FUN: Illegal status

Friday, April 6, 2007

Luddite’s wife sent me this. I think it’s a hoot.

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From: Gerald K Potoka
Sent: Friday, April 06, 2007 4:45 PM
To: Assorted
Subject:

The Honorable Tom Harkin
731 Hart Senate Office Building
Phone (202) 224 3254
Washington DC, 20510

Dear Senator Harkin,

As a native Iowan and excellent customer of the Internal Revenue Service, I am writing to ask for your assistance. I have contacted the Department of Homeland Security in an effort to determine the process for becoming an illegal alien and they referred me to you.

My primary reason for wishing to change my status from U.S. Citizen to illegal alien stems from the bill which was recently passed by the Senate and for which you voted. If my understanding of this bill’s provisions is accurate, as an illegal alien who has been in the United States for five years, all I need to do to become a citizen is to pay a $2,000 fine and income taxes for three of the last five years. I know a good deal when I see one and I am anxious to get the process started before everyone figures it out.
Simply put, those of us who have been here legally have had to pay taxes every year so I’m excited about the prospect of avoiding two years of taxes in return for paying a $2,000 fine. Is there any way that I can apply to be illegal retroactively? This would yield an excellent result for me and my family because we paid heavy taxes in 2004 and 2005.

Additionally, as an illegal alien I could begin using the local emergency room as my primary health care provider. Once I have stopped paying premiums for medical insurance, my accountant figures I could save almost $10,000 a year.

Another benefit in gaining illegal status would be that my daughter would receive preferential treatment relative to her law school applications, as well as “in-state” tuition rates for many colleges throughout the United States for my son.

Lastly, I understand that illegal status would relieve me of the burden of renewing my driver’s license and making those burdensome car insurance premiums. This is very important to me given that I still have college age children driving my car.

If you would provide me with an outline of the process to become illegal (retroactively if possible) and copies of the necessary forms, I would be most appreciative.

Thank you for your assistance.

Your Loyal Constituent,
Donald Ruppert

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Gerry

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FUN: ROFL so hard at this one

Friday, April 6, 2007

http://www.ishkur.com/posters/blogging.php

blogging monkeys

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LIBERTY: “Confidential” census data used to round up the Nisei in WW2

Friday, April 6, 2007

http://www.sciam.com/article.cfm?chanID=
sa003&articleID=A4F4DED6-E7F2-99DF-32E46B0AC1FDE0FE

http://tinyurl.com/39nzo7

SCIENCE NEWS
March 30, 2007
Confirmed: The U.S. Census Bureau Gave Up Names of Japanese-Americans in WW II
Government documents show that the agency handed over names and addresses to the Secret Service
By JR Minkel

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Despite decades of denials, government records confirm that the U.S. Census Bureau provided the U.S. Secret Service with names and addresses of Japanese-Americans during World War II.

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What the government lied! I’m shocked.

It’s like the “social security number” will never be used for identification. That’s “barbara streisand”!

Fast forward to today. “Real Id”! We don’t know what it will have on us; “trust us” say the congress critters. We don’t know how it will be collected or protected; “trust us” say the bureauRATs. We don’t know how it will be abused; “trust us” say the enFORCErs like the fbi.

Congress critters lie. BureauRATS routinely exceed their authority. And the enFORCErs, like the fbi, just brake the law when it suits them.

And, you want to “trust them”.

Fool me once, share on you. Fool me twice, shame on me.

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TECHNOLOGY: I need some refinement in my thinking

Friday, April 6, 2007

Isn’t “technology” is too broad a brush? There are web-based applications and client-based applications. There are internet based services. There are hardware gadgets. There are concepts. Mushing them all together isn’t allowing them to be differentiated. It represents muddled thinking.

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INTERESTING: A kanuck mounts an interesting challenge

Friday, April 6, 2007

http://daveolson.ca/

today is do something for someone else day!

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Contagious generosity is one sure way of enlarging your spirit. So I want to try a group experiment. I mentioned before that Kiva.org is one of my favourite organizations for helping people.

So here’s what I’m thinking.

I thought we could talk about how we grow generosity. I don’t mean the dollar amounts.. I just mean where and how.

* What charities do you support?
* Do you give regularly or just when there is a special plea?
* How do you come up with the money?
* What are your giving goals?

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Aside from my local church, bishop’s relief fund, my college alumin fund, and united way (who I really don’t like due to high overhead but I get my arm twisted at work), I support Homefront http://www.homefrontnj.org/ with a monthly check for a long long time.

Born out of a bunch of rich white women bringing water (in America! in New Jersey! near Princeton!) to poor women trapped by the gooferment welfare system, these women were horrified at what they saw. For anyone unlearned in the ways of gooferment, the poor women were enslaved by a system that would “give” them a handout that enabled them to “live” such as it was, but gave them no hope ever of escaping. The Princeton gals were not stupid. It didn’t take very many water runs (i.e., the welfare motel had been condemned for a toxic water supply, but the state welfare bureaucrats had no where else to put these 100 or so wretched souls. So, the Princeton women would bring drinking water to the motels from their homes.) before they were enraged.

I got involved when I introduced the chief firebrand to a package of dynamite at merrill lynch. Like throwing gasoline on a match, these two hellions started raising money and “arms” (volunteers) at Merrill and among Merrill’s local wealthy.

Homefront has become a gateway out of the cycle of poverty. They have several levels of involvement with the poor and help those people pull themselves out of the clutches of the NJ welfare bureacracy. It my pleasure to help them help people. (A few years ago, I pandered dentists to donate dental care to these indigents very successfully. It’s hard to get a job when an abusive spouse has knocked out all your teeth. And the gooferment thinks that’s cosmetic?)

The fact that the NJ Welfare Establishment is irritated, annoyed, and down-right hostile is merely a cherry on my cake. I used it as an example of what happens when the gooferment is allowed to take over the “charity industry”. People get hurt. Perhaps even die of the neglect. Charity is personal. And, these Princeton women are a force to be reckoned with.

I’m not good at writing checks or paying bills. So, I put everything on auto pilot as much as possible. My source is my paycheck. Unlike the Federal Reserve Bank (which is NOT “federal”, a “reserve” of anything, nor a “bank”), I can’t print money. I have to just earn it the old fashioned way. My giving goals are that when I die at Final Judgment, the fellow at the check in desk says “well I see all the bad things you’ve done. but they pale in comparison to the good. anyway, the boss says you get a pass to paradise”.

Seriously, I have no goals other than to help people. Very unstructured! Very hippie like. See a need and fill it. I have a “charity checkbook”, where — surprisingly — I make an automatic deposit from my real checkbook. When I hear of a sad tale, where someone has met misfortune, thru no fault of their own, I write a check. No fan fare. No tax deduction. No records. The checks don’t even have my name on them. No need for people to thank me; so there’s no way for them to find me to thank me. (Guess they could go to the bank!) — And no pain because the money was already “spent” when it left my real checking account. I use the checking account system so that I actually do give away that amount of money and it’s less painful for me to actually spend it. I used to use money orders. I’d have a few already in my desk at work in various odd amounts from 5$ to 100$, an envelope, and a stamp — instant charity.

Yeah, I know I’m weird.

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