Comments on: Colorado lawmaker defends calling immigrants ‘illiterate peasants.’

By: Democrat Soldier

Democrat Soldier — Wed, 23 Apr 2008 11:12:19 +0000

Looks like my post to Daryll was removed.

Could it have been that Daryll was upset by me telling the truth about him lying, which is a sin? Could that be why he apparantly hit the “report abuse” button to remove my post?

For those that are wondering, I simply stated that Daryll would have to beg God’s forgiveness for lying and saying the Bush Administration didn’t have any acts of treason. When they outed an undercover CIA agent, Bush’s own father said that was an act of treason.

Then again, Daryll refuses to practice what he preaches because he’s not the type of person to whom he preaches.

By: lokywoky

lokywoky — Wed, 23 Apr 2008 05:54:25 +0000

About picking in the fields – I used to work in the food processing industry – a large cooperative owned by farmers who grew “labor-intensive” crops that were not amenable to machine picking. One year they decided to try the “get Americans to pick the crops” routine since it was another of those cycles of “blame the migrants for everything wrong in this country”. It lasted for about 10 days. The farmers scoured the employment halls for workers, most couldn’t get any to sign up. When they did – they complained constantly, wanted to take breaks every half hour, most quit before lunch, and half of them never even came back to get their paychecks!

A large timber company operating in the Northwest California area responding to complaints from environmentalists about spraying herbicides on newly replanted forest areas, tried to get people (Americans) to come out and chop brush in order to avoid the spraying. Same story.

So when ANYONE says that there are Americans whose jobs are being taken by the migrants, I want to know who they are and where they are because my personal experience has been that most Americans think they are too good to do these kinds of jobs.

And I HAVE worked in the fields picking vegetables in my younger days. One week I made $34 – and I was the champion worker for the company that week. Wow!

By: lokywoky

lokywoky — Wed, 23 Apr 2008 05:48:12 +0000

In answer to a question above, the Labor Department stated last week that the “long-term unemployment rate” (the one for people no longer collecting benefits) is 17.8%. Of course, this figure does not count people working at jobs that used to be 40 hours and are now 30, people who lost a good-paying job and are now working 2-3 minimum wage jobs, and those who are working a single minimum wage job and eating at the food bank and sleeping in their cars.

Yeah, we have full employment.

By: MCMetal

MCMetal — Wed, 23 Apr 2008 02:51:25 +0000

Daryll Says:
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Daryll, why did God have the Holy Spirit speak “in tongues” (the varied languages of those in attendance) instead of insisting that all the people learn the Arabic language of His sovereign kingdom? And, you know, Jesus should have shunned those dirty Samaritans just like everyone else did.

April 22nd, 2008 at 12:35 pm Recommend (0) | Report Abuse

You only receive the gift of speaking in tongues by having an intimate relationship with Jesus.

April 22nd, 2008 at 12:37 pm

Bad enough that you believe this stupid bullshit and constantly prattle on about this nonsense ; now you’re suggesting I sleep with a guy ?

No thanks , I’ll pass ; I’ll stick to speaking English…….

By: Loonie

Loonie — Tue, 22 Apr 2008 22:19:44 +0000

JYD Says:

Migrants are only used as scapegoats in tough economic times and thanks to the neocons and their economic “policies” everyone is looking for a scapegoat.

Hey, Rep. Bruce, maybe you should look up ’scapegoat’ in your dictionary. You’ll find it just above ’scumbag’.

By: Alejandro

Alejandro — Tue, 22 Apr 2008 21:22:11 +0000

I think the people she is talking about are illiterate peasants. What are they, educated gentry?

I swear, one time I heard one woman say to another woman “Don’t call them Mexicans, that’s racist.” Hand to god.

By: MapleStreet

MapleStreet — Tue, 22 Apr 2008 20:24:00 +0000

What language does the name Colorado come from?

In short, Mexico has a legitimate claim to Texas, Arizona, New Mexico, etc. as we do to Iraq.

By: Wayne A. Schneider

Wayne A. Schneider — Tue, 22 Apr 2008 19:11:06 +0000

Good examples, misshusseinmolly. Perhaps we should declare these phrases enemies of freedom, and then tell the Bush Adminsitration to go after them “and those who speak them”. :)

By: xyzzy

xyzzy — Tue, 22 Apr 2008 19:06:29 +0000

I lived in Colorado for 30 years, and I have nothing but good things to say about the immigrants who lived and worked beside me. One of the few things I didn’t like about the state was the large number of entrenched, xenophobic, “Colorado is full!” natives!

By: misshusseinmolly

misshusseinmolly — Tue, 22 Apr 2008 18:54:09 +0000

Wayne A. Schneider Says
April 22nd, 2008 at 12:49 pm
Along with “tow the line”, another one that gets my teeth grinding is “a tough road to hoe”. It should be “tough row to hoe”, of course. I have heard announcers go out of their way to enunciate the word “road” in their remarks.
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We could make a whole list:

1) “it ceases to amaze me” (when meaning “it never ceases to amaze me”)
2) “the proof is in the pudding” (when attempting to quote “the proof of the pudding is in the eating”)
3) “decimate” (when meaning “obliterate”)
4) “literally” (when meaning “not literally” — as in “I just literally died when he said that”)

I’m sure there are lots and lots that can be added — those are just my pet peeves at the moment. In addition, of course, to “towing the line” (hauling a rope somewhere?) and hoeing asphalt (yes, roads ARE tough to hoe — hard on the hoe, too).

By: DRxJ

DRxJ — Tue, 22 Apr 2008 18:08:39 +0000

Rep Bruce, I have a wonderful solution. Just send all those “illiterate peasants” back to their country. Of course, each corporation will have to actually document who is legal and who is illegal. That would be interesting.
Then, propose to those which exported the “illiterate peasant” workers, that they now are required to hire only Americans, with benefits, and quadruple the wages.
That would also be interesting.

Good luck with that!

Hey Daryll or Parodyll, here’s a puzzle:
Are “illiterate peasants” going to hell?
…and those that hired them?

By: Luis M

Luis M — Tue, 22 Apr 2008 17:45:50 +0000

Maybe a good solution could be one with guest workers, who stay in the US half a year, earning decent wages, paying taxes and receiving basic health and education services, and then go back to their families for the rest of the year.

By: bs

bs — Tue, 22 Apr 2008 17:40:55 +0000

before we jump on him lets look at what the illegal immigrants are costing the us taxpayers. it’s next to the iraq war…..200+billions of dollars. i find it offensive that the american taxpayer rather pay for illegals than our veterans which the proposed budget for ‘09 is 93.7 billion….so lets do the comparison. we has legal, english speaking, law abiding americans should be outraged by this…

By: jb

jb — Tue, 22 Apr 2008 17:34:06 +0000

According Daryll, Daryll is the only one without sin.

By: Wayne A. Schneider

Wayne A. Schneider — Tue, 22 Apr 2008 17:25:55 +0000

Democrat Soldier is absolutely right, Daryll. You told a lie.

President Bush gives aid and comfort to nations that support terrorism (like Saudi Arabia). He has declared that terrorists are our nation’s enemies. That means he has has given aid and comfort to the enemy. That, by the Constitution’s definition, is “treason.”

It’s too bad the Republicans in Congress believe in putting loyalty to a person (their president, which they are not constitutionally required to do) ahead of loyalty to their country (which they are constitutionally required to do.)

By: JMOHR

JMOHR — Tue, 22 Apr 2008 17:15:41 +0000

The word peasant is not offensive in and of itself. It depends on how it is used. Certainly, one may wear a peasant blouse or applaud the peasants over throwing a corrupt dictatorship. But the was not the context. The purpose was to demean, to hurl scorn and to devalue those illiterate peasants. The explanation harks back to a KKK member calling a n___er a boy and justifying it by noting that the boy in question was a coupler years longer. Censure him.

By: bentley1

bentley1 — Tue, 22 Apr 2008 17:07:21 +0000

My parents had a farm.
Trust me , no troll would pick strawberries all day in the sun
much less work in a potato field all day.
And the little farmer is not the one to blame for the wages since the majority of farming is done by large corporations
Show us how its done Darryl old man, and let us watch you work on a farm for a week.
take care
tony and guidedog Lido

By: Frosty Cupcake

Frosty Cupcake — Tue, 22 Apr 2008 17:04:13 +0000

If Jesus showed up today? Daryll would roundly blast him for being a liberal.

By: Wayne A. Schneider

Wayne A. Schneider — Tue, 22 Apr 2008 17:00:55 +0000

Frosty Cupcake Says:
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Wayne:

How about the phrase “I could care less” when it should be “I couldn’t care less”? As in, I care so little that I couldn’t care less.

Kind of my feeling when it comes to these ridiculous trolls ’round here. I couldn’t care less what they think.

April 22nd, 2008 at 12:52 pm

You are right about that one, and I remember Steve Allen even talking about it (this had to be a long, long time ago.) The thing is, “I could care less” only works if it’s spoken, not written, and it has to be said with sarcasm, not as a straight line. Without the sarcasm, it means that you care even just a little bit.

By: RUCerious

RUCerious — Tue, 22 Apr 2008 17:00:51 +0000

L.H. Annie, not only would he not recognize him, he’d mistake him for a baby deer and blast him, then mount his head on the basement wall.