By The OttO Show, on May 31st, 2010 | 12:28 pm
From 5/20/2010 speech on floor of Congress:
M. Speaker:
I rise to take strong exception to the speech of the President of Mexico while in this chamber today.
The Mexican government has made it very clear for many years that it holds American sovereignty in contempt and President Calderon’s behavior as a guest of the Congress confirms and underscores this attitude.
It is highly inappropriate for the President of Mexico to lecture Americans on American immigration policy, just as it would be for Americans to lecture Mexico on its laws.
It is obvious that President Calderon does not understand the nature of America or the purpose of our immigration law.
Unlike Mexico’s immigration law — which is brutally exclusionary — the purpose of America’s law is not to keep people out. It is to assure that as people come to the United States, they do so with the intention of becoming Americans and of raising their children as Americans.
Unlike Mexico, our nation embraces immigration and what makes that possible is assimilation.
A century ago President Teddy Roosevelt put it this way. He said:
“In the first place, we should insist that if the immigrant who comes here in good faith becomes an American and assimilates himself to us, he [Continue...]
By The OttO Show, on May 31st, 2010 | 11:08 am
Thanks to Leftist activists and anti-Semites (is that redundant?), Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu had to beat President Obama to the snub this week and cancel a White House appearance in order to address an armed conflict. Apparently, Netanyahu is more concerned about Palestinian terrorist sympathizers in the West Bank than he is about Palestinian terrorist sympathizers in Washington.
The good news is that this should free up some time for Obama to meet with Arizona governor Jan Brewer to discuss strategy on dealing with a potential Democrat voting bloc: illegal aliens. The Obama White House, while wringing it’s hands over the possibility that people might use the Arizona law to question why the feds aren’t enforcing theirs, couldn’t put aside an hour of time to meet with Brewer to discuss this controversy.
Apparently, everyone in the administration is too busy scrambling to read the ten page law that they already condemned.
With Obama touting his busy schedule, perhaps the country’s best investigative journalists (AKA James O’Keefe disguised as a caddy) can report on just how many golf games Obama squeezes in this week.
Obama was even too busy to attend the ceremony at Arlington National, instead opting to send his stand-up [Continue...]
By The OttO Show, on May 31st, 2010 | 9:45 am
HEROES UNAWARE
By Mark A. Wright
via usmemorialday.org
God Bless
I first saw him on a park bench
I’ve seen him every day
Sitting in a shady grove
Where my children come to play
Sometimes he feeds the birds and squirrels
Or whittles little toys
Sometimes he just sits and smiles
At the laughing girls and boys
And I never paid him any mind
‘Till one day just this year
I noticed that he wore a frown
And on his cheek … a tear.
Well I asked him why he seemed so down
He looked up, began to say
I lost half my friends 60 years ago today
He told me of the terror
As he fought to reach dry land
By the time the beachhead was secure
Half his friends lay in the sand
That was just in one long day
He fought on for 4 years more
And the 60 years from then to now
Have not dimmed His sights of war
He said they have reunions
Just to keep in touch and share
And for each comrade who has gone on
They leave an empty chair
Well, His park bench has been empty now
About 6 months or so
And if I’d never took the time
Then I never would’ve known
That sitting on that simple bench
With bread crumbs and little toys
Was a [Continue...]
Rep. Tom McClintock Takes Mexican President Felipe Calderón To The Woodshed
By The OttO Show, on May 8th, 2010 | 10:00 am
“It’s disrespectful to do it on Cinco de Mayo. They can be a patriot on some other day. Not that specific day.”
What is Spanish for “go to Hell”?
I’ll let others conduct arguments about student rights and school attempts to keep the peace as well as the boiling cultural battles between Mexican-Americans and American-Americans. The real issue I had with this whole sad fiasco is the fact that there are young people in this country who have the audacity to suggest that there is such a thing as a day where allegiance to another nation outranks allegiance to this one.
As Americans, let’s all come to this understanding: there is no day, no event, no annual festivities, no foreign triumphs…that makes American patriotism a backseat expression. There is no “some other day” when it comes to the American flag. If America gave patriotism a day off every time some other nation celebrated a victory over the French, we would have to mothball our flags for much of the year.
The local Morgan Hill Times described Hispanic students who felt that the presence of an American flag was “disrespecting the Mexican-American students” on “the only day that they celebrate their Mexican heritage”.
By The OttO Show, on April 26th, 2010 | 3:52 pm
The left’s war on words rears its ugly head again, this time in Arizona where a common sense law has just been passed that will actually make being in the United States illegally…illegal for the nearly half-a-million who choose to reside in Arizona. As the great state of Arizona challenges the notion that dealing with illegal immigration is solely a federal responsibility, this could turn into the ultimate battle between states rights and an overbearing and inept federal bureaucracy. (Besides, it is still ultimately the feds responsibility – AZ law enforcement simply turns these criminals over to the feds when they are apprehended)
While there are more troubling aspects to this controversy (such as the president of the United States looking into the legality of such a law when he should be first looking into where the executive branch of the federal government gets to challenge state laws), what jumped out at me is the careful use of language by supporters of illegal immigration and the ever-impartial press.
Statement after statement by activists and radicals refers to this law as an attack on immigrants or immigration. The key missing ingredient to their complaint is the word, “illegal”. As in, “illegal immigrant” or [Continue...]
By The OttO Show, on April 14th, 2010 | 10:31 pm
Congressman Ron Paul is making waves again though this time he is appears to actually be appealing to a large swatch of Americans, a change over the almost exclusive support he had in 2008 among fringies, white supremacists and Dennis Kucinich supporters.
I’ve been hard on Paul in the past even though I find much of his economic philosophy appealing. Unfortunately, he has an archaic view on foreign policy that runs counter to the largely common-sense view shared by most Republicans. Still, if we are faced with a choice between an economic minimalist with a bad foreign policy perspective and a big government hog-at-the-trough with a bad foreign policy perspective, I’ll take the former.
In other words, if recent Rasmussen polling held (as well as Paul’s strong showing in last weekends Southern Republican Leadership Conference presidential straw poll) and the 2012 presidential election were indeed a toss-up between Ron Paul and Barack Obama…there is no question who I would support.
Of course, the likelihood that Paul would indeed be the Republican nominee in 2012 is slim and this poll, like all 2012 polling at this moment in time, is worthless. It’s too early, polls don’t necessarily translate into votes and Ron Paul’s [Continue...]
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