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What is the Congress doing to stop the infux of ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS?
My town has been overtaken by Mexicans. Sure I like a taco just like everyone else but this is ridiculous. I go grocery shopping and my Wal Mart is packed full of pregnant Mexican women with 6 other children in tow. All a Social Security Card away from lifetime benefits (that they have not paid a dime for).
The products have all changed – half I cannot read because they are in Spanish. All those pregnant women are downloading American citizens that we will have to support. Our schools are over crowded and we have to provide classes in Spanish to instruct the ILLEGALS children that have not learned to assimilate into our country.
True Story - I was in court 3 weeks ago (I got a ticket for littering - a cigarette butt) anyway there are at least 4 Hispanics in court the person before me cannot speak one word of English. The court had to provide a translator for them. He was caught driving without a license & no insurance. Guess What - Not one Single Person including the Judge asked him if he was in our country legally...not one person. The fine $300 next case. I almost fell out of my chair. I wanted to stand up and say "your honor has it ever occured to you that Pepe is not in our country legally and THAT is why he has no license"? You are turning him loose out on the streets to hopefully not get caught again? WHAT????
The only time I enjoy going the convenience store in the morning is on rainy days. THEY are not working – rain cancels construction projects.
Ok – take it anyway you like I am not a Mexican hater but what if the shoe was on the other foot. Would we be welcomed in Mexico if 1/3 of our population moved into Mexico and demanded that they all speak English – change the way their local stores operated – change the way any phone is answered? Would we be afforded benefits from the Mexican government – I think not?
Check the way they treat Non-Resident living in their country and you will see a vast difference.
I am for LEGAL immigrations – I am just pissed off that our leaders – President – Congress are doing absolutely NOTHING to stop this. You had better hope the Hispanic population votes for you in the next elections because in my book you are outta here!
Stand Up American – grow some BALLS!
The China Meteorological Administration is reporting on their website that a small village in Southwest China is fighting a "relentless battle" against an army of toads. The toads, spurned on by the heavy rainfall and desire to conquer the tormented village, began their invasion a few weeks ago. Although the villages feared for their lives, they would not back down against the unceasing waves of toads. Some villagers waged battle with dustpans and farm implements. Others used the age-old, but little known, hand clapping technique. Toads fear hand clapping as much as the villagers fear the toads.
Scientists were quick to point out the toad invasion is related to the climate. Little comfort to the besieged villagers, I'm afraid.
Visit the CMA news site and see how the world's latest environmental disaster unfolds...
Part 4 of an unknown number of parts in the continuing saga I am now calling the War for America. I will use this forum to make known to the people how our culture, language, and society are slowly being degraded by the invasion from the South. I hope it will be part of a greater movement for education and action against these invaders.
I think when you read this article, you'll understand my anger and disappointment. Now I read this Navarrette guy often. I like to have a good laugh or cry every now and again. He is a Latino Reporter for CNN who almost exclusively comments on, *gasp*, Latino issues. I like to get the newest outrages from him.
Of course, now that Alberto Gonzales, the first Latino Attorney General has been caught in his web of lies, Navarrette must come to his aide! It couldn't be the domestic wiretapping, or the politically-motivated firings. NO! We must be attacking him for his RACE! what else could it be?
There is a new breed of reporter now. The educated Latino reporter who defends those of his own race against all takers no matter what. To them, Navarrette is a hero. One with national play. We need to look out for these types, they would have us giving sanctuary to a group of millions of law breakers. They would have us extending the rights saved for citizens to anyone who occupies our territory, and they would have us open the borders to anyone who'd like to come in. Worse, they make us feel bad for thinking the opposite of the way they do. They criticize us for saving our country and our birthright. And they defend their own, and try to make them above the law.
Keep your eyes peeled. The enemy is among us. And keep checking back- I'll keep you posted.
Commentary: Gonzales being whacked like a piñata
SAN DIEGO, California (CNN) -- In the flap over the ousted U.S. attorneys, Alberto Gonzales has been hoisted up as a political piñata.
The nation's first Hispanic attorney general is being pressured to resign by -- pick 'em -- Democrats trying to make hay, an elite media that long opposed him, civil libertarians who condemn administration policy on detainees and wiretaps, conservatives who think Gonzales is too liberal, and liberals who think he's too conservative.
The list even includes a pair of immigrant-baiting members of Congress -- Rep. Dana Rohrabacher, R-California and Rep. Tom Tancredo, R-Colorado -- who fell out with Gonzales over the prosecution of two ex-border patrol agents.
Leading this lynch mob are white liberals who resent Gonzales because they can't claim the credit for his life's accomplishments and because they can't get him to curtsy.
Why should he? Gonzales doesn't owe them a damn thing. Democratic politicians love posing with mariachis as they nibble chips and salsa on Cinco De Mayo. But it was a Republican -- George W. Bush -- who made history by nominating a Hispanic to serve as attorney general.
Gonzales' persecutors are blind with rage, or maybe just blind. Surely they see that the push to dump the U.S. attorneys came from White House political adviser Karl Rove.
The attorney general does have one person in his corner. President Bush came out swinging Tuesday, insisting that Gonzales has his support and warning Democrats not to go on "a partisan fishing expedition aimed at honorable public servants."
I've interviewed Gonzales twice since he became attorney general. During the last interview, which took place three weeks ago in San Diego -- that is, before the controversy erupted -- I asked about the firings of the U.S. attorneys. He told me what he has told others: It was about performance.
"I have an obligation...to ensure that we have the best people we can have in here," he said. "All I will say is that the decisions that were made...were based upon performance, and there are many factors that go into that."
An avid baseball fan, Gonzales even pitched an analogy. "What I care about is -- are we trading up? "
As a political columnist, I cover liars for a living. And yet, I'd say Gonzales is pretty much as advertised by his old friend, President Bush: an honorable public servant.
He comes across as a straight shooter. What you see is what you get. He is also human, and he makes mistakes.
It may be that he made a whopper here in trusting his No. 2 not to hand over the hiring and firing of U.S. attorneys to a political hack like Rove. But then, Gonzales' critics aren't after the truth. They're after him.
Well, if they succeed in running him off without a fair hearing, many Hispanics won't forget the shoddy treatment afforded this grandson of Mexican immigrants. You watch. Democrats will have to intensify their efforts to win Hispanic votes in the 2008 elections. And there's not that much chips and salsa on the planet.
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For a nation has invaded My land, powerful and without number; its teeth are the teeth of a lion and it has the fangs of a lioness.
Let's take this apart, shall we? Using "Sandi's Own Bible Thesaurus."
For "nation," we can say people, belief system or set of social values. They all work, because a nation -- a group, if you like, or a recognized organization -- has all of these qualities. So let's use that.
For "invaded," we can say pervaded, slipped in, took over, adulterated, violated. All of those terms are things invaders can (and sometimes do) do.
For "My land," we can substitute the phrases where I live, what I claim, those whom I love, what I can and will claim in the future because all of these renditions are characteristics, in their own ways, of a homeland, of a possession, of belonging to or from.
So, we could read that phrase, in Sandi's Amplified Version like this:
I will tell you, friends and neighbors, this made me cry yesterday.
God didn't just tell that to Joel so long ago for Joel and his immediate time. God specifically said this in verse 3: "Tell your children about it, and let your children tell their children, and their children, the next generation." In essence: Make sure not to lose this lesson, people.
Now, for Joel, the immediate lesson was about the plague of locusts. But God, who sees all things simultaneously, and who has planned the end from the beginning, this is also a lesson to the future people of the world.
To us.
You see, we are the "land" of God. We are the crops he has sown, the field he will harvest. We are the ones he can claim by right of creation, the people whom he loves, and those he will lay claim to in the future. And we have been invaded.
Not all at once, no. But little by little, the land of God has been adulterated. Infiltrated. Some of the invaders started off simply, in good faith. I am not saying any THING is responsible for an invastion of this kind. In no way do I believe, for example, that the Internet is from the Enemy. Not even.
It is not stuff that invades the land of God. It is what we allow to come into us through the different avenues "stuff" makes available. Books are great and we read many awesome stories, philosophies, lessons. But even God's people make poor choices in reading matter, and our hearts and minds can be forever scarred. Movies are beautiful ways to tell stories, but a bad movie (in quality or by virtue of its subject matter) can brand us in ways that may have nothing to do with the story itself. And these are just a couple of examples.
We have been invaded. By a powerful nation, Joel relates. Indeed, the stuff that pervades our society is powerful. Teeth and claws, the tenacity is unbelievable.
So much so, in fact, that there really isn't any escaping it. Nor do I think we need to escape the "stuff" so much as be aware of the invasion itself.
How God's heart must hurt to see this adulteration of his creation. The world is indeed a mess. All over. From the very visible environmental problems to the invisible poisons in the human heart. We have been invaded.
And many didn't even feel the fangs.
It's an old analogy, really.
You put a frog in a pot of boiling water...
(Oh, Sandi, we know this one...)
...and he'll jump right out, right? Of course he will. Which among any animal population would not endeavor to escape a pot of boiling water? But if you put a frog into a pot of tepid water, and only gradually increase the heat, he will not notice the increase and will be comfortable. Some minor adjustments, sure, but eventually...
Eventually you have poached frog legs, the urban legends dictates.
And you don't feel invaded at all.
Did you have a happy childhood? childhood yes but adolescence no
When do you tell white lies? Tell us one. for social reason. maybe that I have an appt when I don't
The most capable person in your country? wow. not dubya...
Favourite novelist? edith wharton or george eliot
Proudest moment? leading a seder at Dexter Avenue Martin Luther King church
Worst moment? (last week if necessary) feeling suicidal about 7 years ago
Most hated song/music at the moment? any thing rap
The last piece of music you bought? a billie holiday collection
Were you good at school? very good. it saved me.
The greatest influence on you? (parents, friends ...) friends and husband and father
Current bedside reading material? house of blue mangoes
Where will you go when you die? not to vienna that's for sure. but i want a private room w a bath.
What do you admire most about yourself? my creativity and rapport with young people
One of your main faults? i have a temper
A small crime you once committed? other than sodomy in some states I stole a chapstick from a store
Music you would like played at your funeral? John Lennon's In My Life/Cat Steven's Morning has Broken
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