Posted on 04/30/2006 9:38:02 PM PDT by Heartofsong83
This should be a list of who is planning to close their business on Monday, May 1 in response of the Great American Boycott. We should compile it and boycott them ourselves if possible!
Remember to go shopping or work overtime on May 1!
Our local PBS station was in its 10th consecutive day of TelAuc. I checked Sunday night and we were back to normal programming. I'm so sorry I missed the excellent programs you described. I'll keep watch. Maybe we'll get them at another time.
Route 66...Best vacation I ever had. 1961. Seven of us in a new low-slung Ford Galaxy station wagon. Two-tone blue, white roof and lots of chrome. No air conditioning. Nasty in the TX panhandle in mid-June. I can't imagine anything better from which to see our beautiful country, although we hit bottom a lot. All I've had since then were b/w Brownie snapshots. I recently inherited the 8mm movie film taken on that trip--in glorious living color.
That's half the story. My Senator, Conrad Burns, acted surprised when constituents confronted him over illegal immigration and high gas prices during the two Easter break.
Reports of Immigration Related Unrest in Vista, California (northern SD county) Breaking News
Reports of shots fired at Santa Ana illegal alien riot [unconfirmed]
Most of that 20 year old footage was from PBS' other program Frontline. American Experience has been around since shortly after 9/11.
No video, just audio.
"REAL conservatives do not abandon the fight, and frankly I am tired of hearing about those threats."
If you are equivalating the current GOP to conservatism, do I ever have a bridge for sale to you. I did not abandon the GOP, it has abandoned me. And in your vein, I could now care less what the illegal immigrant loving RINO Quislings are tired of.
“Don’t want to pay $10 a head for lettuce?” say other opponents of illegal immigration. You already are in the form of overcrowded and dangerous public schools for your kids, hundreds of closed hospital emergency rooms where illegals broke the bank by demanding and getting free treatment, and in a thousand other burdens they impose on society that increase your taxes. This “cheap labor” already costs you a fortune and is on the verge of costing you your country.
“We’re going to close down Los Angeles, Chicago, New York, Tucson, Phoenix, Fresno” on May Day this Monday, labor organizer Jorge Rodriquez told the British wire service Reuters.
“We want full amnesty, full legalization for anybody who is here [illegally],” said Rodriquez, organizer for one of the unions of AFSCME, the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees of the AFL-CIO. “That is the message that is going to be played out across the country on May 1.”
Listen to the cynicism behind Rodriquez’s arrogant statement. Government workers who belong to AFSCME unions will not see their jobs taken or wages depressed by illegal aliens, as will poor and undereducated American citizens. On the contrary, illegal aliens will generate more government jobs – the one sector where unionization is growing – with their demand for more taxpayer-funded services (read: welfare).
By one estimate, every illegal alien household in America on average consumes at least $2,736 more in taxpayer-funded services than it pays in taxes each year. This adds a total burden that could exceed $27 billion on American citizen taxpayers.
Six decades have passed since the last large organized labor protest in the United States staged on May Day, the traditional date of the Soviet Union’s annual parade of its latest weapons through Moscow’s Red Square and holiday for its Euro-socialist fellow-travelers.
Continues... at FrontPage Magazine...link above
Ping
Would you add me to the list please?
I called our local mexican restaurant and asked if they were open today. I have no idea what he said, but it was short and loud, then he slammed the phone down.
Like I'm going to take my family there ever again. If they harbor ill will for us, there is no telling what disgusting thing they will do to gringo's food orders...
Well, I'm a little embarrassed. It says on the website that it's dated 2006. If so, they must have done something to make it look old, lol. I don't mean the archival footage; I mean the updated interviews and so forth. It seemed like a 1980s production and was shot on film.
Perhaps they were trying to match it to the old footage in some way, so the transitions weren't too jarring. I don't know, I'm still puzzling over it. Mostly because I was afraid I had worked on some writing of it at one time and didn't remember it, so I wanted to see who produced it.
None of my clients contributed to it, at least not listed in the credits, and I never did any writing directly for BP America or the Alyeska Group, I don't *think,* but some of this was so familiar, which is why I thought I had seen or worked with it before. Maybe it was farmed out at one time from the PR firm listed and trickled down to me--I mean, in some of the original footage from the 1970s. I think these people are in Boston who did this new production. I'm not.
Lol, obviously I hadn't seen *this* production. I've seen similar, but as corporate films, like at the Offshore Technology Conference, and mostly 25-30 years ago. *sigh* Getting too old to remember any details. Oh well, it was excellent.
Forgot to add the link to all the info on the Alaska pipeline documentary and a transcript, if anyone is interested:
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/pipeline/
me too.
Frontline is kind of the same thing for me. I never know when they'll be outrageously biased toward the left.
Frontline's documentary on the 3rd Infantry Division that aired 2 years ago, while embedded with the 3rd ID in Iraq was pretty good stuff. It felt like I was literally there, dodging bullets and doing night patrols and even crying with the members of the 3rd ID held a small memorial service the day after when one of their own was killed in the line of duty while the Frontline cameras were rolling.
Ft. Worth is much better, a big city with a small town attitude. Of course I live there and might be a wee bit biased but then I've also 6 years in Houston.
Here we are:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/chat/1625097/posts
*Mexican Restaurant substitute*
Recipe Thread for Illegal-Free Cooking At Home
Good heavens--there are nearly 700 posts on that thread at the first link, since midnight! I didn't know y'all were there. I was doin' Mexican recipes, lol.
Here's our Houston Chronicle non-story:
http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/metropolitan/3833491.html
The Alaska pipeline one might be on again - I saw when I visited the website about it last night that it had aired Monday originally, so the Sat night one was already a repeat - so you might get to catch it.
So, you were thinking "Amarillo in my Rear-View Mirror" in 1961, huh? ('Cause Lubbock's not on Route 66.) I've been trying to conjure up a mental image of your station wagon - keep getting the '61 T-bird, instead, lol. Bet yours had those same big round rear side panels, too.
I was also thinking of the "woodie" - the Country Squire wagon. Lots of neighbor families had those. Let's see, that year, we would've been driving a 1960 Buick LeSabre for the family car and maybe had the 1960 Corvair for a 2nd car - nah, we sure didn't get that thing new. Probably still had the 1958 Renault Dauphine, poor little ugly thing.
Glad you got your kicks on the Big Sixty-Six! Did you have a water bag on the front radiator to get you across NM or OK?
Either now or when the anchor babies turn 18.
I know that...but I think many Americans don't think this is "such a big deal". There's that apathy problem again...or worse...the greed.
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