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New York, 12:42 PM
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Now...those nephews older step-brother is Michael, who came under another person's identity from the killing fields of Cambodia, also during the 80s, also illegally. He and his wife have 4 kids and a growing -- due to immigration -- extended family. He is a small business owner, the class of people Republicans have now nominated as The Most Important People In America. He makes a Pad Thai that will burn your eyebrows off.
Without illegal immigration, that party would be half empty.
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And nobody fought about politics! Probably because despite all our differences, we are all pinko fags at heart.
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Then, I became an officer, wore my dress blues and ate at the mess hall where the various attributes of the senior officers' daughters were debated at length and with vigor among the young lieutenants. And then we would ship out and kill people.
Happy Thanksgiving!
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It used to shut them right up but for some reason it is getting less and less effective as the years go by.
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Thanksgiving with Susie Green:
[jezebel.com]
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Perfectly hospitable people on the surface, but they happen to believe (like many of my fellow citizens, and the federal government, unfortunately) that asylum seekers should be put in prison camps for indefinite detention. You guys think immigration is an issue in the States? Spend some time with an Australian conservative. I'm talking actually putting men, women and children in desert concentration camps as the accepted norm.
According to them asylum seekers are illegal immigrants, might be terrorists and are out to steal our jobs, money and water. I once tried explaining to them, as we enjoyed smoked salmon on the patio by their pool near their five cars, that these people are desperate, face persecution at home, and far from being illegal, in fact have every legal right to enter the country seeking asylum, in accordance with the UN Charter on Refugees and the Geneva Convention.
Nothing works. No matter how sensibly you try to present your arguments, you can't make a sheltered, ignorant, xenophobic, moral illiterate see reason. Things became very unpleasant very quickly.
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n.
1. A gradual process in which something changes into a different and usually more complex or better form. See Synonyms at development.
2.
a. The process of developing.
b. Gradual development.
3. Biology
a. Change in the genetic composition of a population during successive generations, as a result of natural selection acting on the genetic variation among individuals, and resulting in the development of new species.
b. The historical development of a related group of organisms; phylogeny.
4. A movement that is part of a set of ordered movements.
5. Mathematics The extraction of a root of a quantity.
[Latin volti, voltin-, from voltus, past participle of volvere, to unroll; see evolve.]
evo·lution·al, evo·lution·ary (-sh-nr) adj.
evo·lution·ari·ly adv.
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I'm confused by Morne's comment though. Why the attitude? Did he/she misunderstood your evolution remark and think you were speaking up in favour of creationism?
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And their dictionary definition reply didn't really help clear up what they meant.
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(Paragraph 2) It confused me, too, but I replied as well as I could (see below, above or wherever the comment winds up). Discourse fascinates me. Even if people think I'm an idiot, I can appreciate their perspective.
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I am actually quaffing a very nice Pahlmeyer cab 1995. Hubby and I bought it on our honeymoon in Napa many moons ago.
YUM!
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Heh thanks, it's nice to come home to so much Gawker love.
Maybe it's because some of my most beloved relatives are conservatives, but I tend to think we can agree on many things (especially descriptive things -- who among us, red state or blue state, is happy with their HMO? With workforce trends of the past 20 years? With public schools?). They're just usually a lot more cynical about human nature and the potential of the state to do anything other than evil.
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