Posted on 01/01/2012 8:10:22 AM PST by Gen.Blather
I met some illegal Mexicans last night at a party. Several years ago I stayed with a couple of wonderful Mexican families in the Baja below California. These were well-off people. The homes, on average were beautifully tiled and some of them had mahogany inlaid walls, bookshelves and cabinetry that would cost a hundred-thousand dollars here. So, I’m guessing if they aren’t rich they’re very comfortable. The elderly not as well-off grandfather, while living in Mexico was receiving Social Security from the United States and owned a rent-free apartment in California which he used as his address to receive several forms of assistance checks from Californian agencies. He visited the apartment once a week to re-arrange things and make it looked lived in. He had a car, a Toyota Corolla that looked quite nice and had working air-conditioning. I gathered it was supplied as some form of assistance and he generally left it in California at the apartment. The apartment was about 1100 square feet and very livable. The grandfather told me most of entire complex, easily a 1000 units, were like him, on Californian assistance, but actually living in Mexico.
At the party were a couple of teenage boys from this family. Very nice kids. I’d be proud to have them as my own; diligent, hard working, trouble-free and much more adult than you’d expect from that age. They told me that they’d decided to go to high school in California instead of Mexico. They said that the (California) government gave them an apartment and they travel back to Mexico on the weekends. (I don’t know if they’re staying alone or if a family member is staying with them, but if I had to guess, they came alone.)
When I posted information on this family last time, Freepers angrily asked why I hadn’t reported them. Firstly, I was a well-treated guest. Secondly, this must be obvious to the casual observer. Even if I knew who to report it to in California, which I don’t, it is obvious that this is how it’s done. These people are only taking advantage of “benefits” put there for them. Not to avail themselves of these benefits would be like deciding not to take candy freely offered to you.
I had one that sat on the kitchen counter and seemed to like company. We gave him to our babysitter when we moved from Oklahoma City.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mairzy_Doats
I think it was probably beneath Der Bingster to a song like this. ;o]
...to ^sing a song like this...
Most bettas are very friendly with humans and once they know your schedule, they will greet you when you come in the door.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qeuL5IGimCQ
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q0AqjQ7QWTU
One is a rabbit herding sheep, the other is a rabbit attacking some deer.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9PanG0VF8pQ
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wxb-hjxgAfo
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rlp1e_ZBuoo
Three of rabbits thumping their feet.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1u-2EalfAyU
Distressed rabbit.
What was the cat's name?
Would it be a good name for a Betta?
Howdy or tweet tweet...LOL birdies just singing away still..just luv it! Cold last night 2 when I woke up(hence my name here!!!). Yet warm and toasty in house....
Hope you all have a nice safe day....
I don’t know what the temp is, but the sun has finally broken through the clouds, so my front door is open. Maybe 55 degrees.
I’m SO ready for green, growing things!
The yellow face, it burns us!
*gollum*
We likes fisssssshies.
*groan*
Sorry about that.
Right.
You will pay....eventually...
Dude... I love the Animaniacs. One of Spielberg’s better contributions to the visual arts. That and Who Framed Roger Rabbit...
Who DID frame Roger Rabbit? I watched the movie but I was with Igor, so stupidity ran rampant...(help me out here?)
It was upper 60s here, and supposed to be the same tomorrow. DP took some Offspring to the park this afternoon. Tom and Bill were (supposed to be) doing schoolwork, and Kathleen and I had a nap.
We’ve watched a dozen episodes of “Lie to Me” already. It makes getting up in the middle of the night more bearable.
We all pay, sometime.
The sign said so, there at the riverside.
He noted it, and then turned to the boatman.
“I see that the dread scourge of marketing got to even you.”
Yes, it had
Charon the boatman of the River Styx was dressed in Bermuda shorts, a floppy brimmed hat, sunglesses, and a couple dozen necklaces.
And he wore clashing Doc Martens.
“It’s a statement.” the boatman said slowly.
The freshly deceased man felt abject fear at the visual statement being made in front of him.
“It’s going to get worse from here on in, isn’t it.” he didn’t ask, he knew.
“We now have these neon signs pointing the way to most torments, most helpful I may add.”
Oh how he wished that they’d merely been neon signs.
These were more than just neon signs, these were three dimensional holographic bright nuclear colored neon abominations hanging in the air that one could see from lightyears away.
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