I have decided to boycott Cinco de Mayo on Friday.
As part of my boycott, I will:
- Not dine at any Mexican restaurants. No enchiladas from Maudi’s. No margaritas from Chewy’s.
- Tell our house cleaners not to come to work this week. They will not be paid for the time that they miss.
- I will have a ceremonial and symbolic burning of the Mexican flag down at the lake — while drinking Budweiser beer and listening to Toby Keith and Hank Williams Jr.
- I’ll stage a protest in front of one of the local taquerias, where I’ll loudly blare the National Anthem — in English, of course — on loud speakers.
- I’ll make my own paper mache piñata that looks like Vicente Fox, and I’ll take it to the local LULAC office, hang it from a tree, and beat it until the it’s bounty of Chiclets® pour out through the Mexican President’s belly button.
- Write all of my local, state, and national representatives, and implore them to get tough on illegal immigration into our country.
ThirDEE at The Flithy Report plans to counter today’s boycotts:
To counter the boycott, I plan to do some shopping. I’ll get a cup of coffee at Dunkin’ Donuts-without having to order it four times.
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Traffic didn’t seem appreciably lighter this morning on the way to work — I thought it might, seeing as how half the city is boycotting our Government for suggesting they might start to enforce our immigration laws.
Or course, seeing how 10-12 immigrants all pile into the back of one pickup truck to car pool to work each morning, I guess the effect on traffic would be negligible.
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I hope that today’s boycott of American business includes our welfare offices, our hospitals and free clinics, our public schools, and all of our other American-citizen-paid-for public services. Hmmm…come to think of it, today would have been a good day to go down to the DMV to renew my car’s registration.
Today’s boycotts are being billed as A Day without Immigrants? Hell, can we make it a week? Or how about a month?
count me in on that…. I will have my own boycott in AZ.
not too fond of Toby Keith though
….. where is Garth Brooks
“I hope that today’s boycott of American business includes our welfare offices, our hospitals and free clinics, our public schools, and all of our other American-citizen-paid-for public services. Hmmm…come to think of it, today would have been a good day to go down to the DMV to renew my car’s registration.”
I second that…. i am very surprised that this issue has not been raised. They make a big deal of saying that they contribute to our economy, however, they use up so much more of our own resources. I was hoping that they would do this for a month. Maybe we might see a decline in our insurance.
Tell our house cleaners not to come to work this week. They will not be paid for the time that they miss.
Well, that sounds spiteful. If she is here illegally don’t hire her. If not, what’s the problem?
I will have a ceremonial and symbolic burning of the Mexican flag down at the lake
Are Mexican immigrants burning American flags?
I’ll stage a protest in front of one of the local taquerias, where I’ll loudly blare the National Anthem
Why would Mexican immigrants oppose the National Anthem?
Write all of my local, state, and national representatives, and implore them to get tough on illegal immigration into our country.
Instead of ‘getting tough’ why not ask them to just enforce the law? I remain baffled why enforcement has dropped over the last five years despite 9/11 (unless you consider the effects of political donations from agribusiness…)
This is not a fringe element. This guy was on C-span Saturday morning as one of the primary organizers of today’s event. Among the things he wants normalization of relations with Cuba/Castor and affirmative action for illegal immigrants. Wake up PEOPLE. To say callers were mad is an understatement. Democrats and Republicans alike were ready to string him up.
Yeah, they seem pretty foolish to have this boycott or walkout or whatever it is. It sounds like the guy is pretty tone deaf.
I think it’s a bit of a stretch to call Maudie’s or “Chewy’s” Mexican food. If anything it’s more Tex than Mex.
Also, the owner of Maudie’s is named Joe Draker and the owners of the Chuy’s restaurants are named Mike Young and John Zapp.
But by all means, feel free to boycott their restaurants. You’ll really be sticking it to the Mexicans.
I’m boycotting Taco Bell.
Yum Brands, Louisville, Kentucky.