More Pointless Immigration Comments

Okay, so this whole immigration thing just isn't going away, huh? You've got people screaming that we are rewarding the illegal immigrants with the plan that is before Congress, that it is little more than total amnesty. Then you have others saying that it doesn't go far enough, that the fees required by the plan are punishment.

Let me clarify my take on this before I add my penny's worth of thought. If people enter a country through any means other than those required to gain citizenship, then they have violated the law. That makes them illegal in the eyes of the country's laws. We aren't going to quibble over who fought at the Alamo and all of that history. History is full of people being pushed around. That is human nature and no amount of political backpedalling will ever change that. I don't see my Celtic ancestors demanding their lands back in Europe. So, you enter a country according to its laws, or accept the fact you have violated that country's laws and deal with the fallout, no matter how much it sucks.

Having said that, I do believe that anything akin to rounding up all of the illegal immigrants and shipping them out of the country smacks of fascist nonsense. Offer the olive branch, set a deadline (a fair and generous one) for all illegals to step up and join the citizenship program, then make anyone who avoided that deadline fair game for deportation. You are attempting to make people respect the laws without being evil. You are giving them options. It is then their choice.

But, I have one big problem with any plan to make illegal immigrants full citizens, and I have yet to see this topic broached in the mainstream media. I hear liberals claiming Bush and his posse want to push this plan through so that they can maintain the cheap labor base that the major corporations exploit to make their profits. Okay. I admit to being a Democrat, but the flaw I see in this whole thing is that once these people become American citizens, they will then have to paid like American citizens and will have the ability to take legal recourse to get that pay. Cheap labor is gone. Prices will soar. And we will have an even larger base of working poor being crushed by an imbalanced economy. This will push more people into the welfare state, which will cripple the government even more.

This isn't the fault of the people who come to this country seeking better pay and safety. This IS the handiwork of a government that has consistently done everything it can to keep the boot on the neck of the working class. So we have really piss-poor options being offered to us: Exploit the illegal immigrants or use shortsighted legislation to further repress the economy.

And to think we voted these people into office. Who are the REAL idiots?

Rattling A Dead Man's Chains

Yeah, like I'm good at keeping my promises. Okay, there were no "promises". I quite making promises many years ago. Why? Long story, for another time. Someone remind me to tell it. Yeah, like that'll happen.

Sarcasm abounds in my posts. But there are a few things that I find I can be completely sober about.

1. What in hell is wrong with both major political parties? Okay, I admit to never having been a fan of the Republican party. Still, I mean, what the fuck, people?!?!?!? You guys are taking the Bill Of Rights and wiping your collective asses with it. Stop it. Now. And you want to know WHY? You do NOT want the American public to become aware and organized. As long as the public is fractionized (Is that a real word?), they are workable, as well as gullible, because they will never sit down together conservative with liberal, pro-life with pro-choice, Ann Coulter fan with Maureen Dowd groupie and put two and two together. Keep blatantly screwing up as well as screwing over the American public, and you WILL see the country become organized. And when they take the time to realize the government is By the People, Of the People, And FOR THE PEOPLE, they will kick down your playhouse. Then, your only resort to maintain power will to declare a terrorist takeover of the government, and then you better hope the armed forces will still trust you. But then, there will always be the whole Walter Reed VA Hospital disgrace....

2. What the hell is wrong with you Democrats? (Had to break this rant apart from the other to avoid the Paragraph From Hell) The Republican Party is basically handing you a landslide in most future elections and you can't find one upstanding person for the Democratic face other than Obama. No offense meant to the man. I like him, but his lack of experience will be the breaking point of his campaign. Every other "old school" Democrat is currently being riddled with ethical holes, or they are finding skeletons in closets that Timmy on "South Park" could easily bury better. And drop the fanatical liberal stance. You will only win over the public with a moderate tone and use the power of office to SLOWLY shift the country to a more liberal position. Stupid, stupid!

Okay, enough. Any more and I'll say things that will get me flagged by the CIA and FBI. Like I really want them sticking their noses into my private life. (Okay, that's sarcasm because we all know they have been sifting through our electronic lives for years now, and it seems like each week we find out how widespread it is, yet we don't demand these politicians who approve this crap to be ousted from office.

We are sheep, truly awaiting the wolves with open arms of ignorance.

Done With The Holidays

Ah, the day after Thanksgiving. I have discovered a couple of truths ("truths" being utterly subjective based on my world view--your mileage or "truths" may vary).

1. You find, at least here in the Plains of Kansas, that, on Thanksgiving Day, there are a LOT of Hispanic families toodling about. Now, before you point your uber liberal fingers at me and cry "Hatemonger!", let me just say this is an observation and not an attempt to insult any ethnic group. I just noticed, while at the local SuperCenter, a large number of Hispanic families in the store. During regular days, you might see one or two, but I honestly thought there was some sort of Hispanic festival or something I wasn't aware of.

Then it hit me. Thanksgiving has to be one of the few days the mostly Anglo population is at home (the other would be Super Bowl Sunday). No one to intimidate, glare or insult these families. So they came out, most in what had to be their Sunday best. They don't have the same Thanksgiving Day concepts, so, to them, it was the perfect day to take the family out for shopping and fun.

2. People, on the day after Thanksgiving, are the biggest bunch of low-life, shit-sucking weasels to walk the planet. It tends to affirm my view that the nukes should be used post-haste and let's leave the planet to the cockroaches. Pushing, shoving, elbowing, cutting in line, spewing the most valueless filth from their mouths in a public setting where they are assured the biggest audience. Drivers aim for you, can't wait for pedestrians (WHO HAVE THE FUCKING RIGHT-OF-WAY!!!) because they just might miss out on more meaningless crap at some store down the street, and seem blind to the fact that every other moron with a driver's license is acting the same way.

This is all nothing new. We've all seen it. But it is sad to have it re-affirmed every damn year I venture out just to see the crowds and attempt to stretch my tolerance for interaction with my fellow humans. The saddest thing I saw today was the woman at a store who stood paralyzed with a look of distress. I was practically shoved into her, and, seeing that look on her face, asked, "Hey, can I do something to help you?" This brought the response "Don't fucking touch me." Yup, that's my thought. That thought goes out to the older guy who groped my breast while squeezing past through the checkout line I was standing in. You're lucky I didn't kill you, but I had been in that line for nearly thirty minutes, PLUS, you aren't worth going to jail over.

Next year, I'm just going to volunteer for an extra-long shift at work.