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Governor Jan Brewer Explains It All For You

Race-baiting Hispanics and Native Americans protest law designed to protect rapidly eroding Caucasian rights. It's a shame how serious, considered legislation to protect Arizonans from the encroaching brown horde can be misconstrued as a vehicle to instigate racial conflict...

Meanwhile, the reasoning behind Republican Governor Jan Brewer's carefully considered decision to sign the bill into law has emerged:

"She really felt that the majority of Arizonans fall on the side of, 'Let’s solve the problem and not worry about the Constitution.'"

But the right loves loves loves the Constitution, except, of course, when it inconveniences them. Governor Brewer has not explained why this law is the only means of resolving the immigration issue. It is more than past time for the MSM to point out the discrepancies (some might say hypocrisies) between the right's abstract reverence for the Constitution and their disregard of it when the rubber meets the road...

Andres Oppenheimer explains why the law is bad for Arizona and bad for the country:

1. It won't work because of the income disparity between the United Stated and Latin America.
2. It will discourage undocumented immigrants from reporting crimes.
3. It will hurt Arizona's economy via costly costly lawsuits and the exodus of immigrants from the state.
4. It courts a tourist backlash.
5. It is "morally wrong and profoundly un-American."

The MSM reported faithfully and often the Republican whine about that the new health care law being a one-party measure, as if the Republicans had negotiated in good faith. I'd like to know how voting for the Arizona measure broke down across racial lines. There's plenty of reason to suspect that it's not a pretty picture, and yet I haven't read a single news story that discussed this, other than one saying that the Arizona Senate vote was largely along party lines. Not that it's conclusive, but no Republican member of the Arizona House or Senate has an Hispanic surname, and if the vote went along party lines...let's just say that if the Republicans could not attract a single Hispanic vote for a bill aimed at undocumented Hispanic workers, it ought to be newsworthy. Or maybe it just goes without saying...

Check out Democracy Central, an open forum for those who can think liberally...

Here's a good blog called My Life in the Quarter, a personal photo blog recording one person's daily life in the French Quarter...

Memories of the Katrina tour bus...

Imagine (thanks, Birdsonawire):

Imagine that hundreds of black protesters were to descend upon Washington DC and Northern Virginia, just a few miles from the Capitol and White House, armed with AK-47s, assorted handguns, and ammunition. And imagine that some of these protesters—the black protesters--spoke of the need for political revolution, and possibly even armed conflict in the event that laws they didn’t like were enforced by the government? Would these protesters--these black protesters with guns--be seen as brave defenders of the Second Amendment, or would they be viewed by most whites as a danger to the republic?

Texas Hill Country and the Willow City Loop...


Nest serendipity...

Wildflowers in the Texas Hill Country: The most beautiful time of the year in one of the most serene places on earth...

I got a feelin', something that I can't explain. Like dancing naked in that high Hill Country Rain: