Tag Archives: “illegals”

Invisibles

Posted on October 10, 2015 by toritto

At the club the invisible single mother brings three glasses of Pinot to the table where the ladies who lunch speak of yachts and vacations this summer. In the powder room the invisible toilet slave hands towels to the ladies … Continue reading →

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Immokalee and the Fight for a Penny a Pound

Posted on August 15, 2015 by toritto

In the southern part of Florida, maybe 30 or 35 miles from the money towns of Naples and Marco Island, sits another town, along “Alligator Alley”, where I-75, running south along the Gulf coast  turns left and makes a bee … Continue reading →

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Ebola, Racism and Health Insurance

Posted on October 4, 2014 by toritto

This week America got it’s first Ebola patient – a Liberian man in his early forties visiting his son and family members living in Dallas. We all know the story by now – he left Monrovia without symptoms, flew to … Continue reading →

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Convention

Posted on July 13, 2014 by toritto

This was written and posted several years ago just before the G.O.P. National Convention here in Tampa Florida.  It didn’t go over too well with the locals! The unsightly were removed from view lest you be offended We’ve moved the … Continue reading →

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Children at the Door

Posted on July 10, 2014 by toritto

The children of Central America are at our doorstep – a “crisis” of “illegals” banging on the door of Rick Perry’s Texas. No one is answering the door. Last Wednesday, the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees called for Central … Continue reading →

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