The monsoon finally is here and I've got a half acre of grass to cut every week for awile. I broke my cars air conditioner switch a few days ago and they wanted $89.00 plus shipping for a new one. They called back and said they couldn't get it until September, back-ordered. I was able to find the exact model of my Isuzu in a local junk yard and got the entire assembly for $45.00. If you are willing to do some looking and apply a little elbow grease, life is a lot cheaper. Essentially, you have two options in life: Learn how to take care of business efficently and inexpensively or make enough money so you don't have to worry about the expense. In a normal world the second method is best but in the coming new world you'll have a better chance with the first option. I suspect the new leaders will be the ones who mastered both.

One last note about the hypocricy of our government. Their lawsuit is over Az defying the federal authority on immigration. This even though the Az statute mirrors the federal law. Sanctuary cities, who are actually defying the federal law, are given a pass. Like it or not, a government cannot enforce only those laws it likes on any given day. These are smarmy people with no morals or ethics.

People like to say there are two sides to every story. Actually there are usually several sides to every story. When it comes to our new immigration enforcement law there are many aspects to be looked at. If someone were to actually READ the law they would see that it is pretty much formalizing the status quo. For purely political reasons the federal government refuses to address it. Our own idiot senator McCain joined forces with Ted Kennedy and gave amnesty to about 3 million illegals a few years ago. He was promised that border security would be enforced and their comprehensive immigration plan would take care of the problem. Of course, he was snookered, the border remained as porous as ever. Arizona is being sued by the feds for trying to do what the feds should be doing. If you come down here near the border you will see hundreds, yes hundreds, of really neat border patrol vehicles zooming up and down the highway. At the checkpoints, located about 30 miles North of the border you will see a dozen or so agents shooting the breeze while one agent checks the traffic coming through. If you go down to the actual border it's pretty hard to find a agent. They have cool 4-runners, horses, night-scopes, helicopters and all these 4wd vehicles. The BP lot in Sonoita, Nogales, Douglas and probably all the others is full of vehicles. They zoom back and forth to Tucson now and then but they should be on the border.
If u go to the Huachuca mts on any given day you can find trails with unbelievable amounts of trash left behind by the illegals. They catch a ride to all points North and join up with their buddies, get a job and fade into the woodwork. A high percentage bring drugs. belong to MS13 and other very bad gangs, commit a disroportinate amount of sex crimes including pedophelia. They depress wages doing jobs that Americans won't do. That's a fallacy. I've worked the fields and would do it again if it meant the only way to feed my family. All but the most useless legal citizens would do the same. Using standard military operating procedures I could use their resources and seal the border in six months, so could any NCO worth his salt. For whatever reason, they don't want to close the border and that's not a good thing.

Hven't been here for awhile but since no one reads them, doesn't really mattr. Should anyone want to know, I'll say this - Most of the Hispanic Arizonans are in favor of AZ 1070. I know most liberals assume they are not loyal Americans, shows how much respect they really have for our fellow citizens. Just as the vast majority of caucasian citizens do not want any illegal Europeans or Russians here, the citizens of Hispanic heritage don't want any illegal Hispanics here. There is a legal way to come and work and come for school and even to apply for permanent status and become a citizen. many people try the legal route and never get here, same as folks trying to immigrate to Australia, Canada, Mexico and pretty much all the countries in the world. If the country you live in is so bad and you can't make it to another country, do what you can to make your country better. Have a revolution or rob a bank, it's not our reponsibility, we cannot support 3 or 4 billion people.

government vindictivenes

One of his last acts before CLinton left office was to designate millions of acres of land as off-limits federal land, national forests, parks and monuments. These of course were all in the West. Over 50 percent of the land in the western ten states is federally controlled, less that 2 percent of the land in the eastern ten states is federally controlled. We have the resources in this country to be pretty much energy independent. We have the technology to use most of it safely. It will never happen no matter if God himself came down and picked up the coal or oil-shale, squeezed out the oil and poured it into a leakproof tank, leaving not a trace of disturbance. The environmentalists, who naturally populate the EPA, will find a way to stop any development regardless how badly we need it. They will scour the landscape to find an endangered species and if unsuccesful, they will find something and add it to the list. All civilizations come and go adn ours will do the same. The difference is we will lose it because of actions from our own government, the very people we elect to improve and protect our lot. They NEVER look at the law of unforeseen consequences, the powers that be enact sweeping "reforms", ruining peoples lives and livelihoods with never a backward glance. The incompetentcy is mind-boggling.

One of the reasons I cannot be a republican is their stand on abortion. I do think abortion should be a choice of last resort. I don't think any abortions should be done during the last four or five months of pregnancy. Life would be better if our government did not make it so hard and expensive for people to adopt a child. My main reason for not being against abortion is that I see examples of people who should have been aborted on a daily basis.
These days they use condoms to prevent pregnancy. When I was younger they called them rubbers. They also called rainboots rubbers. At about 14 yrs of age a friend of mine told me to be sure and bring a rubber cause we were going to score. I was confused, what game were we playing where you needed rubber boots in order to score?
Give a hungry person a fish and he'll be full for a day, teach a person to fish and he'll need a licsence, clearance from the EPA and medication for mercury poisoning.