Robert Kelly Verified

I hope he gets competition from someone the "i'm not this jerkweed" party.

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Michael McCullough Verified

Oh, good grief -- it only took 5 posts for somebody to bring up the word "Nazi." What a shocker. There are way too many people (and I won't mention the political party that most of them belong to) who call anyone they disagree with a Nazi. And they also happen to be the exact same people who whine that there's no bipartisanship in this country. Bipartisanship is, of course, a code word for "you do what I tell you to do, and we won't call you a Nazi too often."

Now, about Farmers Branch. My wife and I have been to Mexico and have seen the living conditions. If I lived in the slums of Ciudad Juarez, I would make it priority #1 to get to the United States. I have many illegal friends and acquaintances and have done ministry work for illegals (oooh, Christians are Nazis, too!).

Here's what we need:

1. The federal government is not doing its job in locking down our borders. Build a double wall with razor wire from San Diego to Brownsville. Keep people who don't have a legal reason to be here out of this country. Do this immediately.

2. If an illegal (oh, excuse me -- undocumented) alien commits any crime that leads to a jail sentence, make them do the time, then ship them back.

3. The vast majority of illegals are good, hard-working people. Once the border is locked down, give them a path to become an American citizen. Don't make it too easy -- they all need to have a basic knowledge of English, they need to show that their children have a good attendance record in school, and they need to pay a fine for violating the law. If their children have a high GPA, then lower the fine. People who don't apply for the citizenship path should be sent back to their own countries after a grace period of a year or so.

Finally, we need to encourage assimilation, assimilation, assimilation. My wife is Hispanic by descent (what, a Nazi in an interracial marriage?) and her most recent ancestor to immigrate to the United States was a single grandfather who came here when he was 2 months old. Yet, my wife never learned a word of English until she started school. That's a crime and a sin.

I have ancestors from Germany and Wales. Yet none of them insisted on speaking German or Welsh for 3 generations. The German ancestor has a small Texaas town named after him and I know for a fact that he became fluent in English. Yes, it's great to be proud of one's heritage, but if you move to another country, you need to assimilate.

Back in my 20s, my company stationed me north of Quebec for about 7 months to set up a department in their Canadian facility. There were very few English speakers. I took it upon myself to know basic phrases after having been there only a week or so and, after several months, I could carry on reasonably deep conversation in Quebecois, which is essentially 18th-century French. I didn't expect everyone around me to learn English or to post all signs in English -- I was in another country and it was my duty to learn their language and manners.

The left in this country are practicing what President Bush -- who is, of course, a dictator worse than Hitler -- called "the soft bigotry of low expectations." Immigrants need to expect more of themselves and their children.

There are people who have been here for decades and consider it their right for the United States to accomodate their refusal to learn English. They don't have to learn English because they live in their own little enclaves where nary a word of English is spoken and they don't care whether their children go to school because encouraging education is not part of their culture. They need to get over it. They've got to change their culture or they will doom their children and grandchildren to mowing lawns and speaking Spanish all their lives.

I don't like the way that Farmers Branch is going about this but they have every right to do so. Illegals have committed a crime -- that's why they're called illegals. Because they refuse to adopt American ways, they have low-paying jobs and depend heavily on taxpayer subsidies.

Okay, start calling me a Nazi.

-Mike

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Michael McCullough Verified

Billusa99:

I'm always amazed by ignorant posters but your writing is a classic model for people who write about stuff on subjects about which they know absolutely nothing.

No wonder you post anonymously. I would be embarassed to identify myself if I were you, too.

According to the Welsh Language Board at http://www.bwrdd-yr-iaith.org.uk/cynn... , there are 611,000 Welsh speakers in the UK. BBC has had a Welsh-language broadcast http://news.bbc.co.uk/welsh/ for decades. There is also no shortage of Welsh publications and even television stations and films http://gwybodiadur.tripod.com/media.htm .

My Welsh ancestors came to America in the early 19th century and, yes, according to my family history, Welsh was their native language and they came here knowing no English. Welsh was the overwhelmingly sole language in Wales at the time.

I've been to more places in Mexico than Ciudad Juarez -- Juarez just sticks out in my mind because of the absolutely crushing poverty, even by Mexican standards. Ask me about the orphanage in Oaxaca where the children played in sewage water until a Nazi church here in Dallas built them a septic system, among many other things. My wife and I even discussed adopting a blind boy from the orphanage whom she fell in love with. His name was Nacho, which is short for Ignacio -- something that you probably didn't know either.

As for Quebec, you obviously haven't been there, or if you have, you never picked up a clue about the province. You're correct that there are no large cities north of Montreal but there are plenty of small towns that, overall, contain a lot of people. I stayed in Sainte-Adèle and Saint-Sauveur. Google them and you might learn something.

I never met an Inuit while in Quebec. They live much further north.

I hate to link to Wikipedia, but this page http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_... gives an excellent history of the origins of modern Quebecois. Yes, it is essentially the French spoken by commoners in the 18th century. I visited France before I lived in Quebec, learned French phrases from a French teacher before going to Quebec and, when I landed at the Montreal airport, could barely understand what they were saying. Same words but different pronunciation.

Next clueless person, please. This is like shooting fish in a barrel.

-Mike

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Michael McCullough Verified

EdWeirdness,

I agree with you 100% that illegal immigration is a huge problem in America and we need to stop it fast.

I found the NPR story humouress:

With respect to diminishing resources, just this morning I heard a story on NPR regarding Orange County California. It seems that Orange County is in the process of implementing a program euphemistically called "toilet to tap", whereby they are recycling sewage for drinking water purposes.

That's nothing new -- we've been practicing it in Dallas for a very long time. Most of our treated sewage water goes into the Trinity River and towns downstream from us -- including Houston http://www.cleanhouston.org/living/be... -- get some or all of their water from the Trinity.

NPR, as usual, is clueless.

-Mike

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Michael McCullough Verified

CastleHills:

Just kidding!! Actually, my earlier comment referred to the fact that when I see the guy on TV, there's just something about his pale complexion and slightly bugging eyes that just reminds me of the old Nazi films.

Thanks, I'm so used to hearing conservatives being labeled as Nazis that I automatically react.

Blessings,

-Mike

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Michael McCullough Verified

DrFreud:

I know Nazis, and you are not a Nazi, Mike. You are a narcissist who extrapolates your dated experience in Canada, sponsored by your corporate employer, to inform you opinions of the experience of poor people from Third World countries.

Um, Canada is not a third-world country. And my trips to Mexico were on my nickel.

I'm trusting that you were writing in jest, like CastleHills. If not, then Blam! -- another foolish poster just got shot down in an unexpected collision with reality.

-Mike

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Aaron Johnson Verified

I wonder what would become of me if I illegally immigrate to Saudi Arabia or China? Certainly they would treat me better than we Americans treat our illegal immigrants. What with the free medical care offered by clinics and parkland (not to mention the fee based medical care that never gets paid for because you can't track down the illegals to make them pay), zero income tax, and free education, wow we're really making life miserable for our illegal immigrants aren't we. Why are they punishing the legal residents of farmer's branch instead of hitting the illegal immigrants with the fine? Ohh, wait the law doesn't apply to illegal immigrants, or if it does, they don't care, they're illegal remember. There's certainly one thing the illegal immigrant community has learned well and adopted from us Americans; a deep sense of entitlement.

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Michael McCullough Verified

Dr_Freud

Your experience in Canada is definitely not the same as Latin American immigrants' experience in the U.S. You shouldn't think that your cushy time in the north is the same as Latin Americans' time here. Your doing so points to a personality disorder known as narcissism.

When I lived for 7 months in Quebec, I took the effort to learn to speak Quebecois. Many immigrants to the US do not bother to learn English even though they intend to spend the rest of their lives here. If they're going to live in the US, they need to take the initiative to learn English. If they don't learn English, they severely limit their opportunities. Even you could figure that one out.

Maybe you should analyze yourself, Dr. Phil.

-Mike

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Michael McCullough Verified

Dr. Freud;

I don't learn quickly? Maybe you should check your own posts first.

Narcissism, my foot. Me thinks you're projecting. A good example of a narcissist would be someone who goes around making personality disorder diagnoses based on a few internet posts.

I will no longer respond to you unless you post something of actual substance.

-Mike

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Scott Miller Verified

"There are people who have been here for decades and consider it their right for the United States to accomodate their refusal to learn English. They don't have to learn English because they live in their own little enclaves where nary a word of English is spoken and they don't care whether their children go to school because encouraging education is not part of their culture. They need to get over it. They've got to change their culture or they will doom their children and grandchildren to mowing lawns and speaking Spanish all their lives."

I'm pretty sure the Amish speak some kind of Dutch or German dialect.

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Michael McCullough Verified

Scott Miller:

I'm pretty sure the Amish speak some kind of Dutch or German dialect.

If I recall correctly, they speak an offshoot of some north German dialect at home and in worship. Their children learn English at school.

I met quite a few Amish during work I did in Iowa and Pennsylvania. All were fluent in English and spoke with a midwest accent.

I was surprised to meet Amish in Iowa. At the time I didn't know that eastern Iowa has a number of Amish communities.

They were good folks.

-Mike

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