Ding! Ding! Ding!

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Church bells should be tolling across the land... as shamnesty was defeated. "Ding Ding, Ding Ding." The solemn sound was played across the airwaves today on the Michael Savage show.

What is it that people don't get about shamnesty??


Below, my first letter to Sen. Warner.

May 12, 2007

The Honorable John W. WarnerUnited States Senate
225 Russell Senate Office Building
Washington, DC 20510-4601
Re: No amnesty for illegals

Dear Senator Warner:

I'd like to excerpt a famous article by psychologist Garrett Hardin to illustrate the very real danger of letting illegal immigration go unchecked:
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If we divide the world crudely into rich nations and poor nations, two thirds of them are desperately poor, and only one third comparatively rich, with the United States the wealthiest of all. Metaphorically each rich nation can be seen as a lifeboat full of comparatively rich people. In the ocean outside each lifeboat swim the poor of the world, who would like to get in, or at least to share some of the wealth. What should the lifeboat passengers do?

So here we sit, say 50 people in our lifeboat. To be generous, let us assume it has room for 10 more, making a total capacity of 60. Suppose the 50 of us in the lifeboat see 100 others swimming in the water outside, begging for admission to our boat or for handouts. We have several options: we may be tempted to try to live by the Christian ideal of being "our brother's keeper," or by the Marxist ideal of "to each according to his needs." Since the needs of all in the water are the same, and since they can all be seen as "our brothers," we could take them all into our boat, making a total of 150 in a boat designed for 60. The boat swamps, everyone drowns. Complete justice, complete catastrophe.
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This nation is URGENTLY in need of decisive and meaningful action by Congress to stop the influx of illegals who trample our laws and soverignty.

Sincerely,

Cagey

Verbal landscapes

Busy lately and haven't logged in. Need to change that.

Love these lyrics to "Happy Landings" by The Fixx. Beautiful, beautiful song. Maybe someone can find some inspiration in them.

It takes a whole night of moonlight
To shine on the path of my fate
One tiny sign to align me with time and space
When I'm hiding from somebody somewhere
When I'm scared on my feet
It takes sadness with all the delightsTo make a whole day complete...so

Happy landing you've been there
Welcome back from disarray
Take my hand now to somewhere
Take me on, take me on, take me so far away

It takes more than a full tank of gas
To drive away from the past
We keep making promises
Knowing they just can't last
Are we tiring of pleasures
Designed to keep our heads in the sand
If you're out there in orbit, alive
Now's a good time to land....so
Happy landings, you've been there...
Rise from the ashes of fires started so long ago
Keep your chin up and cheer up
Cause life springs from the glow!!

If the truth of the matter lies
Deep in our hearts
Are we waiting for luck to decide
When light breaks the dark...so
Happy landings you've been there...
Where you've been
Where you are
Where you're going to

The inaugural post

13 June

Golly, the inaugural post! Author Susan Perry talks about "flow" in composition. I intend to address that later. It's a great topic - how one can open up and start writing without "forcing it." Time, desire, so many competing interests in the "Information Age."

Well, I had a number of serious ideas for the first post, but my current desire for spontaneity trumps my previous interest in a more meaningful bulletin.

So pop culture will be the first topic. Ahem.

"Spoiler alert! The Sopranos finale sucked!"