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Arlington: Race a Factor in HOT Lanes [group claims discrimination vs minorities]
MyFox DC ^ | 9/21/09 | SHERRI LY

Posted on 09/22/2009 6:25:53 PM PDT by seven.sixtwo

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To: muawiyah

I don’t know. Sounds awfully...I don’t know...liberating and self reliant. How bout unicycles with a rubber bulb horn instead?


21 posted on 09/22/2009 6:56:18 PM PDT by Still Thinking (If ignorance is bliss, liberals must be ecstatic!)
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To: doc1019
By making them HOT it sounds like they also let paying drivers in the lanes. If I needed to use the toll roads near where I live it be around $160 dollars a month to go 20 miles each way during high traffic. More than many can afford to pay.
22 posted on 09/22/2009 7:01:56 PM PDT by ThomasThomas (Your It.)
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To: Still Thinking

What, you think the Leftwingtards want you to dress up like clowns? They don’t allow that. Only their leider is allowed to do that ~ currently he makes himself up to look like The Joker ~


23 posted on 09/22/2009 7:02:06 PM PDT by muawiyah
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To: seven.sixtwo

Referring to asphalt as black top might also be construed as racist. }sarc


24 posted on 09/22/2009 7:30:52 PM PDT by festusbanjo (Since when should I have to say sorry for calling a liar a liar?)
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To: festusbanjo

I have felt discriminated, because that Gulfstream 550 that I always wanted is too expensive.


25 posted on 09/22/2009 7:37:49 PM PDT by phormer phrog phlyer
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To: muawiyah

Apparently you didn’t hear the Prince’s comment in England that everyone should get rid of all motorized vehicles and just walk (everyone that is but him).


26 posted on 09/22/2009 8:34:28 PM PDT by Grams A (The Sun will rise in the East in the morning and God is still on his throne.)
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To: seven.sixtwo

Is there anything that isn’t racist these days?


27 posted on 09/23/2009 7:31:49 AM PDT by DemonDeac
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To: DemonDeac

Even the backdrop of my post is racist. Can’t we all just get along and change the backdrop to a friendly black hue?


28 posted on 09/23/2009 7:33:50 AM PDT by gathersnomoss (General George Patton had it right.)
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To: gathersnomoss

“Even the backdrop of my post is racist. Can’t we all just get along and change the backdrop to a friendly black hue?”

That would be racist. White text on top of a black background?


29 posted on 09/23/2009 7:58:27 AM PDT by DemonDeac
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To: La Lydia; seven.sixtwo; omega4179; SkyDancer; Carlos Martillo II; doc1019; Rafterman; muawiyah; ...

The story mentions Spotsylvania and Stafford counties, but doesn’t mention Prince William County, which of course is notorious for enforcing Unites States immigration laws against illegal aliens.

As opposed to Arlington County which is a “sanctuary county” in spirit if not in actual law.

For those who are unaware of it, Arlington County VA is right up there with Berzerkeley CA and The People’s Republic of Cambridge MA.

It is without question the worst and most leftist county in all of Virginia, and directly adjacent to (actually a suburb of) Northwest DC.


30 posted on 09/23/2009 8:58:42 AM PDT by angkor (The U.S. Congress is at war with America.)
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To: angkor

It is also right up there, People’s Republic-wise, with my lovely Alexandria next door. Arlington’s County Council, er, Supreme Soviet, has the open-borders, sanctuary-loving Walter Tejada, a former illegal immigrant and certified socialist, running the show. Oh, and don’t forget Boulder.


31 posted on 09/23/2009 9:04:24 AM PDT by La Lydia
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To: buccaneer81

LOL. I just bought one of those — only longer. Why? BECAUSE I CAN. I call it my in-your-face-Obama car.


32 posted on 09/23/2009 9:09:24 AM PDT by lady lawyer
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To: La Lydia

Alexandria is generally a leftie yuppie enclave with the kind of NIMBY hypocrisy that - in a very recent example - wants Gitmo closed, but is terrified and greatly alarmed that the the “detainees” might actually be tried in the local Alexandria Federal courthouse. (Can’t say that I blame them, although I’d prefer to have the Gitmo illegal combatants and terrorists tried and executed post haste on Gitmo.)

So while Alexandria is definitely a selfish leftie yuppie suburb, the Arlington County Council most certainly aspires to be a Socialist People’s Committee literally on the banks of Washington DC.

I’m pretty sure they once took a vote on “sanctuary county” for illegals, I don’t recall how it panned out.


33 posted on 09/23/2009 10:17:27 AM PDT by angkor (The U.S. Congress is at war with America.)
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To: angkor

A somewhat related article:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2346474/posts


34 posted on 09/23/2009 10:21:55 AM PDT by EternalVigilance
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To: angkor

Yes. I am living in the middle of an upscale Leftie yuppie enclave, Russell Road Chapter. But I agree with them about the NIMBY part. I want those people kept in Gitmo too. I refer to Alexandria as a People’s Republic because of its tax policies, I just got the sticker bill for my car, and the kind of “urban planning” that has led to the chaotic “chic urban neighborhood” they have allowed to metastasize around the new federal courthouse.


35 posted on 09/23/2009 11:24:03 AM PDT by La Lydia
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To: angkor
This is how it played out in 2007. Mr. Tejada's handiwork. They ended up passing a resolution that said:

[I]t is not the role of state or local governments to assume federal responsibilities to enforce complex immigration laws any more than it is a local government responsibility to enforce federal tax laws, patent laws, interstate commerce regulations, international trade rules, or a host of other federal rules and regulations that can lead to civil or criminal sanctions…

[T]here is a political effort to pressure local governments to enact punitive measures that would be counterproductive to the fulfillment of the fundamental missions of local government…

[T]his effort has been attended by increasingly irresponsible rhetoric that implies a lack of respect for all immigrants and engenders an atmosphere of divisiveness and mistrust that is… especially harmful for a diverse community like Arlington…

[C]reating a culture of fear and distrust of law enforcement makes a community less safe…

Be it resolved that Arlington County’s approach fulfills the fundamental mission of local government, providing for the safety, health, and welfare of our community, and rejecting policies and practices that promote discrimination, exploitation, and fear of government…

36 posted on 09/23/2009 11:32:36 AM PDT by La Lydia
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To: La Lydia

>>>> But I agree with them about the NIMBY part. <<<<

Oh, me too.

I didn’t want the Uighurs running around in Fairfax County either.


37 posted on 09/23/2009 1:01:47 PM PDT by angkor (The U.S. Congress is at war with America.)
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