Healthier soda without 'diet' 50% calories

I like soda pop, but I loathe diet soda. I'm conscious of the sugar I put in my body so I prefer to avoid high fructose corn syrup. But pick your own soda flavor and for just 3 easy payments of $299.99 I will share with you how to have your reduced calorie soda, without the gross fake sugar.

Just kidding about the easy payments. You just have to accept me as your benevolent leader. I imagine that will be easier for most.

So just buy some peligrino or your favorite flavorite of sparkling water, and your favorite soda. My choice for the picture happened to be 365 'cola.'   About as good as coke, no HCFS.  Mix them 50/50 or so. Do not drink the cola first.  Enjoy your reduced calorie soda.

Outdated laws and draconian tactics and how they reflect on us and our governance behavior

This post is a comment from The Capital of Annapolis Maryland's article,
Immigrant group sues ICE agents

If you are conducting law enforcement on known or suspected non-english speakers it would be prudent to have speakers of such language at hand for the event if possible.  Since we surely have Spanish ICE agents and local law enforcement that should not be too high of an expectation.

Now days extensive knowledge of all the legal minutia of our country, state, county, and city is impractical to impossible and that in itself ought to diminish expection of adherence especially to minor points.  However such a major point as basic home privacy rights as expecting a warrant for entry may not have made it to the general english second language, poorly educated population.  Perhaps immigrant advocates should produce and disseminate basic legal literature if they are not already.  Many of us can use to better understand our rights.

What saddens me most about the situation is the failure it represents of our government and as a people to address what we know to be a big issue for us.  We have immigration laws that have not kept up with the influx of immigrants due to an inability to enforce border controls.

When a country is unable to enforce the laws it has it is demonstrably losing its standing.  It's my opinion that it's pretty pathetic that we 'patriotically' bullying other nations into accepting our form of governance but we can't enforce our own.  What we need to do is emotionally is come to grips with the situation at hand and decide to do something about it besides blow smoke.  That something has got to be practical and fit within whatever budget 'we' deem acceptable of our children's labor that we continue to borrow against as 'we' jack up their cost of education and living.

What I would suggest is a more relaxed tone about the whole thing, acknowledge the open doors that are already open despite our country's efforts, and develop a method of identification and law enforcement.  We are not going to stop immigration from the south.


I don't want to spend infinite dollars of our children on that implausibility.  I want every immigrant to be thoroughly documented, fingerprinted, DNA sampled and ordered to carry an ID Card.  Those that can pay immediately should do so.  Those that can not should be given notice in their language that they owe this money and please pay at the post office in installments when possible. Reasonable attempts to pay are an initial gesture of good faith as is abiding by all laws.  Here is a general book about them in your language, please study it.  If you are detained you may be tested on these laws and failure to pass such a test can lead to deportation. If you are found guilty of a crime you may be subject to unpaid manual labor in lieu of taxes as determined by a simple chart of time spent in the country to taxes paid and the corresponding value of services that each American receives for their taxes on average, plus 5% and a few other reasonable fees to balance out any costs to the country.  We have to balance our budget here not encourage a system that keeps the public's treasury.

This is not a county or state issue.  Our elected officials should have worked something out 15-20 years ago when this issue was clearly on the horizon.

As far as the in-state tuition fees I am partial to the students being dragged through the mud of a much bigger mess that is far beyond their or any one person's scope.  Let them have a cheap education.  That is a petty reflection of how low we've let ourselves get by making this issue about petty partisan bickering that gets nothing done.  We need leaders who can operate with reasonability and statesmanship.  They are not on the political radar here because the two controlling parties get paid and keep their power in what has degraded into a charade of governance that amounts to keeping the campaign contributions flowing and those that play their game well get paid.

This is not how a great country or great leaders conduct themselves.

I hope we will eventually take our country back.