You may have missed the sweet soccer victory on Saturday where the United States thumped the arrogant Mexican team 2-0, in a game played in Columbus, Ohio, a site deep in the heartland chosen to provide a majority-American crowd. The win qualifies America for the World Cup next year, a fine thing in itself.

The match was a welcome payback for a 2-1 loss in March which took place in Mexico City. Mexicans followed that game with a session of American-flag trampling in front of the US embassy, with chants of “Osama!”

So kicker Landon Donovan of Redlands, California, has had a few words of his own to share before and after Saturday’s game. (In 2002, he smacked home a decisive goal against Mexico to reach a 2002 World Cup quarterfinal, and is therefore not much liked in sombrero-land.) He laid down a take-no-prisoners line in the sand:

“I want (today) to be a miserable day for them,” Donovan said of the Mexican players. “The best way to make them miserable is to beat their national team.” [...]

“They are jealous of us, the Mexican players, because we’ve got a life and they have nothing,” Donovan said. “Because of that they despise us.”

Donovan apparently doesn’t care much for Mexicans. Maybe he thought the death threat trash talk by a Mexican player against his mother was over the line. He didn’t let up in victory either:

“They suck,” he said. “I’m so happy. After we got that first goal they were never in the game. Hopefully that will shut them up for the next three or four years.”

Soccer just got a whole lot more interesting.

Re:The Fulford File, By James Fulford Labor Day vs. Day Labor

James Fulford put his finger on it! “Scabs” — that is the key to the PR campaign to get under the leftists’ skin and point out the horrible contradictions in their pro-labor, pro-immigrant positions.

When speaking of Mexicans call them scab labor. Ask your local liberal why he wants to import scab labor and drive Americans out of their jobs. If he says “all labor deserves respect” or some such crap, ask him whether scabs deserve that respect, too.

Tell him you are a working man, and refuse to go to his local watering hole because they employ scab Mexican workers in the back.

If he says “they aren’t scabs, there is no strike”, ask him what the difference is between a scab and anyone else who comes into a factory to drive down wages.

If he says “but they are just trying to get a job and work to take care of their families” tell him that is exactly what a scab is, someon who will undercut the living wage of a working man to drive him out of work and starve his children so the scab can work for even less than a living wage–which of course is easy for him to do since he has no family to support, like all those illegal Mexicans.

I’m telling you, the concept of scab needs to be expaded in our lexicon to cover illegals driving down wages. That, I firmly believe is the weak point, the chink in the lefty armor. Whatever argument they put up defending Mexicans, they cannot deny that they work for less than a living wage, and force people currently in their jobs to lose them.

They must be forced to confront their covert and latent hatred for the American working man that has been fulminating since hardhats with Amerrican flags back in 1968. They must be forced to actively and outspokenly reject the working man (or join sides with us) so we can move on.

It always puzzles me that people get so riled up about the ever-affable Steve Sailer (who is under the happy impression that he is VDARE.COM’s house moderate) but NRO’s John Podhoretz is really upset about Steve’s Racial Reality And The New Orleans Nightmare. JPod pronounces a Sailer comment - “What you won’t hear, except from me, is that ‘Let the good times roll’ is an especially risky message for African-Americans. The plain fact is that they tend to possess poorer native judgment than members of better-educated groups. Thus they need stricter moral guidance from society” - to be “The most disgusting sentence yet written about Katrina.”

As Steve says, JPod makes no attempt to refute his facts or logic - “he just tries to read me out of the clique of People Like Us.”

This is particularly fascinating to me because, as a student in England, I was very influenced by Ernest Van Den Haag’s argument in National Review that the 1960s riots were cause, not by racism, but by a failure of white politicians’ will to provide…moral guidance, i.e. police power.

That, of course, was then. Steve’s article is bidding fair to be one of our most emailed-out ever.

As my brother remarked yesterday, shocking news events have a way of activating pre- set predelictions and agendas. Black leaders seem now to have settled into the pattern of wild and vicious statements about the Federal Govenment, (as if their community has not contributed enough wildness and viciousness in the past week) .WND even reports that Mayor Nagin is predicting he will be eliminated by the CIA! (I appreciate he is tired and overwrought, but surely the elected leader of a major city should remember enough about American governance to see this would mean the Agency trespassing on the FBI’s turf?)

The inevitable demand for more subsidies is being heard. See Black faces are indelible image of Katrina Pittsburg Post-Gazette September 4 2005 - Monica Haynes and Erv Dyer:
which quotes Esther Bush, head of the Pittsburgh Urban League offering:

“We should be ashamed and embarrassed by the United States…This disaster makes us question equal opportunity and fair treatment…”
Bush did note a potential upside to what’s happened in the aftermath of Katrina: “I hope this major tragedy provides an opportunity to talk about race and remedies and gives us permission to make change.”

A.K.A. more income transfer progams.

But America is used to managing its blacks. Far more ominous for the future is that someone in the Bush Administration appears to have seized the chance to implement a regional amnesty for illegal immigrants.

President Vicente Fox urged Mexicans to seek help from emergency officials during a televised address Friday in both Spanish and English.

He said his government had reached an agreement with U.S. authorities that “those who were not documented at the time will not be subject to any pressure or persecution whatsoever.”

Latin America Searches for Storm Victims Guardian Unlimited September 3 2005 -R Eduardo Castillo

In all the accounts of help being given in this disaster, there has never been one of anyone asking to see any proof of identification at all, let alone immigration status. Why did this benefit have to be offered? And how can it ever be reversed?

Clearly the Black Leadership is not the only faction trying to grab advantages from the Katrina catastrophe.