Day: October 9, 2003

Ok, Kerry just moved down a couple notches…

Q: What do you plan to do about the amounts of immigrants who are dying in the deserts trying to get into the US?

A: We need to take away the incentive for people to go into the deserts trying to get into this country. Through agreements with Mexico. (continues with more examples and whatnot but did nothing to address the fact we already have legal means in place)

Ok, no offense to the lovely people who decide to cross the desert, but I work with immigrants. They’re playing by all the rules that this government has put into place for them to be naturalized. Which, requires their two young children to remain in Mexico for another 2-3 years till they meet their 7 year employment requirement. They can’t visit their kids in Mexico because their Visas might be revoked at the border, and their kids can’t come here because of their age. Yet, once a month, at the local embassy they have amnesty days where illegal immigrants can get their legal alien cards without any run around from the government. Similar thing happened to a friend of mine who married a Canadian. They spent months going by the books to get her citizenship and avoid having her deported. The solution is not getting some “your citizens are my citizens” agreement with other countries, it’s making the process of going through the legal routes less painful for those who do it!

Ok, thanks to CNN, I’ve managed to cut my candidate list down even further. Kucinich will definitely not be in the running. Nice ideas, but his views of necessary changes regarding our foreign relations, right now, and the creation of a “Dept of Peace” make me feel like I’m tasting rabbit fur on my tongue. Gephardt has nice ideas, but he’s too Washington. Clark, I have my issues with, but he has the experience regarding the military (yes, I know, that’s not a guarantee he’ll have any concept of foreign affairs), Kerry is still at his same spot, as does Dean. I do like Dean’s ideas though. Decisions, decisions. Anyone want to shed any insight on the candidates? (I don’t care about Mosely-Braun and Sharpton, so you can tweak the list down *wink*)

Scorpio for week of Oct 9:

“You are potentially a genius. Maybe not in the same way that Einstein and Beethoven were, but still: You possess some capacity or set of skills that is exquisitely unique. You are a work of art unlike any other that has ever lived. Furthermore, the precise instructions you need to ripen into that glorious state have always been with you, even from before you were born. In the words of psychologist James Hillman, you have a soul’s code. You might also call it the master plan of your heart’s deepest desire; the special mission that the Divine Wow sent you here to carry out; the blueprint that contains the secret of how to be perfectly, gracefully, unpredictably yourself. Now here’s the really good news, Scorpio: You’re at a turning point when you have extraordinary power to tune in to and activate untapped areas of your soul’s code.”

FreeWill Astrology