True Blood

I have read the Sookie Stackhouse series of book by Charlene Harris and I enjoyed them.

I have been watching the show true blood since the beginning and I also enjoyed that. Actually I like the idea of the show being different than the books that way I don’t know what it’s coming, besides I love Lafayette and I like it that they kept him alive on the show.

However this season it’s not that good, they are being too weird.

First I thought that Meloni will have a bigger part and that he would be in the show longer, well, who knows, he might be back.

But the last few show with them getting high and all that religious crap about Lilli’s is too much.

I never really liked Bill and this season he is even a bigger ass hole than before, you would think that as old as he is and as egocentric as he is that he would not get involve in a cult an fall for all that  crap.

I am just not feeling this season.

I still will be watching it and I hope it will get better.

The only good thing is that Eric is in a lot of shots, and  he looks so good!!!

Texas: Jan Brewster and immigration.

I just read an article about Texas Republican Governor Jan Brewer stating that the state of Texas will no issue driver license to the people that qualified for the deferred program that went into effect yesterday August 15, 2012 and has an expiration date of February 28, 2013.

"Consideration of Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals," allows illegal immigrants that have been in the country for at least five years, were brought to the U.S. before age 16 and go to school, graduated from high school or serve in the military to stay in the country and work for two years at which time they can apply for renewal, and upon approval would be eligible for work authorization.

           

Some of these people have been here since they were children, they are not the ones that come out of their own accord they were brought here by their parents, they did not have a choice in the matter. Besides for some of them this is the only country they know, this is where they have grown up and this is what they know.

However Jan Brewer doesn’t agree with the new law so she is not permitting these people to get a driver’s license because according to her if they have a license they can apply for other states benefits.

What is she talking about???

To me having a license allows them to drive and to go to work which they can do legally now.

Since when having a driver’s license makes somebody entitle to state benefits like welfare, Social Security, SSI, Medicaid or Medicare or any other program out there?

Besides illegal immigrants don’t apply for any benefits because they are afraid of being deported if they go to a state office.

These people can serve in the military and died for this country however they can no drive legally. Really!!!

Besides Obama stipulated in the program that "The program does not provide for any additional public benefit to unlawfully present aliens beyond the delayed enforcement of United States immigration laws and the possible provision of employment authorization."                           

Brewster maintains that granting public benefits to deferred action recipients would have "significant and lasting impacts" on Arizona's budget, health care system and other taxpayer-funded benefits.

There is an application fee of $465 to obtain the work permit, that fee will cover the expenses of the program.

As I asked before, what is she talking about???

The way I see it it’s very simple.

When you go to apply for Social Security retirement you need to bring a Birth Certificate to prove your nationality, a passport or any other document won’t do, much less a driver’s license. If you are born in another country you need to bring proof of naturalization or the permanent resident card (green card).

So, why not do the same for any other benefit?

A driver’s license it is not proof of citizenship. A driver’s license it is only use to drive or as and ID. Actually in every other country a license it’s just for driving as they have a separate ID as an ID.

Besides it is very clear that the only benefits they will receive it is a permit to go to work.

Brewer’s spokesman, Matthew Benson, said the president’s action has created confusion in state agencies and that Brewer is seeking to clarify and defend state law.

I am not a governor or anybody in such an important position, I am just a regular person, nevertheless, I did not find Obama’s law confusing at all. So if Brewer doesn’t understand the law maybe she should not be in such a position or maybe she should have somebody on her staff that could put the law into layman’s terms for her.

Remember that this is the same governor that passed the law in 2010 giving authorization to policemen to stop anybody they believe to be an illegal alien.

One of my pet peeves it’s when they talk about illegal immigrants they always talk about Mexicans or Latinos like if those are the only people coming into this country illegally. What about people from Canada, Europe, Asia or any other place? If they come without papers they are illegal too, not just Mexicans.

Latino is a term used exclusively in the Unites States and it is being used incorrectly to refer to people of Latin American. The term has also been used incorrectly as a synonym for Hispanic or more commonly known as Spanish.

Spanish is a language it is not a nationality, a race or an ethnicity.

Latin refers to the Latin language.

Countries like Spain, France and Portugal and other European nations, including the Germanic countries of Northwestern and Central Europe spoke the romance language and they were Roman catholic while the rest of Germany were Protestants.

That is where the distinction came from. It was based on religion.

Illegal aliens came in all colors, shapes and languages, so technically the police have the authorization to stop all of us however they only profile the person that looks what they call “Latino”.

Neither Hispanic nor Latino refers to a race, because a person of Latino or Hispanic ethnicity can be of any race.

Latin means:

·         You are a native of Latium, now a day known as Lazio a region of Italy, (where Rome is situated).

·         A descendant of any of the Romance languages countries.

·         A member of the Latin Church, better known as Roman Catholic Church.

The United States has been using the term of Hispanic incorrectly since 1970 and the term on Latino since 1997.

You could think that these people that write the laws should know how to find the right origin of words before they use them.

Savages

The movie is being told by O. the blond girl in the movie. She speaks through the whole movie in a monotone stone voice. She has not life in her, except when she is fucking the two guys that she lives with and even then she doesn’t do much, even that she might be a great lay otherwise why the two guys would spend the whole movie trying to save her? She is an empty character that does nothing; I don’t even think she has an opinion worth notice.

Anyway, Blake Lively plays the role of an empty blond well.

The Mexicans think these guys are savages, the guys think the Mexicans are savages, to me they are all stupid savages.

Benicio del Toro was really good as was John Travolta as the dirty cop. Salma Hayek was OK but the black wig she was wearing did not look good.

In my opinion the best line of the movie was “don’t mess with Wal-Mart”, besides that I did not care for it.

 I did not feel sympathy or empathy for any of the character. Besides the movie was not quite a drug cartel movie, a romance movie, and action movie. It tried to be all of them or maybe some of them, I don’t know, but did not cut it.

It is OK if you have couple hours to waist, however wait to rent it, don’t waste your money on it.

The Ceibal Project

The other night I watched the movie “Savages” and at the beginning of the movie you see one of the guys volunteering in Africa with a child with a white and green lap top. The guy goes into talking how in Africa children can get theses lop tops and that they only cost $14 to make.

I have seen on T.V. adds about if you buy I don’t remember what the company will donate one lap top to a child in Africa.

This lap top program is call “Plan Ceibal” and it was develop and implemented in Uruguay although it was inspired by Nicholas Negroponte's One Laptop per Child project.

The plan is 5 years old and it was implemented to give every school child in the country a lap top and to introduce computer technology in every elementary and secondary school.

The plan also has installed a no-cost internet access in every school throughout the country. Children in private schools can buy the lap tops at cost.

The government wanted to improve the quality of education through the new technological system by providing computers to every scholar and teacher of the public education and to promote the same opportunities for all. Not only opportunity for the children that could afford to buy a regular lap top.

I have seen this lap tops and they are great, they are not pretty by any means, but they are steady and they had the same programs that a regular lap top. However not all children get the same programs, they are distribute by age and school grade, as they advance in their education they get new and more advance programs.

Ceibal =  Cockspur coral tree, is an indigenous flower tree of Uruguay and in this case it stands for  "Conectividad Educativa de Informática Básica para el Aprendizaje en Línea" =  Educational Connectivity of Basic Computing for Online Learning.

Many delegates from different countries had come to Uruguay to study the plan and they had implemented it in their own countries, and in many of those countries the plan is also called Ceibal.

Also the UNESCO had presented workshops in different countries about this program.

Next blog I will give my opinion about the movie.