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To: carranza2 who wrote (36606)	7/4/2008 10:34:19 PM
From: TobagoJack	Respond to of 218092

it takes a certain sort of person to stomach living, working, and being embraced by washington dc, and in general, as a rule, barring few exceptions, a safe bet that these people are pure prime evil of the first order

To: carranza2 who wrote (36606)	7/5/2008 8:02:55 AM
From: nonrev	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 218092

Hi carranza2... thats OK with me. If shes happy and believes she scored points than more power to her. I'm glad to concede minor and unimportant issues for winning the bigger picture.... and thats really what its about today, The future direction of Democracy and America. Hoping for the best but willing to admit that it might not turn out that way. I'm going to give it till around 2010 or 2011 and if the trends/issues are not looking like they will be resolved in favor of freedom/democracy/Constitutional ideals than I'll most likely immigrate... where to is the question? America has always been an grand idea, an experiment in freedom, a place of individual liberty and civic duty. Too many people think America is a physical place where these characteristics abide. America is its people, not its geography. The best thing for us may be a depression sometimes I think.... nonrev

To: carranza2 who wrote (36606)	7/5/2008 12:41:30 PM
From: Ilaine	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 218092

All I see when I look out my kitchen window is trees. I know it's hard, living in New Orleans, to imagine living someplace where the laws are not just on the books, they're actually enforced. It was certainly a shock to me, moving here. And for years, nobody really did anything about illegal immigration, but maybe you've read about the local crackdown on illegal immigration in the newspaper, or seen something about it on TV? Maybe not. I spent ten days in Baton Rouge and New Orleans in May, and was amazed that there was almost no national news in the New Orleans Times Picayune or the Baton Rouge Morning Advocate. The only New York Times was the little skinny thing they sell out in the boondocks and no Washington Post at all.

To: carranza2 who wrote (36606)	7/5/2008 12:45:05 PM
From: Ilaine	Respond to of 218092

All I see when I look out my kitchen window is trees. I know it's hard, living in New Orleans, to imagine living someplace where the laws are not just on the books, they're actually enforced. It was certainly a shock to me, moving here. And for years, nobody really did anything about illegal immigration, but maybe you've read about the local crackdown on illegal immigration in the newspaper, or seen something about it on TV? Maybe not. I spent ten days in Baton Rouge and New Orleans in May, and was amazed that there was almost no national news in the New Orleans Times Picayune or the Baton Rouge Morning Advocate. The only New York Times was the little skinny thing they sell out in the boondocks and no Washington Post at all. Here's one article about soccer teams being afraid to play in Prince William County. washingtonpost.com Here's an article about the ACLU questioning Loudoun County policy. washingtonpost.com Here's an article about illegals moving from Virginia to Maryland and how there's starting to be a backlash against them in Maryland, too. washingtonpost.com Fairfax isn't making a big noise about it but doing things like enforcing zoning laws against multiple families in single family residences, which makes it impossible for immigrants to afford to live here. So when I drive by the 7-11 and instead of seeing a couple dozen guys lined up waiting for work I see none, yeah, that tells me something. When I go to the Chinese all-you-can eat buffet and don't see big Hispanic families all dressed up on Sunday, yeah, that tells me something.