Peter King Is An Asshole

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A Compromise Worthy Of Obama

Remember the rabbis in Israel that signed a letter stating that no one should rent or sell to a non-Jew? Well, one of their own has decided to try to come up with a compromise. Wait, What? How do you compromise with people who are only interested in driving non-Jews out of Israel and taking over their homes, which requires force in many cases?

He said his draft opens by expressing reservations about the letter's call for "what sounds like" discrimination against Arabs. It then declares Israel to be "a Jewish state, the place of the Jewish people" and says the state must safeguard Jews' right to their country by "acting against hostile elements that seek to exploit the principle of equality ... to exercise the 'right of return' and expel us from our country."

No, it doesn’t sound like discrimination, it is discrimination. It is fucking racism and is disgusting to see Jews, of all people, to be participating in such vile acts. If Israel is a Jewish state for Jewish people, then all funding needs to be cut off immediately. Perhaps they can find strictly Jewish money to fund their country. If you have a group of Palestinians driven from their homes, there should be nothing but a right of return. A person losing their mind over losing their home to invaders is not an exploitation of equality, it is justice. How many Jewish neighborhoods have been razed and taken over by Palestinians? I would guess that at the rate of construction and how fast the Gaza Strip is shrinking, not too many.

Israel needs to start being treated like Apartheid South Africa, because that is exactly what it has become.

Fundamentalist Jews Becoming As Bad As The Nazis

Just when I think the extremists in Israel can’t be any more loathsome, they do something to prove me wrong. A group of 50 rabbis (who are civil servants, yeat another reason not to mix government and religion) signed a letter that urged the nation not to rent or sell property to non-Jews.

"It is known that due to selling or renting one apartment, all the apartments of the neighbors devaluate even if the buyers or renters are nice at first ... and the one that sells and rents first causes his neighbors a loss and causes others to rent and sell after him and leave the place."

Wow. They just came right out and said it. I have to agree with them about devaluation of property. However, they are directing it at the wrong people. You know who I really don’t want to live next to because they are dirty, filthy things who devaluate property? Jews.

How horrible does that sound? It is horrible and racist. However, when the good rabbis say it, its religious doctrine and must be followed. I remember reading about a country who thought a group of people devalued their land and dirtied everything up.

Arizona Bans Ethnic Studies

This past Tuesday, Arizona nutjob governor Jan Brewer signed a bill into law which basically bans ethnic studies classes throughout the state, sending Arizona further down the dark spiral towards complete teabaggery chaos. It's just so skeevy the way it was done because the language of the bill makes it almost come across as hand-wringing political correctness---if you were only half-reading it, of course.

“Public school pupils should be taught to treat and value each other as individuals and not be taught to resent or hate other races or classes of people,”

This bill bans any classes that advocate “the overthrow of the United States government,” “resentment toward a race or class of people,” “are designed primarily for pupils of a particular ethnic group” or “advocate ethnic solidarity instead of the treatment of pupils as individuals.” Ironically, these things all describe most of the "classes"at teabagger homeschools and private Christian schools but anywho.

Apparently governor Brewer and others have a problem with students learning about American history: that the founders committed genocide, enslaved and tortured whole races of people, and built this country with greed, inequality, and violence. They also think they can keep Hispanics from learning that Republicans hate them. This is laughable, really---I am actually laughing right now---that they think they can pull that off. Too late!! You might have wanted to try a different technique than ARREST ALL THE BROWN PEOPLE, STAT!

It's also hilarious that a state official is actually trying to rewrite history because he's pissed off that the white people of this country have been the assholes for the majority of their involvment. Tom Horne said, "It's just like the old South, and it's long past time that we prohibited it," Uuuh, what the fuck is he trying to say? I actually have no clue. I am seriously confused on this one. Because the last time I checked, we used to own black people down here. So I'm not sure how students taking a class where they learn that white people used to treat them like shit is "just like the old South" and needs to be prohibited.

The Politico article also points out that neither the governor nor any supporters of the bill have identified a single example of a course that advocates overthrow of the US government.

Arizona bans 'ethnic studies'
Arizona gov. signs bill targeting ethnic studies

The Answer? Deport Them. Deport Them All!

I am glad to see that cooler heads are prevailing in the debate over Arizona becoming the "Racist State, Land Of No Constitution". California Representative Duncan Hunter has come up with an idea that just might work. Not only should we be singling out brown people, regardless of their legal status, but we should also be deporting American citizens who were born in this country, but just happened to be born to illegal parents.

This guy is a ghoul. It will never cease to amaze me how these "teabaggers" or "patriots" or whatever they are calling themselves now can scream at the top of their lungs that they want to defend the constitution while simultaneously shitting on the constitution. The Fourth Amendment, which if I recall correctly, is part of the Constitution states the following:

The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized.

What is so hard to understand about that? Come on, you Constitutional purists! If you support the Arizona bill or people like Duncan Hunter, you will further expose yourselves as an ignorant group of yokals that only gives a shit about the second amendment, because it deals with guns and all.

"Ihre Papiere, bitte!"

And they said we (progressives and liberals) were the bad guys. Arizona Governor Jan Brewer has sign into law a bill that would require legal immigrants to carry their immigration papers with them at all times, under penalty of law.

Just when I think that the Republican Party has reached its lowest point, they do something like this. After all of the talk of progressives being communists or Nazi's or whatever they were calling us, they go an sign into law a bill that is exactly what the Nazi's did to Jews in the beginning of Hitler's reign. "Ihre Papiere, bitte!"

This is absolutely disgusting. There is no way to carry out this law that doesn't involve racial profiling.

[Gov Brewer] said that racial profiling would not be tolerated, adding, “We have to trust our law enforcement.”

Yeah, if there is one group of people I trust in this country, it is cops. The same group of people who routinely abuse their power are going to be given another "invaluable tool" to harass the public. Trust in law enforcement did the people in 1939's Germany a lot of good.

I am not saying this as hyperbole either. This is exactly the types of laws that were enacted to make sure that the Jews were kept in their place. The next law we should expect out of Arizona is for anyone who is brown to start wearing arm bands with an "M" on it, because you know all brown people are Mexicans anyway.

I wonder how long it will take before someone is either killed or severely injured as a result of this bill. How long will it take before their is a lawsuit against the state (which is in conflict with federal law)? How long until the people in Arizona revolt?

The icing on the cake is that this bill is also supported by John McCain. The person (I refuse to call him a man) that was supposed to be an advocate for immigrants, the person who was supposed to look out for a little guy, the person who wanted to be president. Thank you for your support. I have always wondered what someone looks like after they have shed all of their morals and principles. Thank you for the education.

By any other name, it's still racism

Recently at work, a coworker and I were conversing on some of our customers and how they can't seem to let us know exactly what is wrong with their equipment. He began to tell me a story about how one of his customers had not bothered to go out and check his equipment before he called us for service to verify what was wrong with it. While he was telling me this, he made mention that the person was a "black guy". It got me thinking; what was the purpose in telling me that the guy was black? It had no bearing on the story or why the wrong information was called in. The implication was clear: the black guy was too lazy to go check the equipment himself, QED.

There must have been a point that became unacceptable to be outwardly racist and just disguise it as a descriptor. This is the south where people are generally open about their feelings towards non-whites and non-straights. It seems that now it is OK to tell a story about someone being lazy, then talk about how lazy they are. I guess we are all supposed to have the same preconceived notions about black people being lazy, brown people being thieves, and yellow people being smart. I would prefer someone to just say "he was a lazy negro" than to beat around the bush. At least I would know to give that person a wide birth. Instead, you get trapped in what seems to be pleasant conversation only to be blind-sided with some out-of-the-way unneeded description. Besides, how many situations have you been in that the retelling required a description of what color the person is?

I am sure this is not a new thing. Perhaps I am just beginning to notice. Maybe I am overreacting and looking for something that isn't there. It does matter when you become uncomfortable talking to someone when the conversation seems to be heading down the wrong path. What do you think?