20031205
Threat rating: extremely low. You may think you can
subvert the government, but if you should try
you will be smited mightily because God likes
us best.
What threat to the Bush administration are you?
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Is this really me? I must have taken a wrong turn on the quiz somewhere; I prefer to be agnostic.
--Link to Quizilla from Sparkology
subvert the government, but if you should try
you will be smited mightily because God likes
us best.
What threat to the Bush administration are you?
brought to you by Quizilla
Is this really me? I must have taken a wrong turn on the quiz somewhere; I prefer to be agnostic.
--Link to Quizilla from Sparkology
20031203
Grist Magazine: Environmental news and humor
I've been working with a group of partners on this project for class about the Californians and Mexican immigrants.
I've never thought of group project as being particularly difficult to do in high school, but this was the worst. Everybody had different schedule and we're always conflicting.
Now, we have a presentation to do on Friday, and there's barely a plan of what exactly we're going to present. We just decided to film it tomorrow at the Century Theater, but I'm really worried about my grades being brought down. Well, I hope the 20-page essays will save us.
Still, despite taking on 21 units this quarter, I will say I've learned something about immigration in general, and I've become extraordinarily more Democrat in value, that is, if the Democrats do share the same value as I do.
I want open border, but along with that, we have to be careful to make sure we are educating the immigrants about adapting to the United States by learning English and other social manners. It would be terrible to have immigrants bring drug use, crime rate, and homelessness with them here, and we need to educate them on how not to do that. We have to ensure that we are immigrating people willing to do the things necessary to achieve the American dream.
To immigrant without regards for educating them is just going to breed racism. Education, though an expensive proposition, is the key to creating an upstanding and truly American citizen, and that applies not just to natural-born Americans, but also naturalized immigrants.
My mother is an immigrant, and I was born here in the US of A. At first, I was a little conservative about whether to allow immigration. I did think that immigration was the source of many problems with Mexicans on the street and murder rate, but I realize that blaming the Mexicans will not stop them from trying to come in here. We have either to teach the Mexicans how they must act, behave, and live their lives if they want to live here or to raise the status of their country so that they will not feel the need for emigration.
After all, the purpose of emigrating a country is to escape persecution, to flee famine, to commit treason, etc. etc. The Mexicans come into the United States not because they want to be in the United States, but because they don't want to be in their native-born country. This is the key to understanding the problem. Mexico, as a country, has been corrupted and its government has continuously left the country impoverished.
It will be necessary for the country to change itself by pioneering social skills that Mexicans have to learn, i.e. not spitting on the floor, not chewing gum, etc. and giving them economic freedom to own and sell lands, to do things with their properties to appeal to their entrepreneurial spirit. Then, and only then, will the Mexicans truly stop trying to emigrate from their country and immigrating into ours.
I've been working with a group of partners on this project for class about the Californians and Mexican immigrants.
I've never thought of group project as being particularly difficult to do in high school, but this was the worst. Everybody had different schedule and we're always conflicting.
Now, we have a presentation to do on Friday, and there's barely a plan of what exactly we're going to present. We just decided to film it tomorrow at the Century Theater, but I'm really worried about my grades being brought down. Well, I hope the 20-page essays will save us.
Still, despite taking on 21 units this quarter, I will say I've learned something about immigration in general, and I've become extraordinarily more Democrat in value, that is, if the Democrats do share the same value as I do.
I want open border, but along with that, we have to be careful to make sure we are educating the immigrants about adapting to the United States by learning English and other social manners. It would be terrible to have immigrants bring drug use, crime rate, and homelessness with them here, and we need to educate them on how not to do that. We have to ensure that we are immigrating people willing to do the things necessary to achieve the American dream.
To immigrant without regards for educating them is just going to breed racism. Education, though an expensive proposition, is the key to creating an upstanding and truly American citizen, and that applies not just to natural-born Americans, but also naturalized immigrants.
My mother is an immigrant, and I was born here in the US of A. At first, I was a little conservative about whether to allow immigration. I did think that immigration was the source of many problems with Mexicans on the street and murder rate, but I realize that blaming the Mexicans will not stop them from trying to come in here. We have either to teach the Mexicans how they must act, behave, and live their lives if they want to live here or to raise the status of their country so that they will not feel the need for emigration.
After all, the purpose of emigrating a country is to escape persecution, to flee famine, to commit treason, etc. etc. The Mexicans come into the United States not because they want to be in the United States, but because they don't want to be in their native-born country. This is the key to understanding the problem. Mexico, as a country, has been corrupted and its government has continuously left the country impoverished.
It will be necessary for the country to change itself by pioneering social skills that Mexicans have to learn, i.e. not spitting on the floor, not chewing gum, etc. and giving them economic freedom to own and sell lands, to do things with their properties to appeal to their entrepreneurial spirit. Then, and only then, will the Mexicans truly stop trying to emigrate from their country and immigrating into ours.
20031202
I can't believe I croaked.
I can't believe I croaked.
20031130
All Things Philosophical on BtVS and AtS
I've wasted a few hours reading this, and I'm still not finished. My eyes glazed over and I worry about becoming even more myopic, but the site is still so interesting.
It provided a new perspective on Buffy and Angel that I never thought about before.
I've wasted a few hours reading this, and I'm still not finished. My eyes glazed over and I worry about becoming even more myopic, but the site is still so interesting.
It provided a new perspective on Buffy and Angel that I never thought about before.
