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Nonetheless, I think that very accurately presents the way Lovell and others feel when viewing the earth from so far away.

"This is it. Maybe we should take better care of it."

 

The brouhaha over illegal immigration was always about Mexicans. You might stop and consider the fact that up until very recently the U.S.-Mexican border marked the greatest disparity in personal income of any two adjacent countries on earth--greater even than Germany/Poland, Finland/USSR or South Korea/North Korea. You also might consider the fact that for more than a century the U.S. government and U.S. capitalists regarded Mexico as a resource to be plundered, supporting the P.R.I. with money, advisors and weapons to keep the rich rich and the poor poor, including the indigenous people.

Now put yourself in the place of one of those Mexican people: no paved roads, no schools for your children, no job or perhaps seasonal menial labor that barely pays enough to buy food during the harvest season, in other words, no way out. And then you manage to hitch a ride north, which costs all of the money your family had and puts you at constant risk of being killed in the crossfire of the shit-for-brains U.S. government's "War On Drugs." You make it to the border and you see the healthy, well-fed, well-clothed people, the courtesy and confidence in the sparkling clean streets of Texas, Arizona or California. And some Religious Redneck Retard is standing there telling you, "Go home! We don't want your kind here!"

Whatcha gonna do? Listen to the asshole?

Besides, in case you haven't been paying attention, in one generation Mexico has transformed itself into a middle-class country. Net immigration from Mexico is now negative, as people move back home to work in the factories there or start their own businesses. Anybody who thinks Mexico needs to be the focus of our campaign against illegal immigration hasn't been keeping up with the news.

There are two sides to every debate, and this particular Religious Redneck Retard is only telling us one side.

SciForums is a place of science. It says so in our name. Evolution has been proven beyond a reasonable doubt and is part of the canon of science. The need to stop the extinction of species is also accepted by all educated, scientifically literate people. Once again, this is clearly the ravings of a looniebird. I'm sure all of our educated members are laughing their heads off.

There are fewer than 50 cases of voter fraud in every election. In other words, there isn't even one in every state. This is hardly a crisis. Whereas in the Religious Redneck Retard Revival states it is so difficult for working-class Afro-Americans to get an ID, that the voter-identification laws are poorly-disguised attempts to reinstitute Jim Crow.

You seem to think that teenagers should have to show ID to get an abortion, even though teen pregnancy is a self-perpetuating epidemic. So I'm curious why you don't think they should have to show ID to buy vodka.

Weapons like that have only one purpose: to wreak havoc. No legitimate sportsman needs them, and every legitimate sportsman will back me up on that statement. As for the inane argument that we'll need those weapons to rebel against an out-of-control government, all I can say is that these gun-totin' morons have not seen the weapons that the government has. You and your assault rifle will last ten seconds against them. They have drones that can find you inside your house in the dark by your heat signature, and shoot you in your sleep. And by the way, I know the news doesn't travel very fast to Mississippi, but it's time to understand that the next war will be fought in cyberspace--whether it's a traditional war between countries, a religious war, or a civil war. If any of your children are smart enough to graduate from high school, and not already pregnant, try to get them to go to college and study information technology. They won't be needing any guns.

Physical violence is not "discipline." It is called child abuse. Those parents should be sterilized and sent to a gulag.

Every gun in this country is three times as likely to be used to murder an innocent person--by the owner in a moment of anger or confusion, by a member of the owner's family who finds it but doesn't know how to use it, by an intruder who wrestles it away from the owner, by a burglar who steals it from the owner, or buy some other crook who buys it from that burglar. Every gun in this country is also three times as likely to be used to commit suicide--by the owner who might find his way out of his depression if he had to take the time and make the preparations to do it some other way, by a member of the owner's family, or by somebody who is a little unbalanced but is able to buy it without a background check from the aforementioned burglar at a gun show.

That's six tragedies for every single instance of legitimate self-defense against an intruder or a marauding bear. So don't give me this NRA propaganda about how guns make us safer. In fact guns make every single one of us less safe. America has turned an unbelievable corner: More of us are now killed by gun violence than in road accidents!

For one out of every hundred Americans, their cause of death will be gun violence.

I'm always offended by stupidity.

No, I always vote against the candidates from both wings of the Republocrat Party. In the 1960s and 70s I voted Peace & Freedom since every President since Eisenhower had betrayed us. In the 1980s, 90s and 2000s I voted Libertarian, but because of their liberal bias on personal liberty rather than their conservative bias on economic liberty. Now I'm no longer convinced that simply reducing the size of government is our most important goal, and besides very few Americans believe that anyway so there's no point in standing in front of that train. So I'm voting Green next time. The issues humanity faces now completely transcend petty national interests.

 

You didn't get my point at all.

IT DOESN'T MATTER! They're all here for the same reason: because their life is unbearable and there's a better life here!

I guarantee that if you were forced to live in rural Mexico in 1990 (as a Mexican, with no U.S. passport, no credit cards, no university degree to qualify for a great job in the city), with no paved roads, no telephone, no job, watching your children grow up with no hope... YOU WOULD TRY TO CROSS THAT BORDER! Even if there was a good chance that you'd be killed along the way.

You have absolutely no empathy. I feel sorry for you. I hope your life never takes a downturn that forces you to rely on the compassion and generosity of foreigners.

This could very easily happen, since both branches of the Republocrat Party have lost their minds.

 

Fairy tales are more than true; not because they tell us that dragons exist, but because they tell us that dragons can be beaten. -- G. K. Chesterton