I still have a lot on my plate, but things are starting to clear up. So now I’ll simply say I hope the rest of 2009 is nothing like the past 20-some days.

I also hope Obama doesn’t do anything stupid.

I’m out.

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People always ask what my major is, when I tell them I’m a marketing major they tend to look at me. They stare and say something along the lines of, “why not something with computers?” with a puzzled look on their face. It seems like I can’t get away from people second guessing my career choice!

It gets annoying but I deal with it. But I do wonder what they’ll do if I go through and actually go for a double major –the other most likely being journalism or poli-sci. Yikes!

Meanwhile I missed the first presidential debate last night, (long story involving pre-syncope, ha!) But I caught the end and after debate coverage along with the C-Span rerun. I honestly thought McCain and Obama did well. McCain should have and could have hit harder (not that he was easy on O). Obama was too text-book sounding and as always, was hesitant when things were trying to made as clear as possible –AS ALWAYS. With no clear winner, Obama is the winner simply for not being knocked the hell out of the ballpark.

So today, Paul Newman died. He’s been such a part of American culture for so long it really sucks. I hated his politics, especially his support of Ned Lamont against Senator Joe Lieberman in ’06. But he did a lot of good during his golden years, so he was cool in my book.

And finally, I end with a question. When will people wise up? There’s more to politics than rich and poor, Republican and Democrat, Red and Blue, and right and left. I’ve been a Republican for a long time (be-it a somewhat liberal one as far as Republicans go.) But I still get people looking at me as if I’m an idiot. The fact of the matter is I know more about politics than most people who I talk to on any given day. I can identify just about every big-shot political player by looking at them, Republican or Democrat. I know a lot of bills major senators have passed in recent years and I know what they are for. I don’t open my mouth based on bullshit or what I’ve been told to believe, after all I come from a long line of Democrats. I’m simply doing what I know is right and supporting who I believe is right for the ever important job of representing me. I invite any one to debate me on any political matter just don’t demonize me, call me a “traitor,” “hater,” snob, jerk, or idiot. All of which are popular lately. Substance is everything.

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Lately I’ve spoke to or listened to allot of people voice their opinions when it comes to illegal immigrants, I’ve found myself lost in allot of bullshit rhetoric.

On one end of the spectrum you have the “send them home!” folks on the other you get the “they have a right to be here!” and so on. I haven’t really made up my mind on anything up until this point but have a few points to make.

First of all, I don’t blame these people for seeking a better life, infact I know that most of us, Americans, would do the same damn thing. If I was stuck in a country that was corrupt and had essentially no middle class or promise for a better future… I’d run, swim, dig or do whatever else was needed to get the hell out of there. I feel sympathetic for the ones coming across for the sake of living the American dream, I don’t blame them, I do blame their government and ever single elected official who hasn’t put pressure on the governments from when the immigrate, the Mexican government in particular considering most illegal immigrants originate from there.

Now let’s not cover the sun with a single finger like our elected officials seem to –if they even manage to do that. Let’s get serious, we do need them. They do much and bygolly they tend to do it at a great price, ofcourse that’s kept on the DL (‘down low’ for those of you not into acronyms) and played down by most people, but we do need this labor force and theres no sense in denying it, ever single American would be up in arms if from one day to another food prices sky rocketed but that would most certainly happen if we SOMEHOW managed to round up all of the illegal immigrants and nudged them over the border while waving goodbye and trying to get our boots out of those few stubborn ones ass’.

1. We cant possibly send them all back home.
2. The vast majority of illegals here are sweet hardworking honest people.
3. We NEED them and should pretend like we don’t.
4. While some might view the children of illegals as being a drain on our society and school systems in particular. They might financially cause problems but if we educate them to the best of our ability it is far more likely that they won’t cause problems later in their life and that they’ll become hardworking citizens at some point. On the contrary, if we toss them aside they’ll most likely end up on the streets causing more problems. Children are dragged along and shouldn’t be blamed, hated, teased or forgotten.

At the same time we must also admit that

1. They did break the law and knew they were. (children aside)
2. They shouldn’t be given a free pass to citizenship.
3. They don’t deserve to cut ahead of the line of others who have been trying to get in the US legally.

Once again I know I could say more and probably missed allot of points for the sake of making this quick but that’s just some of whats going on in my head.

I don’t see this problem being solved anytime soon, and living on the border this is as touchy as it gets. I get crap from all sides because I don’t agree with either. I’ve been called a traitor simply because my name is Luis and I’m supposed to support those who share names like mine and I’ve been called soft for not wanting to kick them the hell out of here. So I’m screwed all around. It’s a system of needs, rights, wrongs and oh so many smaller possible screw-ups that can be made if our elected officials don’t work something out.

This post dragged on for longer than it should have, I’m done. BTW, I didn’t proofread this feel free to point out any crap.

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