- Why do people drive over to the health club for a workout and then drive around the parking lot looking for the closest parking spot to the door?
- Ad slogan for one of the fast food chains, Hardee’s I think:
Without us, some guys would starve.
- Growing old is expected, and while not really welcome, is OK.
Growing infirm of mind or body is a bitch kitty! Just shoot me!
- I grew up understanding what the word illegal meant. So why all of a sudden does no one seem to understand what illegal immigrant means? In 1960 they would have been rounded up and sent back home, and that would have been right, proper, and legal. No one would have objected, and most would have applauded. Why is that not a viable solution now?
- The transititions from season to season are so sudden, so abrupt now. No more sliding gradually from winter to spring, summer to fall. It happens … BANG … overnight while we’re sleeping.
i would tell my kids about dnr for me but afraid if i slipped in the shower and was knocked out they would leave me there…
I wonder Winston if this has something to do with the example shown us by the great, not so good and the rich; if you have money you can “get out of jail”; if you have power and money you can do what you like and get away with it because you have the money to hire good lawyers.
There has to be some feeling of things being equalised. The not so powerful and poor, have only their voice and the fear of governments and the status quo, that we just might get disorderly.
Nothing means what it did earlier, because things are always changing and because the rich and powerful have shown the rest of the world that integrity is not worthwhile having….
P.S. Watched tv prog this weekend on the rising cost of water around the world. Of course I expected to see countries like Africa and South America profiled; however imagine my shock to see descriptions of families in Detroit, Michigan, who are having to illegally connect themselves to water because they cannot afford it otherwise. Water and decent sanitation needs to be a human right.
So whilst I understand what you are saying, what about governments privatising water, (which comes from the sky by the way), so that companies can make profit, and humans are forced to commit illegal acts just to get water.
>illegal
The War on Drugs happened. Once the US Government decalared war on American citizens it lost all credibility. Illegal no longer has any meaning. Anyone who resists the regime is illegal.
Illegal immigration and the inability to deport is just another example of what Bernard Goldberg refers to as “political guilt” in his book BIAS. It is the concept that some people feel bad about being successful while others are not so they seek to soothe their consciences. This they do in a variety of ways. In this case, it seems to be the notion of amnesty that has caught their fancy. “Political guilt” can drive people to violate the law, as is evidenced by this issue. If you watch carefully, you can see this pattern in both Democrats and Republicans in the House and Senate (and White House). It is part of the fuel behind the drive to provide entitlements of all kinds.
Yes, I too wish that this was the 1960s again if only so we could call a spade a spade and ship the illegals back home without comment.