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In May 2007, blog search engine Technorati was tracking more than 71 million blogs....This is what a Blog is, Its not a chat room, It has no limit to the amount of interaction ONE MIGHT HAVE in a subject, There are no right or wrong answers...They are OPINIONS, by business professionals,blue coller workers,stay at home parents, employed people, unemployed people, EVERYONE AND, ANYONE....It's not a club, It crosses all kinds of Social lines, Economic lines,Religious lines, Political lines....BLOGS ARE OPINIONS..... No more and, no less...But if a person feels that their OPINION,is the only OPINION, then maybe BLOGGING isn't for them...And be respectfull towards each other, and their opinions, and how there written...BLOGS CROSS ALL LINES..

NATIVE AMERICANS SEEK CHANGES TO IMMIGRATION BILL — TO DEPORT MAYFLOWER DESCENDANTS
Flexing their new-found political muscle, Native Americans — the only “true” Americans — have now weighed in on the McCain-Kennedy immigration bill, lobbying Congress to provide for the immediate deportation of all Mayflower descendants.

Speaking for the National Council of American Indians, Chief “Running Tab at Foxwoods” asserted that the Mayflower settlers “not only entered this country illegally, without visas or work permits, but behaved very badly –spreading disease, raping our women, despoiling the land, and worst of all, stealing our very identity for their sports teams.”

While most tribes oppose any type of amnesty, some have supported a limited trail to citizenship, requiring the Mayflower descendants to pay a fine consisting of their scalps, and the return of the Great Plains.

Other tribes have proposed a “touchback provision,” requiring the illegal squatters to return to the 17th Century, for four centuries, before applying to live here legally in the present.

Some Native Americans would also grant favorable treatment to those who have high-tech skills, such as converting corn to ethanol.

This proposal has predictably drawn a huge outcry from the WASPS, who claim that they’re merely doing the jobs that Native Americans refuse to do, such as running investment banks and hedge funds.

In addition, although genealogy records reflect that his ancestors arrived not on Plymouth Rock but on Ellis Island, the Indian tribes have also insisted on the unconditional and immediate deportation of Jack Abramoff.

In the spirit of Tatanka Ohitika my great great grandfather.
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Unfortunately we in St. Louis idolize our baseball players.  When they drink and drive we honor them with a patch on their shoulder, and place their number out in the outfield with great cardinals that didn't drink and drive.  By doing this we agree that drinking and driving is okay if you're a cardinal baseball player.  The cardinals have an attendance record that is only out done by new york and LA.  These cities have triple the population in them.  When we place people that high on a pedastal we put ourselves at risk for futile lawsuits, lawsuits that wouldn't have merit anywhere else.  But because this is a baseball town and we honor him, in some way it has to be somebody elses fault.  The tow truck driver, the guy who broke down, anyone other than the drunk driver because we honor him. Then we pick on his attorney but its not his fault, he is american, doing the thing that makes our country great...capitalizing.  His arguement will be we honored him so if we felt he was doing wrong then we shouldn't have honored him, but not blame his attorney or his family.  It's kind of like going to a baseball game when the team loses all the time, it okays them to lose.  This is whats is on my mind