Spiky Bugger
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...and other things.
I'm a "minority." I'm brownish. Hospitals keep checking the box that says "white," but I'm a tad too exotic-looking to be "pure" white. Mom looked A LOT like Bea Arthur after a day by the pool in Palm Springs. Dad looked like Sinatra, but with brown eyes. As a child, my sister looked like Annette Funicello, also after a day by the pool in Palm Springs. So...I'm ethnic. With an ethnic surname--and a couple of x-chromosomes--I have been spoken down to...and dismissed. Mostly, that's not something we can blame on liberals.
But...my Mexican side was here before the white folks arrived. So, we were the cops (and the robbers) and the attorneys and the judges and even the mayor. We were in the army, and we were the privates and even a general. Currently, we are on our fifth generation in the police department...not much of a liberal career goal...and yet?
We own firearms. I have no problem with the 2nd Amendment...except that it is somewhat unintelligible. But I do not live in fear that "Obama wants my guns." (Especially, since he's had seven years to try and hasn't even called yet and he has my address and phone number.) I do feel the need to point out that, imho, when you live somewhere where any moron is permitted to carry--open or concealed--a deadly weapon, the cops pretty much have to be ready to shoot in a nanosecond. This is another issue we cannot blame on liberals.
Frankly, I'd like all undocumented people to go the hell back home. I don't think that their choice to have children here gives them any more rights than other undocumented types who have no kids. And nobody wants to "break up families," they can ALL go together. One little detail...if the conservative (usually republican) business owners would stop hiring THOUSANDS of young men who look like my relatives...dark hair and eyes, high cheekbones, and a permanent tan...but have Social Security cards that say their names are something like Hillary Higgenbothem, perhaps the problem would not be as widespread. All of the Higgenbothems at meat processing plants and chicken farms and washing dishes in chain restaurants were probably not hired by liberals.
I'm not a big fan of any religion. I admit that Islam irritates me (watch some Sam Harris or Bill Maher discussions on why) more than most religions, but I'm less than enchanted with Christians who are sure that their religion is all about peace and love and can't quite tell you who Torquemada or Cotton Mather were. You probably CAN blame liberals for sharing that information.
Anyway...please stop allowing crazy people to announce that liberals, like me, are coming for your guns...or are trying to kill cops...or are to blame for cops killing unarmed people of color. Because that's bullshit. And, speaking of bullshit, there were LOTS of "good guys with guns" in Dallas. And yet, it took a robot and a bomb.
My point? (Yes, there is one...I promise.) In every segment of our society, there is some on-the-edge man or woman, of any color, of any faith--or no faith, of any age, of any collection of random life experiences, who--for reasons that no sane person will ever comprehend--is ready to "go operational" in defense of some imaginary slighting of Krusty the Clown...and nobody.can.stop.him/her. Ever.
But I can tell you for sure that we liberals are not behind that effort.
Thank you and good night.
I'm a "minority." I'm brownish. Hospitals keep checking the box that says "white," but I'm a tad too exotic-looking to be "pure" white. Mom looked A LOT like Bea Arthur after a day by the pool in Palm Springs. Dad looked like Sinatra, but with brown eyes. As a child, my sister looked like Annette Funicello, also after a day by the pool in Palm Springs. So...I'm ethnic. With an ethnic surname--and a couple of x-chromosomes--I have been spoken down to...and dismissed. Mostly, that's not something we can blame on liberals.
But...my Mexican side was here before the white folks arrived. So, we were the cops (and the robbers) and the attorneys and the judges and even the mayor. We were in the army, and we were the privates and even a general. Currently, we are on our fifth generation in the police department...not much of a liberal career goal...and yet?
We own firearms. I have no problem with the 2nd Amendment...except that it is somewhat unintelligible. But I do not live in fear that "Obama wants my guns." (Especially, since he's had seven years to try and hasn't even called yet and he has my address and phone number.) I do feel the need to point out that, imho, when you live somewhere where any moron is permitted to carry--open or concealed--a deadly weapon, the cops pretty much have to be ready to shoot in a nanosecond. This is another issue we cannot blame on liberals.
Frankly, I'd like all undocumented people to go the hell back home. I don't think that their choice to have children here gives them any more rights than other undocumented types who have no kids. And nobody wants to "break up families," they can ALL go together. One little detail...if the conservative (usually republican) business owners would stop hiring THOUSANDS of young men who look like my relatives...dark hair and eyes, high cheekbones, and a permanent tan...but have Social Security cards that say their names are something like Hillary Higgenbothem, perhaps the problem would not be as widespread. All of the Higgenbothems at meat processing plants and chicken farms and washing dishes in chain restaurants were probably not hired by liberals.
I'm not a big fan of any religion. I admit that Islam irritates me (watch some Sam Harris or Bill Maher discussions on why) more than most religions, but I'm less than enchanted with Christians who are sure that their religion is all about peace and love and can't quite tell you who Torquemada or Cotton Mather were. You probably CAN blame liberals for sharing that information.
Anyway...please stop allowing crazy people to announce that liberals, like me, are coming for your guns...or are trying to kill cops...or are to blame for cops killing unarmed people of color. Because that's bullshit. And, speaking of bullshit, there were LOTS of "good guys with guns" in Dallas. And yet, it took a robot and a bomb.
My point? (Yes, there is one...I promise.) In every segment of our society, there is some on-the-edge man or woman, of any color, of any faith--or no faith, of any age, of any collection of random life experiences, who--for reasons that no sane person will ever comprehend--is ready to "go operational" in defense of some imaginary slighting of Krusty the Clown...and nobody.can.stop.him/her. Ever.
But I can tell you for sure that we liberals are not behind that effort.
Thank you and good night.
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