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Beauty.
Belief.
Poetry.
Nature's first green is gold,
Her hardest hue to hold.
Her early leaf's a flower;
But only so an hour.
Then leaf subsides to leaf.
So Eden sank to grief,
So dawn goes down to day.
Nothing gold can stay.
--Robert Frost
Her hardest hue to hold.
Her early leaf's a flower;
But only so an hour.
Then leaf subsides to leaf.
So Eden sank to grief,
So dawn goes down to day.
Nothing gold can stay.
--Robert Frost
Work Ethic.
Change.
Song.
So, so you think you can tell Heaven from Hell,
blue skies from pain.
Can you tell a green field from a cold steel rail?
A smile from a veil?
Do you think you can tell?
And did they get you to trade your heroes for ghosts?
Hot ashes for trees?
Hot air for a cool breeze?
Cold comfort for change?
And did you exchange a walk on part in the war for a lead role in a cage?
How I wish, how I wish you were here.
We're just two lost souls swimming in a fish bowl, year after year, Running over the same old ground.
What have you found? The same old fears.
Wish you were here.
Can you tell a green field from a cold steel rail?
A smile from a veil?
Do you think you can tell?
And did they get you to trade your heroes for ghosts?
Hot ashes for trees?
Hot air for a cool breeze?
Cold comfort for change?
And did you exchange a walk on part in the war for a lead role in a cage?
How I wish, how I wish you were here.
We're just two lost souls swimming in a fish bowl, year after year, Running over the same old ground.
What have you found? The same old fears.
Wish you were here.
I couldn't help to think of the movie Gran Torino when I saw this.
ReplyDeleteI think the whole situation is pretty funny since it's completely ridiculous, especially when you listen the elderly lady talk.
I'm extremely happy to see that there is no movement for the sign to be taken down though. As mentioned in the video, it is her property and she isn't breaking any laws. I hope there isn't any community supported initiative to make a law banning it either. If her sign is mostly a protest against illegal immigration, I also find it hard to criticize her for this. Her intelligence and tact are certainly in question, but being against illegal immigration in not an unreasonable position.
There does need to be limits on immigration, otherwise disasters will occur for both the immigrants and the country they are coming into. Nations aren't setup to allow for a mass migration to pour over their borders. When this happens, refugee crises ensue, which has been seen multiple times in history and continues to this day. Take for example the problems that Jordan experienced and continues to deal with in regard to the Palestinian refugee problem. Obviously not the same reasons for immigration, but the end result is similar. Many Palestinians in the West Bank seek refuge in Jordan, causing them to pour over the border and forcing Jordan to deal with them, often inadequately.
Having said that, I am all for reasonable limits on immigration that allow any ethnicity to immigrant into the U.S. equally. We should set the limits and enforce them by increasing our border presence with Mexico, and we should solve the current illegal immigrant problem by offering all of them citizenship. We should also ensure that we don't return to the barbarous and blatantly racist immigration quotas which existed for much of the 20th century.
Yes quite Gran Torino-esque, well bar the genius of Eastwood and the not so subtle religious undertones lol.
ReplyDeleteYou are quite smart in mentioning Jordan. It has one of the highest immigration rates in the world. The queen of jordan visited my school last year. She was cool.
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