i saw the regualr ‘humans arent criminals’

and some big one reading ‘a history of persecution’..with g. washington and g. bush

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Dennis Dale is Live Blogging the May Day Apocalypse:

18:54
Not much time just wanted to let you know I’m still alive excuse the lack of punctuation must be quick conserve energy–electricity could go any minute no evidence yet of massive social upheaval–it’s quiet, too, too quiet–wait! shhh! what was that? gotta go. Courage friends.

19:00
Still no sign and you know that’s always a bad sign, used reciprocating saw (somehow managed to figure it out despite no illegal immigrant help) to carve an escape hatch in ceiling so we can escape directly to roof when the fit hits the shan, if you know what I mean, does anyone out there know Morse code? Will return later, if it’s safe

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trying to cook for myself with my soft pale white hands, bruised and blistered from doing my own yardwork (how do they survive do this superhuman physical labor? are they even mortal?) can’t figure out how to get the food from the cylindrical metal thing the Capable Ones call “can” am madly beating it against the floor, no use, I think I’ve injured myself will return later once I’ve stopped this bleeding [More]
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First three things I noticed when stepping out of the subway, 1. big yellow signs saying “Amnesty Now”
2. Che posters with workers rights
3. the flag of Mexico

As for the “big protests” going on elsewhere, I often wonder why our ICE agents weren’t on the scene checking people’s legal status and arresting those in the US illegally. After all, if a fisherman wants a big catch, he goes where the schools are.

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An interesting sidenote; Tampa officials estimated the rally in Tampa between 6000 and 7000 people. However, the Tampa schools are reporting about 8000 students missed class.

As of the late afternoon, the Post is reporting limited local impact of today’s May Day “Day without immigrants” protest. What I saw around the Herndon-Sterling area supports this. There was a bit of excitement from 4:00 – 6:00 pm:……

I did see the pictures on Fox of the crowd in Chicago, which was all they seemed to be able to show all afternoon before I went to work. I heard on the news driving home that there were sizeable demonstrations in LA and Miami, and that the one in Miami had the Cuban immigrants pretty honked off.

On the whole, though, it doesnt seem like they managed to shut down our economy, does it? Although, I haven’t tuned in the drive-by media today, so I may just be missing the start of the Great Depression 2.

I had mixed emotions. I told my wife I might be arrested as I would refuse to leave even if the police told me it was for my protection. No police were needed and no bail was needed and the pictures are pretty dull. I did find a Chilean fast food joint that was closed. Pretty exciting stuff I know!

Boy…they’ve sure convinced me.

Just for background: I live in a small resort town 140 miles from the border… Until the last few years, despite our proximity to the border, we didn’t have a big hispanic population locally(other than old Spanish families that have been here for 200 years, who are ‘more American than most ‘white’ Americans’).

Population has about doubled in the last few years. And about 3/4 the new people are Mexicans; I won’t say that any particular percentage of them are illegal, but in public places like stores, restraunts and etc. you are just as likely to hear Spanish being spoken as English around here these days, and a lot of them seem to be unable to speak any English at all, or at least very limited English.

Looking around today I only saw three restraunts closed. One of the local Italian food places and the other two were Mexican food places that are both owned by a (nice) ‘Green Carded’ LEGAL Mexican alien family; But they employ mostly non-english speaking and very likely illegal aliens.

Post Office was just about deserted mid-afternoon and late afternoon when I went by…. Usually about 10 people in the lobby at mid-afternoon, 15-20 people late afternoon.

Stopped by a convenience store for a soda; Business there is normal. There was a young, non-English speaking hispanic man in front of me in the checkout line purchasing eight money orders… So it looks like ‘remittances’ are continuing apace today.

The ‘tourist traps’ along the mid-town main road were pretty quiet, but that may just as likely be because it is Monday and we are ‘between seasons’ here… But it seemed to me to be a little quieter there than I would have expected.

The bars seem to have about 1/2 the normal vehicles in their parking lots this early evening. Restraunts are very busy though.

Spent a lot of time in Walmart. It was pretty crowded; about 90% of the normal number of shoppers; Under normal circumstances, at any given time about 80% of the customers in the store are obviously Mexican. Today though, only about 10% of them for the three hours I was there were obviously hispanic.

A lot of people were pulling /pushing two full carts, so I wasn’t the only one doing the ’shop til you drop’ thing… So, I don’t think that our local Walmart will notice much of a reduction of income today despite a 70% reduction of one particular group of customers. There is a Subway sandwich shop inside Walmart here… It was packed, about double or triple the number of people there as is usual for the time of day I was there.

Had to go to Checker Auto Parts twice this afternoon. Seemed to be fewer people in there than normal, but the cashier said that business today is about normal in terms of money coming in, even though fewer people.

The grocery store was about as busy as normal, but noticably fewer ‘Hispanic faces and voices’ than is common there. Cashier said that she didn’t notice any less money going into the register than usual.

Lot of new local street and sidewalk repair / construction projects begun today. I noticed quite a few ‘obviously Hispanic’ people working on those projects as I drove around town.

Didn’t see ANY Mexican flags today; Usually see several (bumper stickers and the like) on any given day. No protesters, picketers or immigration related signs etc. were to be seen.

Normally, I see at least five (and often many times that) Mexican license plates on vehicles on any given day. Didn’t see any today.

I did get a compliment on the embroidered US Flag patch on my shirt pocket from a cashier at the drug store; That was about the only nationalistic, cultural or ‘patriotic’ thing I saw or heard locally today.

The idiots even managed to clog the official border crossings making virtually impossible for them to trade with our nation … big thumbs up they have some great leadership … NOT!

And for their next trick! …

“sure doesn’t look to me that the US has a problem with either the practice or it’s attitudes with LEGAL immigration.”

That is just the point. Only the hardcore libs/Dems, illegal aliens, and Che Guevarra action gear models have a problem with the practice and attitudes of LEGAL immigration.

“In a bizarre headline the NBC affiliate in Denver reports on their website that “Citizens rally over immigration in Northern Colorado”. The only person quoted in the article was a rally organizer who said: “We are against laws that make us criminals”. I wasn’t aware that there were proposed immigration laws that would make criminals of our citizens.”

Dave – welcome to the Liberal’s version of Newspeak. Muddy the words and you muddy the debate. Muddy the debate and you can divide and conquer – the game plan of the Left.

Have you earned your hyphen yet?