I'm sorry, but...

09/18/2007 | Philistone

[Philistone]

I'm sorry that your child was killed by a drunk driver, but that doesn't give you the right to pull my car over at random and search me or it.

I'm sorry that your father died of lung cancer at the age of 60, but that doesn't give you the right to tell me I can't smoke in my own house or car.

I'm sorry that your best friend died of a heart-attack after eating nothing but Big Macs all his life, but that doesn't give you the right to tell me that I can't eat fats if I want to.

I'm sorry that you were raised to be squeamish at the sight of blood, but that does not give you the right to force me to eat only vegetables or wear only plant fibers.

I'm sorry that you can't afford health insurance, but that does not give you the right to force me to provide it for you.

I'm sorry that over 150 years ago people with the same color skin as me enslaved people with the same color skin as you, but that doesn't give you the right take the hard-earned efforts of my labor for yourself.

I'm sorry that your homeland is corrupt and your culture has no work ethic, but that doesn't give you the right to come here illegally and burden our schools and emergency rooms with your presence.

I'm sorry that your parents chose to come here illegally, but that doesn't give you the right to force me to fund your college education.

I'm sorry that you find it fashionable to ride your bike to work, but that doesn't give you the right to take away my car.

I'm sorry that your lack of intelligence and attention through high school and college left you fit only for a job as a public school teacher, but that doesn't give you the right to inflict your anger and ideology on my child.

I'm sorry that you are mentally and physically unfit to serve in our nation's Armed Forces, but that does not give you the right to disparage those who are fit and do serve.

I'm sorry that your parents and teachers continually told you that you are unique and special, but you are not.

I'm sorry that the jocks stuffed you in your locker in high school, but that doesn't give you the right to equate my President with Hitler.

I'm sorry that you failed Trigonometry, but that doesn't give you the right to equate Sociology with Engineering

I'm sorry that you are not as attractive as other women, but that does not give you the right to impose your feminist idiocracy on me, my company or my family.

I'm sorry that your nervous system is so exquisitely sensitive that you can be hurt by minute variations in air pressure caused by sound waves, but that doesn't give you the right to determine what I can and can not say.

I'm sorry that your enormous ego coupled with a complete lack of self-esteem, lack of any sense of self-worth and ignorance about how the real world works has led you to becoming a Liberal, but... Well, no buts. I'm not really sorry.

Remember: Anyone who tells you "it's for the children" believes that YOU are a child.

[Badeye]

ROTFL!

Pity she didn’t build a fire....

[Eric Blair 2084]

You will have to excuse my cynicism (sp). I’ve watched the agenda afflicted anti-tobacco lobby start with “We just want some non smoking areas on airplanes” 30 years ago to “We want to eliminate smoking completely.”

Don’t tell me there is no such thing as incrementalism or a slippery slope. The slippery slope gets a thousand tons of KY dumped on it every day by the agenda afflicted grant junkies.

[Badeye]

You’ve got mail coming.

[Eric Blair 2084]

Incidentally, I was a victim of a DUI once. August 2, 1990.

I remember the date because it was the same day Saddam invaded Kuwait. I was driving home from college on the Turnpike in the right lane minding my own business.

Some guy in a Buick swerved into me on my passenger side and then took off, dumping a few dozen empty Bud cans out the window. My car was a wreck but I managed to get on the shoulder and track him down a couple of miles later where his car broke down.

The only funny part of the story was his drunken statement to the cop...”Uhhhh, my girlfriend was jerking around and tried to grab the wheel, I tried to grab it back and swerved and hit the other car.”

[William Terrell]

To be truthful, I feel strongly about idiot drunk drivers, too, and that those who drive in an impaired state (one in which their perceptions and response time is dangerously affected by the suppression of alcohol) should be prosecuted to the extend of the law.

I feel just as strongly about bureaucrats using that law for their own purposes, which unfortunately is all too common.

[Badeye]

‘To be truthful, I feel strongly about idiot drunk drivers, too, and that those who drive in an impaired state (one in which their perceptions and response time is dangerously affected by the suppression of alcohol) should be prosecuted to the extend of the law.’

The prevailing punishment for DUI isn’t nearly strong enough, primarily due to politicians driving drunk on a way to routine basis, judges as well for that matter. I suspect that why the punishments are so lax.

“I feel just as strongly about bureaucrats using that law for their own purposes, which unfortunately is all too common.”

Fair point that I do tend to agree with.

[dcwusmc]

If you have the capacity to reconsider your stance, then that would hardly put you in the category of a moron... It brings you to the position of human being. Too many people are knee-jerk lib-symps about their pet cause and refuse to pay attention to facts. I sensed that you might fit that category and was about to give up on you. It’s rare that someone with such ingrained emotions can get past them to reconsider things logically. Thanks for giving it a shot... and, it seems, succeeding.

[elkfersupper]

I’m in a better frame of mind to fairly consider the opposition to my view on this, in short.

Well then, you may very well be salvageable.

Welcome to the fold, FRiend.

[Badeye]

Thanks.

[Badeye]

Don’t get carried away....(chuckle)