loved the ice cream guy packing dry ice --- reminded me of my oldest son's birthday away from home when he was in collge. One younger brother packed his favorite ice cream, which wasn't available in the state he was in, in dry ice, & shipped it to him. He had to get a special permit to ship it - cost a small fortune, but it brought smiles to all!!!
My comment today regards the Supreme Court's ruling that ICE can indeed racially profile in its efforts to remove illegal aliens from our country. Racial profiling is a logical move when you're targeting a demographic. Israel years ago, stopped the hijacking of their airlines by initiating a racial profile program that targeted young Arab men. If you are targeting white collar crime, do you target black and brown people in the "projects" or do you focus on white men in large businesses? Over the last several decades of both Democratic and Republican Presidents they have allowed upwards of 30 million illegals into our country. The vast majority of these illegals are non-white and non-Anglo-Saxons who don't speak English. It's only logical that you target non-white non-English speaking people. If a foreigner enters our country legally, they must learn English a good indicator that they are here legally. If you are working to lower the incident of accidents involving drunk driving, you target bars and night clubs not churches.
By your logic if you want to lower drunk driving you would stop every redneck driving a beat up pickup truck in the evening, regardless of how they were driving.
How many times will a natural US citizen Hispanic male driving in LA be stopped for being brown? Do they receive a flag and bandana to identify the ones previously stopped? If this were a few years ago we would be profiling white people since Irish people were hated immigrants then.
Racial profiling is assuming someone is doing something illegal due to their color and not as a result of their actions. If you or I were stopped by the police the first they would say is to ask us if we know why we were stopped - because they had a reason to stop us.
The term “racial profiling” contains the intent: racism.
“Racial profiling or ethnic profiling is the offender profiling, selective enforcement or selective prosecution based on race or ethnicity, rather than individual suspicion or evidence. This practice involves discrimination against minority populations and often relies on negative stereotypes.”
By their rather specious reasoning(if you can call it that)my suntanned self could be standing in a line in a store speaking Spanish with a friend and get hassled by these thugs. Anyone who thinks this “decision” won’t be abused hasn’t been paying any attention. Just ask Black peoples who get stopped or hassled just for being alive. I long for the day when these masked, unidentified hooligans have the tables turned in them.
You know by this time it’s very obvious that liberals target Republicans. It doesn’t matter what Republicans say liberals target them and assume they know what Republicans think. They think they’re stupid - redneck idiots… of course they still haven’t figured out that, along with the media lies & cover-ups, lost the election. They still stick to their hatred. Can’t get over that hill. Look at liberal judges. They automatically vote one way. Look at Amy Barrett Supreme Court Judge. She goes both ways nobody can ever predict which way she is gonna vote or decide. I don’t know who has access to Bari Weiss with The Free Press, she had an excellent interview with Amy Barrett recently. It was fantastic!
Any Supreme Court justice who cannot read the few simple lines of the constitution needs to excuse themselves and get another job.
It would be RARE that an ultraliberal Supreme Court justice would ever go to the other side!
And don’t you love the FACT that our country was founded by LEGAL immigrants- my grandparents came thru Ellis Island - & they were soooo proud & carried the AMERICAN Flag & wanted to assimilate & learn English!!
I volunteered for an adult literacy agency and taught local people who never finished the eighth grade, as well as a lot of foreigners who legally came to our country and were so eager to pass the citizenship test to become US citizens! They studied and studied and studied! They shared their stories of how hard they got here, how much money they spent to legally get here, the struggles, etc., etc. when they passed that exam, they waved their flags proudly, and they came back to class and hugged us! My sister-in-law from South Korea came here legally. My daughter-in-law is Chinese. So I understand about legal immigration.
“This whole comment section whew boy howdy I'm getting a cramp from laughing. I live in one of those rural towns where 80% worships the fat orange jesus and the other 20% is scared to say otherwise. Faux News does more programming than Microsoft around here and facts have become an irritating outsider that is batted away with a conspiracy theory, like holy water on a vampire. I think one of my In-laws actually hissed at me one day when I presented evidence to contradict their nonsense.”
As for West Point kowtowing to the woke whims of a clearly deranged mind, for shame! It’s probably just as well that my great uncles, all three of whom went to West Point and went on to successful military careers, are dead so they don’t have to witness this insanity that’s gripped leaders of all kinds, so much so they can’t bend over fast enough.
Like Bill, I’m a night owl and always have been. It was tough when I had a couple of jobs that began either at 7:00 or 8 AM but I worked through it. I am glad now though that sleeping in is my norm and 5 hours of sleep my usual.
loved the ice cream guy packing dry ice --- reminded me of my oldest son's birthday away from home when he was in collge. One younger brother packed his favorite ice cream, which wasn't available in the state he was in, in dry ice, & shipped it to him. He had to get a special permit to ship it - cost a small fortune, but it brought smiles to all!!!
My comment today regards the Supreme Court's ruling that ICE can indeed racially profile in its efforts to remove illegal aliens from our country. Racial profiling is a logical move when you're targeting a demographic. Israel years ago, stopped the hijacking of their airlines by initiating a racial profile program that targeted young Arab men. If you are targeting white collar crime, do you target black and brown people in the "projects" or do you focus on white men in large businesses? Over the last several decades of both Democratic and Republican Presidents they have allowed upwards of 30 million illegals into our country. The vast majority of these illegals are non-white and non-Anglo-Saxons who don't speak English. It's only logical that you target non-white non-English speaking people. If a foreigner enters our country legally, they must learn English a good indicator that they are here legally. If you are working to lower the incident of accidents involving drunk driving, you target bars and night clubs not churches.
By your logic if you want to lower drunk driving you would stop every redneck driving a beat up pickup truck in the evening, regardless of how they were driving.
How many times will a natural US citizen Hispanic male driving in LA be stopped for being brown? Do they receive a flag and bandana to identify the ones previously stopped? If this were a few years ago we would be profiling white people since Irish people were hated immigrants then.
Racial profiling is assuming someone is doing something illegal due to their color and not as a result of their actions. If you or I were stopped by the police the first they would say is to ask us if we know why we were stopped - because they had a reason to stop us.
The term “racial profiling” contains the intent: racism.
“Racial profiling or ethnic profiling is the offender profiling, selective enforcement or selective prosecution based on race or ethnicity, rather than individual suspicion or evidence. This practice involves discrimination against minority populations and often relies on negative stereotypes.”
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Racial_profiling
You also might find the following informative. It is from a 2001 address by George W. Bush to a joint session of congress.
https://www.dhs.gov/xlibrary/assets/training/xus/crcl/racelawofficers/Common/pdf/doj_profiling_guidance.pdf
By their rather specious reasoning(if you can call it that)my suntanned self could be standing in a line in a store speaking Spanish with a friend and get hassled by these thugs. Anyone who thinks this “decision” won’t be abused hasn’t been paying any attention. Just ask Black peoples who get stopped or hassled just for being alive. I long for the day when these masked, unidentified hooligans have the tables turned in them.
I couldn’t agree more. It is a slippery slope.
Hope everyone saw Karoline Levitt’s White House press briefing today!! So young, soooo smart!!!! Said everything needing to be said
You know by this time it’s very obvious that liberals target Republicans. It doesn’t matter what Republicans say liberals target them and assume they know what Republicans think. They think they’re stupid - redneck idiots… of course they still haven’t figured out that, along with the media lies & cover-ups, lost the election. They still stick to their hatred. Can’t get over that hill. Look at liberal judges. They automatically vote one way. Look at Amy Barrett Supreme Court Judge. She goes both ways nobody can ever predict which way she is gonna vote or decide. I don’t know who has access to Bari Weiss with The Free Press, she had an excellent interview with Amy Barrett recently. It was fantastic!
Any Supreme Court justice who cannot read the few simple lines of the constitution needs to excuse themselves and get another job.
It would be RARE that an ultraliberal Supreme Court justice would ever go to the other side!
And don’t you love the FACT that our country was founded by LEGAL immigrants- my grandparents came thru Ellis Island - & they were soooo proud & carried the AMERICAN Flag & wanted to assimilate & learn English!!
I volunteered for an adult literacy agency and taught local people who never finished the eighth grade, as well as a lot of foreigners who legally came to our country and were so eager to pass the citizenship test to become US citizens! They studied and studied and studied! They shared their stories of how hard they got here, how much money they spent to legally get here, the struggles, etc., etc. when they passed that exam, they waved their flags proudly, and they came back to class and hugged us! My sister-in-law from South Korea came here legally. My daughter-in-law is Chinese. So I understand about legal immigration.
“This whole comment section whew boy howdy I'm getting a cramp from laughing. I live in one of those rural towns where 80% worships the fat orange jesus and the other 20% is scared to say otherwise. Faux News does more programming than Microsoft around here and facts have become an irritating outsider that is batted away with a conspiracy theory, like holy water on a vampire. I think one of my In-laws actually hissed at me one day when I presented evidence to contradict their nonsense.”
— justlivingmylife, WaPo commenter
As for West Point kowtowing to the woke whims of a clearly deranged mind, for shame! It’s probably just as well that my great uncles, all three of whom went to West Point and went on to successful military careers, are dead so they don’t have to witness this insanity that’s gripped leaders of all kinds, so much so they can’t bend over fast enough.
Like Bill, I’m a night owl and always have been. It was tough when I had a couple of jobs that began either at 7:00 or 8 AM but I worked through it. I am glad now though that sleeping in is my norm and 5 hours of sleep my usual.