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Jim Crow Immigration Tests

11:39 am, September 28, 2007 by jason in Rants, Rumblings

The New York Times reports, “Legal immigrants who are eligible to become citizens must pass the civics exam as well as a test of English proficiency in reading and writing.”

I don’t know what constitution the writers of the immigration tests used, but the one on display in Washington D.C. says nothing about an official language of this country.  As such, why do we test immigrants  on the ability to utilize a language that is not a law?

I don’t support illegal immigration, but this country was founded upon immigration, while there need to be restricts to protect our countries health and safety they must all be law based — not fear based.

Source:  New Test Asks: What Does ‘American’ Mean? - New York Times

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Barbie, Don’t Blame China

2:43 pm, September 5, 2007 by jason in Rants, Rumblings, Thinking Green

A great article from TreeHugger.com that (in my opinion, accurately) describes the American attempt to use China as a scapegoat for the lack of product quality in some 19 million toys imported and now recalled.

“Poor Barbie is disconsolate as her dream house is emptied and her furniture recalled by Mattel for lead paint remediation. We hope that when she refurnishes she will do it with a bit more style and shop local. She will find it a bit more expensive, but perhaps it wouldn’t hurt to go minimal and try living with less. And don’t go blaming the Chinese for the required makeover; Professor Shih-Fen S. Chen of the Richard Ivey School of Business notes that:

“‘The reality is that U.S. importers have failed to install a quality control system and reject any outsourced product that does not meet the benchmarks. We are not talking about a few random errors in production that escape the eyes of quality control managers, but about a colossal failure of the outsourcing firm that let 19 million pieces of unsafe toys slip into the marketplace.’”

Continued… Barbie, Don’t Blame China (TreeHugger)

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