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It was a jarring split screen.On one side of the television, members of Congress were bloviating about the need for financial reform to prevent another crisis.On the other side of the screen, Greek rioters were finally dispersing in a cloud of tear gas after their firebombs sent world markets skidding.Down in the lower right corner, the readout on the Dow looked like the altimeter on a nose-diving jet.How funny that anyone would promise to bring security and predictability to a financial world that can be undone by the protests of some uncivil servants in a little country in the corner...

PATRIOTIC RALLY The opposition will begin a series of protests September 2... The Campo Minutemen, FireCoalition, CCIR and other patriots will hold an animated american flagAMERICAN FLAG RALLY animated american flag on the busy Lake Forest street El Toro (next to the Lake Forest Day Laborer Site) on September 2nd - to rally America! Bring your BIGGEST flag to wave and your patriotic spirit! Wear red, white and blue! http://www.firecoalition.com/events.asp DATE Saturday, September 2 TIME 8am - 11am LOCATION Corner of El Toro and Jeronimo Rd near 25290 Jeronimo Rd Lake Forest, CA

To those of you who are as enraged about illegal immigration as I am: I find myself right in the heart of it, my life literally being stopped in its tracks as I tried to navigate those very FREEWAYS being flooded with students protesting current congressional legislation. To that end, I offer you an essay I have written in response to all this current madness: Greetings. The Trojan Piñata has agonized over how to respond to the lunacy of the recent protests by illegal immigrants and their allies. There are so many issues clustering around this larger crisis that we...