Res Ipsa Loquitur

Thanks, Rita.

Agreed

I guess it would be too much to ask for Lawmakers to work on something constructive than say...oh...I don't know.......Kelo vs New London?

Great post Rita!

I agree with you Rita, but at the same time, conservatives are trapped in a scheme of etiquette that prevents us from making appropriate long term survival choices. For example, the American Southwest has been thoroughly overwhelmed by an inundation of socially illiterate people from South America, who may at one time have been a valuable source of labor, but are now only bringing a minute fraction of potential manual labor with them in regard to their numbers. When they get here and see what is available, they want all of that right now and aren't going to mow lawns and clean rooms to get it so they look for and find plenty of short-cuts. With these skewed ideas and tools they never really assimilate, they create islands of something else and inflict a whole lot of social chaos, anger, and violent crime on the places around them. (I remember the first drive-by shooting in this area. All civilized people were shocked. Now it's a part of our lives. I remember the first gang-banger graffiti in this area. All civilized people were dismayed. Now it's a part of our lives. I've had students in adult basic education with "kill all the white people and take all their things" tattooed on their faces. It's a part of our lives.) For a multitude of reasons, but mainly because they just don't understand it (and since they have been slaves or poorly reimbursed servants for thousands of years why would they), they not only don't participate in the American process, in their ultimate frustration they try to break it and turn it into what they fled to come here. They entrench in enclosed communities where white people are absolutely not welcome (no lawsuits - death) and Americans just adapt to the violence and crime that springs up and seeps out in the night.

We take it as universal and self-evident that civilized people don't murder for a look, or vandalize other people's properties, or convince pubescent girls to become bitches and ho's for a gang of thugs, or even burn flags, but our reaction is to be embarrassed for exhibitions of such ignorance. I don't think that is the appropriate reaction when the real issue is that an army of 3rd world thugs (from El Salvador to Saudi Arabia) has decided it wants this house. We can be embarrassed for people with their dresss tucked in their panty hose, or spinach in their front teeth, but not for an angry swarm with our elimination in its heart. We absolutely don't need more government assistance, but we do need another social strategy for contending with terrorism and those who lurk on its fringes trying to manipulate both sides in pursuit of a personal agenda.