Everyone's A Genious In Their Own Mind

The non-stop teeth gnashing about Arizona's new immigration law has reached what I can only hope is its zenith. That means it's time for the fake intellectuals to come out of the woodwork to try and get off on their own earnestness and deep thinking. Like all jerking off, this exercise is also destined to end in failure and shame.

The two narratives being tossed around by in the closet dimwits revolves around the idea that a) we are a nation of immigrants and 2) the new Arizona law is racist because it will impact our brown skinned brothers far more than other ethnic groups.

First things first, we are not a nation of immigrants, we are a nation of assimilants. Old immigrants came here to become American and celebrate a few of the old holidays. If my great grandpappy knew he risked his life to get here just so I could keep calling myself an immigrant a hundred years later, he might have just skipped the whole ordeal and starved to death in some decrepit Irish farm. Once you get to America, you only stay an immigrant if it's a conscious choice. The rest of us assimilate.

Secondly, saying the new law targets Mexicans is one of those things that sociology flunkies spew trying to impress other flunkies and maybe coerce some naive Pollyanna into bed. And what exactly is that statement supposed to convey? Any law that targets one group of people is racist and unAmerican? Please. All laws and policies target specific groups. Our WW2 nuclear policy targeted specifically Japanese, our embargo policy specifically targets Cubans, our policy on toy safety standards directly targets the Chinese. Does that mean the policies are racist or were we responding to specific threats? Is our policy of non-importation of foreign drugs racist because it mostly impacts Canadian drug distributors? Lefty never seems to have a problem with that unfair law. Is it because they're white or because it's better for Unions? Tough call.

What exactly do these lightweights not understand? There are two groups of people that currently cause problems by coming to this country; Al-Qaeda, whether it's legal or illegal and Illegal Mexican/South American aliens. Legal immigrants cause no trouble whatsoever. Should we enact new strict crackdowns on all groups regardless of home country? Sweep the streets looking for illegal Dutch, Spaniards, Frenchmen or Russians? What's the point of hassling people who have already shown themselves to follow the law? Shouldn't law abiding behavior be rewarded and lawlessness punished? Of course it should. Then the group in question begins to act lawful, then the law no longer applies to them but to the next group of criminals. But dumb people who get jobs in the media don't want to think logically, they want to lean forward, look you right in the eye, lower their voices and defend values that frankly don't exist in this or any other country by making statements that are profound only in what they expose about the intellect of the person who made them. No country could function for even a decade with the type of open border welfare state these people advocate.

It would be amusing if it wasn't so pathetic and disingenuous. Luckily for us, talking head media zombies are just about done speaking from Mt. Pious on the immigration topic. Now we get to see who can paint the bleakest picture about the oil leak in the Gulf. The best I've heard so far is that the area will be scarred for the next 50 years. 40 if the water is particularly salty. I'll ignore for the moment the fact that Prince William Sound looks pristine today, just 20 short years after it was covered in oil. I'm just happy to get a new set of pompous ill-informed talking points into the news.