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Reply Sun 9 Mar, 2008 12:16 am
A good friend of mine posted this on facebook; it had been stated that this was an Andy Rooney quote, but that has since been disproven, so I'm not sure where this comes from. Either way, I wanted to see what you guys think; I know I've had a lot to say about it so far.

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I don't think being a minority makes you a "victim" of anything except numbers. The only things I can think of that are truly discriminatory are things like the United Negro College Fund, Jet Magazine, Black Entertainment Television, and Miss Black America. Try to have things like the United Caucasian College Fund, Cloud Magazine, White Entertainment Television, or Miss White America; and see what happens...Jesse Jackson will be knocking down your door.

Guns do not make you a killer. I think killing makes you a killer. You can kill someone with a baseball bat or a car, but no one is trying to ban you from driving to the ball game.

I believe they are called the Boy Scouts for a reason, which is why there are no girls allowed. Girls belong in the Girl Scouts! ARE YOU LISTENING MARTHA BURKE?

I think that if you feel homosexuality is wrong, it is not a phobia, it is an opinion. I have the right 'NOT' to be tolerant of others because they are different, weird, or tick me off.

When 70% of the people who get arrested are black, in cities where 70% of the population is black, that is not racial profiling; it is the Law of Probability.

I believe that if you are selling me a milkshake, a pack of cigarettes, a newspaper or a hotel room, you must do it in English! As a matter of fact, if you want to be an American citizen, you should have to speak English! My father and grandfather didn't die in vain so you can leave the countries you were born in to come over and disrespect ours.

I think the police should have every right to shoot you if you threaten them after they tell you to stop. If you can't understand the word 'freeze' or 'stop' in English, see the above lines.

I don't think just because you were not born in this country, you are qualified for any special loan programs, government sponsored bank loans or tax breaks, etc., so you can open a hotel, coffee shop, trinket store, or any other business. We did not go to the aid of certain foreign countries and risk our lives in wars to defend their freedoms, so that decades later they could come over here and tell us our constitution is a living document; and open to their interpretations.

I don't hate the rich I don't pity the poor.

I know pro wrestling is fake, but so are movies and television. That doesn't stop you from watching them.

I think Bill Gates has every right to keep every penny he made and continue to make more. If it ticks you off, go and invent the next operating system that's better, and put your name on the building.

It doesn't take a whole village to raise a child right, but it does take parent to stand up to the kid; and smack their little behinds when necessary, and say 'NO!'

I think tattoos and piercing are fine if you want them, but please don't pretend they are a political statement. And, please, stay home until that new lip ring heals. I don't want to look at your ugly infected mouth as you serve me French fries!

I am sick of 'Political Correctness.' I know a lot of black people, and not a single one of them was born in Africa; so how can they be 'African-Americans'? Besides, Africa is a continent. I don't go around saying I am a European-American because my great, great, great, great, great, great grandfather was from Europe. I am proud to be from America and nowhere else.


Those of you who have discussed issues with me in the past probably know how I feel about most of this, but if you haven't, I'm pretty strongly opposed to just about everything in this statement and the type of thinking it represents. What do you guys think?
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contrex
 
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Reply Sun 9 Mar, 2008 01:10 am
It is a very crass example of a certain kind of unthinking stupid idiocy.
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OmSigDAVID
 
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Reply Sun 9 Mar, 2008 02:31 pm
The statement is, for the most part, expressive and supportive of personal freedom.
That is the historical basis upon which America was founded:
l'aissez faire individualist libertarian hedonism and selfishness, that I continue to support.

I hold political correctness in contempt.

David
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OmSigDAVID
 
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Reply Sun 9 Mar, 2008 02:35 pm
I also recognize the sound reasoning of the statement;
( with some exceptions, such as the matter of working with an infected mouth ).

David
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contrex
 
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Reply Mon 10 Mar, 2008 01:13 am
Quote:
l'aissez faire


I presume you meant "laissez-faire"?

I recognise the crass stupidity of the statement.
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OmSigDAVID
 
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Reply Mon 10 Mar, 2008 04:56 am
So, according to u,
what is an INTELLIGENT version of the statement ?

Something NON-selfish ?




( I am carrying the flag for SELFISHNESS here. )
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edgarblythe
 
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Reply Mon 10 Mar, 2008 05:04 am
My first wife gave an appropriate comment, about 1971. Her sister-in-law, with whom she was living at the time, gave her a paper to read, which read much like an excerpt from Oliver Twist. The gist of the statement was, we ought to be greatful and thankful to those in authority. It was worded in a way meant to make one subservient. The sister-in-law left he room. My wife-to-be tossed the paper aside. "It's a prick paper," she said.
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OmSigDAVID
 
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Reply Mon 10 Mar, 2008 05:04 am
I don 't assert that the statement is perfect.

I don 't support it 100%, but I credit and support it
for revealing some politically correct stupidity
and exposing it to appropriate ridicule & rejection.
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OmSigDAVID
 
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Reply Mon 10 Mar, 2008 05:09 am
edgarblythe wrote:
My first wife gave an appropriate comment, about 1971. Her sister-in-law, with whom she was living at the time, gave her a paper to read, which read much like an excerpt from Oliver Twist. The gist of the statement was, we ought to be greatful and thankful to those in authority. It was worded in a way meant to make one subservient. The sister-in-law left he room. My wife-to-be tossed the paper aside. "It's a prick paper," she said.


Such writings from the authoritarian Establishment,
were plentiful in those times.

The Monarchy ( combined with leadership of the Church of England ) was authoritarian.
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edgarblythe
 
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Reply Mon 10 Mar, 2008 05:13 am
OmSigDAVID wrote:
edgarblythe wrote:
My first wife gave an appropriate comment, about 1971. Her sister-in-law, with whom she was living at the time, gave her a paper to read, which read much like an excerpt from Oliver Twist. The gist of the statement was, we ought to be greatful and thankful to those in authority. It was worded in a way meant to make one subservient. The sister-in-law left he room. My wife-to-be tossed the paper aside. "It's a prick paper," she said.


Such writings from the authoritarian Establishment,
were plentiful in those times.

The Monarchy ( combined with leadership of the Church of England ) was authoritarian.


Sticking to the subject.
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OmSigDAVID
 
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Reply Mon 10 Mar, 2008 05:19 am
edgarblythe wrote:
OmSigDAVID wrote:
edgarblythe wrote:
My first wife gave an appropriate comment, about 1971. Her sister-in-law, with whom she was living at the time, gave her a paper to read, which read much like an excerpt from Oliver Twist. The gist of the statement was, we ought to be greatful and thankful to those in authority. It was worded in a way meant to make one subservient. The sister-in-law left he room. My wife-to-be tossed the paper aside. "It's a prick paper," she said.


Such writings from the authoritarian Establishment,
were plentiful in those times.

The Monarchy ( combined with leadership of the Church of England ) was authoritarian.


Sticking to the subject.

It IS the subject.
That was the environment of the subject.
The "prick paper" of Oliver Twist times issued forth under those circumstances.
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contrex
 
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Reply Mon 10 Mar, 2008 10:53 am
This thread has more pr*cks than a men's urology ward.
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OmSigDAVID
 
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Reply Mon 10 Mar, 2008 02:08 pm
Some of it was perfectly true.
For instance:
" Guns do not make you a killer.
I think killing makes you a killer.
You can kill someone with a baseball bat or a car,
but no one is trying to ban you from driving to the ball game. "
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contrex
 
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Reply Mon 10 Mar, 2008 02:31 pm
Baseball bats and cars are made for a purpose other than killing and/or threatening. Guns are not.
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OmSigDAVID
 
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Reply Mon 10 Mar, 2008 05:51 pm
contrex wrote:
Baseball bats and cars are made for a purpose other than killing and/or threatening. Guns are not.

By what reasoning is that significant ?
In other words: so what ??

If u attend the funeral of your favorite person,
will u be happier if he or she were beaten to death with a wooden club,
as distinguished from being shot with a gun ?
If so: Y ??

If an assassin chose to crush him or her under the wheels
of his car or his truck, is that NICER than shooting the victim ?
Please explain ???

David

P.S.:
Where did I go rong
concerning World War I ???????????
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contrex
 
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Reply Tue 11 Mar, 2008 01:21 am
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contrex wrote:
Baseball bats and cars are made for a purpose other than killing and/or threatening. Guns are not.

By what reasoning is that significant ?
In other words: so what ??


You're kinda dumb, aren't you?
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OmSigDAVID
 
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Reply Tue 11 Mar, 2008 01:49 am
contrex wrote:
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contrex wrote:
Baseball bats and cars are made for a purpose other than killing and/or threatening. Guns are not.

By what reasoning is that significant ?
In other words: so what ??


You're kinda dumb, aren't you?

Nowhere NEAR smart enuf to figure out your reasoning, contrex.
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OmSigDAVID
 
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Reply Tue 11 Mar, 2008 01:52 am
I 'm also too dumb to figure out Y u will not tell me
where I went rong insofar as World War I is concerned.
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OmSigDAVID
 
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Reply Tue 11 Mar, 2008 01:56 am
( I expect him to utter some kind of irrelevant remark about my fonetic spelling,
to deflect attention from his unwillingness to address the WWI question. )

I suspect that a distinct paucity of intellect lurks between his ears.
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OGIONIK
 
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Reply Tue 11 Mar, 2008 02:33 pm
IT IS TRUE, BUT WHITES FORCED THE BLACKS HERE, that makes it our fault for them being here to complain in the first place.

its weird people dont understand the concept behind modern racism, in the good ol days if someone wasnt your color they were there to TAKE ALL OF YOUR LAND WOMEN AND WEALTH , by force, and tjhey were most likely going to try and KILL YOU. we are animals duh.

and thats the bare vicious truth.

nowdays its people from a different class we have prejudice against. no money? your not mi amigo!

And im quite sure white america is cared that the colored natives are getting their country "back", but thats not true,w ell it is in a way but w/e.

OK im done, humans are dumb. im straight with that reasoning.
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