OK, I wasn't really dragged, it was my idea, lemme explain.... Sometime in March, my brother Jariah called and said we should all move to Columbus(2 hours away) so the guys could get better jobs. I said that's a great idea, but lets go to Tucson(36 hours away) instead!! (Zion's been wanting to for years.) Everything worked out really fast, so two months later, we were on our way!
Thursday, September 25, 2008
Justin sent me this, and told me these are Obama supporters. They look like real winners and not like hillbilly Republicans to me...
I feel sorry for these poor white people. Their lives are so easy (boring and empty) and devoid of real struggle and meaning that they have to go out of their way to find things to grieve about.
Notice you don't see any black people out there screaming at the trees and rocks.
I think it's a nutritional deficiency caused by the white diet. If I ate nothing but white bread, hotdogs, apple pie, macaroni and cheese, chips and potato salad I'd probably do the same thing.
I tell ya, you white people are weird. We had some white hillbilly neighbors and when they weren't outside running around with no shoes on they were eating ketchup and sugar sandwiches on white bread.
Don't forget Tony Romo. He's only the best quarterback on the best team in the league.
And Jeff Garcia was a pro bowler and would still be one of the best qbs in the league if he wasn't a tiny old guy, gimpy and on a bad team.
The last two Mexican quarterbacks they let in the league before that were Superbowl MVP and Heisman Trophy winner Jim Plunkett and Tom Flores an All star who won one championship as a player and two Superbowls as a coach.
And also don't forget that the league is full of horrible white quarterbacks. I would list them all but I don't have all day.
Cuz' in case you haven't noticed my Momma is racially white and my dad's blonde haired blue eyed grandfather was from Spain which makes me mostly white.
Check out our birth certificates they say "Caucasian" honey.
Of course I've got some flava cuz I'm not vanilla white or German like you are (Heil Hitler!) *clicks heels and salutes to make Jeshanah feel more comfortable*
I also can't be racist against blacks or asians cuz I'm part black and part native american and my wife and kids are asian.
That said, I still think you white hillbillies are weird...
And, I'm kinda disappointed to learn that my son-in-law is not even a Mexican! All this time I''ve been using that "fact" to prove how much I'm not racist, and turns out he's just another white guy?? Man! My newest grandbaby is just white? I gotta quit claiming to be having a bi-racial grandchild before it's even here! You guys are all just white??? Here I've been showing you so much leiniency for your temper tantrums, rantings and ravings, childish behaviors, just laying it all on the "fact" that, you know, he can't be expected to know how to behave properly, he's just a mexican. Israel, youv'e just talked yourself out of excuses!!
Just have to say that Tony Romo is so CUTE! Not a bad quarterback either!
Course, it is SO HARD to get any type of reception in these there hills of ours! Got that TV rigged up to the antennee of the beat-up ole jalopy parked outside of the little ole shack I call home! Sometimes it comes in and sometimes it doesn't!
I love being a white hillbilly!
But there ain't no way that I am eating a ketchup and sugar sandwich, even if you put it on brown bread!
For those of you who don't understand the roots of this financial crisis:
FROM THE WALL ST JOURNAL (OWNED BY THE SAME GUY THAT OWNS FOX NEWS)
Last week, Republican presidential candidate John McCain called for a commission to "find out what went wrong" on Wall Street. It was an excellent suggestion: Public inquiries into Wall Street practices served the country well in the 1930s.
And Mr. McCain has a special advantage to bring to any such investigation -- many of the relevant witnesses are friends or colleagues of his. In fact, he can probably get to the bottom of the whole mess just by cross-examining the people riding on his campaign bus. So the candidate should take a deep breath, remind himself that the country comes first, pull the Straight Talk Express over at a rest stop, whistle up his media pals, and begin.
Topic A should be deregulation. Financial institutions are dropping everywhere after playing with poorly regulated financial instruments; the last investment banks standing are begging the government for stricter oversight; and some of our nation's leading champions of laissez faire have ditched that theory in an extraordinary attempt to rescue the collapsing industry.
The philosophy of government that has dominated Washington for almost three decades is now in ruins, and it is up to Mr. McCain to find out exactly why we believed it in the first place. Why did government stand back and permit all the misconduct that generated all this bad debt? What particular ideas led us to believe that government should just keep its hands off and let markets run their course?
Maybe the McCain Commission on Deregulation can kick off with a statement from the candidate himself. It will be helpful for the public, if painful for the senator himself, to hear about Mr. McCain's own close brush with one of the towering figures of financial deregulation, Charles Keating, the master of Lincoln Savings and Loan. Keating had a special, urgent interest in getting Big Brother off our backs: in 1986 some meddlesome agency suspected him of massive violations of S&L regulations. Keating fought back by recruiting a handful of legislators, including Mr. McCain, to pressure S&L regulators to leave his S&L alone. A few years later, Lincoln became one of the largest financial failures in U.S. history.
After that, Mr. McCain can get on to witness No. 1: Phil Gramm, a former adviser to the candidate on economic issues and for many years the heavyweight champion of financial deregulation. It was this very fellow who, as a senator, co-authored the Financial Services Modernization Act, largely trashing the old financial regulatory structure and allowed banks, insurance companies and investment houses to merge into what Mr. Gramm called "a supermarket for financial services" -- supermarkets whose lousy decisions are now the wonder of the world and whose losses we will be underwriting for years to come.
The public will be intrigued to hear that Mr. Gramm, who eventually became an executive at UBS, a bank known for its subprime profligacy, also regarded uncompensated environmental regulation as "nothing less than robbery." They will want to know if he would now apply the same term to the activities of the industry on whose behalf he has labored for so many years.
If Mr. Gramm's wife Wendy happens to be on the bus, Mr. McCain might want to sort out some of the controversies that have followed her own career as a deregulator. For several years Mrs. Gramm headed the Commodity Futures Trading Commission, where her tenure is best remembered by a decision to allow certain kinds of energy trades to go unregulated. A company called Enron turned out to be the greatest beneficiary of the decision -- there isn't space here to recall the statesmanlike things they did with their newfound freedom -- and they appointed Wendy Gramm to their board of directors just weeks after she stepped down from her government job.
Later Mrs. Gramm went to the Mercatus Center in suburban Virginia, a thundering fortress of deregulatory theory. And here we glimpse another promising avenue of any investigation of the laissez-faire faith: the market ideology industry in Washington. Any proper assessment of this industry would also include the Competitive Enterprise Institute, the Cato Institute, the Heritage Foundation, FreedomWorks, the American Enterprise Institute, and the minor stars in the libertarian firmament, including my favorite, Bureaucrash, where punk rock meets the gold standard.
There are others. Mr. McCain could call Kevin Hassett, one of his senior economic advisers, who declared back in March in the Bangkok Post that the blame for the current crisis could be laid at the feet of "out-of-control government regulation," mainly in the form of municipal smart-growth initiatives. (That's right: The man whispering in the candidate's ear seemed to once believe that not-in-my-backyard suburbanites caused the worst financial collapse since 1929.)
But maybe it would be best simply to agree that financial regulation really is in the country's interest. As Mr. McCain's hero Theodore Roosevelt said 98 years ago, "every man holds his property subject to the general right of the community to regulate its use to whatever degree the public welfare may require it."
FOR THOSE OF YOU WHO WANT TO BLAME POOR PEOPLE OR MINORITIES FOR THE CRISIS..
Here's a simplified explanation (not mine someone elses)
Care to point to some legislation which made banks give loans to anyone? Because I've never heard of someone getting a loan just because he or she wanted one. You have to be approved by someone. Someone whose job it is to access risk versus profit. Clearly greed overwhelmed the ability to gauge the risk accurately.
If you're a family of five living in a small apartment and a bank loan officer tells you that you can afford X amount of a loan even though you don't make a lot of money, you may be a bit skeptical. Then the loan officer tells you home prices always rise, that you can refinance later, that the equity in he home means that you will actually be making money on your purchase, etc. etc. It's not stuff you understand fully. But this guy works for a bank. It's his job, his profession, to make loans. Why would he make you a loan that he didn't think you could pay back? That would be bad for him right? Then he says the car payments and credit card debt you have, it could be gone within a year through the magic of rising home prices and equity. And you think you have a real chance now to make a better life for your family. You can move your family into a house in a nice neighborhood with good schools. So you "greedily" sign for a loan you can't afford.
But wait, why does the bank make a loan that you can't afford? This is where deregulation comes in. The bank doesn't care about whether or not you actually pay back the loan, because they are going to immediately repackage your loan and a thousand others and resell it as a security or something (I can't remember all the names). So they've made their money. And a lot of other people are getting really rich, too, like real estate agents and appraisers, who benefit from ever increasing home prices.
Then, "investors" bet on whether or not the loans will get paid off. It's all a huge ponzi scheme. And it is all possible because regulations put in place back during the Great Depression to prevent this sort of thing have been gotten rid of over time by conservatives who believe that all regulation is evil.
Sharla "Heil" means "Hail." What kind of a sorry excuse for a German are you?
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And Jeshanah, it doesn't matter what Zion's Birth Certificate says cuz his parent's certificate says "Caucasian."
Here's my little lesson for Anglos about being "Mexican."
Mexican is not a "race" it's an ethnicity / national origin. Lots of Mexican are pretty much full-on white including most of my mom's family.
My mom's family is full of blonde haired blue-eyed fol and even red heads with freckles because they have a lot of Basque blood. Look at my mom's brothers and sisters and you will see a bunch of light-skinned people who look either Spanish, Basque or Mediterranean. You wouldn't be able to just look at them and say, "Those are Mexicans." They don't look like stereotypical Mexican Indians because they aren't Mexican Indians, they are white Mexicans.
Now my dad was a mutt. His mom was half black and half Spanish (her dad was from Spain and had blonde hair and blue eyes) and my dad's dad was about half Native American. (His mom was a light-skinned lady who looked polish or something.) His dad died young but from the pictures he looks like 100 percent Apache Warrior, small dark and with distinctive Indian features. And my Grandfather's real last name was "De La Madrid" not "Ramirez." He just took the name Ramirez because he was adopted by a Ramirez after his dad died.
So my dad about half white, one quarter black and one quarter native american.
So that makes Zion well over half white, 1/8 black and the rest some sort of Indian. He isn't any particular race, he's just a mix.
We are Mexican (not racially because there is no Mexican "race") but culturally.
Mexicans will take just about anybody so your grandkid is gonna be a Mexican.
In Mexico there are Chinese Mexicans, Black Mexicans, German Mexicans (Like Frida Kahlo) and Lebanese Mexicans (like Salma Hayak) Even though they are racially mixed they are still considered 100 percent Mexican.
So to sum up, we are Mexican because we have strong cultural ties to Mexico.
Also because it's easier than calling myself "Mexican-Basque-Native-American -Black -Caucasians" and explaining that my kids are Chinese-Mexican-Basque-Native-American -Black Caucasians."
um i dont belive your are being racially/ politically correct now you have to say Afro not black.
and on the bail out thing i have a question for anyone. Didn't Bro. Branham say something about the catholic church bailing out the sagging world economy or something like that? If he did and Sarah Palin campaigning really makes me wonder if shanny will every get back to ohio, or jariah and becca for that matter.
My last name is Holsapple because I'm MARRIED! My name was Lyons, I'm Irish! (remember the red hair?) And to be completely honest, I had already heard about the whole Mexican ethnic culture not racial thing and even the not actually Ramirez last name thing. Zion's been in the family for 10 years. I actually just saw an opportunity to mess with ya and I took it. I am really glad I did, too! Paul-Michael said ROFLOL to me! No one has ever said that to me before. I've been happy all night. I've never even got so much as a ROFL before. Ever. Only occasionally Shan will give me an lol, but that's just because she gets me, or maybe she just knows I'm TRYING to be funny and feels sorry for me. I may not be what you would call witty, but I'm always trying to at least be mildly entertaining, but everyone just thinks I'm stupid! Oh well, I think I'm the Mother of Adorable Riots, so I'll just go on entertaining myself. It was pretty cool to finally get a ROFLOL though. I thought saying you were "just a Mexican" would really get your goat! But you just went into your patient explanation to the moron about how race and ethnicity aren't the same thing. Oh well, at least Paul-Michael thought I was funny.
Man those are the worst kind of Germans!! Cuz not only are they evil, they're drunk all the time!!
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Did you know that some cultures believe that having red hair is a sign that you are a devil? I have a friend who has red hair and green eyes and is six-foot-eight.
When he traveled to some places in the middle east he said people looked at him screamed with fear and literally ran away in terror because they believe that the devil is a giant with red hair and green eyes.
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On a another note, I personally think you're quite funny and not just funny looking.
Sometimes you're funny "strange" and sometimes you're funny "ha ha" but at least you're never boring.
And in your defense I also don't think you're as stupid as you claim to be. I think you just happen to be incredibly misinformed 'bout most everything regarding politics.
(And maybe also science, natural history, geography, literature, art, the humanities and religion -- but especially politics-- but that's pretty much it I think!)
I also think you're real good at scrap booking and decorating, decorating with scraps, putting scraps in books and even turning books into scraps to decorate with. See, you've got loads of talent. ;)
(OK, I did my good deed for the day. I deserve a candy bar...)
Gee, thanks, Israel. You really know how to give a nice compliment! I think I'm actually about as smart and funny as I wanna be. I have always strived for mediocrity, it's so much easier to live up to. You enjoy that candy bar and I'll just relish the fact that I'm considered somewhat smart and funny. What a great evening! :)
1. When did Israel ever claim to be a gentleman?? Once he was giving me free legal advice, I asked him how I could politely find out about something, his immediate response was "why do you need to be polite?" lol
2. If he did apologise I'd think he really didn't like me. ;)
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Those are definitely Obama supporters. Very intelligent, highly educated people, no doubt.
AWWWWWWWWW!!!!!!!!The end is hilarious!
I don't even think I would scream like that if somebody I loved died!
I feel sorry for these poor white people. Their lives are so easy (boring and empty) and devoid of real struggle and meaning that they have to go out of their way to find things to grieve about.
Notice you don't see any black people out there screaming at the trees and rocks.
I think it's a nutritional deficiency caused by the white diet. If I ate nothing but white bread, hotdogs, apple pie, macaroni and cheese, chips and potato salad I'd probably do the same thing.
I tell ya, you white people are weird. We had some white hillbilly neighbors and when they weren't outside running around with no shoes on they were eating ketchup and sugar sandwiches on white bread.
So sad...
Now who's being racist?
I wonder if ketchup and sugar on bread is as tasty as mustard bread...?
(ignoring race baiting ;-)
"Take me to this rock, that has such...an incredible life!"
That's some funny stuff right there.
Football and life:
So, how's our nation's 40-year experiment with minority NFL quarterbacks doing now?
Donovan McNabb - real deal when he's not out with a sports hernia, torn acl, common cold, or hang nail
JaMarcus Russell - He plays for the Raiders so who knows? Al Davis likes him so he's probably horrible
Tavaris Jackson - lost his job to an old white dude named Gus
Jason Campbell - erratic when healthy
Vince Young - out with mental health issues from booing fans
David Garrard - not his fault the offensive line is held together by twine and chewing gum, but 4 picks and a fumble in 3 games? Ouch.
Byron Leftwich - thinks twinkies are good for sore ankles
Troy Smith - the midget QB felled by tonsillitis, rookie takes over
Michael Vick - still in jail
Jeff Garcia - token Hispanic QB until Mark Sanchez is drafted, benched for a QB even the Bears didn't want.
Thank you Mr. Limbaugh...
Don't forget Tony Romo. He's only the best quarterback on the best team in the league.
And Jeff Garcia was a pro bowler and would still be one of the best qbs in the league if he wasn't a tiny old guy, gimpy and on a bad team.
The last two Mexican quarterbacks they let in the league before that were Superbowl MVP and Heisman Trophy winner Jim Plunkett and Tom Flores an All star who won one championship as a player and two Superbowls as a coach.
And also don't forget that the league is full of horrible white quarterbacks. I would list them all but I don't have all day.
I can't be racist against White people.
Cuz' in case you haven't noticed my Momma is racially white and my dad's blonde haired blue eyed grandfather was from Spain which makes me mostly white.
Check out our birth certificates they say "Caucasian" honey.
Of course I've got some flava cuz I'm not vanilla white or German like you are (Heil Hitler!) *clicks heels and salutes to make Jeshanah feel more comfortable*
I also can't be racist against blacks or asians cuz I'm part black and part native american and my wife and kids are asian.
That said, I still think you white hillbillies are weird...
Oh yeah and I can't be anti-semitic cuz my name is "Israel."
So there you go...
Have I left any of the races out? Lessee -- Black, Caucazoid, Asian, nope, that's about it...
Unfortunately, my inability to be racist automatically disqualifies me from membership in the Republican party.
Oh brother.
What's heil actually mean anyway? Just wonderin...
My laptop and monitor are black and I'm wearing a vest that is half black and half brown, so I can't be racist either.
And, I'm kinda disappointed to learn that my son-in-law is not even a Mexican! All this time I''ve been using that "fact" to prove how much I'm not racist, and turns out he's just another white guy?? Man! My newest grandbaby is just white? I gotta quit claiming to be having a bi-racial grandchild before it's even here! You guys are all just white??? Here I've been showing you so much leiniency for your temper tantrums, rantings and ravings, childish behaviors, just laying it all on the "fact" that, you know, he can't be expected to know how to behave properly, he's just a mexican. Israel, youv'e just talked yourself out of excuses!!
Now that it comes out you're really a white guy, we'll expect a bit more "takin' it like a man" and a lot less whining!
Just have to say that Tony Romo is so CUTE! Not a bad quarterback either!
Course, it is SO HARD to get any type of reception in these there hills of ours! Got that TV rigged up to the antennee of the beat-up ole jalopy parked outside of the little ole shack I call home! Sometimes it comes in and sometimes it doesn't!
I love being a white hillbilly!
But there ain't no way that I am eating a ketchup and sugar sandwich, even if you put it on brown bread!
ROTFLOL, Sharlah!! You're killing me here.
Happy to return the favor once in a while, Paul-Michael. ;)
And Cyndi, don't worry, that is exactly the picture Israel has already painted you in!
I just looked at Zion's birth certificate.... it doesn't say a thing about race, so we're good.
For those of you who don't understand the roots of this financial crisis:
FROM THE WALL ST JOURNAL (OWNED BY THE SAME GUY THAT OWNS FOX NEWS)
Last week, Republican presidential candidate John McCain called for a commission to "find out what went wrong" on Wall Street. It was an excellent suggestion: Public inquiries into Wall Street practices served the country well in the 1930s.
And Mr. McCain has a special advantage to bring to any such investigation -- many of the relevant witnesses are friends or colleagues of his. In fact, he can probably get to the bottom of the whole mess just by cross-examining the people riding on his campaign bus. So the candidate should take a deep breath, remind himself that the country comes first, pull the Straight Talk Express over at a rest stop, whistle up his media pals, and begin.
Topic A should be deregulation. Financial institutions are dropping everywhere after playing with poorly regulated financial instruments; the last investment banks standing are begging the government for stricter oversight; and some of our nation's leading champions of laissez faire have ditched that theory in an extraordinary attempt to rescue the collapsing industry.
The philosophy of government that has dominated Washington for almost three decades is now in ruins, and it is up to Mr. McCain to find out exactly why we believed it in the first place. Why did government stand back and permit all the misconduct that generated all this bad debt? What particular ideas led us to believe that government should just keep its hands off and let markets run their course?
Maybe the McCain Commission on Deregulation can kick off with a statement from the candidate himself. It will be helpful for the public, if painful for the senator himself, to hear about Mr. McCain's own close brush with one of the towering figures of financial deregulation, Charles Keating, the master of Lincoln Savings and Loan. Keating had a special, urgent interest in getting Big Brother off our backs: in 1986 some meddlesome agency suspected him of massive violations of S&L regulations. Keating fought back by recruiting a handful of legislators, including Mr. McCain, to pressure S&L regulators to leave his S&L alone. A few years later, Lincoln became one of the largest financial failures in U.S. history.
After that, Mr. McCain can get on to witness No. 1: Phil Gramm, a former adviser to the candidate on economic issues and for many years the heavyweight champion of financial deregulation. It was this very fellow who, as a senator, co-authored the Financial Services Modernization Act, largely trashing the old financial regulatory structure and allowed banks, insurance companies and investment houses to merge into what Mr. Gramm called "a supermarket for financial services" -- supermarkets whose lousy decisions are now the wonder of the world and whose losses we will be underwriting for years to come.
The public will be intrigued to hear that Mr. Gramm, who eventually became an executive at UBS, a bank known for its subprime profligacy, also regarded uncompensated environmental regulation as "nothing less than robbery." They will want to know if he would now apply the same term to the activities of the industry on whose behalf he has labored for so many years.
If Mr. Gramm's wife Wendy happens to be on the bus, Mr. McCain might want to sort out some of the controversies that have followed her own career as a deregulator. For several years Mrs. Gramm headed the Commodity Futures Trading Commission, where her tenure is best remembered by a decision to allow certain kinds of energy trades to go unregulated. A company called Enron turned out to be the greatest beneficiary of the decision -- there isn't space here to recall the statesmanlike things they did with their newfound freedom -- and they appointed Wendy Gramm to their board of directors just weeks after she stepped down from her government job.
Later Mrs. Gramm went to the Mercatus Center in suburban Virginia, a thundering fortress of deregulatory theory. And here we glimpse another promising avenue of any investigation of the laissez-faire faith: the market ideology industry in Washington. Any proper assessment of this industry would also include the Competitive Enterprise Institute, the Cato Institute, the Heritage Foundation, FreedomWorks, the American Enterprise Institute, and the minor stars in the libertarian firmament, including my favorite, Bureaucrash, where punk rock meets the gold standard.
There are others. Mr. McCain could call Kevin Hassett, one of his senior economic advisers, who declared back in March in the Bangkok Post that the blame for the current crisis could be laid at the feet of "out-of-control government regulation," mainly in the form of municipal smart-growth initiatives. (That's right: The man whispering in the candidate's ear seemed to once believe that not-in-my-backyard suburbanites caused the worst financial collapse since 1929.)
But maybe it would be best simply to agree that financial regulation really is in the country's interest. As Mr. McCain's hero Theodore Roosevelt said 98 years ago, "every man holds his property subject to the general right of the community to regulate its use to whatever degree the public welfare may require it."
FOR THOSE OF YOU WHO WANT TO BLAME POOR PEOPLE OR MINORITIES FOR THE CRISIS..
Here's a simplified explanation (not mine someone elses)
Care to point to some legislation which made banks give loans to anyone? Because I've never heard of someone getting a loan just because he or she wanted one. You have to be approved by someone. Someone whose job it is to access risk versus profit. Clearly greed overwhelmed the ability to gauge the risk accurately.
If you're a family of five living in a small apartment and a bank loan officer tells you that you can afford X amount of a loan even though you don't make a lot of money, you may be a bit skeptical. Then the loan officer tells you home prices always rise, that you can refinance later, that the equity in he home means that you will actually be making money on your purchase, etc. etc. It's not stuff you understand fully. But this guy works for a bank. It's his job, his profession, to make loans. Why would he make you a loan that he didn't think you could pay back? That would be bad for him right? Then he says the car payments and credit card debt you have, it could be gone within a year through the magic of rising home prices and equity. And you think you have a real chance now to make a better life for your family. You can move your family into a house in a nice neighborhood with good schools. So you "greedily" sign for a loan you can't afford.
But wait, why does the bank make a loan that you can't afford? This is where deregulation comes in. The bank doesn't care about whether or not you actually pay back the loan, because they are going to immediately repackage your loan and a thousand others and resell it as a security or something (I can't remember all the names). So they've made their money. And a lot of other people are getting really rich, too, like real estate agents and appraisers, who benefit from ever increasing home prices.
Then, "investors" bet on whether or not the loans will get paid off. It's all a huge ponzi scheme. And it is all possible because regulations put in place back during the Great Depression to prevent this sort of thing have been gotten rid of over time by conservatives who believe that all regulation is evil.
Sharla "Heil" means "Hail." What kind of a sorry excuse for a German are you?
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And Jeshanah, it doesn't matter what Zion's Birth Certificate says cuz his parent's certificate says "Caucasian."
Here's my little lesson for Anglos about being "Mexican."
Mexican is not a "race" it's an ethnicity / national origin. Lots of Mexican are pretty much full-on white including most of my mom's family.
My mom's family is full of blonde haired blue-eyed fol and even red heads with freckles because they have a lot of Basque blood. Look at my mom's brothers and sisters and you will see a bunch of light-skinned people who look either Spanish, Basque or Mediterranean. You wouldn't be able to just look at them and say, "Those are Mexicans." They don't look like stereotypical Mexican Indians because they aren't Mexican Indians, they are white Mexicans.
Now my dad was a mutt. His mom was half black and half Spanish (her dad was from Spain and had blonde hair and blue eyes) and my dad's dad was about half Native American. (His mom was a light-skinned lady who looked polish or something.) His dad died young but from the pictures he looks like 100 percent Apache Warrior, small dark and with distinctive Indian features. And my Grandfather's real last name was "De La Madrid" not "Ramirez." He just took the name Ramirez because he was adopted by a Ramirez after his dad died.
So my dad about half white, one quarter black and one quarter native american.
So that makes Zion well over half white, 1/8 black and the rest some sort of Indian. He isn't any particular race, he's just a mix.
We are Mexican (not racially because there is no Mexican "race") but culturally.
Mexicans will take just about anybody so your grandkid is gonna be a Mexican.
In Mexico there are Chinese Mexicans, Black Mexicans, German Mexicans (Like Frida Kahlo) and Lebanese Mexicans (like Salma Hayak) Even though they are racially mixed they are still considered 100 percent Mexican.
So to sum up, we are Mexican because we have strong cultural ties to Mexico.
Also because it's easier than calling myself "Mexican-Basque-Native-American
-Black -Caucasians" and explaining that my kids are Chinese-Mexican-Basque-Native-American
-Black Caucasians."
Wait I forgot one:
My kids are
Chinese-Mexican-Basque-Native-American
-Black-Spanish-Caucasians."
Say that five times fast...
um i dont belive your are being racially/ politically correct now you have to say Afro not black.
and on the bail out thing i have a question for anyone. Didn't Bro. Branham say something about the catholic church bailing out the sagging world economy or something like that? If he did and Sarah Palin campaigning really makes me wonder if shanny will every get back to ohio, or jariah and becca for that matter.
2 weeks huh?
i hope, hey it could be
Let's just ALL be ready. If we don't see you ALL again on this side, I pray we may ALL see each other over there.
Israel,
My last name is Holsapple because I'm MARRIED! My name was Lyons, I'm Irish! (remember the red hair?)
And to be completely honest, I had already heard about the whole Mexican ethnic culture not racial thing and even the not actually Ramirez last name thing. Zion's been in the family for 10 years. I actually just saw an opportunity to mess with ya and I took it. I am really glad I did, too!
Paul-Michael said ROFLOL to me! No one has ever said that to me before. I've been happy all night. I've never even got so much as a ROFL before. Ever. Only occasionally Shan will give me an lol, but that's just because she gets me, or maybe she just knows I'm TRYING to be funny and feels sorry for me. I may not be what you would call witty, but I'm always trying to at least be mildly entertaining, but everyone just thinks I'm stupid!
Oh well, I think I'm the Mother of Adorable Riots, so I'll just go on entertaining myself. It was pretty cool to finally get a ROFLOL though.
I thought saying you were "just a Mexican" would really get your goat! But you just went into your patient explanation to the moron about how race and ethnicity aren't the same thing.
Oh well, at least Paul-Michael thought I was funny.
Once.
Irish?!!?
Man those are the worst kind of Germans!! Cuz not only are they evil, they're drunk all the time!!
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Did you know that some cultures believe that having red hair is a sign that you are a devil? I have a friend who has red hair and green eyes and is six-foot-eight.
When he traveled to some places in the middle east he said people looked at him screamed with fear and literally ran away in terror because they believe that the devil is a giant with red hair and green eyes.
--------
On a another note, I personally think you're quite funny and not just funny looking.
Sometimes you're funny "strange" and sometimes you're funny "ha ha" but at least you're never boring.
And in your defense I also don't think you're as stupid as you claim to be. I think you just happen to be incredibly misinformed 'bout most everything regarding politics.
(And maybe also science, natural history, geography, literature, art, the humanities and religion -- but especially politics-- but that's pretty much it I think!)
I also think you're real good at scrap booking and decorating, decorating with scraps, putting scraps in books and even turning books into scraps to decorate with. See, you've got loads of talent. ;)
(OK, I did my good deed for the day. I deserve a candy bar...)
Gee, thanks, Israel. You really know how to give a nice compliment!
I think I'm actually about as smart and funny as I wanna be. I have always strived for mediocrity, it's so much easier to live up to.
You enjoy that candy bar and I'll just relish the fact that I'm considered somewhat smart and funny. What a great evening! :)
Sharla can take it :)
1. When did Israel ever claim to be a gentleman?? Once he was giving me free legal advice, I asked him how I could politely find out about something, his immediate response was "why do you need to be polite?" lol
2. If he did apologise I'd think he really didn't like me. ;)
Alright, now I'm sorry.
If your cool with it then fine.
Guys busting each other's chops? I'm good.
Guys tearing into girls beyond good natured teasing? Not so much. (yea, that's probably sexist)
I'll delete my previous comment.
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