The United States has been in feverish consern about immigration recently. It\u2019s entirely too emotional a discussion for me to have felt comfortable weighing in.<\/p>\n
Immigration is a logical system. We always talk about it in emotional terms, but it really is a rational process which is easily predicted and regulated. If we want everyone to follow the rules, we can do that. But we have to ENGINEER it carefully and pay attention to the Iron Laws of the system.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
I\u2019m still deciding if I want to take on policy and what I think we ought to dobut I\u2019ll cover some of the events of the debate.<\/p>\n
The protests. A May Day wildcat strike by a million unorganized workers and students. Cool. I support that. I support the businesses which were so cool about it, and let their workers take the day off.<\/p>\n
Cardinal Mahoney was right about HR 4437. He was protecting the interests of his church to worship without threat of prosecution. I don\u2019t think it\u2019s a good idea to mess with the 1st Ammendment.<\/p>\n
I don\u2019t think it\u2019s a good idea to mess with the 14th Ammendment either. So the Anchor Baby law\u2019s a lousy idea. If a child is born in the United States, it\u2019s a citizen. Deal with it.<\/p>\n
The national anthem in Spanish. You can sing your love for this country in any language you like. Having heard the new Spanish version of the Stars Spangled Banner on the radio, I can say I\u2019m opposed to it. It\u2019s attrocious. It\u2019s just as bad as the techno version of the Australian national anthem (mp3<\/a>). If it wasn\u2019t the Stars Spangled Banner, it would still be painful to listen to. I dare you to listen to it all the way thru (RealAudio<\/a>).
\nI disagree with President George W. Bush when he said<\/p>\n\u201cI think the national anthem ought to be sung in English, and I think people who want to be a citizen of this country ought to learn English, and they ought to learn to sing the national anthem in English.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
I agree with Australian Prime Minister John Howard:<\/p>\n
I have a very strong view that the national anthem should be sung and played in a way that facilitates maximum audience participation in its singing,\u201d Mr Howard said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
\u201cMost importantly it should encourage and allow people to sing along \u2013 and nobody can sing along to that, can you? The public wants to sing it, but they can\u2019t sing it if its not easy to follow, and nobody can follow that. It\u2019s better not to play it, it is after all our national anthem and I don\u2019t think it should be played around with. Most of us are pretty inadequate singers at the best of times, and trying to keep pace with that, I couldn\u2019t.\u201d<\/p>\n
That covers all the recent outrages, right?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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