The Right State

I saw this quote a couple of days ago on one of the major blogs I read without knowing that it came from Houston.  I think I saw the post in either Michelle Malkin blog or Powerline, I can’t remember which one.  Anyway I can not find the post, so if someone can find whose blog it came from, I would like to link to it, since this post is just an update.  This note came from someone who should know better.

2 all Latinos!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
We gots 2 stay together and protest against the new law that wants 2 be passed against all immigrants. We gots 2 show the U.S. that they aint [doody] with out us. All this is going down Thursday March 30 at City Hall or Old Galveston road. All schools like Milby, Sterling, Chavez … Pasadena, and many more are down. So come support and fight for whats right.

[”Doody” not original word used; altered by LST]

According to David Benzion at the Lone Star Times, teacher and baseball coach Rudy Rios distributed the above message on flyers to students Chavez High School.  The school quickly took action and relieved Rios of his coaching duties.  Considering the language and the spelling errors, the school district should have relieved Rios of his teaching duties too.

Incredibly the Houston Federation of Teachers is supporting the teacher’s right to protest which is not surprising since the HFT is an ultra-liberal teacher union.

Teachers would be allowed to demonstrate on their own time, including during duty-free lunches, she said. “A teacher is a citizen. A teacher has every right to — on their own time — be as public as they want, no matter how popular or unpopular their views,” she said.

You have got to be kidding me!  Does a teacher have the right to indoctrinate their students?  This teacher was attempting to indoctrinate the students  and then use them to make a political statement.  Houston ISD should have fired the guy for using school resources for personal reasons, trying to indoctrinate his students, and (since he can not spell) because he is unqualified to teach.

In a related matter, Fox News is reporting that the schools in California that let their students leave school to demonstrate are going to pay a hefty price.  It turns out that many of the schools announced the walkout in class encouraging the students to take part in the protests.  But there is a problem.  Like my home state of Texas, the state of California pays the schools for the number of students who go to class.  Since the students missed much of the day, the schools will lose out on more than a million dollars.  Too bad.

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More and more there are those who are promoting the new movie United 93 which is due out in theaters April 28^th.  The movie is directed by the same dirctor who directed Bloody Sunday and The Bourne Supremacy.  According to the Lone Star Times:

There is a movie that is coming out soon that EVERY American NEEDS to see. They need to see it over and over again. I am of course speaking of There are those that claim it is “too soon” to show something like this. They are laying the groundwork NOW in order to complain about it after it is released. They would like you to forget that 9-11 happened, or that somehow the United States DESERVED it.

It aught to be good.  I for one can’t wait to see this movie.  America needs to remember why we are at war.  We were attacked and 3000 Americans were killed.  Then one planeload of passengers fought back.  It is a story that needs told again and again.

Tags: Culture, War by Chuck
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I am so tired of people giving a pass to people like Cynthia McKinney just because they cry racism.  According to Captain Ed over at Captain’s Quarters, the prosecution is punting by turning the whole matter to a grand jury rather than just filing charges himself:

This may represent a bit of a punt on the part of the prosecutors, who already have a complaint and eyewitnesses that apparently substantiate the story. Under normal circumstances, they would have skipped a grand jury and simply filed charges against the offender. However, with McKinney screaming racism and her peers in Congress oddly silent, the prosecutors have made the politically wise choice to defer the decision to a grand jury. Given the evidence already in hand, chances are very low that the grand jury will find that the prosecutors don’t have a case for indictment, let alone conviction.

I for one do not have as much confidence in the grand jury.  They may step up to the plate and do what is right and indict the congresswoman, but with the prosecution giving a pass, it makes me wonder.

There is someone who has not given McKinney a pass and that is the Capitol Police Chief who has stood by the officer who tried to stop the Congresswoman when she went around a metal detector.  And yet there is a group of people who are remarkably quiet during this whole affair, the Democrats with the exception of Nancy Pelosi.  With most of the Dems playing a see no evil, speak no evil, hear no evil game, it is almost like they wish McKinney would just go away.  The Republicans are not much better.  McKinney is such a hot potato that most of the conservative members of Congress, with the notable exception of Tom Delay, are willing to give her a pass as well.  Its time for Republicans to grow a set and call McKinney for what she is: a rabid racist.  I just hope the grand jury sees the same thing and returns an indictment against the Congresswoman for assaulting a Capitol Police Officer.

Tags: Culture by Chuck
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I have been hesitant to discuss the banning of all flags by the Oceanside Unified school district until now.  If this was going to be more about the immigration issue, then I would not have been interested.  With that said, I would like to respond to whomever in the school district that made such an asinine decision. Having been a school teacher myself, I can understand the district wanting to remove anything that would distract the students from learning.  I once removed a 14 year old boy from class because he had painted his fingernails black.  It was a distraction to the rest of the class.

I can also see removing other distractions from class, so that teachers can teach. Teachers are supposed to be able to teach history, government, civics, and a love of our country.  The classes I taught included blacks, whites, Hispanics, Orientals; all of them learning about the things that made this country great and how their ancestors contributed to the greatness of this country.  I am willing to bet that in some students in some of the more liberal enclaves, like California and the Northeast, the students did not stand up for the recitation of the Pledge of Allegiance.  I am willing to bet they did not learn a love of and an appreciation for America through its history.  Even now, many of these same colleges do not want to allow military recruiters on their campuses.

We are a great country because we have harnessed the power of the people under one banner.  The United States has become this great country is a very short amount of time.  Freedom was our founder’s rallying cry.  Our nation has become great because of the differences in our people along with a structure which allows us to grow: democracy and capitalism.  We as a country can trace our historical roots through the Magna Carta, the Mayflower Compact, the Declaration of Independence, and our Constitution.

As a former teacher, I support our kids flying the American flag wherever they go.  It gives them pride, it helps them support America with all its flaws, because it is still the greatest nation of earth.

As a veteran of our nation’s military, I am very proud of our nation’s heritage as well as the symbol of our heritage: the Stars and Stripes, Old Glory.  Our men and women have been fighting and dying for this nation even before its birth.  They died in the American Revolution, they died in the War of 1812, the died in the Spanish-American War, World War I, World War II, Korea, Vietnam, Persian Gulf War, the War on Terror and several others in between.  These men and women fought and died to protect this nation and they carried the flag of the United States before them.  These same soldiers fighting and dying in Afghanistan and Iraq carry the American flag with them.  And now the privilege of carrying this same flag that meant so much to our soldiers, that meant so much to our warriors fighting for us now, this same flag is now being denied to the students of Oceanside?

If our kids do not learn this history of the United States, a love of country, a love of the flag which is our country’s symbol, then where are we headed?  The continued success of our nation is dependent on our children understanding what they are fighting for, else it all might be for naught.  As Irving Dilliard once wrote:

I often wonder whether we do no rest our hopes too much upon constitutions, upon laws and upon courts.  These are false hopes; believe me, these are false hopes.  Liberty lies in the hearts of men and women; when it dies there, no constitution, no law, no court can save it.

The students of Oceanside deserve to be proud of this nation’s history.  Its time to let them feel pride in flying the American flag too.

Tags: Immigration, Culture, War by Chuck
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