Border Creep

And we're back, after a short hiatus here at MC.

I have been quite busy in Mexico for the past week, and while there made a few cultural observations that might prove increasingly relevant in the days to come.

The argument over illegal immigration (or migration, as it has been more accurately described) has raged on for years now. Former President Bush seemed more or less unilaterally in favor of "amnesty", establishing a swift and easy path to citizenship for the millions of Latin Americans living illegally inside the Estados Unidos. Congress was on the verge of passing this, but overwhelming opposition from the American people killed it.

For latin migrants, it's a question of simple economics. Barely scrape by in Mexico, or earn a decent wage in America. For us, it's akin to a cultural invasion, but one that we have on a national level neither affirmed or denied.

Without a clear message from the United States either way (most people want illegal migrant workers removed, and the borders secured. Congress evidently doesn't know what it wants, Obama has not given the issue much attention, and many businesses continue to use and encourage the flow of cheap labor), one can hardly blame the migrant workers (whose culture views laws more as obstacles to work around than anything personally binding) from moving up to where they can potentially make as much in a day as they would in a week back home.

As usual, the question is more complicated than either side of the debate presents it. The facts lie rusty and unacknowledged, while the MSM focuses primarily on the emotional aspects of the conflict.

On the one hand, it's clear that illegal entry should not be rewarded with citizenship. It's also very unclear what effect the massive importation of another culture will have on America.
Well, perhaps not entirely unclear. A quick trip to most cities within 100 miles of the border
and towns all across the sun belt will make it obvious what changes are already occuring. Just going to El Wal-Mart here, hundreds of miles from the border, has become quite a cultural experience. We even have a few tiendas (Mexican corner shops, essentially) popping up around town.

On the other hand, with hospitals closing all over the country, and millions of untaxed dollars flowing southward, (forming the major portion of several Latin American economies, in fact) it could be argued that we are clinging to some principles while ignoring others, at our own great expense.

And there is a more serious problem, that has been almost totally ignored:
Without the influx of people from the south, the US birth rate falls below "the line of no return" for declining cultures. As we have previously noted, Europe has already fallen below this line, and is in the process of a massive cultural shift towards Islam, a fact that the German government has even admitted.

Any culture that decides to stop having children in sufficient numbers, dooms itself to eventual decline and collapse or displacement, by sheer lack of population. This is an inescapable historical fact.

Of course, one might reasonably question whether maintaining our culture with the importation of another culture is really possible, since as history has shown, the incoming culture will displace our own. However, as stated above, it's not a question of our culture surviving as is. We simply are not raising enough children in our own culture to perpetuate it. We can either take whoever is willing to, along with such elements of their culture as they bring with them, or slowly disappear.

Taking all that into account, regardless of where the immigration debate goes, or what solution is eventually settled on, it seems that some Spanish classes might be in order. They will be, shall we say, necesario?

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Does Biden have brain flu?

We knew there was a reason we hadn't seen Biden since the election:
He might actually say something, and that might be made public.

In this case, our most highly esteemed Vice President has blundered by suggesting that public transportation is now unsafe for Americans.

"I would tell members of my family, and I have, I wouldn't go anywhere in confined places now. It's not that it's going to Mexico, it's you're in a confined aircraft when one person sneezes it goes all the way through the aircraft. That's me. I would not be, at this point, if they had another way of transportation suggesting they ride the subway. "

Panic! Panic! The White House is now recommending that public transportation be avoided!

However, we here at MC would like to reassure our readers. The Vice President's words should not, under any circumstances, be taken at face value. What he really meant to say was this:

“On the Today Show this morning, the vice president was asked what he would tell a family member who was considering air travel to Mexico this week. The advice he is giving family members is the same advice the administration is giving to all Americans: that they should avoid unnecessary air travel to and from Mexico. If they are sick, they should avoid airplanes and other confined public spaces, such as subways. This is the advice the vice president has given family members who are traveling by commercial airline this week."

That's right. When Biden says "It's not that it's going to Mexico", he really means "what he would tell a family member who was considering air travel to Mexico".

In fact, all of Biden's utterances should probably be understood in this more discerning light of meaning the exact opposite of their content.

But this raises a quandary. Clearly, since we are given to understand that Obama is a genius, he would not have chosen a brainless twit to be his Vice President.

The obvious solution is that Al Gore had it slightly wrong. He really should have been hunting the Manbirdpig (otherwise known as Human Avian Swine Flu). And clearly, Biden knows how to catch it. I foresee an urgent press conference in the very near future.

But we try to encourage family-friendly fare here as well, and clearly the show referenced above cannot be in any way construed as such. Therefore, I offer a second explanation, possibly even more accurate and satisfying....



They're pinky and the brain, they're pinky and the brain... one is a genius, the other's insane.
To prove their liberal worth, they'll overthrow the earth
They're pinky, they're pinky and the brain, brain, brain, brain....

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