PHOENIX (AP) — Fifty-three illegal immigrants (Aliens! Please!) found Sunday had been held against their will in a fortified home by suspected smugglers demanding more money, authorities said.

The group of rescued immigrants included two 13-year-old girls, three women and a mentally disabled man. The rest were men, Department of Public Safety spokesman Harold Sanders said.

Retarded guys aren’t men? Is this because they’re here illegally? Why would a retarded person even come here? Do we now have a Hire Mentally Defective Illegal Aliens program?

I love Freudian slips. The writer of this story clearly considered retarded guys to be less than men and by now the flak is coming at him or her from all directions, without a doubt. It sure is a good thing I don’t get paid for this or I’d be out on my ass for my insensitive lack of Political Correctness. Then I’d have to go out there and compete with the mentally defective Mexican illegal invaders for my daily taco and chili rellenos.

Mexican president Calderon claimed, not long ago, that all of Mexico’s best and brightest workers were coming here and we should be glad over poor Mexico’s loss. If that houseful of criminals, and I don’t mean just the kidnappers, is representative of poor Mexico’s loss, it’s no wonder Mexico wants to get rid of them. In the meantime, the drug wars have moved north to Mexico from Columbia and the Mexican cops are getting murdered left and right. The drug gangs have moved into MY country now and are engaging in similar violence.

Bill Richardson, New Mexico governor and self-described Mexican-in-disguise, promotes this influx of sub-grade specimens entirely because they vote for him. Talk about your selfish, traitorous bastards. He could care less about MY country as long as he gets to keep his cushy job.

This is why our government is so set against private militias such as spring up in Montana and Wyoming from time to time, and goes after them with hordes of Federal agents, kills most of them and imprisons the survivors. Because these militias always arise with the same purpose: to take out the traitorous bastards among us like Bill Richardson. They’re never successful because they usually lack the will and they always seem to pick up at least one snitch as a member.

Deleting the Bill Richardsons of the country is an impossible job anyway, there’s just too many of them, from all the Bush’s on down. That’s why America is in so much trouble. We don’t have leaders anymore, all we have is a bunch of Enron executives in disguise, every one out only for himself and devil take the hindmost. You just can’t run a country that way.

The rise of drug gang violence here and in Mexico is the direct result of the flooding of the U.S. with all those wetbacks. It’s the money that’s being poured out of MY country into Mexico by all the wetbacks sending it there, without anything coming back to us to maintain our economic balance. Does anyone think that only Americans are snorting coke and crank? How many wetbacks do you suppose are coming here as drug addicts? Hmmm? Do you think that might have anything to do with all the increase in violent crimes by them? Do you see why I call panderers of these criminals, like Bill Richardson, traitors?

I hear that some manufacturer in India has started making a $2500 car called the Tata. Cute little thing, looks like you could probably stuff 4 Bangladeshis into it but I wouldn’t try that with Wal-Mart customers, and it gets 50 miles to the gallon. It has 4 wheels and 4 doors. I don’t see how they can do that even if they only pay their workers one meal a day of yellow rice and curry. Hell, you can’t buy a good Honda generator for $2500. One thing’s for sure, the oil companies ain’t gonna like it.

Clean air is getting so costly in terms of the high fuel consumption of reduced-emission engines that standards are bound to start being reversed. Back in the 50’s and 60’s, your average Chevy or Chrysler V-8 auto did about 23 miles per gallon and straight sixes got close to 30. Then came smog controls which wrecked the engines and turned them into oil burning smoggers by feeding all that exhaust back into the intake manifold. Now we’re faced with suddenly very high and still rapidly escalating oil prices and fuel economy is becoming vital. The first environmental restrictions I expect to see thrown out are those on nuclear power plants and the burning of coal.

So why is the price of oil rising so fast? Two reasons. The first is the increasing rise from poverty of many of the worlds nations along with their increasing populations, which is putting greater and greater demand on an oil supply that is maxed out now. The other reason is that the world is still pegged to the dollar as the monetary standard, and the war in Iraq has greatly deflated the dollars value. This is because the war has been incredibly costly and the money has to come from somewhere. We don’t have it, plain and simple, so we get the Fed to print more of it to buy what we need to keep fighting the war. The Arabs aren’t stupid, they see us paying them with inflated dollars, so they increase the cost of their product accordingly.

This is how Adolf Hitler financed his war, by printing money. At wars end, the money was so inflated that it literally took a wheelbarrow full to buy a loaf of bread. People used it for wallpaper. It was worthless. I have stamps in my collection from when I was a kid that show this progression of devaluation, where the value starts at a few pfennigs (pennies) and ends up at several million Marks, to mail the same letter. Now we’re doing it. Postage is going up on Monday to 42 cents. It was 3 cents for over 100 years but it’s on a roll now.

Bush tells us, Yeah, we’re in a “slowdown”, um hum. No. We’re going into a depression. A depression is when nobody has any money to buy anything. I remember the last one, the tail end of it anyway, the last of the dust bowl stragglers driving old Model A pickups loaded with mattresses and stuff, driving into town. When things start costing more than people can afford, and unemployment goes up because people get put out of work because other people can’t afford to buy anything and create jobs for them, that’s a depression. Then add millions of wetbacks to the problem, who not only take what jobs there are at low wages but then send all the money back to Mexico instead of spending it here and giving a boost back to our economy.

It’s a mess, boys and girls. And I don’t see a way out of it.