The Sphere
General Garbage => Tropical Paradise of Hard Shelled Fruits => Topic started by: B E C K on Nov 11, 2010, 12:04:21 PM
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To show my support, I solemnly vow to only eat one delicious thing an hour.
http://www.mysanantonio.com/news/education/students_stage_hunger_strike_for_dream_act_107070103.html
A dozen students at the University of Texas at San Antonio, some of them in the country illegally, declared a hunger strike Wednesday to urge passage of a federal law that would give students a path to citizenship.
Called the DREAM Act, the law addresses immigrants who were brought to the country as children and go on to earn a college degree or serve in the military. The law suffered a recent defeat in Congress, but Democratic U.S. Sen. Harry Reid of Nevada has vowed to bring it to a vote during the lame-duck session.
Organized by a UTSA student group called DREAM Act NOW!, the strikers gathered Wednesday at the university's Sombrilla Plaza and vowed to fast until Republican U.S. Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison throws her support behind the bill. Other events planned for the week include a Veterans Day rally and a visit to Hutchison's San Antonio office on Monday.
“She's our last hope,” said Pamela Resendiz, a 22-year-old political science major at UTSA. “We know she has a good head on her shoulders, and we need her to stand up for us.”
Hutchison has backed the DREAM Act in the past but voted against a more recent version attached to a defense bill. She does not support the current version, according to a statement that urged UTSA students to “find safer ways to voice their opinions.”
[More at the link...]
Reportedly, students were so hungry from the strike that they started to eat audio equipement for sustenance.
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lol this law won't pass
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It might, but it seems less likely now that the House is run by the maniac right.
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You must have missed this part: "...Democratic U.S. Sen. Harry Reid of Nevada has vowed to bring it to a vote during the lame-duck session," i.e., before the adults put the children in their proper place in the House come January. Though it not passing last time doesn't bode well for this time, and it certainly won't in the new year.
When they say fast, they're not talking starvation. If someone was going to fast until I changed my mind, they'd learn to like bread and water before that happened.
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/facepalm Yep, I did miss that.
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When they say fast, they're not talking starvation.
Meh, it's funnier to think they are though.
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Yeah starvation is funnier, stop ruining it.
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They're not serious about it. It's not a hunger strike.
What they really ought to do is set themselves on fire in protest.
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All the girls should set their t-shirts on fire and all the boys their pants. This is a good idea and I fully endorse it.
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Why don't we set all of our clothes on fire, instead of sexually segregating what items we burn.
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But segregation of the clothing will emphasize our heteronormative norms and thus the importance of the dream to Kay Bailey Rabbit in a Hutchison! "Why have you burned your pants and why have you burned your shirts?" Because they crossed the border illegally and got a penis education!
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Fuck you! These are nice pants. I'm so not burning them.
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These pants are always on fire when I'm wearing them.
...because of all the VDs.
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We should freeze you and use you against the aliens when they come, forcing you to breed with their women.
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That sounds like a good plan. He could be Plan "Eh".
Get it...cause he's Canadian.
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Plan "Eh". T.
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No...I like my joke better.
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That sounds like a good plan. He could be Plan "Eh".
Get it...cause he's Canadian.
I'm glad you clarified it, because I read "eh" like it was "meh".
I don't mind the "eh" thing, because we actually say it.
The "aboot" thing that Matt Stone and Trey Parker started though is complete hogwash.
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I got a pair of black rain aboots with paws on them. Merla bought them for me. I love those aboots. I need a storm now.
https://www.theanimalrescuesite.com/store/item.do?siteId=310&itemId=42323
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Oh...then I better not tell you aboot the aboot joke I made.
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What aboot it?
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I was talking to Joe, before you and your boots came trampling in.
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Shit, I don't care aboot it then. Me and my aboots have better things to talk aboot, eh? *raised middle finger adorned with maple leaf*
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Aboobs are fun. I like aboobs.
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Hey, I like the sound of that too.
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Aboobs have a maple-leaf shaped nipple.
...that tastes like syrup.
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God, you'd feel sick in no time sucking on those. Totally ruins the fun, man.
Infant mortality rate would be 100%.
That's just an awful idea.
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But a total boom for the syrup industry.
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God, you'd feel sick in no time sucking on those. Totally ruins the fun, man.
Infant mortality rate would be 100%.
That's just an awful idea.
Just trade them for some of those soy sauce ones from China.
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Guh. China is so gross.
There's this site I go to, every so often they have these horror stories from out of China.
Entire apartment complexes that tipped right over and completely retained their shape, because the supports didn't go anywhere near as deep as they should have.
How this new bridge collapsed, and when they looked inside, instead of concrete and rebar, there was trash. Straight up human refuse. They built the bridge with trash.
How they have these places with nothing but pens of yowling cats, then they take the cats and throw them into pots of boiling water and cook them alive like lobsters.
Pictures of puppy dog jerky drying on clotheslines.
How some restaurants were reclaiming cooking oil from raw sewage and then using it to prepare more food.
Fucking horrible.
I hate China.
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When you have that many people, you gotta cut corners. Okay, so China's out. What about some cold Russian nip? Or Greek. Tastes like fig yoghurt and honey.
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Russian titties would totally give vodka. Man, that would be pretty harsh. One nipple is a hammer, the other one's a sickle.
Fuck this is dumb. :laugh:
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Mexican tits wouldn't work 'cause you need a glass of water.
Korean like kimchee.
For some reason, the Australian ones keep coming back no matter how far you try to throw 'em.
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No, no, no.
With Mexican tits, first you gotta lick some salt, then you take a quick pull off the nipple, immediately followed by biting into a lime.
Middle Eastern titties, you're getting nothing but hummus outta those puppies.
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No, no, no.
With Mexican tits, first you gotta lick some salt, then you take a quick pull off the nipple, immediately followed by biting into a lime.
You just made it a threesome. With MAGNETO! Metal powet tiem!
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How they have these places with nothing but pens of yowling cats, then they take the cats and throw them into pots of boiling water and cook them alive like lobsters.
We have something like that nearby, actually...the place is called Rice Hot. No lie; they have kennels behind the restaurant.
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I think you are in the wrong thread, friend.
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There is no such thing on this board. Except in the food thread. It's all business over there.
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Yeah. It messes with my INTERNET equilibrium. The fact that I post stuff in the wrong place doesn't help it.