Let’s pray for those victims and their families and friends over the weekend.

And hope the Canucks beat the Stars this time!!
Go Canucks! Go!

“How about replacing each long “Comment deleted because…” boilerplate entry with just a short sentence and a link to an updated post, setting out the evolved moderation policy that has emerged?”

Yes, that has been suggested by several commenters. We all know the rules by now even if not all of us follow them all the time. I don’t even think a reason needs to be given. Just delete it and be done with it.

Anyhow, it’s good to see some of the comments on some of the longer V-Tech threads get weeded out, but a suggestion for Oranckay:

How about replacing each long “Comment deleted because…” boilerplate entry with just a short sentence and a link to an updated post, setting out the evolved moderation policy that has emerged?

As things are, the “deleted” comments seem longer than the non-deleted comments, so it’s harder to keep track of the dialogue than if the deleted comments were deleted entirely, or just replaced by short sentences.

Anyone care to comment on the Columbine redux over at Va. Tech that happened this morning? I thought after 9-11, Americans forswore this kind of senselessness and madness. Terrible tragedy.

Why yes, H. Kim, “Americans” have forsworn it.

Unfortunately, murderous immigrants such as Chou Vang and Sung Hi Cho have not.

Guess your pitiful attempt at a dig against white Americans backfired, eh?

Maybe now the insidious myth of the “model minority” will be tossed in the garbage where it belongs.

Unfortunately, there isn’t much we can do about our gun problem because

1) the Second Amendment has been grossly misinterpreted for a long time

2) there are so many guns everywhere

Nevertheless, tighter restrictions on who can own what kind and how many would certainly not make America less safe. The problem is political. Anytime the government attempts to put any kind of restriction, the NRA and gun lovers across America scream and throw money at gun law opponents while reciting cutesy quotes about people killing people (with guns!) and peeling guns from cold, dead hands. You may argue about whether America has a gun culture, but clearly there is a strong mindset that gun control laws are “unAmerican.”

I agree that someone bent on murder is going to find the means, but the difference between the US and countries that have long had strict gun control laws is the means available.

Hmm. Student? Permanent resident? US citizen?

How? Why? What?

http://music.yahoo.com/read/news/41620594

Tee-hee!

lastly, let me tell you something as a fellow american: i grew up in an america that was almost all white. i prefer to keep it that way

This is the second time I’ve read something similar you’ve written.

No sarcasm intended, but why do you feel that way?

And, I will answer your question. I cannot say that any group is entirely unassimilable into the U.S., but I do believe that rates of assimilation vary widely. Those groups would be ones having an inordinate amount of ethnic/racial/cultural pride, those who have the choice of residing in nearly monocultural enclaves in the U.S., and those who simply view their stay in the U.S. as a way to make money, have their children avoid military service back home, or other reason that makes their residence in the U.S. a matter of convenience above all.