More on the Border

Let's assume that most Mexican illegals are here for a job.

Not all illegals are like Miguel Paddilla of Gallitzin, PA, who blasted three legal American citizens and left them bleeding to death on the steps of the UVA club.

You want to come here to work? No Problem - we have welcomed many millions of immigrants before and they have become part of the American family. My own family has immigrant roots. That's not the issue.

The issue is the fact that you are here illegally. That means something, and it is making a great many of us very angry.

Why? Take a look at this picture:

The ugly one on the right is my US Marine son. The lovely lady beside him is his wife, and the boy on my son's lap is our step-grandson. Why does the illegal issue make me angry? Because my son has spent thousands of dollars and many hours of time to make his Thai wife a legal immigrant. We have not yet met our daughter-in-law in person. She is well-educated, intelligent, and speaks English very well. If she came to this country she would not be in the fields picking strawberries. He is not alone - ask any military family what they go through to get their foreign-born spouses into this country.

Should we put out the welcome mat and offer citizenship to those who jumped our border, while we let people like my daughter-in-law shuffle paperwork for years before they get in?

My solution - (did I say this before?) don't round up the illegals and deport them. Slap the biggest fine you can on every single employer who hires them. Offer rewards for those who turn them in. Stop the welfare, medical, and educational subsidies for those who are not here legally. Offer them a free bus trip back. When the cash cow dries up, they will go home on their own, and then GET IN LINE with the rest of the immigrants. Wait your turn, pay your dues, and do it legally - and we welcome you to our American family. Do it illegally, and we give you the boot right back to where you came from. Try it again, and maybe Gitmo would be a good alternative.

Bordering on Nonsense

I really don't get it. It's hard for me to watch my party in meltdown-mode because so few of them have the guts to do the right thing. Here is what Senate Majority Leader Frist said about the issue: "If you just try to build a wall 30 feet high and 2,000 miles long, it will be insufficient. People will go up over it, around it, in order to get a job in this country."

Now let's see - thirty feet high and 2,000 miles long. 30 feet is pretty close to the heighth of a telephone pole, 2,000 miles would surely cover the entire border. Has Mr. Frist every tried to go over a wall thirty feet high? The reason they get in is because we let them in. What did the Chinese do when they had trouble with troublesome invaders? Built a pretty decent wall, but that's not all they did. What did Hadrian do to keep out those nasty Scotsmen? Built a wall, (see picture) but that's not all they did. They placed armed soldiers on the wall to prevent invaders from going up over or around it. When are we going to wake up?

You know what woke up our part of the state of Pennsylvania? You don't see illegals hanging out on corners trying to get jobs around here. They are here, but we didn't realize it until one morning we woke up and heard about the FIRST triple homicide in Altoona. An illegal Mexican lost his temper when he was denied admittance to a local club and shot down four people. Three of them died on the spot. A buddy of mine has a brother who is a State cop and had arrested the fellow and turned him into ICE. They simply let him go. Now the blood of three innocent LEGAL Americans is on their hand, and the hands of all those in the US Government who let illegal invaders not only get in, but roam free and terrorize our people. This is happening all over the country - homes robbed, people murdered, communities trashed. How long with the American people tolerate the spineless leaders who permit the rape of our country?

The Da Vinci Joke

This space reserved for discussion on a very serious book and movie.

The Da Vinci Code will soon be hitting the big screen and is already stirring up controversy at about 6.5 on the richter scale. I have not read the book or seen the movie, but if somebody insults me enough and calls me stupid, and hurts my feelings, maybe I will.

From what I can make of it has something to do about the Holy Grail. Being a Christian, this is an important topic for me. We saw how much suffering the Knights endured in search of it, and what it can do to Nazis who transgress its power.

Apparently it makes a few claims about the Church and Jesus Christ that are considered out of the ordinary. The church didn't believe Jesus Christ was divine until Constantine called the Council of Nicea? I have been a student of Church history and the Bible for nearly thirty years, and that's a new one on me. Jesus was married and had a kid? Who is this Dan Brown guy - another Joseph Smith trying to start a new religion? The "Facts" of this book are so easy to disclaim, it really is a joke. The sad thing is that most Americans get their Bible and history knowledge from TV and movies, so we can only imagine how many poor ignorant souls will walk away confused and believing this religious comedy as fact.

The book and movie are claiming that somehow the church supressed a whole slew of gospel accounts and left us with only the approved four. These gospels have been around for 2,000 years and have changed the world - thousands of people have died because they refused to deny the truth that they contain. I don't think we have much to worry about this movie being the last nail in the coffin.

Another thing - I am still waiting for a movie on the life of Mohammed. What a blockbuster that would be! Was Mohammed married? Was he married to any nine year old girls? Now that would be an interesting movie, especially to those with pedophiliac leanings. But don't hold your breath.

Who Won the Cartoon Wars?

After the fires have been put out, the dust settled, and the bodies buried - who won the cartoon wars? Everybody's been crying about protecting the "freedom of speech" and all that junk, but in the end nothing has been protected.

Whose job is it to protect freedom of speech? The newspaper editors and television producers? Not on your life. It is the job of the U.S. Government and military. When throat-slitting, blood-thirsty, raving lunatic religious zealots say they plan on taking off your head if you publish a picture, there is not much you can do. "You can run, but you can't hide" - they will find you and they will kill you. It is the job of the US government to FIND THEM AND KILL THEM FIRST.

You know that the Muslim throat-slitters have won when COMEDY CENTRAL cannot broadcast a picture because they fear retaliation. They have no problem offending anyone and everyone, but not the throat-slitters. They don't want them knocking on their door.

I recall as a young highschool graduate watching the Iran Hostage Crisis. I and nearly every other American male was ready to pick up an M-16 and take a trip and settle it. But no - Jimmy Carter was President and instead we give the murderers nearly three decades to build up and make plans to make us all hostages - and they have. So much for "freedom of the press".