http://www.law.cornell.edu/supct/html/historics/U…
Scotus in this case decided that the definition of illegal does not apply to children born of illegal parents on U.S. soil.
If people want to abolish the 14th amendment, they need to do so through the House & Senate. I agree with Crys.
"Prior to the Supreme Court decision in 1898 it was assummed that a child of a foriegn national was a citizen of the parents country."
If that were true, then why were American Indians considered to be non-citizens?
Edit:
Also see the Civil Rights Act of 1866:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Civil_Rights_Act_of_… — August 18, 2010 1:27 p.m.
Pinpoint Forecasting, San Diego Style
@ #54: They have to place their AAA team somewhere because the Portland stadium is now going to be renovated for soccer. The greater Los Angeles area has enough minor league teams, and everywhere else to the North is saturated as well. I think that leaves limited options. South Orange County would be a great spot (like around San Juan Capistrano), but my guess is that the land is too valuable to build a stadium. That leaves somewhere in San Diego County as the prime option. Temecula seems too close to Lake Elsinore, so Escondido would appear appropriate.— August 19, 2010 10:50 a.m.
Isolate, Expose, Avoid
"All of this garbage smells politically motivated." Political? How so?— August 19, 2010 10:04 a.m.
Get Used to Unemployment
Jobless claims report from this morning (8/19): http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/us_economy Stock market reacts negatively in spite of small rise in leading economic indicators.— August 19, 2010 8:34 a.m.
Pinpoint Forecasting, San Diego Style
@ #45: Yep, I had to look it up. I knew about the Golden League from the Surf Dawg days, and up to last year Phil Nevin managed a team in that league. Nevin now manages a AA team in Erie. I was surprised to now see some Mexican teams affiliated with the Golden League, I reckon I wasn't paying attention to the news here. http://www.ballparkdigest.com/rss/index.html?arti… Estadio Nacional de Tijuana is now called Estadio Calimax. It's only a few miles from me, I might go see a game sometime.— August 18, 2010 8:21 p.m.
Pinpoint Forecasting, San Diego Style
The Stars are a Dodger affiliated team. Apparently, Yuma now has a team in the Golden League, an independent, called the Scorpions.— August 18, 2010 7:50 p.m.
Pinpoint Forecasting, San Diego Style
@ #41: Yuma still has a ball team? I thought that the Padres Rookie League team was the last before moving to Tempe. Who's there now?— August 18, 2010 6:48 p.m.
Nightlife in the Rearview Mirror
You know the history. People used to write very compelling short stories because there was a great audience to read them, and plenty of magazines paid enough money for a writer to support his family simply by being a part of this lovely cycle. Then someone invented television. Television was a silly idea then, just as it remains silly now, but no one had time nor inclination to read short stories in magazines anymore. The writers of short stories - at least some of them - turned to writing novels. And thus was born another wonderful age, and they made movies from these novels so that one could see someone else's vision of what one had once read, on a giant screen with a large audience. Suddenly, or rather not nearly slowly enough, the people making the movies decided they didn't need the novels after all, and scripts from original screenplays would do just fine. Some of those movies were great. But here is what happened next: The people making movies then decided that they didn't even need good material to make a movie anymore, that anyone could write a screenplay with a green Crayola or a tube of bright-red lipstick. Anything would work. And when that held, they did more of the same. That's when I mostly stopped watching movies. Novelists, at least good novelists, became obsolete almost immediately. Instead, people who once liked to watch movies based on a script or a novel, decided to take things into their own hands. Publishers took note. The formula novel, otherwise known as genre, was born. It was a recipe, really, take a young lady with no personality or character, add a vampire and a werewolf and distant parents and turn them loose. Another recipe: Take the cutest young bookworm of a boy that you can imagine, add some friends, and make them go to sorcery school. Add British accents, stir vigorously. Presto. The success of this formula had the wonderful science fiction writers so scared they changed the name of science fiction to speculative fiction, hoping to dignify their craft in some way. The scary thing is that perhaps, in some way that he can't quite articulate, Andy Rooney has a point.— August 18, 2010 2:11 p.m.
Why Anchor Babies are not Legal Citizens
http://www.law.cornell.edu/supct/html/historics/U… Scotus in this case decided that the definition of illegal does not apply to children born of illegal parents on U.S. soil. If people want to abolish the 14th amendment, they need to do so through the House & Senate. I agree with Crys. "Prior to the Supreme Court decision in 1898 it was assummed that a child of a foriegn national was a citizen of the parents country." If that were true, then why were American Indians considered to be non-citizens? Edit: Also see the Civil Rights Act of 1866: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Civil_Rights_Act_of_…— August 18, 2010 1:27 p.m.
Isolate, Expose, Avoid
I'll guarantee that the Reader won't print their fluff, and I guess we'll see about CityBeat, they SEEM smart enough to smell a rat here; but recently, the U-T is not above printing whatever they're paid to print, or anything that they get for free.— August 18, 2010 8:54 a.m.
Isolate, Expose, Avoid
Founder, I agree, and, and they should, of course, call the challenge, "Operation Sugarmuffin".— August 18, 2010 7:25 a.m.