Your awesomeness for the week
I think organized religion gets in the way of true spirituality…
4/26/2010
Arizona does not need your tourist dollars
Not that anyone has any money to travel anywhere these days, but now that Jan Brewer, governor of Arizona, has signed into law a provision saying that police have the duty to ask anyone they think might be an illegal immigrant for documentation, I won’t feel safe being in the state. I’m the one who gets “randomly searched” at least once when I’m flying. Apparently, I have the face of a terrorist. I don’t want to go to a state, give than my hard earned dollars, and then have to prove I’m a US citizen. And I have been to Arizona before, so it’s not unheard of for me to go again.
Immigrants with family in Arizona might think twice about going, since who knows if the documentation we give in New York is what they require in Arizona? I certainly would rather pay for my family to come here than try to go there.
So if you know someone with the wrong last name (anyone who’s Latino) or you have the wrong last name or look like you might not belong (and a bunch of us know what that’s like,) don’t travel to Arizona. Ms. Brewer doesn’t deserve your money.
UPDATE: Thanks to The Daily Show (where would I be without it?) I found out that Arizona also wants any presidential candidate to show his birth certificate, a blatant “nod” to the Birthers movement. And it’s the 3rd state to allow people to carry concealed weapons without a permit. So forget dreading being harassed by police, I might get shot!
Tom Tancredo, known for his strict stance on immigration, thinks the Arizona immigration bill goes too far. If he thinks it’s bad, I’m never stepping foot in that state again.
3/24/2010
Just Saying… (#9)
The MTA is planning on letting go of 600 station agents to close an $800 million gap. The agents used to be the people selling Metrocards and I always see tourists asking them questions. With no station agents and no police officers in sight (except when they’re searching my bag,) I better not hear any announcements telling me that if I see something suspicious in a train station, “don’t keep it to yourself. Tell a police officer or an MTA employee. Thank you and have a nice day.”
3/8/2010
Haiti
Japan
Chile/Argentina
Taiwan
Uganda mudslides
Sumatra Coast
Turkey
The question of a major earthquake in the US is not “if” but “when”. Make sure you’re prepared to be able to stay in one place for 72 hours and can grab all your important things in one fell swoop (these are basic emergency guidelines.)
1/21/2010
Just Saying… (#8)
Do they really think that the left will swallow this stuff and say, “thank you sir, may I have another?”
The Republicans have been saying that for the Democrats to be truly bipartisan, they have to stop proposing things that they know the right won’t approve. But hasn’t the health care plan been whittled down to almost nothing, just to appease the right, who aren’t voting for it anyway? I’m growing tired of saying, yet again, that Democrats and Republicans are two sides of the same coin, and that we need something different in this country.
On another note, all this talk about MA Governor Elect Scott Brown upsetting the 60-vote, filibuster proof Democratic majority is a huge crock of shite. The Democrats never had 60 people to count on. not when they vote like real people – different ways on different issues. Throw in the all-consuming reelection campaigns, and Democrats will never be able to do what they want in America.