I heard Gary told his psychiatrist that everyone hates him. Doctor said Gary was crazy–everyone hasn’t met him yet. Gary said he wanted a second opinion, doctor said he was ugly too!

Gary and the Fist come up with a great idea, the Danger: Minefield, and what happens: people make fun, these guys have it rough, I tell ya. No respect.

I propose we mine all the state borders in the US, just to get the ones the mines on the national border miss. Heck, while we’re at it, mine all the county boundries too, just to be extra safe.

Hell yes. I got to get some of those for my front yard. 10 mines and a big sign: “Solicitors and Jayhovah Witnesses not welcome”.

Keeps those damn kids off my lawn, too.

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and it has become a wedge issue…within their own party.

Betcha Rove didn’t count on that.

Right! And these guys were just providing a little protection to someone who wanted to exercise his fundamental right to free speech. After all, the cops were sort of falling down on the job, so they just needed a little help, right? And it’s really patriotic to help out your police force when they’re in need of it, right? Anything for the fatherland, right?

If you don’t understand why vigilantism is inherently inimical to democracy, then I submit you are one of the reasons democracies fail.

i suggest you look at orcinus (dneiwert.blogspot.com) to find out more about the racist background and tactics of the minutemen.

Something of a simplistic mindset.

And Terry Ott, you’re a lot more optimistic than I am. Things aren’t going to “take care of themselves” for the people who have died, from lack of medication to starvation to cutting budgets for OSHA enforcement and disaster managment and HIV prevention overseas and heating bill help in winter, all the way down to people we have actually shot, bombed, or sent overseas to be shot or bombed.

For some reason, I doubt they and their families and loved ones are especially comforted by the long view.

So, I don’t think we should smear these folks without some basis in fact.

And to the comment that the Bush presidency is “over” … well, that’s pretty much the pattern in second terms, isn’t it? I think it was “chucke-worthy” when so many people got all up in arms when he was reelected, re: all the irreparable damage that would occur in four more years. Nonsense. These things tend to take care of themselves. It’s damn near impossible to be in the spotlight that long without being revealed as a screwup, or put out to dry as a scapegoat. Ask most NFL coaches how that works.

Which means, of course, whatever is done won’t be one that addresses the problem at it’s root: the greedy assholes who actually hire undocumented workers who also happen to have an inordinate amount of pull in the halls of power. Sure, the might be a bone or two thrown to the nativists and racists, but nothing that staunches that flow of sweet, sweet cheap, vunerable labor.

That is, of course, assuming the howlers recognized they’ve been played…again. I may just be cynical, but I’m not hopeful of any mass illumination after this whole issue goes the way of “defending marriage” and “saving Terri”.

Hrm, I always thought that the illegal immigration thing was organic. When you make your bed with the devil, etc. I figure Rove’s got… other things on his mind right now.

That’s IT! Of COURSE!

Don’t you see?/?? They’ve spilled the secret of the Foolproof Anti-Wingnut Defense Mechanism!!1! Time to mine the perimeters of the PowerTool and LGF servers!1!1!!

Psst. Hindy keeps his corndog in his cobag. Pass it on.

And right on cue they got the dogs salivating. All of a sudden immigration became the Absolute Hugest Most Important Critical OMG!!!!11! Issue, even though nothing had happened to make it any more urgent than it was, say, two or three years ago.

Fucking right-wingers are so easily manipulated. Like a pack of idiot dogs, their masters get ‘em riled up about whatever, and they go nuts on cue. Only this time it turns out ol’ Karl can’t actually throw them the red meat he’s been waving at them, ’cause if he does he loses the Latino vote forever.

So the dogs are very, very hungry. And very, very, very angry.

Fucking fools.