Back to the OP:
I don’t believe anybody under the age of 25 should be allowed to vote unless they can pass a fairly tough standardized test. Frankly I think the Athenians “30” year old cutoff was reasonable. I don’t think you can really way issues until you’ve been self-supporting (and yes, that definitely extends to middle aged people who were born with and inherited lots of money).
Some people are just too fucking stupid to be allowed to vote. Just because literacy testing (not just “can you read and write?” but “do you know what you are voting for or what a president/congressman/senator can and cannot do?”) is associated with Jim Crow Laws (when it was very inequitably enforced- for whites it was ‘sign your name’ if that while blacks might be asked to do things like translate Latin passages or write essays on English Common Law under Cromwell) doesn’t mean it’s a racist (the same test should be given to everybody) or classist (even poor people are taught to read) idea in and of itself.
Christian ministers who use their pulpit to promote candidates should lose their tax exempt church status, speaking of which…
There should be a ceiling on church tax exemption. I don’t have a problem with the little church on the corner not paying taxes, I don’t have a problem with a gigantic cathedral built in 1850 not paying taxes, but I think it’s ridiculous when a church spends $20 million on a glass and steel house of worship whose preacher then turns around and begs for money. I think grandfathering in all current churches and placing a $10 million ceiling on future buildings is more than reasonable.
I think a $2 million for personal property/$5 million for businesses exemption for inheritance taxes is MORE than sufficient. After that tax the shit out of it.
I don’t give a fuck what your Bible tells you. About anything. At all. Even if you agree with me on the issue. Same with L. Ron Hubbard, Marx, or any other ideology people follow blindly.
PEOPLE IN POVERTY SHOULD NOT INTENTIONALLY CONCEIVE CHILDREN, and that goes especially for SINGLE MOTHERS (and yes, I agree, the father has just as much responsibility, but it’s the mother who’s most likely to be stuck with it). Period. I have no problem whatever when a family that’s had some economic disasters (the kind that can happen to anybody) have to use state assistance- that’s what it’s there for and it should be- but I resent the hell out of knowing how many billions of dollars are paid to dependent children each year when most of them were so avoidable and it’s degrading to the child to know s/he’s raised by the state. I don’t care what religion, race, ethnicity or whatever else you are- if you can’t support yourself then you shouldn’t bring somebody else into the world and if you do you should let them be adopted. (Admittedly this is a particular sore point to me as my closest friend’s drug using bitch cooze sister is currently engendered with a half sorry-ass-fucking-loser-needs-to-be-euthanized methhead/half-fucking bitch cooze pothead hybrid that’s due to gnaw it’s way out in about a month and takes all aid as her due and will not even consider letting it be adopted where it might have a chance.)
On a related note, the Legality of Abortion should be written into the Constitution for all times (though any woman who has more than three from easily avoidable pregnancies should be sterilized).
If Bush and Cheney both died tomorrow I wouldn’t shed a tear and I’d probably dance a little.
Whenever I see a W-The President bumper sticker on a car I automatically assume the person is an idiot, an asshole, or some combination thereof. I recognize this is a personal prejudice, but it’s the first thing that goes through my mind. (I can understand having voted for him, but being proud of it?)
Most homeless people are crazy and or drug addicts. This doesn’t mean it’s okay to be mean to them, but the “good people who fell on bad times” are by far the exception.
Humans evolved and outlived the dodos because they can adapt. Fuck what’s traditional and go with what works or makes sense.
Most people are fucking stupid.
Don’t even think about asking me for money if you’re somebody that I’ve never hugged or to whom I’ve specifically offered money.
I think moderate and discreet adultery is good for a marriage. How many times can the same body realistically excite you? Most men and at least many (if not most) women just really aren’t designed by nature to be 100% sexually monogamous and dipping your wick in another well (or having another wick dipped in your well) once in a while is not the worst thing that can happen to a relationship and I think many people way overreact to it. It’s quite possible to think “I love this person, I want to spend the rest of my life with this person, but damned I’m horny for a younger better looking or at least different body”. That said, it should be meaningless sex and you shouldn’t tell your partner.
The fact a man is a homophobe doesn’t mean they’re a closeted gay guy (though it is a possibility of course). This one needs to be retired.
People who are infected with the AIDS virus in the USA today through drug use or unprotected sex with someone they don’t know extremely well- I just really don’t feel that much sympathy for you. People who knowingly infect others with HIV need to be shot dead.
While I think pot should be legalized and that it’s no worse and probably nowhere near as harmful as alchohol, anybody who gets arrested for its possession while it’s a crime: I have no sympathy for you. You’re neither Rosa Parks nor Gandhi, you’re just a bitch who likes his weed and is too stupid not to get caught.
Related: Legalizing drugs would cause as many problems as it solves and most people I know who are majorly in favor of pot legalization or against employee drug testing “on principal” are really druggies.
Saying Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson are assholes doesn’t make you racist, it just makes you right. (Now you might be racist, but in this particular case, even if it’s for the wrong reasons, you’re also right.)
On a related note, don’t give me that bullshit about how “When I say nigger I mean a particular type of black person…”. No you don’t. Because you wouldn’t say it if the person was white and there’s no equivalent word (“whitetrash” comes closest probably but lacks the history). Therefore, you’re a racist.
Speaking of racism, states apologizing for slavery is meaningless empty-gestured bullshit and the notion of reparations for slavery are just fucking insane and clueless. So is flying the rebel flag and claiming “it’s not about racism”- fuck you, it’s either saying you’re a racist or you’re a totally ignorant fucking dumbass and I’m not discounting the probability you’re both.
If you say “I’m not the least bit racist”, you’re either lying or an incredibly wonderful and enlightened person, and I’m going to go with liar until I see sufficient evidence otherwise. The song from Avenue Q sums up my sentiments almost exactly. And that said, I’ll quote from it for the last part:
“Mexican busboys should learn to speak goddamned English.” Every other Mexican or South American born person currently living in America should as well. And while I understand why people come here from Third World Countries, thereagain if you get shot at coming over the border= I’m not gonna cry. (And Mexico should be forced to pay reparations for the money their citizens cost us for as long as they continue to publish materials that help people cross the border.)