# Why haven't these liberal things been banned? **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [August 2, 2010, 9:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-havent-these-liberal-things-been-banned/548934 "2010-08-02T21:19:00Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![GHO57](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/df788c/32.png) [@GHO57](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GHO57)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2010, 12:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-havent-these-liberal-things-been-banned/548934/61 "2010-08-03T00:49:07Z")
> [@carnivorousplant](#): > > > [@gonzomax](#): > > > > I have heard once you get high on glue ,you will stick with it. > > Why hasn’t these pun things been banned? > 🙂 They tried that once… it lead to the punic wars. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![El\_Kabong](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/el_kabong/32/496_2.png) [@El\_Kabong](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/El_Kabong)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2010, 12:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-havent-these-liberal-things-been-banned/548934/62 "2010-08-03T00:52:37Z")
[Quote=bullrun] It is common knowledge throughout the universe that leftist carry a disease called liberalism. [/Quote] OK, you guys may laugh at that, but when I was in the Tau Ceti system on business last week, that was all they wanted to talk about. ---
**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2010, 12:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-havent-these-liberal-things-been-banned/548934/63 "2010-08-03T00:52:38Z")
> [@GHO57](#): > > They tried that once… it lead to the punic wars. 😃 Obviously the Good Guys lost. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Dag\_Otto](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/439d5e/32.png) [@Dag\_Otto](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dag_Otto)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2010, 12:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-havent-these-liberal-things-been-banned/548934/64 "2010-08-03T00:54:53Z")
> [@Kyla](#): > > > [@BrainGlutton](#): > > > > I’m thinking phys.ed. . . . > > He claims to have a degree in history and to be a former history teacher. > > And yet he doesn’t understand that voting exams are illegal. Everyone knows that the teacher’s union protects the stupid teachers. Perhaps they drew the line at **bullrun**? ---
**Author:** ![elmwood](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/elmwood/32/3060_2.png) [@elmwood](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elmwood)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2010, 12:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-havent-these-liberal-things-been-banned/548934/65 "2010-08-03T00:55:00Z")
**bullrun** , dude, can you talk about anything aside from “libs”? Maybe make a post about something like … oh, Lord of the Rings. People on the Straight Dope really seem to like Lord of the Rings, for some reason. Bacon and anything related to bacon, also. Maybe you’ll get some respect if you rant about how the damn libs are trying to turn everybody into Subaru-driving lesbian hippie vegetarians, and thus Barack HUSSEIN Obama is going to take your bacon away, or how in Lord of the Rings, the Dark Lord Sauron is the equivalent of Barack HUSSEIN Obama, and that the Hobbits represent real hard working, salt-of-the-earth entrepreneurial Americans from the rural South. Make those rants _accessible_, man. What? That’s just his middle name, that’s all. I ain’t implyin’ nothing. He used it when he was inaugurated, and it’s on his Kenyan Muslim Socialist Islamic birth certificate. ---
**Author:** ![mhendo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mhendo/32/3159_2.png) [@mhendo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mhendo)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2010, 12:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-havent-these-liberal-things-been-banned/548934/66 "2010-08-03T00:56:37Z")
> [@woodstockbirdybird](#): > > Indeed. Those liberals that started the McCarthy hearings and drafted the Patriot Act and hosed down those black civil rights marchers were some bastards for sure. Hey, **Starving Artist** talked to one of those black people once, and they assured him that they took no offense at the hosing, being as they needed a shower and all. ---
**Author:** ![descamisado](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e480ec/32.png) [@descamisado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/descamisado)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2010, 1:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-havent-these-liberal-things-been-banned/548934/67 "2010-08-03T01:12:30Z")
> [@elmwood](#): > > Maybe make a post about something like … oh, Lord of the Rings. People on the Straight Dope really seem to like Lord of the Rings, for some reason. Bacon and anything related to bacon, also. Maybe you’ll get some respect if you rant about how the damn libs are trying to turn everybody into Subaru-driving lesbian hippie vegetarians, and thus Barack HUSSEIN Obama is going to take your bacon away, or how in Lord of the Rings, the Dark Lord Sauron is the equivalent of Barack HUSSEIN Obama, and that the Hobbits represent real hard working, salt-of-the-earth entrepreneurial Americans from the rural South. Make those rants _accessible_, man. Bacon Baa Hear Skim Us. He lures us in with the bacon we love, we turn into sheep and listen to him, mesmerized, then he’s able to skim government money from us. There, it all makes sense now. ---
**Author:** ![Yookeroo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/yookeroo/32/323_2.png) [@Yookeroo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Yookeroo)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2010, 1:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-havent-these-liberal-things-been-banned/548934/68 "2010-08-03T01:14:08Z")
**Starving Artist** jumping in to support **bullrun**? Best thread ever. Might also be the stupidest thread ever. ---
**Author:** ![elmwood](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/elmwood/32/3060_2.png) [@elmwood](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elmwood)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2010, 1:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-havent-these-liberal-things-been-banned/548934/69 "2010-08-03T01:15:19Z")
Also, are you **starring\_emma** ’s father? [http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?p=11769688#post11769688](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?p=11769688#post11769688) [http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?p=11757332#post11757332](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?p=11757332#post11757332) [http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?p=11758713#post11758713](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?p=11758713#post11758713) [http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?p=11758944#post11758944](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?p=11758944#post11758944) [http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?p=11760265#post11760265](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?p=11760265#post11760265) ---
**Author:** ![El\_Kabong](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/el_kabong/32/496_2.png) [@El\_Kabong](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/El_Kabong)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2010, 1:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-havent-these-liberal-things-been-banned/548934/70 "2010-08-03T01:18:42Z")
> [@mhendo](#): > > Hey, **Starving Artist** talked to one of those black people once, and they assured him that they took no offense at the hosing, being as they needed a shower and all. That was rather beautiful. ---
**Author:** ![crowmanyclouds](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/crowmanyclouds/32/19884_2.png) [@crowmanyclouds](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/crowmanyclouds)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2010, 1:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-havent-these-liberal-things-been-banned/548934/71 "2010-08-03T01:21:43Z")
> [@elucidator](#): > > … Until I read Mark Twain about the Phillipines. … Heeey, watch that shit, “Mark Twain” wrote passable books about children. Samuel Langhorne Clemens broke your (and my) heart … with a pen warmed up in hell. CMC fnord! [_Incident in the Philippines_](http://occawlonline.pearsoned.com/bookbind/pubbooks/divine5e/medialib/timeline/docs/sources/theme_primarysources_Military_2_11.html) and [“Old Duckboard”](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smedley_Butler) stripped me of all my youthful notions of “Patriotism”. ---
**Author:** ![PlainJain](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/5daacb/32.png) [@PlainJain](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PlainJain)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2010, 1:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-havent-these-liberal-things-been-banned/548934/72 "2010-08-03T01:25:21Z")
> [@BrainGlutton](#): > > > [@hotflungwok](#): > > > > Hey! [He was a teacher](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=571939), dammit! > > I’m thinking phys.ed. . . . [Ya think?](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DgmYo3uwn7w) ---
**Author:** ![tomndebb](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/b9e5f3/32.png) [@tomndebb](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tomndebb)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2010, 2:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-havent-these-liberal-things-been-banned/548934/73 "2010-08-03T02:02:46Z")
> [@Starving\_Artist](#): > > I know of no other entity in the country that has been allowed to get away with beatings and threats and intimidation like labor unions have. Jim Crow law enforcement Mine owners from around 1870 through 1941 and a bit later Automobile companies, (particularly Ford) through the 1920s and 1930s California farming conglomerates If you are unaware that every one of those outfits can stand “proudly” next to the unions for intimidation, (and actually suffered far less retribution than unions), then you really need to get out more. In fact, one can make a good case that the unions learned their intimidation tactics at the hands of American business–and no American business has ever been seriously held accountable for the violence it inflicted. ---
**Author:** ![xanthfreek](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/x/9d8465/32.png) [@xanthfreek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/xanthfreek)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2010, 2:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-havent-these-liberal-things-been-banned/548934/74 "2010-08-03T02:14:06Z")
> [@woodstockbirdybird](#): > > Plus, liberals encourage darkies and illegal immigrants to breed like Mormons so they can sit around their tenements eating bon bons and smoking crack on the taxpayer’s dime! Liberals don’t care, because they’re largely jobless themselves. Such arrogance! Denying the existence of God, which has been proven time and again to the satisfaction of everyone but these Commies! Also, their sandals make me angry! One, I’m not a “Commie;” two, I hate bon-bons; three, the last I heard, crack costs _way_ more than a dime; and hell, I’m fairly liberal and sandals make \*me \*angry! And, for this not-a-Commie, God _still_ hasn’t been proven to my satisfaction! I don’t deny the existence of a God, but neither do I embrace it. IMPO, you need therapy. And, I’ve met very few sincere religious devotees who are such bigots as to insult themselves by calling Blacks “darkies.” Not only that, but when even illegal immigrants have children who are born in the US, the children are no longer “illegal immigrants” – they are _citizens!_ You’re arrogant, but not in a good way. ---
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2010, 2:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-havent-these-liberal-things-been-banned/548934/75 "2010-08-03T02:17:05Z")
> [@xanthfreek](#): > > > [@woodstockbirdybird](#): > > > > Plus, liberals encourage darkies and illegal immigrants to breed like Mormons so they can sit around their tenements eating bon bons and smoking crack on the taxpayer’s dime! Liberals don’t care, because they’re largely jobless themselves. Such arrogance! Denying the existence of God, which has been proven time and again to the satisfaction of everyone but these Commies! Also, their sandals make me angry! > > One, I’m not a “Commie;” two, I hate bon-bons; three, the last I heard, crack costs _way_ more than a dime; and hell, I’m fairly liberal and sandals make \*me \*angry! And, for this not-a-Commie, God _still_ hasn’t been proven to my satisfaction! I don’t deny the existence of a God, but neither do I embrace it. IMPO, you need therapy. And, I’ve met very few sincere religious devotees who are such bigots as to insult themselves by calling Blacks “darkies.” Not only that, but when even illegal immigrants have children who are born in the US, the children are no longer “illegal immigrants” – they are _citizens!_ You’re arrogant, but not in a good way. Humor. It is a difficult concept. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2010, 2:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-havent-these-liberal-things-been-banned/548934/76 "2010-08-03T02:28:59Z")
> [@BrainGlutton](#): > > Humor. It is a difficult concept. > > 🙂 Would you like to subscribe to my newsletter? ---
**Author:** ![Gorsnak](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gorsnak/32/7587_2.png) [@Gorsnak](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gorsnak)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2010, 2:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-havent-these-liberal-things-been-banned/548934/77 "2010-08-03T02:29:43Z")
> [@BrainGlutton](#): > > Humor. It is a difficult concept. > > 🙂 I can’t tell who’s wooshing who. ---
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2010, 2:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-havent-these-liberal-things-been-banned/548934/78 "2010-08-03T02:36:16Z")
> [@Gorsnak](#): > > > [@BrainGlutton](#): > > > > Humor. It is a difficult concept. > > > > 🙂 > > I can’t tell who’s wooshing who. Postmodern, ain’t it? 😃 GENX DUDE 1: That Homer Simpson is so cool. GD2: Are you being sarcastic, man? [pause] GD1: I don’t even know any more. ---
**Author:** ![Guinastasia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guinastasia/32/5751_2.png) [@Guinastasia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guinastasia)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2010, 2:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-havent-these-liberal-things-been-banned/548934/79 "2010-08-03T02:54:31Z")
Actually, I could use a new pair of sandals, and some flipflops. I mean, the ones I have are cute, don’t get me wrong. But you can never have too many pairs of shoes. Seriously, I don’t get WHAT the OP has against sandals. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![running\_coach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/running_coach/32/15836_2.png) [@running\_coach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/running_coach)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2010, 3:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-havent-these-liberal-things-been-banned/548934/80 "2010-08-03T03:00:52Z")
> [@Guinastasia](#): > > Seriously, I don’t get WHAT the OP has against sandals. 😉 Not his feet, that’s for sure. 😃 [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-havent-these-liberal-things-been-banned/548934.md?page=3) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-havent-these-liberal-things-been-banned/548934.md?page=5)