{"id":68805,"date":"2015-05-20T11:38:13","date_gmt":"2015-05-20T19:38:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=68805"},"modified":"2015-05-20T11:38:50","modified_gmt":"2015-05-20T19:38:50","slug":"filthy-taxi-drivers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=68805","title":{"rendered":"Filthy Taxi Drivers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><A HREF=\"http:\/\/takimag.com\/article\/a_road_test_for_multiculturalism_gavin_mcinnes#axzz3ahUaGhzy\">Gavin McInnes writes<\/a>: &#8220;If you ever need to be reminded how superior the West is, just hop in a taxi. The drivers come from anywhere-but-here and pretty much all of them are ambassadors of suck. The days of the charming, loudmouth cabbie with the cigar stub and rude jokes have been replaced with rude jerks from Pakistan, Russia, Central America, and Africa. When they\u2019re not driving like there\u2019s a zombie apocalypse, they\u2019re stinking up the cab, chatting on the phone, antagonizing customers, whining, and leaving bags of urine on the street. It\u2019s not racist to be a Western chauvinist. I hate them all equally, especially the Russians. They are humorless ingrates who complain all the time like they didn\u2019t just win the immigration lottery.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gavin McInnes writes: &#8220;If you ever need to be reminded how superior the West is, just hop in a taxi. The drivers come from anywhere-but-here and pretty much all of them are ambassadors of suck. 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