vintage dryer listed.

now dinner.

one ebay listing down. I am going to try to get 4-5 done tonight.

I loaded dishes into the dishwasher, but don't think I have the motivation to wash what's left in the sink. ALso have laundry to fold. DO NOT WANNA!

Shania Twain is wearing harem pants with heels in her Idol mentor shots.

I felt everyone should know this.

Does anyone know if tonight's Lost is really a rerun?

ION, I have to get up at 5 am tomorrow to get to training for my 1 month temp job. My actual work hours will be 2:30 pm to 11 pm. I'm going to be all screwed up in my internal clock!

Love readin b.org on the crackberry, hate posting on it, so please forgive any typos

- why is illegal immigration a problem? 1) it's illegal. 2) in some communities it's a drain on available resources - schools, etc. I know many illegals pay taxes; I assume many don't. Heck many citzens don't, but that's a different rant. 3) I don't want to live in a linguistically Balkanized country. Sorry. Speak whatever you want at home, but English should be the lingua franca. (Am I using that right? It feel like a pun.)

Assimilation is good, when non-Borg-like.

We can't address the real roots of poverty and poor education if we can't teach our language and ideals.

I believe that America is exceptional and millions of people want to live here. But open borders means we grow too fast. That's not evolution; it's chaos.Or if you're Britain or France, it's struggling to retain your culture in the face of a growing cohort of (in their case) largely Muslim immigrants who hate your culture and are violent. (Gross generalization, but the riots around Paris, the burning cars, the slums - those were the result of poor handling of immigration. I don't want that here.)

Home from the dentist. I go back on the 20th for the actual crown. Apparently the dentist who did the original one screwed up royal and fixing it took more work than the dentist or I expected. He said I'd be sore when the numb wore off. Told me to call him if at any point something doesn't seem right - his cell number is on the after hours recorder. And then he prescribed some Vicoprophen.

On the way home I bought some Tortilla soup. Please let it be nom nom nom.

Does anyone know if tonight's Lost is really a rerun?

The internet says so: [link]

Shari, Britain and France are both dealing with the consequences of once being colonizers. The chickens are coming home to roost, so to speak.

I won't even get into the language thing.

We are dealing with the consequences of living next to a nation with a lot of poverty. We are also dealing with the consequences of a very failed (and stupid) "war on drugs". Think Mexico is a mess? We helped create it.

the riots around Paris, the burning cars, the slums - those were the result of poor handling of immigration.

Interesting. I think some people might choose to phrase that as "poor treatment of immigrants."

Shari- I don't know what to do about immigration. I mean, isn't one of our American Ideals "Give me your poor, your tired, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free". On my father's side, I am only second generation Italian, and while I do not know my father's family, I feel that although the Italians, Irish, German, etc immigrants faced a lot of prejudices, they didn't have to worry so much about getting in. I mean, it was tough getting through through, but there were a lot more openings. And we are, of course, a country founded on immigration as every last one of us is an immigrant, except the Native Americans/First Nations/Indigenous people.

And I think the illegal immigrants are here with much the same ideals as my family-- they want to be assimilated while maintaining their culture. They want their children to learn English. it is just the methods of doing this have changed from a sink or swim to helping people along, perhaps in their native language. They want their children to do better than they, and their children's children even better. One of the problems is that we seem to have little enough decent paying low education work to satisfy the naturalized citizens in that bracket, and little enough work even if people were educated. So the problem, perhaps, s fixing the economy so that there is actual work here. SOmetimes, with all the outsourcing to other countries, it feels like our whole economy basically rests on just transferring service from person to the next and on buying things. It almost feels like my work at the university, where different departments "pay" each other for things through account transfers, and we end up buying things from outside vendors rather than the internal vendors who do the same thing, to save money. But there is no money saved, because we just gave all the money outside. So one department looks like, on paper, it spent less money, but the money left the university as a whole.