Britain Bans Michael Savage From Country

The once great empire of Britain is gurgling its last breath. As Sharia law and general intolerance envelop the country the homeland hag (yes, they have one too), has decided that radio talk show host Michael Savage is just too radical to be admitted into the country.

Home Secretary Jacqui Smith has decided that Savage is “someone who has fallen into the category of fomenting hatred, of such extreme views and expressing them in such a way that it is actually likely to cause inter-community tension or even violence if that person were allowed into the country.”

You know, crazy, hateful things like being anti Sharia, wanting the borders secure, advocating first amendment rights, actually criticizing the president (as a vigilant citizen should), and other radical views.

Savage says he may sue for defamation, but it’s unclear whether he would have any chance in a British court. Hell, he might end up in a Sharia court over there and be jailed!

To show the nuttiness of this act, compare Savage to the others that were on this latest list: Hamas leader Yunis Al-Astal, former Ku Klux Klan grand wizard Stephen Donald Black, neo-Nazi Erich Gliebe and radical American pastor Fred Phelps, known for his virulent anti-gay protests at funerals. Phelps’ daughter Shirley Phelps-Roper also is on the list. The others on the list are Jewish nationalist Mike Guzovsky; imprisoned Russian skinhead leaders Artur Ryno and Pavel Skachevsky; and Islamic leaders Wadgy Abd El Hamied Mohamed Ghoneim, Abdullah Qadri Al Ahdal, Safwat Hijazi , Amir Siddique, Abdul Ali Musa, Samir Al Quntar and Nasr Javed.

Who’s next? Bloggers? I’m not going down without a fight-oops, I think I just made the international hag list…

Obama Targets Outsourcing, India Chuckles

It sounds like Barack Obama is proposing something that might actually make sense: closing a tax loophole that allows American companies to claim a deduction when they outsource American jobs. Well, it’s the though that counts.

Taking away incentives to ship American jobs to cheap foreign labor is a great idea, but what Obama is planning doesn’t go far enough. The problem is, that even if you tax these companies at the maximum rate, the labor in countries like India is so cheap that it would still be a bargain to outsource. India realizes that, and although they tossed a few stones at Obama, they don’t seem that worried about a decline in American jobs coming their way.

After all, many highly skilled Indian workers are American schooled and trained, and are every bit as talented as their American counterparts. They’ll just work for peanuts in India though. Peanuts to us, but over there, 10 or 15 thousand dollars a year is living pretty well.

How about this idea: take the worst outsourcing offenders, see what industry they’re in, and then take that stimulus money and create American industry, American jobs to compete with the outsourcers. Subsidize them long enough to cripple-or at least send a come on back if you know what’s good for you message to these companies. Competing with someone making a dollar a day is not competition. It’s exploitation. Time to play hard ball.