tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11266150.post2319549965595427173..comments2024-02-19T00:14:24.293-08:00Comments on Daniel's political musings: Dear Board of Higher EdDanielhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14946233454014389006noreply@blogger.comBlogger39125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11266150.post-59338256305334068122010-02-01T08:38:48.955-08:002010-02-01T08:38:48.955-08:00From the moment the first Mercedes-Benz CLS four-d...From the moment the first Mercedes-Benz CLS four-door "coupe" was introduced to the public, other German luxury automakers hit the drafting board. According to the German auto experts at AutoBild, Audi is just over a year away from unleashing its own cleverly packaged sedan.<br />carwadontester981Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11266150.post-77124035537359648762007-12-11T19:14:00.000-08:002007-12-11T19:14:00.000-08:00At some point, the threads fizzle out because we a...At some point, the threads fizzle out because we all have to get back to work, lol...Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11266150.post-33415311246371776982007-12-11T19:13:00.000-08:002007-12-11T19:13:00.000-08:00You have to consider the source to answer your que...You have to consider the source to answer your question, Anon 11:24. This blog was created by a man who has little regard for anyone else's point of view but his own. Indeed, you hit the nail on the head. I think he created this blog because he likes the sound of his own voice and to create his own personal circle jerk. Please, point me in the direction of a blog worth my while!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11266150.post-44515475053470562282007-12-11T11:24:00.000-08:002007-12-11T11:24:00.000-08:00Here is a good example of how most "discussions" o...Here is a good example of how most "discussions" on this blog fizzle out.<BR/><BR/>Someone poses some actual questions about a reality that the country is facing that affects the direction immigration law could take in the future - questions with no clear political agenda, but rather with circumstances that policy makers will have to contend with in the very near future - and there is absolutely no serious response or discussion of these questions. Occasionally a serious question will be posed - either from the left or right - and it is completely drowned out by invective.<BR/><BR/>My sense is that the overwhelming majority of the persons here use the blog as a way to reassure themselves about their political persuasions, rather than question their political assumptions, subject them to scrutiny, and thereby potentially strengthen them, AND, in the process come up with some ideas about tractable policy decisions.<BR/><BR/>Rather, apparently trained in the model of "talk radio politics" everyone here engages in all forms of personal attacks on anyone who even slightly appears to oppose one's unquestioned political principles. If this is the form that the nation's political discourse will take in the future, we're in big trouble as policy will become indistinguishable from politics and smear campaigns, and we'll be cutting off our noses to spite our faces to our ultimate demise.<BR/><BR/>Those of you who scream racism at the nativists or belly-ache about secularists disparraging attitude about the tenets of Christianity, or who scream discrimination because your occupation is being ridiculed ought to get real. The standard of discourse on this blog couldn't be lower, and collective allusions or expectations otherwise is nothing more than a big jerk-off session. <BR/><BR/>Let's call a spade a spade.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11266150.post-61935168824829931792007-12-10T11:36:00.000-08:002007-12-10T11:36:00.000-08:00"We DO NOT need an influx of immigrants to train a..."We DO NOT need an influx of immigrants to train and take care of us Americans when we get older. The money we would save by not allowing illegal aliens (they are not technically immigrants) would be enough of an invenstment for us to take care of ourselves without the need of additional population. Any argument that the USA needs immigrants is an outright naive lie."<BR/><BR/>Really? Dowell Myers, who wrote the book "Immigrants and Boomers", a book full of 300 pages worth of assertions based on actual CENSUS DATA would strongly disagree with you. Exactly WHO are the baby boomers going to pay to take care of them when the generation they left behind is a fraction of the size and is far too highly educated to wilingly take jobs changing diapers in retirement homes? Moreover, WHO is going to take over the baby-boomers jobs to keep the American economic engine churning at the rate necessary to ensure that the retirement programs on which so many will rely can be subsidized?<BR/><BR/>Don't you think it's more reasonable to agree with a person who says, "here's the problem as I see it, here's a wealth of actual data supporting my position, and here's what I suggest must be done" rather than someone like you who says "that's not true; I have no data to support my assertion, but it must be wrong because I said so"?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11266150.post-72323305410319703792007-12-10T10:51:00.000-08:002007-12-10T10:51:00.000-08:00We DO NOT need an influx of immigrants to train an...We DO NOT need an influx of immigrants to train and take care of us Americans when we get older. The money we would save by not allowing illegal aliens (they are not technically immigrants) would be enough of an invenstment for us to take care of ourselves without the need of additional population. Any argument that the USA needs immigrants is an outright naive lie.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11266150.post-31794289219292446922007-12-09T22:16:00.000-08:002007-12-09T22:16:00.000-08:00Funny, my place of employement has several undocum...Funny, my place of employement has several undocumented immigrants. They are making 30,000+ and have college degrees. I disagree with you that they don't need them.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11266150.post-32251401473079375842007-12-09T10:33:00.000-08:002007-12-09T10:33:00.000-08:00Would the "pleasure" of holding a gun to the head ...Would the "pleasure" of holding a gun to the head of a white American been less potent than the "pleasure" of holding one to the head of a Latino?<BR/><BR/> LA RAZA STUPID....WE HAVE NO CHOICE NW BUT TO DEFEND OURSELF.<BR/><BR/> COMMENT ON THAT!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11266150.post-567945512411262232007-12-08T23:50:00.000-08:002007-12-08T23:50:00.000-08:00Would the "pleasure" of holding a gun to the head ...Would the "pleasure" of holding a gun to the head of a white American been less potent than the "pleasure" of holding one to the head of a Latino?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11266150.post-25034145910853123492007-12-08T21:59:00.000-08:002007-12-08T21:59:00.000-08:00WE MAY HAVE A FIX FOR THE PROBLEM Had the pure pl...WE MAY HAVE A FIX FOR THE PROBLEM<BR/><BR/> Had the pure pleasure of holding a gun to the head of a "poor" Latino who broke into my car the other night. You should have seen his face looking down the point of a loaded .357.<BR/><BR/>Perhaps he will think twice about his need for tolerance and outreach for his "causes" he must feeeeeeeeeel he needs to be welcome in my neighborhood.<BR/><BR/>He is welcome to return to the place of origin to which he crawled out from.<BR/><BR/>Lastly...Mexico, will be short on their Olympic teams this year, all the runners and swimmers are already here.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11266150.post-20425152889467710772007-12-08T19:34:00.000-08:002007-12-08T19:34:00.000-08:00LOL!!! "Rule of law" I love it when Miglavians say...LOL!!! "Rule of law" I love it when Miglavians say "rule of law," as if they actually take it seriously. Of course, they won't laugh, because they believe their own bullshit. <BR/><BR/>Hey Bear, another question for you: This alternate reality world of yours where global warming is a hoax ... is that Bush's alternate "we-make-our-own-reality" reality, or is this your own private, custom-made alternate reality? What color is the sky there? Is your earth round or flat?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11266150.post-73161625432677864982007-12-08T18:08:00.000-08:002007-12-08T18:08:00.000-08:00Daniel: Of course they're allowed to have a job. ...Daniel: Of course they're allowed to have a job. Teddy the Useless, Guillermo Bradbury, and Hardy Har Har Myers have all said so.Scottiebillhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15554361011951413954noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11266150.post-68630697106504881472007-12-08T17:32:00.000-08:002007-12-08T17:32:00.000-08:00Bear--"Hey, anon, the point of the lefties was to ...Bear--<BR/><BR/>"Hey, anon, the point of the lefties was to justify illegal aliens, and to ignore the rule of law, by citing age stats. It won't work. They are irrelevant. The subject of the post was illegal aliens. Citing age stats is a red herring. Typical of the left."<BR/><BR/>?????? In English, perhaps?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11266150.post-42516343247110646612007-12-08T17:20:00.000-08:002007-12-08T17:20:00.000-08:00Hey, anon, the point of the lefties was to justify...Hey, anon, the point of the lefties was to justify illegal aliens, and to ignore the rule of law, by citing age stats. It won't work. They are irrelevant. The subject of the post was illegal aliens. Citing age stats is a red herring. Typical of the left.BEARhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18127559050411509374noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11266150.post-15754537554429494512007-12-08T11:53:00.000-08:002007-12-08T11:53:00.000-08:00Bear - your posts really lack substance. you shoul...Bear - your posts really lack substance. you should resort to less name-calling and more facts. <BR/><BR/>I don't really follow the argument you are trying to make in the last post. The baby boom lasted from about 1945 to 1960 or so. The baby boomers themselves had relatively few children, thus creating a bubble in the age structure. The oldest members of the baby-boom generation will reach age 65 in 2010 (i.e., two years). In other words, a huge segment of the population that was paying into the system will now be drawing on it in large scale and the services required by seniors are massive in cost compared to welfare expenditures going to the working-age population (unemployment, etc.) AND, there is a smaller potential workforce behind the baby boomers in the age structure and therefore, as it stands now, more people will be drawing from the system than paying into it. <BR/><BR/>This is just a simple fact. Why doesn't it compute for you?<BR/><BR/>What do you propose we do, off-shore all of the jobs the baby-boomers were doing? Or should we just have faith that robots will eventually be doing all of that work, and have no plan at all?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11266150.post-36391728427506498662007-12-08T11:36:00.000-08:002007-12-08T11:36:00.000-08:00Bear, question for you. I'm curious. Regarding you...Bear, question for you. I'm curious. Regarding your 'global warming is a hoax' theory, what part of the thermometer don't you understand?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11266150.post-25483834251359080152007-12-08T07:46:00.000-08:002007-12-08T07:46:00.000-08:00Too bad the doom-and-gloomers can't do math. When ...Too bad the doom-and-gloomers can't do math. When the average age of the American population is controlled for illegal immigration since Y2K (10.3 million), that average age remains unchanged at 36.5 years. In other words, social services and entitlements will be adversely affected by the continued influx of the ignorant and unskilled, who use more of those tax dollars. Because there will be no change in the percentage of the population reaching retirement age, the continued influx of illegals CANNOT mitigate the negative theoretical scenario proposed by the lefties in this thread, unless nobody over the age of 15 is allowed in.<BR/><BR/>So, lefties, what're ya gonna change the subject to, now?.....sheesh.BEARhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18127559050411509374noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11266150.post-78401901410214115062007-12-08T06:13:00.000-08:002007-12-08T06:13:00.000-08:00Meanwhile, we all wait breathlessly for Professor ...Meanwhile, we all wait breathlessly for Professor Anthony "INS/FBI Statistical Report" DeLucca to offer his valuable perspective and insights.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11266150.post-69533071037315794532007-12-08T00:48:00.000-08:002007-12-08T00:48:00.000-08:00Bear: Non-sequitors huh? Thumb thru Miglav's archi...Bear: <BR/><BR/>Non-sequitors huh? Thumb thru Miglav's archives and see how many you can come up with. There's basincally a new one every day. Would you like fries with that?ROTFLMAO.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11266150.post-37425732416200162752007-12-07T22:50:00.000-08:002007-12-07T22:50:00.000-08:00While you lefties are busy trying to make 2+2=17, ...While you lefties are busy trying to make 2+2=17, also try to come up with an actual reason for discarding the rule-of-law. If you think of something, include the list of laws I can ignore. (The anarchists out there are way ahead of you.)<BR/><BR/>It has been apparent for some time that attempting to govern against the will of the people is a favorite hobby of the left. Pelosi and Reid failed again today to keep a NEW tax cut from putting more hard-earned money back in the hands of those who earned it. Including the 63 failed votes on the War on Terrorism, every promise they made before and after the so-called "mandate" of '06 has been shoved down your lefty throats. Why on earth are you morons still mad at conservatives? Pelosi and Reid are the ones betraying you. They, like most liberals, seem content to simply make loud noises.BEARhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18127559050411509374noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11266150.post-5031082150834574012007-12-07T22:24:00.000-08:002007-12-07T22:24:00.000-08:00Twenty YEARS? L.O.L.!! That's not "soon." Twenty y...Twenty YEARS? L.O.L.!! That's not "soon." Twenty years ago, Reagan was President, and the doom and gloomers were saying that the Berlin Wall would never come down. Twenty years from now, the CHILDREN of the Boomers will start retiring. If it weren't for fuzzy math, I'd be surprised if you lefties could do any math at all.....sheesh.<BR/><BR/>Your last flawed premise is the most obvious. I won't need social security. None of my family will need it. And tens of millions of other intelligent, optimistic, forward-thinking Americans won't need it. But if it will cause you lefty, anti-capitalist, anti-free-market whiners any grief, I'll take it.<BR/><BR/>You worry for no reason, other than to push a negative political agenda on everyone else. Grow up. Wake up. Enroll in a math class.BEARhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18127559050411509374noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11266150.post-31933864261145026222007-12-07T21:09:00.000-08:002007-12-07T21:09:00.000-08:00Bear --"Sorry, doom-and-gloomers, but flawed premi...Bear --<BR/><BR/>"Sorry, doom-and-gloomers, but flawed premises can't guarantee your scenario. Case in point: Oil will run out by Y2K....didn't happen. There are more proven reserves now than in 1974, even with the dramatically increased use of oil."<BR/><BR/>That's your argument? That this scenario is a premise, some kind of theory? That's laughable. People are not oil. We won't discover more of them. Their life course and life expectancy are quite predictable. Thanks to the census, we know, precisely, the age structure of our population, and have a pretty damn good idea how that structure is affected by immigration/emigration. <BR/><BR/>The aging of our society, and its consequences will come to pass, most definitely, and soon, within the next twenty years. So, you're saying the money is just going to magically appear? Is that your stance? You're ignorant, in the essential meaning of the word, for denying or downplaying this.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11266150.post-46381251410567783852007-12-07T19:14:00.000-08:002007-12-07T19:14:00.000-08:00Sorry, doom-and-gloomers, but flawed premises can'...Sorry, doom-and-gloomers, but flawed premises can't guarantee your scenario. Case in point: Oil will run out by Y2K....didn't happen. There are more proven reserves now than in 1974, even with the dramatically increased use of oil.<BR/><BR/>Every time some end of the world nonsense comes up, like global cooling (1979), it simply doesn't occur. Oh well, say the lefties, we'll just switch to global warming (another hoax).<BR/><BR/>Our own barbara roberts (faux governor) declared that property tax reform would mean "dead bodies in our streets" from starvation....Whoops, never mind.<BR/><BR/>In this time of low unemployment, the market reacts predictably....massive increases in productivity, which, incidentally, is carrying our economy through the foolishness of the credit mess.<BR/><BR/>What the lefties don't get is that the world's economic engine is so dynamic, and so full of variables, that predicting it's doom is more of an indicator of the author's political bias, than a reflection of reality. Wishful thinking can't wreck our economy. Only high taxes can. Ask the Eurotrash. Population dynamics didn't destroy the communists' dream, free markets did.<BR/><BR/>Illegal aliens bring nothing to this country except diseases we thought were defeated, a drain on social services, pressure on our schools and health care system, a very real threat to our national security (by terrorists, criminals, and refusal to assimilate), corruption to our electoral process, and a complete lack of understanding of the founding principles of this great country.<BR/><BR/>Every time the open borders crowd gets caught in another non-sequitor, they change the subject. It used to be "jobs Americans won't do." Now, it's the "need for instate tuition." You idiots need to get on the same page with each other. 80% of the American people want the borders closed to illegals, and we want those scrounging our social services, threatening our safety, and deflating our wages to GO HOME! Get it? I am breathlessly awaiting the next round of phony excuses for allowing our borders to be overrun.<BR/><BR/>BTW, senator smith (rino, Oregon), WHERE"S THE FENCE?BEARhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18127559050411509374noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11266150.post-92909203469376222007-12-07T18:58:00.000-08:002007-12-07T18:58:00.000-08:00Daniel and his gang is a sneer? In what possible w...Daniel and his gang is a sneer? In what possible way? Daniel and his gang would be OFIR. In what possible way is that a sneer. Should I have said Daniel and his group or Daniel and his buddies? Good Lord.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11266150.post-86341770419825833572007-12-07T18:47:00.000-08:002007-12-07T18:47:00.000-08:00Hey...the last sentence of your post appears to me...Hey...the last sentence of your post appears to me to be a...sneer! Stuff it in your ditty bag. What the illegals bring is crime, drugs, and living off the rest of us. Period. I am astounded that there are apparently so many who don't understand 'illegal.' The crisis we are facing now, because of illegals, is the most serious this country has faced since WW II.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com