Good News-Bad News: Immmigration Law is a Sad, Sad Joke

[Immigration law enforcement in these dis-United Stated seems to be a sad joke where the devil–and his minions in Congress–gets the last laugh… ]

Frankly, the title of this post ought to be “Bad News-Good News-Disasterous News”–*sigh*

The bad news? The U.S. is currently drowning in a sea of illegal aliens who take far more, net, from the economy than they contribute, while doing so via means of identify theft, scamming social services and taking jobs Americans will too do, contrary to the lies told by surrender monkeys and their favorite lapdog in the White House. And all because of massive corruption throughout every level of law enforcement.

Yes. Corruption in law enforcement. At every level, though the corruption is more obvious when we start at the top with a President who is determined to see those who enforce the borders punished and those who violate it rewarded. (“Determined”? Isn’t that a little strong? No, not at all. One of his cronies hatched the persecution of Ramos and Compeon and he has sat by and had his flacks lie about the situation for him.) The guys on the line have to be corrupted–or at least stiffled–by intimidation as a result of such things.

*sigh*

But there are some small, weak signs that not all are bending over to serve our masters in D.C. (and their deep pocket, short-sighted sugar daddys). At least at the State level, some states are waking up to the tiger they’ve been feeding in their livingroom. In Oklahoma (you know, land of backward hayseeds and low-brow yokels fit to compete with Arkansas rednecks and Southwest Missouri hillbillies), a new bill signed into law last week takes steps to address the problem of illegal aliens. Among other things,

House Bill 1804, signed into law by Gov. Brad Henry on Tuesday, would cut off in-state tuition, and possibly enrollment, for illegal immigrant students unless they can verify they have applied for citizenship or plan to within one year.1

Well, it would be a nice start for the region were it not for the fact that President Bush and certain Republican Senators plan to stab the whole country in the back with a bill agreed upon for next week.

And that’s news that takes the very minor good news out of Oklahoma and trumps it with disaster. And it’s news that has led three people in our tiny community in just the last couple of days to volunteer to me that they believe there’s a violent revolution coming in this country.

Yes, real people are getting more than a little angry at how our political masters are willing to sell our birthright for a bowl of pottage. But are there enough real people left to balance out the masses of sheeple who stumble from bread to circus, completely oblivious to the real world, distracted by the Mass Media Podpeople Hivemind blather and too stupid to stop and think (or to be able to) just what the end will be when they are sucked dry…

Meanwhile, if there are a few non-sheeple who read this, consider CLICKing on over to NumbersUSA. Read the site’s wealth of information. Use the site’s FREE FAXING to your congresscritters. GLean phone numbers and addresses of congresscritters and call and write.

And spread the word: a country that refuses to enforce its borders is soon called one thing–conquered.


Addendum:

“Liberalism is a philosophy of consolation for Western civilization as it commits suicide.” – James Burnham

(And at least the situation in the Senate may give us some idea of the relative corruption of the Senate and the House… if the House doesn’t behave as irresponsibly and with such complete disregard for the rule of law and common sense and constituents’ desires as the Senate. If.)


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Compgeeky (not-so-tough) Puzzle… and Weekend Linkfest

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I need to get back to simulating work in a bit, but meanwhile… As computer puzzles go, this one wasn’t all that enigmatic or difficult (pretty easy, in fact), but it came at a time when I was caffeine deprived and preoccupied with other things.

Between one CLICK and the next (well, almost :-)), every web page I tried to access came up with a not found error. Email client (Opera) started reporting network errors attempting to check or send email.

Check another coupla comps on the network. No internet/network problems there.

OK, the obvious things: try pinging other comps on the network from the problem comp. No joy. Definitely the problem comp is the problem, but where?

Rebooted the router and released/renewed network connection on the problem comp, anyway. Renewed all right. Tried some pages. Hmmm… same error. Clear cache, reload. Loaded… partway, then stopped.

Well, there were other things I could have tried, but I decided to update/change my NIC driver and… bob’s your uncle. Smoothe sailing, now.

How did the NIC driver become corrupted? Your guess is as good as mine. Could have been any number of things–including the fact that all these problems started when I uninstalled Network Magic!

Aha! Yeh, I try these kindsa apps out so I can either recommend them to folks who can’t afford an onsite network admin person or recommend they stay away from this app or that.

And I have to say Network Magic was a mixed bag. I had a well-oiled machine going on my network before I installed it, and, for a while, Network Magic seemed to be OK. But then the little things started bugging me.

It couldn’t see or talk to the Linux/BSD machines. Dumb. Real dumb. That was enough to put me off it, but not enough to kill it for folks who have a Windows-only network, so I kept it around for testing a bit longer.

Hmmm… network printers dropped in and out of availability for no discernable reason. Strange. Lotsa griping and complaining from the app about Windows computers with automatic updates turned OFF (the only reasonable way to fly with Windows, IMO, given the number of “updates” from Me$$y$oft that have fragged folks’ computers). Nag, nag, nag.

Killer? Every time it needed web access, it ignored the system default browser and invoked Internet Exploder, the world’s crappiest browser.

Nope, couldn’t recommend it. So, uninstalled.

Now, I recognize that unless I can nail down a definitive cause, associating the NIC driver corruption with the uninstall of Network Magic that occurred immediately before the network problem occurred is potentially a post hoc ergo propter hoc fallacy, but…

I just ran a Registry scan using two different registry scanners I have come to rely on as safe and…

Over 6,000 errors noted by one in a Registry that scanned as OK the day before.

With only the Network Magic uninstall and the NIC driver change as any difference.

I think I’ll recommend folks avoid Network Magic. You think?


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