Good morning -- here's what's happening 3.10.08

First he shrank his salary, now the new No. 2 at LAUSD wants to shrink the bureaucracy. More about the plans Ramon C. Cortines has for L.A. area schools -- and just how he thinks he can achieve his lofty goals from Howard Blume.

Why did Michael Ovitz hire Anthony Pellicano in the first place? To dig up dirt on a pair of reporters who were bugging him. Oh -- and he's not sorry. Read Carla Hall's trial story.

A woman is shot to death on an onramp of the 110 Freeway, Francisco Vara Orta reports.

It took a court order but a man got the Huntington Beach police to give him back his marijuana. LAT

Antonio Villaraigosa spanks Homeland Security for immigration priorities that target legitimate businesses and says the agency should focus on criminal gangs. Chertoff shrugs. Anna Gorman has details. 

Speaking of which, should LAPD be allowed to ask about immigration status? Vote at La Plaza.

American Airlines' canceled flights now number 1,100 and even more are expected. That adds up to over 100,000 very angry passengers. More on this fiasco from Martin Zimmerman and Andrea Chang.

Five years ago today, Saddam Hussein's regime fell. What's happened between then and now depends on who you ask. And you could argue this isn't a local story, except of course it is, in every city, town, village and household in America. LAT

--Veronique de Turenne

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Comments

[Brittanicus]

We need to rid ourselve's of radical mayors, city officials and even Police chiefs who appose any stract immigration laws, that is causing the erosion of our sovereignty.

If MALDEF, LA RAZA or MECHA and other special interest groups, not excluding anti-sovereignty entities like the ACLU, Southern Poverty League that are apposed to the federal SAVE ACT (H.R. 4088), than it must have an excellent chance of working? Then citizens must contend with individual like Mayor Villaraigosa of Los Angeles, along with his retinue of pro-illegal immigrant city managers, who pander to special interest groups. In the limelight was ex-governor Spitzer, who was going to issue illegal foreign workers and families driving licenses. It seems like the illegal immigration battle is never over, because many of our politicians like House Speaker Pelosi, Harry Reid and their thrall are determined to undermine THE PEOPLE'S wishes.

Never mind that Assemblywoman Mimi Walters, a Republican from Oceanside, said illegal immigrants cost California taxpayers an estimated $9 billion each year.
Even Los Angeles County Supervisor Michael D. Antonovich agrees with this statement. Unfortunately their are other traitors amongst us, such as the globalist open border, free traders whose major agenda is the free movement of people throughout the North American Continent.

Mr. Rubenstein, a former director of research at the Hudson Institute, a nonpartisan policy research organization, said U.S. taxpayers paid more than $9,000 for each immigrant in the country, a third of whom are believed to be in the U.S. illegally.

In addition, more than 37 million immigrants in the United States, both legal and illegal, cost the federal government more than $346 billion last year, twice as much as the nation's fiscal deficit, according to a report released yesterday. The loss estimates, the report said, included $100 billion in federal taxes lost "from the reduction of native incomes caused by immigrant workers." He also stated that even programs that are not usually associated with immigration, he said, have actually added financial burdens to the taxpayers.

If we do not stop the travsty of our immigration laws, California is going to turn into a cesspit.

[sean]

Although the Mayor's letter was written 3/27, it's coming to light now couldn't be worse for him: he's SO out of touch with what the public wants. The story on the L A Daily Breeze got over 500 comments slamming him in the first few hours, more since -- then there's the Daily News, etc. NO ONE but a few employers of illegals in sweatshops and the illegals themselves, support the Mayor and Mexican electeds on this.

The billions of dollars illegals are costing our economy, the fact that 2/3 of the youth in L A are kids of immigrants, many illegals, and have sunk our schools; sunk our healthcare system; 1/4 of all jail inmates are illegals, and a uniquely vicious, La Raza breed of recidivist criminal; countless other costs to our infrastructure and quality of life -- far, far outweigh the benefits of ilegals to a few employers. So we need them to subsidize agribusiness? Japan and other cultures with high wages get by, by bringing in guest workers on strictly monitored visa programs, then they go back home. Here, being forced to pay for these massive expenses for their huge families that they can't afford has put us into national bankruptcy from social services, and the Democratic leaders refuse to address this.

Last night Ed Reyes was on Lou Dobbs Tonight, spouting this garbage, that L A can't enforce or even allow cops to ask about immigration status, because "it would be too divisive...our economy isn't ready for that." Dobbs looked about to barf, as he expressed disgust that "That man, that Councilman from Los Angeles, can stand there and say with a straight face that 'our economy isn't ready for that,' deporting illegal criminals and respecting our laws, to a family grieving for their son, in a murder that could have been, should have been prevented, is...(restraining himself) unbelievable."

Dobbs also heaped contempt on Bratton for going along with this, saying he's lost the respect Dobbs and others had for him after his handling of 9/11 in NYC, and added that all the officials running L A are..."Less than they should be," looking about to blanch again. He said a few Councilmembers privately wanted to enforce the laws or at least discuss it, but they couldn't go on record. (There's such a vicious slamfest in L A against anyone who doesn't pander to the Mexican politicians, it's appalling, and violates the will of the people.)

Rosendahl said in Council he wants to revisit SP40, at least discuss it, and Zine offered to go onto pro- Jamiel's Law Kevin James' KRLA show (to the obvious discomfort of Garcetti and others for breaking ranks). I hope these two and others have the guts to follow through, but word is there's a lot of arm twisting behind the scenes not to, and some say that the Mayor and the Mexicans want Wesson to replace Garcetti, so that it will be a black-Hispanic coalition (even though Garcetti is half-Mexican, he's not "dark enough" in appearance or attitude, it seems), who with the ultra-liberals like Janice Hahn and Rosendahl, and dim bulbs like cheerleader La Bonge, will always form a majority against the Valley and more traditionalist whites. All that would do, is close ranks against the will of the people even more. That's a no-win situation. Someone needs to advise this Mayor that the cross-color, cross-cultural good will tht elected him is in jeapoardy.

Jamiel Shaw, Sr. went on record in an interview today, that neither he nor his son were anti-white, had white friends and his son volunteered at a mixed-race senior home. When the Shaws say they don't want racial discord, that includes whites -- they've been pressured to dump white mayoral candidate Walter Moore and his wife Judy (who spoke eloquently at Council) and ally with a Hispanic instead. To tone down their rhetoric from the "radical" platform of deporting illegals, especially those on gangbanger registries like Espinoza. Shame on them.