Monthly Archives: August 2015

Diversity, Politics, Race Relations

JEB BUSH: ANCHOR BABIES = ASIAN PEOPLE

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imageMCALLEN, Texas (The Adobo Chronicles® ) – Realizing that his recent comments about ‘anchor babies’ could alienate him from Latino voters, Republican presidential candidate Jeb Bush, tried to distance himself from his own statement.

Talking to reporters today, the younger brother of former President George W. Bush said that his comments  pertained more to “Asian people,” suggesting that the practice of coming to the United States to give birth to anchor babies was an Asian thing.

Asked if he had any factual basis that Asians are the ones resorting to anchor babies as a way to circumvent  the U.S. immigration system, Bush said, “I don’t have to give you facts. Just look at one of my Republican presidential opponents, Piyush Jindal. He’s a poster boy for anchor babies.”

Diversity, Food, LGBT, Same-sex Marriage

SAN FRANCISCO’S A&PI WELLNESS CENTER RECEIVES CARE PACKAGE FROM HOMOPHOBIC OREGON CAKE SHOP

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Screen grab, A&PI Wellness Center Website
Screen grab, A&PI Wellness Center Website

SAN FRANCISCO, California (The Adobo Chronicles® ) – San Francisco’s Asian & Pacific Islander Wellness Center, a non-profit health organization serving the needs of San Franciscans, including A&PI LGBTs, recently received a surprise gift in the mail:  a cake with an inscription, “We really do love you.”

The gift came from Sweet Cakes by Melissa, owned by Melissa and Aaron Klein, who were recently ordered by the Oregon Labor Commission to pay $135,000 in damages to a lesbian couple for whom they refused to make a wedding cake.

The Kleins cited their Christian beliefs against same-sex marriage in denying the services.  The Commission ruled they discriminated against the women on the basis of their sexual orientation.

Apparently, A&PI Wellness Center was among the ten West Coast LGBTQ organizations that would be receiving a cake from the Kleins.

It would have been a sweet gesture from Sweet Cakes by Melissa, except that the package came with a DVD of  Audacity,  an anti-LGBTQ film created by New Zealand televangelist Ray Comfort. The DVD is about the work of Christians to “save” doomed LGBT people.

As of press time, the Wellness Center was still deciding what to do with the cake.

This could very well  be a classic case of “You can’t have your cake and eat it too.”

We suggest a bake sale.

Law Enforcement, Politics

DONALD TRUMP’S TOP FIVE PRIORITIES FOR DEPORTATION

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L-R: Cruz, Jindal, Bush, Vargas, Panda cub
L-R: Cruz, Jindal, Bush, Vargas, Panda cub

LAS VEGAS, Nevada (The Adobo Chronicles® ) – Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump is dead serious about his recently-announced immigration policy, and he is not waiting until he gets elected.

Trump’s policy includes the building a a great wall along the entire stretch of the southern border with Mexico, deporting all the estimated 11 Million undocumented immigrants now living in the U.S., and amending the constitutional provision for birthright citizenship.

Speaking with reporters at the Trump hotel in Las Vegas, the real estate mogul revealed a list of the 5 top priorities that he wants to be deported immediately:

  1. Senator Ted Cruz, also a Republican presidential candidate, who was born in Canada
  2. Governor Bobby ‘Piyush’ Jindal, another Republican presidential candidate, who was born in the U.S. to a mother who was at the time not a U.S. citizen
  3. Republican presidential candidate Jeb Bush, who claimed in his Texas voter registration that he was Latino
  4. Jose Antonio Vargas, Pulitzer prize winner and self-identified undocumented immigrant from the Philippines
  5. The twin cubs recently born to a  giant panda loaned by the Chinese government to the National Zoo in Washington, D.C.

“I hate rhetoric,” Trump said, “let’s get serious in protecting our borders and get these undocumented folks out of here!”