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Thanks, BigE. I read the entire thread and, altho' I'm still a little confused, I only have one question: If Omaha's public schools are all so great (which I've heard they are), why was anyone trying to tinker with them? "If it ain't broke, don't fix it", right? So, is there anything wrong with OPS, and, if so, what?
oohhhhhhhh, now I get it. Thanx for explaining it so simply. I'll pass it on to my Dad--he was afraid I was moving to some crazy racist place. Anyway, new (completely unrelated) question: is there a place where day laborers congregate, hoping to be picked up for a days work? When our stuff arrives, my husband will need a few guys to help him unload (I'll be on child duty, watching our 3 and 1 yr olds)?
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Really? South 24th street use to be called "the Magic City" when it was German and Czech immigrants in the late 19th, early 20th centuries. But since it is now the center of hispanic business in Omaha, most people call it "Little Mexico".DTO Luv wrote:Not that any of you in west Omaha or San Francisco would know, but there are definantly day laborers in Omaha. South Omaha would be the place to go (I've never heard it called Little Mexico before).
Haha, I may lose all my credability, but I actually can't think of any off the top of my head. I do know they exist, it's all in the prep and ingredients. You or I could make an authentic mexican dish if we wanted to.Swift wrote:do you have any examples?
I wasn't trying to sound insensitive in my pervious post, my point was more that Taco Bell barely qualifies as mexican food.
El Bee's is pretty good, don't know how authentic they are though.
ROJA is pretty damn good mexican food. All the waiters are West-O whities, but I know the kitchen is stocked with authentic hispanic chefs.
There's a place on 19th and Vinton that's pretty good, but I can't remember what it is called right now.
It's spanish for "the eagle", I believe.
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El Aguila.
http://www.magicyellow.com/category/Mex ... ha_NE.html
There's a place on 19th and Vinton that's pretty good, but I can't remember what it is called right now.
It's spanish for "the eagle", I believe.
edit:
El Aguila.
http://www.magicyellow.com/category/Mex ... ha_NE.html
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I grew up on, and still love Howards, which was originally in South O, but has since relocated to 13th Street, south of Rosenblatt and north of Missouri Avenue (basically L street).Twilight wrote:Oh, duh! I see now that you've already told me: between L and Q. Cool. Speaking of all things Mexican, where is the best Mexican food in the city? Cosita was lamenting an apparent lack of quality, authentic Mexican restaurants.
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do you really want to know?
I used to think illegals deserved a chance.
Until I went to the protests...and saw the mexican flags.
Maybe people would take them more seriously if they would of held up american flags, and the people are BOYCOTTING american buisnesses, the very same businesses that are sponsoring for them to come!
As of right now swift.
i'm between philospophys.
I used to be a hardcore anarchist. than I was a libertarian.
Now, the more I see it the more I see politics and everything is wrong.
Like libertarianism is too idealistic. as is communism. Personally, though, I believe there has to be politics with ethics.
plus, deep down, I'm a bleeding heart humanitarian.
I used to think illegals deserved a chance.
Until I went to the protests...and saw the mexican flags.
Maybe people would take them more seriously if they would of held up american flags, and the people are BOYCOTTING american buisnesses, the very same businesses that are sponsoring for them to come!
As of right now swift.
i'm between philospophys.
I used to be a hardcore anarchist. than I was a libertarian.
Now, the more I see it the more I see politics and everything is wrong.
Like libertarianism is too idealistic. as is communism. Personally, though, I believe there has to be politics with ethics.
plus, deep down, I'm a bleeding heart humanitarian.
well first of all "day laborer" and "illegal immigrant" are far from synonymous.
the reason they were boycotting was to show how important they actually are to the economy. it's easy to blame things on illegal immigrants (especially in an election year) because they can't vote. they are the "mysterious and scary other". as a politician you could bash illegal immigrants all you want with very little fear of reprisal. there is a reason these sorts of legislation come up in an election year and it's because they are wedge issues (think the gay marriage ban amendment push by Bush in 2004). so the boycott wasn't about punishing american businesses in response to the bills in DC, it was only a sign of economic importance that immigrants play in America.
It's like in the simpsons when the people of springfield want a bear patrol (to protect the city from bears) but they don't want to pay the bear tax. So Mayor Quimby comes out and says "the reason you have high taxes is because of illegal immigrants!"
America as we know it today would not be possible without immigration. But don't let that fool you into thinking that immigrants were ever popular. The history of immigration in America is a long, violent and filled with bigotry.
the reason they were boycotting was to show how important they actually are to the economy. it's easy to blame things on illegal immigrants (especially in an election year) because they can't vote. they are the "mysterious and scary other". as a politician you could bash illegal immigrants all you want with very little fear of reprisal. there is a reason these sorts of legislation come up in an election year and it's because they are wedge issues (think the gay marriage ban amendment push by Bush in 2004). so the boycott wasn't about punishing american businesses in response to the bills in DC, it was only a sign of economic importance that immigrants play in America.
It's like in the simpsons when the people of springfield want a bear patrol (to protect the city from bears) but they don't want to pay the bear tax. So Mayor Quimby comes out and says "the reason you have high taxes is because of illegal immigrants!"
America as we know it today would not be possible without immigration. But don't let that fool you into thinking that immigrants were ever popular. The history of immigration in America is a long, violent and filled with bigotry.
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Oh brother, my friend's 2nd generation Italian parents still fly an Italian flag alongside their American flag. I know another guy who jumped at the chance to have the British flag on the roof of his Mini Cooper. You don't have to relinquish your ancestral pride to love America. Maybe we should close down the German-American Society's Hall over there on South 120th while we're at it.Until I went to the protests...and saw the mexican flags
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I actually get a kick out of the way this thread mutates. As for why I'd hire day laborers, well, if you were brand-new to a city, knew no one (except Cosita, who's laden down w/2 kids and who's husband's at work), how would YOU find a few guys to help unload a moving van? Hire movers? Uh, I've heard too many scary stories (see movingscam.com). Plus, that'd be yet ANOTHER thing I'd have to research/locate/arrange, etc., and I'm up to my eyeballs with enough of that jazz already. As for illegal immigrants, why, I love 'em so much I married one! Yep, my husband crossed thru the desert from Mexico about 14 years ago, running thru the night with the coyote , a couple of other strangers, and a young mother clutching her baby. My husband's legal now, by the way, and this country is lucky to get him (as am I). He's the most polite, gentlemanly, loyal, honest person you could know, and he came here to live a better life w/more opportunity, just like your ancestors did. Oh, look, you got me all riled up!
jhuston wrote:Oh brother, my friend's 2nd generation Italian parents still fly an Italian flag alongside their American flag. I know another guy who jumped at the chance to have the British flag on the roof of his Mini Cooper. You don't have to relinquish your ancestral pride to love America. Maybe we should close down the German-American Society's Hall over there on South 120th while we're at it.Until I went to the protests...and saw the mexican flags
"In the first place we should insist that if the immigrant who comes here in good faith becomes an American and assimilates himself to us, he shall be treated on an exact equality with everyone else, for it is an outrage to discriminate against any such man because of creed, or birthplace, or origin. But this is predicated upon the man's becoming in very fact an American, and nothing but an American...There can be no divided allegiance here. Any man who says he is an American, but something else also, isn't an American at all. We have room for but one flag, the American flag, and this excludes the red flag, which symbolizes all wars against liberty and civilization, just as much as it excludes any foreign flag of a nation to which we are hostile...We have room for but one language here, and that is the English language...and we have room for but one sole loyalty and that is a loyalty to the American people."
Theodore Roosevelt 1919
No amount of cute little yellow eyeballs will change the fact that the United States of America DOES NOT HAVE AN OFFICIAL LANGUAGE.MTO wrote:yes it does
These people would sure feel pretty silly setting up an organization to lobby for something that already exists: http://www.us-english.org
Google "official american language" or "united states official language" or any combination of those for more.
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