Posted on 11/03/2007 5:24:59 PM PDT by Diana in Wisconsin
I was going to dress up as an Aztec priest and offer a virgin a cup of cocoa, but then I realized there aren’t any virgins at the University of Wisconsin.
Uh huh
>”The indigenous people understood that all that has life will eventually die ...
Indigenous to what country, please?
Simply the conquerers teaching the simple minded savages the “new culture”.
“Avila also constructed the altar for Friday’s event. A picture of Cantinflas, who co-starred with David Niven in the Mike Todd extravaganza “Around the World in 80 Days,” was placed at the top of the altar, which was decorated with a variety of festive skulls, candles, seashells, feathers and other mementos.”
An altar to Cantinflas? OK, so Avila’s an older guy who’s actually seen the Cantinflas films of the 40’s/50’s. Do the young Aztlanians in Wisconsin actually watch those old movies?
Here’s the trailer for “Around the World in 80 Days” from 1956, featuring Cantinflas. That’s FIFTY-ONE years ago!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fEqkeNTLrcM
So a bunch of you typical-hateful anti Hispanic... get mad at a holiday....
Really sick and you do nothing for the conservative cause. Please, please, go to the liberals with your hate.... be the democrat that you were meant to be.
....when they'd celebrate the dead right after they stretched them out on a stone altar and cut their beating hearts out of their chest with a crude knife!!! LMAO >:-p
And your whine does nothing either. Took a hard one this weekend did you Hillary?
P.S. A pagen holiday, similar to Ramadan.
The awful stories of Canadians being virtually destroyed just by going to old Mexico, preclude me from even thinking of visiting. Having said that, I am still interested in old Mexico. Two books both far, far apart will be only read by a comparitive few. It was here on FR that Charles Portis was recomended. One book is
GRINGOS (Charles Portis)
It is circa 1970 or so. The author draws a picture of Americans drawn to live in old Mexico. A motley and mostly lovable crew, all trying to find out who they are. It seems that the hispanic people were in general, very tolerant. The real villains were drug induced hippies from the good old USA.
What impelled me to ramble on, is that it is just a shame that this vile thing of unlimited illegal entry, has poisoned relations. I was a kid in England and watched an old Abbott and Costello movie. Yeah, down in old Mexico during the "Amigo Americano' week.
Happier simpler days those.
Get some beers in 'em and then offer 'em a bratwurst. It is the way of the ancients around those parts.
Bump
Thats why I left CP.
Just because some of you folks are flat out racist doesn’t mean you are even close to being a conservative. You make me sick with your hate.
You are not a conservative. Conservatism is big. You are little, small, with out any strength. The definition of liberalism.
Shame on you for being weak.
“We don’t celebrate El Dia de los Muertos here. We shouldn’t be celebrating Cinco de Mayo, or saying “feliz navidad,” or paying for “bilingual non-education.”
It is a free country, and we can say what we like, in whatever language we like. We can also celebrate any holiday we like.
If you have a problem with illegals, fine. That is far different from having a problem with any cultural celebration or language other than yours. I am Puerto Rican and I celebrate El Dia de lost Muertos, and say feliz navidad. I speak Spanish too. I have no idea why that bothers you, but I have just as much right to live my life as you do to live yours.
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