Still immigration

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Immigration again. The President will give a speech tomorrow night stating his intention of sending National Guard down to the Mexican border. I don't know what that means or what it will signify to the millions already here. I know Europe is pretty strict about the protection of their borders, but they've been doing it for many hundreds of years. Whether it is to protect against the French, the Romans, the Visigoths, the Barbarians, the Germans or the North Africans or even Islam, they (we?) have been at it since time immemorial. It is how frontiers were shaped and reshaped. So to the people it is no big deal, wheras here using mitilary units for national purposes invokes images of totalitarianism and total lack of the spirit of the Founding Fathers who, of course were busy invading somebody else's land. But that's another story.

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About phrase books in Memepool: "Mostly they are little marvels of pragmatic compression. But for that very reason, I like to find the occasional oddity-- sentences you can hardly conceive of ever using, little tidbits of inexplicability in an otherwise ruthlessly disciplined little work. Memepool does an overview of phrase books and picks up the weirdest sentences."

One of my favorites because related to Portugal

"Must I swallow them whole?

"Devo engoli-los inteiros? " WTF????

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