Okay folks, two can play this game. Let’s make it clear that this is our country and we will not have illegal invaders come in and try to take over.
No more American dollars for Mexican products! Boycott Cancun, too!
But especially today, participate in “Nothing Mexican on Cinco de Mayo!” And if I catch any one of you at a “Cinco de Mayo” bar party tonight…. You are banned.
Go to a nice Irish pub instead. Cuter boys.
-Bruce (GayPatriot)
OK, I’m losing track of all the boycotts fast… I can’t drink French wine or eat snails or grey sea salt, I can’t order French Fries and now I can’t drink cheap Mexican beer? Damn, this economic boycott thing makes life on the high side more painful than a DayPlanner training session.
Can we buy a Ford or not? Can I travel to Tennesee (Gore’s homestate) or do I have to drive around it to get to Savannah?
Are we still boycotting the Russian invasion of Afghanistan or did the WOT negate that one? Is Nestle milk ok for kids? I still drive to Windsor to buy my Cuban el presidentes… can I listen to Dixie Chicks again while reading Dr Laura online?
Damn Charles Boycott and the Irish Land League! I can’t keep up.
Lol!
Psst… they’re called FREEDOM FRIES! Duh! 😉
I live in Texas, consider myself a gay conservative, and am not as upset about illegal immigration as many of you are. Sure we need to secure our borders.
maybe Virginia Postrel of the Dynamist has it right
http://www.dynamist.com/weblog/archives/002123.html
” Why (Legal or Illegal) Immigrants Are Better for Texas than California
It’s the political economy, stupid. (Nasty phrase, that.) Texas has no income tax, which means public services are funded by sales and property taxes. Everyone, regardless of income or legal status, pays sales and property taxes, either directly or indirectly through rent. California, by contrast, relies heavily on a very progressive income tax that doesn’t fall on people who are paid off the books or who don’t earn much money in the first place. Liberals who support immigration should rethink their love of progressive income taxes.
I’m so sick of illegal immigration I’ll happily boycott Mexican everything for as long as it takes. Maybe some people think it’s too much effort or too overwhelming a task to express themselves economically. But when millions of criminally illegal aliens take to the streets demanding equal rights – including free public services – it is definitiely time to do as much as we can to send them a message they wont forget.
What if it’s my husband’s birthday tonight…thus forcing us to go to a dinner that “Just happens” to be a “cinco de mayo” dinner??? (even though we prefer Irish pubs but have had reservations at this place for over a month…) Am I still banned? Because, I couldn’t bear it.
‘Go to a nice Irish pub instead. Cuter boys.’
You’re not telling Vera anything she didn’t know already.
The Music isn’t half bad either, although after a while it all starts to sound the same.
As for the alleged ‘Irish curse’; Vera is happy to report it’s an urban myth started by brits with bad teeth.
Mayo is bad for your health. As is what passes for food at most “Mexican” restaurants in the US.
I draw the line at giving up margaritas.
“Try to take over?” Funny.
And which Irish bars are we talking about? The bars with legal Irish or illegal Irish. Anyone who knows the first thing about illegal immigration, and doesn’t just hammer out tree house slogans about ‘keeping them out’ so they ‘don’t take over,’ knows that there are more than plenty illegal Irish and other white people in the country. But thanks for showing us that this IS all about brown people in your view. Just took a little time for you to be clear about it.
“As is what passes for food at most “Mexican” restaurants in the US. ”
As well as a lot of the real thing, too, frankly.
I am going with the Irish pub idea. Cinco de Mayo celebrates the destruction of a French Army, so that’s a good thing, and it celebrates resistance to foreign domination, so that’s a good thing, and thoroughly Irish – it’s just the Mexican part that rubs me the wrong way, for the time being – so it’s going to be an Irish pub.
Since my better half is out of town, I’m probably going to hit Mickey D’s.
jimmy, nice try at playing the race card, but it don’t trump da facts.
It’s fair to offer that a concensus of professional estimates (no, not guesses by lobbyists and special interest groups looking to pad their numbers) place the illegal population at 11.5-12m.
Guess what share the illegal Irish is of that 12m? It’s about 4/10s of one percent…. that’s 0.4% or roughly 50,000. The Irish economy is the lusted European economy these days given that the French, Germans and Itals can’t seem to get the message that free trade works… so Irish illegals in this country is barely a tick. In fact, I bet there are more illegal Christian arabs in this country than illegla irish.
SO, take the race card and put it to good use… shove it up the ass of some GayLeftie who is helping the Democrat Left in our country keep discrimination alive through racial quotas, hiring preferences, contract set asides, and special work place rules intended to aid female and minority workers. Thanks.
And keep the facts in front of your face next time you try to play the race card.
#12. Illegal is illegal, right? Or only when a particular group of people hits a certain number? LOL!!!! You slay me!
jimmy, we’ll go slow and give you a coloring book… you were the one who tried to play out the race card by suggesting that Bruce’s hidden agenda was to slam illegals just because they were brown skinned.
You, jimmy. As in the guy-in-the-mirror.
You also suggested that Irish illegals are “many”. I gave you the facts; I can’t make you accept them.
Kind of like bringing a pig up to the trough… the farmer hopes the pig will eat but he can’t make the pig eat if it keeps acting stupid.
Oink, oink jimmy.
If anyone runs across a cute Irish strawberry-blonde illegal looking to do hard manual labor for little money under the table…or is that laboring manually hard under the table for little money…send them my way. I need a houseboy to oppress and exploit; college-graduate preferred.
“Oink, Oink”!! That’s great!! [Applause.]
Illegal=illegal in the restrictionists’ book, no? That’s the question.
Go to an Irish bar, but don’t order a Corona, and don’t tip the illegal bartender. LOL!! I love it.
Of course, if we boycott Mexican and Latin American goods and it depresses their economies even further, doesn’t that mean more potential illegal immigrants heading to el Norte looking for work?
I’ve been thinking about it. Take the Corona bottle out from under the red symbol and put a human being under it. That would clear things up. In fact, maybe you could use cross-hairs.
I’m going to a regular monthly nosh with like-minded ladies. (Not conservatives, per se.)
I promise I’ll drink domestic. Usually Sam Light. Bud Light, if they have it on tape.
Julie the Jarhead
(Who has rented two movies, one with Mary Stuart Masterson and another with Mary-Louise Parker, for the weekend. *Sigh*)
It hurts like hell — boy, does it hurt — but I just completed cancelling a mid-May trip to Puerto Vallarta. I’m having Thai food for supper tonight and will eat Chinese Saturday evening (‘tho not at one of my favorites, which I’ve learned has a kitchen full of illegal Mexicans).
jimmy is way out of line trying to make the illegal/legal issue a racial one.
Good points, Trace. jimmy is not only fact-challenged; he’s perspective-challenged too.
jimmy (or the new Ian, as I like to think of him) writes “I’ve been thinking about it. Take the Corona bottle out from under the red symbol and put a human being under it. That would clear things up. In fact, maybe you could use cross-hairs.”
No, jimmy, thinking isn’t your strong suit. It isn’t about race, unless it’s a race twoard stupid that you’re in… it’s about the rule of law, playing fair, and treating all legal immigrants the right way. Remember, it’s the illegals who subvert the process –not the federal govt.
Thinking isn’t a strong suit for you, kid.
Just three words, girls…
IRISH RUGBY PLAYERS!!!
WOOOOOOF!!!!
Regards,
Peter H.
Oh No…. do you think right wing Mexican TV shows will make up their own mythical “War on Cinco de Mayo”?
#22: “it’s the illegals who subvert the process”
You still don’t get it do you? The GOP is just stirring this up in the hopes of diverting attention from all the bad news and scandal enveloping it. They have no intention of cutting off the flow of cheap labor from south of the border because to do so would cost their business supporters dearly. There isn’t going to be a wall, there isn’t going to be military patrol of the border and any beefed up Homeland Security will be just window-dressing.
“Let’s make it clear that this is our country and we will not have illegal invaders come in and try to take over”
Bet Native Americans wish that had been their saying a few hundred years back. heh heh heh
Ian S., I agree with some of the comments you post, but not on this one. The Republican Party isn’t stirring up the immigration debate.
The children, grandchildren, great-grandchildren, et al, of the LEGAL immigrants who built this country ere reacting to the demands of illegal aliens, who have no right to be in this country, that Congress and Americans overlook their illegal entry and let them go to the head of the line to become citizens. We’re also reacting to Mexican flags be flown in our cities, of the American Flag being dragged about like rags and flown upside down, of leftist A.N.S.W.E.R.’s anti-American bile, of posters honoring Cuba’s Che, of illegals depressing wages, etc., etc., etc.
#27: Well, Trace, as I’ve stated in other threads, I myself am an immigrant who became a citizen in 1999. I went through all the legal hoops but I had an advantage: I had a Ph.D. in engineering AND a company that was willing to spend the time and effort to get me a green card. That company hired me at the prevailing rate for citizens with my education and expertise so I don’t believe I caused any wage depression. But many who have come across our southern border ARE hired not only because they may work for less but also because the companies that hire them can avoid many of the other costs they would normally incur. That’s wrong but it’s not the workers’ fault. It’s the fault of the companies that hire them and that’s why there will be no meaningful change: those companies have great influence in the GOP.
The issue has been simmering for many years but it always seems to get legs around election time. Who benefits from that? Whose base can be energized around such an issue? It’s quite a risky strategy but the GOP MUST energize their flagging base for the fall elections. I’m sure they figure that once again they can talk the talk but not walk the walk and still get their base to vote. The GOP simply CANNOT risk losing the House and/or Senate else Bushco will be subjected to two years of investigation.
I didn’t mention it but the reason I became a citizen many years after I was eligible was a result of the last time anti-immigrant fervor that was stirred up back in the mid-90’s with California’s prop 187 among other things. I was personally tired of Republicans flogging immigrants and decided to become naturalized so I could vote against them. I’m sure I wasn’t the only one to do so. Today we have over 10 million legal immigrants who are in the position I was. It will be interesting to see how many of them decide enough is enough and take out citizenship so they can have a say in our system.
#29 – Right on, sister Texican. Lock ‘n load!
Regards,
Peter H.
Been burping mexican food all day. I feel as though I should be ashamed of myself. *tears*
First France, then Aruba, now Mexico? Soon you conservatives will have boycotts running against every country on Earth. What a waste of time.
I truly find this all very funny. You’re all so much for the American system of capitalism which thrives on illegal aliens (make something for the cheapest price possible – which includes paying the lowest wages possible). American business is a large contributing force to illegal immigration. I’m guessing that Wal-Mart cleaning staff scandal was just the tip of the iceberg.
Sorry, but the overwhelming majority of immigrants are not terrorists; they are poor people who live in abject poverty and have a natural desire to try and carve out a better life for themselves. Frankly, it’s a testament to America (or at least the American Dream) that people are willing to risk their lives to come here.
You all should watch “A Day Without a Mexican”. Maybe your eyes would be open a little.
Ian S. (and now Kevin), your contributions to this debate would mean a lot more if you’d stop trying to blur the difference between legal immigrants and illegal aliens (which is what federal law calls them).
As I’ve posted repeatedly as this topic has been discussed at GayPatriot, I think the law against hiring illegal aliens must be enforced. I don’t care whether it’s a small “mom and pop” operation or a giant corporation, there ought to be huge fines levied for every illegal alien hired and jail terms for those employers who insist on breaking the law.
34: No arguement there. But please, let’s remember that it’s these businesses who are the real criminals, not the illegal aliens who’ve come here to try and scrape out a life. Let’s see the owners of walmart in shackles instead.
Unforntunatley, the targeting of “Mexicans” demonstartes that this is not a issue of national security (the Islamofascists are the real enemy), but an issue framed by blatant xenophobia…with a side-order of racism.
I’m disappointed.
It’s refreshing to know that I was not the only gay conservative to boycott Cinco de Mayo! I had sushi! 🙂
Keep up the excellent work!
Captain Cox
http://www.captaincox.blogspot.com
Kevin, I don’t think any of us would disagree with a need to crack down on the businesses that hire illegal immigrants. But I don’t see how that excuses the illegal immigrants themselves. That’s like saying: don’t blame the thieves, blame the sleazy pawn shops that knowingly buy from them. The thieves are just trying to “scrape out a life,” after all.
I just found this site & I love it!
I could not move illegally to a different country and make demands of the citizens that were born and raised there and expect to be well received. These people should boycott the people in Mexico that are in charge so they can make changes in their own country. Not boycott us that give them free medical care and teach their children our language which they have no respect for. Oh and by the way, what would happen to ME if started spray painting everything in Mexico, mmmm?
39: Because, the overwhelming majority of these people who come here are not thieves. The real criminals in most of these cases are the people and businesses who bring them here using illegal means and/or for illegal purposes: Human traffickers who make money on “transportation services” to get these desperate people into the country, businesses (both large and small) looking for slave / near-slave labor (ie WalMart cleaning crews), the slimebags who use people (mainly women and children) in drug and sex trades, etc. If you walk down the street of a large city like New York and you see a homeless person selling illegal dvd’s off a blanket on the street, do you honestly believe that this person is the mastermind behind that operation?
It’s probably the worse criminals who are entering the country legally to make themselves look respectable….didn’t all of the 9/11 hijackers enter the US via the legal immigration system?
If everyone is so hot on boycotting these folks, then are you checking the office buildings you work in and the establishments you frequent to make sure each and every person there is a citizen or legal immigrant? Let’s be honest – how many of you really give a rat’s ass that the Honduran bus boy in your favorite restaurant is legal immigrant? Do you ask that question of every business you go to?
Kevin, if you are so concerned about business’ employing illegal immigrants then why don’t you stop shopping there? If every U.S. citizen stopped shopping where illegal immigrants were employed these business’ would stop hiring them.
ONE MORE THING; have you heard the Mexicans talk about Americans? I live in LA and I have. They believe sincerely that we need change here. We need to change the language we speak and we need religion. Do you think Mexican leaders will embrace the gay community? Think about these things!!!
Could the two Kevins add initials as the two Ians have, so we can tell them apart. Thanks.
Sure! This is Kevin in LA.
40: Sounds more like you’re talking about the fear of whites becoming out-numbered by non-whites, not illegal immigration. And yes, I lived in L.A. for several years, thank you very much. It’s no wonder there’s such a large Mexican immigrant population, illegal or otherwise. L.A. is one of the largest population centers in the world that has a demand for cheap labor and immigrants have been fulfilling that need for decades, so it’s no wonder their numbers have been growing over time.
Well, if companies or individuals would be willing to pay a decent wage then Americans would take the jobs. College students USED to work in places like McDonalds or small clothing stores.
Well, of course illegal immigration is going to cause whites to move out of here. Why would any white person want to live amongst illegal immigrants who can’t speak English, spray paint everyone’s property, steal your cars, and form gangs & shoot at each other? Is this the way YOU want to live? When this starts happening where YOU are, then you’ll maybe think differently.
Close the borders with the military as mexico does on her southern border and then we can discuss making the illllegals here into legals. Interesting note was Alabama sent workers to New Orleans and Mississsippi and they got sent back cause the company finally had the mexicans get there. Not much of the media even bothered to check into this let alone expose it. But I am not just talking about the southern border I am also talking about the northern border cause I am jsut as afraid of Canada and her open immigration policies. Danger there also. Sides Canadians need to stay home too.lol they steal all the good parking spots at my local store lol. I hope some one realizes that they are called illegals cause they broke the law and that makes them criminals each and every one of them.
yall just haten……go back 2 europe.. cuz we da ones dat own dis land and we were here first then all yall white peoplz…. go get a freakin tan!!!!!
Actually sweetie, you need to go back and take your history classes over. We PURCHASED this land in the 1800’s.
“mexican for life” you are an ebonics speaking retard. Peanut brain! You have to be living off the “system” or picking lettuce for a living. You are too stupid to have a real job.
BTW I am an open minded hetero male (married) that happens to like this site and the people. This site is great!
Well, I want to leave California but after doing research on Canada I don’t want to go there. I keep thinking Hawaii as my cousin says there are no mexicans there. Gosh, I can’t even imagine what that would be like……..
I also thought about Barbados as I loved it there but recently they’ve not been friendly toward gays.
Where to go….