This could be controversial, but I don't care that the Star Spangled Banner is being sung in Spanish (Nuestro Himno). First, I don't even like our National Anthem. That really is not my point though. My point is that large portions of the U.S. were forcefully taken from the Mexicans. Sure the Mexicans were thrown some pocket change for the land taken, but they never wanted to sell in the first place. After the US invasion of Mexico they had no choice but to enter into the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo which gave us all of CA, NV and UT as well as parts of CO, AZ, NM and WY, for basically 18 million and a few bloody lives. Anyways, now people are freaking out and saying Chicanos are not Americans (why do we call ourselves Americans anyways?) and that we should not allow Mexicans into "our" country.
I saw this video game that CNN was talking about the other day where you are supposed to gun down all the Mexicans running accross the border. You get bonus points for killing "breeders" (mothers with children). This is so disgusting and ignorant. Another CNN episode showed these crazy lunatics burning a Mexican flag and they couldn't even get it to burn. It was hysterical, they looked so ridiculous.
Really, we need to start embracing the idea of having a multi-lingual society. There is nothing wrong with a country where the people have the ability to speak something other than english. It seems like some people here want everyone that lives here to be a white anglo-saxan tight ass. I'm sorry people, but unless you have serious plans in the future for ethnic cleansing its not going to happen.
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04/29/2006 12:46 #25729
Oh say can't you see ?04/26/2006 20:23 #25728
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Dance
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And a hi hat with a souped up tempo
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With my ragtop down so my hair can blow
The girlies on standby
Waiting just to say Hi
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That block was dead
Yo-- so I continued to A1A Beachfront Ave.
Girls were hot wearing less than bikinis
Rockman lovers driving Lambourghinis
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Shay with the guage and Vanilla with a nine
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The chumps acting ill because they're so full of eight balls
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04/19/2006 20:20 #25725
Death at Hoyt LakeToday I was at Hoyt Lake and counted 60 dead fish in the water. Those were only the ones that I saw on the surface. There were some signs of life. I saw lots of little fish, but all the fish that were dead appeared to be about 5-6 inches on avg. Heard several fish jumping out of water. Is that because they are happy, hungry, suffocating or having seizures?
Besides the deaths, the park was beautiful as always. Frederick Olmstead is a.o.k in my book.
Would love to hear people's theories regarding the dead fish.
Besides the deaths, the park was beautiful as always. Frederick Olmstead is a.o.k in my book.
Would love to hear people's theories regarding the dead fish.
leetee - 04/19/06 22:46
hmm.. maybe, just maybe, the warm spells this winter caused some of the fishies to think it was spring, but it wasn't so when it got cold again they froze and now that it is really spring, the dead frozen fishes are thawing? Just a thought.
hmm.. maybe, just maybe, the warm spells this winter caused some of the fishies to think it was spring, but it wasn't so when it got cold again they froze and now that it is really spring, the dead frozen fishes are thawing? Just a thought.
imk2 - 04/19/06 20:34
is the water warming too fast?
is the water warming too fast?
04/22/2006 13:36 #25727
Dog Park extravaganzaWent to the dog park today with one of my good friends. She will remain annonymous, because the story is kind of embarassing. One thing I gotta say about the dog park at hoyt lake (yea it's a soccer field, but there are more dogs there than soccer players) is that I love to watch the dynamics of the dogs and the owners. There is always an alfa, both among the people and the dogs. The dogs form packs and run and run and run. Unfortunately, my friends dog was drinking from nasty puddles. On the way home my friend was driving and I was in the passenger seat. The dog was in the back. This dog is like the size of a small horse. So we are just driving away and talking when out of no where the dog vomits all over me. It was everywhere and it soaked right through my jeans and underwear. She stops the car in the middle of the street blocking someones driveway. Of course someone happened to be leaving at that very moment, and saw me standing outside with puke all over my side. It was quite the spectacle, with my friend freaking out and me just laughing because what else was there to do? Needless to say, when I got home I stripped naked and hit the shower. Even when I got out after like 20 minutes I still felt like there was puke residue all over. Now I have to go to laundrymat. Maybe I'll go to Elmwood and Auburn. I never go to that one cause I always get annoyed there with their side loading washing machines. The top loaders are always taken.
theecarey - 04/22/06 17:33
I'm imagining myself in her spot. I would have pulled over just to laugh hysterically--the kind where you are paralyzed from lack of oxygen and spazzing abdominal muscles. Yah, its totally gross.. but its so funny at the same time.
I'm imagining myself in her spot. I would have pulled over just to laugh hysterically--the kind where you are paralyzed from lack of oxygen and spazzing abdominal muscles. Yah, its totally gross.. but its so funny at the same time.
boxerboi - 04/22/06 14:28
that's pretty funny. poor dog.
I hope no one stole them either. that would be really pathetic.
that's pretty funny. poor dog.
I hope no one stole them either. that would be really pathetic.
libertad - 04/22/06 13:40
I forgot to mention that the pooper scoopers that Elmwood Pet donated for the dog park are missing. I hope no one stole them, cause that would be kinda pathetic.
I forgot to mention that the pooper scoopers that Elmwood Pet donated for the dog park are missing. I hope no one stole them, cause that would be kinda pathetic.
04/21/2006 20:41 #25726
TittiesToday I was sitting on the bench in front of Spot with my friend Justin. As we were enjoying our coffee this guy comes and asks to sit on the bench with us. He was wearing a hat with a bald eagle and the US flag. As he takes a seat he says, "Man, that girl in there has big titties." Immediately I felt uncomfortable. Justin decides to strike up a conversation with him. Then he tells us that he hasn't seen titties in so long because just got out of prison after being there for 6 months. Justin asks him what he was in for and he replies, "Oh I would rather not talk about that." I said, "Well you were the one that brought it up." Anyways, he continues to talk about titties. Finally, I said "Look, we don't like titties." He said, "oh, I kind of figured." Justin turns to me and asks if we can go and that was the end of that. Although this man was a teensy bit crazy, why do some guys feel the need to talk about titties to strangers as if they were speaking about the weather?
jenks - 04/22/06 12:18
Gross, I think my problem is more with the word "titties". But I agree- inappropriate topic for public conversation.
Gross, I think my problem is more with the word "titties". But I agree- inappropriate topic for public conversation.
libertad - 04/22/06 10:07
So if a stranger came up to you and started to talk about cock, it wouldn't make you feel uncomfortable?
So if a stranger came up to you and started to talk about cock, it wouldn't make you feel uncomfortable?
mrdt - 04/22/06 02:30
I think you have to like titties to understand why we like to talk about them.
I think you have to like titties to understand why we like to talk about them.
Tomorrow is the day without immigrants protest. I wish them all the luck. ¡Buena suerte!
Jason, I believe you may need to read what I wrote another time. I was hypothetically speaking to the people in this country who hate everyone that is different from themselves. Unfortunately, there are more people than we realize who really would like to exterminate whole groups of people ie. latinos, blacks, jews, gays or whatever and would do so if they were given the chance. We often do not see how prevelant this is in our society, because generally, that attitude is not permitted in Buffalo. I still continue to stand by my comment, and do not feel that it was used in a mocking or disrespectful manner. More or less I was saying that those people need to learn to live with people who are different.
I'm always open for discussion, however, your comments seem to me excessively confrontational. Your use of "fuck" and "shit" in all the comments you leave in my journal I am beginning to take offense to. Your joke in my previous journal about how "animal testing should be done on liberals" I didn't think was funny. I guess I am just an "overly sensitive fuck," but really I only wanted to share a cute picture. By the way, I am NOT a liberal (not that you said I was, but I just wanted to clarify that).
In response to jason, native central and souther americans were ethnically cleansed by white people on more than one occassion. Just as many of them if not more died at the hand of ethnic cleansing than the jews. I am not suggesting that America would ever go on an ethnic cleansing campaign. I am just saying these people have previously been ethnically cleansed by our ancestral government power structure so it is not so outrageous to talk about it.
On the opposite side of the matter: If you really think about it, it is quite ironic that native central americans would come to north america and cling onto spanish, considering that the spanish conquistodors that forced the language upon them in the first place. Come to think of it, I find it weird that any native american would have pride in speaking spanish. I mean spanish is as much of a white man, euro colonialist language as english.
Oh, and the video game....horrendous, hideous, disgusting......
I'm not an enforcer, I'm just reminding that there are populations out there who have had to deal with possible extermination FOR REAL, and who have been persecuted FOR REAL. I don't think you want to play "Who's the biggest victim?" against blacks or jews. That's exactly what the language you use is doing. I promise you it won't help your cause. People will turn away or just say fuck you. At least I'm open to discussion. =)
I stand by my ethnic cleansing comment. Sorry you don't like it.
Ugh, 3rd comment. Anyway if someone wants to sing our national anthem in whatever language, I really couldn't give a shit.
And, the ethnic cleansing comment you made Libertad is so off base, over the top, and dead wrong, that I had to make a second comment. =D Nobody takes stuff like that seriously, and it sure as shit doesn't lend any credibility to the good points you have about this.
No to adding a second national language. Yes to spending money on immigrants helping them to learn the language.
woops..allow me to refraze that. the first european immigrants to this county....
and yes with a more educated work force finding blue collar workers and tradesmen is getting increasingly difficult. there is certainly a need to allow these individuals to come over and become carpenters, machinists, cooks and mechanics.
Unless you are a Native American then you are an imagrant. Ok so a decedant of one. I think it is funny how some of us don't want Mexicans here and complain about how they are destorying the country. But Our (in some cases) Great Grand Parents where imagrants. When They came over the people who where here before them thought they where going to destroy the country and didn't like them. The fact is that Mexicans will do jobs that Americans won't. Some might say that if they didn't come here then those jobs would have to have aspects or things added to them to get americans to do them.
That being said this may be surprising. I think that Anthem should in public only be sung in english. This isn't canada where French is really the Major langue and you have the anthem in both. The #1 or legal language is english and it should stay that way. Our anthem sounds verry bad musicly. It is writen as a stanze or as statement and sounds juttery when sung properly. The best singers of it hold words and give it a flow that it dosn't really have. Some one I went to College with does an amazing Job singing it, I know he sang it in public at least once but other then that I have no idea if he did or not.
you know before the first inhabitants of this country pushed out the Mexicans they fucked over the real native Americans pretty good.
although hypothetically if either party had taken the pennies that were thrown at them and invested it wisely the present value of said investment would be worth tens of billions of dollars.
Good points! I don't think they need to change all the signs or anything, that pretty much is impractical. Sesame Street was awesome, they really tried to emphasize that we are all different and that its ok.
I'm not against a multi-lingual society. However, adding a 2nd state language definitely costs more. Printing all signs, documents, etc in 2 languages is rather expensive and if it were made law, it'd become an excuse to raise taxes so some fat bastard's printing company could get fatter.
However, I'd rather focus on creating a reasonable immigration policy and educating our population to combat the "Anglo-saxon tightass" metality. Viva La Sesame Street!