To solve a problem, you have to know what causes the problem. For example, to understand Dick Cheney you have to understand that his name is Richard but people call him Dick for a reason. To understand Ann Coulter, you have to understand what it must be like to go through life with a ginormous foot in your mouth. To understand Rush Limbaugh, you have to understand how a frontal lobotomy works. To understand George W. Bush, you have to…. well there really is no understanding that. But I am sure you get the point.
As Americans, many of us just can’t understand why terrorists from the Middle East would want to destroy us. The very idea of their hating us so much is almost unfathomable. Never mind that we have been occupying their homelands for more than 60 years. Never mind that today we have dozens of “enduring” military bases just in Iraq and dozens more in Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Arab Emirates, Bahrain, Oman, Qatar… Is that really so terrible? We’re just there looking to send back a little oil to help run our cars and our factories back home. Why do they hate us so much? I don’t know, but I wish it was a problem we could finally solve.
Speaking of problems I wish we could solve… What are we going to do with all these illegal immigrants coming into our country uninvited? The nerve, I tell you. The very nerve of it just gets to me. The idea that those Mexicans would come here in hopes of earning money to send to their families back home is just too much to bear. Before you know it, they’ll want to build a military base. I mean can you imagine if those Mexicans were to start arriving inside tanks rather than inside trunks. Imagine if they start taking our land rather than our landscaping jobs. The very thought just makes me want to blow something up…
Is the whole situation becoming a little more clear? People in glass houses shouldn’t throw stones. It ruins the view and makes for a lot of sharp edges.
We need to educate ourselves if we are to finally understand our problems and how to solve them. Did you know that the US operates and/or controls between 700 and 800 military bases worldwide. These facilities include more than 850,000 different buildings and equipment. The underlying land surface is about 30 million acres – almost a third the size of California. (Interestingly enough, the Hispanic population in California is about a third of the state’s population.) The total land area occupied by US military bases domestically and internationally is about 2,202,735 hectares, which makes the Pentagon one of the largest landowners worldwide.
Margaret, I don’t even know what a hectare is. Do you? So what does all this mean? To most of us – probably nothing. And that’s the problem. I mean it. Really.
A RESPONSE FROM MARGARET:
Oh Helen, dear, I wish I could help you with your problems, but I can’t. We don’t have Mexicans in Maine. Now, French Canadians are a whole other matter. You can’t swing my neighbor’s cat without hitting seven or eight of those people. Not to bother, Helen, we take all kinds here in Maine. Mexican, French Canadian, Asian, even a Korean or two. We don’t care. They are all welcome. We are even going to make the gays legal! God Bless America.
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Anyhow keep up the good work.
Thank you for listening!
By: Keteclold on September 22, 2012
at 4:50 AM
well the only problem is you he is one of the greatest americans in the world so you need to go to your communism country amen and GOD bless you
By: scott on July 14, 2010
at 12:49 PM
BTW, The way to get rid of Cheney is to have a mass exorcism. He’s the Devil incarnate. He’s the most shameful American we have.
He’s the definition of EVIL.
By: Ermengarde11 on August 28, 2009
at 5:48 AM
“Speaking of problems I wish we could solve… What are we going to do with all these illegal immigrants coming into our country uninvited? The nerve, I tell you. The very nerve of it just gets to me. The idea that those Mexicans would come here in hopes of earning money to send to their families back home is just too much to bear. Before you know it, they’ll want to build a military base. I mean can you imagine if those Mexicans were to start arriving inside tanks rather than inside trunks. Imagine if they start taking our land rather than our landscaping jobs. The very thought just makes me want to blow something up”
LOL!! I welcome immigrants and have to say, we INVITED them here, by neglecting to enforce immigration laws. We should be punishing the business people who do this, as well as those who allowed it to continue, not the immigrants. They are just the pawns in a scheme to cover up all kinds of things the government and business world are guilty of.
I say for every unproductive, native-born criminal we have here, we should send them to a penal colony and allow one immigrant in exchange. The unproductive criminals can support themselves, grow their own food, fight among themselves. Mexicans and other Latinos (most of them) have one of the highest work ethics in the world, and they actually enrich our country, except mostly only the already-wealthy get most of the money by exploiting, as does our government.
They appreciate our country, while many of our own do not. Their country is a dangerous place, I have strong ties to their community and I could tell you about incidents that would scare your pants (or bra) off.
Love you gals, you are soooo wise. You’ve hit the nail on the head. We invade other countries etc. but then don’t pretend we aren’t exploiting those who “invade” ours.
Does anyone stop to think, for every Mexican working here, they prevent several more from coming by sending money home? (money that is usually taxed and has FICA paid in, but for which refunds and Soc. Sec. claims are never made.
That’s one reason the government allows it to go on, to shore up the Soc. Sec. coffers. DUH!
People are so quick to jump on the Latinos, but really, it’s our own stinking fault.
Don’t blame a Mexican, blame their employer who exploits them and us in the process.
By: Ermengarde11 on August 28, 2009
at 5:44 AM
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By: TV talk shows « Karen’s Rant Page on June 13, 2009
at 12:34 PM
Will one, or both, of you marry me?!! Thank you so much for cheering me out of the blues! You’re definitely my favorites!
By: Cecilia Fasano on June 11, 2009
at 12:37 PM
Cheney gives Dick a bad name:)
By: mjc on June 8, 2009
at 12:04 AM
We’re just tryin’ to help.
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By: Whirled Peas Δ on May 24, 2009
at 12:02 PM
Smaller cars are only less safe because we allowed ourselves to build tanks and put them out on the road as if they were just another family car. Lincoln Navigators, Hummers and such are beyond rediculous and I have yet to meet a family that actually needed one rather than just wanted one.
By: pearls of wisdom teeth on May 23, 2009
at 3:07 PM
James, I am sorry that you interpreted my comments as an attack on your character. Not intended. You asked a lot of questions that in order for me to answer I would have to spend a lot of time researching as I do not have the ability of recall that one needs to debate with facts. My shortcoming. My brother happens to love playing the Devil’s Advocate, I don’t enjoy the game.
Devil’s advocate
In common parlance, a devil’s advocate is someone who takes a position, sometimes one he or she disagrees with, for the sake of argument. This process can be used to “TEST” the quality of the original argument and identify weaknesses in its structure.
By: Raji on May 23, 2009
at 2:52 PM
President Obama’s
Weekly Address 5/23/09
*w/transcript
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By: Whirled Peas Δ on May 23, 2009
at 1:24 PM