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Amnesty For Illegals

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It's hard to believe that this crazy black woman (Cynthia McKinney) is the representative for the state of Georgia. She's been all over the news this week after striking a congressional police officer because he tried to detain her after she refused to stop at a security checkpoint. She claimed that "he should have recognized me" even though she wasn't wearing her congressional security pin which would have instantly identified her as a congresswoman and had recently changed her hair from (get this) her normal corn rows. This isn't her first run in with security personnel in Washington and seems to be a pattern. Just another angry black woman whose let a little power go to her head and then tries to play the age old race card whenever she gets in trouble.

It looks like the 11 MILLION ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS currently residing in America will soon be getting amnesty which just goes to show you how fucked up our government is. The House and Senate are close to reaching a deal that would put illegal immigrants on the path to citizenship while simultaneously sending a clear message to the millions more waiting in the wings that it's ok to enter the U.S. illegally because eventually you'll be granted amnesty. All of this is a result of "political pressure" from the millions of illegal immigrants who have protested in recent weeks over legislation that would enforce our immigration policy. Unbelievable.

Personally, I think it's time to end ALL immigration to the United States and yes...build a huge fucking wall. It's not just about illegal immigrants, it's also about the billions of tons of illegal narcotics flowing across our southern border each year. Drugs which fuel the violent street gangs and fill the streets of the inner cities with crime and violence.  

We have enough poor, huddled masses here now. At what point do we wake up and realize that if everyone comes to America, everything that is great about America will die. Not to mention the fact that American culture is being eroded by the influx of dozens of new cultures from both legal and illegal immigrants. Do you really want to have choose 1 for English, 2 for Spanish, 3 for Arabic, 4 for Chinese, etc., everytime you make a call to a major company?

But maybe we deserve that. When the American Dream finally does die maybe the only people we'll have to blame is ourselves for not standing up to our government and our representatives and demanding that they enforce our laws and secure our borders. Maybe it's our fault for believing the myth that Americans can't mow their own lawns, wash their own cars or perform menial jobs such as cleaning hotels or picking lettuce.

Before the disastrous immigration Bill of 1965, these jobs were somehow being done by Americans without the need for millions of illegal immigrants and the country seemed to be better for it. Many of these jobs were performed by young people which instilled them with real work ethic and put them on the road to be responsible human beings unlike today's kids who spend all their free time listening to rap music and playing Grand Theft Auto.

Having said all that, I love America and count my lucky stars that I was born here instead of any other place on this messed up rock we call Planet Earth. I'm just glad that I won't be here 200 years from now when America is so culturally fractured that it starts tearing itself apart.

For now, I guess I'll have to deal with pressing 1 for English.

Whether she's innocent or not...who cares, she still can't sing as good as some of the remaining contestants. Yeah, she's very attractive. Big whup! Why is it that everything has to depend on how a person looks and not for her actual talent?!? Sex sells and it sucks! Not everyone wants to (or has to) show their body in order to make it in the business.

As for Carrie and her song "Jesus Take The Wheel"...uh...the American Idol is not a show for only one kind of music. It's called American Idol not The Rocker Idol, The Country Idol, The R&B Idol...it's for all kinds of music and all kinds of lyrics...for all kinds of people.

Now...on to the prom dress issue...

Obviously, Jimmy hasn't seen many prom dresses or evening gowns. Granted, the one KP is wearing is hot, but I've seen hotter. So take a shower, would ya, Jimmy?!

LOL!    That means laugh out loud, people!     I'm NOT pissed at JP.com!

Yes...I know I'm two days behind on updates but believe it or not, as much I would like for my life to revolve around my website, it doesn't! Having said that...here are a bunch of updates for you...Enjoy!

I've been reading about this for a few weeks now and Ryan Seacrest even mentioned it last night on American Idol. It seems Kellie Pickler isn't as innocent as she'd have everyone believe but all I can say is..."damn, what a prom dress!!"

Let me say that again..."damn, what a prom dress!!" I don't really know a lot about prom dresses but that has got to be the best one I've ever seen!

Whether she's faking her dumb blonde routine or not, she's still getting my vote at least till I have to choose between her and Katherine and/or Chris. At least she's more interesting than Carrie Underwood. I mean really, who wins American Idol and then comes out with a song called Jesus Take The Wheel? Please!

If Kellie Pickler wins her first song could be called "I'm A Minx!" The lyrics could go something like..."I'm a minx, and I'm ballsey, and I ain't never had no calamari..." LOL!  

Everyone should know by now that we're big into American Idol and we're doing our part to make sure that our choices make it to the final rounds. After watching last night's show we programmed all our phones (we have a lot) to redial and cast votes for Chris, Kelly and Katherine for the rest of the night. Hopefully Bucky will get kicked off tonite.

Last night's show was actually kind of boring with the exception of Simon and Ryan throwing personal jabs at each other and Paula's "odd" behavior. I seriously think Paula was 'hopped' up on something last night. She was really annoying (as usual) but all the judges got on my nerves last night.

...or at least the next best thing!

The Atomic Punks & Monkey Business were playing at the Galaxy down in the real O.C. this weekend so Tuti, Steve, LT, & I went down to check them out. Vince Neil's son was also there performing with his Motley Crue tribute band but we chose to have a few cold ones in the parking lot before heading in. We got in just as Monkey Business (Skid Row tribute band) started and, at least for me, they were awesome!

After their set was over, LT and I went to get some more brewskies and got to watch two glammed up rock chicks engage in a serious cat fight (on a stairwell none-the-less) after one girl used the magical "C" word on the other.

Naturally, we were on the other side of the singer in this photo!

Finally, it was time for the main event...The Atomic Punks. They're the biggest (and best) Van Halen tribute band on the planet and I swear the lead singer looks, acts, dresses and sounds just like old school David Lee Roth. All they play is old school Van Halen and it's just like being at a Van Halen concert. If they played there every weekend, I think I'd be there at least 2 weekends a month. Hopefully they'll be around this summer.

It still blows my mind that great music has been pushed underground in favor of all the monkey music that gets played on TV and radio today.

Years ago when we moved to Redondo Beach all our east coast peeps envisioned us living in L.A. where crazy people are on every street corner and murders and hold-ups happen all the time but nothing could be further from the truth. We rarely see anything "crazy" where we live and I feel safer here than I ever would in my hometown of South Boston, VA.

Having said, I had my second encounter with a crazy person the other night. Kim had taken some nighttime cold medicine and gone to bed and I stayed up to watch the Colbert Report when I heard someone screaming out in the street. I ran to the front door and stepped outside to see what moron was disturbing the peace.

Walking down the street is a guy dressed from head to toe in all black clothing, screaming at nothing in particular and looking like he wanted to murder the world. We locked eyes for a moment at which point he raised his fist in the air and then beat it on his chest like he was King Kong or something. I guess some people would have been frightened at this point but it's amazing how calm you can remain when you keep a loaded gun in the house. I know that having guns isn't for everyone and certainly not for people who don't know if they'll pull the trigger at the moment of truth...but I'm not one of those people.

I simply stepped back inside, locked the door and went upstairs to see what he was gonna do from the upstairs window (and to be closer to my gun) but he just kept walking down the block...screaming and beating his chest the whole time.

Sometimes a little excitement from crazy people is good. Gives me something to put on here anyway.

Having been out here almost 6 years now and having only had 2 encounters with crazy people, I guess we can expect our next encounter sometime in 2008 or early 2009. :-p

Kim has been sick for the better part of the last week and is just now getting back to her old self. She came down with a severe cold and took a few days off from work. In an effort not to get me sick, we both kept our distance for a few days which left me kinda feeling lonely. She'd be at one end of the couch and I'd be at the other or I'd be upstairs and she'd be downstairs. I walked around for the past few days singing "there's a stranger in my house" by Ronnie Milsap.

By the time Sunday got here I was more than ready to have "my Kim" back as I haven't been able to talk and laugh and joke with her the way I normally do so I've been lonely these past few days. Granted, my loneliness paled in comparison to how miserable she felt but luckily, she's turned the corner and started to smile again...and so have I. :-)

I've always teased my good friend Chad about his emails because he usually only checks his email every few months or sends his responses in ALL CAPS which he refers to as "the big pencil". Last week he sent his first email of 2006 which was a political forward so I emailed him back to say "hey" and see how he, Sara and the baby were doing.

Here was his elaborate response:

All I could do was laugh but then again, maybe short and to the point is the way to go. Chad is a member of law enforcement hence the COPS reference.

Over 500,000 people protested in Los Angeles on Saturday over the legislation currently making it's way thru Congress that would begin cracking down on illegal immigration primarily by building fences along one-third of the U.S. Mexico border and making it a felony to be in the U.S. illegally. It seems ironic to me that people who are here illegally would protest our government trying to enforce our immigration policies. That would be like me stealing a bunch of clothes from a department store and the staging a protest in the parking lot against shoplifting laws. I should also demand shoplifter's amnesty so I can keep all the clothes!

I have many friends and clients here in California that migrated to this country legally and I have no problems with that but allowing over 1,000 people a day to simply walk into this country is just unacceptable. Granting amnesty to the over 12 million illegal aliens currently residing in the U.S. is just insane!

Our country has immigration laws and they should be enforced! Illegal immigrants don't pay income tax yet they use all the same public resources that we the taxpayers provide. Not only that but many illegal immigrants send over $20 BILLION untaxed U.S. dollars back to their countries of origin every single year.

If the people of South and Central America want the kind of opportunities that America provides then they should rise up and overthrow their corrupt governments and establish democracy in their own country. If all the impoverished people of the world come here, the American dream and everything that's great about our country will cease to exist.

It's time we built a wall (not fences) and pulled our troops out of Iraq and put them on the southern border. I'd much rather have our troops guarding against illegal immigration and the huge influx of illegal narcotics which cross our southern border each year than fighting a lost cause in Iraq. Sadly, I expect our inept president and government will give in to public pressure (a lot of whom can't vote mind you) and do nothing to stop this problem.

Something to think about....if Osama Bin Laden or any other terrorist wanted to enter our country, all they'd have to do is find safe passage to Mexico and then they could just walk across the border.

I really need to keep my video camera charged, ready and waiting in the bedroom (not for that...although....) because on several occasions we have witnessed one of the funniest sites to be seen out here...watching Asian people parallel park. We have some Asians leaving a few doors up and a few doors down from us and it's amazing how long it takes them to parallel park. Last night we watched a woman struggle to back into a spot for several minutes in spite of the fact that there were absolutely no cars for 30 of 40 feet. She could have just driven straight into the spot but for some reason she decided to back into it for about 3 minutes before making her daughter get out and tell her how close she was to the curb. That lasted another 2-3 minutes. If I could get that on camera I'm pretty sure I could get it played on Break.com.

We met up with our 'West Coast Peeps" on Friday night for a few rounds of bowling in El Segundo. It'd been a long time since either of us bowled (years actually) so we didn't exactly bring our "A" game but we still had blast. Bowling is always fun when you're in the company of friends and having a few cold ones to boot. Looking forward to doing it again soon!

We are in full American Idol mode now that it's down to the final 12 and we've already picked our top 2 contestants! We're totally pulling for the rocker dude Chris Daughtry who has rocked the show virtually every week so far and last night's show was no exception. We were a little worried cause all the contestants had to sing a Stevie Wonder song but we forgot that the Red Hot Chili Peppers did a rock cover of Higher Ground back in the 90's and of course that's exactly what Chris did. He blew everyone else away!

Another interesting fact about Chris...after doing a Fuel song a few weeks ago the band offered him the job of being their new lead singer. He had no choice but to turn it down because he's under contract with American Idol. This dude is on his way and we couldn't be more excited.

Having lavished enough praise on this guy, our pic for runner up is Katharine McPhee who's right here from LA. She can definitely sing and she's also got the looks. So even though we just got into the top 12, we've already picked our top 2 finalists.

\m/  Chris Daughtry  \m/ Our pick for the next American Idol	Katherine McPhee Our pick for Runner Up