For all planning a trip to see the Grand Canyon, please consider the even bigger and better Copper Canyon. Take the train from west to east for the best views. Image from Mexico Tourism.
Santo Domingo
The view from Corazon del Pueblo
The hereafter re me
- Christopher Stowens
- Oaxaca, Oaxaca, Mexico
- Musician, photographer, videographer, reporter, ex-officio teacher, now attempting to be a world traveler
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Another very sad chapter. I like your hit on this.
Yeah, I could really go off on this. I need to chill and STFU... However.... The lawmakers say they can recognize immigrants by their shoes. Good luck with that. I can do even better than that. I can recognize a$$holes even without seeing them. I mean seriously, WTF? We are going backwards. What's next? Violence? Probably. And one hell of a lot of lawsuits against the state. It will bankrupt them if there is any justice.
Arizona can pass race base laws, pass Birthers laws and the state can continue to boycott Martin Luther King Day, well the rest of the Country can boycott the state of Arizona and spank them where it hurts them the most their pocket book. Their phony patriotism is sickening, they are just racists going by another name. We all know you are just itching to put a sheet on their head? Let’s face it the Republicans had eight years to deal with health care, immigration, climate change and financial oversight and governance and they failed. It appears that the Republican Party is only good at starting wars (two in eight years, with fat War profiteering contracts to friends of Cheney/Bush) but not at winning wars as seen by the continuing line of body bags that keep coming home. The Republicans party will continue turned inward to their old fashion obstructionist party (and their Confederacy appreciation roots) because they continue to allow a small portions (but very loud portion) of their party of “birthers, baggers and blowhards” to rule their party. I will admit that this fringe is very good at playing “Follow the Leader” by listening to their dullard leaders, Beck, Hedgecock, Hannity, O’Reilly, Rush, Savage, Sarah Bailin, Orly Taitz, Victoria Jackson, Michele Bachmann and the rest of the Blowhards and acting as ill programmed robots (they have already acted against doctors that perform abortions). The Birthers and the Tea party crowd think they can scare, intimidate and force others to go along with them by comments like “This time we came unarmed”, let me tell you something not all ex-military join the fringe militia crazies who don’t pay taxes and run around with face paint in the parks playing commando, the majority are mature and understand that the world is more complicated and grey than the black and white that these simpleton make it out to be and that my friend is the point. The world is complicated and people like Hamilton, Lincoln, and Roosevelt believed that we should use government a little to increase social mobility, now it’s about dancing around the claim of government is the problem. The sainted Reagan passed the biggest tax increase in American history and as a result federal employment increased, but facts are lost when mired in mysticism and superstition. For a party that gave us Abraham Lincoln, it is tragic that the ranks are filled with too many empty suits and the crazy Birthers who have not learned that the way our courts work is that you get a competent lawyer, verifiable facts and present them to a judge, if the facts are real and not half baked internet lies, then, and only then, do you proceed to trial. The Birthers seem to be having a problem with their so called “facts”. Let’s face it no one will take the Birthers seriously until they win a case, but until then, you will continue to appear dumb, crazy or racist, or maybe all three. I heard that Orly Taitz now wants to investigate the “Republican 2009 Summer of Love” list: Assemblyman, Michael D. Duvall (CA), Senator John Ensign (NV), Senator Paul Stanley (TN), Governor Mark Stanford (SC), Board of Ed Chair, and Kristin Maguire AKA Bridget Keeney (SC), she wants to re-establish a family values party, that’s like saying that the Catholic Church cares about the welling being of children in their care, too late for that.
Excellent diversity on making a point. Cooper Canyon would be wonderful to see.
Boycotting Arizona will certainly go a long way to hurting the very people we care about -- Mexican immigrants -- both legal and not so legal. Economic times are tough down here and this will add considerable injury to the people who are most economically vulnerable. Not to mention you would also be punishing American Indian communities as well...surely there is a better strategy to expressing your disapproval of the law other than boycotting?
@Midori,
Certainly, I understand your point. Economically, it is tough everywhere except for the rich who are getting richer. Part of my thing is to get people to come to Mexico and part of it is to say xenophobic actions have to be called out and money is the big stick in El Norte. If MLB is considering moving the All-Star game, the powers that be will have to take notice. Everything is connected, the law, boycotts, Wall Street, immigration, the War, etc. We all need to do what we think we can.
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