-Mike
Certified Mad Doctor and HoP High Priest of Nutella
A buckuht n a hooze! -Valura
According to Heisenberg's Uncertainty Principle of Quantum Dynamics, we may already be making love right now...
"vices are like genitals - most are ugly to behold, and yet we find that our own are dear to us."
(G.W. Dahlquist)
Owner of Dragosani's left half
After much consideration, I find that the view is worth the asphyxiation.
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I may disagree with what you have to say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it.
"but have you considered there is more to life than your eyelids?"
jointly owned by Fire_Spinning_Angel and Blu_Valley
To do: More Firedrums 08 video?
Wildfire/US East coast fire footage
LA/EDC glow/fire footage
Fresno fire
Written by: Patriarch917
Just as concerts, sporting events, movie theaters, and amusement parks should allow people to come and go unfettered
After much consideration, I find that the view is worth the asphyxiation.
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I may disagree with what you have to say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it.
I'll get there too late if I shorten my stride, I'll get there too soon if I find me a ride, I'll never move forward if I try to hide this path that I've troden one step at a time.
Pele
Higher, higher burning fire...making music like a choir
"Oooh look! A pub!" -exclaimed after recovering from a stupid fall
"And for the decadence of art, nothing beats a roaring fire." -TMK
Written by: SethisWritten by: Patriarch917
Just as concerts, sporting events, movie theaters, and amusement parks should allow people to come and go unfettered
There's a reason there are a limited number of places... capacity. How would you like to be in a cinema when there are twice as many people as chairs? How would you like to be at a fottball match where people are being crushed to death against the railings because of people flowing in? How'd you like to be in an amusement park where everyride has a 3 hour queue?
I don't think you would. That's why people sell tickets, and there are set numbers allowed in.
"God *was* my co-pilot, but then we crashed, and I had to eat him..."
According to Heisenberg's Uncertainty Principle of Quantum Dynamics, we may already be making love right now...
"vices are like genitals - most are ugly to behold, and yet we find that our own are dear to us."
(G.W. Dahlquist)
Owner of Dragosani's left half
Written by: Birgit
I don't agree it's easy either... even for Europeans, it's easy enough as a tourist or student, but not if you want to work and possibly stay.
Pele, do illegal immigrants really get food stamps and all that? I would've thought they were trying and avoid the official places as much as possible?
Pele
Higher, higher burning fire...making music like a choir
"Oooh look! A pub!" -exclaimed after recovering from a stupid fall
"And for the decadence of art, nothing beats a roaring fire." -TMK
Written by: Pele
…is your home..where you eat and sleep and pay for everyting...then open to perfect strangers day and night without rule or govern?
"God *was* my co-pilot, but then we crashed, and I had to eat him..."
I'll get there too late if I shorten my stride, I'll get there too soon if I find me a ride, I'll never move forward if I try to hide this path that I've troden one step at a time.
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Town Sued Over Immigration Law
By Jon Hurdle
PHILADELPHIA (Reuters) - Civil rights campaigners sued the Pennsylvania town of Hazleton on Tuesday, seeking to block one of America's toughest local laws against illegal immigrants.
The suit says Hazelton's City Council violated the U.S. constitution when it passed a law denying business permits to companies that hire illegal aliens and fining landlords who rent homes to them.
The measure, which also establishes English as the town's official language, has made Hazleton a focus of the national debate on immigration. The plaintiffs say their suit is the first in the country to challenge a local immigration ordinance.
The suit was filed in federal court for the Middle District of Pennsylvania by groups including the Puerto Rican Legal Defense and Education Fund and the American Civil Liberties Union. They accuse Hazleton of overstepping its authority on the federal matter of immigration and say the law discriminates against immigrants.
"This mean-spirited law is wrong for many reasons but the most obvious is that the city does not have the power to make its own immigration laws," Omar Jadwat, an attorney for the ACLU's Immigrants' Rights Project, said in a statement.
Hazleton Mayor Lou Barletta, a proponent of the Illegal Immigration Relief Act Ordinance, says illegal immigration from Mexico and Central America has increased crime, overburdened schools and hospitals, and eroded the quality of life in the town of some 31,000 people.
Barletta predicted the law would survive a court challenge and said he would take it to the Supreme Court if necessary. "We're not going to be bullied," he said in a statement.
About a third of the Hazelton's residents are Hispanic, up from around 5 percent in 2000, officials say.
At the federal level, the House and Senate are trying to reconcile starkly different immigration bills that call for tougher border controls and provide routes to citizenship for the estimated 12 million illegal immigrants in the country.
Written by: Patriarch917
As usuall, the ACLU can't distinguish constitutional law from a hole in the ground. The constitution gives the power to make immigration law to the U.S. Congress, but all other powers (such as issuing business permits, regulating landlords, or deciding what language to use) are reserved to the states and to the people. The town of Hazleton could not tell people what they must do to immigrate to the U.S., but they can certainly tell people who want a business permit from Hazleton what they must do to get one.
-Mike
Certified Mad Doctor and HoP High Priest of Nutella
A buckuht n a hooze! -Valura
Written by: Doc Lightning
I'm not sure I necessarily agree that the ACLU can't usually distinguish constitutional law from a hole in the ground, but in this case, I am afraid you are correct. I see no constitutional or leagal reason why a town cannot do this. The only thing that might be not OK is the establishment of English as the official language since there is no US official language. Although I see no reason why a town might not do so legally.
Written by: Doc Lightning
I also think that this town is going to realize very suddenly that it has painted itself into a rather tight corner when everyone suddenly has to pay $8 for a plate of pancakes at the local diner because the help is being paid minimum wage and taxes are being taken out.
Written by: Doc Lightning
I also think that they are going to see that their Latino population will continue to grow and Mr. Barletta will soon find find his political coffers quite empty. Latino citizens who vote will also have some sway.
Written by: Doc Lightning
If you think this is not a racially-motivated law, you are stupid, naive, and probably not telling the truth, anyway. However, I have to agree that it is legal.
Written by: Doc Lightning
I think that illegal immigrants make a much larger contribution to our nation's economy than we realize and Hazleton is very soon going to realize it.
Written by: Patriarch917Written by: Doc Lightning
If you think this is not a racially-motivated law, you are stupid, naive, and probably not telling the truth, anyway. However, I have to agree that it is legal.
Since the law treats all races equally, and is designed particularly to help minorities, there is nothing about it that would support a charge of racism. Unless you have some inside knowledge about this town, your accusation of racism is both unfounded and deplorable.
-Mike
Certified Mad Doctor and HoP High Priest of Nutella
A buckuht n a hooze! -Valura
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