From this day forward, WMAL can kiss my ass.

There used to be a great radio station in Washington, DC. It was WMAL, AM 1270, and I listened to it every day. This station had a smashing line-up of conservative hosts, both local and syndicated. It was like a beacon of truth, broadcasting into the DC area.

However not once, but twice now, this station has caved in to pressure from local muslim interest groups and shown local hosts the door after they spoke too negatively too many times about radical islam.

The first time was a few years back. Late morning host Michael Graham was booted from the station after a concerted effort by CAIR, the Council of American Islamic Relations, which included threats of lawsuits, harassment of the station's advertising sponsors, and complaints to the FCC and Democrats in Congress who are friendly with CAIR despite it's ties to terrorist groups like Hamas.

Make no mistake about it. CAIR is no friend to America. Michael Graham knew this and said it enough that CAIR got him fired. Graham is now up in Boston, hosting a show on Boston's WTKK, 96.9 FM. He also writes a blog column which I have linked to over on the left side of this page for some time.

The backlash against WMAL when they dropped Graham at CAIR's insistence was huge. I, for one, still refuse to tune in during Graham's old time slot, which is now filled by Chris Core, a pretty decent guy otherwise.

Well now WMAL has decided to repeat that stupid move and boot another host for speaking out against radical islam's connections to terrorism, and this time the ceremonial victim is Fred Grandy, former Congressman and TV actor best known to some as Gopher on the old Love Boat TV show that my mother and many other old people used to watch. Grandy reportedly left his long-time morning 5A-9A drive-time slot yesterday after being pressured to stop talking about islam and after being told that his wife, known to many of us as "Mrs. Fred", was banned from his show.

I've listened to Fred Grandy every morning that I've been east of the Blue Ridge range for years and I've loved the mix of conservatism and humor that we got from Fred and his only recently-departed former co-host, Andy Parks, who was an outspoken critic of illegal aliens. Parks was replaced on what had been the "Grandy and Andy" show with Bryan Nehman, a lightweight political moderate who lacks the passion or the humor of either Parks or Grandy.

And now Grandy's gone too. And so is this formerly-faithful WMAL listener. When station management continually caves in to pressure from interest groups, particularly those who represent foreign entities like CAIR or Casa de Maryland, (the local taxpayer-funded illegal alien lobby), they certainly don't exhibit the resolve to stand up either for the interests of Americans or the First Amendment sufficient to warrant my support.

OK, I'm getting pissed...

Frankly, I've had more than enough of the whines, complaints, threats and assaults that have come from those illegally in our country and the piss-poor excuses for Americans who side with them. We've seen Mexicans rioting in Phoenix, Arizona, attacking American police officers and vandalizing American public buildings just because the State of Arizona passed a new law to criminalize being in our country illegally and requiring the police to take action when they encounter someone that they suspect is not supposed to be here. So why are the Mexicans even in Phoenix? Last I checked, Phoenix was ours, not theirs. And if they don't like the fact that our legislators voted to enforce our laws, they are free to go home any time.

Screw them...and Damn them for making me agree with Pat Buchanan on something. He writes an excellent column on this law and the fact that we have every right to protect our own borders. He points out that even as jobs become scarcer and scarcer here, many are being filled not by Americans who want them but by illegal aliens. Ironically, career race-monger Al Sharpton is pledging to go to Arizona to lead a march on behalf of those illegals and their supposed "right" to be in our country despite our laws. One has to wonder how many unemployed black Americans could be working today but for all of the illegals who have cut in front of them in our own job marketplace. Way to look our for your base, Al...

And in Chicago, more idiots and illegal-lovers were arrested for blocking a deportation van carrying 70 other illegal aliens to the airport for removal.

And even up in Maryland, we've got more protests on behalf of an illegal alien who was ordered deported in 2004, chose not to leave, and is now facing forced repatriation to her own country after being arrested for another criminal act.

Florinda Fabiola Lorenzo-DeSimilian was arrested at her home last Tuesday for allegedly selling $2 phone cards without a license, a misdemeanor. Her fingerprints were taken when she was booked into the Prince George's County Correctional Center. Those prints were sent to the Federal Bureau of Investigation. The FBI forwarded them to the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). There was a hit. Sources say ICE had placed a hold order on Lorenzo-DeSimilian in 2004 for overstaying her visa. She was released from jail last Friday pending a deportation hearing.

Last night, CASA of Maryland--a taxpayer-funded advocacy group for illegal freaking aliens--staged a protest outside the Prince George's County jail. About 60 members of the county's Latino community showed up to holler about the alleged "injustice" of us daring to enforce our own laws and blaming correctional officials for sending her fingerprints to the FBI.

I have to wonder why there wasn't an ICE bus over there to round them all up and check each one of their fingerprints. And why was she released when she has a history of not complying with court orders or showing up for removal?

Oh yeah...Obama is President. He wants these illegals all legalized so that there will be a new, large and permanent underclass to vote for Democrats. And he's not alone--there are plenty of sell-outs on Congress, including Rep. Luis Gutierrez, (D)-Chicago, who spends tens of thousands of taxpayer dollars to fly all across America, ceaselessly advocating on behalf of illegal aliens from Mexico and fighting for virtually all things hispanic. (Imagine if there was a white Congressman or Senator who was an avowed champion of the white race...oh that's right--there is one. Robert Byrd, the former Klan leader, is the senior Democrat Senator from West Virginia, isn't he?)

But if you or I stand up for America and demand that our borders be closed to illegal crossings and those illegally here get sent home without regard for their country of origin, we get called "racist." Right.

Enough. Our country. OUR Country. Ours. It's time to stop this nonsense. I don't have a problem with our admitting immigrants from any country or region, especially those with needed skills, provided that they come through legal means, pass background checks, health screens and demonstrate an ability to speak our language and respect our culture. But this is our country, and we have a right to say who can or cannot come in, and how many people per year we'll allow in so as not to overtax our ability to assimilate them all. Mexico claims that right as they enforce strict immigration laws against those crossing into their nation from the south, yet they threaten us with boycotts for doing not even a fraction of what they do.

Mexico threatening us with boycotts? Telling Mexicans not to travel to Arizona? Excuse me, but that's like the late Michael Jackson threatening to not show up at your eight year old son's sleepover. What do we have to do to get them to boycott out other 49 states?

Frankly, I'm sick of this crap. It's a fight with America and every decent American on one side, and Mexico, 12 million illegal aliens, and a host of advocacy groups hostile to our country and our way of life on the other (including, as of this moment, the government of the City of San Francisco). There are even scattered calls for outright revolution by the illegals and their supporters against the rest of us.

Revolution? Armed insurgency by outsiders and disloyal Americans? Against my country?
If Lagniappe and I have to go down there in defense of our country and our heritage, we will do it, and you can be sure that we'll be bringing a boatload of whoop-ass with us.

I have to hope that America is waking up and strengthening in it's resolve to defend itself. These foreigners cannot be allowed to force their way into our country and claim citizenship en masse just because they want it. We need to put a stop to this crap before it gets out of hand, and the only way to do that is through more enforcement, more border security, more deportations, and sanctions against those who hire, hide, transport or otherwise give aid to those illegally in our country.

Hell, if the Mexicans, Salvadorans, Guatemalans and others who work so hard to get in here and steal identities so that they can take jobs, put their kids in our schools and fraudulently obtain benefits from our government had put half as much effort into trying to make their own countries into decent places to live, they wouldn't have any reason to want to come here.

A busy and dishonorable weekend in Washington, DC

Remember when our representatives in Congress actually represented us and voted accordingly?

Well today, the majority of them, Democrats all, disregarded their constituents--the people who voted them into office expecting to be...well...represented--and voted for a massive new social program designed to take control of the entire health care industry and give free stuff to the lazy while billing the producers. They did this because Obama and Nancy Pelosi told them to, despite the polls indicating that a majority of the country--including a majority of their own constituents--didn't want it.

They ignored the phone calls and letters that they all admit getting, they ignored the in-person visits from their own district residents, and they ignored the protests of organized outraged Americans from across the country. In so doing, they showed us all that their loyalty is to their party leaders first and their own constituents second, if even that.

Hear that drum beating? I hear it.

Now our National Mall in Washington DC is under siege by thousands of illegal aliens and their supporters, mostly relatives who benefited from a previous amnesty or special interest groups that get money to represent these trespassers and provide them with social services, again with the bill passed on to American workers. They're denouncing our laws, defiling our national flags, and demanding--demanding--that our representatives give them amnesty and American citizenship, making them fully equal to the rest of us and giving them priority over every immigrant who is trying to gain citizenship according to our laws that govern the process. And many legislators are caving into them, Republican Lindsay Graham foremost among them, as is Obama.

That drum beat is growing louder. Hear it yet, Washington?

Now we see that ACORN--the group that has been implicated in or convicted of fraud in numerous states on behalf of the Democratic Party and Obama--is going to keep getting our tax dollars despite a law passed by our representatives to put a stop to it. In other words, let the corruption commence again.

That drumbeat's getting louder yet. And those are war drums. The People are growing angry--the workers, the ones who play by the rules. The corruption and the disregard for the will of the citizens who sent you fools to Washington has to stop. If the 535 of you on the Capitol don't quit it and rein in the Marxist in the White House, We--the People--are going to have to find a way to stop you.

I say we give Maryland back to England

Wow. Maryland's legislature is just going to town now that they've got a Democratic majority and a new Democratic governor. They're working full bore to wipe out any semblance of American values from that state. As a result, I'm proposing that we give Maryland back to England, since they clearly don't seem to appreciate this country or have any desire to want to be like the rest of us. Sadly, the Dems now running that state are trying to pass a bunch of new laws that will harm law-abiding Americans there while basically giving the state over to a combination of illegal aliens and felons, most of whom are expected to return the favor by voting Dem in the subsequent elections. Here's just a few examples of the sort of laws that I'm talking about:

Anti-gun legislation.

Just this year, the Maryland Legislature is advancing several bills that will remove Montgomery County from under the state's firearms preemption laws and allow that county to impose stricter gun controls than the rest of the state. They also want to put a 10% tax on certain types of firearms and they are also working on a so-called "assault weapons ban" which will deny law-abiding Maryland residents the right to purchase most semi-automatic firearms and magazines that hold more than ten rounds of ammunition. None of these laws do a thing to deter or punish criminals, but they come down hard on the people who actually obey the laws.

Drivers' licenses for illegal aliens.

Maryland is one of just seven states that does not require people to prove citizenship before giving them a driver's license. The federal government's "Real ID Act" requires states to demand such proof because driver's licenses are used to open bank accounts, vote, board airliners, and other things that both terrorists and run-of-the-mill illegal aliens have no business doing. However

If Maryland does not comply with the act, state driver's licenses would no longer be accepted identification for entrance into federal buildings or travel on airplanes.

Barring illegal aliens from obtaining driver's licenses became an even bigger issue for many Maryland lawmakers after an Iraq war veteran was killed in a car accident involving an illegal alien in Howard County on Thanksgiving.

Police arrested Eduardo Raul Morales-Soriano, 25, an illegal alien from Mexico, and charged him with drunken driving and two counts each of vehicular homicide and manslaughter while intoxicated in the crash that killed Cpl. Brian Mathews of Columbia, Md. But the illegal alien advocacy group Casa de Maryland still demands that the legislature treat illegals the same as citizens and people who have a lawful right to be in our country, and that it would make many (illegal) immigrants feel like second-class people to deny them the full rights and benefits that citizens and legal immigrants enjoy.

At least one person gets it though. "I think it's a terrible problem that we have: People who are more concerned about how the illegal aliens feel than the safety of Maryland residents," said Sen. Janet Greenip, Anne Arundel County Republican.

Amen! But the Dems also know that if illegals can get driver's licenses, they can also register vote courtesy of that stupid Motor Voter law that the Clinton era Dems passed. There are no checks in place to prevent it and both the Dems and the illegals know it.


In-state tuition for illegals.

Not content with just giving illegals the documents that they need to blend in with those of us who actually belong here, the Maryland legislature also thinks that they should get a break on college tuition for themselves and their kids. If an actual American moves to Maryland, they won't be eligible for in-state tuition rates for at least a year, but the MD legislature, kow-towing again to Casa de Maryland and the rest of the illegal alien lobby, thinks that illegals deserve this break so that they can compete for slots in Maryland's colleges and universities with citizens and legal immigrants who want them and who actually have a right to them. It's bad enough that the legislature would allow illegals to attend those schools at all, but giving them tuition preferences that are reserved for legitimate residents and which are denied to many actual citizens? Come on! One Maryland legislator who opposes it says it will inevitably put an added financial strain on schools, drive up tuition costs and reduce the number of available slots at public colleges for legal residents, but the rest of the legislature just wants that Hispanic vote so they're going ahead with it anyway.


Let felons vote!

As if Maryland hasn't gone far enough in it's efforts to curtail the rights of law-abiding citizens and give extravagant benefits to illegals, now it wants to further dilute the voting power of the decent people by removing the bar that our forefathers put on felons and allowing them to vote. This means that criminals will get a say on legislation that sets penalties on the crimes that they have already been convicted of committing at least once, and it gives them the chance to try to vote out of office prosecutors and legislators who are tough on crime and it also allows them to go after the sheriffs who run the jails that they've done time in. It also sets up a situation where candidates for office in high-crime areas will be tempted to pander to convicted criminals and promise to pass legislation that lessens or eliminates the penalties for some crimes in exchange for the votes of the criminals. One only has to look to Washington DC and see what happened there as convicted felon Marion Barry actively sought out the votes of other convicted felons in Ward 8 and subsequently won a seat in the City Council. Is that what Maryland's legislative majority wants? Or are they just looking at studies that reflect the fact that felons overwhelmingly vote Democrat? I realize that if Florida's felons had been allowed to cast the deciding votes, AL Gore would have been elected instead of George W. Bush, and the Democrats realize it too, which is why they push so hard to give felons the vote nationwide. They know that their platform doesn't appeal to the majority of hard-working honest citizens, so rather than change it and give the good people what the good people want, they'd rather open up the voting pool to criminals and illegal aliens and ride their votes into power, screwing everyone else.

How about it, England? You want 'em back? We'll trade you. Give us a few thousand honest conservative citizens (if you've got that many left) and we'll give you Maryland on the condition that you promptly tow it away. Act quick and we'll throw in Massachusetts as a bonus. It's not like that state does America any good so why the heck not?

Casa de Maryland needs to be stopped

Those of us in the Washington DC area need to be aware of and upset by a nearby program which assists and supports illegal aliens and does so with taxpayer dollars.

According to this story by Judicial Watch, the Maryland legislature takes our money and gives it to the nonprofit Casa de Maryland, which uses it to pay for lawyers who helpillegals stay in our country. They've also harrassed and stalked local anti-illegal immigration activists.

From the article:

Casa de Maryland, based in the state’s Tacoma Park area, operates three day laborer facilities that are mostly funded with public dollars and now the group has actually hired three attorneys to provide free legal services for the illegal immigrants.

The group, which annually receives huge tax-deductible donations from numerous corporations, says that its mission is to fight for equal treatment and full access to resources and opportunities for low-income Latinos--in other words, Hispanics who are in the country illegally.

It proudly advertises its day laborer centers--in Baltimore, Wheaton and Silver Spring--which are all partially funded with public money from counties and cities. In fact, last year Baltimore officials approved $75,000 for that municipality’s day laborer center.

Casa de Maryland hired the attorneys because it claims the state fails to protect the rights of low-wage workers. An example, according to the group’s recently published report, is that 75% of domestic workers don’t receive overtime pay and half earn below the minimum wage. Casa de Maryland demands that the state fully fund and staff a department to focus on the needs of immigrant workers and fully investigate their complaints.

In the meantime, its fully staffed legal department will provide free counsel to represent those who have violated federal U.S. law yet claim their “rights” are being violated.

This should not be allowed to continue. Since a main function of this group is to help criminals subvery US laws and displace American workers, corporations who donate money to this group or others like it should not be eligible for deductions nor should tax money be given directly to them. Casa de Maryland should be stripped of it's non-profit status immediately and it's principals should be charged with conspiracy to violate American immigration laws. If there was ever a good reason to call your legislators or write the newspapers to complain, this is it.

This is too good--Illegals solicit ICE agents for work--24 arrested.

Sometimes you just gotta laught. And stories likethis one from the Washington Times make at happen, at least here with Lagniappe and me.

It seems that some federal agents that were members of an ICE fugitive operations team targeting illegal aliens in Baltimore pulled into a 7-11 on a break. Suddenly a group of illegals descended on them to ask them if they wanted any day labor jobs done. The agents determined that they were in fact illegally in America and arrested them.

Of those arrested, 10 were Honduran, eight were Mexican, five were Salvadoran and one was Peruvian. Six of the men have criminal records in the United States, eight of the men have failed to comply with final removal orders from an immigration judge and one man had been caught at the border on four occasions, ICE officials said.

Lagniappe and I praise the agents for this great job, but typically, the pro-illegal lobbying group Casa de Maryland, is protesting this mass arrest and crying that it's illegal and mean.

Casa de Maryland gets lots of money from the Democrat-controlled State of Maryland and they spend much of it it to protect and assist illegal aliens.

Still... All I can say is "go ICE!" 15 of the 24 were documented bad guys and the others were still here in violation of our laws.