Xenophobia is an unreasonable fear of strange, or foreign people. It has nothing to do with fear, Informed. It might have something to do with science, hijiko.

It is a simple observation and a conjecture. A hypothesis that Marcos Guevara Hernandez is not here with the proper documents. It is testable and therefore could be a scientific hypothesis. Not xenophobic, but simply observational. And his status in this country will be revealed, and the disposition of his case will be legal and just.
And how will you respond if the hypothesis proves to be correct? What is your opinion if the perp has reason to not be in this country? That all people from everywhere deserve to be here. That there but for the grace of God go I? Really? Remember that old song from Ten Years After? "Tax the rich, feed the poor, 'till there are no rich no more"? Last I looked, this country lost 40% of its wealth over the last 4 years. Jobs are scarce, and life in this country is going downhill.

Mexicans fault? Nope. Americans fault. Just a bunch of fat butt video gamers who won't go to work at a Mexican restaurant. So they have to hire Marcos Guevara Hernandez , who is a party monster. And I will make my own tacos, thanks. Don't have to worry about malcontents spitting in my food.

What is racist? Honestly....what is it? Can I be racist against party monsters? Against fatty video gamers? Against liberals? Against tea-partiers? I seek enlightenment. I can't seem to find a definition on Google. And Wiki says: "The definition of racism is controversial both because there is little scholarly agreement about what the word "race" means, and because there is also little agreement about what does and doesn't constitute discrimination"

So it is a throw away line...like when biologists use "evolved that way". I think that the use of evolution and racism come from the same sloppy thought process. Ill-defined words that mean "oh, you know, you know". No I don't. Tell me.

Is it racist, angermeier? No he didn't do this because he was Mexican. He did it because he was a party monster. Is party monster-baiting racist? I think I said that we have enough Yankees who do that. No homes, I think that he is a party monster. And he is here with no papers. He screwed the pooch.

He double-whammied. You do that and........ you grew up in Baldwin.....you go to jail. You do that and........ you grew up in Morelia, you go home.

Comprende?

His bonafides is that he is a party monster. He power slid into his place of business at 2 in the afternoon. His place of business and his name register as an ethnic identity.

What?

Was his behavior because of his ethnicity? Nah. His behavior is because he is a party monster. What will happen to him? Oh, that is influenced by his nationality. Like I said, If he was from Baldwin, then he is in trouble. If he is from outta the country....bye bye. Either his insurance goes through the roof, or he goes south.

Racist? What, because he might be from Mexico and this might mean that he goes back? And you folks are ignorant of this scenario? And bringing it up is racist? What? Really? Wait for the full report. If this man is from Fargo, then I will speak in North Decotan, aye hoser? Let's play some hockey or slide some rocks, Guevara. Bye, bye.

Get outta my head, vertigo. I wondered what that was. "What if he was from Kansas?" That's exactly what I thought. If he is from Kansas, then he is in trouble. If he is from Mexico, then he goes back. And I didn't say anything about illegally here from Mexico. I find the responses here to be very strange. Words get put in my posts that I didn't use. Concepts get extrapolated and my favorite word so far is Xenophobia. That means fearful of different people. I am pretty sure that none of my words could be construed as fearful in any way.

No vertigo, not everyone with a hispanic surname speaks broken english.....but some do. What about the ones who show up with bad dls, drinking while power sliding into the Mexican restaurant where they work.

1+1+1=3.

No papers? Don't you mean no dl? No green card does that make (paper would have stated he had no green card if that was the case)! It says NOWHERE that he had no papers! I'm German, obvious by my name, yet by your inane and very racist way of thinking by the posts you have made, if I drove into a german restaurant that I workedat... German name, german resturant, no dl, must be an illegal!!

THE LJWORLD DELETED YOUR POST! SO MAYBE I WAS RIGHT?????

THERE ARE WAAAAAY TOO MANY YANKEES LIKE YOU IN THIS COUNTRY. Might I suggest going back to where you came from (unless of course you are naitive american, which I somehow doubt)

No, yo no comprendo. Yo no hablo gilipollas racista.

Let's start with the simpler theory. Person who drives to work after drinking in the middle of the day and has an invalid licence. I'd suspect it was a suspended license for previous DUIs. It happens all the time. But since this person hasn't actually gone to court, it's just a guess.

Don't forget, power slides into the restaurant and has been drinking before 2 in the afternoon. And it doesn't mean that he isn't a citizen. I speculated that he might be from Baldwin. If so then he is in trouble.

I speculated that he might be from Mexico. In that case, he goes home. ANd he might be here legally from Mexico, too..................but:

Chootspa can't read. And neither can tomatogrower.

That is because it is difficult to read when the red rage enters the eyes and the knees jerk up so hard that you fall out of the chair. So you can't laugh about a power sliding employee dislodging a cop after having been drinking.

Nope, it xenophobia, racist, bigotry. That's all there is too it.
I still think it's funny. I don't think you guys are.

I can read just fine. You entertain me, but not for the reasons you'd probably hope.

You may have forgotten the earlier posts of yours that were delete. I can speculate why you might forget things... You only mentioned Baldwin when called out for making racist assumptions about his immigration status.

And so you are OK with devo's assumption that this guy is illegal because you wager that the chances are 50/50?

The point is that devo started with a fairly reasonable assumption and then turned it into a rant based solely on the supposed race of the guy.

Is it possible to be a bigot toward conservatives? Is the knee jerk call for racism in fact a thinly-veiled bigoted response to blunt opinions?

Nah, conservative middle class in the heartland rule the world and cannot be put upon because they are rednecks (oops, maybe that's racist), they have the political power (oops, they are falling into the abyss of joblessness). Oh, nevermind.....racism is a completely undefined word and concept. Pejorative, but defined only in context of whose ox is gored. I don't use a word that cannot be defined. I think those who do are lazy.

"Is it possible to be a bigot toward conservatives?"

So, you're blaming your idiotic and bigoted outburst tonight on your being a conservative?

Sorry, not even I would think to connect the dots in that way.

ANd you don't have the intelligence to define your opinions. I asked for a definition. And you replied with "racism is racism". That is sublime, tomatogrower.

One of the reasons that tea-partiers, conservatives, communists, socialists, all non-liberals deride liberalism is that it is so wishy washy. Liberalism is so far from rigorous thought. I asked a question and I get a silly answer.

What is wrong with liberalism? It is nothingism. It stands for nothing but feeling guilty. Social engineering, I get. Socialism, communism, and other structured political, and economic ways of life make sense to me. Whether I agree with them or not, at least they are something.

This whole blog is about some poor sap who made some bad decisions and produced a funny result. Power sliding into his place of business. Displacing a cop and doing so with alcohol on his breath. NIce move. It's funny. And since he is quite possibly not from Kansas.....and maybe even here without papers.......that is a stereotype that can't be missed.

Unless you are a liberal, to whom nothing is funny and everything is a guilt trip. It is racist to point out the Mexican stereotype. It is racist because it is racist. (cue the child stamping her feet) Puritanism is what it is. The notion that somebody, somewhere is having fun. I might even be drinking a Big Gulp. So there miss prissy pants take that. I am a bigoted, xenophobic, racist Big Gulper. Laughing at yourself yet? I am.

Ja wohl, mein Führer.

We all have our crosses to bear.

And if his name was Johan, Olaf, Karl, or Sven, or Georgi.....I would think.....party monster. Ja, Ja, der wine is gut. La, la,la ha,ha,ha.

"Ja, Ja, der wine is gut. La, la,la ha,ha,ha."

Vielleicht ein bisschen zu gut?

They aren't anybody's surnames, chootspa. They are just a bunch of names. Scandinavian, bulgarian, germanic.......who cares. Next time a guy named Sven power slides into a funnel cake stand at 2 in the afternoon, I'll make reference to Vodka at lunch. I'll ask my relatives in Stockholm for tips on spelling ethnic stereotypical phrases.

He slid into work and displaced an off-duty cop, chootspa.. To paraphrase Tommy Lee Jones from in MIB: "That's stupid, kid. That's stupid tough."

And if our man is not from Baldwin? Triple stupid.

No chootspa, you missed it. I have no discernible ethnicity. I am civilized and therefore I rejected the origin of my name and the baggage that comes with it. Have you ever heard of what the opposite of love is? It isn't hate, it is indifference. Similarly, the opposite of civilization isn't anarchy or chaos.....it is tribalism.

The farther one goes away from ethnic identity, the more civilized you can become. It isn't an automatic because you can join a movement, a political party, a tribe of some new kind. Open minds have no allegiance to race, creed, color, or country of origin, or religion. Try it, if it works, then go with it. This is an equal opportunity fun place. It is all a joke, chootspa. People set up belief systems and find solace in the friendship and communal spirit. This is true for Catholics, Environmentalist, Mexicans, Liberals. Haha, what a joke.

No, I am not a tea-partier. Yikes

I don't think 40 mph is at all necessary to loose control. You could be going 10 mph, hit the accelerator while you're on the sand, and send a 2-ton vehicle into a measly wall.

No doubt he was driving unsafe, but it's not at all necessary to be under the influence to drive unsafe.

Wiki: "Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. described bigots with the following quote: "The mind of a bigot is like the pupil of the eye; the more light you pour upon it, the more it will contract"

The word derives from spanish meaning a man with a big mustache. It refers to an image of an obstinate, opinionated person who yields power and doesn't care about other opinions.

I don't see any of that in Jacks funny. Racist is better. Since race is undefined, racism is a good word for denigrating someone you don't like without having to explain yourself. Yep, Jack is a racist because he made a funny about Mexico. Shame on you Jack. There is nothing funny about Mexico.

From wiki:"Discrimination on the basis of nationality is usually included in employment laws[16] (see below section for employment discrimination specifically). It is sometimes referred to as bound together with racial discrimination[17] although it can be separate. It may vary from laws that stop refusals of hiring based on nationality, asking questions regarding origin, to prohibitions of firing, forced retirement, compensation and pay, etc. based on nationality."

So, it might be possible to be discriminatory against a country, and therefore racist.
In a world of fuzzy thinking and really bad definitions of concepts, just about anything can be called racist. Welcome to the club, Jack. Makes you feel odd, doesn't it? You get called racist and you wonder.......will the thought police show up. Will I be arrested for thinking things that a liberal finds offensive? Scary, since liberals can find anything offensive.

Which is why I posted the above blurb, Sec. 2. Provisions of Ordinance Refer to Vehicles Upon the Streets and Highways. The City of Lawrence's Ordinance are based on the Standard Traffic Ordinance for Kansas Cities, Edition of 2011, where it states that provisions apply exclusively to the operation of vehicles upon streets and highways within this city except: (a) Where a different place is specifically referred to in a given section. The City of Lawrence, that I can see has not modified that Standard Traffic Ordinance.

Vertigo cited Statute 8-1566: Reckless driving, penalties. (a) Any person who drives any vehicle in willful or wanton disregard for the safety of persons or property is guilty of reckless driving. However:

8-1501: Application of sections in article 15. The provisions of this article relating to the operation of vehicles refer exclusively to the operation of vehicles upon highways except: (a) Where a different place is specifically referred to in a given section; and

  (b)   The provisions of K.S.A. 8-1566 to 8-1568, inclusive, and the provisions of article 10 of chapter 8 of the Kansas Statutes Annotated, and any acts amendatory thereof, shall apply upon highways and elsewhere throughout the state.

  History:   L. 1974, ch. 33, § 8-1501; July 1.

Section 8-1501 covers 8-1566 which means that, again, the incident happened on private property, not a city street. I do agree that DUI is different and it states so in the ordinances covering it. Same applies to handicapped parking. Here is an example of the handicapped parking clause, "(c) The provisions of subsection (a) shall be enforced by law enforcement officers on public and private property."

I think you are correct. I did not think to look and see what the other two sections were 8-1567 and 8-1568. Actually now that I look at it, the answer was right there in front of me since it does list 8-1566. : )

So now we/I know that you can get a ticket for reckless driving, DUI and fleeing and eluding if we are being crazy in the parking lot at Wal-Mart.