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[vicarz]

This http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100518/ap_on_re_af/af_malawi_gay_trial
(Gay couple convicted in Uganda of breaking anti-gay law)
is why I call bullshit when people whine about immigration by saying "you break the law, end of story." Really? Some laws are bullshit and the immigration stance is inconsistent with say, give us your tired, your poor...

I acknowledge we can't just let everyone in, but I think our policies are perhaps too restrictive. I also get sick by some of the people who seem so liberal and educated in other areas, but who have this religious adherence to law when it comes to crossing the border. Sex, drugs, speed, all legal issues with that are just injustice...but immigration? That's the law, plain and simple.

Gmail's terminal theme is awesome! Looks like an old VAX-UNIX system, or an early ATM. Yahoo mail is still blocked at work but I try to check my crackberry - but my email name also works in gmail (dif account, same name just swap gmail for yahoo.

Why did my coworker just walk in muttering about "who the big fat guy is?" when he sports a pot-belly big enough to feed a homophobic African nation himself?

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[grymnir.livejournal.com]

The U.S. has always:
1) responded poorly to successive waves of "others" once the population grew large enough to be something they competed for jobs with,
2) assumed assimilation and when ethnic or religious communities formed and would not be assimilated, they were (are) persecuted legally and socially,
3) let's not even go into how the more you bring with you (wealth, genius, patents, resources) the more welcome you are.

[vicar.livejournal.com]

Oh yeah - classicist immigration policies are rampant. Give us your tired (of taxes), your poor (no, not really but you can have an H1B if we need something dirty done)

[curvemudgeon.livejournal.com]

3) let's not even go into how the more you bring with you (wealth, genius, patents, resources) the more welcome you are.

So in that context we're like Switzerland...