Immigration

My response is towards Governmental Confusion's blog, which is about illegal immigration.

Let me start off by saying he did an exceptional job on this particular blog. I completely agree with everything he said. A couple weeks ago I went to GameStop with my boyfriend so he could buy a new game Dark Sector. As we got in my car to drive away he was reading the back of the game, of course the first thing he noticed was every single thing was written in English AND Spanish. His first thought was that he might have accidentally purchased a Spanish version of the game. Although the video game was in fact in English, the fact that these thoughts even crossed his mind is ridiculous. Governmental Confusion states "We plaster Spanish on billboards and cereal boxes; we even offer the citizenship test in English and Spanish! Giving them no reason to have to learn." I couldn't agree with him more! I also agree that there is no problem whatsoever if an immigrant comes into our country and becomes a citizen, although I, and many others feel they must learn our language as well. I work at a restaurant Texas Roadhouse and I can't tell you how many times I've had to get someone who speaks Spanish and English to translate what someone wants to order to English. Most of the time, being our own employees. Out of respect for all of us they need to take the initiative and try to learn our language!

Respect for our Presidents

In my opinion I'm not particularly for or against President Bush. I don't really know where exactly I stand with him, but in my opinion every president deserves our respect. I am fully aware that George Bush has made some decisions that aren't the smartest. I respect everyone’s right to dislike president Bush or his decisions. Although I believe that he more than everyone deserves everyone’s respect. I was driving down Highway 183 the other day and I saw a bumper sticker on the back of the car in front of me. It said "1.20.09" and something under it a little smaller. I pulled closer and saw "Bush's Last Day". I have to say I think it's pretty unnecessary and uncalled for. I understand that this is a free country and we have freedom of speech, but I don't think we should have so much disrespect for the man who runs our country. Everyone makes mistakes, and even though he may have made many, who hasn't? He just happened to do so while he was in office. I believe our country becomes more and more disrespectful as the years go on. Let's have a little respect for eachother, why don't we.

McCain Booed at Martin Luther King Speech

I read an article written by Will Thomas from the Huffington Post. The article was called McCain Booed at Martin Luther King Speech. Many years ago McCain had voted against and strongly opposed a federal holiday devoted to Martin Luther King. As he's stating this the entire crowd started booing him and he had to try to talk over them. I think it's ridiculous that they would do something like that, I mean in my opinion McCain knows he made a mistake and is admitting that to America and we can't cut him a break? Everyone makes mistakes including presidents or cadidates. It had to be hard on him to say that in front of millions and risk his chances of becoming president but he did it and we should respect him for that. McCain also stated that he "was largely unaware on the importance of King's work at the time".