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Let's send John Boehner to Arizona and see how long he lasts before he gets the "papers, please" routine. Oh, wait a second. Boehner is orange. Would that make him from Florida?
WEAR A SOMBRERO DAY!
I am declaring this Sunday (April 25th) – the day I predict Governor Jan Brewer of Arizona to sign into law a new draconian anti-immigration bill allowing police officers to subjectively harass anyone they suspect as “possibly being in our country illegally” – as National Wear a Sombrero Day!
National Wear a Sombrero Day is a political statement opposing the State of Arizona’s new law. But more importantly, it’s a way to confuse and “throw-off” an arresting officer’s “best judgment” and/or “probable cause for suspicion.”
If you want an electromagnet to draw fewer pieces of iron to it, you turn down the current.
If you want to take care of immigration, you arrest all of the illegal employers.
Also note that we are not seeing hordes of Canadians crossing the border looking for work because the "free" market has destroyed their economy.
The chicken based economy
would also devastate the Jewish mother's health care system although, that has already been severely undermined by Campell's.
Some years ago, I was talking with my Doctor and he was talking about his experience as a medical Professor over the years. He said back in the day the majority of students were getting into the the medical proffesion because they wanted to help people, but that the students now-a-days were more concerned about how much money they would make. It saddened him imensely. Its indicative about how much medical care has become a profit driven business vs. an institution existing for the well-being of a society.
He mentioned the times when patients (who were able to pay their bills) would bring in different gifts such as fruit baskets, etc.. It bothered him that that kind of appreciation was no longer prevailent amoung patients.
It seems to me, that trying to barter with a Doctor that wants the latest Mercedes, largest home in the area and trophy wife, isn't going to go very far. So long as Doctors treat patients as cash cows, I don't think patients are going to feel very grateful in kind. The give and take that was there in the past existed when Doctors cared for their patients, and not merely administered to their ailments.
I bemoan the 444 Billion chicken shortage . . .
http://tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com/2010/04/fowl-math-for-a-chicken-based-economy.php
Man-on-Dog backs Mad Dog . . . http://tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com/2010/04/all-aboard-santorum-latest-natl-gop-to-endorse-rubio.php
Remember to Google "Santorum" today and click on the first link
This morning I got this little treasure forwared to me in my e-mail box:
Let me see if I got this right.....
* - IF YOU CROSS THE NORTH KOREAN BORDER ILLEGALLY YOU GET 12
YEARS HARD LABOR.
* - IF YOU CROSS THE IRANIAN BORDER ILLEGALLY YOU ARE DETAINED
INDEFINITELY.
* - IF YOU CROSS THE AFGHAN BORDER ILLEGALLY, YOU GET SHOT.
* - IF YOU CROSS THE SAUDI ARABIAN BORDER ILLEGALLY YOU WILL BE
JAILED.
* - IF YOU CROSS THE CHINESE BORDER ILLEGALLY YOU MAY NEVER BE
HEARD FROM AGAIN.
* - IF YOU CROSS THE VENEZUELAN BORDER ILLEGALLY YOU WILL BE
BRANDED A SPY AND YOUR FATE WILL BE SEALED.
* - IF YOU CROSS THE CUBAN BORDER ILLEGALLY YOU WILL BE THROWN
INTO POLITICAL PRISON TO ROT.
* - IF YOU CROSS THE U.S. BORDER ILLEGALLY YOU
GET................................
1 - A JOB,
2 - A DRIVERS LICENSE,
3 - SOCIAL SECURITY CARD,
4 - WELFARE,
5 - FOOD STAMPS,
6 - CREDIT CARDS,
7 - SUBSIDIZED RENT OR A LOAN TO BUY A HOUSE,
8 - FREE EDUCATION,
9 - FREE HEALTH CARE,
10 - A LOBBYIST IN WASHINGTON ,
11 - BILLIONS OF DOLLARS WORTH OF PUBLIC DOCUMENTS PRINTED IN YOUR
LANGUAGE,
12 - THE RIGHT TO CARRY YOUR COUNTRY'S FLAG WHILE YOU PROTEST THAT YOU
DON'T GET ENOUGH RESPECT.
13 - AND NOW AMNESTY
I JUST WANTED TO MAKE SURE
I HAD A FIRM GRASP ON THE SITUATION...
I replied to the sender with this comment:
Let me get this straight, you want America to be like: North Korea, Iran, Afghanistan, Saudi Arabia, China, Venezuela or Cuba? Really!?
His Web site sure looks partisan (as in shilling for the Republicans).
Rallying for new taxes. The 15,000 in Illinois aren't the only taxpayers who have demonstrated at their State Capitol demanding to be taxed and not getting much media notice. 6,000 gathered in Olympia, Washington on the Capitol steps chanting for New Revenue. We followed about 3000 "tea party" people who were chanting for No New Taxes. It was a cold overcast day in February 2010 and only a couple local papers mentioned us. We were protesting the proposed drastic cuts to the State budget and demanding that new taxes and revenue be identified in order to bridge the gap for low-income health care and K12 thru college education, among other things. I think it made a big difference. The Legislature listened. New taxes were identified and tax loopholes were closed. The cuts were not so draconian in the final budget. Yes, we still have cuts, but the important programs were saved: community health centers, Planned Parenthood, K12 ed., etc. This time the threats and shrieking of the "teabaggers" didn't win, but we still have hesitant "Democrats" in embattled districts who need extraordinary support and encouragement in order to win their elections and do the right thing. (And, of course, a republican Attorney General who needs a major intervention.)
http://www.theolympian.com/2010/02/16/1139130/back-to-back-tax-rallies.html
http://www.socialistalternative.org/news/article12.php?id=1257
I think Obama wants more jobs to fail. I believe he doesn't want a manufacturing industry. It certainly seems that his policies and new laws are mostly going to take effect after he leaves office, making it seem that the failures will be the fault of the new president, as the housing crash was blamed on republicans when it was the democrats who made the legislation creating the problem. casino online = I love this casino online because the crap tables provide so much casino action and the progressive slots are just the best around.
Bingo!
Cool Gene! Yes on that!
"Free" needs to be replaced with "FAIR" when it comes to markets - the word "Free" gets so misinterpreted like it's a great American Privelidge our fore-fathers fought to keep America "Free" like free from religious tyranny, free to dissent about opinions, but for mega-corps to be "Free" to destroy any competition to serve a bottom line - although the mega-corps jump on that kind "free market" like flies on poop -
"Free" was an easy sale to middle-class America because it "sounds" patriotic ( as in 'Free Trade Agreement' ) - the big corporations hear a completely different drummer when they hear the word "free" -
If the "corporate personhood" is a part of this "freedom" they should have the same risks as well - like when a person gets sent to jail for crimes - especially when they cause so much grief amoung hard working, honest and real contributers to daily American life.
These people - us - deserve some protection from being consumed by any corporate entity's plan to eat us alive financially - If you are a carpenter, truck driver, waitrerss or whatever - you can't be expected to defend against obscure legal "freedoms" like collateralized debt obligations and credit default swaps - it would be easier to fight enemy soldiers in the streets that you could see coming.
... thanks for allowing my 2 cents :)
Nelson
Quark, Thom mentioned on his show that since Reagen wages have flattened and in fact we are $2000 less in earning since Reagan took office.
The goose-stepping GOP wants us to have children but why won't they stop the outsourcing of jobs or called for wage and salary increases or proecute the owner of Massey Mining for mass murders?
Here is a fact. To raise a child parents must spend $180,000 by the time the child is eighteen. To complete an undergraduate degree is another $100,000. On Catholic radio a good Catholic family has six children. Parents must raise from wages $1,680,000 to raise six children. If the household income averages $45,000 per year, it would take 38 years to raise the $1.68 million for a family of six children. This is without paying any taxes at any level. Do you honestly expect our goose-stepping government will give you a pass from paying any taxes?
I said to wife a couple years back that if we had the money, I would have loved to have more children. My wife responded to me that's because you do not give birth to a child.
@rladlof, baa baaa baaad news boss, we lost another customer.
Side Note: I had my car serviced last week at the dealer . . .
When I told them that I would never buy another Toyota because of Toyota's decision to stop making cars in Fremont, California, I would have preferred at they got on the phone and tell management that screwing Americans does not engender warm and fuzzy among American folk that buy their cars. They stood there and looked sheepish instead . . .
@rladlof, nah, just Stupid Americans
Are the cops, Police and Sheriffs in Arizona Native Americans?
@Quark, when discussing Southerners, "Simplistic" is quite appropriate.
N
rladlof,
Re: "Southerners are foreigners."
Sometimes it certainly feels that way. Yet I have to remember the influence of the relatively few "plantation royalists" and later, the carpetbaggers, both groups having the guiding principles/goals of money and control. Then, as usual, poor suckers (NOT the wealthy/ruling class) were co-opted to fight against their own best interests.
Simplistic explanation, I know, but it gets the conversation started, I guess...
@rladlof, well all Southerners wanted to be foreigners (at least the white ones did). But why can't you stop anyone you choose to (in Arizona at least), you can claim you thought they were from France, England, Russia, Switzerland, Sweden. Think about it, hey you, blondie, yeah the one with the double D rack, come here, let me see your papers... don't have them, OK I'll escort you home, see if'n we can't find where you belong.
The law says if there's reasonable suspicion that they're illegal they can be stopped... who's to say what country you thought they might be from? Wonder if it allows for citizen arrests?
A newspaper is trying yo do the impossible. This soul cannot be saved.
http://www.opednews.com/populum/linkframe.php?linkid=110560
Yet we can’t stop every idiot with a Confederate Flag and a gun-rack in their pickup truck and as them for their papers?!? All Southerners are foreigners.
This is a total disgrace and the article only solidifies my belief that the United States of Hell is an evil, vile, and wicked nation.
http://www.opednews.com/articles/Pentagon-Cheating-Vets-Out-by-Sherwood-Ross-100420-876.html
Yet we can't stop folk and ask them to produce their "carry' permits . . .