Too Damn Early

It is simply too damn early for me to be up and functioning well. I've been trying to get up around 4 AM a few mornings a week to make use of the high volatility in Forex markets during the opening of the London Session, but I end up making lateral trades at best because I can't concentrate on anything except my runny nose and my lunatic dog. I'm listening to NPR just to have something vaguely informative playing so I don't just have to wonder what inappropriate thing Kirby is chewing on, but I can't help that either. So far this morning I have rescued a bra, Lucas's pants, a hoodie, a case of TD Cd's, and and one of my shirts.

And now we shift to...

Apparently the anti-immigration crowd is pushing for biometric national ID cards now. Didn't we already go through this shit with the RFID cards? Didn't the country as a whole decide we didn't want this? Didn't the governors of almost every state in the union say there is no way to pay for it? The best way to deal with illegal immigration is to change the business climate in the country, especially in Ag businesses along the southern border. We don't want to make our country unappealing to immigrants, because that would mean making our country, well, unappealing. If, however, the profit motive for hiring illegal immigrants can be dealt with through more subsidies (groan) or stronger enforcement of existing labor laws, then illegal immigration will become less profitable because there will be no jobs. More subsidies are a bad idea because we have the most phenomenally bloated farm subsidies package in the world already, and making it any worse should be inconceivable and intolerable. ID cards with your fingerprints imprinted on them are not the solution to this problem, because some illegal immigrants who are smart enough to steal existing social security numbers and drivers licenses will have no problem faking or stealing new cards either. Crime adapts quickly. In the meantime all of us will be stuck with compromising ID cards and a further intrusion by the government into everyone's personal life. It will also create a whole new biometric database with information like fingerprints and SSNs for every adult citizen in the country. How long do you really think it will take for someone to break into that database? It has bad news bears written all over it. I will never accept that the solution to the illegal immigration problem lies with penalizing the legal citizens of this country. Why don't we roll back immigration strategy by about a century and start closing our borders every few years to give the existing immigrants a few years to assimilate? Or better yet, why don't we readjust our public education policy to make people more accepting of immigrants? There's a novel idea. Teach our children that the US ISN'T the only country in the world, and English ISN'T the only language on the planet? Next thing you now I'll be suggesting that Jesus wasn't white and excessive defense spending is irresponsible.

Blow it out your tuchus, kids.