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Poco

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Monday, April 3, 2006 01:01 PM

It has come to this

"The sonogram is gone and the boyfriend is too."

Oh, well. Crap on it anyway. No big deal. Easy come, easy go. I can always make another one.

And this person has some question in her bipolar mind as to whether she is fit to be the primary influence, protector, instiller of values, provider, and wholly dedicated caretaker of a human child? We are seeing the results of today's "parenting". Particularly in the mind controlling drug consumption, and utterly disconnected personalities being produced in children. I fear it is a frightening future we face. Having a hard time finding an employee that will actually come to work? Having difficulty finding an honest/competent plumber, mechanic, doctor? Finding it difficult imagining your child marrying someone of their age, come marrying time?

Children. They're like pets, only they cost more, right? Or fashion statements (oh, look how cute that dress is on her - and that bow). Or an avenue to fulfill some instinctual urge to be a mommy or a daddy. Hey, don't worry about what's actually required to raise a quality child, or for that matter what a human child actually is. There's always daycare and passivity drugs. I've read that "quality time" can consist of as little as an hour a day. Maybe someday someone will install a switch, so you can just turn them off when it becomes too inconvenient.

What's most important is what's good for you. After all, you are the most important thing in the universe. You and your desires. Never forget that.

I know my kids, they know me. Intimately. I am their father, first and formeost, and nothing takes precedence over that.

-Poco

Tuesday, April 11, 2006 07:51 AM
Original article: Immigration nation

This Land Is My Land, This Land Ain't Your Land, From California...

When the Europeans came to this continent they conquered the natives and took their land. Period. That's the way it is done , and has been done for centuries, in Europe and everywhere else. If you don't like this idea, cry me a river. Then find a native American, and give him your property, but don't try to assuage your conscience by forcing me to give him mine. After we conquered the natives, we set up rules for who can, and who cannot come into this newly "acquired" property we call the United States. Those are the rules, and if you don't like them, change them. Until such time as the rules are changed, people who come here without following the rules are not "illegal immigrants", they are criminals, or at best "illegal aliens". They are in no way, shape or form "immigrants", as immigration defines a legal process, and what illegal aliens have done is not immigrate.

The reason it will be very difficult to rid ourselves of these criminals, is because we have created a society where the less skilled people that might perform the menial tasks that so many of the criminal aliens now perform, live for free on my money. We often hear "we do the work Americans won't". Well, in lieu of starving to death, a human will do any number of menial things. We just have to stop feeding and housing them for free, and we will have plenty of cheap labor. This will have the secondary benefit of causing the potential high school dropout to think twice before becoming yet another leech on me and you (if you support yourself, that is).

Then, all we have to do is put out a general bulletin that if you are caught in this country illegally, you will be placed in a labor camp, where you will serve American society for free (we will feed and house you, however). I am certain that we will not have to provide anyone with transportation back to their country of origin. It's a win-win solution :)

It is not my fault that Mexico is such a crappy country. I do not harbor even a tiny bit of guilt for the fact that Americans have made a superior country, and that Mexicans have made a hell-hole that they would like to re-create here. It is the Mexican person's problem. Just like we allow our criminal politicians to try like heck to destroy what our founding fathers have built, Mexicans have allowed their criminal politicians to succeed where ours have failed. We had our civil war. Perhaps it is time for them to have theirs.

Best,

Poco

Tuesday, April 11, 2006 08:00 AM
Original article: Democrats: Sí se puede

Democrats, the party of criminals

Ted Kennedy is a bloated gas bag that would not care if every illegal alien fell into a river and drowned, as long as he gets his money and power. That's Ted Kennedy. The democratic party, on the other hand, pander to criminals en-masse. You are proud of this?

Poco

P.S. I am not a republican

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