WHAT IS SO HARD TO UNDERSTAND????

I don't get what is so hard to understand: our country needs to be safe. I am a person who loves Spanish. I love the language, the different cultural aspects--it's all really interesting. But we have to protect our country. I agree with the Arizona immigration laws. People who have ever been oppressed at any given point in history always take it upon themselves to blow anything that comes up out of proportion. If someone might be illegal, better safe than sorry. And if you aren't illegal, it shouldn't bother you anyway. But if you loved our country enough to move here, you should love it enough to let us keep it safe to the best of our ability. In short, you live in America, and if you love America, keep it safe. If not, get out.

That applies not just to immigrants but to the government. I swear... WHY ARE WE TELLING THE WORLD HOW MANY NUCLEAR WARHEADS WE HAVE? Osama bin Ladin's sitting in his cave going, "Mmm hmm... nice to know." You don't MAKE AGREEMENTS about nuclear arms. You don't tell the world how many nukes we have. Because let me tell you something: pledging to weaken yourself can ONLY END BADLY. Something else: you know the U.S. is going to keep their end of the deal. But Russia? While we're over here decreasing our supply and TELLING THEM HOW MUCH WE HAVE they could be over there storing up and then they'll bomb us. Why would we even reduce our nuclear arms anyway? That's just stupid. You don't survive by throwing away your weapons. I know the Obama presidency is full of "first times for everything," but that gets old. Not to mention that this first time may well be the last time, too. Because if Russia DOES keep their agreement, guess what? Some other country--or, hey, the terrorists (gosh, we have a great circle of friends)--is going to nuke us both.

Friends are great. But friends don't let friends make themselves vulnerable while they are the most powerful nation on earth.

Also, recently an author came to my library and talked about his book, Pandora's Locks. And I can prove that it is possible for Republicans to care about the environment. Jeff Alexander (the author) talked about how foreign species like zebra and quagga mussels were coming in through the S. Lawrence Seaway on foreign ships and wreaking havoc on the Great Lakes by carrying botulism (and passing it on) and eating lots of plankton (which resulted in the water becoming clearer and allowing more sunlight to penetrate, resulting in algae blooms [this algae washed up on the saechore and made beaches undesirable]). Also, foreign secies ate green algae and more blue-green algae resulted (blue-green algae can be toxic and poison people's water supplies). Also, carp, some species of whih are known as flying fish, have seriously injured people when their heavy, bony bodies collide with the heads of people in boats going 30 miles per hour. Ouch.

One solution is to close the seaway, which I think is stupid because 1) it's already there, 2) it cost a lot to build, 3) it's an economic asset, and 4) there's a better solution, which is to require all ships to have ballast treatment systems. (Ballast water is used to weigh ships empty of cargo down, but it is what carries the foreign species in [it is dumped into the lakes when the ships are loaded].) This would be costly, but I believe in the long run it would be the best choice for both industry and the environment.

However, closing the seaway I believe would be... not the best choice. Okay, I think it's just plain stupid. Everything doesn't have to be extreme; you can be pro-environment AND pro-industry without being a hypocrite (which is funny because people who are ONLY pro-ENVIRONMENT can be hypocrites).

People need priorities. They need to understand that the country comes first. We need to stop being such idiots and telling Russia how many warheads we have and threatening to close the seaway when we don't really have to.

Country first. Immigrants, the environment, Russia... sorry guys. America should be America's first priority (not in a self-centered way; in a self-preservatory way).

What's so hard to understand about that?