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Re: 5 Songs We Can't Stop Listening To (with guest First Aid Kit)

Dadofiandi — Mon, 15 Dec 2014 12:25:29 -0000

Definitely digging FJM

Re: 5 Songs We Can't Stop Listening To

Dadofiandi — Fri, 07 Mar 2014 13:57:33 -0000

Hah I beat you with Hozier and thats about it. Small victories lol

Re: An Early-BP Christmas Present? Please, God, No …

Dadofiandi — Thu, 03 Jun 2010 19:01:06 -0000

Perhaps immigrants car pool more, or ride bicycles more often then real Americans. Maybe immigrants working in the fields limit the mechanization and thereby limit the use of fossil fuels. Also many day laborers congregate in a shared area which allow for easy pick up and drop off, as opposed to driving their Hummers and S10's to job sites. And quite possibly immigrants make valuble contributions to society in all fields and as well may be responsible for alternative fuels.

Re: Ignoramus Racial Moments and Interracial Adoption

Dadofiandi — Fri, 21 May 2010 11:31:58 -0000

I am half Korean and half a European mixture. I really didn't learn much about my Korean heritage as a child and I believe I missed out and still do to an extent. I think it is important to teach all your kids that life isn't fair and that we need to judge people by the content of their character, and there are people of all races who are at best misguided. He should learn about slavery, segregation in school, unless he lives in Arizona :). But I am sure he will be discriminated against prior to that, and hopefully you will have built him up and demonstrated loving attitudes to all peoples of diverse backgrounds. My best answer would be to be proactive and ask him if there are questions he has about his heritage and help him along those lines. I don't think you can soup can it, just like raising a child you make mistakes and learn from them and unfortunately you won't have an answer at times. Congratulations on the adoption.

Re: Christian Zionism: Theology that Legitimates Oppression

Dadofiandi — Thu, 20 May 2010 13:47:13 -0000

Just an aside for the whole thread read Son of Hamas. Good history of events in Israel, the creation of Hamas and of its involvement with the PLO. It is written by oldest son of Sheikh Hassan Yousef, the spiritual leader of Hamas. How he became a spy for Shin Bet and now is a Christian.
It's autobiographical so it's subjective but gives an "insiders" perspective.

Re: MLK Day, Banning Ethnic Studies, and Regulating Accents: Arizona’s Questionable Track Record on Race

Dadofiandi — Fri, 14 May 2010 14:05:14 -0000

http://www.slate.com/id/100...
All protected by US Constitution.

Re: Major League Baseball Joins Protest of Arizona Immigration Law

Dadofiandi — Sun, 09 May 2010 22:07:52 -0000

Read the 19pg bill. I live in AZ. Its de jure and de facto in regards to the law. Kudos to you with the Fair Trade and the Union label. Crime by immigrants has gone down prior, and less are coming into the state since the economy is terrible. They are being scapegoated for the crappy economy here.

Re: Major League Baseball Joins Protest of Arizona Immigration Law

Dadofiandi — Fri, 07 May 2010 16:54:34 -0000

Police officers can look into suspicious activity all they want to, this potentially cause more car chases and violence against them. There has been some resistance by the police to this bill by the way.
If multimillion $ athletes use undocumented workers to clean their mansions, yeah they probably are mad. Check all your clothes and see where they were made, or your car or the food you eat(who harvested it, etc). You want to find faults you will, but at least they are making a stand for what they think is right.

Re: Glenn Beck, Immigration, and Social Justice

Dadofiandi — Fri, 07 May 2010 14:24:11 -0000

Was writing my response when I saw yours about the witnessess and reporting crimes. I just asked him/her the same ? D'OH.

Re: Glenn Beck, Immigration, and Social Justice

Dadofiandi — Fri, 07 May 2010 14:20:20 -0000

De jure says lawful contact but de facto remains to be seen. And with police officers, and all of us, being falliable there will be profiling occurring, just like Sheriff Joe doesn't do "crime supression sweeps" in Paradise Valley.
I think that if someone is arrested for killing someone they would be detained regardless of having valid ID, unlike a jaywalker or even a jogger who may be detained because they don't have valid ID on them. Does lawful contact include being a witness to a crime or reporting a crime? Suppose a non-english person was pickpocked and waved down the police, could he/she be detained for not having valid id?

Re: Images from Saturday’s White House Immigration Rally

Dadofiandi — Tue, 04 May 2010 12:27:40 -0000

You are assuming Ryan was on the West Coast 2days prior and attended a May Day event and an immigration reform event, and chose not to take pics of events that he witnessed.

Are you really questioning his integrity?

I read the news reports, the vandalism was done by apparent anarchists. I don't know the connection b/t anarchy and immigration reform but perhaps you do. Second it wasn't minutemen that were assaulted, it was members of BANA who are anarchists that believe in white separatism. But yes violence is wrong.

Re: ‘Reasonable Suspicion’ in Arizona

Dadofiandi — Mon, 26 Apr 2010 18:59:54 -0000

I believe this law is all politics, Brewer is backing a 1cent tax proposal that is unpopular with the tea partiers and GOP in general. This is an attempt to assuage some of those backers/voters. JD Hayworth (R) running for state senator is in full support of this legislation so McCain is also supporting it was well to cowtow for votes. The economy is in the tank so scapegoating is popular again. Similar hubbub about requiring school children to learn spanish a few years back. Fear of a non-white state/country I guess.

Re: Arizona’s Immigration Bill is a Social and Racial Sin

Dadofiandi — Sat, 24 Apr 2010 11:13:01 -0000

I guess I am bigoted against myself them, whatever. Illegals pay into SS and don't get benefits of SS, so you may be stealing from them. Illegals also pay state and city taxes that support your city and state. Do the research.

Re: Arizona’s Immigration Bill is a Social and Racial Sin

Dadofiandi — Fri, 23 Apr 2010 13:46:36 -0000

I am not dealing in absolutes with my answers as I believe there are exceptions to what I have answered below.

So you are saying that if a minority made the same kind of comment about their own group, you would be OK with it?
Yes I am.
why is it OK to make them about your own group?
This is hard to answer without specifics but in regard to race, there is a general shared experience or identification, additionally racism promotes superiority of one's own race and denegration of others.

What if the assessment by the writer had been a postive one about his own group? Would that have been OK? If it were meant as a comparrison than no it wouldn't be ok.

I live in Arizona I think this legislation ignores the real problems of the state. I see it as a waste of resources, as well as the birther legislation here by the way, when the state has cut early intervention among other things. It preys upon what I believe are overblown fears and scapegoats undocument immigrants for our poor economy, high unemployment, foreclosed homes. Remember Arizona was the last state to recognize MLK day.

Re: An Open Letter to Governor Brewer of Arizona

Dadofiandi — Fri, 23 Apr 2010 12:57:40 -0000

FactCheck.org responds: Undocumented immigrants can obtain individual taxpayer identification numbers, which are issued without regard to immigration status and can function in lieu of a Social Security number. Many immigrants do pay payroll taxes using ITINs or expired Social Security numbers, and of course they also pay other taxes such as sales and property taxes. According to the nonpartisan Urban Institute: "the U.S. Social Security Administration has estimated that three quarters of undocumented immigrants pay payroll taxes, and that they contribute $6-7 billion in Social Security funds that they will be unable to claim."

Re: Arizona’s Immigration Bill is a Social and Racial Sin

Dadofiandi — Fri, 23 Apr 2010 12:47:47 -0000

Considering the person who made the comment was white I don't see the cause for outrage or call it racist.

Re: An Open Letter to Governor Brewer of Arizona

Dadofiandi — Fri, 23 Apr 2010 12:01:11 -0000

Seriously are you naive enough to believe you need documents to get a SS#. Maybe a valid one you do. They pay taxes, state and city primarily by spending their money where they live.

Re: An Open Letter to Governor Brewer of Arizona

Dadofiandi — Fri, 23 Apr 2010 11:03:52 -0000

I appreciate the sentiment of a letter to Jan Brewer, but I am sure it will fall on deaf ears. She cut the early intervention program for children with special needs and the school system. As a leader in foreclosed homes and a terrible economy, illegal aliens have become the scapegoat. Racist state, last to celebrate MLK day, birther legislation, SB1070. I thought when I moved here it was the gateway to hell since it was so hot, my mind hasn't changed much.

Re: Five More Ways to Keep it Simple and Go Green

Dadofiandi — Tue, 20 Apr 2010 12:35:45 -0000

My kids are fascinated by the composter and can definately identify with the Legos.

Re: Wearing My Jesus Goggles to the Boston Tea Party

Dadofiandi — Mon, 19 Apr 2010 12:01:11 -0000

One of the reasons I left the church. Too much of a business model. I think, if I am correct, the Mormans have it right in that those who work in the temple or lead are not paid. Back to lurking.

Re: Wearing My Jesus Goggles to the Boston Tea Party

Dadofiandi — Fri, 16 Apr 2010 17:25:09 -0000

Your coverage shouldn't change assuming you have private insurance, unless your employer changes or drops coverage which was entirely possible and happening previously. If you have no insurance you will, if you are on Medicare it shouldn't change either.

Re: Wearing My Jesus Goggles to the Boston Tea Party

Dadofiandi — Fri, 16 Apr 2010 16:44:17 -0000

The Tea Party isn't about high taxes--many/most in the poll say their taxes are fair--it's about record govt spending.

See thats the problem there is no clear agenda, some want small government, some say they are being taxed to death, some are birthers, some like the ones I heard reported on in Florida want more money spent on NASA as it is integral to their economy. The tipping point seems to have been the health care reform bill, and with that the complaint I have heard most often is taxpayers are enabling lazy people not to look for jobs, etc.

Re: Immigration Policy Goes From Bad to Worse in Arizona

Dadofiandi — Fri, 16 Apr 2010 13:48:43 -0000

Not that I speak for the author but I heard him speak on NPR about the raids and their nature. Assuming you are a documented or non-documented immigrant, imagine helicopters overhead and ICE agents raiding and arresting people like you, in light of the legislation that cleared the house.
Similarily to Nannygate of a few years ago, I wonder how many of these reps had or still personally used non documented workers. We all have reaped the benefit, if you call it that, from cheap housing and produce among other things.
I am sure Sojo does not support human trafficking and is why previous blogs have supported immigration reform.
Regarding the nature of the law, could you produce evidence of your status as a US citizen on demand, perhaps the long form of your birth certificate? Acusation or assumption

Re: I Am Emergent and I Don’t Fit the Stereotype

Dadofiandi — Fri, 16 Apr 2010 00:40:22 -0000

Don't give up squeaky we need your voice of reason.

Re: Wearing My Jesus Goggles to the Boston Tea Party

Dadofiandi — Thu, 15 Apr 2010 23:31:14 -0000

well that and curtailing military spending and Imperialism.