So much for the anchor baby…

MoonHowler

From washingtonpost.com:

The U.S. birthrate plunged last year to a record low, with the decline being led by immigrant women hit hard by the recession, according to a study released Thursday by the Pew Research Center.

The overall birthrate decreased by 8 percent between 2007 and 2010, with a much bigger drop of 14 percent among foreign-born women. The overall birthrate is at its lowest since 1920, the earliest year with reliable records. Preliminary 2011 data suggest the trend will continue.

Whoa.  Stop.  I have heard nothing but shrieking and screeching for the past 5 or 6 years about all the anchor babies being dropped here in the United States so these babies can grow up and let their parents and all their relatives float in on the backs of the anchor babies.  Damn!  Tell me its not true!

Now that old Washington Post tells us that the birth rates are at an all time low, more significantly within the immigrant population?  How will those figures ever support all the nativist-shrieking?  What will Corey and Ken Cuccinelli campaign on?  No “illegals” birthin’ babies to kick around?  The birth rate amongst Mexican women dropped 23%.’

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The Cooch is going to show us who he really is….

MoonHowler

Liberty is certainly not for women, immigrants, gays, lesbians, people who believe in climate change,  the irreligious, and the list goes on.

Rumor has it that Jeannemarie Devolites Davis might up the ante and run for governor against Cuccinelli.  To quote Ben Tribbett of Not Larry Sabato blog from Facebook:

“OMG OMG OMG OMG OMG!  Jeannemarie is thinking about bumping up and running against Cuccinelli for Governor now.  This would be the greatest shit show of all time.  Oooooooooooooohhhhhhhhhhhh.”

Nothing like adding a little sparkle to things until that Republican Convention.

I will just wait for Terry McAuliffe to come kick his butt.

From NARAL:

I believe in keeping things simple.

Will you be doing your part to see that Cuccinelli never moves into the Governor’s Mansion?

 

 

 

The simple acts of kindess, unknowingly, caught on camera. What would YOU do?

Elena

I believe this has become such a sensational story because the moment was captured unbeknown  to the officer and the man he was helping. I hope this story will serve as a reminder to all of us that a simple act of compassion, regardless of whether anyone else ever sees it, can have a real positve impact for a fellow human being.

On a cold November night in Times Square, Officer Lawrence DePrimo was working a counterterrorism post when he encountered an older, barefooted homeless man. The officer disappeared for a moment, then returned with a new pair of boots, and knelt to help the man put them on.

The act of kindness would have gone unnoticed and mostly forgotten, had it not been for a tourist from Arizona.

This is what I mean, had this woman from Arizona never “recorded” this exchange, for eternity, this act of kindess would have been a solitary moment in time.  Instead, the whole world can revel in this officers kindness, wondering, , if WE would have noticed this man who had no home with blisters on his feet.

The officer, normally assigned to the Sixth Precinct in the West Village, readily recalled the encounter. “It was freezing out and you could see the blisters on the man’s feet,” he said in an interview. “I had two pairs of socks and I was still cold.” They started talking; he found out the man’s shoe size: 12.

As the man walked slowly down Seventh Avenue on his heels, Officer DePrimo went into a Skechers shoe store at about 9:30 p.m. “We were just kind of shocked,” said Jose Cano, 28, a manager working at the store that night. “Most of us are New Yorkers and we just kind of pass by that kind of thing. Especially in this neighborhood.”

I hope, instead of vicariously relishing in this moment of compassion, that we will challenge ourselves to find OUR better angels and help a fellow soul in need.