Thompson Coalition

If you haven’t visited the Thompson Coalition site recently, do so NOW! Lots of great new information on a variety of issues.

Roosevelt on immigrants

Unlike today’s presumed major party candidates for President, as well as many in Congress, Teddy Roosevelt understood what immigrants to this country need to do.   (H/T - Thompson Coalition)

‘In the first place, we should insist that if the immigrant who comes here in good faith becomes an American and assimilates himself to us, he shall be treated on an exact equality with everyone else, for it is an outrage to discriminate against any such man because of creed, or birthplace, or origin. But this is predicated upon the person’s becoming in every facet an American, and nothing but an American…There can be no divided allegiance here. Any man who says he is an American, but something else also, isn’t an American at all . We have room for but one flag, the American flag.. We have room for but one language here, and that is the English language… and we have room for but one sole loyalty and that is a loyalty to the American people.’
                                                                                                                                                                                               ~Theodore Roosevelt 1907

$338.3 billion

(H/T - post at Fred Thompson News)

That’s what illegal aliens are costing the United States PER YEAR! And both major party nominees could care less about YOUR MONEY being spent that way.

1. $11 Billion to $22 billion is spent on welfare to illegal aliens each year by state governments. Verify at: http://tinyurl.com/zob77

2. $2.2 Billion dollars a year is spent on food assistance programs such as food stamps, WIC, and free school lunches for illegal aliens. Verify at: http://www.cis.org/articles/2004/fiscalexec.html

3. $2.5 Billion dollars a year is spent on Medicaid for illegal aliens. Verify at: http://www.cis.org/articles/2004/fiscalexec.html

4. $12 Billion dollars a year is spent on primary and secondary school education for children here illegally and they cannot speak a word of English! Verify at: http://transcripts.CNN.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0604/01/ldt.0.HTML 

5. $17 Billion dollars a year is spent for education for the American-born children of illegal aliens, known as anchor babies. Verify at http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0604/01/ldt.01.html 

6. $3 Million Dollars a DAY is spent to incarcerate illegal aliens. Verify at: http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0604/01/ldt.01.html 

7. 30% percent of all Federal Prison inmates are illegal aliens. Verify at: http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0604/01/ldt.01.htm l 

8. $90 Billion Dollars a year is spent on illegal aliens for Welfare & social services by the American taxpayers. Verify at: http://premium.cnn.com/TRANSCIPTS/0610/29/ldt.01.html 

9. $200 Billion Dollars a year in suppressed American wages are caused by the illegal aliens. Verify at: http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0604/01/ldt.01.html 

10. Illegal aliens in the United States have a crime rate that’s two and a half times that of white non-illegal aliens. In particular, their children, are going to make a huge additional crime problem in the US. Verify at: http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0606/12/ldt.01.html 

11. During the year of 2005 there were 4 to 10 MILLION illegal aliens that crossed our Southern Border also, as many as 19,500 illegal aliens from Terrorist Countries. Millions of pounds of drugs, cocaine, meth, heroin and marijuana, crossed into the U.S. from the Southern border. Verify at: Homeland Security Report: http://tinyurl.com/t9sht

12. The National Policy Institute, estimated that the total cost of mass deportation would be between $206 and $230 billion, or an average cost of between $41 and $46 billion annually over a five year period.’ Verify at: http://www.nationalpolicyinstitute.org/pdf/deportation.pdf 

13. In 2006 illegal aliens sent home $45 BILLION in remittances back to their countries of origin. Verify at: http://www.rense.com/general75/niht.htm

Obama Campaign Slogan

Interesting phenom

Bush lifts the executive ban on offshore drilling and there’s a huge drop in the price of oil.

Need more reason to drill here now and pay less?   Wait that would require Congress to be smart and take this talk to heart.

More Wisconsin humor

Jeff Foxworthy on Wisconsin

If you consider it a sport to gather your food by drilling through 38 inches of ice and sitting there all day hoping that the food will swim by, you might live in Wisconsin.

If you’re proud that your region makes the national news 96 nights each year because Park Falls is the coldest spot in the nation, you might live in Wisconsin.

If you have ever refused to buy something because it’s “too pricey,” you might live in Wisconsin.

If your local Dairy Queen is closed from November through March, you might live in Wisconsin.

If you instinctively walk like a penguin for five months out of the year, you might live in Wisconsin.

If someone in a store offers you assistance, and they don’t work there, you might live in Wisconsin.

If your dad’s suntan stops at a line curving around the middle of his forehead, you might live in Wisconsin.

If you may not have actually eaten it, but you have heard of Head Cheese, you might live in Wisconsin .

If you have worn shorts and a parka at the same time, you might live in Wisconsin.

If you have either a pet or a child named “Brett,” you might live in Wisconsin.

If your town has an equal number of bars and churches, you might live in Wisconsin .

If you have had a lengthy telephone conversation with someone who dialed a wrong number, you might live in Wisconsin .

If you know how to say Oconomowoc, Waukesha , Menomonie & Manitowoc, you might live in Wisconsin .

If you think that ketchup is a little too spicy, you might live in Wisconsin.

If every time you see moonlight on a lake, you think of a dancing bear, and you sing gently, “From the land of sky-blue waters,”….you might live in Wisconsin .

True Wisconsinite

YOU KNOW YOU ARE A TRUE WISCONSINITE WHEN:

1. Your idea of a traffic jam is ten cars waiting to pass a tractor on the highway.

2. “Vacation” means going up north past Hwy 8 for the weekend.

3. You measure distance in hours.

4. You know several people who have hit deer more than once.

5. You often switch from “heat” to “A/C” in the same day and back again.

6. Your whole family wears Packer Green to church on Sunday.

7. You can drive 65 mph through two feet of snow during a raging blizzard, without flinching.

8. You see people wearing camouflage at social events (including weddings and funerals ).

9. You install security lights on your house and garage and leave both unlocked.

10. You think of the major food groups as beer, fish, and venison.

11. You carry jumper cables in your car and your wife or girlfriend knows how to use them.

12. There are 7 empty cars running in the parking lot at Mill’s Fleet Farm at any given time.

13. You design your kid’s Halloween costume to fit over a snowsuit.

14. Driving is better in the winter because the potholes are filled with snow.

15. You refer to the Packers as “we.”

16. You know all 4 seasons: almost winter, winter, still winter and road construction.

17. You can identify a southern or eastern accent.

18. You have no problem pronouncing Lac Du Flambeau.

19. You consider Minneapolis exotic.

20. You know how to polka.

21. Your idea of creative landscaping is a statue of a deer next to your blue spruce.

22. You were unaware that there is a legal drinking age.

23. Down South to you means Illinois

24. A brat is something you eat.

25. Your neighbor throws a party to celebrate his new pole shed.

26. You go out to fish fry every Friday.

27. Your 4th of July picnic was moved indoors due to frost.

28. You have more miles on your snow blower than your car.

29. You find minus twenty degrees “a little chilly.”

30. You actually understand these jokes, and you forward them to all your Wisconsin friends.

Beautiful Rendition

Here is a beautiful rendition of “Battle Hymn of the Republic”.

http://www.greatdanepromilitary.com/Battle%20Hymn/index.htm

What is politics?

Got this as an email but it fits so perfectly considering the goofballs (both Democrats and Republicans) currently in office.

A little boy goes to his dad and asks, ‘What is Politics?’ 
 
Dad says, ‘Well son, let me try to explain it this way: 
 
I am the head of the family, so call me The President. 
 
Your mother is the administrator of the money, so we call her the
Government. 
 
We are here to take care of your needs, so we will call you the
People. 
 
The nanny, we will consider her the Working Class. 
 
And your baby brother, we will call him the Future. 
 
Now think about that and see if it makes sense.’ 
 
So the little boy goes off to bed thinking about what Dad has said. 

Later that night, he hears his baby brother crying, so he gets up to
check on him. 
 
He finds that the baby has severely soiled his diaper. 
 
So the little boy goes to his parent’s room and finds his mother
asleep. 

 Not wanting to wake her, he goes to the nanny’s room. Finding the door
locked, he peeks in the keyhole and sees his father in bed with the
nanny. 
 
He gives up and goes back to bed. 
 
The next morning, the little boy say’s to his father, ‘Dad, I think I
understand the concept of politics now.’ 
 
The father says, ‘Good, son, tell me in your own words what you think
politics is all about.’ 

The little boy replies, ‘The President is screwing the Working Class
while the Government is sound asleep. The People are being ignored and
the Future is in deep crap.

Welcome back as backup?

The latest twist in the Brett Favre saga took a sort of hardball turn this morning as Ted Thompson & Mike McCarthy had their first public comments on the situation.

The Green Bay Packers’ general manager and coach don’t plan to grant Brett Favre’s request for his release. If he does rejoin the team, they told The Associated Press this morning, it won’t be as the starting quarterback.

And Favre is unlikely to accept a backup role, GM Ted Thompson and coach Mike McCarthy acknowledged in their first public comments since the 38-year-old Favre demanded his release this week.

A trade may be the best resolution, but Thompson and McCarthy declined to discuss that possibility. Thompson said he had not received any inquiries from other teams as of Saturday morning.

“We’ve communicated that to Brett, that we have since moved forward,” Thompson said. “At the same time, we’ve never said that there couldn’t be some role that he might play here. But I would understand his point that he would want to play.”

…

“Quite frankly, it’s a little gut-wrenching as an organization to go through it, and certainly for Mike and myself,” Thompson said. “This stuff hurts a lot of people. I mean, it hurts. I’m not talking about physically hurting, but the sensitivity. We understand where the fans are coming from. This is a hot-button issue that surpasses anything I’ve ever gone through.”

But things lsoften a little when you look at this interview.

Thompson, who agreed to conduct interviews with several local media outlets, did not publicly dissuade Favre from filing reinstatement papers and did not go as far as saying there was no way he would play for the Packers this season. But he said he could not answer whether there would be an opportunity for Favre to get his starting position back with the Packers if he chose to return.

“We have to go with what’s real,” Thompson said. “We don’t know what the options are right now. We’ll talk about it internally. It’s all guess work.

“This is a very difficult spot we’re in. It’s a very volatile situation and we don’t have all the answers yet.”

Asked if there was a chance Favre could be on his roster this year, Thompson said, “Sure.”

As a starter?

“I don’t know how to answer that,” he said. “We have moved forward. So we’ll see where it goes.”

Asked if he was concerned that Rodgers would wash his hands of the Packers after his contract is up were he stripped of his starting job at the start of training camp, Thompson said, “We’ll deal with that when it comes up.”

Then he said, “Aaron Rodgers is our starting quarterback.”

…

One of the subjects general manager Ted Thompson refused to address was the willingness of the Packers to trade Brett Favre should the quarterback apply for reinstatement.

Thompson made it clear to Favre that he would not release him and that if Favre wanted to play again he was open to carrying him on the roster. But he also said that Aaron Rodgers was his starting quarterback and refused to say whether he and coach Mike McCarthy would be willing to have an open competition for the starting job.

But Thompson also said he could not predict the future and seemed to be saying anything could happen if Favre were in camp. He seemed to be more willing to allow Favre to be on the roster than to deal him to another team.

That could change should Favre file reinstatement papers. According to Thompson, there was a general agreement among Favre, coach Mike McCarthy and himself that it would be difficult for the Packers to switch gears at this point of the off-season, but Favre may think he can force the Packers’ hand if he comes back.

Thompson, who may have been posturing to dissuade Favre from coming back, said he hadn’t even considered a trade and would be willing to take Favre back on the roster.

…

The question is whether Favre ever made a definitive request to come back.

Most of Favre’s discussions were with coach Mike McCarthy and offensive line coach James Campen. Both would report their conversations to Thompson.

“Not that I recall,” Thompson said of whether Favre made it known he wanted to play for the Packers prior to the conference call that occurred Tuesday. “Obviously, I wasn’t involved in everything. He didn’t ask me on my visit (in April). I think most of the time the questions were, ‘Do you think they want me back?’ And then the question going back was, ‘Does that mean you want to play?’ All of the conversations wouldn’t be the same, but in general this was the information I was getting.

It would be, ‘I don’t know, I was just wondering if you wanted me back.’ It was still kind of an in-limbo thing.”

…

Asked if he’d consider an open competition between Favre and Rodgers, Thompson said, “We’re not even there yet. The man is still retired. I think we have to work our way through that.”

Talk about a suddenly lively off-season and a messy PR nightmare for all involved. Now that Ted’s broken his silence, will Brett do the same?