This ain't hard

Why do some people think some things are so hard to solve?  It doesn’t seem so to me.  Take the Redskins.  Obama says he doesn’t want to see the Redskins back in Washington unless they change their name. The federal patent office has declared their copyright to be void.   Okie Dokie.  Move the Redskins to Oklahoma City.  Oklahoma means red people so we have no problem with this. 19% of our population claims Indian and another 36% of the Caucasian population is part Native American.  Then if someone in the federal realm wants to say the name dishonors, we ask “Who? You got some problem with us?  You bigoted or something?”

            And then there is the seemingly unsolvable problem of sanctuary cities.  Here are the statistics. Illegal aliens represent 3.5% of population and comprise 27% of federal inmates.  They number 11.5 million but 480,000 are felons.  Both statistics are 8 times as high as US citizens. This makes San Fran unsafe.  Advertize it as such.  Boycott.  Warn people not to go to San Fran or other sanctuary cities unless you really have business there.  The boycott and bad PR would cripple their tourism.  Let their politicians answer questions about empty hotels and higher crime rates—and that anecdote about the person killed by an illegal.  Let the Chamber howl and lobby to remove sanctuary status.  Let the unemployment grow. I’d bet a lot of cities would quietly drop their sanctuary status.

            The R’s are all whining about Donald Trumpet.  I’d love to see a candidate follow Trump around. “Okay, Trump points out the problems of illegal immigration. But here’s the solution…”  Be the Shell Answer Man instead of attacking a fellow R.

            Then there is the business of the gay mafia and the fears of religious freedom.  I remember sitting in the office of my lawyer who handed me a sheet of paper detailing the 8 categories that you cannot discriminate against.  Things like gender and faith and race are legally protected.  In fact it is even chancy to talk about such issues.  Other than that, you can discriminate all you want. “So,” I blurted, “you mean you can say I won’t hire you or sell to you because I don’t like your attitude?”  “Or your smile,” he added.  It’s perfectly legal to say you won’t do business because of some tertiary issue, but you cannot discriminate  against the Big 8.  So a pastor doesn’t want to marry two gays he has just met.  Just say you will have to find an open date and all dates they propose won’t work.  (to which he can tell himself that he just decided he might take vacation that day.)  And if you get sued?  Just say you didn’t like their attitude.  Or their smile(s).