Posted on 08/30/2006 8:36:08 AM PDT by ichabodcrane
Bless her heart. When my family came here from germany, after escaping the Kaiser, they were forbidden to ever mention Germany as their homeland, and the names of their twin boys were changed (at Ellis Island) to "Sam and John", which they considered to be good solid American names.
So many people think they're entitiled to pillage these days, because they've been cheated, or their land has been "stolen". They're "owed". Ask what your country can do for you.
"But that doesn't matter to some on FR, for it gives them an excuse to bash all Mexicans and hispanics."
Yes Dane, we're all Xenophobic, Nativist, Racist Crackers. You can leave now.
Uh nacho, these lefty nutballs don't spreak for all hispanics, just like al gore doesn't speak for you, or should I use your logic, and say that al gore does speak for you.
Affirmative action is not helping.
We are producing the next generation who can not compete in the world.
Who gives a rip? The Native Americans conquered and slaughtered each other, and took over each other's land, just as brutally and quickly as the Europeans did.
You said it, not I.
Howdy, Dane! He took the words right out of my mouth!
CANBERRA AUSTRALIA: Muslims who want to live under Islamic Sharia law were told on Wednesday to get out of Australia, as the government targeted radicals in a bid to head off potential terror attacks. A day after a group of mainstream Muslim leaders pledged loyalty to Australia at a special meeting with Prime Minister John Howard, he and his ministers made it clear that extremists would face a crackdown.
Treasurer Peter Costello, seen as heir apparent to Howard, hinted that some radical clerics could be asked to leave the country if they did not accept that australia was a secular state and its laws were made by parliament. "If those are not your values, if you want a country which has Sharia law or a theocratic state, then Australia is not for you," he said on national television. "I'd be saying to clerics who are teaching that there are two laws governing people in Australia, one the Australian law and another the Islamic law, that is false.
If you can't agree with parliamentary law, independent courts, democracy, and would prefer Sharia law and have the opportunity to go to other country which practices it, perhaps, then, that's a better option," Costello said. Asked whether he meant radical clerics would be forced to leave, he said those with dual citizenship could possibly be asked to move to the other country. Education Minister Brendan Nelson later told reporters that Muslims who did not want to accept local values should "clear off". "Basically, people who don't want to be Australians, and they don't want to live by Australian values and understand them, well then they can basically clear off," he said. Separately, Howard angered some Australian Muslims on Wednesday by saying he supported spy agencies monitoring the nation's mosques.
Not the part about you leaving, though. Just the first part!
Exactly!
Both of my parents are legal immigrants (I'm first generation American, and proud of it! :) ) and if I had EVER acted in an unpatriotic way toward this country both of them would have slapped me clear across the room, then put me in a box and mailed me to the East Germany! Lol! Both of my parents changed their names to more American names, adapted to American culture, never accepted a single handout, went from dirt poor to very successful, and never missed a chance to show their love of this nation. Personally I think the freebies we give to the current wave of immigrants fosters a loathing rather than a love of this country. Socialism tends to do that...
Uh you do know that a vast number more of native American take adavantage of the welfre trap than immigrants do.
Sheesh, a World Nut Daily article compared the woman, who had a respectable job, and now seeking sanctuary in a church, to al capone.
My great grandma was going blind in her old age, and one day the postman came to bring her a disability check from the government, and she chased him off! Threatened to shoot him if he came back. That was very disgraceful back then- that you couldn't take care of yourself. People would have been ashamed.
My grandpa was too old to enlist in WWII adn felt horrible walking around town with the women, and boys who were left. -All the men were off fighting, and to be left behind was shameful. -Imagine that today.
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My great grandfathers on my mothers side fought on opposite sides in "the great war". One escaped Germany prior to the war and the other did not. When everyone got here the children were forbidden to speak German and the adults spoke only english outside the home. Our family names were also changed to sound more American.
When Tatyana arrived last fall, an American flag was one of the first things she wanted so I bought a flag and a mounting bracket and mounted it outside her bedroom window.
"When Tatyana arrived last fall, an American flag was one of the first things she wanted so I bought a flag and a mounting bracket and mounted it outside her bedroom window."
That just made me smile. :)
No drain, nobody is saying that at all. Only a complete fool would assume that was the point.
Hey, genius, let us know when you are ready to pony up to the teller and pick up the FIFTY BILLION DOLLAR A YEAR TAB that it's costing us to allow your little illegal alien amigos and their familias to stay here.
We've been waiting for years for that check but we haven't been holding our breath. LMAO
Huh, you fooled me with your citations from the very lefty FAIR.
Funny how you just ignored that post.
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