the invasion of the widows and orphans

This link thing is getting out of hand.  There is nothing in Beagles's link that hasn't been in the lamestream media for days, so why add an article that adds nothing new?

Way up there on the tippy top of Michigan and armed with several trusty firearms far from the Texas border Beagles seems alarmed like an old lady over several thousand mostly women and children.

Perhaps he's alarmed by the prez claiming they are mostly criminals and there are mideast men (terrorists) in the crowd.  There is a classic Ring Lardner exchange were a boy asks his dad a question and "'Shut up,' he replied."  Reminds me of Trump's reply as to how he knows there are criminals and mideasterners in the crowd, "'Don't be a baby,' he replied."  Or how about the story that people are rioting in California over sanctuary cities, or my personal fave how the number of jobs dependent on the Saudi arms deal has risen from 40,000 to a million, going up about  100k in each retelling, like in some sitcom.

They have yet to cross Mexico and a hurricane will be crossing their path.  So far they have been pretty cohesive, but the closer they get the more people they gather and who knows how cohesive they will remain.  I expect they will be rather easily turned away, but I expect Beagles will be tossing and turning at the idea that he may step into his favorite Cheboygan restaurant and see (gasp) some Honduran (gasp) bussing the tables.


I wanted to add something to my drill baby drill analysis.  Some folks would respond to it, by saying that even if we get no price break out of despoiling our soils we get the money paid for that oil.  But that would be true only if the oil companies and the richie riches who owned them paid taxes, and there is ample evidence that that doesn't happen.  Trump brags about not paying taxes, Kushner sniffs that he didn't do anything actually illegal,  We have a couple dueling billionaires running for gov in Illinois and their tax forms show that they pay pittances in taxes.  The dem pays slightly more, but I quibble.

Remember the big scare about how the IRS was a mighty ogre, and it's investigative arm had to be slashed?  The idea was that Joe Sixpack was getting fucked and he was being saved by knocking down the IRS, but the real effect was that it was even easier for the richies to pay no taxes,  That's what Beagles, quaking in the far north should be sweating, not the guy wiping down the counter that once held his bacon and eggs.