I love you Geraldo. I really do, but you never answer the e-mails I send you, the ones that are always about one subject, crooked Mexico, a subject you and I hold dear. I took the time to read your book HIS-PANIC (and e-mail you of course, I wish you’d e-mail me back just once). Would you please stay off the subject of Mexico in the future if you’re going to have numbskulls like Jesse Ventura on your show to talk about Mexico like you did last night? Or for that matter, if you’re going to go down to the border like you did last month with your brother Craig and only penetrate about 5 miles into the country for an investigation; so few miles in perhaps that you could still beat a hasty retreat to the first class hotels on our side of the line?
You agreed with everything your buddy Ventura said last night, "makes sense to me." What did he say that was so smart? Put the cartels out of business by legalizing marijuana? Like they’d somehow dry up and blow away? Are you guys kidding? After 10 million more morons (forgive me you few dozen sensible, casual tokers in the Daily Kos) take up the pleasure of getting high, and after the government gets into the act by regulating and collecting taxes, after Tom, Dick and Harry (and Louise) take up gardening, after California goes bone dry watering the crop, after the whole thing becomes passé.... then the scheming cartels who’ve been sitting around all this time nervously doing nothing and wondering what’s next.... Every one (but ex-governor Ventura) knows what’s next...stronger pot, super meth. purer cocaine and then heroin for goodness sakes. Or is Ventura, and maybe Rivera all wet ? Ventura is a big guy. Does any one know percentages off hand; these two entertainers would lead you to believe its only grass crossing the border now?
And if you’re still intently reading this Geraldo, you're industry would like what came next in any debate over the ex-govs. theory, and you could really get cable news ratings through the roof- What about High School kids? I mentioned 10 million more morons before- I meant the adults. The teachers can’t even keep cell phones and blackberries out of the class rooms, just think about lunch time if pot was legal? On second thought it might be a boon to the cafeteria business if the kids got high first on their way from class to lunch. And the restaurant business and grown ups. Half hour more for lunch, 30 minutes to get high, and an hour for the power lunch afterwards. It might also introduce a whole new generation to the Grateful Dead and the 60’s. It might start a stampede of new voter registrations. The whole idea is so stupid!
This is how you break the cartels (my fantasy-my theory), and I’ve told you this fantasy before Geraldo, if you’d only read my e-mails: you elitist phony (I do love you). Have someone in your production company or FOX news go down to Mexico with me, to the very small towns I’m familiar with, a thousand miles from the border- and interview me sitting there with my friend, with his family, and lets talk and begin a dialogue, in this country, about what really ails Mexico and keeps them too weak morally, and financially to fight the drug lords. And that would be the systemic corruption throughout the U.S. equivalent of their local, state and federal government. It might also help explain why the local citizens can’t run a business and are so friggin poor that they desperately find it necessary to flea here. Even though their country sits in a perfect climate, and GEOGRAPHICALLY could be an economic power house and "gateway" to Central and South America- if those people also figured out how to rid themselves of their equal, if not even more corrupt governments.
Does Geraldo or anyone understand what I’m talking about? I’ve run for congress, the janitor who (secretly you'd have thought) ran for U.S. Congress. I’ve written long diaries, I’ve written short ones, I’m writing this one today! I’m saying that while our government stumbles and bungles foreign policy halfway across the world in Iraq, Afghanistan, the Middle East etc, etc; 300 million Americans, including 60 million Hispanics, can point a finger at our southern neighbor, whom we share a 1500 mile border with, and say What’s Up, Que Pasa. What if... starting with Geraldo’s one small story about the corruption as I know it in typical small town Mexico, told by a janitor and the illegal that lived with him in the United States for 5 years, WE BEGIN EMBARRASING THE HELL OUT OF THEM (Mexico)!!!!!!! Why not? We’re going to have the amnesty debate in the near future, let’s start having the debate now about how we’ve messed up for 50 years and just about begged illegals to come here in the first place....and then swept this whole problem under the rug for 40 years. Aaaaaaaaaaah I feel better, pass me that roach clip.
And thanks, I’ll never lack for outrage to write about in the Daily Kos, and I now know I’m on the right track getting those 800 signatures to run for Governor of N.J. and (with the little people's help say screw you to the elitists.) I’m up to 600 with 2 weeks to the deadline. I heard somewhere there’s only two Governor's races in the country this year. Little Gary (political pipsqueak) can make a spectacle of himself, or pull off a miracle and get 1% of the vote. Then the next guy or gal working the internet gets 2%, then 3%. By the time we're all dead, somebody running with absolutely no money and no intentions of raising any like me, breaks the once unthinkable double digit barrier and defies the experts dire predictions of doom.
But for the present, maybe one stinkin reporter, if not Geraldo’s can call me about that junket. Mr. Corzine, pass the word along, there’s still time for me not to run.
And sorry to anybody who watched that U-Tube distraction above, the one below though demands only 30 seconds, and says it all, but I'm really pissing into the wind, political office is for the careerists or the rich. Hello .5% of the vote, no reporter is interested in this upstart. They want to do it their way. Is it any wonder the newspapers for one are going belly up?
Driving that train, high on cocaine,
Casey Jones you better watch your speed.
Trouble ahead, trouble behind,
And you know that notion just crossed my mind.
p.s. The Mighty Quinn, my senior analyst, hopefully writes a diary about "torture" and "health care" tomorrow, or the next day. He was sidetracked today. Or maybe he'll just say F it. (Kossacks I just left the door wide open)