User profile: Narcissa

I love how The Sun always manages to put a cutesy spin on stories like this. If day to day circumstances were different, I would heartily agree with the tone of the story and, frankly, applaud the introduction of this cultural event as enriching to our country.

Unfortunately, I ran out of applause about seven years ago. It seems that we, as Americans, members of the melting pot that made this country so great, are forced to deal with those who are averse to assimilating with American culture. I am not trying to bash a particular people, but I am astounded and angered by what I can only describe as a determined refusal to assimilate by some.

EVERYWHERE one goes, one is faced with Spanish language billboards. Shop CVS? Spanish signs and Spanish announcer. Buy a greeting card at Smith's? Be prepared to rifle through Spanish cards, too. Same for magazines. Anyone who has had the misfortune of being on line at a bank or using a drive-thru knows its like being in a foreign country.

One cannot scan the radio or tv without having to jump through at least four Spanish speaking stations. At Anna's Linen's last week on Maryland, I was the ONLY person speaking English; that's right-both cashier's and the other customer decided to engage in a conversation in Spanish, as if it was no big deal that its a little rude for store representatives to be conversing in such a fashion, such that the American customer spending American money in an American store has no idea what is going on. All three people were able to speak English, as well, by the way, but apparently couldn't be bothered.

This is the second time that has happened at that store-in different locales. I won't lodge a complaint, but I'll never shop there again, either.

Why must WE, AMERICANS, be the ones to do the accomodating? Since these people are the visitors to OUR country, shouldn't it be the other way around? I think it is very disrespectful to be so blatantly resistant to assimilation. If anything, one would think they would be grateful to be here, and demonstrate their gratitude by NOT demanding that everything be in their language.

Surely other cultures at the turn of the last century managed to assimilate-I don't hear operators speaking in German, Italian or Yiddish. Can anyone can offer an explanation as to why these other people don't?

I certainly understand wanting to maintain elements of one's culture, but it is so dangerous and detrimental for ANY country to engage in balkanization-and it is plain for anyone to see that this is exactly what is happening in America.

I am not trying to bash anyone, although, unfortunately, I am sure others will infer otherwise. Rather, I feel I am stating the obvious and I believe our English speaking country deserves respect from those that garner so much from it. I don't think assimilation is asking too much.

Please, God, let's move on to Fall weather! Ehough already!

As usual, it's all about Obama. He can't even give an official statement about a massacre of local troops without making it about him.

No wonder Hussein looked so perturbed. "Horrific", yes-for his never-ending social calendar, which was no doubt interrupted, thanks to this follower of the "religion of peace." I certainly hope this didn't interfere with the weekly concert series or his basketball game.

What a sticky wicket for Moabama. How to condemn the terrorist actions that are virtually identical to those of his good friend and ghost writer, William Ayers?

I'm sure the elitist Chairman Maobama is planning his next phony photo op-you know, to
show us all how much he "cares" for the military that "cling to their guns and religion".

Oh, please, what's the problem, people? Just raise taxes! It works every time, as we all know, plus it has the added benefit of sticking it to those who have it coming to them, anyway.

Anyway, unless it's food or gas (or something I HAVE to have at the Fashion Show Mall or some such other place and I can't it get elsewhere), I NEVER buy locally. I avoid that stupid sales tax at all costs and do my shopping on the Internet.

Yes, Teaser, the welfare rules WERE reformed under a Republican congress during the Clinton administration, which to it's credit was pragmatic and not obsessed with Marxist ideology. Hence, Clinton's dramatic vow to "end welfare as we know it". Which is exactly what happened.

Under Chairman Maobama, that has ALL changed. In his ideological zeal to turn us into a collective society in which the wealth is redristributed, as he PROMISED it would be, the golfing Marxist has reversed many of Clinton's fiscally responsible welfare reforms.

I've heard the speeches in which Dear Leader whines about how people should be able to be on welfare longer and have more of it, all in the "interest" of blaming successful people for everyone else's problems.

Of course,in typical collectivist hypocrisy, that doesn't preclude him from dining on
$100 a pound Kobe beef during the numerous cocktail parties and concerts he holds EVERY week at that poor White House he and that perpetually angry wife of his are currently defiling.

Or having pizza FLOWN IN on a taxpayer-funded jet because (and I am not making this up) he "likes the crust". (I can only imagine the screaming and wailing about carbon footprints from the left if PRESIDENT Bush had done that.)