Michelle Malkin has an intersting post about US Citizenship flash cards. I photoshopped a few as spoofs/social commentary:

And now for one that’s NOT a spoof:

 

From the Center for Individual Freedom, an interesting press release. Sign up on their mailing list!

The federal government says employers MUST hire people who REFUSE to communicate in English or face the consequences.

Strange, isn’t it… our government has a problem pursuing employers who knowingly hire illegal aliens but has no problem going after small businesses and nonprofit organizations that simply ask employees to speak English while they’re on the clock!

First, liberals told us we had to give up our religion, even during Christmas and the rest of the holiday season:

No prayers in school…
No nativity scenes on the town square…
No mention of God at high school graduations…

Next they told us we had to give up love of our country:

America is racist and sexist…
America coddles the rich and exploits the poor…
America is the most dangerous nation in the world…

NOW THEY’RE DEMANDING WE GIVE UP OUR LANGUAGE!

That’s right!  The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) is going after a Salvation Army thrift store BECAUSE IT REQUIRED EMPLOYEES TO SPEAK ENGLISH ON THE JOB!  The store even gave everyone a year to learn English. Two refused and were fired.

Here’s what we’re heading toward:

You go into a shoe store and the clerk doesn’t even know the English word for shoe.

The waiter in a restaurant can’t understand what you’re ordering and brings you soft-boiled eggs instead of fried chicken.

A worker in a sawmill cuts off your right arm because he doesn’t know the meaning of “STOP!”

This madness is one more consequence of allowing 12-20 million illegal aliens to pour across our borders unchecked.

This time, however, somebody is saying “NO MORE! ENOUGH!”

Senator Lamar Alexander (R-TN) has introduced a bill that — if passed — would stop EEOC dead in its tracks.

His bill would “make clear that it is not against federal law for an employer to require employees to speak English on the job.”

Since Congress created the EEOC, it has the authority to tell it what to do AND WHAT NOT TO DO!

Use the hyperlink below to send your urgent and personalized Blast Fax messages to President Bush and the Republican leadership in the House and Senate.  Tell them to do everything in their power to pass Senator Lamar Alexander’s “Protecting English in the Workplace Act of 2007″ IMMEDIATELY.

The EEOC took action against 200 businesses this past year because they simply wished to require their employees to speak English on the job.  This campaign of federal government harassment must STOP!  Small businesses in America will be wrecked if the EEOC is allowed to enforce this further dismantling of America!

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Hundreds of Businesses Harassed By The EEOC For Requiring English…

Here is what Senator Alexander says about his bill in a press release.

“A federal agency says it’s illegal for an employer to require employees to speak in English, which, in plain English, means that thousands of small businesses in American would have to hire a lawyer and be prepared to make their case to a federal agency that there is some special reason to justify speaking English on the job.  I believe this is a gross distortion of the Civil Rights Act and a complete misunderstanding of what it means to be an American.”

Lest anyone think this bill would force illegal aliens to speak English at all time, Alexander said this;

“This bill’s not about affecting people’s lunch hour or coffee break — it’s about protecting the rights of employers to ensure their employees can communicate with each other and their customers during the working hours.  In America, requiring English in the workplace is not discrimination; it’s common sense.”

In other words, people can speak in Spanish, Swahili, or any other language they wish during their personal time (lunch, coffee-breaks etc.).  Anyone who says otherwise is either misinformed or lying.

By the way, Alexander originally offered a similar bill as an amendment to the Commerce, Justice and Science (CJS) Appropriations Bill; and it was added to the CJS Appropriations Bill back in June by a vote of 15-14. 

And liberals squashed it!

A conference committee was to iron out differences between the Senate and House versions and send it to the President.

But the liberals, led by Speaker Nancy Pelosi, caved in to the advocates of illegal immigration and refused to bring the bill with Alexander’s amendment before the conference committee.

Instead the radical and ruthless Pelosi presented an omnibus bill that gutted the amendment. 

Now Alexander’s back with a free-standing bill that says the same thing. 

If this bill fails, the EEOC — and liberals in government — may declare all-out war against small businesses in America.

In fact, the EEOC filed 200 ACTIONS just this year against employers because they required employees to speak English.  Given the fact that small business contributes the lion’s share of jobs and economic growth in America, this behavior is suicidal.

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The EEOC took action against 200 businesses this past year because they simply wished to require their employees to speak English on the job.  This campaign of federal government harassment must STOP!  Small businesses in America will be wrecked if the EEOC is allowed to enforce this further dismantling of America!

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Press One For English

So how do the American people feel about the English language, as opposed to Nancy Pelosi and Barney Frank and Harry Reid and Teddy Kennedy?

According to a recent poll, 80 percent of Americans believe English should be the official language of the nation.

Nearly 90 percent believe it’s important for immigrants to speak English.

More that 75 percent believe employers should have the right to require their employees to speak English while on the job.

Yet our own government is actively siding with people who REFUSE to even attempt to learn the English language.

How many times a day do you dial your phone and hear: PRESS ONE FOR ENGLISH; PRESS TWO FOR SPANISH? 

Our entire education system in many parts of the country has been changed to accommodate the children of people who speak languages other than English.

A North Texas friend tells us that virtually all the downtown signs in his city of almost 200,000 are now in Spanish.

America is a melting pot… so many of us had parents, grandparents or great-grandparents who came to the United States from another country.  

Did we make such concessions to them? 

When Italians immigrated to this country, did America immediately introduce bilingual education into its schools, with math taught in Italian?

When others immigrated, did towns and cities all over the country scrap English signs and substitute signs in German or some other language?

Did anyone ever dial a government agency or bank and hear PRESS ONE FOR ENGLISH; PRESS TWO FOR SPANISH?

More to the point, did the federal government EVER intervene on behalf of immigrants who refuse to learn English?

Everyone is supposed to be treated equally in this country. 

Teddy Roosevelt had it right when he said: “We have room for but one language here, and that is the English language.”

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The EEOC took action against 200 businesses this past year because they simply wished to require their employees to speak English on the job.  This campaign of federal government harassment must STOP!  Small businesses in America will be wrecked if the EEOC is allowed to enforce this further dismantling of America!

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Liberals Say Asking People To Speak English Is “Abusive.”

Of course some folks think President Teddy Roosevelt was a blow-hard patriot.

For example, there’s Laura Boston, who works for the Houston Interfaith Worker Justice Center — an organization whose name tells you it isn’t exactly conservative, or patriotic for that matter.

Ms. Boston says requiring employees to speak English is “an annoyance tactic” and “just part of abuse you sometimes get from some employers.”

You have to wonder why employers would go out of their way to annoy their workers — a tactic that would be bad for production.  In an automobile plant you’d be sure to get a few doors on backwards every shift.

Obviously Ms. Boston can’t understand — or refuses to understand – why it would be good for business AND GOOD FOR MORALE if everyone at least attempted to speak the same language.

In fact, it is a good idea for people who wish to live in the United States on a permanent basis to learn English, since fluent English is the key to better jobs and a better life. 

Why do I have the feeling the Interfaith Worker Justice Center isn’t really interested in that kind of self-improvement?

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The EEOC took action against 200 businesses this past year because they simply wished to require their employees to speak English on the job.  This campaign of federal government harassment must STOP!  Small businesses in America will be wrecked if the EEOC is allowed to enforce this further dismantling of America!

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Just Who Are The Bigots Here?

The EEOC apparently isn’t interested in the role that language plays in the life of our nation. 

The agency would obviously prefer to punish employers than to encourage employees to better themselves.

Columnist Michael M. Bates summarizes the larger role that language plays in our society — and, for that matter, any society.

“Our common language is a basis for our cultural unity.  It’s far from the only language spoken in the United States, but certainly it’s the primary one.  For folks wishing to advance here, knowledge of it is essential.  We do immigrants no favors by bending over backwards trying to accommodate them in their native language, hindering their adapting to a new culture.“ [Emphasis Mine]

Those who think of illegal immigrants only in terms of economics — i.e., the benefits they bring to a select segment of corporate America — should study this paragraph.  It reflects the deepest concerns of those of us who successfully fought these same money grubbers in the U.S. Senate.  (And will do it again if they try to cram amnesty down our throats.)

Let’s face it, hindering the adaptation of an immigrant to a new culture only benefits those who seek to EXPLOIT others by creating a permanent underclass in our society… it may benefit some businesses seeking so-called cheap labor… it does benefit liberal politicians who seek more government entitlements and give-aways. 

We love our country and we want it back – what’s left of it.

And we don’t want our government persecuting benevolent organizations like the Salvation Army for requiring employees to learn English.

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Another presidental candidate from Arkansas who
plays an instrument and can play the masses, too.

All this hoopla about Mike Huckabee is a joke. Why? Just go to any conservative or liberal magazines, blogs, or even pick up a newspaper and see why. Educate yourself. Huckabee is lauded as some conservative, but he’s for higher taxes, soft on crime (he once even let a rapist out of jail, who later killed a woman), and is for porous and uncontrollable borders. But it’s not just conservatives who have a problem with him. Liberals point out that Huckabee once advocated rounding up people with AIDS and locking them up, even though AIDS is not transmitted through the air which might justify a quarantine; it requires sexual or IV/blood contact to transmit. Liberals also point out that Huckabee has even refused to sign off on aid for disaster relief for victims of a natural disaster.

It’s awesome that Huckabee is pro-life and wants to expand children’s healthcare (as long as it’s done the right way). Abortion is disgusting and the killing of an innocent human being. Huckabee is, in fact, a conservative in other ways, such as supporting punishment of murderers, and having a personal faith which may affect policies as long as it doesn’t establish a national religion (one reason America was founded was so that people could not be persecuted for worshipping their way, and a national religion is unconstitutional). But Romney, Guiliani, Thompson, and even… I can’t believe I’m saying it, but even Ron Paul would be a better choice.

Here’s a few reasons why NOT to support Huckabee. Some of the links are to conservative blogs, while others are links to liberal blogs. I don’t agree with everything on their sites, especially the anti-Christian bias on the Huffington Post. But we can still take the few rational points they make to learn more.

1.
Huckabee has unethically given state jobs to people who gave him gifts.

2.
He’s for open and uncontrollable borders, where we don’t know who is crossing the border (including those from terrorist-sponsoring states like Syria) and is for letting people jump to the head of the line just because they broke the law, instead of having them wait like everyone else who immigrated legally. See here, here, here, here, and here. He’s even compared people who oppose uncontrolled and illegal immigration as members of the KKK, trying to make it into a racial issue and using ad hominem attacks instead of debating rationally. He has recently flip-flopped, contradicting what he did as governor. I don’t trust it.

3.
He also said that he’s the best candidate to fight islamic fascism, simply because he has a theology degree. I’m not making this up.

4.
Huckabee is for big government and a nanny state. He imposed a 47% tax increase on Arkansas taxpayers when he was governor.

5.
Huckabee advocated rounding up people with AIDS so they couldn’t infect everyone else. The biggest problem is that AIDS can’t be transferred by normal contact but only by sexual contact, IV drug use, or if a person with an open wound was playing a sport, for example. I don’t know anyone with AIDS (that I know of) but I don’t think we should treat them like animals just because they have the disease. Rounding up people with a disease that is NOT like some superflu bug that can travel through the air but has to be passed in specific ways is crazy. See here and here.

6.
Huckabee also “refused to sign off on disaster relief legislation that would have prevented insurance companies from weaseling out of their claims, because catastrophic weather events were referred to as ‘acts of God.’” Why not help people after a natural disaster?

7.
Huckabee was directly involved in letting convicted rapist Wayne Dumond out of jail. Dumond was 35 and already suspected in a rape and a murder, but the charges didn’t stick. Duman raped a 17-year-old teenager. Even BILL CLINTON refused to grant him clemency. Huckabee, on the other hand, let him out of jail. After getting out of jail, Dumond went on to murder one and possibly two women. See Seattle Times’ story here.

8.
Democrats know they can beat Huckabee. They’re even waiting for him to get the nomination and then be easily beaten by any Democrat. See Drudge’s scoop here.

But hey, Chuck Norris is endorsing Huckabee, so why don’t you? Forget all this stuff, don’t think, just vote! </sarcasm>

Now for a break from politics… 
On an unrelated note, here some links to some nice holiday songs by some nice bands. Just right-click and “save target as” so you can save them to your computer:

Death Cab, Baby, Please Come Home
http://www.canyouseethesunset.com/music/xmas/17_death_cab_for_cutie_baby_please_come_home.mp3

Coldplay, Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas
http://www.canyouseethesunset.com/music/xmas/19_coldplay_have_yourself_a_merry_little_christmas.mp3

Pedro the Lion, I Heard the Bells on Christmas Day
http://www.canyouseethesunset.com/music/xmas/20_ptl_i_heard_the_bells_on_christmas_day.mp3

Feist, Lo How a Rose Ere Blooming
http://www.canyouseethesunset.com/music/xmas/11_feist_lo_how_a_rose_ere_blooming.mp3

Red State has a pretty good post about how elites are allowing uncontrolled illegal immigration. Check it out.

Illegal immigration causes more urban sprawl, higher crime and pollution, and threatens to turn us into a one-party country (most illegals will vote socialist if they can one day). Why should people be allowed to jump to the head of the line just because they’re Mexican?

Pure stupidity. A Wall Street Journal article describes how Nancy Pelosi and other left-wing Democrats are trying to block and amendment that protects companies, including the Salvation Army, from lawsuits from people who can’t work for them because they lack the basic skill of speaking English in a primarily English-speaking country.

The New York Times has a story about how a few Hispanic names have made it into the top 10 of most common American names, due to massive immigration (both legal and illegal). The Hispanic (those of descent from the Spanish imperialists (Conquistadors), who slaughtered the Aztecs and other peoples after sailing from Spain) numbers have jumped 58 percent in the 1990s! Strangely, the NY Times reporter doesn’t point out the racism in this quote:

Luis Padilla, 48, a banker who has lived in Miami since he arrived from Colombia 14 years ago, greeted the ascendance of Hispanic surnames enthusiastically.

“It shows we’re getting stronger,” Mr. Padilla said. “If there’s that many of us to outnumber the Anglo names, it’s a great thing.”

Padilla is just another ignorant racist who thinks in terms of categorizing people by race. Some have called this “brown supremacy,” though Hispanics obviously are not better than people who are not Hispanic, in any way. I have many Hispanic friends and thankfully most of them are nothing like this. They have friends of many different races–White, Black, Asian–and they don’t care about planning to take over America with people “like them.”

Sadly, if we don’t curb illegal immigration we will be a one-party country, with most of these illegal immigrants voting for Democrats and other socialists (those who don’t believe in personal responsibility but want total government control, where everyone is equally poor and no one wants to work because you get paid the same regardless of difficulty or intelligence required for a job).

Republicans want the government to protect innocent life, punish murderers and rapists and other evil people, and Democrats want to punish hard working, normal Americans by stealing their money and giving it to useless bureacracy. It has been proven in countless studies that socialism leads to economic disaster, because there is no incentive to work hard, or work at all. But with people like elected-now-dictator Hugo Chavez being elected into office and now consolidating power, that’s frightening for our country. If people are stupid enough to vote for Chavez, they should not be allowed into this country, based on personal responsibility and hard work.

Besides, the crime rates where illegal immigrants have been going have shot up. As Ann Coulter put it, if it were up to Democrats, we’d have two Latin Americas. If we keep illegal immigration the way it is, we not only allow our borders to be porous and let terrorists from countries liek Syria and Iran in, but our environment will continue to be destroyed from overpopulation and urban sprawl. Secure our borders and keep these racists out!

Michelle Malkin points out how gangs consisting of illegal aliens are attacking blacks. Where’s the mainstream media covering this racism? The mainstream media only covers this kind of stuff when it fits the “black vs. white” narrative, as Malkin points out. Of course, they often don’t cover even that. For example, when a couple was raped and murdered in Tennessee, as my earlier post covers, the mainstream media basically ignored it. Sickening.

The Washington Times has an article that shows how lax and porous are borders are, and how border security is a joke. A Mexican national with a highly contagious form of TB crossed the border 76 times and was on multiple domestic flights:

A Mexican national infected with a highly contagious form of tuberculosis crossed the U.S. border 76 times and took multiple domestic flights in the last year, according to Customs and Border Protection interviews and documents obtained by The Washington Times.

Remember when the American soccer team played against Mexico and the Mexicans in the audience yelled “Osama! Osama!”? Well more anti-Americanism from these idiots who hate anyone who isn’t Mexican but still illegally enter our country: Mexicans booed Miss USA at the Miss Universe pageant. Biased “journalist” Diane Sawyer even asks “was it fair?” What? See the story here at Newsbusters. As one commenter noted, “they hate us, but they want to come here.”

Another left wing judge engages in judicial activism against our national security and sovereignty. Federal Judge Maxine Chesney is apparently against letting companies know they can’t knowingly hire illegal aliens. She was appointed by Clinton, no surprise there.

According to an Associated Press report,

The Social Security Administration cannot start sending out letters to employers next week that carry with them more serious penalties for knowingly hiring illegal immigrants, a federal judge ruled Friday.

Ruling on a lawsuit by the nation’s largest federation of labor unions against the U.S. government, U.S. District Judge Maxine Chesney granted a temporary restraining order prohibiting the so-called “no-match” letters from going out as planned starting Tuesday…

…Chesney said the court needs “breathing room” before making any decision on the legality of new penalties aimed at cracking down on the hiring of illegal immigrants.

She set the next hearing on the matter for Oct. 1.