Dem Congresswoman says that we don't deserve to keep all of our money

Finally, one who comes right out and says it. This from Congresswoman Jan Schakowsky, Democrat from Illinois.

“I’ll put it this way. You don’t deserve to keep all of it and it’s not a question of deserving because what government is, is those things that we decide to do together. And there are many things that we decide to do together like have our national security. Like have police and fire. What about the people that work at the National Institute of Health who are looking for a cure for cancer,” Schakowsky said.

Schakowsky also says one reason the 2009 stimulus bill did not succeed was because it was not large enough.

Well first of all, National Security is a Constitutional mandate--one of the few things that the federal government was specifically tasked with--so no one argues that. But that expense is dwarfed by a spending on things that aren't Constitutionally-mandated or even authorized...like "police and fire" which are local government responsibilities, and even that National Institute of Health, whose "cancer research" is duplicated and far surpassed by universities and private pharmaceutical companies, each of whom has plenty of motivation to cure cancer and numerous other diseases.

But here it is, folks--the defining difference between Democrats and Americans. They believe that if you earn it, they should get to decide how it gets spent and who should benefit from it, and too bad if you don't like it because they've got lawmaking ability and guns to back those laws up if you or I don't want to give up our money or any other property that they covet. And like this loon says, the only thing keeping their socialist wealth redistribution schemes from creating the perfect utopia here is that they haven't taken enough from us yet. But then that's probably pretty high on the list of things that Obama's new army of union thugs is supposed to help him with...just as soon as their matching brown shirts get here from whatever factory in China is making them.

Oh, and in case anyone wonders what sort of a steward of the public treasury Congresswoman Schakowsky is...
From Wikipedia:

On March 11, 2004, Schakowsky's husband, lobbyist Robert Creamer, the executive director of the Illinois Public Action Fund, was indicted in federal court on 16 counts of bank fraud involving three alleged check-kiting schemes in the mid-1990s, leading several banks to experience shortfalls of at least $2.3 million. In August 2005, Creamer pleaded guilty to one count of failure to collect withholding tax, and bank fraud for writing checks with insufficient funds. All of the money was repaid. Schakowsky was not accused of any wrongdoing. Schakowsky served on the organization's board during the time the crimes occurred, and Schakowsky signed the IRS filings along with her husband. U.S. District Judge James B. Moran noted no one suffered "out of pocket losses," and Creamer acted not out of greed but in an effort to keep his community action group going without cutting programs, though Creamer paid his own $100,000 salary with fraudulently obtained funds. On April 5, 2006, Creamer was sentenced to five months in prison and 11 months of house arrest.

Congresswoman Schakowsky was re-elected after her husband's indictment and has been re-elected three times since his conviction and sentencing.

Those Illinois voters sure can pick 'em, can't they, America?

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.

And you wonder why we get unconstitutional legislation?

It's because we have legislators like Phil Hare,(D)-IL, who admits that he doesn't care about the U.S. Constitution then tries to quote it and shows that he doesn't know the difference between that document and the Declaration of Independence.


Hare is backpedaling now and trying to rewrite history on this episode, but a few things are undeniable. Hare, when asked how he could support such an unconstitutional bill, cuts the man off and says "I don't worry about the Constitution on this to be honest..."

"I care more about the people that are dying every day that don't have health insurance," Rep. Hare goes on to say.

"You care more about that than the Constitution you swore to uphold?" the man asks him.

"I believe it says we have the right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness," Rep. Hare tells him, quoting not the Constitution but the preamble of the Declaration of Independence.

To quote one of my earliest role models: "What a Maroon."

Now granted, some of Hare's questioners were a bit rude and disrespectful, but Hare didn't exactly rise above it as one might expect a Congressman to be able to do. And even I have to question his claim of having read the Obamacare bill "three times" in the limited time that it was even available in final form. At 2,700 pages, that would actually be 8,100 pages read, as the one questioner states. I would not personally have called Hare a liar to his face--that's just crass and not appropriate when you're trying to have an actual discussion--but I'd have loved to draw him out on that extremely unlikely claim a bit more.

But Hare loses the most points when he just up and walks out. Like it or not, Congressman, you work for those people and had an obligation to try to talk to them instead of sinking to their rather juvenile level and then going even lower.

If you ever need more proof that elections are important, or that we get the government that we deserve, you have only to watch people like Congressman Phil Hare in action. Granted, Illinois' 17th Congressional District appears to be heavily Gerrymandered, undoubtedly to ensure that a Democrat retains the seat, but it's still pathetic that out of that whole area, Hare was the most educated, conversant and diplomatic man that the Democrats and local voters could find for the job.

In sum, we got Obamacare because legislators like Hare are currently in the majority, and we have legislators like Hare because better people decline to run or are rejected by the apathetic and/or ignorant voters who actually show up on election day.

What's that you say? You didn't vote? Well then this mess is partly your fault, too. When smart people shirk their duty to vote, the dim bulbs who show up and the interests that push them to the polls get to decide who makes the laws and appoints the judges.

Sorry excuse for a lawyer: Jay Grodner of Deerfield, Illinois

On December 1st, 2007, Jay Grodner, an attorney in private practice in Deerfield, Illinois, was caught red-handed defacing the car of Mike McNulty, a sergeant in the United States Marine Corps. Sgt. McNulty was visiting a friend just prior to leaving on his second deployment to Iraq when Grodner apparently decided to vandalize his car by keying the paint because it bore Marine Corps. license plates and military decals on it. McNulty came out of the house and caught Grodner, who began to curse at him and utter anti-military and anti-war comments. Now instead of pounding Grodner into the ground as he would have been justified in doing (especially as the damage to his car totalled $2400.00), McNulty kept his cool and called the police, who arrested Grodner.

Now despite being observed directly and caught in the act, Grodner denied damaging the car and claimed that the people accusing him were only doing so because Grodner is Jewish. Then Grodner refused to accept even probation for his act, demanding a trial and then immediately filing for a continuance until after Sgt. McNulty's military leave expires on January 2nd, basically deliberately trying to delay the trial until there is no way for McNulty to appear in court. And Grodner even boasted that he did it because he was "not going to make it easy on this kid".

Jay Grodner is a contemptible human being under any set of circumstances because of what he did. Damaging the private property of another human being just because that person made a choice to serve in the military. As an adult, Grodner should know better and be able to exert more self-control. But as a lawyer and an officer of the court, his conduct is beyond the pale. Lawyers are supposed to be held to a higher standard and Grodner has demonstrated for the world that he is unworthy of continued membership in the bar.

Of course one only has to look to the website of Citizens for Legal Responsibility to see that Grodner has been accused of ethical misdeeds before. Their record on Grodner reads as follows:

In addition to being disciplined for being involved in a scheme to forging documents, it has been reported to CLR that attorney Jay Robert Grodner has since then engaged in a conflict of interest with his clients, has abandoned his clients, has engaged in false billing, has engaged in a fraud upon his clients, provided ineffective assistance of counsel, and has engaged in a "fraud upon the court".

So I ask you--why is this guy still allowed to practice law? Why would anyone hire this guy to represent them? Why isn't the Illinois State Bar taking some sort of action?

If you find his conduct troubling, you too can file a request for an investigation with the Illinois Attorney Registration and Disciplinary Commission by clicking here. And the information that you'll need regarding Grodner's practice is:

Jay R. Grodner
Law Offices of Jay R. Grodner
Principal Office-Deerfield
625 Deerfield Road –Suite 406
Deerfield, IL 60015
Phone: (847) 444-1500
Fax: (847) 444-0663

Downtown Chicago
30 N. LaSalle St. - Suite 1210
Chicago, IL 60602
Phone: (312) 236-1142
Fax: (312) 236-6036
Web: http://www.jaygrodner.com

Frankly, it's attorneys like Grodner that give the rest of the profession such a horrendous reputation. And personally, I'd trade a thousand Grodners for even one more good American like Sergeant Mike McNulty, USMC if I could and I'd make that trade anew every day.

Story credits:
Blackfive and Michelle Malkin

Chicago's favorite illegal alien claims she'll go to DC to lobby Congress...Dares ICE to arrest her.

And I think we all know that they won't.

According to the Chicago Tribune, Elvira_Arellano, the illegal alien who has been holed up in a Chicago church for a year while sending her kid off to play for sympathy in press conferences on her behalf, now says that she'll leave the church to go to Washington DC to lobby Congress--OUR Congress, not hers (Her elected officials are in Mexico.)--and she dares ICE to try to arrest and deport her again.

For those unfamiliar with Elvira, she snuck into our country back in 1997 from Mexico. She was arrested and deported by our government. She then snuck right back into our country just a few days after being deported and this time she got herself pregnant and cranked out an anchor baby, figuring that now she couldn't get deported again. She then went to Chicago where she used a fraudulently-obtained social security number (stolen from an American) to get a job at O'Hare Airport. A post 9/11 security check caught her and she was tried and convicted of stealing and misusing the social security number and then ordered to appear before an immigration judge for what would have been her second deportation. But instead of obeying our laws--for once--she ran and hid inside the Adalberto United Methodist Church in Chicago and began proclaiming that she had "sanctuary" and protection from our government. And the spineless officials at ICE, following the mandate of President "I love illegals" Bush, refused to go get her and allowed her to become a cause celebre.

Her schtick is that deporting her would harm her son because he has a right to a mother and it would not be fair to take her away from him. Well that argument should have fallen on it's face years ago because there's nothing at all stopping her from taking her son Saul (really a baby Mexican) with her back home. If we must recognize his claim to American citizenship, fine. He can come back when he's an adult. But the mere fact that he got citizenship here by virtue of being a bastard kid to an illegal alien criminal doesn't mean that the illegal alien criminal gets the benefit of de facto citizenship herself.

But Elvira's been playing this for all it's worth. She puts her kid out in front of any camera or legislative body she can find, even Mexico's. (He can apparently go there to lobby for his momma but can't go there to live with her.) Young Saul, obviously well-coached, tearfully begs everyone not to take his mother away from him.
(Again kid, you can always go with her.) And it's working for her. She's the darling of pro-illegal groups and leftist organizations. Jesse Jackson and his wife rally behind her (and the cameras) and On May 3, 2007, Rep. Bobby Rush (D-IL), introduced legislation which would grant legal immigrant status, with the possibility of applying for permanent residence status, to her. Fortunately that bill hasn't gone anywhere...yet.

So now she plans to come to our nation's capitol, and she even plans a fast on our National Mall. She has no representation in our government and no legal right to be anywhere in this country other than in a detention facility pending deportation, but she's banking that her fame and her supporters will keep our government agents from doing their job and locking her up.

This is just a travesty, and she needs to be arrested and deported immediately. It's bad enough that she plays that game in Chicago (A Democrat-controlled sanctuary city) but if she's not detained and deported on her trip or after her arrival in DC, then it'll be even more evidence that our system is fatally flawed beyond redemption. Apparently the concepts of "equal treatment" and "Justice for all" can be subverted by any criminal who can spawn offspring and exploit it for personal gain.

Deport Elvia Arellano and deport her today.

25 years of mandatory gun ownership = no problems, less crime

Wow, this story has to be galling the anti-gun crowd and the elitist liberals who claim that guns in the home lead to murder and other crimes.

In March 1982, 25 years ago, the small town of Kennesaw – responding to a handgun ban in Morton Grove, Ill. – unanimously passed an ordinance requiring each head of household to own and maintain a gun. Since then, despite dire predictions of "Wild West" showdowns and increased violence and accidents, not a single resident has been involved in a fatal shooting – as a victim, attacker or defender.

The crime rate initially plummeted for several years after the passage of the ordinance, with the 2005 per capita crime rate actually significantly lower than it was in 1981, the year before passage of the law.

Prior to enactment of the law, Kennesaw had a population of just 5,242 but a crime rate significantly higher (4,332 per 100,000) than the national average (3,899 per 100,000). The latest statistics available – for the year 2005 – show the rate at 2,027 per 100,000. Meanwhile, the population has skyrocketed to 28,189.

By comparison, the population of Morton Grove, the first city in Illinois to adopt a gun ban for anyone other than police officers, has actually dropped slightly and stands at 22,202, according to 2005 statistics. More significantly, perhaps, the city's crime rate increased by 15.7 percent immediately after the gun ban, even though the overall crime rate in Cook County rose only 3 percent. Today, by comparison, the township's crime rate stands at 2,268 per 100,000.

This was not what some predicted.

25 years and crime is down in pro-gun Kennesaw and up in anti-gun Morton Grove. And no blood in the streets in the city where everyone is armed. Kind of puts paid to the whole gun control fallacy, doesn't it?