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This Week in Mexifornia – Thousands Gather to Celebrate… Mexico’s Independence From Spain?
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| 09/16/10
| SkinnieMinnie
Posted on 09/16/2010 2:18:29 PM PDT by Erin Brown
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To: Erin Brown
“In 1810, Mexico gained its independence from Spain and 200 years later, thousands of Mexican Americans flocked to the steps of the state capitol building in California to celebrate this occasion.”
Cripes.
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posted on
09/16/2010 2:20:42 PM PDT
by
jessduntno
(The Victory Mosque will be built over our dead bodies over our dead bodies ...)
To: Erin Brown
Yeah. The real reason is to discourage them from assimilating and feeling like Americans.
To: Erin Brown
Is it Cinco de Cuatro already?
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posted on
09/16/2010 2:26:52 PM PDT
by
marron
To: marron
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posted on
09/16/2010 2:30:25 PM PDT
by
massgopguy
(I owe everything to George Bailey)
To: Erin Brown
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posted on
09/16/2010 2:30:38 PM PDT
by
Dallas59
(President Robert Gibbs 2009-2013)
To: Erin Brown
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posted on
09/16/2010 2:32:02 PM PDT
by
csmusaret
(The Obama/Pelosi/Reid Cartel has saddled each of my grandchildren with a $44,000 debt.)
To: Erin Brown
partnership with California What partnership? I'd call it a hostile takeover.
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posted on
09/16/2010 2:33:07 PM PDT
by
SMM48
To: Erin Brown
Mexico asserted its independence of an occupied Spain fighting to regain its own independence from france. How glorious was that?
2 cheers!
Hip, hip, zzzzzz
To: Erin Brown
I don’t understand why Mexicans are so proud of Mexico and their “heritage.” What is there to be proud of? Is it their propensity towards crime, their educational failures, their corruption, thier raw sewage spilling into San Diego?
To: forgotten man
I had to suffer through the coverage of this “great celebration” in front of the capital building here in Sacramento.
Why can’t these proud mexicans be proud enough to go home and fight for thier beloved country? Go fight for what you love? Don’t bring my country down so you feel like your home. Mexico is a complete basketcase. Always has been, always will be.
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posted on
09/16/2010 2:39:49 PM PDT
by
hillarys cankles
("Don't tell me, show me." Mike Singletary)
To: Erin Brown
The partnership like the partnership fleas have with dogs.
Frowning takes 68 muscles.
Smiling takes 6.
Pulling this trigger takes 2.
I'm lazy.
To: Erin Brown
What isn't spoken of is how in just 16 short years they lost Texas. People act like Texas was stolen from the great Republic of Mexico when the truth is that Texas is only 16 years younger and Santa Anna, once declaring himself supreme dictator and tearing up the Mexican Constitution, couldn't hold on to Spains old territory, much like Spain couldn't either.
We called it Manifest Destiny.
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posted on
09/16/2010 2:45:18 PM PDT
by
normy
(Don't take it personally, just take it seriously.)
To: Erin Brown
So, we can expect the same jubilation and celebration of "our" Independence (4th of July) by all those "assimilating" and "Undocumented Partners" who I KNOW will pledge their fealty to our Constitution, and express, their love of America, and do so proudly!
Yeah, right!!!!
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posted on
09/16/2010 2:47:07 PM PDT
by
Conservative Vermont Vet
((One of ONLY 37 Conservatives in the People's Republic of Vermont. Socialists and Progressives All))
To: Erin Brown
Independence from Spain transferred (unwillingly) to the auspices of the people of the United States of America, unfortunately. GO HOME, STAY HOME. WE DONT WANT YOU!
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posted on
09/16/2010 2:48:35 PM PDT
by
Gaffer
("Profiling: The only profile I need is a chalk outline around their dead ass!")
To: normy
Mexico couldn’t hold onto any of its territory in our present day southwest because that government remained basically a highly-centralized colonial-style government for far too long.
Officials were loathe to leave Mexico City. It was the center of power and influence in Mexico, because family ‘influence’ and toadying to those in power was the only way to move up in the government. So the regions far from Mexico, like California, Texas and New Mexico’s puelblos, were deemed the equivalent of being sent to exile in Siberia. No one wanted to be sent there and those who were sent were not the finest men for the job.
Indians raiding in the north were a problem for pioneers and Mexico did nothing to protect them. Americans moving west would become Mexican citizens but were intolerant of that government’s corruption and lack of action.
The rest is history about which Mexico blithely lies.
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posted on
09/16/2010 2:56:35 PM PDT
by
SatinDoll
(NO FOREIGN NATIONALS AS OUR PRESIDENT!)
To: Erin Brown
Mexico didn’t gain its independence from Spain in 1810. That was the year that Miguel Hidalgo y Costilla, a priest, began the war for independence, which sputtered for 11 more years. Mexico finally gained its independence in 1821 when the Spanish commander in Mexico switched sides and joined the revolutionaries.
To: SatinDoll
Yes and a little known fact yet was admitted on the History Channels miniseries on the founding and growth of America, was that Anglos outnumbered Latinos 18-1 in what became Texas. The commonly shouted lie that “we didn't cross the border, the border crossed us” is more liberal bull.
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posted on
09/16/2010 3:20:23 PM PDT
by
normy
(Don't take it personally, just take it seriously.)
To: SatinDoll
The early Texas settlers were allowed in mainly to serve as a buffer between the raiding parties of Indians and the Mexicans in the south, anyway. Guess the Mexicans never bargained for what happened next.
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posted on
09/16/2010 4:17:43 PM PDT
by
Free in Texas
(If islam is so great, why are there "religious police" who's main task is to beat you into a mosque?)
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posted on
09/16/2010 4:24:22 PM PDT
by
HiJinx
(I can see November from my front porch - and Mexico from the back.)
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