Summer Time
June 26th, 2007Summer is off to a nice start. The dog is laying in the backyard sunbathing right now. She’s a weirdo.
Played a game of baseball online this morning. Went down early 2-0 against the Devil Rays of all teams, but had a couple nice innings and won 4-2, raising my record online to 10-4. Last night Angelo helped me fine tune my network setup and change my dsl router to a “bridge,” which should simplify things. But that’s nerdy mumbo jumbo you don’t care about.
We’re going camping this weekend at San Onofre which should be fun. I haven’t been to the beach in forever, and it will be nice to go “away,” even if it’s only for a short time.
Andrew and Sarah are well on their way of making Denise and Paul’s condo into their own. They’ve done some painting and moved in furniture. It’s great to see them start their new life together. I have a much greater appreciation than I used to for weddings and marriage, now that I’m married. You know what the people are getting themselves into and what a special time that is in their life.
We started to watch the season of ER that finished a month or so ago. We didn’t watch it all during the year, but instead saved it for summer viewing. It’s a well done show, but the liberal nonsense is unbelievably annoying. Here are the recurring liberal story lines:
1) Huge numbers of people are gay, and they don’t act anything like gay people do in real life. Gaydar need not apply, because you could never guess, because the show wants you to think gay people are just like straight people, but gay. Oh wait, that’s not all, gay people are actually more with it than the straight people. The gay relationships are always great, and the straight people are screwed up.
2) Everyone is dying in Iraq. Last year a main character got killed in Iraq, and this year there was a family whose father had died in Iraq. They wouldn’t want to have a character that came back from Iraq alive and emphasize the good they were doing. No, Iraq is the devil and everyone is dying.
3) National healthcare mumbo jumbo! The ER is always full and nobody has health insurance on the show. The characters are always screaming about how we need a national healthcare plan. What BS. Where are the illegal aliens in the ER? Oh that’s right, they never show any.
Sorry for that diversion from my summer, I apologize.
I’m off to start Act 2 of the book. Act 1 clocked in at around 20k words, or somewhere around 45-50 pages in a real book. It’s sitting on Stacie’s desk waiting for a read through. It’s amazing how much time it takes to get a story going and established. I’m looking forward to what comes next. It should get exciting.
How’s the network stability, did it improve any?
Each time I go to a wedding I appreciate the ceremony more and I feel sentimental thinking of our day and how fun and exciting it actually was. You really are in another place the day of your wedding and it’s all very overwhelming (emotionally and physically) so it’s nice to be called back to reflect every so often.
Therefore all things whatsoever ye would that men should do to you, do ye even so to them: for this is the law…
I would say that taking care of the sick and poor is the right thing to do.
I believe it’s better to teach someone to take care of themselves by providing their own health insurance than to give it to them for free.
And if you’re going to pull the Jesus card, I think there is a good analogy there. Imagine if Christ had simply given away salvation at no cost. Don’t drop everything and follow me, don’t change the way you live, because I’ll die for you and there is no cost. How well would that have worked out? It would have been terrible. The same logic follows here. People need to learn to provide for themselves, and the worst thing we can possibly do for the sick and poor is give them free stuff without consequence.
Again, since some people can’t differentiate between charity and government freebies, let me put in this disclaimer. I have no problem with private charities because they are accountable, something the government is not.
Most illegal immigrants did know how to take care of themselves. I’ve pulled tobacco alongside doctors and teachers and farmers. Partly due to our farm subsidies, Mexican farmers were put out of business and their economy has suffered. These people come to the US looking for work so their families could eat. They are not looking for a handout.
They are accused of taking American jobs. But they only reason employers hire them is because they don’t get in trouble for paying them far far below minimum wage and the workers don’t complain about poor working conditions. Illegal immigrants are rarely paid enough to eat well, let alone get a decent place to live or buy health insurance.
People say that illegal immigrants don’t pay taxes, so why should they get health insurance. How can they pay taxes? Despite the long long hours they work, they usually don’t make enough to have to pay taxes.
Fixing this system should be a priority. But until then, taking care of these exploited people who pick our food and clean our businesses cannot be compared to giving away something for free. We should be ashamed of how we’ve treated illegal immigrants.
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