On Tue, 24 Feb 2009 18:52:52 GMT, blake murphy
> wrote:

>On Tue, 24 Feb 2009 02:44:59 -0700, SteveB wrote:
>
>>>>>>> But they AREN'T demons, Lou. They're dirt poor people who were born
>>>>>>> in a country that gives them no opportunity and no hope. Our
>>>>>>> ancestors
>>>>>>> were lucky enough to have gotten here at an earlier time, some
>>>>>>> legally,
>>>>>>> some illegally, when things were less complicated and society more
>>>>>>> forgiving.
>>
>> Don't you DARE ****ing include my ancestors with this group! My grandfather
>> and grandmother came here a year apart from Poland in 1913 and 1914. They
>> had the clothes on their backs, the money in their pockets, and one small
>> suitcase each. They found work. They met and married. They started
>> learning English, and started studying for citizenship. They were made
>> citizens BEFORE having their first child. They had five. They forbade
>> their children from speaking Polish in the house, although the kids would do
>> it on the sly, and paying the price of corporal punishment if caught. Every
>> one of the boys served in WW2. The two women married and had great
>> children. They were legal US citizens, and just people who observed the
>> law. So don't give me that happy liberal horseshit line. My ancestors were
>> two classes and a huge step ahead of this human garbage that is rotting out
>> system and services from within, learning to leech on the system and being
>> proud of it. Either that, or too lazy to work, and getting money from
>> illegal activities.
>>
>> Asshole.
>>
>> Steve
>
>yeah, and my ancestors were white!
>
>blake

And you felt the need to bring racism into what he said because?

I hardly ever killfile threads but I'm outta this one. Too many
cooking threads that make better use of my time. Catch up with you in
another thread.

Lou