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Is Dora the Explorer an Illegal Alien?

posted July 16, 2007 - 3:10pm
Is Dora the Explorer an Illegal Alien?

Interesting. A recent controversy over at Facebook between a group who believe that Dora, who looks exactly like a Mexican and speaks Spanish perfectly--in addition to other characteristics on the show, and a counter-group who accused the original group of "racism, ignorance, etc.", only shows the thin skin of the pro-illegals and the quick descent they have to emotional outbursts at the expense of logic and reasoning.


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Unfortunately...

jdubhub - Fri, 2007-20-7 4:31 pm
Unfortunately, we've become a nation of whiners. Witness the amount of lawsuits being filed these days for small things that in times past could have been resolved with an apology and a handshake. Speaking of whining, one thing that really gripes me is the idea of reparations for slavery. There are those in the Black Caucus in Congress and attention whores, like Al Sharptongue and Jesse Jackass, who believe all it will take to make blacks happy campers in the United States is a little of your and my hard-earned money. I have a few problems with that:
  1. Nobody alive today was a slave and nobody alive today owned slaves. If it didn't happen to you, then you have no grounds for a grievance.
  2. More blacks have come here through immigration from Africa post-1965 than the peak of the Trans-Atlantic slave trade. Even then, most of the slaves from Africa went to Brazil and not here.
  3. Whites were slaves here long before any black slave set foot in the New World. We are not considered worthy of reparations.
  4. Along with #3, free blacks (and there were free blacks) could own slaves. In fact, free blacks owned white slaves. A black slave could earn his freedom; a white slave was pretty much doomed to be worked until his or her death.
  5. Not all whites were here before the abolition of slavery in 1865. There were huge waves of immigrants from Europe between the 1870's and the early 20th century. Yet, all white people are lumped together for the purposes of the reparationists.
  6. Contrary to anti-white slander-pieces, like Alex Haley's Roots, no whites had to go into the jungle to catch Kunta Kinte. No, Kunta Kinte was sold into slavery by his fellow blacks. Where are the demands of African nations by reparationists for their complicity in the slave trade?
  7. White Europeans were the first group to abolish slavery. It is still practiced in parts of Africa and there is an active trade in white slaves in Asia and Israel. In closing, the whole idea of reparations for something that did not happen is simply whining. If someone were to tell the blacks to kwitcherbitchin, maybe we could make some progress in this country. (For the record, I am not lumping all blacks into the above, just the reparationists. There are many upstanding, hard-working blacks in this country that are just as sick as I am that their reputations are being ruined by the ne'er-do-wells who share their ethnicity.) I had to delete some of what I typed because it started to go off-topic, but I am in the process of writing an article on the hypocrisy of the multicultural model and what we need to do to right the ship.

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Pity that 'Raging' Is Misinterpreted Nowadays as 'Loud Whining'

mythman - Fri, 2007-20-7 2:32 pm
Reading JDubHub's list (posted in a comment before), I thought about Dylan Thomas's "Do Not Go Gentle into that Good Night" ... particularly the lines (repeated several times throughout), "Rage, rage against the dying of the light." "Rage" is much more to me than 'Loud Whining' or 'Mourning the Past Chances I Could Have Had.' Indeed, those past chances (I was a Golden SuperGenius before the DMV's half-a$$edness ƒu©ked me) DO demand that I am repayed for them; but the only light my 'raging' enlivens is my own ... perhaps 'showing the world how it might enliven its light,' true; but mine's the only light I can guarantee. 'Rage' is the fire built of Divine Spark, the urge to go out and make right, 'Rage, rage against the dying of the night.' (Not to say you are to do bad things to those who choose not to 'rage,' but rather that you do good only to those who sustain the light.) Merriam-Webster Online defines "rage" as 'passion, but not,' and defines "passion" as 'love, but not.' Your love/passion/rage flows through/with the Enlightened, against the dying of the light. Get Traffic to Your Sites by Sending Traffic to the Other Sites You Like!... or ... Join Xomba!

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It is already happening...

jdubhub - Fri, 2007-20-7 12:00 pm
  • The U.S. Department of Education was created in 1976 to create a national "standard" for education, sort of "No Child Left Behind" in its embryonic stage. What has happened to our test scores and ability to compete globally since then? A big downturn and a conspicuous dumbing down of the masses.
  • Akin to the last point is the lowering of educational standards in the name of "diversity" to make sure that our children get rewarded with a college education not for hard work but on the basis of skin color alone. Watch the marketing of various colleges and universities when they tout the diversity of their student bodies. For most minority students, even juniors and seniors, they will still identify them by whatever high school SAT scores they had two, three, or four years prior. Why not identify them by current GPA? Further, why don't they publicize the graduation rates of their entire student body? It's one thing to say that a school has X number of minority students entering their institution every year and a whole other thing to gloss over the fact that many of those same students don't even make it to graduation because they couldn't hack the workload.
  • An expansion of television channels with the advent of cable TV and satellite TV. The emphasis, of course, is on adding more channels and creating a demand for more time in front of the TeeVee. Instead of Americans reading books or gathering together to discuss politics in the living rooms of their homes, we have come to rely on sound bites and news snippets as the source of our information about current events. The result is sheeple that cannot separate fact from fiction because they have lost their ability to think critically.
  • Everyone is being conditioned not to question authority and that our rights are really just something that comes from the government and not given to us by our Creator. Anyone or anything that challenges the system gets politically assassinated in the media and peer pressure keeps the masses from coming to the aid of the bullied (coupled with many of the masses not knowing where to look to get the whole story.)
  • The Internet, which might just be the last bastion of free speech left in the world, should be used to examine what is going on in the world and to discuss what we the people should be doing about it. Instead, people would rather watch porn or download pirated music and movies than use this strong instrument of communication. For most, government regulation of the Internet is nothing more than a minor inconvenience and can be ignored so long as they can still get their porn or movie fix every day. Those of us that use the Internet for actual research and discussion are being left high and dry by the unthinking masses.
  • More people can tell you the final ten contestants on American Idol than can tell you the names of the sitting justices of the Supreme Court.

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That's One of the Things the Founders Were Against

mythman - Thu, 2007-19-7 11:23 pm
Yes, I imagine society could become Eloi-esque ... And the leaders today would be perfectly alright with that! I've heard that George Bush Jr.--though he is sworn to 'protect the Constitution--has said that he would rather wipe his ass with it ... ummm, although I'm sure Eeyore would be much clean if Bush used a fluffy cotton towel ... snicker-snicker I can see it now; we would have houses (families) whose children went to school to learn how to manipulate the great Unwashed, and then many-many houses whos children learned only to work, play, eat, sleep, and suitably understand ou-- the educated houses' commands. Get Traffic to Your Sites by Sending Traffic to the Other Sites You Like!... or ... Join Xomba!

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Time Machine's Eloi?

jdubhub - Thu, 2007-19-7 1:36 pm
Sometimes it feels like the the 1960 version of H.G. Wells' Time Machine where George, played by Rod Taylor, finds that all humans on earth have devolved into two species: the Eloi and the Morlocks. While there are so many different layers of social commentary in the book, one of the things I remember most about the Eloi is their sheeple-like qualities and the fact that all of the books that George tries to read in their library have turned to dust through disuse. You get the feeling that the written word in quality books is headed down the same road and our society is destined to become Eloi-esque.

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Dual Subliminality

mythman - Thu, 2007-19-7 1:03 pm
My last comment was subliminally telling readers that a) they can use Xomba as a starting-place for research (not withstanding all the lazy, illegal movie-links on Xomba ... no, Xomba's not 'breaking the law,' but the people who push their links to us might be), because b) most of us Xombees have done the real research (books: only for grown-up's these days). Get Traffic to Your Sites by Sending Traffic to the Other Sites You Like!... or ... Join Xomba!

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Indeed

jdubhub - Wed, 2007-18-7 2:27 pm
Actually, everything I said in reply to your last was off the top of my head from previous research. But, I do know what you mean.

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I Should Be a History Professor

mythman - Wed, 2007-18-7 1:50 pm
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The story of the Irish

jdubhub - Wed, 2007-18-7 4:49 am
The story of the Irish immigrants, while not exactly the proudest moment in American history, does not apply to the problems with illegal immigrants from south of the border.
  1. For one, the Irish, as with every other European immigrant, came here legally through Ellis Island.
  2. Secondly, they spoke a common language and held common beliefs with Americans from other countries in Europe.
  3. Thirdly, they did assimilate into American culture and did not demand that Americans bend to theirs.
  4. Fourthly, while the Irish and Mexicans have in common the fact that they do dirty jobs, there was no welfare state back then, which is a primary draw for Mexicans now; a recent LA Times investigation showed that only about 22% of Mexicans are involved in agriculture but nearly 38% are on some sort of welfare.
  5. Lastly, Irish schoolkids were not taught that the US "stole" their land from Ireland, as are kids in Mexico. On that note, it is the Mexican government that ceded the so-called "stolen" land to the United States as spoils of war at the Treaty of Guadalupe-Hidalgo and after the US paid for it with the Gadsen Purchase; nothing was "stolen". If Mexicans have issue with those areas being part of the United States, they should take it up with their own government. But, blaming white people for everything wrong in the world has become fashionable and no one will demand that the Mexican government be accountable for its own past.

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"... or Worse ..."

mythman - Tue, 2007-17-7 10:34 pm
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