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True, unless someone's willing to take the risk of mjoving to Aldwych. Dangerous, I know, but this is a game of chances.
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You obviously know your stuff - we should play a game soon. Aldwych is risky, but can send the game in a whole new direction. I once escaped by playing Birmingham New Street - you can imagine the shockwaves that caused! A completely legal move, but it took several turns of gameplay to get back on track, and even then just barely - Chalfont & Latimer, if you can believe it!
It must be very strange to be President Bush. A man of extraordinary vision and brilliance approaching to genius, he can't get anyone to notice. He is like a great painter or musician who is ahead of his time, and who unveils one masterpiece after another to a reception that, when not bored, is hostile.
Hyperbolic? Well, maybe. But consider Bush's latest master stroke: the Asia Pacific Partnership on Clean Development and Climate. The pact includes the U.S., Japan, Australia, China, India and South Korea; these six countries account for most of the world's carbon emissions. The treaty is, in essence, a technology transfer agreement. The U.S., Japan and Australia will share advanced pollution control technology, and the pact's members will contribute to a fund that will help implement the technologies. The details are still sketchy and more countries may be admitted to the group later on. The pact's stated goal is to cut production of "greenhouse gases" in half by the end of the century.
What distinguishes this plan from the Kyoto protocol is that it will actually lead to a major reduction in carbon emissions! This substitution of practical impact for well-crafted verbiage stunned and infuriated European observers.
I doubt that the pact will make any difference to the earth's climate, which will be determined, as always, by variations in the energy emitted by the sun. But when the real cause of a phenomenon is inaccessible, it makes people feel better to tinker with something that they can control. Unlike Kyoto, this agreement won't devastate the U.S. economy, and, also unlike Kyoto, the agreement will reduce carbon emissions in the countries where they are now rising most rapidly, India and China. Brilliant.
But I don't suppose President Bush is holding his breath, waiting for the crowd to start applauding.
George W Bush, a man of extraordinary vision and brilliance.
Someone needs to take this guy's Kool-aid away from him.
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Dear Jorge plans to address the nation tonight, a speech wherein he will almost surely attempt to deceive citizens into believing that he does not wish the mass migration from Mexico to continue unabated. He will likely offer some negligible resources for law enforcement and border security � resources which will never materialize � in return for an amnesty program that will grant American citizenship to the Mexican nationals who have helped lower America's wage rates by 16 percent over the last 32 years.
And he will be lying, again, just as he lied when he said: "Massive deportation of the people here is unrealistic � it's just not going to work."
Not only will it work, but one can easily estimate how long it would take. If it took the Germans less than four years to rid themselves of 6 million Jews, many of whom spoke German and were fully integrated into German society, it couldn't possibly take more than eight years to deport 12 million illegal aliens, many of whom don't speak English and are not integrated into American society.
In fact, the hysterical response to the post-rally enforcement rumors tends to indicate that the mere announcement of a massive deportation program would probably cause a third of that 12 million to depart for points south within a week.
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So only 8 million then? That's awesome. That's like Jews, Commies, Gypsies, & a smattering of fags. Don't even need to consider Catholics, artists, philosophers, & other assorted mongrels.
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It's rather disturbing when you read something and think "heh, that's some funny sarcasm", and then you realize it was serious.
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From a diffrent, slightly less insane perspective, here in South Florida, the Cuban population by large is against any amnesty for illegals!
Sounds strange untill you realize that the bulk of that population is second generation Cuban/Americans. That menas that, while ma and pa may have floated on over in a raft, they dont want any "filthy Mexicans" staying here. I shit you not- it's weird to hear people that speak almost no english rail aginst Haitians and Mexicans -as long as cubans have Jeb Bush's "Wet Foot/Dry Foot" policy to protect and provide instant amnesty for any Cuban refugee that hands on US soil.
Slight double standard there, as any illegal Haitian caught in US soil is detained or deported.
But then, the Cubnan/American population won Florida for George, so their votes bought a lot of special consideration from his brother in Talahasse.
I heard an intresting viewpoint on the radio the other day- it was from a guy that was going for his citizenship (through official channels and after a couple of years in the process) and he was totally against this "amnesty" because he said they did not have to work for citizenship and dont aprecieate it the way he and millions of others have.
I kinda agree with that, though making felons of immigrants is obviously assinine and obviously unworkable.
It's likely that the process for becoming acitizen through official channels needs serious revision along with the work permit/visa programs.
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Why all this now, though? I mean, the border-crossings have been going on for years, and apart the usual background-hum hand-wringing on the subject nothing's really been done. It seems that as long as TPTB's gardens were nicely tended, their kids were looked after and their sweatshops were fully staffed, then it wasn't really a problem. Hell, they even moved all their factories down south of the border to cash in on all that cheap labour, but they just kept coming.
For the most part I tend to avoid the right-wing extrusion of the blogosphere, as I prefer to enjoy continued digestion of my last meal. But even my limited sampling therein seems to suggest that this new policy is viewed as half-assed at best, given none of the border state governors were consulted and the person charged with implementing the policy has made several off-message, don't-have-a-clue pronouncements. And why, they wail, wasn't something done immediately after September 11th 2001?
Despite all that, I think the policy will be popular. Why? If I could (no access to that site from this PC) I'd link to a recent entry on Tom Tomorrow's blog about how (paraphrasing heavily) most Americans seem to cling to the American Dream, even though most of them manifest almost no part of it in their daily lives, because they believe that if they're good little consumers they may get admitted to the American Dream Country Club. And so, if they can struggle with expensive healthcare based on expensive insurance but still persist in believing that universal state-provided healthcare is Socialist And Bad, then they can also believe that (despite all being the descendants of immigrants, even merely second-generation ones) Further Immigration Is Bad.
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(either the site's available at lunchtime, or it isn't blocked anymore - I really can't keep track, for example one day Google Images works, the next it doesn't - but the aforementioned post is here)
quote:Originally posted by Lee: For the most part I tend to avoid the right-wing extrusion of the blogosphere, as I prefer to enjoy continued digestion of my last meal.
Although it can be rather fun to see what some of the folks on the right side of the blogosphere are up to.
I have a few sites bookmarked but most of what I post has been linked to by the liberal blogs I visit.
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