Not much of an update at all.

[sabotabby]

For those of you who haven't seen it, there's a new Gaybortion!: Robots!

For those of you who still want more giggles, read anarchists.

Also, I took more pictures of the neighbourhood cats but I'm not posting them yet. And I spilled coffee all over myself. That's it for news.

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EDIT: Okay, onto the serious stuff. I've seen some good posts about HR 4437 and the protests in LA lately. dobrovolets has a fantastic post here. Go read it, please.

I should add that, while the ruling class tends to create all sorts of useless and stupid laws, the most reprehensible of these have to do with borders and immigration. Drawing an imaginary line across some land that you've claimed as your own and then dictating that certain people don't have the right to cross it? It's simply anti-human.

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[groovitude.livejournal.com]

*minus the last line. How did that get there?

[sabotabby]

No idea.

Here, they are deporting a bunch of Portugese construction workers, many of whom have been here for years. It's sick. And that only really makes the news because they're white-ish and they've lived here for a long time and have ties to the city. Other immigrants don't even get media coverage.

[groovitude.livejournal.com]

True. There is a bias in media coverage which is a reflection of the bias ingrained in the legal system. No one reads about the Haitians, who get deported even after living here for years, while the Cubans earn the right of asylum if they take so much as one step on the American soil. The media praises Cuban boats for their ingenuity, and the capsized Haitian boats are shown with a kind of subdued hysteria.