We don’t have to rely on correlation. There is plenty of documented evidence (and brought up here repeatedly) that many of the movements were founded by, are led by, are funded by, are cited by, and include many racists. Much like the fact that a majority of blacks as well as a majority of whites, both groups being against gay marriage, are bigots.
If you read my post you’ll note that I specified the current immigration opposition.
Much of the discrimination against whites was based on religion and not skin color. The Irish Catholics for example.
:dubious:
I can’t shake the feeling that death threats and hate mail should not be part of the dabate, they are AFAIK crimes, period. When I see this report not pointing that out, but putting the threats as “one side of the story” it seems tacky.
Thanks! Oh, and to save you the trouble of tracking down an old tape, here’s the link to the YouTube video.
That’s a valid point, but I haven’t seen many on the opposite, the liberal, side theatening death to those oppose (illiegal) immigrants.
Illegality in this isn’t really a big issue with me. I regularly top 90mph on I5 through the San Juaquin Valley, where the posted limit is 70mph. I’d smoke pot right now, but it could cost me my job. I have, in the distant past taken 2-3 newspapers from a rack while paying for only one. I even kited a check at Safeway once, about 40 years ago. For food. For my kids. I made it good.
The reportrs I heard and saw modified the “death threat” with “even”, as in “even some death threats”.
Just curious: if a patron pays for a pizza with pesos, does he get change in dollars or pesos?
I read that several times and I have to wonder how that follows from what I said.
:eek: So are you the one who’s been tearing off those labels from my mattresses?
Because the rate of change that they use is higher and many describe cases of people who traveled to Mexico that are not coming back soon, it seems that they do get change in dollars.
That, or maybe they get change in good old Peter Piper Pizza tokens. 
Probably dollars. The point is to bring in customers who may be looking for ways to get rid of mexican cash they have in their pockets. Returning Mexican coins would tend to defeat that effort. (I am specualting, here.)
The Pizza Patron CEO also noted that the Peso and Dollar have fluctuated by less than 10% over the lasrt year, so (regardless of current values) the store has set the exchange rate at 12:1. A 100 Peso note is considered $8.33 regardless of current bank rates, so counting back change in Pesos would probably be beyond the capabilities of the typical counter clerk (unless that company has been hiring people much sharper than most of the clerks I encounter).
No, that was my (departed) mother. But you can see where I got my evil ways.
Actually, she was the opposite. She believed to do so was a Federal Crime, even after I pointed out to her where it said “except by the consumer”.
The article in the OP says dollars: “Any change is given in U.S. currency.”
That’s what the “but” is for. There is no equivalent on the other side for the story to point at.
Tacky, probably. But not imbalanced.
Returning Mexican coins would also require the pizza place to maintain an appropriate float of Mexican currency in order to provide that change. Which is, by far, the bigger problem in a scenario like this. With the exception of US dollars in tourist heavy destinations in Central America, pretty much any place that accepts foreign currency returns change in local currency.
Modern cash registers can handle foreign exchange with no real difficulty.
Provided the company is willing to spend the bucks to buy the registers that are programmed to do it. A lot of places use specialty registers to handle their products and do not choose to invest further in the software to handle exchange. (And, frankly, I would not really trust the typical American clerk to read an exchange register all that well, anyway. Not because American kids are not smart enough to learn, but because they have never previously been exposed to the need.)
If I only had a peso for every time an American held up the take-out/store line here in Canada, bitching about US currency either not being accepted or the store clerk not knowing what the exchange rate was.
Maybe if you had any guns up there you wouldn’t be so vulnerable.
I saw, and enjoyed, that movie.
Nomination for the 2007 “Whoa, that Came Out of Left Field” award goes to Cisco.