Posted on 12/31/2008 10:46:27 AM PST by Red Badger
When times were good. In lean times, we had to rub our fingers together till they caught fire. Then the next time, since you didn’t have fingers anymore, you’d have to get your buddy to light his.
When I was a kid we didn’t have fire.
You have to learn to post without thinking what so ever ;^)
Damn, you had a buddy!
Well, till we used the rest of him for kindling.
Actually this hits pretty close to being hostile to the founding fathers’ stated right to “pursue happiness”.
IMHO this is what conservativism can be rebuilt upon.
The GOP rather than bailing out bankers — should define that right to pursue happiness as so fundamental to what America is about, that it becomes a platform of the Republican Party in some concrete form; perhaps a constitutional amendment which specifies that any legal “ban” at the state, local or federal level automatically sunsets after 5 years unless re-authorized, and all “bans” must be passed by a 75% super-majority at any level to remain in place.
Seriously, this is exactly how we’re losing our freedoms.
Busibody dopes like the lighter-banner.
And the issue really does resonate at a very fundamental level, with Americans.
“It’s a free country, stupid”.
We have a few of these jerks locally where I live. I notice one thing in common, the dumber they are the louder they talk.
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