Category Archives: IMMIGRATION

Update II: Trader Joe’s Tea Party

America, Economy, Founding Fathers, IMMIGRATION, Individualism Vs. Collectivism, Liberty

Hooray to a revolt on the floor of the Chicago Board of Trade! The magnificent Rick Santelli of CNBC rails against having to bailout mortgage delinquents; reminds “President New Administration” that 90 percent of homeowners in the country pay their mortgages; invokes images of Thomas Jefferson and Benjamin Franklin rolling in their graves at what the country has become; mentions “moral hazard,” gets the entire floor booing; hollers, “This is America”; restores my faith in this country. Watch Rick rock the floor:

“’The government is promoting bad behavior… do we really want to subsidize the losers’ mortgages… This is America! How many of you people want to pay for your neighbor’s mortgage? President Obama, are you listening? How about we all stop paying our mortgage! It’s a moral hazard” [Via Drudge]

Update II (Feb. 20): The machine goes after The Man, Rick Santelli. Robert Gibbs, Obama’s press primp himself lashed out:

“I’ve watched Mr. Santelli on cable the past 24 hours or so. I’m not entirely sure where Mr. Santelli lives or in what house he lives but the American people are struggling every day to meet their mortgages, stay in their jobs, pay their bills, send their kids to school,” Gibbs said. “I think we left a few months ago the adage that if it was good for a derivatives trader that it was good for Main Street. I think the verdict is in on that,” the press secretary said, poking directly at the cable journalist, who reports from the trading floor at the Chicago Board of Trade.

The media machine was even worse. Rick’s colleagues were aghast at his hopeless audacity. Today, anchorwoman Tessa Brewer, a large faced, childish, lip smacking simpleton, attempted to make fun of a trader sitting by Santelli. The venom with which the establishment is going after Trader Joe is the very same bile they reserved for Plumber Joe. The anonymous trader was asked condescendingly by Brewer whether he was having his 15 minutes of fame. The guy remained stoic and serious, and asked the silly sow whether he could get a bailout if the “bets” he places do not yield profit. Rick was quick on the draw: He told his trader buddy that “they are being rude to you,” and went on to stick up for yet another ordinary Trader Joe making a living.

If anyone can locate the YouTube for the last exchange, do send it along. I’ve been unable to find Santelli’s appearance on Hardball yesterday. Mike Barnacle, sitting in for “trickle down the leg” Chris Matthews, told Santelli: “you speak for many, Buddy.”

Here’s Santelli on Today. Some predictable backing down in the face of peer pressure, but he comes up with good, libertarian lines/principles: the government is “legislating your choice away.” “Do not break contract law.” “The market is us, people.” “Give us a tax holiday.” “We are spending money we do not have.”

Santelli also countered on Hardball yesterday the foolish and flimsy argument that bailing out the minority delinquent mortgage holders is justified because, if not done, “the value of your home will decline with his.” Santelli made the point we’ve often discussed in this household: your home is where YOU LIVE. Quit viewing it as an investment; stop borrowing against it. it’s your abode!

Arizona: Where Property Rights Go To Die

Crime, Criminal Injustice, IMMIGRATION, Private Property

For at least a decade, they’ve been littering his Arizona ranch with “trash 10 inches deep, including human waste, used toilet paper, soiled diapers, cigarette packs, clothes, backpacks, empty 1-gallon water bottles, chewing-gum wrappers and aluminum foil – which supposedly is used to pack drugs.”

Of late, rancher Roger Barnett’s property, northeast of Douglas, along Arizona Highway 80, has been vandalized by illegal aliens, who “tore up water pumps, killed calves, destroyed fences and gates, stole trucks and broke into his home.”

But at last justice. With the aid of the Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund (MALDEF), the aggressors are suing Barnett for trying to evict them from his land with excessive insensitively. What’s more, U.S. District Judge John Roll agreed to hear the case–and has ruled that there was “sufficient evidence to allow the matter to be presented to a jury.”

Read on.

Related: “The Gore Gospel: Act Globally; Trash Locally”

The Know-Nothings At The New York Times

IMMIGRATION, Israel, Journalism, Left-Liberalism And Progressivisim, Media, Multiculturalism

In a revoltingly biased editorial titled “The Nativists Are Restless,” the New York Times libeled immigration restrictionists, including VDARE.com, in the usual despicable terms.

But a revolt occurred in the ranks of the newspaper’s readers, in the Comments section. A good chunk of the responses exposed the Times’ smear for what it was: an ad hominem attack.

The financially flailing Times followed up with “The Nativists Are Restless, Continued.” Read it. Do I detect here a tinge of panic? Could it be the panic that comes with looming bankruptcy? One can only hope. Nevertheless, I do think that the second response, with its urgent tone, comes off as slightly apologetic, at least for the insufferably arrogant New York Times editorialists.

See “Part II: American Newspapers Dying Of Self-Inflicted Wounds. Good.”

American Newspapers Dying Of Self-Inflicted Wounds. Good.

IMMIGRATION, Journalism, Left-Liberalism And Progressivisim, Media, Multiculturalism, Outsourcing, Propaganda

I join Peter Gadiel in celebrating some creative destruction–the demise of the newspaper industry.

Writes Gadiel on VDARE.Com:

“American newspapers are dying. Let us celebrate, since in their extinction lies the only hope for journalism.” …

“Newspapers were largely owned, edited and to a considerable degree staffed by people who actually were from the town about which they wrote. Thus, when you got the Sheboygan (Wis.) Press, The Indianapolis Star or the Florence (Ala.) Times-Daily it was a pretty sure thing that when you read an editorial, the news pages, the women’s page—whatever—you were reading something written or at least edited by someone who had roots in that city.”

“Not so today. The people writing the editorial in the Hendersonville (N.C.) Times News or “reporting” about events in the Asbury Park Press are corporate gypsies who come from someplace else via some school of journalism located somewhere else. They are all waiting to move to a bigger paper in a bigger city on the way up to starting the trip all over again back down in the small towns as assistant editor.”

“What’s worse, the gypsies who staff those papers are hired by people who are answerable to the likes of ‘Pinch’ Sulzberger of the NY Times…”

More.