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Main / Annex Mexico!
Apr 06, 2006, 10:17 AM
How d'ya figure "Virtue"?
All the Latinos I know (and I know a lot) work harder than most Americans on their best day.
The biggest opponents to immigration are the socialist jerkwads in the trade unions who know they would have to do some actual work if a workforce that actually worked showed up.
Take your racist act on the road.
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Main / Annex Mexico!
Apr 06, 2006, 10:01 AM
My Condolences brutha,
Most of the resistance to my righteous plan will come from our hermanos south of the border.  They know they've got a good thing going and won't want their hermanas contaminated by the she-goons on our campuses.  I'll get a committee working on that.
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Main / Hey, there's a thought!
Apr 06, 2006, 09:04 AM
I didn't even think of the gender wars!  Brazil seems a bit overzealous but I'd be willing to go as far as Guatemala with options on down to Panama.
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Main / Annex Mexico!
Apr 06, 2006, 08:42 AM
Am I really the only one who sees the following solucion perfecto?  Let's simply invite Mexicans to dissolve their ridiculous government and cede their sovereignty to the United States (we'll even take Belize, if they're up for it.)  Within a decade or so they'd be enjoying the benefits of modern sewage systems and safer roads and highways.  The air in Mexico City would no longer be instantly lethal.  People could start successful businesses in a wide range of industries without having to pay their first ten years of anticipated profits upfront to the local cacique.

What would we get out of this?  We'd get about 100 million new friends and neighbors with a great work ethic and fantastic cuisine.  We'd be in position to deliver a crotch-kick to the drug trade that would cause the market for jewel encrusted dental work to collapse overnight.  Family road-trip vacations would take on a whole new dimension.  Maybe someone would eventually be able to explain to me the popularity of professional soccer, maybe.

Vincente Fox is demanding a say in United States immigration policy.  Advocates for lax policies toward ILLEGAL immigration think marching around with a Mexican flag is helping their cause.  We SHOULD welcome anyone who wants to earn a living so badly they will risk their lives for the chance.  But the failed governments of the countries from whence these immigrants come should be held accountable for their laughable incompetence.  Sovereignty is irrelevant when your fleeing citizens pose a problem to your neighbors.

Annex Mexico!
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I agree, your link points to the very epitome of masculine modes of communication:

"I've been bitten by a deer while driving a moving automobile.  I was then attacked by a dog.  I subdued the deer with a tire iron and stabbed the dog with a knife.

I am injured and shaken and I have one question:

Who gets the deer?"
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Main / Limo drivers can tell you
Feb 09, 2006, 01:28 PM
I seem to recall a write up wherein limo drivers described the special considerations of the all-female gig.  It seems a girls' night out usually involves more altercations, more projectile vomiting and no tip.  One of my favorite watering holes has employed a female bouncer for years.  She is often mistaken for a waitress (a mistake not repeated, let me tell you.)  I thought for the longest time she was a poser, an "affirmative action" hire just taking up space until there was a girl-fight.  She dived in and had the brawling skanks under control in seconds.  (Said skanks seemed to think it unfair there was a female bouncer who wasn't afraid to put a hurt on them.)
I am all in favor of the practice.
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There was a video clip on CNN today about a 911 dispatcher in California who blew off a caller.  Listening to portions of the tape, it DOES sound like this particular dispatcher might have done better to have taken a Mental Health Day than to have treated this caller as she did.  HOWEVER, if you tally up the number of times the caller said "ohmygod, ohmygod, ohmygod" you have to admit that an appropriately skeptical dispatcher just might get stuck in a loop as she tried to establish the sincerity and severity of the caller's situation.

I truly hope that, if my family and friends were ever in trouble and relying on me to summon help, I could manage my fear and distress well enough to coherently describe where I was and what was wrong.  

It sounds like the callers escaped tragedy (tomorrow's news will reveal that the "assailant" was the women's pal, playing a prank)  Let's hope all parties take a lesson in masculine modes of communication.
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History and Politics / Are We Not Dudes?
Feb 09, 2006, 11:24 AM
The internet offers some great alternatives to the Mainstreammedia. It's good to know that not everyone is taken in by the New York Times and National Public Radio and the pantheon of teleprompter readers. But there is a troubling noise coming from the undercarriage of the websites, programs and publications aimed at the conservative male; I think that noise might be WHINING!

We men have Shakespeare whose St. Crispin's Day speech from Henry V reminds us that honor is a rare and precious thing. Polonius' brief advice to his son Laertes in Hamlet would fit nicely on an index card slipped into the wallet you give to your son as he leaves for college. Rudyard Kipling gives us "If" so we can know just how much fairness we can expect from life and "Gunga Din" in case we ever think the way someone looks or where they are from will tell us Jack Shit about who they really are. For lighter reading, we have Louis L'amour whose hundreds of stalwart protagonists face adversity and injustice with stoicism and resolute adherence to principle. We even have Robert Bly to tell us it's okay to sit around the campfire and tell your best pals that you love them (but let's just leave it at a firm handshake on Monday.)

Women have a different set of literary treasures to draw on. Their principles are reflected in such aphorisms as these: Hell hath no fury like a woman scorned; A girl's got a right to change her mind; All's fair in love and war. (That last one isn't as true as it was before men got together and wrote the Geneva Conventions.) Women have romance novels wherein it takes eight hundred pages for some sheltered bimbo to get her boots knocked by the stable boy. Women have Cosmopolitan magazine (written and published by women) to give them fresh insights each month to finding happiness through dieting, shopping and cosmetics. Women have Lifetime Television and it's sisters which I can't stand to watch long enough to know much more than that they have lots of ads for soap and tampons.

Women are taught to lie. Women are taught that the things they do and say when they are upset don't count. Women are taught that when they don't get what they want, any measures AT ALL can and should be used.

Guys, let's be men. Yes, we are getting pummeled in the family courts, the schools are short-changing our sons, we are being generally bad-mouthed by a vocal coven of bitter, ill-groomed hussies who spent too much time in graduate school trying to compensate for not getting asked to the prom. But quit boo hooing and suck it up and let's figure out what we are going to do about these things. We built the family courts, we built the education system and we built the media outlets where these harpies do their harping. We can hold our own if we remember who we are and what the universe expects of us. Sit down with your best pals, open the recreational beverage of your choice and decide the things you will somehow make happen. If you have need for Kleenex, you aren't doing it right.
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History and Politics / Are We Not Dudes?
Feb 09, 2006, 11:23 AM
The internet offers some great alternatives to the Mainstreammedia. It's good to know that not everyone is taken in by the New York Times and National Public Radio and the pantheon of teleprompter readers. But there is a troubling noise coming from the undercarriage of the websites, programs and publications aimed at the conservative male; I think that noise might be WHINING!

We men have Shakespeare whose St. Crispin's Day speech from Henry V reminds us that honor is a rare and precious thing. Polonius' brief advice to his son Laertes in Hamlet would fit nicely on an index card slipped into the wallet you give to your son as he leaves for college. Rudyard Kipling gives us "If" so we can know just how much fairness we can expect from life and "Gunga Din" in case we ever think the way someone looks or where they are from will tell us Jack Shit about who they really are. For lighter reading, we have Louis L'amour whose hundreds of stalwart protagonists face adversity and injustice with stoicism and resolute adherence to principle. We even have Robert Bly to tell us it's okay to sit around the campfire and tell your best pals that you love them (but let's just leave it at a firm handshake on Monday.)

Women have a different set of literary treasures to draw on. Their principles are reflected in such aphorisms as these: Hell hath no fury like a woman scorned; A girl's got a right to change her mind; All's fair in love and war. (That last one isn't as true as it was before men got together and wrote the Geneva Conventions.) Women have romance novels wherein it takes eight hundred pages for some sheltered bimbo to get her boots knocked by the stable boy. Women have Cosmopolitan magazine (written and published by women) to give them fresh insights each month to finding happiness through dieting, shopping and cosmetics. Women have Lifetime Television and it's sisters which I can't stand to watch long enough to know much more than that they have lots of ads for soap and tampons.

Women are taught to lie. Women are taught that the things they do and say when they are upset don't count. Women are taught that when they don't get what they want, any measures AT ALL can and should be used.

Guys, let's be men. Yes, we are getting pummeled in the family courts, the schools are short-changing our sons, we are being generally bad-mouthed by a vocal coven of bitter, ill-groomed hussies who spent too much time in graduate school trying to compensate for not getting asked to the prom. But quit boo hooing and suck it up and let's figure out what we are going to do about these things. We built the family courts, we built the education system and we built the media outlets where these harpies do their harping. We can hold our own if we remember who we are and what the universe expects of us. Sit down with your best pals, open the recreational beverage of your choice and decide the things you will somehow make happen. If you have need for Kleenex, you aren't doing it right.
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History and Politics / null post
Feb 09, 2006, 11:21 AM
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