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Policy

If You're Going to Live in America…

Radley Balko | 12.21.2007 9:17 AM

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  1. Episiarch   18 years ago

    No, Radley, it's Engrish.

  2. Taktix? B.S. English   18 years ago

    I majored in a dead language.

  3. Warren   18 years ago

    No way. Ha ha pretty funny if it's genuine (not photoshopped)

  4. joe   18 years ago

    Is that Florida?

    Get a brain, morans!

  5. Father Ted   18 years ago

    Down with this sort of thing.

  6. ed   18 years ago

    It's obvious she was running out of room on the sign and had to make a hard choice for democracy.

  7. Grinch   18 years ago

    No Amity!

  8. Cheap Airline/Hotel Ad   18 years ago

    No Amenity!

  9. Dolly Parton\'s often mistaken   18 years ago

    No Am tity!

  10. de stijl   18 years ago

    Get a brain, morans!

    Check out the dude in the back left with the American flag doo-rag (now that spells Patroitism in any language)! Is that him?

  11. Chemist   18 years ago

    No aminity!

  12. AARP   18 years ago

    Cut the old bag some slack.

  13. GinSlinger   18 years ago

    joe, you've got a typo there.

    It's spelled b-r-i-a-n-s

    Now who's the moran?

  14. Balloon Maker   18 years ago

    chemist,

    no antimony?

  15. John   18 years ago

    Actually that is pretty funny Radley. Almost as funny as the various "fuck it is still Mexico" signs and the like that were at the illegal immigrant rallies last year. Reason of course will be publishing pictures of those and other signs real soon I am sure.

  16. joe   18 years ago

    Making fun of people because they don't speak a foreign language perfectly = snobbish, unfunny

    Making fun of people because they can't write a two-word statement in their native tongue properly = teh funny

  17. brotherben   18 years ago

    It is the fault of the pubic school system.

  18. ed   18 years ago

    If only she had gotten a liberal arts education...

  19. Taktix?   18 years ago

    Making fun of people because they can't write a two-word statement in their native tongue properly while in the act of condemning others for not being like them, one criticism often being due to their poor grasp of English= teh funny

    There, fixed...

  20. Graphite   18 years ago

    DEY TUCK OUR JARBS!!

  21. teh funnyer   18 years ago

    one criticism often being due to their poor grasp of English

    Ha!

  22. Federal Reserve Note   18 years ago

    no antimony?

    Hey, stop dumpin' on us!

  23. Taktix?   18 years ago

    joe's rule of grammar criticism strikes again. Either that or I'm still a little drunk from last night's combined Steelers victory and Pitt's upset of Duke.

    Merry Christmas...

  24. Lamar   18 years ago

    Could somebody with access to photoshop please change the little girl's sign to "honkies for english"?

  25. joe   18 years ago

    I once had to mediate a dispute between two property owners over which one was going to get to buy a little sliver of city-owned land between their lots. One of them was a Cambodian fellow who owned a two-family, and the other was a Portugeuse guy who owned a single-family home.

    I had a great deal of trouble understanding the Portugeuse gentleman. After a few minutes, I realized he was complaining about the Cambodian immigrants. "Dey should-a go home!"

  26. BakedPenguin   18 years ago

    Lamar - check your email.

  27. Wiseman   18 years ago

    Much a'do about nothing!

  28. TLB   18 years ago

    That's so cute!

    Here's another cute photo.

    Say, maybe Reason could pick up a few bob. If you're going to support corporatism by not asking employers to pay the *full* cost of their labor, you might as well get a cut, right?

    It's easy, too. Get their number here: embassyofmexico.org The guy you want to speak to is Arturo.

  29. James   18 years ago

    Don't forget about those 'Minutemen' who are keeping Mexicans out of this country by builing a wall of beer cans 1000 miles long...reinforced by confederate flags.

  30. Lamar   18 years ago

    BakedPenguin: That is absolutely rich! I just hurled Christmas fudge. That photoshop makes it look so real, and reveals deeper truths.....

  31. sine   18 years ago

    At the immigration rally thing they held in Tucson about 2 years ago, a few noble patriots gathered outside the Mexican consulate to burn the Mexican flag on the street. There was video on the local news of an angry man rolling over the burning Mexican flag on his motorized wheelchair.

    It was awesome.

  32. joe   18 years ago

    ...not that they hate Mexicans or anything...

  33. Jamie Kelly   18 years ago

    That chick is two crumbs short of a cracker.

  34. BakedPenguin   18 years ago

    Lamar - Photoshop is teh awesome. I'll stick this up at Urkobold...

  35. Jamie Kelly   18 years ago

    Lamar and BakedPenguin,
    May I remind you that this is a PUBLIC FORUM and there will be no PRIVATE SHARING of INFORMATION, as per federal law.
    I thereby order you to POST THE PHOTO IN QUESTION at this here sectoid of the intertubular.
    Thank yoiu.

  36. Thomas Paine\'s Goiter   18 years ago

    Taktix, Blair is the stuff. Amazing for a kid that wasn't highly touted at all.

  37. BakedPenguin   18 years ago

    Jamie - see my last post. Or just see this.

    prolefeed! Warning! Warning! link to Urkobold above!

  38. GILMORE   18 years ago

    "yall ferners wan be American yall gown hafta lern to talk like mericans and also stop with all this illegalism and takin taxes"

  39. Stevo Darkly   18 years ago

    Check out the dude in the back left with the American flag doo-rag (now that spells Patroitism in any language)! Is that him?

    Heh ... but you know, you could have spelled "patriotism" a little more adriotly.

  40. Chief Brody   18 years ago

    No Amity!

  41. Edward   18 years ago

    Birthright citizenship similarly rewards lawbreaking, and must be stopped. As long as illegal immigrants know their children born here will be citizens, the perverse incentive to sneak into this country remains strong. Citizenship involves more than the mere location of one's birth. True citizenship requires cultural connections and an allegiance to the United States. Americans are happy to welcome those who wish to come here and build a better life for themselves, but we rightfully expect immigrants to show loyalty and attempt to assimilate themselves culturally. Birthright citizenship sometimes confers the benefits of being American on people who do not truly embrace America. --Ron Paul "The Immigration Question"

  42. Don Black   18 years ago

    What Ron Paul says!

  43. josephdietrich   18 years ago

    Just a clarification: when R. Paul says "birthright citizenship ... must be stopped" does he mean that if my great-grandfather legally came to the US 1900 and became a citizen, and my grandfather and father and I were born in the US and were citizens because of that, that should I have kids under a Paul presidency they would have to pass a citizenship test and somehow show the proper allegiance to the USA to become a citizen? Or is he limiting this to non-citizens having children in the US who therefore become citizens?

    Not that I'm against either position, but I'd like to know what is thinking is here.

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