Letters to the Editor
AJCalhoun
Published Letters: 964 Editor's Choice: 127
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A New Domino Theory
[Read the article: Do you know the way to San Antonio?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]And this one makes sense. If San Antonio falls (and it will, if things continue as the dividers would like them to), the bulk of undocumented workers, being nomadic by nature, will go to the next host and suck it dry as well. Meanwhile, those who foster sympathy for illegal presence in this country as the expense of taxpayers (and how can anyone back up the oft-repeated contention that "most" illegal immigrants "pay their taxes", etc.? May we look at their returns? Do they keep them with their drivers' licenses?) continue to foment the notion among these lost souls that they are ENTITLED to be here, to enjoy services we ALL pay for, to swamp our emergency rooms as their alternative to a primary care physician, and all the while they are being reminded that in 1846 the Yanqi came and STOLE this part of Mexico. Well I have an idea! Why not simply cede back to Mexico all this land, the property, the good, the bad and the ugly of the south west, and simply relocate all legitimate citizens to other parts of the country, cease to collect any taxes, give it ALL back, and let MEXICO manage it the way they manage what they have left, which is considerable and clearly beyond their ability or desire to manage in any way at all. People flee Mexico for the US because Mexico SUCKS! The US is a land of opportunity, and as one apologist in the article stated, "It's all about opportunity", which I would suggest makes them opportunists, the way a mosquito opportunistically sucks the blood of one host after another, without permission and to no advantage to the hosts. Once returned to Mexico, the south west would see a drop in property values unheard of since the mesozoic. And rightly so.
San Antonio is a beautiful, diverse city. Ah, diversity! I love it. It suggests DIVISION! While I grew up in what would be described as a "diverse" area in Washington, DC and later its nearby suburbs, the beauty of that diversity was its constant center: being an American citizen. If we simply give that incredible status to anyone who shows up here then it will lost all meaning - if it hasn't already. The Idiot in the Oval Office is in love with the idea of cheap labor and is insulated from you and me by money and privilige and, of course, having been born in the United States.
Illegal aliens are in a bind. So are legal ones, and naturalized ones, because when the backlash from the little binge of left-wing lunacy wears off and the hangover sets in, there will be hell to pay, and just as all middle eastern-looking people (including Sikhs from India, remember?) were targets post 9/11, all the "brown" people who are here on the up and up are going to get the same sort of treatment that the "swarthy" people in our midst got after the Pentagon was struck and the WTC went down. Demanding what one is NOT entitled to, especially during a difficult period in a nation's history, is a sure way to bring down the heat on everyone who even
LOOKS like he (or, of course, SHE)could possibly be One of Them. And nothing will have been accomplished except two steps backward. But a bunch of left-wing lunatics will feel good for a while, just as a bunch of Right Wing lunatics have been feeling good since 9/11.
Everybody's got a problem. Why not try and solve some of them instead of doing that tired old 60's "demand" thing?
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Damn Write!
[Read the article: Writers, quit whining]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Alarajrogers hit the nail right square on the haid, just like Jimmuh Cahtuh. Seriously, it's only hard if you're writing to spec, which is a whole 'nother thing entirely. If you are a writer it ain't hard at all. It happens. There's no stopping it. If you haven't got it, you might be good at doing spec work, because it requires no vision and no life experience. Writing is easy - if you're a writer. If you're not, no wonder you're hung over and angst-ridden! You made a bad career move! Jesus, is it that complicated?
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Jose, Can You See?
[Read the article: Oh, say can you care?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Aw, lord, I'm just laughing so hard at the letters here and the whole fiasco in general that it's really hard to remember that there is a reason why some people are so touchy about this particular rendition of our god-awful, ear-splitting, verging-on-the-ludicrous national anthem. See, it was calculated. You gotta connect the dots. You have to bear in mind that a lot of people truly are convinced that the whole thing springs from the recent "Day Without an Immigrant" blowout, during which a lot of people, in very calculated fashion, worked very hard to irritate the bejesus out of blue-collar Americans. After taking all those jobs "Americans won't do", filling up our emergency rooms with snotty-nosed kids and knife wounds on the American taxpayer's dime, after simply being here in violation of the law and then demanding (there's that word again) yet more entitlements, the benificiaries of our largesse are treated to Wyclef and friends releasing a Spanish version of Francis Scot Key's immortal mangling of words and music, a few demonstrators (or whatever they were or were doing) sing the anthem in a language they themselves have barely mastered any better than most Americans have mastered Americanese, and you've got Mrs. O'Leary's cow in the act of kicking over the lantern that eventually reduced Chicago to a burned-out pile of, well, cowhide and charred pizza. It ain't pretty. In any language. Just aks the Presidensity.