This has gotten me to thinking, didn't I hear about one of the founding
fathers and presidents being born in the West Indies? Off to the google
machine and there he is, Alexander Hamilton. Surely the ink had dried
on the constitution by the time he became president, so what's the story
with that? I shall leave it to this institution's constitutional
scholar and internet investigator to come up with that.
I don't know if we've always had birth certificates, and back in the day
churches and courthouses would burn down and there wasn't always a
record. It seems kind of foolish to expect a guy to show up with one.
As I recall Obama showed one, but then the birthers wanted a longer
form, and then when that was presented they found something odd in the
typeface that they claimed was proof that it was a forgery. And then
there was the birth notice in the Hawaiian newspaper. Had the plot
begun with some kind of skullduggery in 1961 that would lead to Barak
Hussein Obama becoming president in 2008?
That's why they are called conspiracy theories, because they fly so
clearly in the face of common sense. Like the one about Trump being
some kind of Hillary plot, which I believe you have espoused in our
correspondence before, and that I have heard espoused by others from
time to time. Isn't it much more likely that Trump, with his towering
ego, wants to be president because he is the smartest guy in the
universe, than to believe that somehow he is being paid off (a rich guy
like him) or brainwashed or blackmailed or voodooed or something to
clear the way for Hillary? What opposite group is pulling the strings
behind Bernie? And who paid off your man Rand to be such an inept
campaigner and bring defeat to libertarianism which, if the American
people could see clearly, they would adopt in a heartbeat because it is
such a groovy system?
While you are researching Alexander Hamilton, maybe you could come up
with something about the age of 35. Why not 30, why not 40? Actually
I seem to recall, back when I was dodging the draft, that that was the
age when the selective service lost interest in you, so maybe there is
some precedence in old Anglo Saxon law or something.
Both Rubio and Cruz are of Cuban ancestry. Rubio is second generation
and can speak Spanish. Cruz is third generation and knows maybe a few
phrases like we learned in Mr Chadwick's class. His daddy is a fire and
brimstone preacher and that's where he gets his peculiar speaking
style.
I think your example of me being the only white guy in my building is a
bit extreme, but I suppose if they didn't call me Whitey everytime they
ran into me and my neighbors didn't blast that awful rap music to all
hours of the night, it would be okay. Look at you, you have like less
than one percent Hispanics in the town you don't even live in, and
probably haven't laid eyes on a Hispanic since you were a pup, and you
are upset about them moving anywhere in the USA because sometime you
might tune in your tv and see them making spectacles of themselves and
that would upset your stomach like somebody had snuck a habanero pepper
into your bland gringo chili.
The context in which I was referring to the Hispanics is that the only
reason they are perceived as a voting block to be reckoned with is
because they vote in a block, and the only reason they vote in a block
is because the republicans keep bad mouthing them. If the republicans
didn't do that many of them, inspired by republican family values would
be solid republicans.
Didn't you know that Scalia was a hero to all you second amendment
types? Not that you particularly believe in the second amendment (I
think you said you didn't) but anything that keeps Old Betsy in your
sweaty hands is jake with you.
If you haven't tossed your tv out the window for spoiling your meal of
taco shells and eggplant(?) perhaps you saw Dubya returning from
obscurity to stump for his brother. Apparently Dubya is popular in the
deep south state of south Carolina, but has it ever occurred to the
smart Bush brother that the sane part of the country, where most of the
votes are, hates Dubya, and surely these clips would find their way into
anti Bush ads should he emerge from the clown car still standing?
Tuesday, February 16, 2016
Monday, February 15, 2016
It's Hardly a Loophole
The requirement that a presidential candidate must be a natural born citizen is hardly a loophole, it's in the U.S. Constitution, Article II, Section 1, Paragraph 5. I think they put it in there to prevent some Englishman from becoming president, which is understandable considering they had recently fought a war with England. That shouldn't be a concern today, so maybe it should be changed, but the only way it can be changed is by a constitutional amendment, and nobody seems interested in doing that. The same paragraph also requires that the president must be at least 35 year old, so it seems reasonable that a candidate should be required to show his birth certificate to somebody before he can even file his candidacy. That, however, is not in the constitution or anywhere else in the law, it seems like the Founding Fathers overlooked that detail. It's never really been an issue until Obama ran for president, but it's bound to come up again someday, so it should be written into the law, but nobody seems interested in doing that either. The issue with Cruz is whether or not a person born to an American mother while she is staying in a foreign country qualifies as a natural born citizen. He is a citizen to be sure, but is he a natural born citizen? Now that's a loophole, and it shouldn't take a lawsuit to close it up. All they need to do is pass a law, or amend the current law, to clarify that one point, but nobody seems interested in doing that either.
Speaking of Cruz, isn't he Hispanic, and Rubio too? I have seen their photos, and they both look White to me. Neither Hispanic nor Mexican is a race, they are both nationalities. I can't speak for the rest of my ilk, but my main concern is the illegal immigrants, no matter what their race or nationalities might be. The common perception is that almost all of the illegals are Hispanic, but that might be because they are the ones that seem to make the news a lot. I would also be concerned if millions of people moved into my neighborhood and surrounded me, especially, but not exclusively, if they spoke a different language and had different social customs that set them apart from my other neighbors. I think that most people would. You have said that you have some colored people in your building and you don't have a problem with it. But if they were all colored, and you were the only English speaking White guy in the building, wouldn't that make you a little nervous?
I don't know much about any of the Supreme Court justices, but I understand that Scalia was considered to be a conservative. I think the concern is that, if a liberal judge takes his place, the balance of the court will tip to the left. I agree with you, however, that the Senate should hold hearings and vote on it. The next time there's a vacancy, we might have a Republican president and a Democratic senate, that's the way it goes in the United States of America. I generally don't approve of the way Congress bottles up bills in committee until they expire at the end of the session. They should either vote it in or vote it out, and go on to the next item on the agenda.
I found a thing about Trump on Wiki over the weekend. I wasn't aware that this possibility had occurred to anybody else, but remember that you heard it first from Talks With Beagles.
Speaking of Cruz, isn't he Hispanic, and Rubio too? I have seen their photos, and they both look White to me. Neither Hispanic nor Mexican is a race, they are both nationalities. I can't speak for the rest of my ilk, but my main concern is the illegal immigrants, no matter what their race or nationalities might be. The common perception is that almost all of the illegals are Hispanic, but that might be because they are the ones that seem to make the news a lot. I would also be concerned if millions of people moved into my neighborhood and surrounded me, especially, but not exclusively, if they spoke a different language and had different social customs that set them apart from my other neighbors. I think that most people would. You have said that you have some colored people in your building and you don't have a problem with it. But if they were all colored, and you were the only English speaking White guy in the building, wouldn't that make you a little nervous?
I don't know much about any of the Supreme Court justices, but I understand that Scalia was considered to be a conservative. I think the concern is that, if a liberal judge takes his place, the balance of the court will tip to the left. I agree with you, however, that the Senate should hold hearings and vote on it. The next time there's a vacancy, we might have a Republican president and a Democratic senate, that's the way it goes in the United States of America. I generally don't approve of the way Congress bottles up bills in committee until they expire at the end of the session. They should either vote it in or vote it out, and go on to the next item on the agenda.
I found a thing about Trump on Wiki over the weekend. I wasn't aware that this possibility had occurred to anybody else, but remember that you heard it first from Talks With Beagles.
False flag conspiracy theory[edit]
A conspiracy theory appearing in the Washington Post, Salon, Esquire, Gawker, Talking Points Memo and several other political news outlets, and which has been endorsed by several of Trump's opponents, posits that Trump is running a "false flag operation" for presumptive Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton. According to this theory, Trump intends to help her secure the presidency by obtaining the Republican nomination, or running as a third party candidate, which Trump was initially reluctant to rule out, but eventually did.[191][192][193][194][195][196][197]R I P Scalia
Egg plant?
Not a fan of hot food huh? You ought to live in Texas for a couple years, you would develop a taste. Myself I like jalapenos, but I steer clear of the dreaded habanero.
You're right, there is a lot of talk about the Hispanic vote. I guess it's because they tend to vote in a block. They wouldn't necessarily do so. As the republican establishment points out, they are religious, family oriented, pretty conservative and their natural home would be the republican party.
But the insurgent wing of the party keeps bashing them because it is popular with a lot of republican voters because, well some will say that they are concerned with national security and the rule of law, but mostly I think it is because they don't like people who don't talk and look like them, which is to say white.
And maybe I am wrong and more republicans are concerned with national security and rule of law than are xenophobic, but if you are a Mexican it sure looks like these people plain don't like you and hell will freeze over before you vote for any republican.
The Attorney General of the US is Loretta Lynch, a black woman appointed by Obama. Do you think any republicans are going to take her word for anything? And do you think she is going to go out of her way to help the second nuttiest republican candidate. And even if she did, you know somebody would sue, because the most treasured right of Americans is the right to sue.
I think that thing about keeping foreign guys out of the presidency is a holdover from colonial days, even though not a few of the founding fathers were foreign born. It seems undemocratic that if the majority of Americans want somebody for president they can't have him because of some loophole.
Well I was settling in to watch the republican debate Saturday night and I went to my favorite political website, Politico, to brush up on what would be upcoming and bam, Scalia dead.
Well dignity in death and I'm sure he was a fine family man and had friends aplenty, but I never liked the sonofabitch and I was glad to see him dead.
The guy was scarce cold when McConnell and the entire slate of rep candidates were declaring there would be no consideration of anybody that Obama would nominate. Flat out no hearings. Seemed kind of odd, I mean why not hold the hearings? I think it's in their beloved constitution and they could just vote down anybody Obama proposed all nice and legal like.
It makes you wonder what will become of the supreme court. If neither party controls both the presidency and the senate they will not be able to confirm anybody, and if a party controls both they can nominate anybody they choose and not a damn thing the other party can do about it.
And then on to the republican debate and holy shit, the only reason chairs weren't flying is because they had podiums, and probably the only reasons podiums weren't flying was because they couldn't rip them up.
Not a fan of hot food huh? You ought to live in Texas for a couple years, you would develop a taste. Myself I like jalapenos, but I steer clear of the dreaded habanero.
You're right, there is a lot of talk about the Hispanic vote. I guess it's because they tend to vote in a block. They wouldn't necessarily do so. As the republican establishment points out, they are religious, family oriented, pretty conservative and their natural home would be the republican party.
But the insurgent wing of the party keeps bashing them because it is popular with a lot of republican voters because, well some will say that they are concerned with national security and the rule of law, but mostly I think it is because they don't like people who don't talk and look like them, which is to say white.
And maybe I am wrong and more republicans are concerned with national security and rule of law than are xenophobic, but if you are a Mexican it sure looks like these people plain don't like you and hell will freeze over before you vote for any republican.
The Attorney General of the US is Loretta Lynch, a black woman appointed by Obama. Do you think any republicans are going to take her word for anything? And do you think she is going to go out of her way to help the second nuttiest republican candidate. And even if she did, you know somebody would sue, because the most treasured right of Americans is the right to sue.
I think that thing about keeping foreign guys out of the presidency is a holdover from colonial days, even though not a few of the founding fathers were foreign born. It seems undemocratic that if the majority of Americans want somebody for president they can't have him because of some loophole.
Well I was settling in to watch the republican debate Saturday night and I went to my favorite political website, Politico, to brush up on what would be upcoming and bam, Scalia dead.
Well dignity in death and I'm sure he was a fine family man and had friends aplenty, but I never liked the sonofabitch and I was glad to see him dead.
The guy was scarce cold when McConnell and the entire slate of rep candidates were declaring there would be no consideration of anybody that Obama would nominate. Flat out no hearings. Seemed kind of odd, I mean why not hold the hearings? I think it's in their beloved constitution and they could just vote down anybody Obama proposed all nice and legal like.
It makes you wonder what will become of the supreme court. If neither party controls both the presidency and the senate they will not be able to confirm anybody, and if a party controls both they can nominate anybody they choose and not a damn thing the other party can do about it.
And then on to the republican debate and holy shit, the only reason chairs weren't flying is because they had podiums, and probably the only reasons podiums weren't flying was because they couldn't rip them up.
Friday, February 12, 2016
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.
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.
Dining at the West Coast Tacos truck
Those percents with the decimal points in them are a bit tricky. One
percent is a hundredth, so one percent of 26,152 is 261.52, rounded up
to 262, and .76 of that is about three quarters, so call it oh about
200, hardly enough to support a restaurant, but maybe the people of
Cheboygan, living near an international border, are a cosmopolitan
crowd, eager to taste the cuisine of many lands. But a little internet
research reveals that they are not, the most exotic appears to be Thai,
although there is a Mexican food truck. There are a couple Mexican
restaurants in Petoskey, where I believe your daughter lives. You might
want to sample one and try the food you will be forced to eat every
day, and extra special hot sauce for swamp gringos, once they take over.
I do wonder where you read about them taking over though. Those must be some peculiar tv stations and newspapers, I never see that. Like I said they are about a third of the population here, but by and large they stay away from the ballot box and their aldermen are generally toadies of the mayor and their other elected officials are feathering their own nests just like the Poles and the Irish.
What I meant to say was that Kasich won in the 'moderate' lane of candidates, the one with Rubio and Bush, Cruz has the tea party/evangelical lane all to himself now that the Huck and Icky Rick (yes, I love nicknames) are gone, and the republicans have a new lane this year, the Trump lane, talk about tearing the party a new asshole.
I don't think it is up to a single attorney general to declare Cruz presidential. You know his opponents would find some other attorney general to declare him unpresidential. I think it has to go all the way to the supremes and by then Cruz may be finishing up his second term and we will all be going to some holy roller church every Sunday and Wednesday evening, and there will be somebody there inspecting us to see if our shoes are shined and our buttons polished.
I was looking up amendments last night. The last one passed was in 1992 delaying laws effecting Congressional salary from taking effect until the next election. It was first proposed in 1789. Wow. I have no memory of that.
The last one before that was 1971, the 18 year old vote. I believe that was done to sooth restive youth who were being drafted at that age. I don't remember that there was much furor over it at the time. You would think, if you lived on Mars, that they could do something like that now with the natural-born thing, but if Obama proposed it, it would be treason, and I can't see the republicans proposing it because so many of their constituents are afraid of furriners taking over.
Watched the dems debate last night, it was a lot more civil and issue oriented then the reps, so it was kind of boring. I will be watching Saturday's debate (no I never get tired of those things) and i will give you a report on Monday.
I do wonder where you read about them taking over though. Those must be some peculiar tv stations and newspapers, I never see that. Like I said they are about a third of the population here, but by and large they stay away from the ballot box and their aldermen are generally toadies of the mayor and their other elected officials are feathering their own nests just like the Poles and the Irish.
What I meant to say was that Kasich won in the 'moderate' lane of candidates, the one with Rubio and Bush, Cruz has the tea party/evangelical lane all to himself now that the Huck and Icky Rick (yes, I love nicknames) are gone, and the republicans have a new lane this year, the Trump lane, talk about tearing the party a new asshole.
I don't think it is up to a single attorney general to declare Cruz presidential. You know his opponents would find some other attorney general to declare him unpresidential. I think it has to go all the way to the supremes and by then Cruz may be finishing up his second term and we will all be going to some holy roller church every Sunday and Wednesday evening, and there will be somebody there inspecting us to see if our shoes are shined and our buttons polished.
I was looking up amendments last night. The last one passed was in 1992 delaying laws effecting Congressional salary from taking effect until the next election. It was first proposed in 1789. Wow. I have no memory of that.
The last one before that was 1971, the 18 year old vote. I believe that was done to sooth restive youth who were being drafted at that age. I don't remember that there was much furor over it at the time. You would think, if you lived on Mars, that they could do something like that now with the natural-born thing, but if Obama proposed it, it would be treason, and I can't see the republicans proposing it because so many of their constituents are afraid of furriners taking over.
Watched the dems debate last night, it was a lot more civil and issue oriented then the reps, so it was kind of boring. I will be watching Saturday's debate (no I never get tired of those things) and i will give you a report on Monday.
Thursday, February 11, 2016
Do The Math
According to Wiki, there are 26,152 people in Cheboygan County, and 0.76% of them are Hispanics. By my calculations, we should have 198.76 Hispanics, or maybe it's 19.88 Hispanics. I'm not sure where the decimal point goes. It's been a long time since I and my hypothetical wife have been to school, and I have been driving her nuts trying to remember how it goes. She finally told me to ask you to figure it for us since you are a former teacher. At any rate, however many Hispanics we have, they must be keeping a low profile because neither I nor my hypothetical wife know any of them or where they might live, nor do we remember hearing anything about them in the news. We used to have a Taco Bell, but it closed down a long time ago, and I don't remember ever going in there.
I've got nothing against anybody who wants to live in Chicago. If all the Chicago people followed my example and moved here, it would be just as crowded here as it is in Chicago, and I would have to move away. The only reason I'm paranoid about those people taking over the country is that I keep hearing about it in the news. I already have given up reading our local newspaper, so maybe if I quit watching the TV news I wouldn't worry so much. Only then I would have to depend on you as my sole source of news, and I would still have to look it up on Wiki to see if you're telling me right.
Speaking of which, I thought I remembered hearing on TV that Trump won the New Hampshire Republican primary, and now you tell me that Kasich won it. Well according to Wiki, Trump got 35.34%, Kasich got 15.81%, and Cruz got 11.68% of the votes. Although Trump didn't get a majority, he got a plurality, which is the closest anybody is going to come to winning unless it ever gets down to only two candidates. I understand that your man Bernie won on the Democrat side, so congratulations are in order, although with 48 more states and various odd territories to go, it's a little too soon to do the victory dance.
Why doesn't Cruz ask the Attorney general or somebody to deliver a legal opinion on the issue of his citizenship? If I was running for president, I would want to know early on whether or not I was wasting my time. It seems like, after that uproar about Obama's birthplace, they or somebody should have put a mechanism in place to resolve these issues before a guy could even declare his candidacy. With all those foreigners taking over the country it's bound to come up more and more as time goes on. Congress can't just change the Constitution by its own self. First they have to pass a proposal, and then it's got to be ratified by 3/4 of the state legislatures. Another way would be to call a constitutional convention, which could change anything or even dump the whole constitution and start all over from scratch, but that's never been done because nobody wants to open up that can of worms.
I've got nothing against anybody who wants to live in Chicago. If all the Chicago people followed my example and moved here, it would be just as crowded here as it is in Chicago, and I would have to move away. The only reason I'm paranoid about those people taking over the country is that I keep hearing about it in the news. I already have given up reading our local newspaper, so maybe if I quit watching the TV news I wouldn't worry so much. Only then I would have to depend on you as my sole source of news, and I would still have to look it up on Wiki to see if you're telling me right.
Speaking of which, I thought I remembered hearing on TV that Trump won the New Hampshire Republican primary, and now you tell me that Kasich won it. Well according to Wiki, Trump got 35.34%, Kasich got 15.81%, and Cruz got 11.68% of the votes. Although Trump didn't get a majority, he got a plurality, which is the closest anybody is going to come to winning unless it ever gets down to only two candidates. I understand that your man Bernie won on the Democrat side, so congratulations are in order, although with 48 more states and various odd territories to go, it's a little too soon to do the victory dance.
Why doesn't Cruz ask the Attorney general or somebody to deliver a legal opinion on the issue of his citizenship? If I was running for president, I would want to know early on whether or not I was wasting my time. It seems like, after that uproar about Obama's birthplace, they or somebody should have put a mechanism in place to resolve these issues before a guy could even declare his candidacy. With all those foreigners taking over the country it's bound to come up more and more as time goes on. Congress can't just change the Constitution by its own self. First they have to pass a proposal, and then it's got to be ratified by 3/4 of the state legislatures. Another way would be to call a constitutional convention, which could change anything or even dump the whole constitution and start all over from scratch, but that's never been done because nobody wants to open up that can of worms.
celebrating Taco Tuesday
Did a little internet research on your guv, hard to determine if he is a
tea partier or not. Apparently he made a big deal out of being a
political outsider and espoused family values and guns and opposed gay
marriage, and was elected in that tea party wave, but he also spoke of
bipartisanship which is a word no partier would ever utter. If I google
Rick Snyder tea party i see a lot of people think he is one. I think
we can say that he may not carry the card but he is a fellow traveler.
Just as it's hard to distinguish who is a tea party guy and who is not, it's a little difficult to distinguish who we mean when we talk about Hispanics, because that includes Mexicans and Cubans and Puerto Ricans and most of South America, but sometimes it is used to speak of Mexicans only, and among Mexicans we have the ones who are US citizens, and the illegal immigrants who come from Mexico, and the people who live in Mexico and have never come here except maybe for a vacation. And not all illegal immigrants are Mexicans, some of them come from South America, Poland, Ireland, Asia.
But by far most of them come from Mexico and Central and South America, and I think these are primarily the people of which we speak.
I go through all this to lead up to the question of if there are any let's see, Spanish Speaking Illegal Immigrants (SSII) in Cheboygan. Well of course they are not going to announce that they are illegal, but I think we can be safe in the assumption that if you have a sizable Mexican community some of them are probably illegal. So is there a Mexican community in Cheboygan? If you want to celebrate Taco Tuesday do you have a good place to go, or do you end up at the Taco Bell?
What I am trying to figure out is what is your beef with these people? You left Chicago and now there are a lot of Mexicans (and SSIIs) living in Chicago, but what do you care? You are far from there. In general we get along pretty well here. Why are you sticking your nose in our business?
So is it just the fact that laws are being not enforced that bothers you? If we repealed the immigration law and welcomed everybody would that be fine with you? Actually you know that during the depths of our downturn a lot of SSIIs went back home because there weren't any jobs for them here. So maybe the free market would solve all that. Libertarians are huge fans of the free market, but you are a delicatessen libertarian and I don't think I have ever heard your thoughts on laissez faire capitalism.
The reason Cruz isn't taking this issue to the courts is that it would take forever. There would have to be some test case and it would have to work its way up to the supremes, and then there would be appeals, and all this time it would be in the news, and it would never be settled in time for the election.
You know what congress should do is just take that natural born thing out of the requirements for the presidency so that this pesky issue wouldn't be coming up every now and then. If the American people choose to elect somebody who wasn't born on American soil, shouldn't that be their right?
Right now the Republican race is between Trump, Cruz, and the 'moderates.' The moderates are Kasich, the winner of new Hampshire, Bush, coming back from the dead, and Rubio, dusting himself off. Neither of those three had more than 16 percentage points, but together they have about 35 and it's widely assumed that whichever one emerges will get the votes of those dropping out.
On to South Carolina and another debate this Saturday. I may even watch the democratic one tonight, now that I am feeling the Bern.
Just as it's hard to distinguish who is a tea party guy and who is not, it's a little difficult to distinguish who we mean when we talk about Hispanics, because that includes Mexicans and Cubans and Puerto Ricans and most of South America, but sometimes it is used to speak of Mexicans only, and among Mexicans we have the ones who are US citizens, and the illegal immigrants who come from Mexico, and the people who live in Mexico and have never come here except maybe for a vacation. And not all illegal immigrants are Mexicans, some of them come from South America, Poland, Ireland, Asia.
But by far most of them come from Mexico and Central and South America, and I think these are primarily the people of which we speak.
I go through all this to lead up to the question of if there are any let's see, Spanish Speaking Illegal Immigrants (SSII) in Cheboygan. Well of course they are not going to announce that they are illegal, but I think we can be safe in the assumption that if you have a sizable Mexican community some of them are probably illegal. So is there a Mexican community in Cheboygan? If you want to celebrate Taco Tuesday do you have a good place to go, or do you end up at the Taco Bell?
What I am trying to figure out is what is your beef with these people? You left Chicago and now there are a lot of Mexicans (and SSIIs) living in Chicago, but what do you care? You are far from there. In general we get along pretty well here. Why are you sticking your nose in our business?
So is it just the fact that laws are being not enforced that bothers you? If we repealed the immigration law and welcomed everybody would that be fine with you? Actually you know that during the depths of our downturn a lot of SSIIs went back home because there weren't any jobs for them here. So maybe the free market would solve all that. Libertarians are huge fans of the free market, but you are a delicatessen libertarian and I don't think I have ever heard your thoughts on laissez faire capitalism.
The reason Cruz isn't taking this issue to the courts is that it would take forever. There would have to be some test case and it would have to work its way up to the supremes, and then there would be appeals, and all this time it would be in the news, and it would never be settled in time for the election.
You know what congress should do is just take that natural born thing out of the requirements for the presidency so that this pesky issue wouldn't be coming up every now and then. If the American people choose to elect somebody who wasn't born on American soil, shouldn't that be their right?
Right now the Republican race is between Trump, Cruz, and the 'moderates.' The moderates are Kasich, the winner of new Hampshire, Bush, coming back from the dead, and Rubio, dusting himself off. Neither of those three had more than 16 percentage points, but together they have about 35 and it's widely assumed that whichever one emerges will get the votes of those dropping out.
On to South Carolina and another debate this Saturday. I may even watch the democratic one tonight, now that I am feeling the Bern.
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