What is This? Crazy Texas Day?
Now it’s Texas senior senator John Cornyn being batcrap crazy.
Texas Sen. John Cornyn (R) on Thursday warned his colleagues in the Senate that people who were “wearing some form of turban” were illegally immigrating into the United States by crossing the Southern border.
Turbans. You know, like this:
Or maybe even like this?
Cornyn says that he had “anecdotal” evidence that we only catch one out of four people coming across the border illegally. Senator Chuck Schumer corrects Cornyn’s “anecdotal” hysteria with GAO facts – showing about an 80% rate and improving.
I have yet to hear of a terrorist coming across the Mexican border. However, there’s that dangerous Canadian border. You don’t see Cornyn in hysteria over that.
Plus, those Canadians even let Ted Cruz in. Talk about terrorism!
Thanks to Irene for the heads up.
Gee, do y’all think this is the reason why?
“Erick Wyatt of Rockport, Texas filed papers with the Federal Election Commission to run for Senate against Cornyn, the Senate Minority Whip, who is up for re-election in 2014. Cornyn is seen as vulnerable to a challenge from the right, and has said he’s been expecting and preparing for a primary battle.”
1http://dailycaller.com/2013/02…
Yes, some guy told Sen Cornyn there are turban wearing people skulking across the Mexican-American border. Sounds scary, I know. But you know what really scares me? John Cornyn sits in the US Senate and votes. That scares the bejebbers out of me.
2OK, OK, I can’t let it go at that. Sen Cornyn, how many of the 9/11 terrorists wore turbans? Shoe bomber? Underwear bomber? If, for the sake of argument, a terrorist was trying to sneak into the US from Mexico, would he have a better chance of succeeding by wearing a turban and long robes, or a sombrero and jeans?
3Where I live in Colorado, I have yet to see any Mexican ever wearing a turban and, you know, we have a lot of Mexicans in this state.
4Wait a minute, the last I heard you Republicrazies thought they were taught to look and act like Latinos, which would mean sombreros for the men. I guess that means the lady terrorists are sporting the Carmen Miranda turbans. Nothing conspicuous there, except if they overdid the fruit. Those bananas are dead give-aways.
5I can authoritatively state that we catch 99 out of 100 people coming across the border illegally.
Of course, that is only anecdotal evidence.
So let’s make it 99.99%.
6I bet all of his anecdotal evidence comes from an invisible rabbit named Harvey.
73 of my grandparents immigrated illegally across the Canadian border. See what happens when you don’t watch that border?
8This is not the first time Cornyn has made up some unsubstantiated, off-the-wall, anecdotal remark about the Texas border.
From the Dallas Morning News, 2/27/13: “Republican Sen. John Cornyn declined to give details Wednesday about a friend said to have hundreds of immigrants crossing his property and into the U.S. every night.”
“As a matter a fact a guy told me last night, he said we’ve got people coming across our place speaking Chinese, French and basically all of the languages in the world, coming through and across our southern border,” Cornyn said during an interview with Edd Hendee of KSEV, first reported by Think Progress. (3/28/13)
“a guy” “a friend” Why doesn’t he just do his job and quote actual, real people with real reports and real numbers? He looks like a gossipy old woman (or bad journalist) when he says stuff like this.
9Once I saw a guy wearing what some idiot might consider to be a turban. In reality it was a man working in the hot sun with a tee shirt wrapped around his head, probably to keep it cool. Most of the people in the US of A who wear turbans are either Sikh men or occasionally women who have had cancer treatments. I don’t believe either of those groups could be considered scary or illegal.
10Seems like every day is crazy Texas day. 😉
11I always thought it was a fruit salad not a turban.
And glf, Harvey was a puka, and liked decent honest people like Elwood P Dowd! He would probably like YOU a lot, and might stay awhile; he wouldn’t waste two minutes on that putz Cornyn!
12Steven Write had this one years before Corny said what he said. “42.7 percent of all statistics are made up on the spot.”
80% of the readers of this blog agree with me.
13As a northern observer, u shure grow ’em good down there.
14Crazy Texas Day?
More like Crazy Texas Decades.
15Those aren’t turbans. They are hammocks. Also known as hamacas (the H is silent). They are pretty good quality. If you see one, buy one.
16Has Cornyn been hanging around with Louie Gohmert? You know, those terrorist camps on the other side of the Rio Grande that has those people who are learning how to pass as Latinos and they just got a bit confused about what kind of headgear they are supposed to wear.
17And everybody who wears……shoes…. and underwear….and carries a backpack……. is…..what?
What I’m pondering on is this… somebody enlighten me, please.
Women, from other countries, who cross either border, north or south, (my grandparents came from Toronto), if they give birth here in the United States…. the kids are American citizens. Period.
However, if an American woman goes to another country and gives birth…… her child… is not a citizen of the country of birth, but is still American…. because she is. Daddy’s don’t matter.
I’m thinking the reason the people in Congress are having so much trouble solving our “immigration” problem, is that it’s complicated to the point nobody much knows any more, who is….. what…….
18Cornyn sounds like another Republican who gets his “facts” from theonion.com. Fox News follows theonion for stories too.
19Cornyn, Cruz, Gohmert and now Stockman:
Texas will never run out of crazies
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2322194/Texas-congressmans-election-campaign-away-Bushmaster-AR-15-rifle–model-Adam-Lanza-took-Newtown-Connecticut.html
20In the following joke, replace Palin’s name with Cornyn’s
http://www.snopes.com/politics/humor/postturtle.asp
21Good Lord, am I a terrorist supporter? I invested $50 in a Kickstarter http://www.robin-hoods.com/ which makes turbans for hair challenged women undergoing chemo.
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