Illegals Go Home.


The amnesty bill is dead, at least for this session. Finally our elected officials got a backbone and listened to what WE the tax paying Americans wanted. Now if only they will make it easier for the border patrol and officers of all Law enforcement to enforce the law pertaining to illegal immigrants.
Some of our law enforcement departments are beginning to do what the federal government has not been able to do. Take for instance Sheriff Frank McKeithen who created his own Illegal Alien Task Force in Panama City Beach Florida. The task force drives up to construction sites and watch to see who runs. The ones who run are chased down, arrested on various charges and their names and information is handed over to the U.S. immigration authorities. Illegals are leaving town for fear of being deported. GOOD.
The Mexican American Legal Defense Fund is investigating the arrests because of what they say is an intimidation factor. Excuse me! A what! These aliens are here illegally and finally law enforcement is doing its job that has been long overdue and someone wants to cry fowl. All these officers are doing is showing up at job sites. The way I look at it is that if someone sees a police vehicle and flees a scene then they must be guilty of something or why would they run.

We are being overrun and taken advantage of by illegals and it is time that the laws of our nation are carried out. Our borders need to be shut down and all this political talking and dancing around needs to stop. All the talk, talk, talk is not getting anything accomplished. We are being invaded people so take your heads out of the sand and look around. All this bull about illegals are just doing jobs that nobody else will do is a bunch of double talk. Why, who was doing these jobs before? They were getting done by Americans all these years weren't they.
Employers, like the ones in the construction industry in Florida, are bawking the arrests saying it will deprive them of labor needed to continue. What they are really saying is they want cheap labor they don't have to pay much and also that they don't have to pay taxes on or insurance and the many other perks of hiring illegals. Who pays the medical bills of these illegals? We the tax paying public do; we pick up the tab for the added load all the way around by increased taxes. These illegals are taking advantage of our history of being good guys by walking all over us.

We also need to put a stop to this anchor baby deal. A baby born here by a resident from another country should not be an automatic American but rather still a natural resident from where their parents are legal citizens. If an illegal is over here and has a baby then that baby should still be considered a Mexican, or where ever they are from, citizen.

Atlanta After Six Years.


I finally made it to Atlanta to see my Mom and Pop after six long years. It was a good trip and was some what of a surprise for me. My Pop had major surgery a couple of months back and my Mom is not in the best of health either. Things just didn't seem to be going right for me to take a trip down that way as money has been tight for a lot of people including me. Not to leave out that the transmission on my truck had literally exploded internally so we had to save up $1405 to get it fixed. Gas prices also figured into the travel factor.

While there my Pop gave me a bunch of old books of his to read. He's a huge Louis L'Amour and Zane Grey (Who was a Dentist) fan and Pop, with Moms urging, passed them along to me. Reading seems to be becoming a lost thing to do these days. What with the Internet and Tivo and the huge amount of video games that are around. But there is something in reading you just can't get with all those other things. The use of your own imagination from the words on a page. If you read a book, I mean find a good spot to truly read a good book so you can get into it, you can just slip right into the pages. You can see it the way you see it and not the way some director wants you to see his imagery.

While reading the first Zane Grey book out of the box titled ' The RainBow Trail' circa 1915, I had to stop and just think to myself at how several people have looked at and read the very same words on the page. My own father held this same book and read these same words himself. My eyes are seeing the same words on these same pages in this book that he held. For me that's something wonderful to think about.
There is magic in the written words on pages in books that is lost to a whole generation. A book needs no power cord or batteries to work. There is no volume control on it and you won't disturb others if you wish to read at night. You don't have to record it to come back to it later or rewind to catch something you missed and best of all, no commercials. A book will allow you to travel back in time or into the future whenever you want and go places you'd never be able to see. Even Tivo can't do all that.

You only need two things to read a book. The ability to read with an imagination and of course. . . a book.