Not Necessarily News

A couple of items caught my attention today, mainly because they are so unnewsworthy, and yet, they have either gotten mentioned or a lot of air time on the news.

In Washington, D.C., earlier this week, the Shame of Georgia Cynthia McKinney allegedly slapped a Capitol Police officer for stopping her at a checkpoint after she attempted to walk through without her identification badge. The policeman is reportedly filing charges of assault against the indistinguised Congressperson. Of course, in her voting district, the constituency is insinuating that the incident would not have happened had McKinney been "white and rich." I wonder what cooperation with a police officer attempting to do his job would have gotten her. Or maybe wearing her badge.

In Philadelphia, the largest skyscraper in the city is slated to be built with waterless urinals. Now one would assume that this might be a good thing, since an astronomical amount of water would be used to flush everyone's morning coffee down. But not according to the pipefitters' union in Philadelphia. No water means less pipes. Less pipes means less work. Less work means less union-negotiated overpaid coffee breaks to flush down the urinals. The mayor of the city is showing some brotherly love by stepping in to mediate. I am sure he will attempt not to "piss off" the union.

Please feel free to post any story that is being reported in the news that is not newsworthy. In that respect, we can all share in the disappointment that the media has to create news to report, considering that they ignore real new stories because they may "offend" someone.

The Illegal Migrant S.O.S. Solution

I know that it has been a while since I have written anything. I don't know that it is because there has been nothing that has interested me, but a lot has been going on with me personally. Mrs. Beans is with child again (our 4th), and I have been amidst a personal evaluation of my career at the present and where it may take me in the future. The other children are consumed with extracirricular activity, and time to put my thoughts to cyberspace seem to be limited. I did have an interesting dialog with Hamrose on Onionpi concerning abortion. She's somewhat of a liberal hippie chick, and I started the comments with an extensive piece of sarcasm, intent on demostrating the error of her logic with humor. I wound up dealing more seriously, and I believe that we have parted on the subject agreeing in some respects, disagreeing in others, but by and large in a friendly manner.

But then all of the hullabaloo about illegal migration all of the sudden became important, and several state legistlatures, including the state of Georgia, and the Federal Congress decided that they needed to act on illegal migration. In truth, they took no action, but made the token gesture since the majority of Americans are fed up with illegals. The fact of the matter is that both the vanilla Democrats and vanilla Republicans are afraid of losing or not gaining the Hispanic voting block. To be quite honest with you, if I were a Hispanic migrant who gained citizenship to this country or is here legally, I would be extremely upset that someone can slip into this country in the dark of night when I had taken all of the steps necessary by law and put up with the crap that government is good at dishing out, and still be treated with the same respect, if not more preference than I. But, being a white male between the ages of 18 and 50, I cannot possibly understand since I am the cause of all of the world's ills anyway.

But as I studied this issue, I came up with a solution. I call it the "Illegal Migrant S.O.S. Solution". I find it quite brilliant.

Part of the bill floating in Congress now in the Federal government has provisions in it that would force migrants here illegally to "apologize" and "pay fines" and other such bunk. I have a solution that would not only deter illegal migrants from wanting to cross the border, but make the one's who crossed illegally wish that they had never came over in the first place.

First, we take every male that is between the ages of 18 and 45 to the border of Mexico. I believe we could round enough up to cover the entire border. Next, we divide them into groups of 2. We give each man 3 rations of food a day and a canteen of water, as well as minimum wage for their families who are still here illegally. We line them up as far apart as needed to cover the entire border. Their station will consist of a tent, a sleeping bag, a one way speaker, and a military issue M16 rifle, with ammunition, on a swivel that will be anchored into the ground and will only turn on a 180 degree axis.

Next, out of the line of fire of course, we set up border patrol stations at the backs of all of our penitent friends. Each border patrol station will be supplied with several firearms and much more ammunition, as well as radio equipment for communication to both the front line of the border and other reinforcements.

The job of these men, for an unspecified duration at this time, will be to shoot on sight (hence S.O.S.) anyone trying to cross the border during their 12 hour shift. The job of the border patrol will be to shoot the penitent friend who fails to shoot the illegal who is trying to cross the border. The guys who fails to shoot is replaced by the guy he did not shoot.

I believe that this would not only serve as ample apology for those who came here by breaking our laws, but also be a deterent to those who wish to come here illegally. Within a matter of time, we can assimilate our "guest workers" if they did not already go back across the border to Mexico. In that case, the border patrol would just let them go.

I see it as a win-win. We protect our borders from the likes of illegal migrants, and they have a job in the land of promise, albeit one they did not bargain for.