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Why we need a fence, security, or something
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12/07/2007 11:05:28
 
 
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>>>>>>>>ICE just isn't working:
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>>>>>>>>http://www.kjct8.com/global/story.asp?s=6772183
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>>>>>>>You are so right, Tracy. If not for illegal immigrants there would be no crime in this country. Let's put up a wall!
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>>>>>>>OK, I'll drop the sarcasm. But all this talk about building a wall really does have me scratching my head. Think about the precedents for building walls along a border. The Great Wall of China, the Berlin Wall. (Are there others you can think of?)
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>>>>>>Well Hadrian built a wall to keep the Jocks out but look now - we've got one as a prime minister - they don't work.
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>>>>>Arn't soccer players jocks too? they are here... :)
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>>>>I know sportsmen are called "jocks" over there but here a "Jock" is a Scotsman :-)
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>>>Does that mean all Scotsmans (Scotsmen?) are athletes?
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>>Scotsmen. No, it refers to the fact that a very common Scottish forename is Jock.
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>The birth place of golf is Scotland some where in the 14th century... as you may already know.
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>Alex Smith, a Scot, won the US Open in 1899, 1906 and 1910. I wish I could time travel back to wittness it.

Again, Hadrian's Wall didn't manage to stop THAT dark practice from crossing the border - and ruining vast stretches of English countryside.
- Whoever said that women are the weaker sex never tried to wrest the bedclothes off one in the middle of the night
- Worry is the interest you pay, in advance, for a loan that you may never need to take out.
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