Oops, I did it Again...! (Britney Spears)
mopar man said:
Who cares if it is politically correct to single out Texas? I think that is one major problem in the world today, simply because you cannot even state your own opinion without going to jail for a "hate crime".... not that I have been threatened by the police or anything...
I think that may have been a joke, but it still hit somewhat of a nerve.
Dude....,don't go all "twite" on me. After all, I did turn around and insult the rest of the country for being too fat. How could it be anything but a joke? Actually it was also an acute observation, and it couldn't be said it wasn't the truth either. You should be in my neighborhood, nobody has a job, but weights for women start in about 260 pounds, and top out at about 450. Well hooray, I guess the food stamp program is really working. Was I allowed to say that? Meh, who cares. So, while I suggest diet and excercise, somebody else will either put up with it, or decide that our standards for beauty be changed to suit them. I almost forgot door number four; the taxpayers pick up the tab on a gastric bypass.
mopar man said:
I don't see being told what opinions you can and can not express as being right. At least not in America. I need education on this, as I have not yet taken American Government, etc. and know nearly nothing about law, but I do know we are supposed to have the freedom of speach. Where does that line get crossed?
The American ideal of freedom of speech, has absolutely nothing to do the political landscape of 2008. The country is chock full of really creepy people who basically sit around and wait for someone to say something that they can offended by, and then turn the situation to their own advantage. Some groups of people are allowed to hate and talk about it openly, while others are stifled and even prosecuted for it.
mopar man said:
Anyway, back on topic.
I see it happening in the near future, if by a person from the same country, a terrorist, or someone wanting revenge does not matter.
It will cause panic and possibly mayhem in the country it occurs, and most likely, if I am alive, I will up and leave. Whether that will be for the better or worse, or if it is the right thing to do does not matter to me. If someone is to purposely do something like that, something far worse is liable to be right behind it, so yes, I would get the hell out of there.
Note that my opinion is not made up, and I am not closed-minded, so I take in and do examine other peoples opinions every time someone contradicts me, unlike my dad...
Bush and Cheney are actually doing a pretty fair job of creating a "fire sale" all by themselves. This is likely to happen when you elect a figurehead as president who amonts to not much more than a high functioning *****. Just spend all your money overseas in a war that didn't need to be waged, continue with a overspend and cut taxes economic policy, and angry up the middle east so as they raise the price of oil to $125.00+ dollars a barrel, then give the rest of the treasury to the Chinese, while losing most of your jobs in manufacturing in the process, and low and behold, instant fire sale.
Now, after the whole country has gotten itself hooked on SUVs, which kept getting bigger and bigger because many people enjoy looking down on their fellow drivers, and allowing truck fuel efficiency ratings to be mostly unregulated, WTF did anybody think was going to happen, our old enemies the Russians were going to take up the slack in our oil supply deficit and give us oil at the old price of 25 bucks a barrel? Not bloody likely! S*** off topic again. So, solly, he typed, mimicking a Chinese accent. Actually, you wouldn't need a fire sale, just invade at rush hour, when they're all struck on the freeway.
I sat in the gas lines of the seventies, and they were really unpleasant. Now, we have a nation of imbiciles behind the wheels, who firmly believe that dollar a gallon gasoline is another one of their social entitlements. Boy, are they in for a big surprise. Again, so solly!
If you really like ironic, edgy humor, rent yourself a copy of "Idiocracy", and read or reread Aldous Huxley's "Brave New World".