Hispanic High Schoolers Fly Mexican Flag Above American Flag Flying Upside-Down

I received this piece of information from a friend who presently lives and works in California. What's up with this? Is this an act of 'free speech?'

The protestors put up the Mexican flag over the American flag flying upside down at Montebello High School in California.

Speaking of free speech, does anyone remember the screenplay of THE AMERICAN PRESIDENT in which Andrew Shepherd states:

Everybody knows American isn't easy. America is
advanced citizenship.
You gotta want it bad, 'cause it's
gonna put up a fight. It's gonna
say, "You want free speech? Let's
see you acknowledge a man whose words
make your blood boil, who's standing
center stage and advocating, at the
top of his lungs, that which you
would spend a lifetime opposing at the
top of yours. You want to claim
this land as the land of the free,
then the symbol of your country can't
just be a flag; the symbol also has
to be one of its citizens exercising
his right to burn that flag in
protest." Show me that, defend that,
celebrate that in your classrooms.
Then you can stand up and sing about
the land of the free.

Murder-Suicide in California

Five people were found dead, three of them children, in what appeared to be a murder-suicide in a home across the street from the Richard Nixon Library, police said Sunday.

A 14-year-old boy called 911 about 11 p.m. Saturday to report that his father had shot him and his brother at their condominium, said Sgt. Peter Rodriguez of the police department in Brea, which was investigating the shooting in neighboring Yorba Linda.

Police found the body of a woman on the doorstep. Inside, they found the bodies of a 5-year-old boy and two girls, ages 8 and 9. Officers also found the body of a man with a shotgun beneath him.

Police did not immediately know the motive for the shootings or the relationship of the victims.

California Beef Recalled by USDA

USDA recalls largest amount of beef in its history from Westland, a California plant which is being investigated for cruelty to its cattle.

If You Are a Potential Viable Member of the Workforce, No Public Assistance for You

A very dear friend of mine who lives in California sent this story to me, which I asked her if I could share. She writes:

I have a white single female friend with 2 children who's having a devil of a time finding a job. She has no car, her kids are only 11, and she has got to be home in time to be able to walk to the school to get them from their after-school program that ends at 5:30. As a white female who speaks English, she is unable to get any sort of public assistance of any kind because she's a "potential viable member of the workforce with no language or race barriers" -- that's what the welfare office actually told her. She can't even get food stamps to feed her kids.

However, if she was any other ethnicity, or didn't speak English, she'd qualify for everything. So she's having to constantly borrow money from her friends to buy food and pay for her electricity, gas for heating, and her cell phone because she doesn't have a land line in her apartment. If she doesn't have a phone, she can't get calls from potential employers nor her kids' school in case of emergency. The welfare people consider her having this cell phone a luxury -- not that it matters since the other factors are against her more than that. And she's gone on so many interviews I've lost count.

So this illegal immigration thing grates on me more than ever -- and it's not that I want to deny them medical care or have their kids be born in an unhealthy manner because as humans everyone deserves decent health care or else disease spreads. What I take exception to is that Americans themselves are not afforded the same things as illegals are and that's not right. Not all Americans are able to pay for things, there are poor white people as much as there are any other ethnicity yet because they're legal citizens who technically have access to all this crap illegals don't, they are expected to pay through the nose or not get any assistance at all.

100 Car Pile-Up in California Tule Fog

Dense "tule" fog in central California led to a 100 car pile up on Hwy 99. Visibility was said to be "about two feet."

Two people were killed, and many injured had to be extracted from their vehicles. Hours after the accident, people were reportedly sitting on the roadside waiting to be interviewed by investigators.