The number one problem facing our nation today is finally being addressed by Congress. That’s right……MySpace.
The group of people in charge of our national government is taking up the issue that MySpace needs to be banned at schools and libraries. Wake up you freakin’ morons, but it probably already is! Nevermind that problem with immigration, get to work on banning MySpace at the LOCAL level.
I decided that lumping my thoughts into the last post would be far too confusing, so I will start a new one. Look for new updates as I get the energy and facts to back up my points. If you make any comments while this post is in progress, you may want to indicate the "section" of this that you are replying to.
1) Understanding Terminology Used in the Illegal Immigration Debate
Before I start babbling about crime and the economy, it’s important to have a clear understanding of the terms used in the debate (especially when the media loves to spin them to death).
An illegal immigrant is someone who either entered this country without permission, or has overstayed a temporary permit (a visa)1. Any person who is in this country, in violation of the laws of this country, is an illegal immigrant. There are different terms used to refer to people here illegally. Illegal aliens is my favorite. Liberals enjoy using "undocumented workers."
Whatever your term for people who are in the country illegally, the word "immigrant" is not sufficient. The rally over the weekend was not about "immigrants" rights, it was about "illegal immigrants" rights. The laws being debated in congress in no way affect legal immigrants. This is the primary error that so many of the protestors and students walking out of class fail to realize.
It’s not about Mexicans, Chinese people, and it’s not about legal immigrants. This debate is about illegal immigrants.
Citations: 1Wikipedia – Illegal Immigration
2) A Foreword on Immigration
Before I get into the nitty gritty, here are some of my personal views on immigration, just so you know what my "biases" are. I believe that the United States is a great country, and something that makes it great is that we are governed by laws. As a nation we have rules and the right to enforce those rules. The United States allows immigration into our country, and people have been coming to live here for hundreds of years. I have no beef with immigrants, as my great-great-grandfather was an immigrant (I think). Many immigrants come here because they want a better life and an opportunity to have the American dream.
The debate before us now is that there are certain individuals who do not believe in the rule of law. It is within the power of the United States to create and enforce the laws. It is illegal to overstay a visa or cross the border without permission. I don’t care who the person is and no matter their circumstance, no one has a right to be in this country besides the citizens of this country. That’s correct, the USA is an exclusive club, and if you want in, you need permission. If you decide to break the laws of our country, you are a criminal.
I’m sure this will sound "mean" to people that think with their emotions. It is not racist nor predjudiced for a country to control it’s own destiny, and who we let in plays a major part in that. A quick look at France and the recent Muslim protests is an example2. Just as we have decided to not let terrorists into our country, we reserve the right to say no to extremists, the uneducated, and illegal immigrants. If a person has the desire to come and enjoy the freedom of this country and the economic opportunities, I believe they should also be willing to adopt the values and language of this country. If a person is unwilling to do that, then they should not be here.
Citations: 2France – The Cost of Multicultralism
3) It’s Friday and I’m Tired.
I’m tired and don’t feel like devoting several hours of my life creating a pseudo scholarly post, so I will now be succinct.
4) The Economy and Illegals: We Don’t Need Them
All the nonsense about illegals working jobs that no one else will is total horse doo-doo. Americans will clean bathrooms, pick lettuce, and build houses, but when employers have cheap labor to exploit of course they’ll pay the lower wages. We have thousands if not millions of uneducated people that would be great at scrubbing toilets. Just go to myspace and look up all the people that graduated with you and still have no life. Illegal immigrants also love to send money back to Mexico instead of investing it back into our economy.
5) Welfare: If You Hand It Out, They Will Take It
When an illegal comes over the border they get so much handed to them. Public education, emergency medicine, roads and highways, medicare, social security, and welfare. An illegal immigrant does not deserve any of that, because they’ve done basically nothing to pay for any of it. Illegal immigrants are having babies by the thousands at our hospitals and not contributing a dime to pay for it. ONE BILLION DOLLARS. I think I’m turning into a Libertarian when it comes to economics. The solution to all of this is to make people pay for everything. Charge people $4000 to send their kid to public school, pay per miles used on the highways. In turn the goverment could get rid of property taxes or income taxes. Ultimately there should not be anything handed to illegal immigrants by the goverment reaching into the pockets of law-abiding and tax-paying citizens.
6) Illegal Immigrants Commit a lot of Crime
Crime 1: 29% of criminals filling jails are illegals, costing 1.6 billion dollars a year (they only make up around 3% of the entire population).
Crime 2: 60% of the 20,000 strong 18th street gang are illegals.
Crime 3: 95% of outstanding homicide warrants in Los Angeles are for illegal aliens.
Crime 4: A whole lot of document forgery going on!
There are tons of illegal immigrants and crime links, just search google.
7) Conclusion
That’s all the energy I have. Doesn’t seem like the politicians in Washington D.C. have the guts to really do anything, so I don’t see this problem being solved anytime soon.
A couple friends have died. Their funerals will be held soon. Theirnames are Chris and Curt. Granted, Chris has a MySpace which doesn’t really count in the first place, but he hasn’t updated it since early December. Curt hasn’t updated since the end of December. The only conclusion I could possibly draw from this information is that they are both dead.
I can already tell my posts on here will suffer due to my self-enforced media blackout that is preventing the spoiling of the Winter Olympics. Thanks to the DVR I can actually watch a lot more than I would usually…or at least more of what I really want to watch. Off to work.
It is day 3 of winter session, and I just ate hot dog #3. I’m starting to feel like that supersize guy. Maybe I could make a movie about eating hot dogs during winter session at csulb. It could be me eating hot dogs and posting on the blarg. Dang that would be exciting.
When I got home last night the Rose Bowl had just finished, but luckily Stacie left the DVR on. I skipped back to about 6 mins left in the 4th and watched the end. Holy Cow Vince Young is good. I heard something about Texas scoring a touchdown that shouldn’t have been one, but sounds like a good game.
Right now we’re doing dumb stuff in Excel. The people on both sides of me are posting on MySpace. WOW this is dumb.
My sister had a Haiku contest at her MySpace. Who will win?!?! Check her MySpace for the results. Here were my entries:
Super Haiku Entry ..1
The cow brocolli
Make happy for flying farts
My pee is yellow
Super Haiku Entry ..2
gay gay gay gay gay
gay gay gay gay gay gay gay
gay gay gay gay gay
Super Haiku entry ..3
I think syllabic
constraints are super mucho
retardogayness
The key to a good website is that people want to come back to it. Take www.foxnews.com for example. It’s probably updated every half-hour, so there is always something new to see. I try and update The Blarg! everyday so people have something to come back and see. Everytime someone goes to a site that hasn’t been updated since the last time they went, the length of time until their next visit is probably even longer.
If you visit my friends’ sites on the right, you’ll notice they aren’t very happening. Mike hasn’t updated in a month, Kurtis hasn’t updated since January, and I think Chris got a MySpace. Andrew hasn’t updated in two weeks, but he’s still recovering from school. Amy updates semi-regularly, and Paloma sometimes takes a week to post, but they’re super long.
I’ve almost been posting on this mostly pointless site for a year now, cool huh? This is really the second version of The Blarg!, which used to be on theburn.com. I think I transferred it over late 2004, and since then I’ve almost hit 5000 hits. WoW! I’ll have to make a super special post for the 5000th hit. Ok, this is boring.
Denise, my sister, has posted a new haiku poem on her myspace. You should really go read it, it’s quite amazing. And don’t forget to post a comment so she knows you looked.
So the burn is getting some new cool websites. Add the burn as your friend and spread the word!
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