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Monthly Archives: August 2011
Georgia’s state of hate
This begins with a roundup of thing Georgia has done to make it very uncomfortable to be Latino down there. Hell, it’s been dangerous to be non-white there for centuries.
And it isn’t just a color thing. These cretins are both proud to have voted for a guy who questioned the patriotism of a paraplegic honored veteran AND supported Michael Vick AFTER the dog killing facts came out.
I know folks who love Atlanta, can’t say enough about the rest of the state. That’s fine. Personally, I’d let a modern day Sherman re-enact the burning of the place.
The more I read, the more I’m inclined to help fund such an effort.
HB 87 is the bill that makes it state law to hunt down undocumented immigrants and, well, I don’t know really. Something draconian and “Christian” I imagine, like forcibly breaking up a family, burning the birth certificates of any children born here, or something along those lines.
Turns out a downside to trying to make your state lily-white – or less brown anyway – is that no one is around to pick your produce. Using folks on probation hasn’t worked out so well.
A lot of the stories related to this has passed their freshness dates but Jay Bookman at the AJC puts out some good news reporting on this, follow this and this for some background.
We’re all probably going to pay more at the market as these racist Tea Baggers keep pulling this kind of thing. It isn’t enough for them to let the rich live tax free, they have to amp up the cost of everything for the rest of us too. In short, we’re paying for them to be racist pricks to folks just looking for some money to feed their families.
Nice job.
‘Closed’ doesn’t deter park visitors
A couple leftovers from the big government shutdown here.
We went up to Duluth for the Fourth to get away from the heat. Damn gorgeous weather there and we had a good time.
Driving up the North Shore we saw a lot of cars parked on the highway with folks going into the closed parks, in some cases in front of state patrol cars.
Well, you know me.
Along with many, many others, we went to Gooseberry Falls State Park and enjoyed a good hour hiking to the falls and playing in the water. Mono came along too, which was a really nice extra perk for us.
I’d do it again in a heartbeat. No Tea Bagging asshat is going to ruin my family’s vacation!
Georgia restaurants report labor shortages after passage of anti-illegal immigration law | ajc.com
Following up on my earlier post on Georgia, it turns out that not only have all the produce pickers been chased off of the farms down that way, so have a lot of the service industry folks. Good job, racists!
China: The Five-Year Plan, the Complete Series
An interesting look at China over two visits five years apart.
Check out the whole series if you can. There are things the Chinese are doing well, but at a cost most Americans wouldn’t accept.
Well, except for Tea Baggers, but they wouldn’t consciously do it to themselves.
Daniel Radcliffe: Harry Potter Comes of Age One Hedcut at a Time
An interesting look at how the Wall Street Journal kept up with Harry Potter over the years.
Fear, God And Family Pervade Migrants’ Journey : NPR
It seems a lot of us have forgotten that we built this nation as immigrants. Immigrants constantly pushing out the folks who were here already, but, yes, the United States is a nation of immigrants lording over the conquered.
This is instructive when you consider what it takes for modern day immigrants to actually get here in the first place. Read/listen to this as an introduction.
And hell, once they survive that, you’ve got armed redneck, hateful “Christians” and just the general law enforcement establishment to deal with. Are they breaking the law? Sure, so do you when speeding or cheating on your taxes. Taxes, I’ll remind you, that anyone with a fake SSN is paying and will never collect to help pad your retirement.
Mine too. Just saying.
Las Vegas Weekly : – That’s all folks! A look back at Oscar Goodman
Pretty much everything I know about Las Vegas, I know with Oscar Goodman as mayor. Now he’s out of office.
I can’t help that some of the glitter and glitz is gone from the city because of that.
Playhouses – Child’s Play, Grown-Up Cash – NYTimes.com
I’ll be honest, some of the kid houses in this article make me want to puke. Or to cave the heads of the parents in with a shovel.
I mean, who the hell wants a replica of the very house they are trying to get out of?
And though I doubt I’ll ever have the money to spoil my kid the way these folks do – and even if we did we’d probably just go see the world – it is neat to see some of the ideas. I really, really like the big piratey tree house assembly those grandparents built out west.
Science Friday Archives: Yes, We Do Have Bananas, For Now
I think it was my dad who told me about the Cavendish banana and how it became our primary banana in the Western world. Having traveled a bit, I’ve had my share of other folks’ bananas and damn do we miss out on flavor.
That said, there is a reason we have the bananas we do and it might be time to pick a new one because “our’s” might be dying off soon, just like it’s predecessor.