Stand Up Notes from Flyover Country: How Did Russell Brand Get a Green Card?

I am sure that Congress has a lot more important things to do right now but when we get around to looking at immigration can we get an investigation into how an alleged comic named Russell Brand got a green card.

I’m no expert on immigration law but I think in order to come here to work you have to demonstrate you have some special skills or talent that no American has. This rule prevents big multi-national companies from bringing in a bunch of cheap unskilled labor to take American jobs. For example, let’s say you are a bricklayer and you live in Poland. You may be a good bricklayer but if you want to come to the United States to live you need to go through a long process and show you have some skill that no American bricklayer possesses — unless you are a person who can sneak across the southern border,  in which case you are welcome to come and take an American’s job and pick up some free health care and education. That’s another issue and I have been ADD-ing pretty badly recently so I need to get back to the topic at hand: (more…)

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Tags: illegal immigration, Immigration, Kanye West, MTV, Russell Brand
Posted Sep 16th 2009 at 10:19 am in Celebrity News, Music, News, Politics | 224482144 Commentshttp://bighollywood.breitbart.com/jjena/2009/09/16/stand-up-noted-from-flyover-country-how-did-russell-brand-get-a-green-card/Stand+Up+Notes+from+Flyover+Country%3A+How+Did+Russell+Brand+Get+a+Green+Card%3F2009-09-16+17%3A19%3A58Jeffrey+Jena

The Left Has Spoken: Today, We Are All Extremists

The leader of genius must have the ability to make different opponents appear as if they belong to one category.” – Adolf Hitler.

“At this point, whatever dividing line there was between mainstream conservatism and the black-helicopter crowd seems to have been virtually erased.” – NY Times columnist Paul Krugman.

Paul Krugman

Really sucks to be a conservative these days. I feel like I’m walking around with a big bulls-eye on my back. I know many of the Left, especially Keith Olbermann, Frank Rich, Paul Krugman, the New York Times editorial staff and all the pundits at HuffPo and KOS would find that statement hilariously ironic, given the recent shooting deaths of Dr. George Tiller in Kansas and security guard Steven T. Johns at the Holocaust Museum. Then again, they’re not the ones being branded en masse as co-conspirators in those murders. Conservatives are. (more…)

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Tags: Air America, assassination chic, Axelrod, Bill O'Reilly, Cynthia Dixon
Posted Jun 16th 2009 at 3:31 pm in Politics | 1587586 Commentshttp://bighollywood.breitbart.com/jtsimpson/2009/06/16/today-we-are-all-extremists/The+Left+Has+Spoken%3A+Today%2C+We+Are+All+Extremists2009-06-16+22%3A31%3A36John+T.+Simpson

Daily Gut: The Human Trading System

So yet another illegal alien has been found stowed away in the cargo area of a plane. He endured a hellish trip to get here, and will be returned to his heinous craphole of a country after being treated for dehydration.

Yeah, I know what he did was “illegal” and all that – but whenever I read about a dude pulling off something like this, I keep thinking an exception needs to be made. Whenever the amount of risk taken to come here far exceeds anything most Yankee chuckleheads would do to stay, then that risk taker deserves citizenship. I mean this guy risked his life so he could work as a cashier at Arby`s. Would Jon Cusack do the same?

Fact is, our country is crammed full with children who think they`re adults, and adults pretending to be children – all handed endless opportunities simply because they were born here. Millions of these Americans squander, mock and abuse the country that other folks would die to get into – and for this reason it`s time to enact a solution I’ve mentioned previously: a human trading system. Mind you: this is not human trafficking. It`s human trading. It`s different. There is no cash or sex involved (yet). (more…)

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Tags: Arby's, citizenship, Ethiopia, Green Day, illegal immigration
Posted Jun 8th 2009 at 2:11 pm in Daily Gut | 1546422 Commentshttp://bighollywood.breitbart.com/ggutfeld/2009/06/08/daily-gut-the-human-trading-system/Daily+Gut%3A+The+Human+Trading+System2009-06-08+21%3A11%3A49Greg+Gutfeld

In Defense of Our ‘Border’

Because my hobby is surfing obscure website nobody cares about, this week I happened upon this recent offering by the Southern Poverty Law Center. 

If you’re not familiar, the S.P.L.C. is one of those groups who did good work in their day (the Civil Rights Acts of 1964 and 1965), but, having run out of dragons to slay, are now casting about for reasons to carry on with their anti-white-racist mission in an era where a black President presides over a Democratic House and a Democratic Senate while the wealthiest, most admired and most powerful people on Planet Earth include Oprah Winfrey, Colin Powell, Tiger Woods, whatever Sean Combs is calling himself these days, and the black writer on 30 Rock. 

Chris Burgard “Border”

The S.P.L.C. has become a good illustration of the old adage that if all you have is a hammer pretty soon everything starts to look like a nail.  The group operates from a presumption of racism, i.e., the belief that every white person is a racist until they prove otherwise by adopting a Somalian orphan, personally spitting in David Dukes’ beer, and/or shopping for clothes at Target like Michelle Obama does.  All of which made the S.P.LC. a very unlikely source for an objective review of Chris Burgard’s spectacular documentary Border. (more…)

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Tags: Border, Chris Burgard, illegal immigration, Souther Poverty Law Center, SPLC
Posted Jun 4th 2009 at 5:03 am in Entertainment, Featured Story, News | 148662One Commenthttp://bighollywood.breitbart.com/nrice/2009/06/04/in-defense-of-our-border/In+Defense+of+Our+%27Border%272009-06-04+12%3A03%3A44Ned+Rice

Review: ‘Sin Nombre’ Doesn’t Live Up to Reputation

Sin Nombre is a fictionalized account of the largely unknown (to Americans, at least) struggle that would-be immigrants go through long before they even get to the U.S. border. The story of a young man on the run from a murderous gang is told through those hardships. Assuming this is a realistic portrayal of life for residents of South and Central America, what these people go through is terrifying and dangerous. Anyone who would willingly face this is a person of character, or at least awfully tough.

But just because the characters are sympathetic doesn’t mean they’re in a good movie.

Sin Nombre is at once an illuminating portrayal of anonymous people (hence the title: in English, Nameless) and a thriller marred by long stretches of un-illuminating inactivity, poutiness by the lead character as a substitute for acting, and a spectacularly clichéd climax. The fact that the picture is in a language other than English elicits in some American critics the same reaction that British accents bring out in American audiences: This doesn’t sound like what I hear every day, so it must be important. (more…)

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Tags: Cary Fukunaga, illegal immigration, Immigration, nameless, sin nombre
Posted May 14th 2009 at 10:12 am in Reviews | 131638No Commentshttp://bighollywood.breitbart.com/mlong/2009/05/14/review-sin-nombre-isnt-as-good-as-its-reputation/Review%3A+%27Sin+Nombre%27+Doesn%27t+Live+Up+to+Reputation2009-05-14+17%3A12%3A52Mike+Long

Daily Gut: Open Borders

So I`ve been thinking that this whole immigration issue is like Easter Sunday at my family`s house. A bunch of people start showing up – a lot of them, mind you, I really don`t want to see. But the reason why I don`t want to see them has nothing to do with race, it has to do with being human. Human beings are weird creatures in that we resist things that aren`t comfortable – so when someone drops by unannounced, or perhaps with a date you immediately assume is pompous, stupid and covered in cheap cologne – you take an instant dislike. Essentially, we’re an irritable bunch, and the people we take it out on are the those unfamiliar types that show up without a proper invite.

But here`s what I know about parties: I`ve thrown a crapload of them, and yes, most of the time I’ve been drunk. But the key to a good party is accepting people into the throng not because of what they can do for you, but because they can`t do anything for you…yet.

You just never know. (more…)

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Tags: "Let Them In: The Case for Open Borders", illegal immigration, Immigration, Jason Riley, Mexico
Posted May 4th 2009 at 3:14 pm in Daily Gut | 126354No Commentshttp://bighollywood.breitbart.com/ggutfeld/2009/05/04/daily-gut-open-borders/Daily+Gut%3A+Open+Borders2009-05-04+22%3A14%3A21Greg+Gutfeld

Swine Flu, Fences and Farces

I just saw Sen. Joe Lieberman on Fox News. He wanted to explore the possibility of closing off the Southern Border with Mexico as a safety precaution while the US got a handle on the Swine Flu situation. The World Health Organization had just upped the health threat to 5 out of a possible 6. Vice President Joe Biden was on national television telling America that he would not let his family travel on an airplane. However, the Obama administration would not even entertain the idea of discussing border closure.

Could that possibly have anything to do with the fact that today Chuck Schumer, Harry Reid, Patrick Leahy and President Obama are steaming full speed ahead with a new push for comprehensive immigration reform? Sen. Lieberman expressed his hope that DHS Secretary Napolitano would at least keep the idea on her radar if the situation turned into a pandemic. (more…)

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Tags: Fox News, healthcare, illegal immigration, Lieberman, Napolitano
Posted May 1st 2009 at 11:33 am in Politics | 122846One Commenthttp://bighollywood.breitbart.com/cburgard/2009/05/01/swine-flu-fences-and-farces/Swine+Flu%2C+Fences+and+Farces2009-05-01+18%3A33%3A42Chris+Burgard

Know Right-Wing Extremists By Their Bumper Stickers

TO: ALL LOCAL LAW ENFORCEMENT AUTHORITIES

FM: DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND SECURITY

SUBJ: NATIONWIDE ALERT – KNOW RIGHT WING EXTREMISTS BY THEIR BUMPER STICKERS!

Per the Guidelines of the Department of Homeland Security’s recent report, all units and law enforcement agencies are notified to be on the lookout (BOLO) for potential Right-Wing Extremists. Since the report’s guidelines are exceedingly general and non-specific, we here at DHS will provide the necessary details in order for state and local LE officials to round up the usual suspects.

Usual Suspect

First, Right-Wing Extremists are often known to display their radical sympathies on bumper stickers. This could be as simple a matter as a Confederate flag on a pickup truck, but often involves stated extremist messages like ABORTION KILLS, BABIES ARE NOT SPARE PARTS (they are), and ADOPTION: THE CARING OPTION (it isn’t, spare parts is).

In this instance, it is best to keep a safe distance and follow the unsub’s vehicle, to where fellow right-wing extremists of like mind are no doubt plotting their next abortion clinic massacre. (more…)

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Tags: abortion, Bill of Rights, constitution, DHS, extremism
Posted Apr 16th 2009 at 5:03 am in Media Criticism, Politics | 1066223 Commentshttp://bighollywood.breitbart.com/jtsimpson/2009/04/16/know-right-wing-extremists-by-their-bumper-stickers/Know+Right-Wing+Extremists+By+Their+Bumper+Stickers2009-04-16+12%3A03%3A32John+T.+Simpson

Gran Issue Approaching

Leave it to the out of touch boneheads in Hollywood to exclude the best movie of the year, “Gran Torino” with Client Eastwood, from it best picture nominations.  If you have not seen it yet, then you should before Sunday’s Academy Awards-if for nothing else, to see what Hollywood missed.  While there is nothing overtly political about the movie, I am convinced there is something below the surface, something a little too Americana for the Academy’s liking.  And while watching the movie, I could not help but feel reminded of the explosive immigration issue that will surface again soon.  

To make that reminder more poignant, a recent U.S. Joint Forces Command report warns of a “rapid and sudden collapse” in Mexico because “the government, its politicians, police and judicial infrastructure are all under sustained assault…by criminal gangs and drug cartels.”  In other words-to cut through the political correctness-America has a third world nation on its southern border that is compromised by corruption and violence and an implosion would likely cause teams of illegal immigrants streaming into southern U.S. states.   (more…)

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Tags: Border, Clint Eastwood, Gran Torino, illegal immigration, Mexico
Posted Feb 16th 2009 at 5:15 am in Entertainment, News | 5093432 Commentshttp://bighollywood.breitbart.com/bjoshpe/2009/02/16/gran-issue-approaching/Gran+Issue+Approaching2009-02-16+13%3A15%3A38Brett+Joshpe

DVD Review: Amexicano

Just when you thought American independent cinema was dead and gobbled up by the majors, here comes two strong, new voices straight outta Brooklyn (and Queens), Matthew Bonifacio and Carmine Famiglhetti, the director and writer/star of “Amexicano,” a low budget indie feature (and I mean truly indie) that has the power to make you feel compassion where you thought you had none, and will likely make you and whomever you’re watching it with, argue about the very topic that is so central to its plot but not really what the movie is about — illegal immigration.   (more…)

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Tags: brooklyn queens experiment, carmine famiglhetti, catholic mexicans, illegal immigration, matthew bonifacio
Posted Feb 12th 2009 at 9:58 am in Entertainment, Politics, Reviews | 1677346 Commentshttp://bighollywood.breitbart.com/mmcgruther/2009/02/12/amexicano-dvd-review-wip-working/DVD+Review%3A+Amexicano2009-02-12+17%3A58%3A44Michael+McGruther