 | The recently remodeled Seattle Weekly started out with a Q&A column called "Ask a Mexican", borrowed from its Southern California sister weeklies. "Ask a Mexican" fell flat in Seattle and was thankfully terminated. It's now been replaced with "Ask an Uptight Seattleite"
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Their cartoon spokesman looks like he just came from Ballard with the requisite stick up his butt.
Posted by: H Moul on October 29, 2006 08:27 PMGive him a haircut and he'd look a lot like Postman.
Posted by: Lynne on October 29, 2006 08:59 PMnot only are you expected to look alike but to think alike ..... and I think this fellow is getting all the sex he wants .... just too respectful to tell us ... very NW, except for the gays who talk about it all, all the time, to everyone, and yes, are doing it ...
Posted by: Jack on October 30, 2006 04:01 AMi'll bet this is a photo of "Seattle Incarnate" to anyone east of the Cascades. maybe THIS should be the new King County logo! worth 1000 words...
Posted by: jimmie-howya-doin on October 30, 2006 09:35 AMThis was clearly shown in the support that current Attorney General Rob McKenna gave to "The Freedom Ride (Seattle Times Sept 9, 2003 B1)
The Attorney General said "...legalizing the status of illegal immigrants is not new. He said he had worked as an attorney in 1986 representing a Mexican family seeking legal status under an amnesty program adopted by Congress and then-President Ronald Reagan."
Republicans and Democrats united, perhaps for different reasons, but united in support of opening our borders to more and more immigration.
There. Fixed that for ya.
Posted by: jimg on October 30, 2006 01:43 PMOf course it is connected to the war on terrorism since the terrorists couldn't get in here to kill us if we had a sound border protection program.
But the issue of the border has also to do with the threats upon our language, and our culture, and with 300 Million people in our country we just don't have the room to place all these people. Especially since we have locked up so much land to development that can't be touched.
Both Republicans and Democrats have failed when it comes to this issue. While you expect that from the Democrats, when you have Republican Attorney Generals like Rob McKenna supporting stuff like the "Freedom Ride"(Seattle Times Sept 9, 2003 B1) you know we have problems indeed.
Posted by: Leslie on October 30, 2006 01:57 PMWe agree on that. That's not how your post came across, however, since you left out the words, 'elected officials' when describing Republicans and Democrats.
And I'm not sure what the state attorney general or illegal immigration has to do with the subject of this blog entry.
Posted by: jimg on October 30, 2006 02:36 PM(In heavily hispanic California something like this might go over better. Most of the hispanics I've known in my lifetime - and there have been many since i lived for a while in Mexico have had a sense of humor.)
I think the writer above has nailed it. The aging hippies have lost their sense of humor and have become everything they dispised.
Do you live in Bellevue, Jack, or is your remark simply a product of your own prejudices? I only ask because "Bellevue now has a larger percentage of nonwhite residents than Seattle."
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/2003209866_diversity19e.html
I reside in Bellevue and frequently I'm in the minority while shopping and/or running errands. It seems to me the "diverse, pc-friendly" Metronaturals would rather talk about it (with much wringing of hands and knashing of teeth no less) than actually live it--as if this is a revelation.
I'm reminded of this quote from '06 Best Actor Nominee, Terrence Howard (he was the pimp in "Hustle & Flow," and was in the movie "Crash."): "We're all caught up under the umbrella of political correctness, which I truly believe is a FRONT FOR BIGOTRY [my emphasis] because we don't learn from each other. Until people start being truly honest--that's when we'll be able to bring an end to the problems associated with race in Hollywood and the rest of the world."