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“Daughters are as good as sons!”

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is this where india is headed? read on, it’s from the hindustan times:

“Rural families in China, where there is a traditional bias for boys, are being offered cash incentives to stop aborting baby girls and help correct a sex imbalance, the China Daily said on Thursday.

Under the “Care for Girls” pilot programme, girls would be exempted from paying school fees, insurance would be given to households until their daughters grow up and families with just one daughter would enjoy housing, employment, education and welfare privileges, the newspaper said.

…The problem is particularly acute in the poverty-stricken countryside, where some governments have responded by plastering villages with posters reading: “Daughters are as good as sons!”

that maple leaf will be brown soon, eh?

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quick, think back to when you were small and misbehaving in public…how did your parents react? don’t even try to front like they reprimanded you in english– you know they busted out with the mother tongue for one brutal yet discreet verbal smackdown. that is one small privilege of being “different” in this western world; you may snark about others and they’ll be none the wiser, since the odds of someone understanding your native tongue are totally in your favor.

well, say you’re one of the 308 members of the Canadian House of Commons, and you want to vent about some MP who’s REALLY getting on your last Canadian nerve, but you want to preserve your chances for re-election. have no fear! curse them out in PUNJABI! those damned sons-of-owls!

TEN South Asian Canadians have won recent parliamentary elections, and of that number, eight speak Punjabi, making it the fourth most popular language that is spoken by MPs. basically, this article details how MPs speak english (no, really?), french (ditto), italian (no witty parenthetical remark for this one) and now Punjabi (kiddan?). i think i was just excited that our neighbors to the north are cool enough to have brown legislators in the DOUBLE-DIGITS. now if you’ll excuse me, i’m going to go make a jack-ass out of myself to some Malkit Singh while i fantasize about ONE brown person in congress. oh balle balle!

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cash rules everything around me, and i’m fine with that.

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who among us suspect-looking brown kids hasn’t been yanked aside for a full-cavity seach at the airport? no? not you?? but i always get…

hmmm.

anyway, after annie jacobsen’s bullshit article in Women’s Wall Street, airline security has been on a lot of people’s minds (and some of them weren’t even bloggers).

how DO you balance a genuine need for vigilance with respect for people’s dignity? how else do we solve ANY problem in this country? why, throw money at it!

this article from Steven E. Landsburg for Slate provides the details:

“Being detained and questioned is a burden; it’s inconvenient and it’s demeaning. But there’s no reason that burden has to be borne entirely by the detainees. To spread the burden, all the airlines have to do is give each detainee a $100 bill for his trouble. If Northwest had had a policy like that on Annie Jacobsen’s flight, it would have paid out $1,400 to the 14 Syrians. Assuming there were another 200 passengers on that board, they could have covered that cost with a $7 hike in ticket prices.”

he’s not a racist, he just dislikes niggers

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Fox and other major news organizations are reporting that a straight-up bigot will be reppin’ the right in the race for Tennessee’s 8th Congressional district. James L. Hart–an erstwhile real estate salesman who states that he was “forced” to resign from his job due to the attention he received via his campaign–has unsuccessfully run for this Congressional seat before, but this time he was the only republican on the ballot. Dennis Bertrand, a write-in candidate who is a former military officer lost his bid to “Help restore dignity” to the GOP by a landslide. See what happens when you blindly vote by party line, people?

Some choice quotes from the website of the man who counters claims that he is racist by pointing out that he’s okay with Asians:

“We in the Eugenic movement are not interested in competing against Adolph Hitler or Karl Marx for some minuscule little 1,000 year reich. We are interested in competing with Jesus Christ and Buddha for the destiny of man.”

“Equality is man’s most dangerous myth. All men do not have an equal right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. Only the ethical, moral and law abiding have a right to liberty; only the productive and creative have a right to life; and only the wise have a right to the pursuit of happiness.”

and my personal favourite:

“Why does Detroit look like it was hit by a nuclear bomb and Hiroshima look like it was on the side that won the war? Everyone knows the answer but is afraid to say. Because genes have a more devastating effect on civilization than nuclear bombs, and the reason for Detroit’s decline is that there are less ‘favored races’ in Detroit with an average IQ of 85 and more ‘favored races’ in Japan with an average IQ of 104.”

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i’m brown irish, actually.

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there once was a group of brown nerds who spent all their time toying with words they all loved to blog (some from a city with fog) b/c let’s face it, a social life’s for the birds.

(mc sharaabi, out)