Thomas Sowell: Guests or Gate Crashers?

Creator's Syndicate ^ | March 28, 2006 | Dr. Thomas Sowell

[thoughtomator]

The illegals problem is of such a magnitude that it calls into question our efforts in the Middle East - we're basically offering an open flank to our enemies, and all the skills and efforts of our military men there can't solve the problem over here.

(btw it's "perspective", but sometimes I type so fast that extra letters get stuck in between)

[prairiebreeze]

good immigration article by Sowell

[Howlin]

They are already required to register for alot of things (like a visa).

I am sure I am older than you are, but I swear I remember when I was growing up that there use to be an annoucement on the radio that all "aliens" (or something like that) had to go and register at their local post office by January 31 of every year.

Have I completely lost my mind?

[Howlin]

Bump to 103; do you remember that, or are you young, too? :-)

[maine-iac7]

but sometimes I type so fast that extra letters get stuck in between)

LOL

'know what you mean - if it weren't for spell-check, you'd not be able to decipher much of what I type (and you can't really rely on spell-check either.)

[Mo1]

Let's hope the immigration bills before Congress can at least get an honest debate, instead of the word games we have been hearing for too long.

It would be nice .. but I won't hold my breath on it .. some are using this issue as a PR stunt for November

While other have a sincere want to fix this mess

[prairiebreeze]

I dont' recall that, but that doesn't mean you didn't hear it.

[Ladysmith]

"Vision of the Anointed."

[LowCountryJoe]

Definitely written for Jaysun's benefit as I believe that I have argued with him on the trade topic on a different occasion.

[Sonny M]

I am sure I am older than you are, but I swear I remember when I was growing up that there use to be an annoucement on the radio that all "aliens" (or something like that) had to go and register at their local post office by January 31 of every year.

To be honest with you, I have never heard of that.

I don't even know when they stopped doing it or if it was done nationally.

[stockstrader]

Just think--as soon as we get these 11 million assimilated--the liberals will be pushing for a new phase of 'affirmative action' to ensure that Hispanics are PROPERLY represented EVERYWHERE based on their bigger numbers!!!

(no quotas, though, of course--rolling eyes)

[Inspectorette]

I not only remember that, I also remember notices on Post Office bulletin boards to that same effect.

[Howlin]

Thank you!

Why can't we do that again?

[Peach]

Thanks for the ping; excellent article. I guess I'll need to start an immigration file too, although I've successfully avoided it until now. LOL

[DumpsterDiver]

The President's proposal would solve the problem of illegal immigration by legalizing it after the fact.

Yeah, but it's not a "blanket amnesty", nor is it an "automatic path to citizenship", so just shut up and stop bashing the President.

< /republican rhetoric >

 

[Inspectorette]

Well, then there'd be the usual shrieks of racism, doncha know :-(

[Howlin]

Well, if they want to DO something, how about registering? :-)

[thoughtomator]

I also have a too-old-school-for-spellcheck chip on my shoulder ;)

[maine-iac7]

I also have a too-old-school-for-spellcheck chip on my shoulder ;)

LOL>|

I write a nostalgia column - 18 years now on that one - and I get to use lots of colloquialisms...which I love to feed into the spell-checker. 'Drives it nuts, which delights me. One new-fangled thing that I can still outwit :o)

[thoughtomator]

I do a lot of double entendre, which causes a typical grammar checker to weep hysterically, and I have a really bad problem with run-on sentences, which I can't help because I try to keep continuity between ideas and periods, well, you know, get in the way, and that's not very much fun at all, so I have to disable both spell checkers and grammar checkers whenever I get a new program with those functions which thankfully isn't often, but it happens sometimes, and I always get really annoyed the first time the window pops up, I'm like "F-U I'll write the way I damn please and I'll be damned if I'm going to take lessons from a machine whose first language is Assembler", at which point the boss walks over and tells me to watch my language in the office or else I lose diversity points, or something like that.