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RE: Way Too Many Americans
April 27, 2013 at 11:38 am
(April 27, 2013 at 11:04 am)A Theist Wrote: (April 25, 2013 at 1:16 pm)downbeatplumb Wrote: Too many Americans believe The world consists of only two parts, the USA and everywhere else. Unfortunately for America, too many people from other parts of the world feel the same way...their world and the USA...we have way too many people from everywhere else trying to migrate here...I want to see the the National Guard and high voltage fences around our borders to keep other parts of the world out of our country!
Yeah, god forbid those damn foreigners and mexicans would come here and dilute the stupid genes in the next generation of red blooded american hicks and Pentecostals.
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RE: Way Too Many Americans
April 27, 2013 at 12:02 pm
(April 27, 2013 at 11:04 am)A Theist Wrote: Unfortunately for America, too many people from other parts of the world feel the same way...their world and the USA...we have way too many people from everywhere else trying to migrate here...I want to see the the National Guard and high voltage fences around our borders to keep other parts of the world out of our country!
Hey, how about machine gun towers so you and your fascist buddies can gun them down in waves? I bet you'd love that idea.
You're an asshole.
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RE: Way Too Many Americans
April 27, 2013 at 12:07 pm
(April 27, 2013 at 11:04 am)A Theist Wrote: ...we have way too many people from everywhere else trying to migrate here...I want to see the the National Guard and high voltage fences around our borders to keep other parts of the world out of our country!
Ah yes, the "you're not lucky enough to be born here, so fuck off" sentiment expressed by those that also champion the "love they neighbor" dude.
A Theist, please tell me where you can find the most famous copy of The New Colossus by Emma Lazarus:
Not like the brazen giant of Greek fame,
With conquering limbs astride from land to land;
Here at our sea-washed, sunset gates shall stand
A mighty woman with a torch, whose flame
Is the imprisoned lightning, and her name
Mother of Exiles. From her beacon-hand
Glows world-wide welcome; her mild eyes command
The air-bridged harbor that twin cities frame.
"Keep, ancient lands, your storied pomp!" cries she
With silent lips. "Give me your tired, your poor,
Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free,
The wretched refuse of your teeming shore.
Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me,
I lift my lamp beside the golden door!"
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RE: Way Too Many Americans
April 27, 2013 at 5:37 pm
There's stupid people everywhere. I haven't seen any evidence that suggests we're significantly stupider that the rest of the world. Only that we're more visible.
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RE: Way Too Many Americans
April 27, 2013 at 7:15 pm
(This post was last modified: April 27, 2013 at 7:28 pm by A Theist.)
(April 27, 2013 at 12:07 pm)cato123 Wrote: (April 27, 2013 at 11:04 am)A Theist Wrote: ...we have way too many people from everywhere else trying to migrate here...I want to see the the National Guard and high voltage fences around our borders to keep other parts of the world out of our country!
Ah yes, the "you're not lucky enough to be born here, so fuck off" sentiment expressed by those that also champion the "love they neighbor" dude.
A Theist, please tell me where you can find the most famous copy of The New Colossus by Emma Lazarus:
Not like the brazen giant of Greek fame,
With conquering limbs astride from land to land;
Here at our sea-washed, sunset gates shall stand
A mighty woman with a torch, whose flame
Is the imprisoned lightning, and her name
Mother of Exiles. From her beacon-hand
Glows world-wide welcome; her mild eyes command
The air-bridged harbor that twin cities frame.
"Keep, ancient lands, your storied pomp!" cries she
With silent lips. "Give me your tired, your poor,
Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free,
The wretched refuse of your teeming shore.
Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me,
I lift my lamp beside the golden door!" Quote:Not like the brazen giant of Greek fame,
With conquering limbs astride from land to land;
Here at our sea-washed, sunset gates shall stand
A mighty woman with a torch, whose flame
Is the imprisoned lightning, and her name
Mother of Exiles. From her beacon-hand
Glows world-wide welcome; her mild eyes command
The air-bridged harbor that twin cities frame.
"Keep, ancient lands, your storied pomp!" cries she
With silent lips. "Give me your tired, your poor,
Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free,
The wretched refuse of your teeming shore.
Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me,
I lift my lamp beside the golden door!
Post Script:....but please, stand in line, wait your turn with the many others, and go through the process of citizenship legally instead of sneaking across our borders illegally...
(April 27, 2013 at 12:02 pm)Minimalist Wrote: (April 27, 2013 at 11:04 am)A Theist Wrote: Unfortunately for America, too many people from other parts of the world feel the same way...their world and the USA...we have way too many people from everywhere else trying to migrate here...I want to see the the National Guard and high voltage fences around our borders to keep other parts of the world out of our country!
Hey, how about machine gun towers so you and your fascist buddies can gun them down in waves? I bet you'd love that idea.
You're an asshole. I was thinking more along the lines of moats with crocodiles and deep pits with sharpened bamboo shoots at the bottom...or, why not go through the legal process to obtain citizenship?
Old hippie asshole dude.
"Inside every Liberal there's a Totalitarian screaming to get out"
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Quote:It was an awful mistake to characterize based upon religion. I should not judge any theist that way, I must remember what I said in order to change.
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RE: Way Too Many Americans
April 27, 2013 at 9:02 pm
(April 27, 2013 at 7:15 pm)A Theist Wrote: Old hippie asshole dude.
Now that's over the line.
Min doesn't strike me as a hippie.
"Well, evolution is a theory. It is also a fact. And facts and theories are different things, not rungs in a hierarchy of increasing certainty. Facts are the world's data. Theories are structures of ideas that explain and interpret facts. Facts don't go away when scientists debate rival theories to explain them. Einstein's theory of gravitation replaced Newton's in this century, but apples didn't suspend themselves in midair, pending the outcome. And humans evolved from ape- like ancestors whether they did so by Darwin's proposed mechanism or by some other yet to be discovered."
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RE: Way Too Many Americans
April 28, 2013 at 12:53 am
(April 27, 2013 at 7:15 pm)A Theist Wrote: Post Script:....but please, stand in line, wait your turn with the many others, and go through the process of citizenship legally instead of sneaking across our borders illegally...
Hunger and destitution have a way of making the line intolerable, particularly when the line is laden with bureaucratic bullshit. You get tripped up on the current law and process that make these people 'illegal'. Your solution is to station armed guards and build an impenetrable fence instead of changing the ineffectual law.
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RE: Way Too Many Americans
April 28, 2013 at 3:06 am
I like make mention that Obama has no regards to fix this country, much like any other corporate pasty. America's polticis is influenced by money way to much, which is the weakness of our poltical system. You cannot expect any reform to the economic, forwarding of technology and increasing of education as long as bottom line economics and profit at any cost is in play.
I would be a televangelist....but I have too much of a soul.
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RE: Way Too Many Americans
April 28, 2013 at 6:40 am
(April 28, 2013 at 12:53 am)cato123 Wrote: (April 27, 2013 at 7:15 pm)A Theist Wrote: Post Script:....but please, stand in line, wait your turn with the many others, and go through the process of citizenship legally instead of sneaking across our borders illegally...
Hunger and destitution have a way of making the line intolerable, particularly when the line is laden with bureaucratic bullshit. You get tripped up on the current law and process that make these people 'illegal'. Your solution is to station armed guards and build an impenetrable fence instead of changing the ineffectual law. We have our own poor and hungry to care for here....let the other countries bear the responsibility to care for theirs...including Mexico...
"Inside every Liberal there's a Totalitarian screaming to get out"
Quote: JohnDG...
Quote:It was an awful mistake to characterize based upon religion. I should not judge any theist that way, I must remember what I said in order to change.
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RE: Way Too Many Americans
April 28, 2013 at 9:35 am
If only the first Americans had thought that way, perhaps we could have avoided the unpleasantness of your ancestors immigrating here, too.
Even if the open windows of science at first make us shiver after the cozy indoor warmth of traditional humanizing myths, in the end the fresh air brings vigor, and the great spaces have a splendor of their own - Bertrand Russell
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