Noam Chomsky is, by far, my hero. No other person has inspired me intellectually as he has. I always love to hear his position on topics. Luckily, he has spoken out on the recent Arizona anti-immigration bill that passed here in my good old racist state. The audio is a little messed at first but it gets better. Enjoy.
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Noam Chomsky on Arizona Immigration Bill
Tuesday, August 17th, 2010Arizona Lawmaker Explains Need For Birth Certificate Laws
Friday, April 23rd, 2010CAUTION! What you are about to experience is Actual Journalism. Although this is an extremely small sample, we feel we must advise you that exposure to it is known to be highly addictive.
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How to be a good Repulican
Monday, October 19th, 20091. You have to believe that the nation’s current fiscal disaster is due eight months of Obama and not eight years of Bush.
2. You have to believe that those privileged from birth achieve success all on their own.
3. You have to be against all government programs, but expect Social Security checks on time.
4. You have to believe that AIDS victims deserve their disease, but smokers with lung cancer and overweight individuals with heart disease don’t deserve theirs.
5. You have to believe that assault weapons and handguns are intended for purposes other than killing people.
6. You have to believe everything Rush Limbaugh says.
7. You have to believe that the agricultural, restaurant, housing and hotel industries can survive without immigrant labor (or that your own household can, for that matter)
8. You have to believe God hates homosexuality, but loves the death penalty.
9. You have to be that black people who do not succeed “just don’t work hard enough,” but that white people who don’t succeed are discriminated against
10. You have to believe that pollution is OK as long as it makes a profit.
11. You have to believe in prayer in schools, as long as you don’t pray to Allah or Buddha.
12. You have to believe that philanderers and adulterers make the best representatives of your party to pontificate on moral matters.
13. You have to believe speaking a few Spanish phrases makes you instantly popular in the barrio.
14. You have to believe that only your own teenagers are still virgins.
15. You have to be against government interference in business, until your oil company, corporation or Savings and Loan is about to go broke and you beg for a government bailout.
16. You love Jesus and Jesus loves you and, by the way, Jesus shares your hatred for AIDS victims, homosexuals, and Hillary Clinton.
17. You have to believe government has nothing to do with providing police protection, national defense, and building roads.
18. You have to believe a poor, minority student with a disciplinary history and failing grades will be admitted into an elite private school with a $1,000 voucher.
19. You have to reject the notion of government-run healthcare of any kind, but expect folks to pry Medicare from you cold, dead fingers.
20. You have to be willing to associate with every tin-foil hat-wearing, anti-abolitionist, pro-militia, Third Reich nut job in the country just to reach a quorum at your own meetings.
21. You have to be more outraged by Bill Clinton staining Monica’s dress that you are by George Bush staining this country’s world reputation.
22. You have to be willing to realize that all those Constitutional rights that you blithely discarded during the last administration might well have protected you when the current administration comes after you for your crimes.
23. You have to believe that Halliburton and its ilk perform a vital service to this country.
24. You have to believe that artificial limbs and massive lifetime healthcare for our deserving veterans is going to magically pay for itself.
25. You have to believe that Saddam Hussein was involved in 9/11, despite eight years of documentation to the contrary.
Diamonds
Tuesday, May 5th, 2009Mother’s Day is coming up this weekend. Don’t forget to go out and get her a superficial rock or metal. Are you catching the sarcasm yet? Make her something. Pull out the box of macaroni, some glue and a piece of paper and make her a card. She’ll love it. Be a good human, she’ll love that even more.
We’re all illegal
Thursday, January 29th, 2009To all of the racist bigots who complain about “illegals” kindly please shut up. You are illegal. So am I. We came over uninvited and have been spreading like a virus ever since. So don’t pull this high and mighty bullshit and say you belong here while somebody else does not. Unless you are a Native American, shut up and embrace these people. They are just trying to get by, just like you and me and every knucklehead here already. Your hate towards these “others” only exhibits your sheer ignorance.
Boundaries/borders are man-made, artificial suppositions imposed on all by a select few. Quit buying these elitist ideals and question why we actually have these limitations. Next, we all get national ID cards. Another method of oppression by our elitist government to segregate and spread hate among those who do not have such issued cards.
Mis dos centavos.
apologies
Tuesday, August 10th, 2010What’s up party people. VoL here. I have been horribly busy and have seriously neglected you, my visitors.
Explanations aside, updates will most likely be less frequent than they have been over the last year. I am now working on a PhD and, as you can imagine, am finding time to do much more than sleep a couple hours difficult to do! That said, I appreciate all of you stopping by and the positive feedback you have left and I will keep bringing you content to laugh, cry, get pissed over and get motivated to take action to.
Now, there are a lot of posts that I have wanted to do over the last few months that I never had the chance to write. So, let me summarize:
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