I will not believe those aren’t made up without cites. Not that I’m some hard-nosed evidence junkie, but … really? No … fucking really?
Those sound straight out of The Onion.
Here you go, for the first one, at least: http://www.jsonline.com/news/wisconsin/wife-drives-into-chippewa-falls-man-after-vote-argument-ke5bdap-150697635.html
She tried to drive around him, and he jumped in front of the moving vehicle and got hit. And his brother calls her a “crazy liberal nut”. First, the guy is a knuckle-dragging piece of shit for trying to physically restrain his wife from exercising her right to vote. Second, he’s an utter lunatic for diving in front of a moving SUV.
Oh, here’s a link for the other one: http://www.thestate.com/2012/03/06/2179432/laurens-county-gop-oks-purity.html
Even the state GOP leaders think it’s stupid.
The brother’s quote indeed seems like something out of The Onion (Like the classic “why do all those f**** keep s*ing my d?”) However, it seems that the brother was asked what his position on the recall was, rather than on the accident. It was just placed in the article in a way that implied that he was talking about the accident rather than about the recall in general. Of course, since the paper didn’t repeat the reporter’s question, at this point I don’t know the question he was responding to.
Good for her!
I found the link I followed. (Firefox History to the Rescue!)
The above links to an article about Romney, which might be fun in its own right. (It includes a video of him “losing his cool” with a radio talk show host.) The quotes I posted are from items 1 and 22 of Today’s FlipBook: Only in America linked to from the right-side bar on the above page.
(I’d never heard of theweek.com and it might be similar to The Onion for all I know. :smack:)
No, it’s a reputable digest of news from media from all around the world. It does little reporting of its own, but accurately summarizes reports from other mainstream newspapers, TV networks, and Web sites. It is not a parody site like The Onion. (I subscribe to the print edition of The Week.)
In order to provide balance I think I should give some time to a Republican who has some genuinely smart ideas about possibly achieving peace in the Middle East
Well, you have to admit, those are two men who will never argue with each other.
“Sharon and Arafat were unavailable for comment.” – Times of Israel
Well, of course it’s my congresscritter…Joe’s an ass. I’m hardly surprised he’s a dumbass.
And each are smarter than the Pitts.
What part of this is difficult to understand?
They are exactly right and kudos to them for doing this.
I can conceive of no possible reason why the people responsible for water management and delivery would need to know how many fixtures that use water are in use in a given area.
If it was unconstitutional why would they need to pass a law about it? Couldn’t they challenge it in court? Of course, probably because it is not in fact unconstitutional as clearly the census is in the Constitution and the 'necessary and proper clause in Article 1 Section 8 allows them to ask whatever the hell they want.
What horrifying evil are they protecting us from by removing questions about toilets?
Niggers and spics. Please try to keep up.
Does advocating armed revolution in the face of an inability to win an election count as an “idea”? I think it does:
“We shall not have any course but armed revolution should we fail with the power of the vote in November. This Republic cannot survive for 4 more years underneath this political socialist ideologue.”
—Ponch McPhee, editor of the Green County, Virginia, Republican Committee newsletter
After all, it’s worked so well in other places around the world over the last century.
I miss the days when all we to worry about were japs and Jews.
Not of the dude’s name is Ponch…
You know of course that that’s not the only question the American Community Survey asks. It alsoasks about:
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[li]race[/li][li]education[/li][li]health insurance[/li][li]disabilities[/li][/ul]And several more factors about this country that are important for legislators to know when trying to create laws that affect their citizens. For instance, if (totally made up number) 19% of citizens over the age of 55 report that they use some kind of mobility device (wheelchair, walker, those little scooters) then perhaps it’s necessary to require all stores to have aisles 3 feet wide, but if only (also made up) .5% of the population over 55 does, maybe it’s an undue burden on businesses. Without the survey, those population numbers aren’t there to help make that decision.
But by all means, concentrate on the toilet question. Scrap the whole damned survey, that’ll tell you how many more black people couldn’t afford college or how many more people lost their health insurance in the last 10 years or how many veterans are suffering from closed head injuries, because you think the toilet question is stupid. Sounds about par for the Republican course.