Press one for English, 2 for Spanish
This is my pet peeve. When I call a customer service department of any public company, I have to make a selection, or even worse, if I want service in English, I have to wait until the Spanish babble ends, which is no shorther than 10 seconds.
Hello !!! Since when this country has a second official language that everyone has to know to get anything done. As far as I know, the only official language of the US of A, is English. If you, mr or mrs Mexican villager, do not want to or not willing to learn English, at least to get by, go back to Mexico, where you do not need to know any English at all.
If you have ever been to France, you know what I am going to tell you the first hand. If you need help, you had better be ready to try speaking a little French. Otherwise you will not get anywhere fast. All the French men and women I encountered with, are of pretty good skills with English language, but unless you want to show an effort to communicate with them in their official language, they will ignore you. Why can't US be a little like those guys ? Are we so afraid of political correctness bullshit ?
Is it so hard to do a decent job ?
Couple of weekends ago, I asked the guys who do landscaping for my next door neighbor, if they want to do a small job for me. The job was to haul the fill dirt sitting on my driveway to the flowerbeds in the back yard. They said if I have a wheelbarrow and shovels, they'd do it. I had shovels and went to Lowes and got a wheelbarrow and came back. Two dudes, around the age of 20, worked about 4 hours and the job was done. Or so I thought. I paid them $200 and they went. Last week when I am moving grass, I noticed a hole around 18 inches in diameter, around one of the sprinkler risers. Could not understand what it was and cursed the ground squirrels, even though it did not look like their job.
Come sunday, I am sitting on the back yard deck and the sprinklers in the flower beds came on. Curiously, the one with a hole around it was not sprinkling at all. I went to check what the problem was. As soon as I touched the riser, it came off. The only thing holding it in place was the dirt around it. Otherwise the jerks who moved the dirt, broke the god damn sprinkler and did not bother to tell me.
Now, I need to flush out the sand out of the whole sprinkler section connected to this pipe, as I am sure the fine, sandy fill dirt has reached god knows where. I hate people who think that they can scam their ways through life.
Be a Border Patrol agent, defend yourself and go to jail
Unless you are living under a rock or blindly following the liberal media, you have already heard the story of two El Paso Border Patrol agent's heart wrenching story. If you
have not, they saw a low-life Mexican drug smuggler while on duty. Compean gets into a struggle and falls onto the ground, bloody faced. Ramos going to help his partner, sees a shiny oject in the hand of this scumbag Oswaldo Aldrete-Davila and shoots. Bullet fragment lodges into his ass. (if it was me, I'd put a bullet into his skull as well and never deal with this crap). He scurries and escapes, leaving behind a loot of more than 700 lbs of pot. Then, one corrupt border agents helps his mother-in-law's Mexican friend and the scumbag Davila gets immunity, along with free medical care, thanks to slimey US attorney Johnny Sutton. He testifies that he did not have a gun and he was fired on by Ramos for no reason (yeah, a drug smuggler with no gun ! Very plausible). Clueless jury deliberates and finds the agents guilty of basically, violating the "no chase without supervisor approval" rule. Jury deliberaton had to end quickly because one or more idiot jurors did not want to sit in the jury room during the spring break. Now the BP agents are facing no less than 10, no more than 20 years of prison terms each. Their sentencing is around mid September.It is like the slapstick comedy movies that one bad thing is immediately followed by another, taking the actors into funny situations. But this one is very real. Two men are facing real prison terms, while the scumbag Davila is getting ready to sue the Border Patrol in the tune of 5 million dollars. Asking why ? Get this : because his civil rights have been violated.Is there anyone who knows where this scumbag lives and is willing to put a bullet in between his eyes to end this miserable tragedy and save the taxpayers a cool 5 mil ?On the not-joking side, please visit the National Border Patrol Council website and donate to the Ramos and Compean relief fund, online or by an old fashioned check.
Evolutionary Biology disappears from approved federal list.
We all know that, president Bush is trying to appease the religious kook crowd as the election nears, mysteriously, one of the largely disputed parts educational system, i.e., the evolution theory, accidentally disappeared from the list of majors(pdf document) that low income students can get a grant for. Education deprtment people say, this is just a clerical omission but the timing of this omission is very curious.
Speaker of Assembly Fabian Nuñez is obviously unfit for his position
It obviously was an ordinary day and newpaper reportes were going to go home empty handed from the assembly meeting, when this jerk, whose picture is to the right of this post, tried to sneak in a resolution, asking Washington DC to stop all immigration laws, which is in the works, which criminalize people who came into this country illegaly, mainly his compadres from the south of the border. When his shameful ploy was caught by Assemblyman Todd Spitzer, the jerk who did not show up for the assembly meeting but sent his proxy instead, showed up and wanted to pull the resolution back. When Spitzer objected, the argument obviously turned into a monologue of expletives uttered by Nuñez, including the "F" word.
Dude, you are the representative for the people of USA not Mexico. If you have a desire to support the causes of Mexican fools, go south of the border and run for Vicente Fox' replacement. Then you can tell your reconquista friends to cross the border for a better life and nobody like me chastize you.
Don't like what you read ? Well, up yours !...
Gotta love immigration judges
Yesterday, I was listening to my afternoon drive radio show, John & Ken on KFI 640 and heard this story, published on OC Register. It makes me really but really mad.
If you live in LA, there is no way that you have not seen the bumper sticker with the word "piolin" on it on any given illegal immigrant driven, beatup pickup truck, travelling 40 miles an hour on the most crowded freeway at the rush hour, overloaded with people and lanscaping equipment, unfit for its size and capacity. Sounds familiar ?
This guy, pictured on the right side, according to what I listened, does the ungodly 7 hour radio show in Spanish everyday on a formerly English language broadcasting station. Let me make it known here: I hate tuning the radio to find something to listen to just because I am fed up with weeding through the Spanish language broadcasters. Hey, you moron's ! Wake up ! This is still United States of America with an official language called "English", not god damn Mexico. Back to the story, Piolin or what ever the real name of him was, once upon a time, came to this country in the trunk of a car, i.e., illegaly. And as he was yapping his pie hole on the radio, he still did not have a work permit. Heck, if you are in this country illegaly, you can not get a work permit. Right ? This is what I have been told and why I have not tried to get a job 17 years ago, while I was here as a tourist. Well, I was wrong. According to this article, written by a liberal swooner to the underdog, this Piolin guy, got his paper for deportation while he was in San Francisco and with pure luck, on the same day he fot his work permit and stayed.
I'm not a legal attorney but a legal immigrant and know a little about US immigration and labor laws due to my close encounters with them. How can a person in an illegal status can be granted a work permit ? In my opinion, his work permit was issued on false premises and should be revoked immediately, today.
If there is a petition, asking for revocation of his work permit, please let me know. I want to be the first to sign-up.
Neighborhood parties
We had a party in our little cul-de-sac of 15 houses or so. The house where the birthday party for what looked like a little kid, was only 4 houses north of ours. Did anyone get an invitation from the neighborhood get an invitation I don't know but we sure did not get ours and I highly doubt if anyone else got one. But don't let this fool you as the party was something among the family. Or they only have little kids and that's all. Nooo.... This was a full fledged party. Inflatable jumper in the front lawn, covering up the driveway and the sidewalk, loud and obnoxious, Spanish speaking, dj, screaming his lungs out, with disco ball of 70's, sending psychedelic light beams to the back yards of whole neighborhood. They went all out. When we went to bed around midnight, party was still going on, and even though it was a god sent cool night in Southern California heat that night, we had to close the windows and fire up the a/c. Thanks to these jerk neighbors, we most probably added another 30-40 bucks to our SCE electric bill.
The next morning, around 8 AM, we got out to walk our dogs and what did we see ? Yup, you've guessed it right. Pile of trash on the curbside, right in front of our house. If you think this was a party for the kids, maybe they'd better explain the beer cans to the child services. I knew I should have called the cops on their asses as the clock ticked over 11 PM, but I did not. And the trash, which was not there before we went to bed. Whatever they did as far as inviting neighbors or lack thereof, is not anyone else's decision, but if you really want to alienate your neighbors, this is the way to go. Keep them up until the wee hours of the morning, trash the neighborhood, create a car parking nightmare. Good going idiots.
