05:43 - Friday, Sept. 30, 2005
friday stuff to chew on!!
its friday! but you knew that.
on this day in 1984, my son steven was born. he would have been 21.
sunday is my birthday. i will be 47.
wednesday is my daughter christina's birthday. she will be 28.
does anybuddy here speak haloscan? radiogurl, maybe? one of my pals, bluesleepy, when i started up my haloscan yesterday, she made a comment, and it came up anonymous! and she is the only one who did! whats up with that? also, is the text size in my haloscan too big? if it is, let me know, i can change it!
i reminded doyle yesterday that i will be going to journalcon on the 18th. he asked if i can still afford it!~! heheeee. i bought my amtrak ticket back when i signed up for journal con. good thing i did too.
hay everybuddy!!!! look at the prize i got in the mail yesterday from my pal, yarnsmith!!
its a rubbermaid bowl set!!! wheeeeeeeee!!! its real nifty too!! and a swell card to go along with it!!!
thanky yous, yarnsmith!!!! im not used to getting gifted. it just never happens!!! so, when i got this in the mail, i was shreaking like a schoolgirl!! wheeeeeeeee!!! whatta pal, whatta pal!!
get a load of this shit!
Orphaned kids' adoptive mom may be deported
By Lornet Turnbull
Seattle Times staff reporter
Maria Gonzalez Garfias, left, and the three children she and her husband adopted after her sister was killed by the children's father. The children are Mayra Ruiz, 14, second from left; Yuri Ruiz, 11; and their brother, Marcos Ruiz, 13.
WAPATO, Yakima County � Orphaned five years ago when their father shot and killed their mother and then himself, three children who've spent most or all of their lives in this small farming town are at the center of a deportation clash among county, state and federal officials.
Their aunt, Maria Gonzalez Garfias, is an illegal immigrant who took the children into her home after their parents' deaths and legally adopted them this year. She is fighting a deportation order that has already sent her husband back to Mexico.
Immigration officials have delayed her departure while she tries to find a legal way to remain here with her own two children and her nieces and nephew, Mayra, 14; Marcos, 13; and Yuri Ruiz, 11.
While none of the five children is named in the deportation order � two, in fact, are U.S. citizens � her expulsion would mean theirs, too, if the family is to remain together.
For all her children, Gonzalez said, she wants what every parent does � a stable life and a good education: "I'm thinking, 'What would I do in Mexico with these kids?' " she said. "Their entire lives are here."
Here in Eastern Washington, where the number of illegal immigrants is high, Gonzalez's almost certain deportation would hardly be worthy of note. But because of the children, her case has ensnarled government agencies in ways such cases seldom do, with state and Yakima County juvenile-court officials advocating that the family be allowed to stay, while immigration authorities move toward deportation.
At least two members of the state's congressional delegation � Rep. Doc Hastings, R-Pasco, and Sen. Maria Cantwell, D-Wash. � have lobbied immigration authorities on the family's behalf. Support has come as well in dozens of letters � from teachers, parents and principals at the children's schools, from the supervisor at the nursing home where Gonzalez worked, from people at her church, from neighbors.
But the Gonzalez case raises other questions, too, about the state's placement of children in the homes of illegal immigrants who could potentially be expelled.
In allowing Gonzalez and her husband to be foster parents and then to adopt the children, state officials said the couple's immigration status was only one of many factors they considered. Family connections and cultural appropriateness are also key in such cases.
"The bottom line for us is what's in the best interest of these children," said Kathy Spears, spokeswoman for the state Department of Social and Health Services. "If they're in a safe and supportive placement, we support that."
now, i am admantly against illegal immigration, as it is destroying not only our job base, but eroding our economy, but this story is just plain wrong!!!
well, what can you say after reading that? why did the state let her adopt the children, knowing she was illegal? so its ok for illegals to adopt, but gay couples cannot!! how fucked up is that?
sometimes i just have to shake my head and say: what a crock o'shit!!!
well, tom delay, the house majority leader, is being railroaded out of his career by a snotnosed, whiny, prosecutor from texas, who does this on a regular basis to destroy the political lives of people he dont like! keep ya eyeballs peeled on this one, folks! this is whats gonna happen: delay will be dragged thru the mud, then when it gets close to trial time, this renegade prosecutor will drop the charge because he knows he wont win a conviction, as he does this all the time!!
"I have done nothing wrong. ... I am innocent," DeLay told a Capitol Hill news conference during which he criticized the Texas prosecutor, Ronnie Earle, repeatedly. DeLay said the charges amounted to "one of the weakest and most baseless indictments in American history."
In Austin, Earle told reporters, "Our job is to prosecute abuses of power and to bring those abuses to the public." He has noted previously that he has prosecuted many Democrats in the past.
problem with that is the democrats he "prosecuted" ended up NOT going to trial! Persecution is the more appropriate term. This hick "prosecutor" should be thrown in jail himself!!!
meanwhile, the senate majority leader, dr. bill frist, is being investigated for stock sales! cheesus h. crispy cremes!! give it a rest, already!!! you own stock, then you sell it, then the company whose stock you sold plummets, so then you get accused of insider trading!! again, what a crock o' shit!!!
insider trading goes on, but this is NOT insider trading!
on a more nicer note, judge john roberts has been sworn in as the 17th chief justice of the united states. but, you knew that already! well, thats enuff for me! hava great weekend!! its time to eat!!
FACT OF THE DAY
On this day in 1928, Alexander Fleming announced his discovery of penicillin. Famously stumbling across the stuff when investigating some mold in his lab, his work went on to provide the impetus for the production and understanding of antibiotics.
CAT OF THE DAY
AND HERES ONE FOR YOU KNITTERS OUT THERE!
