Just now – right now – I’m sitting in Starbucks sipping coffee that will absolutely melt your tongue and fiddling with my smarty smart smart cell phone that will publish my drivel straight to my WordPress blog. Too much fun.
Nothing has changed at Star-yucks. Same old, ya know.
Wanting to invent a good story that might go viral and scare the beejeesus out of all the pastey old right wingers who are still sore that McCain lost to a black guy. Maybe a story about how the state is considering a bill that will outlaw tea party protests or maybe I could start a rumor that left wing hippies have taken over a couple of farms near Spokane.
When asked by host Bill O’Reilly if he was comfortable with the possibility of racial profiling, McCain said he wold (sic) be “very sorry” if it happened, but suggested it’s justified because of “the people whose homes and property are being violated. It’s the drive-by that — the drivers of cars with illegals (sic) in it that are intentionally causing accidents on the freeway.”
McCain added: “Look, our border is not secured. Our citizens are not safe.” But the Arizona senator did not provide any additional details to back up his assertion about cars carrying illegal immigrants “intentionally causing accidents.”
McCain now:
Racial profiling is justified according to McCain. No more glad talk about how immigrants should have a path to citizenship. No more talk about how guest worker programs are essential. Now it’s all about how immigrants are intentionally hurting white people on the highways, in their homes, and with “drive-by”.
Now McCain is trying to out-conservative the conservatives in order to gain support of the tea baggers in Arizona. This man is as wishy-washy as George Bush claimed John Kerry was. During the campaign, and subsequently, I called him “Weathervane McCain”. During the campaign, and depending on which group he was talking to, he changed position on immigration no less than three times. Today, he has taken on the hard liner roll of a xenophobe to appease the growing radical fringe.
McCain during the campaign in 2008:
Underlying his talk, is the ever present racial epithets that we are hearing more of since the Republicans lost. I will attempt to translate his Republicanease. When McCain said that people’s “homes and property were being violated” and ending with “our citizens are not safe” he’s actually saying that immigrants are brown and scary, real citizens are white and righteous and everything good.
Immigrants are brown, almost to the point of being………black!
New driving violation in Arizona: DWM – Driving While Mexican!
If these huge farms, these agribusinesses, along with others like hotel chains, laundry services, and restaurants paid decent wages it would go a long way to end the illegal boarder crossings. Why? There would be no job openings for them here. The heart of the problem is that these businesses can pay slave wages to these immigrants without having to file any paperwork. There seems to be no intent by the authorities to crack down on these employers who could just send the immigrant workers packing when they get wind of a bust. But those busts are rare, and these business owners are allowed to continue.
It’s too bad that McCain can’t see the truth. He seemingly can’t remember a time when he had proposed some good ideas about immigration reform. Now? He can’t help himself. McCain is like he is a hungry dog after red meat. He is the worst sort of politician that will do or say anything for a vote even if it means backpeddling from everything he ever stood for.
Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) ripped into the president on Sunday for abandoning his pledge to foster bipartisanship in Washington, accusing Obama of creating a more toxic political environment than that which existed during the Clinton administration.
“In some ways, of course, yeah,” McCain told Fox News Sunday when asked if the Obama White House was more partisan than Bill Clinton’s.
<snark>He has that affect on people, Obama does. He makes them uncomfortably partisan. You can listen to what he says about about governance and legislation and just feel the non-partisan heat emanating from his pores. He has never offered to even listen to the right. He has never even considered their proposals. Democrats, under Obama’s strict hand, have never tried to be inclusive with Republican ideas. The Republican minority, on the other hand, is the epitome of joyous brotherhood and togetherness. In the most cordial and jovial manner, they backslap their left wing comrades and graciously listen and consider every issue uttered. With great gratitude, the Republicans welcome ideas from the left and politely let left wing ideas pass through the debate process. Republicans a so civic minded that they would never dream of blocking legislation jut because Democrats introduced it or Obama wants it.</snark>
“There has never been serious cross-the-table negotiations on any serious issue that I’ve engaged in — and that I and others have engaged in — with other administrations both Republican and Democrat,” said McCain.
OMG! He’s right! There has NEVER been serious cross talk with the Democrats, and we all know why.
Congress is currently working to re-authorize a big transportation funding bill, but Republicans have imperiled the process by proposing to stop using revenue from the fuel tax to pay for mass transit, instead restricting it to just highway spending. As an alternative, the GOP wants to make a one-time $40 billion allotment for mass transit. […]
Air sampling by NOAA over Colorado Finds 4% Methane Leakage, More Than Double Industry Claims Natural-gas operations could release far more methane into the atmosphere than previously thought. [Source: Nature] How much methane leaks during the entire lifecycle of unconventional gas has emerged as a key question in the fracking debate. Natural gas is mostly […]
After defeating multiple amendments designed to derail the bill — including one that would require a referendum — the Washington state House of Representative has passed marriage equality with a vote of 55-43. The bill now goes to Gov. Chris Gregoire (D), who has promised to sign it. Opponents of marriage equality have already promised to challenge […]
A bill that would require all New Mexico voters to present certain forms of photo identification or be barred from voting died in committee today. The legislation was voted down along party lines — three Democrats opposed, two Republicans supported — in the House Consumer and Public Affairs Committee. Though this was the fourth time […]
It’ll be very interesting to see the result of a lawsuit currently brewing in federal court that is trying to shut down ReDigi (a judge backed the service, but an appeal seems likely), a service that will let you resell music you purchased from iTunes after taking quite comprehensive efforts to keep owners from having […]
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Re: John McCain: Illegal Immigrants ‘Intentionally Causing Accidents On The Freeway’, Huffington Post, First Posted: 04-20-10 01:00 PM
McCain now:
Racial profiling is justified according to McCain. No more glad talk about how immigrants should have a path to citizenship. No more talk about how guest worker programs are essential. Now it’s all about how immigrants are intentionally hurting white people on the highways, in their homes, and with “drive-by”.
Now McCain is trying to out-conservative the conservatives in order to gain support of the tea baggers in Arizona. This man is as wishy-washy as George Bush claimed John Kerry was. During the campaign, and subsequently, I called him “Weathervane McCain”. During the campaign, and depending on which group he was talking to, he changed position on immigration no less than three times. Today, he has taken on the hard liner roll of a xenophobe to appease the growing radical fringe.
McCain during the campaign in 2008:
Underlying his talk, is the ever present racial epithets that we are hearing more of since the Republicans lost. I will attempt to translate his Republicanease. When McCain said that people’s “homes and property were being violated” and ending with “our citizens are not safe” he’s actually saying that immigrants are brown and scary, real citizens are white and righteous and everything good.
Immigrants are brown, almost to the point of being………black!
New driving violation in Arizona: DWM – Driving While Mexican!
If these huge farms, these agribusinesses, along with others like hotel chains, laundry services, and restaurants paid decent wages it would go a long way to end the illegal boarder crossings. Why? There would be no job openings for them here. The heart of the problem is that these businesses can pay slave wages to these immigrants without having to file any paperwork. There seems to be no intent by the authorities to crack down on these employers who could just send the immigrant workers packing when they get wind of a bust. But those busts are rare, and these business owners are allowed to continue.
It’s too bad that McCain can’t see the truth. He seemingly can’t remember a time when he had proposed some good ideas about immigration reform. Now? He can’t help himself. McCain is like he is a hungry dog after red meat. He is the worst sort of politician that will do or say anything for a vote even if it means backpeddling from everything he ever stood for.
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