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By Saturday February 19, 2011



45 Comments
  1. Blind Stevie says:
    2/19/2011 at 4:45 pm

    #18 Bobbo

    Glad to know I had a positive influence.

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  2. President Amabo says:
    2/19/2011 at 5:49 pm

    #10 – There are plenty of countries for folks who want to make funny, foreign sounding noises. If you want to be American – speak English, or leave. Period.

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  3. Cap'nKangaroo says:
    2/19/2011 at 6:02 pm

    The writers of the Constitution could have easily written it in that you had to speak English, yet they did not. I wonder why?

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  4. bobbo, TV is excellent if you pick and choose just a little bit says:
    2/19/2011 at 6:14 pm

    Cap’n==because they assumed everyone would=====NOT what we have today with BALLOTS ((fer Christ Sakes==BALLOTS!)) being printed in foreign languages.

    I’m all for leaving people alone: everyone should be free to speak whatever they want to but the call on the public purse to print official forms or do business in languages that amount to x% of whatever total is an AFFRONT to common sense and the melting pot.

    Fact specific circumstances do call for the provision of interpretive services, but not as many as generally get them today. People WANT TO melt–we should help them.

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  5. Steven says:
    2/19/2011 at 6:40 pm

    #23 – Immigration Law of 1790 and 1796, I think they assumed that the white folks wouldn’t turn into a soft bunch of pussies that hate themselves and their ancestors. And then some of them like Franklin and Jefferson were all too aware of an internationalist mentality but were unable to secure a sufficient protection against the globalist scum. Hamilton and his underhanded desire for a central bank controlled by the filthy Red Shields!?

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  6. Animby - just phoning it in says:
    2/19/2011 at 6:42 pm

    #13 EDITOR: “[Uh... that was the idea of the post. Also, your should have been you're. - ed.]”

    No it shouldn’t.
    As much as I hate to scurry to the defense of the 15 year-old who calls himself msb, the sentence did NOT say: “you are vitriolic attacks…” It used the appropriate personal possessive pronoun “your.” Come on, hopper!

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  7. Uncle Patso says:
    2/20/2011 at 6:56 am

    #26 Animby, the editor’s note referred to the misuse of “your” in place of the proper “you’re” in the sign in the picture, not the commenter’s post.

    Thanks hhopper; I was worried I might not get a sufficient dose of irony in my diet today. Plus, I got another boost from these comments. (“American’s” as a plural, for example. I know grammar and spelling nitpicks are deprecated, but in a thread about “Use English or get out” it seems people should be extra careful about it.)

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  8. Uncle Patso says:
    2/20/2011 at 7:07 am

    In other “Proper Use of English” news, a bit of trivia: little as I care for Sarah Palin, I actually found a use of the word “refudiated” that predates her rise to fame. At the end of Chapter 4 of the “Watchmen” comic is an essay by the fictional Professor Milton Glass titled “Dr. Manhattan: Super-Powers and the Superpowers.” The word is in the 13th paragraph. The third sentence in that paragraph:

    “The suggestion that the presence of a superhuman has inclined the world more towards peace is refudiated by the sharp increase in both Russian and American nuclear stockpiles since the advent of Dr. Manhattan.”

    Your trivia for the day.

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  9. Rick says:
    2/20/2011 at 8:16 am

    If you have lived in Texas or Oklahoma, you know the average person’s grasp of english isn’t so good.

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  10. moss says:
    2/20/2011 at 8:21 am

    #17 – it is to laugh.

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  11. Animby - just phoning it in says:
    2/20/2011 at 9:10 am

    #27 Uncle Patso said, “editor’s note referred to … the sign in the picture, not the commenter’s post.”

    Thanks, Unc Pat. I wondered about that myself. Could it be possible Mr Hopper chastised a post without understanding it? After all, msb had already mentioned the misuse of the word on the sign. Perhaps he was too subtle for our dear editor who we all suspect is getting on in years. After all, the only other option would be that he corrected proper grammar with improper.

    Personally, I suspect the “BUTT” was an intentional error perhaps by someone trying to start a new internet meme to replace moran. But I think the “YOUR” was just pisspoor grammar.

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  12. 1873 Colt says:
    2/20/2011 at 9:33 am

    Interesting how a sticker proclaiming “God Bless America” is annoying to so many lefties.

    Maybe we should make the song illegal, too.

    There are many people who feel English should be the official language. My grandmother never spoke English, but I understand people who are fed up with Mexico taking over California.

    And the last sign, is just dumb.

    So?

    I suppose the complete fools in Berkeley who gush all over the Taliban girl and want to import terrorists and baby them are the kind of folks you would prefer as citizens.

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  13. hhopper says:
    2/20/2011 at 9:59 am

    Animby #26:

    Come on Animby, I’m talking about the “your” in the photo, not the comment.

    Animby #31

    Come on Animby, I pride myself in using proper grammar and spelling. It seems to me I’ve fixed a number of mistakes in your posts. Yes, I do that sometimes for the more intelligent commenters.

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  14. Elmer Fudd, Armed to the Lithp says:
    2/20/2011 at 10:08 am

    #32 1873 Penis

    “Interesting how a sticker proclaiming “God Bless America” is annoying to so many lefties.”

    No, ignorance is annoying to lefties. You know? Ignorance? I can help you out. Look in a mirror.

    “Maybe we should make the song illegal, too.”

    Do YOU want to make it illegal? No-one else mentioned it, so I assume it must be you.

    “There are many people who feel English should be the official language. My grandmother never spoke English, but I understand people who are fed up with Mexico taking over California.”

    ¿Qué?

    “And the last sign, is just dumb.”

    As the sign says, you have the right…

    “So?” So?

    “I suppose the complete fools in Berkeley who gush all over the Taliban girl and want to import terrorists and baby them are the kind of folks you would prefer as citizens.”

    Let’s see now, them or you – them or you? That’s a tough one. I’m sure great minds will differ on this tough choice but personally, I prefer the terrorist babies. Vaya con Dios!

    Could you possibly BE any stupider and still be alive? It’s just my opinion but I seriously doubt it. I sure hope you haven’t reproduced yet.

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  15. GF says:
    2/20/2011 at 11:55 am

    I love it when those speaking Spanish think they are having a private conversation that this ‘gringo’ can’t comprehend. It gives me an edge and a chuckle. I wonder, do you think they would think it rude if I spoke German or Russian with my friends because, you know, the conversation isn’t meant for them.

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  16. McCullough says:
    2/20/2011 at 5:26 pm

    #4. and #35. Spanish is easy, try working around Navajo’s. BTW, I guess they should be allowed to stay.

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  17. GF says:
    2/20/2011 at 5:36 pm

    #36 McCullough – Do you piss on the doves? (yeah, I’ve been around the Navajo nation.)

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  18. GF says:
    2/20/2011 at 5:39 pm

    #36 McCullough – I never said they should leave BTW, I just said they’re rude.

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  19. Mr. Fusion says:
    2/20/2011 at 6:18 pm

    And once again, some tea bagger has helped to demonstrate why there is a need to proof reading your sign.

    If you were stupid enough to make the mistake in the first place, you’ll make it again. Get someone else to read your hate speech so you don’t look stupid as well as hateful.

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  20. McCullough says:
    2/20/2011 at 6:55 pm

    #38. GF. “#36 McCullough – I never said they should leave BTW, I just said they’re rude.”

    Sorry, I wasn’t aiming that at you, but at the overall comments.

    However, I have never considered it rude when the Navaho, when I am contractor in their company, speak in their native tongue on the Rez. If I wasn’t privy to the conversation.

    The reservation is their “country”, and I respect that. And I have never gotten anything but respect back.

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