Cinco De Mayo Wild Card — 5/5/09

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  OrangeTV on May 05 at 10:49 a.m.

  Let’s celebrate the holiday with a gut-wrenching reminder how racist and paranoid some of our local residents are, shall we? Be warned, some of these reader comments are astounding, angering, and scary…

  http://www.cdapress.com/articles/2009/05/04/business/bus01.txt

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  Lynne on May 05 at 11:36 a.m.

  I can’t even read the whole thing. It’s infuriating. And disheartening to think that people who may be thinking about visiting or, heaven forbid, even moving to the area might take the CDA Press comments section as a common mentality of North Idahoans.

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  Cindy_H on May 05 at 11:44 a.m.

  I shouldn’t be so shocked and surprised, but I am.
  But mainly I’m just sickened that these comments are allowed to remain.

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  toadman on May 05 at 12:00 p.m.

  Growing up in Texas, I was surrounded by Hispanics. In the larger cities, they are an accepted culture group, whether they are legal or illegal. I worked on many a paint crew, employees of my dad, where I was the only white kid. That experience taught me that the stereotype of the “lazy Mexican” was so incorrect as to be laughable. Indeed, I found the guys my dad employed to be hard working, humble, accepting, and generous. They worked hard, and over lunch, they rested hard.

  Having said that, as one moves to the rural white areas of Texas, the sort of sentiment that can be seen on the CDA website is more and more common. I grew up in Rural Texas, and this sort of crap was a daily occurrence for me, and I no longer have any patience for it…it is close minded, and moronic.

  When we moved up here, I had hopes that we were moving to a more open and accepting place. Sadly, this has not been the case. The same holds true that the more rural you go in the US, the less acceptable it becomes to have anything but white skin…and that sucks. My theory is that lack of familiarity, experience, and education, breeds racism and fear.

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  hmoffsuite on May 05 at 12:23 p.m.

  Just a reminder. The Mariners are playing a day game today and start at 1:00. Playing Texas and really need a win to hold on to first place.

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  Nick_Adams on May 05 at 1:03 p.m.

  I just saw that Dom Deluise died today. He seemed like a genuinely decent fellow.

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  Charlie on May 05 at 1:29 p.m.

  There are no adults at the “Press”.

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  Truly on May 05 at 1:29 p.m.

  Extra extra read all about it!!! This is a true story - a funny story about the holiday - a sad comment about my lack of education on such things but here goes: (At least I can laugh at myself today).

  About 3 years ago all of the “boys” from college were gathered here at Taylor central on this Cinco de Mayo holiday. They were doing what college boys do - beer pong, eating and carrying on.
  Once they decided to all gather in my presence in the living room I calmly asked, “What is this Cinco de Mayo anyway”. What ensued next is a gut rolling experience.

  One of the boys piped up and very calmly explained it is a Mexican National Holiday were you “spit on your mother.” With a very confused look on my face (you can imagine) I asked really? Then one by one each of these young college boys piped up with confirmation it was “Spit on Your Mother Day” and they had been celebrating it to the extreme. I fell for it hook, line and sinker while their faces remained calm until one or two couldn’t take it anymore and they all busted out in hysterical laughter and then I knew I had been taken to the idiot cleaners.

  But to this day they all love me as I am and I have received many happy wishes for Spit on Your Mom Day.

  What’s the word - oh right - gullible as hell!

  Enjoy!

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  raymond_pert on May 05 at 4:30 p.m.

  If any HBO readers who used to drop over to kelloggbloggin.blogspot.com are still around, I’m back in action again.

  A case of pneumonia preceded by a stolen computer kept me on the sidelines for quite a while, but I’m feeling up to writing again and I have a new laptop.

  I received some lovely well wishes from some HBO readers when my sister posted that I was ill and I appreciated those kind words a lot.

  Hope you’ll come over and, if nothing else, read the revival of Three Beautiful Things!

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  hhuseland on May 05 at 7:26 p.m.

  Several thoughts. First, welcome back, Raymond. I always enjoy your contributions.

  Regarding Mexican labor: I remember when I was a kid, we used to pick beans in the summer. The whole valley from Renton to Puyallup, Washington was miles and miles of pole beans.While we worked one field over, the “Braceros,” legal seasonal workers from Mexico worked separately. The reason. is that we kids were screw-offs that didn’t pick very diligently. We were paid by the hamper. The Mexicans, however, were so much more productive that they were paid by the hour, and out picked us by about triple. There is nothing at all accurate about lazy hispanics. I don’t think I’ve ever seen any more productive people. In Arizona and the Imperial Valley, they do stoop work that would put most of us in the hospital.

  Totally off the subject, I picked up a Pancho and a highly decorative sombrero when in Mexico last November. Today was volunteer appreciation day for the School volunteers at Athol Elementary. I wore both and was the hit of “Cinco de Mayo.”

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  JIMMYMAC on May 06 at 12:37 a.m.

  our newest defense against the pirates. I’d be shiving my timbers for sure matey!
  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Freedom_(LCS-1)

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  danofthecommunity on May 06 at 5:28 a.m.

  Totally off the subject, I picked up a Pancho and a highly decorative sombrero when in Mexico last November. Today was volunteer appreciation day for the School volunteers at Athol Elementary. I wore both and was the hit of “Cinco de Mayo.”

  Hey old friend, I hope you got some pictures!

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