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“Um Crash...I have never really worried what CRIMINALS think....

Then explain why you used the term "spic" in reference to a Hispanic person, please. Are all spanish people criminals? Or would the right wing cut off my right nut if I used that in reference to Alberto Gonzalez?

Listen, XL, let's be honest here. You have used several terms in a bigoted context. Why don't you just give it up because you ain't gonna win this one, dude!
last edited: 7/24/06 7:08:26 PM
Treebeard
7:07:54 PM
7/24/06

Gee Crash where were you when I was arguing with XL about a racist metaphor he used (I can't give you a link, the post got deleted).
pedxing
8:35:00 PM
7/24/06

AAAAAAAND BITE ME (LOL). Use the term....in a bigoted way...amazing how words are sooo strong to some. But these same people claim the First Amendment for being insulting to me.

Wetback is a term exclusivly for illegals, these are people who have and still do break the law. They cost us money they close hospitals, they use our legal system to their advantage. The fun part is to bust them and watch them literally walk away.

Ever start a good raid and find out some REALLY powerful politician is ordering people off....oh by the way they have R and D after their name.

Amazing since I am part of the only group you can legally insult and get away....WHOOPTIE DOO>
XL400236
8:41:20 PM
7/24/06

Let's see, he got very defensive on two different threads, making the same irrelevant point!

Res ipsa loquitur

Good night, all!
Treebeard
8:58:46 PM
7/24/06

Wetback is a term exclusivly for illegals, these are people who have and still do break the law. They cost us money they close hospitals, they use our legal system to their advantage. The fun part is to bust them and watch them literally walk away.
XL400236
8:41:20 PM
7/24/06

the illegals have figured out to take advantage of our system. They can get by with pretty much anything knowing nothing will happen to them. Even if they get caught they are not sent back to Mexico or where ever they are from. They get to stay here and cause more problems.
Who pays for these problems...the taxpayers.

If any of you think this is fine please have them move to your state. I along with others in Tenn. would be glad to see them move on!
Ewker
9:09:35 PM
7/24/06

Buddha Bear
10:55:12 PM
7/26/06

Hmmm....an entry level teenage bagger making 13 dollars an hour in wages and benefits....
Nonconformist
5:18:16 AM
7/27/06

I see contract stockboys in the future. Walmart hires Walboys to supply stockboys.
hyway
5:34:10 AM
7/27/06

I only heard a blurb on the news the other day so I don't know the specifics (and don't really care anyway) but I think the required-to-pay-health-insurance die that was cast in some state last year just broke.
Nonconformist
5:44:10 AM
7/27/06

Jesus, when will the hand holders realize that government does not belong in business? Who the hell do these dumbasses think are going to absorb the cost of these higher wages and benifits? So the lower wage families that shop there for the lower prices are going to suck up the costs of having high paid shelf stockers.

Nice way to kick poor people in the nuts...
Nigal
6:52:55 AM
7/27/06

I think that Walmart should probably keep its mouth shut when things like this come up.

I just don't think it helps to win votes in a local community when the world's largest company pops into town and threatens some gloomy future if it doesn't get its way.

It's bad local politics.

There was a good article in a recent issue of the Economist about how there is an unwritten tradition in America that a person or company can make large sums of money, but the expectation is that those who strike it big will also look out for the poor.

The Walton family should follow the lead of Gates and Buffet. It would be good for business.
reformed lurker
8:02:40 AM
7/27/06

"The Walton family should follow the lead of Gates and Buffet. It would be good for business."

Ha! They are too busy partying away all that money.
toejam
8:06:06 AM
7/27/06

amazing how words are sooo strong to some. But these same people claim the First Amendment for being insulting to me.

no one is saying you dont have the right to say it. you have the right to say it, obviously, and i would be truly disturbed if your right to say it was LITERALLY taken away. you have the right to say it, we have the right to call you a bigot and a hypocrite.

Wetback is a term exclusivly for illegals

bullcrap. if thats how you mean it, fine, but lots of ppl dont make that distinction
Crash Bang
8:14:36 AM
7/27/06

A year and a half ago I sold my Walmart stock down to one hundred shares. Those 100 shares stare at me ever time my eyes notice that WMT(down 11.19%).
salebored
8:21:29 AM
7/27/06

What ticks me off is if you are going to be non-PC and use terms like nigga, wetback, spic, chink, whatever, then just use them and don't try to justify your use of them.
Hyway
8:24:35 AM
7/27/06

During the Great Depression the US government sent a whole slew of illegal immigrants back to Mexico. It was called Operation Wetback. While the term is sometimes, OK, most times used as a term for all Mexican immigrants the name comes from the fact that many illegals enter by swimming/wading the Rio Grande River. Now, I’m not sure if legals swim the river but I’m guessing it’s just the illegals.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Wetback

wet·back (wĕt'băk')
n. Offensive Slang.
Used as a disparaging term for a Mexican, especially a laborer who crosses the U.S. border illegally.
[From the fact that the Rio Grande is a common entry point.]
Nigal
8:48:38 AM
7/27/06

LOL...so in PC Success, building business, giving people a chance to ENTER the business (lets remember minimum wage is an ENTRY LEVEL WAGE) environment is BAAD. Being a VICTIM is GOOOD....(LOL)

Crash....so it is how YOU define a word that counts...so that RAPE can be a BAD thing, unless the Rapist is say the liberal leader of your party. Then the poor Beeatch who got raped is at fault (LOL)...Man your logic has more holes in it than a sieve.

You know your challenge is similar to the Danaids
XL400236
8:52:55 AM
7/27/06

where did i say "I", xl?

a big difference between "I" and "lots of people"

RIF (Reading IS Fundamental)

also, "exclusively" and "especially" are not the same thing

RIF
Crash Bang
8:57:16 AM
7/27/06

in 36 years, this the first time ive ever heard anyone say they meant it only for illegals. ive always heard it as disparaging to all mexicans.

I dont even care anymore, other than you twisting my words and nigal not knowing the difference between especially and exclusively.

this was supposed to just be teasing stove about playing favorites and it just got out of hand
Crash Bang
9:02:48 AM
7/27/06

Playing favorites, my ass.
C!B! was just being an ass himself.
TRYING to get treebeard and I to fight for his own amusement.
StoveStomper
9:13:07 AM
7/27/06

you tell em, my nigga.
Hyway
9:13:23 AM
7/27/06

Is calling someone a TTer PC?
salebored
9:19:51 AM
7/27/06

Well this great news means......

SHOP AT WAL-MART!!!!!!


It's PC now.
StoveStomper
9:28:43 AM
7/27/06

Oh now Mr. "Lets make our own meaning to words" decides it is no fun to bait others....while you are the master at that...remember occasionally we can all play.

TROLLING TROLLING TROLLING keep that thread a TROLLING...(LOL)
XL400236
9:30:29 AM
7/27/06

"I dont even care anymore, other than you twisting my words and nigal not knowing the difference between especially and exclusively."

Talk about twisting words. I never said it meant ONLY illegals. It was my attempt to show how someone could use the word to mean only illegals.

BTW- I did the same thing for you to show different uses of the word nigga too.

Nigga
Noun 1. nigga - (ethnic slur) offensive name for a Black person; "only a Black can call another Black a nigga"


Racist.
Nigal
9:33:04 AM
7/27/06

"For a charm of powerful trouble
Like a hell-broth boil and bubble.
Double, double toil and trouble,
Fire, burn; and, caldron bubble."
Hyway
9:52:24 AM
7/27/06

did anyone see 30 Days last night.

A Minuteman, who legally migrated from Cuba in his childhood, lives with an illegal immigrant family.

They mostly spoke in Spanish mostly (English subtitles)

He went around with each family member to work or to see what they did each day.

One of the daughters was trying to get a scholarship (she finally did) to a local university. Nothing like knocking out a US citizen from that scholarship.

He was totally against them and the way they were doing things. Towards the end of the show he was coming around because they were his freinds.

I guess becoming friends with illegals makes it ok for them to be here illegally.
Ewker
10:14:43 AM
7/27/06

Principles before personalities (except when it comes to my friends).
Nimblefoot
10:18:02 AM
7/27/06

Ewk, I've been seeing the commercials for that for months and kept thinking 'what's the point'? Living with a family of illegals is supposed to change our minds that it's okay to break the law just because they're good people? So that's pretty much how it was summed up?
Nonconformist
10:18:38 AM
7/27/06

They would be just as good people still living in Mexico.
Hyway
10:25:36 AM
7/27/06

This month's issue of Reason Magazine is about immigration. It's very interesting to see the bare facts on illegal immigration. It's not as much of a crisis as we are lead to believe and they examine and tear down a lot of the myths too. It's worth picking up.
Nigal
10:31:04 AM
7/27/06

EWK, if you've ever watched that show you notice that they always have a happy "change of hart" at the end...plus, no matter how hard he tries the director's liberal leanings always shine through

i found it interesting that they put him with a really nice family who, except for being illegal, did everything right and were very nice and polite and where very likable and law abiding...they of course didn't put him with some gang banger or drug dealer or someone who is cheating the system
last edited: 7/27/06 11:14:14 AM
thriftyhiker
11:11:58 AM
7/27/06

I liked the part in one of those Cheech Marin movies where there was a wedding happening in mexico so the illegals called the INS to raid them so they could all get a free ride back to the wedding lol
Hyway
11:16:32 AM
7/27/06

up in smoke, that's where I want to be....
Mutt
11:25:14 AM
7/27/06

My Momma talk to me,
Try to tell me how to live
But I don't listen to her,
'cos my head is like a sieve

My daddy, he disowned me,
'cos I wear my sisters clothes
He caught me in the bathroom,
with a pair of pantyhose

My basketball coach,
he just kick me off the team
For wearing high heels sneakers,
and acting like a queen
Hyway
11:30:28 AM
7/27/06

Can't complain about illegals and the "right" to not pay a living wage. They go hand in hand in many places.

Until someone on here tells me their women and children were targeted by illegals and raped I'll never understand some of your hatred.

And remember, we can thank Reagan/Congress for MS13. Nothing like opening the floodgates to "ex-guerrilas" who found good use and need for their skills in the ghettos of LA, shocking even the Mexican gangs in its brutal tactics, and exporting the gang to Latin America where it is even more brutal and more successful.

Of Course, the system feeds itself now. But illegals are more a "result" than anything else. But they sure do make a dandy target, eh?

I'll step down..............for now.
bearmagnet
11:36:36 AM
7/27/06

kevin smith the person is a really terrific, generous, big-hearted guy. i wish treebeard and others could see that. if they met him in person they would know that

stovestomper the trailtalker is a troll who plays favorites.
last edited: 7/27/06 11:39:35 AM
Crash Bang
11:39:08 AM
7/27/06

SS's name is Kevin Smith? WOW! Dude I loved Clerks!

Nigal
11:43:22 AM
7/27/06

The Post gave a Green Light to Clerks II. I'm still a bit hesitant.
bearmagnet
11:57:51 AM
7/27/06

Ewk....think about this term..Stockholm Syndrome. Hits way before 30 days with hostages.

You haven't had fun till you have to get a interview with a person suffering from Stockholm Syndrome.

I am planning on missing that one FEEEL good show called Messenger or something about some young people living in OTHERS shoes.

Reminds me of the heady days of the Homeless movement. When you would see the reports of homeless freezing to death in the first cold snap. Then a few days later hidden in the paper was a coroner report that the urban outdoorsman had actually died from alchohol poisioning or something. LOL all the libbies went out to "spend a night with the homeless".
XL400236
12:07:05 PM
7/27/06

The "Big Box" law brought out some "interesting" dynamics in the City Council. Left me shaking my head.
ChicagoMark
12:08:36 PM
7/27/06

I think Marylands law was canned by the Courts, no?
bearmagnet
12:10:18 PM
7/27/06

Oui!
MarkO
12:18:51 PM
7/27/06

bearmagnet, since you feel that all illegals are abused and mistreated (never mind they broke the law to get here) how about you just take them in and help them out. You can pay for all the medical bills, traffic fines, court cost, etc they have left for the American taxpayer to pay off.
Ewker
12:21:35 PM
7/27/06

ewk....we already are....

Hey Ewk..the package come yet?
XL400236
12:28:29 PM
7/27/06

Fun With Editting
“kevin smith the person is a really terrific, generous, big-hearted guy. i wish treebeard and others could see that. if they met him in prison they would know that

stovestomper the trailtalker is a troll who plays favorites.
last edited: 7/27/06 12:39:35 PM”
Crash Bang
12:39:08 PM
7/27/06

He's in prison??
Ha ha !!

(never mind they broke the law to get here)
Ewkie

What about the employers who broke the law in hiring them?
Without the promise of jobs I reckon the illegals would have little or no reason to also break the law.
MarkO
12:28:59 PM
7/27/06

Some of the rationale on the thread is mind boggling.
Nonconformist
12:40:35 PM
7/27/06

MarkO was often dropped on his head when he was a child.
StoveStomper
12:45:11 PM
7/27/06

I am all for busting the employer and charging him/her for the cost of transporting illegals found on his/her workplace back to their country of origin.
Hyway
12:46:56 PM
7/27/06

since you feel that all illegals are abused and mistreated

I'm pretty sure I didn't say that.
bearmagnet
12:47:07 PM
7/27/06

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