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huele mucho Why not celebrate a "Fabricated Holidays Day" combine Cinco de Mayo and Kwanzaa.?

Patriots say "No!" to Cinco de Mayo

Shirt Stop http://www.snopes.com/Politics/immigrat ... shirts.asp

Rumor: A federal court upheld a ruling that school officials acted correctly in requiring students to remove clothing featuring U.S. flag designs on Cinco de Mayo.

http://www.weirdrepublic.com/episode124.htm

It took a while, but there is finally a festivity in our midst that is even more hostile to our culture than the Marxist-inspired claptrap called Kwanzaa. It’s called Cinco de Mayo.

To the half-wit victims of American public education who now call themselves "college students,” Cinco de Mayo is the Mexican day of independence, or something, which is celebrated with lots of beer. The beer part is no accident; the other part is dead wrong. Here’s the back-story.

The Mexican Day of Independence is September 16th, which comes way too early in the school year to attract vast crowds of drunken revelers. Cinco de Mayo is not even a national holiday in Mexico. It’s a provincial observance commemorating a wildly improbable Mexican victory over the French army at the Battle of Puebla in 1862. Soon thereafter, Napoleon the Third sent in 30,000 soldiers and crushed the Mexicans. The French forces had come to collect a whacking big debt the Mexicans owed to them. Got that? Cinco de Mayo commemorates a confrontation between Mexicans and some repo men!


http://www.theblaze.com/stories/2012/12 ... all-about/


kwanzaa

A holiday developed by a Dr. Maulana "Ron" Karenga, a black militant, Marxist, and convicted felon.
Just five years after this, he was convicted of torturing two black women to death.
Observed from December 26 to January 1, Kwanzaa is based on a mixture of East African harvest rituals, called "first fruits" by Karenga and 1960's radicalism. This is in spite of the fact most slaves came from West Africa.

Viewed as an "alternative" to Christmas, it, nonetheless, is based on race, and not in faith.

Like the ancient celebrations it is modeled after, the modern-day holiday, lasts for seven days (observing one principle each day). While reflective of past traditions, Kwanzaa is a modern-day phenomenon. Founded by Dr. Maulana Karenga, a professor and the head of the Department of Africana Studies at California State University Long Beach, it originated in 1966, during the Civil Rights movement in America.

I celebrate Festivus because its for "the rest of us" All Hail Mr. Kastanza!

On a serious note, I can't believe how fast this country is spiraling into a pit of mediocrity!

How can you fault a 'holiday' (no paid time off from work - not really a holiday any more that 'Office Administrator's Day, or all the other Hallmark-fabricated days) that celebrates Mexican food and cervezas? It's also the 15th anniversary of me quitting cigarettes!

mike...haters gotta hate, bitches gotta bitch, and whiners gotta whine.

it's truly sad the lengths some will go to find something, anything, EVERYTHING to complain and whine about. good grief. get a life, sadsacks. and celebrate the positive things you have to be thankful for.

i know that as a musician....i'm very happy to have one more "holiday" real OR fabricated that leads to gigs.

and congrats mikey...way to go!

Mike, 15 years, good job, sincerely.
Pretty funny, Hallmark not making money.

I contacted my local senator. I requested that July be named national pig month.
I doubt it will go far, but that is just as crazy as national asparagus day.

Amen Jookey.

If you want to get a new 'national holiday', go to this site:
www.nationaldaycalendar.com

I'll be visiting my mom tomorrow, taking her out to dinner, rather than fighting the Mom's Day brunch crowds on Sunday. At 84 she's still going pretty good, although technology leaves her flummoxed. Every time I visit her I spend an hour fixing cable tv, computer or tablet.

A.F.

I knew it would go over your head. Let me put it this way. Americans are being denied their right of freedom of expression from a leftist communist leaning court system that is supposed to defend their rights as Americans. Instead they have been denied their right to display their American flag representing their country. That right has been denied them due to a foreign country's phony fabricated holiday. But naturally there is nothing wrong with that to a leftist without any understanding.

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Yes? Mr troll, sir? May Ihelp you?

huele mucho Why not celebrate a "Fabricated Holidays Day" combine Cinco de Mayo and Kwanzaa.?

Patriots say "No!" to Cinco de Mayo

Shirt Stop http://www.snopes.com/Politics/immigrat ... shirts.asp

Rumor: A federal court upheld a ruling that school officials acted correctly in requiring students to remove clothing featuring U.S. flag designs on Cinco de Mayo.

http://www.weirdrepublic.com/episode124.htm

It took a while, but there is finally a festivity in our midst that is even more hostile to our culture than the Marxist-inspired claptrap called Kwanzaa. It’s called Cinco de Mayo.

To the half-wit victims of American public education who now call themselves "college students,” Cinco de Mayo is the Mexican day of independence, or something, which is celebrated with lots of beer. The beer part is no accident; the other part is dead wrong. Here’s the back-story.

The Mexican Day of Independence is September 16th, which comes way too early in the school year to attract vast crowds of drunken revelers. Cinco de Mayo is not even a national holiday in Mexico. It’s a provincial observance commemorating a wildly improbable Mexican victory over the French army at the Battle of Puebla in 1862. Soon thereafter, Napoleon the Third sent in 30,000 soldiers and crushed the Mexicans. The French forces had come to collect a whacking big debt the Mexicans owed to them. Got that? Cinco de Mayo commemorates a confrontation between Mexicans and some repo men!


http://www.theblaze.com/stories/2012/12 ... all-about/


kwanzaa

A holiday developed by a Dr. Maulana "Ron" Karenga, a black militant, Marxist, and convicted felon.
Just five years after this, he was convicted of torturing two black women to death.
Observed from December 26 to January 1, Kwanzaa is based on a mixture of East African harvest rituals, called "first fruits" by Karenga and 1960's radicalism. This is in spite of the fact most slaves came from West Africa.

Viewed as an "alternative" to Christmas, it, nonetheless, is based on race, and not in faith.

Like the ancient celebrations it is modeled after, the modern-day holiday, lasts for seven days (observing one principle each day). While reflective of past traditions, Kwanzaa is a modern-day phenomenon. Founded by Dr. Maulana Karenga, a professor and the head of the Department of Africana Studies at California State University Long Beach, it originated in 1966, during the Civil Rights movement in America.

Did you read the Snopes article? I bet not. The whole thing about stopping the HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS for wearing the shirts was to prevent gang violence at the school. It happened 7 years ago (2009). The 2 students who tried to make it a court case lost, because the court ruled the school did the right thing at the time in order to prevent violence.

A true case of one these idiot neocon websites trying to make a mountain out of an old molehill.

Did you read the Snopes article? I bet not. The whole thing about stopping the HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS for wearing the shirts was to prevent gang violence at the school. It happened 7 years ago (2009). The 2 students who tried to make it a court case lost, because the court ruled the school did the right thing at the time in order to prevent violence.

A true case of one these idiot neocon websites trying to make a mountain out of an old molehill.

whoosh!.....there's the sound of that going over the heads of the chronic haters and whiners busying themselves thru the day looking for targets to strike out at. ("strike out" being a most apt term)

it's time to load the car for a Seis de Mayo P-JAZZ gig. (wait. that's not really a holiday...sorry, i just made it up. i apologize for trampling on everyone's freedom and usurping their rights!)

hey...you knuckleheads have a great weekend. y mucho gusto, muchachos!

No, it is YOU who still don't get it.

I know that you are easily confused so here it is, the BOTTOM LINE. Americans were denied their right to wear the symbol of their country. When they were denied their rights, every American was denied his rights. And those rights were taken only because foreigners "MIGHT" get irritated if Americans wore the symbol of their country on a made up completely fabricated foreign holiday. American students, not Mexicans, were denied their rights. Get it yet? Are they still forbidden to wear them? if so, like duh! When the ban happened means little if the ban is still in place. It is the ban that matters not the date the ban was put into place. Surly it can't be that confusing when someone explains it word for word can it? Try this: I will try to say it multiple times in various ways if that helps.

Americans were forbidden (AND STILL ARE) to wear the flag of their country on a fabricated Mexican holiday, RIGHT? Maybe you read the whole article at Snopes but you still remain clueless to the bottom line which is this: Americans were forbidden to wear the symbol of their country during a fabricated Mexican holiday. Period. They were denied their rights as Americans as opposed to the courts standing with them.

What are those other people called? Oh Yeah, Mexicans, people from Mexico who most likely don't belong here in the first place under American law. The court stood with them, now didn't it? Did the court allow Americans to wear American Flag shirts? If not then they denied them their constitutional rights as citizens, isn't that right? They were denied their freedom of expression, right? You boast how you read the whole article and I must not have, yet you miss the whole point of Americans being denied their freedom. I don't care how much perfume you try to pour over it, it still stinks.

So you agree that Americans should no longer have their constitutional right to display the flag of their country before foreigners on a fabricated foreign holiday. Perhaps we could ban the flag on other holidays also in the future. You are agreeing that on Cinco de Mayo, a fabricated phony holiday, American citizens rights should be denied them. You are saying that it is permissible to ban students from wearing the American flag because Mexicans "might" want to fight because Americans are wearing the flag of their country? They claim because of "the possibility of racial tension"? Because it "might" irritate or cause racial tension? Something that didn't even happen? They lost their rights for nothing but a "liberal we suppose it might happen"? They thought it "might" offend the Mexican students? Is that all it takes as a liberal for you to lose your rights as a citizen and take our rights as citizens? A simple we suppose it could?

What they should have done is tell the Mexicans that this is America not Mexico, and in America Americans have the right to wear an American flag "T" shirt every day of the year if they wish. They should have told the Mexican students behave yourselves, you are in America now, America is NOT Mexico. If that is not so, when did America become Mexico?

Who do they imagine would start the violence? Why should it bother anyone in America if an American wishes to wear the Symbol of his country anytime he wishes? It certainly shouldn't bother Mexican-Americans, only those who have no respect for America should be bothered the way I see it. Do you suppose the Americans wearing the American flag, who have every right to wear it every day of the year, would pick a fight or do you believe the Mexicans would start it? Patriotic American flag wearing gang bangers. Yupper. They should have told the Mexican students that if the American flag bothers them they should go to back to Mexico to celebrate Cinco de Mayo.



http://www.americanfreedomlawcenter.org ... gh-school/

Court: School was within its rights to ban U.S. flag T-shirts on Cinco de Mayo

On May 5, 2010, school officials from Live Oak High School in the Morgan Hill Unified School District, California, prevented five students from wearing American flag t-shirts because the officials did not want to offend Mexican students on their day.



http://dailycaller.com/2014/05/05/stude ... o-de-mayo/

Students in a California school district will not be allowed to wear American flag T-shirts on Cinco de Mayo, due to concerns that such displays of patriotism would inflame racial tensions by offending Mexican students on their holiday.