Silver Bells and Taco Shells

"Mistress Mary, quite contrary, how does your garden grow?
With silver bells and taco shells, and one fucking egg plant."
Funny how you remember stuff that you think you've forgotten. All it takes is a little hint to bring it  back.

That Thai restaurant is called "Indo-China Garden", although there is no garden associated with it. They have both Chinese and Thai food there, but we have never tried the Thai stuff because it warns you right in the menu that it's spicy. The place is only a couple miles from us and we get take out from there often, but have only eaten in the restaurant a couple of times. I didn't think we had a Mexican food truck, but my hypothetical wife reports that she has seen it parked by a small Mexican restaurant on State Street. Last she knew, they were both closed, but that may be only for the winter. My hypothetical wife makes really good tacos herself. She buys the shells ready made and warms them in the oven. She also makes really good chili, but she doesn't put any of those hot peppers in it, although she does use chili powder sparingly in both her tacos and chili. My daughter calls it "Gringo chili." My daughter used to live in Petoskey, but she recently moved to Charlevoix, about 20 miles down the Lake Michigan shore.

Maybe it's different in Chicago but, on a national scale, it's common knowledge that the Hispanic vote is becoming increasingly important to presidential candidates. When I used to read our local paper, the experts (what do you call them, pundits?) were always chiding the Republicans for not kissing up enough to the Hispanics. They say that Hispanics are the fastest growing group of voters, and it won't be long before nobody will be able to get elected president without their support. I assume they are referring to the legal Hispanics because the illegal ones aren't supposed to be voting.

There is only one U.S. Attorney General, although each state has one of their own. No attorney general has the power to change the constitution, but they often give legal advice to government people who consult with them, the intent being to keep them from doing something wrong and getting in trouble for it. Cruz could ask the U.S one for a legal opinion about his citizenship, which would help him decide whether or not the presidency is worth pursuing. What would be the point of getting nominated or, even elected, and later being disqualified by court action? That might have happened to Obama if the birthers could have proven their assertion that he was born in Africa. Turned out they couldn't, but they still raised enough ruckus to be a distraction and an annoyance. Who needs that when you're trying to run a country?

I don't think there's sufficient interest for Congress to propose a constitutional amendment abolishing the "natural born citizen" clause. You are the only person I know who has shown any interest in it at all but, of course, I don't know everybody.