Saturday, April 25, 2009
HUMOR and POLITICS:ICE Raids Liberate Terrible New Jobs, Homes For Americans
Ernest T Spoon sent me this from News Mutiny. - OlderMusicGeek
ICE Raids Liberate Terrible New Jobs, Homes for Americans
A series of coordinated raids by the US Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency (ICE) has liberated hundreds of terrible jobs and homes for Americans, ICE officials report.
Conducted over the past two weeks, the raids targeted illegal aliens where they live - in low income housing tenements and encampments throughout California, Arizona, New Mexico, and Texas.
An estimated 2,000 decrepit homes, tents and terrible, low paying jobs previously occupied by the migrants have been made available for American citizens as a result of the campaign, authorities say.
Michael Winter of Stockton, California, unemployed for more than ten months in large part due to competition posed by mostly illiterate, indigenous natives of Mexico who speak little English or Spanish, is thankful for his awful new job picking strawberries five times slower than his predecessors.
"Stooping over ten thousand times a day to hand pick ten thousand berries in the hot sun for half the money it would cost to rent an apartment for my family to sleep in isn't necessarily my dream job, but it definitely beats not having a job and living in a box in some canyon somewhere," Winter said.
Winter’s wife Sarah is as equally enthusiastic about the box she and her family are living in under an elder tree in Rosewell Canyon.
"The garbage bags nailed to the roof help keep some of the rain out," she said, "And the kids like it so far. Like they’re camping. They enjoy pooping in holes in the ground and just tossing their litter wherever. At first I tried to keep all the garbage contained in one place, but then figured, 'f*** it'."
David Loemann of the Conservative Coalition of America applauded the ICE raids: "In today's globalized, free market world, we've come to recognize that laws against business, and Mexicans, are inherently evil."
A link to the original site
ICE Raids Liberate Terrible New Jobs, Homes for Americans
A series of coordinated raids by the US Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency (ICE) has liberated hundreds of terrible jobs and homes for Americans, ICE officials report.
Conducted over the past two weeks, the raids targeted illegal aliens where they live - in low income housing tenements and encampments throughout California, Arizona, New Mexico, and Texas.
An estimated 2,000 decrepit homes, tents and terrible, low paying jobs previously occupied by the migrants have been made available for American citizens as a result of the campaign, authorities say.
Michael Winter of Stockton, California, unemployed for more than ten months in large part due to competition posed by mostly illiterate, indigenous natives of Mexico who speak little English or Spanish, is thankful for his awful new job picking strawberries five times slower than his predecessors.
"Stooping over ten thousand times a day to hand pick ten thousand berries in the hot sun for half the money it would cost to rent an apartment for my family to sleep in isn't necessarily my dream job, but it definitely beats not having a job and living in a box in some canyon somewhere," Winter said.
Winter’s wife Sarah is as equally enthusiastic about the box she and her family are living in under an elder tree in Rosewell Canyon.
"The garbage bags nailed to the roof help keep some of the rain out," she said, "And the kids like it so far. Like they’re camping. They enjoy pooping in holes in the ground and just tossing their litter wherever. At first I tried to keep all the garbage contained in one place, but then figured, 'f*** it'."
David Loemann of the Conservative Coalition of America applauded the ICE raids: "In today's globalized, free market world, we've come to recognize that laws against business, and Mexicans, are inherently evil."
A link to the original site
Friday, April 24, 2009
CULTURE/SOCIETY and POLITICS: My Earth Day Tradition Continues
This is from me, and not some reprinted material. - OlderMusicGeek
Well, for the second year, I've continued my Earth Day tradition of turning all my electrical stuff off and even unplugging them, so the clocks and little computers in them aren't sucking electricity too.
I did it last year, and my daughter wasn't too thrilled with it. I thought she would never survive the computer withdraw!
Well, this year didn't go much better.
I didn't even realize it was Earth Day until I got at work. I was going to walk on Earth Day, but it was a little late now!
I still went home at lunch and unplugged everything but the fridge!
And at work, I survived without my mp3 player! It was hard, but somehow I managed through!
Then I walked to my daughter's school to get her instead of picking her up with the car. She had called me and said she would meet me half-way.
When I saw someone down the road, I waved. I didn't get a response. So I jumped up and down and waved my arms wildly. She finally waved back.
Then I was thinking, what if it isn't her?
But it was. I told her what I was thinking, and she said that she was thinking that if that wasn't me, she was really going to be scared!
Well, last year, I agreed to go out to eat if we could go somewhere where they didn't use any power to make the food. My daughter thought of getting untoasted sandwiches at Subway's!
I agreed to do it again this year. So I asked her if she wanted to go straight to Subway's! She did!
So we walked the 2 miles or so that Subway was from her school.
For half the way there, my daughter tried to convince that I should let her on the computer because of all the things she did for Earth Day at her school.
She talked about how she planted a tree and hurt her fingers, how she picked up a park and cut her finger on glass, how they had to learn without overhead projectors and I don't remember what else!
But I held firm.
Well, to fast forward, on the way home from Subway's, my daughter bumped into a school friend at a park and spent the evening playing with there anyway.
And me, not thinking, used the cellphone to talk to an old friend. I thought afterwards, that was using power that I shouldn't be using on Earth Day! Dang, next year, I'll only take emergency calls!
And my daughter did get to get on the computer anyway, because she had some schoolwork to do. But I made her unplug it again once she was finished!
And that was pretty much it! But I did what I could to help the planet for the day!
Well, for the second year, I've continued my Earth Day tradition of turning all my electrical stuff off and even unplugging them, so the clocks and little computers in them aren't sucking electricity too.
I did it last year, and my daughter wasn't too thrilled with it. I thought she would never survive the computer withdraw!
Well, this year didn't go much better.
I didn't even realize it was Earth Day until I got at work. I was going to walk on Earth Day, but it was a little late now!
I still went home at lunch and unplugged everything but the fridge!
And at work, I survived without my mp3 player! It was hard, but somehow I managed through!
Then I walked to my daughter's school to get her instead of picking her up with the car. She had called me and said she would meet me half-way.
When I saw someone down the road, I waved. I didn't get a response. So I jumped up and down and waved my arms wildly. She finally waved back.
Then I was thinking, what if it isn't her?
But it was. I told her what I was thinking, and she said that she was thinking that if that wasn't me, she was really going to be scared!
Well, last year, I agreed to go out to eat if we could go somewhere where they didn't use any power to make the food. My daughter thought of getting untoasted sandwiches at Subway's!
I agreed to do it again this year. So I asked her if she wanted to go straight to Subway's! She did!
So we walked the 2 miles or so that Subway was from her school.
For half the way there, my daughter tried to convince that I should let her on the computer because of all the things she did for Earth Day at her school.
She talked about how she planted a tree and hurt her fingers, how she picked up a park and cut her finger on glass, how they had to learn without overhead projectors and I don't remember what else!
But I held firm.
Well, to fast forward, on the way home from Subway's, my daughter bumped into a school friend at a park and spent the evening playing with there anyway.
And me, not thinking, used the cellphone to talk to an old friend. I thought afterwards, that was using power that I shouldn't be using on Earth Day! Dang, next year, I'll only take emergency calls!
And my daughter did get to get on the computer anyway, because she had some schoolwork to do. But I made her unplug it again once she was finished!
And that was pretty much it! But I did what I could to help the planet for the day!
Wednesday, April 22, 2009
SPIRITUALITY/RELIGION, CULTURE/SOCIETY and POLITICS: America Becoming Less Christian, Survey Finds
This is from CNN. I edited down some. - OlderMusicGeek
CNN) -- America is a less Christian nation than it was 20 years ago, and Christianity is not losing out to other religions, but primarily to a rejection of religion altogether, a survey published Monday found.
Survey finds percentage of of Americans identifying themselves as Christian has fallen over two decades.
Seventy-five percent of Americans call themselves Christian, according to the American Religious Identification Survey from Trinity College in Hartford, Connecticut. In 1990, the figure was 86 percent.
William Donohue, president of the Catholic League said he thinks a radical shift towards individualism over the last quarter-century has a lot to do it.
"The three most dreaded words are thou shalt not," he told Lou Dobbs. "Notice they are not atheists -- they are saying I don't want to be told what to do with my life."
At the same time there has been an increase in the number of people expressing no religious affiliation.
The survey also found that "born-again" or "evangelical" Christianity is on the rise, while the percentage who belong to "mainline" congregations such as the Episcopal or Lutheran churches has fallen.
One in three Americans consider themselves evangelical, and the number of people associated with mega-churches has skyrocketed from less than 200,000 in 1990 to more than 8 million in the latest survey.
Watch CNN report on new study »
The rise in evangelical Christianity is contributing to the rejection of religion altogether by some Americans, said Mark Silk of Trinity College.
"In the 1990s, it really sunk in on the American public generally that there was a long-lasting 'religious right' connected to a political party, and that turned a lot of people the other way," he said of the link between the Republican Party and groups such as the Moral Majority and Focus on the Family.
Watch author on mixing religion and politics »
"In an earlier time, people who would have been content to say, 'Well, I'm some kind of a Protestant,' now say 'Hell no, I won't go,'" he told CNN.
And, he said, it is now more socially acceptable than it once was to admit having no religion.
"You're not declaring yourself a total pariah. The culture has changed in a way that makes it easier to say, 'No, I don't have a religion.'" Obama mentioned people without faith in his inaugural address in January, making him the first president to do so.
In the survey, one in five Americans said they have no religious identity or did not answer the question.
The rise in what the survey authors call "nones" is the only trend reflected in every single state in the study, Silk said.
"We don't see anything else in the survey that is nationwide," he told CNN.
Another finding is the percentage of Catholics in the United States has remained steady at about one in four since 1990, while the percentage of other Christians has plummeted from 60 percent to 50 percent.
The survey polled 54,461 Americans between February and November of last year. Pollsters conducted the research in both English and Spanish.
The survey is the third in a series, following polls in 1990 and 2001.
All About Religion • Christianity • Islam • Judaism
A link to the original and complete article
CNN) -- America is a less Christian nation than it was 20 years ago, and Christianity is not losing out to other religions, but primarily to a rejection of religion altogether, a survey published Monday found.
Survey finds percentage of of Americans identifying themselves as Christian has fallen over two decades.
Seventy-five percent of Americans call themselves Christian, according to the American Religious Identification Survey from Trinity College in Hartford, Connecticut. In 1990, the figure was 86 percent.
William Donohue, president of the Catholic League said he thinks a radical shift towards individualism over the last quarter-century has a lot to do it.
"The three most dreaded words are thou shalt not," he told Lou Dobbs. "Notice they are not atheists -- they are saying I don't want to be told what to do with my life."
At the same time there has been an increase in the number of people expressing no religious affiliation.
The survey also found that "born-again" or "evangelical" Christianity is on the rise, while the percentage who belong to "mainline" congregations such as the Episcopal or Lutheran churches has fallen.
One in three Americans consider themselves evangelical, and the number of people associated with mega-churches has skyrocketed from less than 200,000 in 1990 to more than 8 million in the latest survey.
Watch CNN report on new study »The rise in evangelical Christianity is contributing to the rejection of religion altogether by some Americans, said Mark Silk of Trinity College.
"In the 1990s, it really sunk in on the American public generally that there was a long-lasting 'religious right' connected to a political party, and that turned a lot of people the other way," he said of the link between the Republican Party and groups such as the Moral Majority and Focus on the Family.
Watch author on mixing religion and politics »"In an earlier time, people who would have been content to say, 'Well, I'm some kind of a Protestant,' now say 'Hell no, I won't go,'" he told CNN.
And, he said, it is now more socially acceptable than it once was to admit having no religion.
"You're not declaring yourself a total pariah. The culture has changed in a way that makes it easier to say, 'No, I don't have a religion.'" Obama mentioned people without faith in his inaugural address in January, making him the first president to do so.
In the survey, one in five Americans said they have no religious identity or did not answer the question.
The rise in what the survey authors call "nones" is the only trend reflected in every single state in the study, Silk said.
"We don't see anything else in the survey that is nationwide," he told CNN.
Another finding is the percentage of Catholics in the United States has remained steady at about one in four since 1990, while the percentage of other Christians has plummeted from 60 percent to 50 percent.
The survey polled 54,461 Americans between February and November of last year. Pollsters conducted the research in both English and Spanish.
The survey is the third in a series, following polls in 1990 and 2001.
All About Religion • Christianity • Islam • Judaism
A link to the original and complete article
Monday, April 20, 2009
HUMOR and CULTURE/SOCIETY: Porn Films You Probably Don't Want To See
This is from me, and is not reprinted from somewhere else. - OlderMusicGeek
We got the following email at work...
If you receive an email from someone you do not know and subject line that is not clear, DO NOT OPEN THE EMAIL. The DHS system is receiving some SPAM that is very pornographic and we all need to take special attention. The IT staff are working to block these from our email but the senders are making changes so the blocks do not always work.
Sorry for the inconvenience.
The Ex-Marine co-worker sent this email to me...
I think if some examples were sent out, such as but not limited to Busty Babes of Babylon or Boodilicious Twelve, we could a much better job of identification and removal. Of course those examples would be strictly for education purposes. What do you guys think?
My response...
I think those would beat something like "Diabolic Deeds of a Data Entry Diva" or "Malicious Meanderings of a Mauling Mail Opener"!
I pictured this data entry gal in a tight dress calling an IT guy who shows up looking like no real IT guy in the real world!
"I'm a bad girl. I spilled coke all over my keyboard. I guess I'll have to punished."
"Oh, it seems there's a socket that needs filled!"
And that made me think of other porn titles, ones that you wouldn't see too much, or would at least have a limited audience...
The Delicious Deeds at the Dirty Dungeons And Dragons Game
The Rifling and Ransacking of the Rowdy Role-Play Klingons
The Creepy Caresses at the Kinky Comicbook Shop Owner
The Leery Looks of the Leacherous LARPers
If you can think of others, feel free to add them in the comments section!
We got the following email at work...
If you receive an email from someone you do not know and subject line that is not clear, DO NOT OPEN THE EMAIL. The DHS system is receiving some SPAM that is very pornographic and we all need to take special attention. The IT staff are working to block these from our email but the senders are making changes so the blocks do not always work.
Sorry for the inconvenience.
The Ex-Marine co-worker sent this email to me...
I think if some examples were sent out, such as but not limited to Busty Babes of Babylon or Boodilicious Twelve, we could a much better job of identification and removal. Of course those examples would be strictly for education purposes. What do you guys think?
My response...
I think those would beat something like "Diabolic Deeds of a Data Entry Diva" or "Malicious Meanderings of a Mauling Mail Opener"!
I pictured this data entry gal in a tight dress calling an IT guy who shows up looking like no real IT guy in the real world!
"I'm a bad girl. I spilled coke all over my keyboard. I guess I'll have to punished."
"Oh, it seems there's a socket that needs filled!"
And that made me think of other porn titles, ones that you wouldn't see too much, or would at least have a limited audience...
The Delicious Deeds at the Dirty Dungeons And Dragons Game
The Rifling and Ransacking of the Rowdy Role-Play Klingons
The Creepy Caresses at the Kinky Comicbook Shop Owner
The Leery Looks of the Leacherous LARPers
If you can think of others, feel free to add them in the comments section!
Sunday, April 12, 2009
Easter Posts
Well, I didn't have the computer this week, so I wasn't able to do any Easter post like I usually do, but below is a link to previous ones. - OlderMusicGeek
Easter posts
Easter posts