Time Goes Mach 3 Time goes Mach 3 when you're having fun. Since my last log, I took the plank gliding at second bowl, surfed with Paul on a fun day-long south/windswell mix at sharks, and hit Friday follies with a west-northwest groundswell showing at second bowl. The weekend was smaller and the crowds were bigger. I hope the fun that has been May continues. My last rant ended with a plea to remove labels from our discussion on immigration. I explained that labels hurt the discourse. To see if these labels are out in the public domain, and if they had an influence, I did a Google search. I found that "illegal" Mexicans resulted 291,000 hits, while "immigrant" Mexicans garnered 155,000 hits. It seems that "illegal" Mexicans are more visible. Before I go further into the questions I originally posed regarding the immigration of Mexicans into the US, I thought it might be helpful to look at the history of the Mexican/US border. I was speaking about this subject to Cal - who can name the spices and phylum of the animals you were reef-walking on, and he was a little mixed up on the facts concerning how Mexican-California became a US possession. It was his view that the Mexican Government just signed California away before the Mexican/American War took place. I insisted that the Mexican/American War was just a ploy used in America's land grab campaign, and that California was the prize. Simple internet research set me straight. In my next log, I will provide the address to a web page that answers all these questions (I'm sure you care) and summarize some border history. In the mean time - surf! I am.

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