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Tancredo: ‘Hillary Clinton Doesn’t Know the First Thing About the Bible’

Conservative-backed immigration bills being debated in the Senate would make it a federal crime — punishable by up to five years in prison — to offer aid to undocumented immigrants. Sen. Hillary Clinton (D-NY) slammed the legislation last week: “It is certainly not in keeping with my understanding of the Scripture because this bill would literally criminalize the Good Samaritan and probably even Jesus himself.”

Anti-immigrant hardliner Rep. Tom Tancredo (R-CO) responded to Clinton this morning on ABC’s This Week. Watch it:

STEPHANOPOULOS: Congressman Tancredo, she’s basically saying your approach is un-Christian.

TANCREDO: I’m not really surprised that Hillary Clinton doesn’t know the first thing about the Bible. Her impression — her analysis, her interpretation of both the law and the Bible are certainly wrong to say the least. This has nothing to do — the bill we passed out of the House has nothing to do with criminalizing Good Samaritans.

Clinton is right about the law. According to Los Angeles Cardinal Roger Mahoney, the proposed provision “is so broad that it would criminalize even minor acts of mercy like offering a meal or administering first aid.” Mahoney has instructed the priests of his archdiocese to disobey the law if it is enacted.

As for Clinton’s knowledge of the Bible, it’s Tancredo who needs a refresher. Take Isaiah 49:10: “They will neither hunger nor thirst, nor will the desert heat or the sun beat upon them. He who has compassion on them will guide them and lead them beside springs of water.”



175 Responses to “Tancredo: ‘Hillary Clinton Doesn’t Know the First Thing About the Bible’”

  1. theroachman says:

    TANCREDO is a straight up racist. Compassionate Conservative my ars. Great, he represents my district.


  2. profmarcus says:

    i had a brushing acquaintance with tancredo back in 2003 when i was living in denver… a good friend of mine was serving as the vice-consul for the mexican consulate in denver… a story came out about an academically gifted high schooler, the son of undocumented aliens, who couldn’t affort to attend college… it was a nice human interest story in the denver post… tancredo jumped on it and tried to have the teenager and his entire family deported… my friend stepped in to assist as part of his job and tancredo proceeded to smear him and the consulate in public… tancredo didn’t succeed and, in fact, an anonymous donor stepped forward and offered to pay the young man’s way through any college of his choice… i remember thinking at the time just how astounding it was that such an bigoted asshole could be elected to the u.s. house of representatives… silly me…

    Visit my blog: And, yes, I DO take it personally


  3. Libby Sosume says:

    This guy is such a fool. Won’t he be surprised when Jesus calls him to the Principal’s office.


  4. theroachman says:

    profmarcus
    Unfortunately Tancredo is not up for reelection this year. I do not think he has a chance in an honest election at this point. BTW I have always loved the fact of the Mexican Consulate location down in the uppity Cherry Creek Shopping District.


  5. unbelievable says:

    It’s not a requirement for her job, Tom. Or for any job she might seek in public office.


  6. Toes says:

    So sad that what I regard as Christian values have been so preverted by the religious right that that are virtually unrecognizable.

    If what the right wing establishment says is a valid interpretation of the nature of Christianity; I am super-pissed about all of the time, money, and emotion that I have packed into churches and my faith over the last 50 years. It’s a total waste. But I’m not willing to give in to their evil interpretation quite yet. They must really frustrate the bastards.


  7. MagnumDB says:

    Can we PLEASE remove religion out of politics?!?


  8. LeeNich says:

    News for “theroachman”…all members of the House of Representatives are up for reelections this year, including Rep. Tancredo (unless he decides to retrire).


  9. Beth says:

    Hillary is one of thos OLD Christians and Tancredo is one of the NEW Christians. The one more suited for these modern times where people don’t use their critical thinking skills. He’s one of those CINO Christians (Christian in name only)….which makes up the majority of the Republican Conservative Base. They should call themselves Power Christians because for them – its all about power – getting it and keeping it.


  10. TheWurmserTurns says:

    If I remember my college language classes correctly, “Tancredo” is Italian for “David Duke.”


  11. theroachman says:

    #8 Opps I new that. Its early and my kids have Cinderella two on. Known to warp the mine


  12. Spud1 says:

    So did Stphan actually make Tancredo explain why she is wrong, or did he jsut let his comment stand on its own, as if it were the truth?


  13. unbelievable says:

    If I remember my college language classes correctly, “Tancredo” is Italian for “David Duke.”

    Comment by TheWurmserTurns — March 26, 2006 @ 11:44 am

    That’s hysterical!


  14. Matt O. says:

    Oh snap, TP just took Tancredo to Bible school.


  15. yorktank says:

    How does Tancredo know so much about illegal immigrants anyway?


  16. eric W says:

    Tancredo is running against a real fighter, Bill Winter. http://www.winterforcongress.com

    Bill is a Vet of both the Marines and Navy. He’s a tremendous speaker and I think will be a gifted congressperson.

    Donate, volunteer, http://www.winterforcongress.com/


  17. pbg says:

    Tom Tancredo is going to Hell.
    It says so right in the Bible.


  18. theroachman says:

    yorktank Denver has a large immigrant population. I think it was about 50,000 who were at the protest march yesterday here in Denver. We have been deleing with this issue a lot here. Two days ago 47 Mexican immigrants were injured in accidents involving only three vans.


  19. John the Elder says:

    Tancredo should not, by his own words, be considered a follower of Jesus Christ, because his words and more importantly, his actions indicate clearly that he hss none of the values of Jesus. He is typical of most of the fundamentalists who call themselves “Christians.” His whole philsophy and theirs, is rooted in a distortion of the Hebrew Scriptures. The old law which Jesus replaced with a “New Law” whose basic principle is “Love one another, as I have loved you.” All of these frauds would do well to read Matthew 25, 31-46 and to remember another passage where Jesus warns us, “you know not the day nor the hour”( of the coming of the Lord). Further, “you fool, this very night your soul will be demanded of you.”
    I would put more stock in what Hillary knows of Scripture, than what Tancredo knows. At least Hillary has read the New Testament. I seriously doubt that Tancredo ever has.


  20. Abby says:

    Tom is an idiotic corporate hitman for sure but I do not forgive Hillary for using religion as a political tool. The end does not justify the means and using Christianity as a political tool simply because the religious right uses the same tool only serves to cheapen Christianity.

    Religion is, at best, a matter of Faith, a personal and private affair. At worst it is mental masturbation. Whatever it is, it belongs in the privacy of one’s home or in their place of worship and must be kept out of government which belongs equally to people of all faiths and to people of no faith.


  21. Lesly says:

    Well, not to defend Tancredo, but Hillary is the latest and greatest politician to take up the “you can defend/attack any position using Jesus” rationalization.

    And it’s so annoying.


  22. Steve J. says:

    Hillary hit a GOP weak point with this one. I think many religious people see that the GOP version of Xtianity is a bit lacking and I think we should do all we can to hammer this home between now and November.


  23. singe says:

    profmarcus. if tancredo is a congressman how could he not be up for re-election in 06?


  24. katy says:

    i dunno … fight fire with fire … the repugs are always acting so sanctimonious and self-righteous, it seems logical to use those ideals to call out their hypocracy … just sayin’ …


  25. Hughes for America says:

    Clinton vs. Tancredo…

    Here’s how Sen. Hillary Clinton characterized Republican attempts to control illegal immigration earlier this week:Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton invoked the Bible yesterday to criticize a stringent border security measure that, among other things, wo…


  26. konopelli says:

    Seems to me that someone whose last name ends in a vowel might be a little more tolerant of folks with immigration/emigration issues…
    but tancredo’s a fascist fuckstick, so what’d'ya expect?


  27. theroachman says:

    #21 Lesly. Why is can’t Hillary call tancredo out on this? He uses the Bible for his warped views quite often


  28. Jim H says:

    Don’t need to quote the bibal to know tancrado is an asshole


  29. vegas baby says:

    fundies don’t believe in the old testament…that’s old law…the new testament is there guide…except when it isn’t convenient….hypocrites!!!


  30. Nancy Richardson says:

    They still have Fascists in Italy. (I think one of them is a big deal in Rome.)

    The evil that this Immigration legislation represents is being recapitulated throughout Europe, and is clearly political posturing to make overt racism socially acceptable again. Goodness knows, that playing the Mexican card is one of the last desperate tricks in an empty deck.

    And make no mistake about it, this legislation is driven by one motivation: racism.


  31. Paul in Mexico says:

    I live in Guadalajara, Mx. Three years ago I married a Mexican National.

    Social Security regulations state that when I die, and when she reaches age 60, she will get SS equal to about 55 percent of my check when I expire.

    A little known catch to this is that all Mexicans who qualify in any manner for SS MUST travel to the US and live there for 3 months per year.

    I looked into this and found that in the border cities there are “casas” (houses) where my wife could go and stay for three months.

    But there is one great, great big catch. The American Embassy down here has a social security office in one part of the embassy building. On the other side is immigration. Huge lines going all away around the one square block building are seen every day on the immigration side. They are Mexicans trying to get travel permits, visas or passports to the US.

    If you are a woman wanting to travel to the states in an effort to obtain your social security benefits, you are routinely turned down. You cant get to the states to live for the required three months, you dont get your benefits. It is a catch 22 situation.

    I was in the area not long ago to see about a social security problem. I talked with a woman there who had been trying for SEVEN YEARS to meet the three month requirement, but she has been turned down every time she has applied. And – social security does not have to pay her retroactively. They have so notified her in writing. I saw it.

    Oh people get through. All one has to do is to find the right clerk who will take a bribe to get approval. A clerk was caught several months ago approving visas for a bribe.

    I worked for over 50 years, and paid mucho dinero into the system and it angers me that things are handled in this way. I feel that if I want to leave my benefits to a Mexican wife, I should be allowed to.


  32. Innocent Bystander says:

    Republicans own the ‘Jesus’ franchise. They bought it back in the early 80’s. Nothing pisses off a Republican more than a Democrat who imfringes on their trademark.


  33. Zappatero says:

    Greedy selfish and ignorant Christians are always Republicans.

    Jesus weeps.


  34. Dem02020 says:

    THE GREAT THING ABOUT THE REPUBLICAN NOISE MACHINE

    is how obvious it is: It’s rather obvious (at this early date) that at least part of the Republican Noise Machine’s strategy to prevent a President Clinton II is to portray her as “unChristian”, or “irreligious”, or what, not a FOJC? I don’t know, it looks like that I guess.

    But it’s way to early, for me anyway, to care about such stuff; let the Senator in question start thinking about whether such noise as that could in any way hurt her politically (I remind, Article 6, Clause 3, of the U.S. Constitution: “…but no religous Test shall ever be required as a Qualification to any Office or public Trust under the United States”)…

    But it’s nice to have a heads-up on the Republican Noise Machine’s strategy, even if it is too early.

    As for me, now’s the time to keep the Devil on the run…

    Now’s the time for FALSIFIED ‘pre-war intelligence’ (that led to an ever-unpopular invasion of Iraq), and illegal wiretapping, and Ethics (both Congressional and Administrative).

    We’ve got the Devil on the run; the time is ripe, let there be no rot on the (grape) vine.


  35. Clyde says:

    When a stranger resides with you in your land, you shall not oppress the stranger. The stranger who resides with you shall be to you as the citizen among you.”
    Leviticus 19:33


  36. Dave in NYC says:

    Well, not to defend Tancredo, but Hillary is the latest and greatest politician to take up the “you can defend/attack any position using Jesus” rationalization.

    I agree. Clinton is obviously right on the religious matter in question here, but she shouldn’t have brought Jesus into this (and didn’t need to).


  37. katy says:

    paul in mexico – i am reminded of a comment i overheard while voting in the illinois primary the other day – a woman said that she received a flyer stating that illegal immigrants RECEIVE s.s. benefits…i always knew the workers paid in, but didn’t think they could collect unless citizens…
    just wondering…


  38. God of Gods says:

    TANCREDO knows about the Bible: ROTFLMAOL!!!

    TANCREDO cannot even READ the REAL Bible.

    TANCREDO has no proficiency at all in Arabic, Aramaic, Hebrew, Greek, Latin, Syriac, etc.

    TANCREDO, like most Bible Thumpers, are illiterate hypocrits that bash opponents with the Bible in one screen and download kiddie porn in another while dressed in knee-high leather boots, black panties, and a Viking helmet.


  39. dix handley says:

    I lived in Denver 25 years ago for a few years. This guy represents the City of Denver? Thank God I moved out of that city if he is representative of the type of people living there now. It used to be a live and let live town. Sounds like I would be miserable there now with his ilk all around me.After all, he was elected by the citizens. I now live in So. Florida and can’t believe I dealt with the Colorado snow storms for years. Never again.


  40. blah says:

    He’s a very tan cretin.


  41. Michael Pastor says:

    “Christians” such as these count on the rest of us having no more than a passing familiarity with the old or new testament, just like the leaders of the republican party hope that the American people know as little of their nations’ history as they do. Such a sad and ironic spectacle; republican money changers in the White House, House of Representatives and Senate (the kind of folk who drove Jesus to a fit of temper, remember?) attempting to persecute their countrymen for showing Christ-like compassion. It is a crime (a sin, if you like) of biblical proportions.

    Perhaps someone more creative than I can portray this, as it ought to be portrayed, as a timeless tale of greed, corruption and hypocrasy. I’m thinking “The Book of Rove” would be a fitting title. Plenty of parables for future politicians.

    GOP=God’s own Pharisees.


  42. citizen k says:

    Dave in NYC: “I agree. Clinton is obviously right on the religious matter in question here, but she shouldn’t have brought Jesus into this (and didn’t need to).”

    So you’d go back and toss out all the writings of Tom Paine, ML King, William Lord Garrison, and nearly every other effective public speaker for reform in US history?


  43. Cyra Brown says:

    And, no , TECHNICALLY, his bill would not criminalize the “Good Samaritan”. It would criminalize the ACTIONS of the “Good Samaritan”. And that would make it much easier to shut down any agency based on nothing more than the “suspicion” that they might be aiding illegal immigrants.Just another way to legalize discrimination, and aid in the destruction of “social programs”. Boy, that bible has more uses than the best “Swiss Army Knife”!


  44. jurassicpork says:

    “Indeed, the Catholic Church, through Catholic Charities agencies around the country, is one of the largest nonprofit providers of social services in the nation, serving both citizens and immigrants.”

    Yeah, provided they’re not gay.


  45. Spudge_Boy says:

    You guys are all crazy, you think everyone in the world should be allowed to move to the US and have us take care of them. Thank god the majority of people don’t agree with the idiots of this message board.

    Only you people would think its ok to rally in the US with Mexican flags. If you people were in charge, god help us all!

    Actually, not all of us support immigration. So, stop trying to pigeon hole people. It always makes you look stupid.

    As a resident of California, I am sick of all of the immigration legal or ilegal. The country is full right now. WHen we have created more jobs and the economy gets better, we can start letting more people in.

    But, right now, the train is full and can’t take anymore passengers.


  46. blah says:

    Dave in NYC: “I agree. Clinton is obviously right on the religious matter in question here, but she shouldn’t have brought Jesus into this (and didn’t need to).”

    It’s religion that needs to be kept out of it, not the teachings of Jesus. They, the church, founded the religion after he died and have been screwing it up ever since, like all the founding fathers knew they would.

    The Faith of our Founding Fathers, by Dean Worbois
    No one disputes the faith of our Founding Fathers. To speak of unalienable Rights being endowed by a Creator certainly shows a sensitivity to our spiritual selves. What is surprising is when fundamentalist Christians think the Founding Fathers’ faith had anything to do with the Bible. Without exception, the faith of our Founding Fathers was deist, not theist. It was best expressed earlier in the Declaration of Independence, when they spoke of “the Laws of Nature” and of “Nature’s God.”

    In a sermon of October 1831, Episcopalian minister Bird Wilson said,

    Among all of our Presidents, from Washington downward, not one was a professor of religion, at least not of more than Unitarianism.

    The Bible? Here is what our Founding Fathers wrote about Bible-based Christianity:

    Thomas Jefferson:

    I have examined all the known superstitions of the world, and I do not find in our particular superstition of Christianity one redeeming feature. They are all alike founded on fables and mythology. Millions of innocent men, women and children, since the introduction of Christianity, have been burnt, tortured, fined and imprisoned. What has been the effect of this coercion? To make one half the world fools and the other half hypocrites; to support roguery and error all over the earth.
    SIX HISTORIC AMERICANS,
    by John E. Remsburg, letter to William Short
    Jefferson again:
    Christianity…(has become) the most perverted system that ever shone on man. …Rogueries, absurdities and untruths were perpetrated upon the teachings of Jesus by a large band of dupes and importers led by Paul, the first great corrupter of the teaching of Jesus.
    More Jefferson:
    The clergy converted the simple teachings of Jesus into an engine for enslaving mankind and adulterated by artificial constructions into a contrivance to filch wealth and power to themselves…these clergy, in fact, constitute the real Anti-Christ.
    Jefferson’s word for the Bible?
    Dunghill.
    John Adams:
    Where do we find a precept in the Bible for Creeds, Confessions, Doctrines and Oaths, and whole carloads of other trumpery that we find religion encumbered with in these days?
    Also Adams:
    The doctrine of the divinity of Jesus is made a convenient cover for absurdity.
    Adams signed the Treaty of Tripoli. Article 11 states:
    The Government of the United States is not in any sense founded on the Christian religion.
    Here’s Thomas Paine:
    I would not dare to so dishonor my Creator God by attaching His name to that book (the Bible).

    Among the most detestable villains in history, you could not find one worse than Moses. Here is an order, attributed to ‘God’ to butcher the boys, to massacre the mothers and to debauch and rape the daughters. I would not dare so dishonor my Creator’s name by (attaching) it to this filthy book (the Bible).

    It is the duty of every true Deist to vindicate the moral justice of God against the evils of the Bible.

    Accustom a people to believe that priests and clergy can forgive sins…and you will have sins in abundance.

    The Christian church has set up a religion of pomp and revenue in pretended imitation of a person (Jesus) who lived a life of poverty.

    Finally let’s hear from James Madison:

    What influence in fact have Christian ecclesiastical establishments had on civil society? In many instances they have been upholding the thrones of political tyranny. In no instance have they been seen as the guardians of the liberties of the people. Rulers who wished to subvert the public liberty have found in the clergy convenient auxiliaries. A just government, instituted to secure and perpetuate liberty, does not need the clergy.

    Madison objected to state-supported chaplains in Congress and to the exemption of churches from taxation. He wrote:

    Religion and government will both exist in greater purity, the less they are mixed together.

    These founding fathers were a reflection of the American population. Having escaped from the state-established religions of Europe, only 7% of the people in the 13 colonies belonged to a church when the Declaration of Independence was signed.

    Among those who confuse Christianity with the founding of America, the rise of conservative Baptists is one of the more interesting developments. The Baptists believed God’s authority came from the people, not the priesthood, and they had been persecuted for this belief. It was they—the Baptists—who were instrumental in securing the separation of church and state. They knew you can not have a “one-way wall” that lets religion into government but that does not let it out. They knew no religion is capable of handling political power without becoming corrupted by it. And, perhaps, they knew it was Christ himself who first proposed the separation of church and state: Give unto Caesar that which is Caesar’s and unto the Lord that which is the Lord’s.

    In the last five years the Baptists have been taken over by a fundamentalist faction that insists authority comes from the Bible and that the individual must accept the interpretation of the Bible from a higher authority. These usurpers of the Baptist faith are those who insist they should meddle in the affairs of the government and it is they who insist the government should meddle in the beliefs of individuals.

    The price of Liberty is constant vigilance. Religious fundamentalism and zealous patriotism have always been the forces which require the greatest attention.

    ——————————————————————————–

    Editor’s Note: This page was first posted in 1995. Since then we’ve received volumes of mail from politically conservative Christians supplying us with quotes from public speeches made by the authors above. While most of these author politicians were diplomatic in their public expressions concerning religion, in their private conversations, voluminous writings and correspondences they expressed contrary beliefs.

    Which beliefs are true? If a politician appears one way in public and another in private, which do you think better represents their true beliefs? How do you reconcile the inflamatory writings above with various pro-Christian statements that the same men made in public over the course of their careers? Could it be called “politics,” an attempt to appease Christians while ensuring a more rational government based on the separation of church and state? It certainly seems that way.

    In addition, the Editor does not recognize any religious intentions of the so-called “Founding Fathers” as relevant to discussions of political process today. As a descendent of Native Americans the editor understands that America had already been “found.” The “Christian” beliefs of a handful of landed, white, male aristocracy enslaving blacks and murdering Native Americans hold little credibility and should be dumped along with the notions of slavery we so wisely dispensed with on January 1, 1863.

    References: The writings of Thomas Jefferson exist in 25 volumes. The references for this article were found in the book, SIX HISTORIC AMERICANS, by John E. Remsburg (who interviewed many of Lincoln’s associates). Much of his work on Jefferson came from THE MEMOIRS, CORRESPONDENCE AND MISCELLANIES FROM THE PAPERS OF THOMAS JEFFERSON, 4 volumes ed. by Thomas Jefferson Randolph (the grandson of Thomas Jefferson).

    Google the Jefferson Bible, Dave, old buddy.

    You guys are all crazy, you think everyone in the world should be allowed to move to the US and have us take care of them. Thank god the majority of people don’t agree with the idiots of this message board.

    Only you people would think its ok to rally in the US with Mexican flags. If you people were in charge, god help us all!

    Comment by David

    He thinks everybody wants to move here! LOL! for the first time in history we are approaching a stasis point where the number of people leaving here is almost equal to the number arriving. trouble is all the good people are leaving because of assholes like you.


  47. blah says:

    I just hope they raise taxes soon so freeloaders like Dave will move… to Mexico.


  48. blah says:

    But, right now, the train is full and can’t take anymore passengers.

    Comment by Spudge_Boy

    I’m with you, Spudge, but many of those who come here do work hard, pay their taxes, no matter how high, without bitching, and really do contribute more than people like Dave, who we would all love to deport.


  49. unbelievable says:

    I’m with you, Spudge, but many of those who come here do work hard, pay their taxes, no matter how high, without bitching, and really do contribute more than people like Dave, who we would all love to deport.

    Comment by blah — March 26, 2006 @ 1:27 pm

    Not a bad idea… :)


  50. blah says:

    paul in mexico – i am reminded of a comment i overheard while voting in the illinois primary the other day – a woman said that she received a flyer stating that illegal immigrants RECEIVE s.s. benefits…i always knew the workers paid in, but didn’t think they could collect unless citizens…
    just wondering…

    Comment by katy

    Probabaly sent out by the same GOPstapo agents that sent the Liberals will Ban The Bible flyerduring the last election. Paul in Mexico is a conservative, if I’m not mistaken. He used to have a blog, and he just wants SS privatized and privateered.


  51. blah says:

    We do need an immigration policy that is not designed for the benefit of Corporations but the American workers and Pmerican people.


  52. Mumon says:

    Tancredo himself doesn’t know jack about the interactions of immigration policy; it’s a royal pain in the ass to get Ph.D. level workers in engineering, simply because 90%+ are foreign born.

    Tancredo has caused me so much trouble- because I absolutely NEED Ph.D.s that it makes me sick to think this clown is given any kind of forum.



  53. Casey Morris says:

    The issue here is not whether Hillary Clinton has knowledge of the bible or not.

    The issue here is Tancredo’s assertion as such to change the topic, and from this post, I would say a big “mission Accomplished” to that.

    The issue here, is that no one called Tancredo on his assertions about Hillary Clinton when he made that statement. We only see the statement. Where the hell was Stephanpoulis asking Tancredo, “Congressman, Do you have a lawy degree or some theology degree that allows you to assert that you know the bible or the law better than Senator Clinton, who does, of course, have a law degree?”

    The item for Media Matters here is not just that Tancredo made these assertions, but that they went completely unchecked by Stephanopoulis.


  54. Randy says:

    I wonder if Tancredo thinks the Catholic Cardinals know anything about the Bible.


  55. SteveLG says:

    Tancredo proves that there’s a difference between a Christian and a Jesusist.


  56. Casey Morris says:

    You guys are all crazy, you think everyone in the world should be allowed to move to the US and have us take care of them. Thank god the majority of people don’t agree with the idiots of this message board.

    Only you people would think its ok to rally in the US with Mexican flags. If you people were in charge, god help us all!

    Comment by David — March 26, 2006 @ 1:09 pm

    David,

    There are 11 million illegal immigrants here. 70% of them have been here, working, for more than five years. They have children who were born here. They are citizens, just like people grandparents and parent from Italy, or Ireland, or wherever. Lationos are not some special subset of first generation Americans. They are Americans, period.

    How do you expect to deport, or imprison 11 million people? How do you expect to absorb the impact on the service industries or the agriculture industries?

    There’s a reason that BUSINESS is not siding with Tancredo on this, and it’s because immigration is GOOD for business and the economy in America and that is a fact.

    No fence, no wall and no militia of self-appointed minute men are going to be effective in keeping or stemming illegal immigration. People will do what they think they need to do to feed their families. That is also a fact.

    And how do you possibly expect to ameliorate the strain on public services, unless you are able to collect taxes from all undocumented workers and their employers?

    And from a practical standpoint, isn’t it better to know who IS here in our country, than who isn’t?

    But if you disagree with the idea of immigration, that of course, is your right.

    But from a practicable standpoint, how do you plan to imprison all of the illegal immigrants, all of those who help them, and how do you plan to deport 11 million people?

    And if you think that illgal immigrants are a strain on public services now, what do you think the cost of the strain to INS would be to find them and deport them.

    And here’s something you HAVEN’T thought about; if INS is spending all of it’s time on illegal immigrants from Latin America, what impact will it have on their already outdated and overmatched resources in terms of being able to track terrorists who are trying to enter the US? How does straining the national budget help national security?


  57. Casey Morris says:

    And for the record, I think Clinton was smart to invoke religion into this debate.

    There are natural allies to be found on this issue, and the Catholic Church and other church leaders are some very powerful ones to have.


  58. Lily says:

    Separation of Church and State.
    If we keep telling that to conservatives, we ought to listen to it ourselves.

    She may have been right, but she shouldn’t be playing the “religion card.”


  59. Larry Minnesota says:

    Terrific campaign slogan!!!!

    If I remember my college language classes correctly, “Tancredo” is Italian for “David Duke.”

    Comment by TheWurmserTurns — March 26, 2006 @ 11:44 am

    #8 Opps I new that. Its early and my kids have Cinderella two on. Known to warp the mine

    Comment by theroachman — March 26, 2006 @ 11:45 am

    So did Stphan actually make Tancredo explain why she is wrong, or did he jsut let his comment stand on its own, as if it were the truth?

    Comment by Spud1 — March 26, 2006 @ 11:45 am

    If I remember my college language classes correctly, “Tancredo” is Italian for “David Duke.”

    Comment by TheWurmserTurns — March 26, 2006 @ 11:44 am

    That’s hysterical!

    Comment by unbelievable — March 26, 2006 @ 11:49 am


  60. Spudge_Boy says:

    There’s a reason that BUSINESS is not siding with Tancredo on this, and it’s because immigration is GOOD for business and the economy in America and that is a fact.

    Immigration is not GOOD for this economy. immigrants, legal and ilegal send $87 billion dollars a year out of this country, never to return. Now, how is that good for the economy?

    I will agree that immigration is GOOD for business. WHy? Because they can under cut Americans by hiring cheap labor. Ilegal immigrants aren’t just picking fruit and doing other jobs that Americans refues to do. They are taking all of the entry level jobs in California. You can’t go to a fast food restraunt without a translator these days.


  61. michele says:

    To Katy, and Paul in Mexico –

    Immigrants pay into SS and receive benefits.

    Dependents receiving their deceased spouses’ SS must reside in the US for one month every six months. That is, if they have lived outside the US for six months, they must live for one month in the US (including the 1st and last days of the month). There’s a lot of ifs, ands & buts involved, but that seems to be the basic info.

    http://www.socialsecurity.gov/pubs/10137.html#intro

    I don’t know about embassies purposely keeping people out so they are unable to receive benefits. Frankly, I don’t think the government is organized enough to do that.


  62. Casey Morris says:

    Comment by blah — March 26, 2006 @ 1:22 pm

    Actually, the quote from above by Jefferson is “Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty”.


  63. katy says:

    thanks michele – i’ll read up on that…

    and lily, i don’t think she played the religion card so much as the HYPOCRACY card… and good for her…


  64. Casey Morris says:

    Comment by Lesly — March 26, 2006 @ 12:07 pm

    This is a misnomer. Hillary Clinton didn’t invoke the bible. She invoked Jesus Christ, which are not one and the same.

    And while there are a number of people who use The Bible, to attack things, there are considerably less who use the teaching of Jesus Christ, as they are generally understood, to attack things.

    It’s interesting to note the number of born-again bible-centric Christians who want to use the old testament to destroy their fellow humans.


  65. Casey Morris says:

    Comment by Spudge_Boy — March 26, 2006 @ 2:39 pm

    Spudge,

    Not doubting your facts so much as looking to compile information, so please don’t take my next question as a challenge. Do you have a link or some other context for your stats?


  66. Paul in LA says:

    “Unfortunately Tancredo is not up for reelection this year.” –theroachman

    ALL House Representatives stand EVERY two years.

    The Sixth District in Colorado is no exception.


  67. Paul in LA says:

    “…it is not to be understood that I am with Him in all of his doctrines. I am a Materialist; He takes the side of Spiritualism. He preaches the efficacy of repentence toward forgiveness of sins; I require a counterpoise of good works to redeem it, etc., etc. It is the innocence of His character, the purity and sublimity of His moral precepts, the eloquence of His inculcations, the beauty of the apologies in which He conveys them, that I so much admire; sometimes, indeed, needing indulgence to eastern hyperbolism.

    “My eulogies, too, may be founded on a postulate which all may not be ready to grant. Among the sayings and discources imputed to Him by His biographers, I find many passages of fine imagination, correct morality, and of the most lovely benevolence; and others, again, of so much ignorance, so much absurdity, so much untruth, charlatanism and imposture, as to pronounce it impossible that such contradictions should have proceeded from the same Being.

    “I separate, therefore, the gold from the dross; restore to Him the former, and leave the latter to the stupidity of some, and roguery of others of His disciples.”

    –Thomas Jefferson, letter to Van der Kemp, 1820

    The Jefferson Bible”


  68. Marie says:

    Mean-spirited and bigoted. Those who boast that they are “christian” are the ones who are the least charitable. They are cold authoritarian and judgmental.
    They are the pharisees of modern day.
    Clergy have opposed this legislation, and even advised disobeyance of the law — it is that harmful and unkind.


  69. Cohaus Bash says:

    I am a Democrat and although no fan of the Hialry for President campaign (that is a guaranteed loser for the Dems in 2008), many Anglicans I know — who do live and breathe the Scripture (unlike me) — have strongy impressed upon me that Hilary’s Christianity is for real and as bone fide as it comes. Moreover, this predates her formal entry into politics by decades — in other words, she didn’t just see the light on the campaign trail or, for that matter, after one too many DWIs. In other words, Tancredo is simply an asshole.


  70. Jack says:

    Hilliary Clinton is one of the worse things to have happened to the Democratic party. And Tancredo, icks!

    Is Mexico such a hell hole that no one wants to live there?

    Doesn’t Mexico have national pride, that they would want to serve their own country and make it better?

    Wasn’t NAFTA suppose to fix everything?


  71. Marie says:

    #51, Katy,
    It is my impression that undocumented workers pay into the Soc. Sec. system through their paychecks, but they are not able to collect benefits. It is only documented workers that can receive benefits.
    I think the woman you encountered at the polls was conflating undocumented with documented – she put all Mexicans in one basket, so to speak.


  72. Spudge_Boy says:

    Not doubting your facts so much as looking to compile information, so please don’t take my next question as a challenge. Do you have a link or some other context for your stats?

    I have no problem giving links. The $87 billion comes from a story on immigration that aired on NPR. Problem is their stuff is hard to search, because it is an audio file with a short discription. Let me find it.

    In the mean time, here is a different article that states Mexican totals only, but the Mexicans aren’t the only ones sending money out of the country.

    The Arizona Republic
    March 16, 2006

    Those migrants send a torrent of money to their families. Mexicans in the United States alone sent home some $20 billion in 2005, up from $6.6 billion just five years ago.


  73. TLB says:

    Prof. Marcus (#2 above) will correct me if I’m wrong, but didn’t the Denver Post collaborate with the Mexican consulate on that wonderful “human interest story” well before Tancredo got involved?

    Wasn’t the Mexican consulate in fact using that paper to spread foreign propaganda to Americans?

    As for the post, I really don’t think Mahoney is qualified to either construct immigration policy or interpret legal documents. The bill says the aid has to be given recklessly or knowingly.

    Further, Mahoney’s position is deeply immoral: his position encourages illegal immigration and makes a bad situation worse.


  74. Paul in LA says:

    SIX MAJOR TERRORIST PLOTS A YEAR FROM WHITE SUPREMACISTS.

    NONE FROM MEXICANS.

    The enemy you fear looks JUST LIKE YOU.

    Since Mexicans have worked at next to no pay for four centuries in California, they earned a humane immigration and guest worker program.

    But the white supremacists are afraid of their skin and their culture.

    That’s why they build bombs and conspire to blow up our cities. WHITE SUPREMACISTS are the enemy to fear, not Arabs, and certainly not Mexicans.

    One million people march in Los Angeles, and not a single reported crime.

    These people are gold.


  75. theroachman says:

    #77. Not really. Quick time line: INS threatens to deport the kid. Denver Post reports this. And ask the Mexican Consulate for its input for the story. Tancredo then gets mad and says deport the kid. Denver Post opinion pages calls out tancredo for the racist that he is. Then a Good Samaritan steps forward and picks up future college cost. Thus tancredo says toss the Good Samaritan in jail.


  76. Paul in Mexico says:

    #37-kATY

    The flyer you referred to is an anti immigration stunt. By saying that all illegal aliens get SS the woman is spouting the puke tancredo line.

    If they pay into the system, they can get money out of the system, however, most of the illegals work for wages under the table, pay no taxes, do not pay into SS. So, they get nothing.

    A big scam in the states operated by ADM and others is to have the illegal fill out W-2 form and then not send them in. They then deduct from the $5 an hour they pay them income tax and other taxes, but do not send the money in. So, in effect, they are getting the guys work for $4 an hour.

    ADM, a strong Bush supporter, has thousands of sub-contractors who pull the above scam on illegals.

    By the way Katy, I am from a small coal mining town in Southern Illinois.

    #57 BLAH

    Your name fits you perfectly. I am an ultra-liberal, do not want SS changed because there is nothing wrong with it if Bush would stop his quarterly raids on the money sent into the system.

    What I am saying in my post is this. Why in the hell would the US government make my wife jump thru hoops in order to get my benefits that I have earned? Why would they set up barriers in an effort to keep women like my wife from fulfilling the obligations to collect benefits.

    I talaked with a woman who has been trying for 7 years to get a visa or passport or something to get into the states but is turned down routinely. I googled the matter and found hundreds more.

    WHY?


  77. NVmojo says:

    I have never been impressed with this man. He’s an all out racist and destroyer of public lands.
    He reminds me of these right wing fundies who believe they have the supreme right to dominate people less fortunate then them and to destroy the planet before they get raptured into oblivion.

    He wouldn’t recognize Jesus today if he was standing in front of him.


  78. Matthew J. Price says:

    #20

    I’d beg to differ. One’s religious faith may be personal but it is seldom private. When it comes to Christianity, the Radical Right gets it wrong, but sadly the Secular Left doesn’t get it.


  79. Davis X. Machina says:

    Seems to me that someone whose last name ends in a vowel might be a little more tolerant of folks with immigration/emigration issues…

    A Republican is someone who can’t drive by a treehouse without fantasizing about pulling up the ladder…


  80. Blah says:

    #57 BLAH

    Your name fits you perfectly. I am an ultra-liberal, do not want SS changed because there is nothing wrong with it if Bush would stop his quarterly raids on the money sent into the system.

    What I am saying in my post is this. Why in the hell would the US government make my wife jump thru hoops in order to get my benefits that I have earned? Why would they set up barriers in an effort to keep women like my wife from fulfilling the obligations to collect benefits.

    I talaked with a woman who has been trying for 7 years to get a visa or passport or something to get into the states but is turned down routinely. I googled the matter and found hundreds more.

    WHY?

    Comment by Paul in Mexico

    There is Paul in LA, whom I know is a liberal and I thought there was a Paul in Mexico here for awhile that WAS a conservative, past tense, as many people NOW are. If that’s not you, my apologies. I wouldn’t expect you to admit it if you were. In any case, the cost of living in Mexico is quite less then the cost of living here. Other than that, I have no answer for you besides mexico should have it’s own Social Security system just like ours, or better. Every country should. You almost sounded like you would prefer to privatize it.


  81. Blah says:

    #20

    I’d beg to differ. One’s religious faith may be personal but it is seldom private. When it comes to Christianity, the Radical Right gets it wrong, but sadly the Secular Left doesn’t get it.

    Comment by Matthew J. Price — March 26, 2006 @ 4:40 pm

    There is no “secular left”, you moron. I’ll agree with Abby in #20 and ask you to walk your dog-eared GOP/factor talking points outside. We don’t want them crapping up the place in here.


  82. Fay L. Delk says:

    The Mosaic Law clearly states over and over again “There is to be one law and one ordinance for you and for the alien who sojourns with you” (Numbers 15:16) because the people of Israel were aliens in other lands.


  83. Mary59 says:

    GOP gruesome old Pharisees
    A humane immigration policy: use political pressure to “encourage” Mexican & other corrupt governments to reform, offer equitable treatment to all their citizens, encourage land reform, small business, etc.

    The flood of illegal immigrants will only stop when their home countries have something to offer besides poverty and oppression.

    The fact is now: a cheap labor force of illegals is DESIRED ABOVE ALL by agri-biz & other industries who are big Republican donors. They spew their anti-immigrant hate while depending upon illegals to lower their costs.

    Another fact: illegals pay taxes. They have social security tax taken from their paychecks and cannot claim any benefits because they are illegal. The ignorant rant about them sucking our economy dry; they don’t know that their presence here encouraged by the rich; they are exploited; they do pay taxes. The services that they get are offset by what they pay in, I’ll betcha.


  84. Blah says:

    Funny, I would be surprised if you get the nerve to deport anyone, much less me, remember, you would be going against your leader, Clinton. You may be blinded about what mass immigration with no assimilation does to a country, but you’ll see.

    I’d rather just shoot all conservatives and Republicans. I’m an “evil, secular, socialist, leftist like Hitler” (sarcasm off), but I’ll settle for deporting your kind until we get around to the final solution. Neither Clinton is my “leader”, far too centrist for me, and you can have Feinstein, you moron. She’s no Democrat, except in the Zel Miller sense.

    Its nice to see some people in CA are not as stupid as they show in the news. Well, at least two, you and Senator. Feinstein. Thank God there is one elected person in the Democratic party who actually looks out for AMERICAN low wage jobs. Seems like everyone else this this party has sold out the working class man for cheap votes. God, I might have to vote Republican!!!! Damn that will hurt, but at least i’ll have a job and still get to speak English. Until they ship my job overseas! Or ship in cheap labor to replace me !!

    Comment by David

    You are incredibly ignorant, and just the kind of person that would be swayed by Hitler in Germany in the 30s, or anywhere else crypto and proto-fascist demagogues could use immigrant scapegoating to put one past you. Hey! You voted for Bush, didn’t you? I rest my case. You have a low paying job because you are a schmuck who votes for schmucks who serve your corporate masters, not because immigrants come here and take jobs you don’t want, not because of the low work, but because of the low wage. I’d pick cotton for 30/per hour. Why do you think garbagemen make more than teachers. And useless shills and con men like Ken Lay and GOP K street criminals make the really big bucks.


  85. Howard in Ohio says:

    For # 39: He represents Metro-Denver in an area that used to be all rural. He may be vulnerable now that the demography is changing then again this is from his congressional web site:
    The 6th Congressional District is centered on Centennial, Littleton and Douglas County — which until the 1970s was a sparsely-populated patch near the foothills just east of the Front Range. In the 1990s, it was the fastest-growing county in the United States, as young families moved into 35-acre “ranchettes” or subdivisions around Castle Rock and Parker just south of the Denver Tech Center. To the west, it includes much of Jefferson County, including part of the mountain communities of Evergreen and Park County. To the east, it goes through much of Arapahoe County and lightly-settled Elbert County. Most of this area is open but developing as the Colorado economy speeds up.

    Two generations ago, most people in metro Denver lived in the city itself and its tree-shaded sidewalks. Today, three-quarters of metro Denver residents live outside the city in suburbs and subdivisions raised up in the 1990’s on bare rolling land with magnificent views of the Rocky Mountains.


  86. Aaron says:

    Hi. While I think that no politician should reference the Bible, for they often misquote it, they are both using it for their own gain. They reference the Bible, knowing they fully violate it’s teachings on a regular basis. Both the Democratic and Republican parties are guilty of this, and I pray one day that a savior of our own (political savior that is) who is an independent or third party will put this kind of stuff to rest.

    The public as a whole (that includes me) refuse to act. We deserve everything we get. Not voting to keep your conscience clear isn’t a safe thing to do. If you vote for Hillary OR Tancredo, that makes you just another part of the problem, in my opinion.

    I say screw the whole world, take our money and investments in other countries home, bring our troops home, put them on the border, invest in our OWN children, and until every American mouth has been fed, and educated, and able have make a living on their own. THEN we can be a GOOD SAMARITAN to other people.

    Any public official that votes ‘Yea’ to dedicating funds and other resources to other nations should be voted out of office.

    Ok, end of rant. Have a good day!


  87. Jana Lane says:

    How can illegal immigrants pay Social Security taxes when they don’t have a Social Security number? I would like to see a detailed economic analysis of the consequences, for the United States of the twenty billion dollars a year sent to Mexico by Mexicans working in the United States. Also, George Bush said that illegal immigrants are taking jobs that Americans won’t do. What are these jobs: roofing, painting, working in the meat packing industry, or what? I would like to see a list of such jobs, and know the origin of the list. George Bush should have told us that.


  88. Dave in NYC says:

    So you’d go back and toss out all the writings of Tom Paine, ML King, William Lord Garrison, and nearly every other effective public speaker for reform in US history?

    No, I wouldn’t. But those men were also not government officials, and they lived in a different time than we do now.

    But I would remind you that religion was invoked on the other side of all of those issues as well. And Paine, from what I understand, was an outspoken critic of organized religion and the scriptures.


  89. Willy says:

    Such vile hypocrisy by the right wing. They torture and kill Iraqis without a thought. They’re racist and full of hate. They want to make being a good samaritan a crime. The Christian right in reality is anti-Christian and have turned Christianity upside down. If Jesus were alive today, they would lock him in Gitmo and throw away the key. They haven’t a clue as to what real Christians are.


  90. Mary59 says:

    #91
    Here’s one way that illegals pay taxes without a social security number:
    http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2003/04/14/politics/main549153.shtml

    illegals also pay other taxes, they purchase from our stores, they pay tolls, excise taxes. When they go to doctors & hospitals they pay full price, thus with other poor people subsidizing those who have health insurance.

    They earn low wages so that the food you eat costs you less money.

    Their employers deduct taxes from their pay checks; the government collects this money but the illegal worker does not GET a tax return at the end of the year.

    I REALLY have a wish dream that those who rail against illegal immigrants could walk a mile in their shoes. Or perhaps talk with their own ancestors who came here poor and “wretched refuse” from other shores.


  91. Clif says:

    Republicans own the ‘Jesus’ franchise. They bought it back in the early 80’s. Nothing pisses off a Republican more than a Democrat who imfringes on their trademark.

    Comment by Innocent Bystander — March 26, 2006 @ 12:32 pm

    Obviously another loan from the Rev. Moon to the religious right………wonder what he asks for in exchange for all he “gives” them?


  92. Gerald Gibson says:

    What does the bible know! It was probably written by a bunch of limp wristed commie leftwing moonbats.


  93. Paul in LA says:

    Isn’t it funny that the Bible is always linked to illegal immigration?

    That’s because they are BOTH racist ‘issues.’ The Bible is CHOCKFULL of racism.

    It shares that state with the Torah (of course) and the Koran (donchaknow).

    Loads of racism, piles and piles of jingoist propaganda about who is, and who isn’t, blessed.

    What plenty of people like about Jesus is that he appears to be arguing for the elimination not of immigrants, but the elimination of BIGOTRY.

    Now THAT is a revolutionary message — one the Thomas Jefferson EMBRACED with both hands, partly at the request of John Adams.

    How many Republican Christians will EVER sweep the house and find the piece of silver which they lost? How many have any chance of EVER finding what they have thrown out in order to embrace INTOLERANCE, and the pride of having so much silver their Mexican maid has to sweep up the fallen pieces, because they can’t be bothered to bend?

    Find a RIGID CHRISTIAN, and you have found someone who has NEVER met Jesus. No humility, just dogma on top of dogma, hatred on top of hatred, rationalization and excuse on top of rationalization and excuse.

    RIGID CHRISTIANS BREAK right where they need to bend. Too bad for them.


  94. troll says:

    Blah
    If “Rational” Deism allows owning another human being and rape as Jefferson was known to have done Ill take my theism any day.


  95. troll says:

    A man has a right to defend his home and a nation has a right to defend its borders.

    The Bible verse describing how to treat a foreigner most likely assumes that person was there lawfully and is a poor defense of the liberal position. If any of you has a better reference Id like to hear it.


  96. Amazing says:

    I stumbled on this board while doing a good search to read what Hillary actually said. I also wanted to know the parameters of the bill in which she directed the comment. After getting my answers, I would agree that Hillary is right in this case. Outlawing even basic aid would be contradictory to the teachings of Christ.

    I would say that I am probably as conservative as you can get and I am a Christian. I was shocked and saddened to read this page. It is full of hypocrisy, stereotypes and hate. Which strangely are the very things, which seem to enrage you about Christians.

    Many of you will stop reading this at some point because it challenges what you believe in and you are uncomfortable with challenge. Many of you will call me a name or claim that I am ignorant without you yourself finding credible material to back your own accusations. However, I write this for those that will read it to the end. Not necessarily because I feel that, those people will change everything that they believe in instantly. Instead, my goal is to expose them to what I believe is a viewpoint that their “tolerant” circle of friends would say is ignorant so that they do not have to refute it on its merits.

    I am not going come on here and say that all people who say that they are Christians are good people or that they all do good things. The foundation of the Christian faith is realizing that we all of sin and fallen short of the glory of God. However, through the grace of Jesus and our belief in him, we are saved. For this reason when a Christian sins it doesn’t necessarily follow that that person is a hypocrite (though some Christians are. Just like there are non-Christian hypocrites.) Nevertheless, those who misunderstand or have different agendas throw the hypocrite label on Christians far too often. Christians know that sin is inevitable and that Jesus was and is the only person that will ever live a sin free life.

    Christians are judged harshly because we are lead by God to walk a path that is perfectly straight and free of sin. People mistakenly confuse this goal as Christian is viewing themselves as Holy and without sin. Ignorance to our beliefs makes our sin seem like the ultimate in hypocrisy and so we are discounted.

    So what is the point? The point is that the Bible marks the path for us to follow even though through immaturity and the pursuit of self we will often stray from the path of righteousness. The path is best followed by denying self, and by letting God dictate what is best for our lives through his Word. Liberals possess many of the actions valued by God in abundance. The Republican’s do not have a monopoly on God but there are some clear instances where the Democratic Party has strayed from righteousness.

    I believe that the Bible is the word of God. It was written by man but it was 100% God inspired. The Bible does consist of an Old and a New Testament and it is my belief that the New Testament and the teachings of Jesus free us from the old law and extends to us God’s grace. Both Christians and non-Christians can use individual verses from the Bible for their purpose but the validity of the Bible is at its highest when kept in context.

    Now by this time some of you will have obviously found some of the things that I have said to be laughable and/or out right ridiculous. I would say that it is a matter of faith and a matter of perspective. You have all made decision on what you believe to be true. However, I can point to as many areas of your beliefs that appear just as ridiculous to me.

    The big bang for instance contradicts the first The First Law of Thermodynamics. I will not get into this in detail because I can point you to a site that can do it much better than I can using scientific principles. If you read the article through you will see that your science fails you. To believe that science currently has pointed us in all the correct directions would be clearing ignoring history. At no time in history has science ever stood the test of time (world being flat, human flight impossible, etc.

    This has already gotten longer than it should have but I want to leave you with some thoughts. Christians do believe that some actions are morally wrong. Those in the world of tolerance would argue against such moral stands and paint Christians as bigoted or close-minded. I would pose that these “tolerant” people are then only truly tolerant of people who believe in the same things that they do because they are intolerant to intolerance that does not fit their criteria.

    As long as we stay polarized, it seems that American will forever be trapped in a circular logic cycle. I chose Christ. Some people lose their credibility is lost when they do not tolerate people’s right to draw their own moral lines. Christians are able to separate sin from the sinner since it is at the core of our faith. Christians sin as well and so we must only hate the sin that burdens our entire race. However, we recognize in our faith that there are some actions that have been judged as undesirable and thus sin by God. This is what often has our atheistic counterparts crying that we are intolerant bigots. Again, I argue that it is now again only a matter of perspective. Everyone draws his or her own moral line in the sand somewhere. Just because Christians believe that certain acts are immoral that “tolerant people do not why is it nobler to not judge actions as sinful and choose to discriminate against people who have concrete beliefs? Is the idea of tolerance truly tolerance? Alternatively, is it only tolerant to people who conform to its dogma that are allowed to do thing that they perceive as right and just.

    I have included passages from Romans below. They are not intended to attack but instead to show the human perspective of Christianity that is often lost.

    Paul writes in
    Romans 7:14-25

    14I can anticipate the response that is coming: “I know that all God’s commands are spiritual, but I’m not. Isn’t this also your experience?” Yes. I’m full of myself–after all, I’ve spent a long time in sin’s prison. 15What I don’t understand about myself is that I decide one way, but then I act another, doing things I absolutely despise. 16So if I can’t be trusted to figure out what is best for myself and then do it, it becomes obvious that God’s command is necessary.

    17But I need something more! For if I know the law but still can’t keep it, and if the power of sin within me keeps sabotaging my best intentions, I obviously need help! 18I realize that I don’t have what it takes. I can will it, but I can’t do it. 19I decide to do good, but I don’t really do it; I decide not to do bad, but then I do it anyway. 20My decisions, such as they are, don’t result in actions. Something has gone wrong deep within me and gets the better of me every time.

    21It happens so regularly that it’s predictable. The moment I decide to do good, sin is there to trip me up. 22I truly delight in God’s commands, 23but it’s pretty obvious that not all of me joins in that delight. Parts of me covertly rebel, and just when I least expect it, they take charge.

    24I’ve tried everything and nothing helps. I’m at the end of my rope. Is there no one who can do anything for me? Isn’t that the real question?

    25The answer, thank God, is that Jesus Christ can and does. He acted to set things right in this life of contradictions where I want to serve God with all my heart and mind, but am pulled by the influence of sin to do something totally different.
    Romans 8
    The Solution Is Life on God’s Terms
    1With the arrival of Jesus, the Messiah, that fateful dilemma is resolved. Those who enter into Christ’s being-here-for-us no longer have to live under a continuous, low-lying black cloud. 2A new power is in operation. The Spirit of life in Christ, like a strong wind, has magnificently cleared the air, freeing you from a fated lifetime of brutal tyranny at the hands of sin and death.

    3God went for the jugular when he sent his own Son. He didn’t deal with the problem as something remote and unimportant. In his Son, Jesus, he personally took on the human condition, entered the disordered mess of struggling humanity in order to set it right once and for all. The law code, weakened as it always was by fractured human nature, could never have done that.

    The law always ended up being used as a Band-Aid on sin instead of a deep healing of it. 4And now what the law code asked for but we couldn’t deliver is accomplished as we, instead of redoubling our own efforts, simply embrace what the Spirit is doing in us.

    5Those who think they can do it on their own end up obsessed with measuring their own moral muscle but never get around to exercising it in real life. Those who trust God’s action in them find that God’s Spirit is in them–living and breathing God! 6Obsession with self in these matters is a dead end; attention to God leads us out into the open, into a spacious, free life. 7Focusing on the self is the opposite of focusing on God. Anyone completely absorbed in self ignores God, ends up thinking more about self than God. That person ignores who God is and what he is doing. 8And God isn’t pleased at being ignored.

    9But if God himself has taken up residence in your life, you can hardly be thinking more of yourself than of him. Anyone, of course, who has not welcomed this invisible but clearly present God, the Spirit of Christ, won’t know what we’re talking about. 10But for you who welcome him, in whom he dwells–even though you still experience all the limitations of sin–you yourself experience life on God’s terms. 11It stands to reason, doesn’t it, that if the alive-and-present God who raised Jesus from the dead moves into your life, he’ll do the same thing in you that he did in Jesus, bringing you alive to himself? When God lives and breathes in you (and he does, as surely as he did in Jesus), you are delivered from that dead life. With his Spirit living in you, your body will be as alive as Christ’s!

    12So don’t you see that we don’t owe this old do-it–yourself life one red cent. 13There’s nothing in it for us, nothing at all. The best thing to do is give it a decent burial and get on with your new life. 14God’s Spirit beckons. There are things to do and places to go!

    15This resurrection life you received from God is not a timid, grave-tending life. It’s adventurously expectant, greeting God with a childlike “What’s next, Papa?” 16God’s Spirit touches our spirits and confirms who we really are. We know who he is, and we know who we are: Father and children. 17And we know we are going to get what’s coming to us–an unbelievable inheritance! We go through exactly what Christ goes through. If we go through the hard times with him, then we’re certainly going to go through the good times with him! 18That’s why I don’t think there’s any comparison between the present hard times and the coming good times. 19The created world itself can hardly wait for what’s coming next. 20Everything in creation is being more or less held back. God reins it in 21until both creation and all the creatures are ready and can be released at the same moment into the glorious times ahead. Meanwhile, the joyful anticipation deepens.

    22All around us we observe a pregnant creation. The difficult times of pain throughout the world are simply birth pangs. But it’s not only around us; it’s within us. The Spirit of God is arousing us within. We’re also feeling the birth pangs. 23These sterile and barren bodies of ours are yearning for full deliverance. 24That is why waiting does not diminish us, any more than waiting diminishes a pregnant mother. We are enlarged in the waiting. We, of course, don’t see what is enlarging us. 25But the longer we wait, the larger we become, and the more joyful our expectancy.

    26Meanwhile, the moment we get tired in the waiting, God’s Spirit is right alongside helping us along. If we don’t know how or what to pray, it doesn’t matter. He does our praying in and for us, making prayer out of our wordless sighs, our aching groans. 27He knows us far better than we know ourselves, knows our pregnant condition, and keeps us present before God. 28That’s why we can be so sure that every detail in our lives of love for God is worked into something good.

    29God knew what he was doing from the very beginning. He decided from the outset to shape the lives of those who love him along the same lines as the life of his Son. The Son stands first in the line of humanity he restored. We see the original and intended shape of our lives there in him. 30After God made that decision of what his children should be like, he followed it up by calling people by name. After he called them by name, he set them on a solid basis with himself. And then, after getting them established, he stayed with them to the end, gloriously completing what he had begun.

    31So, what do you think? With God on our side like this, how can we lose? 32If God didn’t hesitate to put everything on the line for us, embracing our condition and exposing himself to the worst by sending his own Son, is there anything else he wouldn’t gladly and freely do for us? 33And who would dare tangle with God by messing with one of God’s chosen? 34Who would dare even to point a finger? The One who died for us–who was raised to life for us!-is in the presence of God at this very moment sticking up for us. 35Do you think anyone is going to be able to drive a wedge between us and Christ’s love for us? There is no way! Not trouble, not hard times, not hatred, not hunger, not homelessness, not bullying threats, not backstabbing, not even the worst sins listed in Scripture:

    36They kill us in cold blood because they hate you.

    We’re sitting ducks; they pick us off one by one.

    37None of this fazes us because Jesus loves us. 38I’m absolutely convinced that nothing–nothing living or dead, angelic or demonic, today or tomorrow, 39high or low, thinkable or unthinkable–absolutely nothing can get between us and God’s love because of the way that Jesus our Master has embraced us.


  97. Clif says:

    The big bang for instance contradicts the first The First Law of Thermodynamics.

    You show your ignorance of Physics because ‘relativity theroy’ states all laws are relative and each law of physics will fail if taken to the extreme as in a black hole or in the instance of the big bang.

    Christianity…(has become) the most perverted system that ever shone on man. …Rogueries, absurdities and untruths were perpetrated upon the teachings of Jesus by a large band of dupes and importers led by Paul, the first great corrupter of the teaching of Jesus.
    …Thomas Jefferson


  98. Clif says:

    The big bang for instance contradicts the first The First Law of Thermodynamics.

    Comment by Amazing — March 26, 2006 @ 11:33 pm

    The First Law of Thermodynamics asserts that matter or its energy equivalent can neither be created nor destroyed under natural circumstances.(Quoted from your own website)

    Since the Big Bang is a one time occurance in the 14 billion year history of the universe as we know it, I for one would postulate it is not a natural circumstances, but an unnatural occurance that exists outside the space-time continuance and as such outside the limits of the laws based on that space-time continuance……..


  99. TLB says:

    #79: I tend to trust the timeline here:

    http://www.vdare.com/guzzardi/tancredo.htm

    I find it extraordinarily difficult to believe that the INS was ever threatening to deport Apodaca, although that might be a possibility.

    As I mentioned above, stopping illegal immigration is actually the humanitarian choice. Those who present continuing illegal immigration as the humanitarian choice really have no clue. Perhaps they’re more concerned with saving 10 cents on the price of a head of lettuce or something.

    As for the march, this photo shows at a glance what its supporters really believe.

    The Georgia version of the march was organized by a former Mexican government official.

    I’m sure that’s going to play real good in Peoria.


  100. Cyra Brown says:

    #100-Amazing, that was quite the post. I am sure your beliefs bring you great comfort. Good for you. But I would like to address your statement.
    “at no time in history has science ever stood the test of time (world being flat, human flight impossible, etc.” Were you being serious?!? If you were, I feel that you should stick to sharing your religious beliefs, and leave science to the scientists. The belief that the world was flat was NEVER a scientific theory. It was a belief held by the ignorant and the fearful, and disproved by those who refused to accept that as “the gospel”. Human flight impossible? It still is, as far as I know. But those with imagination found a way to accomodate the human limitations, and made machines that were capable of flight, operated by humans. Neither of your examples are representative of scientific beliefs. But both were probably firm beliefs of those who undoubtedly believed in God. In the spirit of just trying to share knowledge with each other, I appreciate your “sharing”, but I do not share your belief system. I do feel that whatever fulfills your needs is great, for you. But I have to draw the line at misrepresentation of “scientific beliefs” coming from a person with such a strong religious backround. It could predjudice your “impartiality”, regarding things that threaten your faith. But good luck to you.


  101. Paul in LA says:

    “If “Rational” Deism allows owning another human being and rape as Jefferson was known to have done Ill take my theism any day.” –troll

    • There is no evidence that Thomas Jefferson ever ‘raped’ anyone. Or had sex with any of his slaves, or for that matter anyone but his one wife — NONE.

    • Thomas Jefferson owned slaves because he received them in his wive’s brother’s Will. And the law in Virginia and elsewhere required freed slaves to LEAVE THE STATE, so they would be vulnerable to reenslavement, violence, and bigotry if “freed.” There is no evidence that Jefferson maltreated these slaves — on the contrary, they probably lived fairly pleasant lives under the circumstances.

    THE RIGHT WING HAS BEEN SLANDERING JEFFERSON SINCE DAY ONE. They’re the Purple Heart Bandaid boys and girls who don’t give a damn about America. They just want to make money.

    Money’s more important than the truth — just ask any Republican.


  102. Paul in LA says:

    Oh, and,

    RESISTANCE TO TYRANNY IS LOVE OF GOD.

    –Thomas Jefferson’s preferred Official Motto of the Untited States of America.


  103. Casey Morris says:

    Comment by Amazing — March 26, 2006 @ 11:33 pm

    Hmm. I think you underestimate the people on this board when you state that you don’t think they will read your post to the end. Most people here are Progressives or Democrats. We like education and reading. I think you have us confused with Republicans. We don’t ban books. We read them. Even the bible.

    And it is my education in science that leads me to educate you in the difference between science and belief, which is why creationism or intelligent design are not scientific theories, for example.

    In order to be a theory, something has to be, by scientific definition, capable of being proven or disproven, by proving or disproving the opposite. Since you can neither prove nor disprove the existence of God, both Creationism and iIntelligent Design, are not theories. They are BELIEFS.

    Here’s the sticky part. I don’t think I should have to operate according to your set of beliefs, any more than I think you should have to operate under mine. And the Christians you speak of seem like some mighty interesting folks, but what about all of those other folks that call themselves Christians, but who in fact, would be quite far from your description of Christian. Are you the arbiter of all that is Christian? Of the true, one and only Christianity? Of the one and only interpretation of the The Word?

    And fortunately for us, we have the Constitution which both envisioned and managed that problem quite well. Freedom OF religion is freedom FROM religion.

    If you could convince the folks on your side of the bible to leave me and mine alone, I’d appreciate it.

    Thanks.


  104. Danny in TX says:

    Tancredo should have called Hillary out as dishonest and partisan on the issue of immigration.

    I agree with President Bush that the debate should be civil. Hillary’s comments were not.


  105. Evil Spaniard says:

    #101 The big bang for instance contradicts the first The First Law of Thermodynamics. I will not get into this in detail because I can point you to a site that can do it much better than I can using scientific principles. If you read the article through you will see that your science fails you. To believe that science currently has pointed us in all the correct directions would be clearing ignoring history. At no time in history has science ever stood the test of time (world being flat, human flight impossible, etc.

    You only demonstrate that you don’t know enough physics to discuss about it. Ordinary laws (the ones who we experience first hand daily) are a SUBSET of the great set of physics laws in the Universe, past and present, and explain things as are right now. Not in the same moment of the Big Bang, but microseconds after, when the Four fundamental forces began to act separately. Anyways, science is working today to formulate the formulaes to unify the four forces. Don’t “invent”, but “explain” how they unify themselves. What means this? No one knows how was “it” before the Big Bang, when the Universe as we know it. We don’t know if Thermodynamics even existed before the Big Bang.

    How so? Simply, the humanity is too primitive as of now to know it. Scientifics are working right now to demonstrate the link between the four forces. They have demostrated the link between three of the four forces (see the article up here) and, at the same time, with every discovery, they are able to go back some microseconds to the Big Bang instant. But it’s hard work. To demonstrate and observate thinks like they were in the very begining, they need each time more and more powerful tools (think of the CERN’s cyclotron in Ginebra, a 37-kilometer circular tunnel, designed to clash elemental particles and photograph submichroscopic particles who exist only for microseconds).

    You don’t understand me? Just another example: The Law of Gravity as it was written down by Newton. Pretty simple, and understandable. But when the Theory of the Relativity was formuled by Einstein, two centuries later, and he corrected the Newton’s assertions. Why? Because physics change, or is a matter or opinion? NO. No way. Correctly formulated physics don’t change over time. Simply, Newton lived from 1643 to 1727. He had no appropiate tools to measure exactly the gravity force and effects in the Universe, and came with the better measures he had. Einstein only estates that, when Universal forces and distance come into effect, the “simplification” represented by Newton’s law, must be somewhat corrected, because the error margin matters in those enormous distances.

    But we use Newton’s law willingly in our everyday life, to measure ballistic, airplane and other mechanical problems daily, because is fairly accurate for “little” sistems as sub-sub-luminic speeds and tiny masses, as one of a car or a plane.

    And back in the middle age flat earth was more about “believing” than “thinking”. The ones “believing” in a flat earth, were stuck with the religious books instead of sticking with real science. Pythagoras in ancient Greece wrote already of a round earth, and Claudius Ptolemy demonstrated it with measures taken in a voyage from peninsular Greece to Aegypt. And was alse studied by none other than Plato.

    And the ones thinking that humans must not flight were the ones who believed that God would not permit to fly humans, if the humans were not gifted with wings by god. As Galileo demostrated in many drawings, he was studying flying. The only con is that he had nor the physics and materials needed to make a valid flying machine.

    And for the science ever stood the test of time,

    a**2 =b**2 + c**2,

    where a is the hypotenuse length, and b and c are the other sides of a right triangle. ** stands for “powered to”.

    Moron.


  106. B.Pisapia says:

    Tancredo should read the legislation,specifically Section 202.
    Then again most elected morons do nor read anything they vote on.


  107. Charlie says:

    I really don’t think that Tarncredo nor Frist are going about this issue the right way at all.


  108. Roger says:

    Sinced the Bible is so full of hate and violence you would think that this asshole would jump on the few instances of compassion being shown in the Bible. Christianity has its greatest appeal to the dumb and evil morons in this country. Tancredo is just the worst of the worst.


  109. Evil Spaniard says:

    I pity those who think that God is only about raining fire and brimstone on personal enemies. They’re only idol worshippers.


  110. Mary59 says:

    Regarding comments regarding Christianity; it would be worthwhile to look at what Jesus actually said rather than someone else interpreting what he said. It is churchianity, not Christianity that has perpetrated all kinds of evil==as the ignorant who claim to be Muslims or Hindus or any other kind of Ism that people use but don’t understand the Teachers or their words.

    The internet is the wild west. There isn’t some universal point of view on either “side.” Name calling is an excuse for not thinking things out. I am a registered Democrat now after being a registered Independent for years, because the pendulum has swung so far to contracted, rigid thinking and corporate cronism, and looks like some want a king now rather than a president.

    I am a Christian and I try to follow the golden rule. I also recognize that all world teachers basically teach the same thing. Only those who don’t want to love their neighbor like to pick apart and try to find differences.

    In this Light we should look at immigrants and immigration; from the view of loving one’s neighbor (which includes the whole world–sorry for those who would like Jesus to be as narrow and bigoted as themselves)

    I’m not talking about immigration without boundaries; but rational reasonable policies that encourage immigrants to become “legal” & pay all taxes; while pressuring the countries they are coming from to reform and create more economic opportunity.


  111. unbelievable says:

    I pity those who think that God is only about raining fire and brimstone on personal enemies. They’re only idol worshippers.

    Comment by Evil Spaniard — March 27, 2006 @ 11:20 am

    Well said. If there is a god, or gods, it (they) would be disappointed in how it is portraited by organized religions as an angry, jealous, petty, puerile big daddy in the sky.


  112. Evil Spaniard says:

    #109 Oops, I meant #100, not #101. Sorry, Cliff.


  113. Evil Spaniard says:

    #115 Thanks, Unbelievable. I can’t stand those bible thumpers who only read the “revenge” and “damnation” passages on the bible and ignore blatantly the self-sacrifice, humility, generosity (to all, not only to the ones with the same brand of church and same party tendencies).


  114. unbelievable says:

    Evil Spaniard

    Well we did have Puritans as ancestors here… and the Holy Roman Empire… as much as Jefferson, Franklin, Paine and Adams tried to seperate the church from the state, it seems that fear and ego eventually win over peace, love and understanding in this country.

    So, how’s the weather in Barcelona?


  115. Evil Spaniard says:

    #118 The weather is undecided. Officially is Spring, but last week, there were cold days (for us). But, slowly, temperatures are rising and by Semana Santa (Easter?) time, we would have enough sun to go to beach. In fact, there is already people who goes to get some tanning, but are mainly foreign tourists and spanish people who don’t fear cold weather & water.


  116. John says:

    In regard to Comment 115, you’re right, there is more than one God. Otherwise, we wouldn’t be learning about Polytheism (as opposed to Monotheism, which is also being learned).


  117. Jan says:

    And God knows I want more of my tax dollars going to warehousing more priests, nuns and samaritans.


  118. I-RIGHT-I says:

    There is no one quite as sinister and hypocritically evil as the Left Wing Unbelieving Fucktard that will quote the Bible for his own ends. I guess that “separation of church and state” thing the ratbastards are always talking about only applies to Christians. The Evil-doers can choke out a bible verse any time and any place it suits them. What would your Lord Satan say about that?


  119. MATTHEW says:

    #108,Danny,maybe you can point out to me why it is so important that eveybodys remarks be civil.I’m curious about this because it seems that is all the right ever cares about is how civil the conversation is,but there actions and legislation seem to be anything but civil and this is where civility matters the most,who gives a shit what they say.Please expound onthis cuz i’m confused.


  120. I-RIGHT-I says:

    Well said. If there is a god, or gods, it (they) would be disappointed in how it is portraited by organized religions as an angry, jealous, petty, puerile big daddy in the sky.

    Comment by unbelievable

    More likely he will rain fire and brimstone upon those that say organized religion portrays Him as such. The fact is only the Filthy Left dares to make those kind of comments.


  121. I-RIGHT-I says:

    as much as Jefferson, Franklin, Paine and Adams tried to seperate the church from the state, it seems that fear and ego eventually win over peace, love and understanding in this country.

    Comment by unbelievable

    Foolish girl. Where was the “love and peace” in Jefferson and Pain’s alternative to Christianity…the French Revolution? Of those 4 out of hundreds of “founders” only Paine thought so little of Christianity as to propose what you say the others are guilty of. He died a broken man. History is your friend, you should get to know it sometime.

    So, how’s the weather in Barcelona?

    Who cares. It’s never a nice day in the only country that was made to bow and scrape before Al Quaida.



  122. unbelievable says:

    In fact, there is already people who goes to get some tanning, but are mainly foreign tourists and spanish people who don’t fear cold weather & water.

    Comment by Evil Spaniard — March 27, 2006 @ 12:59 pm

    That will be me next week when I’m on Spring Break and we will probably get hit with a blizzard :)

    There’s a town near Barcelona Girona, I believe? When I was there (in November) the river was dried up. Do you get a lot of rain in the Spring there?


  123. unbelievable says:

    More likely he will rain fire and brimstone upon those that say organized religion portrays Him as such. The fact is only the Filthy Left dares to make those kind of comments.

    Comment by I-RIGHT-I — March 27, 2006 @ 3:26 pm

    I doubt it. No, a lot of other Christians think your brand is too demented, not just me :)


  124. unbelievable says:

    Foolish girl.

    Why because I’m willing to question everything?

    He died a broken man.

    So, can’t take it with you when you go, you know…

    History is your friend, you should get to know it sometime.

    I’d say the same about Science…

    Who cares. It’s never a nice day in the only country that was made to bow and scrape before Al Quaida.

    Comment by I-RIGHT-I — March 27, 2006 @ 3:35 pm

    Spain is nicer than Tex-ass.


  125. I-RIGHT-I says:

    I doubt it. No, a lot of other Christians think your brand is too demented, not just me :)

    Comment by unbelievable

    Yep, those would be the ones that think God is this nice old man that looks like Santa Claus and that Jesus wouldn’t harm a fly. They are also the ones that don’t believe any of the traditional Christian creeds. Their new creed states, “I’m OK, you’re OK, we are all God’s children and God is Love therefore there can be no war that is right, no harsh judgment of one to another and certainly no hell. Life is a box of chocolates, you don’t always know what you’re going to get but you just know it’s going to be sweet.”


  126. unbelievable says:

    “I’m OK, you’re OK, we are all God’s children and God is Love therefore there can be no war that is right, no harsh judgment of one to another and certainly no hell. Life is a box of chocolates, you don’t always know what you’re going to get but you just know it’s going to be sweet.”

    Comment by I-RIGHT-I — March 27, 2006 @ 4:16 pm

    I wasn’t going quite that far…


  127. Wendy says:

    Ironically, I believe Hillary Clinton actually taught Sunday School — Methodist? — at some point in Arkansas. So she probably does have a nodding acquaintance with scripture. “What you do to the least of me . . .” apparently doesn’t resonate with Tancredo. What an ick.


  128. I-RIGHT-I says:

    “What you do to the least of me . . .” apparently doesn’t resonate with Tancredo. What an ick.

    Comment by Wendy

    Let’s hope your old mother doesn’t have to wait too long at the emergency room while dozens of wetbacks get their free cough syrup. My suggestion for you Left Wing Bible Thumping Fucktards is that you get your ass to Mexico and help them get their shit together so these people can stay home. Oh, and start cleaning your own toilets.


  129. RI-I-IGHT says:

    #125 And one of the many that aren’t longer in the “Coalition of the Willing”, because we saw the evil and corruption of your GOP. I’m very proud of it. But maybe you’re too busy in the barn down there in Texa$$ carrying bags of manure to know it.

    I’ve said already that the terrorist band ETA called a Cease Fire thanks to our politics? Maybe your country needs to learn a thing or two from ours.


  130. Evil Spaniard says:

    #134 Oops, I forgot to change the nickname :P

    #127 Yes, Girona is the capital of the province of the same name, and the province is one of four that forms the Catalonia Autonomous Region (think of german “landers” or swiss “cantons”). Anyhow, the river in Girona is not too wide, and probably in hot years is dry (2003 was specially scorching, there was a heat wave who killed a lot of ill and ancient people).

    But our geography is very diversified and, while at southern and eastern Spain you can have a hotter weather at Spring, in the northwest (Galicia, Basque Country), the time is far more rainy, due to the mountains and the cold wet breeze from the Atlantic ocean and Cantabric sea.


  131. Evil Spaniard says:

    #133 The same wetbacks who work at GM and assembled your Hummer to make it cheaper, thus making a redneck as you feel as if he was a really rich man?


  132. Evil Spaniard says:

    #138 Thanks, Ryan. I-REICH-I represents no problem for me. Is a funny guy. Somewhat less than Homer Simpson, but funny at all. The best joke is “Hey, guys, you appesed terrrists”, coming from a puppet for Bin Laden’s desires, as are all those tough-talking repugs.


  133. I-RIGHT-I says:

    Evil Spaniard,

    I love spain – it’s a marvelous country. You guys have some of the most fantastic musem, art collections and architecture of any country I’ve ever visited –
    Comment by Ryan Neat

    Yes they do and why not? They were the most powerful group of bandits on the glove during a time when it was honorable to rape and pillage other cultures. Today you can say Spain is a second rate third world shithole with some nice art and antiquities, mostly stolen from better people.


  134. unbelievable says:

    Anyhow, the river in Girona is not too wide, and probably in hot years is dry (2003 was specially scorching, there was a heat wave who killed a lot of ill and ancient people).

    I was there in 1998, another record heat wave that year. It’s one of the all time 5 hottest on record.

    But our geography is very diversified and, while at southern and eastern Spain you can have a hotter weather at Spring, in the northwest (Galicia, Basque Country), the time is far more rainy, due to the mountains and the cold wet breeze from the Atlantic ocean and Cantabric sea.

    Comment by Evil Spaniard — March 27, 2006 @ 6:46 pm

    We weren’t able to get any further than Barcelona due to a train strike. I was really looking forward to seeing Sevilla and Madrid.

    I agree with Ryan. And you and I have discussed this before. Antonio Gaudi was an artistic and architectural genius. Barcelona is one of my favorite cities in the world. I will definitely return.

    Thanks for the weather update :)


  135. unbelievable says:

    Today you can say Spain is a second rate third world shithole with some nice art and antiquities, mostly stolen from better people.

    Comment by I-RIGHT-I — March 28, 2006 @ 9:38 am

    No it’s not. You’re confusing it with South Tex-ass :)


  136. Evil Spaniard says:

    #140 Hmmm… let’s check IRI’s statements… “Yes they do and why not? They were the most powerful group of bandits on the glove during a time when it was honorable to rape and pillage other cultures. Today you can say Spain is a second rate third world shithole with some nice art and antiquities, mostly stolen from better people.”

    “glove”? What are glove bandits? The ones who steal at cloth shops? as Winona Ryder?

    And for the raping and pillaging, I think your country is the one doing it right now, actually. If your kind of repugs are so smart-assed, why do you repeat mistakes centuries old?

    And for the art stolen, it is mainly in the British Museum and in USA private collections. Including the antique pieces stealed from the Baghdad museum not protected by your troops, who casually were protecting the Oil Ministry. So much for raping and pillaging. A couple of british and USA soldiers got caught in eBay selling pieces from the museum, too. Google it.

    The art in our museums is mainly done by ourselves. What art have you in Tex-a$$? Have you art in Tex-a$$ at all? A hint: a cow’s skull in the wall IS NOT ART.


  137. BuffaloPundit » Blog Archive » Immig-rant says:

    [...] Senator Clinton said: “It is certainly not in keeping with my understanding of the Scripture because this bill would literally criminalize the Good Samaritan and probably even Jesus himself.” [...]


  138. I-RIGHT-I says:

    The art in our museums is mainly done by ourselves. What art have you in Tex-a$$? Have you art in Tex-a$$ at all? A hint: a cow’s skull in the wall IS NOT ART.

    Comment by Evil Spaniard

    We are very proud of our Velvet Elvis and Poker Playing Dogs. We’re also proud of the fact that our women can kick the hell out of Spanish men and look ravishing while doing it.

    But as I said you have some nice buildings (mostly inspired by the Christian faith) and once had a great leader in Franco. Other than that you’re a third world shithole living off of past glories of looters and killers and soon will lose all that when the Muslims take back their country. If you think what the Taliban did to the huge Buda’s was bad you haven’t seen anything yet. They’ll turn your great palaces and cathedrals (that you don’t use any more anyway) into shrines to the moon god. Then they’ll turn your women into harem slaves. This is what happens to atheistic communist fucktards that turn their back on God. Olé!


  139. Evil Spaniard says:

    #141 Yup. The heat waves are the main reasons we believe firmly in Global Warming (and lots of scientific evidence). They are more and more frequent as times goes by.

    And the next time you come to Spain, perhaps (and is a big perhaps, you would need to wait some years to see it), we would have already AVE (high speed train) between Barcelona and Madrid. There is already between Madrid and Seville. But I prevent you, if you think that the weather in Barcelona is scorching in August, don’t visit Seville or Madrid until September or October.

    And if you visit Seville, you’ll find great jewels of the architecture as are the Giralda, the Torre del Oro, or the Archivo General de Indias (an edifice constructed in 1572 and refurnished in 1785, to hold the archives of the administration of the Americas). The three and many others are visitable, but in some you must check for a time appointment by fax or phone.

    Search for more in the following web (in Spanish):

    Seville Monuments and Historic edifices

    Maybe, the better time for visit Seville is Easter, but is CROWDED and hotel places become very hard to find, and expensive. There is a religious festival in the whole city, and every parish marches with its Jesuschrists sculptures, depicting different scenes of the final days of Jesus. Some of these sculptures are older than the USA :)

    Many people sings “saetas” (songs of pain) to the Christ, and then the procession stops until the singer ends. This happens a lot.

    And, by the way, forget, please, all the preconceived ideas taken from Impossible Mission 2. Any ressemblance with Semana Santa in Seville is pure luck.


  140. Evil Spaniard says:

    #145 This defines you: “once had a great leader in Franco”

    Well, altough I knew always that you are a fascist bigot, you confirmed it.

    In the other hand, if mAnn Coulter is the example of a Texan woman, boy, I’m so happy that there is an Ocean between us! Not for the threat of phisical violence, but the mental one. I don’t know if my mind would support to see an ugly fascist hag like that live

    Last tought of the thread: I prefer A LOT ancient glories OVER modern miseries, as the ones your country is living right now.


  141. unbelievable says:

    They’ll turn your great palaces and cathedrals (that you don’t use any more anyway) into shrines to the moon god.

    Comment by I-RIGHT-I — March 28, 2006 @ 11:00 am

    I was thinking of the Alhambra (a hotel), Casa Mila by Gaudi (a private residence), Parc Guell by Gaudi (now a public park), or Bilbao Museum by Gehry (a museum). Not all are religious buildings.

    And besides, if they are so screwed up, why is no one flying planes into their buildings??? No, not an issue of jealousy. An issue of their government not funding or training Saddam and Osama with hard earned tax payers’ money.


  142. I-RIGHT-I says:

    And besides, if they are so screwed up, why is no one flying planes into their buildings???

    Comment by unbelievable

    No, they bombed a train station and killed a couple of hundred people. After that Spain surrendered to Al Qaida and will soon be under Sharia law. Is that what you want? How do you think you’d look wearing a black bag? I mean burka.


  143. Evil Spaniard says:

    #149 Tsk, tsk, how wrong are you, IRI.

    You talk about things you don’t understand. In fact, we booted a rightist party who only did botch after botch. The war on Iraq (against the will of the spaniard people), his imbecilic repetition of the false reasons for the war given by the corrupt USA GOP, the misidentifications of dead soldiers at the Yakolev incident, the Prestige oil spill, the corruption, the bribes, the dirty money laundering, the hidding of the truth of the bombings, the stupid lackey attitude of the ex President Aznar to Bush, the go-alone attitude of the party only contributed to the demise of the government of the Popular Party, or PP for short. And the new government only did what we wanted him to do, as soon as we asked him, ASAP in other words.

    And it only reflects the future history of Bush and the Republicans. Wait for 2006 and 2008.


  144. punk the button says:

    tancredo and hilary need to go into the hot tub …you know like tom delay’s escapades…maybe they can make out, you know, a religious , deal, meanwhile i will buy tamales from the tamale lady in my neighborhood so she can make a living, thank you, ahimsa usa


  145. I-RIGHT-I says:

    You talk about things you don’t understand.
    Comment by Evil Spaniard

    Nonsense, I understand perfectly. The Muslim headchoppers attacked and told you to get our of Iraq and you followed orders. You new Spainairds are an embarrasment to the fighting men that lie in your graveyards.


  146. Evil Spaniard says:

    #152 And you, personally, IRI, are fighting Al Qaeda how exactly?


  147. Mahkno says:

    Unless you are actually from Peoria, STFU up about how it will play here. You don’t know!!

    This real Peorian is all for amnesty and liberalizing immigration.


  148. pissed off american says:

    Tancredo for President!


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    I live across the street from a house with wall to wall matresses, in MASSACHUSETTS. They are all illegals, thy sexually harrass girls as young as 7 while drinking hard liquor out of a bag in the middle of the street.

    All over the country small towns are waking up to mattress houses, and finding out that the lone factory in thier town is now ony hiring illegals. Meanwhile the illegal’s anchor babies are getting free school lunches, the men are taking the precious jobs, withholding the maximum, then never filing taxes.

    And if you so much as make note of it, your labelled a racist.

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