Love or money?
Historically, a question posed only about women marrying male breadwinners.
But now, this same question applies to men, as well.
Why?
Because, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, 40% of American women are now the breadwinners of the family. And this, as reported by The Wall Street Journal, creates a new strain of marital tension between “an alpha woman and a beta man.”
The American Civil Liberties Union has uncovered a sheath of damning emails to and from former Arizona state senator Russell Pearce - author of the state’s controversial immigration law.
As reported in The Arizona Republic, the exposed emails – dating as far back as 2006 – contain overtly racist language and references to the state’s Latino population, prompting the ACLU to conclude that Arizona’s SB 1070 immigration law was “racially motivated.”
The uncovered emails contain such statements as: “Last week, Denver’s illegal aliens sang our national anthem in Spanish and bastardized the words of OUR country’s most sacred song.”
“Vagina. Can’t say it? Don’t legislate it.”
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Sugar cane.
It wasn’t just our American fear of Cuba’s racial equality practices that made us shine our imperialist boots in preparation for a good ass-kickin’.
We wanted Cuba’s sugar money.
Cuba was the top sugar producer in all the world.
The world.
That’s a lotta sugar dough.
We had tried to buy Cuba from Spain, but our first offer was so low it slapped ‘em in the face with insult, and showed those Spaniards just how little we thought of them.
Then we came to our senses and grudgingly upped our offer to a more realistic number.
But by then Spain was like, are you serious? Why would we sell the goose that lays the golden eggs to you, of all people? Hahahaha! You Americans are funny!
So, we had to settle for investing in their sugar industry on the island. But, though we invested millions, we were only getting a comparatively tiny amount of sugar dough return.
Spain was the one swimming in the juice.
Which stuck deep in our craw. (Not real sure what a ‘craw’ is, but this is a well-known expression. And I like saying ‘craw.’)
So, with our craw all bent (since I don’t know what a craw is, I’m pretty sure I can bend it ), we were like, why should Spain get all that Cuban sugar dough? We’re closer. In fact, we’re so close that, rightfully, Cuba should really belong to us – along with all the other tobacco, coffee, citrus, and other profitable products-producing islands colonized by Spain.
Those island geese should be laying golden eggs for us.
Not Spain.
Something had to be done about that…
Israeli prime minister, Binyamin Netanyahu, signed off this week on the construction of 850 new Israeli homes to be built on illegally occupied territory in Palestine.
In opposition to most other international news media, Western news media reduces the number of these new Israeli homes to 300.
This number, however, accounts only for planned new homes in the Beit El settlement; it fails to include an additional 550 homes to be constructed in other areas of the occupied West Bank, as revealed by Israel’s Construction Minister, Ariel Attias.
Though Israel, and its ally the U.S., differentiate between legal settlements and illegal outposts, the U.N. and the rest of the international community “views all Israeli settlements on occupied Palestinian territory as a violation of international law,” as reported by the Associated Press.
Moreover, though the US State Department contends that continued Israeli settlement activity “undermines peace efforts and contradicts Israeli commitments and obligations,” the U.S. nevertheless remains a staunch supporter of Israel.
Spanish colonists in Cuba were raking in the sugar dough in the wake of the Haitian Revolution.
While Spain was getting richer (via Cuba), we got tired of making Great Britain richer (via America). So we decided to break away from the Brits by fighting & winning our American War of Independence.
Happy 4th of July, America! 
Victor said that by 1825, all of Spain’s colonies in the Americas were independent except for Puerto Rico & Cuba — which Spain held onto with both hands because the sugar industry was way too profitable to give up.
Carlos Manuel de Céspedes
But eventually, Spaniard landowners in Cuba got tired of sharing their sugar profits with Spain. So, in 1868, a Spanish sugar mill owner in Cuba named Cespedez challenged Spain’s chokehold by leading a Cuban War of Independence – which would later become our Spanish-American War.
Cespedez also did something else.
He freed his slaves.
In America, slavery had already been outlawed in 1865, but it was still in practice without much change at first. There was hope by plantation owners that, in time, the free-slaves thing would eventually blow over and we’d get back to our profitable system of slavery.
So, Cespedez freeing his slaves did not sit well with us.
She’s old.
Well, old-er.
But you want to be open-minded. Tolerant. Inclusive.
You don’t want to be the shallow asshole who notices the sagging parts of older women.
You’re not that guy.
You are open to dating women in their 40′s. Even though you could date girls in their 20′s, and revel in their non-sagging attractions. Like lush, young breasts…firm, young bottoms…tight, young -
Okay, stop.
Not going there.
Not en route to pick up your 40-something blind date.
Is non-White history the new WMD?
Is learning to take pride in brown history a deadly bomb aimed at the White House?
According to the state of Arizona, both these acts are potential threats to the U.S. government.
As reported by Indian Country Today Media Network, the state’s new ethnic studies ban equates the teaching of ethnic studies with “promoting the overthrow of the U.S. government.“
The ban also describes the further “dangers” of any studies which may cause “resentment toward a race or class of people, along with those designed for students of a specific ethnic group or to advocate ethnic solidarity.”
However, Eric Liu, in a recent report for Time Ideas, points out that “The ban also implicitly assumes that whites are not even a race or ethnic group subject to the terms of the ban, that whiteness, as the invisible norm, just is.” Continue reading
“Danger: Israeli products help fund the oppression and murder of Palestinians.”
A major European supermarket chain has decided to boycott any companies exporting produce from illegal Israeli settlements in the West Bank.
As reported in The Guardian, British Cooperative Group (BCG), one of the largest food retailers in the United Kingdom with a policy already in place against importing produce from illegal Jewish settlements in the West Bank, is now extending that policy by ending trade with companies who still export such products.
Says Hilary Smith, a BCG Co-op member and agricultural trade coordinator, the company is making the move in order to “take the lead internationally by this historic decision to hold corporations accountable for complicity in Israel’s violations of Palestinian human rights. We strongly urge other retailers to take similar action.” Continue reading
