During the past few months I've contented myself by reading your, and other like minded posters, critiquing Obama's pathetic negotiating capitulations as I'm pretty well spent out personally, and find I'm just repeating myself over and over. But if Obama doesn't take Boehner's demand and publicly stick it up his  you know what,  then the guy is hopeless.

After what Obama's did last week in Pakistan, to be bitch-slapped by that pathetic excuse for an American should be the final straw. Boehner tossed him fat one, right over the center of the plate; Obama should slam it out of the park.

I'm with kdog.
Donald, if what you say is true, then why do you need to secure the border ?

When I moved here just over 12 years ago, the immigration issue was back plate stuff.  Then out of no where, it became this pitiful discussion about security, and now it's ventured over to economics.  All of it, republican talking points, Al Qaeda coming across, they're costing us billions in education and medical care, they're bringing crime to the US, they're taking our jobs, and on and on.  All of it, republican speak, liberals just don't make those arguments.

What I see and don't see.  There is no such thing as a white landscaper, because NYJets, whether you like it or not, Mexicans are biologically designed to work outside in 100+ Houston heat, from dawn to dust.  This is true of most construction jobs as well.  I have yet to see a white day labor, not one in 10+ years, so save the shtick about taking our jobs.  I let you now when I see a non-Mexican roofing a house, or digging up a street, or whatever other job you are claiming they are taking.  Nearly every person working outside in Houston in the summer is Hispanic, period.  That's biology, and try as you might, you can't change that.

I grew up on a farm and I know what work is, and no way could I or most other people could do what they do physically day in, day out for wages that I assume they don't make.  Which brings me to another point, they are not lazy, and why would America not want hard working people as citizens ?  We're happy to sign them up for Iraq and Afghanistan, but they aren't good enough for 'good' jobs ?

Next talking point.  They get free heath care and education.  Here's the rub, yes they aren't turned away at the emergency rooms and yes, we will education all children.  But free ?  Every American enjoys the benefits of cheap labor, from fruit, to housing, to meat, to any field that employees undocumented workers, back busting low paying.  That addition savings we all experience would not exist if they were citizens making a regulated wage, and paying taxes.  I don't know, and I have never seen a study, but I would image the subsidized pricing we get more than makes up for these 'free' services undocumented people receive.

No one has ever made a convincing argument about immigration that can be backed up with facts, from crime reports to median wage, to whatever the shtick dejour is of the day that proves we need to get undocumented immigrants out.  What I do have is 300 million people who nearly all descendants of immigrants that prove the opposite.  You and I are proof that a Nation of all sorts can become a world power, the top world power.

So NYJets, save the BS for someone buying it, and I will leave you this, whatever argument you feel like you can make, has probably been made against your family, your ancestors, your tribe no matter where your place of origin is.  And fortunately for all of us, those people didn't get their way, and you and I should be thankful that this country accepted them with open arms and we should show some appreciation by treating people they way our ancestors were treated.  Not by pissing on them with some made-up hocus-pocus about somehow, someway, it's different today.

The fact is this all the creation of the republican party to distract and unify their base.  Their own leaders, including the Grand Messiah, Reagan, used to believe in immigrants and citizenship, now the very same clowns wanna spend money we don't have, on a fence that won't work, to keep the very people they once thought deserved citizenship, out.  Just another pile of C from the republican party to secure votes from the their frightened base.

Mine has always been great.  Better interest rates than I can get anywhere else.  Free checking. I call up and speak to a personable human being out of Olympia, WA. (I belong to the state employees credit union, even though I stopped being a state employee years ago.)

I also have a rebate credit card through them.  No hassles, no minimum amount that you have to buy, no need to deliberately cash out the rebate (like you do with Discover and Amex).  They just subtract 1% of my purchases every month from my bill (and I am a deadbeat that pays the full balance every month, so they don't get interest from me).

We could go forever.

Considering the fact that my last day on the job I fell down a flight of stairs - slid down the railing on my stomach, hit the post at the end and toppled over the edge.  I pretty much walked out after that, but I was already 9/10 of the way out the door.

Strippers and blow on the other hand...

Let's just say I don't think this was your average waitressing experience.  Starting with the fact that I was dating the owner (before he was the owner) who was a 22 year old I went to college with who decided it would be a great idea to start a bar while still in school, raised some money through friends, and actually followed through.  To the 19 year old me this was seriously cool - so I thought why not help him out as staff, etc...  The first of many bad decisions.

It really was an abusive relationship.  If not in the physical sense, certainly the emotional sense.