Illegal Aliens Earning Their Keep?

From DailyNews.Com:

Welfare to kids of illegals at $276 million
By Troy Anderson, Staff Writer
Los Angeles County Supervisor Michael D. Antonovich said Tuesday that he will tell Congress that close to 100,000 children of illegal immigrants in the county collect $276 million in annual welfare benefits.
Antonovich, who is in Washington with the Board of Supervisors, will meet with congressional representatives and provide information about the impact of illegal immigration on county services.
Antonovich said 98,703 children of 57,458 undocumented parents received Cal-WORKS welfare checks in January, or a total of 156,161 recipients.
"If incorporated into a city, it would be the sixth-largest city in Los Angeles County," Antonovich said in a statement Tuesday. "While legal immigration is a positive influence on our culture and economy ... in public safety, health care and public social services, illegals cost county taxpayers nearly three quarters of a billion dollars a year."
Shirley Christensen, spokeswoman for the Department of Public Social Services, said her office provided the data to Antonovich.
"What I want to make clear is the children we aid are legally eligible to be aided," Christensen said. "They are the children of undocumented parents, but they themselves are not undocumented. They were born in this country." Antonovich's comments come amid a debate in Congress and across the nation about illegal immigration. No reliable studies have been conducted on the economic impact illegal immigrants have on California government budgets, according to a study by the Public Policy Institute of California.
In 2004, the Government Accountability Office concluded there was insufficient information to establish the costs to states of educating illegal immigrant children.
Some in the immigration debate say illegal immigrants are a drain on public coffers. Others say illegal immigrants pay more in taxes than they receive in services.
Illegal immigrants are not eligible for many government services, but they can use the public health care system and their U.S.-born children are eligible for welfare.

Sunsara Taylor on Bill O'Reilly

Tonight I saw an obscure self-proclaimed communist named Sunsara Taylor on Bill O'Reilly. Her most outrageous statement, "A fetus is not a person." defies scientific fact, not to mention philosophical truth about personhood. It never fails to astound me how people who are articulate and seemingly intelligent could lack even the most basic reasoning skills. None the less, I later found this woman fancies Mao Tse Tung a champion of civil rights. (How ironic that if Ms. Taylor was this outspoken in China, she'd be an involuntary organ donor.) So, I began to search the net to see if Ms. Taylor was currently a college student or if she had earned a college degree. After all, I like to keep a casual inventory of which colleges are producing the most radical (psuedo)intellectuals. I simply did not find any information in regard her educational background. If Ms. Taylor ever attended a college or university, she should ask for a tuition refund.

Evolution Debate

The claim that life evolves or mutates from less complex to more complex forms as a result of natural processes over long periods of time cannot be supported by science and is contrary to reason.

What is the proper end of science?
Science attempts to 'know' what is unknown about the material universe. More specifically, science tends toward its proper end by way of an established methodology known as the Scientific Method. The scientist no doubt makes observations, collects evidence, makes hypotheses, and tests the proposed hypotheses. In short, science attempts to determine proximate material causes. In order to validate a scientific hypothesis, the results of the hypothesis testing at the very least must be quantifiable, repeatable, and publicly observable. Science is incapable of determining final or formal causes because its methodolgy is ill-equipped to address such matters.

Is the Theory of Evolution Considered Science?
Depends on who you ask. Pursuit of scientific knowledge about biological life is a scientific endeavor. Hypothesis testing of evolutionary theory is only science when the proper methodology is undertaken. Contemporary evolutionary proponents often avoid measurable and repeatable observations because they cannot be done. Has anyone ever observed a parrot hatch from an alligator egg? And if so, was the event repeated for peer observation? As long as evolutionary theory cannot be adequately verified by the Scientific Method, it will remain an exercise in interpretation of fossils. Advanced rock collecting, if you will.

Is Evolutionary Theory compatible with reason?
When the evolutionary process is considered in terms of its logical regression, it must be accepted that biological life evolved over the eons from simple living material that caused itself to come into being. The most common explanation for what is called 'biogenesis' seems to be that it rained on some rocks for eons until a single cell creature appeared as a result of chemical reactions in a pool of primordial rainwater. Such machinations of the mind are pure fantasy. Something cannot create itself out of nothing. In order for a being to create itself, it must pre-exist itself, which is absurd.

The absurdity of ex-nihilo (out of nothing) biogenesis is sometimes discarded by naturalists in favor of the idea that life always existed in one form or another. In other words, the history of biological life is infinite. Such a position is not logical. If yesterday was infinite, we would never get to today. Put another way, if history is infinite, we would never have gotten to the present moment. As an analogy, take an infinitely long ladder and lower it into an infinitely deep pit. Then, climb down to reach the bottom of the pit. Would you ever climb out?

What are the implications of presenting evolution as a fact in public schools?
Indoctrination of youth with false ideas(which is not education) and waste of tax revenues.