Should the Arizona state legislature ban Mariachi music on the radio?
by Hugh Holub on Jun. 29, 2010, under border issues, humor, politics
Here are some (tongue in cheek) suggestions for additional stupid laws the Arizona state legislature can consider to purify Arizona and “encourage” foreigners to leave the state:
Ban foreign food restaurants: Using state health code laws, revoke the licenses of Mexican food restaurants, because everyone knows that if Mexicans have a place to eat, they will migrate to Arizona.
Ban the use of non-English names for cities, towns, mountains, rivers and streets: No more Catalina and Rincon mountains, or Pantano Road, or Colorado River or Pima County. Rename Tucson and and Sierra Vista. English is the official language in Arizona, so no Spanish or Indian words can be used for any place or geographic identification. Don’t let them foreigners be able to find their way around the state with familiar words and names.
Ban the use of non-English names for businesses: State and local governments must only license businesses named using American words. No more “Taco” Bell
Ban foreign music on radio and television: Can’t have Norteno or Mariachi or polka music on our airwaves competing with good old American music. We can’t let “them” feel comfortable living in the state listening to “their” own music.
Ban the use of non-English names for babies born in the state: Birth certificates must be in English. Americanize everyone’s names…like they did at Ellis Island…Jorge becomes George, Martinez becomes Martin, Holub becomes Hollow.
Deny American citizenship to babies born in Arizona to an illegal alien mother: Oops…they’re actually trying to do that one.
June 29th, 2010 on 7:40 am
i think you wasted space with this article they should ban stupid people from writing this stuff and write about what needs to be done to protect the citizens from criminals and illegal people entering arizona do do harm to its citizens
June 29th, 2010 on 7:55 am
funny
June 29th, 2010 on 8:01 am
truth is stranger than fiction
June 29th, 2010 on 8:03 am
I can’t stand Mariachi music
June 29th, 2010 on 8:04 am
Dear davenojustice: It is true that space is wasted on perpetrators of those situations which beg satirical treatment.
June 29th, 2010 on 9:52 am
Hi Cathleen! D is in Isreal, can you believe that? back next week b 4 sunday
June 29th, 2010 on 8:28 am
You need to open your eyes and grow up. How does this stupid stuff get published anyway?
June 29th, 2010 on 8:42 am
“I hear Mariachi music on my radio,
and the tubes they glow in the dark.
I’m here with you in Ensenada,
and I’m there in Echo Park.
Carmelita, hold me tighter,
I think I’m going down…
Carmelita – Warren Zevon
June 29th, 2010 on 10:44 am
Hey Lefty: Manys’ the night that I ate at the Pioneer Chicken Dinner Stand, down on Alverado Street.
Warren Zeon was a genius! – Yer pal, Ferrari Bubba
June 29th, 2010 on 8:42 am
Are you bored?
People don’t know what to say anymore for attention!!!
June 29th, 2010 on 8:43 am
Seriously though, country and western is a much bigger threat to western civilization than the black death.
June 29th, 2010 on 9:08 am
I have to agree with leftfield this time. One of my all time favorite bumper stickers I saw:
Stop Inbreeding
Ban Coutry Music
June 29th, 2010 on 9:54 am
Even Willie Nelson?, now you have gone to far,…..”aid obadiah” itc
June 29th, 2010 on 10:13 am
OK; now don’t go gettin all het up, cowboy, but I am a big fan of Steve Earle, Patsy Cline, Hank Williams and also a moderate fan of Willie’s.
The new communist cowboy of the future will listen to Willie, or else!
June 29th, 2010 on 11:03 am
Yep. Patsy Cline is an exception.
June 29th, 2010 on 9:09 am
Very “tongue in cheek” Hugh, very funny. The legislature probably should ban anything that would encourage illegal immigrants to feel at home in Arizona.
June 29th, 2010 on 11:06 am
Essentially, that’s what Sb 10070 is all about—creating a hostile climate encouraging people to flee…
http://www.azcentral.com/news/articles/2010/06/29/20100629arizona-immigration-law-affecting-businesses.html
old cowboy saying…when someone doesn’t see the humor, then there’s the truth…
satire takes something farther aloing the road and if it gets more absurd..there’s turth there….also, some of those ideas were in one way or another actually pursued in another time and place.
June 29th, 2010 on 9:31 am
Every one of those proposals have already been suggested on the azstarnet boards numerous times. Some were obviously tongue in cheek, but others, based on the body of their poster’s other comments, were most decidedly dead serious.
June 29th, 2010 on 9:38 am
Thats OK SB1070 is dong a great job as it is. The rats are fleeing the ship.
Davenojustice: Well said.
Leftfield: For about the only time since I have posted here I actually agree with you. I hate country music.
To all: Have you noticed that the Arizona Daily has only barely reported the killing of the governor canidate in Mexico, Cartels did it.
June 29th, 2010 on 10:12 am
Lefty & Azmouse ….nice posts
June 29th, 2010 on 11:03 am
;-)
June 29th, 2010 on 2:04 pm
Mariachi should be used in place of waterboarding and other forms of torture. A definite ban.
June 29th, 2010 on 2:32 pm
people just loves to hate…..mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm
June 29th, 2010 on 8:31 pm
How will you explain to Linda Ronstadt that none of the beautiful work she recorded with Spanish bands can be played on the radio? Suppose you will be cleaning out record & cassette collections in the second hand stores too? Pancho and Lefty – I don’t think anyone is really taking any of this seriously. My grandparents came from Scotland and Ireland…I’m proud of it. I see the racist gringos as the problem…none of them want to be part of the solution. With liberty and justice for all?