March 15, 2008
Saturday Forum
A New York Reader Says To End School Holiday Bickering, Cut Off Muslim Immigration; etc.
From:
“Gotham
Aborigine” (e-mail
her)
Re: Brenda Walker’s Blog:
Muslims Residing In New York Demand School Holidays
As a New Yorker, I should point out that
city public schools
do not hold class on Yom Kippur and
Rosh Hashanah.
Since I’m
Jewish, I remember being astonished as a kid that
this was the case. My family didn’t attend synagogue so
I was more than happy to have the day off.
Jewish holidays were first granted because the
Jewish student body was about 40 percent of total
enrollment. Additionally, the teachers were 65 percent
of the staff.
That’s no longer the case.
Immigration has greatly changed the school
demographic.
Count on the
Muslims to insist that Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur
be abandoned as holidays.
Surprisingly, many Jews will support that idea in
exchange for a plan wherein they can take four personal
days to use them for either religious holidays or other
special occasions.
The best solution, of course, would be to cut off
Muslim immigration into the US.
"Gotham Aborigine"
picked her pseudonym to reflect that just as the
aboriginals are now reduced to a tiny minority in the
land they once owned, that same fate may await
Americans. She did not use her own name because she is
fearful that her views will get her fired, adding: “although
we live in a democracy, our opinions are policed as if
we lived in North Korea.”
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A Texas Reader Says He Voted For Hunter---But He Had Already Dropped Out
From:
Banker X (e-mail
him)
Re: Joe Guzzardi’s Column:
“He Can’t Win”--- How Immigration Reform Patriots
Betrayed Duncan Hunter (And Tom Tancredo)
Guzzardi’s column angers me to the core---but not
because of its content.
By the time the primaries came to
Texas, the immigration reform candidates
Hunter and Tancredo had dropped out.
In fact, when I cast my March 4th vote, only
John McCain, Mike Huckabee and
Alan Keyes were still officially in the race,
although Hunter, Tancredo, Fred Thompson and Mitt Romney
were listed on the ballot.
Why did I even bother to go to the polls?
I've asked myself that question over and over. The good
folks from Iowa,
Vermont and
Florida had already made
up their minds which candidates would be left in the
race once Texas' turn
came.
And even before that, the
television networks took it upon themselves to
decide which candidates would and would not be permitted
to participate in the debates.
While I was not exactly disenfranchised, my choices were
made for me long ago.
McCain
was a frequent guest on the corrupt Sunday morning
political shows for a simple reason---he’s their
darling.
Nevertheless, I voted for my personal immigration
enforcement hero, Duncan Hunter.
It's a shame that a few media outlets and small states
like Iowa have such an impact on which candidates
survive.
And I can’t understand why all states don’t have the
same primary date. This would most assuredly inhibit, if
not eliminate, the corruption in our national elections
system.
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A Texas Reader Wonders Why Brenda Walker Gave The Roman Catholics A Pass
From: Michael Johnson (e-mail
him)
Re: Walker’s Blog:
Refugee Crash Course On Living In America
In her recent blog entry, Walker
wrote:
"It's
easy money for the interfaith settlement workers of the
Episcopal, Lutheran, and assorted other church groups."
What? No specific mention of the
Catholics?
According to
these figures released last year, the U.S.
Conference of Catholic Bishops' Migration and Refugee
Services got more federal government money in 2004 ($39
million) than any of the other church groups trying to
turn America into a third world country.
The
Lutheran Immigration and Migration Service ($23
million) came far behind the Catholics.
Johnson is
a software engineer in Houston who writes that he
expects to try his hand at
subsistence farming in
the near future. His previous letters that reflect a
disdain for Democrats are
here and
here. A third letter
about racial differences is
here.
Brenda Walker
replies: I have smacked the Vaticrats around
plenty
elsewhere on VDARE.COM. But in this case, my research
did not turn up any Catholic connection.
Just because the
Lutherans
make less money deceiving the American people than the
Catholics doesn’t
give them a pass.
Wrong is wrong. Right?
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A Delaware Reader Says Losing A Dog Is The “Most Painful Thing”
From:
Thomas Intintola (e-mail
him)
Re:
Joe Guzzardi’s Column:
A Dog’s Life And Death
Guzzardi’s column about
the premature death of his dog Lily hit home.
Lily was an important
part of Guzzardi’s life. The worst thing is that animal
lovers cannot make other people understand what we go
though when we
lose a pet.
To some, she was “just
a dog” But to Guzzardi Lily was a living thing that
he loved very much and he would have sacrificed anything
for her survival.
We had a
Rhodesian Ridgeback named Archie that we lost after
fourteen years because of kidney failure.
During Archie’s last months, we spent over $5,000.00 on
dialysis and would still be spending if the veterinarian
had not advised me against it. He said that Archie would
recover for a week only to start suffering again. If
Archie were his own, the vet told me, he would put him
down.
It was the most painful
thing I have ever done.
Our loss of Archie hurt
so much that my wife never thought she would become
attached to another dog.
But seven years later, I
found a stray that needed a home.
I put an ad in the
newspaper but luckily nobody claimed him. Now Buchi
(Japanese meaning multi-colored) has two buddies in my
wife and me.
Even though he’s gone,
Archie will always have a place in my heart. I refer to
him and Butchi as “my two boys.”
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