“Just say something really outrageous and provocative every day, and you’ll cease to be a nobody. Once you are a household name for being controversial, we can fill air time with MSM reporters interviewing you.” — Melissa Harris-Perry’s publicist and network execs.
It’s clear that she is the opposite of a Libertarian, so she must be the earth of the scum.
Governments do not have rights. Not a single one. People have rights.
The “common good” is an undefined term that is an oxymoron, and has no standing in the discussion of the relation of a government to the people.
Melissa Harris-Perry is an idiot. I vote we garnish her wages for the common good.
It’s perfectly within your rights as an American to be an ill-informed loser jackass. Unfortunately, too many of us exercise that right. Worse, it seems to be a prerequisite to going on television. (And an absolute requirement for being on MSNBC.)
She’s a professor. She doesn’t have to read the writing of a bunch of old dead white guys. She’d rather read the ranting of a bunch of old dead desiccated white communists and socialist. So much more au courant.
Oh honey she doesn’t have any junk, well junk in the trunk mayhaps, I haven’t observed her from the back. Like with crocs dealing with the front end is dangerous enough.
So… um… has she read ANY books published after 1776?
I would say the problem is that she has not read the books published during or prior to 1776 – Thomas Paine’s Common Sense, Montesquieu’s The Spirit of the Laws, John Locke’s Second Treatise, Jean-Jacques Rousseau’s The Social Contract, John Q. Minuteman’s Hey! Hands Off My Musket!, and other such Enlightenment works.
After the Boston Bombing, I was having a discussion with someone in my office about the new security measures that were sure to be enforced at every athletic meet after this one. I pointed out that, sad and even horrific as this attack was, we maim and kill more adults and children every damn day in automobile accidents and, although cars have gotten progressively safer over the years, we will not put up with outright bans, or even significantly lower speed limits, no matter how many children’s lives will be saved, because cars give us freedom and we will not give that up. I wondered why we are so quick to give up our freedom in other contexts – if every one of us had to travel by plane every single day, I’m willing to bet there would be no intrusive TSA searches at airports. We let the nannies chip away at our freedom at airports, at public gatherings, at courthouses and federal buildings, because not all of us need to be in those places every day. Sooner or later, they will come for our cars, and we will have ceded that authority to them, minor inconvenience by minor inconvenience, all under the catch-phrase “for the public good.” What ever happened to private freedom?
Whoops, another over-long rant. I AM NOT A CRACKPOT!!1!
My guess is that any books that she’s opened require the use of crayons.
Oh, and insert that quote about libertarians here.
“Just say something really outrageous and provocative every day, and you’ll cease to be a nobody. Once you are a household name for being controversial, we can fill air time with MSM reporters interviewing you.” — Melissa Harris-Perry’s publicist and network execs.
It’s clear that she is the opposite of a Libertarian, so she must be the earth of the scum.
Governments do not have rights. Not a single one. People have rights.
The “common good” is an undefined term that is an oxymoron, and has no standing in the discussion of the relation of a government to the people.
Melissa Harris-Perry is an idiot. I vote we garnish her wages for the common good.
Lazy Bum Bacon to Iowa Jim!
http://www.imao.us/index.php/2013/04/i-may-be-having-too-much-fun-with-this/
It’s perfectly within your rights as an American to be an ill-informed loser jackass. Unfortunately, too many of us exercise that right. Worse, it seems to be a prerequisite to going on television. (And an absolute requirement for being on MSNBC.)
Lean forward…and bend over.
Red coats go so well with brown shirts and jackboots.
Alas, her two favorite books were published in the 1800’s, specifically 1848 and 1867…both with the same author, one K. Marx.
As Elaine from “Seinfeld” explains, “Communist, big Communist!”
You left out the hyphen. Oppressor.
…so…much….stupid….
She’s a professor. She doesn’t have to read the writing of a bunch of old dead white guys. She’d rather read the ranting of a bunch of old dead desiccated white communists and socialist. So much more au courant.
is it just me or has anyone else noticed that “Lean Forward” is synonymous with “bow down”?
Following the wisdom of our founding fathers, the proper response to this sort of attitude is a musket to the junk.
Oh honey she doesn’t have any junk, well junk in the trunk mayhaps, I haven’t observed her from the back. Like with crocs dealing with the front end is dangerous enough.
seanmhair – you giving odds on her not having junk? At any rate, she should still get the musket there.
I would say the problem is that she has not read the books published during or prior to 1776 – Thomas Paine’s Common Sense, Montesquieu’s The Spirit of the Laws, John Locke’s Second Treatise, Jean-Jacques Rousseau’s The Social Contract, John Q. Minuteman’s Hey! Hands Off My Musket!, and other such Enlightenment works.
After the Boston Bombing, I was having a discussion with someone in my office about the new security measures that were sure to be enforced at every athletic meet after this one. I pointed out that, sad and even horrific as this attack was, we maim and kill more adults and children every damn day in automobile accidents and, although cars have gotten progressively safer over the years, we will not put up with outright bans, or even significantly lower speed limits, no matter how many children’s lives will be saved, because cars give us freedom and we will not give that up. I wondered why we are so quick to give up our freedom in other contexts – if every one of us had to travel by plane every single day, I’m willing to bet there would be no intrusive TSA searches at airports. We let the nannies chip away at our freedom at airports, at public gatherings, at courthouses and federal buildings, because not all of us need to be in those places every day. Sooner or later, they will come for our cars, and we will have ceded that authority to them, minor inconvenience by minor inconvenience, all under the catch-phrase “for the public good.” What ever happened to private freedom?
Whoops, another over-long rant. I AM NOT A CRACKPOT!!1!