Today's LOL moment is provided by The Geezer (R-AZ) with his loony nativist rant that suggests that illegal immigants are the root of all evil in the Land O'The Dumb and the Home O'The Dumber. The Geezer can probably hide his own Easter eggs. If this is (fair & balanced) senile (and penile) dementia, so be it.
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What Other American Problems Can We Blame On Immigrants?
By Alex Pareene
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John McCain said last Sunday that there is "substantial evidence" that illegal immigrants started "some of" the wildfires consuming hundreds of thousands of acres of land in the American Southwest. While "officials" and "people who know what they're talking about" have not produced or even claimed to have any evidence that illegal immigrants specifically were responsible for starting any of the fires that have burned across Arizona this month, that has not stopped certain brave commentators from speaking truth to the massive political power that is Big Mexican Arson.
The Corner's [National Review Online] Mark Krikorian has the next best thing to "substantial evidence": He has secondhand anecdotal evidence from a guy on a panel at his anti-immigration think tank:
This is an empirical question — some fires are caused by illegal aliens and drug smugglers (either campfires that got away from them or deliberate diversionary fires) and others are not. But the authorities are unwilling to discuss in public the possibility that a politically favored group (illegal aliens and smugglers) might have caused the fires — kind of like the unwillingness to identify the religious tradition that Europe’s rioting "youths" belong to.
Arizona reporter Leo Banks talked about this recently:
The thing that kills me about these fires is Border Patrol and Forest Service won’t discuss that they are started — that they are sometimes started — and we don’t have 100-percent probability on this but we can be 95-percent sure — that illegal aliens and smugglers start fires.
It's an empirical question! And... there is still no evidence for it, but that's because of a conspiracy of silence. Every single authority involved is merely protecting a "favored group" of... drug smugglers.
It's not just wildfires, either. I have substantial evidence — based on some stuff I heard some guys say — that illegal immigrants are also behind most of the rest of our problems.
Unemployment: Immigrants stole all the jobs.
Rising sea levels: While no one will speak on the record about it, because of "political correctness," most scientists and experts agree that the sea levels are rising because so many thousands of immigrants are swimming to America to sell drugs (the effect is akin to adding ice cubes to a glass).
Tornadoes: Immigrants are often "hopped up" on the illegal drugs they are sneaking in the country to sell. With enough of a "buzz," meteorologists say (off the record), a couple dozen illegals could excitedly run in circles with enough speed and force to cause the deadly twisters that tore through the nation last month.
We must build the danged fence before thousands more die. Ω
[Alex Pareene writes about politics for Salon. He is a graduate of Mercer University.]
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