"In a democracy (‘rule by mob’), those who refuse to learn from history will be the majority and will dictate that everyone else suffer for their ignorance."
Just stopping in briefly.
Yeh, another reason to insist on assimilation: Stopped to make some lunch. Had to turn the twist-tie on a new package of corn tortillas backwards to open it.
I blame some wetback working for slave labor wages in the tortilla factory who’s not learned that quitessentially American lesson: Righty-tighty; Lefty-loosey.
*sigh*
It’s evil and it’s ugly… but I want one!
CLICK HERE (1MB download) to play the mpeg.
h.t. Noahware
For Guard The Borders today, I’m going to lean heavily on Daffyd ap Hugh…
In fact, if you want, you can simply skip this post entirely and go directly to this post on Big Lizards, page down until you get to his immigration comments and just read. As an intro to ap Hugh’s commentary, let me just say that while he endorses a “fence†or “wall†approach to guarding our borders, he has some interesting—no, important—things to say about gates, too.
A brief sample:
…America needs a constant influx of new blood, new ways of thinking, and new cultures… so long as the immigrants themselves are forced to assimilate. This is a point that Dennis Prager stressed with a great deal of vim (and volume). In a very literal sense, America was built by immigrants, but immigrants who had every intention of becoming Americans — not living as Poles, Russians, Chinese, or Mexicans in exile.
Our schools should indoct[r]inate both the children of immigrants and the native born in what it means to be an American — and why the immigrants left their home countries in the first place. Our civic, cultural, and religious institutions should echo, not fight this message. And the government should not merely encourage but require assimilation as a necessary condition to continued guest-worker privileges…
Just go there. A Feast of Talk, and the Law of Barriers
Guard the Borders… but make a way for those law-abiding citizens of other lands to become Americans, not just invade and set up their own ghettos.
(Hmmm… seems like we need to look at “allowing†some in academia, among the Mass Media Podpeople and others to learn how to become Americans, too… )
Guard the Borders Blogburst features posts every Monday on border security, immigration and related issues.
Linked at Cao’s Blog–open trackback Wednesday, TMH’s Bacon Bits’ Bacon Break and Stop the ACLU’s Open Trackback Party
N.B.: edited some typos and added the links to Cao, TMH and Stop the ACLU.
No, not the game. I mean something that is truly trivial to pursue.
I had another one of those “When/how did you start blogging†emails last night and it spurred me to check my stats/TTLB ranking. Trivial pursuit. Let’s see… from the time I checked the same the say before (then the *CRASH!* day of) my first “blogiversary†I have something like sixty fewer links noted by TTLB Blogosphere Ecosystem. And I’m ranked about 400 places higher.
Since I’ve lost my dreadlock wig and chicken bone rattles, these sorts of voodoo phenomena have stumped me.
And, naturally, because I don’t show the sitemeter stats on my front page, my “visitors†stats are stuck at late March 2005.
But who cares? It’s a truly trivial pursuit, anyway. The real goal is distracting all the voices in my head. Heh