Stink Oh De Mayoh
American love to celebrate anything. We are always looking for any excuse to get together and drink, dance, and enjoy the fruits of our labors. As a nation, we have become prosperous and wealthy and an occasion to let down our hair makes our labors seem all that much sweeter. Just look at the number of off beat holidays that we celebrate. There is St Patricks day. Now I know that we are not all Irish but on a cosmic scale, it is close enough. You have the big three summer holidays, Memorial, July 4th and Labor, only one of which is an actual occasion of any significance. Even Halloween has turned into a big time event with adults joining in to the same degree as the children. But today is May 5th which means nothing in America. It is a minor event in Mexican history but we have glamourized it and made it a day for Americans to party; Cinco de Mayo.
The day celebrates an event in Mexico when the Mexican army defeated the last attempt by the French to influence (at least militarily) the New World. In Mexico it is hardly noticed. In America, we are happy at any French defeat so we have done the old "carpe diem" and adopted it as our own. I can see all of the French soldiers throwing down their rifles and raising their arms above their heads. It reminds me of that French aerobics video I saw last year.
What Americans should use Cinco de Mayo for is to focus on the invasion of illegal immigration from our southern border. It should be the day that all of the illegals arrested on during the May 1st protests are deported back south. Oh wait, no one was arrested for being here illegally during the protests. Hum, I wonder why not? We have people who have broken the law, (criminals) who should have been arrested for their crime (illegal entry into our soverign nation), and sent back to their nation of origin (punishment). Now that would be a reason to party. Paid government official actually doing their jobs instead of campaigning for he next election. If I wanted this much lack of government interest in enforcing actual laws instead of interpreting them, I would move to Europe. Wait a minute, that is where France is. I'll pass.
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Cobb
The day celebrates an event in Mexico when the Mexican army defeated the last attempt by the French to influence (at least militarily) the New World. In Mexico it is hardly noticed. In America, we are happy at any French defeat so we have done the old "carpe diem" and adopted it as our own. I can see all of the French soldiers throwing down their rifles and raising their arms above their heads. It reminds me of that French aerobics video I saw last year.
What Americans should use Cinco de Mayo for is to focus on the invasion of illegal immigration from our southern border. It should be the day that all of the illegals arrested on during the May 1st protests are deported back south. Oh wait, no one was arrested for being here illegally during the protests. Hum, I wonder why not? We have people who have broken the law, (criminals) who should have been arrested for their crime (illegal entry into our soverign nation), and sent back to their nation of origin (punishment). Now that would be a reason to party. Paid government official actually doing their jobs instead of campaigning for he next election. If I wanted this much lack of government interest in enforcing actual laws instead of interpreting them, I would move to Europe. Wait a minute, that is where France is. I'll pass.
Icool
Cobb
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