Oh No! There goes Mexico...

I just read an article at CNN about a 1,200 yard concrete tunnel burrowing into the US from Mexico. Inside they found a pump, lighting, ventilation, the works. This was no Great Escape tunnel here. This was a highway.

Alright, so there's lots of drugs and even more people coming into the US from Mexico. If one wanted to think a certain way, one could say that we have been in a ground war with Mexico for 50 years. They've been pumping personnel and chemical weapons over the border, etc...

So what if we invaded them? I'm not endorsing this, or anti-Mexico or anything, this is purely hypothetical. Seriously, what would the repurcussions be? We can make the argument of the previous paragraph, we can say that X amount of Mexicans are coming here to experience our Government anyway, and we're just saving them the trip...

But looking at World politics, what would happen? Sanctions? A war? A coalition against us? I really wonder...We have NAFTA already, so our economics are interlinked. We have a tremendous number of illegal immigrants from Mexico here already, and Spanish is a second language...

Really...Any thoughts? Is this all Hitlery? Would this be a good thing? A bad thing? An immoral/amoral thing? I don't know. Fill me in.

G.I. Jones....

We can’t decide what’s more absurd: that a celebrity could possibly expect any privacy at Sundance, or that a magazine would pay for a photo of Cameron Diaz and Justin Timberlake completely disguised in ski clothes. (And does anyone else think they look like Snake Eyes and Storm Shadow hitting the slopes?)

-Defamer

Oh yes, Defamer....They do. Credit goes to SnapShot and ShutterBug, the Cobra paparazzi, for grabbing the pic.

This image is located at, and presumably owned by, People magazine.

Tax Allocation...

Just finished rounding up all the receipts from 2005. Working on all that fun tax stuff. It occured to me while doing this how to improve our governmental involvement. I'm sure many others have thought of the same thing, however I think this really should happen:

When you submit your taxes, you should be able to divide up 25% of total tax bill into programs that you support. 10% Medicare, 6% Military, 50% Education, 12% National Security, etc. Granted, it would be a bizarre country that could allocate the whole 100%, however 25% seems reasonable. This would ultimately be a way of taking a stand once someone with diametrical views takes the White House. I've written my Congressman twice, once I got a signed picture back, once I got invited to a fundraiser. Both times I wrote long letters about what was wrong with something or other. So the whole letter writing doesn't work.

These are our dollars people, and we're letting a group of corrupt greedy bastards handle them. Look at that ridiculous bridge in Alaska! $100m or something to build a bridge for 100 people. They can do that with the 75%, but I think if we take away the 25% they might be a bit more discerning.

Can you imagine if your bank handled your money as flippantly as our government does? That's right. You'd be broke. Even worse, the execs that made the decisions regarding your dough, would be having wild parties and buying yachts. Wait, that was the Eighties....Regardless, it didn't work out well when it happened.

Point is, we should have an ongoing say about our government, not this wait and see thing that we have once an administration gets in office. That was fine in the 1700's but we're a bit more complex as a nation now.

I also like the fact that, A) Having this "vote" be a part of your tax dollars assures that you are actually an American citizen, so the identity and "illegal" issues are resolved, and B) It might force deadbeat taxpayers or voters to be a bit more involved.

So here's my plea to Congress right now, give us the opportunity to allocate our 25%. Give us back our government, and please, keep your signed pictures and fundraiser invitations. If you want me to give you funds, make it worth my while and I may just allocate you some....

Quote of the Day...

Thanks to the tweak-happy geniuses at Apple, the Quicktime player is currently about as stable as Pat Robertson in a Jewish dildo factory.

-Screenhead.com