[familyop]

"Give me another Irish immigration,"

That was a big part of the problem, and I'm part Irish. Not any part Italian, though, so I guess other Irish folks wouldn't let me tell them how to think and live. I'm also descended from nearly 400 years of other Americans (Puritans, Norman Huguenots, Dutch, all...even some Sephardim). Maybe that larger part of my heritage was more of an influence.

[Little facetious humor mixed with a spec of sincerity there.]

[Carl from Marietta]

I’m damned near full blooded Irish. My Grandmother was named kathura Geohagan. I’m on the debating side that contends that we had better police forces in this country when (in our larger urban areas), the cops were immigrants who were of a generation or two removed from parents who were searching for a free country.