charming

Fifteen-year-old boy hacked to death with machetes in New York City, in a case of 'mistaken identity.' These are the kind of third-world savages we should never allow into this country.

https://nypost.com/2018/06/29/bodega-owner-breaks-silence-on-teens-gruesome-murder/

'Make American Great Again'

We are the country that put a man on the moon. Let’s get back to being that country.

GOTCHA!

Is it just me? Why do I get the feeling that this brouhaha over child separation at the border is just another ‘Gotcha!’ attempt by the Democrat-media complex to derail, first, the Trump candidacy and now the Trump presidency. The thing is, it’s just such a naked attempt to manipulate people’s emotions. ‘Trump Hates the Chilluns!’ Omigod. I think most people are smart enough to realize that this is a secondary issue. The important question is: Do you want this massive influx of illegal aliens across our southern border to continue? To that question, the overwhelming majority of Americans respond with a resounding ‘No.’

So if the Dem/media types think this issue is going to take them through the midterm elections, I think they’ve got their heads up their rear ends. In the first place, Trump has already taken most of the wind out of their sails with this executive order, although they’ll no doubt find some related aspects of this to keep bitching about. What they really want, of course, is for these families to be released into the general American population—in effect, an open-borders policy for these people. Make it across the Rio Grande, and you’re home free. They’d never have the guts to admit this, of course, because they realize most people totally disagree with them. But that’s what they really want.

And then there’s the sneaking suspicion that these people care more about illegal aliens than they do about Americans. After all, there are over a million American children separated from their parents who are in jail or prison. Have you heard a peep of concern about them? Of course not.

So my feeling is that this will fade as we move along toward November, that this will recede just like the Access Hollywood tape and Stormy Daniels and all the rest of them. ‘Gotcha!’ . . . not.

two simple questions

Q: If an American citizen is charged with a crime, is she separated from her children?
A: Yes. She is put in jail awaiting trial, and the children are brought under the wing of a child protective agency and usually put in some kind of institutional setting.

Q: Should illegal aliens be treated more leniently than American citizens?
A: No.

geopolitics

Immigration is the one issue I agree with Trump on. We need to control who's coming into this country; we need to be bringing in people with education and skills that will benefit us as well as them. Anybody who thinks it's a good idea for us to allow in millions of illiterate peasants from Mexico and Central America just because they can make it across the Rio Grande ought to have his head examined.

That said, it seems to me that we ought to be paying a lot more attention to these countries-- our neighbors, after all-- than we do. We should pay a lot less attention to the Middle East-- where, IMHO, we're basically on the side of the Bad Guys. What the hell are we doing in Afghanistan after 17 bleepin' years? And Iraq? A war we should never have instigated in the first place. Instead, we should be concentrating our efforts on trying to help our neighbors become prosperous, orderly societies-- first-world countries-- whose people would be perfectly content to stay where they are.

monogamy

I think there should be clubs in colleges, high schools, maybe even middle schools called, simply, 'Monogamy.' I think monogamy is really what most kids want, especially if their parents seem to have successful marriages. These clubs would be totally voluntary, not affiliated with any religion, but the kids who join them would basically be saying, 'I want to find a life partner and have children and a family. I'm not interested in promiscuous sex.'

The popular culture of today is this 'hookup' culture, which tells kids that they should try to be as promiscuous as possible with as many people as possible. If it results in pregnancy, that's a mistake. On the other hand, you might not want to 'take precautions' if that will interfere with your sexual pleasure. This is the culture that Hollywood tries to foist on us, particularly on our children.

But I don't think this is what most young people actually want. This hookup culture tries to pressure girls, in particular, into having casual sex when they may not want that at all. 'Monogamy' would be a cultural alternative that would allow these young people to avoid that pressure.

two sides of the same coin

Welfare dependency and criminality are two sides of the same coin: parasitism, the unproductive people living off the productive people.