tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-745748859173296736.post2960921734675901039..comments2023-04-11T09:34:03.031-04:00Comments on Polybloggimous: Are We Really Doing Ourselves Any Favors?Nathanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00648438549121320566noreply@blogger.comBlogger19125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-745748859173296736.post-91234105423513266252009-06-17T13:45:50.106-04:002009-06-17T13:45:50.106-04:00Hey! No Hoopla!
IRT the post, personally I think...Hey! No Hoopla!<br /><br /><br />IRT the post, personally I think this type of news reporting (which is pretty much all new reporting nowadays) is a bigger problem in this country than illegal immigration ever was.Jim Wrighthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11259550121437562338noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-745748859173296736.post-55305125610286541202009-06-16T22:55:02.407-04:002009-06-16T22:55:02.407-04:00To froth, or not to froth. That is the question.To froth, or not to froth. That is the question.vincehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16955307244053931069noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-745748859173296736.post-3384962696718059352009-06-16T21:38:29.994-04:002009-06-16T21:38:29.994-04:00No, no--too frothy. Next you'll be asking me ...No, no--too frothy. Next you'll be asking me to engage in <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Dzhx-YpV9g" rel="nofollow">public hoopla</a>.Erichttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18275812152895151542noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-745748859173296736.post-72733716702576695882009-06-16T21:17:14.749-04:002009-06-16T21:17:14.749-04:00Will you froth tomorrow, please?Will you froth tomorrow, please?Nathanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00648438549121320566noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-745748859173296736.post-5578747046391579352009-06-16T20:44:52.365-04:002009-06-16T20:44:52.365-04:00I started to write a comment and couldn't thin...I started to write a comment and couldn't think of anything I could possibly say in an unfrothy matter, and I don't have the energy to be frothy right now.<br /><br />Thanks!Erichttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18275812152895151542noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-745748859173296736.post-67762004638622466982009-06-16T18:19:42.498-04:002009-06-16T18:19:42.498-04:00OK, enough of the cryptic...
John sent a postcard...OK, enough of the cryptic...<br /><br />John sent a postcard saying he was bringing me lutefisk from Copenhagen. Luckily, he wussed out and decided that the smell on the airplane might get him lynched.<br /><br />I knew airport security was going to save my life <em>someday</em>.Nathanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00648438549121320566noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-745748859173296736.post-46572504756615610862009-06-16T18:08:34.858-04:002009-06-16T18:08:34.858-04:00o.O
What happened those nice, simple days of post...o.O<br /><br />What happened those nice, simple days of postcards? O.oMWThttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09446603415730525882noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-745748859173296736.post-40178109976618908782009-06-16T17:31:29.223-04:002009-06-16T17:31:29.223-04:00Oh that. Heh. Well, I decided that if I was gaggin...Oh <i>that</i>. Heh. Well, I decided that if I was gagging from the smell emanating from my luggage AND horking up a lung, I'd be quarantined for suspicions of H1N1 for sure. So I took a miss on the lutefisk.<br /><br />What I <i>did</i> return with, you only wish you were getting. :DJohn the Scientisthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03467337009577733553noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-745748859173296736.post-25374836781025147212009-06-16T16:58:56.410-04:002009-06-16T16:58:56.410-04:00It wasn't what I received...it was the threat ...It wasn't <em>what</em> I received...it was the threat of what I'd be getting from Copenhagen.<br /><br />(How quickly they forget.)Nathanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00648438549121320566noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-745748859173296736.post-79005836885304211172009-06-16T16:30:37.658-04:002009-06-16T16:30:37.658-04:00????
Whomever sent it, it wasn't me...????<br /><br />Whomever sent it, it wasn't me...John the Scientisthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03467337009577733553noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-745748859173296736.post-83800391396048811432009-06-16T15:31:36.275-04:002009-06-16T15:31:36.275-04:00Trollops? Who did you send by mail, John?Trollops? Who did you send by mail, John?neurondochttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12155027993661209263noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-745748859173296736.post-71546362199253707992009-06-16T14:52:06.795-04:002009-06-16T14:52:06.795-04:00Assume all you like, FishFace!Assume all you like, FishFace!Nathanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00648438549121320566noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-745748859173296736.post-29176829797165418552009-06-16T14:37:25.016-04:002009-06-16T14:37:25.016-04:00The trollops, I assume? Have not been into work to...The trollops, I assume? Have not been into work to get my mail.John the Scientisthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03467337009577733553noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-745748859173296736.post-22272431492844897922009-06-16T13:38:09.299-04:002009-06-16T13:38:09.299-04:00Point taken John, but I'd submit the "pre...Point taken John, but I'd submit the "press" has never been evenhanded...they just did a better job of presenting a front at one time (think Cronkite, Murrow, etc.). In the late 18th, early 19th century, they were so blatant about it that libel was considered a legitimate tactic and nobody made any beans about it.<br /><br />I just think this was so ham-handed it's fucking embarrassing. I'm with Jeff. I didn't leave the room (too lazy), but I did turn away and find something engrossing on the computer.<br /><br />And BTW John, something showed up in the mail today and...let's just say revenge is going to be in the offing. Yes, it will.Nathanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00648438549121320566noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-745748859173296736.post-83058654138108657792009-06-16T12:48:19.267-04:002009-06-16T12:48:19.267-04:00I watch the Today show but I can't stand Anne ...I watch the Today show but I can't stand Anne Curry. When she's being "light" she won't shut up. Cross-talks everybody. When she's being "sensitive," as in this piece and another she did this morning that made me leave the room, I can barely swallow for the treacle trying to force its way down my throat.Jeff Hentoszhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05060570930866182531noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-745748859173296736.post-32298907723633371692009-06-16T12:22:41.794-04:002009-06-16T12:22:41.794-04:00Well, Nathan, I'd say that form my side of the...Well, Nathan, I'd say that form my side of the aisle, it's merely the mask coming off of the MSM's allegedly even-handed reporting. In this context, Ann's failure to ask them about their contingency plans *is* germane - it shows a lack of balance.<br /><br />Does it make my opinion that the MSM is extremely biased to the Left get any stronger? No. I knew it, it's interesting to see it come out in the open, but no. No new information there.<br /><br />Will it give some momentary ammunition to the idiots on the Right? You betcha. So what? Both sides supply each other with material all the time.John the Scientisthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03467337009577733553noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-745748859173296736.post-22634043723744998472009-06-16T11:57:00.453-04:002009-06-16T11:57:00.453-04:00Ooh look...I'm going to moderate...
While I&#...Ooh look...I'm going to moderate...<br /><br />While I'm OK with sidenotes about the topic of immigration itself, I'd like to keep this more on the topic...<br /><br />Is news coverage in general and Ann Curry's piece in particular so embarrassingly slanted that it has no hope of being viewed as balanced reporting. (We'll stipulate that Fox, Rush, Sean and the like make no effort whatsoever to look evenhanded...or you can try to argue that they <em>are</em> evenhanded, but good luck with that Skippy!)Nathanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00648438549121320566noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-745748859173296736.post-21535044471087697942009-06-16T10:55:10.850-04:002009-06-16T10:55:10.850-04:00Oh, yes the Left is also guilty (more so, I think)...Oh, yes the Left is also guilty (more so, I think) of glossing over status. How is this a tragedy if the parents came knowing this risk and took it anyway?<br /><br />Did Curry ask the parents if they'd made plans for this circumstance? <br /><br />(Since I assume they were illegals and knew this could happen.)John the Scientisthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03467337009577733553noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-745748859173296736.post-43674959492954539262009-06-16T10:51:45.153-04:002009-06-16T10:51:45.153-04:00If a woman gives birth here as an illegal, I'm...If a woman gives birth here as an illegal, I'm in favor of amending the Constitution so that the kid is not automatically an American Citizen. But enforcement has to get a hell of a lot better than it is to root them out and send them back before they get educated in our system and become de facto Americans. Beyond a certain point it's a huge waste of human capital to send a kid back.<br /><br />This comes from someone who's wife was an illegal for 9 years. She came when she was 11. It would have been a huge waste to send her back after high school if she had been discovered before the 1986 amnesty. But people do come here and have kids just to force this kind of issue. <br /><br />One of my wife's cousins came here illegally about 20 years ago when she was a couple of month's pregnant (in the "are you fat or are you pregnant" stage where people hesitate to ask) and stayed until she had a kid. <br /><br />The older brother and mother were not Americans, the daughter is. What if they'd been caught 10 years ago? After 10 years evading the INS, what do you do with such people? The daughter could not function back in the ROC, and shed have been too young to stay here on her own with no other relatives in the States.John the Scientisthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03467337009577733553noreply@blogger.com