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The commercial "What Does the Data Say?" from Monday dot com has three actors: - an older black male - a white female - a white male. If you've been watching TV ads over the last few years, can't you basically write the script? 999 chances out of 1000 you'd get it 100% correct. The older black male is the boss, the white female is a super-competent employee, and the white male is an incompetent doofus that the other two mock. No company would ever have the black male or the white female as the doofus: it's almost always a...

Peet's Coffee is running six TV commercials, and two of them are racist. Both of those racist ads contrast cool non-whites with whites behaving badly. In the first ad ("Birthday Cake", https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VINuGmrcibw) a white couple dressed like preppies are in the jungle somewhere looking for coffee beans that taste like birthday cake. The Noble Hispanic Coffee Grower can't believe it. When he ignores their request and walks away, the broad caricatures even ask to speak to a manager (a reference to the racist "Karen" trope). In the second ad ("Mango Breeze", https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=700iqog80Jo) a white woman orders complicated coffee drinks. Her...

This TV ad from TurboTax is the most racist TV ad I've ever seen. It has a black man repeatedly and intentionally spitting on a white man. Unless you're an anti-white racist, don't use TurboTax or other products from Intuit. If you want to help do something about ads like this: - like this video. A like doesn't mean you support the ad, it means you oppose it. If this video gets enough likes, Youtube won't be able to bury it. - send this video to reporters & urge them to call Turbo Tax on it. You can email them...

On Tuesday, Twitter announced a massive change to the way its conversations will work, evaluating not just the content of individual tweets, but the way users behave more broadly on the service. Twitter will now use thousands of behavioral signals when filtering search, replies, and algorithmic recommendations. If it believes you are trying to game its system, or simply acting like a jerk, it will push your tweets lower down. It’s the biggest update so far in the company’s push to create healthier conversations, an initiative announced by its CEO Jack Dorsey in March. Among the signals Twitter will use:...

Research data shows Twitter heavily censors replies to government officials. This is NOT a partisan issue: Twitter censors about as many replies from liberals as they do conservatives. See the examples involving @AjitPaiFCC, @NancyPelosi, @EPAScottPruitt, @HouseDemocrats, and many more at the link. This censorship gives some citizens an unfair advantage over others. We are not asking you to regulate Twitter or similar. We only ask you to speak out against this practice and to urge government officials to tell Twitter not to censor replies to their accounts. If Twitter refuses to allow a level playing field, then government officials should...

Trump clearly favors legalizing DACA recipients and perhaps all DREAMers. He clearly isn't going to do mass deportations of DREAMers. If you oppose amnesty, then you have to give him an alternative plan. This petition does exactly that, proposing that Trump helps repatriate DREAMers via a voluntary program that would help them reestablish themselves in their home countries. It has the following advantages: * It's a workable plan. * It wouldn't get tied up in the courts. * It would help the USA and Mexico. * It won't incentivize future illegal immigration. * Trump can promote and defend it. *...

Obama plans to declare amnesty tomorrow or Friday. Please take smart, effective action right now to stop Obama's plan or to at least minimize how bad amnesty will be. What we need is for leading Democrats to see that amnesty would harm their careers and reduce their chances of being reelected. If they realize how it would harm their careers, then they'll pressure Obama to halt or minimize his plans, or at least they'll help fight against his attempts to implement amnesty. So, how do we make Dems realize that? By promising to use the Stop Amnesty Challenge against them...

It's vitally important to stop Obama's amnesty-by-executive-order now. If we don't stop it now, Obama could legalize millions of illegal aliens and rolling that back is going to be very difficult. Thankfully, there's a way to stop Obama's amnesty right now. To make that happen, I'm announcing the Stop Amnesty Challenge. The winner and runner-up of the Challenge will win cash awards, but more importantly will have done a great public service. Summary of the Challenge The best way to stop amnesty is to challenge its supporters and show them wrong to their audience. If a politician makes a misleading...

Do you want to have Obama confronted on his immigration plans and held accountable? OK, here's a very easy way to do that. Youtube is currently letting people submit questions they'll ask Obama after the SOTU. To have him confronted with a tough question, all you have to do is go to the link and vote up the question I submitted (you'll need a Youtube account, of course). This is the question: If the DREAM Act passes, will the former illegal aliens covered by it take college resources that would have otherwise gone to U.S. citizens? Please answer yes or...

Dylan Ratigan of MSNBC is conducting a "Steel on Wheels" tour to brainstorm ideas to reduce unemployment. The site for the tour accepts user-generated ideas and lets others vote on those ideas. So, I submitted my idea (see the link) that could help to free up hundreds of thousands of jobs - and save money overall - by ramping up immigration enforcement. The problem, of course, is that Ratigan, his MSNBC co-hosts, and most of the rest of the political establishment won't support anything like that. But, you can help him see the light by going to the link and...

Stephen Colbert has been pitching amnesty and illegal immigration lately, and on Friday he'll be on Capitol Hill (link) (presumably) promoting the AgJobs amnesty and the UFW's TakeOurJobs. The UFW promotes his appearance here. If I can get some help, we might be able to make both Colbert and Rep. Zoe Lofgren (a former immigration lawyer) look bad. Why is this important? Because Colbert has a megaphone, and he and Stewart are trusted by large numbers of people. And, most of those people aren't familiar with the details of immigration matters. This is also an example of very strong illegal...

One of the "angles" of attack on Sharron Angle is illustrated in the post "FLASHBACK: GOPer Angle Spoke Out Against Fluoride In Water Supply" (link). Most people have been trained to regard concerns about such issues as crazy talk, when in fact the original program of fluoridation was sold deceptively and using non-rigorous studies and there may be legitimate concerns about its negative health impacts. If you're an Angle supporter, this is a good chance to help discredit her opponents. If you aren't an Angle supporter, it's still a good chance to discredit some of the bad guys. What I...

The ACLU, MALDEF, SEIU, UFCW, NAACP, and other groups today filed a lawsuit seeking to block Arizona's new immigration law. You can get a PDF with the complaint here and links with my past coverage of the groups involved is at the Read More link below. Needless to say, this could tie the law up for a long time, so it's important to take effective action. If you'd like to do something about this: 1. Find legal scholars to weigh in on the complaint and find holes in their claims. 2. Point out to *those groups' current or potential supporters*...

The link has the audio segment from a radio interview where Hawaiian governor Linda Lingle lied about the statement that Hawaii's Dep't of Health released in October 2008. For the details, the backstory, and links to both statements from Hawaii, see this. If you'd like to help this story get the attention it deserves, please do the following: 1. Watch the video at the link. In fact, you don't even have to watch it, you can just play it. If it gets enough views it might end up on one of Youtube's most popular lists, meaning that even more people...

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RNC chairman Michael Steele will be meeting with a group of far-left illegal immigration supporters on March 31, 2010; the details on who's involved and the backstory is at the link. Most importantly of all, please take a few moments and try to contact him, his staff, or someone who can get a message to him and suggest that he handles this meeting in the right way.Given his past statements he'll probably handle this in the wrong way; if you'd like to do something constructive please take just a few minutes to contact him and suggest he handles this correctly....

At the end of 2008, Arnold Schwarzenegger launched "Bank on California", a CA state program that encouraged the "unbanked" to open bank accounts. Since the "unbanked" are largely illegal aliens and since their wages are earned illegally, California's governor is using state resources to help private companies profit from illegal activity. Note also that the program is open [1] to those using Mexico's Matricula Consular card. That card is a strong indicator that the bearer is an illegal alien. Now, according to this, an affiliated local effort called "Bank on Santa Ana" (bankonsantaana.ca.gov) has begun, and one of the groups...

According to this, Lou Dobbs said the following on last night's O'Reilly show: DOBBS: I think the essence of the legislation of 2007 is right: pay a fine, learn English, commit to assimilation in the United States, and begin a path to citizenship…there should also be another guest worker program. [...] O’REILLY: You sound very moderate. As you said, “I’m the tougher guy here.” Why do you think Hispanics come after you so hard? DOBBS: I think in part — one thing is my own stupidity. I put forward a statement: rational, effective, humane policy…the emphasis became in the debate...

The latest smear against Palin is available at huffingtonpost.com/2009/12/06/palins-father-she-left-ha_n_381724.html and elsewhere: According to [her father], the presence of so many Asians and Pacific Islanders made her uncomfortable [when she went to school in HI]: "They were a minority type thing and it wasn't glamorous, so she came home."1. Get a copy of the book and write down the full context of that quote; if it differs in meaning from the above, use that fact to show readers of the HuffPost that they're misleading those readers. The same goes of the other sources. 2. Call or email him and find out...

Per the WSJ (link), bolding added: (Lou Dobbs) is working to repair what a spokesman conceded is a glaring flaw: His reputation for antipathy toward Latino immigrants. In a little-noticed interview Friday, Mr. Dobbs told Spanish-language network Telemundo he now supports a plan to legalize millions of undocumented workers, a stance he long lambasted as an unfair "amnesty." Now, to help illustrate why Wallsten is being misleading, here's what Dobbs said (video here, bolding added): What I have said from the very beginning... which a lot of people have chosen to ignore: that we need a rational, effective, humane immigration...