I’m Latino that Supports Arizona’s New Immigration Law

What?

How can this be?

What’s the matter with you?

These are responses the Left uses to brow beat Latinos into thinking a certain way. Unfortunately, with many Latinos it works to keep them in a mental state of slavery to a particular ideology-Liberalism.

And I use the word “slavery” purposefully because if anyone born in this country is not free to think for themselves as to what ideology they want to believe-then my friend, you’re a slave indeed.

If you’re a regular reader to TLT, I write pieces to challenge the Left’s treatment of the African American community. I do this because as a Puerto Rican, I’m blessed to have a mixed heritage of Spanish from Spain, Africans slaves who were brought to the island of Puerto Rico by the Spaniards, and the native Taino Indians of the island.

I embrace all these heritages and feel comfortable in either the African American community or the Latino community.

I’m all the above!

But, above even that, I’m an American!

And as such, living in the land of Liberty, I am free to live the way I want, to worship they way I want, and especially to think they way I want.

No political party has a claim on my loyalty simply because I was born into a particular ethnic group.

My allegiance goes to Liberty, and I’m not the only Latino that feels this way. There are millions of Latinos that are just as Conservative as I am who believe in right and wrong, and law and order.

But, Liberals are fighting hard to keep the plantation open for business.

They fear this new Conservative wave will sweep away Latinos from their mind-plantations that have enslaved many Latinos for far too long.

But, the chains are beginning to crack and fall apart.

So I say to my fellow Latinos with conservatism in their hearts, break off the rest of the chains, throw away your robot programming, and truly be free!

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Fort Apache John Wayne and Henry Fonda

I know there’s a lot of stuff going today, but I’m taking a break until tomorrow. In the meantime here's another TLT film recommendation. This western directed by the great John Ford stars John Wayne and Henry Fonda. I don’t have any junk films in my collection and this one is one of my favorites.




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Top 10 Dumbest Things Said About the Arizona Immigration Law

Byron York of the Washington Examiner has compiled this list of the hysteria on the Left to Arizona’s new immigration law. York says it’s hard to choose which one on the list is the most over-the-top.

What do you think?

From The Washington Examiner:

The last few days have seen an extraordinary outburst of criticism of Arizona’s new immigration law.

In the nation’s elite media outlets, its most respected commentators are portraying the law as an act of police-state repression. Many, if not all, of the specific criticisms can be refuted simply by reading the law itself, but others are more generalized criticisms of immigration enforcement. In any event, it’s hard to choose the most over-the-top and wrongheaded commentary on the law, but here are ten choices, in no particular order.

(If you don’t know why a particular statement is wrong, you can check here, and here, and here, and here.)

1. “The statute requires police officers to stop and question anyone who looks like an illegal immigrant.”
– New York Times editorial

2. “As the Arizona abomination makes clear, there is a desperate need for federal immigration action to stop the country from turning into a nation of vigilantes suspicious of anybody with dark skin.”
– Dana Milbank, Washington Post

3. “I can’t imagine Arizonans now reverting to German Nazi and Russian Communist techniques whereby people are required to turn one another in to the authorities on any suspicion of documentation.”
– Cardinal Roger Mahony

4. “This law creates a suspect class, based in part on ethnicity, considered guilty until they prove themselves innocent. It makes it harder for illegal immigrants to live without scrutiny — but it also makes it harder for some American citizens to live without suspicion and humiliation. Americans are not accustomed to the command ‘Your papers, please,’ however politely delivered. The distinctly American response to such a request would be ‘Go to hell,’ and then ‘See you in court.’”
– Michael Gerson, Washington Post

5. “In case the phrase ‘lawful contact’ makes it appear as if the police are authorized to act only if they observe an undocumented-looking person actually committing a crime, another section strips the statute of even that fig leaf of reassurance. ‘A person is guilty of trespassing,’ the law provides, by being ‘present on any public or private land in this state’ while lacking authorization to be in the United States — a new crime of breathing while undocumented.”
– Linda Greenhouse, New York Times
(Greenhouse’s “trespassing” allegation was based on an early version of the Arizona bill that was not the bill that became law. Her mistake was later removed from the Times site, but you can see original version here.)

6. “Federal law treats illegal immigration as a civil violation; Arizona law criminalizes it by using the legally dubious mechanism of equating the mere presence of undocumented immigrants with trespassing.”
– Washington Post editorial
(This editorial makes the same mistake as Linda Greenhouse’s “trespassing” column above.)

7. “I am saddened today at the prospect of a young Hispanic immigrant in Arizona going to the grocery store and forgetting to bring her passport and immigration documents with her. I cannot be dispassionate about the fact that the very act of her being in the grocery store will soon be a crime in the state she lives in…An immigrant who is charged with the crime of trespassing for simply being in a community without his papers on him is being told he is committing a crime by simply being.”
– Bishop Desmond Tutu, Huffington Post
(Tutu is perhaps relying on the erroneous information in the New York Times and Washington Post above.)

8. “It harkens back to apartheid where all black people in South Africa were required to carry documents in order to move from one part of town to another.”
– Cynthia Tucker, Atlanta Journal-Constitution, on ABC’s “This Week”

9. “You can imagine, if you are a Hispanic American in Arizona…suddenly, if you don’t have your papers and you took your kid out to get ice cream, you’re going to be harassed.”
– President Barack Obama

10. “This week, Arizona signed the toughest illegal immigration law in the country which will allow police to demand identification papers from anyone they suspect is in the country illegally. I know there’s some people in Arizona worried that Obama is acting like Hitler, but could we all agree that there’s nothing more Nazi than saying ‘Show me your papers?’ There’s never been a World War II movie that didn’t include the line ’show me your papers.’ It’s their catchphrase. Every time someone says ’show me your papers,’ Hitler’s family gets a residual check. So heads up, Arizona; that’s fascism. I know, I know, it’s a dry fascism, but it’s still fascism.”
– Seth Myers, “Saturday Night Live”

Via Washington Examiner

Via Memeorandum


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Arizona Deputy Sheriff Shot By Illegal Immigrant at Traffic Stop

It’s easy for armchair quarterbacks and political opportunists to sit back and criticize Arizona’s new immigration law.

But, Arizona has a huge problem with illegal immigrants that the Federal government refuses to address in a serious way.

As a Latino myself, I say to the people of Arizona, “Do what you gotta do to keep your citizens safe! Don’t worry about big mouth agitators making a lot of noise. There’s more people in this country that support law and order, than support lawlessness and irresponsibility.”

And I say to my Latino politicians, shame on for letting yourselves be led by the nose by the Democrat party for a few crumbs they throw your way.

From Azcentral.com:

A Pinal County Sheriff's deputy was shot in the stomach Friday by an undocumented immigrant off Interstate 8, according sheriff's officials.

Lt. Tami Villar told 12 News that the search and rescue deputy was investigating a load of marijuana in the desert and was confronted by five suspects. She also said the wounded deputy is expected to survive.

Deputies believe at least two people were armed with long guns and at least one handgun. The deputy, whose name was not released, was patrolling alone in what is considered a high-traffic drug and human-smuggling corridor.

Villar said the deputy radioed dispatch about 4:30 p.m. to say he had been shot off Interstate 8 and Arizona 84, but he could not be found when authorities arrived at the scene.

The Maricopa County Sheriff's Office dispatched a helicopter and members of its SWAT team to Pinal County to assist in the case, said department spokesman Lt. Brian Lee. Lee said at 5:45 p.m. there were reports over the police scanner that suspects were shooting at a police helicopter. Lee did not know which agency was operating the helicopter.
Full story and video report

Via Azcentral.com

Via Memeorandum

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Warren Buffett Defends Goldman Sachs, says Economy Rebounding

One day I looked at the amount of money my bank was paying in interest and thought it was a joke!

So 3 years ago I started buying stocks through an on-line broker. And the money I get paid in dividends is greater by far from just letting my money sit in a savings account at 0.25%

I’ve read books on Value Investing of which Warren Buffet is a huge proponent. Today, I’m a small investor with a better control of my financial future.

Am I a Fat Cat?

Not even close. But, I'm definitely in the investor class that believes in making my money worker harder for me and my family. That's why America is so great because I have the freedom to do this and not expect Obama government to do it for me while I sit on my butt and ask for more.

And you could do the same!


From The New York Post:

Berkshire Hathaway Inc. chairman Warren Buffett today defended Goldman Sachs Group, as he announced Berkshire recorded a first-quarter profit of $3.6 billion, compared with a net loss of $1.5 billion a year earlier, as the global economy improved.

Buffett, who invested $5 billion in Goldman at the height of the financial crisis, also came to the defense of Goldman Sachs Group Inc. in hard-hitting comments at the annual meeting of Berkshire investors in Omaha, Neb.

He said there has been "misreporting" on the nature of the Abacus deal at the center of an Securities and Exchange Commission investigation into the firm. Buffett said the Abacus deal is no different from a standard bond-insurance transaction and shouldn't reflect poorly on Goldman.

Berkshire Vice Chairman Charlie Munger, who said this week that Goldman was engaged in "socially undesirable" activities, told shareholders that he would have voted against SEC prosecution.

Buffett also said the company's results show that the global economy is showing significant signs of recovery for the first time.

Operating profit was $2.2 billion, reversing a year-ago loss of $3.2 billion, he said. Individual units showed significant signs of improvement in March, after slight gains in prior months, he said.

"What was sort of a sputtering recovery months ago seemed to pick up steam in March and April," Buffett said. "We're seeing a pretty good uptick."

Buffett's pronouncements on the economy are studied by investors large and small, and the Berkshire units he's acquired over four decades give him a unique perspective.
Full story

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Tiger Woods Missing Cut at Quail Hollow

Tiger can only handle 36 holes this week.



Tiger Woods recently admitted to screwing 121 women during his marriage. With all that hole hopping, it didn’t seem to bother his golf any.

Maybe since his supply of hoochies has been cut off, will Tiger ever be the same golfer?

I'm just saying...

From TMZ:

Tiger Woods just concluded one of the worst performances of his professional career -- and was officially eliminated from the Quail Hollow Championship after missing the cut by a mile.

Just to put this in perspective, Tiger went from 1997 to 2005 without missing one single cut in any of the tournaments he played in ... and in 2007, Tiger WON the Quail Hollow tourney.

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Oil Spill in the Gulf of Mexico Much Worse Than Reported

Darkest day of oil nightmare!


I’m glad to hear that President Obama still believes that Domestic Oil Drilling is still an important of the country’s overall strategy for energy security.

Obama is dead on right on this issue and I fully support his position. Mark it down folks that I agree with the president because this won’t happen much again.

From The New York Post:

The disastrous Gulf of Mexico oil spill pushed into the Mississippi River Delta yesterday with high winds and rough seas complicating efforts to slow the toxic sludge's spread, as the first oil-slicked animals were found amid fears of an environmental nightmare.

Experts prepared for the worst as choppy seas threatened to force the goop deep into the marshlands along Louisiana's southern coast over the weekend and push oily water over the booms put in place to contain it.

"It's of grave concern," said David Kennedy of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. "I am frightened. This is a very, very big thing. And the efforts that are going to be required to do anything about it, especially if it continues on, are just mind-boggling."

Among the developments yesterday:
* President Obama put all new offshore oil leases on hold for 30 days until safeguards are put in place, but indicated he did not plan to flip-flop on a drilling moratorium he recently lifted in other areas.

* Interior Secretary Ken Salazar said those responsible for the disaster -- which could surpass the 1989 Exxon Valdez spill as the worst in US history -- would be held accountable. Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano said the federal government will continue to push BP -- the oil company that owned the rig -- for a strong response.

* In February 2009, BP wrote a report saying that an accident was "unlikely" to happen at the destroyed platform. Critics called it evidence the company wasn't prepared for the catastrophe.

* The governors of Louisiana and Florida declared states of emergency, mobilizing the National Guard as the oil made landfall. Massive military cargo planes were set to dump oil-dispersing chemicals on the spill.

* The first oil-coated bird -- a young northern gannet -- was saved and brought into an animal-rescue facility where its blackened wings were scrubbed with soap. Experts said the slick could devastate the Gulf's dolphin population, many of whom are giving birth now, and wipe out the endangered Kemp's Ridley turtle.

* BP began using underwater chemicals to break up the oil before it reaches the surface.

* Experts estimated the cleanup could cost $3 billion or more.

So far, 1.6 million gallons of oil have been released into the sea.

Officials say more than 5,000 barrels -- or 200,000 gallons -- of oil a day were continuing to bubble from a well beneath the Gulf that was ripped open following the explosion of an offshore oil rig on April 20 that killed 11 workers. But some industry experts said the spill could be even five times larger than those estimates.
Full story

Via New York Post


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