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It is official. Spanish is now the official language of the United States. Why? Because Wal-Mart says so. Not in so many words maybe, but definitely by their actions. It started innocently enough. First one, then two clerks with little attachments on their name tags that say “Habla Espanol.” Then the headlines of the celebrity magazines in the checkout aisle, one by one, started switching from english to spanish. Over time it grew. More clerks. More magazines in espanol. Packaging all over the store slowly became predominately spanish, with the english relegated to the back or bottom of the boxes.

Then, today, the straw that broke the camel’s back. The music. Not just the typical, quiet, background music. Loud, in your face, dominate your shopping experience kind of music. Elevator music? No way! Blues? Jazz? Not a chance! This was South of the border, hat dancin’, big old fat guitar twangin’ mariachi bangin’ music. Come on WalMart. I understand your desire to market to a growing ethnic population, but the music?! You’re making us listen to the music?!

Now don’t get me wrong. I have no problem at all with the Mexican immigrants that have come to our community, after all, as the sign says, “A great place to work and play.” I am a retailer in my community, and I truly appreciate my customers from the South part of North America. They are courteous, happy, and happy to spend money. They never cause grief, they never cut in line, and they alway say hello, thank you, and goodbye. That’s a lot more than I can say about most of my American born customers. But they don’t expect me to speak spanish. They don’t expect me to have spanish labels on my products, and they definitely don’t expect me to have a band of mariachis playing ranchero while they shop.

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“Yesterday, the devil [President Bush] came here. Right here. Right here. And it smells of sulfur still today, this table that I am now standing in front of.”
–Hugo Chavez

Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez’s use of the U.N. Assembly as a pulpit to spew his psychotic rant against the United States and our president was in short, disgusting and dispicable. If somebody spoke about Chavez in his own country the same way he spoke about President Bush in ours, Chavez’s security forces would have made that person disappear, probabaly along with a few family members and friends. We, as Americans, cannot stand for such a hellish insult to our country. This piece of rotten garbage created his empire using money garnered from CITGO OIL’s sales here in our own country! Without the economic support of AMERICANS, Chavez would be worthless, and his country would be impoverished. Wait, it already is impoverished isn’t it?

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Bounty Hunter Arrested in ’03 Case

By DAVID CARR

Published: September 15, 2006

Duane Chapman, a bounty hunter and the star of a reality television series, was arrested by federal marshals yesterday morning on charges stemming from a capture three years ago in Mexico.

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Duane Chapman, “Dog the Bounty Hunter” in Hawaii in January.

Mr. Chapman captured Andrew Luster, the Max Factor heir who was convicted of raping three women.

Mr. Chapman, 53, was arrested at his house in Hawaii along with his son Leland Chapman, 29, and Timothy Chapman, 41, no relation.

The charges have been pending since they were arrested in Mexico after the capture.

In a twist that will not be lost on fans of Mr. Chapman’s program, “Dog the Bounty Hunter,” on the A&E cable network, Mexico is seeking to extradite him for posting bail and then failing to appear to answer criminal charges in July 2003.

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So let me get this straight. Dog and his associates got arrested in Mexico for capturing a violent fugitive who jumped bail in the US (because bounty hunting is illegal in Mexico) and Mexico refused to extradite. Dog and his associates then posted their own bail in Mexico, then failed to show up for court, thereby jumping bail themselves. They have now been arrested by U.S. Marshals who are basically now acting as Bounty Hunters for Mexico, which is illegal in Mexico. So they now have to face an extradition hearing in the United States that could result in them being sent to a foreign country to face charges and possibly be put in a foreign prison for something that is not a crime in the United States, where they were arrested.

Mexico adamently refuses to extradite hardened violent criminals to the U.S., but we seem more than willing to extradite good folk to Mexico for going to get them. There is something wrong with this picture. Dog, I hope you get a judge that isn’t a complete idiot.

Good luck, man.

Wisdom

A few days ago, during a speach in his home country of Germany, Pope Benedict quoted the 14th century Byzantine Emperor Manuel II Paleologus who said. “Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached.”

Basically, what Paleologus was saying, and Pope Benedict was referring to, was that Mohammed commanded his followers to spread Islam across the world, and if necessary, force religious conversion at the point of the sword. Those who wouldn’t convert were simply killed at the point of that sword. The concept of ‘Militant Missionaries’ is not a new one, nor is it unique to Islam. The Holy Roman Empire is equally guilty of a checkered past that included spreading “by the sword” the faith they preached. The Church of England did the same, as did the Jews.

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