kim is home and snug in bed from her trip to somewhere on the east coast. i feel bad that i don't remember where she was, but i really can't keep up. i've picked up more hours at the police department. well, i picked up a ton, but "email problems" have taken many of those shifts away that i wanted. before, i had a shift every other day but now it's about every three or four days.
R.V. (2006): some of the decisions the characters made in this movie were a little too unbelievable. this family certainly doesn't believe in being honest with one another. the acting was decent and the jokes were fairly clean and funny. but it just kind of drags to a point where you forget there is actually a plot behind everything. robin williams's over the top routines in the movie are borderline annoying, but i was still slightly impressed overall. there are only so many times you can make a joke using a giant recreational vehicle, however it is a simple humored movie for anyone looking for a cheesy laugh. see it.
my grades came in and they weren't too bad. my gpa at uvsc has been dropped one one-hundredth because of my devil teacher jill in my legal research class was terrible. i suprisingly got an a- in another class too. but in classes that i should have scored lower, i made out pretty well.
my old friend brittany had to work ridiculous hours at her job (chipotle) this past week because of the immigration strike around the nation. apparently she and her non-striking co-workers were able to prove that they could keep the business running without all the hispanics who were supposed to work. brittany talked plenty about how shitty her shift was, so the absence of hispanic workers apparently did have a pretty big negative impact on that business. of course none of this matters if her workers were actually legal. for the sake of this argument, i'll assume that they were illegal and not just legals wanting to so their support. so businesses might not close down, but imagine every work day of the week as busy and stressful as the one without immigrants. one of the major issues that immigrants and many hispanics are speaking out about is that being an illegal immigrant in this country should not be considered a felony. there are so many illegal immigrants who have lived here for years and now they will be even more fearful about being arrested. maybe my logic is off, but doesn’t the creation of a new felony mean that the lawmakers want those lawbreakers in prison? the day without an immigrant was a demonstration of how America would be if we had it the lawmakers' way. and who are these lawmakers that are trying to rid America of this class of people? the republican-lead house already passed their bill a few months ago which makes it a felony and a few weeks ago senator frist was proposing the same thing. luckily that hasn’t gone through yet in the senate. but i can understand why these people are so passionate about this subject. it’s obvious we need these people and it seems that so many of them have been here long enough and earned their stripes. i know we have done it before, but maybe it’s time to do it again. let’s help some of these people out to become legal and just strengthen the borders more. why is that so hard? oh yeah, we have people like senator cornyn and congressman tancredo, who either play politics or simply hate illegals.
this is great. i started watching this show on sundays called talking pictures. it’s basically this guy tony who talks about new movies coming out. there’s not really much of a review of the movie, but more of a, “here’s what the studio is allowing me to show you on their next blockbuster hit.” it’s still really informative though and i have my cell phone alarm set to watch it each week. they have this thing on their webpage where you can win a free dvd, so this past sunday i tried it out. you have to choose between planet of the apes: the legacy collection, the thief lord, bee season, little manhattan, over there, 9 to 5, daddy long legs, pin up girl, and weed end in havana. hardly the greatest selection to choose from, but a free dvd is a free dvd. the dvd they advertised on the show that day was little manhattan and it seemed pretty decent so i chose that. turns out i won. there are a number of reasons how i could have won, but i guess it really doesn’t matter. if i’d known i was going to win i totally would have gone for the planet of the apes dvds. that goes for $40 on amazon. now i have to wait 60 days before i can enter into the contest again. this movie better be good.
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Do we really need them?
The so-called “Day without an Immigrant,” and the arrival of illegal aliens as a political presence in this country that it seems to betoken, are, the Houston Chronicle keeps gleefully telling us, driven by demographic changes. How those liberals love to appeal to some supposedly unstoppable historical process that makes their desired end—in this case, the end of America—inevitable. And therefore the only thing for the rest of us to do is yield to it.
Meanwhile, correctly naming this revolutionary manifestation a Day without an Illegal Immigrant, Rep. Tom Tancredo writing at National Review Online asks a refreshingly politically incorrect question: what would happen if illegal aliens really did disappear for one day? The answers—massive drops in crime, in youth gangs, in prison populations, in DUI arrests, in the use of emergency rooms, in school enrollments, in the number of people without medical insurance, in the number of births in California subsidized by the state, in taxes paid to support public services—are stunning. Tancredo gets to the point as only a genuinely non-liberal thinker can do. The illegals with their one-day strike think we need them. Well, that only seems to be true because of certain habits that certain sectors of the U.S. economy have developed. In fact we don’t need them. And not only do we not need them, they are a terrible liability to us. And therefore their theme of a day without an (illegal) immigrant may get many of us to start thinking for the first time: Hey, how about a country without an illegal immigrant?
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The above was found at http://www.libertypost.org/cgi-bin/readart.cgi?ArtNum=139631
your comment, or whatever conservative website you got it from, quotes tancredo (what a freaking surprise!) about what would happen if for one day there really weren't illegal immigrants in the country. his terrible argument can be said about many other categories of people, for example, african-americans. you get rid of them, think of the drop in crime, youth gangs, prison population, etc. but is that any reason to rid this country of black people, or illegal immigrants? so, tancredo, conservative website, and anonymous commenter, you all think we do not need illegal immigrants, but why? the statement above never says. i doubt you will actually respond to my little rebuttal, but i would love to hear thoughts of your own.
should they be considered felons and arrested? then what? are we going to transport and kick out millions of people living in the u.s.? or would it be better to cram these hard working men and women in prison?
come on, don't puss out. write me back. i always have people who are content with putting their two cents in, but are never able to keep the argument going. like i said, i knew you'd never write back, but an open discussion on this subject would have been fun. thanks for wasting my time though and sharing with me OTHER people's thoughts. be original, don't be a coward to think on your own, and don't waste my time.
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