A Few More Things
A few things I picked up around the lj world today:
1) The reason that we can't have the Ten Commandments in a courthouse is that you cannot post "Thou Shalt Not Steal", "Thou Shalt Not Commit Adultery", and "Thou Shalt Not Lie" in a building full of lawyers, judges, and politicians. It creates a hostile working environment.
2) When NASA first started sending up astronauts, they quickly discovered that ball point pens would not work in zero gravity. To combat this problem, NASA scientists spent a decade and $12 billion dollars developing a pen that writes in zero gravity upside-down on almost any surface including glass and at below freezing temperatures to over 300 C. The Russians used a pencil.
Your taxes will be due again. Enjoy paying them.
3) From an interviewer for the Times in Britain: In person Mr Bush is so far removed from the caricature of the dim, war-mongering Texas cowboy of global popular repute that it shakes one’s faith in the reliability of the modern media.
I "gacked" that from kcwriter. Have you noticed that the word "gack" has been making its way around the internet lately? Especially the lj community...
4) Finally, the same thanks apply for this piece of work: Wow. While educating you as to a number of our stranger expressions, it makes you appreciate your life in 21st century America. I knew the origins of canopy beds (though I think they date back to at least the Middle Ages) but most of the others were news to me. (The second to last one might also provide the origin for the expression "dead drunk" -- but I doubt it...) Of course, Snopes says they aren't true so there goes that...
5) Bob Parks is mad as hell and he's not going to take it anymore. A taste:
By now we should all know what Democrats think about us niggers. They promote the use of the word in their version of “pop” culture. White liberal screenwriters in Hollywood add the word to “keep it real” in movies, television programs and music videos. They get all bent out of shape when a conservative has a mild Rush Limbaugh-Donovan McNabb or Trent Lott moment, but the sentiment that blacks truly are niggers has always been reserved for liberals.
When a black conservative is nominated for any kind of prominent position, the liberal response is that they are not the “right kind of black.” In other words, they’ve escaped the plantation and aren’t their kind of nigger. In order to place them within that category, people like Gloria Allred call them “Uncle Tom types.”
Can any of us remember Mr. Oliphant creating a racist caricature of such esteemed dignitaries like Jesse Jackson of Al Sharpton? Where are the racist cartoons of Yassir Arafat, Osama bin Laden, or any of the terrorists that kill civilians as a military tactic? While Al-Jazeera is overplaying the shooting of a supposed unarmed terrorist by a U.S. marine while choosing not to air the execution of CARE President Margaret Hassan by Iraqi militants, where are the cartoons of those animals?
True, Arafat and his ilk was only bent on killing Jews, which is something the heralded United Nations consider a moot point. Hassan is just a woman, so her killers get a pass. But let a conservative black woman turn her back on her designated massah and watch her incur the wrath of the liberal press.
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So the next time liberals attempt to tell us how to be tolerant, I’m happy to know that in their eyes as a black conservative, I am a nigger and I need to have my mind made right. Good thing for me they can’t take me out back for a whuppin’.
Just put me in one of those housing projects where I belong. Encourage me to have sex and impregnate as many women as possible so the Democrats can assume the role of father and consider my seed their property. Produce more rap videos so people around the world can embrace black people as the thugs and whores the liberals consider us, while white Hollywood liberals can buy homes in Beverly Hills from the cash such trash brings in.
1) The reason that we can't have the Ten Commandments in a courthouse is that you cannot post "Thou Shalt Not Steal", "Thou Shalt Not Commit Adultery", and "Thou Shalt Not Lie" in a building full of lawyers, judges, and politicians. It creates a hostile working environment.
2) When NASA first started sending up astronauts, they quickly discovered that ball point pens would not work in zero gravity. To combat this problem, NASA scientists spent a decade and $12 billion dollars developing a pen that writes in zero gravity upside-down on almost any surface including glass and at below freezing temperatures to over 300 C. The Russians used a pencil.
Your taxes will be due again. Enjoy paying them.
3) From an interviewer for the Times in Britain: In person Mr Bush is so far removed from the caricature of the dim, war-mongering Texas cowboy of global popular repute that it shakes one’s faith in the reliability of the modern media.
I "gacked" that from kcwriter. Have you noticed that the word "gack" has been making its way around the internet lately? Especially the lj community...
4) Finally, the same thanks apply for this piece of work: Wow. While educating you as to a number of our stranger expressions, it makes you appreciate your life in 21st century America. I knew the origins of canopy beds (though I think they date back to at least the Middle Ages) but most of the others were news to me. (The second to last one might also provide the origin for the expression "dead drunk" -- but I doubt it...) Of course, Snopes says they aren't true so there goes that...
5) Bob Parks is mad as hell and he's not going to take it anymore. A taste:
By now we should all know what Democrats think about us niggers. They promote the use of the word in their version of “pop” culture. White liberal screenwriters in Hollywood add the word to “keep it real” in movies, television programs and music videos. They get all bent out of shape when a conservative has a mild Rush Limbaugh-Donovan McNabb or Trent Lott moment, but the sentiment that blacks truly are niggers has always been reserved for liberals.
When a black conservative is nominated for any kind of prominent position, the liberal response is that they are not the “right kind of black.” In other words, they’ve escaped the plantation and aren’t their kind of nigger. In order to place them within that category, people like Gloria Allred call them “Uncle Tom types.”
Can any of us remember Mr. Oliphant creating a racist caricature of such esteemed dignitaries like Jesse Jackson of Al Sharpton? Where are the racist cartoons of Yassir Arafat, Osama bin Laden, or any of the terrorists that kill civilians as a military tactic? While Al-Jazeera is overplaying the shooting of a supposed unarmed terrorist by a U.S. marine while choosing not to air the execution of CARE President Margaret Hassan by Iraqi militants, where are the cartoons of those animals?
True, Arafat and his ilk was only bent on killing Jews, which is something the heralded United Nations consider a moot point. Hassan is just a woman, so her killers get a pass. But let a conservative black woman turn her back on her designated massah and watch her incur the wrath of the liberal press.
...
So the next time liberals attempt to tell us how to be tolerant, I’m happy to know that in their eyes as a black conservative, I am a nigger and I need to have my mind made right. Good thing for me they can’t take me out back for a whuppin’.
Just put me in one of those housing projects where I belong. Encourage me to have sex and impregnate as many women as possible so the Democrats can assume the role of father and consider my seed their property. Produce more rap videos so people around the world can embrace black people as the thugs and whores the liberals consider us, while white Hollywood liberals can buy homes in Beverly Hills from the cash such trash brings in.