Illegal Immigration Has Ruined Los Angeles Public Schools

With the huge influx of illegals into the Los Angeles Unified School District, the classes are dumbed down because so many kids cannot speak English. This slows down learning for everyone especially since the children of illegal immigrants are a majority in many of the schools.

This is one of the reasons we intend to send our little daughter to private school. And we are not alone in this. Most native white parents, including Democrat and liberal parents shockingly, send their kids to private schools if they can afford it. Funny how all that liberal idealism gets thrown out the window when the impact is personal. We call them limousine liberals - also known as leftie hypocrites.

Privacy: so difficult to obtain these days

In the Oxford English Dictionary the first definition of privacy is: "The state or condition of being alone, undisturbed, or free from public attention, as a matter of choice or right; seclusion; freedom from interference or intrusion."

Chamberlain product support is terrible

I submitted an inquiry to Chamberlain to determine which garage door remote opener I should buy for my system. They did not respond at all. I called their 800-528-5880 support line and I could not connect to a human being. Pure phone option hell. This company has terrible customer support.

LoopNet.com is OVERPRICED

Loopnet.com is a commercial real estate listing service. To place up to 10 properties available for sale or lease on their site they want $1,700+ per year. Wow! That is way too much money for the limited amount of traffic they bring to your listings.

Their management team includes: Richard Boyle, Thomas Byrne, Brent Stumme, Wayne Warthen, and Jason Greenman. I think these people are greedy and offer a product of low value and exorbitant price. Furthermore, their policy of accepting listings fails professional standards: they do not actively request and verify that there is a written listing agreement between the agent and property owner. Even worse, they don't verify if the person listing the property has a real estate license! I hope their business fails.

BREEDERS: My Gripes and Observations

We adopted a newborn girl 8 weeks ago. We have tried for 7 years to have our own child through multiple medical procedures, such as IVF. Then 3 years ago we made ourselves available to adopting a newborn. I was ready to move forward with or without a child. Nothing happened for 3 years until 2 months ago. We are very grateful for our baby girl.

Infertility was the most difficult challenge my wife and I have encountered both individually and as a couple. It is my observation that most people do not discuss the reasons for or against producing offspring. Most people act without deep forethought and instead think in herd mentality ("go to school, find a spouse, then have kids", "that's what people do" or "all our friends have kids") or rely on a deep instinct to fornicate or procreate. I do look down on these types as they make one of the biggest decisions of their lives minus proper prior examination of a decision that will deeply impact their lives for at least two decades.

With that said, I think a lot of parents do not feel at liberty to speak frankly about the downsides of having kids. Most love their kids, but the vast majority are not honest about the negatives of having kids: losing a sense of self, losing independence, losing solitude, losing time to pursue hobbies and athletics and travel, and losing time to spend with your spouse in a meaningful way. All that is lost to fairly constant tending to the kids. Parents will rarely admit any of these things if they are true to them because they are afraid stating such would question their irrevocable decision to have kids.

One of my clients is more forthcoming and he simply chuckled at me in a friendly manner when I told him we have a newborn. He teased me about joining the club of losing my prior identity and lifestyle and financial abundance. This made me realize that a lot of parents welcome their friends to have kids so they can relate not only in their happiness, but misery.

There is a large group of people that do not fit into the characterization above and have not lost much but rather gained. These are the single or double parents who simply are not as fascinated by life as others are. Example: couple gets married, maybe take a few travels, then feel bored or empty after a few years and say "let's have a kid". Many people cannot find satisfaction in life without kids, at no fault to them. My wife and I have found much satisfaction in living being together the past 16 years. We keep very active and engage life.

So many women and couples have babies so they can have someone to love and love them back because they are lonely or bored with life. Have you ever noticed how parents almost always identify physical or personality traits in their children that are reflective of the parent's traits? That is the ultimate in selfishness; a sort of narcissism. The next step would be to clone yourself out of vanity. I understand their is some magical beauty of a child born from the blended genes to two individuals in love. However, many parents are very irritating when they: 1. Question the lifestyle of child-free couples 2. Display a subtle vanity in seeing themselves in their children or 3. Have children to fill a void in their life.

My wife and I love our daughter and look forward to raising her. I am relieved in a small way that she is not of our genetic makeup so we don't fall into that soft narcissism when observing her. I feel I can love our daughter for who she is and not because I see parts of myself in her.

Wedding, Engagement Announcements in the Los Angeles Times

What humors me is that I would bet a considerable sum that most of the couples that post their marriages in the L.A. Times are not paying subscribers. Probably a bunch of idiots that have no interest in their city other than displaying their affection in a public manner.