"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 shall be treated on an exact equality with everyone else, for it is an outrage to discriminate against any such man because of creed, or birthplace, or origin. But this is predicated upon the person's becoming in every facet an American, and nothing but an American...There can be no divided allegiance here. Any man who says he is an American, but something else also, isn't an American at all. We have room for but one flag, the American flag... We have room for but one language here, and that is the English language... and we have room for but one sole loyalty and that is a loyalty to the American people."

Theodore Roosevelt 1907

 

boy has that thought gone down the shitter

 

the good ol' days

 

i agree deport them bastards.

 

ROOSEVELT FOR THE WIN!!! god those words are so fuckin true... why has stuff changed soooo much?!?!

 

Lots of good thoughts have gone down the shitter. To name only one...Once upon a time an unruly and disruptive kid was brought quickly back into line with a good swift swat to the ass. Nowadays that same kid seems to be suffering from an attention disorder or perhaps a touch of autism. That means the rest of the world has to put up with their antics because to do otherwise would be unfair to the little bastige. MEanwhile, the unfortunate sould who might apply the paddle is thrown in jail and labled a child abuser or maybe even a sexual predator for daring to touch the evil demon inappropriately. These are probably the same kids who never crack a book in school or do their homework and receive a "Delayed Success" grade instead of getting an "F" and having to take the class or the entire grade over until he gets it right. Then I have to fire them because my boss hired them to be a lab tech and they don't know that there's a difference between a gram and an ounce and don't want to learn the difference.

I, for one am looking forward to Dec. 21, 2012.

 

delayed success...wtf is that?

 

good post Amanda, I am sooo fucking tired of seeing other flags being flown.

 

And ya know, I have no problem at all with people being proud of their heritage or homeland, but when they act like it's just SO much better than here...GTFO.

And learn English or go home. Some don't even try...why should they? They don't have to press 1 for English!

 

That was in the news not too long ago. Some idiot educators (South Florida I think but maybe not) felt that a failing grade was detrimental to the psyche of the poor students who couldn't read, write or cipher. They thought that being tagged with "FAILURE" was like a scarlet letter (although the student's in question probably wouldn't know what a scarlet letter was). So, to improve the dumb ass students' resultant poor self image, they wanted to do away with the "F" and instead issue them a grade of "Delayed Success". The idea was that the numb nuts would feel like some time in the unspecified future, they would become rocket scientists.