It’s not all that hard to become a state legislator, and the process by which people get nominated and elected to those positions doesn’t exactly do much to screen out idiots.
This example is really not all that extraordinary.
Let me know when the recliners are available.
Exactly! It’s her opinion, after all, and we all know that opinions can’t be wrong!
Remember them? I was a legal alien attending an American high school when they were running. I still remember how an exchange student from England who was attending our high school talked about putting on a pair of fake antenna, going down to the post office and saying, “Hi! I’m an alien who’d like to register.” 
Honestly! I spent 20 years of my life as an alien and I don’t find anything offensive about the term! As for who Ms. Wilson’s constituents are, I’ll simply point out that voting is a privilege awarded to US citizens only. Aliens can’t vote. With all the hurricanes Florida has, I have to wonder why she’d try to stir up a tempest in a teapot.
Frederica Wilson was on the Miami-Dade County School Board for countless years, before she became a Senator. The woman is an idiot, and she regularly mangles the English language. As the son of two hard-working Miami-Dade public schoolteachers with over 30 years each invested in the system, I paid attention to the School Board’s announcements and decisions, and always noticed she was one of the more visible and outspoken idiots to grace its membership. Down there, the School Board is a pretty wretched hive of scum and villainy.
Thank you. I hate when people say that some horrible grammatical error has been deemed correct because of its wide usage. I hate that. I hate it a…lot.
[goes to look up Fuddruckers to see if they changed the name yet.]
“An alien to me is someone from out of space.”
It is to me too!
A foreigner isn’t though.
More likely she was paying tribute to the late Billy Preston’s hit “Outta Space.”
That’s what I was thinking. OK, this person malaprops terribly, but I agree with her sentiment 100%. An Alien is something or someone from another planet.
A “Foreigner” or “Permanent Resident” is what you call people from other countries living in your own- “Illegal Immigrant” if they’re not there legally, IMO.
No, Alien = foreigner (or just stranger to the environment). Space Alien = foreigner from outer space.
:dubious: Well language does evolve. And now it’s come to refer to people from outerspace. But…THERE ARE NO PEOPLE FROM OUTERSPACE. And it originally meant just folks from over the hill, or the next town, or across the river.
Or just unusual.
And being unusual is bad because…because…why again?
It’s meant "from another country"since the 1300’s. Get over it.
Exactly, and I know it is a tough concept for some people to grasp, but some words have multiple meanings. Just because a new meaning of a word arises, doesn’t mean that all the other definitions are invalid.
I know, tough concept.
I would say ‘let her pass the law but it doesn’t come into effect until we have actual aliens from outer space in America’ if I didn’t know for sure that Aliens are already there. As evidenced by the fact that certain American’s have had their brains removed by said Aliens.
How long before we’re not allowed to call Aliens aliens? They’re now ‘Brethren of the Stars’
“Should of”? That’s a whole nother issue.
What should we call someone who is from another metaphorical planet?
Beavis: “Hey Butthead, do you believe in aliens?”
Butthead: “Uhhhh, I believe in illegal aliens. I believe in Mexicans.”
I’m guessing her newspaper of choice is the Weekly World News.
As evidenced by her legislation to block the opening of the Big Foot Shoe Store.
Charger bin juste shonen of so bon him han konnen la langue.
Yes, but the US is the only country (that I’m aware of) that uses “Alien” to describe Foreign Nationals living in their country.
The only context I ever heard the world “Alien” when I was growing up in NZ was referring to either Space Aliens, or actual concepts/ideas (“an alien concept”). The term was never applied to people, and to me it has somewhat negative connotations.