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Happy Cesar Chavez Day! Wave your red banners high and keep 'em handy for May Day.

State workers here in California get today off (for now). Meanwhile, those of us with an honest living in the private sector MIGHT be able to take President's Day off to honor Washington and Lincoln along with James Buchanan and Warren Harding.

1 posted on 03/31/2005 10:56:54 AM PST by StoneColdGOP
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To: StoneColdGOP

Chavez, who founded the National Farm Workers Association in 1962, is noted as the nation's foremost Latino civil rights leader.
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If he were alive, maybe he would be a guest at the Bush ranch. Pardon the sarcasm, but it is VERY well placed.


2 posted on 03/31/2005 10:59:44 AM PST by EagleUSA (Q)
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To: StoneColdGOP
The day this became a legal holiday a friend of mine who works for LA County expressed with extreme enjoyment:

"Yippee....yet another paid day off!! Another day I don't have to work each year!!"....

I sat shaking my head in disbelief and shame. She makes six figures a year and works half as much. Hardly the message Mr. Chavez was trying to send.

5 posted on 03/31/2005 11:04:24 AM PST by Luv2FrazzleDems ("Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction." -Ronald Reagan)
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To: StoneColdGOP
I personally liked this quote

"We need to continue to struggle, promote and defend the rights of farmworkers today, especially since many of them today are undocumented and they have greater problems as far as being able to organize."


After all, we should always ensure those who should not be here, be comfortable during their stay. besides, with all the lobbying going on for those illegals, they sure do seem organized to me.
6 posted on 03/31/2005 11:05:57 AM PST by Kidan (www.krashpad.com)
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To: StoneColdGOP; NormsRevenge
San Jose has a Cesar Chavez Park.

Complete with giant dog turd.

7 posted on 03/31/2005 11:11:16 AM PST by martin_fierro (< |:)~)
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To: StoneColdGOP

Lenin's 100th birthday was the first "Earth Day". What a coincidence!


9 posted on 03/31/2005 11:14:10 AM PST by sheik yerbouty
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To: StoneColdGOP
"Lenin Day" is April 22nd.

In fact, the commie vermin were - and continue to be - so bold that they proclaimed the first "Earth Day" on April 22, 1970 - not coincidentally the 100th anniversary of the Soviet dictator's birth!

Perhaps something is still in the works for a day marking Karl Marx's birth for their cadres in our Churches and Stalin's for the ones in the anti-family feminist movement?

C'mon you Reds - go for a trifecta in all three of your current principal areas of activity!
12 posted on 03/31/2005 11:24:06 AM PST by GMMAC (lots of terror cells in Canada - I'll be waving my US flag when the Marines arrive!)
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To: StoneColdGOP
If those California left-wing nutjobs want to celebrate a no-good, lying, power-mongering Communist, that's their perogative - keep it on their side of the Rockies.

But if that PoS Rep. Joe (Jose) Baca thinks he's going to get the whole damned country to "celebrate" the life of an enemy of our way of life, he's got another thing coming. (On the other hand, I GLADLY celebrate the DEATH of any Communist, and will cheerfully dance, piss, and spit on the grave.)

"All Americans should be aware of this chapter in our nation's history."

What is it about these filthy leftists that drives them to force their positions on everyone else? I swear, socialism-slash-communism is like a proseletyzing religion to them. Anyone who disagrees is branded a heretic and apostate, and must be eliminated.

However, with the current attitudes regarding illegal aliens - oh, excuse my lack of ability to speak Orwellian Duckspeak - "undocumented workers", I don't think this leftist windbag has a snowball's chance in Hell of getting this "holiday" enacted into law on the national level.

Let's pray I'm right.

16 posted on 03/31/2005 5:47:03 PM PST by FierceDraka (The Democratic Party - Aiding and Abetting The Enemies of America Since 1968)
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To: StoneColdGOP

http://www.mochinet.com/poets/service/index.cgi?ListTitles=Bar-Room%20Ballads&Poem=18


And there was Lenin, stiff and still, a symbol and a sign,
And rancid races come to thrill and wonder at his Shrine;
And hold the thought: if Lenin rot the Soviets will decay;
And there he sleeps and calm he keeps his watch and ward for aye.
Yet if you pass that frame of glass, peer closely at his phiz,
So stern and firm it mocks the worm, it looks like wax . . . and is.
They tell you he's a mummy - don't you make that bright mistake:
I tell you - he's a dummy; aye, a fiction and a fake.
This eye beheld the bloody bomb that bashed him on the bean.
I heard the crash, I saw the flash, yet . . . there he lies serene.
And by the roar that rocked the Tomb I ask: how could that be?
But if you doubt that deed of doom, just go yourself and see.
You think I'm mad, or drunk, or both . . . Well, I don't care a damn:
I tell you this: their Lenin is a waxen, show-case SHAM.

Such was the yarn he handed me,
Down there in Casey's Bar,
That Rooshun bug with the scrambled mug
From the land of the Commissar.
It may be true, I leave it you
To figger out how far.


18 posted on 03/31/2005 6:01:38 PM PST by HuntsvilleTxVeteran (When you compromise with evil, evil wins. AYN RAND)
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To: StoneColdGOP
Happy Cesar Chavez Day! Wave your red banners high and keep 'em handy for May Day.

Man, I'll never forget the day "Bull" Connor turned the fire
hoses on them!

So why does this congressman want to give the President of
Venezuela a Congressional Gold Medal?

Oops, sorry wrong political agenda.

Nevermind.
19 posted on 03/31/2005 6:09:23 PM PST by tet68 ( " We would not die in that man's company, that fears his fellowship to die with us...." Henry V.)
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