What do golf and illeagle aliens have in common? They both suck!

1937 Ford Land Yacht (Only 7 ever made)

To say we are enjoying being homeless would be an understatement of massive proportions. Crown Villa RV Park is really a small piece of heaven ... quiet, spacious and lots of amenities. We are exploring parts of Bend we've never visited before. Funny how different things are when you look at them through the eyes of a tourist.

Pretty comfy huh?

Speaking of funny ... my golf game is really funny (perhaps strange or weird would be more appropriate. I'm 6'2 and top 225lbs. I can do 50 push-ups (the real kind) followed by 100 crunches and not break a sweat. I can walk 10 miles in an afternoon through rugged terrain with ease but I hit a golf ball, when I actually hit it, like a 12 year old girl! Jill, who is half my size, who couldn't do 2 pushups without fainting and thinks crunches are a brand of peanuts drives the ball farther than me with incredible consistancy.

Photos curtesy of my friend Rusty

We played golf with friends yesterday and my partner, Don Miller shot a 75 (for you bowlers that's 3 strokes above par which is the dream of many and the reality of less than 1% of all golfers) Jill had her best round of the year and I had a 105! Back to the funny part ... after every round I think to myself I'm going to quit this stupid game ... I can't play and it's a big money drain. The next morning the first thing I do is check the weather to see if we can play golf .... hope really does spring eternal!

Speaking of hope (as in Hope and Change) I am amazed at the hooha over the Arizona bill to crack down on illeagles. Having spent some time earlier this year in the Tuscon area it was apparent even to a visitor that the people of Arizona have a huge problem with the leaky border. The following statistics from the FBI and Homeland Security really make the point...

* 83% of warrants for murder in Phoenix are for illegal aliens.


* 86% of warrants for murder in Albuquerque are for illegal aliens.
* 75% of those on the most wanted list in Los Angeles, Phoenix and Albuquerque are illegal aliens. 


* 24.9% of all inmates in California detention centers are Mexican nationals


* 40.1% of all inmates in Arizona detention centers are Mexican nationals


* 48.2% of all inmates in New Mexico detention centers are Mexican nationals


* 29% (630,000) convicted illegal alien felons fill our state and Federal prisons at a cost of $1.6 billion annually
* 53% plus of all investigated burglaries reported in California, New Mexico, Nevada, Arizona and Texas are perpetrated by illegal aliens.
* 50% plus of all gang members in Los Angeles are illegal aliens 


* 71% plus of all apprehended cars stolen in 2005 in Texas, New Mexico, Arizona, Nevada and California were stolen by Illegal aliens or "transport coyotes".


* 47% of cited/stopped drivers in California have no license, no insurance and no registration for the vehicle. Of that 47%, 92% are illegal aliens.
* 63% of cited/stopped drivers in Arizona have no license, no insurance and no registration for the vehicle. Of that 63%, 97% are illegal aliens


* 66% of cited/stopped drivers in New Mexico have no license, no insurance and no registration for the vehicle. Of that 66% 98% are illegal aliens.


* 380,000 plus "anchor babies" were born in the US to illegal alien parents in just one year, making 380,000 babies automatically US citizens (which is UN-Constitutional; illegal).
* 97.2% of all costs incurred from those illegal births were paid by the American taxpayer.

Pretty amazing huh? The next time you see all of the people marching in protest of the Arizona Bill recall these figures and ask why?

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