jihadwatcher on October 3, 2007 at 9:11 PM

“you don’t go to Denmark for that service”

Oh hell, now you hurt the feelings of Denmark! When will the madness end?

I don’t much care what the ethnicity of anyone is; what counts, (especially in things like medical care) is the person’s knowledge and skill.

With that in mind, I’d prefer someone who graduated from an American medical / nursing school to one from just about any other country. Only because without studying the issue, you are less likely to be able to guess what quality of education and post school continuing education they got.

I’m less likely to hire a nuclear physicist from the College of Mahajanga in Madigascar than one from MIT or Stanford too.

This is way off topic, but In my opinion the Firefly TV series appeared to “jump the shark” with its first couple of episodes, and so I was one of the billions who didn’t originally follow it.

logis on October 3, 2007 at 12:49 PM

I all fairness, Whedon was screwed from the word go. The network chose to show the episodes out of order, so there was quite a bit of confusion with character development and introduction.
BTW Jewel Staite, “Kaylee” From the show, is a regular now on “Stargate:Atlantis” She has grown into a beautiful young woman.

My fiancee is Filipina American and I’m positive she would get very upset over what was said on this show. I know she doesn’t watch drivel like Desperate Housewives.

To get outraged about this is just as silly as the stuff the left and muslims get outraged about all the time.

Desperate Houswives second skankiest “actress” (pictured above with the first) was embroiled in a controversy when the writers of the Golden Girls spin off inserted a racist comment about the education level of Filipino doctors. Here&#8217…

I have been to a doctor in PI but I aint sayin’ what for.

TheSitRep on October 3, 2007 at 2:41 PM

If you tell us “where”, we’ll know “why”…. ;)

You know, like British dentists.

TheSitRep on October 3, 2007 at 2:41 PM

thats crazy talk….

For the record: I have a Filipino mother-in-law who is a wonderful nurse, her brother a successful doctor…right here in the good ole USA!

There’s currently an oversupply of nurses there and an under supply here…

Bryan,

I dated a NICU nurse in 2000 who was having trouble finding a full time position. The hospitals did not want to hire them and have to give them benefits so the only way she could find work was through an agency so they could cut her hours without notice.

I would take with a grain of salt any businesses claim that they need to import foreign workers because of labor shortages. First, they should have to advertise the jobs and not the phony advertising that was suggested in the video you had from that law firm. The only way that wages will rise in this country is if companies can’t undercut native workers.

P.S. I am all for NAFTA and GATT.

So, when I call Harry Reid a corrupt, lying scumbag I’m insulting Americans?

Did I accidentally go to a phishing site that claims to be Hot Air but is actually some left-wing victimhood site?

Bryan on October 3, 2007 at 1:33 PM

That’s right!
Seriously thought, STNG was better than Firefly, but you can’t really compare the two, considering the longevity factor.

- The Cat

logis on October 3, 2007 at 12:49 PM

I confess I only saw the last half of the movie. I’ve been meaning to go back and watch it after watching the series, but my Netflix queue is stacking up and I’m catching up on the last season of Boston Legal so I can watch this season. But I liked Firefly from the beginning after I got a taste of it from the movie. Now I just need to see the movie the whole way through. As for Firefly requiring a lot of suspended disbelief, the best way I’ve seen it described is a sci-fi/western. And really, it’s no different than the gaping technological holes in Star Wars.

I LOVED Buffy the first 3 seasons. It was after they intro’d Dawn that I thought the show went down hill.

wherestherum on October 3, 2007 at 1:15 PM

True.

Sara Michelle Gellar stole the show, was the show for me. But I think the show tanked way before the Dawn character showed up. There is only so much story line you can build around a teenage killer-sexy heart-throb killing the same old vampires over and over again.

Bryan on October 3, 2007 at 11:57 AM

True. I was thinking in terms of network suits cancelling the show after 2 seasons, but the show eventually became a phenom with cult-like following. I mean, even now, cinema Star Wars doesn’t have the same following as made for TV Star Trek.

jdkchem on October 3, 2007 at 1:32 PM

Heretic!

I just wanted to beat SouthernDem to the punch.