Arizona immigration bill

The new arizona immigration bill had portions of it overturned, for now, today. Regardless of which way you feel about it, it does bring up an interesting point about international relations.

In regards to any law that deals with international issues, would it not be wise to have our main portion of government deal with it? If a patchwork of differing laws between different states takes place on any issue, how then should the government respond to the international community? The only logical solution would be for each individual state(with the different laws) to deal with the international community by itself.

This would effectively take us back to the articles of confederation, no? Ok, maybe not all at once, and maybe not with all issues, but the fact is that we've already tried that. We've already had that argument in the 1770's. Federalism won.

Granted, something needs to be done about immigration. However, that is also why we have state representatives.

You have a right to elect a representative to voice your opinions. You have the right to send that representative to Washington to voice your ideas and concerns. You have the freedom to band together, elect more representatives of like mind, and start the ball of change rolling. We also all have the right and the responsibility in this very large group called the United States of America to respect the majority and even all other minorities trying to get their voice heard, and abide by the decisions made by the majorities.

Sounds like a pretty sweet deal to me

for 10,000 years of human existence, it's been our destiny.....from the moment that the first tribal community met another, it's been our destiny to mix up, come together. Communication, connectivity. This is what we're up to. How to do it? How big can it be? How do we fix our problems and compromise on our differences. We get ever closer, coming together, falling apart, rebuilding....just how shall we organize ourselves in a society, what does freedom actually mean in regards to society....the questions remain the same, the methods ever varying, and the solutions just out of our reach.

we all know it!!

we might disagree with each other on many things....from politics to art, food to movies, what color the curtains should be.....but one thing that most of us can agree on is that all is not well in this world. For whatever reason, we seem to know that we are not on the right track, but we just can't seem to get where it is we say we want go. Conservatives think we've gone too liberal, liberals have found their villain in the Bush years. I seem to have this overwhelming feeling that it's all going down!!!! Yet oddly enough, this doesn't really give me a sense of desperation, more a sense of inspiration. If we manage to avoid nuking ourselves into oblivion, we WILL get it, but the road ahead is a long one......."Out of our inevitable collapse will rise a society greater and stronger than we could've ever imagined! Mankind is destined for greatness!!"