Immigrants Of Past Came To America With Different Plan

Cross post from Proud Military Mom, A Fine Rebuttal!.  Yet another viewpoint on the 1070 illegal immigration bill with its amendment, passed by Arizona recently.  In circulation by email.

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I received this in an e-mail from my niece. It says it all and I hope it goes to as many inboxes as possible! My thanks to the composer of this fine letter.

ORANGE COUNTY ( CALIFORNIA ) NEWSPAPER-New Immigrants

This is a very good letter to the editor. This woman made some good points..

For some reason, people have difficulty structuring their arguments when arguing against supporting the currently proposed immigration revisions. This lady made the argument pretty simple. NOT printed in theOrange County Paper……………….

Newspapers simply won’t publish letters to the editor which they either deem politically incorrect (read below) or which does not agree with the philosophy they’re pushing on the public. This woman wrote a great letter to the editor that should have been published; but, with your help it will get published via cyberspace!

From:

“David LaBonte”

My wife, Rosemary, wrote a wonderful letter to the editor of the OC Register which, of course, was not printed. So, I decided to “print” it myself by sending it out on the Internet. Pass it along if you feel so inclined. Written in response to a series of letters to the editor in theOrange County Register:

Dear Editor:

So many letter writers have based their arguments on how this land is made up of immigrants. Ernie Lujan for one, suggests we should tear down the Statue of Liberty because the people now in question aren’t being treated the same as those who passed through Ellis Island and other ports of entry.

Maybe we should turn to our history books and point out to people like Mr. Lujan why today’s American is not willing to accept this new kind of immigrant any longer. Back in 1900 when there was a rush from all areas of Europe to come to the United States, people had to get off a ship and stand in a long line in New York and be documented. Some would even get down on their hands and knees and kiss the ground. They made a pledge to uphold the laws and support their new country in good and bad times. They made learning English a primary rule in their new American households and some even changed their names to blend in with their new home.

They had waved good bye to their birth place to give their children a new life and did everything in their power to help their children assimilate into one culture. Nothing was handed to them. No free lunches, no welfare, no labor laws to protect them. All they had were the skills and craftsmanship they had brought with them to trade for a future of prosperity.

Most of their children came of age when World War II broke out.

My father fought along side men whose parents had come straight over from Germany , Italy , France and Japan . None of these 1st generation Americans ever gave any thought about what country their parents had come from. They were Americans fighting Hitler, Mussolini and the Emperor of Japan . They were defending the United States of America as one people.

When we liberated France , no one in those villages were looking for the French-American or the German American or the Irish American. The people of France saw only Americans. And we carried one flag that represented one country. Not one of those immigrant sons would have thought about picking up another country’s flag and waving it to represent who they were. It would have been a disgrace to their parents who had sacrificed so much to be here. These immigrants truly knew what it meant to be an American. They stirred the melting pot into one red, white and blue bowl.

And here we are with a new kind of immigrant who wants the same rights and privileges. Only they want to achieve it by playing with a different set of rules, one that includes the entitlement card and a guarantee of being faithful to their mother country. I’m sorry, that’s not what being an American is all about. I believe that the immigrants who landed on Ellis Island in the early 1900′s deserve better than that for all the toil, hard work and sacrifice in raising future generations to create a land that has become a beacon for those legally searching for a better life. I think they would be appalled that they are being used as an example by those waving foreign country flags.

And for that suggestion about taking down the Statue of Liberty , it happens to mean a lot to the citizens who are voting on the immigration bill. I wouldn’t start talking about dismantling the United States just yet.

(signed)

Rosemary LaBonte

KEEP THIS LETTER MOVING. FOR THE WRONG THINGS TO PREVAIL THE RIGHTFUL MAJORITY NEEDS TO REMAIN COMPLACENT AND QUIET!! LET THIS NEVER HAPPEN!

I sincerely hope this letter gets read by millions of people all across the nation.

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Pass it along.

See:

• http://commonsensegram.wordpress.com/2010/05/17/a-fine-rebuttal/
• http://www.azleg.gov/legtext/49leg/2r/bills/sb1070h.pdf
• http://www.abc15.com/content/news/phoenixmetro/central/story/Arizona-lawmakers-OK-several-changes-to/qNpxW7Jonkm9shejhnkiSQ.cspx

Walking To School A Lost Rite Of School Age Children

A fifth of children have no idea where they live – because they no longer walk to school.  Daily Mail UK.

When asked what they could see during their journey to school, the majority could not identify landmarks, instead picking up on houses and treees.

Would American children fare any better?  Kids nowadays seem to expect a ride to and from school.  Walking is something their parents or grandparents did.

See:

• http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1278959/Why-fifth-children-dont-know-live.html#ixzz0oA6ONpzO

Cocktail From Cigarette Butts Can Reduce Steel Corrosion

Study finds recycled cigarette butts make steel stronger.  USA Today.

Corrosion making your steel rust?

Fear no more. 

Their cigarette-derived cocktail reduced corrosion between 90% and 94%. 

Recycling “tiny trash” — cigarette butts.  American Chemical Society.

Put those pesky cigarette butts to work.  Now there’s new hope for steel pipes across America.

See:

• http://content.usatoday.com/communities/greenhouse/post/2010/05/study-finds-recycled-cigarette-butts-make-steel-stronger/1
• http://portal.acs.org/portal/acs/corg/content?_nfpb=true&_pageLabel=PP_ARTICLEMAIN&node_id=223&content_id=CNBP_024845&use_sec=true&sec_url_var=region1&__uuid=aab808c9-fb86-495b-84d4-ac5f2018e245

Aroused Kangaroo Lurks For Joggers

Amorous kangaroo stalks joggers.  Stuff.co New Zealand.

One should always be aware of their surroundings.  Even while jogging.  But especially in the Australia’s Honeymoon Ranges in the Northern Territory nowadays. 

‘Tis the season.  Looks like a hot kangaroo is out looking for a lady.  Literally. 

“There was no doubt about what he wanted, the randy old thing,” the woman told local papers. “I turned around and saw this big kangaroo behind me, so I hastened my steps,” she said.

And then later with others.

Later that day a mother-of-three encountered the aroused kangaroo at a night-time speedway meeting, while a man said he challenged the intimidating macropod and came off second best, receiving a swift punch in response. 

So much for standing up to an invigorated macropod.

See:

• http://www.stuff.co.nz/world/3699490/Amorous-kangaroo-stalks-joggers

Supreme Court Nominee Throws 9/11 Family Members Under The Bus

Kagan helped shield Saudis from 9/11 lawsuits.  The Raw Story.

Looks like the Supreme Court nominee has the interests of the government in mind, more so than its citizens.   

Kagan, acting as President Obama’s Solicitor General, argued that the case should not be heard even if evidence proved that the Saudis helped underwrite al Qaeda, because it would interfere with US foreign policy with the oil-rich nation.

Sen. Arlen Specter (D-PA) was direct about Elena Kagan’s motivations.

“She wants to coddle the Saudis.”

Actually, it’s more like she wants to coddle the White House administration.  Perhaps in anticipation of the Supreme Court carrot dangling. 

See:

• http://rawstory.com/rs/2010/0511/kagan-helped-shield-saudis-911-lawsuits/

Katipo Spider Penile Bite Leads To Heart Inflammation

Katipo bites skinny-dipping tourist.  Stuff.co New Zealand.

A lesson in shaking out your clothes before you put them on, after a dip in the buff.  Lest you find your private parts painful and swollen, after the sly Katipo spider hunkers delightfully down on your flesh.

“He woke to find his penis swollen and painful with a red mark on the shaft suggestive of a bite. He rapidly developed generalised muscle pains, fever, headache, photophobia [light sensitivity] and vomiting,”

If an increasingly painful penis wasn’t bad enough, the fellow developed chest pain.  Myocarditis apparently.  Swelling of the heart.

He was treated with anti-venom medicine and rapidly improved.

Ouch!

See:

• http://www.stuff.co.nz/national/3697571/Katipo-bites-skinny-dipping-tourist

Voters Beware Of All Hat And No Cattle Come Next Election

Obama Buyer’s Remorse.  AT.  Robert Weissberg. 

Such a well written post by someone obviously experienced in the art of reality contrasted with deception.

But, even if we concede Obama’s verbal dexterity as a marketable asset, what might this indicate?

…in business: executives are judged by bottom line results, not rhetorical skill.

Important lessons reside here.

First, always remember that today’s mass media enjoys great leeway in shaping a candidate’s outward appearances, no small consideration as the mass media increasingly dominate elections.

Second, not every politically important trait can be conveyed by sound bites or other outward signs.

Third, better to insist on tangible accomplishment versus outward polish. Beware of all hat, no cattle, as they say in Texas.

Perhaps the most important lesson about America’s buyer’s remorse is to recognize the ease of seduction. This is the secret of successful con men: find out what the target craves, and supply it.

Next opportunity, Weissberg, who is Professor of Political Science-Emeritus at the University of Illinois-Urbana, encourages American voters to look beyond the surface of the candidates in the running, for substance.

See:

• http://www.americanthinker.com/2010/05/obama_buyers_remorse.html

Empire State Building Denies Lighting Building To Honor Mother Teresa

Empire State Building Snubs Mother Teresa.  WCBS2 TV New York.

It’s a familiar tradition: lighting up the Empire State Building in different colors to honor an important date or cause. So why would a request to pay tribute to one of the most loved and admired women in history be denied?

The building changes its colors to honor local sports teams, holidays, dog shows, cancer charities, and even the 60th anniversary of the Chinese Cultural Revolution.

The Nobel Peace Prize winner is not significant enough, however.  The Empire State Lighting Partners have no comment as to why they have denied the application placed by the Catholic League to honor the nun.  The blue and white colors of Mother Teresa have yet to adorn the Empire State Building.  The woman whose mission in life was to help the poor.

And peace be with you.

See:

• http://wcbstv.com/topstories/mother.teresa.snub.2.1693023.html

DOJ Dodges On Black Panther Case As Civil Rights Commission Investigates

Who can forget the Black Panther’s voters intimidation tactics in Philadelphia in November 2008?  Probably not anyone, for such blatant activity at a polling place would logically be a clear violation of the Voting Rights Act.  And rightly so, the Bush Justice Department filed suit against them.   

Michelle Malkin has the affidavit filed by civil rights attorney Bartle Bull in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania, which describes his eyewitness account of the intimidation by the Black Panthers.  The man knows intimidation when he sees it.  He has extensive experience as a civil rights attorney since the 1960′s.  

EXCLUSIVE: Career lawyers overruled on voting case.  Washington Times.  May 29, 2009. 

Career lawyers pursued the case for months, including obtaining an affidavit from a prominent 1960s civil rights activist who witnessed the confrontation and described it as “the most blatant form of voter intimidation” that he had seen, even during the voting rights crisis in Mississippi a half-century ago.

EDITORIAL: Black Panthers but no white rights.  Washington Times.  May 14, 2010.

It was one year ago tomorrow that department officials overrode the advice of career attorneys, and of the department’s own appellate division, by dropping three of four charges in the Black Panther case and seeking an extremely limited injunction in the fourth. The case involved voluminous testimony that two Black Panthers – dressed in paramilitary garb while one brandished a nightstick – stood within arm’s length of a Philadelphia polling place while repeatedly using racial epithets and threats.

At an April 23 hearing held by the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights, witnesses agreed that both Black Panthers acted in concert, shoulder to shoulder, that they used verbal threats against black Republicans and against whites they called “white devils” and “crackers.” Two witnesses specifically said they saw would-be voters turn around and leave the area without voting after seeing these forms of intimidation. Former Acting Associate Attorney General Gregory G. Katsas testified that, “on its face, the complaint appears to involve a straightforward and overwhelmingly strong case of voter intimidation which [ordinarily] would have raised neither policy sensitivities nor the possibility of conflicting positions within [the department].” His conclusion: “The alleged conduct appears egregious and intentional.”

But despite the obvious intimidation that violated the law meant to protect all voters, the Obama DOJ has dragged its feet in subterfuge, while the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights has tried to get answers to the flagrant impropriety of the case.

Christopher Coates, the multiple award-winning career attorney who oversaw the case before the Obama-Holder team exiled him to the hinterlands, made clear in a going-away speech just what he thought the Obama administration’s political considerations are. As reported (in close paraphrase) by the Heritage Foundation’s Hans von Spakovsky at National Review Online, Mr. Coates suggested the agenda is “to enforce the provisions of the Voting Rights Act only for the protection of certain racial or ethnic minorities” and “to turn a blind eye whenever incidents arise that indicate that minority persons have acted improperly in voting matters.”

Mr. Coates brought up a raw reality.  The Obama Administration, through its political appointee AG Holder, condones disparate application of the law based on race.   Wait a minute.  Wasn’t that what President Lyndon B. Johnson in 1965 was trying to make illegal through passage of the Voting Rights Act? The VRA is supposed to protect ALL voters.

Neither Mr. Coates nor his former colleagues who brought the case can tell their stories in public because the Justice Department, in violation of federal law, ordered them not to comply with the subpoenas of the Civil Rights Commission. This comes after the department falsely claimed that none of its political appointees had a role in the decision to drop the case, and then spent a full year stonewalling information requests from the commission, Congress and the press.

Clearly, it pays to have friends in high places who can circumvent the law. 

Will the truth finally surface at the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights hearings?

“Security” patrols stationed at polling places in Philly

November 4, 2008

See:

• http://www.ourdocuments.gov/doc.php?flash=true&doc=100
• http://michellemalkin.cachefly.net/michellemalkin.com/wp/wp-content/uploads/2009/05/bull-declaration_04-07-20092.pdf
• http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2010/may/14/black-panthers-but-no-white-rights/
• http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2009/may/29/career-lawyers-overruled-on-voting-case/
• http://corner.nationalreview.com/post/?q=MGExODhjOWY2NTMyN2M3ZGFjNjY0MzhhZTEyMjU5NmY=

Worst Test Ever Awaits Students

Wow.  This is a really tough school. Lexington Middle School. 

The end of the year dreaded exams. 

The person that works the marquee knows exactly what kind of tests are planned.  Final versus anal exams. 

“Worst Test Ever.”
Image courtesy of http://www.dumb.com/pictures/Worst_Test_Ever.