Here Illegally, Working Hard and Paying Taxes
Illyria: Wesley's dead. I'm feeling grief for him. I can't seem to control it. I wish to do more violence. Spike: Well, wishes just happen to be horses today.
'Not Fade Away'
Spike's Bitches 31: We're Motivated Go-getters.
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Tom Scola - Jun 20, 2006 9:40:31 am PDT #793 of 10001
Mr. Scola’s wardrobe by Botany 500
beekaytee - Jun 20, 2006 9:41:37 am PDT #794 of 10001
Compassionately intolerant
Oh man. I'm feeling you Aimee. My online classmates were a revelation in criminal grammar and incredible views. One actually wrote his paper on 'ethics' about 'curing the gays'. Not just gay people in general...but the gays.
I wrote to the prof and expressed my outrage, offering to post a rebuttal but she said she would take care of it. Proving that a vague disclaimer is nobody's friend, she posted some pale thing about 'tolerance', never actually naming the issue. Oy.
eta:Ha, busted my own bad grammar. t /instant karma
Aims - Jun 20, 2006 9:42:18 am PDT #795 of 10001
Shit's all sorts of different now.
Oh, that's not even the worst of it, let me tell you. If participation wasn't a requirement (meaning I actually have to engage some of these people in coversation), I would be doblerizing most of them.
Suzi - tell me it gets better.
One of the women I was talking about my paper with said that she read some book about the trials of motherhood and that she thought "it must have made the obortion[sic] clinics happy" because "it would make women who were unsure of what to do to have the obortion[sic]" I went off.
Aims - Jun 20, 2006 9:44:12 am PDT #796 of 10001
Shit's all sorts of different now.
Tom, thank you so much for that article. I had no idea.
Jessica - Jun 20, 2006 9:44:56 am PDT #797 of 10001
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
Where I'm located at a basic 4 bedroom house goes for over 800 thousand dollars
Regardless, illegal immigrants STILL HAVE TO FOLLOW LAWS. Just because a person got away with breaking one law, one time (the whole getting-into-the-country but) really doesn't mean they get a free pass to ignore all the other ones once they're here. Sheesh.
beekaytee - Jun 20, 2006 9:45:56 am PDT #798 of 10001
Compassionately intolerant
Aaaaah! I know just what you mean!
One, seemingly kind, fellow wrote in response to something I said about being dyslexic. He wanted to know what kind of tools I use because his son is similarly 'afflicted' and, since I seemed smart, he was hoping I could advise. I did the best I could, researching and looking things up. Mostly because I don't really use tools. When I was growing up, dyslexic = stupid and one just got on with it. Anyway, in the end, he asked me, in all earnest I guess, if perhaps I was touched by Satan. He seemed to think his son was. "But we'll do our best for him because he sprang from our loins."
I wish I was kidding.
Typo Boy - Jun 20, 2006 9:47:54 am PDT #799 of 10001
Calli: My people have a saying. A man who trusts can never be betrayed, only mistaken.Avon: Life expectancy among your people must be extremely short.
chokes.
Aims - Jun 20, 2006 9:48:40 am PDT #800 of 10001
Shit's all sorts of different now.
"Maybe your loins were touched by Satan. SATAN! SATAN IN NEW PLACES!"
Lee - Jun 20, 2006 9:49:29 am PDT #801 of 10001
The feeling you get when your brain finally lets your heart get in its pants.
I think I'd rather have my loins touched by Satan than by God.
Amy - Jun 20, 2006 9:49:34 am PDT #802 of 10001
Because books.
That's a really interesting article. I didn't know that either.
many middle class families cannot afford to purchase one, but many are being sold to illegal immigrants because they will put up to 30 people in a house and are not held to the laws as citizens would be
What gets me here is her assumption, as Jessica pointed out, that they're not held to the same laws legal residents are, but that the more people you put in a house apparently means better odds that the mortgage will be paid.