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Max,
Wish you'd catch us up to date with Paris Hilton. I just can't get enough of that girl!
Someone told me she's not eating in jail. Heck, they just oughta turn a video camera on her and she'd eat.

" turn a video camera on her and she'd eat."
Eat WHAT? Scary

What about Paris Hilton? Is something going on with her these days? I hadn't heard. Curse the national news media for failing to cover those stories We, the People, really need to know about.

I find it odd the Arkansas Times does not have a blog dedicated to Paris Hilton.

Because I'm sure that that new Sink magazine will.

House Democrats Vote To Increase Funding Of Failed "Abstinence-Only" Program"

The most appalling aspect of this sell-out is that that the Democrats will not only fully fund the worst of the failed abstinence-only-until-marriage programs--they'll give them a $27 million increase--the first in three years!.... [note: for more details, see this SIECUS press release]

The "Community Based Abstinence Education" program in question was initiated, under President Clinton, as a bipartisan effort although, in reality, most of the federal money dispersed under the program, now proven ineffective, actually funds activists on the Christian right.

Dumb and dumber.

I've heard all I want to about her.. Now I want to hear the suction of wind at the Rio Grande of the mexicans headed back to mexico,,

Notice I didn't capitalize the word mexico.,

Put Paris on the nearest plane and drop her in Iraq; or arrange a marriage between Dr. Brooks and Paris----now, that should really make her cry.

This will make her porn video even more popular on the "internets."

New immigration proposal bites the dust. I would really like a bill that describes "American Citizen" as born to American citizens no matter where they are located. Illegal is illegal. I welcome any immigrant who chooses to enter the US of A legally. Wouldn't mind my tax dollars going to help support new legal immigrants --- even a little extra.

I'll have to study up on the immigration bill before I have an opinion worth subjecting others to, but I wonder...

Is amnesty always a bad, unfair, reward to law-breakers?

Carter's 1977 amnesty for Vietnam draft evaders?

Lincoln/Johnston amnesty for former Confederates? Indisputably they broke the law; should they have been lined up and hanged one-by-one for treason?

I don't know. I only know some people spit out the word "amnesty" as if it were synonymous with the word "incest."

Amnesty is okay, even "good" under some circumstances, right? Maybe not these, but . . . ever?

for a great laugh.. I am still laughing

Creation Museum's 'Adam' Shared Sex Exploits Online

link at my name

I'd like it to be if anyone even think about giving amnesty to mixicans they'd be hanged.

Okay, chasv; point made.

I'm curious. Is there a special meaning to "mixicans?" (If it's just a typo, never mind; I make more than my share of those.)
Is it a particular reference to intercultural hispanics? Interesting phrase.

my wife and i were talking about the immigration situation tonite and to us the only solution is throught the employers and that will never happen. neither party will give a problem to the large donors. the main reason they are here is to work with some here for family connections to the workers. penalizing the employers more would slow down the problem but the big agriculture companies contribute too much money or companies like tyson keep the wheels greased to where they rarely get raided. i doubt a law will get passed. at the rate things seem to be going for some reason that fence they are supposedly building i doubt if it will be built. i don't care how they do it but the way they are is unfair to the people who have come here and gotten in line legally and tried to follow the rules to become citizens.

Agreed, zonker. Amnesty is certainly unfair to those who have tried to comply with the law.

Beyond that, my opinion is stlll taking shape.

But I appreciate reading the thoughts of others....

We just got back from seeing The Full Monty at The Rep. A truly wonderful and entertaining production! I don't keep up with Broadway, so I was expecting something similar to the movie. Was I pleasantly surprised! It's a musical. And a great one!

Also, thank you, Max, for reminding me that Doe's has the best hamburgers in town. I went there for lunch last Friday. It's still the best hamburger in LR, and the fries were just as good.

Hey...you all aren't thinking proper Bush-think. Amnesty is a code word. The racist don't want amnesty connected to any non-white, non-American PERIOD. That's easy to figure.

The investor class doesn't want amnesty because they want to work the living shit out of them and when they are no longer useful....they want to ship them back to Mexico to die.

We don't think about things like the cost of retirement for old workers. The investor class does. So they pop a woody at the thought of any way to screw someone out of retirement. If you die...yippy! If you get carted back to Mexico...yippy!

Bush and the investor class have been waving them over the border for 10 years...hell....even Clinton was waving them over the border.

Factories hum when they got lots of cheap labor to abuse. Illegal immigrants are great for business. The upper levels of Republicans are laughing at the low R's because of all the wool their pulling over their eyes.

That's why we have NO immigration bill....it was a lousy bill anyway, and they let the sucker die. Boo hoo...the top Bushies say....but they don't mean it, no they don't.

The day illegal Mexicans are no longer needed or desired, they'll line our southern border with sharp shooters and won't any come creeping over the line. But until that day comes, the big Bushies say Viva la Mexicans!

I will admit that I read only some stories about the immigration bill and my only take was that it was NOT a good measure as far as I could understand. I'm for a solution that recognizes people are here illegally, allows them to stay while meeting further requirements and for darn sure, does not break up families. If a head of household must return to his or her home country, how can a family stay?

I look at the situation from the point of view that my children have been going to school with many Hispanic friends for many years. The achievement of the little children who arrive here and begin working very hard to speak English and work at grade level is humbling. The teachers and ESL staff who work with them are amazing. So I have great concern for the 6th or 9th-grade student who has invested so much and who will take "our investment" away with them if they are helplessly evicted from the U.S. with their families. It's the investment of hope and hard work that I hate to lose, not so much the money. Talk about students who embrace the American Dream! From very young ages they buy into it, working harder than their native, single-language classmates to catch up and achieve. Do we really want to punish them?

It seems we recognize there are jobs they can fill and contributions they can make to the tax rolls. Can't we find a way to legitimize them here without harsh measures? If they go on the tax rolls, buy cars and homes and participate fully in the economy, how can we say they aren't a good addition to our country? The Hispanics that surround me are the most upwardly mobile neighbors I have ever had.

Max, chasv's garbled harangue about hanging the "mixican" lovers is a perfect argument for instituting a sobriety test for posting on this blog.

My Mother and her brother grew up in El Dorado, AR and mother told me her brother spoke spanish as fluently as english in his preschool years due to the variety of good neighbors. This is nothing new and diversity as always should be embraced.

I mentioned before that in the mid eighties thru the early nineties I worked as an employment consultant hiring ditch diggers on up to mid level executives in fortune 100 companies from New Mexico to Northern California, which had illegal issues out the wazoo. The laws on the books then were sufficient and ease of enforcement by anyone who cared to abide by the laws was not a problem. I feel comfortable in saying I never hired an illegal employee and I hired many thousands through those years.

DBI touches on the Amnesty (word) problem from the vantage point of sparking bigots anger but the money side of amnesty remains the unwillingness to enforce employers who hire illegals.. I say no amnesty for illegal employers if anyone truly wants to seriously cut off the way things are now. No supply of illegal jobs and there will be no new flow of illegals.

Finally what we are doing to the human beings and their entire families via our Dept. of Homeland Security is shameful.. One parent gets arrested in a factory raid and the entire family is jailed indefinitely, often the family is split up and has no idea where other members are or when if ever they will be released or deported. Children are literally growing up in giant prisons in Texas and elsewhere.

But its a bunch of private corporations who own and run the detention camps /prisons and they only get paid by number of occupants.. So do you think Holiday Prison Inn is going to let you go if they don't have to...and your bill will be paid (by us) as long as you (can be held) stay?

Folks the laws on the books now are for the most part sufficient but the will to enforce them is not. We are all being played like a two dollar fiddle by the money folks and the politicians who dole out our tax dollars while making many of us compete with starving immigrants who will work for much lower than USA living wages.

I don't blame hungry immigrants.. I blame our politicians, illegal employers and US because we let them get away with all of it. And we dont need national ID's to do what a very simple INS form I-9 is capable of doing right now.

Great find Eureka.
I once knew a guy who would "make it" with the Virgin Mary every Saturday Night after she got off work at the Play.

"Is there a special meaning to "mixicans?"
by TAP

OF course: mixicans are the ones who mix with people like chasv on the honey pot service or as chicken gutters working the line.

Messicuns are ones who jump borders in a single bound and hang out on street corners awaiting the next rags-to-riches Young Republican to come by in a contractors van and give them a day's labor.

By the way, Max, I'd rather read a feature on the semi-finals of the box hockey competition at Subiaco summer camp than anything on NASCAR.

It seems Hilton is not the only one to drive with a suspended license. Click on Cato

Next Generation Foundation Names 2007 Promise
Scholarship Recipients

Arkansas Receives Record Five Scholarship Winners; Tennessee, Mississippi and Louisiana Each Receive One

MEMPHIS, TN - Eight first generation college students will each receive $1,000 scholarships for their remarkable hard work and leadership in the classroom and their long-term plans to give back to the Mississippi Delta region, Next Generation Foundation President R. Stuart Jones announced today.

"The first step in building the Delta of tomorrow is investing in our students' education today," said Jones. "The Next Generation Foundation is taking real, substantive steps to move the Delta and its next generation forward."

The 2007 NGF Annual Promise Scholarship winners were selected from more than one hundred deserving applicants. Each year, the Promise Scholarship program awards at least one scholarship to a student in Arkansas, Tennessee, Louisiana and Mississippi.

The 2007 Promise Scholarship winners are Somer Rae Allen of Jonesboro, AR; Matthew DeShun Elliott of Camden, AR; Telecia La'Shay Frazier of Camden, AR; Jenna RieAnne Lee of Watson, AR; Ali R. Pambianchi of McGehee, AR; Paul Wesley Calcote of Vicksburg, MS; Jarel Latron Hall of Monroe, LA; and Brittney Nichole Taylor of Memphis, TN.

Fundraising efforts for the 2008 Promise Scholarship program are already underway. NGF is actively seeking partners to expand and enhance next year's program through a variety of monetary and non-monetary contributions.

"The greatness of the Delta region has always been its people. I challenge local leaders, businesses and other like-minded organizations to join NGF in making more of these scholarships available to the region's next generation," said Jones.

To learn more about the Next Generation Foundation, log on to www.ngfonline.org.

Huh?
What's Mark Martin got to do with Mexicans?
It's Sunday. Open line. How can you people be so insensitive? The only way this conversation is germane to the importance of this most holy of days is if some Mexican, disguised as Mark Martin (it's hard to tell with those suits and helmets and all) infiltrates the Bada Bing and whacks Tony while he's loading his stash into a bowling ball bag. And we all know that ain't gonna happen.
So, brothers & sisters, let's cease all this trivial conversation about NASCAR and immigration, and concentrate on what is important in our lives. Sopranos. HBO. Tonite.
I'm so excited.

I'm fixin a big pan of ziti to go with the Sopranos! Hey...wonder if the Soprano family came to the US legally? How much is the Mafia making off the Iraq War?

PS Mark Martin is god!

The "solution" to immigration reform lies in one simpe prerequisite: Secure the borders!" UNTIL that is accomplished, ALL of the rest of this is just horse puckey.

Does the farmer FIX his fence before putting the cows he had to round up back in the pasture?

Right.

DBI,
In the town where I grew up, I believe Mark Martin may BE God. But my most indelible memory of Him is the time he parked his 3-wheeler in my parents' steep downward driveway on Josephine Drive, behind my '67 Mustang, and took off with my brother somewhere with the keys in his pocket. The damn thing (half VW / half Harley) was too heavy to push out of the way, and I missed an important date to hang out at Tommy's Kingburger. Pissed me off.
I guess the kid turned out OK though.......

Arkansas has been listed among the WORST 10 energy-efficient states by the American Council for an Energy-Efficient Economy. Read about it by clicking on the blue name.

Figures. We are at the bottom in most everything else, why not this?

As usual, we are with Mississippi, Alabama, Missouri, Oklahoma and Tennessee. But part of the reason is that we have "abundant amounts of traditional energy resources that have been historically inexpensive." So, it actually makes some sense for us to be so inefficient.

This is the first time I have ever heard the name Mark Martin...

Great caption opportunity with the photo link at my name...