Tuesday that follows Monday

A week left before tax returns have to be mailed off. I'm only about six feet underground with everything, but not so badly that I can't power out of it in the morning.

The pool is green again. I think I've found a cook top that would be very cheap, but .. I'm also not thinking that spending a dime here is the best plan.

Guy was coming over tonight, so I was finally motivated to move the wireless router to a place that would give a stronger signal. Or something. If I were going to stay here, I'd figure some better solution -

So, today I received the SECOND missive from someone who hates immigrants, people of color and anyone who isn't white and middle class, asserting that Teddy Roosevelt had been ugly about the concept of immigrants who don't attempt to integrate themselves into our society.

Right at that VERY moment, someone posted a passage from Leviticus on dailykos.com - it was beautiful. I just cut and pasted the passage into a reply email - let's look at the whole thing here...

Feds to Deny Health Care to Undocumented Workers
by SusanG
Tue Apr 11, 2006 at 03:01:59 PM PDT
Terrific:


Born out of ongoing efforts in Washington to clamp down on illegal immigration, the new federal requirement compels anyone seeking Medicaid coverage to provide a birth certificate, a passport, or another form of identification in order to sign up for benefits or renew them.
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The requirement was tucked into the Deficit Reduction Act of 2005, which President Bush signed into law earlier this year.
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The intent is to prevent undocumented immigrants from posing as citizens and taking advantage of taxpayer-funded healthcare benefits that are afforded only to legal residents.

Three points:

1. From a purely selfish public health point of view, is it really a good idea to deny diagnosis and treatment to 12 million people ... ever? But particularly when there are concerns about a pandemic? This should make going to the supermarket a total crap shoot for the rest of us, yes?

2. Attention! All you Christianists who want to embed the Bible in the Constitution! Embed Leviticus 19:33-34 in there while you're at it:


" 'When an alien lives with you in your land, do not mistreat him. The alien living with you must be treated as one of your native-born. Love him as yourself, for you were aliens in Egypt. I am the LORD your God.

3. Hey! GOP! Quit sneaking (or "tucking") appalling shit into legislation under the dead of night. It's a tip-off that you're ashamed of the crap you're trying to pull and that a majority of Americans - who at heart a generous people - would not approve. If you think you have terrific ideas that will lead to the public strewing flowers and candy in your path, come out in the open and say so. If you think we need convincing, make your case and convince us. But you're looking like midnight cowards with these actions, and rightly so.

I'm wondering how many of these Bush-crazed zealots think it's going to be a good idea when we drop nukes on Iran in a few weeks. They're going to probably tell me how evil the Iranians are, and how it is only the most appropriate disposition of force, considering how we're buried up to our ears in Iraq.

I wonder what they're going to say when the Iranian Navy sinks a few of our big assed ships. With those sneaky, Russian built missles that the Russians developed because they couldn't keep up with the American weaponry, especially the Navy. So, they created an anti-ship missile that's faster than anything we have to shoot it down, flies lower than we can detect, and has a warhead strong enough to break the back of a Nimitz aircraft carrier.

I've been saying we had too many of those damned things, anyway. I wonder if the Iranians need a scrapped aircraft carrier as an artificial reef? Perhaps we'll offer up one of the older carriers, so that we get the best ROI. Send the least capable and oldest ships into harm's way in this one.

After all, we're sinking the Oriskany off the coast of Pensacola. It's a proven technique to enhance undersea life.

I'm getting more and more excited about the Lucerne. I need to go to the credit union next week.

Tomorrow, at least, I have a nearly unrestricted day for work. Today, I had a doctor's appointment at 9, breakfast with Mary at 10, and the Chiropractor at noon. I got home at 2:30. Yurg. I did get a lot done this afternoon, but having had a full day to work would have been better.