I am part of a discussion group here in Houston, and a few people, apparently upset about President Bush’s stance on illegal immigration yesterday, posted some responses to his plan. This made me upset because they didn’t seem to see or understand the fact that illegal immigrants, while just trying to provide more for their “starving” families, are still here and working in the United States illegally. Here’s what I wrote to them:
I can’t stand it when people claim that we’re disenfranchising illegal workers by forcing them to go back home. They’re here ILLEGALLY. If you ILLEGALLY speed, you will be fined. If you ILLEGALLY take drugs, you will be fined and spend time in jail. If you ILLEGALLY murder someone, you will spend time in jail. Why is it ok that when people ILLEGALLY come into our country and take our jobs (that other Americans supposedly are too good for [in that case, are you saying we're better than illegal immigrants?])? Stop making excuses for ILLEGAL behavior.
Yes, there are a lot of people coming over here and working ILLEGALLY just to bring some money back home for their “starving” families. The problem is that when you let them get away with their ILLEGAL actions, you’re also allowing the bad ILLEGAL immigrants. There are murderers, thieves, and thugs ILLEGALLY crossing our borders on a constant basis, and I don’t believe that there is a reason to sacrifice the SAFETY of my family for the ILLEGAL jobs of ILLEGAL immigrants.
We need to shut the borders down, send all of the ILLEGAL immigrants home, and streamline the immigration process so that those that need jobs can get them and be regulated in their activities during their visit to our country. My great-great-grandfather was a stowaway on a ship from Germany, but when he arrived here in the great United States of America, he registered and became a legal citizen.
Those that want to take advantage of our great country should do so. My only requirement, is that they do so LEGALLY.
Please realize that they are breaking the law, and if you let them slide on that law, you’re probably going to start letting other lawbreakers slide as well.
I wish that every American (blue, red, & in between) can get it through their thick skulls that there IS a procedure to immigrate to America legally, and we shouldn’t just give them a free pass because the procedure is “too hard” to follow.
I’ve been looking at DealDetectives.com for a few weeks now, and I like it. I found a few good deals, and got a heads-up for some really good deals for “Black Friday”. I also found a coupon for 12% off of my first purchase from Overstock.com. I went ahead and bought some of Christle’s Christmas presents with that.
I’ve seen them post some awesome deals for Dell.com (19″ flat panel with 4 usb2.0 ports on the side for under $300.00, and quite a few more) and I just didn’t have the extra cash to take advantage of them.
I think that if I had had my camera as soon as I walked out, it would’ve come out 10 times better.
Things I am thankful for:
– God, for being who He is, and for giving me these and more reasons to be thankful
– My parents, who raised me with the knowledge of God, and set a great example for how to live
– My wife, who raised me the rest of the way
– Alaina, my daughter who made me realize it was time to become a man
– Lily, my second daughter who has made me realize it is time to be a real husband and father
– Our Founding Fathers, who led America in our independence and let us be free
– Our military (my brother Josh included), past and present, who have defended our freedom and fought for our values
– George W. Bush, for his leadership in the War on Terror
– Glenn Beck, last but certainly not least, for his ability to help me see the humor in present times
Happy Thanksgiving,
What are you thankful for?
We were up all day and were all very tired. Here is Lily and me posing for the camera.
After all of the initial stuff, she became the calmest baby I’ve ever seen. I guess the word I’m looking for is passive. She nursed right away, and within the first few times she nursed, it was apparent that she was being fed. She’s very beautiful.
She was born at 12:14am this morning weighing in at 8 pounds 5.8 ounces and measuring up to 19 7/8 inches long. She’s absolutely beautiful.
The doctor checked on Christle around 11:45pm and said that she was 4 centimeters dilated, and it looked like we’d be delivering around 3am this morning. About 10 minutes later, Christle told me to go tell the nurse that she was hurting more than she thought she should be. The nurse came in about a minute later and said that Christle was dilated to 9, almost 10, and things accellerated into overdrive.
We’re greatly blessed.
We got to the hospital around 9:30 this morning, and we’re still waiting to have the baby. Dilation is coming along slowly and the epidural has been applied successfully, and as I’m typing the doctor has just broken her water sack. She’s 3.5 centimeters dilated, and we’re hoping to get to the faster paced stuff pretty quickly.
This episode was great! The only problem I had was with the commercial for Ford. I’m glad that they showed Professor Fine as who he really was. We all, even Clark, know that he’s not dead. Clark seems to be getting smarter.
Clark’s mom got better as soon as Fine “died”. I was surprised that Lana didn’t take any part in the episode. Chloe figured out how to get to the Fortress pretty quickly.
There was one problem, though. Jorel told Clark that “no one can undo what you have set in motion”. The problem is that Clark did it. I guess Jorel isn’t as smart as we thought he was.
Well, Christle’s doctor has scheduled to have everything started early friday morning. Maybe this time we can have a better relationship with the hospital’s schedule. I’m not somebody else’s father, yet.
I was kinda hoping that she’d be born today, because that would’ve put our birthdays exactly 6 months apart. I guess she needs a little more time to grow.
I would like to see businesses across the country start setting up sites that allow their customers to go online and see their current status. I know that a lot of business do this with their sales process, and it is really convenient to be able to check out their site and see if my item’s been packed, shipped, or even what day it should get to my house, but I’m talking about a different kind of service.
Airports let you know how they’re doing on time. You can go to their website, or make a quick phone call to an automated system to see whether flights are on schedule or how far behind schedule they are. It makes it a lot easier to traffic the airport when everyone can get a clear picture of the time they need to pick someone up.
Hospitals, doctors’ offices, dentists’ offices, restaurants, pizza delivery, cable repairmen, phone repairmen, etc. have no such system. These are businesses that would GREATLY increase customer satisfaction. There has to be a way to get software similar to that of airlines.
We’re still waiting to find out when we can get to the hospital, and it’s really frustrating to still not have a clue as to what’s going on! They could probably have a lot fewer calls from people like us who want answers, if they simply gave us a place to stare at with simple explanations for their patients coming in to stare at, and not feel so helpless. With that note, I can also make the case that fewer calls from us would increase their productivity (not having to deal with us), and they wouldn’t fall so far behind.
You’ve probably guessed by now that we are still waiting for room at the hospital. L8r
