As a general rule, I hate regurgitating others' entire articles; however, just this once, I’ll make an exception. But, so as not to lose all ownership, I’ll hit the high points after, and summarize the whole affair.

LAUREL, Miss. — A day after the largest single-workplace immigration raid in U.S. history, Elizabeth Alegria was too scared to send her son to school and worried about when she'd see her husband again.
Nearly 600 immigrants suspected of being in the country illegally were detained, creating panic among dozens of families in this small southern Mississippi town.
Alegria, 26, a Mexican immigrant, was working at the Howard Industries transformer plant Monday when U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents stormed in. When they found out she has two sons, ages 4 and 9, she was fitted with a bracelet and told to appear in federal court next month. But her husband, Andres, wasn't so lucky.
"I'm very traumatized because I don't know if they are going to let my husband go and when I will see him," Alegria said through a translator Tuesday as she returned to the Howard Industries parking lot to retrieve her sport utility vehicle.
The superintendent of the county school district said about half of approximately 160 Hispanic students were absent Tuesday.
Roberto Velez, pastor at Iglesia Cristiana Peniel, where an estimated 30 to 40 percent of the 200 parishioners were caught up in the raid, said parents were afraid immigration officials would take them.
"They didn't send their kids to school today," he said. "How scared is that?"
One worker caught in Monday's sweep at the plant said fellow workers applauded as immigrants were taken into custody. Federal officials said a tip from a union member prompted them to start investigating several years ago.
Fabiola Pena, 21, cradled her 2-year-old daughter as she described a chaotic scene at the plant as the raid began, followed by clapping.
"I was crying the whole time. I didn't know what to do," Pena said. "We didn't know what was happening because everyone started running. Some people thought it was a bomb but then we figured out it was immigration."
About 100 of the 595 detained workers were released for humanitarian reasons, many of them mothers who were fitted with electronic monitoring bracelets and allowed to go home to their children, officials said.
About 475 other workers were transferred to an ICE facility in Jena, La. Nine who were under 18 were transferred to the custody of the Office of Refugee Resettlement.
John Foxworth, an attorney representing some of the immigrants, said eight appeared in federal court in Hattiesburg on Tuesday because they face criminal charges for allegedly using false Social Security and residency identification.
He said the raid was traumatic for families.
"There was no communication, an immediate loss of any kind of news and a lack of understanding of what's happening to their loved ones," he said. "A complete and utter feeling of helplessness."
Those detained were from Brazil, El Salvador, Germany, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico, Panama, and Peru, said Barbara Gonzalez, an ICE spokeswoman.
"We have kids without dads and pregnant mothers who got their husbands taken away," said Velez's son, Robert, youth pastor at the church. "It was like a horror story. They got handled like they were criminals."
Howard Industries is in Mississippi's Pine Belt region, known for commercial timber growth and chicken processing plants. The tech company produces dozens of products ranging from electrical transformers to medical supplies, according to its Web site.
Gonzalez said agents had executed search warrants at both the plant and the company headquarters in nearby Ellisville. She said no company executives had been detained, but this was an "ongoing investigation and yesterday's action was just the first part."
A woman at the Ellisville headquarters told The Associated Press on Tuesday that no one was available to answer questions.
In a statement to the Laurel Leader-Call newspaper, Howard Industries said the company "runs every check allowed to ascertain the immigration status of all applicants for its jobs."
Gov. Haley Barbour recently signed a law requiring Mississippi employers to use a U.S. Homeland Security system to check new workers' immigration status.
The law took effect July 1 for businesses with state contracts and takes effect Jan. 1 for other businesses. Mississippi lawmakers once used laptops made by Howard Industries, but it's not clear whether the company has current state contracts.
Under the law, a company found guilty of employing illegal immigrants could lose public contracts for three years and the right to do business in Mississippi for a year.
The law also makes it a felony for an illegal immigrant to accept a job in Mississippi. A message was left with the district attorney's office after hours seeking comment on whether he would use the law to bring state charges against Howard Industries or the workers.
The Mississippi raid is one of several nationwide in recent years.
On May 12, federal immigration officials swept into Agriprocessors, the nation's largest kosher meatpacking plant, in Iowa. Nearly 400 workers were detained and dozens of fraudulent permanent resident alien cards were seized from the plant's human resources department, according to court records. In December 2006, 1,297 were arrested at Swift meatpacking plants in Nebraska and five other states.

1. Maybe Elizabeth Alegria shouldn’t be living in the country illegally. Should I also pity drug smugglers, living quite lives of desperation, in constant fear that the DEA might hold them accountable? She married a criminal, criminals might not always get caught, but you shouldn’t be surprised when they do.
2. “I’m very traumatized”, she said as she retrieved her sport utility vehicle? Simple problem, simple solution: go home; break no more laws, no more traumatizing.
3. Fellow workers applauded as the illegals were taken into custody, as would I. Those applauding were the Americans competing for jobs – jobs immigration activists say Americans don’t want and won’t do.
4. "I was crying the whole time. I didn't know what to do," Go home, that is what to do! They act as if no crime has been committed, we are preying upon them. These are “illegal” aliens; they are, by law, criminals. If a rapist was caught and said, “I was crying, I didn’t know what to do, it was all so unfair, I was traumatized,” would any reasonable person care?
5. "There was no communication, an immediate loss of any kind of news and a lack of understanding of what's happening to their loved ones," he said. "A complete and utter feeling of helplessness." Helplessness in a situation they created! Go the hell home, lack of understanding and feeling of helplessness: gone.
6. “We have kids without dads and pregnant mothers who got their husbands taken away," said Velez's son, Robert, youth pastor at the church. "It was like a horror story. They got handled like they were criminals." They are criminals!



There is a reason the word “illegal” precedes the word, “alien”, they are here illegally. That we have done little to enforce our laws in the past does not mean the laws are unenforceable. It’s nice to see someone doing something. Tonight, B. Hussein Obama will address the nation, and in several short months, B. Hussein Obama will destroy the nation – it’s nice to have an illegal immigration raid to throw some variety into the end-times mix.

The love-fest continues: B. Hussein Obama is again on the cover of Newsweek. So much for objectivity; I wholly expect them to announce Friday night that the election (for President of the United States) has been won by B. Hussein Obama, in August. MSNBC called Florida for Al Gore; Newsweek will call the US for Obama: it is the new era of creating news rather than reporting it.




And, it’s so nice to have a preview of what Hussein will be like in the White House.
An ad is airing in some states that links B. Hussein to 1960s violent extremist William Ayers.

I have not personally seen the ad but understand it to be a collection of events that put Ayers and B. Hussein together. Unlike the Reverend Wright debacle, B.Hussein is seeking legal action – he wants the ad taken off the air immediately – even if it requires stifling of First Amendment rights. He isn’t addressing the assertions of the ad itself, just calling it all lies and dismissing it summarily. Nice.

I’d be the first to admit that Bush has done his fair share of silencing opposition, but Hussein is preaching, “Change” while choosing a Washington insider for VP and while attempting to silence opposition however possible. It seems the only change this time around will be the color of the First Lady’s skin – and a return to Jimmy Carter-era appeasement – and that is indeed change.

Buckle up, you morons love this guy, you’re gonna elect this guy, the zombie apocalypse cometh!

Wouldn’t you know it, my first hog hunt ended with a gunshot.

Here’s the setup. A friend recently found an antiquated-but-serviceable compound bow under his father’s bed (what he was doing under his father’s bed, I didn’t ask.) About that time, my wife asked what I wanted for my birthday. As the answer could have been, “I don’t know”, I went instead with a compound bow.

So, I got the bow, I had it set up and tuned at a bow shop, I took it to the range a few times and hit my target; it seemed time to try my hand at killing things more primitively.

On the ride out to the tree stand, we saw probably 20 hogs – good sign. Once in the stand, maybe 5 minutes after the truck drove away, this was my view.





At the bow shop a few weeks prior, I was slightly impressed that the pro said he killed 2 hogs with one shot: in and out one, stuck in the chest of another. Observing from my tree stand, I lost that impressed feeling. This was, in absolute terms, a target-rich environment.

As my bag limit was 2 hogs, I waited (probably too long) to shoot. I didn’t want to take 2 hogs with one arrow and be done 20 minutes into an 8-hour hunt.

Finally, I decided to take the spotted hog, I figured he’d run into the brush, and with fading light, that one would be easier to see. I took my time, waited for a clear shot (no hogs in background), chose my opportunity, and let fly. He bucked, the arrow went completely through him, and the hog bolted for the brush. I followed the blood trail – very easily at first, bleeding from both sides – then found blood only from one side, then the pouring turned to dripping, then the dripping to light sprinkle, then nothing: no hog, no blood, nothing! Dammit: first hog shot on first hog hunt with new bow: no hog to keep, only the bloody, broken arrow.




After some technical issues and a few shots after dark, I decided to forgo the bow and deploy my trusty sidearm: an HK45.

We found a group of smaller hogs (good eat’in size) and decided our guide would spot them with his crappy D-cell flashlight(what guide doesn’t have a proper spotlight?) and we 2 hunters would take simultaneous shots. The range was about 15 yards, the guide said there was no way I’d hit the hog. The plan was flashlight on, I take the one on the right, the other hunter would take the one on the left, I’d count down, “three, two, one: fire.”
All began as planned, flashlight on, targets identified. The guide said they’d run if we didn’t shoot, we had 5 hogs, 15 yards out, no shot on any. I started counting: “three, two,” “POW!” Of the 5 hogs all facing us, mine turned broad-side and presented a perfect shot. The other 4 hadn’t moved. In a split-second, I decided that my friend with his 4-inch barreled Kimber was gonna miss anyway, or hit but wound the beast, and I simply had to take the shot early to make certain my prey fell and his prey was spared the misery of a slow death due to poorly placed bullet.
My hog dropped on the spot, the remaining four evaded the other hunter’s feeble shot: moral victory.

We went on to another location, I felt kinda bad that my friend had missed, so I allowed him to take a shot with my superior sidearm. We finally came upon 2 hogs, about 20 yards away, flashlight on, hog in sites, POW, no dead hog – not even an injured hog, my friend had cleanly missed. I was preparing for a shot, shouldered the guide’s rifle, and saw nothing: his crappy scope was fogged, I had no shot.

It was a learning experience, I had a great time, my friend will forevermore give me grief about his miss on 2 hogs with a side arm, but the sausage will be fantastic.

Hogs do not go gently into that good night; that I can say with certainty.


West Point, care to rebutt?

Not for being mentally ill, mind you; but for their part in crimes against our citizenry.

"Executing someone who didn't kill violates the most basic principles of justice," David Fathi, US program director at Human Rights Watch, said in a statement.

Actually, no, it does not; I am wholly for executing rapists, drug dealers, pedophiles, and most personal injury trial lawyers. “Justice” doesn’t always mean what Human Rights Watch wants it to mean. Did Hitler ever actually kill anyone (other than himself?) Your logic, David Fathi, is, like your client, retarded.

So, retards, be warned: in Texas, your IQ – or lack thereof – doesn’t give you a free pass to break the law. Bust ass in public and laugh about it, yea, OK; break the law, meet Sparky the electric chair. That’s how we roll!



Great Article

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) - A Puerto Rican man has been granted his wish to remain standing—even in death. A funeral home used a special embalming treatment to keep the corpse of 24-year-old Angel Pantoja Medina standing upright for his three-day wake.
Dressed in a Yankees baseball cap and sunglasses, Pantoja was mourned by relatives while propped upright in his mother's living room.
His brother Carlos told the El Nuevo Dia newspaper the victim had long said he wanted to be upright for his own wake: "He wanted to be happy, standing."
The owner of the Marin Funeral Home, Damaris Marin, told The Associated Press the mother asked him to fulfill her dead son's last wish.
Pantoja was found dead Friday underneath a bridge in San Juan and buried Monday. Police are investigating
Idiocy, Documented

If you are a loser and an idiot and a dumbass, pass quietly on into the hereafter; sometimes “last wishes” are too stupid to be granted. Here is an example. He wanted to be remembered as tough and cool; instead, he will be remembered the world over as an idiot and a retard and a wanna-be. And, for that final kidney-punch into the afterlife: he has his picture online, of his stupid, dead self being kissed by some guy. Fag!

“Angel Pantoja Medina, an idiot in life, an idiot in death. Rest in peace, retard.”


After a long corporate meeting, and a long ride to the airport, and a long wait at the airport, I got to sit next to a woman with an ass the size of a Volkswagon. Note to fat woman in 19B: if your ass is so huge that the armrest can’t go all the way down between us, you owe me some money or an apology – or both. You paid for your seat and occupied a portion of mine. And those pants were a huge mistake on your huge mistake, Fatty.


For now, that is all.

I have noticed that, during prime-time hours, the Olympic coverage has been mostly swim-suit events: gymnastics, diving, beach volley ball. That’s not a complaint, just an observation.