Advice Goddess Free Swim
Sorry to do this again so soon, but crazy day Tuesday -- voting, column deadline, monthly meeting of my prof'l non-fiction author's group -- and I got home late. And I finished the chapters and proposal for my next book!
You pick the topics. I'll try to post a piece in the morning.
P.S. One link per comment or my spam filter will eat your post.








Mass deportation of illegal immigrants -
https://www.cnbc.com/2018/06/04/pack-your-bags-italys-new-leaders-tell-500000-illegal-migrants--but-itll-cost-them.html
Snoopy at June 6, 2018 4:21 AM
Amy is under surveillance -
In fact, the Department of Homeland Security has just announced that it intends to compile a comprehensive list of hundreds of thousands of “journalists, editors, correspondents, social media influencers, bloggers etc.”, and collect any “information that could be relevant” about them.
https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2018-06-04/department-homeland-security-compiles-list-all-bloggers-journalists-social-media
Snoopy at June 6, 2018 4:40 AM
I'll believe it when it happens, not when they just talk about it.
Here is my plan for ending massive illegal immigration:
1) Massive fines for people hiring illegal immigrants. You could have a grace period for people who have already hired some to get the paperwork in order.
2) No one can walk into a country. You are a refugee, you go to a refugee camp. Countries then send safe boats to refugee camps to pick up as many migrants as they want. None of this people swimming/walking through winter/crossing in unsafe boats. Migrants in camps are vetted as thoroughly as possible. Migrants arrive in waves, not all at once, with the ones waiting learning the laws and language of wherever they are going.
So, Germany decides it wants a million refugees one year. Germany goes to the camp and picks out a million refugees and provides safe transport and accommodations for them. They are picking, so can pick according to their needs, and equal numbers of women and men, and can favor families with children, or old people, or marginalized groups like gays or Yahzidi or whatever.
3) People in a country illegally are offered the choice of the refugee camp or a return ticket home. Actual refugees who can't go home will go to the camp, and await processing.
NicoleK at June 6, 2018 4:43 AM
President Donald J. Trump Accomplishments -
https://www.promiseskept.com/
Snoopy at June 6, 2018 4:49 AM
Just an announcement alone that a government agency (one with guns and the power to arrest) intends to begin compiling and mining data on US citizens should be cause for concern.
What happens when a citizen openly hostile to a DHS agency, say the TSA, crosses the jurisdiction of that agency?
For what purpose does DHS intend to compile this data?
And at what cost - in money and in civil liberties?
Conan the Grammarian at June 6, 2018 6:21 AM
A republic, if you can keep it.
Prophetic words, Ben. But we've been fighting that fight since the Aliens and Sedition Acts were passed. Circa 1798.
I R A Darth Aggie at June 6, 2018 8:24 AM
Prophetic words indeed IRA. But I doubt I was the first one to say them.
Ben at June 6, 2018 8:28 AM
in the "water is wet" category.
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2018/jun/5/social-security-now-running-deficit/
I R A Darth Aggie at June 6, 2018 8:40 AM
Well, I was thinking of Franklin but you'll do.
Meanwhile, is it OK if I call Melinda Gates a feckless c*nt? Samantha Bee sez it's fine.
http://thefederalist.com/2018/06/05/melinda-gates-bashes-white-guys-says-shell-discriminate/
I R A Darth Aggie at June 6, 2018 8:46 AM
Now if Google had its offices there..
https://twitter.com/mrfeelswildride/status/1004077
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Sixclaws at June 6, 2018 9:45 AM
Guess the race of the Jew haters.
https://www.thecollegefix.com/post/45549/
Fixing Sixclaws linkie
https://twitter.com/mrfeelswildride/status/1004077095738228736
Yer willkommen
I R A Darth Aggie at June 6, 2018 10:21 AM
@ IRA
Melinda Gates, whose claim to fame is she married a rich white guy, is bashing white guys.
Nick at June 6, 2018 11:28 AM
Social Security will spend more than it collects this year, the program’s trustees said Tuesday, marking the first time in more than 35 years that it will run an annual deficit as it slides toward insolvency by 2034.
in·sol·vent
inˈsälvənt/Submit
adjective
1.
unable to pay debts owed
If they are unable to pay RIGHT FUCKING NOW why are they claiming that have another 16 year before they are unable to pay
lujlp at June 6, 2018 12:28 PM
I was told that a president pardoning himself was unpossible.
https://pjmedia.com/instapundit/298744/
I R A Darth Aggie at June 6, 2018 12:38 PM
If they are unable to pay RIGHT FUCKING NOW why are they claiming that have another 16 year before they are unable to pay
Remember AlGore's famous "lock box"?? It's full treasury notes. They're selling them to make up the difference.
When that's done, they'll be broke and have to go to Congress for a hand out.
I R A Darth Aggie at June 6, 2018 12:41 PM
Ah, Marquette. Wonder what Father Marquette, SJ, would have to say??
https://www.campusreform.org/?ID=10988
I R A Darth Aggie at June 6, 2018 1:12 PM
Pro tip: write your own obituary.
https://twitter.com/RandBallsStu/status/1003817212283686914
I R A Darth Aggie at June 6, 2018 1:51 PM
Ira, I have some cousins, whose mom was a less than stellar human and she ain't winning any mother of the year awards. We had a big laugh at that obit...my cousins and their half sister can not wait to write their "womb donor's" obit. Even if the WD did write her own before she died, I'm pretty sure those 3 would make sure it never saw the light of day. She's a truly awful person.
sara at June 6, 2018 2:37 PM
"If they are unable to pay RIGHT FUCKING NOW why are they claiming that have another 16 year before they are unable to pay
Remember AlGore's famous "lock box"?? It's full treasury notes. They're selling them to make up the difference."
Which leads to a different but bigger problem. Since we were loaning ourselves money for decades at basically no interest, the idea that we can no longer do that and have to pay it back NOW is a big problem. We now have to find suckers, er I mean investors, who will loan us money at much higher interest rates and with a lot more strings attached.
The interest on loans was a small part of the budget before, but it will rapidly grow.
Joe j at June 6, 2018 3:01 PM
We now have to find suckers, er I mean investors, who will loan us money at much higher interest rates and with a lot more strings attached.
Nah, we can't be broke. We still have ink, printing presses and the right paper. We'll just fire 'em up and print like mad!
And if you're really lucky, your social security check will pay for a loaf of bread. So it won't technically go away. But it'll be just about useless.
I R A Darth Aggie at June 6, 2018 3:56 PM
"If they are unable to pay RIGHT FUCKING NOW why are they claiming that have another 16 year before they are unable to pay"
Actually the claim that they were cash flow positive for the last few years is also a lie. They made up the difference on interest they paid themselves.
If you do your accounting like that Uncle Sam will toss you in jail. Must be good to be the king.
Ben at June 6, 2018 4:04 PM
Say Amy - your book got mentioned at Bratfree!
http://www.refugees.bratfree.com/read.php?2,424012
It's in the second post.
lenona at June 6, 2018 4:20 PM
Sorry for the confusion, Conan, I was responding to the post about deporting illegal immigrants, not security compilations.
That is indeed troubling.
NicoleK at June 7, 2018 4:37 AM
Don't forget, that as of FY16 (on a quick search I don't see anything more recent), the unholy trinity of welfare, subsidies of various sorts, and interest on the debt accounted for 70% of the federal budget. The entire rest of the federal government -- the military, law enforcement, the legislature, the judicial branch, the State Department, the Commerce Department, the EPA, the FAA, OSHA, NASA, the CIA, the NSA, the IRS, the FDA, Homeland Security, the TSA, the National Science Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Education Department, the Labor Department, the VA, the BATF, the whole shooting match -- is crammed into the other 30%. And that 30% is shrinking.
Cousin Dave at June 7, 2018 6:37 AM
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