To quote that great philospher Daffy Duck, it’s “because I’m a greedy little duck.” Corporate America wants to sell undocumented immigrants cars and mortgages and insurance, etc.

Embracing Illegals

Companies are getting hooked on the buying power of 11 million undocumented immigrants. 

At the same time, though, the fast-growing undocumented population is coming to be seen as an untapped engine of growth. In the past several years, big U.S. consumer companies — banks, insurers, mortgage lenders, credit-card outfits, phone carriers, and others — have decided that a market of 11 million or so potential customers is simply too big to ignore. It may be against the law for the Valenzuelas to be in the U.S. or for an employer to hire them, but there’s nothing illegal about selling to them.

How charmingly amoral of them. Of course, should enough immigrants get deported and thus default on their loans, then corporate America, their panties deeply in a twist, might start championing immigration reform. It could happen!

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Stealing WiFi Access.

Interesting:

Police have arrested a man for using someone else’s wireless Internet network in one of the first criminal cases involving this fairly common practice.

Near as I can tell, there was no other criminal activity involved. The man who used someone else’s wireless wasn’t doing anything wrong it it; he was just using the Internet.

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Former Worldcom boss Bernard Ebbers wept openly as he was sentenced to 25 years in jail for his part in the scandal which brought down the firm.

Before you feel too sorry for him 

Some 20,000 workers lost their jobs, while shareholders lost about $180bn, when the company filed for bankruptcy protection.

Mr Ebbers “was clearly a leader of criminal activity in this case,” the judge said.

“A sentence of anything less would not reflect the seriousness of the crime.”

As far as I know, in federal convictions like this, there are no reduced terms for good behavior, etc., meaning he will do the entire 25 years.

Hey, if enough CEOs go to prison, then maybe we will get actual and meaningful prison reform.

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From our previous post (read the whole thing for complete links and info).

The L.A. 8 have been in court, on trial and harassed by the feds for eighteen years. Even though courts have ruled that what they were doing was completely legal, the U.S., in a complete miscarriage of justice, is attempting to deport two of them by applying the Patriot Act retroactively. That’s right, retroactively.

Muna Coobtee of Committee4Justice.com details the history and madness of the vindictive government attempts to deport the Eight.

mp3 (11:19, 3.89 MB)

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Jeff Jobson emails

You’ll recall my take on the current regime: I think a subtle way of portraying the idea would be to take that Red, White, and Blue elephant profile the GOP uses and add dark glasses and a white cane! I’m going to see if I can doctor one up for my bumper (not the Checker, though!)

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450 sheep jump to their deaths in Turkey

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