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This week, in the continuing border crisis:
* Border Patrol Agents Indicted: Two Border Patrol agents in Vermont were indicted for setting a drug dealer suspect free, after they found 60 pounds of marijuana on him/her, then lied about it in their reports, claiming they found the pot abandoned. More on the story here. (I know a lot of Border Patrol agents, who are hard-working, patriotic men. These two don’t reflect on the rest.)
* Update on the by ICE Agents: 120 illegal alien Wal-Mart contractors arrested, yesterday (Gee, I’m sure NO-ONE at Wal-Mart knew they were illegal, right?!).
* OUTRAGE–Special Sneakers to Ease Sneaking Over the Border: New York designer Judy Werthein is giving away, free, a special set of sneakers to illegal aliens before they cross into the U.S.–TO MAKE THEIR ILLEGAL ENTRY EASIER!

Official Sneaker of Illegal Aliens and the Idiot Liberals who Love Them
I can’t portray the outrage and absurdity better than the AP article did, so I post the key excerpts below, with some of my questions/comments in bold CAPS:
“SAN DIEGO–The high-top sneakers [called “Brincos”] cost $215 at a San Diego boutique, but the designer is giving them away to migrants before they cross to this side of the U.S.-Mexico border.
These are no ordinary shoes. A compass and flashlight dangle from one shoelace. The pocket in the tongue is for money or pain relievers. A rough map of the border region is printed on a removable insole.
[DS: HOW CUTE!]
They are red, white and green, the colors of the Mexican flag. On the back ankle, a drawing of Mexico’s patron saint of migrants.”
[DS: GEE, AND I THOUGHT OUR FLAG WAS RED, WHITE, AND BLUE. SILLY ME. JUDY WERTHEIN KNOWS BETTER WHAT COUNTRY WE’RE IN.]
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“On recent evening in Tijuana, after giving away 50 pairs at a migrant shelter, Werthein waved the insole and pointed to Interstate 8, the main road between San Diego and Phoenix.
“This blue line is where you want to go,” Werthein, 38, said in Spanish.
[DS: NICE, SHE’S BI-LINGUAL. SHE SHOULD LEARN ARABIC, GIVE OUT SNEAKERS AT THE DETROIT-WINDSOR BORDER, TOO. SWIMSUITS FOR THOSE WILLING TO SWIM THE DETROIT RIVER AT NIGHT. THROW IN DESIGNER PADDLES FOR CANOES, TOO, WHILE SHE’S AT IT.]
“Good luck! You’re all very courageous,” she told the cheering crowd of about 50 men huddled in a recreation room after dinner.
[DS: COURAGEOUS?! SINCE WHEN IS IT COURAGEOUS TO INVADE A COUNTRY, ENTER ILLEGALLY, BREAK ITS LAWS, AND STEAL ITS BENEFITS FROM TAXPAYERS. I KNOW COURAGE. THAT AIN’T IT. ATTENTION MINUTE MEN: TIME TO MAKE A CITIZEN’S ARREST OF THIS SLEAZY WOMAN, JUDY WERTHEIN.]
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“Werthein has concluded that shoes are a border crosser’s most important garment.
“The main problem that people have when they’re crossing is their feet,” Werthein. “If people are going to cross anyway, at least this will make it safer.”
[DS: NO, IDIOTA, THE MAIN PROBLEM IS THAT THEY ARE INVADING OUR COUNTRY!]
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Benefactors put up $40,000 for the project; Werthein gets a $5,000 stipend, plus expenses.
[DS: WHO ARE THESE BENEFACTORS? ARREST THEM, TOO. ARE THEY GETTING TAX DEDUCTIONS FOR THIS? BET THEY ARE.]
Across the border, several curious migrants waiting for sunset along a cement river basin approached Werthein as she took white shoe boxes out of a sport utility vehicle. One man already wore a dirty pair of Brincos. Another, Felipe de Jesus Olivar Canto, slipped into a size 11 and said he would use them instead of his black leather shoes.
“These are much more comfortable for hiking,” said Olivar Canto. He said he was heading for $6.75-an-hour work installing doors and windows in Santa Ana, about 90 miles north of border. “The ones I have are more dressy.”
[DS: WOULDN’T WANT TO DIRTY THOSE DRESS SHOES WHEN YOU’RE DOING THE ILLEGAL CHA CHA INTO THE STATES, WOULD WE? NEED THEM CLEAN AND SPOTLESS FOR THE BENEFITS OFFICE.]
From there, Werthein went to Casa del Migrante, a Tijuana shelter that will receive a share of the proceeds from Brincos sold in the United States.
“Does it have a sensor to alert us to the Border Patrol?” joked Javier Lopez, 33, who said he had a $10-an-hour job hanging drywall waiting for him in Denver.
[DS: HA-HA, FUNNY. CAN’T SAY I BLAME THEM FOR LAUGHING AT US. IN OTHER COUNTRIES, MS. WERTHEIN WOULD HAVE ALREADY BEEN BEHEADED, OR IN JAIL AT THE VERY LEAST.]
To research the best design over two years, Werthein interviewed shoe designers, migrants, aid workers, even an immigrant smuggler. She joined the Mexican government’s Grupo Beta migrant-aid society on long border hikes. She heard from a Salvadoran woman in Tijuana who said she was kidnapped and raped by her smuggler.
[DS: ALL THAT RESEARCH AND NO RAPE KIT. DAMN, NO LIST OF IMMIGRATION LAWYERS AND BUSINESS CARD FROM THE EITHER. WHAT’S A GIRL TO DO?]
Based on those interviews, she added a pocket–migrants told her they were often robbed. She also added the flashlight–many cross at night.
Some get lost–hence, the compass and map.
“If you get lost,” she told the men at the shelter, “just go north.”
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“I wouldn’t wear them and I wouldn’t want my husband to wear them,” said Blends browser Antonieta LaRussa, 28. “But the cause is awesome. There’s so much opposition to immigration. She’s looking at it from the other side of the fence and asking why.”
[DS: THE CAUSE IS “AWESOME?!” HUH? GOOD QUESTION–WHY WOULD WE WANT TO PROTECT OUR BORDERS? THAT’S REALLY DUMB. I THINK THERE’S A HOUSE OWNED BY MR. & MRS. LARUSSA READY FOR OCCUPANCY BY “IMMIGRANTS.”]
Read more on this idiocy here.

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This week was gold for hypocrites and idiots in the world of sports–and that includes some FBI jocksniffers, too. Here’s the round-up:
* More Baggage than a Luggage Store: Oakland Raiders receiver Randy Moss (who has his own unique criminal and gangsta prima donna history) told ESPN he doesn’t want to play with embattled, fired NFLer Terrell Owens because, “I don’t think with his baggage and everything he’s been though, and my baggage and what I’ve been through, I don’t think that would work.”

Randy Moss: Moss + Terrell Owens =
Too Much Baggage for Raiders Luggage Store
In case you forgot, some of Moss’ most recent episodes include: Driving his car into a female police officer and pushing her with his vehicle, and refusing to talk to Minnesota Vikings (his last team) sponsors on the team plane. I suppose the thug quota is already filled in the Raiders’ affirmative action hiring plan.
* FBI Jock-sniffers get Burned: The FBI has this silly program where it encourages NFL players to promote the agency and to participate in shooting at FBI ranges. But an industry (the NFL) in which one in five and as many as one in four players are violent criminals (according to “Pros & Cons: The Criminals Who Play in the NFL“) shouldn’t be the poster-children for the most “prestigious” law enforcement agency. Unfortunately, it is.

Famous But Incompetent:
FBI Parties Down with Drunken, Shooting, Brawling NFLers
And when you play with matches, you get burned. The FBI is now wasting tax dollars and law enforcement resources investigating a drunken brawl at Chicago FBI shoooting range between Chicago Bears offensive linemen Olin Kreutz and Fred Miller. The fight took place after the shooting session during a barbecue for FBI employees and the players where alcohol was consumed. NFL millionaire brats using federal law enforcement facilities to shoot guns, then partying down with jock-sniffing FBI agents and alcohol VERY CLOSE TO the shooting range. Despite all this, the FBI refuses to end its “relationship” with the Chicago Bears. YOUR TAX DOLLARS AT WORK!
***UPDATE: A Chicago FBI source of mine tells me that the shooting range is only TEN FEET(!) from where the NFLers and their jock-sniffing FBI counterparts were partying with alcohol. Nice going.
* Tell Congress to Get OUT of Pro Sports: These GM- or jock-wannabe Members of Congress are making me sick. There are few industries in which Congress gets this involved, wasting so much time and money, in the name of “they’re role models.” I’m compelled to cheer on the House, which rejected the forming of a U.S. Boxing Commission within the Commerce Dept. Like we need more government bureaucracies at our expense–for such pressing issues as sports. Do these boxers really pose any huge danger to society? Puh-leeze.
I have to laugh at hypocrite extraordinaire, Rep. Tom Osborne of Nebraska, though. The Republican and former coach of a cornucopia of Nebraska criminal thug football players is the world’s biggest phony. His panties in a bunch over the rejection of the federal boxing commission yielded this utterance: “How many people have to die, how many people have to have their brains scrambled? . . . We wouldn’t do this with animals.”

Osborne: Man at left Still Thinks He’s the Man at right. He Can’t Be Both.
I’d ask Coach Osborne similar questions about the football criminals he continued to coddle and support at Nebraska–like , Christian Peter, etc., etc. ad nauseam. “How many women have to be raped and brutalized, how many people have to get their heads smashed in and beaten near death, how many people have to get guns shot at them in attempted murder, how many guns and other evidence do you need to withhold and obstruct justice to protect your precious athletes? . . . We wouldn’t do this with animals–even though your players behaved like animals.”
The last few times I wrote about Osborne’s exploits, he used tax dollars to harass me. Well, at least he’s consistent in tax-wasting and hypocrisy–and Nebraskans are consistent in voting for this cretin.

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Tomorrow (Friday) morning, I’m appearing on:
* 8:05 a.m. ET: Pat Campbell Show, Orlando’s BEST Morning Radio Show (and one of the best radio talk show hosts in America), on 540 AM (WFLA), streaming online around the world, here. (Check out Pat’s excellent blog. I do, regularly.)

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Is anyone surprised that Wal-Mart was raided, yet again, this morning, for employing illegal aliens? You shouldn’t be.
As we previously , Wal-Mart employed illegal aliens through a janitorial contractor, and conveniently pled ignorance–pawning the blame off on the contractor. But ICE (Immigration and Customs Enforcement) officials knew all along that Wal-Mart knowingly contracted for the illegals, and in fact, pressured the contractor to hire only illegals.

Wal-Mart: Contracted Illegal Aliens Yet Again
Conveniently, this latest case, in which ICE Agents (the linked news story got the identity of the agents wrong) raided the construction site of a New York Wal-Mart distribution center, is also a contractor using illegals (so many they filled buses).
I’m sure the retail giant will yet again plead ignorance and pimp the contractor. How much you wanna bet that Wal-Mart’s top executives knew about these illegals, just like they did in the janitorial service saga? A more pressing question is whether ICE “leadership” will let the retailer get away with it again.
Remember this as you do your everyday and holiday shopping.

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This item is an update of two categories: “Religion of Peace” and “Our Allies,” The Saudis.
A Saudi teacher has been sentenced to three years in prison and 750 lashes(!) for daring to “mock” Islam.
Did the teacher really “mock” Islam (as if that would justify this absurd punishment)? NO!
In a witch-hunt sanctioned by the Saudi government, Mohammed al-Harbi was found guilty of promoting “dubious ideologies” and preventing students from going to wash for prayer.
According to even pro-Islamist BBC, what Harbi really did was criticize Islamic terrorists “who have carried out a series of attacks in the kingdom over the last two and a half years.”
Further, Harbi had the gall to discuss Christianity, Judaism and the dangers of terrorism with students, and posted signs against terrorism around his school.
He also reportedly encouraged his students to analyse differences between the Koran and the Sunna, a body of traditional sayings and customs attributed to the prophet Muhammad.
Sentencing Mr Harbi to 750 lashes and 40 months in prison on Saturday, Judge Abdullah Dakhil accused him of “trying to sow doubt in a student’s creed”.
“Religion of Peace,” indeed.
If there’s any doubt that the Saudis are supporters of–not our allies against–terrorism, this sickening witch-hunt of a good man should end all doubts.
Saudi Arabia: “Allies in the War on Terror”? I don’t think so.
Hat Tip: A friend living in Dubai, United Arab Emirates.
***UPDATE: Read more about this outrageous episode from our new favorite Saudi expat website, The Religious Policeman (Muttawa).

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You’d think the government would want to keep safe those who try to keep our borders safe. But you would be wrong.
Customs and Border Protection Agents, inspecting foreigners at airports and land borders nationwide, tell me that the Federal government is providing Avian flu shots only to TSA screeners–not to them.
This is absurd. CBP agents at airports typically encounter passengers from several foreign flights a day, including flights from Asia. They handle and examine the aliens’ documents (and even their bags and belongings), which are carriers of all kinds of germs, including the Avian flu.

DHS Insecurity: Why Won’t Secretary Burns Give Border Guards Flu Shots?
Why TSA screeners would receive these flu shots, when they are at far less risk, and the CBP agents are refused, is a mystery. CBP agents have far more contact with foreigners than do TSA employees. In fact, aliens are the vast majority of CBP contacts. Another mystery is where all the billions in Homeland Security tax money are going, if our government cannot afford shots for our agents who need them.
It’s a matter of our security against invasion by illegal aliens. And, yet again, the government and DHS Secretary Michael Chertoff (a/k/a “Mr. Burns”)–who is ultimately to blame for the lack of shots to CBP officers–are failing us.

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TV teaches you a lot about what you can and can’t say in America, these days.
On Wednesday Night’s NBC line-up, Christians were portrayed as violent fanatics who try to blow up a Detroit mosque. The Minutemen, citizens who patrol our borders, are portrayed as cold-blooded murderers.
But the only ones who are apologizing are the billionaire Maloof brothers who own the NBA’s Sacramento Kings, for daring to show the real Detroit. Jimmy Kimmel had to apologize, too, for making fun of Detroit on his ABC late-night show.
What’s wrong with this picture?
In the case of the Maloof brothers, they recently showed the real picture, before an NBA home game between their Sacramento Kings and the Detroit Pistons. But, unlike NBC’s TV line-up, it wasn’t fiction or even carefully crafted “Reality TV.”
The Maloofs’ team showed a series of real images of burning cars and burned out homes in the City of Detroit. And despite the fact that Detroiters just re-elected Pimp Daddy Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick–who sent Detroit to the brink of receivership while the married mayor used his 21 bodyguards to hustle girlfriends, strippers, and other assorted paramours–Detroiters are mad that Californian billionaire siblings dare expose what’s really happening in the rustiest, most failing major city in the rust belt.
The Maloof brothers didn’t just suffer angry rants of sports columnists and editorialists in the Detroit media. They were just fined $30,000.00 for daring to display the visual truths I see regularly as I drive through the city. Burning cars? Detroit cops have the evidence they’re not supposed to show the media.
Anytime a Detroit sports team (minus hockey) wins a major game or championship, things are set on fire in the city. Then there is Detroit’s infamous “Devils’ Night.” Despite a decrease in the number of torched crack houses burning on the night before Halloween, the fact remains that homes still burn on that night in Motown. No other major city in the Western Hemisphere needs to near-quintuple law enforcement manpower, as Detroit does, on the night of October 30th, every single year.
But you can’t say that. It’s not acceptable, not politically correct to tell the truth about Detroit. Why? Because Detroit is a Black-dominated city. Therefore, any criticism of the city is off-limits. It’s “racist.”
So racist, that no-one had the guts to point out a few things:
* If the Pistons are so proud about Detroit, why is the team located many, many miles outside the city in the lily White, upper middle class suburb of Auburn Hills, where things are far safer?
* Pistons owner Bill Davidson, to whom the Maloof brothers apologized in full-page ads, doesn’t even live in Detroit. He lives in ritzy Bloomfield Hills, far outside Detroit–and again far safer. He’d NEVER live in Detroit, for the very reasons the Maloofs presented and for which they are now apologizing.
Similar video of burned-out, empty-building, boarded-up business Detroit was shown Wednesday Night at the beginning of the low-rated Benjamin Bratt show “E-Ring,” which is supposed to be a show about Pentagon and Army operatives involved in Special Operations to save Americans. But that’s not what Wednesday Night’s episode was about.
In fact, the politically correct topic of “E-Ring” made the Detroit burn-out pics okay: Muslim Americans as victims of Christian Americans.
“E-Ring” showed a gang of Christian thugs (is there such a thing?) capturing a Detroit area mosque, killing mosque members, and trying to blow the place up. Like that ever happened–or would. (The Christians also murder FBI agents who are surveilling the mosque, as if the FBI in Detroit is actually monitoring, instead of kowtowing to, extremist mosques. It isn’t.)
But where are the calls for NBC, Bratt, and the show’s producers to apologize in full-page ads like the Maloof brothers did?
Dream on.
Then, there is NBC’s franchise player, “Law and Order”–a show, which can always be counted on to support America’s enemies and attack American patriots, soldiers, and any reasonable policy designed to help America in the War on Terror.
On Wednesday Night, the show portrayed the Minutemen–unarmed civilians who patrol the border looking for illegal aliens and report sightings to Border Patrol–as bigoted murderers. Of course, to avoid a lawsuit, the show didn’t use the name, “Minutemen.” But with a name like, “Countrymen Border Watch of America,” it’s clear whom the L&O scriptwriters were depicting.
The show even depicted a patriotic ICE (Immigration and Customs Enforcement) agent, who favored the border watchers, as a corrupt, evil lout and co-conspirator to mass murder of illegals. Not that it would ever be believable, but, laughably, L&O actors constantly referred to the agency by enunciating its letters, “I–C–E.” Attention Sam Waterston: The agency’s name is pronounced, “ice,” as in frozen H2O.
What’s really frozen is society’s new standards on what you can and can’t say in America. Time for a quick thaw of this turkey.

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On this site, whether Islamic Jihad terrorist leader Sami Al-Arian (about whom I was among the first to write extensively back in 2001) will walk.
We hope not, but it doesn’t look good.
Today is the second day of jury deliberations. A quicker decision would be more likely if jurors were certain of Al-Arian’s and his co-defendant’s guilt, which obviously they are not.
Add that to the fact that, on Monday, the judge replaced a “pro-government” juror with one of the people who complained about him. Apparently two jurors (one of them then an alternate and now on the actual jury) complained to the judge that the juror had already made up his mind to convict Al-Arian.
Presumably, if that bothered these two jurors so much, they must already have had their minds made up in favor of acquitting him. Doesn’t sound like they’ll get a jury to convict him, based on that fact.
At the very most, I predict they will split it–as jurors did in the Detroit Terror Cell trial–and find some of the defendants guilty of some of the counts in the indictment. Let’s hope for that.

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Former “Moonlighting” and “Die Hard” star Bruce Willis’ acting career is basically washed up. So is his social life–no Baywatch Brooke, no Demi. So, with too much time on his hands, he’s entering a new industry: bounty hunting Osama Bin Laden.
Bad idea.
Willis, himself, is not actually trying to find Bin Laden. But he told MSNBC’s Rita Cosby that he is offering a reward of $1,000,000 for the person who finds/hunts down Bin Laden. Since no-one turned in Bin Laden for the $25 million the U.S. is offering, it’s hard to see that they’d do it for the $1 million Willis is offering.

Bruce Willis: Die Hard or Find Bin Laden
So what’s the point? I’m not sure–other than some free publicity for a flagging acting career. When I’ve called for leftie Hollywood celeb airheads to stay out of politics, their leftie (equally airheaded) fans have asked if I’ll ask the scintilla of Republican “conservative” actors to stay out of politics, too. The Willis case is proof that I’m consistent.
Willis is a Republican. But in this case, even though the cause is noble, I say to him, “Stick to acting.”
On that note, I do applaud what he is trying to do in Hollywood:
He’s in talks to make a movie about the “Deuce Four,” soldiers whose heroic exploits have been chronicled by embedded blogger Michael Yon. “I am baffled to understand why the things that I saw happening in Iraq, really good things happening in Iraq, are not being reported on,” Willis told Cosby.
Could Willis become the truthful, right-wing version of Michael Moore?

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I’m no fan of Jordan. Its Hashemite leader, King Abdullah, is a minority dictator over a Palestinian majority who deserve their own state in Jordan, not Israel. Its people are among the most anti-American, anti-Christian, anti-Semitic, and most pro-Bin Laden in the world. One in four Jordanians support homicide bombings and more than half believe Bin Laden would make a great leader.
However, I now have cause for an iota of praise of the Kingdom of Jordan. Its head of security–the equivalent of our FBI–and ten other top law enforcement officials quit today, in the wake of the bombings of three Jordanian hotels by Al-Qaeda.
It’s been over four years since 9/11, but not a single person in the FBI or CIA has ever resigned or been fired over it–despite the fact that their has been a lot to blame on both agencies, especially the FBI. Instead, FBI Director Robert Mueller has cordially engaged the most radical element of American Islam, tried to bestow an award on a “former” terrorist who openly supports terrorism, and done a host of other things (like trying to fire a loyal FBI agent, Robert Wright, for daring to investigate Al-Qaeda and Hamas financing on our shores).
If Robert Mueller had any self-respect, he’d emulate his Jordanian counterpart, and resign. But he doesn’t, and he won’t. For once, a Muslim Jordanian official is doing the moral thing where an American Christian is not. It’s rare, but it happens. And in this case, we should all take note.