JCopus: oh, you would have liked my comment at the strip club the other night...
JCopus: it was with a lady who was head of United Way of Cuyahoga County
JCopus: one of the guys at work said a lot of people won't donate because they support Planned Parenthood
JCopus: So I informed her that I was making up for them by keeping a wide array of coat hangers in my trunk and performing backstreet abortions
Elenamary: you are great that made me think you were cute ;-)
March, 2005
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coat hangers
March 31, 2005 by elenamary
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Latinos, Robots & School
March 30, 2005 by elenamary
A Latino (or any immigrant) who has been in school in Ohio from K-12 but is not a citizen cannot qualify for federal grants or loans and if they choose to go to a public Ohio University they must pay out-of-state tutition even though they might never have gone to any school anywhere outside of Ohio.
La Vida Robot
How four underdogs from the mean streets of Phoenix took on the best from M.I.T. in the national underwater bot championship.
By Joshua Davis“The four teenagers who built it are all undocumented Mexican immigrants who came to this country through tunnels or hidden in the backseats of cars. They live in sheds and rooms without electricity. But over three days last summer, these kids from the desert proved they are among the smartest young underwater engineers in the country.”
The four of them built “…a cheap but astoundingly functional underwater robot capable of recording sonar pings and retrieving objects 50 feet below the surface.”
“Since the teenagers are undocumented, they don’t qualify for federal loans. And though they’ve lived in Arizona for an average of 11 years, they would still have to pay out-of-state tuition, which can be as much as three times the in-state cost. They can’t afford it.”
A scholarship fund has been set-up for the four members of “La Vida Robot”.
(article via James Copus)
I wish I was as smart as these guys, I would love to build a battle bot.
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Serve in the Military and then Citizenship
March 30, 2005 by elenamary
As many of you know you, approximately 4-5% of our service people (“Fighting for their citizenship,†L.A. Times, 4/1/03) are not US citizens but join the military in hoping that by joining this will speed up the process. Many of these military people have spent their whole lives in the United States but were born somewhere else. They want to be able to become a citizen of the country that has always been their home, they went to be able to go to college. Some of course are recruited to join the US Army while in Mexico.
GW changed the law to allow veterans who were already here as permanent residents (that is with a Green Card) to more easily apply for citizenship.
“Under an Executive Order signed by President Bush in July 2002, legal permanent residents actively serving in the U.S. military, and legal permanent residents who were on active duty on September 11, 2001 or after, and honorably discharged, are immediately eligible to apply for naturalization. The President is authorized to waive the normal residency requirements for naturalization during specified periods of military hostilities. The July 2002 Executive Order designates the War on Terrorism, including the current conflict in Iraq, is such a period. More than 13,000 military personnel have applied for expedited citizenship since the Executive Order was enacted.” From the governmental U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services.
13,000! And that is those who have applied who were residents before joining (that is they had green cards). There are plenty who came into the US undocumented and joined who do NOT fall under this Executive Order.You can do a google search and get plenty of sites from all sides of the political divide about the amount of non-citizens serving. For a brief outline on newspaper stories you can check here.
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Pipeline from Mexico
March 30, 2005 by elenamary
The Columbus Dispatch, Central Ohio’s Newspaper has run a three day series on Mexicans in Columbus. I myself have just gotton back from Mexico, so I haven’t had time to read it. I will read it today. You can check out the series
Jobs draw thousands of Mexicans to Columbus and other cities where restaurants, landscaping companies, construction crews and others have trouble finding workers for relatively low wages.
Friends and relatives follow.
This is a look at a human pipeline that runs between Columbus and El Paxtle, a farming community of 1,500 in a remote part of central Mexico.
Sunday, March 27: Life in the shadows
o Immigrants long for Mexico as they thrive in Columbus
o Graphic: Demographic comparison of Ohio and Guanajuato
o About the series
o Photo gallery: Life in the shadowsMonday, March 28: Money flows south
o Turning dollars to pesos
Mexican workers in Columbus create lifeline for hometown
o Graphic: Sending money south
o Photo gallery: Money flows southTuesday, March 29: Culture changes communities
o Crossing cultural borders
Mexican traditions survive with American seasoning
Also: Behind the series
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bad girls
March 23, 2005 by elenamary
Here is your update;
Some Mexcian teenage boys who think they are really tough just drove by with the song “girls just wanna have fun” blasting from their car.
I think I spoke more German this week then the whole time I lived in Germany, which is not saying much.
My 12-year-old niece has a crush on my 25-year-old German friend… I find this funny. She keeps asking me how to say “you are handsome” in German.
The university has still not given me my money (loans) and is insiting I pay them.
I haven´t read any blogs in weeks.
I haven´t had my cell phone for weeks. Which means I never-ever know the time.
Not knowing the time has its benefitts.
I bought a nice purse in a Mexican prison.
The frist thing an ex asked me when having not seen me in years was “are you still a virgin or are you a lesbian?”. Classy.
I will give you a really update with juicy gossip later, and devulge the secret, probably Monday.
Sorry for the lack of an entry or emails. Dial-up sucks ass.
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shhh it is a secret!
March 16, 2005 by elenamary
I have a big secret right now. I haven’t told anyone, not a soul. I have been busy this month. Some people know bits about why I have been busy but no one knows all of it. No one knows what I have done, what I am doing, and what I have planned.
Tomorrow I will see my friend Thomas Shuster for the first time in about 4 years, and maybe minutes after we have embraced I will tell him all of it. It will feel good to let it out. Holding it in right now is kind-of making me crazy. Part of me wants to share it on this blog. But I won´t yet. I will soon just not yet. This makes me question why I have this blog.
This blog was to be where I shared my thoughts on identity and xicana feminism and the such. And trust me I have dealt with my identity and xicanaism and feminsim more this month then I may have ever. I realized all alone I am going be financially okay, I really truly realized it, not just said it. Prehaps I need some distance in terms of time before I can share it. However, I will give you this bit of Xicana identity issue:
I was talking to a tÃÂa of mine and she was going on about some friend of hers that says she never wants to marry and my tÃÂa didn´t understand it. “Ella es femenina no se porque no se quiere casar. ¿crees que es…?” She asked me “Do you think she is…?” Insinuating and asking me if her friend was gay. And here I am happy with my life not really sure about marrying anymore and knowing that I will be able to take care of myself and my family. Will they call me a lesbiana? Why is that the assumption that is made? Being called a lesbian isn’t what I am disturbed by but rather why is it assumed that a single women, who doesn’t want to marry is a lesbian? This month’s Atlantic monthly had a short article about studies that show that women who never marry tend to be “happier” more “financially successful” and “live longer” if that is the case why the fuck would I want to marry? Man I might as well take up smoking, drinking and fucking like a rabbit (with condoms and artificial contraceptives).
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