1. The US will apologize to the world for our ‘interference’ in their affairs, past & present. You know: Hitler, Mussolini, Stalin, Tojo, Noriega, Milosevic, Hussein, and the rest of those ‘good ole boys;’ we will never ‘interfere’ again.
2. We will withdraw our troops from all over the world, starting with Germany, South Korea, the Middle East, and the Philippines. They don’t want us there. We would station troops at our borders. No one allowed sneaking through holes in the fence anymore.
3. All illegal aliens have 90 days to get their affairs together and leave. We’ll give them a free trip home. After 90 days, the remainder will be gathered up and deported immediately, regardless of who or where they are. They’re illegal!!! France will welcome them.
4. All future visitors will be thoroughly checked and limited to 90 days unless given a special permit!!!! No one from a terrorist nation will be allowed in. If you don’t like it there, change it yourself and don’t hide here. Asylum would never be available to anyone. We don’t need any more cab drivers or 7-11 cashiers.
5. No foreign ’students’ over age 21. The older ones are the bombers. If they don’t attend classes, they get a D, and it’s back home.
6. The US will make a strong effort to become self-sufficient energy-wise. This will include developing nonpolluting sources of energy, but will require temporary drilling for oil in the Alaska wilderness. The caribou will have to cope for a while.
7. Offer Saudi Arabia and other oil-producing countries $10 a barrel for their oil. If they don’t like it, we go someplace else.
8. If there is a famine or other natural catastrophe in the world, we will not ‘interfere.’ They can pray to Allah, or whomever, for seeds, rain, cement, or whatever they need.
9. Ship the UN Headquarters to an isolated island someplace. We really have no use for it since we are not getting involved in other countries issues anymore and fair-weather friends are not welcome here.
10. The language we speak is ENGLISH…learn it…or LEAVE.
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Is there not a certain amount of irony/hipocrisy when #10 is “Learn English!!” when the title of the rant is “A 10 step pan for Piece” ~ presumably meaning peace ?
Matt… you should pay closer attention. He said “speak” English, not “write” it.
ok so that was a poorly tied together attmept at humor
Actually… I agree about the foreign student thing. If they don’t atend classes, there’s no reason for them to be here.
Actually, I thought it was pretty funny… there’s no way #6 could have been anything but a joke
Matt… only the play on words was a joke. Christopher meant the rest of it… He’s actually hoping that if this plan works out, they will pay for people to go up and hunt caribou.
does everyone think about the caribou enough to care about it that much…
these dont seem like bad ideas on paper, but someone will have a problem with
it so lets continue wasting american tax dollars on other people when we could be rebuilding a city that is going to be flooded after the next hurricane hits!!! thats it!
Yea, I don’t think it’s a good idea to re-build New Orleans exactly where it was either. I think we should bring in inland a bit. I would hope that we’re smarter than ants.
You can’t just start bringing cities inland… if you do that, you need to call it a new city. After the earthquake, Los Angeles didn’t move off the San Andreas fault line… we just rebuilt bigger and better. Hurricanes are going to happen. So will earthquakes and fires and tornadoes, and maybe even tsunamis… who knows… what should we learn from it? I think we should learn that yes, they can happen and there’s nothing we can do to prevent them… so let’s just have a really good emergency system in place for when they do happen. That’s all we can do. I don’t think we should put so much energy into trying to find a place that’s safe from all natural disasters because no place like that exists. IMHO.
I agree with Christine on the inevitability of disaster, however I don’t think the government should be spending SO MUCH money to rebuild the city, basically just because it caught the attention of the nation, and people want things “bigger and better”, basically as a middle finger to mother nature. The fact is, there are a lot of things in this country that need to be fixed, and rebuilding the Mardi Gras party city with 3X as much money as any other place would be awarded, in EXACTLY the same place, seems a bit like a government publicity stunt. This same public conversation arose about the World Trade Centers, but somehow it seems that the blues and Mardi Gras are more important, than a big fuck-you to the terrorists. How bout this for discussion: If the government really gave a shit, then why was everyone in New Orleans poor, unemployed, with bad housing options? It’s a TOURIST destination, and I think the government needs to start looking at it as people’s homes, more than saying “Well, NOW where are we going to have Mardi Gras? I really like those Girls Gone Wild tapes. We MUST do something!”
1. The likely hood of NO being reflooded is very low… simply it took 200 years to have a hurricain that flooded it.. all that really has to happen is for them to fix the damns and dikes and their cool. They can’t move it inland otherwise it isn’t much of a port city, Christine 2 your VERY much ignoring the importance of NO as the third biggest harbor city in our country and it also has vast historical importance.. (War of 1812 – the battle of new orleans where we defeated the british for the second time).
2. We are rebuilding the world trade center, even bigger then before it’s very much the American way.. we don’t get detered.
Ok, well when they rebuild the 3rd biggest harbor city in our country, it would be wise for the government to concentrate on making the people that LIVE there have appropriate employment and housing options, and not make it a big harbor city full of poverty. But, other than that, point taken.
Christopher, don’t forget the Mardi Gras festival
Im so jealous of your blog! I can never get mine to function or look like yours. Good work though…Keep it up!