Felipe Calderon is a Douche

Mexican President Felipe Calderon is a douche.

Normally, I'm against calling people out of their name for having contrary views, but really, this is stupid. Someone needs to come to their senses, since Mexican politicians don't seem to want to. Hopefully, I'll be the one to get through to them through the power of insults and sarcasm.

So Mr. Calderon is critical of the United States and it's immigration policies, as well as the recent decision to make "la migra" start kicking out people who shouldn't be here, most of which come from way down south. Kiss my balls, Mr. Calderon. Kiss my American balls.

Instead of doing some real work and cleaning up the corruption in Mexico, putting in an infrastructure that would benefit Mexico's poor, and actually trying to stimulate a semblance of an economy down there, Mr. Calderon (and his predecessor, Vicente Fox) are happy to just pass their poor onto us, then make it all our fault when American agencies dare to enforce its laws.

They claim that their people are being treated unfairly when being deported and that our economy benefits from their presence. Well, so does Mexico's economy, because most of the money earned goes right back to Mexico. The only people benefiting more than Mexico from this arrangement is Western Union. Mexico is getting billions of dollars from here and didn't have to raise a finger to get it. No wonder the Mexican government doesn't want things to change.

More than that, where does Mexico get off trying to protest policy changes in OUR country? Not since the United States Congress passed a resolution to demand that Japan apologize to the women it forced into the sex trade during World War II have I heard something so ridiculous. Last time I checked, you had to have leverage to make a demand.

Mexico, do you really think our government cares about what YOU want when it comes to OUR borders? Do you think making statements like, “...Mexico does not stop at its border, that wherever there is a Mexican, there is Mexico,” is going to change anything? Is that supposed to make us have a change of heart? What does that even mean? And seriously, what are you going to do? Make the workers come back home? No, that makes too much sense and you're making too much money this way.

I guarantee you, someone believes that Mexico does stop at it's border and that's the U.S. Border Patrol. We'll mark that border off with a fence for you, just in case you missed it. And if there's an illegal Mexican over here, it'll still be the United States, and he'll just be a guy in handcuffs going right back where he came from. Just because Mexico's borders are wide open for any criminal to waltz through doesn't mean that ours should be the same way.

On Sunday

On Sunday, June 24, 2007, two people that I knew were killed in a car accident. They were hit by a pick-up truck while riding their motorcycle down Highway 49 in Gulfport, MS. The driver was apparently trying to make a U-turn. They barely had a chance to avoid the truck. Wayne Hughes was still on the bike when he was found. He was 45. Michelle Hughes was thrown 30 feet away. She was 48. Their youngest son, Ron, witnessed the entire thing.

The guy who hit them was an illegal alien. He jumped out of the truck and fled the scene with his wife and child. He was caught later that day and is currently being held on a $51,000 bond for a variety of charges. None of them are “vehicular manslaughter,” because apparently, Mississippi doesn’t have that crime on its books. Hopefully, this time he’ll be deported.

“This time,” you ask? Oh, yeah…this time.

On June 17, he was arrested for DUI and driving without a license. He shouldn’t have even been in the country on June 24. But he was. And as a result, two people are dead.

I know bringing this up isn’t going to bring them back, but that doesn’t change the fact that it pisses me off. He. Should not. Have been here. Period. So to anyone who believes that there shouldn’t be a crackdown on illegal aliens in this country, tell that to Chris, Denise, Jeanette, Ron, and Francis. Those are their children. I’m sure they’d love to hear your reasoning.


You know, I’ve never been to Central America. From what I read about it, it seems to be pretty rough and corrupt at virtually all levels of government. And from what I understand, traffic laws there are more of a suggestion, not the law of the land. “Hey, you might wanna stop at that sign…unless you don’t want to.”

Now, the actual evidence of that, I’ve seen with my own eyes. There is a huge Latin population here in Atlanta, and I’ve almost been run over a ton of times and I’d say 5 times out of 10, it’s by someone of Latin descent. And I’m not saying that to say that Latinos can’t drive, because I know that most of them probably can. I’m saying that where they come from, the country probably doesn’t put the same emphasis on stopping at a red light that ours does. Hell, just a month ago, the front of my car was almost torn off by a guy who ran a red light. He was driving a white van with ladders on top of it. I didn’t see the guy, but based on what he was riding in and where I was (Buford Hwy aka Nuevo Mexico 2), I’m willing to bet that he was Latino.

Just to show that I’m not bigoted, back in 2003, I was almost hit at the intersection of Columbia Dr. and McAfee Rd (aka “The Hood”) by a guy in an SUV with chrome rims, who ran a red light. I didn’t see that guy either, but I’d bet you both the hands I’m typing this with that he was black.

Getting back to my point, if you were not from here, but took the time to come here legally, chances are you’d know the traffic laws a little better than you do. Yeah, I know a lot of people from here ignore little things like signaling before making a lane change (and you have no idea how much I hate that), but at least they were told. People who are driving illegally most likely have no idea about that. I’ll bet you the two extra hands I won in the last bet that they had no clue about that when they were driving around down in El Salvador. And if they did, who the hell cared?

So when this guy made his U-turn in the middle of Hwy 49, he probably had no clue about things like looking for motorcycles before doing it. I don’t know how well motorcycles sell south of the border, but the numbers can’t be that high. In fact, he was citing for “failing to yield.” Perhaps, if he’d come here legally, he would have learned about yielding.