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My Lefty, Massachusetts resident, Boston-educated sis today: "I just want to know why we allow any immigrants into our country anymore. Are we crazy?"

Posted by Bird Dog in Hot News & Misc. Short Subjects at 21:04 | Comments (19) | Trackback (1)

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You know what they say: "A conservative is just a liberal who got mugged by reality."

#1 JorgXMcKie on 2013-04-20 21:17 (Reply)

That's funny, BD. I suspect you were a little stunned at knowing how to reply for a few seconds. I would have been.

#2 XRay on 2013-04-20 21:42 (Reply)

Well...irrational violence isn't correlated with just immigration as the incident at Sandy Hook demonstrated. The intent and action to hurt innocent people is a tragic madness found in all nationalities, all over the world. And sadly, every day. Everywhere. Even in the glossiest highrises of corporate America.

A psychologist once told me 10% of any population is mad in some way, and each of us will be mad some 10% of our life...

I just don"t know how we can deal with that statistic...or the tragic flaws of our human species ...I just don't know...

#3 KT on 2013-04-20 22:35 (Reply)

Apparently, when they start using the new DSM-V in May, that percentage of who will be diagnosed mad in their lifetime will move to 50%

#3.1 JKB on 2013-04-20 23:54 (Reply)

Shrinks have learned the lawyers self-serving tricks.

#3.1.1 Quig (Link) on 2013-04-21 08:14 (Reply)

And yet if we hadn't allowed these thugs into our country 3 people now dead would be alive and 180 more wouldn't be injured. In the end, because politicians will use this to grow their power, all of our lives will be changed for the worst.

#3.2 FRP on 2013-04-21 09:43 (Reply)

FRP-- And yet we also have the "Cowboy Hat" guy, Carlos Luis Arredondo, an immigrant from Costa Rica (whose son was killed in action in Iraq fighting for the U.S.) who probably helped save the life of the guy whose legs were blown off.

No way I can put all immigrants in the same basket.

#3.2.1 Jim on 2013-04-21 18:50 (Reply)

The attack on the Boston marathon desecrated a sacred event, it was sacrilege of the worst sort. The attack on the World Trade Center was just an attack, the attack on the Marathon was an attack on the liberal heart of Boston.

#4 chuck on 2013-04-20 22:43 (Reply)

This was not irrational violence. It was a deliberate act of islamic jihad against the people of Boston because they want to kill us, all of us who are not under Allah.

#5 gina on 2013-04-20 23:22 (Reply)

I recommend you all spend some time over at Steve Sailer's Place.

He's been having a field day the last couple of days. There is more than one post about Chechen culture.

As far as immigration goes, I think we need another quiet period. Like we had from about 1920 to 1965.

#6 Mike (Link) on 2013-04-20 23:39 (Reply)

And Bill Maher weighs in.

#7 chuck on 2013-04-21 01:03 (Reply)

I'm sensing there is another bit of eye-opening going on after the bombing. Some on the Left are re-evaluating as many did after 9/11. They may not change in the long run but for now, things are different and it doesn't seem Obama's people and the MSM, but a repeat myself, have caught on.

#7.1 JKB on 2013-04-21 08:40 (Reply)

If mad we must be, let it be a divine madness. If BDS we must have, let it be not Bush Derangement Syndrome, but Bird Dog's Sister's.

#8 buddy larsen on 2013-04-21 10:06 (Reply)

If your sister is like mine (Boston resident, Harvard educated, Left wing almost radically so), she probably is a lover of diversity.
Diversity, of course, on HER terms, not the standard version of diversity, which would encompass being open minded.

#9 Bulldog on 2013-04-21 10:18 (Reply)

That little problem with 'diversity' sounds like a quirk, a sort of folly worthy of some wry amusement.

That's okay, the philosophy plank in the left's permanent platform has to be from cloud-cuckoo-land if we are to have a two party system with the other party necessarily ideally grounded in the ordinary.

Problem is, though, it is a giant step in the process of dehumanization, and the humane only belongs to the human.

#9.1 buddy larsen on 2013-04-21 10:40 (Reply)

I'm all for 'diversity', as long as it means open-minded, and not putting restrictions up against people for thinking, doing or looking different than what is perceived to be common.

The problem, however, is that proponents of 'diversity' can't even define what they are looking for. So you never know when you've got it, it's a never ending goal.

As for immigration, I'm all for it. We need new blood, new ideas and more people who care for this nation. For every 1,000 who come in and love the US, there's only 1 who may hate us, ultimately.

Long ago, I was told an interesting fact by a priest who stated "our best church members are converts, because they truly want to be part of the parish and church community." I believe this is true of immigrants, as well.

#9.1.1 Bulldog on 2013-04-21 13:28 (Reply)

Right on --to move from unencumbered to encumbered bespeaks a knowledge of both states, where to have always been encumbered does not, and furthermore opens a possibility of no knowledge of either state.

#9.1.1.1 buddy larsen on 2013-04-22 03:04 (Reply)

http://education.texashistory.unt.edu/lessons/primary%20source%20sets/NativeAmericanCultures_%20Pueblo_Plains/images/metapth16502_CurlyBudBallew.jpg

"I just want to know why we allow any immigrants
into our country anymore. Are we crazy?"

#10 Zachriel on 2013-04-22 07:25 (Reply)

Exactly so, Zachriel. But I confess to some surprise that you should suggest declaring war on immigrants, scalping the men, burning their homes, and kidnapping the children. I didn't think you leaned that way.

#10.1 chuck on 2013-04-23 12:15 (Reply)

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Saturday, April 20. 2013

One of my sisters