We no habla.

I am all for people being bilingual -- it makes for a very well-rounded individual. But this is America, and our language is English -- not Spanish!

Have you seen the McDonald's commercial that is completely in Spanish? I saw it the other day, and it was brought to my attention again yesterday when I was requested to do a post on it. This commercial was not on the Spanish language channel -- it was on a regular network channel. How long will we cater to those who come here (a great many of them illegally) to partake of our benefits but who refuse to learn our language?

And you know, it's all our fault we don't speak Spanish -- I know some people who own a store. They do not speak Spanish. People come in to shop and have their children translate. The other day, a Mexican couple came in and wanted to buy on credit. The owner explained to the child that they could not sign a contract, because the contracts are in English. The owner would have had no way of knowing whether or not the people understood the contract, as most 10-year-old children are not too familiar with legal terms -- especially translating them from English to Spanish. The people were quite perturbed that they were being refused. I'm pretty sure there will come a time when these people will be forced to extend credit to non-English speakers. It's only a matter of time before one of them sues. Then, when the store owner has to extend the credit, they'll just default and say, "We didn't understand the contract."

We can't win! We better start demanding English only in all business transactions. You may think it won't affect you, but when all the Spanish speakers start defaulting on credit, you'll make up the difference in higher prices.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bv3xdAABFfQ

What a man!

Gary Staton of Omaha, Nebraska, abandoned nine of his ten children at Creighton University Medical Center last Wednesday. The tenth child is a legal adult. The abandoned children range in age from one to 17.

Mrs. Staton died last year shortly after giving birth to the youngest child. Staton quit his job because of "family responsibilities," then complained because he couldn't pay his rent or utilities or take care of the kids. He says without his wife, he was overwhelmed and "fell apart." "I was with her for 17 years, and then she was gone. What was I going to do?" Ya think! Why does he think his wife is dead???

This selfish (I don't use the kind of words I want to call him) kills his wife by wantonly impregnating her at least ten times. Then he quits his job. Then he wants people to feel sorry for him when he becomes completely derelict in his duty by anonymously leaving his kids at a hospital. What kind of scars do you think those kids will carry for the rest of their lives?

There are relatives willing to take the kids -- don't you think it would have been less traumatic for them if he had said, "I want you to go live with Aunt Betsy for awhile until Daddy finds a job and we can get back on our feet"?

The first thing they need to do with this bum is perform a vasectomy, because I guarantee you, unless they do, he will father more children that he will foist off either on the relatives or the taxpayers.

"Widower who left 9 kids says he was overwhelmed." The Dallas Morning News; September 27, 2008; p. 6A.

They just keep pushing it!

Essie May wonders if heterosexuals ever have beautiful gardens or restore and remodel old houses. It just seems that every "couple" featured in the home and garden section of The Dallas Morning News is gay. This week's edition featured Mark Isaksen and Daniel Walth of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. (Guess they've already featured all the gays in Dallas). The article is about how they landscaped around a cliff on their property. Mr. Walth makes this statement which I'm sure he intends to be rich in meaning (he probably thinks he will go down in gay philosophy history for it): "Let the cliff reveal itself. you shouldn't struggle with or deny it." Awwwww -- doesn't that just make you want to go hug a queer?

Then, I got an email newsletter from About.com. This weekly letter either confirms or debunks current email forwards. If you get the one about California trying to institute Harvey Milk Day in the public schools, it's true. Harvey Milk was the San Francisco city official killed in the 1970's. The instruction is for the public schools to set aside May 22 as Harvey Milk Day to appropriately celebrate this man known for nothing more than being queer and getting shot. The bill has passed the legislature and awaits Governor Schwarzenegger's signature.

We're going to hell in a handbasket (but it's very sweetly decorated with lots of ribbons and lace -- they do have tons of artistic ability, you know)!

"A gardener's challenge: the cliffs out back." The Dallas Morning News; September 26, 2008; p. 3G.
http://urbanlegends.about.com/od/government/a/harvey_milk_day.htm?nl=1

Get outta' town!

The audacity of the Democrats never ceases to amaze me. They remind me of the commercial for television blocking devices -- the one where the mother is talking to the mobsters and breaking the news to them that she will have to block their show. She says something like -- "And last week when you hit Vito in the head with the shovel . . ." The gangster replies, "I do not recall that."

Of course, this week, the big news is the bailout plan. The first link at the bottom of this page is to a video of Senator Harry Reid telling Senator McCain he needs to tell them what to do. Then yesterday, we get this quote from Harry Reid: "We have Senator Bennett, who is a high-ranking Republican senator, standing before all of you saying we've got a deal in principle. All we have to do is put it down in writing and this -- this is almost over with. And then, guess who came to town? And that completely fell apart. The vehicle came off the tracks. Now, the Republican House has to decide what they want to do. Are they serious about one of the issues that has to be taken care of, is lowering the capital gains tax? Is that part of what this is all about? They're going to have to become realistic."

In the first place, Senator McCain was not the only one "who came to town." Barack Obama was at that table, too, and you notice that Senator Reid was not able to come out and say, "Obama has come up with a plan -- we are saved." No mention of Senator Obama at all from a leading Democrat, so that kind of tells you how valuable he was there.

In the second place, there was no deal -- even Senator Bennett said he wasn't ready to sign on to it yet -- a little thing Senator Reid forgot to mention.

In the third place, we should all be grovelling at Senator McCain's feet for taking the "vehicle off the tracks." Senator Lindsey Graham reported that included in this plan was that 20% of the recovery funds would go to ACORN (up to $100 million dollars just for them) and organizations like it. ACORN is the far left-wing activist group that Obama did his "community organizing" with. They are under investigation for voter fraud, embezzlement, misuse of federal funds, and assorted other crimes. They do things like disrupt city council meetings and political dinners, picket in front of mayors' homes and spit on them and throw garbage at them, register dead people to vote -- a real class act.

In the fourth place, they don't need the House Republicans to pass this bailout. They have enough votes to do it without them. Why would they not go ahead and do it on their own? Because when it blows up in their faces they want to be able to say, "Well it was all those Republicans voting for it."

In the fifth place, a cut in capital gains taxes will grow the economy. I see something just a little hypocritical in saying, "We're going to spend $750 billion to bail out these companies that have poor business practices, but for you guys who have been conducting your affairs properly, you're not even going to get a tax break. In fact, we'll probably have to raise your taxes to take care of these guys getting multi-million dollar compensation packages."

Then Chuck Schumer comes out and says that McCain should leave town: "We need the president to respectfully tell Senator McCain to get outta town. He is not helping. He is harming. Before McCain made his announcement, we were making great progress. Now, after his announcement, we are behind the eight ball. Get the House Republicans to be more constructive, get Senator McCain to leave town and not throw fire on these flames." Excuse me, but I believe Senator McCain is called "Senator" because that's what he is. He has every right to weigh in on this issue for his constituents. In fact, if he doesn't, he is derelict in his duty. I don't know of another instance where a Senator has had the audacity to tell another he shouldn't be participating in deliberations. Not to mention his metaphor is goofy -- "throw fire on these flames"?

So Essie May concludes -- if anybody needs to get out of town, it's certainly NOT John McCain!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R7mRSI8yWwg
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j3f0BwyZKMw
http://www.rushlimbaugh.com/home/daily/site_092608/content/01125109.guest.html
http://www.rushlimbaugh.com/home/daily/site_092608/content/01125108.guest.html

Sarah Palin would have made front page!

Buried way back on page 17A of yesterday's Dallas Morning News is a tiny one paragraph piece titled "Biden misspoke on Roosevelt, TV history."

Joe Biden said on the CBS Evening News that President Franklin Roosevelt went on TV in 1929 when the stock market crashed. In the first place, Herbert Hoover was the President in 1929. In the second place, we all know that every living room had a television in 1929 -- Not!

Let's suppose that instead of Joe Biden displaying this appalling ignorance of history, it had been Sarah Palin. The headline would have been front-page. She wouldn't have "misspoke." She would have exhibited a "lack of fundamental knowledge of history." Multiple paragraphs would have been required to report the reactions from every political pundit and foe.

And the jokes would have never stopped -- poor Dan Quayle is still known as the "potato guy." But there is no bias in the media!

We're not ready to hang pictures.

Some DISD parents and teachers are concerned, and parents and teachers from other districts should be concerned -- they just don't know it. Many districts have supplied their art teachers for Grades 6-12 with the PBS documentary entitled Art:21 - Art in the Twenty-First Century. The documentary features short biographies of modern artists and describes their techniques.

What's the concern? Documentary images considered "too disturbing or sexual for the classroom" may not be considered as such by the art teachers. The fear is that students will "take it upon themselves to search the internet for more information about some artists in the documentary and get an eyeful."

One of the artists, Kara Walker, has a current exhibit in Ft. Worth. The museum showing her work has this disclaimer: "Please be advised that the Kara Walker exhibition contains mature subject matter including explicit sexual images. Viewers should use their own discretion."

Why are we promoting pornographic artists in our schools? "For sixth-graders, a portion of the lesson focuses on students using artwork to think critically about 'crucial and painful issues of past and present societies.'" Whatever happened to painting still lifes and landscapes? Whatever happened to sculpting statues? Whatever happened to mosaics and collages? This is just another example of the liberal indoctrination of our young people.

One of the concerned teachers, Diane Birdwell, said, "My main concern was that for our kids, we need to introduce them to basic art first. Most of them have never been to a museum, do not understand the different media of art, and have no clue about the politics of art. You can't hang pictures until you put the walls up, folks." Essie May couldn't have said it better!

"Art tool is an eyeful." The Dallas Morning News; September 22, 2008; p. 1B.

Who knew?

Did you know motivational speaking was an illness? I offer you this sentence written by Krista Goerte and printed in yesterday's The Paris News: "She grew up in Detroit singing and performing poetry in a church community, moved on to beauty pageants and theatre, and has now found the perfect career in the face of a debilitating illness: motivational speaking."

We learn later in Krista's article that Lashunda Rundles was named the 2008 World Champion of Public Speaking after "competiting" with 30,000 other speakers. She has done all this while battling "Lupis."

And how about this for professional composition: "When time came for her first speech, to be given at the Dallas Toastmaster's club, on the road to her Toastmaster title, Rundles said she was sick, and gave her first speech in house shoes with the support of the whole club behind her."

In the same issue of the newspaper, Mary Madewell tells us the "Cesna" L-19 Bird Dog airplanes were used for "recognizance" missions in Korea and Vietnam.

Who knew?


"Detroit native outspeaks 30,000 for international title." The Paris News; September 22, 2008; p. 1.
"Flair for flying." The Paris News; September 22, 2008; p. 1.