That's a funny way to say it

McKain said call it a banana in referring to the Senate plan to grant amnesty. Well he said it wasn't amnesty, it was a tiered program of immigration reform, but it amounts to the same thing. I used to like the Senator, but he has really done an about face. I know he wants to be president but did he really have to be the graduation speaker at Jerry Fallwell's little Bible college? Scary stuff, boys and girls! (Thanks Count Floyd)

Lost -vs- American Idol

I am sorry to the apparently millions of people who like to watch karaoke, but how can people watch that crap? Oh yeah, the first few episodes are always funny, watching untalented Americans embarrass themselves because they think they can sing, but you cannot manufacture a popstar and have everyone love them, can you? Oh yeah, the Monkees.....Well maybe you can but you need a sitcom to go with it!

LOST ROCKED!!!! How long is it until September...or October....or November....Whenever it is ABC will have their new season?

My school made the L. A. Times again today!

In the Paper

The school where I teach made the front page of the L. A. Times today!

The President of Mexico will address the California Congress tomorrow. What the hell? What is the leader of another country doing sticking its nose in the business of another country? Very troubling! I will be interested in reading what he has to say, I will be teaching so I cannot watch the speech live.

School's In

So, where I teach elementary school, they have an annual Latino Heritage Festival. It took me two years, but now we are having a Multicultural Festival. I convinced everyone that they were alienating huge numbers of people and the world is a much bigger place than just the Latin community! So I am trying to teach my students a dance from Romania that I learned when I was in the 4th grade. It is called the Little Hazel Nut and it is fairly simple. But takes huge amounts of stamina to keep up. We have been working on it for 3 weeks and the show is Friday. God, I hope they will be ready. They do not seemed as coordinated as I would hope, but it is a simple line dance and hopefully it will come together!

Fun with the Minutemen

OK so the Minutemen protested in Los Angeles this week and the pro immigration people showed up. You would think that it would have been a forum for rational and logical debate, this is America right??? But the pro immigration people got a bit out of hand. Ted Hayes, a local African-American Homeless advocate, was told to “Go back to Africa”, even though he is a 5th generation local. UNBELIEVABLE!

Bill Handel was talking this morning about Mexico’s immigration laws. Damn hypocrites! They only allow 3,000 people a year to become citizens, only in-country born individuals can be cops, firemen, sit on the city council, and many other decent wage jobs. And yet…Vincente Fox has the nerve to try and dictate what US immigration policy should be. I think we should do as he does and not as he says. Let’s use Mexico’s immigration policy as a model for our own. Close and militarize the borders (as Mexico’s SOUTHERN BORDER IS CLOSED AND MILITARIZED) and do not allow naturalized citizens the same rights. OK so even I think that is too extreme, but is it too much to ask that we just secure our borders and have people just obey the laws we already have? All that would take is for our own government to enforce excisting laws.

I love living near Hollywood. Out in front of Mann’s Chinese Theater, you will find out of work actors, dressed up as many of your favorite movie characters, ready to pose for pictures with all of the tourists. The Freddie Krueger guy actually had REAL fingernail knives and “accidentally” stabbed a tourist. It is dangerous out on the mean streets of LA!