Immigration

Well he did it. President Bush who didn’t bother me with his Harriet Miers thing, or even very much the Dubai ports deal finally ticked me off.

The NYTimes has the story of his speech yesterday where he makes the famous comment

“If you want to kill the bill,” he said, “if you don’t want to do what’s right for America, you can pick one little aspect out of it. You can use it to frighten people.”

Yeah – frighten people. That’s it. I’m not frightened Mr. President I’m fair. You give me one good reason why Jose and Rosa who walked across the border illegally in year 1999 and are now working with false SS numbers should get to stay here with a legalized card while Miguel and Maria who have been trying to get their LEGAL papers for years and have no hope of getting them can not!!

That’s right, you can’t.

Mr. President you are the one who has insisted on “comprehensive” immigration reform. Not “the people”. Don’t insult me and my thoughts of what’s “right for America” based on what you think is right. We disagree and I’ll be loud about it.

Mark Steyn has a few choice things to say too.

Bad day in Iraq yesterday

The Washington Post today has a “news article” about what’s going on in Iraq today. This was my favorite paragraph.

U.S. officials have warned that the strategy of putting more American troops on the streets and in small combat outposts, part of a security plan launched in February, would lead to higher U.S. casualties. But Tuesday’s carnage suggested that the effort had not created a safer security environment.

What the hell does that mean in a news story? Tuesday’s carnage….yes it was a bad day. Had not created a safer security environment. Right. “Not yet” would be a less opinionated sort of sound bite for a newsman to give in his news story.
One, we’re told also in this story:

President Bush cited the higher-risk approach during a news conference last week, saying, “We’re going to expect heavy fighting in the weeks and months [ahead]. We can expect more American and Iraqi casualties.”

“It could be a bloody — it could be a very difficult August,” he added.

Global Warming

Here’s an interesting conundrum for you.

Let’s all agree that the climate is changing.
Let’s all agree that it appears to be warming.
Let’s all agree that sometimes even within a warming period, you get cooler years.

Beyond that there can be disagreements about whether it’s sun spots or vehicles that are causing the problem. There can also be disagreements about whether I should give up my suburu or you should give up your private jet. Or on a bigger scale whether Camaroon should give up ever joining the first world or should the US give up plastics.

So let’s say now that this is where we’re at. Now what to do, what to do? Do we all agree that something even needs to be done? So if not, who gives these folks the right of the earth to start dumping CO2 underground? What exactly are the repercussions of injecting the earth with stuff?? This sounds like a fun disaster film in the making.