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QUOTE(southsider2k5 @ Apr 16, 2006 -> 08:55 PM) Its kinda depressing that it takes Newt Gingrich to get it. http://today.reuters.com/news/articlenews....RICH.xml&rpc=22 Newt saying "We didn't come to Washington to get co-opted by it" is funny because he was co-opted before he ever got to that 1994 election. But his point is pretty clear, the GOP is scared s***less right now about November. They have a chance to lose Duke Cunningham's old seat in a special runoff election in a deep red part of California (yes there are some of those.) And his call to resurrect the 1994 battle cry of reform is a last ditch effort of a movement that bankrupted itself morally and intellectually in less than 12 years.

Sister of Democracy, show some leg!

Our military bases are being built with Illegal Immigrant Labor. http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2006/04/12/...in1494828.shtml

Yes, except that this isn't the same thing as what the labor law that was being protested said. The protest was firing for no reason within the first two years of someone's employment. You don't get that court hearing with less than 24 months seniority in France either.

QUOTE(Texsox @ Apr 12, 2006 -> 06:16 PM) Seems harsh. Could put some people out of business. Someone shows up with a Drivers license and a social security card, it seems like an employer would have to trust that. I guess they will have to be experts on all 50 state driver's licenses and birth ceriticates from every city. I find it hard to fine the victim of a forgery. I guess the next outcry will be a renewed demand for national ID cards. They should be fined for employing illegal workers. However, fines would vary based on whether it was intentional. If it is intentional, the fines should be outrageously huge. Enough to shut them down.

Nuke: you are wrong about French Labor Laws. Dismissal, although not the easiest thing in the world to do - is very doable. Source: The Invest in France Agency http://www.investinfrance.org/France/Doing...ployment_en.pdf

Fox 5 in NYC aired it not too long ago, I'm pretty sure.

Every once in a while, they do something that makes me laugh hysterically but most of the time it just seems stupid and mean spirited.

QUOTE(NorthSideSox72 @ Apr 12, 2006 -> 11:44 AM) Actually, in the 2004 Prez elections, Hispanics voted for Bush almost as much as for Kerry. Its one of the reasons Bush won. The hispanic population is no longer a gimme for the Dems, which I think is one reason why this issue seems to cut across party lines (yes, there are others of course). But everytime people like Tom Tancredo appear on Fox News or CNN with an R right after his name, the hispanic vote shifts a little more blue every time. 2004 would have been a tipping point I think for hispanic politics not being a solid expectation for the Democrats anymore until people like the Minutemen and proposals like the one which DID pass in the House actually start popping out of the woodwork. I think as a result, you're going to see the hispanic vote start to swing back to the Dems - simply because the most vocal people on these issues are Republican or seen as Republican.

Yup, now we have ex-political hacks turned into media-hacks running. Maybe.

QUOTE(NorthSideSox72 @ Apr 11, 2006 -> 08:43 PM) That is certainly part and parcel - enforcement needs to also be directed at companies and individuals already patriated. That would decrease demand for illegal workers. It's sort of like the war on drugs. You don't solve it by going after the user. Because there will always be another user popping up. You go after the supply, because when that dries up - the demand will too, eventually. You don't go after the individual immigrant. Go after the people that bring them in illegally and dangerously. Go after the people that hire them and provide the supply of black market jobs that they're coming here to have. Then the demand for non existent jobs dries up.

http://www.salon.com/politics/war_room/200...2006/index.html Salon requires viewing an ad to see the content. Because I support Salon, I won't post the text of the article in this window.

The problem is that for the last thirty years, the US has had an immigration policy which encouraged the illegal immigration that we're fighting now. The reason? We allowed businesses to draw illegal workers in - and those are the ones who should be punished. I realize that the people who cross over illegally are breaking a law. But at the same time, if these people have been living responsibly and being good neighbors in the community in which they live, I see no reason to punish people to the point of uprooting someone from their home of several years or even decades. Make them pay a fine, sure - but deportation does not have to be the only method of punishment.

They probably already have in some way. And nobody in the muslim world will notice til a government needs to deflect criticism for its own (in)action.

Geoffrey Feiger is their lawyer? Damn. He is a human piece of filth. I had the mispleasure of producing for him for one afternoon as a guesthost at a radio station I worked at. He sued Rite Aid on behalf of some dude that got killed by Security during a fight or something and I think Rite Aid was found guilty to the tune of a billion dollars. Seriously.

Cracked out Whitney Houston is completely filling the void that Kirstie Alley left behind when she lost all the weight.

Even Whitney Houston loved this win:

What happened?

Does this Sisco guy come out to "The Thong Song"?

Actually, it's worked quite well in Scandinavia.

The only bands I feel that should be allowed to write songs about LA are Swedish, like The Raveonettes.

And the DHS hired him despite having a history of this kinda stuff... http://www.cnn.com/2006/LAW/04/07/homeland...=cnn_topstories

I wasn't worried when we were 2% through the season... but now that we're 3% through.... I'm still fine. The truth is, I'd rather be hot in September than in April.

QUOTE(whitesoxfan101 @ Apr 8, 2006 -> 06:21 PM) Not sure why we should care what the worst president since FDR says a quarter century after he left office. But JFK was dead in 1988. Seriously though, you shouldn't care. I know I don't.