My state, New York, wants to give legal state driver’s licenses to illegal aliens. Yep… you heard me correctly. That should be a twisted joke, but it’s a twisted reality. Among the ir-rationale is the standard drivel about “they’re just here to work” and “this will let us keep better records on them”. Better records? Why would we need better records… are we going to be using these “records” to arrest them? Then why not just arrest them when they apply for the license? How is it that the laws requiring known illegal aliens to be detained and deported don’t apply at the DMV (Department of Motor Vehicles)? This is lunacy… yet elected cronies taking in high salaries (compliments of the taxpayers) support this madness because it BUYS THEM VOTES.

And of course this issue runs much deeper, but let me say that there is no comparison between a United States citizen from Mexico, and an illegal alien. They are two totally different people. They both may be hard workers, but one is duly and lawfully eligible for all the rights, freedoms, and opportunities of every other American citizen – while the other has not only disrespected our borders, our immigration rules, and broken our laws, but is also stealing health care, welfare, and pretty soon driver’s licenses. Mexico doesn’t tolerate illegal border crossings INTO Mexico (just as no country does, nor should they)… but Mexico gets on us for protecting our border. And why? Follow the money… Western Union money transfers from the US are Mexico’s third highest source of income!

Al Gore wins the Nobel Peace Prize. For what? A documentary? A movie of questionable science? For parading an entourage around the globe in private jets to talk about the dangers to the environment from parading around the globe in private jets? And the rationale why global warming would have ANYTHING to do with peace is that global warming will “eventually start conflicts”? How about the conflict between “An Inconvenient Truth” and the actual truth? How about Al Gore preaching that society needs to start living more simply and efficiently – while Al goes and buys another mansion to visit in his private jet (read mega-petroleum-guzzling sky-beast). The Nobel prize has become a bit of a joke, I guess. I actually think Borat was a much more accurate documentary… we should have given the peace prize to Sacha Cohen.

I’m already done with the Presidential campaigns. They have used up my entire allocation of bicker-absorption. I can’t listen to it any more. Does that make me “disenfranchised”? I think it does. I think in the name of all that is good and right I shouldn’t have to see Hillary’s, Osama/Obama’s, Rudy’s, or McCain’s face for another 12 months. At the very least I want to see the candidates actually work for their air-time… like perhaps in a “Survivor: Washington DC” or “Fear Factor” style reality show where Hillary would have to drink monkey snot while wearing a slinky little bikini in order to earn 5 minutes of sound bites. Obama and McCain would have to wrestle in a tub of broken glass while eating scorpions to see who gets to speak next. Or how about the Price is Right? That would be sweet… watching politicians who haven’t shopped for their own groceries in decades try and guess the price of baking soda or cooking spray. Ha!

And again… on my recent trip to Chicago… I got to watch airport screeners hassle aged World War 2 vets and little old Asian ladies so that the TSA doesn’t look “insensitive” towards male 18-34 year-old Arabic-speaking non-US-citizens who have legal support agencies ready to sue the city, county, state, and federal government at the drop of a Koran. Another example of how not having the moral courage to be a jerk to non-citizens means having to be a jerk to EVERYONE… which then quickly erodes into usually just being a jerk to people who you know aren’t carrying bombs (e.g. World War 2 vets and little old Asian ladies).

Fatigue.

If you haven’t read Reflections on Cancun – Part 1 you may do so now.

Shown above are some more pictures… mostly of Chichen Itza (ancient Mayan ruins) and the large water-filled sinkhole that the Mayans would use for human sacrifice.

I promised you I would mention the nude beaches. Well, in Cancun it seemed that anyone could go topless on any beaches if they so desired, but not very many women did. At first I thought that potentially topless women would be a major stumbling block for a foreign American boy like me… but really, it wasn’t much different than on American beaches. I mean, does a skimpily clad teenage girl with a tan go from 0% to 100% stumbling potential when she removes her top? Of course not… there was already a danger there. The beach has always been a place that a married Christ-following fellow like myself has had to keep his mind-filters on high-alert and eye-contact-avoidance-algorithms on hyperactive. In reality I got used to it fairly quickly.

However, there was one instance in particular that no preparation short of mammography training could have braced me. One day, as we were walking on the beach, I heard my wife say something like “Oh… my… word.” I followed her to gaze to the unfortunate conclusion… there was this HUGE woman with HUGE breasts the size of county fair blue ribbon watermelons. First of all, at rest state these things were totally succumb to gravity… Sir Isaac Newton had these weapons pointed directly at the Earth’s core. But the woman was vigorously putting lotion on them… and the activity caused these masses to violently swing in all sorts of trigonometric patterns. I can’t even imagine the rotational momentums being created.

So later on we went to the market in town. For those of you who’ve never been to Mexico you’ll need to learn fast to ignore local shopkeepers. While this may sound rude it is a necessary tact to preserve any enjoyment of the event. You are reduced to walking US currency, you see, and every shop you walk by has a shopkeeper that is willing to go for broke to get your bills. Even if you make no eye contact and are engaged in conversation with your spouse they’ll try and hound you. They’ll call you friend and say they have exactly what you’re looking for and tell you it’s free or nearly free or only one dollar. If you ignore them they’ll usually stop talking to you… but if you say “no thank you” you’ve opened up Pandora’s dialog box and they’ll hound you for sure because they play on your politeness as your weakness. If you make eye contact with either them or their wares they’ll hound you. If you look at their wares for a moment and then try and walk away they’ll hound you, even at great distance, until you are out of sight.

Now my wife is a good shopper. She didn’t put up with any of their garbage. We got $72 in jewelry down to $42 and a nice $40 plate down to $20. Those were probably fair final prices… but you have to work for it. One poor Mexican, after trying to get extra cash from my wife for the plate, asked her if she was a lawyer!

Later on in that same market I saw some T-shirts referring to Arizona and New Mexico as the “so-called Southwest United States” which was really just occupied Mexican land. *rolls eyes* There was one militant T-shirt that said Mexicans are NOT Hispanics and NOT Latin Americans…. and on the front were pictures of guerrilla fighters. Whatever.

All in all we had a great time and would go again in a second. The Mexicans at our resort were a hard-working bunch that seemed to sincerely want to serve and do a great job… and they did.

You’ll read that this is a choice between enforcement or reform… but if you’re also paying close attention you’ll notice that the protesters don’t want either reform or enforcment… they want us to do NOTHING. You can’t make this stuff up. I’m just glad Congress is addressing the issue, because either reform or enforcement is a big improvement.

I won’t try to bore you with my eloquent and loquacious analysis… I haven’t the time and this issue is so clear that if you don’t get it I can’t help you get it (if you have three brain cells to rub together you’re already good). But let me leave you with analysis by Michelle Malkin, a brilliant mind and writer, and her stellar article in the JewishWorldReview about this very issue. [linked here] She says it better than anyone and if you only read one thing today, let that be it. Also, I have included a couple cute cartoons in here, too.