1. unidentified prison inmate puts pig detail in decal on police cars (windsor, vt)
back in 2009, but not noticed until febrauary 1 by a policeman washing his car, some inmates at the female work center in windsor added a pig in the spots of a cow on the state crest that is put on the side of police cars in vermont! look closely at the cow in the crest to the right. the fact that there is a creative enough person doing such a thing is funny. funny, too that the police seem to be offended. funniest part yet is that there is an effort by people all over vermont to keep the pig on the crest. i think the police have no right to complain. you get what you pay for. if you farm your needs out to slave labor organizations, then you get the result of what they provide. furthermore, you are only a reflection of what you see in the mirror. if you don’t notice the pig and let it go onto your car anyway, then what should that tell you? it tells kid yoshida you got fooled. props to the ladies who pulled this off and those who want to hold the police to wallow in it.
2. barman liam lloyd warriner – mooning queen elizabeth (brisbane, queensland)
a man from sydney was fined $800 in brisbane for “mooning queen elizabeth ii and her husband, prince phillip. according to the a.p. “warriner admitted to holding an australian flag clenched between his bare buttocks and running toward the royal couple’s motorcade as it drove past well wishers…[warriner said] he’d do the same thing to ‘any self-important, self-propogating elitist.’” that says pretty much everything, but let me add (a) i hope people have sent him money to help pay the fine and his “entertainment value” (b) that is totally worth $800 and (c) any idiot can give the proverbial bird to authority type figures, but who can give such an eloquent defense?
3. alejandrina cabrera – aspiring city councilor (san luis, arizona)
based on what we can tell for certain from the a.p., san luis has used a 120 year old state law to bar cabrera from running for city council for not being able to speak "proficient" english for her predominantly spanish speaking constituents. makes me wonder why arizona doesn’t just use laws from the same era to say she can’t run because she’s a woman? that would be much simpler. furthermore, when such a law that says “unable to speak, read and write in the english language” is applied and then that person writes back to the press in english, it leads one to believe that some other inherent bias is being applied to this surface wipe down. i am guessing that there is some type of posse relationship between the mayor and other latino city councillors that really didn’t appreciate her trying to break it up by wanting to recall the mayor. that is more believable than the necessity of english. the current mayor is also latino and apparently speaks "proficient" english. the only thing i can believe from him is that race had nothing to do with the decision. (vendetta is the implication.)
the article’s jim crow reference provides a good parallel. think about it this way, our business leaders once requested millions of black people from the cheapest dealers from the carribean, africa and elsewhere for many, many years. then, when that race had no other home to return to, we passed laws to prohibit, or discourage, them from taking an active part in their “democratic” government. when laws made it more difficult to get slave labor from this population, we turned to women and children and prisoners, ultimately finding illegal immigrants the cheapest deal. now that they have been here for generations, and there are tons of single mothers whose husbands have been killed in workplace accidents with no insurance to help them, or even proper records of them ever even having a job among the multitude of problems people in such a dire predicament must face, we tell them that we are going to use laws from the days of the nasty industrial revolution to hold back selected applicants. sounds like a hallmark of a “democratic” government.
ethel “punki” mcnamee - renting to homeless people (estacada, or)
punki is a 69 year old woman who has “rented” her house and property to people in dire need for the past 30 years, such as pepsi rea, a 53 year old who suffers from parkinson’s, emphezema, and seizure disorder. pepsi gets by on only $200 per month ($6.67 per day) of food stamps. do you know how hard it is to eat on that amount? especially when you have no refrigerator or pantry for food storage? and how hard is it to get through month long waiting lists for shelters? especially when there aren’t any in your town? 15 such people are facing homelessness by april 15, barring a successful appeal, due to fines the city of estacada has levied against punki for code violations. the city claims it is not “substantial housing” but kid yoshida thinks less than ideal housing is better than no housing. home is where the heart is, even a substadard eyesore. the residents in the neighborhood want to “stop now and forever the illegal encampment” among other petty complaints mostly of neighborhood beautification type thinking. kid yoshida thinks that folks looking out for folks and helping their fellow human is more important than what the neighbors think. one person’s need to put a roof over their head is more important than another’s eyesore. if they want to protect the inherent beauty of their neighborhood, they can pay higher taxes to build shelters and trailer parks in unseen parts of town to banish the people that are lower ranking humans than they are. in very few cases could i support the city or the neighbors, but especially not in a situation that has gone on for 30 years. if it were that bad, it would have been shut down long long ago. When the city and county can’t do anything to help the unfortunates, then hail the people like punki who can!
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