Since Congress thinks we need a path to citizenship for illegal aliens, I will propose a path.
1.) Go back to Mexico
2.) Fill out the paperwork to immigrate legally
3.) Come to America legally, stay for 5 years, and apply.
Now for some help by a cultural icon. Dora will simplify this for us. Everyone take out your maps. The path to citizenship is:
Mexico. . . Paperwork. . .America! Mexico. . . Paperwork. . . America! Mexico. . . Paperwork. . . America!
Swiper no swiping.
The beauty of comic storylines is that you can continue them in a serial method, thus creating grand storylines and characterizations that would not be possible in a single issue or in three two hour movies.
I liked the movie in the theaters, but the more I dwell on it the less I like it. I hope they don't make anymore x-men movies. Two hours is not enough to establish a team of superheroes and a team of supervillians.
Hollywood crapped this movie out to make money. Lets bring back all the stars, bring in some other big names, make a lot of stuff blow up, do some amazing special effects, and kill characters for shock value, it will make millions. Oh yeah, write a story loosely base on this famous one to get the fans hopes up.
Halle Berry sucked for the third straight x-men movie. Sure they made the character cooler with special effects, but that doesn't solve her acting problem.
Taken solely as an action movie, it was good. Taken as an X-Men movie, I cried myself to sleep.
This movie took x-men cannon and urinated on it right after they used it to wipe their butts. All the movies have changed some aspects of the story, but this movie borders on blasphemy. The mistreated characters that are well loved and very established. They took several great X-Men story arcs and reduced them to a mediocre story in which to have an epic battle.
I will admit the battle was cool and the team tactics were very cool, but they changed too much for it to be completely enjoyable.
I was disappointed to say the least.
I have an English degree. I love literature. In the literary world, people have been trying to rework classics for years. It never works. No retelling of Romeo and Juliet will ever even pale in comparison to the original. No matter how many times they make Great Expectations into a movie, it always sucks. The nerve of the people to think they are worthy of changing/rewriting the works of Dickens and Shakespeare among oh so many others. Each writer has their own style and cadence and the stories they write work within that style and cadence.
Lets face it screenwriters are not the most talented writers in the world and we let them go wild on some of literatures classics. The X-Men are literature to me. The old story arcs are classics and deserve respect. Something that fan fiction and Hollywood are incapable of showing.
A 50 year old child Molester will be set free on the public for 10 years of probation after a judge decided he might not survive prison due to his height.
This is inexcusable on the judges part. This man just got a get out of jail free card. He is just going to turn around and do this again. Next time he goes before her for yet another molestation charge will she just add to his probation. Maybe she will slap him on the wrist for good measure.
The judge should go to jail for abortion of justice.
Thanks to <a href="http://mypetjawa.mu.nu/"> My Pet Jawa </a> for bringing this to my attention.
What are the last five books that you finished reading?
Joyluck Club-Amy Tan
Rogue Star-Michael Flynn
Fire Star-Michael Flynn
Made in America-Sam Walton
Memoirs of a Geisha-Aurthur Golden
How long did it take you to read them?
A few Weeks a peice except for Fire Star. I was reading that one for about a month.
Did you enjoy reading these books? Why or why not?
I liked all of them. If I don't enjoy a book it usually gets put down and never picked back up.
I said something to my daughter yesterday that I learned in basic training over 10 years ago. It resonated loudly because I have never said this to anyone, only heard it being said to myself and others. I don't think I realized what it meant until I found reason to use it myself. What I said is:
"I can't means I won't, and I won't means I quit."
This obviously does not work in all I can't statement situations, but is relevant in most. It is funny the things that you carry with you.
This week's questions were suggested by Cate.
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Have you ever stumbled on a reading and found the author so charming you started reading their books? Or, have you ever met a formerly favorite author and stopped reading their works because of how they treated their fans?
I am off to cross over the line that separates Middle Tennessee from
East Tennessee. I get to go see my sister graduate high school. It
has been 11 years since I graduated and I really don't understand
these youngsters today. They seem so angsty. My generation wasn't
angsty were we. Gen X was just a little lazy right, and apathetic. I
look forward to the time I will get to spend with my sister and the
great scenic drive that I have in store. I will drive for 4 hours
without passing through a city.
Congratulations Nicole and to all other graduates of 2006. May you
pay tons into social security so I can retire in peace one day.
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Dr. President Bush,
I have been speeding on the local interstate for several years now. I have a family and pay taxes. I have learned English. The problem is that officers of the law want to ticket me for this action. Not only me, but millions of other speeders, or unrestrained drivers as we like to be called. I think that those of us driving at advanced speeds for several years, that also contribute to the economy should receive some sort of amnesty for this. Most of us are not bad people and do not cause accidents or kill people. I am not asking for money back on past tickets, but I think I should get some sort of biometric card that allows me and others like me to speed. Most of us are not bad people and do not cause accidents or kill people. Additionally, I think that several thousand more licenses to speed should be issued every year. Speeding will continue as long as there are speed limits, you may want to think about raising those, after all if there is no speed limit there is no speeding. If need be we are willing to protest by not driving for day. This should bring the American economy to its knees and prove just how much we love this country.
Thank you,
Unrestrained Drivers (we have rights too)
Do you remember that scene at the end of The Never Ending Story where the boy is on the luck dragon and he is flying past everyone he met and they would wave up at him? There was the one last look at all the characters to catch you up and let you know that they were okay. Sometimes I wish I had a luck dragon and could fly by my life and see all the people that I have at one time or another called friends. I have moved quite a bit and have never kept in touch, so it would be quite a few people, some I wouldn't remember until I saw them. Myspace is kind of a luck dragon but you only meet others with luck dragons.
If you know anybody I have once known, leave a comment and fill me in.
She is like the character of Joy (Jaime Presley) on "My Name is Earl," but without the class.
I said something to my daughter yesterday that I learned in basic training over 10 years ago. It resonated loudly because I have never said this to anyone, only heard it being said to myself and others. I don't think I realized what it meant until I found reason to use it myself. What I said is:
"I can't means I won't, and I won't means I quit."
This obviously does not work in all I can't statement situations, but is relevant in most. It is funny the things that you carry with you.
Last night I stayed up way too late and watched the 2005 rendition of Pride and Prejudice starring Keira Knightley. The movie was well cast, but I question the directing and screen-writing.
This film emphasized Elizabeth Bennett and made the movie all about her. In doing this they made Mr. Darcy boring. He is supposed to match wits with Elizabeth, but in the movie Elizabeth always has the upper hand. Mr. Darcy didn't quite come off as a jerk as much as he came off like a bumbling idiot.
The film is based on a short novel and has been successfully made into a compelling five hour mini-series. Yet, this version seems to drag. The plot is accelerated to the point where any storyline other than Elizabeth/Darcy, just loses the viewers interest. Mr. Collins is a great character, and although I was skeptical at first, the actor cast would have played him well.
The best part of the movie was casting Donald Sutherland as Mr. Bennett. He nailed the role to a T.
Overall, this movie does not compare to the book or the BBC mini from '95, although Kiera Knightley is very pleasant to look at for 2 hours.
Thank you,
Budd Black
I don't know if this happens in other cities, but in Nashville, rap groups promote themselves by hanging white bed sheets on fences with the date and location of their performance. This is either really great promotion or it is piss poor.
If you have a location that is high visibility toward your target audience and they don't care how they get the information, it is shear genius. If this is done in an area where people care about the looks of the neighborhood and feel short-changed for the lack of effort, then it comes off as lazy.
I for one feel that it is lazy and it does nothing to bring outsiders to the show. I don't care if it is R. Kelly coming to town, if I see it on a sheet, I am going to think the venue is seedy and that I will not be safe going to the show (if it is R. Kelly I don't care anyways because he is a pedophile). What kind of club resorts to spray painted bed-sheets for advertising. Are Kinko's copies really so expensive that you can't afford a thousand flyers/posters to slap on every pole in town like other genres.
What kind of person allows a bed-sheet with spray painted words on it hung perpetually in their yard. Do they pay this person or do they pick an elderly person they know will not go out and take it down? Doesn't this violate some city beautification ordinance?
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From the window near my office at work, I can see where they are getting ready to build a new building. I work in an area of Nashville called Metro Center and it is, primarily, a business district with some residential areas surrounding. The area where the building is being erected used to be wooded land and we are going to miss the greenery. I stated that it would be okay as long as they put a Wal-Mart there. Wal-Mart, you see, would make life easier and give us a place we could go for a variety of things during lunch. Metro Center has no shopping or banking and only a few restaurant choices (what brand of burger do you want today). This elicited unreasonable hope in many that there would be a Wal-Mart there. We decided that we needed to make a sign out of cardboard that a Wal-Mart was coming soon. That way they would have to put one there. My boss offered twenty bucks for someone to go over and ask them if they where building a Wal-Mart. The building has achieved official joke cliché status. Then one person suggested that they wanted it to be a Hooters. I piped up that they could put the Hooters in the Wal-Mart, a la McDonald's. Walhooters was born and to this day sounds like the best thing they could put there.
This is probably much funnier at work were several other in jokes flow in and out of this one.
ABC has a movie coming up called Avian flu or something like that. This movie will be an over exaggeration of what will happen when the avian flu hits the U.S. I have seen the previews and they are full of people wearing little masks and ransacking grocery stores as dead bodies pile up. It is uncanny how closely this resembles the outbreak in other countries around the world.
Avian Flu Facts:
The Avian flu killed more people last year than cancer, aids, and carnies combined. Wearing your seatbelt reduces the chance of contracting avian flu. The only cure for Avian flu is the tears of Chuck Norris, only Chuck Norris does not cry, ever. The avian flu was bioengineered by the Penguin of Batman fame.
Avian Flu Myths:
You can not get Avian flu from drinking wild turkey, although you still may die. Crows feet are not an early symptom of avian flu. Big bird has not infected the entire staff of Sesame Street. KFC is still safe (they do not use chicken, they were actually sued and can't use the word chicken in their name, false advertising you know). Eating bird droppings will not in fact immunize you from Avian flu.
Yes Avian flu will devastate America. Just remember how bad SARS hurt us.
I will preface my comments with the fact that my wife is an immigrant and fully intends on going to work today.
Today is a day that could teach us all a very important lesson about immigration and its effect on our economy. With thousands, possibly millions, of immigrants cutting work today it could seriously affect some places of business to the point where they have to shut down operations. Millions of people craving an enchilada or a tamale will have to go without. Schools, overcrowded with students, will be a little emptier.
Yes, today is the great non-American walkout. Immigrants have been encouraged to leave their places of work and school today to draw attention to the legislation being considered to help control the illegal immigration problem. Why any legal immigrant would take part in this is unfathomable to me. The legal immigrant went through the lengthy sometimes expensive process of getting their green card. Illegals also reduce wages for all people, especially immigrants with limited English speaking capability.
I hope that legal immigrants do go to work/school today. I hope that businesses do not close their doors today and call the temp agencies to fill in for the day. I hope that business owners that hire illegals will replace the workers that walk off of the job today with people who are legally supposed to be here. I hope students and teachers look around at the classroom and realize that the classroom is better less crowded and that teachers, busy teaching ESL classes could be teaching subjects available for all children. I hope America looks around and sees that we are a better place due to legal immigration, but we can get by and thrive without the illegal population.
This day can accomplish much should we chose to learn from it.
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