Are the Mexican's at fault for our immigration ills?

While drinking a cup of morning mud, it occurred to the Crackpot while thinking about the Arizona law that has the bleeding hearts so pissed and so many true Americans so happy really isn't about the illegals who come across the border, work in our factories and fields and collect our welfare.

I talk to people, and they're so pissed at the Mexican citizens for being here illegally and taking advantage of our system. They're pissed at Mexican president Felipe Calderón for going off about the law that draws the line that will send his people packing across state lines to California and New Mexico. Maybe Colorado and Utah too.

Now, if we were piss poor and needed opportunity, we certainly couldn't go south. We'd go north - to Canada.

Not too sure what Canada's immigration laws are and how they treat illegals in their borders, but we do know what the Mexican laws are. When Calderón was interviewed by CNN, he said they're deported the first time and jailed the second time.

Sounds like they know how to handle illegals in their land and take advantage of our laws to benefit their people.

So, while our anger is pointed at the Mexican people, it really needs to pointed at our elected leaders - both Democrat and Republican. They're one's who are really to blame - regardless of their political label. They're going to feed you the bullshit you want to hear so they can get elected and reelected, and then they're going to do what they're going to until it's election time again, and there they'll point the finger at their opposition from across the aisle and blame them. They'll scream they're the candidate of change and have been "fighting" for you, and they'll land another term. But since they've been "fighting" for you, and they haven't achieved, maybe they don't really know how to fight - just how to get reelected and give their special interest contributors a great blow job and how to bend you over and make you squeal like a pig. It's all about gratification - just not yours.

Or, if we really want to simplify the problem of our unsecured border to the south, we could always dump 100,000 alligators in the Rio Grande and see what shakes out.

Coach makes players drink from shoe

Okay, this is one of those “What the fuck where they thinking?” things. Some dumb coach at South Tahoe High School in California with a jock mentality had eight players on her softball team drink soda from a shoe who struck out during a game.

Is this something that happens in everyday life, and we just missed it. Where did coach Anneliese Neitling, who apologized after the fact, get off thinking this was acceptable behavior? It makes one question her family values and how she was raised. God only knows what went on her family.

Can you get athlete’s foot in your mouth from drinking from a shoe? Is that possible?

"People learn from mistakes," said Lake Tahoe Unified School District superintendent James Tarwater. "She does a good job pulling the team together, morale-wise and support-wise."

He sounds like a pretty forgiving guy.

School districts are handing out pink slips left and right to teachers and staff because of California’s budget woes. One can wonder if Neitling is on that list now - or maybe hope.

Stupid should hurt.

Read the article.

Goodbye, Sweet America

Today the U.S. Congress stopped by the café. Jesus, what a convoluted mess. It took hours just to serve the bean juice because ordering it was like going through a committee. If they have this much trouble ordering a cup of joe, it’s no wonder they can’t get anything done in that area of 87-square miles surrounded by reality.

Who are these people? Are they best the country has to offer in terms of leadership? While listening to the conversations and bickering, it was easy to see that common sense is hardly present, and, well, maybe it’s time pack our bags and head to Canada or something. Goodbye, Sweet America. You aren’t the America we grew up in.

Beef: It's NOT what's for dinner

ABC News: Report Says Contaminated Meat Is In Supermarkets

It is a frightening picture: beef contaminated with toxic heavy metals, pesticides and antibiotics making its way into the nation's supermarkets.

Phyllis K. Fong, the Agriculture Department's inspector general, looked at how beef is tested for harmful substances.

According to her new report, inspectors charged with checking cattle for disease and meat for contaminants were, "unable to determine if meat has unacceptable levels of... potentially hazardous substances [and do] not test for pesticides... determined to be of high risk."

The inspectors also failed to test beef for 23 pesticides, the report says.

To read the entire article, click here.

Read the FSIS National Residue Program for Cattle report here.

Commentary: What happened to the FDA and protection for consumers? What's the real story here? It looks like the dollar is more important than human life.

In 2008, copper metal, which can cause jaundice, kidney failure and death, was found in beef being imported to Mexico from the U.S., and the Mexican authorities wouldn't allow it in. Why is that Mexican law prohibits this, but U.S. law doesn't?

More importantly, it would take a law, and not good conscience, to make U.S. beef companies not poison their own customers. Where the hell is the government in this? Why doesn't the government care about the health of its citizens? If it does, it doesn't act like it - on various levels, not just with the beef industry. After all, it's going to have to pay to heal the people that'll fall victim to tainted beef now. This whole thing is a giant "Whiskey Tango Foxtrot?"

And then there were the incidents in 2007 and 2008, the that report, issued in March of this year, states, inspectors discovered beef that was loaded with excessive amounts of contaminants far beyond what is acceptable, and yet, they didn't issue a recall. WTF?

But then there's the conditions at the meat packing companies themselves. At the turn of the 20th Century, President Theodore Roosevelt took on the meat companies and had legislation passed that made them get their act together as well as respect their workers, and at one point, working in the meat packing industry was a decent wage earning job with good benefits. A lot of that has fallen by the wayside, and we seem to be back where we were before the turn of the 20th Century in respect to the quality of the potentially lethal disease being put on your plate that tastes so good.