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Note from A Study Of Our Decline by Philip Atkinson
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Is it Assimilation or Invasion?
by: Phyllis Schlafly
November 28, 2001
Since the 9/11 terrorist attacks, support for the United States has poured in from around the world, but the response from Mexico has been decidedly lukewarm. A Gallup poll reported that 78 percent of Mexicans oppose contributing troops to a multinational coalition, and we have seen no indication that Mexico will modify its oil policy of acting like a member of OPEC.
While there is no evidence that the 9/11 terrorists entered over the Mexican border, the trial in El Paso of an Iraqi smuggler produced evidence that he alone brought more than 1,000 Middle East illegals into the United States via that route, charging his clients $10,000 to $15,000 each. Border Patrol agents have confirmed the increase in illegal aliens coming from the Middle East across our southern border and the fact that Arabs pay up to $50,000 each for a “coyote” to smuggle them into the United States.
The 9/11 events have temporarily shelved the foolish proposals to grant amnesty to three million Mexicans illegally living in our country. Unfortunately, there is no indication that Mexico has retreated from its longtime goal of opening the U.S. border.
In Chicago on July 27, 1997, then Mexican President Ernesto Zedilla told the National Council of LaRaza, “I have proudly affirmed that the Mexican nation extends beyond the territory enclosed by its borders.” He announced a Mexican constitutional amendment that purports to allow Mexicans to retain their Mexican nationality even though they become U.S. citizens (which is contrary to the U.S. naturalization oath).
When President Vicente Fox came to the United States this year, he reiterated this line, proclaiming that “the Mexican nation extends beyond the territory enclosed by its borders” and includes migrants living in the United States. He called for open borders and endorsed Mexico’s new dual citizenship law.
Some Mexicans use the term “reconquista,” which is Spanish for reconquest, to describe their desire to see California, New Mexico, Arizona and Texas acquired by Mexico and named the new country of Aztlan. They are teaching their youth that the United States “stole” those areas from Mexico and that they should be “returned.”
The United States acquired the Southwest a century and a half ago in three ways: part by the 1845 annexation agreement with Texas, which was then an independent republic, part ceded by Mexico in the 1848 Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo after the Mexican-American War, and part by the 1852 Gadsden Purchase
Mexico’s claim to the Southwest originated with the 1494 Treaty of Tordesillas, which drew an imaginary line on the map to divide the Western Hemisphere between Spain and Portugal. Because geography had so many unknowns at that time, Portugal got only Brazil (which is why Brazilians speak Portuguese).
Other countries never recognized this treaty, and Americans consider it ridiculous even to talk about giving the Southwest to Mexico. Most national borders all over the world have come about as the result of war.
Mexicans obviously have no thought of invading the Southwest with troops, so their hope is reconquista by migration, both legal and illegal. According to Mario Obledo, founder of the Mexican American Legal Defense & Education Fund, “California is going to be a Hispanic state and anyone who doesn’t like it should leave.”
An amnesty rally in the Los Angeles Sports Arena on June 10, 2000 attracted 25,000 people. In demanding amnesty for illegal Mexican aliens, the speakers proudly announced the names of at least a dozen unions in Los Angeles that are now headed by Mexicans.
Vicente Fox presented Mexico’s Congress with a five-year development plan to eliminate the U.S.-Mexican border. He said he plans to serve “the 100 million Mexicans who now live in Mexico and the more than 18 million who live abroad,” and to “strengthen our ability to protect and defend the rights of all Mexicans abroad.”
Juan Hernandez, appointed by Fox as special liaison to Mexicans abroad, lobbies to get U.S. driver’s licenses issued to illegal aliens and defends the Mexican government’s issuance of desert survival kits to those sneaking across the border. On ABC’s Nightline on June 7, he boasted: “We are betting that the Mexican-American population in the United States … will think Mexico first.”
Fox’s five-year plan calls for building a larger consular presence in the United States, and this is already in operation. In U.S. areas with large Hispanic (including illegal) populations, the Mexican consul donates to the local public schools the same textbooks that are used in every elementary school in Mexico, grades 1 through 6.
The books, written in Spanish and including all academic subjects, teach that America “stole” the southwest from Mexico and that Mexico is entitled to take it back. The Mexican government considers these textbooks a symbol of Mexican national pride, guarantees a set to every Mexican child, and makes it a crime for anyone to sell them.
The only reason we learned about this Mexican plan is that one school in Santa Ana, California, decided to sell the books at a book fair and the local Hispanics kicked up a fuss about it. The school apologized to the Hispanics for selling the books, but should have apologized to the students for accepting the books in the first place.
The question we should ask our Mexican immigrant friends is, are you assimilating or invading?
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Where Are The History Books Wrong?

admin — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 09:09:49 +0000

My wife has an essay to write where she has to give examples of where history books offer a biased or inaccurate version of history. I’m thinking something along the lines of:
- Abe Lincoln was a great, honorable pres (when there are examples where he was anything but)
- Our soldiers fight fair, and for freedom (when sometimes they too commit horrible acts)
- How the US obtained Texas, California, other Mexican territories, etc.
Any other examples of where the textbooks got it wrong?

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I Need To Find A Book To Read?

admin — Sat, 06 Feb 2010 02:42:09 +0000

I need to find a young adult book that has been recognized on a reading list of some sort (Newberry honors, bestsellers, California Young Readers Medal List, etc.). I’m reading Angels and Demons by Dan Brown but I’m not entirely sure if that is considered Young Adult. I like to read sports books, fantasies and I am interested in World War ll.

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Would You Buy This Book? ?

admin — Sat, 23 Jan 2010 09:08:31 +0000

this is just the preface to my book:sending a message. Hope you enjoy it! Just comment me,ans tell me if you think its good/bad.
Okay, so maybe some things can’t be redone. Maybe some things can’t be taken back. Sometimes life just gives you options that you may not like, but later it shows up good, like it wasn’t good in the beginning, but later on, your glad it happened. Really, I mean, do we have to believe this? Life isn’t fair! Yet, we still think it is! I don’t get why people lie to people’s face to “protect” them. I thought. My mood was a little sarcastic today, with just a hint of frustration.
I was staring off into space again, my eyes locked on the tiny birds scattered across the wet sand, pecking at little bugs.
Ugh! I hated bugs; they were nasty with too many little antennas and legs.
My eyes zeroed in at the waves—I was enjoying watching the birds, but then there had to be bugs involved, so I didn’t want to start having creepy daydreams of bugs crawling up my legs—and my eyes were caught up in the beauty of it. The waves were nothing but blue, but here in California, they always were, and they crashed down just in time to hit the surface of the water when it went forward. The sunlight was shining down on the waves, and it made the water glisten.
I closed my eyes just as the wind hit me, rocking me backwards onto my heels. I spread my hands into the air, letting the spray from the ocean hit me too. The wind towed my hair behind my shoulders, and it whipped against my skin, but it made me feel good.
For some reason, something bottled up inside of me. Something wanted out, now. Something felt like it was going to explode from me at any minute. Suddenly, I couldn’t hold this power in anymore, with one gut wrenching leap, I am placing myself on top of a rocky cliff, where just minutes ago, waves were attacking.
I open my mouth, my eyes still closed, and before I can stop myself, my scream echoes around the cascaded rocks, and bounces onto the waves, where it will be carried away: forever.

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How Does The Dmv Asses Fair Market Value?? ?

admin — Wed, 20 Jan 2010 21:09:42 +0000

I live in california and I’m getting a car gifted to me. They ask in the forms to put down the sale price or fair market value to asses the registration fee’s. Well, I’m at a crossroads here, if I put too high then my fees will be too much, if I put a low number then I will have low fees. Or I could just leave it blank and tell the DMV I don’t know the FMV. I don’t know how the CA DMV would asses the value, I don’t see the lady at the counter whipping out the Kelly Blue Book or checking online. Should I try to lowball it, or let the DMV do it??

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Daily Dose for Thu, Jan 7: Aloft

Powell's Books: Daily Dose — Thu, 07 Jan 2010 08:00:01 +0000

Aloft by Chang-Rae Lee
Reviewed by John from Ukiah, California. Tags: California, Chang, chang rae lee, John", Lee Reviewed, Rae, Ukiah, ukiah california

What Books Would You Recommend?

admin — Mon, 04 Jan 2010 14:40:14 +0000

I have read and pretty much loved all of these:
Generation Dead by Daniel Waters
Marked by P. C. Cast and Kristin Cast
Betrayed by P. C. Cast and Kristin Cast
Twilight by Stephenie Meyer
New Moon by Stephenie Meyer
Eclipse by Stephenie Meyer
Breaking Dawn by Stephenie Meyer
Storkey by D. L. Garfinkle
The Heroin Diaries by Nikki Sixx
Stick Figure by Lori Gottlieb
Violet and Claire by Francesca Lia Block
Snitch by Allison van Diepen
So Yesterday by Scott Westerfeld
The Last Days by Scott Westerfeld
Impulse by Ellen Hopkins
Crank by Ellen Hopkins
Glass by Ellen Hopkins
Burned by Ellen Hopkins
Identical by Ellen Hopkins
Peep by Scott Westerfeld
Freaky Green Eyes by Joyce Carol Oates
Nick And Norah’s Infinite Play List by Rachel Cohn
I Don’t Want to be Crazy by Samantha Schutz
Boy Meets Boy by David Levithan
Invisible Monsters by Chuck Palahniuk
Uglies by Scott Westerfeld
Pretties by Scott Westerfeld
Specials* by Scott Westerfeld
The Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky
Perfect by Natasha Friend
Lush by Natasha Friend
Bounce by Natasha Friend
Go Ask Alice by Anonymous
Naomi and Ely’s No Kiss List by Rachel Cohn and David Levithan
Tweak Nic Sheff
To Kill A Mockingbird Harper Lee
Chosen by P. C. Cast and Kristin Cast
Jerk, California by Jonathan Friesen
You Don’t Know Me by David Klass
A Clild Called “It” by Dave Pelzer
Smack by Melvin Burgess
Blue is for Nightmares by Laurie Faria Stolarz
It Happened to Nancy by Anonymous
Dead is the New Black by Marlene Perez
The Astonishing Adventures of Fanboy and Gothgirl by Barry Lyga
Falling by Doug Wilhelm
Cycler by Lauren McLaughlin
Untamed by P. C. Cast and Kristin Cast
The Earth, My Butt and Other Big Round Things by carolyn Mackler
Nothing by Robin Friedman
The Astonishing Adventures of Fanboy and Gothgirl by Barry Lyga
Rooftop by Paul Volponi
The Da Vinci Code by Dan Brown
Angles and Demons by Dan Brown

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Daily Dose for Thu, Dec 31: Black Evening: Tales of Dark Suspense

Powell's Books: Daily Dose — Thu, 31 Dec 2009 08:00:01 +0000

Black Evening: Tales of Dark Suspense by David Morrell
Reviewed by Tracy from San Mateo, California. Tags: Black, black evening, California, Dark, dark suspense, David Morrell Reviewed, david morrell, Evening, evening tales, Mateo, San, san mateo california, Suspense, Tales, Tracy

Is $2000 A Fair Price For A 99 Vw Loaded With Issues?

admin — Tue, 29 Dec 2009 21:09:06 +0000

I am looking to sell my 99 VW Jetta. She’s a gl, 2.0 with 130K on the odometer that needs new front brakes, rotors, and calipers (most likely) and a new catalytic converter. Otherwise, in fair shape.
The catalytic must be replaced due to California smog regulations. And I am not willing to dump another 800 this thing just to have it fair a smog test for some other reason.
The blue book says I can get 4000 for it in “fair” condition. I am thinking it’s worth 1500 to 2000 to a private party due to the problems. Is that a fair price?

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Daily Dose for Mon, Dec 28: People of the Book: A Novel

Powell's Books: Daily Dose — Mon, 28 Dec 2009 08:00:01 +0000

People of the Book: A Novel by Geraldine Brooks
Reviewed by Stephanie from Santa Cruz, California. Tags: Book, California, Geraldine Brooks, Novel, Reviewed, Santa Cruz, santa cruz california, Stephanie

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