Posted on 12/27/2013 11:24:17 AM PST by honestabe010
In his press conference on December 20th, President Obama urged the House of Representatives to support the Senate’s immigration bill, which passed 68-32 in late June. Among the concerns cited by Americans who oppose reform are that immigrants will take their jobs, drive down wages, increase criminal activity, burden the welfare system, and reshape the cultural dynamic of the country. These concerns are mostly ill-founded. The legitimate concerns have real solutions, and a more open immigration policy will be a net benefit for all Americans...
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- A 2013 study by the American Action Forum states that "immigration reform can raise population growth, labor force growth, and thus growth in Gross Domestic Product (GDP).”
- In 2013 the Bipartisan Policy Center came to similar conclusions. It makes the prediction that current provisions, as included in the Senate Bill, would raise GDP 4.8 percent over twenty years.
- According to the Immigration Policy Center, immigrant males between the ages of 18 and 39 (which constitute the greatest portion of the prison population) are five times less likely to be incarcerated than are natives.
- A 2011 survey by the Pew Research Center revealed that 92 percent of second generation and 96 percent of third generation Hispanics speak English proficiently.
- A 2010 Gallup poll revealed that Hispanics attend church services more often than non-Hispanic whites.
- Since an influx of immigrants means an expansion of the labor supply, many assert that the result will be less jobs and lower wages. However, as asserted by Jason Riley, a member of the Wall Street Journal editorial board, “The number of jobs in the United States is not static. It’s fluid, which is how we want it to be.”
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I had to watch Meat Loaf. What a voice!
The forces of good will never recognize her in her Hello Kitty outfit.
How disarming is that??
I had a daughter like that. But she grew out of being the witch. Now she just tries to make up for lost time, and mend the broken things.
Oh, she doesn’t want Tom to die ... she was just singing along. The song has a lot of “die” in it, because it’s about assassins. It was so funny seeing those four big boys all singing a song about assassins to the Pink Baby.
I know she doesn’t even understand the word “die,” so that part is truly funny. I was thinking of the Little Pink Thing being so disarming that no one would expect something like that out of her mouth. :o])
Tom will ask, in a bright voice, “Baby, do you want to play Galactic Destruction, the game?” and she will say, “Uh-HUH! A game!”
Off topic, but FYI: http://nz.sports.yahoo.com/news/schumacher-showing-39-responses-39-121212443—spt.html
When Frank was her age, if someone fell down, he would yell, “You DIED!” One day I was walking him up the sidewalk, he picked up a stick that might be considered gun-shaped, if you were a 2-year-old boy. He pointed it at White Cat (in Vicki’s flowerbed) and said, “Pow!”
White Cat fell over in the dirt, rolled around a little, and sneezed. Frank started to sniffle and said, “Whi’ Cat DIED!”
Oh, that’s excellent news!
It sounds like “died” is something you do but recover from, which, at two, is just fine!
Velcro Frank said that about White Cat? KEWL!!!
Fortunately for Frank’s psyche, White Cat quickly got up and came over to see if we were going to miraculously produce a bowl of cat food. White Cat is a power in the neighborhood - he can stop traffic if he feels like a nap on the warm asphalt.
Frank threw a rock at Vlad over something this afternoon. Now Vlad’s going to have a whopper bruise on his shin (I gave him some ice for it) and Frank was sent to his room until suppertime ... howling the whole way that it wasn’t his fault, because Vlad was running (?), which I thought was the whole reason they were outside, but what do I know?
Life with boys ...
“...On 21 June 2009, Schumacher appeared on the BBC’s motoring programme Top Gear as the Stig.[175] Presenter Jeremy Clarkson hinted later in the programme that Schumacher was not the regular Stig, and the BBC has since confirmed that this is the case. Schumacher was there on that occasion because Ferrari would not allow anyone else to drive the one-of-a-kind black Ferrari FXX which was featured in the show.[176] The FXX was presented to Schumacher upon his retirement at Monza in 2006.
“During his interview with Clarkson, Schumacher stated that his road cars are a Fiat 500 Abarth, and a Fiat Croma which is his family car.[177]...” According to Wiki...
So Mr. Schumacher, may God grant him an eventual full recovery, was “a Stig,” but not “The Stig”?
That’s my understanding! I suspect he was revealed as “The Stig” because he was the guest, but because the fire suit and helmet are so commonly used by a faceless, nameless (except as “The Stig,”) person, Top Gear probably asked that he be the “official” Stig. Whoever drives the performance cars is brilliant on that show!
I’m off for the night. I will be mostly gone tomorrow...maybe I’ll be here early morning, and late afternoon.
If I’m here in between it will be from my beeber.
Maybe there are multiple Stigs, according the requirements of the manufacturers. I hadn’t thought about that, but certainly they don’t want a disaster in even one $350,000 car.
PS: Sunny, no wind, 71 degrees!
We had 67 for the high. Nice day. The ground is still very wet after the snow.
Agreed.
‘Nite! My stomach is upset again, so I may end up drinking some tea in a bit.
Good idea. We’re giving up alcoholic beverages for Lent, so I’m indulging now in some Pink Drink.
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