Borderdawg wrote:Tell ya what, Duk, I'm part Kickapoo, so my ancestors immigrated here hundreds of years before any white man. Not that it makes a damn.
I also don't give a damn if you dislike my writing style. Yes, I learned proper grammar and punctuation in grade school. However, I feel no
need for formal writing styles in an informal setting. And it don't get no more informal than here.![]()
You think I'm an immigrant hater.You are wrong. I think you are a pompous, arrogant little punk. Now, I refuse to continue to argue with you here. However, if you ever get to the RGV, look me up, I'll break out a bottle of mescal and we can continue this conversation. I'll even take you across the
river, let you look around a little.
Been there, both sides of the border, both coasts and points in between.
Although, that was mostly in the 70's and early 80's. I gather it's gotten a little rougher since then.
Although, last time I was down there,in '81 or '82, we were hiking in Big Bend, and me and my buddy Chris said to each other, "Enough of this wholesome living shit! Let's go get some whores." We crossed the border at one of those little crossings that closes at night, and the border guard says to us, "We close the gate at sundown. Make sure you're back."
We chuckled a bit, thinking, what's the big deal? We're just going to get some beers and whores. So, we had a bit of a party, Chris got syphilis, and all of a sudden a pickup truck pulls up, and all these guys jump out. They dragged some guy out of the bar. He was screaming and begging for mercy, and they just hogtied him and threw him in the back of the pickup and took off.
"Shouldn't we help him?" I said. "Are you fucking crazy?" said Chris. And all of a sudden the Estados Unidos seemed like a very good idea. It was a bit after sundown when we got to the gate, but the border guards weren't too strict, and they let us in.
I suppose that's all an irrelevant digression. I just can't help but share stories from the good ol' days. The point being, I may be a stranger but I've been there, and you're not telling me anything I don't know. Bottom line doesn't change. All the problems you describe are what happens when governments try to fight economics. People will earn a living; if you deny them a chance to do it legally they will do it illegally. Goods will move from the places where they're made to the places where they're in demand. If you stop them from moving legally they will move illegally. And so on and so forth.
.. and I'll be happy to knock back a slug of mescal with you if I ever get the chance to come down there again. And vice-versa, if you fancy a vacation in Niagara Falls be sure to let me know.
KoolBak wrote:Well Duk....you attack his writing style? Really? And both of you Duk and Not.....neither of you address the POINT of his post....you just attack and be petty....I am disappointed.
Am I now an ignorant immigrant hater too? Don't tell my nephew-in-law.....When my great great grandparents came here form Ireland, they went through the "process" ...it wasn't easy then either. Should I have made that a new paragraph? crap....
Several of my close friends in high school were knifed to death by illegal hispanics (example).....do I discriminate? Yes....I absolutely HATE white trash, but theres no avoiding them either (think I missed an apostrophe...sorry).
Okay, from the top.
1. No, I don't give a rat's ass about his writing style, but dumping that many words on a page without a paragraph break, and then castigating me for skimming is ridiculous. Of course you're only going to skim when you're faced with a wall of unbroken text like that.
2. Didn't address the point of his post? I thought I did.
3. I don't know if you hate immigrants. I can't see in to your soul. You certainly acknowledge that you come from immigrants, so you've benefited from the fact that the U.S. had an open door in the past, but now you want that door to slam shut, and nobody else to come in the future. How do you justify that? It's like you got good seats at the theatre, and now you want them to stop selling tickets so it doesn't get too crowded?
A large part of what made the U.S. into an economic powerhouse was the steady flow of ambitious new people. Cutting off that flow can only make things worse, not better.
4. I'm real sorry to hear about your friends. That really sucks. Is there anything I can say that won't make me sound like an insensitive prick? Probably not, but the honest truth that I do feel for you. Death for any reason is not a pretty picture, but the death of promising young people is really, really tragic.
Would it be any less horrible, though, if your friend was murdered by someone born-and-raised there? There are evil people everywhere. The fact that these particular murders were committed by foreigners doesn't make them more or less heinous than if a 20th-generation loyal citizen had committed them.
danfrank666 wrote:illegal border crossing. For starters it is illegal . Your breaking the law.
The law is the opinion of the parasites in parliament (or in your case the parasites in Congress.) The only qualification for political office is the ability to lie convincingly. Accordingly, natural selection means that the most remorseless pathological liars will make it to high office. Therefore any resemblance between "the law" and "right-and-wrong" is purely coincidental. I know there are some good laws, but that is purely by chance, sort of like the proverbial ten thousand monkeys typing out a Shakespearean sonnet. If you write enough laws you will eventually write a good one, but meanwhile you've written 90,000 bad ones.
So saying that something is against the law, and trying to imply that makes it wrong, doesn't wash with me.
danfrank666 wrote:america buffers canada from illegals, lets march a few thousand into your neighborhood
Actually, we do march a few thousand into my neighbourhood every spring, thank god. Without them we would starve. Born-and-raised Canadians don't want to do backbreaking labour like picking tomatoes or grapes or zucchini. They won't get out of bed for less than twenty bucks an hour, and if they do they'll bitch and whine all day until you'll wish they stayed in bed. Mexicans rise with the sun, pick twenty to forty bushels of tomatoes in a day, and what's more they do it cheerfully.
I spent quite a few years driving for the greenhouses. If I pulled up somewhere and a crew of white guys were unloading me, it would take half the day and a lot of fighting about who's doing more than who. If I pulled up somewhere and a crew of Mexicans was unloading me, the truck would be stripped clean in forty minutes and it would be done singing and whistling. Nobody shirked, every man took the maximum that he could carry, and if he saw someone else struggling he's sidestep to help him with part of his burden in addition to his own.
I don't know that much about how things are on your side of the border, but from things I've read the situation isn't much different. You wouldn't have fresh fruits or vegetables without the Mexicans, or if you would they would cost $100 a bushel.
danfrank666 wrote:Dukasaur should be grateful . ( Thats liberalism though , They aren`t grateful for anything
I'm very grateful that we have a plentiful supply of Mexicans, so that I may enjoy fresh fruit and vegetables. And I'm grateful that America generously allows us to cross its airspace without hindrance, so we can get more Mexicans here faster.
danfrank666 wrote:When my ancestors came to this country we had a process to go through.
Bullshit. Unless your ancestors came very, very recently, the only "process" was to line up on the dock, give your name to the gentleman at the counter, and watch him write it in the book. Until WW I there wasn't even any identification required. They would ask for papers, and if you didn't have any they would just write down, "no papers." Simple. This very idea that some bureaucratic parasite can decide who stays and who goes is purely an invention of 20th century statists.