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Happy Endings: The Day Madonna Stepped Out

• Madonna got a haircut. No word on an amount, but we bet it costs a fucking fortune to look so - um…well, to have such nice looking hair. The face? Not looking so hot…

• Ellen injured! Lesbian talk show host and all around lesbian Ellen Degeneres will be performing her chat fest from bed after injuring her back. Perhaps Portia got a little rough?

• Kenya is getting lax on the fags. Gay activist Angus Parkinson says:of Liverpool VCT, a support centre in Nairobi, “Kenya is heading in a different direction from its neighbours.” Well, we should hope so, because neighboring Uganda doesn’t have the best record…

• Today’s fag rags have less fag and more rag, according to journo Sam McManis: “Now, these niche newspapers and magazines seem more about the “active lifestyle,” as the media cliche goes. Home improvement. Fashion. Celebrity culture. All the fun, frivolous stuff.” Yeah, but it also brings in the ever-important dollar. Gotta get that dollar, homie…

• Candy Spelling’s plan to save America’s international image? More reruns of Charlie’s Angels, Dynasty and, if we’re in a bind, Falcon’s Crest.

• On Friday, we informed you that an Arkansas man’s suing his local library because his son suffered “many sleepless nights” after finding The Whole Lesbian Sex Book. Um, duh he had sleepless nights (assuming, of course, he’s straight). Speaking on the brouhaha, the book’s author, Felice Newman, asks, “If librarians pull such books from the shelves, where will kids find out about sex?” You’re looking at it…

• Andy Warhol’s the number two highest-selling artist in the world. Picasso’s number one.

• Pete Wentz ain’t just a make-up wearing rock star, he’s a linguistic mastermind. For example, he doesn’t wear eyeliner. He wears “guy-liner”. Total difference. Total genius.

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Illegal Immigrants Don t Come Cheap

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Photo: Carlos Paes

From a California school teacher - - - As you listen to the news about the student protests over illegal immigration, there are some things that you should be aware of:

I am in charge of the English-as-a-second-language department at a large southern California high school which is designated a Title 1 school, meaning that its students average lower socioeconomic and income levels.

Most of the schools you are hearing about, South Gate High, Bell Gardens , Huntington Park , etc., where these students are protesting, are also Title 1 schools.

Title 1 schools are on the free breakfast and free lunch program. When I say free breakfast, I m not talking a glass of milk and roll ” but a full breakfast and cereal bar with fruits and juices that would make a Marriott proud. The waste of this food is monumental, with trays and trays of it being dumped in the trash uneaten. (OUR TAX DOLLARS AT WORK)

I estimate that well over 50% of these students are obese or at least moderately overweight. About 75% or more DO have cell phones. The school also provides [free] day care centers for the unwed teenage pregnant girls (some as young as 13) so they can attend class without the inconvenience of having to arrange for babysitters or having family watch their kids. (OUR TAX DOLLARS AT WORK)

I was ordered to spend $700,000 on my department or risk losing funding for the upcoming year even though there was little need for anything; my budget was already substantial. I ended up buying new computers for the computer learning center, half of which, one month later, have been carved with graffiti by the appreciative students who obviously feel humbled and grateful to have a free education in America .. (OUR TAX DOLLARS AT WORK)

I have had to intervene several times for young and substitute teachers whose classes consist of many illegal immigrant students here in the country less then 3 months who raised so much hell with the female teachers, calling them Putas whores and throwing things that the teachers were in tears.

Free medical, free education, free food, day care etc., etc., etc. Is it any wonder they feel entitled to not only be in this country but to demand rights, privileges and entitlements?

To those who want to point out how much these illegal immigrants contribute to our society because they LIKE their gardener and housekeeper and they like to pay less for tomatoes: spend some time in the real world of illegal immigration and see the TRUE costs.

Higher insurance, medical facilities closing, higher medical costs, more crime, lower standards of education in our schools, overcrowding, new diseases etc., etc, etc. For me, I ll pay more for tomatoes.

We need to wake up. The guest worker program will be a disaster because we won t have the guts to enforce it. Does anyone in their right mind really think they will voluntarily leave and return?

There are many hardworking Hispanic/American citizens that contribute to our country and many that I consider my true friends. We should encourage and accept those Hispanics who have done it the right and legal way.

It does, however, have everything to do with culture: A third-world culture that does not value education, that accepts children getting pregnant and dropping out of school by 15 and that refuses to assimilate, and an American culture that has become so weak and worried about politically correct that we don t have the will to do anything about it. If this makes your blood boil, as it did mine forward this to everyone you know.

CHEAP LABOR?
Isn t that what the whole immigration issue is about?
Business doesn t want to pay a decent wage.
Consumers don t want expensive produce.
Government will tell you Americans don t want the jobs.

But the bottom line is cheap labor. The phrase cheap labor is a myth, a farce, and a lie. There is no such thing as cheap labor.

Take, for example, an illegal alien with a wife and five children. He takes a job for $5.00 or 6.00/hour. At that wage, with six dependents, he pays no income tax, yet at the end of the year, if he files an Income Tax Return! he gets an earned income credit of up to $3,200 free.

*He qualifies for Section 8 housing and subsidized rent.
*He qualifies for food stamps.
*He qualifies for free (no deductible, no co-pay) health care.
*His children get free breakfasts and lunches at school.
*He requires bilingual teachers and books
*He qualifies for relief from high energy bills.
*If they are or become, aged, blind or disabled, they qualify for SSI (Social Security Income) Once qualified for SSI they can qualify for Medicare. All of this is at (our) taxpayer s expense.
*He doesn t worry about car insurance, life insurance, or homeowners insurance.
*Taxpayers provide Spanish language signs, bulletins and printed material.
*He and his family receive the equivalent of $20.00 to $30.00/hour in benefits.

Working Americans are lucky to have $5.00 or $6.00/hour left after paying their bills plus his own. The American taxpayers also pay for increased crime, graffiti and trash clean-up.

Cheap labor? YEAH RIGHT! Wake up people. THESE ARE THE QUESTIONS WE SHOULD BE ADDRESSING TO THE PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATES FOR EITHER PARTY AND WHEN THEY LIE TO US AND DON T DO AS THEY SAY, WE SHOULD REPLACE THEM AT ONCE!

forward this to everyone you know.

Balanced Marketing in Library Land

Here are two posts worth reading, both from Jill Stover of Library Marketing.

Read this first : The big balancing act

Read this second : Finding balance in library marketing

Jill says in her second post,

People must balance the demands of their personal and professional lives; their desires and their available resources; their opportunities and their existing commitments; their selfish impulses and the greater good; and that s just for starters. Librarians are no strangers to balance-seeking. We ve traditionally sought to mediate opposing tensions such as the responsibility to make resources readily available and the duty to preserve materials for future generations. The search for balance is a hallmark of professional work, and it also raises some important questions about marketing libraries in contemporary society.

I like what Jill has to say, and a lot of what she has to say is both insightful and surprising. Especially check out the table in the second post differentiating between patrons jobs and librarians jobs.

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