Bent Notes

Two of the Mumbai terrorists were British Muslims.

That must explain the FBI’s involvement with this little get-together.

Isn’t it interesting that last night’s booing of Miss USA at the Miss World pageant in Mexico City comes at the same time as the illegal-alien debate in this country is reaching fever pitch?

What’s with a significant enough swath of the Mexican public expressing rancor toward its neighbor to make that the newsworthy thing about the night?  What’s their beef?  Are any of them related to any of the twelve-plus million illegal aliens here in the United States?  Surely their problem is not with the bucks being sent back home.

I doubt if all of them are some kind of reconquista / La Raza types, but the odor I get wafting off their antics is of the type that, in concentrated form, manifests itself that way.

Resentment of the Yanqui gringo is one of the great exercises in human childishness over the last century.  If ever a country had everything it needed to be rockin’ the world economically, it’s Mexico.  Natural resources out the wazoo.  A large population.  But between corruption and statism, it’s never revved up its economic engine, and consequently its citizens scramble across the border, laws - and interest in the foundational principles that have made the United States great - be damned.

There’s no doubt that an array of sociocultural forces in the world see the United States as arrogant and rapacious.  It’s not because that’s the case.  It’s because we approach them assuming they’re ready for prime time, up to speed with stuff like political freedom, equality for women, contract law, property rights, and an industrious spirit, and it’s utterly foreign to them.

Seal the borders and make anybody who wants to stay here beyond a vacation-length visit prove they respect the underpinnings of our greatness.

The immigration bill that passed the House and is about to do likewise in the Senate is a kiss of death for -

- the Republicans in 2008, as a critical mass of its base stays away from the polls in disgust

- the notion of law and order

- our national sovereigny

- the survival of the West, ultimately.

We can now see what happens to those afflicted with Reasonable Gentleman Syndrome in its late stages:  Their ravaged souls emit a foul odor that is strangely attractive to Freedom Haters, who then swarm around them and devour them.

A few days ago, it was the UK’s public-school curriculum. Now it’s Albion’s prison toilets.