Smart as a Whip, Dumb as a Hoe Handle

Special to FreeRepublic ^ | 11 July 2008 | John Armor (Congressman Billybob)

[stylin19a]

guess nobody's books can be “in the black” anymore.
guess I can't be “in the pink” anymore.

I got a million more, but I chose to be niggardly when it comes to sharing.

Thanks John.

[Postman]

Well, Price has hardly been niggardly in demonstrating his contempt for language.

[Postman]

Drat! Beat by a niggardly 6 minutes.

[Swordmaker]

Well, Price has hardly been niggardly in demonstrating his contempt for language.

I don't think that Price is demonstrating contempt for language—to do that you have to be aware of the definitions of words and their etymology, which he plainly just doesn't know—and what you do not know about you cannot be contemptible about. He only demonstrates ignorance. Those who ACCEPTED his demands for apology should have told him of his error. By not doing so, THEY demonstrated contempt for the language.

[Postman]

Well, you’ve certainly made the matter crystal clear.

[zeugma]

One thing that amazes me about this affair, is the sheer ignorance Price displays by not knowing what the term "black hole" is. I don't expect him to necessarily understand the physics behind it, or even the history of the term, but one would think that in 2008, a man in his posistion, would at least know what it is. Living in the Dallas area, I know what a buffoon this guy is, but I'd never really considered that rather than being a race hustler, (like a cheap, local knock-off of Jessie Jackson), he might just be unbelievably stupid.

Speaking of black holes, I recall having seen articles about them recently, and some physicists are thinking they would probably be better described topograpically as donuts, rather than spheres. We're probably out of luck calling them black dounts though, as African-American police officers might take offense.

[woofie]

Refer to them as Donuts of a Different Color

[Stentor]

I would have agreed with you about Charles Krauthammer without reservation. On the night of the Heller decision, speaking on Fox news, he agreed with Stevens dissent.

[fishergirl]

LOL!!!

[mountn man]

That commissioner sounds like he is just dumb as a box of rocks.

Hey, what you got against rocks?
They're at least useful for something.

[neverdem]

Texas County Official Sees Race in Term 'Black Hole'

So if it's 'angel food cake,' it's white. If it's 'devil's food cake,' it's black.

I had to retrieve Price's cerebral discussion of cake. I wonder if he objects to black power?

[neverdem]

I would have agreed with you about Charles Krauthammer without reservation. On the night of the Heller decision, speaking on Fox news, he agreed with Stevens dissent.

I was wondering how Krauthammer reacted to Heller. That's what I expected, agreeing with the minority. He, George Will and Robert Bork are three usually good conservatives except on the Second Amendment.

"The hand of God moves in mysterious ways." If Robert Bork wasn't borked, Heller would have been 5 - 4 the wrong way. I thought Bork's replacement Anthony Kennedy would vote with the majority, but I was hoping Souter and Ginsburg would uphold an individual right view, like they did in the minority opinion in Muscarello where they joined Scalia and Rehnquist.

We dodged a bullet - BIG TIME!

I did some research on Krauthammer. If you haven't noticed, he uses a wheelchair. He's a psychiatrist by training, maybe via Harvard's hospital affiliates, IIRC. I was wondering whether he was a gunshot victim which might explain being wheelchair bound and dislike for the Second Amendment, but he wasn't. There was an accident, but I can't recall the cause, IIRC.

P.S. I was also wondering what was FReeper robertpaulsen's reaction to Heller. robertpaulsen hasn't posted anything since early April.

[trisham]

Krauthammer was paralyzed in a diving accident.

[neverdem]

Thank you. I was pretty sure it an accident.

[allmendream]

On the subject of hyphenated Americans the great George Foreman said ‘If anybody calls me anything but an American-American I am going to slug him’.

That being said, some “Blacks” are so dark that they are almost purple.

http://es.geocities.com/sangarci_2003/BillDuke.jpg

Check out the great actor Bill Duke. That dude is DARK. Still a dark brown I suppose but as someone pointed out, we are almost all a shade of brown because we have the same melanin molecule that is the same color, some just have more of it than others.

[trisham]

On the subject of hyphenated Americans the great George Foreman said ‘If anybody calls me anything but an American-American I am going to slug him’. That being said, some “Blacks” are so dark that they are almost purple.

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I'm with George. I have his grill, too. :)

Sure, some folks are darker than others. However, some who are of mixed heritage are paler than "whites".

[allmendream]

Exactly right. We are all actually the same color, seeings as how the melanin molecule is the same in all people. Some just have more of it and are therefore darker. We are not different colors, just light and dark. ;)

[trisham]

And some of us appear to have none, and burn to a shade of purple in the sun. Ack! :)

[FredZarguna]

On the night of the Heller decision, speaking on Fox news, he agreed with Stevens dissent.

Not exaxctly.

He thought Stevens had the better of the Originalist argument; I will grant your point if we agree that it's pretty tough to see how you could take that position if you didn't believe a priori that there was no Individual Right. Personally, I thought Scalia demolished Stevens. The line about a mixed idiom of "filled the bucket and died," in Scalia's refutation is laugh-out-loud funny, and his description of the the reasoning behind Steven's split idiom as "Grotesque" was poetry.

Sometimes Homer nods. As solid as Will, Krauthammer and Bork are on so many things, they're simply wrong on this and on a few others. And sometimes even a blind pig finds a truffle: Lawrence Tribe was on the right side of this issue, hell, he's very publicly and very thoroughly reversed himself in coming over to the Individual Right side of the debate. Nobody's perfect.

Except -- of course -- me.

[Jet Jaguar]

Good post.

However, a mention of the Pelosi connection to this should have been included.