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Egypt Police Arrest 39 in Cairo Clashes
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Home Front: Politix
Rubio Reason for Legalizing Illegals: 'They Are Driving on Our Streets Without a Driver's License'
[CNSNEWS] Sen. Marco Rubio (R.-Fla.), one of eight senators who have crafted legislation that would put illegal aliens on a path to U.S. citizenship, explained in a Senate floor speech yesterday that one of the reasons he wants to do this is that he believes illegal aliens are currently driving on U.S. roads without drivers licenses and auto insurance and his bill would encourage them to get licenses and buy insurance.
It would actually be pretty simple to just recognize Mexican drivers licenses and vehicle registration, as we do Canadian. Better would be to use the international driver's license, that requires you have a valid license from your home country. The insurance requirement is enforced for both citizens and non-citizens.
Rubio explained that under his bill ilegal aliens who "have committed serious crimes" will be deported. However,
you can observe a lot just by watching...
the proposal will apparently not deem as a serious crime the habit of routinely driving without a driver's license.
It's kinda forced on them, isn't it?
"We have people in this country who are having children who are U.S. citizens and they go to our schools; they are driving on our streets without a driver's license, which means they have no car insurance, which means all of us have to pay more in car insurance as a result," said Rubio. "This is obviously not good for them, but it is not good for us."
My grandparents got here in 1919. My grandfather was naturalized in 1953. Back then, in the Lower Paleolithic, it didn't present a problem.
Rubio said that the first reason he wants to legalize illegal aliens is "because it is in the best interest of our country."
Sounds a lot like "Change," which is "Good" regardless of what it involves.
"If there are people in this country illegally who entered here before December 2011, they have to present themselves," Rubio said on the Senate floor. "They will undergo a background check. If they have committed serious crimes in the U.S., they will be de- ported. If they have not, they will have to pay an application fee, a fine."
My daughter-in-law, a Canadian citizen, has to jump through hoops and stand on her hands and spit quarters as part of the naturalization process. Wouldn't it be simpler for Mexicans (and Salvadorans, Cameroonians, and Antarcticans) to remain their respective nationalities and have their interests looked after by their respective consulates, which would be established in major cities? Simply being born in this country shouldn't be a grounds for automatic citizenship, though I could agree that being born here plus something else--being married to a citizen, serving in the military, etc.--should be. But what the hell do I know? I'm just an old crank.
Posted by: Fred || 04/21/2013 09:32 || Comments || Link || [2 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Rubio Reason for Legalizing Illegals: 'They Are Driving on Our Streets Without a Driver's License'

Just tell them to go to New Mexico. For another legislative year, Senator Sanchez (D-Belen) has killed the attempt to repeal former governor Bill Richardson (D-NM) gift of authorizing drivers licenses to the illegals even though it stands in violation of the Real ID Act. Someone in the administration has been granting exemptions for this violation for a couple of years now.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 04/21/2013 12:31 Comments || Top||


Home Front: WoT
Bill Maher has had enough:
Posted by: tipper || 04/21/2013 07:58 || Comments || Link || [8 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Worst Bill Maher impersonation EVER.

Sounded nothing like a frothing, liberal moonbat. Actually raised valid, factual points.

Orion
Posted by: Orion || 04/21/2013 8:26 Comments || Top||

#2  Sunce 9/11 the gentleman has been as sensible about expansionist Islam as he remained rabid about pretty much everything else.
Posted by: trailing wife || 04/21/2013 14:18 Comments || Top||

#3  Clearly #1 means EVAR!
Posted by: JosephMendiola || 04/21/2013 19:44 Comments || Top||

#4  He's still a putz.
Posted by: Pappy || 04/21/2013 20:00 Comments || Top||

#5  Even a frothing putz finds an acorn once in a while.
Posted by: SteveS || 04/21/2013 20:02 Comments || Top||


Home Front: Culture Wars
CNN anchor Erin Burnett assumed the suspects were "stereotypically" white Americans
On Thursday, just hours after the FBI released blurry pictures of the two suspected Boston Marathon bombers, CNN anchor Erin Burnett assumed the suspects were "stereotypically" white Americans and not linked to any foreign terror group.

It turned out that the suspects--Dzhokhar and Tamerlan Tsarnaev--are technically "white" as they are ethnically Chechen (although Dzhokhar recently became a citizen). But what Burnett, like many in the mainstream media who instinctively assume such acts are committed by those who look like Timothy McVeigh, was implying was that the suspects in the photos were white Americans who were born in this country.

"They are young. They're white. They're very confident. They kind of look like college kids," Burnett said on the Thursday evening edition of her low-rated primetime show, "Outfront."

Later in the show, when Rep. Mike McCaul (R-TX) mentioned that he knew the, "Justice Department has requested the assistance of foreign countries in terms of foreign travel" about the suspects, Burnett seemed shocked.

"On foreign travel?" she incredulously asked.

McCaul said there, "may be some sort of foreign connection here."

"Wait," Burnett interrupted. "Let me make sure I understand. Sorry, I want to make you understand. So they're still looking into the possibility that even though these two kids look very, very stereotypically like they're from here that this may be linked to a foreign terror group?"

McCaul then reiterated that it was "unclear and the nationalities are very unclear from the images that you see."

"This particular device is very common in Afghanistan and Pakistan. I will say that the al Qaeda playbook is usually to hit sporting events. You read this all the time, sporting events, mass casualties," McCaul said.

Based on some of the initial evidence, it seems as if Tamerlan, the older brother, may well have been radicalized by Islamic radicals that may be linked to Al-Qaeda.
Posted by: tipper || 04/21/2013 13:03 || Comments || Link || [6 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Some of this has to be Freudian - a subconscious response to the question "who is the enemy"?
Posted by: Iblis || 04/21/2013 14:37 Comments || Top||

#2  "may well have been radicalized by Islamic radicals"

No one can be "radicalized" unless they cooperate. He wanted to be, so he sought it out.

CNN and the other "media" are all America-hating, f'ing morons. You don't like America, go live somewhere else. Try Egypt, particularly if you're female. I hear they love Western females there ....
Posted by: Barbara || 04/21/2013 15:07 Comments || Top||

#3  A couple more whacks of the cluebat and this so called anchor may just learn something.
Posted by: Alaska Paul || 04/21/2013 15:35 Comments || Top||

#4  Right on Barbara.

Sorry AP but this type is cluebat proof UNLESS it happens to them and theirs directly, but even that might not be enough. They come pre-wired for Stockholm syndrome.
Posted by: AlanC || 04/21/2013 16:31 Comments || Top||

#5  Awwwww, that's OK, Erin. I "sterotypically" think that all CNN anchorettes are semi retarded whores...
Posted by: tu3031 || 04/21/2013 16:43 Comments || Top||

#6  "Semi," tu?
Posted by: Barbara || 04/21/2013 17:38 Comments || Top||

#7  tu - you've met Christiane?
Posted by: Frank G || 04/21/2013 17:51 Comments || Top||

#8  Erin burnett is actually pretty smart. She worked on Wall Street before going to CNBC.

The problem is analogous to the TSarnaev bros. Erin was brainwashed into leftist squishism. The Tsarnaev bros were brainwashed into Islamism.
Posted by: lord garth || 04/21/2013 19:21 Comments || Top||

#9  Amish?

Methodist?

Quaker?

Shaker?

Non/Multi-Denominational Bible Group Study'ers???

AUSTIN POWERS' DR. EVIL = D *** NG IT, THROW ME A FREAKIN' BONE HERE ... I NEED THE INFO!
Posted by: JosephMendiola || 04/21/2013 19:55 Comments || Top||

#10  "Liberals to setup terrorism fund to ensure more people outside islam get involved in community terrorism"

/sarc (probably)
Posted by: Bright Pebbles || 04/21/2013 20:11 Comments || Top||



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Two weeks of WOT
Sun 2013-04-21
  Egypt Police Arrest 39 in Cairo Clashes
Sat 2013-04-20
  Got him! Dzhokhar in custody
Fri 2013-04-19
  Boston: 1 suspect dead, 2nd on loose jugged
Thu 2013-04-18
  Pakistan's Musharraf flees court to avoid arrest
Wed 2013-04-17
  Boston Bombing Suspect Identified, Arrest Made
Tue 2013-04-16
  Feds seek suspects, motive in Boston bombings
Mon 2013-04-15
  Pair of Explosions Hit Boston Marathon
Sun 2013-04-14
  16 killed in attack on Somali Supreme Court
Sat 2013-04-13
  Bomb Near Iraq Mosque Kills Seven
Fri 2013-04-12
  Saleh’s son removed from military posts
Thu 2013-04-11
  Germany: 4 charged in assassination plot
Wed 2013-04-10
  Al-Nusra Syria Rebels pledge allegiance to leader of al-Qaeda
Tue 2013-04-09
  N.Korea Pulls Workers Out of Kaesong Complex
Mon 2013-04-08
  Nigeria's MEND Says It Killed 15 Security Personnel in Fight
Sun 2013-04-07
  Bangla: AL man beaten and hacked to death at madrasa


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