No kiddin'. Pot, meet Kettle.Quote:
Originally Posted by lizbud
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No kiddin'. Pot, meet Kettle.Quote:
Originally Posted by lizbud
I went to sleep last night knowing that the current regime has all of the problems of airline travel under control.
Jee-zus, that was the worst night of sleep I have had in a while.:o:(
o.k....
It's not right to say the prez lies, but some of us can agree that pointing out his not having a "negro dialect" doens't provoke the same kind of ire?:confused:
LOLOLOL,
Child please!;)
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Originally Posted by RICHARD
I can't believe how this remark by Reid has been blown way out of proportion
by the media.
It wasn't racist to begin with, but anything to complain about, some will
take & run with it. Morons.:rolleyes:
I am living on another effing planet.Quote:
Originally Posted by lizbud
That was a effing racist statement.
Just like people that tell me that I speak 'good English' because after they hear me speak Spanish they are stunned that I do not have an accent.
Child Please.
Reid is an old tyme racist and that's all there is to it.
If I said something like "white people are white because they live in the snow and don't get sun" would that get me a pass?
If that is the case, BO, NP and all their ilk are liars, cheats and effups to the nth degree.
Let's see congress censure my sorry arse.:eek::rolleyes:;)
I am watching Mark Mcgwire come clean about his steroid use.
At the moment, I believe him far more than any politician.:o
P.S.
MM just stated that Howard Waxman knew about his steroid use before the testimony at the senate hearings.
Lovely.
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Originally Posted by RICHARD
If Harry Reid is quilty of anything, it's being an old white geezer using
a old white geezer dialect.:)
LOLOLOLOL,Quote:
Originally Posted by lizbud
Love you!
Before anything happens I would like to apologize to everyone who may have taken offense to what I said in the previous post.
You women out there will recognize the story.
You aren’t as strong as men, you are moody, cry at the drop of a hat, you want to stop for directions all the time…..
Reverse that. Now make yourself a woman construction worker working with mostly men?:eek:
I worked for YEARS with women who were ‘anti-man’…Imagine taking a position at work and having women walk up to you and say a male doctor ‘prefers to work/deal with women’ because now, he can’t bulldoze a gal, then bring her to tears because they didn’t make out a schedule that favors him.
I have been threatened, pushed around and humiliated because I was male……and that does not cover the idiots who would walk up to me and start telling ‘mexican’ jokes because they heard a knee slapper.
I love a great Mexican joke, but do not bring it by looking over your shoulder and whispering it to me because you are afraid of looking like you are racist.
I am 100% prejudiced against stupid people who think that racism, prejudice and hate are all hunky dory (Sorry David Bowie!) because we have a Mexican Supreme Court Justice, a Black president and a white moron named Harry Reid who blurt s out a racist comment while in the midst of a spasm of Alzheimer’s/senility.:confused::eek:;)
Give him a pass because he’s a Democrat, but keep his statement close to the vest.
Say stupid things, apologize for them …..your mind was taken over by a space alien that made you do it.
No space alien makes me talk.
But, I can admit to being stupid and flawed. Yelling out that someone “Lies” is not as terrible as accusing someone of using “street jive”.
LOLOLOLOL,
Barbara Billingsley was fantastic speaking to the brothers in the movie AIRPLANE and no one called the old white woman on the carpet for making fun of the way black people talk.
I forgot, she was make believe, Harry Reid is a real life mofo, that votes on laws for the people elected him!:eek:
Ai! Dios de mi alma!:confused::o:(
Oh yeah, Reid's statement was racist alright. It matters not his party affiliation. Racists come in all parties and they're running their mouths w/abandon. If any one of us here had made that statement, we would've been called on the carpet immediately and rightly so. We need to remove our ear plugs and actually HEAR what these politicians say. And I don't make that charge of racism lightly. It's a serious thing to say about someone.
Gotta tell this story, again!
I went to a 'sensitivity meeting' for work and took my customary spot at the back of the room.
The woman who chaired the meeting asked the question, "Who isn't prejudiced in this room?" the three women who sat in the front row had no hesitation raising their hands and proclaiming that there were not.
Two seconds later I spoke up and said that I "loved racism".
I watched spines stiffen and they turned around in time to hear me say, "I love sit at home on Sunday's and watch the cars go round the track!"
One person's perception is another's motorsport?:rolleyes::eek:;)
True that there are racists on both sides. The difference is in how they are treated.
Reids statement is from last year and it was swept under the rug until now. If any GOP representative had made that statement, well..... I think we all know the media and DEM carpstorm that would have erupted.
Thanks for brining the funnay!Quote:
Originally Posted by RICHARD
Here's another story that will put HR's comment into perspective.
lol, you may think that I am siding with him?
I worked at night in a hospital and had to deal with the admitting office.
I walked in one night and the clerk was trying to get some info from a Mexican couple who were expecting a child.
From around the corner I was listening to the conversation and heard the clerk ask the couple, "Que es el nombre de telephone?"
She was asking them for the name of their telephone!
I was laughing because of her frustration and her question.
With that, she walked around corner and said something about Mexicans and them not learning English.
I got effing indignant and went to translate for them. When I finished I was really ticked off and left the office.
BTW, She was about 6 foot, as Germanic as they come and had a really hard attitude when she was there-it would have been a good fight had we locked up!
I hated her with a pink and purple passion for a long time afterwards.
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Hmmm, is she really racist?
Setup? A small admitting office, desk in the middle, with chairs front and back.
Same scenario, but with a caucasian couple who were expecting.
The woman was heavy duty into the Lamaze thing. She was sucking air and kept chanting, "I am going to have my baby here!"
Ann stood up at the desk, put her closed fists on it, leaned over and hissed at the woman, "YOU ARE NOT GOING TO HAVE THAT BABY IN MY OFFICE!"
The woman stopped breathing and went quiet.
She had her baby in the OB ward.
Now I am thinking that this beeyotch is crazy! She hates everyone!
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As time went by, I found out that she wanted kids very badly and was unable to conceive!
AHA! She hated everyone with serviceable uterus!
Years later I told her about the "nombre" incident and we had a wonderful laugh about it.
She wasn't a racist, she was crazy!:D
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How crazy?
The day admitting clerk was a black woman who was just as mentally ill.:rolleyes::D
She was pregnant with her first child and the same night clerk told her that she was going to have a white baby.
Black babies are born pale and their skin gradually darkness at time goes on.
When the baby was delivered the woman freaked out! I could only imagine the scene from "Alien". That didn't come out of me!!!!!:eek::confused::o;)
We worked together for a few years and I learned about people, race and culture from them both. It was wonderful and always will think kindly of those two people.
We were a true rainbow coalition that never, ever hestiated to help each other out. We laughed about ourselves, our backgrounds and the color of our skin.
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Maybe HR has a problem with ebonics. I sometimes I listen to a rap song and cannot make heads or tails of the lyrics.
Does that make me racist?:eek:
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Originally Posted by RICHARD
Just curious Richard, but do you see that statement as being racist ?
Lumping all Germans into a specific catagory could be called racist.
It's part of a joke.Quote:
Originally Posted by lizbud
It's from the perspective of always wanting to wrestle with a tall German woman. The ones I have met are shorter than I am.
I was trying to be pornographic, not political.
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Seriously,
I was being racist-that's the point.
How can people ever get over themselves if they cannot be honest?
I looked at this woman and iommediately labeled her a bigot-that she looked the way she did and the tele-fono-name-o deal surely didn't help.
So, I was being racist, judgemental and probably a little sexist too.
What happens now?
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The part of racism that is blunt and kinda stupid? When people run around pointing at others about racism.
I will take anyone to task about racism and prejudice.
Here's the rub to the "Sunday/racism" story.
The class continued and the woman who headed it-she was a danged sexy Mid Eastern woman -there I go again!-looked at the three woman who had raised their hand and asked them this.....
Have you ever been behind a car with an elderly person driving?
The room laughed.
And have you ever cursed at them for driving slow?
Tee Hee!
So we were all prejudiced, at that moment, against elderly drivers.
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I worked with this guy that would stop in the office and BS for a minute.
He soon came to call me 'his n-----'.
No tension, no harm-one day I asked him, "Can I ask you a question?"
"Sure."
I prefaced the question by saying I wasn't trying to be insulting-
I said, "Aren't we all n------?"
He grinned and said something like "you got it" and the funniest part about it is that he would see me in the HALLWAY and say, "how's my n-----?" like it was nothing.
I didn't mention that he was black. Could THAT be construed as racism?
Now that we got that out the way, I did call my two co-workers 'crazy'. I hope I didn't offend anyone that suffers from mental problems, with that statement!:eek::confused::(
http://l7world.com/2009/12/the-plura...%28L7+World%29
I loved this commercial in it's original form.
Some nerdy white dude that..
flys up in a hovercraft.
dressed like a moron.
knows who you and you wife are.
can't pronounce your name,
and wants to give you money?
I guess I am in.....
You can call me anything you want. Just make sure the name on the check is correct?
Okay?
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Originally Posted by RICHARD
See how easy it is? I don't know about you , but I've been PC'd to death.
Enough already.:)
Vamos a mano?:DQuote:
Originally Posted by lizbud
I was in the kitchen and had the most racist thought imaginable.
Hey, If it wasn't for your brown skinned neighbors to the south, all you all would not have guacamole, tortilla chips, nachos or salsa to eat on Super Bowl Sunday.
You's be eating that salty brown or green onion dip made from the packet, with those nasty, saltier Ruffles potato chips.:eek::D;)
Rock on, my brothers and sisters!
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I was having a crisis of conscience...
http://www.fritolay.com/assets/image..._Dip_(Can).gif
WE invented the mashed bean, YOU put it into the can.:eek:;)
You can have that, with melted Velveeta on game day.
That's my only concession.:D:o:)
Back to serious politics?
Someone capped a Iranian New-clear scientist in the last few days! :eek:
RICHARD, when did the German people become a race? :confused:Quote:
Originally Posted by RICHARD
http://www.oldclassiccar.co.uk/class...touringcar.jpgQuote:
Originally Posted by blue
Do their cars count?;):confused::eek:
I guess I am not a racist then!
Ill have to enter a new deffintion of racist on the UD now.
I had to chime in on the whole HR thing...
Ive had the "privalege" of meeting the man. He struck me as a biggoted, over paid arse that had no connection to real life or how the world actually worked.
Yet Nevada has been electing him since before I was in high school :confused: :rolleyes:
And I have a feeling that his current comments will only serve to get him MORE votes.
Nevadans are cirtifiable I'm afraid...
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Originally Posted by RICHARD
Ok, I guess.:)
LOL, My dad used that saying. It translates as "Are we going by hand?" and loosely means we will walk hand in hand. Or, we are even and saying that takes the place of a handshake.Quote:
Originally Posted by lizbud
Nothing dirty!:D
I changed my mind, no bean dip for anyone one SB Sunday!:mad:
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http://bostonherald.com/news/politic...2&pos=breaking
Hey!
It's the Democratic Sarah Palin!!!!!
I had to laugh, O'reilly mentioned that one of her campaign ads had the word Massachusetts spelled wrong.
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Originally Posted by RICHARD
A friend told me it meant " are we even?" or "we are even" :) I knew
it wasn't dirty.
You are taking all the fun out of it.Quote:
Originally Posted by lizbud
You ARE supposed to think it's dirty.;):D
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And for that?
Bean dip for everyone!:love:
I am not a financially astute person.
I do know that if I put money into an ATM, go to another ATM and take it out, that they are not the same bills I deposited earlier?
BO came out this morning an stated that large financial institutions will be fined for 10 years to recoup the money due to the citizens for the bailouts they were given.
SO, as a member of a financial inst. I will pay higher fees on my accounts, so the bank can collect THAT money, pay it back to the government.
Doe this mean I just have paid twice to bail out these morons?
Am I wrong? I know I am a simpleton when it comes to the real nuts and bolts of anything financial, but I think that is what is happening!
Someone?
Please tell me I am wrong.:eek::(
You're really paying THREE times ...Quote:
Originally Posted by RICHARD
Don't forget you also pay the "Executive Branch" of the Government
to dream up these deals!
:eek:
No bean dip for me.:(Quote:
Originally Posted by Cinder & Smoke
http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/wash...en-update.html
And I quote:
Joe Biden update: He meets on transparency today. But the meeting is closed
You just can't make this stuff up.
LOL, What a "circularly random insemination"!:rolleyes:Quote:
Originally Posted by Lady's Human
http://www.politicsdaily.com/2010/01...-from-obama%2F
GO BACK TO YOUR BOOKS, LITTLE ONES!
The prez is trying to get money back from the banks, he is busy.:mad:
From the NY Times -
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An Odd Couple Defends Couples That Some (Oddly) Find Odd
By MAUREEN DOWD
SAN FRANCISCO
It has been quite a journey for Ted Olson. He’s gone from being the conservative lawyer who helped crown W. by winning the Bush v. Gore case before the Supreme Court, to being a lesbian.
“Maureen,” he told me in his gravelly voice, “one of the biggest lesbian groups in this country told me I’m already an honorary lesbian.”
Did it make you feel different, I wondered.
“I still like women very much,” he wryly replied, as his biking pal, liberal adversary and now co-counsel David Boies laughed, snacking on a crust of sourdough bread in their temporary office on Mission Street.
In 2000, Olson and Boies sparred with each other in Washington over which candidate would marry the country. Now they have joined forces here to spar with Prop 8 defenders over who can marry.
“Ted Olson and David Boies, so what are they up to?” Olson laughed, summarizing the confusion and conspiracy theories that their union inspired.
As the sun set on the Bay Bridge behind him and the curtain dropped on the first week of the dramatic trial to challenge the constitutionality of the state’s ban on same-sex marriage, Olson reviewed the case: “We’re going to explain why allowing same-sex couples to have that same right that the rest of us have is not going to hurt heterosexual marriages. It has no point at all except some people don’t want to recognize gays and lesbians as normal, as human beings.”
Boies, wearing a flag pin on his lapel, said that the state of California is engaged in “gay bashing.” He spoke intensely about the gay and lesbian plaintiffs, who offered poignant testimony about their loving relationships and about wanting to be liked and accepted: “These people are people you would want your child to grow up and marry. You can be a child molester and get married. You can be a wife beater and get married. You can be a child-support scofflaw and get married. The importance of that emotional relationship is so vital to the pursuit of happiness that even prison felons, who aren’t really procreating, have a right to get married.”
Noting the rabid effort being made to restrict marriage to only those who can protect its sanctity, a chuckling Olson reeled off some names: “Tiger Woods, Eliot Spitzer, Mark Sanford, Kobe Bryant, Bill Clinton.”
I asked Olson if he misted up, as many in the courtroom did, when Jeff Zarrillo, a 36-year-old manager at AMC Entertainment, testified that he loved his partner “probably more than I love myself.”
“Yes,” Olson replied, noting that he finds himself getting weepy a lot, including when a bright lawyer in his Washington law firm approached him in the library to tell him she was a lesbian mother of two and she was grateful to him.
“I think there’s something the matter with you if you don’t care enough to feel the suffering that they’ve been through and if you’re not emotionally upset about the fact that we’re doing an immense amount of harm to people,” he said. “We’re not treating them like Americans. We’re not treating them like citizens.”
Boies said the problem was generational, and they have to try the case before judges their own age who might find it hard to move beyond old prejudices. (Although this judge, a libertarian-tilting George H. W. Bush appointee, Vaughn Walker, who likes to hire magicians for the court’s annual dinner, has been so accommodating to their side that Ed Meese complained he was tilting the case.)
“I’ve got a grandson who’s a senior in college, and he can’t imagine fighting over this issue,” Boies said. “It’s like explaining to my daughter that there was a time when women didn’t have the right to vote and couldn’t own property.”
The anti-gay-marriage proponents whipped up a moral frenzy in 2008, suggesting conjugal parity would harm children, summon the devil, tear down churches and melt civilization. But Olson argued in his opening statement that the discrimination gays experience “weakens our moral fiber in this country.”
While Charles Cooper, the lawyer on the anti-gay-marriage side, cited President Obama’s declaration that marriage should only be between a man and a woman, Olson noted that Obama’s parents could not have married in Virginia before he was born.
I asked the lawyers if they were disappointed that the president who had once raised such hope in the gay community now seemed behind the curve.
“Damned right,” Boies snapped. “I hope my Democratic president will catch up to my conservative Republican co-counsel.”
Olson added: “I’m not talking about Obama, but that’s what’s so bad about politicians. They say, ‘I must hasten to follow them, for I am their leader.’”
Obama sees himself as such a huge change that he can be cautious about other societal changes. But what he doesn’t realize is that legalizing gay marriage is like electing a black president. Before you do it, it seems inconceivable. Once it’s done, you can’t remember what all the fuss was about.
Ever notice the pic of Maureen in the paper makes her look good, but when she goes on T.V., she's not all that?Quote:
Originally Posted by Grace
Cant we get .gov out of the marriage business? No more treating married couples different from other couples or even single people. What happened to equal protection?
A Comparison of cultures?
Link.Quote:
Myleene Klass is said to be 'aghast' after receiving a police warning for using a kitchen knife to scare intruders at her Hertfordshire home. Photograph: Richard Saker
The TV presenter and Marks & Spencer model Myleene Klass has been warned by police for waving a knife at teenagers who were peering into a window of her house late at night.
Klass was in the kitchen with her daughter upstairs when she spotted the youths in her garden just after midnight on Friday. She grabbed a knife and banged the windows before they ran away.
Hertfordshire police warned her she should not have used a knife to scare off the youths because carrying an "offensive weapon", even in her own home, was illegal.
Klass's spokesman, Jonathan Shalit, said the former Hear'Say singer was "utterly terrified" by the intruders and "aghast" at the police warning. "All she did was scream loudly and wave the knife to try and frighten them off," he told the Sunday Telegraph. "She is not looking to be a vigilante, and has the utmost respect for the law, but when the police explained to her that even if you're at home alone and you have an intruder, you are not allowed to protect yourself, she was bemused."
The warning issued to the model comes after a pledge by the Conservative party last month that they would make it more difficult for people who tackle burglars to be prosecuted.
The shadow home secretary, Chris Grayling, spoke out after Munir Hussain was jailed for beating a man who tied up his family in their home. He and his brother used a cricket bat to beat one of the intruders, who was left with a permanent brain injury.
A spokeswoman for Hertfordshire police said no reference was made in the Klass incident report about a weapon. She said the incident was being treated as trespass and "words of advice were given in relation to ensuring suspicious behaviour is reported immediately".
Klass, whose fiance, Graham Quinn, was away on business at the time of the scare, plans to step up security at the property, near Potters Bar.
guardian.co.uk © Guardian News and Media Limited 2010
Link.Quote:
PALMVIEW — An 11-year-old boy shot a man who broke into his home north of the city early Friday.
Three men burst into the house near the intersection of Minnesota Road and 8 Mile Line just before 12:30 a.m., Hidalgo County sheriff’s deputies said.
The child and his mother were hiding in a bedroom when the gunmen tried to force their way in. One of the men shot through the door, striking the boy in the groin area.
The child, who was carrying a .22-caliber rifle, shot back, hitting one of the criminals in the neck. The men fled the scene shortly thereafter, investigators said.
Both the boy and the injured attacker remained hospitalized Friday afternoon. Authorities said the child was in stable condition and was expected to make a full recovery.
The wounded burglar was transferred to a San Antonio hospital under police guard.
Deputies have detained two other men believed to be involved in the attack.
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Jeremy Roebuck covers courts and general assignments for The Monitor. You can reach him at (956) 683-4437.
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The ‘Castle Law’ in Texas
Texas Senate Bill 378, which Republican Gov. Rick Perry signed into law March 27, 2007, extended a person’s right to use deadly force for self-defense beyond the home to vehicles and workplaces. The law took effect Sept. 1, 2007, and allows for the reasonable use of deadly force when an intruder is doing one or more of the following:
>> Committing certain violent crimes, such as murder or sexual assault, or is attempting to commit such crimes.
>> Unlawfully trying to enter a protected place.
>> Unlawfully trying to remove a person from a protected place.
The law also provides civil immunity for a person who lawfully uses deadly force in these circumstances. The use of deadly force is not lawful when it is used to provoke or if the victim commits a crime other than a Class C misdemeanor.
Source: Office of Gov. Rick Perry
Hertfordshire police warned her she should not have used a knife to scare off the youths because carrying an "offensive weapon", even in her own home, was illegal.
So,
Why not ban a fist as an 'offensive weapon', matches or lighters to keep arson down?
Wow,
People who practice martial arts in the UK are the next to be registered and controlled, as weapons. :pQuote:
Originally Posted by RICHARD
Have you seen Steve Seagal lately?Quote:
Originally Posted by blue
That dude practices eating now, no harm there.:D:o;)