Conservative Common Man

Cross-post from Texas Fred’s:

MCKINNEY - A North Texas couple is getting ready for their second deployment overseas.

They’re leaving to serve their country but instead they’ve been served with fees from their landlord.

“It’s a job, we have to do it,” said Chris Horvath.

But they’re leaving with added stress, since they’ve been in a fight with their apartment complex - McKinney’s El Lago development.

The couple, both of whom are sergeants in the Texas National Guard, are soon headed to Iraq.

Full Story Here:
Iraq-bound guards penalized for breaking apartment lease

These are the names and addresses I have so far, there are some inquiries being made by a contact I have that IS in the apartment business. I do know this much, the TAA, Texas Apartment Association has a specific clause in their contract concerning military personnel and their transfers and activations, and that clause is in favor OF the troops.

I called El Lago Apartments and spoke to a person named Stephanie, and according to her the El Lago Apartments doesn’t operate under TAA leasing agreements. They would discuss the matter no further.

EL LAGO PARTNERS LTD
434 S EUCLID ST
ANAHEIM, CA 92802-1247
(714) 520-9432

owners of

El Lago Apartments
3400 CRAIG DR
MC KINNEY, 75070
(972) 569-6700

I am trying to pin down something on this El Lago Partners LTD, I might not be able to get it all until Monday, I have *feelers* out.

I will also be contacting the National Guard Bureau Public Affairs On Call, PAO email (703)-627-7273 and the office of Public Affairs email (703)-607-2584 on Monday.

I hope some of you will post this on your blogs and get involved, this type of thing can’t be allowed to happen to our troops. No matter how you feel about Bush and the war in Iraq, this isn’t about him, it’s about our TROOPS, and they have no choice but to follow orders and go when and where they are ordered..

Please, get involved…

Leave it to The Washington Post to give us an immigration sob story that really hits home. Today’s edition of the official D.C. area Obama campaign newsletter has the heart-tugging headline, “AIDS Among Latinos on Rise.” It seems a quarter of gay Hispanic men have HIV:

So far, the toll of AIDS in the nation’s largest and fastest-growing minority population has mostly been overshadowed by the epidemic among African Americans and gay white men. Yet in major U.S. cities, as many as 1 in 4 gay Hispanic men has HIV, a rate on par with sub-Saharan Africa.

Of course the a rag such as WaPo cares about the affects of this terrible disease and seek awareness and help for those suffering from it. Naturally it would be rude to mention that the majority of HIV transmission is a result of behavior, which liberals do not want regulated, but of course they do want to transfer wealth from those that avoid those behaviors to those that engage in them. The bright side is that we have discovered something that the liberal morons don’t want to regulate, it is just too bad that American manufacturing and industry doesn’t involve anal sex and abortions because then the libs wouldn’t be so eager to regulate them into extinction.

The important point of this important piece of agenda driven drivel… I mean journalism, is that gay illegals can’t get get the free help they deserve because they are stuck in “The shadows:”

Blacks still have the highest HIV rates in the country, but language difficulties, cultural barriers and, in many cases, issues of legal status make the threat in the Hispanic community unique. For those who arrived illegally, in particular, fear of arrest and deportation presents a daunting obstacle to seeking diagnosis and treatment.

“Officials need to stop downplaying or ignoring what’s happening among Latinos,” said Oscar De La O, president of Bienestar, a Latino service organization. “We are at the center of the storm.”

Even with the United States embroiled in a fierce debate over immigration policy, the problem of AIDS in Latinos had received scant attention from political and public health officials. At the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, where only two of 17 approved HIV programs target Hispanic Americans, officials have added Spanish-language hotlines, confidential testing sites and other initiatives aimed at filling the gap.

I know the solutions sought by WaPo would include amnesty for all illegals, free condoms for all gay illegals, and conversion of all public medical services to Spanish only, but I have some other suggestions to deal with this crisis.

• Don’t enter the United States illegally.
• Don’t insert your genitalia where another man evacuates his bowels. (The reciprocal should also be avoided.)
• Don’t expect to have taxpayers pay for the consequences of the “rights” you wish to freely exercise.
• If you are in this country legally, attempt to learn English. (If you’re not in this country legally, get out.)

I hope these tips prove useful since it would be a true tragedy to spend another dime of taxpayers’ money to coddle illegal aliens and pay for the results of bad behavior.

**This was a production of The Coalition Against Illegal Immigration (CAII). If you would like to participate, please go to the above link to learn more. Afterwards, email brianbonner90- at-gmail- dot-com and let us know at what level you would like to participate.

The Washington Post can always be counted on for at least two things, free advertising for Barack Obama (under the guise of articles and editorials) and immigration sob stories designed to portray illegal aliens and people that refuse to learn English as helpless of victims of the evil that is The United States of America.

I can’t help but struggle to comprehend the mammoth contradiction that is the immigration sob story. Why on earth would the immigrants willingly immigrate to such an awful place? Why on earth would they leave the culture they adore for a land with such an apparent lack of opportunity? Who, in his right mind, leaves the land of milk and honey for the desolate wastelands of another nation? I am truly perplexed, this country is supposed to be such an awful place to live, yet all these people flock here from around the world and people like Alec Baldwin break their promises to leave.

Now we hear of the latest plague upon the victims of our society. This plague is even worse than Alec Baldwin not keeping his word. The Washington Post paints the grim portrait in, “Move to Digital TV Faces Language Barrier“:

Hispanic viewers make up about one-third of the U.S. households that rely on antennas to receive over-the-air broadcasts, according to a survey by Knowledge Networks/SRI Home Technology Monitor.

And according to a May report released by Nielsen, Hispanic households are among the least prepared for the transition. There are about 608,000 Hispanic residents in the Washington region, according to 2006 estimates by the Census Bureau.

Local Spanish-language broadcasters are trying to get the word out about the digital switch, but some are worried that their viewers will wait until the last minute to take the necessary steps to keep watching TV, putting the stations’ ratings and advertising dollars at risk.

So we have a victim class that can be defined by their ethnicity and language, let us ignore the notion of individual responsibility and redistribute some wealth here. As Barack’s favorite uncle, Karl (Marx) would say, “to each according to his need and from each according to his ability.” Instead of focusing on why these people refuse to learn English or even why they feel entitled to TV, entities such as WaPo do their part to maintain the socialist liberal voting block that is a victim class requiring handouts. Apparently the taxpayer subsidized handouts:

The FCC has been hosting town hall meetings around the country and distributing educational materials in multiple languages, with particular emphasis on Spanish. And the National Telecommunications and Information Administration, which is in charge of distributing government-subsidized $40 coupons to help consumers pay for converter boxes that typically cost $50 to $80, operates a Spanish-language hotline that fields about 40 percent of the total calls to the agency. IBM, which is under contract to run the NTIA’s call centers, is hiring more operators fluent in Spanish.

aren’t good enough:

Community groups worry that Spanish-speaking viewers still may be left behind. The Rev. Luis Cortés Jr., president of Esperanza USA, a faith-based organization in Philadelphia that has tried to get the word out about the transition, said he suspects that many people with limited incomes won’t bother to apply for a converter-box coupon until their TVs don’t work.

“Their eyes glaze over when you say digital because it means nothing to them — they don’t have computers, they don’t have iPods,” he said. “The only national media vehicle in Spanish is TV.”

Obviously the solution has four components. First, we subsidize the purchase of computers and iPods for every resident, legal or otherwise, that does not understand English. Second, we force English speaking citizens to pass a Spanish proficiency test within the next 12 months and fine those that are not fluent. Third, all broadcasting is switched to the Spanish language since the host nation should assimilate to the language of immigrants and obviously not the other way around (naturally we ignore all languages other than Spanish unless CAIR begins to complain about the mistreatment on non-Spanish speaking Muslims.) Fourth, and perhaps most urgent, we deploy a task force to force Alec Baldwin to keep his promise.

One must wonder if our founding fathers intended a system of vote buying such as the one that exists in modern times. Pander to and maintain a variety of victim classes to ensure that no one rise above the status of victim-hood. As long as these victims rely on the handouts you forcibly take from the productive to redistribute among the victims, you can rely on the votes and support of those victims.

The typical “woe is business” sob story drips with even more typical liberal hypocrisy. Business is the enemy and is always taking advantage of poor unsuspecting, ignorant people… that is except when we can use the plight of business to further our open border agenda! The fact that the NY Times has such a ridiculous whine fest on behalf of business in today’s spewing, is rendered even more idiotic by the fact that the next president is guaranteed to coddle illegal aliens. Their side of the issue has already won the presidency, but apparently that isn’t enough.

When a liberal rag has an agenda, no level is too low to sell it. In fact, the first example of the poor business given in the offending article “Employers Fight Tough Measures On Immigration,” details the plight of a business that didn’t have to hire illegal aliens… but the point is they might have to someday!

Mike Gilsdorf, the owner of a 37-year-old landscaping nursery in Littleton, Colo., saw the need for action by businesses last winter when he advertised with the Labor Department, as he does every year, for 40 seasonal workers at market-rate wages to plant, prune and carry his shrubs in the summer heat. Only one local worker responded to the notice, he said, and then did not show up for the job.

Mr. Gilsdorf was able to fill his labor force with legal immigrants from Mexico through a federal guest worker program. But that program has a tight annual cap, and Mr. Gilsdorf realized that he might not be so lucky next year. His business could fail, he said, and then even his American workers would lose their jobs.

“We’re not hiring illegals, we’re not paying under the table,” Mr. Gilsdorf said. “But if we don’t get in under the cap and nobody is answering our ads, we don’t have employees.” His group, Colorado Employers for Immigration Reform, is pressing Congress for a much larger and more flexible guest worker program.

I am too ignorant to see how the wages Mr. Gilsdorf pays are “market-rate” if he can’t find legal workers to employ at those wages. Oops, I keep forgetting the fact that he can find legal workers to employ! I would suggest that as soon as he can’t find legal workers to employ at his “market-rate” then it is no longer “market-rate.” Are we to assume that there is full employment in his part of Colorado? If not, how can “market-rate” wages not attract employees?

Mr. Gilsdorf is not alone in his agony. An electronics assembly company in California has 20 out of 90 assembly workers whose numbers don’t match the records of the Social Security Administration. Apparently anti-discrimination rules prevent the company from checking into the discrepancy. How exactly does that work? There is a system known as E-verify, perhaps this particular company might want to use it for the 20 employees mentioned. What would be the down-side of that?

Because of the antidiscrimination rules, the executive cannot check to be certain that the 20 workers, mainly Hispanic women, are illegal. Moreover, they have advanced through training, she said, and excel at their jobs, which require the repetitive assembly of tiny parts by hand, often under microscopes.

“I can’t replace those people,” the executive said. She said that despite offering competitive wages from $9 to $17 an hour, the company had failed over the years in repeated efforts to attract nonimmigrant workers because of the state’s tight technology labor market and because of the nature of the work, exacting and tedious. If the workers were fired or arrested, she said, she could fail to meet her contracts.

“If we have to terminate 20 people, that’s going to jeopardize 100 other jobs of people who are legal, Americans, people who are making a good living,” she said.

Angelo Paparelli, an immigration lawyer who represents the company, said: “This is not an employer who wants to turn a blind eye to lawbreaking. She is facing a tightening of the enforcement vise that does not take into account Congress’s failure to create a workable system.”

I see. The problem is that Congress failed to give these businesses that employ illegal aliens everything they wanted! McCain, Kennedy and the boys ought to at least get some credit for trying to cater to the American citizen undercutting employers. Heck, if the nasty… gasp… citizens hadn’t butted in the congress could have done their duty, which is apparently written in The Constitution as:

The primary function of the Senate and House of Representatives is to ensure the free flow of illegal labor to any company that does not want to pay “market-rate.” The rights of non-citizens will be protected before the rights of citizens will be considered and Congress shall pass no law that infringes on the employment opportunities to those that might cross our borders illegally.

Festering cesspools like the NY Times and Washington Post really do take issue with the government when it actually indicates some willingness to follow the will of the electorate. I suppose these liberal mouthpieces are in for happier days given the state of American politics. The next president is highly unlikely to follow the will of the electorate on this issue as both candidates seek to compete for the title of “an illegals best friend.” Too many Republican politicians seem to think the path to re-election is to act like Democrat politicians and too many citizens just don’t seem to be involved in the nation’s affairs. These factors spell gloom for our nation and her citizens, which of course is good news for the liberal rags.

**This was a production of The Coalition Against Illegal Immigration (CAII). If you would like to participate, please go to the above link to learn more. Afterwards, email brianbonner90- at-gmail- dot-com and let us know at what level you would like to participate.