Furibundum

Hey, want to get pissed off? Come on, of course you do. Read on. You know how we all feel so much safer now what with the fantastic Department of Homeland Security heading up all those agencies protecting us from terrorists and other scumbags who want to get in? (Not to forget the genius behind that color-coded threat chart thingy. Excellent safety measure thought up there, and so pretty, too!) But were you aware that some 83 immigrants have died (tallied thus far, anyway) while being detained by the DHS for interrogation? I had no idea, until I happened to be reading some of the deceased's post mortem stories today. Blood boiling and even scary. This recent example , though, of border protection gone terribly awry is the one that most notably caught my attention and made my ears blow steam. A brief synopsis of the sequence of events follows: - Michael Tony Futi was born in January of this year at a hospital in American Samoa , by birthright an American national if not quite rea...

This whole immigration issue, I don't know really. I understand the concept of protecting our borders crap I suppose, but on the other hand, they are stolen borders after all. Am I the only one who thinks of this fantastic sea to shining sea nation of ours to be actually nothing more than just the lucky end result of so much collaterally damaged bullying? Always the focus seems to be on the Mexicans crossing over into what used to be theirs even, until we sent their brown asses packing to the south of our arbitrarily declared new border. With a big friggin' southerly exposed KEEP OUT sign. Right aside a samely oriented HELP WANTED one, of course. (I don't think "samely" is even a word. I make shit up sometimes.) So like I said, I really don't know from bupkis on this one. Someone enlighten me on why this immigrant thing is such a big deal anyway. I guess I might not be so country-proud as others. I admittedly tend to lean mostly toward the hippyish way of...