Tourniquets do work, after all

Tourniquets around necks will stop nose bleeds, but most [all?] health care professionals would recommend against this treatment.

Well, I guess that keeping all people from entering our country might make us a little more secure. Of course we need to remember that Timothy McVeigh, the guys from Posse Comitatus, and Lee Harvey were all born here. And we know that what we gain from people coming here has made us the great people we are.

Many people’s concerns are racially- or ethnically-based, sometimes fueled by politicians and commentators whose personal standards allow them to run on this issue.

And, maybe some just comes from ignorance. Christianity has been in India since the First Century. It has been here since the Spanish brought it to Florida in the early Sixteenth Century.

Yet we find that our officials rejected allowing a Christian religious worker into our country because he was Indian born. It took a lot of money and an attorney, who ironically was a rabbi’s daughter, to get him in.

Decisions like this may make one wonder if maybe we should consider just closing the border down and not letting anybody in. Remember: that tourniquet around the neck will indeed stop a nose bleed.

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