Saturday, September 20, 2008

Someone Summing up Why I Started 'Rantings'

I was told this was what Andy Rooney said on '60 Minutes' a few weeks back: However, the ever diligent MPJ did far more research than I (I must just be gullible to have taken it at face value), so I'm not yet sure who said this, however I still give cheers to it!

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 have blogged this one plenty!) I believe they are called the Boy Scouts for a reason, which 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 you if you 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 lives in wars to defend their freedoms, so that decades later they could come over 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.

(I have blogged this plenty too) 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

And if you don't like my point of view... tough!

7 comments:

JustFrankie said...

My boss got upset over the cover of the New Yorker depicting Barack Obama in full muslim clothing and his wife looking like a 60's Black Panther. He claimed it to be racism and they might as well put blackface on someone imitating him. I asked him how many black people are employed or have been employed by him. Well, Mr Politically Correct didn't answer and changed the subject abruptly. This kind of hypocritical liberalism really makes me scratch my head. Walk the talk or don't say anything at all.

JustFrankie said...

By the way, I took the New Yotker cover as satire and America's fear based atnosphere.

Love you rantings

Wait. What? said...

I love Andy Rooney and all of these wonderful opinion that I agree fully with!!! Oh and I love you and your rantings - have a great Sunday! Cat

Meghan McKee said...

some i believe in... others no. I mean, the states were based on a melting pot, so yeah, many languages are spoken, and living in NYC i see it all the time. I hate that "Speak American" bullshit. A lot of people come here for a new chance... and a lot come here cause their work moves them.

The best thing is Ali G interviewing him....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NpDyJObCKOY

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2vX6maiHSZg&feature=related

Mary P Jones (MPJ) said...

According to Snopes.com, this actually was not written by Andy Rooney:

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

Rooney stated that he finds this piece "detestable" and if he knew the identity of the author he "would sue."

~e~ said...

ha, leave it to you MPJ to research whether it came from him or not... I should look into that and see if I can't attribute it to the actual author then. However, I DO agree with the sentiments in it, and can't imagine why anyone would tack it to Andy and not admit it...

But if that is the case, then that's the whole problem with political correctness... that anyone should feel they have to hide their feelings of frustration is ludicrous!

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