Posted on 07/29/2010 8:27:09 AM PDT by CanGyrene
A VERY GOOD EXAMPLE OF THE KIND OF REPRESENTATION WE HAVE IN CONGRESS, TRUE STORY:
(Excerpt) Read more at warpspeed.com ...
'Would you mind telling me, Doctor,' she asked, 'how you detect a mental deficiency in somebody who appears completely normal?'
'Nothing is easier,' he replied. 'You ask a simple question which anyone should answer with no trouble. If the person hesitates, that puts you on the track..'
'What sort of question?' asked Pelosi.
Well, you might ask, 'Captain Cook made three trips around the world and died during one of them. Which one?''
Pelosi thought a moment, and then said with a nervous laugh, 'You wouldn't happen to have another example would you? I must confess I don't know much about history.'
An obvious answer came to me right away.
Semper fi!
Zot?
Damn it’s a great story but unfortunately it’s not true:
http://www.snopes.com/politics/pelosi/captaincook.asp
Like most things on the internet
Snopes says this has been running around the internet since 2001, sometimes using the proverbial ‘Blonde’ instead of Pelosi.
He was stabbed to death..
snopes says a lot of things...doesn’t make them true, though.
(btw, I don’t believe the story, but I also do not rely on the libs at snopes to tell me what is is or is not true.)
Nan always has that crazy smile on her face.
Whatever she’s taking makes her happy.
Nothing like spreading stupidity around.
When I get a "forwarded" e-mail, I'll usually check the verasity of anything that's being presented as fact. If I find out it isn't, I'll "reply all" and tell everyone what I've found out. If they don't like it, they can delete it. If the person who forwarded it doesn't like it, they can stop forwarding junk to me. :)
Al baby, how’s it going?
Well, that may not be true but this is. I read a long article about Pelosi that came out about the time she started flexing her muscles as Speaker. It was all about how heroic she was because she overcame a serious handicap and went on to attain the position of power she holds. The author was a tool of course. But the interesting part was the handicap. And al, you just have to believe me because every trace of that article and anything that quoted it is gone - scrubbed like it never existed. The story was, Nancy was born with only half a brain. The rest of it was not developed and she spent years getting special training and therapy, over came it and became an over-achiever.
I didn’t save the darn thing, went back a few days later to snag it, having realized my oversight, and nada. I don’t know whether that was the element of Nan’ life that was most responsible for turning her into the misguided witch she is or whether she’d just be twice as bad with both halves of her brain. Bottom line, though, San Fran Nan only has 1/2 a brain so she may not be very good with riddles.
People who post jokes or sob stories invented by LOLs as news are DAABOR, in my opinion.
I thought it was funny - in FReeper language - “HUMOUR” - I still think it’s funny (and likely appropriate). After all the poor woman allegedly only has half a brain - and that question was a real challenge. There’s got to be something worth laughing at in all of this...
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I thought it was funny - in FReeper language - “HUMOUR” - I still think it’s funny (and likely appropriate). After all the poor woman allegedly only has half a brain - and that question was a real challenge. There’s got to be something worth laughing at in all of this...
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I’m with you on that. Any take down of Pelosi is golden. I just thought it might be blog SPAM; sorry.
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