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“"Jerry, did you know the human head weighs 8 pounds?"”

“we like things non-union around here in the south.
TownDawg
10/12/01


Speak for yourself.
I'm a Union Steward where I work.
Teamsters!!!!!!”

“Nearly 23% of all people born in the US in 2002 had a foreigh-born mother, the largest percentage since a wave of imigration more than 90 yrs ago”

“I'm curious about the source Ewker. thanks”

“I got it off a Business Digest I get. here is a link I found though

http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20050707/ap_on_re_us/second_generation_americans_1”

“Thanks! Check the link for me. Didn't work on this end.”

“it worked for me but here is a c&p of the article

More in U.S. Have Foreign-Born Mothers By DAVID B. CARUSO, Associated Press Writer
Thu Jul 7,10:24 AM ET

NEW YORK - Nearly 23 percent of all people born in the U.S. in 2002 had a foreign-born mother — the largest percentage since a wave of immigration more than 90 years ago, a study of birth records by a private nonprofit group shows.

The Center for Immigration Studies said the country has not seen as large a share of its children born to immigrants since 1910, when the number reached 22 percent as shiploads of Italians and eastern Europeans crowded America's port cities.

This time, Hispanics are the driving force, according to the study being released Thursday. Nearly 1 in 10 births in the United States in 2002 were to women born in Mexico. Hispanics, as a whole, accounted for 59 percent of all births by immigrants.

The boom in second-generation Americans is bound to have an effect on the country that is equal, if not greater, than the sea-changes of the early 20th century, said Steven Camarota, the Center for Immigration Studies researcher who wrote the report.

He said the influx of immigrants in the early 1900s was curtailed significantly by a tightening of entry rules and two world wars, and that no such cutoff appears imminent now.

"It just tells you that we are headed into uncharted territory," Camarota said.

The Center for Immigration Studies, which favors restrictions on immigration, compiled the data from birth records collected by The National Center for Health Statistics. The records include both legal and illegal immigrants, but do not indicate where a child's father was born.

Children of immigrant mothers accounted for about 915,800 of the 4 million births in the United States in 2002. By comparison, 228,486 of the 3.7 million births in the U.S. in 1970 were to foreign-born mothers, or about 6 percent.

Camarota said the growing size of immigrant communities could slow their assimilation into American culture and make it more difficult "to have a cohesiveness of national vision."

Pro-immigration groups rejected that argument.

"For 400 years, immigrants have come to our shores, worked hard, had families and built the most successful nation in history," said Frank Sharry, executive director of the National Immigration Forum.

"The notion that we are going to be the one group that does not become American is ridiculous," said Lisa Navarrete, a spokeswoman for the National Council of La Raza, a Hispanic advocacy group.

The push of immigrant communities into places that have not previously dealt with waves of newcomers, however, may create some temporary tensions, said William H. Frey, visiting fellow at the Brookings Institution.

The greatest changes in recent years have come in places like Gwinnett County, Ga., a part of metropolitan Atlanta that has seen its Hispanic population soar over the past decade. In 1990, about 9.3 percent of all children born in the county had a mother born outside the United States. By 2002, that number had jumped to 41.3 percent.

"There are some communities and state governments that will have challenges," Frey said, including retooling their school systems to deal with students who do not hear much English at home.

Fifteen counties in the United States reported having more than half of all births to an immigrant mom.

The leader was the borough of Queens, in New York City, with 67.7 percent. Other top homes to second-generation Americans included Los Angeles, with 56.3 percent, Miami-Dade County, with 58.9 percent, and Orange County, Calif., with 54.3 percent.



What I wonder about is how many of the Hispanics were illegal immigrants. If the child is born here he/she is automatically considered a US citizen.
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“50% of all parents in the world are mothers”

“Interesting.

(Ewker, not c!b!)
last edited: 7/08/05 8:32:46 AM”

“wondering if I should have posted it on the immigration thread..oh well to late now

sarge,I knew you meant the article”

“"Fifteen counties in the United States reported having more than half of all births to an immigrant mom."

Amazing, just like 100 years ago!!!!”

“nearly 100% of kids say "silly rabbit, trix are for kids"

a full 100% of rabbits say "well, fvck you then, im eating all the carrots in your garden and leaving the brussel sprouts"”

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Sarge -

The link worked for me.



last edited: 7/08/05 9:13:05 AM”

“It did for me this time also. Yahoo was having intermittent problems.”

“75% of the people in maryland make up 3/4ths of the population”

“there are more jews in new york city than there are in israel”

“three out of two people have trouble with fractions.”

“I occassionally have too many windows open.
last edited: 7/09/05 10:14:13 AM”

“sometimes i trailtalk in the nude”

“did you ever notice people say "a terrible tragedy" but they never say "a wonderful tragedy"?

why even say "a terrible tragedy"? its kind of redundant theres never been a "mild tragedy" or a "decent tragedy" or a "pretty bad tragedy" theyre all terrible. if anyone can point out a tragedy that wasnt terrible, ill eat my words”

“cb...I feel sorry for your chair.”

“CB, pics?”

“Over 97% of the people who die from heart attacks have eaten tomatos.”

“Oh there is such a thing as a wonderful tragedy--it's the one that happens to your arch enemy! lol j/k”

“Or why do reporters talk about "sensless murders" but never talk about sensible ones.”

“Facts are always true.

True or false?

Even if you could answer that 100% truthfully, would you be telling the truth? Nobody knows.”

“Who knows?”

“You never know, you know?”

“Unless you know you don't know in which case what you don't know is what you might know. Now the question is if you know that you don't know, does that mean you actually don't know what you know or that you know what you know and don't know what you don't know?...or something like that......”

“Moldova has one of the smallest artillery forces in Europe, and the highest rate in the world of death by powered lawnmower. Coincidence? Surely not.”

“Chuck Norris was the fourth Wiseman. He brought baby Jesus the gift of “beard”. Jesus wore it proudly to his dying day. The other Wisemen, jealous of Jesus’ obvious gift favoritism, used their combined influence to have Chuck omitted from the Bible. Shortly after all three died of roundhouse kick related deaths.”

“Whaling is illegal in Idaho.”

“Birch, couldn't you post a picture of the baby Jesus with his beard?”

“All bugs are insects.
Not all insects are bugs.”

“In West Virginia, it is legal for a male to have sex with an animal as long as it does not exceed 40 pounds.”

“That explains a lot about West Virginia.”

“What about wimmin? Equal rights, don't you know? Some enterprising, courageous tt woman should do a little civil disobedience and take it all the way to the top, the supremes.”

“so what is it?”

“I make my living off of you fools fools and you gas. get big and stop driving so much- idiots.”

“In Tennessee, it is illegal to use a lasso to catch a fish”

“Nobody knows what it is.   The image is a link to a google search.


The themesong to "Flipper" is a waltz.”

“
Citizen Astronomy
by Janet Raloff
June 27th, 2008
Web edition

When a small band of astronomers launched Galaxy Zoo almost a year ago, they didn’t know what to expect. They had a boatload of photos (scientific translation: roughly 1 million) depicting never-before-seen patches of the sky. These researchers and their colleagues lacked the time and stamina to sequentially sift through the images, one by one, classifying the galaxies they depicted.....

(AND there's a pic of the the Voorwerp Babe)

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