Posted on 06/27/2011 4:13:46 PM PDT by Kaslin
“testified that she did it, because she wants to save her daughter.”
That is my mom’s take.
The mom is full of BS. She claims she was looking up “chlorophyl” and got “chloroform”. Multiple times. Yeah, I do that all the time. Who doesn’t get an overwhelming urge to look up “chlorophyl”? And then continue to look up articles on “chloroform”?
I don’t know if you saw the Man Show where Jimmy and Adam were circulating the petition to “Stop women’s suffrage”. All of these women had NO idea what it meant and signed. When they were confronted by some young lady, they said: “haven’t women suffraged enough? We’re just trying to stop the ongoing suffraging”. This lady tried to explain to an older woman what “suffrage” means. She still didn’t get it. Hilarious, but disturbing how ignorant the average person is.
well the point is that she probably wants to save the daughter. Anyway the whole family is nuts
Works for me.
To those who see voting as more or less just a matter of self-expression, almost a recreational activity, there is no need to inform themselves on both sides of the issues before voting, much less sit down and think beyond the rhetoric to the realities that the rhetoric conceals.Careless voters may be easily swayed by charisma and rhetoric, oblivious to the monumental disasters created around the world by 20th century leaders with charisma and rhetoric, such as Hitler./tt>
The problem is the PR industry, especially the branch of it known as journalism. Their very existence is predicated on the belief in the power of the frivolous to "fool most of the people most of the time."
Excellent. Thanks for the ping jaz.
As usual, Dr. Sowell says so much in so few words. Thanks Kas.
A couple of thoughts: 1) voting has become a sort of lottery where you get a ticket for breathing (note 1) and your winnings depend on aligning yourself with the most powerful special interest bloc, but originally it was a check on the power of government — a way for the governed to withdraw their "consent" if necessary. In its original form, everybody didn't NEED to vote.
2) In a country where the women do not consider their menfolk to be class enemies and patriarchal oppressors, said women tend to be in stable families, with husbands and fathers, you know — in that case every married man gets an extra vote. More, if he has voting age daughters living at home.
The Founding Fathers knew these things, of course.
Note 1: This rule (like most rules) does not apply to Democrats, of course. Breathing is optional for them.
“The Founding Fathers knew these things, of course.”
What? Our Constitution isn’t a living, breathing document, subject to the whims of the ‘Rats? LOL!
(I was just giving him a hard time and stirring the pot, as usual...)
No problem. I just wanted to inject those statements into the culture somewhere.
What? Our Constitution isn’t a living, breathing document, subject to the whims of the ‘Rats? LOL!
Somewhere I saw a quote from Jefferson to the effect that if the Congress had wanted to make a government with the power to do good and right all the wrongs of the human condition, it could have been done in one article with one sentence. Of course, he noted wryly, that such a Congress could also do "all the evil they wished."
But of course, to leftists, whatever they wish is automatically "virtue", and anybody that opposes them is therefore automatically evil incarnate.
Kinda funny how they think that, considering they also claim to believe in "diff'rent strokes" moral relativity. But that's leftism for ya, it's true by definition, even when it contradicts itself.
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