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Florida Boycott Resolution Proposed By Chris Holden, California Assemblymember .....

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WCH said:
That's the way Communism works these days [not by force but, by societal degradation] however, the Force is strong in this one.

I'm confident WE Will Overcome.
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LOL .... you're an old Cold War warrior, aren't you? Playing the communism card is so 1950s WCH ... please ... It's not communism you silly goose ... it's called demographics ...
 
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WCH said:
We've were run by (Blue dog) Democrats in the past. Just not in the last 20+ years. We saw the light.
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I hate to tell you that that light you see in the tunnel is a Dem train coming at you ...
 
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When Arizona introduced SB1070 some knuckle head legislator in California proposed a ban on Arizona businesses (even though they have the same law on their books) and it went nowhere.
 
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windowdressing said:
you're changing the subject and when people do that or twist things to suit them, I don't bother with them ...
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Changing the subject? Please I must hear your explanation of how responding to your comment on something I didn't say is changing the subject.
 
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windowdressing said:
LOL .... you're an old Cold War warrior, aren't you? Playing the communism card is so 1950s WCH ... please ... It's not communism you silly goose ... it's called demographics ...
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Our current POTUS was raised and mentored by admitted Communists. Don't try and say it's dead.

He's keeping it alive.
 
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windowdressing said:
I hate to tell you that that light you see in the tunnel is a Dem train coming at you ...
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Derailments are pretty common these days...;)
 
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I do so hope these people do boycott Florida. I just bought my plane tickets for Tampa and I plan afterwards to drive down to Islamorada, in The Keys. It would be nice not to have to drive in all that traffic.
 
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WCH said:
Our current POTUS was raised and mentored by admitted Communists. Don't try and say it's dead.

He's keeping it alive.
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Time to come out of the bunker my friend. A lot has happened since the Cold War ended. For example, did you know Simon and Garfunkel broke up? Obama a communist? Really? The guy's an old moderate Republican for Christ's sake! His grandparents were comminists, including his banker grandma? O.K.
 
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Heebie Jeebie said:
Changing the subject? Please I must hear your explanation of how responding to your comment on something I didn't say is changing the subject.
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go back and read my comment on the child's age and what it was in response to ... I don't need to, but it sounds as if you do ...
 
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WCH said:
Derailments are pretty common these days...;)
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TOUCHE! Very nice ... gotta give you that one (although derailments really aren't that common) ... still, it's just banter now ... the 2016 presidential election, especially if Hillary is running, should be interesting ... if Jeb is the GOP guy, then I think they'll win Texas, otherwise, I'm not so sure ... also, when is the next Governor's election? Depending on who challenges the "I forgot the third one" guy, that may be interesting too ... but so much can happen between now and then, and usually does ... (but that GOP ahole Steve King's comment about Mexicans weighing 130 pounds with big calves because of all the weed they're carrying across the border does not help ...) - both parties have people who say stupid things, but in the past two years, at least, the GOP has had more than its share, no?
 
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windowdressing said:
go back and read my comment on the child's age and what it was in response to ... I don't need to, but it sounds as if you do ...
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Apparently you can read words but not understand what the letters mean. I never mentioned a childs age, you did. I didn't jump to some assumption that it was a young child, you did. So please, read and understand or do respond and keep what little dignity you have.
 
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Heebie Jeebie said:
Apparently you can read words but not understand what the letters mean. I never mentioned a childs age, you did. I didn't jump to some assumption that it was a young child, you did. So please, read and understand or do respond and keep what little dignity you have.
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I wasn't aware that I had lost any dignity, but I'm not that worried ... I have so much, that losing a little here and there doesn't even put a dent in it ... but thank you for your concern ... but since in your eyes I have virtually none, there's no point my responding to you ... but if you go back, you'll see that I was responding to something very specific and that was even somewhat tangential to the bigger issue we were discussing ... take care ...
 
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windowdressing said:
TOUCHE! Very nice ... gotta give you that one (although derailments really aren't that common) ... still, it's just banter now ... the 2016 presidential election, especially if Hillary is running, should be interesting ... if Jeb is the GOP guy, then I think they'll win Texas, otherwise, I'm not so sure ... also, when is the next Governor's election? Depending on who challenges the "I forgot the third one" guy, that may be interesting too ... but so much can happen between now and then, and usually does ... (but that GOP ahole Steve King's comment about Mexicans weighing 130 pounds with big calves because of all the weed they're carrying across the border does not help ...) - both parties have people who say stupid things, but in the past two years, at least, the GOP has had more than its share, no?
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Greg Abbott will be the next governor of Texas. As far as all that other stuff...pffft.
 
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WCH said:
Greg Abbott will be the next governor of Texas. As far as all that other stuff...pffft.
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LOL ... Abbott looks like a real possibility WCH ... Do you have any idea who is likely to run against him? What's Perry going to do? Hopefully he'll use the time to figure out what the third thing was ...
 
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windowdressing said:
LOL ... Abbott looks like a real possibility WCH ... Do you have any idea who is likely to run against him? What's Perry going to do? Hopefully he'll use the time to figure out what the third thing was ...
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Abbott has a crap load of money in the bank and has just been waiting for Perry to go.

Perry will likely run for POTUS again.

Are you from Texas?
 
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WCH said:
Abbott has a crap load of money in the bank and has just been waiting for Perry to go.

Perry will likely run for POTUS again.

Are you from Texas?
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no, but Texas has always fascinated me ... right now the demographic changes we've been seeing in Texas are interesting ... by 2020, Latinos will outnumber whites in Texas, and the GOP is not doing well with Latinos -- and if you get more Steve Kings likening Mexicans to drug mules, that won't get any better ... you may find this interesting ... this came out in May 2012 ...

In advance of Texas’s Republican primary on Tuesday, here are 10 important facts about immigrants and people of color in the state that display their significant economic, cultural, and electoral power.

1. Communities of color are driving population growth in Texas. Texas is one of five states in the country where people of color make up the majority of the population. Between 2000 and 2009 Hispanic population growth accounted for 63.1 percent of all growth in the state. Texas’s black and Asian populations—2.8 million people and 850,000 people, respectively—were the third largest in the country in 2010.

2. The majority of children in Texas are children of color. For children under age 5 in the state, children of color outnumbered non-Hispanic white children 2.2-to-1 in 2011. According to the Children’s Defense Fund, in 2009, 64 percent of the state’s children were of color.

3. Houston is the most racially and ethnically diverse metropolitan area in the country. According to a report from Rice University, the percentage of Latinos in the region increased dramatically from 20.8 percent in 1990 to more than one-third at 35.5 percent in 2010. This thriving racial and ethnic diversity places Houston at the head of the state’s rapid demographic changes.

4. Nearly a third of immigrants in Texas are naturalized—meaning they are eligible to vote. In 2010 immigrants comprised 16.4 percent of the state’s total population. That year there were 1.3 million naturalized U.S. citizens in Texas, approximately 32 percent of immigrants in the state.

5. Voters of color make up a growing portion of the Texas electorate. According to the U.S. Census Bureau, Latinos accounted for 20.1 percent of Texas voters in the 2008 elections. African Americans and Asians comprised 14.2 percent and 1.4 percent, respectively, of the state’s voters that same year.

6. Even more Latinos are eligible to vote but are currently unregistered. According to the political opinion research group Latino Decisions, there are 2.1 million unregistered Latino voters in Texas in 2012. The Department of Homeland Security estimates that there are an additional 880,000 legal permanent residents (green card holders) in Texas who are eligible to naturalize and vote for the first time. Put together, this means Texas has close to an extra 3 million potential voters this fall.

7. The Department of Justice blocked a Texas voter ID law that threatened to disenfranchise Hispanics. According to the Brennan Center for Justice, far fewer non-Hispanic voters—4.3 percent, compared with 6.3 percent of Latino voters—lack a proper photo ID, which voters would have been required to show under the law. Texas’s own state data listed 174,866 registered Latino voters without an ID.

8. Communities of color add billions of dollars and tens of thousands of jobs to Texas’s economy through entrepreneurship and spending. The purchasing power of Latinos in Texas increased more than 400 percent from 1990 to 2010, reaching a total of $176.3 billion. Asian buying power increased by more than 650 percent in the same period to a total of $34.4 billion. And in 2007 Texas’s nearly 450,000 Latino-owned businesses had close to 400,000 employees, and sales and receipts of $61.9 billion.

9. Immigrants are essential to the economy as workers. In 2010 immigrants comprised 20.9 percent of Texas’s workforce. As of 2007, 21 percent of Houston’s total economic output and 16 percent of Dallas’s economic output was derived from immigrants.

10. Immigrants contribute to the state economy through state and local taxes. In 2010, according to the Institute for Taxation and Economic Policy, undocumented immigrants in Texas paid $1.6 billion in state and local taxes.

Vanessa Cárdenas is Director of Progress 2050 and Angela Maria Kelley is Vice President for Immigration Policy and Advocacy at the Center for American Progress.

The Top 10 Things You Should Know About Texas
 
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WCH said:
Abbott has a crap load of money in the bank and has just been waiting for Perry to go.

Perry will likely run for POTUS again.

Are you from Texas?
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one more thing ... if running for president is the third thing on his list to do in 2015, I guarantee Perry will forget to run ... just sayin ...
 
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windowdressing said:
no, but Texas has always fascinated me ... right now the demographic changes we've been seeing in Texas are interesting ... by 2020, Latinos will outnumber whites in Texas, and the GOP is not doing well with Latinos -- and if you get more Steve Kings likening Mexicans to drug mules, that won't get any better ... you may find this interesting ... this came out in May 2012 ...

In advance of Texas’s Republican primary on Tuesday, here are 10 important facts about immigrants and people of color in the state that display their significant economic, cultural, and electoral power.

1. Communities of color are driving population growth in Texas. Texas is one of five states in the country where people of color make up the majority of the population. Between 2000 and 2009 Hispanic population growth accounted for 63.1 percent of all growth in the state. Texas’s black and Asian populations—2.8 million people and 850,000 people, respectively—were the third largest in the country in 2010.

2. The majority of children in Texas are children of color. For children under age 5 in the state, children of color outnumbered non-Hispanic white children 2.2-to-1 in 2011. According to the Children’s Defense Fund, in 2009, 64 percent of the state’s children were of color.

3. Houston is the most racially and ethnically diverse metropolitan area in the country. According to a report from Rice University, the percentage of Latinos in the region increased dramatically from 20.8 percent in 1990 to more than one-third at 35.5 percent in 2010. This thriving racial and ethnic diversity places Houston at the head of the state’s rapid demographic changes.

4. Nearly a third of immigrants in Texas are naturalized—meaning they are eligible to vote. In 2010 immigrants comprised 16.4 percent of the state’s total population. That year there were 1.3 million naturalized U.S. citizens in Texas, approximately 32 percent of immigrants in the state.

5. Voters of color make up a growing portion of the Texas electorate. According to the U.S. Census Bureau, Latinos accounted for 20.1 percent of Texas voters in the 2008 elections. African Americans and Asians comprised 14.2 percent and 1.4 percent, respectively, of the state’s voters that same year.

6. Even more Latinos are eligible to vote but are currently unregistered. According to the political opinion research group Latino Decisions, there are 2.1 million unregistered Latino voters in Texas in 2012. The Department of Homeland Security estimates that there are an additional 880,000 legal permanent residents (green card holders) in Texas who are eligible to naturalize and vote for the first time. Put together, this means Texas has close to an extra 3 million potential voters this fall.

7. The Department of Justice blocked a Texas voter ID law that threatened to disenfranchise Hispanics. According to the Brennan Center for Justice, far fewer non-Hispanic voters—4.3 percent, compared with 6.3 percent of Latino voters—lack a proper photo ID, which voters would have been required to show under the law. Texas’s own state data listed 174,866 registered Latino voters without an ID.

8. Communities of color add billions of dollars and tens of thousands of jobs to Texas’s economy through entrepreneurship and spending. The purchasing power of Latinos in Texas increased more than 400 percent from 1990 to 2010, reaching a total of $176.3 billion. Asian buying power increased by more than 650 percent in the same period to a total of $34.4 billion. And in 2007 Texas’s nearly 450,000 Latino-owned businesses had close to 400,000 employees, and sales and receipts of $61.9 billion.

9. Immigrants are essential to the economy as workers. In 2010 immigrants comprised 20.9 percent of Texas’s workforce. As of 2007, 21 percent of Houston’s total economic output and 16 percent of Dallas’s economic output was derived from immigrants.

10. Immigrants contribute to the state economy through state and local taxes. In 2010, according to the Institute for Taxation and Economic Policy, undocumented immigrants in Texas paid $1.6 billion in state and local taxes.

Vanessa Cárdenas is Director of Progress 2050 and Angela Maria Kelley is Vice President for Immigration Policy and Advocacy at the Center for American Progress.

The Top 10 Things You Should Know About Texas
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Actually Whites are still the most populous group just not the majority any longer. (although it is getting closer)

Texas Demographics - Get Current Census Data for Texas

Please don't quote me anything from the Center for American Progress...I won't read or consider it as a legitimate news source.
 
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WCH said:
Actually Whites are still the most populous group just not the majority any longer. (although it is getting closer)

Texas Demographics - Get Current Census Data for Texas

Please don't quote me anything from the Center for American Progress...I won't read or consider it as a legitimate news source.
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Dispute the data, not the source ... Are the data wrong?
 
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windowdressing said:
Dispute the data, not the source ... Are the data wrong?
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The 'source' is overtly biased towards Progressives. And I already disputed some of your data.
 
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WCH said:
The 'source' is overtly biased towards Progressives. And I already disputed some of your data.
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I'm sorry WCH, but I can't in a series of posts undo the damage our educational system visited upon you ... good luck ... go ahead and believe what you believe, come hell or high water, or facts ... take care ...
 
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windowdressing said:
I'm sorry WCH, but I can't in a series of posts undo the damage our educational system visited upon you ... good luck ... go ahead and believe what you believe, come hell or high water, or facts ... take care ...
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You epitomize the modern day Progressive (Communist)... **** sure, arrogant and wrong on so many levels. Your political philosophy has never worked in the Earth's history.
 
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WCH said:
You epitomize the modern day Progressive (Communist)... **** sure, arrogant and wrong on so many levels. Your political philosophy has never worked in the Earth's history.
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you are so, so wrong about modern day progressives ... if only they were socialists, but they're not ... many of them remind me of the now almost extinct moderate Republicans of a bygone era ... but it seems that I got under your skin ... I don't want to mess up your dinner or a good night's sleep, so I will take my arrogant self away ... another time? Take care ...

BTW, the communist thing is so 1950s you old fuddy duddy ... get with the times .... I think Progressives are now Muslims or Kenyans or something like that ... I can't keep up with you guys ...
 
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