Daily Kos: News Item: A Perfect Example of Our Idiocy.

News Item: A Perfect Example of Our Idiocy.

by Brian Nowhere

Sat Jul 02, 2005 at 10:10:00 AM PDT

crossposted at nowhereweb.com

Noticed this news item the other day in the Chicago Sun Times

Dad know how it works
Texas father of missing girl, since found, may face charges because he changed her photograph to make her blonde and prettier in hopes of inspiring a larger rescue effort.

And in the knowledge that Fox News covers missing persons only if they look a little like Lindsay Lohan.
reported by ZAY N. SMITH, SunTimes columnist

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Goddammit do I wish that we lived in a friggin society that would take one look at this article and say, "What the Fuck is going on?".

We spend all this time in this country looking for the guy in a turban and loincloth getting on a plane with a tattered shoebox in hand, that we completely ignore all the cause and effect that is going on all around us. The bullshit that is happening everyday that eventually is going to push someone over the edge.

If I were a father of a missing child who was black or mexican or perhaps just not the best looking girl in the world or god forbid, a boy and I was forced to watch the parade of white, pretty missing girls who Fox News and the rest of the cable news networks are constantly fretting over, I swear to god I'd think about blowing something up myself.

It's peculiar how everyone seems to have forgotten that America's first terrorist was of the homegrown variety. More ironic still is that what sent McVeigh over the edge was witnessing firsthand what was going on in The first Iraq war

Until we fucking get our heads out of our asses, we have absolotely no right to get all pissy when the French make fun of us.

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welcome to Texas, y'all (none / 0)

Home of mother-daughter botox treatments and no money down/$25 a month plastic surgery financing plans.

by elmo on Sat Jul 02, 2005 at 10:32:10 AM PDT
- Are you so sure that this is a uniquely (4.00 / 2)
  
  TEXAN phenomenon?
  Please give me a big huge fucking break.
  
  To write in plain vigorous language one has to think fearlessly, and if one thinks fearlessly one cannot be politically orthodox. George Orwell, 1946
  
  by deepintheheartoftx on Sat Jul 02, 2005 at 10:58:48 AM PDT
  
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  - Texas (none / 0)
    
    home of:
  - Most executions
  - Most non-violent offenders serving long prison terms
  - "Don't Mess with Texas"-originally a slogan to stop polluting.
  - The Alamo- Americas real first Terrorist Site

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by Brian Nowhere on Sat Jul 02, 2005 at 11:05:46 AM PDT

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Indeed. It is Texas. (none / 0)

I'm not a native -- I've lived here since '94 and there are a lot of batshit crazy things about this place, but not all of them are bad....writing off Texas as "hoplessly red" is not a winning strategy, methinks. But hey, what do I know? I'm just a stupid, non-"Great American" Texan!

To write in plain vigorous language one has to think fearlessly, and if one thinks fearlessly one cannot be politically orthodox. George Orwell, 1946

by deepintheheartoftx on Sat Jul 02, 2005 at 01:16:32 PM PDT

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You are here defending your state (none / 0)

and in my book that makes you a Great American.
I meant no offense.

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by Brian Nowhere on Sat Jul 02, 2005 at 01:42:15 PM PDT

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It's not Texas that I am defending as (none / 1)

much as just trying to defend against any and all stereotyping. I have gotten told "oh relax, you're making a big deal about nothing" in other places on this site, but I keep on in any case! And it's worth it because sometimes I meet people like you! ;)

No offense taken!

To write in plain vigorous language one has to think fearlessly, and if one thinks fearlessly one cannot be politically orthodox. George Orwell, 1946

by deepintheheartoftx on Sun Jul 03, 2005 at 06:04:51 AM PDT

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I've never noticed (none / 0)

as much of it anywhere else. That doesn't mean it couldn't have been exported from here, though.

I moved to Texas in 1983. The first time I went to a grocery store, there were women doing their grocery shopping in bikinis. Full makeup. Big hair. Manicured fingernails and toenails. High heels. Lotsa jewelry. Grocery shopping????? I felt like I had fallen into a twilight zone where everywhere was a Miss America pageant.

Texas really is a whole 'nother country.

by elmo on Sat Jul 02, 2005 at 01:03:22 PM PDT

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