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stevemcgarrett
Joined: 24 Mar 2006
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 Posted: Sat Jun 09, 2007 7:50 pm Post subject: LETTER TO PRES. BUSH ON A LITTLE IMMIGRATION MATTER |
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I'm thinking of emailing the following letter to the White House. Feel free to add your own letters to this thread.
Dear President Bush,
I�m about to plan a little trip with my family and extended family, and I would like to ask you to assist me. I�m a lower mid-income worker, and a taxpaying, law-abiding citizen. I�m visiting my family in Brownsville Texas since we�ve decided to visit our dear grandparents, who are getting too old to care for themselves, and who live just a few miles across the border in Mexico.
We plan to walk across the border, so I need to make a few special arrangements. I know you can help with this. Because I only expect to be in Mexico long enough for my children to get a quality free education (or until they want to have children), I plan to skip all the legal stuff like visas, passports, immigration quotas and laws. I�m sure they handle those things the same way you do here. So, would you mind telling your buddy, President Vicente Fox, that I�m on my way over? Please let him know that I will be expecting the following:
1. Free medical care for my entire family.
2. English-speaking government bureaucrats for all services I might need, whether I use them or not.
3. All government forms need to be printed in English, and all government phone operators must speak English.
4. I want my kids to be taught by English-speaking teachers.
5. Schools need to include classes on American culture and history.
6. I want my kids to see the American flag flying on the top of the flag pole at their school with the Mexican flag flying lower down.
7. Please plan to feed my kids at school for both breakfast and lunch.
8. I will need a local Mexican driver�s license so I can get easy access to government services.
9. I do not plan to have any car insurance, and I won�t make any effort to learn local traffic laws.
10. In case one of the Mexican police officers does not get the memo from Pres. Fox to leave me alone, please be sure that all police officers speak English.
11. I plan to fly the U.S. flag from my house top, put flag decals on my car, and have a gigantic celebration on July 4th. I do not want any complaints or negative comments from the locals.
12. I would also like to have a nice job without paying any taxes, and don�t enforce any labor laws or tax laws.
13. Please tell all the people in the country to be extremely nice and never say a critical word about me, or about the strain I might place on the Mexican economy. I know this is an easy request because you already do all these things for all the people who come to the U.S. from Mexico.
I am sure that Pres. Fox won�t mind returning the favor if you ask him nicely. However, if he gives you any trouble, just invite him to go quail hunting with Vice President Cheney.
Sincerely yours,
John Q. Public |
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charlieDD
Joined: 16 Jun 2006
Location: Seoul, Korea
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| Posted: Sat Jun 09, 2007 9:30 pm Post subject: |
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Do it!
I saw " Beck " (on Fox News I believe ) talking about how poorly the Mexicans treat illegal immigrants from Central America who come to get jobs illegally in Mexico.
Why is it that we have to be so perfect when the a*holes are doing far, far, far worse than we could ever imagine doing in their own backyards? I'm glad we do strive to do better, but I wonder sometimes if they don't just see us as the biggest fools on the block. |
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cwemory
Joined: 14 Jan 2006
Location: Gunpo, Korea
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| Posted: Sat Jun 09, 2007 9:57 pm Post subject: Re: LETTER TO PRES. BUSH ON A LITTLE IMMIGRATION MATTER |
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| stevemcgarrett wrote: |
| So, would you mind telling your buddy, President Vicente Fox, that I�m on my way over? |
Wouldn't it be better if he tells his buddy Felipe Calder�n, the current President of Mexico  ? |
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stevemcgarrett
Joined: 24 Mar 2006
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| Posted: Sat Jun 09, 2007 11:38 pm Post subject: |
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I stand corrected. Should have read "former president of Mexico."
Mahalo for the heads-up, cwemory. |
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ddeubel
Joined: 20 Jul 2005
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| Posted: Sun Jun 10, 2007 1:18 am Post subject: |
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Also Mr. Bush,
just so I can feel at home and that Mexico will be more friendly towards me, please airlift 40 million English native speakers into Mexico. Then all my above wishes will have more import.
Thanks,
Your Aunt Samantha |
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cwemory
Joined: 14 Jan 2006
Location: Gunpo, Korea
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| Posted: Sun Jun 10, 2007 3:12 am Post subject: |
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| 'A'ole pilikia (not sure if the spelling's right.) |
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Yo!Chingo
Joined: 06 Dec 2005
Location: Seoul Korea
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| Posted: Sun Jun 10, 2007 4:44 pm Post subject: |
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Send it! I wanna be an illegal alien too  |
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ddeubel
Joined: 20 Jul 2005
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| Posted: Tue Jun 12, 2007 3:40 am Post subject: |
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I'll reply here with this song, as well. Just so McGarette "I haven't got a clue" 0 and 5, can once more catch wind of the idiocy he bathes in.....
Dear Mr. President,
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mQYHKILXD4k
DD |
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stevemcgarrett
Joined: 24 Mar 2006
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| Posted: Tue Jun 12, 2007 3:56 am Post subject: |
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ddeubel:
I decided to watch the video of Pink that you posted the link to.
I got through about a third of it before I wanted to puke.
You must be living in some parallel universe.
I'm surprised the concert didn't feature a promo for Dennis Kucinich.
Dripping liberal lyrical bleeding heart woe-is-us crap.
Yes, Bush is responsible for all the misery in the world. He doesn't even care if the mothers of servicemen can say goodbye to them.
What a crock of Shi-it.
Do you really get stirred up by such tripe?
And as far as protest songs go, Pink cannot even begin to compare to the singers of the Vietnam era. |
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ddeubel
Joined: 20 Jul 2005
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| Posted: Tue Jun 12, 2007 5:29 am Post subject: |
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| You must be living in some parallel universe. |
No parallel universe just the here and now, like yourself. Difference being -- "he not busy being born is a busy dying." Your ideas are about death and are bleeding death, choking and clogged and dry and old and used up and tired -- doctors and those little paper cups.
I'm tired of the greasy haired old, leading us on into war and conflict. So I am alive like Dylan above -- one of those good Vietnam rejects. I'm sure McGarette, if you had been old enough, you'd have been one of those Christian crew necked types beating up all the hippies in Ann Arbour. We forget that not everyone was right back then, in fact, only a small percentage of people actually were out there - caring. Our fascination with the era blinds us to that reality. Thus, my call for a few of this generation.
DD
PS. glad I made you almost puke, auto-phsiological response to your own self conflict. |
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stevemcgarrett
Joined: 24 Mar 2006
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| Posted: Tue Jun 12, 2007 7:57 pm Post subject: |
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ddeubel:
No self-conflict here, which must annoy you to no end. I'm assured of my own position and I don't need some fashion rocker like The Pink telling me how to think with vapid lyrics.
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| We forget that not everyone was right back then, in fact, only a small percentage of people actually were out there - caring. Our fascination with the era blinds us to that reality. Thus, my call for a few of this generation. |
Now Stephen Stills was a different matter:
"A thousand people in the street. Singing songs and carrying signs. Mostly saying hurray for our side."
Pink is no more than a glorified cheerleader for the Left. Go give her your pom-poms. |
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ddeubel
Joined: 20 Jul 2005
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| Posted: Tue Jun 12, 2007 11:32 pm Post subject: |
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Now Stephen Stills was a different matter:
"A thousand people in the street. Singing songs and carrying signs. Mostly saying hurray for our side."
Pink is no more than a glorified cheerleader for the Left. Go give her your pom-poms. |
You just don't get it...... always just labeling and dealing in packaging and not substance.....ugh, cave man.
I don't like Pink's music at all but I can and will listen and applaud the message and impulse - the content of this song. I deal in content , you deal in wiffy platitudes and self assured entitlement and corraled truth.
David Brooks had a great article in today's NY times about how the real battle in America is not over immigration, affirmative action, terrorism , religion. It is between those that get it, who are for a smaller world, cultural variety and individualism and those who don't -- who are fearful and labeling and protective/defensive. Read it. you'll need a subscription (fortunately my work pays  )
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The next culture war
By DAVID BROOKS
If you want to understand what is shaping the immigration debate, start with education. |
Rexroth said it best, in many ways. But you don't get it or can ever put your arms around it. Still I'll leave you with this from his third stanza of Thou Shalt not Kill -- just because you think Pink is but pap. But you probably put Rex there too - so much you don't get it.
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Was their end noble and tragic,
Like the mask of a tyrant?
Like Agamemnon�s secret golden face?
Indeed it was not. Up all night
In the fo�c�sle, bemused and beaten,
Bleeding at the rectum, in his
Pocket a review by the one
Colleague he respected, �If he
Really means what these poems
Pretend to say, he has only
One way out �.� Into the
Hot acrid Caribbean sun,
Into the acrid, transparent,
Smoky sea. Or another, lice in his
Armpits and crotch, garbage littered
On the floor, gray greasy rags on
The bed. �I killed them because they
Were dirty, stinking Communists.
I should get a medal.� Again,
Another, Simenon foretold
His end at a glance. �I dare you
To pull the trigger.� She shut her eyes
And spilled gin over her dress.
The pistol wobbled in his hand.
It took them hours to die.
Another threw herself downstairs,
And broke her back. It took her years.
Two put their heads under water
In the bath and filled their lungs.
Another threw himself under
The traffic of a crowded bridge.
Another, drunk, jumped from a
Balcony and broke her neck.
Another soaked herself in
Gasoline and ran blazing
Into the street and lived on
In custody. One made love
Only once with a beggar woman.
He died years later of syphilis
Of the brain and spine. Fifteen
Years of pain and poverty,
While his mind leaked away.
One tried three times in twenty years
To drown himself. The last time
He succeeded. One turned on the gas
When she had no more food, no more
Money, and only half a lung.
One went up to Harlem, took on
Thirty men, came home and
Cut her throat. One sat up all night
Talking to H.L. Mencken and
Drowned himself in the morning.
How many stopped writing at thirty?
How many went to work for Time?
How many died of prefrontal
Lobotomies in the Communist Party?
How many are lost in the back wards
Of provincial madhouses?
How many on the advice of
Their psychoanalysts, decided
A business career was best after all?
How many are hopeless alcoholics?
Ren� Crevel!
Jacques Rigaud!
Antonin Artaud!
Mayakofsky!
Essenin!
Robert Desnos!
Saint Pol Roux!
Max Jacob!
All over the world
The same disembodied hand
Strikes us down.
Here is a mountain of death.
A hill of heads like the Khans piled up.
The first-born of a century
Slaughtered by Herod.
Three generations of infants
Stuffed down the maw of Moloch. |
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