10.6.11

This photo from last week kind of hit me. An Alabama potato farmer leaning against his truck after only five of his twenty farm workers show up for work. This is the day after the new law passed that allowed the Alabama cops to check immigration status at routine stops and empowered school officials to do the same at enrollment. The latinos sort of up and vanished overnight. From the schools and from the jobs. Even many of the legal hispanics are leaving, hating the "vibes" in the current racial climate.

I am not an advocate for illegal immigration, in fact I am strongly against it. But I think that it is time to be careful what you wish for.  White people in this country, no matter how poor, are simply too soft and lazy to do farm work, or much of the other dirty occupations that are currently the province of illegals in this country. In Alabama they are trying to cover the shortage with prisoners and parolees. I think that I would rather take my chances with the illegals, thanks.

I read a story the other day about a bunch of white folks that showed up for a farm workers job, a job that paid over eleven bucks an hour. They all dropped out before noon. Soft. I can't wait until they pass the Alabama law in a bunch of other states and the rest of our industries that depend on a cheap labor force that is willing to do the hard work find themselves grinding to a halt. That big sucking sound will be the American economy going into the toilet.

Then instead of vilifying poor immigrants who are trying to feed their families, the tea baggers can go after the real enemy, an American working class not yet sufficiently poor enough to want to do the dirty work for their patrician masters.

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A solution to our economic woes requires fresh thinking and this Republican lawmaker from Florida may have just the trick - bring back dwarf tossing.

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French ban ketchup in the schools.

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Grok the egyptian woman who applied for parole twenty years after grilling her husband and feasting on his carcass. She didn't say she was having fun, she said she was having a ball. The psychiatrist at the trial testified that Nelson said she put on red shoes, a red hat and red lipstick before chopping up and cooking her husband's body. She said she prepared his ribs like in a restaurant and said aloud, "It's so sweet." A fashion and culinary statement. She says that she is not a monster. She meets a guy, marries him and then throws him in the stew pot after three weeks of convivial bliss, but she says she didn't swallow, so she doesn't qualify for full blown monsterhood.

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Senator Scott Brown of Massachusetts, the man who posed nude in college, says that he hopes that he never has to see his opponent Elizabeth Warren with her clothes off. Why do men never get comments like this, that they aren't pretty or sexy enough? More bullshit high school style misogyny if you ask me.

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Ann Coulter is going after the Occupy Wall Street crowd as smelly hippies, steeped in patchouli, with an aversion to bathing. Uh, Ann, you said that you followed the Grateful Dead for years, by your account 67 shows, that crowd didn't exactly smell like roses, did it? Which parking lot were you scoring your kind veggie burritos and shrooms in? Did you try your elitist shtick on them?

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U.S. District Judge Alvin Hellerstein punts on CIA sanctions, even after they violated his own order.

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Ronald Brownstein on Swing State Republicans and the environment - National Journal

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Feds declare war on medical marijuana. So much for Obama's lip service about respecting state laws and the will of the people.