Moment with Will

I just want to take this opportunity to address a more serious topic. The nearby town of Hazelton recently passed a law that forces illegal immigrants to leave Hazelton.

In recent years, many illegal immigrates have migrated to Hazelton from New York, Philadelphia, and other large cities because of the lower cost of living, low crime, and the availability of work for those individuals.

Is forcing those individuals and/or families really addressing the issues with our immigration policies? Where will those illegal immigrates go? Shouldn’t we be embracing the problem and devising a better solution?

For any one whose family has been in the United States for at least hundred years knows that they may have been born from immigrates in this country. They came here for an opportunity and in many cases took that opportunity and ran with it within the enforced immigration laws.

The problem we face now is there is an over saturation of illegal immigrates. They have no loyalty to the country that gave them a better opportunity or increased quality of life. Illegal immigrates will continue to thrive and not live within the boundaries of a taxpaying American.

I can agree that something needs to be done about this problem but forcing them out is no more acceptable then segregating races. It should be the responsibility of those individuals providing residence and/or employment to those illegal immigrates to enforce the country’s immigration laws.

By forcing those illegal immigrates to relocate only shifts the problem to another area. Illegal immigrates will continue to move untouched by immigration laws until they move back to their own country.

Please comment.
http://www.mcall.com/news/nationworld/state/all-a1…

It was good times on Saturday.  We celebrated Amy’s birthday on Saturday and it rolled without any interruption except when we took bets to see when Joel would arrive since he is known for being fashionably late.  Amy won the money, I hate her guts.

It was like days of old.  We played beer pong, drank lots of beers, and made some noise.  I had a lot of fun.  I passed out early too.

Anyway, one the guests at the party is a member of a band.  We started to talk and came to the conclusion that we should do some cross linking of websites, since the MWW gets one visitor a month. Anyhow, you know a link to the MWW on their site and vice versa.

I told him that I would talk to someone at the MWW and he would talk someone in American Barfight about finalizing the cross links.  Stay tuned for the details on the links.

So that’s all got for now and thanks again for those who attended.  I will see you all for the next birthday, kisses.

It will be the Lehigh Valley Iron Pigs, Crushers, Gobblers, Keystones, Phantastics, Phillies. Vulcans or Woodchucks. Official voting starts tomorrow.

When Ron Steele decided he wanted to take a shot at naming the Triple-A baseball team that is scheduled to begin play in Allentown in 2008, he decided to focus on the region’s once-thriving steel industry.  Steelers were out, for obvious reasons. So he did a little digging on the Internet.

“I read about how [steel] is made, and where it comes from, and I came across pig iron,” the 31-year-old Northampton resident said. “And I could just see a pig holding an I-beam as a baseball bat.”  Hence his suggestion — the Lehigh Valley Iron Pigs. 

Steele’s suggestion was one of eight selected by team officials from more than 3,500 entries in the recent name-the-team contest. The seven others, in alphabetical order, are the Crushers, Gobblers, Keystones, Phantastics, Phillies. Vulcans and Woodchucks.

The naming process now enters the voting phase where the public can vote for its favorite at either the team’s web site (www.lehighvalleyaaabaseball.com) or at www.mcall.com/nametheteam. That final tally will help team officials decide on what the first afficialated baseball team to play in the Lehigh Valley since 1960 will be called.

“This is the single-most important thing we’ll do,” team president Chuck Domino said. “It’s our image.”

– reporting by Jeff Schuler, The Morning Call
http://www.mcall.com/news/local/all-baseballname10…

Fried Coke has become the latest artery-clogging hit at US state fairs, local media reports.

The gooey Coke-battered nuggets topped with cola syrup won the “most creative” title at the Texas state fair in Dallas last month. Since then, the deep-fried phenomenon has spread to North Carolina and Arizona.

“We’ve been getting calls from everywhere since we introduced it,” Elizabeth Martin, a spokeswoman for the North Carolina fair, told the Dallas Morning News. “Everyone wants to know where they can get it.”

Fried treats are as big of a draw at state fairs as the rides and prize-winning farm animals. Twinkies, cookies and even pickles are stuck with a stick, dipped in batter and then seared in the deep fryer.

Fried Coke’s inventor, concessionaire Abel Gonzales Jr., is a creative fryer whose experiments have proven popular. Last year he sold 20,000 fried peanut butter, jelly and banana sandwiches, the Morning News reported. Fried Coke looks to be an even bigger hit: he sold 16,000 cups of the sticky balls in the first two weeks of the fair, which runs through Oct. 22.

Gonzales has also had more success with changing his recipe than Coca Cola did. He reworked the recipe to make the dough less cakey and more spongy so it would soak up more of the cola syrup.

“They were good before, but they are even better now,” Gonzales said.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20061016/lf_afp/usfood…

Apparently I live a sheltered life because I went to Sam’s Club for the first time last Saturday.  I think I’m the last person on the planet that has never gone to Sam’s Club.  That membership card is burning a hole in my pocket. 

Sam’s Club is like an AA meeting in a liquor store.  Every corner I turned something was staring me in the face saying “buy me, buy me”  You get the comparison!

I couldn’t take it.  Anything you want, they got in bulk.   Toilet paper, condoms, earrings, cookies, you name it.  I don’t know anywhere else you can buy a package of 11 full size candy bars for $4.00 or a 6ft. Nutcracker.  Seriously.

How do people ever leave?  On top of that other stuff, they have food samples all over the place.  Think about it, they will even feed you.  I had some meatballs and some sausage.  Good times.  You can spread that membership fee pretty far with those free food samples.  The next time Amy asks me where I want to go to eat, I’m gonna say Sam’s Club for some of that free sausage.

Before I end this rambling, I do have to comment on the TV section.  I felt like I was at Disney World.  I couldn’t talk, I just pointed with my mouth open.  That 50in. Plasma TV was staring me right in the face.  Amy had to pull me away.

Anyway, Sam’s Club is worth the trip.  Free food.  Go there.