Burning Atlanta

This is kind of amusing on a couple of levels.

Seditious slime

Tapping the hot-button issue of immigration in the region, the Los Angeles City Council and a group of community leaders on Wednesday denounced a federal measure that would require employers to verify their workers are in the country legally.

Calling it mean-spirited and intentionally divisive, the council voted 11-1 to oppose the measure proposed by Rep. Heath Shuler, R-N.C., which would beef up border patrols and use a computerized system to verify the legal status of job candidates. Remember what I've said about people that use those phrases. Oh, Shuler is a DEMOCRAT.

"We have something more compassionate and humane from the National League of Cities that we would like to see implemented," Councilman Dennis Zine said. Damn, my crying towel is in the dryer. I'll have to wait to hear all the boo-hoo bullshit.

"We deal with the issue of immigration, but in a way that recognizes the realities of the problem and just doesn't say we will ship 12 million people out of the country." We don't have to ship them all out, just enforce the laws. They got here on their own and they can leave on their own.

Here's the kicker: A city council has got jack shit pull on a Congressional bill. They can hope to influence their senators and representatives but city councils don't have a vote in Congress. So, all they're doing is making a snot-nosed political statement.