The Food and Drug Administration is backing down from its plan to require graphic cigarette warning labels.
Hate to see the labels go to waste. Slap ’em on Obamacare pamphlets.
The Food and Drug Administration is backing down from its plan to require graphic cigarette warning labels.
Hate to see the labels go to waste. Slap ’em on Obamacare pamphlets.
[High Praise! to According to Hoyt]
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What most “tolerance” people do is simply replace a stereotype with the other. Instead of the evil foreigner, they throw in something that looks like the twenty first century’s cousin of the noble savage. (I was going to say instead of the dumb stay at home mom, they have the stay at home mom who saves the world from a lair in her basement, but that’s just something I want to write. I don’t think that is a stereotype ANY politically correct person has ever doubted.) Instead of father-and-protector they see evil oppressing patriarch. Instead of-
The thing is that their stereotypes aren’t in any way more correct in the real world. (It’s called political correctness, not real correctness.) In fact, their intersection in the real world is smaller.
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if a well groomed, well dressed black man wanders onto a car dealership at the same time as a scraggly bearded Charles Manson look alike white person in cutoffs, no shirt and barefoot (Or even in a cheap suit) salesmen will swarm the black man. And they should. Yes, the black man might be there to sell them encyclopedias, and the white guy might really be an eccentric millionaire. But that’s not the way to bet.
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And this quote just because the mental image tickles me (Sarah is of Portuguese extraction, and can be mistaken for Mexican by those who don’t know better):
I was standing around in a Home Depot parking lot and Toni Weisskopf drove by in her pick up, leaned out the window and said, “I need three people to write novels.” I hopped on the back of the truck and have been stealing American jobs since.
[High Praise! to Gunslinger’s Journal and Deb]
Most of the items are too true to be funny, but they are succinct truths, the reading of which brings its own sort of pleasure.
[Think you have a link that’s IMAO-worthy? Send it to harvolson@gmail.com. If I use your link, you will receive High Praise! (assuming you remember to put your name in the email)]
Springeraz [High Praise!] sent me this. I found it sufficiently amusing to share. Remember to say nice things about it in the comments so he’ll write more.
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GLORIOUS LEADER: Listen up stooges! Soon America will pay ultimate price for evil ways! Bring me map of Los Angeles!
STOOGE NUMBER 1: Here is map of Los Angeles, also Austin, and Washington, Great Leader!
GLORIOUS LEADER: Stop everything! This not Austin! This is downtown Pyongyang!
STOOGE NUMBER 1: Sorry sir! My bad. Ooh look…that’s your house!
GLORIOUS LEADER: Idiot!! That not Ooh Luk’s house…that’s my house! What’s wrong with you?
SRONG WI CHU: Yes, Dear Leader?
GLORIOUS LEADER: Say what?
SE WAT: Yes, Dear Leader?
OOH LUK: That not my house. My house over here, on Piano Way…
PI NO WE: Shut up Ooh Luk! Great Leader not talk to you.
TOK TU YU: Say what?
GLORIOUS LEADER: Never mind…
On Meet the Press, Mayor Bloomberg said “I do think there are certain times we should infringe on your freedom”.
A British King thought that once. How’d that work out?
Welcome to Fun Facts About the 50 States, where – week by week – I’ll be taking you on a tour around this great nation of ours, providing you with interesting, yet completely useless and probably untrue, information about each of the 50 states.
This week, we’ll be buying a new umbrella – not because we lost the old one, but because it actually wore out from constant use – as we visit Washington. So let’s get started…
That wraps up the Washington edition of Fun Facts About the 50 States. Next week we’ll be doing genealogy research as we travel through the gene puddle of West Virginia.
Now if you’ll excuse me, I’m going to go book my vacation to Aberdeen.
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