This speaks to me in so many facets. As a hispanic person, I am constantly berated that I should feel a certain way on illegal immigration because I should "stand with my latino brothers and sisters".

No, come here legally and stop breaking the law.

Nothing to apologize for! Your emphasis and clarity have earned you a deserved 9 points so far. :)

Sorry, I didn't mean to be repetitive.

Hello teri-amborn,
I believe I said that, but it cannot be emphasized too much. :)
Thank You!
O.A.

I couldn't agree more with you on all of these points. I am no expert on these things. But, with the help of experts, I would attempt to do three things:
- Use the modern technology to advertise freedom and capitalism. I think that during the Cold War, American radio plaid a significant role in educating people in Easter Europe about alternatives to communist tyranny. As did, to a lesser extent, BBC. Shottky, co-inventor of transistors once said that the thing that he liked the most about that invention was that now a shepherd high in the mountains of Tibet, with a device the size of a pack of cigarettes could listen to anybody in the world. We are far advanced from there. Let's take advantage.
- Do business and trade with everybody as much as possible. They will learn, slowly, to compete, both internally and externally. Our products are advertisements.
- There are countries in the world that would seek to destroy us. We must have defense arrangements with likeminded countries. Bribery is prevalent in the world, so we must compete in that too: offer favors in return for favors. No gifts ever.
I am afraid that that the root cause of the problems you (and I) lament is our own ideological and political confusion. As is evident in so many things, the elephantine government that we have evolved consistently uses the left hand without knowing what the right hand is doing.
I better stop. I am just venting my frustrations.

Go Paul Go!

Lemon's comment about "people will be surprised to hear that coming from someone who's an immigrant"...

What, because Paul immigrated legally, and has a Hispanic surname, he's supposed to take the poor, sad immigrants stealing over our border should be given privilege and we should be shocked? Don Lemon sure has the right last name, IMO... typical of the racist moocher mindset.

Boy did that rattle the teleprompters at CNN? O.A. I agree respect is earned and deserved by those who respect the rule of law. We my friend Gulcher are in accord. I give you a great 1 point.

Well, his career is over.

Zuhdi is a devout Muslim who does speak out against terrorist Muslims. After 9-11, Sean Hannity did a search to find a Muslim who would condemn what happened on 9-11. Shortly thereafter Zuhdi Jasser became the go-to spokesman on that topic.

Just like videos like this one will piss off lots of 'caring people'...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9PpaoZE8...

Keep following that oath... why "help" them there? We send millions, no, billions on these and other countries to "help" the impoverished... we've been throwing tax payer monies (which is the only money gov has) at them for decades and to what end? What has improved??? Not a thing! Ask yourself why that is. Who are we really "helping"?

How? Doesn't it depend on what kind of help and how costly the help is?
My main contention is that if we want to import anything (or anyone) we ought to decide explicitly why are we doing it (and why we need it) and what are minimum quality specifications that we are willing to accept, as well as the quantity of "good" we are willing to import.
To my way of thinking that is being sensible. This is the kind of logic that AR considered "selfish". That term has acquired a negative connotation, so, instead, let's just stick to John Galt's oath. We refuse to live for somebody else.

Just watched it. "Let's help them there" is also nonsense.

Hi, LS,
I think that it is well established that cognitive ability correlates very well with levels of education achieved, as well as with socioeconomic status achieved. Education does not confer cognitive ability. It makes it informed, knowledgeable and productive. We all know uneducated bright people and dull PhDs. It is the cognitive ability that distinguishes humans from all other species and generally correlates extremely well with success in life in all cultures.
Immigration is importation of human capital not a charity. Have you seen the video behind the URL that NealS posted 9:40 hours ago (above)?
It makes it crystal clear that immigration as charity is nonsense.

I certainly does--but for those who should know better than an ignorant low information sap.

Idiot works. :)

Zuhdi is a devout Muslim...there's a conflict there.
The two I had in mind were Hirsi Ali and Brigitte Gabriel.

Yeah, I coulda just wrote liberal, but I view that as being too kind to one of those Obamamites.

Gotcha!

Dr. Zuhdi Jasser's web site is http://aifdemocracy.org/about/staff/foun...

Actually it is Zuhdi Jasser. Zuhdi is male and very reasoned. Sorry, I had never seen the spelling of his name. I have seen and heard him multiple times, first with my local talk radio station host and then half a dozen times on Hannity's radio and TV shows.

I dunno -- one of them's a woman.
Zooty? As in Zooty Suity?

Self explanatory and a redundant word mesh if you ask me... And you didn't. Lol

It's good to meet another member of the Savage Nation.