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….nothing happened.  Not a damn thing worth talking about.  This is clearly your fault.  Yes I’m referring to you, even though you think I’m referring to some other reader.  So yeah, this is your fault.  Let us re-establish our roles for this particular blog.

See my role is to look at the world and bitch about it, or rant about things I find amusing.  You on the other hand are supposed to make the world amusing to me.  This didn’t happen today and that can only be your fault.

I think we need to sit down and have a serious discussion about your priorities and what is truly important.  I know you think your family, job, hobbies, whatever are more important but they are not.  You need to get your priorities crooked and realize this blog is more important.

I’ll accept your apologies only if you promise not to let it happen again.  So get out there and amuse me.

You might have already heard Part I, now you get to hear it from the police’s perspective.

The Fifth gets neglected sometimes, or is considered by many to be the right of the guilty. Guess again. This is why one should never talk to the police…..ever.

US Immigration and Customs Enforcement will be starting a new program that they are apparently calling “Operation Scheduled Departure”.  Basically the jist of it is that illegal aliens can turn themselves into authorities, they get a few weeks to settle their affairs and pack up their stuff, then ICE will put them on a plane home.  This is being offered as an alternative to potentially getting caught in a raid and languishing in the legal system for weeks.

The program is being ridiculed by “immigration rights” activists…

Immigrant advocates called it a laughable charade with little to no chance of succeeding without any carrots to offer self-deportees.

“It’s pure fantasy,” said Doug Rivlin, spokesman for the National Immigration Forum in Washington. “An attempt to entice people to sign away their rights and get out of the country as quickly as possible before even talking to a lawyer.”

If people truly wanted to leave on their own, they’d buy their own bus or plane ticket home without checking in with ICE first, Rivlin said.

…and greeted with very lukewarm dismal by enforcement activists

Ira Mehlman, spokesman for the Federation for American Immigration Reform, the country’s largest anti-illegal-immigration lobby group based in Washington, said he’d have to concede that point.

The government would have to offer some kind of incentive to entice immigrants to sign up, such as telling them that by leaving voluntarily they would be allowed to apply to come back legally, Mehlman said.

Now wait a second.  Let’s look at the situation here.  The environment (both legal and employment) is getting increasingly hostile to illegal aliens.  So they face the real possibility of being picked up in a raid or other methods provided by state and local laws.  In that case they’ll be deported with little warning.  As a result many are choosing to leave voluntarily, but have to do so at their own expense.

So how is this program not a good idea that might do just work a little better than people think.

Personally I have to think immigration rights activists are just seeing a red danger flag, hence the opposition.  They’d rather use lawyers to tie up the legal system for years.  Here it is made simple.  And enforcement activists are likely playing it cool so as not to give the program a label of being endorsed by “evil” and “racist” “xenophobic” enforcement “fascists”.

Should be interesting to see how this program works out.  After all….what can it really hurt?

Meet the Angelica Hernandez and Gloria Nunez, and apparently they are the face of poverty in America. The mother, Gloria Nunez, despite being raised middle class, has no high school diploma and has never held a job.

As a result they have lived off the public teat for decades. And now….you won’t believe this, it’s truly horrible. Due to the cost of food prices, the same food stamps that used to be able to buy twelve bags of groceries every month, now only buys seven or eight. They’ve even had to cut out the ice cream!

Oh the humanity. Truly the poor in this country suffer horribly. Due to the greed of the rich, the poor are forced to subsist on meager portions that could feed a small village elsewhere. They’re forced to cut out treats like ice cream. And as we already know, they are forced to tolerate having an HD-TV that’s only 60 inches.

I’m so ashamed of our welfare system.