THE DAILY BLADE: Illegals Can Skew Elections – Even When They Do Not Vote Fraudulently
According to a University of Connecticut study, illegal aliens (AKA “entrants” - a novel euphemism The Stiletto recently came across for “people who don’t belong here and should be deported forthwith”) could skew our system of congressional apportionment.
States with large numbers of illegal aliens, such as AZ, FL, and TX, could get more seats in the House after the 2010 census is conducted, whereas those with smaller numbers of illegals, such as NY, IL and OH, could lose seats. Only U.S. citizens are legally permitted to cast ballots, but the Census Bureau does not distinguish between citizens and noncitizen aliens when counting “residents.”
Kids Indoctrinated Into Becoming Envirosnitches
"Nearly all children nowadays were horrible. What was worst of all was that by means of such organizations as the Spies they were systematically turned into ungovernable little savages, and yet this produced in them no tendency whatever to rebel against the discipline of the Party. … It was almost normal for people over thirty to be frightened of their own children." - George Orwell, 1984
The Wall Street Journal reports that, “[i]n households across the country, kids are going after their parents for environmental offenses, from using plastic cups to serving non-grass-fed beef at the dinner table. Many of these kids are getting more explicit messages about becoming eco-warriors at school and from popular books and movies.”
One mother was informed by her 4-year old that she had to give up coffee because “he's worried that coffee growers in Central America are cutting down forests to grow their crops.” The father of a 6-year old who runs around the house turning off the lights says: "She's not so much upset as strident - 'Turn off that light! Turn off that light!' We ended up having conversations with her that it's OK to use energy."
If it were up to The Stiletto, she’d make the little darlings go without TV, video games and Bratz dolls in order to hoard enough carbon credits to make herself a pot of coffee.
The Wall Street Journal Editorial Page Channels Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
In yesterday’s edition, The Wall Street Journal published an editorial, “Politics and Genocide,” that urged the U.S. Congress to let bygones be bygones with regards to the Armenian Genocide and not pass H.R. 106, a symbolic resolution calling on President Bush to ensure that our country’s foreign policy “reflects appropriate understanding and sensitivity concerning … the Armenian Genocide.” Here are the "lowlights" of the editorial [for legal reasons, The Stiletto was forced to redact the text, which had originally been posted in full]:
Politics and Genocide
October 4, 2007
As a general rule, legislatures in far-off countries ought to think carefully before judging another people's history. It's a fair bet that points are being scored with domestic lobbies, and playing with history often complicates current foreign policy. In this case, all of the above apply. …
… [T]his history is more complex than either the genocide crusaders or official Turkish deniers are willing to concede.
To briefly recap: On April 24, 1915, the nationalist Young Turk government ordered the Armenians of eastern Anatolia deported en masse to Syria and Iraq. The Turks feared the Armenians were in cahoots with their enemy, Czarist Russia, and fighting to carve their own state out of a collapsing Ottoman Empire. Hundreds of thousands of Armenians died on their trek, murdered by Turkish or Kurdish fighters and marauders, or falling to disease, hunger and cold. …
In October 1984, when Congress considered a similar resolution, we wrote: " … Dredging it up now in Congress, some 70 years after the event, may be a generous gesture toward Americans of Armenian descent but is hardly an appropriate signal to U.S. enemies." Or to our Turkish friends.
Should anyone wish to e-mail his or her comments on The Journal’s cynical and amoral position to the paper's editors, they may do so at:
wsj.ltrs@wsj.com. If you forward or copy your letters to The Stiletto at thestiletto@thestiletto.info they will be reprinted here as well.
Counting illegals seems reminiscent of the three-fifths compromise. Of course, the left will sympathize with the illegals and say that they are being exploited as slaves as well...
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Great "1984" quote!
The kids could have their Bratz dolls and drink from them too - melt them into cups to replace the plastic ones you can't use.
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Great idea! The Stiletto likes the way you think ...
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