Heads Exploding on the Left

I'm proud to be able to say Pamela Geller is my friend. What I especially like about her is her willingness to speak up when others won't. And there are few writers in the 'sphere who can match her passion. Is she always right? Of course not. Shoot, I'm not even always right, LOL! But I'm sometimes amazed by her laser-like intensity combined with her crack newshound skills. She's a treasure for all of those fighting for what's right and showing the dark side of Islam.

She's been working on a number of campaigns recently, and those have been generating a lot of heat. And as the headline shows, heads are exploding. At Pamela's blog, "Atlas TV: Heads Exploding on the Left."

Hellzapoppin' over at Media Matters, the mothership for the tin foil hat crowd. The moonbats are howling now, warning their news shills never to have Geller on their shows :)

They are afraid their bots might .............learn something. I am very flattered. Thanks, boys. Well, we know where Chris Matthews No Balls gets his marching orders.......

Gotta love how those libs love free speech: Geller now spewing hate on MSNBC is their hateline. I've been telling you, truth is the new hate speech. Here's the Media Matters clip of my appearance on MSNBC News Live.

Laguna Beach Trip — Glorious SoCal Weather, Finally!

Okay, friends ... a quick top-shot of me at BJ's pizzeria on PCH in Laguna Beach.

I've been whining about the weather, so I might was well write about it since I'm finally fired up for summer!

I took my youngest son. We found a parking spot about a half-mile up Park Street in downtown Laguna Beach. After putting on sunscreen, we gathered up all of our stuff (newspapers, toys, etc.) and rumbled down the lane (walked down actually, but rumbled sounds more ... more like something awesome!):

My son stopped to dwell at St. Mary's Episcopal Church. He had questions, so we stopped to talk about faith for a second:

Almost down to the restaurant. A group of young ladies enjoying ice cream nearby:

And here's PCH at not-quite peak (weekday) July summer tourist season (compared to last January, remember? ...):

We made it to BJ's. I ordered a Piranha Pale Ale. I've been visiting this restaurant for 30 years, and this is the first time we've had this window seat — that was kinda cool! ...:

Meanwhile, my son, after a bit of coloring, set up his Iron Man toys in full fighting mode:

In he background, I'm catching up with the dead-tree media while waiting for our order:

My son doesn't enjoy a bunch of toppings, so it's just a straight deep-dish pizza with tomatoes. Your server will dish up the first serving (although you're responsible for cleaning up those hot cheese strings):

A nice family from Arizona (I'm guessing, given the D-Backs t-shirt) waiting outside to be seated. Mom was hovering around nearby with a sibling:

Now we're over at the main beach. What a day!

The view looking south:

A group of junior lifeguards cruised by ... not sure if this was a tryout day or not, but they were young:

That's all for now.

Democrats Calling the Kettle Black — Hey, That's RAAAAACIST!!

JENNY BETH MARTIN and MARK MECKLER have some pushback against the bogus left-wing anti-tea party RAAAAACIST smears (via Memeorandum).

And as I've chronicled many times over the years, nobody beats the Dems for mainstream political party racism. Just ask Firedoglake race-baiters Blue Texan and TBogg!

(And it took me maybe all of 5 minutes to round up a few embarrassing clips of Democratic Party racism and stupidity. No doubt we could fill a book or two of examples, and genuine instances of conservative racism are so infrequent that leftists have to invent them.)

June Gloom is Gone for Now

As noted, I've been complaining about the gloomy weather we've been having, but today's clear and hot out, and I'm about to head down to Laguna Beach with my youngest son.

There's a story on this as well at the Long Beach Press-Telegram, "June Gloom is Gone for Now":

That dreary and solar obstructing weather that plagued the area for most of June and crawled into July for a few days is gone, and here comes the sun, a meteorologist said.

"The June gloom is gone for now," said Mike Pigott, a meteorologist with AccuWeather.com

Tuesday was cloudless and had sunny skies. The recorded high at Long Beach Airport was 87 at 2 p.m., Pigott said.

Thanks to a high pressure system, warm, sunny weather is in the forecast through the weekend, he said.

More blogging this afternoon, and hopefully some good pics as well!

And hey, don't forget about your summer reading, for example, S. C. Gwynne, Empire of the Summer Moon: Quanah Parker and the Rise and Fall of the Comanches, the Most Powerful Indian Tribe in American History.

National Security Expert Thomas Ricks Gets 'The Best Defense' Intel at GSGF

Either that, or national security expert Thomas Ricks gets the best intel on the hoochies and hotties at GSGF!

See "Jello Shooters."

RELATED: "The Fall of The House of Saud."

Call or Write Commissioner Bud Selig's Office and Urge Him NOT to Change the Place of the 2011 All-Star Game

At MAinfo, "La Raza Trying to Get ML Baseball to Move 2011 All-Star Game Out of AZ." With the contact information for MLB Commission Bud Selig:

The Office of the Commissioner of Baseball
Allan H. (Bud) Selig, Commissioner
245 Park Avenue, 31st Floor
New York, NY 10167
Phone: (212) 931-7800

So far, Selig says he's not budging, but you never know. LAT's interview with Commissioner Selig is here: "All-Star Game Phoenix 2011 in Crosshairs of Open Borders SB 1070 Backlash."

Pornography on Trial

At Cato, "John Stagliano’s Obscenity Trial."

And at Reason.TV, "OBSCENITY VS. FREEDOM OF EXPRESSION":

I'll have more on this later.

Hat Tip: Theo Spark.

The Warrior Song: A Tribute to the United State Marines Corps

Via Jawa Report, "The Warrior Song":

Bristol Palin and Levi Johnston Are Getting Married!

Well, that explains Levi's recent apology to Sarah.

And amazingly, it's another story that keeps the Palins in the news. The 2012 GOP primaries are just around the corner, so it's no wonder why even folks like hard-leftie Michelle Cottle are calling the former Alaska governor a "strategic genius."

At US Magazine, "Exclusive: Bristol Palin, Levi Johnston Are Engaged!":

Bristol Palin and Levi Johnston reveal exclusively in the new Us Weekly that they are getting married.

And, they tell Us Weekly, former vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin has been kept in the dark about their plans ... until now.

"We got engaged two weeks ago," Bristol, 19, tells Us Weekly. "It felt right, even though we don’t have the approval of our parents."

Bristol and Levi, 20 -- who famously called off their previous engagement two weeks after welcoming son Tripp in December 2008 -- tell Us Weekly they reconnected three months ago while working out a custody plan for their 18-month-old son.

"I really thought we were over," Levi tells Us Weekly. "So when I went, I had no hope. I think we both just started talking — and then we took Tripp for a walk."

Also at Washington Post, "Bristol Palin and Levi Johnston engaged (Photos)."

Irvine is 22nd in Money Magazine's Best Places to Live

Via Althouse, in Wisconsin, where Madison is ranked 95th.

And clicking over to Money's entry for Irvine, the picture at the link includes a shot of Bill Barber Park.

Coincidentally, I just introduced readers to Colonel Barber the other day. Love the patriotism:

RELATED: Wisconsin beats Irvine in U.S. News and World Report's top national universities, but not by much.

Hey, ¡Ask a Mexican! — What's a Little Marriage Fraud Between Amigos?

From anti-Latino stereotype columnist Gustavo Arellano, at O.C. Weekly:

WITH ILLEGAL IMMIGRATION REFORM STALLED, SOME YOUNG, ASSIMILATED IMMIGRANTS ARE ENTERING INTO SHAM MARRIAGES WITH A LITTLE HELP FROM THEIR FRIENDS.

If Juan and Juana were going to stage a fake marriage to help Juan get his green card, the two of them figured, they might as well treat some friends to a great meal.

They invited eight of their closest pals—four guys, four girls, people whom they could trust with a felony—to dinner at Thai Nakorn in Garden Grove. A dress code was enforced: men in suits, or at least long-sleeved shirts, and women in dresses. No slacks, no heels, no curry.

Over plates of nam sod and fried trout, washed down with some beers, Juan and Juana enjoyed an evening out with amigos. She wore an off-white strapless dress; he, a suit bought off the rack at Men’s Wearhouse, his first. Juana’s friend snapped photographs throughout the night—at one point, Juan stood up to propose a toast so the friend could take the shot, but he merely posed for the camera, mouth open, and said nothing. Everyone laughed, as the disposable camera flashed and whirred onto the next frame.

The following day, the group drove to the Old Orange County Courthouse in Santa Ana, wearing the same clothes from the faux banquet. They posed for pictures at the western entrance of the historic building, on the steps near the marriage license office. In pairs, just the guys, just the girls, just the couple, everyone together. Juan even pulled off the garter belt from Juana’s thigh for a photo—the first time he ever placed his hands within a foot of her nether regions. Friends developed the photos at CVS Pharmacy, the better to play the part of poor kids in love.

A week later, Juan and Juana sat down for an interview with an officer in the Santa Ana offices of the United States Citizenship and Immigration Services, the government agency that handles requests by migrants to enter this country. They weren’t nervous—years of close, platonic friendship meant they knew each other’s stories, and they had consulted with friends and relatives who had staged fake weddings as well. They were prepared. Not even the penalties for marriage fraud—automatic deportation for the offending immigrant, a ban from ever applying again for legal entry into the United States, up to five years in federal prison and a $250,000 fine—made them sweat. Much.

They showed the officer the pictures from Thai Nakorn, from family gatherings. Holding hands. Kissing.

The agent’s questions were accusatory when they weren’t outright skeptical.

Where were your parents for such an important ceremony? she asked the two. In Mexico.

Wouldn’t they have flown up for the occasion? Yes, but we’re having the actual celebration down there.

What about other family? They know this is just a civil ceremony and will fly down to Mexico for the real celebration.

And when is that? Near Christmas.

But that’s six months away. We know, but that’s when our families go down to visit.

Why not hold it here?

Juan and Juana didn’t look at each other—instead, they literally bit their tongues. The officer silently flipped through the photos. After about an hour of questions and photo-browsing, the officer put the pictures down. “That was a really nice dress you wore, Juana,” she said. “Hope your wedding in Mexico goes well.”

There would be no more investigations, the two thought. The ruse was a success. That night, Juan and Juana invited their respective lovers over to their house for a celebration.

You gotta read the whole thing.

This piece is pretty much about how illegal immigrants say they've been "fucked over" by the system, and how they're going to " fuck it up" in return. It's basically a more domesticated version of reqonquista. They'll do it one fake wedding at a time, one anchor baby at time, and one Bachelor's degree "Dream Act" flunky at a time.

Reading this, it's no wonder how pissed off Americans are at the left's open-borders industry. It's kinda sick, frankly. And what's interesting is how Gustavo Arellano, who's claim to fame is allegedly smacking down all the "bogus" stereotypes of Latinos in America, basically confirms a whole bunch of 'em with regards to the crisis of the undocumented in the United States.

Megyn Kelly Eviscerates Kirsten Powers on NBPP and Congressman Brad Sherman Town Hall Fail

Michelle has the background on the Fox News debate: "“Have your facts:” Megyn Kelly vs. Kirsten Powers on NBPP thug case." Also, at Fire Andrea Mitchell, "Megyn Kelly destroys liberal mouthpiece Kirsten Powers as Powers defends the New Black Panthers":

Can Mel Gibson Bounce Back?

At LAT, "Gibson scandal could doom his movie career":

Talent agents and studio executives say it will be difficult for Gibson to be hired as an actor or director on a mainstream project. Gibson is heard on tapes threatening former girlfriend Oksana Grigorieva.

As Mel Gibson's legal and publicity problems mount, his prospects for a future in mainstream Hollywood grow dimmer.

Eight minutes of new audio surfaced on Monday capturing Gibson's angry and expletive-laden rant to ex-girlfriend Oksana Grigorieva. The recording, which appeared on the website Radar Online, follows an earlier release on the site of a tape in which Gibson uses foul and threatening language toward Grigorieva as well as the N-word. Monday's audio features an increasingly apoplectic Gibson threatening Grigorieva, with whom he's locked in a child custody battle, yelling at her that she needs a "bat to the side of the head" and that he could put her "in a … rose garden" if he wanted to. (Although the audio has not been independently verified by The Times, no one involved in the incident, including representatives from Gibson's camp, has called its authenticity into question.)

Interviews with a number of Hollywood talent agents and studio executives on Monday suggest that as a result of these recordings, Gibson has become anathema in the entertainment business; the insiders see little way Gibson would be hired as either an actor or director on any mainstream film.

On Friday, the news broke that Gibson had been dropped by his agency, William Morris Endeavor, around the time that the first reports of a diatribe against Grigorieva surfaced and as his longtime agent and supporter, Ed Limato, lay on his deathbed, both of which may have been factors in the decision.

The Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department also has confirmed that it is investigating the actor in a domestic abuse case. In the new recording, which will be added to evidence already being reviewed by detectives, the onetime A-lister seems to acknowledge that he hit Grigorieva, the mother of his child, when he responds to her mention of him hitting her by saying, "you … deserved it."

Sheriff's spokesman Steve Whitmore said the investigation would not be affected by Gibson's celebrity. "First of all there was no favoritism last time [referring to the 2006 Malibu incident]. There is no favoritism this time," Whitmore said. "We're just doing our job." The department faced criticism after Gibson's 2006 drunk driving arrest after it was suggested that the actor's anti-Semitic comments be expunged from the arrest report.

BONUS: At Radar Online, "EXCLUSIVE AUDIO: Another Mel Gibson Slur Caught On Tape In Crazed Rage - Listen To It Here." And at Fox News, "Whoopi Goldberg defends Mel Gibson."

Immigration Protests at MLB All-Star Game in Anaheim

This bugs me to no end:

At O.C. Register, "Immigration activists target MLB All-Star game":

Major League Baseball’s All-Star Game was the latest battlefield in the immigration debate with groups of protesters and counter-protesters turning out just before the event to demonstrate.

As traffic mounted at Angel Stadium Tuesday afternoon, about 20 activists in favor of Arizona’s new anti-illegal immigration law waved Arizona and American flags as they awaited the demonstrators who planned to protest the new law.

Deborah Craig of Mission Viejo coordinated the counter-protest a day after a group condemning the Arizona law announced that they had gathered 110,000 petitions asking Major League Baseball to move next year’s All-Star game from Arizona. The counter-protest began at 2 p.m., about an hour earlier of the expected demonstration.

"I think baseball should stay out of politics,’’ said Craig, whose husband, Britt, is a Campo Minuteman. “And second of all they (MLB) should not be on the wrong side and support illegal aliens.’’

The petitions are part of a national campaign called MoveTheGame.org, which has coordinated several rallies across the country to protest Arizona's recent passage of the anti-illegal immigration law SB1070.

John Morales of Los Angeles, one of the first of the protesters to arrive, said he wanted to bring the issue to baseball fans coming to the ballpark.
His group, Boycott Arizona Los Angeles, helped stage an earlier protest at Dodger Stadium.

“The All-Star game is just a small portion of a larger boycott,’’ Morales said. “If it doesn’t get pulled, we still have Arizona to boycott. This is just one of the targets.’’

'Wake the F**k Up Michelle Malkin, You’re Black'

Yep, more leftist hatred directed at Michelle:

Michelle's been tweeting the NAACP convention as well.

And just in from the Kansas City Star, "NAACP passes resolution on racism in tea party" (via Memeorandum).

Hmm... racism?

These folks know of where they speak:

Late this afternoon the NAACP passed a resolution calling on all people — including tea party leaders — to condemn racism within the tea party movement.

Passed on the fourth day of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People’s annual convention in Kansas City, the resolution also urged people to oppose what it said was the tea party’s drive “to push our country back to the pre-civil rights era.”

“We feel it’s very important that we educate our membership about the tea parties,” said Anita Russell, head of the Kansas City branch of the NAACP, as the debate on the resolution began. “We are concerned that there is a racist element within the tea parties.”

Well, as they say on Wizards of Waverly place, I think Ms. Russel sprinkled a little too much "Drama Queen" fairy dust into her Wheaties this morning.

RELATED: "Black Activists Condemn NAACP Resolution Against Tea Party Movement." Now that's what I'm talkin' 'bout!!

Plus, "St. Louis Tea Party Condemns NAACP Slur."

And William Jacobson writes, "Make no mistake, either under the original or the revised version, the NAACP has placed itself firmly within the Democratic smear machine which for two years has been attempting to portray all opposition to Obama's policies as racist."

I'm just waiting for them to call out there own members for, ahh, RAAAAACISM!!

Anarchy in Tel Aviv? John Lydon Will Tour Israel!

Well, so much for American music, LOL!!

Switching gears here with some John Lydon and Public Image. The dude is no Elvis Costello wanker! See, "John Lydon Set to Take Public Image Ltd to Israel":

Never one to shirk from controversy, former Sex Pistols frontman John Lydon is set court an outcry as he prepares to take the reformed Public Image Ltd. for a gig in Tel Aviv in Israel. As previously reported in Spinner, artists including Elvis Costello, Pixies and Gil Scott-Heron have boycotted Israel in protest over the country's policy towards Palestinians in the Gaza Strip, but Lydon feels that he can do more by way of protest by actually being in Israel.

Speaking with BBC 6 Music, Lydon said, "Of course, there are all sorts of terrible politics going on down there but there is just about all over the world. You cannot separate yourself from your audience because of the political powers-that-be.

Hello, hello, hello (ha, ha, ha)

You never listen to a word that I said
You only seen me
For the clothes that I wear
Or did the interest go so much deeper
It must have been
The colour of my hair

The Public Image

What you wanted was never made clear
Behind the image was ignorance and fear
You hide behind this public machine
Still follow same old scheme

Public Image

Two sides to every story
Somebody had to stop me
I'm not the same as when I began
I will not be treated as property

Public Image

Two sides to every story
Somebody had to stop me
I'm not the same as when I began
It's not a game of monopoly

Public image

Public image
You got what you wanted
The public image belongs to me
It's my entrance
My own creation
My grand finale
My goodbye

Public image
Goodbye

I've seen John Lydon in concert twice. He plays some Sex Pistols tunes during the set, and perhaps he'll do "Anarchy in Tel Aviv." Although, I don't think folks should take that too seriously. The guy's corporate at this point!

RELATED: See V Magazine, "Heroes: John Lydon."

Breaking: Selena Gomez Quits 'Wizards of Waverly Place'

No, I'm not embarking on teenybopper blogging. It's just that Disney Channel is on around my place 24/7 (we're watching Ratatouille at the moment), so this is actually pretty big news. See Showbiz Spy:

SELENA Gomez is set to quit her role on US TV show Wizards of Waverly Place.

The actress — who plays Alex Russo on the hit Disney Channel series — will leave the smash hit kids’ program when its fourth season ends.

“Unfortunately, I’m doing my last season of my show, which I’m really heartbroken about. That’s gonna be a terrible time for me,” Gomez, 17, told MTV.

Well, she's growing up, so perhaps she'll be branching out to bigger and better things.

Who is al-Shabab? (And How Will Obama Respond?)

At the Heritage Foundation, "Somalia’s al-Shabab and the Long War on Terrorism":

Sunday’s terror attacks in Kampala, Uganda are now known to be the work of Somalia’s Al-Shabab [the Youth], a self-declared ally of Osama bin Laden and operating arm of al-Qaeda in the Horn of Africa. Al-Shabab is increasingly being run by foreign fighters trained in Afghanistan. The group is also closely linked to Islamists in Yemen and to Yemini-American cleric Anwar al-Aulaqi, the spiritual adviser to the Fort Hood shooter, Major Nidal Hasan.

The venomous religious-ideological core of al-Shabab is readily apparent. As an Islamist organization, al-Shabab’s aims are to drive out or intimidate moderate Muslims in Somalia, impose strict sharia law, and eliminate infidels. While al-Shabab cast aspects of its radical views in nationalist and tribal terms, its core message is war against “Christian invaders.” As Francois Grignon of the International Crisis Group warns, “If the foreign jihadis fend off their local challengers, al-Shabab’s rapid transformation into a wholly al-Qaida franchise might become irreversible.”

RTWT.

Experts suggest this could be an escalation of the transnational terror threat throughout Africa.

And how's Obambi responding? Not a peep so far, which is to be expected, even though at least one American was killed. More at Foreign Policy, "How Will Obama Respond to the Uganda Attacks?"

RELATED: "Who is al-Shabab? Somali terror army extends reach."

Mortimer Zuckerman Bugs Me Sometimes

I really admire Mort Zuckerman, who's the publisher of U.S. News and World Report. Sometimes his editorial commentaries at the magazine are among the most compelling around. But today he's a Democrat in the news for admitting he helped President Obama write a speech. And that, my friends, bugs the heck out of me:

And Darleen Click points us to Gawker, which demonstrates once again the left's infallibility complex (which dismisses conservatives as bumpkins):

Daily News publisher Mort Zuckerman was on Fox pundit Neil Cavuto's show on Monday, talking trash about President Obama, when he made a very interesting claim: That he "helped write" one of Obama's speeches. Well, did he? No. ....

So, before this becomes a "thing" that your uncle brings up every time you see him, let's just get it out of the way: Mort Zuckerman did not "help write" any of Barack Obama's speeches (Marc Ambinder writes that the Obama campaign doesn't remember "consulting with Zuckerman.") There are a lot of reasons why this is the case—for example Mort Zuckerman and Barack Obama do not hold, in particular, many political positions in common—but the chief reason you can tell that Mort Zuckerman has not helped write any of the President's speeches is that the President's speeches are really well-written, and Mort Zuckerman is not that smart.

Darleen adds in response to Gawker:

Anyone who actually takes the time to read the text of Obama’s speeches is left with the same sense of nourishment as eating a whole jar of marshmellow fluff. Add to that the usual Leftist dismissal of political opponents and apostates as “stupid”. Cuz, ya know, Zuckerman just lucked his way into being a successful publisher and, even by Obamabot standards of “intelligence” [ie framed sheepskins] … Zuckerman has only both an MBA plus a Harvard LL.M.

Priceless.

See also, Ed Morrissey, "Did Zuckerman write one of Obama’s campaign speeches?"

RELATED: Zuckerman explains: "Mort Zuckerman Clarifies Obama Speechwriting Comment."

All-Star Game Phoenix 2011 in Crosshairs of Open Borders SB 1070 Backlash

As today's the big day in Anaheim, I guess it's to be expected that the MSM's illegal-alien coddlers would pump-up attacks on MLB's plans to hold the 2011 All-Star Game in Phoenix.

At the Arizona Republic, "SB 1070 Stirs MLB All-Star Game Debate":

On the eve of baseball's annual All-Star Game, much of the conversation Monday was focused on next year's game in Phoenix and the state's controversial immigration law.

Inside the Anaheim Marriott, All-Star players were voicing their opposition to Senate Bill 1070 - some more vehemently than others - as they readied for the sport's first major event since the law's passage. Outside, protesters called for Major League Baseball to move next year's game.

Milwaukee Brewers pitcher Yovani Gallardo spoke in the strongest terms when he said, "If the game is in Arizona, I will totally boycott."

Detroit Tigers relief pitcher Jose Valverde called it "the stupidest thing you can ever have."

"Nothing against Americans, but us Latinos have contributed so much to this country," said Valverde, who pitched for the Diamondbacks from 2003 to 2007. "We get our hands dirty and do the work gringos don't want to do. We're the ones out there cleaning the streets. Americans don't want to do that stuff.

"They say it's about this, that or the other. But it's all about getting Latinos out of this country. We're just here to help our people. Whether it's Mexico, Dominican, Cuba, we're just trying to help our families."

About two dozen protesters marched and chanted outside the hotel Monday morning. They said they had with them a petition bearing more 100,000 signatures asking Commissioner Bud Selig to move the 2011 game.

"We just want to make our voices heard and make sure that Major League Baseball knows it can't support racist laws like that," said organizer Ernesto Guerrero of the Service Employees International Union. "We're asking that they move the game out of Arizona."

But from Commissioner Selig's interview at LAT yesterday:

Q: You are fond of saying how baseball is a social institution with enormous social responsibilities. Yet, when you had the chance to address the issue of whether you should move next year's All-Star game from Phoenix in the wake of Arizona's controversial new immigration law, you pointed to baseball's progress in minority hiring, which did not address the issue. Since half the major league teams hold spring training in Arizona — in ballparks built at almost no cost to the teams — how might those business ties have influenced your decision not to address the issue?

A: No, they haven't. I believe we are a social institution. I believe more than ever we have addressed our responsibilities. We're setting up a lot of academies in the inner city, starting with Compton, going on to Houston, Miami, Philadelphia. We've had the great Civil Rights Weekend.

[Sports ethicist] Richard Lapchick, who can be very tough and very difficult, gave us our highest grades. I think the thing I will always be proud of is that he said Bud Selig has made the front offices look like America now. That was the highest compliment he could pay. That's what I said when I answered the question.

Q: But that doesn't address the issue.

A: I think it does. We will be socially active when we can do something to change life. We'll do everything we can to do what Jackie Robinson set us out to do. I'll stand by our record. But I want to say this again: We will do things where what we do really influence the outcome.

Q: So do you foresee any chance that next year's All-Star game will be moved?

A: I think I've given you the answer.

My recollection is that Selig's not easily shakable, but we're looking ahead to a long season of boycotts of Arizona and legal challenges to SB 1070, so I'm hoping the commissioner sticks to his principles. It shouldn't be too difficult, if Governor Brewer's experience of facing down Boston's city council is any guide. Local constituents applied the heat to the city's councillors after they passed a boycott on any official city business with Arizona. But when Gov. Brewer showed up for the National Governors Association in Boston, local officials were forced to apologize for their rash denunciation of the AZ law.