pay off corporate cronies, private and public service union allies and enlarges a political campaign slush fund. The post defends this debacle called stimulus spending even as the economy tanks and Obama plans to waste 10 billion more hard earned tax dollars before the stimulus program expires.

Other companies which received part of the $800 billion stimulus that have gone belly up are Evergreen Solar, Spectra Watt, Olsen’s Mills and Mountain Plaza Inc. with many more yet to come. The fiscally conservative (LOL) Palm Beach Post is surely outraged. Oh, that’s right, it’s Bush’s fault, I forgot.

In 2008, the Bush administration rejected granting Solyndra with a government loan noting that the enterprise was destined to fail. Eminent failure is not a problem to the Chicago thugocracy style Obama Administration provided that their palms are greased with some good old American green.

EddieOlsen: "The love of unearned money is the ideology and idiocy of the Left." 

9/11 TRUTHERS VINDICATED! FUN FRIDAY REPORT

9/11 TRUTHERS PROVEN CORRECT!

            A new document dump by Wiki Leaks has exposed a conspiracy by the American government to destroy the World Trade Center Towers. The documents prove that the attack of 9/11/2001 was devised and conducted by the Bush-Cheney administration in conjunction with the Military Industrial Complex. The ploy, designed to justify the invasion of Middle Eastern countries, was successful but its perpetrators have now been revealed.

Up until now the only evidence of the conspiracy has been circumstantial and reenacted in cartoons aired on shows such as the Colbert Report. Speculation on the improbability of the success and the lack of intervention have exposed the holes in the plot thus revealing that the attack as an inside job. Additional theories put forth by other comedians, Bill Maher, John Stewart and some foreign sources have buttressed these conspiracy theories.

The new Wiki Leak documents prove that the theory of the 9/11 Truth Committee alleging that the Bush-Cheney administration ordered the destruction of the World Trade Center and the attacks on Washington D.C. are now beyond reproach.

Following are the transcripts as publish in the N.Y. Times that were recorded in 2001 by secret Wiki Leak recording devices hidden in the Oval Office.

George W. Bush:            “Dick, I really want a war like Daddy had. I want my own war!” the president stops playing and in a tantrum sweeps the small, plastic, toy soldiers and tanks off the desktop with one violent thrust of his arm.

Dick Cheney:                        “Be patient Mr. President. A plan is being devised even as we speak.” Cheney begins picking up the toys and placing them back on the Presidents desk.

 “Now here, keep practicing your strategy so that you will be ready for an invasion somewhere.”

G.B.:                        “Can it be Israel, please, please! Or maybe Japan?”

D.C.:                        “No sir, they are our allies.” “Hmmm, Japan you say… you have given me an idea George, I mean Mr. President.”

G.B.:                        “Call me Georgie. My Mama calls me that.” “Boom! Boom! Ahhhh! Run for it Japs, Georgies coming! Ta Ta Ta! Kaboom!” he starts tipping over the enemy soldiers.

D.C.:                        “You are brilliant Mr. President! You need your Japan! You need your Pearl Harbor!”

G.B.:                        “Mama said my Daddy won that Pearl Harbor War.” He plays with a toy airplane.

D.C.:                        “Excellent idea sir! We will stage an attack on America and blame terrorists! I’m calling Colin to get your Pearl Harbor plan put into action. You’re a genius sir!” Cheney picks up a secure telephone and begins placing a series of calls.

G.B.:                        “What are you talking about Dick? I'm hungry.”

            The next three hours on the tape are unintelligible noises, probably the reenactment of a military battle by the President.

Voice:                        “Sir, lunch time!”

G.B.:                        Eagerly the President opens the small box with golden arches printed on the sides. “ Damn! I already have two of these toys! Take it back, I want a different one!” He throws the box at the aide.

Aide:                        “If your Mama saw that she would stuff broccoli down your throat and feed you ivory soap for dessert!”

After lunch the voices of Condi Rice, Cheney, Powell and several military officials can be identified as they plot a terrorist attack on their own country. Only bits and pieces of their dialog can be heard above the Presidents war strategery activities.

Cheney:            “Let me summarize. We want to launch four civilian aircraft at four separate targets, the Whitehouse, the Pentagon and both World Trade Towers.”

Rice:            “The Whitehouse? What about the president?”

Cheney:            “We will send him off on an out of town assignment. A task that he can handle. Maybe reading children’s stories to kindergarteners or something.”

Powell:            “My flyboys will shoot the planes down if they approach the Whitehouse, Dick. How can we stop them?”

Cheney:            “Have you ever seen the air traffic control grid near Reagan International at 8am? It looks like a snow blizzard whiteout. When our pilots turn off the airliner’s transponders they will go invisible to the FAA controllers and the military. They can do this as they fly at 500 plus miles per hour and alter course. By time anyone realizes it will be to late. We have not had a hijacking since 1979 and have never had a hijacking that didn’t simply divert or delay the flight. No one can possibly be prepared for this kind of suicide attack, Colin. I just wish we could locate one more suicidal pilot.” 

Powell:             “Ok, it might work. Dick, if we can only get three suicide pilots, why not launch a cruise missile at the Pentagon. We can make it look like a fourth plane by dressing some of your blow up, sex dolls in stewardess’s outfits and strapping them to the missile. It will be going so fast it will look like a jet plane.”

Cheney:            “Yes that might work! So we agree our three highly trained pilots will kill themselves by crashing the Trade Center Towers after our Hollywood trained stuntmen dressed up like middle easterners stage an on board hijacking of the flights. Then we will wait until the first responders show up and our demolition experts posing as firemen will detonate the hidden explosive charges killing themselves and bring the whole thing down!”

Rice:            “Why not blow Tower 7 as well? It’s close by. Three is my lucky number.”

Powell:             “Hell, why not. Three it is.”

Cheney:            “Call Tim Geithner over at Goldman Sacks, there might be a way those Wall Street boys can help us make a bit of coin on this operation.”

Rice:            “Aren’t you afraid if we involve to many people and agencies that our plot will be exposed later?”

Cheney:             Pointing at the President as he plays war games at his desk. “Who cares? We’ll all be rich and we can always blame Bush anyway!”

Rice:            “Your right. So whom will we blame for the attack? Al Qaeda and Bin Laden?”

Cheney:            “Bingo! Your one smart gal Condi. You make my pacemaker spike!”

Rice:            “Dick, you and Mohhamar only have one thing on your mind!”

Cheney:             “Condi, you wont’ want to be around me a few days after my blow up dolls are gone, baby!”  

  

I hope that this juvenile and immature 9/11 satire on Fun Friday has not offended too many people. It is an attempt to make the Truthers see how they appear to people who are not delusional. I felt compelled to write it when last Sunday, on the tenth anniversary of the murder over 3,000 people, I witnessed the renewal of the idiotic accusations by mentally challenged conspiracy theorists.   Especially those Americans who continue to try and spread mindless conspiracy theories instead of uniting as one free people in opposition to the tyranny and religious fanaticism that seeks to destroy Western culture. How even a few lunatics can take all the blessings granted them for granted and feel safe from ever losing our most basic rights is mind boggling to me.

William Hazlitt: Ignorance of the world leaves one at the mercy of it’s malice.

  

Fast And Furious? Look Over Here.

FAST AND FURIOUS? NOTHING HAPPENING THERE, LOOK OVER HERE.

            Hey people, nothing to see here, move along now, nothing to see here. Never heard of it sir. The Fast and what? No one’s furious here sir, move along now, nothing to see here.

            Right on cue, the Democrat tools at the Palm Beach Post, who call themselves reporters, have started an investigation through Wiki Leaks about possible gun violations. See The Palm Beach Post, 9/11/2011, Wiki Leaks Florida First in an Occasional Series by LaForgia and Playford. If you assumed this investigation would involve the huge and growing scandal being investigated by Congress and involving the ATF and connections reaching high into the Obama Administration you would be wrong. No Woodard and Bernstein here.

 Incredibly, the Palm Beach Post is focused like a laser on an obscure Canadian company called Century International Arms which conducts business in Delray Beach Florida. The accusation is that Century might have obtained vintage World War II era rifles from Guatemala via an Israeli broker.  A violation of an agreement through the Military Assistance Program circa 1956, which did not permit Guatemala to resell the weapons without permission is at issue. As a non-lawyer spokesperson it is obvious to me that the only possible illegality was when Guatemala sold the weapons to the Israeli broker. After Century obtained these obsolete weapons as a third party, they apparently intended to market them to gun collectors.

 The documented illegal transfer of modern automatic weapons like AK 47’s to drug lords in Mexico by our own government and under the control of the Obama Administration is not even newsworthy, at the Palm Beach Post, even as they kill American citizens! Could the lack of interest possibly be because the Democrats are in control of both the media and our government? Recently the only coverage I have noticed by the Post was a political cartoon, which trivialized the dumping of more than 2,000 automatic weapons into the hands of Mexican gangs and drug lords.

 Even as the guns continue to show up at murder and other crime scenes across the U.S. and Mexico and as more involvement of our government officials come to light; as the accused are fired, resign or inexplicitly promoted by the Obama Administration, the main stream media attempts to protect them as did Josh Horowitz in the Huffington Post. His feeble, convoluted attempt to denigrate the N.R.A. was embarrassing.

The Palm Beach Post’s laughable investigative report concerning Century International, when closely analyzed actually puts past company actions in a positive light. The report tells how in 1999 the Delray beach dealer was not interested in buying 3,000 AK 47’s and that instead the Israeli broker, Zoller, sold them to a middle man who then routed the weapons to “AUC, a right-wing paramilitary group whose heavily armed death squads have terrorized Columbia”. (Hey, that sounds like what is happening at the U.S., Mexican border.) From that deal, Century was only interested in buying 9,000 bayonets (probably to sell to collectors, who else would want them?) One must wonder had Century International purchased the AK47’s might they have been kept out of AUC’S hands?  

To make long story short, the Post starts out seemingly to vilify Century International Arms, a Canadian company founded in 1961, but their report consistently identifies the company as the most responsible party in each case! What an ambiguous mess of innuendo and an obvious attempt to smear. Like a movie with terrible screenwriters, the Palm Beach Posts report doesn’t work.  

Fast and Furious

While the Democrats at the Palm Beach Post chase windmills, let me an Independent voter and private citizen, report what I can find on the Internet.

The debacle now dubbed the Fast and Furious was originally an operation by the ATF that was supposed to be a sting type operation to track illegal weapons up the chain of gunrunners to catch the leaders. The sting was run in such an unprofessional and corrupt manner as to be not believable and not possibly a legitimate law enforcement endeavor. The extent of the corruption involved and the subsequent cover up has lead to widespread speculation about our government’s motives.

The ATF operation began late in 2009, the Obama administrations first year. The LA Times reported on 8/17/2011 that a source close to the controversy said; “that as early as January 2010, just after the operation began, weapons had turned up at crime scenes in Phoenix, Nogales, Douglas and Glendale in Arizona, and in El Paso”. Two weapons from the operation were found at the murder scene of American border agent Brian Terry. Up to 2000 high-powered weapons were illegally allowed to find their way to drug cartel and criminal elements inside America and in Mexico. Americans and many Mexicans have been slaughtered with high powered weapons provided by the American government under the Obama Administration, this much is not even disputed!

The Huffington Post reports 8/30/2011 “The operation has resulted in charges against 20 people and more my be charged.” Heritage.org reports that ATF special agent Bill Newell during the House Oversight Hearings lead by Rep. Darrell Issa of (R-Ca) claims to have reported concerns about Fast and Furious to National Security Director for North America, Kevin O’Reilly as early as September, 2010. “Newell’s admission is the first indication that White House officials were aware of the Fast and Furious program while it was ongoing” reports Heritage.     

 Across cyberspace, Operation Gunrunner has been determined in many quarters to be beyond belief and the theory has emerged that the leftist Department of Justice run by the radical Eric Holder began to intentionally use the operation to cause chaos and violence. One theory is that Fast and Furious morphed into a direct assault on the 2^nd Amendment of the Constitution by the anti-gun Obama Administration. By flooding the border areas in the Southwest with illegal guns the Administration might turn the public opinion against the right to bear arms.

At this point, these theories are obviously far out there in coo-coo land, but the recent actions taken by the government has turned heads again. Kenneth Melson the Chief of the ATF and directly responsible for this tragedy has not been fired or arrested, he has been transferred to the Justice Departments Office of Legal Policy run by Eric Holder! Three key ATF agents were not fired but transferred to administrative roles.

The Huffington Post reports “Also leaving was Dennis Burke, U.S. attorney in Arizona, whose office was deeply involved in Operation Fast and Furious”. His top assistant, Ann Scheel, will replace him. The theory of the Obama Administrations acquiescence if not direct support of Fast and Furious are fortified by the recent promotion of three ATF agents who were intimately involved in devising and then pushing forward the operation even as it spiraled out of control! If not collusive on the first hand, has this administration lost its collective mind in its response in the aftermath?

Any journalist with a functioning cell of gray matter remaining in a brain washed numb by leftist ideology and with a thread of professional ethics has got to be intrigued by this story. The obstruction and lack of co-operation by our current administration in investigating this national tragedy has become as large as the original operation. The Fast and Furious cover-up could easily make Watergate look like an insignificant special report found in the back pages of the Palm Beach Post.

Douglass Cater:             “The reporter is one who each twenty-four hours dictates a first draft of history.”

Wake up media. Make history, tell the truth!

That’s why the Palm Beach Post Sucks!

Why Would a Hermit Go On Facebook

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WHY WOULD A HERMIT GO ON FACEBOOK?

My daughter Raegy and her friend Kris returned home after four months of WWOOFING in Europe. WWOOF stands for World Wide Organization of Organic Farmers. Apparently some people, Wwoofers, voluntarily go to work camps where they are forced to do hard labor for free. Possibly Wwoofers are masochists, I have not figured this out yet. I do know they desire to experience foreign cultures and learn about organic farming.

 The Wwoofers are provided with food, shelter and the experience of being immersed in the local culture in exchange for their labor. Raegan and Kris brought home interesting stories and experiences that will be remembered and recounted for a lifetime. They stayed in various places ranging from luxury hotels to crude farm shacks and tents. They did all kinds of work from splitting wooden rails with crude hand tools to herding animals, making cheese, riding horses across the French countryside and tending beautiful gardens and vineyards.

 In between WWOOF sites, they did couch surfing. Apparently, this involves staying at a generous stranger’s home and mooching off them until they kick you out.  This is a very low cost way to tour, if you don’t mind the work and getting kicked out.

We stayed in touch by Skype and e-mail and when I started this blog they were able to see what kind of trouble I was stirring up back in the United States. Kris, who is a bit of an Internet expert, was some how able to get me to go on Facebook. Even though I explained that I’m a hermit and don’t enjoy a lot of socializing, he convinced me that if I want to be a member of the 21st Century; Facebook would be very beneficial. When I raised concerns about identity theft he eased my fears by exclaiming; who the hell would want to be you?  Good Point. So now that I’m on Facebook, my daughter has some concerns and wants to interview me about that.

Raegan: Do you mind answering some questions? Some of your Facebook comments

            are odd to say the least.

Me:            Really? Like what?

Q:            Like your hobby. What is air sculpting?

A:            I’ll show you.

Q:            You’re just moving your arms around in the air!

A:            No. I’m air sculpting. I just made a bust of you.

Q:            How weird! You said that your favorite movie was the comedy An Inconvenient Truth. Do you really think Al Gore thinks global warming is a joke?

A:            Well the Warmers sure make me laugh. I believe Al Gore is laughing all the way to the bank. People are making a fortune off that hoax. Check out , http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-5576670191369613647

Q:            You said your favorite actor is Barrack Obama. You do know he is president, right?

A:            Of course, but no one in Hollywood can read a teleprompter or cue cards like Obama, he has no peers. The problem comes when the darn thing malfunctions, then he doesn’t have a clue about what he was just saying. Funny as hell!

           

Q:          You commented that you would like to see Obama star in an unanimated remake of the Disney film Dumbo, was that just a cheap shot, poking fun at his large ears?

A:            No. I wouldn’t stoop so low. I was making reference to his economic I.Q.

Q:            O.K. I don’t’ like that. Let’s move on. Now do you expect us to believe that your favorite sport is synchronized swimming?

A:            Well not as a spectator as a participant. I love wearing the rubber cap and I've been told that the little thing that pinches my nose shut makes my face look skinny. Plus, it’s a good workout.

Q:            Are you mocking Facebook?

A:            No, I would love the entire world to know everything about me. I’m very interesting don’t you agree?

Q:            I think you just answered my next question which is why do you have so many nicknames? Why did you list Stupid, Jackass, Moron and Idiot as nicknames?

A:            Well many of my friends and relatives are liberal Democrats so those names are used to address me more than by Ed or Eddie or my most common nickname, Rocky. I’m used to it.

Q:            That’s just sad. What would you say is the most fascinating thing in life that you have experienced.

A:            I would have to say how when you multiply two negative numbers, you get a positive number. That’s amazing. I’ve spent hours using different numbers to see if I might get a negative result.

Q:            I can’t wait to hear your next answer. Fill in the blank. People think I’m crazy when I what?

A:            Yes, that’s true.

Q:            No, you’re supposed to replace what with your answer!

A:            Oh, O.K. People think I’m crazy when I air sculpt.

Q:            Oh my god. I don’t know if I can continue. You know that a lot of people might read this right?

A:            Hopefully, that’s what Facebook is all about, right?

Q:            Well Kris and I had a great time in Europe. Where would you like to visit?

A:             Anywhere south of the equator.

Q:            Why the southern hemisphere?

A:            I always wanted to see water go down the drain in a clockwise direction.

Q:            That’s it I’m outta here. You better not print this crap!

INCREASE LEGAL IMMIGRATION

AMERICA NEEDS MORE LEGAL IMMIGRATION

   Tamara Jacoby is president and CEO of Immigration Works, an organization that opposes deportation of illegal immigrants. In other words, Ms. Jacoby makes a living off of the exploitation of illegal immigrants by helping American business obtain and retain labor at slave wages. Her financial backers include the National Restaurants Association, the American Hotel and Lodging Association, Associated General Contractors and the American Meat Institute who all benefit from having a ready supply of desperate low wageworkers. This affiliation is reported in the Palm Beach Post in an editorial written by Randy Schultz and published on 9/04/2011 entitled I can’t believe I’m saying this’ about illegal immigrants


   Mr. Schultz reports that Ms. Jacoby analyzed a focus group’s reaction to the issue of immigration. The reaction of the group was quite different when the distinction was made between legal and illegal immigration. This is an important distinction, which is commonly glossed over by the leftist media. Experts at playing the race card, Democrats in Congress and their tools in the media usually label any objection toward illegal immigration as being anti-immigrant and such views as racist, bigoted and intolerant.

   “Ms. Jacoby believes Washington now sees immigration reform as a Democratic issue.” “So Republicans won’t pass it.” Reports Mr. Schultz.

    Now we get to the real issue. To the Democrats, immigration reform is simply amnesty for possibly 20 million illegals. Republicans and independents want to stop illegal immigration and give legal immigrants a controlled path to citizenship.

We want an increase for highly educated and skilled immigrants holding H-1B visas. The current quota for such individuals is now only 65,000 down from 195,000 in 2001. These would be highly paid individuals who would make jobs and contribute high taxes to the treasury.

To the left, immigration reform simply means, make illegal’s, legal. Currently, there is immigration policy and law. People can legally immigrate. Illegal immigrants are violating immigration policies and the Democrat party and big businesses are in collaboration to encourage this lawlessness. They benefit if illegals are permitted to remain in the country. The motive for Democrats is to increase its low wage, government dependent voter base. The motive of business is to obtain labor at slave wages.

   As a proponent of rewarding illegals with amnesty and citizenship, Ms. Jacoby and the Democrat Party must take responsibility for the tragedy and horrific consequences inflicted upon tens of thousands of people attempting to enter America illegally. The possibility of granting amnesty for the estimated 12 to 20 million illegals already here makes America even more of a magnet for continued illegal immigration. If blanket amnesty were enacted this would surely lead to a new tsunami of illegals.




   Many people flood across Mexico’s southern border as they attempt to reach America. Mexico’s National Human Rights Commission reported that between September 2008 and February 2009, nine thousand seven hundred fifty eight people attempting this journey were kidnapped. Between April and September of 2010, drug cartel, corrupt officials and other criminals kidnapped an additional 11, 333. The victims are routinely forced into criminal activities, used as slave labor, raped, tortured and often killed. The Mexican Human Rights Commission estimates that currently 22, 000 illegal immigrants are kidnapped annually.

Why are so many people willing to take this risk? The answer is that Ms. Jacoby and her ilk along with greedy corporations have made America a magnet for illegals hoping for a shortcut to citizenship.

In 2006 Mexico’s president, Felipe Calderon, instituted a battle against transcontinental criminal organizations. That same year President Bush increased the United States efforts of border security. Since taking power, the Obama Administration’s policies including the Fast and Furious debacle have led to even more chaos and destruction.

In 2008, 390 bodies were recovered at the U.S. Mexican border. In 2009, the death toll increased to 417. These victims are lured by the hope of open borders and easy citizenship. Our government allows a porous and unprotected border even during the war on terror and with domestic unemployment and underemployment rates hovering near 16%.

The most crucial step to solve illegal immigration is to secure the border. DUH! Then, the U.S. should do nothing more and nothing less than what almost every other country on planet earth does. Don’t the anti-American lefties always look to other countries to demonstrate our inequities?

Let’s start with Mexico where the National Immigration Institute routinely arrested and repatriates illegals.

The Canadian Encyclopedia Website reports;
“The problem of illegal aliens, while not a new one, has in recent years become more awkward for the Canadian government to resolve, especially as the total number of persons entering Canada at border crossings and airports has grown. Once in Canada, illegal aliens may easily escape notice unless they try to acquire some public service, which would bring them to the attention of government authorities”.
How strange. Canadians don’t tolerate illegals obtaining tax-funded public services. Stingy bastards, Eh?
According to Wikipedia the French closely control the number and type of people immigrating and even require them to speak French! What bigots!
“ July 2006, President Sarkozy put into effect a law on immigration based upon the notion of “chosen immigration”,[73] which allows immigration into France to a restricted field of employment sectors, notably the hotel and restaurant industries, construction and seasonal employment. The following summer of 2007, President Sarkozy amended the law to also require the acquisition of the French language as a pre-condition”.

   I could give example after example of sovereign, foreign governments protecting the interests and rights of its citizens through the implementation of border and immigration control.
World wide, the previous examples are two of the most liberal and tolerant countries when it comes to immigration policy. The entire world must think we American citizens are fools to let our politicians and big business interests teat us with such disdain and disrespect. As our ever more limited resources are drained by illegals, America has become an international joke! Shame on you Ms. Jacoby and your big business partners. As for you Mr. Schultz, why don’t’ you media tools of the left ask these questions?

Commonsense Immigration Reform

1) Secure the border. Use available technology and hire and train unemployed Americans who are currently being paid welfare, unemployment and government assistance (workfare). Close useless government agencies and retrain those workers for border patrol.
2) Fine the Employers of Illegals $5,000 per incident. Immigrants without jobs or taxpayer public services will return home. Hire Americans. We will do any job. We’re Americans!
3) Repatriate Illegals Who Break Any Law and those who are provided with public funded services if they cannot reimburse the American taxpayers. Give these people literature explaining the legal immigration process to take home with them. (In general institute policies similar to other nations like Canada.)
4) Impeach Government Officials or accept the resignations of those who refuse to enforce the laws of our country.
5) Increase legal Immigration. Also raise the quota for H-1B Visas.
6) Streamline the Green Card to Citizenship Transition.

Mohandas Gandi: Exploitation is the essence of violence.

GOVERNMENT DOES NOT SOLVE PROBLEMS

GOVERNMENT DOES NOT SOLVE PROBLEMS: GOVERNMENT IS THE PROBLEM

            Mary Lou Atkinson and her twenty-two year old son Joe Morel opened Cake and Candy Designs, a small business located in Jupiter, Florida. The mother and son hand make and sell, for takeout, candies and pastries. 
        Friday, Aug. 26 2011, on page one section B, Bill Dipaolo of the Palm Beach Post published an article entitled, Grease Trap Flap. Mr. Dipaolo documents the plight of a small business owner, Mary Lou Atkinson and her fight against local government bureaucracy and a group of elected, loco bureaucrats.

             After searching in vain for work, many Americans are now faced with only a few choices; go on government assistance, start a business or, God forbid, turn to crime in order to survive. Mary Lou and Joe should be applauded for choosing to become entrepreneurs in order to financially survive this terrible economy. Mary Lou is quoted, “I’m just trying to keep my place open and help my son earn a living.”  

Not so fast Mary Lou. In 1984 the Loxahatchee River Environmental Control District was formed. Apparently this five member elected board was added as another layer of government regulators to assist the E.P.A., S.F.W.M.D., Health Department, Sierra Club, et al, to save the public from the dastardly private business sector bent on polluting our water supplies and fouling the air we breath. 

At issue is the Cake and Candies 8 gallon inside grease trap. The executive director of L.R.E.C.D., a wonderful fellow named Albrey Arrington, claims that the district requires all commercial businesses that serve food to have 750 GALLON OUTDOOR GREASE TRAPS! The reason, says the genius Arrington, is that they are safer because indoor traps can be bypassed with hoses. Has he ever heard of spot checks and inspections? I guess these little government bureaucrats must, from time to time, justify their existence. “We’ll pursue all legal actions against them.” Say’s Albrey Arrington. Wow, government officials wielding power are so impressive! He should be very proud of himself indeed! One must wonder; what is the annual cost of this 5 member board? How much do the taxpayers spend for this local layer of government to hold and tally the elections?

 

Mary and Joe say that the grease trap in question could cost them as much as ten thousand dollars, thus putting them out of business. They claim that another nearby bakery in Tequesta was granted a variance from the little bureaucrats demands. Arrington claims that the variance was a clear mistake. Was it a mistake or a momentary attack of commonsense? Or is it possible that a personal or business connection between someone on this board of little bureaucrats and someone at the Tequesta bakery exists? Is there the possibility of payola being involved? Does the board simply prefer the yummy cupcakes of the Tequesta store? Has the Tequesta bakery, lacking a 750 GALLON GREASE TANK, sent barrels of grease floating down the Loxahatchee River?

Anytime government peons get involved in the commerce of private enterprise and favor some businesses over others, these kinds of questions will arise. Ever hear of a little company that pays no taxes called G.E. and run by Obama’s buddy Jeffery Immelt? Immelt is on Obama’s board of Economic Advisors for job creation even while sending thousands of his company's, G.E.’s, manufacturing jobs involving aerospace and medical equipment overseas to China (see the Huffington Post report of 1/12/2011, Obama and Immelt). Crony Capitalism is usually the product of government regulators impinging on the free market, but now I digress. 

In a previous posting, I wrote a fictional satire entitled You Might be a Democrat that described government regulators putting two women out of business. The Grease Trap Flap reported by Bill Dipaolo is a real life account of government destroying an American business. The irony is that it is small businesses like these that provide the majority of jobs to the American worker; generating tax revenue to fund the government. This tax revenue pays for layer upon layer of government bureaucracy and allows the multitude of little, mindless, pinhead regulators that work there to cash their paychecks. As government brings down more and more small business, more government workers will lose jobs due to lack of funds.
 Isn't it rich that morons like Arrington in the name of environmental protection will contribute to the loss of public sector jobs in the South Florida Water Management District? The very people who work to control and improve not only the river but all the drainage, flow and water quality in the district will lose their jobs as government stifles small and large business across the nation. Obama has proposed the institution of 457 new government regulations so far.  The effects can be seen locally as reported in the Post. See the Palm Beach Post's report by Christine Stapleton of 8/12/2011 Water District Cuts where 123 jobs were cut due to lack of tax revenue and 1750 water workers wait to see who’s next.

I consider myself a staunch support of environmental protection, but lets keep it real. A 750-gallon tank is the size of a car! How long would it take for Mary Lou to fill that baby up? How much grease can this type and size business produce? Mr. Arrington put away your power trip and take a hobby.  

 I want to thank Bill Dipaolo for finding and reporting this story. Maybe there is hope or the Post after all. I will remove 20 points from the Palm Beach Post’s Suckometer Ranking thanks to Mr. Dipaolo's fine reporting.

Helmut Sihler:  “The environment is to important to be left to the environmentalists.”