Prudence for Dummies: Have We Reached Full Retard?

Wednesday, July 15, 2015

Have We Reached Full Retard?

The Treehouse has a good post on sanctuary city crime.

dizzymissl comments:

This will make your head explode:

My question to American citizens who call people "illegal" and "criminals": What have you done to earn your citizenship? @DefineAmerican
— Jose Antonio Vargas (@joseiswriting) July 15, 2015

A reminder to Senor Vargas:

For myself, I started by NOT breaking the law and NOT sneaking across the border into someone else's country. It's OUR country, Jose. We make the laws -- or at least mostly we did B.O. (before Obama). We don't make the laws in Mexico where accidentally driving across the border will get an American arrested and imprisoned indefinitely.

I keep wondering, if the folks that are coming across the border illegally are so amazing, wonderful, honest, hard-working, and industrious, why don't they just stay in Mexico and make it better?

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John LienJuly 15, 2015 at 12:32 PM
I keep wondering, if the folks that are coming across the border illegally are so amazing, wonderful, honest, hard-working, and industrious, why don't they just stay in Mexico and make it better?

Now, that is a fine question. I would suggest lack of water, a carrying capacity sort of issue, looking at it from an ecological standpoint, but that wouldn't explain those from central America.

I like Normandy. I wonder if anyone would complain if I snuck into Normandy and took up residence in a nice stone farmhouse. I'd work super hard, swear.
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mushroomJuly 15, 2015 at 3:17 PM
Given the number of American soldiers who were killed during the Normandy offensive a mere 70 years ago, your claim would probably have more merit than that of the Mexicans invading the Southwest.
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USS Ben USN (Ret)July 16, 2015 at 4:35 AM
Also, wonderful and honest illegals would not be lecturing Americans about how we should run our own country, nor would they be angry because we want to protect our citizens and our jobs.

In fact, the wonderful and honest ones, at the very least would be grateful and humble, and they certainly wouldn't be going full retard.
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mushroomJuly 16, 2015 at 7:47 AM
Perhaps that is the great divide in politics: gratitude versus entitled'tude.
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USS Ben USN (Ret)July 16, 2015 at 9:07 AM
Entitledtude.. Excellent, Mush!
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The PFD Recommended Viewing and Reading List --- Suggestions are welcome

The Secret of Roan Innish -- suggested by Farmlog's John Lien
The Incredibles
The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance
Secondhand Lions
The Book of Eli Finally got around to watching it myself. "It's ca-at."
The Road -- I haven't seen the movie, but I can recommend the book
Blackhawk Down -- The modern battlefield
Last of the Mohicans (1992) -- "Find yourself a musket."
The World's Fastest Indian -- Ingenuity and determination and motorcycles
Iron Will -- "Run longer. Sleep less." And, finally, a use for fruitcake.
The Apostle -- Because redemption is real
Jeremiah Johnson -- I cannot believe I left this one off.
Walking Tall -- I prefer the original based on the short life of man who just wanted to do the right thing.
Treasure of Sierra Madre -- Gold will change a man. Fruit trees are better.

Quotables

Don't believe them, don't fear them, don't ask anything of them -- Solzhenitsyn

Tyrannos omnes oportet perire — “It is fitting that all tyrants perish”

The true Christian should not resign himself to the inevitable: he should trust in the impertinence of a repeated prayer. -- Don Colacho

Political tags — such as royalist, communist, democrat, populist, fascist, liberal, conservative, and so forth — are never basic criteria. The human race divides politically into those who want people to be controlled and those who have no such desire. The former are idealists acting from highest motives for the greatest good of the greatest number. The latter are surly curmudgeons, suspicious and lacking in altruism. But they are more comfortable neighbors than the other sort. -- Robert A. Heinlein

When law and morality are in contradiction, the citizen finds himself in the cruel dilemma of either losing his moral sense or of losing respect for the law -- Bastiat

The tank, the B-52, the fighter-bomber, the state-controlled police and military are the weapons of dictatorship. The rifle is the weapon of democracy.

If guns are outlawed, only the government will have guns. Only the police, the secret police, the military. The hired servants of our rulers.

Only the government -- and a few outlaws.

I intend to be among the outlaws. --Edward Abbey from “The Right to Arms”