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May 30, 2006

Press 1 For Asshole

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There's an article in today's Inquirer about the immigration debate, but that's not really what it's about. It's an article about assholes, and how they run some of our more popular local businesses.

Or, really, only one. The asshole in question here is Joe Vento, owner of Geno's, who has a sign on his window that says "This is America. When Ordering, Speak English." Vento certainly has every right to run his business how he pleases, since this is America! But we (fortunately) all have the right to mock him, call him an asshole and wonder why someone pointing to 'provolone' would get you all riled up?

Vento doesn't limit his assholic behaviors to Geno's, though:

With Geno's Steaks tattooed on his arm, Vento is used to publicizing things, especially what's on his mind. Speak English signs also poster his Hummer. He has driven through South Philadelphia blaring through the SUV's P.A. system denunciations of neighborhood business owners who hire illegal immigrants.

"I say what everybody's thinking but is afraid to say," Vento said. [...]

"They want us to adapt to these people. What do you mean, 'Press 1 for Spanish'? English, period. Case closed. End of discussion. You better make it the official language."

Ahh, yes, the old American tradition of going around a neighborhood and blasting your stereo and telling your neighbors you hate them. And, really, is there anything more American than getting all worked up about having to spend a half-second pressing '1' for English? God Bless America!

Also, how does a deaf person order at Geno's?

Thanks to The 14th Windiest State for the image, although I think Joe Vento only has one mood.

An old struggle to adapt to a new country's ways [Inky]

Posted by D-Mac on May 30, 2006 01:50 PM
Posted to Assholes , Fun Ways To Annoy Your Friends, Enemies And Neighbors , Geno's , Immigration

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Yeah, Joe Vento better love America. Where else can you be raised a bigot, open a food stand that serves cheesesteaks that taste like shit, and still be succesful enough to own the type of vehicle that just screams, "I have a little dick but a lot of money?"

Posted by: bobby abreu at May 30, 2006 01:59 PM

Note: Is assholic a word? If it's not, it is now.

Posted by: dmac at May 30, 2006 02:00 PM

those deaf bastards sure as hell better be speaking AMERICAN sign language.

Posted by: albert at May 30, 2006 02:33 PM

If you look at the photo of the sign, it contains at least two grammatical errors. Maybe he needs a sign that reads: "This is America; when writing, please use commas and avoid extraneous quotation marks."

Posted by: Anonymous at May 30, 2006 02:37 PM

"those deaf bastards sure as hell better be speaking AMERICAN sign language."

http://www.deafblind.com/spain.html

Posted by: The 14th Windiest State at May 30, 2006 03:07 PM

Geno's is also noteworthy for having signage around the shop that basically makes the case for the canonization of former police office Daniel Faulkner, who was killed by that French guy.

Posted by: Adam at May 30, 2006 03:59 PM

"I say what everybody's thinking but is afraid to say," Vento said.

Yeah fucking right. Everyone who you know, i.e. racist pieces of shit.

I can't believe the Inquirer tried to make Vento out into not everything that's wrong with philadelphia, when he is. If he wasn't spouting hate to everyone he knew (employees, friends, children...), south philadelphia would be a much more tolerant place.

when have you ever seen a black person behind the counter at geno's?

Posted by: db at May 30, 2006 08:19 PM

No, but some of those Italian guys have some good tans!

Posted by: chris at May 31, 2006 12:26 PM

"when have you ever seen a black person behind the counter at geno's?"

Hey Joe, how come you don't have any pictures of black people up on the wall?

Posted by: stuck in da burbs at May 31, 2006 02:53 PM

Ever seen a picture of a black person behind Pats? Does Pats not also have a 'correct' way to order cheeseteaks?

Last time I checked English is the official language. Vento is a little overly aggressive with spouting his views; I dont agree with blaring anything out of your car speakers; let alone your personal beliefs.

Guess what though..companies that hire ILLEGAL immigrants SHOULD be prosecuted..they are hurting the economy..take a Basic Econ class to learn how.

Posted by: CJ at June 1, 2006 02:35 PM

when was the last time you checked? english is not and never has been the official language of the united states.

Posted by: stephanie at June 2, 2006 10:34 AM

Joe Vento needs to realize that there are more immigrants than Americans in America. America will be nothing without immigrants.

Posted by: Betty at June 5, 2006 09:40 PM

Although the manner in which he is expressing his opinion is a little outlandish, I happen to agree with him. What's wrong with expecting people to speak English?? When you go to another country they don't have press 2 for English as an option.

Posted by: HS at June 6, 2006 01:49 PM

Here is an excerpt from a letter that Theodore Roosevelt wrote on January 3rd 1919:

"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 person's becoming in every facet 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 ... 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."

www.USAspeaksENGLISH.com ...a work in progress site.

Posted by: Patriot at June 7, 2006 01:00 AM

When you go to another country they don't have press 2 for English as an option.

The words of somebody who has apparently never been to another country.

Posted by: Lazlo at June 7, 2006 12:41 PM

Joey Vento may be an asshole, but he's not the biggest one in Philadelphia. You, DMAC, hold that title.

Posted by: From the end of the bar at Flynn's at June 7, 2006 02:04 PM

"When you go to another country they don't have press 2 for English as an option."

That's because in almost every other nation EVERYFREAKINGPERSON speaks English.
It's called education, and Joe Vento could use a head full.
What a dick.

Posted by: Blue Patriot at June 7, 2006 02:28 PM

Who are all these ASSHOLES I have pressed 1 and I am changing my vacation plans this summer just so that I can fly to Philly and support this fine upstanding AMERICAN. Anybody with a problem with this needs to get the F**K out of my country. I am first generation imagrant, and the first thing my parents did when they LEGALLY arrived in this fine country was LEARN THE LANGUAGE. The only thing keeping LEGAL imagrants from realizing the AMERICAN dream is that they want to imagrate to this country and change it into their NASTY, VIOLENT, SESPOOL they ran away from. We do not want to be like YOUR countries. THEY ALL SUCK! If they didn't these ASSHOLE would not run away like the cowards they are. STAY IN YOUR OWN COUNTRY AND CHANGE THAT ONE. DON'T COME HERE EXPECTING TO CHANGE OURS.

Posted by: Rick at June 9, 2006 11:51 AM

you made the news in Boston about the storefront signs and I agree with you 100%..Speak English in America. Keep up the great work

Posted by: Deb at June 9, 2006 12:14 PM

Hey Rick,

It's great that your parents learned the english language; why didn't you? Your post is filled with awful grammar and numerous spelling mistakes (imagrant was my favorite). Please learn to write at a 5th grade level before posting about how ignorant other people are. thanks.

Posted by: johnny goodtimes at June 9, 2006 01:28 PM

spanish uncivilized assholes.

Posted by: chris at June 9, 2006 03:10 PM

Joey may be extreme in his methods of expressing his opinions. I am no fan nor detractor of him one way or the other. I haven't ever been to Philly, nor ever had a cheese steak sandwich in my life, however I am still an American.
In my opinion: Requesting people to use, and in effect, then begin learn to speak the native language of English, when in an American establishment, is not racist.
An eatery also has the right to refuse service to anyone, and that place isn't doing that . If they were, especially based on race or religion or any ethnicity, then you would have a very strong point and I would be appalled by them , and be one of the first to let them know how completely weak such a policy would be.
However they are not .
The claim by Roberto Santiago, that this request to ask people to speak English, is in effect the same as saying" Brown men get out of here" is quite a stretch, to say the least.
I think he , (and all people in general) would do a better service to his organization ( their causes)and to Hispanic people everywhere if he (they)were to refrain from playing the race card anytime he (they)can,- as THAT- more than anything, is what harms the Hispanic , Black, White and other Minority/Majority image(s)
I believe that as whole, Americans of all backgrounds, just want everyone to be treated equally and to be responsible for living up to the same standards that apply to them. Reverse discrimination is the same thing as discrimination, and people falsely claiming they are being victimized or biased against is really just as bad as true discrimination in my humble opinion.

When I travel to the Great Country of Mexico, I always do my best to not only speak Spanish, but also to learn more phrases, and slang terms and more Spanish in general and I notice that it is much appreciated by all the people that I meet there. I would hope and suggest that anyone living in or visiting this Country would try and do the same with English.
All of us need to work together and none of us should falsely play the race, and discrimination card, as that is very divisive and if we refrain from doing that, then we will all be much better off .
As example, to say that Joey's being against the hiring of illegal immigrants, means that he is spouting that he hates his neighbors, is a pretty ignorant, and far fetched conclusion, and smacks of that over reactive playing of the race card. Anyone who draws such inaccurate leaps of logic, as well as lowering the debate to include name calling , is not ever going to be taken seriously by those who are on the other side of the debate , and therefore, would accomplish more if they did not say anything at all.
That is unless, they just want to incite and rally their fellow extremists, and be known as being about as interesting and socially insightful as a 3rd grade cheerleader ...

P.S. Anyone more concerned with If I have grammatical, syntax, spelling or other errors in this post, rather than what I have to say has missed the point altogether, and for that matter probably isn't capable of truly understanding ANY point, in any debate.
Let's be thankful that we live in a place where you can agree or disagree with me or anyone else.
So I say-
Regards to you all and whether you agree with me or not, you are still my fellow Americans, and I would not change THAT even if I could.
And yet I still say:
speak-a-da-english!!!

Posted by: Anonymous at June 9, 2006 03:41 PM

First off its HIS business and he can do whatever he wants with it...

and second....you dont have to eat there so shut your collective pie-holes.

Posted by: Cerberus at June 9, 2006 08:02 PM

Speak Cherokee, Dammit!

Posted by: Ken at June 9, 2006 08:15 PM

Maybe joe should learn to speak the english language first before he spews out his vile words, he sounds like an ignorant, uneducated being. The AMERICAS have been fighting illegal ALIENS and FOREIGN INVADERS since 1492 and 1848, and we will continue to remind & repeat this bit of "american" history to ignorant little people like joe. The audacity for him to come to this land and act like he is representative of what america is all about. Joe says "speak OUR language", allow me to speak his "get the *#@% outta here". Don't feel threatened because these people decided to KEEP their culture and their language (which was forced upon them from the spaniards) I wish that everybody did.
One hates what one FEARS-----DEBRA

Posted by: DEBRA at June 9, 2006 08:48 PM

Maybe joe should learn to speak the english language first before he spews out his vile words, he sounds like an ignorant, uneducated being. The AMERICAS have been fighting illegal ALIENS and FOREIGN INVADERS since 1492 and 1848, and we will continue to remind & repeat this bit of "american" history to ignorant little people like joe. The audacity for him to come to this land and act like he is representative of what america is all about. Joe says "speak OUR language", allow me to speak his "get the *#@% outta here". Don't feel threatened because these people decided to KEEP their culture and their language (which was forced upon them from the spaniards) I wish that everybody did.
One hates what one FEARS-----DEBRA Los Angeles

Posted by: DEBRA at June 9, 2006 08:50 PM

I'm sorry how is he biggot. The man has a damn good point. It's a big vountry. it makes it a lot easier if there's one language that we all understand. No one says it has to be the ONLY language.

Posted by: Anonymous at June 10, 2006 02:27 AM

Debra- No one is suggesting that anyone has to abandon their culture, so.. calm down darlin' - I realize it's a full moon, and that you are a semi informed bleeding ( heart) liberal but... What do you suggest? should we all learn the various languages of each and every type of illegal immigrant and revamp our entire infrastructure to accommodate their dialects ( press one for Spanish, two for Lithuanian, three for Congolese, press four for Sioux, five for Apache.. ( hard to explain what to press if you can only grunt?) or as you infer- should we learn the twenty or so various Native American dialects? or perhaps we should learn the language of the Vikings? or perhaps should we just go back to pointing and grunting as the evidence points to the presence of man walking into North America as far back as four to ten thousand years ago.
How about this:
when in Rome do as the Romans do.
in other words, if you want to live in America, speak English. If you want to live in Mexico, learn to speak Spanish, etc etc.
let's review Roosevelt's excellent excerpt ONE MORE TIME:
Here is an excerpt from a letter that Theodore Roosevelt wrote on January 3rd 1919:

"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 person's becoming in every facet 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 ... 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."

Posted by: Chris at June 10, 2006 05:49 PM

Why is wanting immigrates to learn how to speak English such a big deal. How are they supposed to function in this country if they can’t communicate with people? Next question is why are we catering so much to Spanish? Vento is not singling out any nationality or language, nor is he discriminating against anyone. He is just saying order in English; I mean come on the customer is probably talking to a teenager anyway so do I need to say more.

My grandmother spoke English most of the time, but when she was speaking to sisters or family from her generation she would also speak in Italian. A friend from school was Japanese and his family would speak in Japanese amongst themselves, but spoke English to others. I mean its common sense; I know a term not in the liberal’s vocabulary.

Posted by: Paul at June 10, 2006 08:19 PM

You all can bitch about the man all he wants, but if I would live close enough, his place would become my regular place to eat.

How absurd! Expecting someone to speak English in AMERICA. That asshole! That dick! How could he!?!?!?!

...........

Doesn't seem all that unreasonable to me.

Posted by: T at June 10, 2006 10:26 PM

I agree that he should only take "English orders." Too bad for the rest of the people. This is America and English is our language.

Posted by: esined at June 11, 2006 04:18 AM

"anonymous"-are you kidding me? you seriously think that the "americans" don't feel that the
immigrants should abandon their culture & language? What reality are you living in? give me break. Everybody SHOULD know that by the second generation people pretty much pick up the language of the country they are staying in, so the argument of "SPEAK ENGLISH" only shows the american ignorance yet once again.

"Any man who says he is an American, but something else also, isn't an American at all"

Wow! that's deep. NOT! I guess I don't fit the criteria to be an american--oh well.

Though I never called vento a biggot or racist, I'll leave that up to the intpretation of the individual, but if you listen to him long enough I think that most can see how ignorant he is. And no, this "speak english" is not a big deal, you will see in a short time that this will blow over and people will still continue to come to the u.s. and speak their language. Nothing will have CHANGED but the old ways of the "american" culture, and that is what I think everybody is AFRAID of.

Beware of false knowledge; it is more dangerous than ignorance-George Bernard Shaw.

Not anonymous----debra

Posted by: debra at June 12, 2006 03:09 PM

“Ever seen a picture of a black person in Geno’s; Ever seen a picture of a black person in Pats?” what does that have to do with anything? He has a sign about speaking English how is race even interpreted into this issue?

Vento is a little overly aggressive with spouting his views but being prosecuted for having a sign up? What ever happened to free speech and all the sign says is to order in English. I’m going to take a guess and say that the sign means that he doesn’t speak another language it has nothing to due with being death. Would it be better if he had a sign up that said, “If you want to point to order go ahead but please don’t come up to my counter speaking a different language because I won’t be able to understand you”?

To all of you people who think you can bash someone online, it’s his business so if he wants to be so open with his views he can and if you have a problem with that then don’t eat there. And instead of being tough with the keyboard why don’t you go say it to his face.

Posted by: SF at June 12, 2006 06:00 PM

Joe is a hero. He has made a stand for America and its values. And my God do we need it.

I don't resent illegals trying to make an honest living. I do resent them remaking my country in the image of the third-world nightmares they come from. And as someone who comes from California, which is being invaded by illegals, I know what I'm talking about here.

To be tolerant is one thing, to constantly bend over backwards for the immigrants flooding this country who have no desire to become American--that's something else.

Those of you against Joe, move to Mexico and order your tacos in English. See what response you get.

Posted by: stop_s2611 at June 12, 2006 08:28 PM

I agree with Joey. Hispanics are the only group to come to this country and be too lazy to learn English. They really dont give a shit about being American anyway. All other immigrant groups in this country have fared better than Hispanics as a group.
But if you have the balls to say this to anyone you are labeled a bigot. Well how come the Asians and Europeans don't mind learning English and improving our country.

Posted by: ame137 at June 12, 2006 09:13 PM

I may be wrong here, but growing up in Philadelphia, I always got the impression that this city was a TOURIST destination. Is it not safe to presume that many foriegn tourists would end up seeking out a "philadelphia cheesesteak" at Geno's? How can Joe Vento tell who he's discriminating against? Is there an acception made for those who are simply visiting? What if they are new legal immigrants and are in the process of learning English? Furthermore, how can a man with as poor a grasp on the English language as Mister Vento possibly expect anybody else to learn to speak it? Here a newsflash for Joe: Wit, Youse, and Wiz are NOT words. Maybe when he is capable of practicing what he preaches, I will consider crossing the street from Pat's. Until then, I'll be reveling in the mix of cultures that frequents the Italian Market.

Posted by: Shannon at June 13, 2006 12:50 AM

As for Joey; Have you ever tried to serve the volume of people he does and deal with someone from Mexico holding up the line pointing and mubling? It seems no one has ever thought of it that way yet. Joey is a short order cook. His "speak English" signs are probably the best way to handle that problem. Now, are a million people going to demand that joey "hire spanish speaking translators" or he is a racist? I could scream every time I hear one of them use the word racist.

RACIST? HOW? I'm certain most Americans, such as myself would simply prefer NOT living in or around the 3rd world or Mexico. Incidently, Mexico is not just Cancun, Acapulco, and those tourist spots. It's chocked full of desparate hungry dirty people who have nothing else to do but jump the border and "squat" up here. There are other ways to help the needy and poor but not at the expense of own back yard.

Trying "MEXICAN CUISINE" is one thing but one thing is for certain; you do not want to turn the town you live into MEXICO. This "exodus" has got to be stopped. I'm glad to hear a lot of you are not falling for that "racist" BS either.

Mexicans are a very unique ignorant and "un-sanitary" pain in the ass FAR BEYOND anything I'm sure most of you have ever seen or imagined humanly possible (study them sometime as they pick their noses and do their other dispicable habits.

I was born and raised in Jersey and have been living in Los Angeles a good number of years.I have personally seen enough of them to know quite well what what I am talking about.

As for the post from "Not anonymous----debra;" you should move down there so you can be closer to your "poor dirty Mexicans"and kiss their A-- Hole. Then you'll be free of us ignorant racists up here. Well, you can always stay where you are too, right in the heart of "lobotomy-land" Los Angeles. You obviously can't tell the difference anyway, right?
Mike McDermott

Posted by: Mike McDermott at June 13, 2006 01:56 AM

Way to go Joe this is America why do I have to learn another language in order to live in my country. If I go to another country to live and work I will learn the national language, to me that would be common cense. Why is it discrimination here when a store owner ask someone to Please order in English he doesn’t say anything about forgetting their heritage he makes no comment on the heritage he makes no political statement about there background. I have seen in stores and restaurants a little sign that says “We reserve the right to refuse service to anyone for any reason”. Joe Vento for president. It is about time someone speaks out about the language problem and hiring of illegal immigrants, if you want to live here, conform learn English take the citizenship test I will be the first to shake your hand.

Posted by: Mike at June 13, 2006 08:49 AM

Thank you Joe! Now, if we could get the screaming orientals on cell phones to lower their off the scale decibels, so that my ear drums won't hurt.

Posted by: Jan at June 13, 2006 10:07 AM

Are you buying the cheesesteak in AMERICA? Are you using AMERICAN CURRENCY to pay for the product?Will you take advatage of the AMERICAN CONSTITUTION if you are wronged in some way?Are you working in the United States of AMERICA?? Are you taking advantage of the AMERICAN way and the freedoms of AMERICA? My great garndparents were discriminated againts when they can here but learned the AMERICAN way so they could be accepted and showed there children the AMERICAN way so they could prosper and its been handed all the way down to me and my children.On a final note.....IF THEY CAN'T READ THE SIGN SINCE IN ENGLISH WHAT IS THE ISSUE SINCE THEY DON'T KNOW WHAT THE HELL IT SAYS!!!!!

Posted by: Butch at June 13, 2006 10:47 AM

re: THIS IS AMERICA, WHEN ORDERING SPEAK ENGLISH!

I'm with Joey. He's not *refusing* to serve anyone whose language is not English, but encouraging everyone to learn the common language used in the United States. Do you come into the world learning how to type? With practice, you learn it because you're going to use it a lot. A similar situation here in coming to America from another place, you will go farther knowing the English. This is what Joey is saying, okay? He's not anti this or that.

I read the biography of The Von Trapp Family Singers and Maria's struggles to learn English in New York after they crossed over, but she knew it was important for her success and for the family, also to learn the language.

If I were traveling to Italy or Canada, I'd be responsible for learning some basics to get around and if I had any lengthly stay, make an effort to learn the language. Foreign exchange students are supposed to have a working vocabulary of the English language before they come over, don't they?

Geno's serves all, but where possible, speak English for your benefit as his father's father likely did several generations ago coming to this country.

Be bilingual, but learn the main language a country speaks.

-EG

"This is America now, speak American!"-Bette Midler from "Big Buisiness"

When all else fails, póg mo thóin.

Posted by: E GARDNER at June 13, 2006 12:24 PM

I guess he has to rename his Italian dishes with Anglo names.

Posted by: Jen at June 13, 2006 12:55 PM

Mexicans are too "LAZY" to learn english?
Are you #%*@ kidding me? Lazy? Dumb ass "american"

Hey "Dick" Mcdermott nobody is asking you to stay in los angeles, why don't you go back to your patato famine homeland if you don't like it here? better yet, why don't you go back to freakin jersey (hold up, allow me to pick my nose for a moment). uneducated little boy.

"Mexicans are a very unique ignorant and "un-sanitary" pain in the ass FAR BEYOND anything I'm sure most of you have ever seen or imagined humanly possible", "they pick their noses and do their other dispicable habits", "dirty Mexicans"--by MIKE MCDERMOTT
I'm sure glad people are not falling for the racist card, cause their aint no racist here! ha! ha! ha! Stupid uneducated american. Kiss my american ass----debra los angeles

BTW I think guido is getting sued ha!


Posted by: debra at June 13, 2006 04:00 PM

I went to Dominican Republic and was surprise at the large number of Americans who cannot speak Spanish, but demand service in English. They are served, because in most countries, money is the international language.

Mr. Vento's comments would be valid and not racist if he required the same of his people. There are many first and second generation Italians living in Philly that do not speak English. If an non-English speaking Italian walked up the window, would he serve them?

He is targeting a specific group of people, which he has already admitted. That makes it racist. If he is requiring these of mexicans, he must require it of everyone.

Posted by: Philly Girl at June 13, 2006 06:15 PM

What dumb ass would go on national T.V and make all those stupid statments. I am surprise Joey Vento has not been shot or his nuts shopped off. I think if i was his business insurance agent I would not be insuring his business, for fear that it would be burnt down, or destroyed, and there is no one to blame but that dumb ass Joey. A person dont make that kind of a statment with 43 million hispanic living in the United States and another 11 million immigrant ready to become American citezen. I think the best he can do is take the sign down and Opologize to the non speaking english people living here in the United States.

Posted by: Ruben at June 13, 2006 09:30 PM

What dumb ass would go on national T.V and make all those stupid statments. I am surprise Joey Vento has not been shot or his nuts shopped off. I think if i was his business insurance agent I would not be insuring his business, for fear that it would be burnt down, or destroyed, and there is no one to blame but that dumb ass Joey. A person dont make that kind of a statment with 43 million hispanic living in the United States and another 11 million immigrant ready to become American citezen. I think the best he can do is take the sign down and Opologize to the non speaking english people living here in the United States.

Posted by: Ruben at June 13, 2006 09:30 PM

Your country? Paaalllleeeeaassse This is MY country too and these people don't need your stinkin "hand shake". Hear this out loud--they don't need your approval, never did, never will, you uneducated american--debra los angeles

Posted by: debra at June 13, 2006 09:36 PM

Looks like the readers here have made it clear who they agree with. You liberal leftists are so afraid that George W. Bush is listening to your 900# calls to gay love-talk lines but you would have the government of Philadelphia interfere with how Joey Vento runs his SUCCESSFUL business. Mainstream media has reason to mad at Joe. He doesn't run ads with you because he doesn't NEED you. In fact, running ads would cost him money. Oh, and my Mexican friends want me to ask you, Mr. McQuade, where is the Latin version of this blog????

Posted by: r smith at June 13, 2006 10:34 PM

YES INDEED! Joey Vento runs his SUCCESSFUL and "CLEAN" business. In English, of course.

Mike McDermott

Posted by: Mike McDermott at June 14, 2006 01:05 AM

To R smith
HUH? Did anybody comprehend what this uneducated ignorant american was trying to convey? Debra los angeles

Posted by: debra at June 14, 2006 01:39 AM

I don't really want to weigh in one way or another with the main debate, however, I'd like to applaud "debra" for responding to every single comment here. I can only imagine how "educated" she must be in contrast to all of the "uneducated" masses here. So Bravo, debra, on your writing skills, your abundance of free time, and most of all, your presumably high level of education which has allowed you to possess the previous two.

Posted by: Dan at June 14, 2006 01:22 PM

I will accept your applause(curtsy)and adulations. Please feel free to spread the word. My "abundance of free time" will always be reserved for ignorant, unlearned masses who spew out vile messages. :-)
--- NOT ANONYMOUS debra Los Angeles

Posted by: debra at June 14, 2006 02:47 PM

Even the monkeys from Planet of the Apes knew English. So we better all start learnin' it, lest we be enslaved by those damn, dirty apes.

Have we forgotten already the lessons taught by Charlton Heston? Why do you hate America, you damn, dirty liberals?

Posted by: mike at June 14, 2006 04:12 PM

Yop Debra
you be some gansta rappin shizzle. If'n yoazz dumb azz I shizzle, den I be all down wit yo bad self.
izzn yo ass a wide as yo brain be small?
paste dis in yo browza:

http://tinyurl.com/nvuhs

Posted by: Snoop Dogg at June 14, 2006 04:19 PM

joe vento is an american hero.

Posted by: wiggity wiggity wham wham wazzle at June 14, 2006 04:26 PM

Hey guys and gals
Quit giving Debra more chances to spew her hatred for all things American.
Believe me, I suffered through 8 long minutes of sex with her once, and it was FAR from pleasant.
(I had to imaging that " I " was someone else. just to get it over with)...
Debra is not a highly educated person, trust me.
Her " free time" is a result of that she has been sponging off her parents and other women and men for as long as she has been crawling the planet.
She is quite the hypocrite when you get to know her as I do ( god forbid you suffer that fate)
Notice how she called Joey a "Guido"!?
that pretty much sums her up.
It's quite apparent that even on this leftist website, the majority of posts agree with Joey just as the Majority of Americans are sick and tired of the turncoats leftists that have no life and nothing better to do but cry, complain, and moan whilst all the while they suck the life out of our economy .
P.S. if all those immigrants are granted citizenship, do you REALLY think they will do those same jobs anymore that we supposedly are not willing to do? Hell no, they won't. Once they can get other jobs, you can forget about low cost strawberries, etc.which is fine with meas the solution is to pay a decent wage for such backbreaking jobs, and require citizenship and "Speaking da english" as a pre requirement.
And Debra? I want you to stop wearing my plaid shirts and copying my butch hairstyle. Get your own image damnit!

Posted by: Debra's EX- ( Leslie) at June 14, 2006 04:43 PM

God bless Joe Vento of Geno's. The man is a true American hero and a patriot.
I'd like to see you self-hating Americans go to Bolivia and order food in english. See how far that get's you.
What a bunch of morons.

Posted by: Avraham at June 14, 2006 04:56 PM

Leslie

why so angry. americans love you diesal dykes too.
BTW stop dreaming of pleasures with me.
Kiss my american ass. Stupid americans---debra of Los Angeles

Posted by: debra at June 14, 2006 05:59 PM

Debra
I'm not angry. I just want my plaid shirts back, you stYnky biYatch!

Posted by: Les Biyen at June 14, 2006 07:42 PM

Diesal Dyke biyen, you are as angry as you probably are UGLY stupid ass american :-) debra of Los Angeles

Posted by: debra at June 14, 2006 08:25 PM


they are coming for YOU Debra!

(CBS/AP)


Fast Facts

In a blitz that began May 26, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement has arrested nearly 2,179 illegal immigrants across the country.
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(CBS/AP) A swarm of federal immigration agents sped silently, headlights off, down a Boston side street early Wednesday and surrounded an apartment house.

"Police! Policia! Police!" yelled Daniel Monico, a deportation officer, holding his badge to a window where someone had pulled back the curtain. "Open the door!"

Moments later, agents led a dazed-looking Jose Ferreira Da Silva, 35, out in handcuffs. The Brazilian had been arrested in 2002 and deported, but had slipped back into the country. He now faces up to 20 years in prison.

In a blitz that began May 26, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement has arrested nearly 2,179 illegal immigrants across the country. Officials said the raids are aimed at child molesters, gang members and other violent criminals, as well as people like Da Silva who sneaked back into the country after a judge threw them out.

The crackdown is called Operation Return to Sender. Virtually every field office in the nation from ICE’s Office of Investigations and ICE’s Office of Detention and Removal Operations carried out the enforcement operation in conjunction with numerous state and local law enforcement agencies, a news release stated.

"This sends a message," said Monico, standing outside the gray Victorian apartment where Da Silva had been hiding. "When we deport you, we're serious."

An Associated Press reporter and photographer accompanied a fugitive task force as it made Operation Return to Sender raids Tuesday night and early Wednesday.

Roughly half of those arrested had criminal records for crimes that ranged from sexual assault of a minor to assault with a deadly weapon, to abduction, a news release said. The operation has caught more than 140 immigrants with convictions for sexual offenses against children; 367 known gang members, including street soldiers in the deadly Central American gang Mara Salvatrucha, or MS-13; and about 640 people who had already been deported once, immigration officials said. The numbers include more than 720 arrests in California alone.

More than 800 people arrested already have been deported.

"The fugitives captured in this operation threatened public safety in hundreds of neighborhoods and communities around the country. This department has no tolerance for their criminal behavior and we are using every authority at our disposal to bring focus to fugitive operations and rid communities of this criminality," Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff said in a news release Wednesday.

"This is a massive operation," said Marc Raimondi, a spokesman for immigration enforcement or ICE, which is part of the Department of Homeland Security. "We are watching the country's borders from the inside."

In New England, officials said the sweeps have caught more than 150 people, including 75 who had come back after being deported.

ICE has a network of 35 fugitive teams across the country. The 2006 budget increased that number to 52, and the Bush administration is pushing for 70 by 2007.

The challenge, agents said, is staggering.

There are more than 500,000 "fugitive aliens" who have been deported by judges and either slipped back into the country or never left. There is often a disconnect between local and state prisons and the federal government that allows illegal immigrants to serve time and be released without being transferred to federal officials for deportation.

The work that led to the series of arrests over the past 20 days began last winter. Agents in Boston, for example, began scouting targets four months ago, conducting street surveillance and following up leads from confidential informants.

"It's a lot of preparation, and it's a lot of patience," said Jim Martin, deputy director for ICE's New England field office. "All for a couple minutes of adrenaline."

During the raid late Tuesday, the federal squad, which includes a Boston police sergeant detective, wore bulging bulletproof vests and stiff Kevlar gloves to protect their hands from needles, knives and rusty fences.

Badges dangled on chains around their necks as they passed around wanted posters and shined flashlights on the face of a 24-year-old Latvian man who had served prison time for assaulting a police officer.

The team moved in the dark, climbing fences and hiding behind parked cars to encircle a three-story house in Boston's Allston-Brighton neighborhood. All at once they emerged from the shadows. A half-dozen agents filled the front porch, their knocks on the door echoing down the block. The target had moved, the agents learned, and a team split off and caught him in Weymouth, about 15 miles south of the city.

Another man caught in the recent blitz was a Salvadoran gang member who was convicted in a stabbing that left a 13-year-old boy paralyzed. Agents caught him working at Budget Rental Car at Boston's Logan Airport.

"The problems with immigration aren't going to be solved overnight," Raimondi said as the team sped toward another raid. "You start chipping away at it ... The more teams we get up and running, the more dangerous people we are going to get off the streets."

Posted by: Diesal Dyke smells clean unlike fish crotch Debra at June 15, 2006 02:08 AM

This post is for Debra's benefit and any other liberal out there who thinks for one minute that backing this invasion will have any positive outcome to a way of living that every AMERICAN has worked their ass off for! Also A HUGE THANK YOU TO ALL the men and Women of the armed forces who have and will continue to protect even your whining ass! Oh by the way Debra when I say AMERICAN I mean black, white, tan, purple, race is not the issue here. The issue here is I do not see any affluent Mexicans running across the border at 2am. We are inheriting the ignorant, sick, filth of Mexico. You better pray to God you don't have a serious medical problem OH wait libs don't have such beliefs!!! Anyway you might want to read the following article from NEWSWEEK dated June 5th 2006. You might learn something. As for the person supporting Debra's time and response to post's. You need to wake the hell up if for one minute you think that our way of life is not being threatened here. I have close friends who are Latin decent and they are more pissed off about this than I am. Why Debra are they pissed? It is because they or their parents came to this country the legal way and they have their culture and our proud of it, but they also consider themselves AMERICANS. So without further comment ALL LIBERALS READ THIS AND LEARN SOMETHING! So might I suggest you take your "Allegiance" somehwere else!

NEWSWEEK:
June 5, 2006 issue - Ever since he crossed into Mexico, José Moisés has had nothing but trouble. Now the 30-year-old Honduran mechanic is hunkered down with other young illegal migrants in a rail yard just north of Mexico City, waiting for nightfall to hop a northbound freight. He displays a pale line encircling his finger. He used to have a ring there, he says—until Mexican cops slammed him against a squad car in the southern border state of Chiapas and grabbed it. "They took everything," says Moisés. "Here the Central American has no value."

As tough as the United States can be for workers who slip in from south of the border, Mexico is in a poor position to criticize. The problem goes far beyond the predatory gantlet of thugs and crooked cops facing defenseless transients like Moisés. There's ample precedent in Mexico for just about everything the United States is—or isn't—doing. Calling out the military? Mexicans may hate the new U.S. plan to deploy 6,000 National Guard troops on the border, but five years ago they cheered President Vicente Fox for sending thousands of Mexican soldiers to crack down on their southern frontier. Tougher laws? Hispanic-rights groups are enraged over U.S. efforts to criminalize undocumented aliens—yet since 1974, sneaking into Mexico has been punishable by up to two years in prison. Foot-dragging on amnesty? Fox has spent the past five years urging the United States to upgrade the status of millions of illegals from Mexico. Meanwhile, his own government has given legal status to only 15,000 foreigners without papers.

Some of the worst abuses take place on the coffee plantations of Chiapas state, where some 40,000 Guatemalan field hands endure backbreaking jobs and squalid living conditions to earn roughly $3.50 a day. Some growers even deduct the cost of room and board from that amount. "If you ask them, 'Why are you bringing in Guatemalans to work?' they say, 'You can't depend on Mexicans. They don't work hard; they're irresponsible'," says George Grayson, a political scientist specializing in Mexico at the College of William & Mary. "The truth is, you can pay [the guest workers] a pittance. And if they cause the slightest disturbance, you can send them back to Guatemala."

At least a few Mexicans are balking at the hypocrisy. Late last year their National Human Rights Commission issued a report criticizing Mexico's widespread mistreatment of aliens; the report described sub- human facilities where captured illegals are kept until they can be deported. Several international news agencies ran stories on the publication. But most of Mexico's leading papers ignored it.


Posted by: Joe American at June 15, 2006 10:20 AM

Oh by the way.....
GO JOEY KEEP UP THE GOOD, HARD, AMERICAN WORK!!!
On a side note his food is AWESOME!!!

Posted by: Joe American at June 15, 2006 10:29 AM

OK, Joe American, since you clearly feel you have been left out of the accolades:

I salute you, Joe, for your skills at generalization and polarization (not to mention CAPITALIZATION) and, most of all, your keen sense of sarcasm, without which you never would have picked up on the slyly antagonistic tenor of my prevous post.

Oh, and ALL CONSERVATIVES SHOULD READ THIS WEEK'S GARFIELD! That cat sure loves lasagna!

Posted by: Dan at June 15, 2006 01:03 PM

bitch, oh no I mean biyen, oh no, I mean diesal dyke--
Oh no! I'm so afraid.
It's the end of the world as we know it, and I feel fiiinnnnne----ha!
They are coming after you, they are watching you, they are listening in on your conversations......

biyen, how old are you? 18? if not, you sure sound as if you are, stupid ass american :-)

FEAR BREEDS FEAR-----debra of los angeles

Posted by: debra at June 15, 2006 01:23 PM

I've been reading these posts with more than just some amusement!
From what I read, I can see that "diesel Leslie"
has gotten the best of Debra ( perhaps in more than one way too
=^0
( yes, that IS how to spell diesel, Debra)
8^)
Debra- now YOU are quoting the exact fears that leftists everywhere complain about!
Looks to me like this discussion has lone ago gone way over your head and you have been reduced to petty postings!
Score: Debra ZERO
Everyone else: 25 plus++
too funny!!
LOL!!!

Posted by: Katie at June 15, 2006 02:23 PM

Dan you are correct! I, as a fair and honest man, apologize. I was so fired up I completely "missed" your message to our friend debra. In the spirit of this thread BRAVO (after I re-read it I got it!!)
Now whether we agree or not is unknown. However one of the things that make this country great is the fact we can disagree as well as respect one another's opinion. So my opinion is this. NO AMNESTY, STRENGTHEN THE BORDER! Welcome to AMERICA as long as it is through the proper and legal means like most of our grandparents had to do!

Posted by: Joe American at June 15, 2006 03:59 PM

Sign The Petition Save AMERICA

I have just signed a national petition urging our elected
officials to do everything in their power to Secure Our
Borders and stop the flow of illegal aliens entering into
our nation.

This is an issue of national security that demands your
immediate attention. Please click below for more information:

http://www.grassfire.org/42/petition.asp?PID=10988651&NID=1

Posted by: Pete Loren at June 15, 2006 08:55 PM

Link to new video of Joey Vento at Geno's. People are flying in from all over to support him. The man is a hero.

http://www.abc27.com/news/stories/0606/336300.html

Posted by: stop_s2611 at June 15, 2006 09:31 PM

wow. all this fuss over this? joe vento is an asshole, like the story says.

Posted by: Anonymous at June 15, 2006 10:35 PM

This is good for the country, these people by sticking to their group will never learn english. Joey is right, the best thing an immigrant can do is learn to speak english the first day they step foot on american soil.

Posted by: bruno at June 15, 2006 11:27 PM

One thing all you whiners conveniently leave out is that the sign says "PLEASE" speak english. It is a rquest, not a demand.

Posted by: letsdicker at June 16, 2006 02:48 PM

One thing all you whiners conveniently leave out is that the sign says "PLEASE" speak english. It is a request, not a demand.

Joe Vento has done nothing wrong, though I am sure he is basking in the attention you clowns are giving him. Go back to blaming Bush for global warming.

Posted by: letsdicker at June 16, 2006 02:54 PM

"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

Posted by: GrowUp America at June 16, 2006 05:16 PM

what ever happened to fishcrotchdebra?
c'mon debra, speak up, we miss reading your moronic posts. otherwise this dumbass leftist website will only have the occasional " anonymous" posts from their editor calling Joe an asshole (V.S. the plethora of intelligent posts supporting him.)
Liberals: be sure to read Zippy this week. He really has some great advice for you to deeply ponder and live your lives by!

Posted by: iLYkEStYnKY at June 16, 2006 06:13 PM

Joey Vento is the man.Speak English in America! Damn straight.It's he national language (for now)
Funny how one person asked when was the last time an african american worked for geno's.Well let me ask this....When was the last time a non black person was granted a scholarship by the uncf? When was the last time you saw an Indian (asian) hire outside their own even though the government sets these people up with grants to open American businesses? When was the last time John Street contracted food vending at special events held in Philadelphia to someone other than his brother? Remember live8? Remember how there was an issue to hire mostly minority vendors? where was this fair practice? Race has nothing to do with Joeys signs or his hiring practices.It's a matter of keeping the lines moving and hiring people in the sarounding community.Joey Vento didn't segragate neighborhoods.Everyone did.Geno's Steaks didn't ask the city of Phladelphia to market their city by using their name for advertisement of the city...The city of Philadelphia took it upon themself.The media made a mountain out of a mole hill.Pats is right across the street for those who feel violated.

Posted by: me at June 17, 2006 12:27 AM

Just want to say; I'm one to somewhat agree with one sentence in a posting here by someone using the name of "me" (no, not myself). I only agree with one part though and that's the part that Say's; "Geno's Steaks didn't ask the city of Philadelphia to market their city by using their name for advertisement of the city...The city of Philadelphia took it upon itself. The media made a mountain out of a mole hill". I ignored the other parts of your post though.

Well, it seems that's all the media does nowadays is "make mountains out of mole hills". Imagine the effect if it broadcasted issues that were truly important to humanity. Like "spinning" on how the US government does not pressure the Mexican government to enforce human rights for their citizens like it does with China or providing health care. Or by pushing our government to send food etc. down to them in Mexico so that they don't have to jump the border and come up here. The quality of life up here would make this very feasible. Or like repeating and repeating the importance of getting the borders controlled in the first place.

Now my statement. Knowing what I know from being born and raised close enough to the "epicenter" of all this, I know in my heart of hearts that if a black guy could make a steak (by the way, [like] I'm confident that they can) Gino's would have no trouble hiring him. The media, and I guess quite a few "loud mouthed mis-informed Mexican rights advocates" are trying their damnedest to stretch this into many other things including "a race issue" the will benefit their cause, which is in part destroying out neighborhoods just by their being in them. Geno's signs, don't mention race. And, we do have the right to free speech.

A lot of you in Philadelphia may be hearing all about this "Mexican spew" via the media for the first time. But I have heard this thing played out here in "sue me sue you" Los Angeles a hundred times (I don't really like Los Angeles, by the way).

In an earlier post I mentioned that I am from Jersey and was born and raised there. When I first got here to Los Angeles a few years ago, the first thing I said was; "why the hell do all of these people here just bend for these Mexicans? I couldn't figure it out.

In the past it was the "affirmative action law" that had played a major role in Mexicans and other minorities getting their fair share of city and government jobs (depending on your understanding of the word fair, of course). This actually meant that any employer and government agency was forced by law to employ a certain percentage of Mexicans and other minorities qualified or not, or face penalties. That was the law. The resulting hiring up of Mexicans in Los Angeles has also added "fuel" for what they are trying to pull right now in Philadelphia and other cities as well. When affirmative action was deemed unconstitutional, many employers in Los Angeles for the most part kept the same hiring practices and still hired Mexicans because they say they needed somebody who speaks Spanish to the other people who speak Spanish, etc. I'm still not against hiring Mexicans or anybody who is qualified to do any job however, and I never have been. I am not re-spewing "Rush Limbaugh" or any of the other "biggies".

All of what I have to say comes down to this; Mexicans have pretty much gotten their own little way out in Los Angeles and they think that this "ought to work" every where else in the US. You might notice some key words often used in their "big campaign" such as "racist", and "discriminate", not to mention their other big terms; "white boy" and "whitey", etc. It seems they are just re-playing "a certain other civil rights movement" from an era back in the 60's using the same terms and slogans. I've been watching them say the same stupid thing out here for years.

Like I said, I am all for giving anybody a fair shot at a job. If they can clock in and do the job, why not let them work? In the news you hear the Mexicans say; "Mexicans work so hard". So what? Do we not work hard? Another negative thing I've noticed about Mexicans is the quality of their work. Not true in all instances though, because I've met quite a few Mexicans who do great work in the industry that I am involved in. They do a 100% fantastic job, quality wise as well. But as you might expect, stereo typing or not, this is not true in all scenarios. In fact it's quite the adverse especially when it comes to restaurants and sanitation, or food manufacturing and sanitation (bakeries, etc.). They don't get much of an education in science and biology down there (in fact none that I have seen). Point being, it's kind of dangerous having them work in restaurants or food up here, don't you think? I have a wealth of dirty restaurant stories way too lengthy to post here.

Unrelated to restaurants though, I remember working in a warehouse for a coffee company here in Los Angeles (Secretary Coffee bought out by "Food Craft" coffee long ago). they supply coffee and beverages and lease coffee and beverage machines to offices. While working for this company, there were a few Mexicans who used to just love taking cases of imported coffee and boot them around like a football destroying the boxes in the process. They were long past the age of knowing better in fact some were in their 40's and 50's. I'll never forget their "joy" and "laughter" as they were destroying dozens of cases of product and giggling like a bunch of little kids playing their little game of football while the "whities" weren't looking (hee hee hee). Of course I mentioned the incident to the management but it seemed they just didn't give a damn. I know that I certainly did. No, I couldn't figure that one out either and it wasn't long before I left.

Here's one about the cable TV installer. If it wasn't a Mexican it was a chimpanzee. Well, about two years ago the comcast cable TV installer asked to use our bathroom and I said of course. Long after he leaves, I find that he didn't lift the toilet seat and pissed all over it and the floor. Need I say more.

No, I haven't met too many Mexicans (in fact none) that I'd really care to be around. In fact I feel like I'm writing a book sometimes because I've never seen anything like it. I just pray that Los Angeles is not a precursor of things to come for the rest of this country or for that matter Philadelphia. How about bush; "yeah, lets give em all amnesty". God help us.

Take it or leave it. Thanks for reading.
Mike McDermott. (I 'll say; "ahem ahem")

Posted by: Mike McDermott at June 17, 2006 06:21 PM

Guess I'd like to make more than one point.
If you go out to restaurants, think for a moment what is cooking your food. As we know, America is not automaticly loved by the entire rest of the world for fighting for other's freedoms etc. Mexicans have a similar hatred for Americans. To this day there is quite a large number of them (but not all) who hate the fact that California, etc. used to belong to Mexico. This is more apparent in the western states like California. This group of Mexicans seems to believe the one day California and especially Los Angeles will once again belong to them. In other words they think that they will drive us out by making it unpleasant for American. FEEBLE as this sounds, this is what they do. They have radio stations that make this very point in Spanish language only on a routine and daily basis. This gets ignored of course by everybody except Mexicans.

Well, as for restaurants, some Mexicans will not think twice before dropping your food on the floor and serving it to you and it gets worse. I have seen this for myself many many times. For that reason I don't eat in restaurants where Mexicans are employed (this is them working hard). Most Denny's, IHOP's, and chain restaurants in Los Angeles have nothing but Mexicans employed and most don't have any Americans working there at all. Personally, there is a Greek restaurant that serves Greek style food run by the owner which I go to occasionally but I know better than to go out to breakfast, lunch, etc. to restaurants where Mexicans work. And forget about mentioning a McDonalds.

I was back in Philly briefly a few years ago and I had noticed a few Mexicans in checked chef pants that could not speak English. Imagine taking your family out to dinner for a special occasion and giving a bunch of Mexicans the opportunity to serve the dirt off the floor with the very food your family is about to eat.

I won't touch on the subject of hygiene (but please think about all this).

As we all know, the majority of restaurant owner operators in the tri-state area would not be capable of even imagining such a feat but I have seen the way some of these Mexicans are out here and YES it happens all the time. They think this is so funny.

The quality of food in and around Philly should not be taken for granted. That is also one big reason why I really miss the place. In Los Angeles there are some unscrupulous restaurant owners who hire Mexicans and pay them low wages to work their profit machines. It seems likely that Mexicans will think the whole country is run the same way.

The trend goes like this; The Mexicans who grew up here in Los Angeles are usually the ones who have and practice the hatred. They are established here and have been able to finance radio stations. The ones jumping the border are just very glad to be here. They don't seem to mean too much harm but of course they should not be underestimated.

Realize it or not, we do have a crisis on our hands. It's our nature to try to be fair and give an immigrant a job. But more often then not we are giving a job or a chance to someone that may not deserve it. Bear in mind, for many of them, border jumping is a way of life and the only way of life. There is no other way. I see day laborers on a daily basis a mere half a block from my house. Some seem friendly and appreciative and some seem aggressive. I say hello sometimes in Spanish or English and may even pull out a buck and give it to them if I'm in the mood and there aren't too many other ones standing around. But it certainly would be a lot nicer with out them. I see about 50 or more every day at different locations.

Not to mention the ones driving around in cars or trucks with out licenses and getting into accidents. This whole thing is dangerous.

People are people but as I said in a previous post, there must a way other then having them scrounging all over our neighborhoods and lining the streets looking for work. We certainly don't want them to starve to death but we don't want them trapezing through our backyards either.
Mike McDermott.

Posted by: Anonymous at June 17, 2006 08:31 PM

Mike
I can confirm from experience that what you are saying is all true, and you are just scratching the surface of the issue.
I live in Northern California, and since I was raised in South America, and speak fluent Spanish, I can understand what is being said and sung about on the "bazillion" Mexican radio station's out here- namely that they feel they are the rightful owners of California-( and Texas) that they will one day take it back as theirs, and that they truly hate Americans, and that includes Afro Americans, Japanese Americans etc. etc, not just the white gringos . Let me say that again- THEY HATE THE GRINGOS WITH A PASSION, --ALL OF US. That is their not- so- secret, dirty little secret, and they are laughing at us for how they can Say whatever they want OVER AND OVER, ON THE AIRWAVES, SPEWING INCREDIBLY DANGEROUS ANTI AMERICAN HATE SENTIMENTS, AND 99 PERCENT OF CALIFORNIAN'S CAN'T UNDERSTAND A WORD OF IT.
We have Mexican ranch hands out here that work for us and we have had lengthy conversations about this problem.( not all Mexicans support this idea, but the overall MAJORITY DO.
They see us as weak and lazy and spoiled and very,VERY,VERY stupid that we have not only allowed this to happen but have actually SUPPORTED IT.
I won't bore you all with one horror story after another, but I swear, that the spit in the food, piss in your drink stuff is nothing compared to what I have heard, seen and experienced here in California. This is a HUGE safety concern for the entire U.S. now, though people who don't live in California, are mostly clueless about what is headed their way as we speak.
And of course, god forbid anyone stands up to it individually, as that race card gets played faster than you can say" my daughter just got raped and kidnapped," ( and when that happens, all the DNA and fingerprints will do NO GOOD as the bad guys are completely undocumented, and even on the rare occasions that they get caught, they skate Right through our system, which does NOT want to spend the dough on prosecuting and housing them- they just deport them which is like kicking a drunk guy out of a 900 mile sized bar with not ONE bouncer stopping his inevitable re- entry)
Where I live, it is EASIER ,FASTER AND CHEAPER TO TRAVEL IN AND OUT OF CALIFORNA/MEXICO FOR THE ILLEGALS THAN FOR US. At any one of the endless places they loiter looking for work ( which is another story in regards to the Mexican Mafia that runs that show) anyhow When they want to go home for Christmas, they wait for the immigration guys to show up, and the guys who want a free ride home run around in circles till they get caught while the others actually TRY and get away( and DO). Immigration nabs those who LET them catch them, and they get a free ride and are back in Mexico, under 24 hours later -after a good meal or two thanks to Uncle Sam.
2 weeks later or whenever they want to come back for some more dough they are back.
Does anyone out there , anyone AT ALL, really think that any of these guys could, would and will respect such a weak system as ours? let alone respect any of our values or lives in general? HELL NO THEY DON"T!
All of you better wake up and smell the coffee !
Imagine if our worst citizens , the ones with repeat criminal offenses of serious nature, the types who can't get hired because of heavy criminal records, could go to Mexico, almost instantly earn 5 -10 times as much there. all the while knowing they are looked down on and are working for what they see as rich, lazy, despicably weak locals, that they are free to hate every one (Mexican) they work for or encounter to the point of being able to rap about it, or sing about it, or just call in to fifty radio stations and talk about it, and nothing happens to them- and that they know that they can drive without a licence, never fear being locked up for good even if they rape and murder. This is how it is for the illegal Mexican criminal. DO you think our nicest criminals, given that same situation, might at the very least piss on their food too? and could literally get away with rape, robbery, even murder, because they needed NO licence or ID to work, drive, rent housing, etc.
Well, that is the exact program we are allowing them to have here.Like I said the good Mexicans that i know, hate this situation too, but they, like us, are a tiny minority compared to the masses of low life assholes that hate us and are here to stay if we leave it this way, -which of course, we will, because no politician wants to tackle this issue as it is political suicide to do so without the support of a heck of a lot more of us than there are now , that are willing to stand up and call it like it really is.
This is how it works in history from time in memorial- the rich, fat, and complacent are always taken over ( and in an ugly , painful way) by the hard core masses of "have nots"
Wake up America, this isn't about stupid fucking cheese steaks and who orders in English or not...

Posted by: Dave at June 18, 2006 03:06 AM

By the way, for those of you, who are thinking that I am talking in a paranoid way about this issue due to your personal LACK of first hand experience on the subject. Let me explain a little bit of exactly HOW it is that California is being taken over . There is no formal armed revolution looming on the horizon, no secretly well organized effort.
It is as simple as this: they are making us WANT to re locate of our own free will, because it SUCKS so BAD living with this kind of threat around us.
Already, I can tell you that there are many many families, mine included, that completely avoid ENTIRE CITIES OUT HERE, because of the REALISTIC DANGER AND THREAT TO OUR SAFETY.
let ME ASK YOU THIS; IS IT PARANOIA OR COMMON SENSE TO NOT WANT TO GO TO THE MALL IF YOU HAVE ABOUT A 100 PERCENT CHANCE OF GETTING STABBED OR SHOT IF YOU STAND UP WHEN A PACK OF MEXICANS ARE CAT CALLING YOUR DAUGHTER, OR GIVING YOU DIRTY LOOKS, OR MAKING YOU STEP OUT OF THE WAY WHILE THEY WALK THROUGH YOU. IS IT PARANOIA TO WANT TO AVOID THE TOWNS WHERE THERE ARE GANG RELATED DRIVE BY SHOOTINGS NAILING INNOCENT PASSERSBY, IS IT SILLY TO AVOID THOSE PLACES ENTIRELY WHERE THEY ARE ROUTINELY BOXING YOUR CAR IN FROM BEHIND AND SLAMMING ON THE BRAKES ON THE CAR IN FRONT OF YOU, SO THEY CAN SUE YOUR ASS AND TAKE EVERYTHING YOU OWN? DO YOU WANT TO TAKE YOUR KIDS INTO PLACES WHERE THERE IS A DECENT CHANCE OF BEING CARJACKED? DO YOU WANT TO LIVE IN A STATE WHERE YOUR BUSINESS CANOT SURVIVE THE TAX COSTS OF BEING IN BUSINESS THAT IS A RESULT OF YOUR HARD EARNED TAX DOLLARS BEING PISSED AWAY TO SUPPORT THEM ON THEIR UNEMPLYMENT OR WELFARE OR OTHER SOCIAL PROGRAMS LIKE CALIFORNIA IS NOW FOUNDERING UNDER THE WEIGHT OF IT ALL?
basically that is how they are truly taking over- we are leaving the cockroach infested kitchen to go live and eat somewhere safer, cleaner, and better.if you don't think this is happening then ask anyone in Washington or Oregon how many Californians have moved in over the last 5 years.
Do you think e would ditch this gorgeous state of redwood trees, mountains, and beaches if we didn't feel we had to?
Who is the Mayor of L.A. now? gee could it be a person of Mexican heritage? ( oh, excuuuuuse me, I mean a " Hispanic American")
Now,who do you think elected him? the "non Hispanic majority"? HAH, no such beast, and what do you think his agenda is , his platform that got all that Hispanic support? hmmm?
Anyhow, go ahead and write me off as 'making a mountain out of a molehill"
It will be in YOUR FACES SOON ENOUGH
" I'm George Zimmer and I guarantee it"


Posted by: Dave at June 18, 2006 03:30 AM

After reading the above post all i can say is... Joey take the freaking sign down! haha
See what you caused in LA?

Posted by: me at June 18, 2006 10:16 AM

Mike McDermott obviously you did not read all of what I said or you would have agreed to all of it.Basically I said the same exact things you did without the long drawn out stories.Only problem I see here is that your story seems a bit exagerated.You made a mountain out of a mole-hill.I'm sure not every Mexican in California is desireable but then again neither are all "gringos" black people,puerto ricans,Jews,Asians...The list goes on.No race is perfect.I worked (past tense) for a company for 18 years but left it because of their new found way of hiring only illegal boarder jumpers.The Mexican guys I worked with were great people who had a lot of pride in their culture.Yes they played the race game from time to time and no I did not agree with it but they didn't take it out on every white or black guy that I worked with.It was kept between them and the company and honestly the man who ran the company (white man like myself) knew how to play the game back by reminding them that they were illegal and could be deported so they should be happy with what was offered.This is the reason I chose to leave and not because I worked with "dirty" Mexicans.I loved these guys to death.They were mannered,would give you the shirt off their back if you needed it and never talked behind anyones back.I'm sure your wondering why I left? Because of the treatment they recieved! The majority of the plant was illegals so it was also thrown in our faces as well.It effected what we got in return because why should they pay for me when they could teach an illegal to do my job cheaper? I'm not saying I support illegals coming into the usa and taking jobs from people but I am saying I support them when they do the right thing and apply for citizenship.When they do this then they have the proper resources to back up unfair treatment in the job force.Are Mexicans on the west coast from a different breed then here on the east coast? You made them all sound like criminals and from what i have seen their good people.

Posted by: me at June 18, 2006 10:35 AM

Joey SHOULD serve Mexicans. Just as long as he PISSES on their food first.

Posted by: Felipe at June 18, 2006 07:50 PM

Yes Joe Vento is an hero because he came out and said what all uneducated white trash americans would say. a trilingual is a person that speaks three languages, a bilingual is a person that speaks two languages, monolingual is an ignorant american.

Posted by: Jennifer at June 19, 2006 02:36 PM

Yes Jennifer, thank you for making Joe's point- remaining monolingual ( refusing to learn English) when living in the Unites States IS ignorant!!
PS isn't your name actually Debra!!
LOL!!

Posted by: Lisa at June 20, 2006 01:01 AM

Yes Jennifer, thank you for making Joe's point-being Hispanic yet remaining , (in your words)- "monolingual" (by refusing to learn English) when living in the Unites States IS ignorant!!
PS. isn't your name actually fishyDebra!!
LOL!!

Posted by: Lisa at June 20, 2006 01:03 AM

HELLO THERE DAVE! Your post is super informative and I enjoyed reading it.


On behalf of Philadelphia and the tree-state area I'd like thank DAVE very much. Dave has succeeded in giving to you what I could only try to give you in the way of information on "WHAT THE MEXICANS ARE REALLY LIKE". Unbenownst to the majority of citizens in the tri-state area and most of America for that matter, "MEXICANS ACTUALLY DO HATE OUR GUTS WITH A PASSION".


Born and raised in New Jersey where there were not ANY Mexicans, I was also curious about them (though they are starting to find their way into New Jersey now). When I first decided to come out to California, I had actually had thoughts about going to Mexico for a visit. I WAS also a victim to the thinking that they would probably be like "the rest of the civilized world" because after all, this is the 21st century, right?. No my friends, "MEXICANS CERTAINLY ARE NOT LIKE THE CIVILIZED WORLD AT ALL". They are kind of savage like. It took me almost a year of living out here in Lost Angeles to realize that THEY ACTUALLY DO HATE AMERICANS (dumb gringo).

I'm sure people who don't know Mexicans get their ideas about them from TV. They think they are a type of "hard working perfectionist people selecting only the finest peppers, herbs, and ingredients for their dishes, etc." Brainwashed from TV commercials and media. But if they could only come out to California and see for themselves. It won't be a long time before they think otherwise.

I would like to take the sentence in your post and change it from;"All of YOU better wake up and smell the coffee, to "All of US better wake up and smell the coffee!" I say this because I Think we'd REALLY LIKE TO HAVE YOU ON OUR SIDE. That is, all of the rest of us Americans who have never really been exposed to Mexicans or have any idea what they are like (yet?).

We need to get the word out there somehow. The stinking politicians will no doubt be throwing Mexican themed campaigns soon. What does the idiot voter know? Nothing about Mexicans that's for sure. We are in the most terrible state right now.

Think for a minute, the Mexicans chanted "USAMA USAMA" at a USA vs. Mexico soccer game. That should be taken as a hint that our "friends to the south" are not really too damn friendly.

I, like many people, end up typing paragraph after paragraph in frustration because, borrowing Dave's 99% figure, 99% of the entire American public simply DOES NOT HAVE A CLUE as to what this situation is really like.

I wish I could write more.

TO: The post from "me" (the post, not myself) You have a major point where you say; "They [the Mexicans] were mannered, would give you the shirt off their back if you needed it and never talked behind anyones back." Shucks, I've worked with some like that also. I've been here in Lost Angeles for about 20 years and have formed an opinion, or rather a conclusion, and that is that it would be better to just forget about living near them in Los Angeles. There are indeed some exceptionally good ones. I have "long drawn-out" good stories about them too, believe me. As for west coast ones differing from the ones on east coast. Some of the ones I've met from Texas are almost like you and I, civilized. I don't know about some of the other ones though but they are in a word savage like. Incidently, my stories are not exaggerations. Some of the things I've seen them do are exactly difficult to believe. Read the post by Dave.

Naturally we all wish we could help the world but a line must be drawn. Of course we'd really like to help the Sudanese but "do you really want to go to Sudan and clean up poo poo" or do you really want to have Sudan move here to the "nice United States" so we can clean Sudan's poo poo here. If they were meant to live in this continent: etc. etc.

Dave and "me(the post)" give me a write (an email) if possible. I'd like to converse with you more on this subject.

Thanks for reading my post. I've done some good. Dave has done more good. It shows people are reading. People really do need to know.

Mike McDermott

By the way, isn't the little taco bell dog cute? (just kidding).

Posted by: Mike McDermot at June 20, 2006 03:15 AM

DAVE; one more thing.
What do you think about a website where all of this info can be published so that anyone anywhere can read it? We are both anonymous. Pictures, captions, all of it.
Who knows, it may even be profitable. If it got enough hits it could make some money. What we are talking about here is something that should generate alot of interest among alot of people but at the same time be doing a tremendous service for posibly millions of innocent people.

Personally, I am just sick and tired of just watching this happen and not doing anything about it and also having nobody else do anything about either.

The people have to make a stand because it will soon be too late. But first they (we) must know what we're dealing with. Here is something not great but somewhat noteworthy. http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1390923/posts

email me. mikefromjersey1@verizon.net

If "fishcrotchbreath" and them try to write to it I can always delete it.

LATER. Mike McDermott

Posted by: Anonymous at June 20, 2006 11:21 PM

Mike yo have a lot of hate and anger built up when it comes to mexicans.Maybe a mexican violtated you somehow in the past? You can't take how one person is and come to a conclusion that they are all like that.Your only feeding back into what you claim they do.Thanks for the email invite but I don't think that is needed.

Posted by: me at June 22, 2006 03:26 PM

To: "ME" (the post).
To quote "you" now "ME"; "Funny how one person asked when was the last time an african american worked for geno's.Well let me ask this....When was the last time a non black person was granted a scholarship by the uncf? When was the last time you saw an Indian (asian) hire outside their own even though the government sets these people up with grants to open American businesses?"

I'll be glad to answer that one. Probably more than you'll ever know! From sometime last year up until February this year I, yours truly, worked for an Asian. In fact quite a few Asians because it was a family run business, Father, Son, occasionally Daughter and Wife and some of us "Caucasians" too. Mexicans worked there too but nobody was an illegal alien. All legal eagles.

Incidently, you also must not realize that "your Mexicans" DO NOT hire out of their own race. Mexicans "ARE VERY RACIST" and won't hire any Americans at all. They only hire their own. If they work in a supervisory type position at say a bus company, or a city job, etc., even though a driver, mechanic, etc. may be very qualified for the job, they will hire a less qualified and most often an unqualified Mexican. Didn't know that did you? Just ask my man dave who posted above.

"ME", who ever you are, I've been around them quite a long time and there isn't too much more you could ever tell me about them, trust me. Turn off the TV and have a look for your self. A REAL GOOD LOOK!

It's not hate but maybe a little anger regarding Mexicans. It boils down to a "quality of life" issue. They will ruin neighborhoods by just moving into them.

Van Nuys California. Only 10 or so years ago it used to be a great place to live. Very nice looking place with trees, major department stores, malls, etc. It had potential to be even better. It is now a slum, mattresses lining the street, abandoned cars, drugs, crime, even prostitution. Big dept. stores have pulled out, Sizzler and others have pulled out. The buildings are now vacant with graffiti all over them. I don't have too much space to list everything here. It isn't me who lives there. It is about 90% to 100% Mexicans that now live there.

If you're from Philly, you must have heard about that story in Levittown or Allentown (I can't remember exactly where), but there was a fire and after the fire company came and put out the fire they found that the bedrooms had 10 or fifteen mattresses on all the floors, etc.and there were about 40 to 60 people living there.

This is the stuff that we who have had experiences with them are talking about. They are a crass bunch of obnoxious people. Even their music is horrible. It's not like that of Puerto Rico which has rthym to it. I can listen to Puerto Rican music. I love music but Mexican music I can't listen to. Can't even stand it for that matter. It isn't really music. It is 4/4 and it sounds like a drunk Salvation Army Band trying to play a polka. I know music doesn't have anything to do with this issue, but it's just one more thing that I don't like about them.

If you haven't been to California or some other western states where quite a few of them are, then you can't possibly know how they are. You are missing a whooooooooole lot of pieces to the puzzle.

I know everybody can't come out to Los Angeles and spend a year here to see just what they are like but if the "real story" on them doesn't get out to the American public soon, it seems a whole lot of innocent people are going to end up finding out what they are like the hard way.

Thanks for your (um) reply.
The real Mike McDermott

Posted by: Anonymous at June 23, 2006 12:09 AM

One more thing; There is not any kind of exaggeration here. All of these stories are all fact. There is no need to be exaggerating.

Think about it. THIRD WORLD. We're not talking about; hatred, racist, etc., etc. We're talking a quality of life issue. We're talking about the third world moving into your town. It isn't necessary to have them here.

It isn't called the third world for nothing.

Posted by: Mike McDermott at June 23, 2006 12:18 AM

Heya Mike
As you see now- anyone who doesn't live where the heavier infestation is, cannot relate to those of us with first hand experience.
So, they will invariably call you a racist, or infer that you were violated, or accuse us of over reacting, etc.
This is why I said" wake up and ( smell the Mexicans)-they will be " in your faces soon"
etc.
and why I said it is political suicide for any politician to tackle this issue.
( and just like how I will get blasted for this post as well, but I don't care as I know it's just that the truth hurts for liberals to read it, and that it's sooooo much easier for them to do nothing but criticize and whine, then it would be to actually put the bong down for a year and do something positive for their fellow Americans..
By the way- can you imagine if all us white people told our kids to take the day off of school while we all took a day off work to PROTEST the illegal immigration?
talk about National shutdown, but we won't for several reasons, one because middle America is too apathetic over this issue, 2. because Middle America is too hard working and dedicated to do such a thing to our economy
3, because Middle America has better values to teach our kids , rather than teaching them to " strike" and use any excuse for a free day off of school and work etc.
I'll tell you what i did during that day, that week, this year: I no longer buy anything from any Mexican or American store or restaurant that has anything resembling anything close to illegal Mexicans working for them. ( And you would be surprised how many Mexican American establishments use illegals, as well as how many " gringos" do too.
I by myself make no difference in impacting their income, I know that, but I do it for me and the rest of the legal citizens anyway.
It doesn't take all that big of an effort to drive by those places after close of business and see who is cleaning the place- illegal looking folks or not. And if in doubt, I skip the place in the future.
That is MY right - to refuse to shop or eat somewhere., just like Joe Vento has the right to refuse service to anyone.
Anyhow, hang in there Mike, and realize that this is a leftist website blog page, so you are not going to get mush support here.
After all the media is 90 percent liberal run, and all that liberals ever do is hypocritical anyway. Come visit the Republic of Santa Cruz, California someday to see it in action.
By the way, did you see what the Mexican Presidente Mr Fox, did to help alleviate the overcrowding of Mexicans pouring into the U.S. and California? he legalized possession of " small " quantities of drugs in Mexico. I kid you not.
Apparently he is hoping to free up some space in California for more illegal Mexicans, and simultaneously boost their economy by enticing our drug addicts to cross the border into Mexico and live and die) there.
Eliminate the middleman, save on smuggling fees, go live in Mexico where you can have a " spoonful of heroin without getting busted" ( how big of a spoon is the first question the addicts want to know" teaspoon? tablespoon? does a ladle qualify? who knows, just go find out for yourself losers!
You won't hear much about That in the liberal media
by the way:
SENATOR JOHN GLENN SAID

Things that make you think a little:

There were 39 combat related killings in Iraq in January.

In the fair city of Detroit there were 35 murders in the

month of January. That's just one American city,

about as deadly as the entire war-torn country of Iraq.

When some claim that President Bush shouldn't

have started this war, state the following:

a. FDR led us into World War II.

b. Germany never attacked us; Japan did.

>From 1941-1945, 450,000 lives were lost ..

an average of 112,500 per year.

c. Truman finished that war and started one in Korea.

North Korea never attacked us..

>From 1950-1953, 55,000 lives were lost ...

an average of 18,334 per year.

d John F. Kennedy started the Vietnam conflict in 1962.

Vietnam never attacked us.

e. Johnson turned Vietnam into a quagmire.

>From 1965-1975, 58,000 lives were lost ..

an average of 5,800 per year.

f. Clinton went to war in Bosnia without UN or French consent.

Bosnia never attacked us.

He was offered Osama bin Laden's head on a platter three

times by Sudan and did nothing. Osama has attacked us on

multiple occasions.

g. In the years since terrorists attacked us , President Bush

has liberated two countries, crushed the Taliban, crippled

al-Qaida, put nuclear inspectors in Libya, Iran, and, North

Korea without firing a shot, and captured a terrorist who

slaughtered 300,000 of his own people.

The Democrats are complaining

about how long the war is taking.

But

It took less time to take Iraq than it took Janet Reno

to take the Branch Davidian compound.

That was a 51-day operation..

We've been looking for evidence for chemical weapons

in Iraq for less time than it took Hillary Clinton to find

the Rose Law Firm billing records.

It took less time for the 3rd Infantry Division and the

Marines to destroy the Medina Republican Guard

than it took Ted Kennedy to call the police after his

Oldsmobile sank at Chappaquiddick.

It took less time to take Iraq than it took

to count the votes in Florida!!!!

ok liberals , your turn to weigh in . Blast away..
P.S did you see that they are making a new version of the Movie " Roots" ?
it's based on the Mexican invasion
and it's going to be called : "Weeds"
LOL!
and don't even get me going on the low quality of Mexican workers products, services, etc that they produce, cook, provide, etc.


Just say no to squared off and rounded off shrubbery and hire American landscapers only!
Stay Strong Doug, long live Joe Vento!
regards,
Dave

Posted by: Dave at June 24, 2006 01:38 PM

here, straight from MSNBC ( and I stand corrected it was the ENTIRE Mexican CONGRESS that voted this in, they are just waiting for Vicente to sign it into Law.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/12535896/

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,193616,00.html

Posted by: Dave at June 24, 2006 01:45 PM

here, straight from MSNBC ( and I stand corrected it was the ENTIRE Mexican CONGRESS that voted this in, they are just waiting for Vicente to sign it into Law.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/12535896/

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,193616,00.html
Oh and by the way , just to clarify- NOT being leftist, does NOT mean, being a right wing freak either. Case in point:
I am A Veteran of the United States Armed Forces, respect that or not, your choice. I happen to be proud that I, like my Uncles, Father, and Grandfathers before me, was willing to risk laying down my life for OUR Country.
Also for the tree huggers_ Yes, Many of us " Conservatives" also conserve energy and natural resources. In regards to my family-We hand wash our dishes here at home , we take fairly quick showers, we wash our cars and boat and work truck minimally , all to conserve water. We are not dirty, smelly or hippie like in order to do this.
We carry a trash bucket in our car, and on our boat so that when we see trash in our travels, we pick it up,-as much as space allows. We take a plastic bag each and clean the shoreline when walking on the beach, and NOT just during Earth day. We pick up trahs out of the lakes we visit. We catch and release our fish when angling.
And most importantly, we do volunteer work for our Community. My daughter isn't even in High School yet and her first job is as a volunteer.
We stop and say hello and actually TALK with real interest in their lives to old people, handicapped people, emotional , mentally or physically handicapped. We support single mom's and their struggles, we support our War Vets, and we have empathy for ANYONE who is TRYING to help themselves get over personal; struggles with substance abuse.
We do NOT support the illegal immigrants who dump all their trash on us, and who treat us with disrespect and pose a danger to us.
I am NO hero, that is for sure. I am just an ordinary man doing his part for Our Country and Our Earth. Try it sometime. It's not a bad way to be.

Posted by: Dave at June 24, 2006 02:07 PM

DAVE; I'm glad you are reading.

For years I've felt like a "soul surviver" with this cause of mine (and yours, and many others). I often jokingly say "I'm a free lance writer for the AP", or I'll say "I'm writing a book" in reference to my travels around Los Angeles. "Oh, the things mine eyes have seen!"

Regardless. It's like I said in a post already where sadly "the average Joes" out there have no clue what Mexicans are really like and they form their opinions (oh, such positive things) about them from the TV, etc. I was once the same way. As I said in a previous post. I was 25 when I first came out to Los Angeles. I just figured that Mexicans would be like the rest of the civilized world because after all, this is the 21st century. Oh, was I ever wrong!

Sadly, nobody will ever know what they are really like until it is too late. I've seen many times where "a nice decent family" probably from out of town will go out to dinner to restaurant and all sit down, hungry, and ready to eat, relax and enjoy. And as soon as the Mexican cooks or anybody else realize they are there, the Mexicans literally relish the moment. You can see the look in eyes. "Ahh, I took a pee and didn't wash my hands like the "gringos" want me to. Now they are going to all eat the food I make. Ha ha ha dumb gringos.

I feel so sorry.

I visited San Francisco just once for a weekend in 1990 but when I was up there it was a different world as far as ordering food in restaurants. I had no problem ordering anything and the quality of the food was very good. Compared to L.A. the difference is like night and day. In L.A. you can complain to the manager but; oops, Mr. Ricardo doesn't know what your talking about (besides, he knows everything is clean. The customer must be crazy for eating here in the first place). You know the story very very well.

I have tons of stories about them down here in L.A.

I am serious about an idea. I would like to put up a website with nothing but stories about them of course all being factual. The word must somehow get to the American public. I know of a very cheap and reliable hosting service and I would be glad to pay for this as well as design and upload the site. I really could use some stories from other people though. You are no doubt a great double agent with your fluency in Spanish.

I would guess you don't have an abundance of time given that you have your family, but give me a write if possible. You could email the stories, I could upload them. Of course no names need be used. The time is ripe for something like this and it should also generate a lot of interest.
mikemc93@verizon.net

Here's another story from the great state of Pennsylvania.
http://www.philly.com/mld/inquirer/14881261.htm%3E#recent_comm

HAVE A GREAT WEEKEND.

Posted by: Mike McDermott at June 24, 2006 10:07 PM

""ME", who ever you are, I've been around them quite a long time and there isn't too much more you could ever tell me about them, trust me. Turn off the TV and have a look for your self. A REAL GOOD LOOK!"

First off I don't watch T.V. I allow life to entertain me( and my computer:)~ ) But let me ask you this......When was the last time you visited the Philadelphia area? No I am not in Philly.I am in south jersey and we have a ton of mexicans here.More than I want around.They work and live here to do the landscaping jobs,factory jobs,farm work etc...I am coming off to you from personal experiences of working around them.Yes I agree they destroy our economy by taking jobs that are skilled and turning them into low paying "I'll do the job for less" classifications but in general not every Mexican is the "boogey-man" like your making them out to be.They don't go around stabbing,raping,robbing and slumming everything up like you claim.Yes I have seen some pretty disgusting conditions that some live under but I can say the same for all races.Hell I knew of an Indian family that had their houses floors removed because they felt compelled to walk on dirt and not carpeted flors.To each their own until it's my neighborhood.Maybe it's somethign in the water in California or maybe it has to do with the fact that they are still wet when they enter California.Who knows maybe it's a case of the bums hang closer to a border that they can recross if they legally screw up while the decent ones travel further up north to seek employment but I stated my opinion on my own experiences.If your conditions are that bad then maybe you should put your words into a letter to your waste of life Governer,the press and the president of the U.S rather than waste it on a site talking about a cheesteak shop owner who preffers his customers to be able to communicate with him.

Posted by: me at June 25, 2006 04:52 PM

here ya go liberals, this is the kind of scumbag that is coming in from Mexico because you all think it's unfair to seal the border.
this guy could be America's all time most prolific serial killer. 10 million dollars, and umpteen years later, now you all want to protest his being put to death tomorrow night.
this piece of shit Mexican should die a slow, painful death and it should have happened long ago, not after feeding him and letting him sit around for years watching t.v. and sucking our tax dollars down in one appeal after another
I say BURN THE FUCKER ALIVE.
http://www.crimelibrary.com/serial_killers/notorious/resendez/track_1.html

Posted by: Dave at June 26, 2006 09:16 PM


yes, and he made it up North for awhile and slaughtered hard working honest Americans while there too. So-- all you head in the sand illegal alien type Mexican lovers who think this type of thing is not going to be in your face one day better think again( i.e. this type of animal IS coming your community in some other form, sooner or later if we do not close up the borders- in fact a few of them are probably already hanging about your town and mine right now as I type this.) WAKE UP AMERICA!!


http://www.mansonfamilypicnic.com/angel.htm

http://www.mansonfamilypicnic.com/angel2.htm

Posted by: Dave at June 26, 2006 09:31 PM

DAVE...

Oh; it's "one tough place!"

Posted by: Mike McDermott at June 26, 2006 11:04 PM

And they're "HARD WORKIN".
Where would we ever do without them.

Posted by: Mike McDermott at June 26, 2006 11:15 PM

Meant to say; "WHAT would we ever do without them" (sorry for the typo).

Speaking of typos, how about their hand painted store signs? (painted by their actual "hard workin hands") Just beautifying the neighborhoods their not welcome in.

That's because Mexicans are of a "hard workin' breed" of perfectionist people selecting only the finest peppers, herbs, and ingredients for their dishes, etc."

By the way "me;" way to go! Keep up the good work.
(Ahh, shucks, I'm laughing at me own posts again)

Posted by: Mike McDermott at June 26, 2006 11:31 PM

mike seek anger management brother.there are tons of arien webpages out there that would appreciate your post.

Posted by: me at June 27, 2006 03:20 PM

JUSTICE HAS BEEN SERVED.

Posted by: Mike McDermott at June 28, 2006 10:38 PM

TO: The post from "me" (the post, not myself).
You don't think I'd really be reading a post by someone like you do you?

Posted by: Mike McDermott at July 10, 2006 03:42 AM

see Mike? Like I said, on a dumb ass leftist website like this, you can expect lame comments such as from the " me" guy in regards to the anger management or the Arian website crap.
this is what happens when people like us step up and say :" we don't want serial killers freely coming across the border"
The response from idiots such as the " me" guy is that we are KKK or White Supremacists for not wanting to eat pissed on food or have our neighbors or families robbed, raped and killed by scumbags like Angel Resendez and the other 90 percent of illegals that freely strolls through our country doing crimes with zero accountability.
Men and women like the " me" guy just want to smoke their drugs and watch t.v. and pretend to themselves that they are peace loving, righteous, humanitarians- and that is how they raise their kids- to do nothing but seek personal pleasure and comfort. Meanwhile our sons and daughters, our neighbors , our friends are dying while defending this country and while defending their rights to be slack assed, bong smoking "fucking wastes of skin"...
it's sad, but that is how it is.
here is how well our current situation is working:
IDENT. The House Appropriations Committee, which controls the budget for INS, turned down a request for an additional $20 million to expand the IDENT system. The IDENT system did not detect suspected serial killer Angel Maturino Resendez, who was on the FBI's Ten Most Wanted list. Resendez, suspected of eight US murders, was caught and released voluntarily back into Mexico nine times by the Border Patrol in 18 months.

IDENT stores fingerprints and photos of people caught trying to enter the US illegally. The Appropriations Committee said that it "continues to be concerned about the inadequacies of this system specifically with regard to its ability to identify wanted criminals."
(pretty damn sad.)
"Stay Strong Mike!"
Regards,
your American Brother: Dave.

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Posted by: Mike McDermott at August 22, 2006 12:05 AM

i will never speak spanish because i think it's crappy sounding . i will never order or buy products from mexicans . i will vote against any leader that is for invation of this country and am for a complete ethnic cleanup of my home . i do however support anybody or company that has my best interests in mind . and to those of you that need to nitpick about grammer and spelling and not the message GO FUCK YOURSELFS and those brown turds

Posted by: scott hill at September 6, 2006 08:21 PM

It is Joe Vento's RIGHT to say what he wants.

Joe Vento is not Politically Correct...

Praise the Lord for a man that speaks the truth as he sees it !!!

Why is it that liberals are so foul-mouthed, yet want to deny someone else's first amendment rights ?


Posted by: jimbob at October 16, 2006 10:24 AM

I find it very funny and hypocritical of lot of these people posting comments that are anti-English. They are probably members of the ACLU. These people are the same whack job liberals that behind close doors are the first to complain that their son is getting harassed in school by the illegal-Latino children. Or the same one who complains that they had to speak to a tech support professional in India and they couldn't understand him/her. Or the same one that complains that all the gas stations are owned by Iranians. At least this Indian person realizes that to get a better job in India you need to speak English. The Iranians realize that to own a business here you need to speak English. What is wrong with learning the language of the Country you live in? What is wrong with knowing English?
Last time I checked, immigrants need to know English to become a citizen. Those that do try know that you need to know English. Once again, common sense has gone out the door. Leave it up to the liberals to divide us and cater to their “feel good flavors of the month causes”. These are the same people who brought you “2 + 2 = 5”.

Posted by: Tony at October 24, 2006 07:02 PM

Several thousand Marines fell on Iwo Jimo to raise our flag there so you liberal fucks wouldn't have to eat rice all your life.
These ILLEGALS who come here and wave thier flag in our face may just as well piss on those fallen soldiers graves! Screw all of you ahead of time!!!

Posted by: Hank at November 9, 2006 05:59 PM

Joe Vento this and Joe Vento that! Do any of you know the man??? What's he saying? We strugled for what we have and it's being given away. Who in this country is excuesed from the law?? You like to sit in the yuppy resturants and sip your cheap wine while the Illegal busses your table but your son can't get a summer job there! You pay $1000 a month for your apartment but they live next door to you and pay $100 because thier splitting the rent with 7-8 other Illegals. $10 perscriptian plan? good for you. My drugist told me there getting it free!No black people's photos on Genos walls? better look again,in fact ask around about what the man gives away each year to all orginazitions not only white. Go ahead Keep giving it away!


Posted by: Santo Vitello, American at November 9, 2006 06:14 PM

man, the last two guys got it right! I cant believe the rest of you people. First of all, dont give me the shit about immigrants making this country what it is. What you fail to realize is back in the day, which we need to return to, immigrants worked hard to get here. In order to get their citizenship, they had to take English lang. classes and pass a test. THEY LEARNED THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE AND SPOKE IT! Ask anybody old enough to be your grandparent who came here from another country as a young person. I can go on and on regarding the lengthy process and sometimes, numerous denials before they were granted entry into our country and any of them would tell you thats the way it should be. You people say you're patriotic and you have pride in your country? Well then, dammit, start taking care of it!!!!!!!!!! and remember this truth...when its too easy to have, you don't respect it. Just wait and see what happens to your freedom when you throw it away to people who only care about what this country can do for them. Interesting...
"And so, my fellow Americans: Ask not what your country can do for you - ask what you can do for your country." Wake up people and see it how it is!!

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Posted by: Coach at February 1, 2007 06:59 PM

Hurray for Joe. The last man in America who still is brave enough to take on illegal immigrants. And liberals who always cry, "Racist!" should try entering Mexico illegally and see what it would be like to spend some time in a Mexican prison. The inmates in Mexican prisons eat liberal gringos alive for breakfast. Go Joe!

Posted by: nicki at February 9, 2007 12:13 PM

To all you losers who believe in multi culturalism.

If America is so bigoted why does the entire world population desire to migrate here?

SPEAK ENGLISH YOU JERKS OF START A BUSINESS WHERE ENGLISH IS BANNED!

Hank Fiorini


Posted by: Hank at February 9, 2007 04:23 PM

To all you losers who believe in multi culturalism.

If America is so bigoted why does the entire world population desire to migrate here?

SPEAK ENGLISH YOU JERKS OR START A BUSINESS WHERE ENGLISH IS BANNED!

Hank Fiorini


Posted by: Hank at February 9, 2007 04:23 PM

Why does everyone assume its Spanish? Shouldn't Joe be hiring people who speak Chinese-Hindu-Polish-persian-Spanish-Russian?