Saturday, June 25, 2011

don't pee in my pool, just go home.

JUNE 25, 2011
BRUCE A. BRENNAN BLOG FROM THE WORLD AND MY MIND
The news as I see it and the views as I want them.
June 25 is … Log Cabin Day

In Portland, Oregon, 7.8 million gallons of drinking water
were discarded after a man relieved himself in a
reservoir in the early hours of the morning. Asked what
difference a small amount of urine made, given that city
officials routinely find dead animals in the reservoir,
Water Bureau administrator David Shaff replied, "This is
different. Do you want to drink pee?"

What a waste of time, money and a natural resource. They would not mind having that water in Arizona or Texas about now. Don’t they think animals and birds go to the bathroom in the reservoir?

This is a difficult subject to bring up and discuss with a realistic viewpoint without somebody calling you prejudice, a bigot or starting out their opinion by saying my favorite phrase that turns me against the speaker immediately, “What you don’t understand is…” For the first time, minorities make up a majority of babies in the U.S., part of a sweeping race change and growing age divide between mostly white, older Americans and predominantly minority youths that could reshape government policies and I do not think for the better.

Preliminary census estimates also show the share of African-American households headed by women - made up of mostly single mothers - now exceeds African-American households with married couples, a sign of declining U.S. marriages overall but also continuing challenges for black youths without involved fathers. The findings, based on the latest government data, offer a preview of final 2010 census results being released this summer that provide detailed breakdowns by age, race and householder relationships such as same-sex couples. Demographers say the numbers provide the clearest confirmation yet of a changing social order, one in which racial and ethnic minorities will become the U.S. majority by midcentury.

This is the single most important story in the news from Thursday. It will have the longest impact over every other news story and will impact the most people the longest compare to any other news item.

His story will equate to higher taxes, increased entitlement benefit payments, more free education and meals that come with it and higher medical expense expenditures by the United States government.

The preliminary figures are based on an analysis of the Current Population Survey as well as the 2009 American Community Survey, which sampled 3 million U.S. households to determine that whites made up 51 percent of babies younger than 2. After taking into account a larger-than-expected jump in the minority child population in the 2010 census, the share of white babies falls below 50 percent.

Twelve states and the District of Columbia now have white populations below 50 percent among children under age 5 - Hawaii, California, New Mexico, Texas, Arizona, Nevada, Florida, Maryland, Georgia, New Jersey, New York and Mississippi. That's up from six states and the District of Columbia in 2000.

At current growth rates, seven more states could flip to "minority-majority" status among small children in the next decade: Illinois, North Carolina, Virginia, Colorado, Connecticut, South Carolina and Delaware.

By contrast, whites make up the vast majority of older Americans - 80 percent of seniors 65 and older and roughly 73 percent of people ages 45-64. Many states with high percentages of white seniors also have particularly large shares of minority children, including Arizona, Nevada, California, Texas and Florida.

If you are a white American, a hard-working American or an American concerned about this country’s future, this story must be dealt with. We should transfer some money from a government funded story about left-handed ducks or sour pickles to a study about a way to reverse this trend.

One way to reverse the trend is to stop this. Eighteen-year-old Dulce Guerrero kept quiet about being an undocumented immigrant until earlier this year, when she became upset after a traffic stop that landed her mother in jail for two nights. She is an illegal and a poor driver. The arrest came as Georgia lawmakers were crafting what would become one of the nation’s toughest immigration crackdowns, and Guerrero feared her mother would be deported. She should be deported as should the daughter. We do not give people a free pass because they have evaded capture for a long, time just ask Whitey Bulger. We are not talking a statute of limitations issue. Every day an illegal alien wakes up in this country they break the law again.

"I feel like that was my breaking point, when my mom was in jail," said Guerrero, who came to the U.S. from Mexico when she was 2. "I felt like, well, that's it, it can't get any worse than this. My mother has been to jail." That is because she is a criminal.

Guerrero first publicly announced her immigration status at a protest in March, and now she's organizing a rally under the tutelage of more experienced activists who are themselves only a few years older. The high-stakes movement of young undocumented immigrants declaring that they're "undocumented and unafraid" got a boost this week when a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist revealed he’s been living in the country illegally. Guerrero is the chief organizer of a rally set for Tuesday at the Georgia State Capitol for high school-age undocumented immigrants to tell their stories. The recent high school graduate and others hope to draw attention to the plight of the hundreds of thousands of young people who were brought to the U.S. illegally by their parents.

To be here illegally is bad enough. To flaunt it and give the real Americans the finger with this rally is reason enough to deport them. Constitutional rights are enjoyed by law abiding citizens. Those that break the law and then brag about it lose some of their Constitutional rights. We send them to jail, strip them of property, and force them to register as criminals along with many other sentencing conditions law abiding citizens do not have to deal with. We should treat these protesters like the criminals they are.

Just a couple of thoughts I had and you should too.
BRUCE A. BRENNAN
DEKALB, IL 60115
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