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I was on the bus the other day returning to Lagoa talking to a guy from my Portuguese class.  I mentioned that I will probably marry my girlfriend soon and that she is half black.

 

Unlike in the USA in Brazil a girl this good looking can still be sweet.

His response was ” oh that is great and we are about to have a black president”

Which I responded to with the following “The blacks here in Brazil are alot more classy than the ones in the USA.  If we live in the states we will live somewhere mostly white to avoid her having problems.  She is very pretty and I do not want any brothers and their inappropriate behavior including poor impulse control making her the victim”

So does that make me a racist?  I have to laugh because she is half black so you know I am not.  But I do not tow the party PC line on American blacks.  By and large as a whole they comport themselves poorly.  Their incarceration rate is extremely high and is empirical data for a problem much larger than the typical words used to varnish over the problem.

Finally with this preface I can make my point.  John McCain was interviewing potential Veep candidates and Bobby Jindal was on of them.

This guy is a brown Ronald Reagan if you believe the descriptions of some.  John McCain is probably going to pick him if he is smart to be his Veep candidate.  Why do I say that? I say that because he is brown.

If people are so stupid with B.O. Obama to only see negro and vote because its stylish then brown must be in.  I hate style because its little more than a marketing money pump mechanism.  But brown must be in style.

I like the idea for various reasons.  Can you hear the media twisting themselves into knots trying to differentiate shades of brown?  It would go something like this:

Media guy  #1: 2008 is the year of the brown presidential candidate

Media guy #2:  Yes John but you must remember because Jindal is an indian his brown point score is lowered by 50 points because as we all know Indians excel at engineering school.  He is brown but not a negro.  And as we all know there are not alot of negros in engineering school.  They consider it uncool and too white to study.

Media guy #3: Yes and of course McCain picked him only because of Obama

Of course they never mind that Obama the Brown Dan Quail who thinks there are 57 states is preferred by democrats pretty much ONLY because he is black. 

I am hoping he picks Bobby Jindall because he is brown.   That is because I hold little hope he will pick him because he is a brown Ronald Reagan.  Maybe we will get a good guy in the mix in spite of all the other big freakin fat losers we have in the choice of McCain, Clinton,  Obama.

If brown is what people want then give it to them.  Let us end this affirmative action program for the office of the presidency.  Its insulting to the intelligence.

I am staying in Americana, Sao Paulo for a few days at my girfriends.  She lives in a very nice modern high rise.  Here is the view from the window of the lot next to it:

Those are chickens, ducks and Geese you see in the lot.  In the photo below you can see they are obviously killing time until they get the right offer for the land.

Now remember that I am in Brazil.  They tend to copy alot of taxation ideas from the USA.  Unfortunately they have copied sticking it to you also.  Thus the guy has to keep chickens in his yard while he waits for a high enough offer.  Just like the USA.  Agriculturally classified land is taxed less.  Governments need to get a clue and just taxe everyone less.  And everyone at a fixed percentage.  It would be easier on us and limit their power by a large degree in the right direction too.  They currently use the ability to give tax breaks on a selective basis as a billy club on all of us.

Another little detail is the brick barbeques on the top of the high rises.  They call them churrascos.