15 thoughts on “Something to put your head in a good place this Monday morning”

1. Brad January 30, 2012 at 12:18 pm

   Be sure to watch it full-screen. My regret is that it’s not in HD…

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2. Doug Ross January 30, 2012 at 1:03 pm

   I gave it two minutes and gave up… this would be better suited for watching if you had insomnia.

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3. Brad January 30, 2012 at 5:33 pm

   See, now that disappoints me. I had expected Doug to watch it and then say, “What are all these Mexicans doing coming here and taking our jobs, when they have such a beautiful and idyllic country of their own?”

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4. Doug Ross January 30, 2012 at 6:00 pm

   @Brad

   Unlike you, I didn’t know they were Mexicans. Was it the skin color that tipped you off?

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5. Brad January 30, 2012 at 6:38 pm

   Ummm… I’m referring to the scenery, not the people — the locations are shown on-screen…

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6. Burl Burlingame January 30, 2012 at 9:24 pm

   Me, I’m wondering why this was made. Works well as a tourist come-on. But there was no credit. Of course, South Carolina could make something similar, if there was anything to actually look at in South Carolina (duck!)

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7. Doug Ross January 31, 2012 at 9:40 am

   There is no indication that the locations are in Mexico. There are Spanish words displayed. Apparently all Spanish sounding locations are in Mexico.

   I know you like to have fun with branding people who expect laws to be enforced as racists. I guess that’s one form of harassment you can get away with.

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8. SusanG January 31, 2012 at 11:51 am

   Your kind of reaching there, Doug. Just because you don’t know Chiapas is in Mexico doesn’t make Brad a racist, I don’t think.

   Nice try, though!

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9. Brad January 31, 2012 at 12:10 pm

   Yeah, it’s pretty clearly labeled…

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10. Brad January 31, 2012 at 12:10 pm

    … I mean, if the places named were in Ecuador, I wouldn’t be mentioning Mexico…

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11. Doug Ross January 31, 2012 at 1:02 pm

    Where does it say Mexico?

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12. Doug Ross January 31, 2012 at 1:04 pm

    @Susan
    I didn’t say Brad was a racist. He thinks people who are opposed to illegal immigrants crossing the border and staying in America are racists. Even Lindsey Graham gave up on that nonsense.

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13. Brad January 31, 2012 at 4:23 pm

    12 seconds into the video, it says “Chiapas.” Which is a state in Mexico.

    Also, before I posted it, I read the info attached to the video on YouTube, which I quote in part: “This is an AUDIO TESTER . . . the footage is ENTIRELY from a Mexican commercial . . . it is NOT for this song or album in the least . . . it has been used to test what kind of impact the audio has . . .Thnx”

    So I knew it was Mexico.

    And I don’t think Lindsey says that any more, on account of people having freaked out when he did. But that doesn’t mean he doesn’t think it.

    And… just to back up… I didn’t say anything of the kind here. I just said “Wow, what a beautiful country.” Only I made a joke about our ongoing disagreement over immigration.

    And indeed, if the country all looked like that, who could leave it?

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14. Doug Ross January 31, 2012 at 5:09 pm

    So when you wrote this “I had expected Doug to watch it and then say, What are all these Mexicans doing coming here and taking our jobs, when they have such a beautiful and idyllic country of their own?”” you assumed I knew that Chiapas was a state in Mexico?

    I didn’t. And your joke about what I might say falls flat when you know I don’t care where illegals come from. I only care that they are illegal and repeat offenders of our laws for years… and that they use resources that they have no right to use. I don’t care if they are from Canada, India, Ethiopia, or Timbuktu.

    So if you want to call someone else a Mexican hater, go ahead. I’m not.

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15. Burl Burlingame January 31, 2012 at 7:58 pm

    I knew Chiapas is a state in Mexico. I took geography in school.

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