Was there ever any question but that banning illegals from renting in the US would fail faster than a Democratic timetable for withdrawal from Iraq? Naturally, the ACLU was all over this — you’ve got to admire the Union’s ability to sniff out high-profile material for its own publicity purposes.

JihadWatch is all over the University of California at Irvine’s latest Muslim outrage. And I thought cinderblock statements were so 1970.

Yin, Yang and attorneys: This smacks of more clever backroom dealing than Dems are probably capable of pulling off. Ms Yang isn’t hurting anymore; shucks, plenty of people are leaving government service for better-paying jobs.

But barely making the news anymore: California Okie, allegedly grieving mother and Professional Nutroot Cindy Sheehan quits the Democrat Party. I don’t know what will be missed more: her heartfelt “grieving” for her son, expressed only in politicking, or her (literally) attachment to Hugo Chavez and Jesse Jackson. Sheehan is up for the “Tool of the Decade” award, you know. And her meds haven’t helped her one dang bit.

The French military may be a joke to some, but they’re really a competent fighting force once they get unshackled by their snotty, and usually cowardly, politician overlords. Watch some shackled troops let off steam here.

This goat needs a 12-step program to get off his addiction, as do so many Democrats who keep “embracing the suck” and licking electricity. Will the Dems get any smarter than this goat?

Tired of staid American politics, where the men are dumb when not corrupt and the women wear that Beltway fashion thing of red-colored jackets and pearl chokers? YesButNoButYes points us to Belgium, where things are perking up.

One gets weary: Dems, local pols and libel. Say anything, Dems, and keep saying it.

Digger’s Realm posts a lot on immigration and border security issues, but this Pew Hispanic Center datapoint is off-base. Fact is, most migrants go back and forth between the US and their home countries (usually Mexico and Central America). It’s a stat thing, and it’s enormously hard to get accurate figures on the number of illegals in the US.

US News & World Report thinks illegals don’t contribute to society (in the form of taxes and so on) what they remove from it. That’s contrary to what I studied a long time ago, in a far away university. Times may have changed, however. Used to be, illegals didn’t take advantage of things like medical insurance and drivers licenses.

In case you, Whitey, are feeling a nostalgia for a lifestyle you never knew — that of your Caucasoid ancestors across the pond — there is always something popping up in the news to remind you of how misguided you are. Whether its thousands dead in France because doctors were on summer holiday, or thousands dead in the Balkans because democracy was on holiday, you can always rest assured that whitey’s grass isn’t always greener. Naples, Italy, shows us how right now.

Pining for a good book? How about drug-addled horses with racially-stereotyped names getting high wit’ it ‘n’ shit? For children only.

No, I’m not kidding:

Now that’s a corral I wanna stable with. ‘N’ shit.

And finally, to end on a good note, the bovinian influence of that Mad Cow, Rosie O’Donnell, won’t sully your TV screens for the time being. The depressed, medicated and overrated hay-chomper has quit ABC’s “The View.”

What, she had a show on Australian TV??

Someone on the show named Hasselbeck didn’t see eye-to-fat with the pudgy plebian princess O’Donnell. So who won? The medicated one? Not. I don’t know if H is the grinning skinny blonde or the one with the cheekily-tossed off-red hair like an extra from “Golden Girls.” And I don’t care. All I want to see is Rosie and Paris Hilton in the same jail cell, starring in the same B-movie. Something about exploitation, prison discipline, midnight PT and dungarees, I think.

UPDATE: The Nose on Your Face draws a connection to a recent news event that will make you laugh or make you puke a little in your mouth.

Minor updates to the ongoing FBI fraud investigation with and within the County of El Paso:

–Travis Ketner, the chief of staff for County Judge Anthony Cobos, resigned. Cobos was clueless: “I have no idea why.”

OK.

Ketner was an attachment to the FBI search warrant.

Also, Frank Apodaca is taking taxis these days. The CEO of Access HealthSource had his 2004 Escalade, 2002 Benz and Road King Harley seized by the FBI.

That’s gotta hurt. After all, how you gonna roll now that your rides are in a G-Men parking lot?

UPDATE: The chart is updated with more open-source information. Jeez, that “Border Observer” free weekly sure has a chip on its shoulder about the FBI. Apart from the smarmy “FBI: We know drama” headline, one Jaime O. Perez leads off his opinion piece by calling the FBI “our local Gestapo.” “The Border Observer” has also printed some juicy opinions by persons involved and persons who want to be involved but won’t give their names. They’re too juicy for this blog.

The El Paso County corruption case continues to break, like tsunami waves washing over the desert in ever-expanding waves. More are sucked in, and it’s only a matter of time before YouTube has the story, it seems.

Quotable quotes:

El Paso Mayor John Cook: “Once I read it” (the letter saying his communications might have been tapped), “it didn’t concern me at all.”

County Judge Anthony Cobos: “I’m focused on county business, and I don’t have time to speculate on what people are or are not doing, I need to stay focused. I’m not getting distracted. If it’s out of my control, then I’m not going to worry about it.”

Below is a link chart of what we know so far. All names are presumed innocent until proven guilty.

So let’s get to the provin’, folks.

Sources: El Paso Times, Border Observer, News wires

Jimmy Carter, still wrestling with his awful Administration’s legacy, but clever enough to try to divert attention away from his Protestant protestations about the Jewish Cabal, has recently called President Bush’s administration “the worst in history.”

The mind boggles. The peanut trembles.

Carter — few remember his economic atrocities now as he is more an exercise for middle school students seeking extra credit for memorizing the names of the Presidents (in order, no less) — was such an abominable failure in the White House that he might well have better vision than the citizenry on how awful a President can be.

None of which matters anymore, no more than he does.

What matters is that it’s time to dredge up this old cartoon. Thanks for reminding us, Jimmy James Earl President Peanut. The circumstances in which he arrived in Washington, astounding for the reactionism displayed by the American public (and not to be repeated if Republicrat campaign planners continue to have their way) in 1976, and the disgrace he wore like a shroud when he departed, are a history lesson with wider-ranging implications than he is capable of imagining, the old sot.

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A couple of days ago, the FBI entered several offices in El Paso and carted away documents in a U-Haul truck. Here’s an update. Phone-tapping? Document hauling-away? The FBI had to rent a U-Haul?? This won’t end well.