It was, it should go without saying, reprehensible of the pond not to provide the splash for prattling Polonius's survey of the year …
It went top of the page, Ma, top of the page!
Some fools might have thought the Donald was worth featuring, when they really should have known it was all the ABC's and Malware's fault …
Some fools might have thought the Donald was worth featuring, when they really should have known it was all the ABC's and Malware's fault …
Remember …you do remember that inn, Miranda, and the bedding and the shedding and the mutton Dutton …
And in its survey of holiday reptile reading that the pond missed, how to explain overlooking the real explanation of all that's wrong with the world?
Those bloody useless millennials and their badly wired brains!
The youff of today simply doesn't have a clue, what with the way they use their logarithms to devise and project the theology of climate religion!
Luckily there was a solution.
All that's needed is for the youff of today to sit down and read a jolly good reptile-approved book - and yet still there are some rogue elements that alarm all the reptiles, and especially the urbane Urban by trying to ban good books…
Oh the shame, oh the heresy … and there in a nutshell, with bonus little Johnny pic, is why they can't understand maths ...
Meanwhile, other great minds were on hand to explain certain sorts of duds …
"An elite of the correct-thinking"!
Of course, of course, what was needed was an elite of the ill-thinking, the foolish thinking, the mathematically useless thinking, the dullard thinking, or if you will, the angry old reptile man shouting at clouds thinking …
But enough of thinking that being a deplorably dumb fuckwit is the sensible way forward, because it's time to move on from holiday reading missed to holiday reading present, and who should be present and correct on the digital page this day but our lad Jim?
Sadly, the pond was under the impression that our lad Jim was actually not going to be taking it anywhere come the next election … but there'll always be a home for him at the lizard Oz, even if his take on the Donald seemed mildly heretical ...
Now before our Jim induces a fainting fit in sensitive reptile readers …
… the reptiles had the good sense to include some reassuring words from the bromancer ...
Ah yes, the man who helped give John McCain that most excellent Sarah Palin is just the man we needed …
More on that most excellent comedy of winner-picking here, but it's time to get back to our Jim lad, still worrying away ...
Really Jim lad? Take a chill pill and relax with the bromancer.
All is well in the world, and the bromancer calls it like it is ...
All is well in the world, and the bromancer calls it like it is ...
Still unsure that the man who gave McCain Sarah Palin is yet another bromancer winner?
Take care, or you could end up moaning and hand-wringing like Jim lad ...
Take care, or you could end up moaning and hand-wringing like Jim lad ...
By the end of this round, the pond was starting to fret.
Oh sure, picking Sarah Palin as a winner suggested we were still winning bigly, possibly hugely, no matter that Jim lad might be saying, but the pond needed even more reassurance, and who better than our Henry?
Oh sure, picking Sarah Palin as a winner suggested we were still winning bigly, possibly hugely, no matter that Jim lad might be saying, but the pond needed even more reassurance, and who better than our Henry?
Now some correct-thinking, which is to say mendacious and irascible bloggers, might use our Henry as an excuse to run a few wall cartoons …
But the pond is inclined to incorrect thinking - how else to explain running a Stiglich cartoon? - and it hungered for some incorrect thinking from hole in the bucket Henry, sounding the alarums ...
Actually, according to a pond survey of American Indians, there are at least 300 million US migrants, with a mere 1.6% passing the smell test (or so Greg Hunters found here).
But let's be adult about this, and have an adult discussion of an adult issue in an adult hole in the bucket way …
Now here's the marvel. Those who can remember back to when our hole in the bucket Henry worried about the flood of illegals will be tremendously reassured that the wall halted everything and everybody in its tracks ...
Indeed, indeed, and the pond is reminded of one of those great books that the Ramsay centre keep on insisting millennials should be reading …
Now it goes without saying that some unscrupulous people are only too willing to exploit desperate people … and so know whereof they legislate …
More here at WaPo, but now it's back to our Henry ...
But why not go ahead and do it anyway? The fomenting and the fear-mongering, that is … see how those indolent, insolent Mexicans are having a good laugh …
And so to a final gobbet of our Henry, entirely forgetting who was actually supposed to be funding the building of the wall (and never mind the tosh about it being effective) ...
There's no fool like an old Henry fool … here, have a funding cartoon Henry ...
Of course the pond refuses, in solidarity with the reptiles, to run footage from fake news land of the MSNBC kind, especially from that dreadful Ari Melber, with his faux beard and his constant references to rap lyrics, or even worse, Beyoncé, but still and all, he does have a point to make about the Donald and the funding of the wall, and maybe, just maybe, hole in the bucket Henry should rap along with him …
"Measured by yearly production, the San Joaquin Valley is one of the highest-value stretches of farmland in the country, and is dominated by large growers who preside over a labor force of migrant workers in a way that has not changed much since Carey McWilliams described it in his 1939 book, Factories in the Fields.
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Fruit and vegetable picking is a one-generation job—farmworkers I spoke to neither wanted nor would allow their children to follow them into the fields. The heat and physical toll, combined with the feudal power of the growers, make it preferable to work in an air-conditioned hotel or packing house, where you can stand upright and be free of pesticides for the same low wages.
This means that a constant supply of impoverished Mexican immigrants willing to do the work is required. But those immigrants aren’t coming. Since 2005 more Mexicans have been leaving the US than arriving. And this isn’t only because of a crackdown at the border. In 2000, when the border was far more porous than it is now, 1.6 million Mexicans were apprehended trying to cross into the US. In 2016 the number was 192,969.2 Ed Taylor, an economist at UC Davis, estimates that the number of potential immigrants from rural Mexico shrinks every year by 150,000. This can be partly explained by improved economic conditions in northern and central Mexico, which have dimmed the allure of minimum-wage labor in the US, and partly by the cost and danger of venturing across the border. If you do make it into the US, payments to a smuggler can keep a minimum-wage laborer in debt for life."
Read the whole article at https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2018/12/20/in-the-valley-of-fear/
Hmmm. So the Yale folks reckon there's really about 22 million "illegals" in America - more than twice as many as previously estimated.
ReplyDeleteWell, it's hard to disagree with a University study from such a prestigious place as Yale, but occasionally, I just do wonder where all those extra 11 million illegals have gone to. Now correct me if I'm wrong, but the population of Melbourne in 2018 was 4.8 million. Therefore, there is about 230% the total population of Melbourne hiding unnoticed - and presumably mostly unemployed, unhoused, unfed and unmedicated - somewhere in the USA. But where ? Well the Yale folks didn't make any attempt that I can discern to work that one out.
https://insights.som.yale.edu/insights/yale-study-finds-twice-as-many-undocumented-immigrants-as-previous-estimates
Oh, and just incidentally, it's also 128% of the population of New York. So again I just wonder, where the hell are they ?
But then, we have this: there's 64,000 illegal immigrants in Australia who came in on visas and then just never left. Now that's a lot more than supposedly came in on boats in Labor's time: a mere 50,000. And just a reminder, has anybody yet uncovered any information from anybody as to just how that Vietnamese so-called 'fishing boat' made it undetected all the way to Queensland ? No, I thought not.
http://www.visasolutions.com.au/news-blog/posts/how-many-people-are-staying-in-australia-illegally-on-expired-visas
Of course, the "border force" dispute that number, but then they would, wouldn't they. But my question is just this: if the Yale study really has shown that the number of American illegals is actually about twice as many as previously estimated, then by how many is that '64,000' number under-estimated ? And will we ever try to find out ?