May 16, 2006

• Hey all well I'm off to Philadelphia tomorrow for my brother's graduation on Thursday from the University of Temple. I'm going to stay all the way til Sunday. It should be fun, like I said Philadelphia is actually a great place to go, anyone who's been there knows there are lots of places to go, so you never get bored. They also have a great hotel (the Doubletree) its 20 miles from the airport, it has a great view.  Take going to Minneapolis for example(ugh!), the only place there is the Mall of Americas, I remember I was bored out of mind also sick as well. Also first day of Latin American Politics class was today(yikes) I don't know if I can keep up, I guess it's more of it being in the summer and trying to keep pace. I can do that for electives, but classes like this well who knows. The summer schedule didn't have much open and the few electives that were disappeared within a day.  Anyway I'll figure something out.. I got a B in my other class Research Methods in Political Science(I had gotten a B- in my World Politics Class) so I'm doing well, I'm no genius, but I get by.

  
  

  Also Bush gave his speech on immigration last night, the only thing new is he wants to add 6,000 troops to the boarder, some hard line conservatives who are for troops on the border say that isn't nearly enough, but critics say it's a good start. Democrats say the only reason Bush is adding troops is because of his bad poll ratings. Whatever the reason he addressed the issue.  You know it's funny people who are for the military on the border or a fence say if your not for this plan your essentially granting amnesty and not securing the boarder. Critics of adding troops say we're stretched to thin in Iraq and we have other troops stationed in Kosovo and Germany and around the world and it's not feasible to do this. The House bill which contains troops at the border is different than the Senate which doesn't. Bush wants both sides (the House and the Senate) to compromise. But certain House members like Peter King(R-NY) and Tom Tancredo(R-CO) aren't budging, they don't want anything to do with the Senate bill, the Mccain-Kennedy bill, which conservatives and people who want military on the border call this amnesty. They say the Mccain-Kennedy bill doesn't do anything to secure the border. Democrats tend to favor the Senate bill. So there's going to be a battle between the House and the Senate over the bills, which side is right on this well I guess time will dictate that.

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