Illegal immigration part 3

I am not backing down on the problems of illegal immigration. The problems have touched my life. Think about this: You were born here, but you live in constant fear that your parents, who work their asses off for shit pay could be deported because they are here illegally. Does that give you respect for laws in your country of birth? Think like a teenager. Does that give you more power to do whatever you want? Your parents can't say anything because you have an inordinate amount of power over them. They need you because you understand English better than them, and you're legal. Besides, they want you to have all the toys, and education, and rights that they know that the handful of people who run the countries they fled from will never let them have for you. No matter how hard they work. They're used to keeping their heads down, working hard, and staying out of trouble so they don't get kicked out. You don't respect the laws of your country of birth because they don't make sense. You don't respect your parents because they get treated like doormats. Where does that leave you? Angry. Who do you take it out on? Gueros. Whites. Norteamericanos. They control the economies of the countries your parents fled from also, only most of the Norteamericanos don't know it:

And one more thing for those of you who immediately snarl racist. The problems just may be increasing because the worldwide population is increasing. That means more competition for resources.

You don't live with it, you don't know. Yo se.

Bush and Fox

This is what I think an honest conversation between George W. Bush and Vicente Fox would sound like.

Bush: "We need cheap labor that we don't want to have to pay a living wage for, health benefits for, or pension benefits for. The boards of directors don't like their profits squeezed, and the company officers gotta have their golden parachutes."

Fox: "We got plenty of them, just don't build a fence, I don't know what to do with them, you can use them".

Bush: "Deal?"

Fox: "Deal."

Aye, if only rich people would tell the truth, eh? Life would be so much simpler.

I can't help it, I love Beck's Que Onda Guero? (speakers on)

Is the Mainstream Media Finally Getting Half the Rigged Voting Machine Story?

Published on Thursday, March 30, 2006 by the Columbus Free Press (Ohio)
Is the Mainstream Media Finally Getting Half the Rigged Voting Machine Story?
by Bob Fitrakis and Harvey Wasserman

Well, it's not like they didn't get pushed by those darn "internets".


And, yeesh, lookee here, some kids looking for an excuse to ditch school. Jr. High kids are a challenge, aren't they?

I cannot write as well as Jaxpagan over at Daily Kos, but this post is perfect for how I feel about the whole illegal immigration thing.

Blocking voters

DEMOCRACY CRUMBLINGBrad Blog
New Electronic Voter Registration Database Rejects 43% of New Los Angeles Voter Applications! 26% Rejected State-Wide in California!
Applications That Don't Match EXACTLY With DMV Records are Automatically Dumped by New System!
California's League of Women Voters Sends Letter of Objection to Secretary of State

More sick of this

Students on the march in Vista, Oceanside and other communities
By: NORTH COUNTY TIMES
NORTH COUNTY ---- More than 1,700 students took to the streets Tuesday, as a second day of protests over proposed illegal immigration reform swept through North County communities.

Ruben Navarrette: Anti-immigrant zeal

By Ruben Navarrette
Published 2:15 am PST Wednesday, March 29, 2006
SAN DIEGO - Now that the Senate is taking an honest look at the immigration problem, it's time for the rest of America to be honest about what the problem really is.

Much of it really is about clashing cultures and a concern that immigrants aren't assimilating...

Yep, that and the fact that Spanish should be a required second language in Southern California at the elementary school level, and the school districts haven't wised up yet. The racism goes both ways. I know what it's like to be hated because of my race, quit pretending that only people with brown skins are discriminated against.

Sick of this

Look Godamnit, I am fucking sick of listening to people who don't live in a border town talk about the immigration hoo-hah like they know something. I consider myself a liberal, but I still get pissed off on trash day when there is shitty toilet paper all over the front lawn. I'm sorry the plumbing sucks down there, when you're here, flush it damnit! But don't flush the plastic coated diapers, don't use pine oil cleaner on the fucking cutting boards in restaurants, Y no fumar en la tienda, babosos.
When I don't have a chance in hell of making supervisor because I don't speak Spanish, I get pissy. When I watch someone with half my IQ take a job that pays more than I make for supposedly translating and I can't understand their English it pisses me off.
I happen to be very good at understanding people with thick accents. I can usually pinpoint your country (worldwide) of origin by your accent. If you really want to make yourself understood, I'm listening.
I don't want to speak Spanish, damnit, I already know they hate us, I hear it all the time from people who do speak Spanish, but aren't Hispanic. When I hear that the protesters flew the Mexican flag proudly, but they burned an American flag, after they flew it upside down, I get pissy. When I hear over and over again in lame-o English from someone who was born and raised here that the gringos stole the land, so they can take whatever they want with impunity, I get pissy. When some asshole laughs at me and I know he just stole my kid's bike helmet because I can see the shape of it in his backpack, I get pissy. When my kid hears somebody talking smack about the color of her hair (she does understand it, peen-chee ben-day-hoes) which happens to be a normal color for a white kid, I get pissy.

When my friend's kid is devastated because his friend got shot in the fucking face and killed for trying to avoid joining a gang for protection against the bangers, I get pissy.

For anyone who doesn't live with it you need to know that there are problems that need to be addressed. This is coming from someone who gave water, a meal and a free long distance phone call to the coyote, to someone who needed it. The guy was thirsty, hungry, tired, scared shitless and in my backyard, you would have done it too.

It's complicated and the lawmakers who protect the people and corporations who profit from what I think that they think is disposable labor need to pay attention to more than next quarter's earnings and their huge campaign-contributers.


"The dropout issue has been at the center of local school reform discussions since last March, when a study by the Civil Rights Project at Harvard University calculated that only 45% of students were graduating in four years from Los Angeles schools. The rate was even lower for Latino students, and much higher for white and Asian American students. African Americans were close to the districtwide average.The school district cried foul, saying its figures showed that roughly 70% were graduating, a figure that has since risen. The district uses a different formula to calculate its graduation rate, one that the Harvard researchers and other critics say is deeply flawed"

"I want you to know that there are people right now all across the country that agree with you that we need immigration reform that rewards work, that gives people a pathway to citizenship, that allows families to stay together," Villaraigosa told the crowd.
He drew jeers, however, when he added: "Now that you've come, it's important that you go back to school."

still pooped

My brain is mush. My body hurts. Disneyland is more fun the following couple of days when you are younger. Watching the the little ones have fun is always wonderful.

Anyhoo, not much coverage of this topic, and I think it's important damnit! We have a prez who pushed us into fucking WW III over this shit for Chrissakes.

As prices surge, oil giants turn sludge into gold

By Russell Gold
ASSOCIATED PRESS
03/27/2006

FORT MCMURRAY, Alberta -- In February, engineers from French oil giant Total SA fired up colossal drum boilers to generate steam that will be pumped to a depth of 300 feet under the frozen ground here. If all goes well, by May, the steam will marinate a tar-like mix of oil and sand until the crude begins to flow.

Nearby, Total will go after the oil-soaked sands closer to the surface, scraping away an ancient forest of spruce and poplars and shoveling the black soil into two-story dump trucks. Fully loaded, the trucks weigh as much as a Boeing 747. Total will then use industrial versions of giant washing machines to remove the oil, generating enough liquid waste to create vast toxic lakes.

Ummm...yeah, I don't think T Boone Pickens gives a shit about toxic lakes.


And the good news, I think, no nevermind, I'm still too tired to think, make what you will of it.

FEC Won't Regulate Internet Politics