<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?><?xml-stylesheet href="http://www.blogger.com/styles/atom.css" type="text/css"?><feed xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom' xmlns:openSearch='http://a9.com/-/spec/opensearchrss/1.0/'><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11141553.post1214656498958601370..comments</id><updated>2007-07-03T15:20:46.924-04:00</updated><category term='Parenthood'/><category term='games'/><category term='music'/><category term='tech'/><category term='philosophy'/><category term='tkx'/><category term='writing'/><category term='cars'/><category term='politics'/><category term='perl'/><category term='life'/><title type='text'>Comments on Slaqing at life: Mel Martinez, you're fired.</title><link rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#feed' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.slaquer.com/feeds/1214656498958601370/comments/default'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/11141553/1214656498958601370/comments/default'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://www.slaquer.com/2007/06/mel-martinez-youre-fired.html'/><author><name>CaptSlaq</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/09765756604461479531</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><generator version='7.00' uri='http://www.blogger.com'>Blogger</generator><openSearch:totalResults>1</openSearch:totalResults><openSearch:startIndex>1</openSearch:startIndex><openSearch:itemsPerPage>25</openSearch:itemsPerPage><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11141553.post-5319194104593080582</id><published>2007-07-03T15:20:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2007-07-03T15:20:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Whereas I *do* agree with 90% or more of what you ...</title><content type='html'>Whereas I *do* agree with 90% or more of what you are saying, I can say with a fairly high degree of certainty that it will never happen, as the liberals are currently running the country, and whenever they are not, then the *moderates* are running the country, which is to say that they are pseudo-conservatives who will vote in a moderately liberal manner to appease the (noisy) left.&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;All of this, and you still live in a "red state"...  the "blue states" are even worse.  Fortunately, in Idaho, illegal immigration is not that big of an issue, as:&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;A) - we are not on or near the southern border, so we don't get the "fence jumpers", and also we're pretty short on bleeding-heart liberals.  (segue: those whiny liberals *do* show up around here are not made very welcome... also, a large part of our population up here own multiple firearms)&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;2) - we're far enough from the coast that we don't get the ones who come in by boat, either...&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;Also) - The border we are near (Canada) is not notorious for illegals entering the country...  they don't want to live here, we don't offer free state-provided medical care for everybody, and they don't like our beer. :)</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/11141553/1214656498958601370/comments/default/5319194104593080582'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/11141553/1214656498958601370/comments/default/5319194104593080582'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://www.slaquer.com/2007/06/mel-martinez-youre-fired.html?showComment=1183490400000#c5319194104593080582' title=''/><author><name>Shawn</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/10144700012066449985</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='http://www.slaquer.com/2007/06/mel-martinez-youre-fired.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11141553.post-1214656498958601370' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/11141553/posts/default/1214656498958601370' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' name='blogger.itemClass' value='pid-1569529408'/></entry></feed>
