Did You See This?
Did you see Fareed's Thanksgiving message to the U.S. in Newsweek, you know the same Newsweek giving troop hater Kos a platform?
It's another example of how the U.S. is constantl being asked to apologize instead of being lauded for all the good it does around the world.
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I love one of the examples Fareed uses to prove how "unwelcoming" America is:
A tourist from New Zealand, Rick Giles, mistakenly overstayed his visa in America by a few days and found himself summarily arrested for six weeks earlier this fall.
So it's the U.S.'s fault that a guy who had the privilege of staying in the U.S. failed to notice the date he turns into a pumpkin? He's a victim? He's lucky he had a visa in the first place. The least he could do is honor it.
Rick Giles and Jared Massey would have fun together in the same cell.
Well, I say Fareed, you are certainly not welcome if you feel our laws do not pertain to people who aren't even citizens. Perhaps you need to investigate the laws pertaining to visitor visas in other countries and the penalities when their visas expire. IDIOT!!
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Well first things first.Fareed AND any body that is unhappy with us or the way we run our country after 911 feel free to leave. You have a right to and are given a platform for your bulls*** but I have the right to tell you to bite me. The folk running this place down are getting real tiresome and frankly monotonous Try your crap elsewhere. There are plenty of places that will applaud you for this stuff.I DONT NEED IT.
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Fareed and those overstaying their Visa's (I'm entitled to do what I want arrogance) need to be tased then heavily fined, before being deported. Smug bastard asspods.
Is Fareed a citizen?
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As an immigrant, I've always loved Thanksgiving for all the corniest reasons. It's a distinctly American holiday, secular and inclusive, focused on food, family and gratitude.
And as an immigrant, Fareed, you obviously do not know the history of the distinctly American holiday. Read up on Plymouth Plantation and William Bradford, George Washington and Abe Lincoln's Thanksgiving proclamations. God has a huge part in this American tradition.
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Sure, they gave the Daily Kos guy a platform, but to balance it out they hired Karl Rove.
Zakaria's a smart fellow, and that example was silly, but the fact is that tourism to America is declining among a worldwide travel boom.
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I assume you didn't like the way the country was run under Clinton and Carter, so why didn't you leave then, huh? The whole "if you don't like it, leave!" is the second stupidest argument I've ever heard in my life, after "you can't support the war if you didn't sign up to go to war."
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Catherder,
Who said "You can't support the war if you didn't sign up to go to war"??
Who said that??
Stupid argument I must agree...but who said that??
Thx LTL
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Catherder, DONOT assume or presume to know what ANY body likes or liked or did not like . You are Not blessed with those kinds of powers. Speak for your self , express your opinions but dont presume on ME. It really does NOT hurt my feelings that more folk are not visiting our country.
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Fareed does have a point about the excessive penalties for minor infractions committed by immigrants from friendly nations like New Zeland. SOME type of penalty should be imposed, depending upon the length of time that elapses between the renewal date and the discovery, but arresting a New Zelander for SIX WEEK seems excessive.
That said, it's always an ironic twist to hear some liberal belly-aching about bureaucratic governmental inefficiencies when it comes to treatment of law-breakers (foreign OR resident) then in the next breath spout the glories of socialized healthcare run buy the same inept system. Go figure.
Finally there was this little gem from the smarmy Fareed:
"If tens of thousands of foreigners are upset, so what? But if one day a jihadist manages to slip in, woe to the person who stamped his passport. The incentives are badly skewed."
Somehow this a-hole is more concerned about the "tens of thousands" (I'd like to see the REAL numbers, I bet he's lying here) of foreigners, who are inconvenienced because they came into our country then proceededed to break our laws, than he is concerned about the tens of thousands of Americans who could potentially be killed in one fell swoop by a terrorist that slips through the security cracks. Sorry Fareed, but I'm in favor of erring on the side of caution and I don't give a damn what "tens of thousands" of foreigners think.
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Ditto, I just dont give a shit what people that dont like this place say feel or think. That INCLUDES foreign and domestic. Again you dont like it bite me.............
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Tens of thousands-(adj) unit of measure used by liberals to make a cause seem a bigger deal than it actually is. Most often used when factual numbers don't exist or are too small to warrant an argument. See also "hundreds of thousands" as well as "millions".
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I wonder if this Fareed guy is a Muslim plant trying to stir up crap so It'll be easier for his terrorist friends to get in the US?
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Why In the Hell Does Fareed's opinion matter ?
I've seen him on news specials and what not , and that guy gets under my freakin skin .
That guy has got to be up to something .
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I think you're a bit harsh and uninformed.
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