Memnison Journal

Another bit of Rittenhousia, about the beginnings of paper-making in America, circa 1688 - this is from the Historical Magazine, 1857.  Again, for the record.

More excerpts from the journal, this time from the day we actually adopted Meredith (the day after we got her).  Again, see some pictures of the day on Flickr - the picture below is something the Jiangmen paper later got out of the files of the orphanage when the paper was running that stupid ‘Dick [...]

Hollywood Democrats shifting to Obama as a perceived winner and cutting off donations to Hillary.
Major flip-flop on immigration by Romney caught; in 2006, he says ‘but you can’t just deport 12 million people’, and now, he says ‘oh, yes, you can and must.’ The Republican blooger who caught this one says: Flip, pander, flop, [...]

For British expatriates in the USA, it’s a challenge.  In Mexico, you better be a legal resident.
“When it comes to foreigners, we’re a little more strict here,” said Alejandro Ruíz, director of education at the Mexican Automobile Association.

Turns out that the big ol’ fence on the Mexican border is being built with Chinese-made steel. Needless to say, the nativists who are big for the fence in the first place didn’t like that.

McClatchy:
But even if the immigration agency were able to double the number of expelled fugitives - as it maintains it will - from the 17,817 deported in fiscal year 2006, it would take 20 years to return the 632,189 fugitives already identified. That doesn’t take into account the thousands of others immigration judges would order [...]

Cut and run - from George Bush - if you want to get re-elected. ‘Hey, aren’t you a Republican?’  ‘Who, me?’
“Sen. Barack Obama urged Kenyans to take control of their country’s destiny by opposing corruption and ethnic divisions in government during a speech Monday in Nairobi.” Heck, it’s good practice here, too.
Various GOP [...]

Tenneseean: The Social Security Administration had written to IFCO at least 13 times during the past two years about problems it flagged on company payroll records. About 53% of Social Security numbers used by the 5,800 employees on the company’s payroll in 2005 were either invalid, did not match the true name for the number [...]

It appears that while the whole issue of immigration is hot, the Department of Homeland Security and other related organizations are suddenly deciding to push the idea of actually enforcing the existing laws against, say, employers of illegal immigrants. Goodie. Are they going after the guys who employ non-Hispanic illegal immigrants as well? I wonder. [...]

We are all immigrants. Some of us came later than others to America; my Cherokee ancestors some 15,000 years ago, and then my Rittenhouse ancestors in 1683, the Randolphs in the 1760s and the Gaibles in 1870. Susan’s family came over at various times between 1860 and 1885. And Meredith in 2000 [...]

Texas cops will no longer be going into bars to find and arrest drunks. Of course, that’s where the money is, but….
The College Republicans at Penn State wanted to have a game of ‘Catch the Immigrant’….just as the Republican National Committee started running ads on Spanish-speaking radio that claimed Democrats were trying to make illegal [...]

Let’s start out with the screen capture from the right from Fox News: yeah, I wanna see a big paddy wagon with La Migra painted on the side stop and try to hustle away a bunch of random people from the middle of that. Or have a batallion of riot police try to funnel [...]

I wonder what they would have had for my family when they came here in 1688 from the Netherlands….

From : George W (sort of) at the Jeff Foxworthy roast. Gawd, he’s good.
Joe Scarborough, former Florida congresscritter and MSNBC host, says he’s embarrased to be a Republican.

The lack of leadership in Washington, D.C., is sickening. If you look at what Republicans did–promised to do in 1994, when they took control of Congress, and see, [...]

The collaborative’s biggest success, the Pan Asian Volunteer Health Clinic, operates every Tuesday evening in a county building in Silver Spring. Virtually every person who signs in is Chinese born or raised, as are the volunteer doctors and assistants. Their shared backgrounds mean easier communication when patients describe symptoms or the herbal remedies they have [...]