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.)

Hey, Amy, where's your messiah Hussein now that you need his help? I thought he caaared about the people, being a self-proclaimed "citizen of the world" and all.

I can't believe Hussein isn't here to help you out! Remember how super nice and friendly and personable he was when he came to Las Vegas? Like he was your best friend! Like he understood you! Like he really, really caaared.

Oh, so sad, Amy, I know. I'm sure Hussein wasn't using you, though! No sireee, if there's anything of which I'm convinced, it's that Hussein osama would NEVER behave like a typical scumbag Chicago politician and use you for all your soooo sincere efforts for "change" and then just toss you away like an old shoe.

Maybe Hussein is just busy celebrating having played more golf in nine months than PRESIDENT Bush did in three years. Or maybe he's getting ready for one of the many weekly parties he holds!

So busy, I know, Amy!

Well, isn't that nice? Crap out an anchor baby and there's your golden ticket! Since these people are willing to work for slave wages, I'm sure whatever "taxes" Senor Silva and the rest of his merry band of illegals pay doesnt even COME CLOSE to the amount they take in in social services, WHICH INCLUDES the biggest government freebie of all-their kids' public education-that WE must pay for, all while they deprive YOUR AMERICAN children of a decent education by flooding the classroom and lowering standards.

How about the hatefest these illegals engage in by ruining OUR overall quality of life in Clark County by refusing to abide by our immigration laws in the first place?

How about the hatefest brought on by these illegals that engage in identity theft, gang membership, and the destruction of what were once decent AMERICAN working class neighborhoods that are
now basically barrios?

How about the hatefest brought on by these illegals that not only destroy our language, our culture
and our borders, but REFUSE to even PRETEND to assimilate, what with their foreign language radio and tv stations, billboards, magazines, greeting cards, refusing to speak English in public, and just in case we Americans didn't get the message about their contempt for this country the first time around-those nine foot bumper stickers on their truck, to remove any doubt about the origin of their TRUE LOYALTY.

Here's a newsflash for you: The United States is NOT an international flophouse.

But go ahead-vote for Harry Reid in 2010, so he can help ram through amnesty for 20 million impoverished illiterates, in accordance with Dear Leader's plans.

Let's just raise taxes! As I understand, the more money you give to the government necessarily results in the taxpayer having less discretionary income. With less money to spend, he will surely buy more goods, eat out more frequently and spend on extras like entertainment.. This lack of income being distributed throughout the private sector will, in turn, cause the recipients of said discretionary, non-existent
spending to add to the government coffers with the taxes that they must pay with their new-found monies. They will also purchase more goods, services and entertainment with that non-existent money. Jobs are created as a result of the increase in consumer demand, and, so the cycle goes!

I honestly do not understand why so many people whine about Baby Boomers and other
consumers no longer having any discretionary income by which to come to Vegas and spend.
What, is that sort of behaviour supposed to create jobs or something?

More taxes to the government, people, more taxes to the government! THAT'S how long term casino jobs are gonna be created!

Clearly, raising taxes is the solution. Good thing Baracka Hussein Obama plans on getting rid of those nasty across the board tax cuts! With the umm "lapsing of the decrease" (as that economic genius, Nancy "Stretch" Pelosi, so coherently explains), a family of four earning 50k will now be rarin' to go to disperse all that negative discretionary dough they can look forward to playing with.

So, umm, yay!

Little Carmerlita must be sooo proud of herself, murdering her own newborn.

Here's my suggestion to her PDs-you know, her free legal representation that we the taxpayers are stuck paying for, since, apparently, we "owe" her something; They need to contact Barrak Hussein Obama's ( sorry for any misspells-As an American, I'm not accustomed to having to spell in Arabic) chief science advisor, John Holdren and get him to testify as an expert witness, STAT.

According to White House occupier Baraka Hussein Osama's advisor, infants as old as two or three should not be regarded as actual human beings, but rather more like underdeveloped parasites. According to the scientist that Baraka Hussein Osama personally chose to advise him on all things scientific and medical, one does not become a human being until they reach puberty.

Sooo, just get Holdren to explain to the court at the prelim that Juanita could not have committed a homicide because there was no person to kill in the first place!

That Baraka Hussein Obama; his moral and political ideology sure is in line with the thinking of normal Americans!

Quick, someone forward this article to Eric "Americans are a bunch of cowards" Holder! Maybe he can include these gentlemen in his upcoming indictment against current CIA employees!

Morale at the CIA must be sooo high, what with the enourmous support it's getting from the occupier in the White House that proudly surrounds himself with Maoists, Socialists and garden variety Marxists.

With a mindset like his, you gotta know HE loves the Constitution and Bill of Rights, with all those proscriptions against federal overreaching. And, since Chairman Maobama is a self-proclaimed "citizen of the world" out to "remake America", the CIA can take real comfort in the knowledge of
exactly who and what they're working for.