A tattoo for America

[Guinevere]

http://maddowblog.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2010/08/05/4828265-a-tattoo-for-america

[Gob]

Hmm.. Neat.

I had the Welsh flag tattooed on my back when I left to emigrate to Aus, maybe I should get an Aussie one to go with it?

[The Hen]

I guess that is one tattoo that won't be objected too by any employer in America.

Smart thinking if you are an ink fan.

Gob don't you dare get an Aussie flag. Way too bogan! Do you want people to think you live in Sydney's western suburbs?

[rubato]

The rest of the poem is better esp the 2nd half:

The New Colossus

Not like the brazen giant of Greek fame,
With conquering limbs astride from land to land;
Here at our sea-washed, sunset gates shall stand
A mighty woman with a torch, whose flame
Is the imprisoned lightning, and her name
Mother of Exiles. From her beacon-hand
Glows world-wide welcome; her mild eyes command
The air-bridged harbor that twin cities frame.
"Keep, ancient lands, your storied pomp!" cries she
With silent lips. "Give me your tired, your poor,
Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free,
The wretched refuse of your teeming shore.
Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me,
I lift my lamp beside the golden door!"



That is us, when we are our best. Not the nasty hate-filled bogs of anti-muslim bias we see from the right-wing now.

yrs,
rubato

[Lord Jim]

A tattoo for America

I'd prefer:

"Good Fences Make Good Neighbors"....

[Econoline]

A tattoo for America

I'd prefer:

"Good Fences Make Good Neighbors"....

I'd bet a lot of folks would prefer that as the slogan engraved on the base of the Statue of Liberty, too...

[Sue U]

A tattoo for America

I'd prefer:

"Good Fences Make Good Neighbors"....

You know, of course, that poem was meant to convey exactly the opposite meaning, and the neighbor who speaks that line is an unthinking clod. The first line of the poem is the intended sentiment:

"Something there is that doesn't love a wall"

[Guinevere]

Expanding on Sue's point:

Before I built a wall I'd ask to know
What I was walling in or walling out,
And to whom I was like to give offence.
Something there is that doesn't love a wall,
That wants it down.'

Mr. President, don't build that wall!

[Lord Jim]

Mr. President, don't build that wall!

I agree.

That wall shouldn't be built.

A 350 mile wall? It's a joke. Woefully inadequate.

What's required is a wall from San Diego to Brownsville, and 50,000 border guards to police it.

Now there's a government jobs program I could really get behind.

And talk about some much needed "infrastructure."

[Crackpot]

You know I worked with a guy who was a border patrol officer. Met his wife while she was illegally trying to cross into the states.

[dales]

Since when are words carved at the base of a statue national policy?


eta: we can't take care of the 300+ MILLION THAT ARE HERE NOW.

[Guinevere]

The policy came well before the words Dales. We are a nation of immigrants, and its wrong to deny to others the opportunities our families all had.

[Lord Jim]

Our families all came here legally.

[Gob]

Legally? I think the natives may have something to say about the legality of it Jim...

[Lord Jim]

Legally? I think the natives may have something to say about the legality of it Jim...

Their lackadaisical enforcement of their immigration laws are not my concern, Strop....

I understand that the ancient Brits and Celts didn't have particularly effective immigration laws when the Romans and later the Vikings showed up on their "teeming shores"....



ETA:

Not to mention that crude Norman lot...

[Gob]

Assimilated them to into being Brits, and founded America with the off cuts Jim..

[Lord Jim]

Assimilated them to into being Brits, and founded America with the off cuts Jim..

And founded Australia with the dregs of their prison population....

[Gob]

Who would you prefer Jim, the convicts or the religious?

I know which way I'd be going...

[Lord Jim]

The Aborigines didn't seem to have particularly effective immigration laws either....

[Gob]

Fuck'em.