Teh stoopid never stops

[rolanni]

The House on Friday evening overwhelmingly passed, 412-6, a homeland security spending bill containing $1.2 billion to begin construction of fences and other barriers along the U.S.-Mexican border, plus money for jails to detain illegal immigrants and hire 1,500 more border agents. The Senate cleared the bill late Friday by voice vote.

Anybody have any ideas about what this will do to the migrations of the Blameless Creatures of the Earth God-the-Grandfather-in-the-Sky supposedly gave into the care of Men? You'd think that at least some of the wingnuts folks who are so interested in bringing GtGitS "back" to the center of gummint would think of such things.

Story here.

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[janni.livejournal.com]

This sort of thing makes me want to make everyone in Washington live in a border town for ten years, so that they can understand just how thin-to-non-existent that line between us and them really is.

And also how hamrful this is to communities where us and them live together. I mean, that border fence is going to cut through towns; it's going to keep members of families apart.

[dancinghorse.livejournal.com]

And it won't work. They'll find other ways and places to get in. And the good Republican political donors will keep right on hiring those who do get in.

Did you read the Tony Hillerman book where the whole situation is manufactured by power brokers in DC in order to make them richer? Sounds improbable, but under this regime, you honestly never know. So far they've been consistent in fulfilling the more dire prophecies about what they'll do next.

Signed, Taking Bets on When (Not If) They Nuke Iran

[jhetley.livejournal.com]

Oh, yeah. We have cross-border communities in Maine where people's effing _driveways_ start in Canada. The closest hospital is in Canada, by maybe a hundred miles...