Illegal immigrants have rights?

I’ve been hearing a lot lately about illegal immigration and lawsuits filed on the behalf of illegal immigrants. Ironically the ACLU is sometimes helping the illegal immigrants sue.

The ACLU? Suing Americans on behalf of non-Americans? Isn’t it the American Civil Liberties Union?! Personally I have found the ACLU to be more appropriately named the LACLU: Left-leaning American Civil Liberties Union. Sometimes I simply find them INSANE. (They defended NAMBLA?!)

What unmitigated gall does it take to sue Americans for supposedly infringing upon the rights of illegal immigrants? Illegal immigrants do not have the rights granted to us by the Constitution….they are here ILLEGALLY! If an illegal immigrant comes over and is hit by a car and critically injured, I am all for saving his life. The hospital ER should do everything they can to save his life. It’s a basic human right. But they should not be able to go the ER for the flu or something like that when they don’t have insurance and don’t pay taxes.

Here’s a case I find completely ridiculous and proof that there are some folks out there who are all for illegal immigration: A rancher in Arizona was sued for injuring an illegal immigrant who was coming across the border. To take a man’s land and give it to an illegal immigrant is ridiculous, no matter the circumstances! Should he have been punished for injuring him? Yes. But if someone allegedly hit me with a gun, would I get their land? NO!

Why are illegal immigrants getting better treatment than legal Americans?!

Getting organized

I am back from the holidays sick, but wanted to post a few things here today to keep it up to date. Over the last two months (my birthday is in November) I have been using gift cash and gift cards in an attempt to get more organized.

I bought a Palm T/X last month, and this month got a refill for my dayplanner, which still had the pages from 2003 in it, which shows how organized I generally am. I also bought Pocket Quicken so we could keep more up to date on our checking accounts and budget, since we took the trouble to refinance the house to pay off credit cards.

My latest purchase, which was just made yesterday and will hopefully arrive in the next couple of days, was a leather briefcase bag made by Ellington Leather in Portland Oregon. I was looking for a place to keep all my organizational tools together, as well as my cell phone, iPod, etc., and something to carry all this paperwork I always seem to bring to work. I always have some bill or something or other to take to work to get some information.

Anywho, I mostly wanted to discuss this as a way to plug two things: Elliston Leather and Paula’s Fine Leather.

The leather briefcase I selected, the Ellington Leather Hawthorne briefcase in brown, is a gorgeous leather bag with a lot of functionality. Ellington also has a lot of other high quality items without such a high quality price. Somewhere I saw their leather described as “Coach-quality leather without the Coach price”.

I purchased the briefcase from Paula’s Fine Leather. At Ellington’s Web site, the briefcase is priced at $298, which is a good price considering the quality of this item. The shopping sites I checked (shop.com, mysimon.com, etc) all had prices ranging from $283-$298. I eventually found a site that listed the item at $253 and another listing it at $249.

Paula’s Fine Leather had it listed at $222.00, but they say to call for their best price and have a form you can submit to get the best price. I submitted my name, e-mail address and phone number and they called me literally no more than 2 minutes later to tell me they had a special coupon code I could use that was expiring that day. I got 10% off of the item, which made it $199.80!

So if you’re looking for leather goods, I would recommend Ellington Leather. Their items all come with a one year warranty. If you want to buy them at better prices, look around online, but look first at Paula’s Fine Leather. Their Web site isn’t fancy but the prices are terrific. I spoke with someone there (they are out of NJ) and apparently they buy in bulk, so that explains their pricing.

And I don’t get anything in return for plugging either place. I’m just very happy with the bag Ellington had (it’s exactly what I was looking for!) and the price I paid for it at Paula’s.