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The guy sounds like trouble, from the git. I agree, this guy's 'pinching' could escalate into much worse abuse. It starts out 'small' and she could wind-up dead. This is the kind of guy that some women become 'addicted' to. The guy has a definite 'problem'. She needs to get the hell away from him. Chuck

I was mortified! The gals in the office however, thought it really funny! I didn't mind being the brunt of their jokes and laughing at me...really I didn't! Hehe! "Betsy's surfing porn sites!" ______________________________ The 'big' question is; 'how long did you stay on that site?' Chuck

_________________________________ I would be too! That's kinda funny. Chuck

Damn if they don't make more money than I do! I am in the wrong profession! Whadda ya mean .99 cents a minute...haven't they heard of "inflation?" ________________________________ Sad part is, the 'expert' on the other end of the line is only getting a small portion of that. Several years ago, Saturday Night Live did a skit about 900 numbers. All the 'ladies', were really, elderly gramma types, knitting, while talking 'smut' to some un-suspecting caller. Chuck

At 3 AM it's a a bargain at any price. ________________________________- I just about fell off my chair... that there's funny... I don't care who you are! Chuck

I noticed the same thing and I was just at the mall! Chuck

I know! Next time...try 1-900 BABE _____________________________- They are experts in matters of 'drunk and horny'... for only 99-cents a minute, too! Chuck

____________________________- turd-munch Chuck

I was barely legal drinking age, when a buddy of mine and I were going fishing. We stopped and got a 6-pack of 'Bud'. Put it on ice and loaded it in the boat. After awhile, we cracked one o' those icy-cold brews and took a long slug and immediately spit it out! It was 'skunky'! Worst crap I ever tried to drink. Kinda' ended the fishing expedition, too... that was all we had to drink. Chuck

Mulva? Chuck

He's not saying the illegals are the only ones that leave trash laying around the countryside....he IS saying that they're the ones leaving trash all over the entry corridors from Mexico. Add to that the livestock lost due to downed fences, damages to farm equipment/crops/etc... _______________________________ Thank you! Well said. Chuck

__________________________________ Yeah, it's really disgusting... isn't it? Where is Funks... when you need him???? Chuck

____________________________________ edit to add: I like the way you said that. Right-on! Sadly, buracracy just stacks laws on laws on laws. What they need to do is throw all of them out and start all over with new more logical and reasonable laws. When a trainee, enters the U.S. Border Patrol Academy, one of the first things the trainee is assigned are two large 3-ring binders. Along with that, 2-tall stacks of Immigration and Naturalization laws. Plus, a large stack of 'revisions'! That's ridiculous. On the other hand, I don't believe that bureaucrats understand 'easy' or 'simple'. Chuck

Citizens and legal aliens trash too. Associating trashing with illegals is silly. _________________________________ True story! It is, a 'part' of the problem. I am only pointing out a part of the problem that 'directly' effects ranch owners and property owners along the border. Not just the extensive littering but also, the destruction of fences, the breaking-in of their homes and out-buildings not to mention the theft. I know a ranch owner in one of the border counties who has had his home broken into six times. He's had vehicles stolen, equipment as well as 'personal' belongings stolen. Directly connected with illegal aliens. Noone, should have to live like that! Chuck

Well sir, it's important to those ranchers along the border whose land the ILLEGALS are trashing-up! We're not talking Packers, Dolphins or Bengals fans here. Those ranches being trashed-up are a family's way of life and livlihood. Then to have someone come along and trash it up? It'd make me mad too. Comparing that to a football game or a rock concert is silly. You people keep confusing LEGAL with ILLEGAL! We're not talking about those folks who come through ports of entry and apply for citizenship. We are talking about those people who race across our borders in droves. We are talking about people breaking laws to get here. Chuck

___________________________________ The reason I asked that is, here, it's been so hot and dry, a lot of critters come into town looking for food and water. Mostly skunks, rabbits and quail. Chuck

Rule of thumb, if it's got fur, it's overrun with mold... _______________________________ I'm sure, you know what a quarter-pounder with cheese is? Chuck

Maybe the coyotes drove all your rabbits into the big city. ________________________________ Has it been unusually dry there? Chuck

You should see all the crap they leave along the border... looks like a trash dump! The land owners have to clean it up and truck it out. Chuck

McDonalds has fur-burgers? Chuck

___________________________ I understand that! People just generalize too quickly. I savvy 'arrogance'. Chuck

Well what do you expect? With your "America is the best and fuck the rest of the world" attitude, of course YOU are going to encounter people who don't like people like ... YOU. _______________________________ You mean like, Americans going to Canada or any other country and get upset because it isn't like the 'States'? Chuck

That's very easy to do, if, for example, you're an apartment complex that gets identification from new renters, if you're a grocery store that cards for alcohol, or if you're a school that simply files away copies of birth certificates. It's not so easy if someone is dealing with a government entity or someone authorized to run a credit check. When you run a credit check, the SSN must match the name and birthday. To copy someone's SSN, you have to know their name and date of birth. Since usually only the name and SSN are printed on the card, this isn't an easy thing to do, even if you've stolen the card itself. When you're applying for government services, they check your documentation against official records. And believe me, they check. I couldn't renew my driver's license because the birthdate that social security had didn't match the date on my birth certificate or driver's license. After 9-11, all the systems are linked. Social security was able to look at DMV records with the click of a mouse, and DMV has access to social security records. I came in with my social security card, driver's license, passport, birth certificate, and even student ID and library cards, and because the birth date was wrong by one day on the social security records (someone made a typo when entering the data), it took a congressional inquiry to get it straightened out. It is not as easy to fool a government agency as you might think. If legitimate citizens with proper paperwork are going through stuff like this, imagine how accurate forged paperwork would have to be... Now, since the computers are linked, they can check a fake driver's license just by typing in the state and number, and they get a photo of the license, the name, and the driving record. ______________________________ Thank you, for that! I am, enlightened. What you said, is great. Out here in Podunk, Texas, things aren't checked so closely. Such as employers and some other facets of life. Some folks may look at it as 'Big Brother'. What you described, could save someone from identity theft. Like the 4-yr. old girl in Utah whose parents recently found-out, the little girl had run-up a huge debt in California. Some illegal, was 'using' her Social Security number. Chuck

Just like drugs, cigarettes, and alcohol... trying to limit supply (stop people from coming in) doesn't work. You must reduce demand. As far as I can see, the only thing that will reduce demand is the elimination of the minimum wage. As long as there is a minimum wage, there will be a demand for under the table labor. Farmers know that people don't want to pay $20 a basket for strawberries. If the farms want to stay in business, they MUST keep their costs down. About the only thing they can shortcut on is labor costs. As long as someone is willing to do the job for cheaper than the minimum wage, there will be a demand for illegal employment. Fining the farmers without removing minimum wage requirements won't work. It won't work because people won't pay $20 a basket for strawberries, and if they don't hire under the table, they go out of business anyway. Either the fines shut them down or the high minimum wage shuts them down. However, if you remove the minimum wage, you remove the incentive to hire people illegally, because you can now hire them legally. There's no reason not to hire people legally, because you can pay them the same amount you were paying the illegal hires. At that point, fining them for hiring illegal workers will actually accomplish something. The immigration criteria standards MUST change if we want to regulate the flow of people entering the US. Making the standards as strict as they are tells people that the ONLY way they can get here is illegally. If that's the only way, they'll take it. However, if we make it easier to immigrate (let in anyone with a job and a sponsor, for example) remove the minimum wage, and fine people who hire illegal workers (you have to have all three components for this to work), we then have a system in place that lets the government keep track of who's here, makes it easier for companies who depend on immigrant labor to hire them legally, and removes any incentive to hire illegal workers. __________________________________ I see your point, about the minnimum wage. Damned if you do... damned if you don't. I agree whole-heartedly about fining the companies who hire illegals. There are in fact, some good Immigration & Naturalization laws on the books. as we both know, enforcing those laws is another story. It's typical bureacracy as far as these laws go. Like everything else, laws are stacked on laws. Immigration law changes quite constantly. It may be a paragraph or a sentence but, they do change. The only time we hear of them changing is when there is a 'big' bill on the Senate or Congress floor. During the 70's and 80's, we read of this company or that company being 'raided' and fined for hiring illegals. We don't hear of that any more. Except for recently, there was mention of one company being raided. That was all. I blame the lobbyists! They buy-off the politicians and big business gets bigger. I think, a part of the problem is lobbyists. Chuck

" If the government has the technology to listen to every phone call on the planet, how come it can't keep track of those to whom it grants legal status without their having to keep "paperwork"? _____________________________ That is a question that could keep politicians busy for a good, long time! I wish I had an answer for you. The paperwork I'm referring to, makes an 'illegal' appear as though they were born here and not naturalized. Chuck