Is it Spring yet?

With a little hint of Spring in the air today and seeing that the local bicycle shop in Pleasant Valley had their great inventory out for sale today, I wanted to repost this message that I wrote last May.

Tonight, as I was making my way home, I saw a pure reminder of childhood. As the evening rush hour traffic crawled east on 44 right before West Road, right in front of the bicycle shop, I saw a girl about 10 years old whose was walking a brand new bike to her parents car. She could not contain her excitement as the bike was being placed in the back of her Dad’s car. She was waving to the cars that were waiting to turn onto West Rd. The smile on her face was so broad. I’m happy that I saw this. The truth of life is that every year we get farther away from the essence that is born within us. We get shouldered with burdens, some of them good, some of them not so good. Things happen to us. Loved ones die. People get sick and get crippled. People lose their way, for one reason or another. It’s not hard to do, in this world of crazy mazes. Life itself does its best to take that memory of magic away from us. You don’t know it’s happening until one day you feel you’ve lost something but you’re not sure what it is.
It just happens.
These memories of who I was and where I lived are important to me. They make up a large part of who I’m going to be when my journey winds down. I need the memory of magic and I’m glad that there was a little girl and her new bike that made me see and remember that magic.

The Danger of Open Borders

While many if not most illegal aliens are decent people and are only illegally in the United States to provide for themselves or their families – an action that does not justify breaking the immigration laws of the United States – all of them are not decent and many are responsible for shocking crimes and incredible damage to families all across the America.
Most everybody remembers the tragedy in New Jersey where illegal aliens wantonly killed three students and seriously injured another. A few people even remember that Jamiel Shaw was gunned down by an illegal alien gang member. However, very few people remember or even know that four year old Esmeralda Nava was kidnapped, molested, and strangled to death by an illegal alien child predator. The perpetrator that killed little Esmeralda told police that he carried the girl with one arm and muffled Esmerelda’s cries for her daddy with his other hand ‘’until she stopped moving.’’ Almost nobody knows that the illegal alien sexual pervert that used and abused little Esmeralda Nava had been previously deported.
Who remembers Min Soon Chang, an eighteen year old freshman at the University of North Carolina who was killed by a drunk driving illegal alien? In that case the perpetrator had at least three prior DWI convictions and had been previously DEPORTED 17 times. That is not a typo.
Who besides her family even know, let alone remember, that Danielle Gorectke, a vivacious 23 year old student at University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point was raped and beaten to death by an illegal alien?
Each one of these tragedies devastated an American family, and I could go on and on with more equally horrific stories.
Each one of these tragedies was totally preventable if the perpetrator was not illegally residing in the United States.
Excluding breaking the immigration laws of the United States and committing ID theft and fraud, do illegal aliens commit more crime than legal immigrants? Probably, but nobody really knows. Do illegal aliens commit more crime than citizens? Most likely, but nobody really knows.
What we do know is that the Justice Department does not report crimes committed by foreign nationals, illegal aliens, or even Hispanics (about 80% of illegal aliens are Hispanic.). Interestingly, the DOJ does, however, report crimes committed against Hispanics, including illegal alien Hispanics, but will not distinguish if the perpetrator was Hispanic themselves. (Crimes committed by Hispanics, including illegal alien Hispanics, go into the “Caucasian” category as “Hispanic” is an ethnicity, not a race.)
While no crime is ever justified and racially motivated crimes are particularly onerous in a civilized society, the reporting is a one way street supporting the common perception that “illegal aliens are just good family values people that are here to do the work Americans won’t.” When the government does not report crimes committed by illegal aliens, who are mostly Hispanic, but does report “hate crimes” committed against Hispanics it further distorts perceptions.
The blood of these innocents and many more are on the hands of the Open-Borders extremists—the Raza mouthpieces, the immigration lawyers, the journalists who crank out sob stories about lawbreakers. They work to overthrow our system of law and borders for their own selfish reasons, while the number of dead killed by illegal aliens continues to mount. Yet the Open-Borders enablers act like they are on the side of virtue. Why is that?
The Open Borders side is guilty of more crimes than treason. They must be held to account