events of the day

I was a little unclear about what Reagan did, specifically what he did with executive order because that was mostly what the reps were all on fire about Sunday morning, none of them went into the contents of the bill itself. It wasn’t an easy internet search. The hardest part was finding a source that wasn’t blatantly partisan.

In my opinion that is the main problem with the internet. If you go into a bookstore, every book has been fact-checked and evaluated by respectable people while if you go on the internet every nutbar has a book, so they outnumber the books that have been fact-checked, and because when they are listed in google the only indication you have of their contents is a sentence, and in order to find out anything about the article you have to click on it, and wait for all their stupid images and twitter feeds to load before you can read the article.

Anyway, Reagan did sponsor and sign into law an amnesty bill vastly more sweeping than what Obama executive ordered. But did he executive order it? I think what happened is he executive ordered a provision to help immigrant families. So there.

What Reagan gave the immigrants is way more than what Obama is giving them, but I think amnesty is the word that pops out of the conservatives mouths whenever you give immigrants any break at all, so there is nothing I can do about that.

It has no effect on those applying legally.

I think enforcing a bad law, like for instance deporting Pedro who has been working a job and raising a family and paying taxes and keeping his nose clean because one night his tail light goes out, breeds more disrespect for the law than, well, letting it go by.

Ferguson went down last night. As to whether the cop unfairly shot the kid or not I don’t know. I am waiting for some kind of report but I am not hearing anything. All the knowledge I have has been leaked by one side or another. Basically, let me call it the white side, believes the guy was well shot, and the other side, let me call it the black side, believes he was unfairly shot. Neither side is interested in any further facts.

But it doesn’t really matter. How anybody thinks that rioting in some little town by St Louis is going to help their cause is way beyond me.