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there’s no jobs
Just another job Americans won’t do……
Only 70%? Trying to stay optimistic, eh?
So what you’re saying then, is that there’s still a 30% chance of you fucking over someone else? Obama needs to stop taking so many vacations and get back to work!
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Where I am, I think it’s closer to 90%.
Well sure cranky, that’s ’cause, with Gov. Dayton, you’re getting it at both ends!
That sounds like she’s not running, nr.
oh noes
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Note that Burkhalter and WEA Council chose to let people go instead of cutting their own salaries/benefits.
#10 – ha, good point…
I am at about 65% chance m’self. I will be retiring from the Army Guard just in time to have my Swiss masters cut some benefits, and raise the prices of all of the rest (I suspect they are getting ready to launch us all into the arms of O!care). Take home pay down by a bunch, benefits at civilian job cut… hmmm, make that an 85% chance.
well at least he didn’t use ultra
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is there a liberal gop primary somewhere?
You won’t get a sweet GS-15 spot at the Dept. of Jobs with that attitude, mister
rick perry gwb II
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A debate with Perry vs. Obama is going to be soooo sweet. Like 2 monster stereotypes, is what I keep saying. Godzilla vs. King Kong. Maybe even Mothra, if Helen Thomas is the Moderator.
K Mr.Perry, if we’re going there, I’ll do you one better.
Instead of extending the benefits of telemedicine to individuals living on the Mexican side of the border, being one region and all, why don’t we extend the 101st airborne and claim a 51st US state?
Asshole.
I want some combination of Cain, Bachmann, or Palin as the top ticket.
me I’m gonna write in tancredo
tancredo on rodeo would be a nice restaurant
Anything more recent than 10 years ago? and any links to where he actually pushed making laws or executive orders to implement it?
He admitted today that the HPV thing was a mistake; I like that one heck of a lot better than the typical politician who never admits making any.
that sounds pricey I’m gonna stop at The Habit after work and pick up a burger though
carin sure was not a fan of that HPV thing and this was many many moons ago
tpm 8/9/11
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“easily the most anti-Latino agenda in more than a generation.”
so prosecuting law breakers is now anti-make believe group.
That covers a lot of sins in my book, if he means it.
“You secure the border first, then you can talk about how to identify individuals in an immigration situation.”
you can always enforce laws on the books. they are laws i think.
“if he means it.”
jan brewer means it. mr. perry likes to pander for karl rove’s prize.
All (or nearly so) social identities are make believe, newrouter. But clearly this a text book worthy example of identity politics biting Republicans in the ass if they deign to play that game. If you want to be a Mexican, be a Mexican. If you want to be an American, be an American. But what the fuck is latino?
“what the fuck is latino”
A latina with a penis. Duh.
Oh, and latinas are wise.
latinas are wise
As wise as an unfrozen caveman?
ross asshat nyt
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As wise as a supreme court justice needs to be, that’s for sure.
Latinos are from latin america, descendents of the Aztec-Inca bloc, as differentiated from Hispanics who come from Spain or other parts of the Iberian peninsula. I’m amazed at people who seem to think that “spanish” or “hispanic” people are the same mexicans we have here.
I have to say that I’m surprised that someone–it’s too much to expect a reporter I s’pose–to piece together that his background in private equity gives Romney no business experience whatsoever. Buying a company and hoovering all the cash out of it, laying people off and then re-taking it public in a hot market is maybe profitable, but it isn’t building an enterprise. It’s just a way to get rich in a zero sum fashion.
a fool passed gas to say:
” I’m amazed at people who seem to think that “spanish” or “hispanic” people are the same mexicans we have here.”
yea ’cause the proggs never obfuscate language.
Sterlingray just called Merriam-Webster a punk bitch.
Well sterling dude, the Spanish did heavily influence Mexico for a while there, so I’m not so sure there’s as strong a difference between Latino Hispanics and Mexican Aztecs as you imagine.
…which is to say you’re wrong, Sterlingray. Just in case sarcasm doesn’t register on your radar…
I’m anglo-dutch-german (nobody really believed grampa was irish except grampa—he needed to feel oppressed like that. So what does that make me (other than racist for too closely approximating an Afrikaner)?
on this mexico thing hows come the french aren’t mentioned?
“on this mexico thing hows come the french aren’t mentioned?”
Because latinas shave their pits?
Maybe ’cause Jaurez and the boys raped them instead?
Ernst, I wasn’t even thinking of Dayton when I made my 90% claim. Add another 5% to that.
I’m always the last to find these things out.
to the threads point
ABC world wide of sports ski jumping intro
so mr. beck rolls out his intertube tv station on 9/11 what better way to get viewers than a beck/palin gig?
Cultural influence /= genetics. Latinos are descended from the eskimo-asian-like peoples who crossed into the Americas over the frozen Bering strait many thousands of years ago, and evolved into Native Americans and such. Short, brown people. Hispanics are a slightly spicier version of the good old European honky that evolved on this side of the Caucasus mountains. A few hundred years of ship-sailing and empire-building don’t change this.
Yeah, that Chris Christie never shows up teachers and then posts that shit on facebook, does he?
But he did supper with Obama. Methinks Ross Douthat loves him some establishment east coasters.
sterling gray
“Latino” and “Hispanic” are nothing but convenient political terms having more to do with geography than any mythical “race”.
You can be white/jewish/black/asian, et al, and as long as you were born in Mexico/Central America/South America/Cuba/Puerto Rico, you can legally claim “Hispanic” or “Latino.”
Or if one of your parents/grandparents/greatgrandparents were born there …
Darleen is right that’s nutty… hispanics and latinos are the same thing… if you want to differentiate you can talk about race – hispanics are mostly white but can be any race including black and asian and native american or indigenous or whatever… you can also talk about country of origin… you can also talk about acculturation – the shortcut to do that is usually to use the degree to which english is spoken in the home. But they’re not a monolithic group by any stretch whatever you want to call them.
There’s dozens of different flavors just in the San Fernando Valley.
“Latinos are descended from the eskimo-asian-like peoples who crossed into the Americas over the frozen Bering strait many thousands of years ago,”
they stole land then.
“Hispanics are a slightly spicier version of the good old European honky ”
racist, sexist, homophobe
just a story
my neighbor had a hot latina chick who i met
and she asked me if i wanted to go to some “free chile”
or sumtin benefit- sure let’s go..
so she picks me up and says ” we gotta go pick up pablo- he’s connected?”
so we pick up pablo
and on the way to the benefit he’s in the back seat- i could tell he wasn;t expecting me..
so after much silence- i say ” i really like that song la bamba- and i start singing it..”
he explodes! fucking americans- i had electrical wires attached to my balls..etc etc
i still laugh at that ‘meeting’ i think he wanted to fuck my friend and was jealous of my
obvious bond with her so that’s why he was nasty
Hispanics and Latinos are misnomers anyways. According to the SterlingRay formulation:
“Latinos are from latin america, descendents of the Aztec-Inca bloc, as differentiated from Hispanics who come from Spain or other parts of the Iberian peninsula. I’m amazed at people who seem to think that “spanish” or “hispanic” people are the same mexicans we have here.”
I’m amazed how proggs assume all the brown skinned folks yammering away in Spanish in the US are Mexicans. My gutter guy is from Brazil. He also speaks Portuguese, which is actually his native language, but he speaks Spanish to converse with his crew who are from Columbia, Mexico and South Central LA.
The dumbest part of his lecture, though, was the ‘Latinos are from Latin America’ as differentiation from Mexicans, which he then anchored to the Aztecs whose most prominent artifacts are found in Mexico/Nicaragua and intimated that Mexicans are from Spain and Portugal.
I’m amazed how proggs assume all the brown skinned folks yammering away in Spanish in the US are Mexicans
The Guatemalans, Hondurans and Peruvians I know are quite put out when the local La Raza hassles them about politics and “social justice”.
People who claim loudly they aren’t racist sure seem to obsess over the minutia of race, right down to the last single drop.
mestizo: latino or hispanic?
criollos: latino or hispanic?
indios: latino or hispanic?
chollos: latino or hispanic?
and what about all the spanish speaking mulatos, moriscos, and zambos? Where do they fit in?
n.b: as I’m doing this on the fly, I have no idea if I have the plurals all right. I don’t much care either.
just a story
one night we[ me and marisa] go out to dinner
and as we exit the restaurant her ex husband is there
wagging his finger at her, calling her the ‘whore of babylon’- now i don’t know if he was creepy following her or what
but the ‘whore of babylon’ is funny
they eventually got back together
Cultural influence /= genetics
And how are Latinos genetically distinct from Hispanics? Do they have a test for that like they do for Down’s Syndrome?
“last single drop” indeed.
Methinks Ross Douthat loves him some establishment east coasters.
That’s certainly the first place I look when I’m looking for somebody cut from the same cloth as Reagan or Thatcher.
’cause nothing says “you and I have a rendezvous with destiny” like “I’m not ready” (Christie), or “My wife won’t let me” (Daniels).
I prefer the term “frito bandito” myself. But y’all already knew that.
carin sure was not a fan of that HPV thing and this was many many moons ago
No, I wasn’t. Still ain’t.
#60 – ha! Exactly – just the place to find fearless leadership…
I love all these guys claiming they can work with Democrats just like Reagan, when the reason Reagan wanted to be President was so he could go to Reykjavik and say Nyet.
That was the new and improved! Conseqence Free
SexBlowjobs now with fewer consequences drug, was it not?