HAVE ACCENT: NO NEED TO APPLY

Well, I'm so glad that Arizona was able to get that "non racist" law concerning illegal immigration passed. You know the one where on suspicion of "doing an illegal act" a person who "looked illegal" (brown, black, yellow, non white, wearing funny clothes, speaking a non English language) could be stopped and asked where his papers were, and arrested if they were not on his person.

You knew where this was going, didn't you? In this melting pot of races, creeds, nationalities that we call America opportunity is open for all...unless, of course you apply for a position in education in Arizona and have an accent. A class TEACHING these studies in other languages, no less. And they are worried about teaching classes about the overthrowing of government and the subversion of the United States?? Have you been to a Tea Party lately, or watched Glen Beck on Fox news or listened to Rush Limbaugh or Lou Dobbs?

The people who run that state must think the rest of us are all complete idiots. We can see what they are doing. And they certainly don't want anyone who's not conservative, white and preferably male even living or voting in that state. And of course, take your American born children with you. (They certainly forgot about the Constitution on that one!)

For a better perspective, please check out this blog: http://tinyurl.com/339x5cw

A comment from HuffPost says it all:

"The veneer that the political correctness movement created is curling up at the corners to reveal the ugliness hidden underneath. People advocating for things as this article mentions ARE BIGOTS to the nth degree. The civil rights movement in this country did not occur in some obscure past where we only learn about the struggle from dusty history books with pictures of statues and oil paintings. You don't have to be too old to have been present during that great movement. The same people that wanted segregation and second class citizenship for minorities at the time are still with us today. There was no change of heart for racists when they lost the civil rights battle. What happened is that when their point of view became so unpopular, that it was no longer considered socially appropriate, people with racist tendencies mostly kept quite in public, until Obama became President that is. Now it appears that they feel it is okay to once again show their true colours. They feel comfort in numbers and believe that they can hide behind organizations with false motives. They scoff at people who call them out for what they really are and ridicule the truth with slogans like "playing the race card". The glue that held that veneer down in the past has come undone and I, for one, can clearly see the ugliness that lies underneath. Do not re-glue those corners down. Instead tear it off altogether and never use it again."

// Averred

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The veneer that the political correctness movement created is curling up at the corners to reveal the ugliness hidden underneath. People advocating for things as this article mentions ARE BIGOTS to the nth degree. The civil rights movement in this country did not occur in some obscure past where we only learn about the struggle from dusty history books with pictures of statues and oil paintings. You don't have to be too old to have been present during that great movement. The same people that wanted segregation and second class citizenship for minorities at the time are still with us today. There was no change of heart for racists when they lost the civil rights battle. What happened is that when their point of view became so unpopular, that it was no longer considered socially appropriate, people with racist tendencies mostly kept quite in public, until Obama became President that is. Now it appears that they feel it is okay to once again show their true colours. They feel comfort in numbers and believe that they can hide behind organizations with false motives. They scoff at people who call them out for what they really are and ridicule the truth with slogans like "playing the race card". The glue that held that veneer down in the past has come undone and I, for one, can clearly see the ugliness that lies underneath. Do not re-glue those corners down. Instead tear it off altogether and never use it again.

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WE'RE ONLY PROTECTING OUR BORDERS

It looks like the party of "keep the government out of my business" is at it again. Arizona, which I'm sure you know by now, has passed a very close- to-racial-profiling law to clamp down on all the illegal immigrants in their state. (I started to write "aliens" but that is another story.) Yes, there is a problem with immigration in the border states. Yes, there is law on the books at the federal level addressing such matters. Yes, several administrations have avoided enforcing such laws to any degree. But here seems to be another side to this story, one that has been going on for several years, and the Republicans want it to continue in the shadows.

First of all, for all those Constitutional scholars on the right (those in the Teabag Party), the ones that carry a copy of it in their back pocket: this is a free country--for everybody, not just them. People do not have to carry papers around proving they belong here just because they are brown, black, yellow, wear "different" clothes, "might" be doing something "suspicious", or might want to vote. Yes, you heard me: vote.

Seems like Jan Brewer and a few other officials of her mindset have done this before, and it's been done in other states too, as in Florida. They tried to "purge" voter rolls of thousands of people for the 2004 election, in hopes of scaring Hispanics and Blacks away from the voting booth. They could only find a handful of cases to prosecute after annoying several thousands of voters, and then fired the man they picked to do their dirty work because there was no dirty work to do. Sound familiar? And they want to go full-tilt on ACORN?

As usual, money talks and the Republican party listens. The usual "follow the money trail" applies here as in the healthcare debate and now financial reform. I'm not insinuating that there is only blame on one side: I'm still not sure that once a person gets into a hight level of government that his top priority is on his constituents, where it should be. But I'm sick and tired of the holier-than-thou, family values, guns-and-bible crowd trying to put one over on this country. Do they think we're all stupid?

Read this article on the history of their tactics:

http://tinyurl.com/2v49ygy

Here's an interesting background on the Arizona immigration law authors:

http://bit.ly/97v62w. (not for the faint hearted, tho)

And more food for thought:

http://tinyurl.com/35cdfrl

ANOTHER TEA PARTY BOONDOGGLE

Well, looks like the Tea Party people have a problem with taking attendance, among other things. The group was being addressed by Alan Keyes here in my fair town last night. (OH JOY.) The newspapers reported a count of 8000 people there. Hmmmmm....

Nutter Center (aptly named, yesterday) at Wright State University holds 3000 comfortably (according to their website) and can be made to hold 12,500 if needed.

Now, look at these pictures: http://projects.daytondailynews.com/cache/galleries/News/Local/041310teapartyrally

I'm so sick of their pathetic lies. That's all I have to say.

PARDON ME

I was just taken to task by someone I don't know, but what else is new these days. Every little thing has become politicized, polarized, plagiarized, and Palinized.

I'm learning that it's OK for someone ELSE to voice their opinion, but it's not when I do it. Yep, you've gotta love the modern twist on freedom of speech....

I try very hard to keep my personal life and my professional life separate, for obvious reasons. (Thank God I'm not in the political arena.) But somewhere the "twain did meet" and I've had to retrace my steps to correct the matter.

"Ms. Judi might do well to keep her political affiliations to herself and not degrade those who speak out. Reading her blog certainly influenced my opinion as to why I will not contact you regarding my daughter's wedding photographs."

Jackie/BellSouth

You certainly wouldn't want an independent-thinking couple armed with cameras in a church taking pictures of a once-in-a-lifetime, romantic occasion, now would you? I'd probably degrade the whole affair.