Applied Indifference

Either that, or there is a God, and God does not like Al Gore.

How else can you explain the fact that on May 22, it is 52 degrees outside, with a projected high of only 63 degrees.

Every time Al Gore makes a public pronouncement about global warming, record cold weather is there to greet him. For instance, there’s the famous speech he gave on the horrors of global warming in New York City, on the coldest day in that city’s history. And now, he’s got a movie coming out about how we’re all doomed because we didn’t vote for him in 2000.

And my heat is still on at the end of May.

Coincidence? I think not!

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Brought to you by the talking heads on Cavuto on Business.

I’m sick to death of the argument that we can make the 11 million present illegals into “guest workers” and the problem is solved. This is the argument offered by Tim Kane of the Heritage Foundation.

Of course, the fact that most of these people are paid below minimum wage is an issue that needs to be addressed. If we continue to let 11 million people operate outside the wage, safety, and labor laws of our nation, then we’ve consigned them to second-class status. Barbara Corcoran says “their wages will go up, and they should.”

There is a fallacy in their arguments. Here’s the clue to the fallacy: the people arguing for a general amnesty have moral scruples. The people hiring illegals for below minimum wage do not.

Now, let’s take a look at what happens when someone with no moral scruples who has made a living at taking advantage of people that cannot fight back When those people are suddenly given that ability, unscrupulous employers look for a way around the system to continue leveraging their unfair advantage. What do you think these employers are going to do if their present batch of workers are suddenly subject to all of our myriad labor, safety, and wage laws? I’ll tell you what they’ll do - ditch the newly legal migrants, and go trolling in Mexico for a new batch of illegals. What would we do with 11 million new unemployed resident aliens.

In other words, the biggest losers of a general immigration amnesty (at least absent strong border control, which nobody is advocating) are the 11 million illegals themselves. They will suddenly find themselves out of work in a country they know little about, where they don’t speak the language, and have insufficient education to get over the hurdles that businesses have erected to filter prosepctive employees.

I am against a general amnesty for the simple reason that it is unfair to all those who jumped through every stupid hoop the government put up so they could come here. To have 11 million “line jumpers” suddenly get seats at the table is offensive to the general sense of fair play. And while it might be logistically possible to forcibly deport 11 million people, it’s certainly not politically possible.

However, I have two potential solutions. The first one is the most reasonable, the second a bit flippant.

I think that it is reasonable to do things in order. First, we must get control of our border. We need to make sure that people come here legally, and we can filter out criminals. Second, some form of assimilation is going to have to happen. It’s easy to say “Send them all home”, but that’s politically untenable, even without the “anchor baby” issue. They need to learn English, just like my grandparents and great-grandparents did. Third, we need to punish those who profit from the exploitation of workers who cannot complain.

But all this talk of amnesty is just academic if we don’t prevent another torrent of illegals from walking across the border.

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Man, Vox really stepped in it today.

The perpetually-offended saw the words “holocaust” and “deportation” in the same article, and went nuts. “Vox is a nazi, and wants to kill immigrants”. Yeah, nice reading skills there, moonbat.

Jeff Goldstein is always blogging about who is the final arbiter of meaning in communication. He argues (and I concur) that meaning is owned by the “speaker” (or writer, as in this case). He also argues against the technique the left uses, which is to subvert intentionalism by imposing their own meaning on that which they hear. In so doing, they can immediately recast any argument in their favor, and discredit anyone who disagrees with them. It’s a remarkably efficient way to end a discussion and walk away with the smug satisfaction of having defeated one’s inferiors.

Or not.

Back to Vox. He tears into the stupids here, and here. And there is a common thread amongst the moonbats that attack. By defining the holocaust exclusively in terms of its outcome (shitloads of dead people), all discussion of the holocaust becomes invalid, and the discusser is necessarily cast as a genocidal nazi bastard. After all, if you are using the holocaust to prove a point, you must want to kill lots of people. But, if you actually read the words as they were written, you’ll find that the only comparison made, and the only meaning assigned by the author is that George W. Bush is full of shit.

Which, I mean, you’d expect the moonbats to be on board with. Especially when that criticism comes from a right-winger. But, such is the hate that the moonbats have for Mr. Vox that they would much rather assign their own sinister meanings to his writings thus: “he’s white, and has short hair - he must be a nazi. We know what he really means.”

I don’t know why I’m stepping on Jeff’s gig, or why I’m defending Vox. Probably because they’re both right, and the moonbats are all wrong. I suspect, however, it’s because I’m sick to death of people assigning their own meanings to what I say and what I write, and I’m not going to take it any longer.

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Thanks to Congress, I now have to have my particulars collected in a federal database every time I buy Sudafed. Why? Because stupid people are dying by blowing themselves up making meth from the stuff. Fuck ‘em, let the stupid die!

So, now I’m inconvenienced, and the pharmacist looks at me like I’m some kind of junkie when he enters my birth date incorrectly into the register and it tells him to not sell me the stuff because I’m too young. (of course, one wonders why the register wouldn’t say “hey asshole, you entered the wrong date” when it comes back that I’m -4 years old, but that’s another rant for another day).

I’m mad enough that the government now has one more little piece of my life in their database. But what pisses me off the most is that I am being inconvenienced to keep the shallow end of the gene pool well-stocked.

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