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ot:an e-mail i got (warning you might not like it) nothing to do with 9days
"ANDY ROONEY'S OPINIONS "
I like big cars, big boats, big motorcycles, big houses and big
campfires.
I believe the money I make belongs to me and my family, not some
governmental stooge with a bad comb-over who wants to give it away to
crack addicts for squirting out babies.
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, that 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 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.
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 know what sex is, and there are not varying degrees of it. If I
received sex from one of my subordinates in my office, it wouldn't be a
private matter or my personal business. I would be "FIRED" immediately!
I believe that if you are selling me a milk shake, 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 your sorry self 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 feel much safer letting a machine with no political affiliation
recount votes when needed.
I know what the definition of lying is. 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 believe a self-righteous liberal or conservative with a cause is
more dangerous than a Hell's Angel with an attitude.
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. Ask
your buddy that invented the Internet to help you.
It doesn't take a whole village to raise a child right, but it does
take a 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.
And if you don't like my point of view,...? Tough! DON'T PASS IT ON!!
_____
"Rooney;" Ya gotta love him, he's an honest man.
Post Edited (04-30-03 06:43)
Politcally incorrect with Andy Rooney?
This guy should be president.....
Long live the WWE
I absolutely love her when she smiles
**** like this makes me want to vomit.
Oh, I guess I can't say that word...
its sort of like a rednecks guide to politics....not that isnt entertaining...
its good cos its so controversial and it makes you think
but i cant say i agree with pretty much any of it...
~SOFiA~
"you wont hear me, still you endear me, now..woo woo"
I think I agree with alot of it!!!
Controversial? Nah, just uninformed. 
Post Edited (05-01-03 13:35)
I don't think its pompous - I had similar views until I got an education. I think I'm living proof that what Andy Rooney is talking about doesn't boil down to a liberal/conservative argument, but one that can be disproven through logic and data, as well as avoiding the urge to be selfish. Now, if you think using logic and data makes someone pompous (and if you think being selfish makes someone not pompous), then I really don't know what to tell you.
the problem is that people are too idealistic on that side. i'm sorry, but the world is full of assholes.
it doesn't boil down to education. it boils down to ideals.
though it does make me sad that many people on the right are toothless rednecks who live for pro-wrestling. there are some of us who are intelligent.
though ideally i think libertarianism is the way to go. i'm picking the lesser of two evils.
-Mike
Post Edited (05-01-03 20:46)
 
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I hope you know that you stereotype poor whites, Mike, as if bigotry was only a problem found in the working class communities of the South.
An ideal is not intrinsic - we get our ideals from the culture in which we were raised. In a way, culture sets the agenda - it would be very difficult for me to believe "something" in a society that has no conception of that "something." For instance, we can understand why those who grew up in a racist society were racist, even if it was wrong. Its not that they were necessarily all "bad" people, ; it just might have been all they ever knew. Thanks be to the brilliant few would could see past cultural assumptions! So an ideal is not something that cannot be substantiated or refuted. This is where knowledge comes in. When we look at where certain ideologies come from, and we examine what effect those ideologies have (i.e., modern racism as an Enlightenment ideological justification for economic exploitation), we can, as reasonable human beings, refute an ideology.
To be less verbose, if racism is an ideal, as you say, then we can use the premises of that ideal to either substantiate it or refute it. That is what I am talking about when I say that logic and data will shoot down everything Andy Rooney can throw at them.
i'm sorry, but the world is full of assholes.
how profound, u must be right!
~SOFiA~
"you wont hear me, still you endear me, now..woo woo"
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