Mostly Coherent, At This Hour.

I am three-fourths a third generation American. Three out of my four grandparents emigrated from Europe; my mother's mother is Native American(Chumash, holla!). It's slightly more complicated than that, but for the sake of simplicity- there it is. I love immigration; not just because it made out country great, blah blah blah, but also because if it weren't for immigration, the world would never have had the benefit of my existence. It would be a dull place indeed.
I think that the majority of the debates about Illegal Immigration are willfully ignoring the actual issue. Hopefully it is willful. Otherwise it is just ignorance and that is sad. There are all these protesters saying that the government wants to turn Illegal Immigrants into criminals. I'm sorry, what part of the fact that you are here illegally implies that you aren't one already? The only thing that the proposed law would change, from what I've seen and I might not have all the facts, is that it would become a federal offence and not just a state offence.
Unfortunately, although I had all kinds of ranting and spiel about this, I am now tired and am going to take a cop-out. This is one of the best things I have read about the Illegals so far, read it because he makes sense.

the old school complaint about illegal immigrants is, "They're stealing our jobs." Having a demonstration that basically says, "Why yes, actually, we are stealing your jobs," doesn't seem like a very good idea. But again, maybe there's something I'm missing here.

AND:

I think the efforts on the part of the illegal immigrants' support network to make this about "the immigrant community" when it's about the illegal immigrant community are cynical and obnoxious.

"Tax cuts for the rich" is attacking the wrong thing, or at least omitting some key factors. 10% of the population pays 66% of the taxes. Given, a lot of the rich people have loopholes so it isn't all them and most of the middle class get screwed, but isn't that yet another reason we should move to a flat tax rate?
Mexican officials with connections to the US immigration force have been pressuring the Border Patrol to ignore the Minutemen's reports of Illegals crossing the border, or to omit the Minutemen's involvement when filling out reports after catching would-be Illegals.
Am I the only one who thinks that Disney made a complete travesty of Nick's Doug? It gets me all riled up, just thinking about it!

And one more from the same website as above, because I just found out that "boyo" is derrogatory in Welsh circles. And because I think that many outspoken feminists are quite silly.

If Dick is a sexist, he may be willing to do the dishes just to avoid debating his views with Jane.

-- G 'Bye, Sonya --