WSJ: open the borders so hurling players can come here
Posted Thu, Jul 26, 2007 at 6:18 pm
No headline I can create would outdo the actual ones supplied by the Wall Street Journal and/or their crack writer Conor Dougherty:
Hurling in America Has a Problem -- Too Few Irishmen/The Lure of the Old Sod And Immigration Issues Make for a Player ShortageIt goes on like that.
For five years straight, the Clan Na nGael sports club in Atlanta sent a team to the North American Hurling Championships. That ended a year ago: Try as it did, Clan Na nGael could muster only 12 players, and it takes at least 13 to make a team.
...Hurling -- a centuries-old sport that has elements of field hockey and lacrosse -- has an immigration problem. With the Irish economy booming and the U.S. tightening borders, Irish expatriates are returning home and fewer newcomers are taking their place...
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Lastango (not verified)
Fri, 07/27/2007 - 05:08
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HS 11700 lastango@techie.com 2007-07-27T07:08:56-05:00
Wacko, I don't see your email address anywhere on your site so I'll just leave a note here to let you know about the study revealing the growth of the migrant population in two southern states. http://dailypundit.com/?p=26958
petty bourgeois (not verified)
Fri, 07/27/2007 - 05:41
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HS 11701 pettyburger@yahoo.com 2007-07-27T07:41:44-05:00
What happened to my comment concerning the federal judiciary? Was it deleted by TLB, or was it surrepetitiously deleted by same?
petty bourgeois (not verified)
Fri, 07/27/2007 - 05:44
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HS 11702 pettyburger@yahoo.com 2007-07-27T07:44:08-05:00
It magically reappeared again. Thanks, TLB!
Mary (not verified)
Fri, 07/27/2007 - 16:02
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HS 11703 maryellenburke2005@comcast.net 2007-07-27T18:02:04-05:0
This and other illegal stories make me want to HURL!!!!!
TLB (not verified)
Fri, 07/27/2007 - 18:52
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HS 11704 aadfsadfsdf@sdfasdfsadf.com 2007-07-27T20:52:42-05:00
Unlike, say, Washington Monthly, I'm not in the habit of deleting comments, and I didn't see the earlier comment until now, so I assume it was a haloscan issue. That said, the earlier comment is a bit... strong.
Smitty (not verified)
Fri, 07/27/2007 - 19:03
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HS 11705 yehrtoast@yahoo.com 2007-07-27T21:03:40-05:00
hmmm, I would have figured the lack of players was the result of global warming. Don't ya need ice to hurl? Ice in Atlanta? Don't they call it hotlanta?
Fred Dawes (not verified)
Sat, 07/28/2007 - 00:13
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HS 11706 dawes57@cox.net 2007-07-28T02:13:01-05:00
Good god the little people are coming, all Irismen sould go to Mexico and help the drug dealers and bin ladens boys just like the MEXICAN ARE DOING.
Pat (not verified)
Sat, 07/28/2007 - 01:33
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HS 11707 dpenpaper@netscape.net 2007-07-28T03:33:59-05:00
Americans can hurl as well as any Irishman! (Insert joke here)
amanda (not verified)
Sun, 07/29/2007 - 10:02
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HS 11708 asdfjklsc@yahoo.com 2007-07-29T12:02:24-05:00
That reads like something from The Onion. Someone could mix stories from both papers and it would be hard to tell which were jokes and which were serious. I guess the WSJ is serious but sometimes I wonder.