Employers seeking Immigrant Labor

There is within the U.S. Citizenship & Immigration Department, a Verification Division. All the hoopla about

not being able to tell illegal from legal is basically nonsense. There is Employers Electronic Verification available

to every U.S. employer. In fact, they have about 200 employers a week who use it. It's not required, but both bills

in the House and Senate will require employers to use it. (Taken from a report on C-Span by the Immigration Dept.)

Dead vs Live

Years ago I worked in a natural history museum and was profoundly effected by being surrounded by dead things.

Dead animals, drawers full and displays of dead birds. I remember thinking they kill those birds so they can study them.

 

Here is a poem from the New Yorker this month by Barbara Tran

 

              Imaginary Menagerie

 

In the end, it was

as in the beginning: no one

learned anything.  What was alive

was killed and posed,

stuffed, put on display. The remaining live

wandered around amongst the dead,

wondering what they looked like

when they were alive and in the positions

in which they were now posed, which the live

could have witnessed in life

had they not killed

the now

dead.

 

The Central Question for our time . . . . .

"The central question for our time is not how you worship God, or even whether you worship God.

 

It's whether you believe, in this life, that you can be in possession of the absolute truth and you

have the right to impose it on others-- and therefore, whether your differences are more important

than our common humanity. That's the values crisis."

                                                        Wm. Jefferson Clinton 

 

 

 

White males over 65

News item yesterday( in Chicago Sun-Times ) reported the largest group in U.S. to
commit suicide are White Males over 65. According to the Population Reference Bureau,
I thought the largest group was teenagers.

Noise

Listened to an interview last nite of Bart Kosko, author of a new book non-fiction called Noise .I look forward
to reading the book just out. His other books have interesting titles like, Nanotime...that one is fiction.
One comment of his I will pass on. . .. "The brain loves stimulation".

Sanity

An old friend said, "What we have to do is work on ourselves".

 

In that spirit, I offer this:

 

At no time  in the world  will a person who is sane,

      Over reach himself,

      Over spend himself,

      Over rate himself.

Invitations to Live

"We need to learn how to invite people to explore and try more of their possibilities than modal upbringing

seems to foster, so the invitation to live and grow is as fascinating as is the invitation to die."

 

 

"If a person carries within him the means whereby his body can destroy itself and if the environment carries

myriad means for destroying a person, the problem to be explained is not suicide or death, but, rather, living

in the face of so many physical pathogens and so many experiences of invitation to abandon life."

 

                                  Sidney Jourard  ,  The Transparent Self