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FliesOnly
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Message 91 of 95 (467206)
05-20-2008 7:34 AM
Reply to: Message 90 by Taz
05-19-2008 10:26 PM


Re: Bill lost it
He really is a complete and total asshole.

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Larni
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Message 92 of 95 (467214)
05-20-2008 8:33 AM
Reply to: Message 82 by IamJoseph
05-17-2008 12:35 AM


Re: A moron?
IamJoseph writes:
But you never responded to the factor of reciprocity,
What you appear to be saying is that the UK is at fault for acting in an egalitarian way to immigrants from countries that would not do the same: is this really the case?

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Larni
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Message 93 of 95 (467216)
05-20-2008 8:43 AM
Reply to: Message 90 by Taz
05-19-2008 10:26 PM


Re: Bill lost it
Nice, Taz.
What an asshat.

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Rrhain
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Message 94 of 95 (467498)
05-22-2008 2:54 AM
Reply to: Message 88 by IamJoseph
05-17-2008 11:01 AM


IamJoseph responds to me:
quote:
quote:
in an effort to counter the racial bigotry of O'Reilly,
Namely?
You mean you haven't been paying attention?
You don't recall his foray into a restaurant frequented by black people where he expressed absolute amazement that nobody in the restaurant was cursing?
O'Reilly writes:
And I couldn’t get over the fact that there was no difference between Sylvia’s restaurant and any other restaurant in New York City. I mean, it was exactly the same, even though it’s run by blacks, primarily black patronship.
O'Reilly writes:
There wasn't one person in Sylvia's who [was] screaming,'M-Fer was, I want more iced tea
In April of 2003, O'Reilly was hosting a fundraiser for "Best Friends," a group that supports inner-city schools. As he was filling time regarding the next act to perform, the Best Men:
O'Reilly writes:
Does anyone know where the Best Men are? I hope they’re not in the parking lot stealing our hubcaps.
In a rant about his feeling that we should put troops on the border with Mexico:
O'Reilly writes:
We’d save lives because Mexican wetbacks, whatever you want to call them, the coyotes-they’re not going to do what they’re doing now, all right, so people aren’t going to die in the desert.
And then he seems to think that what happened to the Irish is the same as what happened to the Africans:
O'Reilly writes:
My people came from County Cavan in Ireland. All right? And the British Crown marched in there with their henchman, Oliver Cromwell, and they seized all of my ancestors’ lands, everything. And they threw them into slavery, pretty much indentured servitude on the land. And then the land collapsed, all right? And everybody was starving in Ireland. They had to leave the country, just as Africans had to leave - African Americans had to leave Africa and come over on a boat and try to make in the New World with nothing. Nothing. And succeeded, succeeded. As did Italians, as did- and I’ll submit to you, African Americans are succeeding as well.
Right...we all know about the slave ships coming from Ireland having kidnapped millions of Irish to become human chattel in the United States.
About Michelle Obama:
O'Reilly writes:
I don’t want to go on a Lynching party against Michelle Obama unless there’s evidence, hard facts, that say this is how the woman really feels. If that’s how she really feels- that is a bad country or flawed nation whatever- then that’s legit. We’ll track it down.
So there is a time to go on a "lynching party"?
In another rant on immigration:
O'Reilly writes:
All right. There you go. White privilege. The browning of America. There it is. There it is. Bottom line on this? That's what it is. Change the complexion of America. Have an open border where Hispanics, people who live in the Caribbean, people who live in Africa and Asia can walk in and become citizens immediately. And there you have the white power structure would decline, of course. Because the numbers of people coming here would be people of color. Right? That's the hidden agenda.
In another discussion about immigration:
O'REILLY: Joining us now from Washington is Dr. William Frey, a demographer at the Brookings Institution. Here in the studio, John McManus, the editor in chief of "American Demographics" magazine. So I guess this is being driven by Hispanics, right, with all the illegal immigration, millions of people coming in here and the higher birth rate among Hispanics in America. That's what's driving this?
WILLIAM FREY, PH.D., BROOKINGS INSTITUTION: Well, I really think what's happening is going to be this phasing out or fading out of the white baby boom population. It is a 50-year time period we're talking about...
O'REILLY: Yes. We'll all be dead. Thank God, right?
When O'Reilly learned of Edwin Hall having kidnapped and murdered Kelsey Smith as well as having kidnapped Danielle Cramer, he had this to say:
O'Reilly writes:
You know, we have a nation of 300 million Americans. And proportionally, we don't have a lot of these crimes. But, you know, when we do have a young lady going to a Target store -- and we have her on video. We'll show that little video in a minute. And some guy just -- and this guy who is charged has a child and a wife. You know, he's like white-bread guy. And we're all going, "What is that?"
Regarding airport security:
O'Reilly writes:
We're at war with Muslim fanatics. So, all young Muslims should be subjected to more scrutiny than Granny.
...
But it isn't a waste of time to profile Muslims between the ages of 16 and 45. That should be done automatically by professionals.
Regarding the people who died in Hurricane Katrina:
O'Reilly writes:
They weren't going to leave no matter what you did. They were drug-addicted. They weren't going to get turned off from their source. They were thugs, whatever.
Why is it you don't know this?

Rrhain

Thank you for your submission to Science. Your paper was reviewed by a jury of seventh graders so that they could look for balance and to allow them to make up their own minds. We are sorry to say that they found your paper "bogus," specifically describing the section on the laboratory work "boring." We regret that we will be unable to publish your work at this time.

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Grizz
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Message 95 of 95 (468577)
05-30-2008 2:02 PM



  
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