Saturday, December 24, 2005

Andy Rooney

I got this in an e-mail

Andy Rooney said on "60 Minutes" a few weeks back:

I don't think being a minority makes you a victim of anything except numbers. The only things I can think of that are truly discriminatory are things like the United Negro College Fund, Jet Magazine, Black Entertainment Television, and Miss Black America. Try to have things like the United Caucasian College Fund, Cloud Magazine, White Entertainment Television, or Miss White America; and see what happens...Jesse Jackson will be knocking down your door.

Guns do not make you a killer. I think killing makes you a killer. You can kill someone with a baseball bat or a car, but no one is trying to ban you from driving to the ball game.

I believe they are called the Boy Scouts for a reason, that is why there are no girls allowed. Girls belong in the Girl Scouts! ARE YOU LISTENING MARTHA BURKE?

I think that if you feel homosexuality is wrong, it is not a phobia, it is an opinion. I have the right "NOT" to be tolerant of others because they are different, weird, or tick me off.

When 70% of the people who get arrested are black, in cities where 70% of the population is black, that is not racial profiling, it is the Law of Probability.

I believe that if you are selling me a milkshake, a pack of cigarettes, a newspaper or a hotel room, you must do it in English! As a matter of fact, if you want to be an American citizen, you should have to speak English! My father and grandfather didn't die in vain so you can leave the countries you were born in to come over and disrespect ours.

I think the police should have every right to shoot your sorry ass ifyou threaten them after they tell you to stop. If you can't understand the word "freeze" or "stop" in English, see the above lines.

I don't think just because you were not born in this country, you are qualified for any special loan programs, government sponsored bank loans or tax breaks, etc., so you can open a hotel, coffee shop, trinket store, or any other business.

We did not go to the aid of certain foreign countries and risk our livesin wars to defend their freedoms, so that decades later they could comeover here and tell us our constitution is a living document; and open to their interpretations.

I don't hate the rich. I don't pity the poor.I know pro wrestling is fake, but so are movies and television. That doesn't stop you from watching them.

I think Bill Gates has every right to keep every penny he made and continue to make more. If it ticks you off, go and invent the next operating system that's better, and put your name on the building.

It doesn't take a whole village to raise a child right, but it does take a parent to stand up to the kid; and smack their little behinds when necessary, and say "NO!"

I think tattoos and piercing are fine if you want them, but please don't pretend they are a political statement. And, please, stay home until that new lip ring heals. I don't want to look at your ugly infected mouth as you serve me French fries!

I am sick of "Political Correctness." I know a lot of black people, and not a single one of them was born in Africa; so how can they be"African-Americans"? Besides, Africa is a continent. I don't go around saying I am a European-American because my great, great, great, great,great, great grandfather was from Europe. I am proud to be from America and nowhere else!

7 Comments:

Blogger Ed Meers said...

Social and Cultural engineering will always create headaches as the forced appeasement for one results in something detrimental to someone else. The funny thing is, we are all really more alike than different - it's the utilitarian or utopian worldviews that we must re-think. How can we get people on the same page over massive issues like religion and politics if we can't get them to agree on pizza toppings???!

I only wish people would be themselves instead of attempting to compartmentalise themselves and fit into certain moulds.

Merry Christmas!

10:59 AM  
Blogger MilkMaid said...

I've read this before, worth another read. I love the Boy Scouts one...DUH!

Merry Christmas Dawn!

11:16 AM  
Blogger sage said...

Have a Merry Christmas Dawn. May Santa give you more than you expect!

10:17 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

i've seen this before but still enjoyed reading it again. ugh...lots of frustrating stuff! but i like it when someone lays it all so simply and in such a realistic manner.

11:33 PM  
Blogger Dawn said...

fuzzbuck fuzz~
it was sent by someone I know. thanks for stopping by.

pieces of me~
Merry Christmas

real-e~
I agree with you.

milkmaid~
haha! yeah, that was great for a good laugh.

sage~
thanks, santa always treats me good.

video x~
you are so right. I have never seen this before but it lays everything out there.

8:30 PM  
Blogger Gary said...

I agree with you on most of that, but are you sure pro wrestling is fake?

1:16 PM  
Blogger Rob said...

Not from Andy Rooney - see here:

http://www.snopes.com/politics/soapbox/rooney4.asp

--*Rob

7:05 AM  

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