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You Can't Boycott Mississippi
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No one with half a brain goes there to begin with.
http://www.rawstory.com/2016/06/judge-re...-lgbt-law/ Quote:Judge refuses to block Mississippi anti-LGBT law  (June 20, 2016 at 11:48 pm)Minimalist Wrote: No one with half a brain goes there to begin with. Too true. When having to travel through that state, we make certain to never make a stop anywhere there. Just a straight drive through the state, and then we can breath better when we have left the state.
"Never trust a fox. Looks like a dog, behaves like a cat."
~ Erin Hunter 
Rode a car through it on I-10 once. It was creepy.
"For me, it is far better to grasp the Universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring." - Carl Sagan
One of those states I've never even passed through.
Playing Cluedo with my mum while I was at Uni: "You did WHAT? With WHO? WHERE???"  RE: You Can't Boycott Mississippi
June 21, 2016 at 12:29 am
(This post was last modified: June 21, 2016 at 12:30 am by Thumpalumpacus.)
Passed through the western side riding The City of New Orleans. It was February of 1986, and the place struck me as rather desolate, a big bog with stunted, barren trees.
No plans to return, bigoted legislation or no. (June 21, 2016 at 12:18 am)The Valkyrie Wrote: One of those states I've never even passed through. I was stuck in New Orleans on 9-11 at a union conference. After 3 days of watching Dubya fuck up the airlines more than bin Laden had 3 of us from NY decided to rent a car and drive back. The route took us through Mississippi and into Alabama and Georgia. We were one jew, one black guy and one guinea ( me). I drove the first lap out of Louisiana and switched with the black guy. The jewish guy was dozing in the back. As we pulled out onto the highway the black guy spotted a Mississippi State Trooper across the road and said "I better watch my speed." From the back came this drowsy voice saying, "don't worry...if we get stopped I'll just tell them we are civil rights workers." The black guy said "BULLSHIT. You tell them that I'm the chauffeur!" I've never had an inclination to go back to the Gulf States....or New Orleans. 
Been there, wouldn't return with or without this incident.
This is actually a good thing in the long run.
It will get appealed, and go up higher courts, and if it gets to SCOTUS, they will have to rule on these laws all across the nation.
"There remain four irreducible objections to religious faith: that it wholly misrepresents the origins of man and the cosmos, that because of this original error it manages to combine the maximum servility with the maximum of solipsism, that it is both the result and the cause of dangerous sexual repression, and that it is ultimately grounded on wish-thinking." ~Christopher Hitchens, god is not Great
PM me your email address to join the Slack chat! I'll give you a taco(or five) if you join! --->There's an app and everything!<---  (June 21, 2016 at 1:18 am)Minimalist Wrote:(June 21, 2016 at 12:18 am)The Valkyrie Wrote: One of those states I've never even passed through. A Jew, a black guy and Minimalist drive through Mississippi. If that isn't the beginning of a great joke.
The fool hath said in his heart, There is a God. They are corrupt, they have done abominable works, there is none that doeth good.
Psalm 14, KJV revised edition
You can't boycott Mississippi, but you can get to LA via Omaha. ♫
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