Colin Powell admits to hiring illegal aliens

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  • gimmesometruth27
    gimmesometruth27 St. Fuckin Louis Posts: 24,405
    aerial wrote:
    I do not understand where all the arrogance on this board. Just like the politicians, you people see yourselves as superior to everyone that does not agree with you. Your contempt or disregard for others is sickening. People that watch Fox News are no more ignorant than those that that watch any other news source…..You are not the only ones that know the media is biased…..
    why is it arrogant to want truth from the media and not snippets only showing 1/3 of what obama was actually saying?

    that is exactly as if i were to take your above comment and pare it down to "your contempt or disregard for others is sickening" leaving out the fact that you are comparing many of us on here to politicians, which none of us are...

    do you see how easily partial quotes can be taken out of context?
    "You can tell the greatness of a man by what makes him angry."  - Lincoln

    "Well, you tell him that I don't talk to suckas."
  • Hugh Freaking Dillon
    Hugh Freaking Dillon Posts: 14,010
    I am not American. I am not partisan. I vote policy, not party in my country. I am, overall, not that political at all.

    I can still see that Fox news is a joke.
    aerial wrote:
    I do not understand where all the arrogance on this board. Just like the politicians, you people see yourselves as superior to everyone that does not agree with you. Your contempt or disregard for others is sickening. People that watch Fox News are no more ignorant than those that that watch any other news source…..You are not the only ones that know the media is biased…..
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  • arq
    arq Posts: 8,101
    aerial wrote:
    I do not understand where all the arrogance on this board. Just like the politicians, you people see yourselves as superior to everyone that does not agree with you. Your contempt or disregard for others is sickening. People that watch Fox News are no more ignorant than those that that watch any other news source…..You are not the only ones that know the media is biased…..

    It seems like you only want to hear whatever reinforce your believes and not the truth, people and news may be biased but when they're caught lying plain and simple, is not arrogant to disagree is just calling things by their name in this case is Bullshit.
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  • Moonpig
    Moonpig Posts: 659
    Paul David wrote:
    I am not American. I am not partisan. I vote policy, not party in my country. I am, overall, not that political at all.

    I can still see that Fox news is a joke.
    aerial wrote:
    I do not understand where all the arrogance on this board. Just like the politicians, you people see yourselves as superior to everyone that does not agree with you. Your contempt or disregard for others is sickening. People that watch Fox News are no more ignorant than those that that watch any other news source…..You are not the only ones that know the media is biased…..

    I'm with you on this, I am not American either and also vote on policy over party (although I must admit it wasn't always that way). I am amazed at the popularity of Fox news, it is very very scary. What I don't understand is why people accept it, I know there are dissenters, but certanly not in the numbers I would expect.

    All I read on the FOX message boards is freedom this and freedom that. Well freedom is questioning, educating yourself on whats going on around you. There seems to be a distinct lack of real questioning going on, I mean look at some of these people getting the votes. Dissenters are being shouted down, on both sides of the spectrum.

    When people allow corporations to do their thinking for them, freedom is lost.
  • Godfather.
    Godfather. Posts: 12,504
    unsung wrote:
    http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2010/09/19/colin-powell-illegal-immigrants-fix-house/#content

    So where is the Obama administration at on this? Barry himself said employers should be punished.

    More jobs that Americans wont do? I think not.

    ez bro..we're supposed to as Americans kiss the ass's of illegals and offer them the keys to the kingdom
    and pay their medical and living expenses. :shock:

    Godfather.
  • murphyJammer
    murphyJammer Posts: 120
    People who want to prosecute individual people for immigration violations instead of going after the businesses who are the root cause of the problem are missing the point. It's the same as people who want to punish individual athletes for steroid use instead of going after the league owners and commissioners who are at the very least complicit.
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  • Commy
    Commy Posts: 4,984
    murphyJammer wrote:
    People who want to prosecute individual people for immigration violations instead of going after the businesses who are the root cause of the problem are missing the point. It's the same as people who want to punish individual athletes for steroid use instead of going after the league owners and commissioners who are at the very least complicit.
    steroids in baseball is something else entirely.


    whoever decided we didn't need to see all those homeruns anymore was mistaken. not that i watch baseball, but i'd at least keep the highlights on when they showed up on espn.
  • aerial
    aerial Posts: 2,319
    gimmesometruth27 wrote:
    aerial wrote:
    I do not understand where all the arrogance on this board. Just like the politicians, you people see yourselves as superior to everyone that does not agree with you. Your contempt or disregard for others is sickening. People that watch Fox News are no more ignorant than those that that watch any other news source…..You are not the only ones that know the media is biased…..
    why is it arrogant to want truth from the media and not snippets only showing 1/3 of what obama was actually saying?

    that is exactly as if i were to take your above comment and pare it down to "your contempt or disregard for others is sickening" leaving out the fact that you are comparing many of us on here to politicians, which none of us are...

    do you see how easily partial quotes can be taken out of context?
    My point is, all news stations are biased…..CNN shows a gun on someone’s shoulder saying crazy racist are bringing guns to Obama events….they never scanned the picture out so that we could see it was a black man that had the gun….Just one example.
    “We the people are the rightful masters of both Congress and the courts, not to overthrow the Constitution but to overthrow the men who pervert the Constitution.” Abraham Lincoln
  • Cosmo
    Cosmo Posts: 12,225
    aerial wrote:
    I do not understand where all the arrogance on this board. Just like the politicians, you people see yourselves as superior to everyone that does not agree with you. Your contempt or disregard for others is sickening. People that watch Fox News are no more ignorant than those that that watch any other news source…..You are not the only ones that know the media is biased…..
    ...
    People who get their information from one source, such as FOX News... then, believe they are validating it by listening to Rush Limbaugh and posting on Free Republic and believe what they hear is the truth... well, those people should be seen as inferior. Same as the people who get their information from MSNBC, validate it by watching Rachael Maddow and discussing it on MoveOn.org. They are opposite sides of the same dirty penny.
    Try getting your information from the source, to eliminate the bias. If you can't do that... try listening objectively to several varied sources and come up with your own opinions, instead of the one shoved into your head so you can spew it out your mouth to someone else.
    If you CLAIM to be independent... then, BE INDEPENDENT. In this case, look for the transcript and read it in context to avoid any sort of slant that broadcast entertainers wish to place on it.
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  • Cosmo
    Cosmo Posts: 12,225
    aerial wrote:
    My point is, all news stations are biased…..CNN shows a gun on someone’s shoulder saying crazy racist are bringing guns to Obama events….they never scanned the picture out so that we could see it was a black man that had the gun….Just one example.
    ...
    Do you mean, this black man? (check video)
    http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/08/1 ... 56614.html

    or this black man?
    http://kdka.com/beaver/John.Noble.Gun.2.1089780.html

    Oh... you mean THIS black man... the one that was part of a publiciy stunt by Talk Radio host, Ernest Hancock... who just so happened to be the guy doing the interview. The two had planned it in order to sway public opinion.
    http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/08/1 ... 62559.html
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  • LikeAnOcean
    LikeAnOcean Posts: 7,718
    If you are losing your job to a mexican illegal alien, you probably deserve to lose it.
  • unsung
    unsung I stopped by on March 7 2024. First time in many years, had to update payment info. Hope all is well. Politicians suck. Bye. Posts: 9,487
    So my friends that are housing carpenters deserve to lose their jobs?
  • LikeAnOcean
    LikeAnOcean Posts: 7,718
    unsung wrote:
    So my friends that are housing carpenters deserve to lose their jobs?
    They are losing jobs to people who barely speak english? For real???

    And I have to ask, why?
  • gimmesometruth27
    gimmesometruth27 St. Fuckin Louis Posts: 24,405
    edited September 2010
    unsung wrote:
    So my friends that are housing carpenters deserve to lose their jobs?
    wouldn't their union pay them to go picket the housing sites that are using illegal or non-union workers? what about picketing the contractors that use illegal or non-union labor? that is what the carpenters and trade unions do around here, if someone is using non-union workers the union guys get paid to go sit at the job site and picket....

    additionally my union carpenter friends are out of work because they are laid off because NOBODY IS BUILDING HOUSES in this economy, not because some illegal alien "took urrr jobs"....
    Post edited by gimmesometruth27 on
    "You can tell the greatness of a man by what makes him angry."  - Lincoln

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  • norm
    norm Posts: 31,146
    gimmesometruth27 wrote:
    unsung wrote:
    So my friends that are housing carpenters deserve to lose their jobs?
    wouldn't their union pay them to go picket the housing sites that are using non-union workers? what about picketing the contractors that use non-union labor? that is what the carpenters and trade unions do around here, if someone is using non-union workers the union guys get paid to go sit at the job site and picket....

    http://www.thedailyshow.com/watch/mon-s ... ng-stiffed

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  • aerial
    aerial Posts: 2,319
    LikeAnOcean wrote:
    unsung wrote:
    So my friends that are housing carpenters deserve to lose their jobs?
    They are losing jobs to people who barely speak english? For real???

    And I have to ask, why?
    Cheap labor is the only reason……
    Not for being ignorant… though, your insinuation is
    “We the people are the rightful masters of both Congress and the courts, not to overthrow the Constitution but to overthrow the men who pervert the Constitution.” Abraham Lincoln
  • inmytree
    inmytree Posts: 4,741
    unsung wrote:
    So my friends that are housing carpenters deserve to lose their jobs?

    Sorry to hear that Mr. Powell didn't hire your friends...
  • LikeAnOcean
    LikeAnOcean Posts: 7,718
    aerial wrote:
    LikeAnOcean wrote:
    unsung wrote:
    So my friends that are housing carpenters deserve to lose their jobs?
    They are losing jobs to people who barely speak english? For real???

    And I have to ask, why?
    Cheap labor is the only reason……
    Not for being ignorant… though, your insinuation is

    So who's to blame here. The illegal immigrants or the people hiring illegal immigrants to save a buck?

    That's Capitalism for you.. I guess the legal citizens will have to do it for cheaper.
  • MotoDC
    MotoDC Posts: 947
    LikeAnOcean wrote:
    So who's to blame here. The illegal immigrants or the people hiring illegal immigrants to save a buck?
    <snip>
    Both, silly goose.
  • Jason P
    Jason P Posts: 19,327
    unsung wrote:
    So my friends that are housing carpenters deserve to lose their jobs?
    A good carpenter will always have work. :shh:

    I work in the commercial side of construction and 99% of the carpenters I have worked with are W.M.A.s. (part of this reason is 1) unions are racist 2) carpenters have to make an initial investment in bags and tools - most illegal aliens are lucky to have a hardhat).

    Now if your friends are landscapers, roofers or pour concrete, then they had better look out.
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