La Cucaracha by Lalo Alcaraz for August 07, 2014

A play on the words of American revolutionary colonel William Prescott at the Battle of Bunker Hill.

Oh, Puullleeeaase!!! Nothing like being hysterical…

Yes, that’s how you deal with a humanitarian crisis, just keep shooting until all the humans are dead. At least we don’t call ourselves a Christian nation. We would be the laughing stock of the world.

Is this the same NBC news crew that edited the 911 call to “prove” that guy in Fla was a racist, that showed photos in black & white to minimize serious injuries?

I find it quite interesting that you imply prepubescent children are worthy of fleeing violence, but anyone older than that is not. Particularly as teens are at even higher risk of being targeted by gang violence, whether or not they are affiliated with gangs. I invite you to read this piece of reporting: http://www.nytimes.com/2014/08/03/world/americas/hope-dwindles-for-hondurans-living-in-peril.html.I would like to see your citations for a drop in Honduras’s murder rate. According to the UN Office on Drugs in Crime, the rate was 82.1 per 100,000 population in 2010, and 90.4 per 100,000 in 2012. Both are by far the highest rates in the world. By. Far. Even if there were a slight drop this year, the rates are still reason for folks to leave, and they’re not just heading to the US but also to other Central American countries and to Mexico. You know, maybe you try to ride out the violence for a while and then you finally throw up your hands and say it’s time to leave (cf. that article I linked to). It doesn’t matter that the murder rate’s gone from 90 per 100,000 to, say, 88 per 100,000. It’s still effectively a war zone..(This aside from the fact that I think economic migration is perfectly legitimate, and that anti-immigrant free marketeers are lousy hypocrites.) .And yeah, there are going to be plenty of people fleeing plenty of horrible situations. And all sorts of countries take them in. And the US, as an unbelievably rich country, and one that has projected its might through economics and missiles all over the world, has a special responsibility to help people across the globe. Especially when it was fundamentally instrumental in putting them in that situation in the first place. And before you or anyone else starts in on how other countries don’t do as much as we do for refugees, I’ve got two things to say: First, there are many countries that do proportionately more than the US on the refugee front. Second, people just love to blather on about how exceptional the US is and how great that makes us. Until, that is, we have a chance to be exceptionally compassionate..By the way, your last comment is frankly offensive, and shows that you yourself actually don’t see Latinos as thinking, feeling humans. They’re “cheap easy dates”? What the hell is wrong with you?

m just can’t seem to go a day without dropping its worthless spoor on comics comments sections. How about trying to use that brain stem of yours and popping out an actual thought once in a while?