Go to El Paso, Texas, and drive the road that is right on the border. You can just about jump into the Rio Grande from your car, and on the other side of this narrow river is Mexico. Watch with studied admiration as entire, multiple generation families come to the river to bathe and wash all their clothes, usually consisting of what they have on and a couple of extra items.

Very true, and the Left and the GOP refuse to shut down the immigration so that Mexico can no longer send us their problems, rather than fixing their own mess.

They will live in abject poverty until we tell them, “No more!” We then can finally make them get rid of the corruption, for until then they will suffer.

d00d.

upgrade your standards.

seriously.

no more one stop shopping.

curse you AP CURSE YOU I SAY!

On another note this’ll probably bring her more traffic as many of us start going directly to her site to check for updates. Guess it’s time to set up another live journal feed.

gahk.

I am not sure that anyone that grows up here in the U.S. can fully grasp the severity of the poverty until they have been there and seen it for themselves.

Go to El Paso, Texas, and drive the road that is right on the border. You can just about jump into the Rio Grande from your car, and on the other side of this narrow river is Mexico. Watch with studied admiration as entire, multiple generation families come to the river to bathe and wash all their clothes, usually consisting of what they have on and a couple of extra items.

Nobel savages are a bunch of idiot Scandinavians who think Jimmy Cater and Yasser Arafat are role models for the world.

Coyote D. on January 27, 2007 at 3:17 AM

Gee, thanks CD… Now I have to wipe coffee off of my screen. That was hilarious!

It’s really one of the most many grotesque features of LLL thinking.

And this medievalist mindset that somehow there is ANY benefit to living in a mud and shit hut, working 18 hours a day just to get food, and dying at the age of 35 from a tooth abcess really, really needs to be treated the same way as psychotic episodes or schizophrenia.

Environmentalists make me sick.

Hell those environmentalists probably haven’t had to miss a meal in their pitiful lives. Sure they may have engaged in one of those ‘30-hour fasts to end hunger’ but they knew there was a big-mac or three at the end.

Even when they go to a ‘3rd world’ country (even Mexico) they usually stay in a tourist area or 4/5-star hotel and have all their whims catered to. If they ever drive through a poorer area (they never stop!) they don’t see the poverty – just the quaint ‘culture’ and ‘customs’.

And MK is Great!

CrazyFool on January 26, 2007 at 11:59 PM

I agree with you, CrazyFool.

When I lived in El Paso, TX, 14 years ago, my ex and I used to go to Juarez for the cheap eats and shopping. After taking a wrong turn, which is relatively easy since there are few street signs, if any, we came across neighborhoods of people living in deplorable conditions. People living in shacks, near dumps with no running water, maybe an outhouse or a ditch, and if they had any kind of electricity, it consisted of extension cords, and someone who wasn’t afraid of getting electrocuted when they plugged it in. I asked my ex, why do they live this way? Why don’t they travel to warmer touristy places in Mexico? He told me the poverty in those places are even more appalling and even if they could “travel”, would most likely be robbed or killed along the way. Whole families are reluctant to move from places they’ve known all their lives.

All those people in Ham’s film looking for work will one day, leave their quaint little towns, their families and friends, their customs and culture, in desperation, because of the need to work to feed their bellies, put roofs over their heads, and to take care of families back home. They speak little to no english, have little education, and wind up working in sweat shops, meat packing plants, factories, etc., stealing other people’s identities to continue to work.

The wheels keep on turning, don’t they?

Enviromentalists have a lot to answer for as they hold their cardboard signs or have sit down rallies in front of the White House or Capitol Hill. They have their slick little websites asking for donations. You know what the curly haired woman in Ham’s video probably did later that evening? She went to one of those funky little 18th Street bars crowing to her like-minded bozo friends guzzling endless rounds of cocktails.

Nobel savages are a bunch of idiot Scandinavians who think Jimmy Cater and Yasser Arafat are role models for the world.

The environmental movement, in my view, is just another attempt by a few who think they are “more enlightened” than most trying to seize power over the many…

Yes, and it allows them to adopt as their world view Rousseau’s “Myth of the Nobel Savage,” which their moonbat professors would have introduced them to in Intro to Political Science. The Westerphobes never seem to want to make that last leap and adopt the lifestyle they romanticize so much, however.

Hell those environmentalists probably haven’t had to miss a meal in their pitiful lives. Sure they may have engaged in one of those ’30-hour fasts to end hunger’ but they knew there was a big-mac or three at the end.

Even when they go to a ’3rd world’ country (even Mexico) they usually stay in a tourist area or 4/5-star hotel and have all their whims catered to. If they ever drive through a poorer area (they never stop!) they don’t see the poverty – just the quaint ‘culture’ and ‘customs’.

And MK is Great!

When I see films such as this I am reminded of the Soviet regime that was in the process of draining the Danube Delta, the 3rd largest flyway for migratory birds in the world, to be used as farm land… Talk about an ecological disaster! How about the Marsh Arabs in Iraq? No one seemed to chain themselves to anything while that ecological disaster was taking place. How about when the Romanian gov’t decided to build a canal from the Danube to the Black Sea? The gov’t emptied the prisons to get workers and, when that source of labor was exhausted, they took people off the streets and enslaved them. People were basically worked to death and buried next to the canal in anonomous graves. I traveled this canal and the entire crew on the boat was silent as we did it…
My point is that Romania wants to advance itself. The people there are generally rather smart and they know what is going on in the west. They want the prosperity that the rest of us enjoy. It is so totally hypocritical of western “environmentalists” to deny this of the people of Romania because of the environmentalist’s need to have people remain in their “indiginous” form.For Romanians this idea of “indigiouness living” really means slavery.
I would absolutely recommend a trip to Romania to anyone. The food and wine are great, the countryside beautiful and the people very pro American.
There are plenty of people still using horse and cart… They do not consider themselves as something to be admired. They consider themselves on the cusp of economic freedom… The environmentalists do them no favor.
Let me put it bluntly; would you want to sh!t in an outhouse???

Anton on January 26, 2007 at 7:17 PM

MKH may have to wear sexy clothing for a few clips to restore the balance in The Force. From the looks of it Allahpundit is easily distracted by low hanging fruit (even of smaller size). Perhaps if he is so inclined to persuide MKH but the grasshopper may have earned his reward.

hey man, don’t rag on favazza.

Heh. I’d guess that $35,000 would feed a family of 100 for about 20 years there…

Does Allah subsist from food?

Entelechy on January 26, 2007 at 6:45 PM

My collie says: “doggie biscuits.”
I wonder if Michelle makes him sit-up and beg?
One thing is for certain:
If you want companionship, get married,
but if you want unconditional love, buy a dog.