Posted on 12/31/2009 4:42:21 PM PST by freedomyes
you are welcome. . .
They may have waited for years, but if they came before 1924 it wasn't because they were waiting for a visa. More likely they didn't have passage money. Prior to 1924 there were no restrictions on immigration by country. Except for Chinese and Japanese.
the current birth rate here is disturbingly FAR BELOW 2.1 per couple.
Actually, as of 2008 the US fertility rate was 2.1 per woman, the relevant metric. I believe this is by quite a bit the highest in the developed world.
Some other wealthy, and some not so wealthy, countries are near 1.0 and still dropping.
Of course, the births in America are not evenly distributed across the population. Feminists, homosexuals and liberals are much less likely to reproduce than average. For some of the groups that are more fertile, it's not necessarily positive for society as a whole. If you catch my drift.
The late Romans (Byzantines), OTOH, used enunchs extensively, even as generals, often quite successfully.
The rationale was that a eunuch, even an extremely powerful one, could not establish a new dynasty, so had no reason to overthrow the Emperor, and was therefore more likely to remain loyal.
OTOH, any truly competent full male general was a huge threat to the Emperor's power and life, as was shown many times over the course of the Empire.
Thus the incentive that made eunuchs inappropriate to hold power under the Republic made them more attractive in the (late) Empire.
“There is nothing in the story that validates the headline ... the only woman enslaved was an illegal alien”
Which is why it always pays to read the entirety of any article posted here on FR.
This also happened in Quincy MA. A Saudi couple had a Sri Lanken woman living in their apartment as a slave. They were charged with the crime of actually Holding someone as a SLAVE, a Constitutional Federal Offense. It was quite a scandal at the time.
I did read the whole article, then I went back looking again, and checked the headline again, before I made that post.
“I did read the whole article, then I went back looking again, and checked the headline again, before I made that post.”
I could tell. Apparently others didn’t and don’t and should.
They are Luciferians, not commies, not liberals.
They do not make sense to the average thinking person.
This fight is not between flesh and blood, but principalities and powers.
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