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May 4, 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
Comments
That billboard made it to talk radio in Dallas. Do you notice the statue in the middle? That is Mexico's Statue of Independence. WHAT WERE THEY THINKING?!?!?!??!
Posted by: Amy at May 4, 2005 10:22 PM
apparently, a great many Mexicans think that California and the rest of the Southwest really belongs to Mexico and want to take it back.
sigh.
Posted by: Beth at May 4, 2005 10:48 PM
Otaaaay. Mexico is *such* a wonderful place, full of grace, freedom, opportunity, both social and economic, that they came here, apparently looking for repression and poverty.
And they want it to be Mexico?
Heh.
Of course, it's like New York and California expats. They flee the miasma they built, to come to where those pathologies don't exist.
Then promptly try to impose the failed policies that caused them to flee on their new locale. Then bitch about the results. And move on. To shite somewhere else.
Heh.
Posted by: John of Argghhh! at May 5, 2005 2:11 PM
My solution:
If they are going to cross over anyway --how about Vicente Fox send a barrell of oil with each illegal?
Posted by: ALa at May 5, 2005 4:34 PM
Sounds like Miami. Seriously. English is the 2nd language. I stay away... I find it too stressful to be down there.
Posted by: Boudicca at May 7, 2005 7:51 PM