From: bknight on
On Wed, 12 May 2010 14:12:50 -0500, "MNMikeW" <MNMiikkew(a)aol.com>
wrote:

>
><bknight(a)conramp.net> wrote in message
>news:retlu5t47rg21jltiet7epnh1fqagp8b1m(a)4ax.com...
>> On Wed, 12 May 2010 11:32:27 -0700, Alan Baker <alangbaker(a)telus.net>
>> wrote:
>>
>>>In article <850ab7Fa7eU1(a)mid.individual.net>,
>>> "MNMikeW" <MNMiikkew(a)aol.com> wrote:
>>
>>>> > I said a high percentage. I didn't compare it to any other percentage.
>>>> > Learn how to read, dope.
>>>> >
>>>> > Anything > 0% is too high.
>>>> >
>>>> > Ken
>>>> >
>>>> > Ken
>>>>
>>>> How high?
>>>>
>>>> ===================
>>>> From what I've seen its around 30%.
>>>
>>>"From what I've seen"? What would that be?
>>
>> In 2007 Newsblaze reported that approximately 30 percent of the
>> inmates in California prisons are illegal aliens, or "documented
>> criminals,". So its less than 30%, since documented criminals aren't
>> illegals.
>>
>> BK
>
>So what exactly is a "documented criminal" ?

Wild guess: A criminal with documents.

BK
>
From: MNMikeW on

<bknight(a)conramp.net> wrote in message
news:6tvlu5poafmislp2gmrild74g4g6rpgd4m(a)4ax.com...
> On Wed, 12 May 2010 14:12:50 -0500, "MNMikeW" <MNMiikkew(a)aol.com>
> wrote:
>
>>
>><bknight(a)conramp.net> wrote in message
>>news:retlu5t47rg21jltiet7epnh1fqagp8b1m(a)4ax.com...
>>> On Wed, 12 May 2010 11:32:27 -0700, Alan Baker <alangbaker(a)telus.net>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>>In article <850ab7Fa7eU1(a)mid.individual.net>,
>>>> "MNMikeW" <MNMiikkew(a)aol.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>>> > I said a high percentage. I didn't compare it to any other
>>>>> > percentage.
>>>>> > Learn how to read, dope.
>>>>> >
>>>>> > Anything > 0% is too high.
>>>>> >
>>>>> > Ken
>>>>> >
>>>>> > Ken
>>>>>
>>>>> How high?
>>>>>
>>>>> ===================
>>>>> From what I've seen its around 30%.
>>>>
>>>>"From what I've seen"? What would that be?
>>>
>>> In 2007 Newsblaze reported that approximately 30 percent of the
>>> inmates in California prisons are illegal aliens, or "documented
>>> criminals,". So its less than 30%, since documented criminals aren't
>>> illegals.
>>>
>>> BK
>>
>>So what exactly is a "documented criminal" ?
>
> Wild guess: A criminal with documents.
>
> BK
>>
According to your "NewsBlaze" source, "documented criminal" is the PC term
for illegal alien.



From: bknight on
On Wed, 12 May 2010 15:18:04 -0500, "MNMikeW" <MNMiikkew(a)aol.com>
wrote:

>
><bknight(a)conramp.net> wrote in message
>news:6tvlu5poafmislp2gmrild74g4g6rpgd4m(a)4ax.com...
>> On Wed, 12 May 2010 14:12:50 -0500, "MNMikeW" <MNMiikkew(a)aol.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>>
>>><bknight(a)conramp.net> wrote in message
>>>news:retlu5t47rg21jltiet7epnh1fqagp8b1m(a)4ax.com...
>>>> On Wed, 12 May 2010 11:32:27 -0700, Alan Baker <alangbaker(a)telus.net>
>>>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>>In article <850ab7Fa7eU1(a)mid.individual.net>,
>>>>> "MNMikeW" <MNMiikkew(a)aol.com> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>>> > I said a high percentage. I didn't compare it to any other
>>>>>> > percentage.
>>>>>> > Learn how to read, dope.
>>>>>> >
>>>>>> > Anything > 0% is too high.
>>>>>> >
>>>>>> > Ken
>>>>>> >
>>>>>> > Ken
>>>>>>
>>>>>> How high?
>>>>>>
>>>>>> ===================
>>>>>> From what I've seen its around 30%.
>>>>>
>>>>>"From what I've seen"? What would that be?
>>>>
>>>> In 2007 Newsblaze reported that approximately 30 percent of the
>>>> inmates in California prisons are illegal aliens, or "documented
>>>> criminals,". So its less than 30%, since documented criminals aren't
>>>> illegals.
>>>>
>>>> BK
>>>
>>>So what exactly is a "documented criminal" ?
>>
>> Wild guess: A criminal with documents.
>>
>> BK
>>>
>According to your "NewsBlaze" source, "documented criminal" is the PC term
>for illegal alien.
>
>
The sentence can be taken two ways. It would've been clearer if it
said "and" rather than "or". Who knows?

BK
From: Alan Baker on
In article <850d1uFqbtU1(a)mid.individual.net>,
"MNMikeW" <MNMiikkew(a)aol.com> wrote:

> <bknight(a)conramp.net> wrote in message
> news:rqslu5thq97pkje9qv523pbgsvvq3qg26e(a)4ax.com...
> > On Wed, 12 May 2010 13:23:53 -0500, "MNMikeW" <MNMiikkew(a)aol.com>
> > wrote:
> >
> >>
> >><bknight(a)conramp.net> wrote in message
> >>news:8mplu55fhk4skkke3aeqtgpvoofhtprsf9(a)4ax.com...
> >>> On Wed, 12 May 2010 12:29:46 -0500, "MNMikeW" <MNMiikkew(a)aol.com>
> >>> wrote:
> >>>
> >>>>
> >>>>"F. Kurgan Gringioni" <kgringioni(a)hotmail.com> wrote in message
> >>>>news:hsekqa$v2l$1(a)news.eternal-september.org...
> >>>
> >>>>> Meghan McCain had some choice words for Sarah Palin, former Rep. Tom
> >>>>> Tancredo and the conservative Tea Party movement as a whole during her
> >>>>> appearance Monday on ABC's "The View."
> >>>>>
> >>>>> McCain, the daughter of Sen. John McCain known for occasionally
> >>>>> parting
> >>>>> ways with the views of her Republican dad, was particularly scathing
> >>>>> in
> >>>>> her assessment of Tancredo's speech on the opening day of the National
> >>>>> Tea
> >>>>> Party Convention on Thursday in Nashville. In the speech, Tancredo
> >>>>> said
> >>>>> people "who could not spell the word vote or say it in English"
> >>>>> elected
> >>>>> a
> >>>>> "committed socialist ideologue" because the country does not require a
> >>>>> "civics literacy test."
> >>>>>
> >>>>> "It's innate racism, and I think it's why young people are turned off
> >>>>> by
> >>>>> this movement," McCain said. "And I'm sorry -- revolutions start with
> >>>>> young people, not with 65-year-old people talking about literacy tests
> >>>>> and
> >>>>> people who can't say the word vote in English."
> >>>>>
> >>>>All McCains are idiots. What Meghan McCain did here is exactly the same
> >>>>stereotyping you were just talking about.
> >>>>
> >>> How so? She wasn't alluding to a group of people, but to Tancredo. No
> >>> group made those statements.
> >>>
> >>> BK
> >>
> >>""It's innate racism, and I think it's why young people are turned off by
> >>this movement"
> >>A movement is a group.
> >>
> > No group made the comments to which McCain was responding. Only
> > Tancredo.
> >
> > BK
>
> And what group was Tancredo speaking to? So Meghan misspoke. She's should
> have said "It's innate racism, and I think it's why young people are turned
> off by Tom Tancredo".

Tom Tancredo acted as a spokesperson for the Tea Party movement, so what
he says has an effect on how people see that movement.

--
Alan Baker
Vancouver, British Columbia
<http://gallery.me.com/alangbaker/100008/DSCF0162/web.jpg>
From: William Clark on
In article <850d1uFqbtU1(a)mid.individual.net>,
"MNMikeW" <MNMiikkew(a)aol.com> wrote:

> <bknight(a)conramp.net> wrote in message
> news:rqslu5thq97pkje9qv523pbgsvvq3qg26e(a)4ax.com...
> > On Wed, 12 May 2010 13:23:53 -0500, "MNMikeW" <MNMiikkew(a)aol.com>
> > wrote:
> >
> >>
> >><bknight(a)conramp.net> wrote in message
> >>news:8mplu55fhk4skkke3aeqtgpvoofhtprsf9(a)4ax.com...
> >>> On Wed, 12 May 2010 12:29:46 -0500, "MNMikeW" <MNMiikkew(a)aol.com>
> >>> wrote:
> >>>
> >>>>
> >>>>"F. Kurgan Gringioni" <kgringioni(a)hotmail.com> wrote in message
> >>>>news:hsekqa$v2l$1(a)news.eternal-september.org...
> >>>
> >>>>> Meghan McCain had some choice words for Sarah Palin, former Rep. Tom
> >>>>> Tancredo and the conservative Tea Party movement as a whole during her
> >>>>> appearance Monday on ABC's "The View."
> >>>>>
> >>>>> McCain, the daughter of Sen. John McCain known for occasionally
> >>>>> parting
> >>>>> ways with the views of her Republican dad, was particularly scathing
> >>>>> in
> >>>>> her assessment of Tancredo's speech on the opening day of the National
> >>>>> Tea
> >>>>> Party Convention on Thursday in Nashville. In the speech, Tancredo
> >>>>> said
> >>>>> people "who could not spell the word vote or say it in English"
> >>>>> elected
> >>>>> a
> >>>>> "committed socialist ideologue" because the country does not require a
> >>>>> "civics literacy test."
> >>>>>
> >>>>> "It's innate racism, and I think it's why young people are turned off
> >>>>> by
> >>>>> this movement," McCain said. "And I'm sorry -- revolutions start with
> >>>>> young people, not with 65-year-old people talking about literacy tests
> >>>>> and
> >>>>> people who can't say the word vote in English."
> >>>>>
> >>>>All McCains are idiots. What Meghan McCain did here is exactly the same
> >>>>stereotyping you were just talking about.
> >>>>
> >>> How so? She wasn't alluding to a group of people, but to Tancredo. No
> >>> group made those statements.
> >>>
> >>> BK
> >>
> >>""It's innate racism, and I think it's why young people are turned off by
> >>this movement"
> >>A movement is a group.
> >>
> > No group made the comments to which McCain was responding. Only
> > Tancredo.
> >
> > BK
>
> And what group was Tancredo speaking to? So Meghan misspoke. She's should
> have said "It's innate racism, and I think it's why young people are turned
> off by Tom Tancredo".

Oh, come on, even you can do better than this. Not wanting to face facts
is one thing, but these contortions are beyond absurd.