Two days and two big events, well, big in the sense that they are out of the ordinary day of getting up, going to work, coming home, eating, wash, rinse, repeat.
First, we have yesterday’s experience with an immigration march through downtown South Bend. At around 11:30am thousands of people marched by my building, protesting something, or for some reason. Heh, apparently there is some immigration legislation going on :-P….yeah, I’m up on what the heck is going on the world, huh. Mostly, it happened right when I normally go to lunch, and was blocking traffic and forcing me to go through a sea of people to get to my car. “I don’t have anything against you or your ideals, but if you make my life more difficult, especially when going to lunch, you’ve pissed me off.”
Perhaps one of the best parts was after waiting for the crowd to die down and make my way through the stragglers, the people protesting the march: men and women with signs yelling “Don’t take our jobs! USA!”. Damn straight. It’s my God-given right to have a fair shake at picking fruit from the orchards and crops from the field. Seriously, did that woman really want to be a migrant worker? On the other hand, I don’t really see what the whole deal is - aren’t there already channels for people to go through to gain citizenship if they want? Ah hell, just tax them all and be done with it.
Today, we had a gas leak that caused most of the downtown to be evacuated. The day started with a natural gas smell, and thoughts of a day off danced in my head. Instead, we relocated to the hospital from downtown, hung out there until about noon, and then were able to go back to the office. Yay. I think the highlight was the news update mid-morning that said a “moving cloud of mystery gas” was downtown, and they couldn’t identify it.
What will tomorrow bring? How many days until the weekend, right?
April 12th, 2006 at 11:22 am
wow. Indiana is a strange, strange beast. Good luck with that, Pete! :0)
April 14th, 2006 at 1:50 pm
sounds like you should move back to michigan!!!
April 21st, 2006 at 12:14 pm
“Go back to Plymouth Rock, Pilgrims! Get out! We are the future.
You are old and tired. Leave like beaten rats, you old white people.
It is your duty to die… We are going to take over.”
–Augustin Cebada, a Brown Beret protestor,
demanding amnesty for illegal aliens
STOP the McCain/Kennedy legislation, which will give illegal aliens “amnesty” and “fast-track citizenship.” There is already a legal application process for citizenship, and most European and Asian immigrants abide by that process. All immigrants should abide by the law.
The final immigration reform legislation must provide for the following: Strict border security and enforcement; automatic detention and deportation of those crossing our borders illegally; no extension of amnesty or fast-track citizenship; preservation of our tax-subsidized medical, educational and social services for American citizens; strong penalties against employers who hire illegals; and Americanization of new legal immigrants. It should also disallow birthright citizenship for children of illegal aliens, and we must support legislation to that end.
Every day that passes without these reform measures, about 3,200 illegal aliens cross our borders. In another month, more than 96,000 illegal aliens will have entered the U.S.
“[T]he policy or advantage of [immigration] taking place in a body may be much questioned; for, by so doing, they retain the Language, habits and principles which they bring with them. Whereas by an intermixture with our people, they, or their descendants, get assimilated to our customs, measures and laws: in a word, soon become one people.” Quoth George Washington