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Britain’s Daily Mail says that “Borat” makes fun of an entire country.
But that country isn’t Kazakhstan. It’s America. And it’s not funny.
If you watch TV, read a paper, or listen to talk radio, you’ve likely heard about “Borat,” the fictional anti-Semitic reporter from Kazakhstan, played by pretentious British comedian Sacha Baron Cohen. The Borat movie, “Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan,” comes out this week. And it’s getting a lot of hype.
I was excited to go see this movie. Borat’s interviews with unwitting politicians and celebrities on his “Da Ali G Show” were funny. But his movie isn’t.
It’s a mean-spirited attack on America . . . Red State America. Yes, there are a few funny scenes. Borat comes to America and meets a group of aging Manhattan feminists. But even that was more mildly amusing than uproariously funny.

Definition of Over-Rated: Borat/Sacha Baron Cohen
Borat falls in love with Pamela Anderson, after seeing her on “Baywatch” in his hotel room. He spends most of the rest of the movie trying to get to California to meet and marry her. I thought I’d find it funny when he finally gets the chance to make fun of the buxom peroxide blonde. But the movie even managed to make me feel something I thought I never would: sympathy for Ms. Anderson.
The movie is full of set-ups in which unknowing Americans were duped by sneaky “Borat” producers and made fun of by Cohen. They all believe he’s a foreign journalist trying to learn about America.
Spoiler alert: If you want to see how Borat takes cheap shots at America, without a preview, stop reading here.
Borat meets with conservative former Congressman Bob Barr and serves him cheese, saying it’s a traditional gift in Kazakhstan. After Barr swallows it, Borat tells him it’s made from his wife’s breast milk. Is that funny? No, it’s just sick. Then, he chooses to describe a gay parade to another conservative, Alan Keyes, and describes how he and a gay from the parade had sex with a plastic fist in a shower. That’s supposed to be funny?
If it’s so funny, why didn’t Cohen & Company pick Ted Kennedy and John Kerry for the breastmilk cheese and graphic gay sex jokes? Well, that’s exactly the point. But for the brief Manhattan feminist club scene, the movie should really be called “Sacha’s Big Fart on Middle America.”
Midwesterners at a rodeo are depicted as anti-Muslim racists, bigots, and dummies. They’re supposed to be the bad ones for booing Borat when he purposely perverts the American National Anthem and says “We support your War OF Terror.”
A Southern Evangelical Church finds a down-and-out-on-his-luck Borat asleep in the sidewalk in front. They take him in and even give him a bus ride on his way to California. Despite their kindness, he ridicules them, showing them speaking in tongues and trying to make them look bad.
Equally disturbing was Borat’s sojourn to a Southern mansion where he is invited to dinner. First, he meets with an etiquette teacher. He shows her a picture of his alleged son. Most of the picture is of the son’s large penis. That’s funny? Maybe, if you’re five or a drunk at the frat house. When he goes to dinner, Borat tells one of the husbands at the dinner table that his wife is ugly. After using the bathroom, he brings a white bag filled with his feces to the dinner table. That’s funny? Where’s the humor?
Ditto for the arrival of the fat, Black prostitute (overflowing out of her skimpy sequined tube top), whom Cohen invites to the home while the dinner is going on. She’s, by the way, the major Black person in the movie (there are brief scene with Keyes and some inner city Black kids). So who’s the racist now, Sacha Cohen?
“Borat” hitches a ride in an RV with some Southern frat boys, who make indefensible anti-Semitic comments. But they’re hardly representative of America, where anti-Semitism is at one of the world’s lowest levels. In Cohen’s own native Britain, anti-Semitism is practically the national theology (second to Islamism). Cohen = Pot. Kettle. “Black.”
It’s no surprise that Daily Mail columnist Baz Bamigboye gives “Borat” a huge thumbs up, since Brits love to hate America. Says he:

I don’t think the film would have been as funny had it been set in Britain because part of the fun is watching gullible Americans being taken in by a daft man from Kazakhstan.
Although we have been taken in by a few Americans lately…just ask Tony Blair.

Much has been made of Borat’s attacks on Jews. But we laugh at those because it’s implicit that comedian Cohen is making fun of the anti-Semite he’s playing. That’s not the problem.
It’s that he celebrates attacking Americans.
The problem is that Cohen–who proudly proclaims that he’s a Jew–has no problem savaging American Christians, Southerners, rodeo fans, and others who are kind and generous to this odd foreigner they believe is truly in need of help.
If that causes anyone be anti-Semitic, I don’t blame them. I blame Sacha Baron Cohen.
And hope he returns to Britain very, very soon. The “Borat” joke’s on you, America.

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We’ve never liked , whom we’ve called the . From day one, he’s defended and praised extremist Muslims like Yusuf Al-Qaradawi, spiritual leader of the Muslim Brotherhood terrorist group and Caribou Coffee.
Even after the 7/7 bombing of London’s subway, also known as “the Tube,” Livingstone continued to pander to extremist Muslims, just like the ones who committed the bombings. His pandering was ad absurdum. But now it’s REALLY absurd.
Britain’s Daily Mail reports that Livingstone is defending the right of a convicted Islamic terrorist, Mohammed Kamel Mostafa, to work on the Tube and get access to normally restricted passageways and tunnels. Even worse, the terrorist is the son of extremist cleric of the Finsbury Mosque that bred Zaccarias Moussaoui, Richard Reid, etc. Pops Abu Hamza is currently in prison serving time for inciting murder.

Mohammed Mostafa & Dad Abu Hamza
Is Livingstone nuts? Apparently. Mostafa was convicted of terrorism in Yemen, where terrorists are rarely convicted because the government and judges are sympathetic to them. That means his terrorism is even more serious. He was convicted of plotting to kill Western tourists in Yemen in 1999, and he was imprisoned there.
But Livingstone says that the conviction is not important because Mostafa hasn’t broken any laws in Britain. Huh? If Zaccarias Moussaoui or Khaled Sheikh Mohammed tried to get a job working on the Tube, the same would apply. They didn’t break any laws in Britain, either. It’s incredible that Mostafa was even allowed back into Britain, given his Yemeni conviction.
Livingstone’s defense of this murderous terrorist is incredible, even for him. Did he learn nothing from 9/11, 7/7, etc.? Answer: Yes, he learned nothing.
More from the Daily Mail:

Ken Livingstone today defended the right of Abu Hamza’s son to work for a Tube contractor – despite his conviction for terrorism in Yemen.
Mohammed Kamel Mostafa, 25, from Wembley, was given a security pass and had access to restricted areas – including tunnels under Parliament – during his time as a labourer at nights and weekends on the Underground.
But the Mayor said he doubted the veracity of any conviction from Yemen and said Mostafa had passed Tube security checks.
He said it was wrong to restrict his ability to work simply because he was the son of Abu Hamza. Mr Livingstone said: “Has he broken any laws here in Britain? The answer is no. We are happy to have him working for us.”
“No one can be blamed for what their parents do. All we ask is that they respect the law of the land and do not hurt anyone.”
His extraordinary intervention came after Tube chiefs were accused of an appalling blunder after allowing Mostafa to work in restricted areas.
He was employed by a sub-contractor working for Tube Lines, the private sector consortia which looks after the Jubilee, Northern and Piccadilly lines.
The Jubilee line serves Westminster, the most politically sensitive station on the Underground and where security is supposed to be at its highest level.
Working as a labourer on the Jubilee line would have given Mostafa – jailed in Yemen in 1999 for plotting to kill Western tourists – access to the labyrinth of tunnels at Westminster and where the Tube runs virtually under Parliament.
Mostafa and his father were central figures at the Finsbury Park mosque when it was taken over by hardliners. Hamza, 48, is serving seven years for inciting murder and preaching racial hatred during sermons there.

Even other liberal officeholders in Britain are appalled at this lack of security. Apparently, just like Livingstone, the rest of Britain learned nothing from the 7/7 bombings, as it seems there is no security whatsoever. This should be a lesson to any American tourists who think it’s now safe to ride the Brit subways. It isn’t:

Labour MP Andrew Dismore said today of Mostafa: “It beggars belief. It wasn’t like he was nicked for shoplifting. It was terror offences in Yemen. You would think the Underground would be particularly sensitive to terrorism.”
Questions are being asked over the Tube’s security checks, which were supposed to have been increased following the 7/7 atrocities. Brian Cooke, chairman of the passenger watchdog TravelWatch, said: “It is surprising that LU does not appear to have greater control over the reference checks of people employed by contractors.”
Mostafa was only stopped from working on the Tube when colleagues recognised him and informed bosses, who withdrew his pass. LU chiefs tried to play down Mostafa’s employment, saying he was allowed to work because “he has no criminal convictions in the UK.”
LU pointed out that he was not Tube staff but was employed by a “minor” sub-contractor. An LU spokesman said it was up to the contractor – which he refused to name – and not LU to make criminal checks.
The spokesman added: “The question of whether the checks were tight enough is a matter for the Government to address. We don’t do criminal checks on every single individual who comes on to London Underground.”
It was claimed that Mostafa had worked only for “a few weekends” on the network. Asked if LU checked the contractors to ensure they were carrying out the specified vetting procedures, the spokesman added: “There is an assumption that criminal checks are made.” He said there were “spot checks” – but not as a regular and ongoing process.
The security blunder by the company was described as “appalling” by the father of one of the victims of the 7/7 bombings, in which 52 commuters were murdered. John Taylor, who lost his daughter Carrie, 24, in the attacks, said he was “shocked and stunned.”
The security manager from Billericay said: “This man is a convicted terrorist and he has been allowed access to some of the most sensitive areas of the Tube.”
Mostafa had previously attempted to forge a career in rap, with lyrics describing waging holy war and dying for Allah.

Incredible. Wake up, Britain. Apparently, just like in America, it may take another attack to open enough eyes.
And then, it will be too late. It already is.
London’s mayor is an imbecile. Don’t become one by trusting the security of anything in his city. If you feel, for some G-d-forsaken reason, that you must go there.

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A couple of stories that raise important issues about our friends and “allies” in the “Religion of Peace”:
* So Sheikh Taj Aldin Al-Hilali “repudiated” his comments comparing women without hijabs to “uncovered meat” and blaming them for rape. He’s Australia’s top Islamic cleric, the Mufti of Australia.
The question is: Do you believe him? I don’t. Just as I don’t believe Mel Gibson (though his comments are hardly as important–he’s not a respected, top religious leader). If this were a majority Muslim world–if Australia were a majority Muslim country (as it is fast becoming)–would he have repudiated his words? Of course, not. And most so-called “moderate” Islamic groups here in the U.S. didn’t seem to exercised about his comments, either.

Taj Aldin Al-Hilali, Mufti of Australia
Remember, David Duke repudiated his words once, too (and he isn’t even a member of the religion of taqiyyah). And he was almost believable. He ran and won a seat in the Louisiana Legislature. When he ran for Congress, despite opposition by Ronald Reagan and others (who urged a vote for the Democrat instead), he claimed he’d changed, that he’d renounced his anti-Semitic, racist, Klan past. But it was all a PR stunt. After he lost, he eventually went back to his true colors. And so will Sheikh Al-Hilali.
Don’t believe the hype. And read how his buddy, Abduljalil Sajid, the Mufti of Britain (their top Islamic cleric) tries to explain and excuse his comments away.
* Yesterday and today, Pakistani religious leaders held mass protests against the bombing of a Madrassah (Islamic religious school) in Chingal, which was actually a front for an Al-Qaeda training camp. 20,000 protesters chanted, “Death to Musharraf! Death to Bush!”
Among the dead was Sheikh Liaquat Hussain, tight with Al-Qaeda mastermind Ayman Al-Zawahiri. The school, headed by Hussain, was warned by the Pakistani government that it had better stop training terrorists, but the school refused.

Sheikh Liaquat Hussain
The story is important because it demonstrates for the gazillionth time that, but for the slimy and shaky Musharraf (who was not elected and could be deposed at any time), Pakistan is an extremist Muslim nation. They care more about terrorists and their “right” to continue to train for Al-Qaeda terrorist operations than they do for the innocent lives of Westerners and even fellow Muslims.
That’s the way the rest of the Muslim world already is or is headed. “Religion of Peace”? No way. Pakistan an ally? Maybe the guy who is temporarily and precariously at the top is marginally an ally. As for the whole rest of his country, they are the enemy.

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A couple of interesting Halloween-oriented news stories that piqued our interest:
* Proof of genetic disposition for crime?:
Six men from Pitcairn Island lost their appeals against convictions for sex offenses against women on the remote Pacific home of descendants of the HMS Bounty mutineers. They were found guilty of rape, assault, and incest with various women and children over a 40 year period on the island.
Two interesting things about this:
1) Some of the men were descended from the original HMS Bounty mutineers. From Fairfax, New Zealand’s Stuff:

Pitcairn Island was discovered in 1767 by the British and settled in 1790 by mutineers from the HMS Bounty and their Tahitian companions. It remains the last vestige of empire in the South Pacific.

Some of the convicted men are directly related to mutineer Fletcher Christian.

It’s long been posited by many scientists that criminals are predisposed to be criminals, that even separated offspring of criminals who never knew their criminal parents are more likely to also be criminals. These men descended from men who mutinied back in the 1700s. Is this proof of that theory? Perhaps. Regardless, it’s interesting.
2) Then, there’s the issue of the island itself. The defendants claimed that Britain and British law didn’t have jurisdiction over the island, and it has a small population of 50 people:

From a population peak of more than 250 in the 1930s, there are now just 50 people living on the island, which has no airport and can be reached only by local longboats.

Britain is going to have to build a prison for the four defendants who were sentenced to prison and pay for its upkeep and guarding on the island (to be performed by 7 New Zealanders), at a cost of $950,000 per year, according to AP.
* Witching Hour–Can you believe we’re entrusting these Europeans as partners in foreign policy?:
From Bloomberg:

A Bavarian witch must return 1,000 euros ($1,272) to a lovelorn woman after a judge in Munich ruled that a magic ritual performed to win back a wayward lover was negotiated on a “completely impossible” basis.
The witch guaranteed that the unidentified man, who ended the relationship three years ago, would return if the plaintiff paid the fee for the nocturnal services, the Munich court said in a statement on its Web site today. The sorceress then staged a ceremony by the light of the full moon for several months.
Eventually the witch could no longer promise success and the jilted client demanded the money back. Whether the witch made the guarantee was immaterial, the court said. Nor was the plaintiff’s initial agreement to pay for the spell-casting relevant.
“A love ritual is not a suitable method of influencing a person from afar,” the court said in a statement.
The case number is 30 S 10495/06.

Does this woman really deserve her money back? We prefer to think of her loss of this money that she willingly gave to a “witch” as natural selection. A Darwin Award winner in the making.

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Back in 2004, was refused entry into the U.S. and hasn’t been back. As I wrote, he was on the no fly list because of –and his tight ties with extremist Muslims.
But the Nobel Committee apparently has no such compunctions. After all, this is the same committee that gave its Peace Prize to terrorist-in-chief Yasser Arafat. This year, they’ve on December 11th in Norway. Remember, this is the same guy who defended Ayatollah Khomeini’s death fatwa on author Salman Rushdie. He’s the same guy who defended HAMAS homicide bombings to Elizabeth Vargas on ABC’s “20/20.” Clearly, he’s Nobel Peace Prize concert material.

Sharon Stone & Crotch to Share Nobel Stage with Yusuf Islam/Cat Stevens
Then, there’s Sharon Stone a/k/a Crotchwoman, so nicknamed for her most well-known career move (which–here’s a hint–is not her acting). She’s and sharing the stage with Islam/Stevens. Perhaps, she’s thrown in the towel on her short-lived self-anointment as an international peacemaker.
When we last saw her, Stone was in Israel and then Paris saying and bring peace there, as she claimed only women (apparently spread-eagle women on the silver screen) can do. She claimed that such lasting peace . Months later, guess what? Crotchy still hasn’t brought peace to much of anywhere, save her acting career–which is very peaceful after her much-ballyhooed sequel, the absolutely horrid “,” bombed. Around the same time, she sunk to
Since he’s such a religious Muslim, one wonders why Islam/Stevens would appear onstage with a woman whose chief achievement is baring her crotch to the world on a giant screen. She is, after all, very “uncovered meat.” Maybe she’ll promote oral sex to his hijab-encrusted daughters when he’s not around, just like . But, of course, she’d never do that . . . out of respect for Islam. In Islam/Stevens’ ideal world, Stone would be beheaded and/or stoned. Maybe honor-killed, depending. Anything to sell a record, apparently.
Just before the December concert, Islam/Stevens will debut a new album, for the first time in about three decades. He claims he will try to come to the U.S. to promote it. The question will be whether our Homeland Security officials will kowtow to the protests they’ve already heard when Islam/Stevens was rejected for admission to the States in 2004. Will they give in to what is sure to be loud protestations from American Islamic leaders and activists, none of whom seem to be bothered by Islam/Stevens’ support for the fatwa on Rushdie or the HAMAS funding?
We hope not. But we’re betting they don’t have the testicles and will go the way of the deceptively-named Nobel Peace Prize. We’ll be watching. And not riding the phony “Peace Train.”

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I’ve written about the . But, now, they are even more absurd.
Today’s Wall Street Journal features a piece on the “method” behind “Carry-on Madness.” One line in the article says it all:

Where’s Seinfeld when you need him?

Here’s the essential part of the article:

In a quintessential bureaucratic bedevilment, the TSA allows small bottles and tubes of liquids to be carried aboard airplanes only if they are enclosed in a quart-size zip-top bag. No gallon bags. No fold-over sandwich bags. Even if you have only one bottle on you, it must be carried in a quart-size, zip-top plastic bag. Screeners confiscate any nonconforming items or send travelers to ticket counters to check luggage.

How do you spell ludicrous? T-S-A. The article goes on to discuss tiny-sized tubes of toothpaste and shaving cream that were confiscated b/c “people didn’t have quart-size platic bags,” said a TSA official.
So, apparently, if your 3-ounce bottle is not in a quart-size plastic bag with a zip-top, then it could be used in a terrorist plot? Or if your 3-ounce container is in a much smaller sandwich bag, then you can put together a bomb with it? Huh? The whole thing is absurd. Welcome to PC government by committee. Extremist Muslims around the world are laughing at us. Islamic terrorists are laughing at us.
Here’s more of the absurdity:

Steve Feld had a squeezed down, nearly empty tube of toothpaste that clearly had less then three ounces in it, though it held more when it was new. He also had a used tube of lotion that “once held fractionally over 3.0 ounces,” he said. A TSA screener grabbed them both.

The TSA claims it’s not about the liquid but about the size of the container, claiming it’s too difficult to mix a bomb in anything 3 ounces or smaller.
But hello . . . do we really need to do this when we could profile? Is some guy named Steve Feld going to unroll his tube of toothpaste and try to mix a bomb in it? Have you ever seen anyone get anything back into a tube of toothpaste (except when they’re on video and the video is run backwards)?
Again, this is absurd. And it will never stop terrorists. As we know, last week, it was disclosed that in 20 out of 22 tries, guns, fake bombs, and other dangerous items were successfully gotten through security at Newark airport.
Maybe that’s because TSA screeners are too busy taking some businessman’s toothpaste or grandmother’s hand lotion. We have bigger fish to fry.
So, why does the TSA keep frying the innocent non-Muslim American traveling public?
TSA chief Kip Hawley claims that those running his agency are not “as stupid as we may look.” Maybe he’s right. They’re even more stupid.

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Much is being made of Oprah’s giveaway on her show, yesterday, of $1,000 debit cards to her guests.
First of all, despite her saying this is “her favorite giveaway ever,” she didn’t give them away. The cards–and all of the money on them–were given away by sponsor Bank of America, NOT Oprah. Just like the G6 cars “she” gave away, in 2004. Those were from GM, NOT Oprah.
Then, there are the cards themselves. Oprah says the money on the cards is to be donated to chartiable causes, but the money can be given to another person (relatives are not eligible). Well, did it ever occur to HRHSBotU (Her Royal Highness Supreme Being of the Universe) Queen Oprah that anyone can donate the entire sum to a friend with the friend agreeing to split it or give a certain percentage back?

That’s what’s known as a kickback. And don’t be shocked if Oprah’s 300 plus guests who received the cards do exactly that. Most of them-were specifically recruited for that particular show because they were poor and/or unfortunate. Why shouldn’t they do that? Who wouldn’t expect them to? Let gazillionaire Oprah donate her own dough.

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Hooman Hamzehloui has been banned by both the Orlando Magic and the NBA from all games.
Hamzehloui repeatedly taunted NBA player and Houston Rockets center Dikembe Mutombo with racist slurs, including “monkey.”

Dikembe Mutombo
Hemzehloui is a real estate agent from the Orlando suburb of Windermere and was a season ticket holder for Orlando Magic games. According to the Orlando Sentinel, Hamzehloui claimed

he didn’t know “using the word ‘monkey’ was bad.”

Uh-huh. But the word “monkey” is not just a slur against Blacks in English, but throughout the Muslim world. As highlighted by the George Allen incident, “macaca” means monkey and is used as a racial slur against Blacks throughout Muslim North Africa.
Mutombo has forgiven Hamzehloui.

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It’s Halloween, but Glenda the good witch is nowhere in sight. Instead, we have lots of wicked witches and warlocks atop Homeland Security and its sub-agencies dressing up as law enforcement. And treating us to a lot of trickery about the job they’re actually doing. All the while, the illegal alien ghouls and goblins roam into our borders.
First, there’s a/k/a The ICE Princess, head of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). She’s costumed herself up as a lot of things. But in reality, she’s accomplished little in her almost 10 months on the job. She and her well-paid PR staff put together a “fact” sheet on “her” accomplishments.
But, as one veteran, high-ranking former ICE agent said:

If they’re doing that well, then why are the estimates of illegal aliens in the U.S. reaching the 20 million mark? And, they “ended catch and release”? Oh, please…

ICE Julie Myers Comedy: A Regular, non-Halloween Occurrence
Exactly. That’s one of the claimed accomplishments of The ICE Princess. But it’s a lie. “Catch and release”–the capture (and, sometimes, arrest) and release of illegal aliens back into the abyss–is continuing, ICE and Border Patrol agents tell us.
We have a hunch that the show arrests will continue, just until the elections, next week. Don’t be surprised if we see increased ICE raids on workplaces this week, just in time to make cable news and the papers before Tuesday’s elections.
Back to the “fact” sheet. We especially loved The ICE Princess’ claimed achievement of “Promoting Integrity Awareness.” Puh-leeze. Maybe that means, “We’re Aware of Integrity, but we ain’t gonna have any.” She just allowed a . And she still hasn’t done anything to , an agent who with her cop boyfriend, handcuffed a woman to a hot tub for refusing to perform sex acts on them.
And then there’s The ICE Princess’ recent promotion of ICE’s own George Costanza (only worse), , to the permanent position as head of ICE’s Detention and Removal Operations (DRO), for which he was never qualified. This is an important position because it governs the fugitive teams that capture illegal aliens, jail them, and deport them.
As , Torres promoted his alleged extramarital bedmate to a job for which she was not qualified and created a supersecret committee to get around government rules governing selections and select his unqualified friends. For his attempted promotion of the woman, Torres was supposed to be suspended for 90 days. But The ICE Princess apparently cancelled or refused to approve the suspension (he hasn’t served it), and instead promoted this evil buffoon. And Torres’ female paramour has reportedly been promoted to Assistant Special Agent in Charge of ICE in Baltimore.
Is this what The ICE Princess means by “Strengthening the Office of Professional Responsibility” in her “fact” sheet?
So the unqualified buddy system at ICE continues. Torres recently hired his golfing buddy, Tim Robbins, as Acting Director of the Criminal Alien Division of DRO. Robbins isn’t even eligible to compete for the position, but he has the one qualification apparently needed for working for Torres: a brown nose.
Forget Halloween. ICE Director of Detention & Removal Operations, John Torres, Plays ICE’s Own George Costanza, Daily . . .

John Torres Costanza by David Lunde/Lundesigns
The “fact” sheet claims the alleged achievements are hers:

Under the leadership of Assistant Secretary Julie Myers, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) achieved historic results.

So we wonder why she’s taking credit for “Hurricane Katrina Response.” She wasn’t on the job until January 9, 2006. Remind us again when it was that Katrina hit and the floods happened.
Then, there is the claim that she is “Expanding Partnerships with State and Local Authorities.” Expanding? Tell that to . More like “Contracting.”
And there’s The ICE Princess’ claim that she is “Maximizing Bed Capacity,” in which to hold illegal aliens. No, actually, maximizing it would mean that all the increased DRO money that Congress gave to ICE for that specific purpose would go to more beds for aliens and agents to capture them. But that’s not what’s happening. As we noted, thousands in DRO money was wasted on a for a speech (because Torres loves baseball and is in a fantasy baseball league with other ICE agents). And ICE agents tell us that Myers and Torres are misspending Detention and Removal money on positions in ICE Public Affairs, OPR, Finance, etc.–NOT on beds for aliens.
And there’s more waste. While agents complain to us that ICE has little money for gas for agents’ cars, ICE’s Commercial Fraud Unit used ICE funds to purchase blue canvas folding beach-type chairs fully equipped with coolers installed under the seat. The chairs, embroidered with “ICE Commercial Fraud Investigations,” have been spotted in cubicles all over ICE headquarters.
Wait, isn’t this the same woman who told Congress that her key strength for the job was that she was going to put ICE finances in order and end the waste? Why, yes, it is that same BS-utterer.
Finally, there’s the article in today’s Washington Post, about immigration arrests by Border Patrol agents being down 8% for the fiscal year. Normally, these figures are released in January. But in honor of Tuesday’s elections, DHS chief Michael Chertoff a/k/a Mr. Burns released them early.
But is the 8% decrease in arrests at the border anything to cheer? Not if you consider the possibility–actually, the likelihood–that this means more aliens are making it into the border and beyond, and less are being caught. There are no signs that the number of illegal aliens who make it in is decreasing.
Even the liberal Migration Policy Institute was skeptical:

“Certainly, I don’t think an 8 percent drop in apprehensions is something that we should even be paying attention to,” said Demetrios Papademetriou, president of the Migration Policy Institute, which recently called for a comprehensive overhaul of immigration policy. “We don’t see a trend line in apprehensions.”

Even worse, Chertoff used the numbers to back away from Bush’s promise to control our borders and instead, pimped for more amnesty for illegal aliens:

Chertoff backed away yesterday from the Bush administration’s pledge to control the nation’s borders by 2008, saying it would be “very, very difficult” without a guest-worker program.

Scary Presence Graces Homeland Security Every Day
Happy Halloween from the tricksters at Homeland Security. Unfortunately, they dress up in costume and pretend on a daily basis.

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Remember how NBC’s “Dateline” was trying to set up NASCAR fans as racist against Muslims? Remember how they recruited Muslims to wear the full garb to NASCAR races, with the hope of entrapping NASCAR Americans as bigots?
Well, now CBS is at it. Check out this announcement from Craig’s List-New York, pointed out by Sultan Knish, and note how they seek to defame American “families who have traditional family values” as “Islamophobic”:

Do you get nervous when you see a Muslim on an airplane? (Midtown)
Reply to: AshtonRamsey@Yahoo.com
Date: 2006-10-29, 6:35PM EST

Do you get nervous when you see a Muslim on an airplane? Have your opinions about Muslims changed since September 11? Do you have family or friends that get nervous around Muslims?
A NEW CBS SHOW SEEKS New York families who have traditional family values but are uneasy around Muslims.
The show will profile families in different communities across the country. This one hour documentary-style series from the producers of “Extreme Makeover: Home Edition” and “Deal or No Deal” will take a look at the people and cultures that make up America.

[DS: So are they calling the show will be “Extremist Makeover: Homeland Edition” or “Jihad or No Jihad”?]

This series will also explore other issues that families from varied backgrounds face in their day-to-day life and provide opportunities to them that they might not have access to otherwise. This is not a home makeover show.

[DS: Well, thank Heavens for small favors. Did they think applicants thought their homes would be transformed into halalish mosques?]

This is a paid opportunity.
If you are interested or have any questions about this show, please e-mail the following information to AshtonRamsey@Yahoo.com.
Name:
Age:
Hometown:
Phone #:
Compensation: This is a paid opportunity
no — Principals only. Recruiters, please don’t contact this job poster.
no — Please, no phone calls about this job!
no — Please do not contact job poster about other services, products or commercial interests.
no — Reposting this message elsewhere is NOT OK.

OOPS! Looks like we reposted it on this site. So were “NOT OK.” Suppose they’ll send the reposting police after us.
Hmmm . . . . Maybe CBS stands for the Cor’an Broadcasting System or Crescent Broadcasting System.
Send Ashton Ramsey an e-mail and tell him what really makes you nervous–ie., idiotic broadcast networks and their continued blindness to the continued, growing Islamist threat to our country, our freedom, our way of life.
If only more people were nervous about the Muslims on the airplanes on 9/11, things might be different.