I Was Right

There's a whole bunch of shit for me in today's edition of the Winston Salem Urinal! Bunches, even!

On Page 3 is a story about how different States are treating illegal immigrants. From Arizona (the strictest) who are denying some welfare bennies, to Iowa who is making it easier to get drivers licenses and, by extension, voting registration. Most telling quote is from the deputy director of the National Immigration Forum, Angela Kelley, who says that "Clubbing people because of their illegal status isn't going to make them legal or make them leave." Of course not, bitch - we don't want to make them leave,we want to force them to leave and to stop them from getting in here in the first place!

Page 4 tells us about a graduate physics student from CalTech who burned Hummers at a dealership "because SUV dealers are evil." William Jensen Cottrell,24, got 100 months in prison and repay $8.58 million to the dealer. Yeah, like that'll happen!

On to the editorial - entitled, "Lazy or Chicken" That's what the Urinal sees as the only two possible reasons why some of the initial co-signers of the In-state Tuition bill have since withdrawn their support. They must either have been lazy in that they didn't read the proposed legislation, or "they chickened out (because) the political right has seized on this bill as a pet issue." I guess it never occurred to the non-liberal, straight down-the-middle people at the Urinal that there could be another reason - Duty. I always thought it was the duty of elected persons to actually represent the people who sent them to the legislature, regardless of politics. I know, what a concept!

That'll do. For now.