Wednesday, February 1, 2012
Moving
Sunday, September 25, 2011
Attack Waaaaaatch!
Come on, how could I resist?
I disagree with President Obama on, well, everything.
I'll even say it loud and clear so you can't misunderstand: Obama is wrong. Wrong. Wrong. WRONG.
He is wrong on Israel. He is wrong on a Palestinian state. He is wrong on Libya, Egypt, and his comments on Iraq. His wife is wrong about healthy eating (and I don't believe for a second that she has much to do with her garden outside the occasional photo op, but that's just an opinion). He's wrong about the stimulus, sorry, "Job's Bill", shovel-ready-jobs, sorry, "jobs for construction workers", and our role in the world, sorry, "Place in the larger Global Community."
Have I said enough to be censured yet? Yeah, censured. I didn't misstype. What AttackWatch (.com) is, is a censorship site.
You see, nothing I've written is necessarily vicious. Or hateful. Or even inaccurate (though those are posts for a later day.) But those are exactly the kind of things that AttackWatch (.com) is made to pick up on then attack or claim are false. And the site is full of blatant accusations of lying, too. Not even the facade of "debatable" or "opinions" or even "misunderstanding", just straight accusations of various conservative, republicans, and even independents distorting the truth for the explicit purpose of damaging Obama's political career. (Not that he needs any help with that. Whoops, should I report myself for that as well?)
For all you boys and girls out there who think the Obama administration, or Obama for America, or MoveOn.org, or whichever front group is behind this, is in the right to silence "attacks", let me explain a little thing about... Censorship.
Saturday, September 11, 2010
I remember...
Wednesday, May 26, 2010
Real Life Horror
Thursday, May 6, 2010
Red Flag Waving
On any other day at Live Oak High School in Morgan Hill, Daniel Galli and his four friends would not even be noticed for wearing T-shirts with the American flag. But Cinco de Mayo is not any typical day especially on a campus with a large Mexican American student population.Galli says he and his friends were sitting at a table during brunch break when the vice principal asked two of the boys to remove American flag bandannas that they wearing on their heads and for the others to turn their American flag T-shirts inside out. When they refused, the boys were ordered to go to the principal's office.
"They said we could wear it on any other day," Daniel Galli said, "but today is sensitive to Mexican-Americans because it's supposed to be their holiday so we were not allowed to wear it today."
I came really close to making a scene in the dining hall when I read this. I'm sorry, did AMERICAN kids in an AMERICAN classrooom get in trouble for wearing an AMERICAN flag during a MEXICAN holiday? Yes, yes they did. In fact, the students ended up having to go home in order to avoid being suspended for non-compliance.
Other students defended the school's decision.
"I think they should apologize cause it is a Mexican Heritage Day," Annicia Nunez, a Live Oak High student, said. "We don't deserve to be get disrespected like that. We wouldn't do that on Fourth of July."
So, so many things wrong with that quote, I don't even know where to start. In fact, I think I may even need to pull out the bullet points for this one, little sentence.
- Cinco de Mayo is not a nationally recognized holiday, unlike Independence Day. In fact, I'm pretty sure it was imported, not to celebrate "Mexican Heritage" but as a reason to get wasted on Tequila midway through the week. I have many non-hispanic friends and relatives who celebrate this day with more gusto than any hispanic I've ever met.
- It is not "disrespectful" to wear a flag on a non-national heritage holiday. Is anyone disrespecting the Irish when they wear an American Flag on St. Patrick's day? Last I heard, that was considered an important celebration of Irish heritage. What if you wear an American flag shirt during Oktoberfest (a German cultural holiday giving everyone an excuse to drink a ton of beer in the middle of the week)? Hmm? I'm German. I demand everyone wear lederhosen during Oktoberfest. If not, you're disrespecting me and I don't deserve that. You don't see me wearing lederhosen during the Fourth of July, do you?
- Are you in Mexico, or America?