That’s what I told Joe Guzzardi when he was doing the piece about Peter Pace crying about immigration reform. (It’s a quote from the movie A League of Their Own, which is about girls playing baseball when the men were off to war.

Apparently, this is a trend in modern politics, now it’s Grover Norquist:

Yesterday, while appearing at a pro-comprehensive-reform press conference in Washington with Senators McCain, Kennedy, Salazar and Graham, Norquist tossed off some of his trademark wisecracks — “It was good to meet this morning with Senator Kennedy; I grew up in Massachusetts before emigrating to the United States” — but then drew a muffled gasp from the room when he punctuated a historical tale of how the Republicans in 1884 alienated a century’s worth of Catholic voters by campaigning against Rum, Romanism and Rebellion … by sobbing openly into the microphone.

Eyes reddened, he called the rhetoric by anti-reform populists “damaging” and “hateful,” and then quickly concluded his remarks.Borderline: Why Is Grover Norquist Crying?

So I’m watching E! Hollywood News (don’t ask me why…pregnancy has possibly rotted my brain) and apparently Mel Gibson’s arrest for DUI over the weekend is causing quite a ruckus in LA LA Land.

In a world where drug and alcohol addiction (and just garden-variety debauchery) is so prevalent that it sounds more like an entry on a resume than an affliction, why should a DUI stand out?

Well…at some point during the ordeal, Gibson supposedly said something like “Jews are responsible for most of the wars in the world.”

Ouch!

The only thing more dangerous than someone making a derogatory comment about Jews in Hollywood would be a naked woman standing outside of mosque in Tehran with the words “ALLAH WAS HERE” written in body paint across her chest.

Back to E! Hollywood News…some Rabbi was interviewed and asked how he felt about Gibson’s allegedly racist remark.

He said (brace yourself) “Mel Gibson suffers from two diseases–alcoholism and anti-semitism.”

My sister (who is the funniest person I know) was watching as well and when the Rabbi tossed out that little zinger Jen said:

“All this time we’ve been concerned about AIDS and Cancer when there are other more worthwhile diseases which deserve our attention.”

On a more serious note, this is not about anti-semitism or racism or anything of that nature–I am not interested in saying what is or isn’t an anti-semitic remark. Hate as a hobby (and there is no proof that Mel Gibson does) is not my cup of tea!

But set all of that aside for a moment because I do know one thing:

ANTI-SEMITISM IS NOT A DISEASE!!

Just because something is distasteful, annoying or just plain wrong does not mean it is a disease–see: television evangelism, vegetarianism and Beatlemania.

Stupidity on the other hand…

One step forward, two steps back

While cities and counties, not to mention states around the U.S. are beginning to take advantage of a ten-year old federal law that will train local police to apprehend and detain illegal aliens - and build deportation cases on them, Sheriff John Rutherford in Jacksonville, Florida, has decided that it will be easier if he not just ignores the illegals in his community, but promises them sanctuary.

It seems that the Sheriff in Jacksonville has promised illegal aliens that if they don’t turn to the gangs for “protection”…he will promise that they can safely live and work illegally in his jurisdiction. I won’t ask if you don’t tell?

The Florida Times Union today ran a story describing the local sheriff’s motivation behind creating a new “International Affairs Unit” that apparently has been formed to “quell the fears of illegal immigrants concerned they would be arrested and deported if their status in the United States was discovered.”[ Sheriff assures fearful Hispanics, By Dana Treen, , July 31, 2006 ]

In America, the police are here to protect your rights,” Rutherford said, pausing while his remarks were translated to the mostly Hispanic audience. “They don’t have to turn to MS 13 or some other group to protect them.”

MS 13, a street gang with roots in Los Angeles’ El Salvadoran community, is growing in numbers in the South as Hispanic populations grow, according to the National Alliance of Gang Investigators’ Associations.

Rutherford said police intelligence units learned last year that there was a possibility MS 13 members were being contacted to provide protection after a series of assaults on Hispanics who roomed together in Jacksonville apartments and residences.

That is why this unit had to be started now,” he said.

We wonder from here in Georgia which other crimes Sheriff Rutherford will ignore to make his job easier, and which rights Americans have in his area. Apparently not the right to equal protection under the law.

“In America, the police are here to protect your rights”…indeed.

Note from D.A. King to Sheriff Rutherford: you are a coward and a disgrace to your uniform. My grandfather was a beat cop in Detroit from the late 1920’s until the early 1960’s. He died at age 96 with more integrity in his little finger than you have shown here. I am glad that he did not live to see your shameless actions.

Maybe that “anti-litter” initiative will make the citizens you are sworn to protect forget this ridiculous and shameful act of collusion…eh? Not if I can help it, you are now a pet cause here.

While the rights of Americans are being violated every day in Jacksonville, Florida by the illegal aliens, we now see that a head law enforcement officer has decided that if you are Hispanic and in the U.S. illegally, you have more rights than those pesky Americans who are expected to obey the same set of laws.

Sadly, it will only be a matter of time before we are forced to add another name to the NO MORE DEATHS page here because of Rutherford’s cowardice.

I am livid. We should all be. Welcome to the “New Florida” in the New America of George W. Bush.

Which gangs do Americans turn to to protect themselves?
Contact Sheriff Rutherford here. I will.

Pamela Waechter is the latest victim of multiculturalism, the failed ideology which believes that all cultures are equal and can get along in one country, kumbaya fashion. She was the woman who was shot and killed Friday by the Muslim shooter in Seattle.

Naveed Afzal Haq forced his way into the Jewish Federation of Greater Seattle by holding a gun on a 13-year old girl and proceeded to shoot five other women in addition to Pam. Born in America, Haq declared “I am a Muslim American, angry at Israel” as he gunned down the unarmed Jewish women.

Haq had a degree in engineering, was 30 years old, yet had a string of loser jobs. He had been getting psychological treatment for 10 years, but you have to wonder how much his real problem was the near-impossible cultural adjustment for a Muslim growing up in the United States with immigrant parents. Adult immigrants have their cultural and personal identity figured out, so any difficulties are of the exterior navigational variety.

But children growing up in America within immigrant cultures having anti-western values must sort out very conflicted identities, and in so doing necessarily deny a substantial part of who they are. Muslims in particular have a tough task, since they learn in some (many?) mosques that Jews and Christians are enemies, period.

A 2005 Freedomhouse report found teaching materials in geographically diverse US mosques that were very anti-American and anti-Semitic, declaring democracy to be un-Islamic. The study characterized the instruction as urging “when Muslims are in the lands of the unbelievers, they must behave as if on a mission behind enemy lines.” That sort of indoctrination makes assimilation psychologically stressful, to say the least.

Neilsen said he thinks Haq’s issues with family, his religion and even his social life just compounded. He said he believed his friend wanted desperately to fit into mainstream U.S. society. But he felt like an outcast in his own family.
[Shooting suspect was baptized Seattle Post Intelligencer, 7/29/06]

Conflicting interior cultures can make offspring of immigrants dangerously crazy. If academia weren’t so beguiled by believing diversity is the highest good, some inquisitive sociologist would have laid out the statistical arguments by now that the offspring of immigrants are more maladjusted than their parents. (Daniel Pipes’ thoughts in Sudden Jihad Syndrome are not unrelated; likewise the recent Seeing Today’s Immigrants Straight by Heather MacDonald.)

This murdering scum should not be cut slack because of his internal culture clash; on the contrary, he should face the death penalty. But Americans should realize that some cultures are inappropriate for this society: when the square peg is forced into the round hole, bad things happen.

Like the murder of Pam Waechter because she was a Jew.

Let’s suppose for a minute that the president and the rest of the open borders lobby lost the battle on illegal immigration and secure borders and the U.S. House bill (HR 4437) were passed by the Congress ( come on, try hard, this is my fantasy) - and went to the President’s desk?

Can you imagine the Bush “signing statement” - assuming (don’t) the President didn’t use his second veto… ever?

I can.