No, no, your entitlements are your reparations - or they are buying your vote or something.
Mike Huckabee recently called it The War of Northern Aggression.
[nitpick]I always heard it as “seriously killed”[/nitpick]
But you totally fucking rock for not just recognizing it but for knowing the next line!
I debated between seriously and fiercely and landed on fiercely because it sounded more gruesome. LOL
I was impressed that you new that routine too. I don’t know anyone else who has even ever heard of Bob Nelson, so you rock, yourself! I can actually recite the whole thing start to finish. Continuing where we left off …
I myself, when I was a little children, I was playing football with my friends, and one of my friends accidentally ripped my head from my body. My head was layin in the mud and my body was running around tackling shit like this (demonstrates). One of my friends finally put my head back on my body, but the doctor said I had dain brammage. And my friends don’t know what the fuck that shit is. Anyway, the most important piece of protective gear is called the cup. Now it ain’t no Dixie cup and it ain’t no coffee mug, and you certainly wouldn’t wanna be drinking nothing out of it. It’s a piece of protective gear that goes right here so’s you can’t get hurt. [pound pound pound] Now … I ain’t got my cup on. And I can’t see shit right now. And my testicles are caught in my shouldermapads. …
I now return you to your regularly scheduled Stupid Republican Idea of the Day:
In Wisconsin, Republicans are blocking a bill from coming to a vote that would require insurance companies to categorize and therefore treat oral chemotherapy the same as intravenous chemotherapy. They’d rather line the pockets of the insurance companies than save cancer patients tens of thousands of dollars, not to mention offering them a superior quality of life.
[SWOONS]
I also know the whole routine (plus Drunk Guy and Jiffy Jeff)! I watched the 9th Annual Young Comedians Special like 12,000 times to memorize his routines (and Bob Saget and Louie Anderson and Sam Kinnison and… man that was a fucking great comedy special) and then I used to perform them for friends at parties and such.
Gays intentionally infected women with AIDS in order to pass it on to the general population. Plus gays demand the right to have sex with children whenever they want. Gays are trying to get America to commit suicide by promiscuity.
Shayna, about your testicles? Factory originals, or did they once belong to somebody else?
Just take anything Joe McCarthy said, replace all “Communist” with “homosexual”, and you’ve got this guy’s shtick.
That unauthorized documentary about Sarah Palin interviews a minister who got thrown out of his church for suggesting that gays and lesbians are people deserving of respect, and he says something like, “You know I’ve lived in this area a long time, and for a long time it was Communists everyone was afraid of. You never heard a word about homosexuality. Then the Soviet Union came to an end and within a few years it was homosexuals that everyone needed to worry about. It’s as if they have to have something to hate and fear.”
Well, the easiest way to create a sense of “us” is to create a “them”.
This thread could be an example.
I’m sure most of us are here to prepare for pre-election and Thanksgiving Day discussions, but you can’t deny there is an element of egging each other on.
Does it really matter, to anyone outside of Wyoming, what a Wyoming state representative said twenty years ago, based on excerpts of excerpts in a newspaper (even the Star-Tribune, which I think I respect), that the representative will not explicitly support today?
Is it wrong? Yes. And very sad. And appropriate to this thread. But …
Yeah, I’m not really getting the outrage over a 20 year old book either. If you asked me what I thought of Teh Gheys 10 years ago I’d probably say all kinds of stupid and offensive stuff.
Yeah but he’s still defending it in 2014:
“A newly apportioned state Republican representative in Wyoming** is standing by** claims he made at the height of the AIDS panic in a book entitled The Death Sentence of AIDS: Vital Information For You and Your Family’s Health and Safety.”
Bolding mine.
That’s what the article says, but I don’t see any actual quotes from him that I’d describe as “standing by” the claims. Sure, ideally he’d say “yeah, that was just fuckin’ crazy talk,” but I think it’s sufficient to avoid SRIOTD status if he no longer believes them. Given the length of the thread, I don’t think we need to lower our standards or anything. 
His claims are interesting because there is a tiny kernel of near-truth for both of them. Although I don’t know of any gay who has ever intentionally given a woman AIDS, during the early years of AIDS some gay leaders did knowingly and willfully exaggerate the danger of AIDS for heterosexuals (it was almost exclusively a disease of homosexuals and IV needle using druggies for many years). Their intentions were pure, they wanted to get politicians moving on fighting the epidemic and the Republicans in charge at the time were somewhere between indifferent and quietly rooting for the AIDS virus, so scaring them about the possibility of an AIDS epidemic among heterosexuals was seen by them as necessary. That may have been the germ behind the idiot’s claim.
And at some point some gay political advocates did reach out to NAMBLA to make common political cause. Fortunately saner heads in the gay movement prevailed there … it would have been a disastrous mistake. But that’s probably the seed of the assertion about gays wanting to have sex with children. Well, that and a whole lot of hatred, ignorance and bigotry.
Cite, please?
Not really an exaggeration, since it was inevitable that it would spread into the general population. Epidemiologists also warned of the same thing. And they were all right to do so.
Assuming this is true, this might be a source.
How would assimilationism apply here? Homosexuals are born of all cultures.
Living a “straight” lifestyle where you shoot for monogamy, marry (or try to), raise kids, and so on, versus distinguishing yourself from straight folk by other means than choice of partner. There are some in the gay community who (for example) oppose gay marriage because marriage is a “straight” thing and they don’t want it “forced” on them.
Republican Congressional candidate is outraged that Miller’s “The Crucible” is being taught in public schools because it attacks Joe McCarthy, who was right all along.