Denying them citizenship is gonna accomplish what? You can live in this country for a 100 years as a legal resident alien & beyond the fact you didn't get to vote, your day to day life is pretty much the same. In fact, you won't get jury duty. I think most American citizens would make that trade. And if anything, by not learning English they're only hurting themselves in the job market.

I can see learning English as a requirement to qualify for welfare & would support that 100%. But if that's what Rooney means here he needs to articulate it better. This arguement just comes across as xenophobic.

for the sixth time, Andy Roony didn't write that.
And if you honestly thought he did you aparently don't have much respect for him.

we would have also accepted 'xylophone' and 'you cunt'

You say that like it's a bad thing.

i'm an unabashed huge fan of the man.

It sounds like the person who wrote this was the same one who wrote the BS that George Carlin "wrote."

does you think the media has changed?

Impossible on its face, as George Carlin died nearly two years ago.

awesome.
makes me love them both even more.

Ummm, no he didn't.

omg andy rooney smear campaign!

I think he's referring to another pop rumour from the last year or so.

Ahhhhh. Way over my head.

that could easily serve as a basis for somebodys thesis about american ethnocentricity.

Just in case there are other people who think this is spot on, here's why you're wrong. I know that this is pretty pointless, but knowing that there's an audience of at least one here who agrees with this stuff, I couldn't resist.



Being a minority doesn't make you a victim, but (to give just one example) being denied for a job because you're not white makes you a victim of racial discrimination. If you think this no longer happens because their are laws against it, you are stupid. If you think that the effects of lawful racial discrimination that was only outlawed in 1964 has no bearing on the financial status of at least some minority citizens today, you are also stupid.



There are no cars or baseball bats designed primarily to kill human beings. It is not unreasonable to regulate something more strictly because that is its purpose. I will also point out that cars are probably the subject of more regulation by far than guns are.



Apart from the name, how does anything Boy Scouts do have to do with their gender? This is a stupid one - of course the Boy Scouts shouldn't be forced to admit girls, but have they been required to by law? I'm pretty sure not, so why get so pissed? Because someone disagrees with your opinion?



Maybe, and in some cases certainly, but I think it's obvious that many people hate homosexuality because they FEAR (often without being able to rationally explain why) social changes that conflict with their vision of how the world is/should be.



But you don't, and shouldn't, have the right to manifest your intolerance through violence or by using laws to suppress the liberty of others just because you dislike it - to believe otherwise is distinctly undemocratic.



Right, but in most cities it is a disproportionately high percentage of black people that get arrested. I know that's a big word, but it means that if the city is 50% black, more than 50% of those arrested are black. Also, the law of probability does not apply, because each citizen does not have an equal chance of getting arrested at the outset.



You believe that people must sell you things in English? Must how? Legally? Do you realize that inability to speak English is a legally valid reason not to hire someone, and that if that person selling you the newspaper speaks Arabic, it's because it was economically efficient for someone to hire him? Don't you believe in capitalism?

Don't you also realize that when this country was founded, an enormous percentage of the settlers did not speak English? So at what point did it become only right that everyone be forced to speak English to gain citizenship?



Why did they die in vain then?



Really? In every instance? What if I'm a child? What if I'm unarmed? Exactly what is your definition of justice?



I don't think so either. Whether you should be is another matter, but where the hell do you get the idea that it is easier for non-citizens to start a business in the US?



If you think that the constitution can be obviously applied to every case according to it's plain meaning, you are either stupid or have not read the constitution.



Though it would be nice if it weren't so, not everyone is rich or poor because they deserve it. Some should be pitied, and pity is not a weakness.



*sob* It's still real to me, damnit! *sob*



First, his name isn't on Microsoft's buildings. Second, are you implying that there shouldn't be any antitrust laws? Do you even know what those are?



What?



Most likely, any perception you have of a tattoo or piercing as a political statement is based on your own projection. If you have concerns about health risks, please send your complaint to the board of health. They have very strict regulations.



If you'd gone your whole life being referred to by your skin color in various ways that generally implied more than was stated, you might be sensitive to it too.



Democracy also requires active discourse. If you don't like democracy, then DON'T PASS IT ON.

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Funniest thing you have ever posted.

This type of shiot makes me wanna kill myself

Incredible.

My wife gets chain shit like this all the time from lame-ass family lists. It's always the same poorly written dreck attributed to Carlin or Rooney or Robin Williams. And you can send them Snopes articles for every one, yet they don't develop a sense of skepticism about the internets.

I also get a ton of cancer-baby Christian glurge that requires the reader to pass on to ten other people - or get zapped by Jesus, I guess.

Angels and shit. Christ.

Haq, you rock my world.

Hah hah, that was awesome. On a good day I'm clear-headed enough to express some of that, half that well. Hats off, Haq. Wish it'd do some good. And god, and the bible, an shit.