BajaNomad

Fred done everything

comitan - 3-26-2008 at 04:34 PM

Don't miss his post today:

http://www.fredoneverything.net/FOE_Frame_Column.htm

DENNIS - 3-26-2008 at 04:38 PM

Yeah....Ol' Fred is a trip. He can be Lou Dobbs' vice president.

[Edited on 3-26-2008 by DENNIS]

Capt. George - 3-26-2008 at 05:05 PM

Fred, Fred do I like Fred!

Osprey - 3-26-2008 at 07:27 PM

Comitan, don't go to sleep tonight thinking Fred's world is Fred Done Everthing as you posted. His site, his columns (which I read every month with great interest) is FRED ON EVERYTHING! Hello!

HCR - 3-26-2008 at 07:33 PM

Well, Hunter S. Thompson is gone...

DENNIS - 3-26-2008 at 07:39 PM

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Originally posted by HCR
Well, Hunter S. Thompson is gone...


Only his withered, dope addled mind and body. His spirit lives on....and on.....and on...uhh, what was I talking about?

BajaWarrior - 3-26-2008 at 08:19 PM

Guilty, I live in a Gringo Only Community Mexican Beach Parallel World.

shari - 3-26-2008 at 10:16 PM

wow man...that's a trip...suena real...that was my first Fred experience...hmmm

Iflyfish - 3-26-2008 at 11:56 PM

Very interesting link. It is very hard to talk about cultural differences and not become inflamatory. There are very real differences indeed. What he says about 1st and 2nd generation immigrants tends to hold true. The USofA does indeed have a perminant underclass and many immigrants are inevitably caught in it.

Having read on advice from another Nomad, There Is A Word For It In Mexico, I better understand some of these differences and extrapolating on them one can see how difficult it will be for many Mexican immigrants to obtain middle class status.

Thanks for this very interesting and stimulating read.

Iflyfish

vandenberg - 3-27-2008 at 08:13 AM

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For real outrage, find the article where he illustrates Jews are smarter than the rest.



What outrage ??

Just a statement of truth.:biggrin:

bajamigo - 3-27-2008 at 09:20 AM

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Originally posted by soulpatch
So, set this straight for me. Fred feels "true" Mexicans are just stupid and that's how their immigrant offspring will be?. Is that it in a nutshell? That's how I'm reading it. Man, there's a lot to say there. The world must be exceptionally easy to live in when it is so black and white.
Maybe I'm off-base there.
Interesting.


Reminds me a lot of this incident:

Here's the top of a sports story written in 1997, on the 10th anniversary of one of baseball's most embarrassing moments. The original 1987 incident was itself an anniversary: Forty years since Jackie Robinson had broken baseball's color line with the Brooklyn Dodgers. To commemorate Robinson's achievement, ABC's "Nightline" did a show shortly before the '87 season began. A Los Angeles Dodger executive who had been a close friend of Robinson's, Al Campanis, made a fool of himself on "Nightline" by employing a crude racial stereotype. It was a national story but it lingered painfully in Los Angeles because it cost Campanis his job and destroyed his legacy.

In my opinion, Fred deserves the same treatment that Campanis got.

DENNIS - 3-27-2008 at 09:25 AM

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Originally posted by bajamigo
In my opinion, Fred deserves the same treatment that Campanis got.


And Don Immus.

Oh? Immus is back?

Skeet/Loreto - 3-27-2008 at 09:51 AM

And "How about the Rev. Wright.???

Skeet/Loreto - 3-27-2008 at 09:58 AM

You Knuckleheads don't have the Sense of a Newborn burro!!

You all try to Spew Racial Filth taught to you by the Likes of Ward Churchill, always Blaming someones else for your own Short Comings, such as it is the "South""How Childish!

It is not the Words which Count, it is the Actions of People.

If a Culture of People cannot change their Habits and Lives, How can another Culture change Them? It has to come from within.

Example, Mexico, Africa, Middle East.

Santiago - 3-27-2008 at 10:23 AM

Skeet: I love ya man, but your forgot "Texas".
and in the spirit of full dislosure, my kid goes to UC Berkeley.

Iflyfish - 3-27-2008 at 10:40 AM

Rural electrification, North Dakota, 1930's, my Icelandic relatives refused to have electricity installed, afraid something would jump out of the wire and tie them into spending money. The deal maker was the REA had the biggest auger they had ever seen and agreed to have electricity for the deepest pit toilet in the county. True story.

Now the Icelanders have the oldest democratic form of goverment in the world, The Althing, and are considered to be rather civilized people.

Rural, agrarian, and highly religious people can look really dumb as they use their "spritiual" prejudices to resist change. It is happening now in the area of Biotechnology now where the religious right and the radical left both oppose this giant leap for mankind based upon Religious Principals of God on one side and Mother Nature, another god, on the other.

There are two kinds of intelligence. One is the size of the box, which is inherited, and the other is how much you put into that box. You can stuff a lot in a very small box or not much in a very big one. It is indeed difficult to make cultural statements with out ones own biases getting involved.

Iflyfish

Santiago - 3-27-2008 at 12:28 PM

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Originally posted by Iflyfish

There are two kinds of intelligence. One is the size of the box, which is inherited, and the other is how much you put into that box. You can stuff a lot in a very small box or not much in a very big one. It is indeed difficult to make cultural statements with out ones own biases getting involved.

Iflyfish


What he say.
Of couse, their retort will just be that they have bigger boxes to start with.......

Skeet/Loreto - 3-27-2008 at 12:34 PM

Very well said Fish.

"Common Sense" as it is called does not come from Berkerly or Texas, it comes from our sum Total of Living Experiences derived from many sources of Knowledge applied to our Brain.

The result is "Faith" in our Actions from our heart and Mind.
If we become so shallow in our Mind that we cannot make a Decesion based on Thought, we become the Sheep that has to be protected from the Wolves, that is when we become the SheepDogs of the World.

I am of the Age where having the Pleasure of watching the Braless Flower Children walking Shattack Ave. to watching the Eagles Soar over the Great Plains of Texas is much more Pleasurable!

God Bless us All!!!