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May 04, 2005

My life this week

I'm in Southern California - and I'm sick with a horrible cold and/or flu. I'm staying at a Hampton Inn that doesn't come close to normal Hampton Inn standards.

I flew in on Monday. On Tuesday morning, I got up, showered, and found that there was no hairdryer - so I had a bad hair day. I called the management, and they said they would get me a hairdryer - for some reason they seemed to think it was an unusual request. But by the time I got back to the hotel last night, there was a hairdryer in the bathroom.

So ... this morning, I get up (after suffering for most of the night with a fever) and took a shower, washed my hair (secure in the knowledge that I had a hairdryer). Only I had left my hairbrush in the car. So I combed my hair with a plastic fork left over from my fast food dinner last night.

Oddly enough, it makes a decent comb. Kinda.

The people I am working with are out of this world great folks. I was a little surprised to find that they are all very conservative - and in LA County!

Most of the guys are pretty upset with President Bush's lack of enforcement of immigration laws - they want illegal immigration to stop - right - now.

And they are right. We have always let immigrants come here - but lawfully. At this point, people who come here illegally are more likely to end up with citizenship than illegal immigrants - that is so wrong.

We need to guard our borders - as the Minutemen are showing us, just having a presence there deters illegal crossings into our country.

Here is Los Angeles, an Hispanic radio station put up billboards that say - Los Angeles, California - with California crossed out and Mexico written in its place.

People are very upset about this. And all of us should be upset about this - not just Californians.

Posted by Beth at May 4, 2005 10:11 PM