tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5313916164911265633.post2547239614068786919..comments2023-08-10T14:58:46.329+07:00Comments on Authority!: The great American Skittles flapTimothy J Taylorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10634355920003282809noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5313916164911265633.post-32370426305820973752016-09-28T21:18:46.492+07:002016-09-28T21:18:46.492+07:00Nope.
But I don't own the large tax farm call...Nope.<br /><br />But I don't own the large tax farm called "the United States of America" by the street gang that runs it.<br /><br />Neither do you.<br /><br />If you want everyone else to beg your permission to travel across it, perhaps you should be willing to take over the mortgage first. Hey, it's only $20 trillion, right?Thomas L. Knapphttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16271473384378782680noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5313916164911265633.post-5527527158492348522016-09-28T20:58:38.158+07:002016-09-28T20:58:38.158+07:00So, you keep the doors to your own home unlocked a...So, you keep the doors to your own home unlocked and you welcome, with open arms, anyone who walks in the door at any hour, any day? Eileenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10268730104232259244noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5313916164911265633.post-70844302735343595792016-09-23T20:51:51.382+07:002016-09-23T20:51:51.382+07:00"One percent of 600,000 refugees is 6,000 pot..."One percent of 600,000 refugees is 6,000 potential terrorists. Isn't that a good enough analogy for you?"<br /><br />No. The actual numbers seem to be more along the lines of 1/100th of 1%, tops.<br /><br />"Trump has proposed not letting them in legally so they would have to come in illegally and that is not likely."<br /><br />Right, because only a few million a year do so.<br /><br />"So you would let everyone in ... That's a pretty extreme position"<br /><br />Actually it's the most moderate position there is: The position that until and unless someone commits a crime with a victim, where they go is none of my fucking business. Or yours.<br />Thomas L. Knapphttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16271473384378782680noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5313916164911265633.post-48365828115210129752016-09-23T20:48:52.184+07:002016-09-23T20:48:52.184+07:00One percent of 600,000 refugees is 6,000 potential...One percent of 600,000 refugees is 6,000 potential terrorists. Isn't that a good enough analogy for you? <br /><br />Trump has proposed not letting them in legally so they would have to come in illegally and that is not likely.<br /><br />So you would let everyone in, whether they have leprosy, TB, AIDS; whether they are murderers, rapists, child molesters, whatever; you don't care who immigrates to the USA. That's a pretty extreme position, TomTimothy J Taylorhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10634355920003282809noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5313916164911265633.post-55580117474860782652016-09-23T07:53:26.430+07:002016-09-23T07:53:26.430+07:00"So you conclude that poisoned candy does not..."So you conclude that poisoned candy does not compare with radicalized Islamist's"<br /><br />As someone over at Austin Petersen's site pointed out yesterday, in order for the analogy to work the dish with three poison Skittles would have to contain 2,700 pounds of Skittles. Not 2,700 Skittles, 2,700 POUNDS of Skittles.<br /><br />"that ISIS is not trying to infiltrate Syrian refugees with terrorist’s hell bent on immigrating to America to kill Americans;"<br /><br />They very well may be. Nothing Trump has proposed would stop them from accomplishing that goal.<br /><br />"and that it is evil policy to regulate immigration to try to keep the bad guys out"<br /><br />It is evil policy to regulate immigration, full stop.Thomas L. Knapphttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16271473384378782680noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5313916164911265633.post-33187125208174548122016-09-23T07:40:44.922+07:002016-09-23T07:40:44.922+07:00So you conclude that poisoned candy does not compa...So you conclude that poisoned candy does not compare with radicalized Islamist's; that ISIS is not trying to infiltrate Syrian refugees with terrorist’s hell bent on immigrating to America to kill Americans; and that it is evil policy to regulate immigration to try to keep the bad guys out. Is that it? You want open borders; no borders. You don’t care if criminals are allowed in; everyone should be allowed in. You don’t believe in national sovereignty. You’re a globalist. <br /><br />OK, now I understand why you think the analogy is terrible, the premise idiotic and the policy evil. <br />Timothy J Taylorhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10634355920003282809noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5313916164911265633.post-48537621346215264362016-09-23T05:00:09.852+07:002016-09-23T05:00:09.852+07:00"It's a pretty good analogy, isn't it..."It's a pretty good analogy, isn't it? It makes the risks quite easy to understand, don’t you think?"<br /><br />It's the trifecta winner: A terrible analogy, in service to an idiotic premise, being used to promote an evil policy.Thomas L. Knapphttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16271473384378782680noreply@blogger.com