Arizona immigration law

[Bonny]

In school we were taught that the US was a melting pot where people from all over the world came here to live & have the freedoms they could not enjoy in their homelands. They actually had more freedom then we do now.

[Marigold2]

I am very proud of our melting pot status it is one of the things that makes this country so great.
However for it to be as fair as possible rules need to be followed so that one person or one nationalty does not have an unfair advantage over others.
People from all nations have a right to come here to have a better life they better darn well do it legally however.
And not just have a baby so that the baby is legal and they can stay, that really bothers me. A baby should be wanted for itself not for legal status.

In school we were taught that the US was a melting pot where people from all over the world came here to live & have the freedoms they could not enjoy in their homelands. They actually had more freedom then we do now.

[Bonny]

It has been two years now since the Fed's raided an area town & took 389 Hispanic people off to processes them. The workers that were illegal along with their families were sent back to Mexico. It turned out a third of the town was sent back to Mexico. They came here to work & were treated very badly by another group of people. There were legal workers too. They lost their jobs, didn't get paid because the plant closed. It was & is still a real mess. The old immigration laws have to be changed. The sponsors have to be held responsible. I don't know how long our country can hold up to all this? The Fed's can raid a little town but can't seem to take care of the border & illegals streaming in? There must be something wrong with our government? I know I am sick of the stinking lying politicans that are running this country.

[Lady's Human]

I know I am sick of the stinking lying politicans that are running this country.

Until people forget about how much money congressman/senator X brought back to their district and finally vote the bastards out, nothing is going to change.

A constant in the news is how upset people are with congress and politics in general........yet over 90% of the incumbents who run for re-election for their office win.

Can't have it both ways, people. Your guy is part of the problem too.

[Bonny]

Our guy has been there so long he has cob webs all over him.

[wombat2u2004]

Those pollies live in a different world than ours....I'm sure.

[Catty1]

I know, I know....we're talking about illegal immigrants.

[Lady's Human]

RE the above pic.....they're immigrants also.

[Catty1]

I know, LH, Bering Strait and all.... When I saw the pic, it made me think of this thread.

Hmmm....makes me wonder if anthropologists have figured out WHO the first race on earth was, will all respect to the Adam and Eve story believers...


http://history-world.org/paleolithic1.htm (WARNING! My Anti-Virus detected and blocked a Rogue Spyware virus when I went to this page)

Evolution Of The Hominids

Who the ancestors of early humans were and when and where tools were first made are much debated questions in scholarly circles. According to the theory of evolution, a crucial development occurred when the ape family became differentiated into the tree-dwelling apes and the ground-dwelling types known as hominids ("pre-humans" or "protohumans"). The remains of Australopithecines ("Southern Apes"), the earliest known hominids, were first discovered in South Africa in 1924. Autralopithecus had an erect posture but an apelike brain.

Since World War II, and especially during the 1970s, our knowledge of the hominids and their relation to the genus Homo ("man") has been rapidly growing. The dominant present view is that Australopithecus was succeded by three species of the genus Homo: Homo habilis, Homo erectus, and Homo sapiens. (A genus contains one or more species. The genus name is capitalized and precedes the species name, which is not capitalized.)

Three major sites in East Africa have produced a remarkable collection of Australopithecine fossils. Between 1972 and 1977, an expedition led by C.D.

Johanson worked at Hadar in Ethiopia. The Hadar collection comprises at least thirty-five individuals, with one female skeleton - named Lucy after the Beatles' song "Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds" - nearly 40 percent complete and between 3.0 and 3.5 million years ago.

[RICHARD]

Hmmm....makes me wonder if anthropologists have figured out WHO the first race on earth was

Nascar, the Daytona 500?

[wombat2u2004]

Hmmm....makes me wonder if anthropologists have figured out WHO the first race on earth was, will all respect to the Adam and Eve story believers...

I have read books written by Donald Johanson, and I definately believe that this man is too hasty in his writings on paleoanthropology, I share the same opinions as do the Leakey's.......I'm a follower of their works to a word.

A little on the Leaky family.............

British / Kenyan archaeologist and anthropologist who became famous for his academic work centered on human origins. Louis Leakey, his wife Mary, and their second son Richard made the key discoveries that have shaped our understanding of the first men. Richard Leakey and his wife, Maeve, sustain a family legacy of research that is now, with the work of their daughter Louise, three generations deep.

"To me it's a question of being able to look backward and give the present a root... To give meaning to where we are today, we need to look at where we've have come from." (Richard Leakey, in National Geographic, February 1998)
Louis Leakey was born in Kabete, British East Africa, now Kenya, into a missionary family. At the age of twelve he found his first fossils, and knew that he wanted to be an archeologist. Leakey graduated from Cambridge, and set out to prove Darwin's theory that Africa was humankind's homeland. At that time it was believed that early man originated in somewhere Asia. Between the years 1926 and 1935 he led a series of expeditions in East Africa in search of man's fossil ancestors. He was interested in particular Olduvai Gorge, a 300-foot-deep, thirty-mile-long chasm not far from the Ngorongoro Crater. It was made famous by a German entomologist named Wilhelm Kattwinkel, who first discovered its value in 1911.

Leakey dug at Olduvai two decades without finding anything especially significant. His first marriage with Frieda Leakey ended in divorce in 1933, when he met and fell in love with 20-year-old Mary Douglas Nicol; they married in 1936. With Mary he collected early manmade tools, mostly made of basalt and quartzite, and fossilized bones of many extinct mammals. His first major discovery was the jaw of a pre human creature called Proconsul. In 1945 Leakey became the curator of the Coryndon Memorial Museum at Nairobi. In the late 1940s and early 1950s he also served as a spy for the British government and acted as a translator in court in 1952-53 during the trial of Jomo Kenyatta, the leader of the independence party. As a conservationist, Leakey was active in promoting game preserves in East Africa. His interests and writings were wide, including all aspects of African natural history, primate behaviour and the origins of man.

From the 1950s the Leakeys expeditions to Olduvai Gorge produced several important discoveries of early primate fossils, named Zinjanthropus (now called Australopithecus boisei), which Mary Leakey found in 1959 from the lowest and oldest excavation site. The discovery of "Zinj" made the Leakeys famous. Louis wrote an article for the National Geographic magazine and estimated that Zinjanthropus was 600,000 years old, in which he was wrong. Using a new method of dating, the carbon-14 technique, geophysicists from the University of California at Berkeley concluded that the site was 1.75 million years old. But the excavations brought to light a rich fossil fauna.

Among Leakey's academic protegees were Dian Fossey, who studied mountain gorillas, and Jane Goodall, who became famous for her studies of the behavior of chimpanzees. Leakey stayed long periods at the London home of Vanne Goodall, Jane Goodall's mother. When Louis began spending less and less time at Olduvai, and concentrated on raising funds and lecturing, the place became Mary's domain, where she spent most of the next 25 years. Personally and professionally Mary and Louis lived separate lives from the mid-1960s.

In 1978 Mary Leakey found a trail of clear ancient hominid footprints of two adults and a child - some 3.5 million years old - impressed and preserved in volcanic ash from a site in Tanzania called Laetoli. They belonged to a new hominid species, best represented by the 3.2 million-year-old Lucy skeleton, which was found at Hadar, Ethiopia, by Donald Johanson . "It is tempting to see them as a man, a woman and a child," Mary Leakey later wrote. The Lucy skeleton on the other hand arose a bitter debate. Mary and Richard Leakey criticized Donald Johanson for proclaiming a new species too hastily - the fossils could be a mix of several different species.

From 1961 to 1964 the Leakeys and their son Jonathan unearthed fossils of Homo habilis, "handy man", the oldest known primate with human characteristics and discovered in 1967 Kenyapithecus africanus. The Leakeys claimed that Homo habilis had walked upright. "Until then the idea that two hominids could occupy the same area at the same time had been unacceptable to most scientists," Mary Leakey wrote in Disclosing the Past (1984). Also evidence of human habitation in California, more than 50 000 years, old was found.

Louis Leakey died in London in 1972 at the age of 69. In the same year his son Richard Leakey, who directed National Museum of Kenya, reported the discovery of a 1.8 million-year old skull of modern humans from Koobi Fora. Three years later he discoverd the skull of Homo erectus, estimated at 1.6 million years old, and in 1984 he and another paleontologist discovered a virtually complete Homo erectus skeleton. In 1989 Richard Leakey abandoned fossil hunting for wildlife conservation. President Daniel Arap Moi appointed Leakey head of what is now the Kenya Wildlife Service. He signed in 1994 amid politically motivated accusations of mismanagement, only to be reinstated by Moi 4,5 years later. As a result of an airplane crash, Leakey lost both legs below the knees, but he has continued his scientific explorations. Mary Leakey died in Nairobi on December 9, 1996, at the age of 83.

[RICHARD]

I have read books written by Donald Johanson, and I definately believe that this man is too hasty in his writings on paleoanthropology, I share the same opinions as do the Leakey's.......I'm a follower of their works to a word.

A little on the Leaky family.............

A family of plumbers?


Do you think Lucy lies about her age? 3.2 million years old?

Women do, you know.

[Bonny]

I think we all orginally come from outer space & are related to the one eyed green eyed purple people eaters.

[RICHARD]

I think we all orginally come from outer space & are related to the one eyed green eyed purple people eaters.

You're from Venus, I'm from Mars!

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Lost Angeles was handed a nice letter from AZ saying, Seventh-letter You!

HAHAHAHAHA.

The El Lay city council passed a boycott of AZ- so AZ responded in kind.

I cannot type in what I think.....AZ threatened to pull the 25% of electricity they supply to California....

I love it.

Watch the politicians back pedal.

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And WTF is BO doing with the prez of MEXICO?

Apologizing?

And what is it with the State Dept. apologizing to CHINA for the AZ law.

Them godless commie morons violate human rights every minute of the day and WE ARE APOLOGIZING?

Hell hath frozen over, I feel it in my heart.

[Marigold2]

What a sight to see.......

I think we all orginally come from outer space & are related to the one eyed green eyed purple people eaters.

Wom I loved the info you posted, I remember reading about Lucy oh so many years ago, only a mirco-second but 30 years or so ago.
I was amazed and have always believed we came from apes or ape like people. One just has to look into their eyes and see the human in them. SCARY! And their hands.......
Evolution happens all around us everyday yet some people are afraid to grasp that theroy that we might have come from apes and instead believe we women came from the rib of man in a magic garden of Eden where everything is perfect, there is no sin, one does not age and all is created by a mystical being. I always found it to be a fairy tale, stanger then Alice in Wonderland.
And now for thousands of years humans kill each other in the name of the mystical God who speaks of love, forgiveness and understanding. Why does the killing, and judgement go on in the name of this mystical God? I do not know.