You might recall reading about this little town on VDARE.com a few weeks ago…

The Mayor of Hazelton, PA (population 31,000) decided that illegal immigration was out of control: illegal immigrants were a taxpayer burden, schools were over-crowded and crime rates were soaring. So he proposed a few new laws which if passed:

1. The city would deny licenses to businesses that employ illegal immigrants
2. Impose a $1000 fine on landlords who rent property to illegal immigrants and;
3. All city documents would be in written English…and ONLY English

The full ordinance can be read here (PDF).

The measure needed final approval from the Hazelton City Council and I am happy to inform you that just a few minutes ago–after four hours of debate–the City Council voted in favor of the measure 4-1.

After the meeting, Mayor Lou Barletta [email him] said:

“The illegal citizens, I would recommend they leave.”

[Hazleton council passes ordinance against illegal immigrants by Mark Scolforo, Associated Press 7/13/06]

Before I continue let me say this, Lou Barletta now tops my All-Time Favorite Men List.

At the meeting, some idiot named Anna Arias told the Council that if they passed the measure, Hazelton would become “the first Nazi city in the country.”

Then again, it wouldn’t be a public meeting if the crazy nutbags didn’t make an appearance!

Earlier this week, lawyers from the Puerto Rican Legal Defense And Education Fund threatened to sue the City if the measure passed–yeah, these lawyers are from New York…of course. [email them]

Well, it passed, Puerto Rican legal people, and I say bring on your lawsuit…unlike most namby-pamby politicians, Mayor Barletta and the Council are not afraid of you!

Support Hazelton if you can!

I was surprised to read this injudicious quote by U.S. District Judge Royce C. Lamberth. Judge Lamberth has been removed from a case in which Native Americans, [which here means Indians rather than "nativists"]

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit cited Lamberth’s own words to illustrate why he should be removed from the case, Cobell v. Kempthorne , including a July 2005 opinion in which he called the Interior Department “a dinosaur — the morally and culturally oblivious hand-me-down of a disgracefully racist and imperialist government that should have been buried a century ago, the pathetic outpost of the indifference and anglocentrism we thought we had left behind.”[At U.S. Urging, Court Throws Lamberth Off Indian Case]

While I admit that the Interior Department may be in the wrong here, the remark about the “disgracefully racist and imperialist government “ shows a bias against the United States, not just the United States Government, which is a party to the case, but the United States itself, or putting it another way, the American nation.

As usual, when people apply the anti-racist standards of 2006 to the actions of, for example, the US Cavalry in the 19th century, there’s no context, nothing about raids, scalping, looting, burning, or general savagery, committed regularly by the Indians that might cause non-“Native” Americans, if they thought that way, to demand reparations.

It’s the same as the tired story of the Japanese Internment, which is the only thing that schoolchildren are taught about the Japanese in World War II, when of course, the Japanese conduct towards Western prisoners was abominable, and their conduct towards occupied China and elsewhere was worse than abominable.

No, US history only looks “disgracefully racist and imperialist” if you don’t compare it to the history of any other country–otherwise it looks pretty good.

Leave it to the San Francisco Chronicle to portray evil plants as the cause of future water shortages in the increasingly overcrowded state [California: Greenery sucking up more of state's water, 7/13/06].

As if malevolent lawns water themselves.

At least there is a tiny hint about the real source, the continuing population explosion, though there is no mention of what is fueling that…

Thirsty home landscaping, particularly lawns, will suck up an increasingly burdensome amount of water in California over the next 25 years unless big changes are made, according to a new report by the Public Policy Institute of California.

The state is expected to add 11 million new residents by 2030, and at least half are expected to locate in hotter, inland areas where single-family homes with lush lawns are popular, according to the report.

Darn you, Kentucky bluegrass!

Yesterday, White House Chief Advisor and Deputy Chief of Staff to the President Karl Rove spoke about immigration reform (and supposedly other issues but I didn’t hear that part) to a lunchtime crowd of roughly 2000 people at this year’s La Raza (the Race…ists) convention in LA.

It goes without saying that he prefaced his remarks with his own grandparent immigrant story (gag)–again, this has become standard operating procudure for non-Hispanic people (OTM’s) in the event they dare broach the subject.

Cecilia Munoz, Vice President of the Race(ists) addressed the seriousness of the situation–loosely translated: all the Latino votes which are supposedly up for grabs.

[White House Strategist Calls on Hispanics by Teresa Watanabe and Michael Finnegan, LA Times 7/11/2006]

“The image of the Republican Party in the Latino community is going to be set for the next generation by what happens in this debate,” she said. “The Latino vote is up for grabs, but it won’t be up for grabs if the Republican Party continues to paint itself as a party of xenophobia.”

Hmm…let’s examine her little theory.

When Karl Rove spoke, he mentioned the President’s desire to create a guest worker program which includes a clear path to citizenship for those who are currently “undocumented” aliens–many in the crowd naturally applauded these words.

THEN he mentioned the need to secure the border and these words were met with boos and jeers.

Governor Bill Richardson of New Mexico spoke directly after Rove and also mentioned the need for enforced border security but the crowd was suddenly and remarkably ok with the idea for his words were not met boos but with applause.

Very suspicious…how do we explain this discrepancy? Quite easily…Richardson is a Democrat and Rove is a Republican.

These people have never, do not now and will never embrace the GOP–AND THAT IS PERFECTLY OK!!

The Architect seems to have forgotten the foundation upon which his empire sits—or should I say, those who built it.

Here’s a tip: They weren’t at that luncheon today but they were listening to Rove and he must have felt the tremor that followed–not a typical LA quake but the exodus of faithful Republicans and the resultant cracking of his own foundation.

All I can say is Good Luck in 2008, Duckie!