The saga of the beleagured Pastor Ted continues. As I predicted on Friday, the deconstruction of his denials proceeds apace. In today's episode Pastor Ted confesses his lifetime struggle with his sexual identity, while still denying having had sex with Mr. Mike Jones. A spokesman for the oversight board that canned Pastor Ted says Ted has trouble with reality. Translation: Ted had this affair but just won't admit it. Ted also says he is done as leader of the New Life church. Ya think?
In another matter, living so close to Mexico makes the issue of illegal aliens a really big deal here. It really chaps some folk's hide that the children of non-citizen mothers born in this country are automatically citizens. There is widespread belief that these mothers beat feet across the border to give birth. That may or may not be true, but even if it is so what? That's the constitution. If you don't like it, change it.
All one has to do is take a trip across the border to see the poor conditions for the ordinary person in Mexico. If I was in that situation I would get out too. In fact, I'm sure my ancestors did the same thing in fleeing Holland.
A local writer named Ernesto Portillo wrote in the paper today about the effort to deny healthcare to the newborn children of illegals that are born in the US. It generated about 125 comments on the Arizona Daily Star forum, most railing against illegals. They speak as though these are not people but some kind of vermin. These are hateful and stupid people.
I think that I am not exaggerating when I say that if you deported all the illegals in my fair city, our construction sites would be empty. There are jobs here, there are people who want those jobs and will risk death to get them and our leaders have their heads up their butts, instead of figuring out an reasonable plan to deal with the matter, so we have what we have. Do not take it out on the people trying to improve their lot in life, demand that the idiots in charge fix the problem.
Well, Sneedlet 1 is safe back at his house. He was here for his Saturday night visit, and was a little under the weather, so he was a handful. He took a late nap yesterday and wouldn't go to sleep last night until 11:00pm.
The lovely Mrs. Sneed, daughter Sneed, Sneedlet and I went to Costco this morning. It was packed as usual and the Sneedlet was tired and grumpy, which made for an unpleasant experience.
If you are unfamiliar with Costco, it is a membership warehouse-type store. Costco sells groceries, clothes, seasonal items, sundries, office supplies, tires and a bunch of other stuff in limited selections, but in jumbo sizes. Ours is the busiest Costco store in the chain and it is always very crowded.
Our Costco is a favorite of well-to-do Mexicans from the state of Sonora Mexico. The wealthy in Mexico lead privileged lives. The poor live crappy lives so it is little wonder that they risk life and limb to get to the US. Being broke in Mexico is very different than being broke in America because Mexico is a land of haves and have-nots.
The wealthy Mexican families that shop here often have an expectation of special treatment. It is not that they are obnoxious about it, but it is that is the way things are for them in Mexico, so it never occurs to them to expect less when shopping here.
It has also been my observation that Mexicans are far more social than Americans, and shopping is more than just stocking up. The aisles of Costco are often blocked by Mexican families having a mini-reunion. It can be frustrating to try and navigate through these imprompto gatherings. Plus, they frequently seem oblivious to the need to accommodate other shoppers; they just stop where they stop and expect others to work around them. The lovely Mrs. Sneed gets very annoyed by this practice and employs a tactic that she calls the Sonoran Plowdown, where she uses her cart as a battering ram to break through the gatherings, not violently, but assertively. It makes me cringe to watch. I am sure that someday I will read the following headline in the local rag;
Local Woman Beaten at Costco Store; Mexican Citizen Held.
Anyway, I don't really have much to offer for today.
Merle.
Things in this blog represented to be fact, may or may not actually be true. The writer is frequently wrong, sometimes just full of it, but always judgmental and cranky
Tag: Daily Life
Personal Finance
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Nov 5, 2006
Sunday
I Did Not Have Sex With That Man, Mike Jones
The saga of the beleagured Pastor Ted continues. As I predicted on Friday, the deconstruction of his denials proceeds apace. In today's episode Pastor Ted confesses his lifetime struggle with his sexual identity, while still denying having had sex with Mr. Mike Jones. A spokesman for the oversight board that canned Pastor Ted says Ted has trouble with reality. Translation: Ted had this affair but just won't admit it. Ted also says he is done as leader of the New Life church. Ya think?
In another matter, living so close to Mexico makes the issue of illegal aliens a really big deal here. It really chaps some folk's hide that the children of non-citizen mothers born in this country are automatically citizens. There is widespread belief that these mothers beat feet across the border to give birth. That may or may not be true, but even if it is so what? That's the constitution. If you don't like it, change it.
All one has to do is take a trip across the border to see the poor conditions for the ordinary person in Mexico. If I was in that situation I would get out too. In fact, I'm sure my ancestors did the same thing in fleeing Holland.
A local writer named Ernesto Portillo wrote in the paper today about the effort to deny healthcare to the newborn children of illegals that are born in the US. It generated about 125 comments on the Arizona Daily Star forum, most railing against illegals. They speak as though these are not people but some kind of vermin. These are hateful and stupid people.
I think that I am not exaggerating when I say that if you deported all the illegals in my fair city, our construction sites would be empty. There are jobs here, there are people who want those jobs and will risk death to get them and our leaders have their heads up their butts, instead of figuring out an reasonable plan to deal with the matter, so we have what we have. Do not take it out on the people trying to improve their lot in life, demand that the idiots in charge fix the problem.
Well, Sneedlet 1 is safe back at his house. He was here for his Saturday night visit, and was a little under the weather, so he was a handful. He took a late nap yesterday and wouldn't go to sleep last night until 11:00pm.
The lovely Mrs. Sneed, daughter Sneed, Sneedlet and I went to Costco this morning. It was packed as usual and the Sneedlet was tired and grumpy, which made for an unpleasant experience.
If you are unfamiliar with Costco, it is a membership warehouse-type store. Costco sells groceries, clothes, seasonal items, sundries, office supplies, tires and a bunch of other stuff in limited selections, but in jumbo sizes. Ours is the busiest Costco store in the chain and it is always very crowded.
Our Costco is a favorite of well-to-do Mexicans from the state of Sonora Mexico. The wealthy in Mexico lead privileged lives. The poor live crappy lives so it is little wonder that they risk life and limb to get to the US. Being broke in Mexico is very different than being broke in America because Mexico is a land of haves and have-nots.
The wealthy Mexican families that shop here often have an expectation of special treatment. It is not that they are obnoxious about it, but it is that is the way things are for them in Mexico, so it never occurs to them to expect less when shopping here.
It has also been my observation that Mexicans are far more social than Americans, and shopping is more than just stocking up. The aisles of Costco are often blocked by Mexican families having a mini-reunion. It can be frustrating to try and navigate through these imprompto gatherings. Plus, they frequently seem oblivious to the need to accommodate other shoppers; they just stop where they stop and expect others to work around them. The lovely Mrs. Sneed gets very annoyed by this practice and employs a tactic that she calls the Sonoran Plowdown, where she uses her cart as a battering ram to break through the gatherings, not violently, but assertively. It makes me cringe to watch. I am sure that someday I will read the following headline in the local rag;
Local Woman Beaten at Costco Store; Mexican Citizen Held.
Anyway, I don't really have much to offer for today.
Merle.
Things in this blog represented to be fact, may or may not actually be true. The writer is frequently wrong, sometimes just full of it, but always judgmental and cranky
Tag: Daily Life
Personal Finance
Humor
The saga of the beleagured Pastor Ted continues. As I predicted on Friday, the deconstruction of his denials proceeds apace. In today's episode Pastor Ted confesses his lifetime struggle with his sexual identity, while still denying having had sex with Mr. Mike Jones. A spokesman for the oversight board that canned Pastor Ted says Ted has trouble with reality. Translation: Ted had this affair but just won't admit it. Ted also says he is done as leader of the New Life church. Ya think?
In another matter, living so close to Mexico makes the issue of illegal aliens a really big deal here. It really chaps some folk's hide that the children of non-citizen mothers born in this country are automatically citizens. There is widespread belief that these mothers beat feet across the border to give birth. That may or may not be true, but even if it is so what? That's the constitution. If you don't like it, change it.
All one has to do is take a trip across the border to see the poor conditions for the ordinary person in Mexico. If I was in that situation I would get out too. In fact, I'm sure my ancestors did the same thing in fleeing Holland.
A local writer named Ernesto Portillo wrote in the paper today about the effort to deny healthcare to the newborn children of illegals that are born in the US. It generated about 125 comments on the Arizona Daily Star forum, most railing against illegals. They speak as though these are not people but some kind of vermin. These are hateful and stupid people.
I think that I am not exaggerating when I say that if you deported all the illegals in my fair city, our construction sites would be empty. There are jobs here, there are people who want those jobs and will risk death to get them and our leaders have their heads up their butts, instead of figuring out an reasonable plan to deal with the matter, so we have what we have. Do not take it out on the people trying to improve their lot in life, demand that the idiots in charge fix the problem.
Well, Sneedlet 1 is safe back at his house. He was here for his Saturday night visit, and was a little under the weather, so he was a handful. He took a late nap yesterday and wouldn't go to sleep last night until 11:00pm.
The lovely Mrs. Sneed, daughter Sneed, Sneedlet and I went to Costco this morning. It was packed as usual and the Sneedlet was tired and grumpy, which made for an unpleasant experience.
If you are unfamiliar with Costco, it is a membership warehouse-type store. Costco sells groceries, clothes, seasonal items, sundries, office supplies, tires and a bunch of other stuff in limited selections, but in jumbo sizes. Ours is the busiest Costco store in the chain and it is always very crowded.
Our Costco is a favorite of well-to-do Mexicans from the state of Sonora Mexico. The wealthy in Mexico lead privileged lives. The poor live crappy lives so it is little wonder that they risk life and limb to get to the US. Being broke in Mexico is very different than being broke in America because Mexico is a land of haves and have-nots.
The wealthy Mexican families that shop here often have an expectation of special treatment. It is not that they are obnoxious about it, but it is that is the way things are for them in Mexico, so it never occurs to them to expect less when shopping here.
It has also been my observation that Mexicans are far more social than Americans, and shopping is more than just stocking up. The aisles of Costco are often blocked by Mexican families having a mini-reunion. It can be frustrating to try and navigate through these imprompto gatherings. Plus, they frequently seem oblivious to the need to accommodate other shoppers; they just stop where they stop and expect others to work around them. The lovely Mrs. Sneed gets very annoyed by this practice and employs a tactic that she calls the Sonoran Plowdown, where she uses her cart as a battering ram to break through the gatherings, not violently, but assertively. It makes me cringe to watch. I am sure that someday I will read the following headline in the local rag;
Local Woman Beaten at Costco Store; Mexican Citizen Held.
Anyway, I don't really have much to offer for today.
Merle.
Things in this blog represented to be fact, may or may not actually be true. The writer is frequently wrong, sometimes just full of it, but always judgmental and cranky
Tag: Daily Life
Personal Finance
Humor
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