This is unbelievable! This is what the people we elect are doing?? I’m fairly certain that there are FAR more important things to be passing laws for in our society.  I’m not sure how much more stupidity I can stand.

Always knew my pets were doing me good!!

Best thing I’ve seen in a long time! This is hysterical. If it’s true – she’s very creative! About as good as the Jet Blue guy who quit this week too! Way to go! Don’t let anyone give you shit!!

Too bad, I liked Google Wave. However, could never find anyone to use it with seeing as it was a social kinda thing!!

Finally, someone who gets it!!!! I’m so happy for all of my friends that this affects. This is a great victory for their rights to happiness.

Found this article on democratandchronicle.com while looking for another news article. It’s a shame that people really don’t understand how renewable energy really works. YES, it’s super expensive to get going. But the end results are less money spent on energy and cleaner air for us and our children and future generations. WHY would we not want to do it? My favorite complaint is that the wind turbines are ugly, I don’t want to see those on a daily basis. REALLY? Because telephone and electric poles are so PRETTY??? Uh huh…… Ok, next excuse……

I see a lot of people bitching that the government is refusing help from other countries regarding the oil spill. Perhaps this is why. When we are so generous towards other countries, they view us as the richest country in the world. For this reason, the help is not necessarily out of the goodness of their hearts. They want cash in return for the help they want to provide. Yes, all of this could probably have been fixed almost immediately with this help, but I can understand the government’s refusal to spend even more money on it. We are already in an incredible amount of trouble with our economy. Agreeing to pay these countries will put the USA in even more debt than we already are and we NEED to stop spending uncontrollably. And the fact remains that BP should have had some plan in place knowing full well something like this could happen.

And not for nothing – How come no one is saying a word about this: Niger Delta Oil Spills??

One last note: I’m also getting a good laugh at everyone who is blaming Obama. Some of you should have a conversation with someone a generation or two older than you. My parents have long talked about the oil crisis when I was just a year or two old. (That would be back in 1972/1973). People lined the streets trying to get gas for their cars. We should have begun then, if not before, to research clean energy solutions and we would not have had the gas prices of the last few years, and maybe the Exxon Valdez would not have happened and maybe the Gulf Oil Spill would not have happened. This has nothing to do with Barack Obama. It does have to do with corrupt politicians who are in the pockets of the big oil companies. You DO have the power to do something about it. We elect these people. Dig in at election time and research the candidates that you are pulling the YES lever for. Make sure you vote them out when they turn out to not come through with what they promise. Speak up and stop waiting for someone else to do it.

Dear Editor:

So many letter writers have based their arguments on how this land is made up of immigrants. Ernie Lujan for one, suggests we should tear down the Statue of Liberty because the people now in question aren’t being treated the same as those who passed through Ellis Island and other ports of entry.

Maybe we should turn to our history books and point out to people like Mr. Lujan why today’s American is not willing to accept this new kind of immigrant any longer. Back in 1900 when there was a rush from all areas of Europe to come to the United States, people had to get off a ship and stand in a long line in New York and be documented. Some would even get down on their hands and knees and kiss the ground. They made a pledge to uphold the laws and support their new country in good and bad ti mes. The! y made learning English a primary rule in their new American households and some even changed their names to blend in with their new home.

They had waved good bye to their birth place to give their children a new life and did everything in their power to help their children assimilate into one culture.

Nothing was handed to them. No free lunches, no welfare, no labor laws to protect them. All they had were the skills and craftsmanship they had brought with them to trade for a future of prosperity. Most of their children came of age when World War II broke out. My father fought along side men whose parents had come straight over from Germany, Italy, France and Japan.. None of these 1st generation Americans ever gave any thought about what country their parents had come from. They were Americans fighting Hitler, Mussolini and the Emperor of Japan. They were defending the United States of Americ a as one people. ! When we liberated France, no one in those villages were looking for the French-American or the German American or the Irish American. The people of France saw only Americans. And we carried one flag that represented one country. Not one of those immigrant sons would have thought about picking up another country’s flag and waving it to represent who they were. It would have been a disgrace to their parents who had sacrificed so much to be here.. These immigrants truly knew what it meant to be an American. They stirred the melting pot into one red, white and blue bowl.

And here we are in 2006 with a new kind of immigrant who wants the same rights and privileges. Only they want to achieve it by playing with a different set of rules, one that includes the entitlement card and a guarantee of being faithful to their mother country. I’m sorry, that’s not what being an American is all about. I believe that the immigrants who landed on ! Ellis I sland in the early 1900’s deserve better than that for all the toil, hard work and sacrifice in raising future generations to create a land that has become a beacon for those legally searching for a better life. I think they would be appalled that they are being used as an example by those waving foreign country flags.

And for that suggestion about taking down the Statue of Liberty, it happens to mean a lot to the citizens who are voting on the immigration bill. I wouldn’t start talking about dismantling the United States just yet.

(signed) Rosemary LaBonte