The Tortilla Curtain and other thoughts

Well my peeps and those of you who are only now just beginning to mold yourselves into my peripheral crew I have something to discuss that I’ve had simmering for four or five days now. Today I would like to explain my feelings on what is not commonly referred to as the Tortilla Curtain (borrowed from Prof. Marcus Embry)..yes that’s right the U.S./Mexico border. To me some kind of large tortilla like this would be marvelous because I happen to love tortillas, but in the context Embry used it I think its just kind of insane. That place is extremely crazy...nobody really know exactly what goes on down there....you’ve got hundreds of illegal immigrants crossing this imaginary line in the middle of the desert or across some river and there are these super high tech futuristic border patrol head hunters who traverse the desert looking for these ragged, starving, "undocumented" peoples. Its like a pack of robocops out to vaporize a bunch of little mice or something. At the same time I feel kinda bad for the robocop guys cuz they’ve got all this really sweet James Bond type, laser, night vision crap and they use it to find these mice peoples. Really, how anticlimactic is that? Personally I can’t really imagine what this whole scene looks like. And I know people have made the argument that terrorists could potentially cross into the U.S. through this border, but I mean really what are they gonna blow up down there anyways? Texas? Yeah I don’t think anyone would really miss that a whole lot. Well I wouldn’t. You’ve heard of the minute men haven’t you? (and I’m not referring to their sexual endurance...come on now this is a serious subject) If you haven’t, they are a group of old men who believe they’re protecting "us" from all the potential terrorists or whatever and whoever else might infiltrate the United States coming in from Mexico. When this group was described to me all I could see in my head was a bunch of crazy old men with their pants all pulled up really high carrying old timey muzzle loaders and wandering around the desert in their hover-round, old man scooters that they have taken the governors off of so they can get up to six....m.p.h. In their little baskets they’ve got a U.S. flag, ammunition and an oxygen tank, and they’re chasing a group of illegals across the desert while "la cucaracha" plays in the back round like some scene from a three stooges movie. It sounds completely ridiculous. There’s other weird stuff that goes on down there are well. You’ve got the crazy, inbred Texans who try to establish their own country on the sand bars in the middle of the Rio Grande. Bubba and Johnny "has got" their motor homes all decked out with enough beer and pork rinds to last them years and the police and border patrol are like you’re idiots. I’m having doubts about this Texas place why don’t we just turn it into a parking lot and make Canada a state. Now that’s really something. Are there illegal immigrants from Canada....that’s dangerous. They’re coming with their free healthcare, wide variety of prescription drugs, hockey sticks and weird french customs.....that’s what we should really be afraid of. Not to mention, of course, the immigrants that come from Cuba and other Caribbean Islands. These people float across hundreds of miles of sea in tire inter tubes and in crappy old boats and hope they don’t drift out into the middle of the Atlantic Ocean. Its horrible, these people have such awful lives that they decide the best course of action is to try to float across the sea. Its not like they have much of a choice regarding where they land either. I, personally would like to magically arrive in Iowa or Nebraska, something along those lines, its not very intimidating, there are just a bunch of farmers chewing on straw and whatever...but no they land in Florida with the gators, water moccasins, coast guard, Walt Disney and retirement communities. Talk about culture shock as well as possibly being eaten or poisoned to death.

Its all just an interesting situation I guess and I don’t think I’ve really made any conclusions. But whatever really I just hope we kind find a safe place for these people who immigrate to our country. A lot of politicians are really concerned about the political implications and all, but what I really think they should focus on is the ethical treatment of these individuals....that’s what our countries founded on and we can’t be blinded by bureaucratic political crap and we need to retain or focus on making sure these people can find a life and are treaty fairly in this land of the free (that was corny, but it’s the truth). A little fodder for the old noggin. Catch you on the flip.
~The BS