Epic Guide|Mostly Harmless

I was watching the news last night when I saw a story on the many demonstrations being held by illegal aliens through out the nation. After the initial thought: “There they all are, why aren’t the police arresting them?” I went on to think: “Why aren’t we protesting them?” It might be because we work… (That was a joke) But seriously why aren’t we protesting illegal aliens? You may have heard all the pro-illegal rhetoric on the news, like: (insert Mexican accent) “I just want help my family. Why is that illegal?” “We make the economy run, we do the jobs no one else will do.” and “America was founded on Immigration.” Now, while these are all great emotional rousing arguments, they have flaws. One, America was founded on LEGAL Immigration, hence the reason we have Ellis Island. Two, the jobs you do are jobs that no one will do because you do it below minimum wage, the business owners are breaking the law and making a bundle of cash because you do it for a few bucks cheaper. Personally, I wouldn’t work for $4 an hour; I can’t afford to do that because I don’t want to live share a bedroom with twenty other people. Furthermore, I know people would do those jobs because I know people who have, I know people who work fast food, I know people who work as janitors and I know people who mow other peoples lawns, all American citizens. Three, if you want to help your family, I am absolutely fine with people who move here LEGALLY, maybe you should do that.

But beyond all the emotional rhetoric, here are some of the facts. California alone pays over $10 billion dollars each year for healthcare, schooling and incarceration of illegal aliens. That is about $1500 per household. Furthermore, our economy is losing $20 billion dollars that is being sent to the corrupt government of Mexico, a place that would be a terrific place to live; full or farmable land and resources along with tourism, however there is one of the most corrupt governments in the world there. (For example take a look at the Tlatelolco Massacre where hundreds of students were killed with machine guns.) But beyond the corrupt government, there is a nice place to live, and the illegal aliens want to live there, they are only here to drain our economy then move back; hence the work Aliens.

Furthermore, 17% of all inmates in federal prison are illegal, and in 2004 illegals accounted for 95% of all outstanding homicide warrants in LA and two-thirds of all un-served felony warrants. Illegal Aliens have an enormous crime base, and make up plenty of the gang members in America.

Now on the flipside, 62% of illegals pay income tax and 66% do contribute to social security. Further more, only 56% of the total number of immigrants came from Mexico; however much of that 44% came from through Mexico from Central America, ironically it is a felony to be in Mexico illegally (apparently the Mexican government likes American money coming to them only.) Also 1/5 of all Mexican-born people live in the USA. And of the 11 to 12 millions illegal immigrants in America, two-thirds or 8 million have arrived in the last 10 years.

So here’s my idea. Congress wants to reward the Illegal Aliens who have lived here the longest by allowing them to stay. Honestly, that is incredibly retarded; we should not reward the criminals who have been breaking the law the longest. I say, if you have been paying taxes you will be aloud to apply for citizenship or a green card (I am being VERY lenient here). If you haven’t been paying taxes, you are gone. Then we build a wall, not a fence, but a wall that rivals the Great Wall of China. (Don’t worry; the $10 billion dollars we were spending should be able to pay for it.) We make being here illegally a felony. We encourage Mexico to reform its corruption. And we, along with the politicians should stop even caring about the illegal alien protests, they don’t vote and if you are not an American citizen you don’t have a say on American laws. Finally, we defiantly, absolutely should put it law that English is the national language, it’s getting to the point where I cant ever order a Big Mac without breaking out my high school Spanish book.

Beyond economics and laws, here is a quote that I found that, being from Southern California, made me smile, “As far as I’m concerned, anyone who comes here and makes the effort to become an American, and to subscribe to our ideals and values, is welcome. Those who prefer to maintain their primary allegiance to another country need to go back to that country, rather than trying to make mine a mirror image of the Third World hellhole they hated so much that they risked their lives to flee it.” - Dale Franks.

I got lots of my facts from AlphaPatriot.com.

So, I just went to V for Vendetta, and let me say, it is a relief to finally go to a good movie.  V for Vendetta is a movie about a 17th century-mask wearing terrorist who uses his knife skills to bring down a big-brother reminiscent society along with winning the heart of Natalie Portman after he shaves her head.  V for Vendetta is made by the Wachowski brothers, the same guys who made the matrix.  While I would give V for Vendetta a good grade, i do have one problem with it. 

The world of V for Vendetta is based on the pretences that a british conservative party snatched away control then used its power to make everyone conform to their standards.  While this part of the plot did not bother me, it bothers me that some people might actually think that is what the conservatives in our own country would seek to do.  Which is not true.  Many people think that conservatives, particullarly Republicans, are evil, if that were true, I would be the devil.  Last time I checked, i didnt have horns, and I am more pale than I am the color red.  For some reason, V for Vendetta, takes time to show how evil government hates gays and kills them, I dont hate them, I don’t want to eliminate them from Earth, just dont think they should get married.  This part of the movie seems more like a political jab than an actually nessessity to the movie.  The movie also points out that the government attacked themselves in order to scare the people into control.  It mirrors the very FICTIONAL Michael Moore film, Ferinheit 911.  This bugs me, for obvious reasons.  But I have to get back to work, the bottom line is, besides the political jabs, V for Vendetta kicks ass.  {I didnt feel like spell checking, feel free to do it yourself.}

Google has a great April’s Fools Joke, new Google Romance.  Check is out at http://www.google.com/romance/tour.html

WordPress Merges with Textpattern, announced just this morning on WordPress.org. It will now be called WordPattern, and can be found at http://www.wordpattern.org.

This is a huge deal, helping position WordPress in the with the top blog tools like Blogger and MovableType (MT). I love Word Press and have used it for more than 8 of my own clients, so this really pleases me.

On behalf of the WordPress community, I’m proud to announce a merger we’ve had on our minds since the first time we saw Dean Allen’s dog — WordPress and Textpattern are joining forces to create the greatest CMSMS ever, WordPattern. “WordPress and Textpattern: Two great tastes that taste great together.” - WordPress.org

Our friend Aaron Finfrock passed away this week.  I and hundreds of people paid tribute to Aaron’s life.  I was moved by his family and friends’ show of love of his life.  I think that some things in life are truly sacred, one of them is death, because I believe that in death we all have a renewed life with God.

With that said, I am absolutely disgusted by out local paper, the Press Enterprise.  I found a nice obituary about Aaron on PE.com, which was disgustingly used as media for advertising space. I’m alright with banner ads and that sort of thing, but placing text ads links (flowers, gift shop, donate)  right in the body of the article, that’s wrong. Would I like to buy something when I’m reading a tribute to the life of a young man?  Who would want to buy something in an obiturary? How can death be used to directly make money?

I guess the Press Enterprise is exactly what its name is, Enterprise of the Press.  We know the “Press” isn’t much more than the presentation of some bias view of something, but rarely do we really see what the press is, the bias of money over ethics.

I will never, as long as I live subscribe to the Press Enterprise.

Google does it again, and blows us out of this world. Google has sent its search engine software to Mars, well…. at least they have a cool map of Mars.

I like talking about Google and our world. Like my last theory that Google and Yahoo are going to be the fall of China, Google has taken it’s Google Map software and inserted a topographical map of Mars.

It’s pretty cool and you can even see where the spacecraft have landed, check it out at http://www.google.com/mars/

I’m not one to give praise to Al Jazeera often, but I don’t want the rest of the world to be ignorant either.  The official website for the Anti-American network is the dot net, not the dot com.  So the next time you try to bring down the website with an American brut force attack, make sure it is http://www.aljazeera.net, you’ll know your in the right place because it wont be in English.

What does Al Jazeera mean?  The Peninsula in Arabic.

So, I was in class, yesterday. I gave my kick-ass presentation with my group.

This 40+ year old know-it-all says, “I like your print job, but your presentation had too much information.”

I said, “I just bought a new printer.”

So, it’s his turn to do his presentation. He absolutely blows it. Not only did it suck, he had too much information, it didn’t work, he spent too much time doing a scary video advertisement… it goes on and on and on. His own group was about to shoot him.

So after all of this pathetic stuff, the guy asks the class if he could put his personal website up on the screen so we could all review it and fill out a questionnaire.

So, here it is, http://www.phantombones.com, it’s a bit scary, but if you manage to look around the odd content, you’ll notice something………..

It really is apparent when you look at my company website, that I personally designed, http://www.redfusionmedia.com

So what do you think? I’m flattered, he stole my website, and not only that, I get to fill in his questionnaire.

Question 8a). What do you think of the navigation?

My answer. I rate it a 10, because I designed it and I know it is perfect, see more at www.redfusionmedia.com.

So at least I got that going for me. That’s my story and I’m sticking too it.

What is common sense but the general assumptions made by a society that inevitably are proved wrong, generation after generation?

“Common sense” in America is defined by cost and benefit.

For instance, it’s “common sense” to say that purchasing a car worth $20,000 for $15,000 is a good deal. This works very well economically speaking. Unfortunately this paradigm doesn’t work so well for other aspects of society.

Socially for example, marriages are failing because we weigh their effectiveness on a cost/benefit paradigm. How benefitial is it to get married to this person? What can they offer me….money, affection, power, status, attractiveness? Unfortunately, all of those attributes change. People can lose money, they can stop being affectionate towards you from other life experiences, they can lose power, status, and we all eventually become less attractive. And so then there’s this whorrible (I spelled it that way on purpose) sense of insecurity in marriage, because people are constantly reassessing how well their marriage is working based off of a system of cost/benefit. Marriage should be a COMMITTED relationship, not a cost/benefit, economic partnership. Marriage should have nothing to do with “common sense”.