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- About Me: How I would describe my blog: Lots of nonsense interrupted by moments of insight.
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- Interests: Being snarky, more than anything else.
- Expertise: ACK! WHY ARE YOU PRESSURING ME???
kaleidescopeeyes88
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- Name: kaleidescopeeyes88
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- Gender: Female
- Member Since: 9/13/2005
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Ok, I've officially decided that the XANGA chat features suck due to several reasons - won't list them here. Switch to plain old IM? I use most services except jabber and IRC. -
And English should be our primary language. Because that's the language of God, right? -
Haha, so true!
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Its written somewhere in the NeoCon bylaws that they can't learn any historical lessons from a non-JudeoChristian society.
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Guest worker programs are basically indentured servitude. Totally goes along the attitude of "We want your labor, but not your lives." Sorry, I get riled up with this issue, especially since we talk about it a lot in the Asian American Studies courses I TA for.
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Oh, and what's the deal with this plan to build a friggin' WALL??? As if it worked SO well for the Chinese! Do you ever watch The Colbert Report? I love Stephen Colbert's mockery of the whole thing. I read a transcript of the commencement address he gave at Knox College this year, in which he talk
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*takes time off to talk to the 'rents and get another frappacino bar*
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There were people in MN who were all for the INS trying to round up and ship off all 12 million (estimated) illegals at the marches. Never mind the sheer logisitics of the problem.
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Absolutely. The process itself is severely flawed . . . and no amount of "guest worker" programs is going to fix it.
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I guess my take on it is that the question of legality isn't really the issue. Our economy demands the labor of immigrants, be they legal or not. So perhaps the real thing to tackle is whether or not our legislation should recognize that labor.
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