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(102,324 posts)pepperbear
(5,648 posts)And we knew the end was near.
klook
(12,160 posts)wasupaloopa
(4,516 posts)Oh I forgot, my city of Santa Maria is already 73% Hispanic.
The majority here speak two languages.
Not me though.
MaryMagdaline
(6,855 posts)I lived there from 1962 to 1965. Attended kindergarten and one month of first grade at May Gresham Elementary. Family friends still live there. Beautiful town
JustABozoOnThisBus
(23,362 posts)NightWatcher
(39,343 posts)Stallion
(6,476 posts)JustABozoOnThisBus
(23,362 posts)Or a siege and assault by General Santa Anna's troops.
Of the two, the missionaries would have given higher odds to a Spanish Inquisition.
Popcorn Samurai
(30 posts)Luz
(772 posts)JustABozoOnThisBus
(23,362 posts)We shall go on to the end. We shall fight in the burger joints. We shall fight in the taco joints. We shall fight in the pizza joints. We shall fight in the beer joints. We shall fight in the gondolas. We shall fight in the canal. We shall fight in the beer joints (I like beer). We shall never surrender.
-- with apologies to W. Churchill
BigmanPigman
(51,615 posts)We are being over run by packs of Chihuahuas and they look hungry!
Blue_true
(31,261 posts)We might have to surrender if the terms are right.
Dem2theMax
(9,652 posts)Do chihuahuas eat fish tacos?
BigmanPigman
(51,615 posts)Here Lizard, Lizard, Lizard! I loved this commercial.
Dem2theMax
(9,652 posts)I never saw that! Every dog I know loves lizards. And I totally forgot that chihuahuas love Taco Bell.
BigmanPigman
(51,615 posts)so I got a little stuffed one from Taco Bell for her to chew up and a t-shirt for myself. I still have the shirt and the stuffed Chihuahua (one eye is missing and both ears).
When the Godzilla movie came out and they made that commercial there was negative backlash about stereotyping Hispanics so they stopped airing them.
Dem2theMax
(9,652 posts)Doggies do love to chew.
I spent the afternoon with a golden retriever. He belongs to a neighbor of mine. Neighbor is under the weather, so I get to play with the dog.
If I want to get his attention, alI have to do is say 'lizard' and that dog goes nuts. It's also a good way to get him back in the house when he doesn't want to come in. I just start yelling LIZARD! and pointing inside the house. Works every time!
I thought the Chihuahua commercials were sweet. It's too bad they had to go away.
FrankTC
(210 posts)I was raised in San Diego. I know about them packs of feral chihuahuas that terrorize the eastern suburbs -- La Mesa, Lemon Grove, El Cajon, but Chula Vista too. Your only hope is to identify the alpha chihuahua and TAKE HIM DOWN. Good luck!
El Shaman
(583 posts)towels , maybe.
exboyfil
(17,865 posts)Cold War Spook
(1,279 posts)Smart move, cut off her arm above the bite.
DBoon
(22,383 posts)We have bland tasteless food stockpiled to ride them out. Spam, mayonnaise, fluffy white bread, Bud Lite - enough to last years.
WE WILL NEVR SURRINDER!!
Hermit-The-Prog
(33,384 posts)I'm interested in conducting some research on the feeding habits of the invaders. Honest, that's all.
DBoon
(22,383 posts)even better than killing off those martians with the cold bug.
It worked for that emergency, you could save American civilization with your idea.
csziggy
(34,136 posts)Instead of Slim Whitman's "Indian Love Call" maybe we need something blander.
yonder
(9,669 posts)I had a job in a greenhouse back in the early 70's. The owner thought his flowers benefited by exposure to Muzak. Not classical, not cool jazz, not anything but Muzak. There's nothing like being forced to listen to the Muzak version of Hawaii-5-O while cutting carnations at 7:00 in the morning. Especially if one was still under the effects of the previous night's fun. Twas a special hell.
csziggy
(34,136 posts)Funny thing - much of what I found was more recent and almost decent jazz even though it seemed to be computer generated. I had to hunt for the old elevator music I remembered. They do have Muzak versions, too, if you want to have a true flashback.
CaptYossarian
(6,448 posts)Since his blood is "Type Bourbon", he'll combust right on C-SPAN.
JI7
(89,259 posts)PunkinPi
(4,875 posts)Demovictory9
(32,467 posts)B Stieg
(2,410 posts)There will be no wall around it, and the caravans will soon start swimming there!
This one hell of a national emergency!
Roadside Attraction
(238 posts)Wave a white flag, go outside and talk with them.
You'll discover they will share their tequila, cerveza, weed and tacos . . . they are friendly
hunter
(38,322 posts)Oh hell, all my immediate neighbors speak Spanish, next door, out back, across the street.
Oh no, my not own wife!!!
Holy Cow... my next door neighbor's kids are trilingual. What dark magic is this?
Our community is nothing like the 99% affluent white U.S.A. neighborhoods I grew up in.
My white wild west grandpa warned me this would happen. He was so upset I was marrying, in his words, "a Mexican girl" that he didn't come to our wedding. Men in his family only married white girls. Didn't matter that my wife was born in the U.S.A., as were her parents.
To his credit, my grandpa got over it. Trump's White America needs to get over it too.
The U.S.A. ought to be a place where the best of all cultures is celebrated, and the worst is discarded.
The racism and intellectually crippling English monolingualism of my own white culture ought to have been discarded a long time ago.
gay texan
(2,464 posts)This is a normal day in west Texas!
dont live there. i see.
moonseller66
(430 posts)What if...
THOSE people learn about what a boat can do, Precedent Pyutrump? What kind of wall will we need to keep out the boats?
Maybe a Great Barrier Covfefe?
Yeah that's it! We can build it out of that plastic floating in the Pacific. We can get the money from the caddies tips at Mal-a-go-go.
Let's see them get past that! Or tunnel under it!
Cold War Spook
(1,279 posts)15,000 mile border. But the wall has to be build down almost to the Earth's core and a dome. That might be too big a job for us. We will have to hire illegals to build it.
hopeforchange2008
(610 posts)sprinkleeninow
(20,254 posts)As we speak, a so-called illegal 'caravan' parked right on our street, and they're hardly scary or intimidating. In fact,
🎊 🎸 🎶💃 🥙🍹
BLOCK PAR-TAAY!!
akraven
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kentuck
(111,106 posts)Thanks!
relayerbob
(6,547 posts)for all you brave folks on the front lines
gratuitous
(82,849 posts)And now it's too late.
kentuck
(111,106 posts)...and you may survive?
Buckeyeblue
(5,499 posts)We can fell the vibrations in the ground getting slightly stronger each day. We are eating nothing but taco bell with the hope that somehow we will eventually look less-white.
Sometimes we look at each other in silence but our empty gazes ask the same thing: is it futile to flee for the Canadian boarder?