cretins that use words like”irregardless”should just keep their mouthes shut,you open your mouth and remove all doubt as to your lack of grey matter.

The guy in the video used, you stupid jerk! You frigging moron. Yes, I’m pissed because I can’t even use sarcasm on you rednecks because you are such idiots.

I mean, if only one of you criticized my “usage” of irregardless… But it’s the frigging norm here. Let me explain it for you. Please have whoever in charge of watching after your mentally retarded a*ss repeat it if I fail to get it through.

The guy who is in the video… right? This is a verbatim quote from him. OK? Verbatim means it’s exactly what he said. He said: “Irregardless of nationality we expect you to learn the language.” Now, this is ironic and funny. Not rural-Mississippi-I-have-more-guns-than-teeth funny, so you may not get it, but over here it’s considered funny. Because when the guy demands that other would learn the language but can’t even formulate the demand in the proper language, it’s funny. Right?… Oh, nevermind.

RNC…take notice!

Terry Silver on March 20, 2009 at 12:52 AM

Hmmm….what immigration law did the early european settlers break?

So do you believe that Israel shouldn’t exist, because it was carved out of Jordan and other Arab nations? The settlers who came here came to an undeveloped land. It wasn’t a nation; it had no borders. They settled it and for lack of a better word, conquered it. Through other wars we established a nation and a border. This happened many, many times over thousands of years in Europe. Should their borders be nullified because they took out another group of people hundreds of years ago?
Illegal immigrants are engaged in criminal activity; they are violating the borders of a sovereign nation. If you don’t understand what that means, drive south to Mexico and run the border crossing at high speed and see what the Mexican border guards do. Your arguement is absurd.

austinnelly on March 20, 2009 at 10:48 AM

I’m not advocating giving anything back or feeling bad about what settlers did. I just don’t like when people demonize poor people looking for an opportunity they don’t have in their country. This is what people don’t like about the republican stance on immigration. You can’t really blame a poor/desperate person trying to better their lives or their families life. The first American settlers were looking for the same opportunity illegals are. If you want to blame anybody or brand them as criminals, blame the people who give them jobs and the incentive to cross the border in the first place.

Terry Silver on March 20, 2009 at 10:18 AM

So do you believe that Israel shouldn’t exist, because it was carved out of Jordan and other Arab nations? The settlers who came here came to an undeveloped land. It wasn’t a nation; it had no borders. They settled it and for lack of a better word, conquered it. Through other wars we established a nation and a border. This happened many, many times over thousands of years in Europe. Should their borders be nullified because they took out another group of people hundreds of years ago?
Illegal immigrants are engaged in criminal activity; they are violating the borders of a sovereign nation. If you don’t understand what that means, drive south to Mexico and run the border crossing at high speed and see what the Mexican border guards do. Your arguement is absurd.

[Terry Silver on March 20, 2009 at 10:18 AM]

There you go again, not only applying today’s mores, definitions, social attitudes and/or opinions to actions or events which happened in the past but also to advocate for allowing those same actions or events to happen in the present.

Because Adam and Eve ran around naked, I suppose I am a hypocrite by believing we should now run around clothed.

I think I want you to learn the English language. Irregardless!

radiofreevillage on March 20, 2009 at 1:09 AM

Even non-words like “irregardless”?

SKYFOX on March 20, 2009 at 6:27 AM

nonstandard : regardless
usage Irregardless originated in dialectal American speech in the early 20th century. Its fairly widespread use in speech called it to the attention of usage commentators as early as 1927. The most frequently repeated remark about it is that “there is no such word.” There is such a word, however. It is still used primarily in speech, although it can be found from time to time in edited prose. Its reputation has not risen over the years, and it is still a long way from general acceptance. Use regardless instead.

well said, I won’t bore people on this thread with my grandfather’s little escapade coming to this country from Ireland. let’s just say, it wasn’t fun or easy, you really didn’t want to be IRA back then, in refutation of what many thought.

That doesn’t make him a bad guy, even if said in jest……..or not.

Even non-words like “irregardless”?

SKYFOX on March 20, 2009 at 6:27 AM

sigh

So people are racists if they don’t cough up their money for immigrants?

WTF? Do we have anybody here who can read English? Or the idea is that Mexicans should learn it first because somebody needs to teach it to HotAir commenters?

This is the problem with the Republicans. Instead of a free-market approach “come on in and get settled – no, you can’t use our money to make yourself more like at home”, we are offered pure racism.
radiofreevillage on March 20, 2009 at 1:37 AM

Use our money? So people are racists if they don’t cough up their money for immigrants? My family didn’t receive any money to come here or after they got here. And they weren’t expecting any. They were hoping for opportunity to make their own way.

BTW, bit of a stereotype to call Republicans racists. Try looking at some history of Democrat racism - scroll to the bottom and note Byrd, Dodd, and Biden.

I dare say Jindal, my coworkers, Michelle Malkin, and many other non-white Republicans don’t think of themselves as racists or belonging to ‘the party of racism’. I realize the nutjobs have hijacked both parties but to think that Republican is the racist party is wrong. If we believe stereotypes, are we also to believe the Democrat party is the party of communism or socialism?

What ever happened to “Give us your poor, your tired, your huddled masses longing to be free…”

Now we’re full up, sorry.!

barkolounger on March 19, 2009 at 9:51 PM

So when will we be “full up”? We have over 300 million people living here now. We already have states fighting over water. We have millions of Americans looking for jobs and not finding them. We have trillions of dollars in debt, and all of our major entitlement programs facing bankruptcy in a few years. Should we just keep pretending that we can afford to allow all the world’s poor to come and live here?

Emma Lazarus’ poem may have been a charming sentiment, but that’s all it is; you won’t find her words anywhere in our founding documents or official laws. And here’s another scoop: it’s not the 19th century anymore, and we can’t continue behaving as if it is. We are a fully developed, fully populated, sovereign nation, and if we wish to survive as a nation, then we cannot continue to allow tens of millions of “economically disadvantaged” foreigners to pour at will across our borders in defiance of our laws.

Reality: learn to deal with it.