Posted on 06/22/2017 12:04:45 PM PDT by re_tail20
I am a registered liberal who mostly toes the party line but I am not devoted to the idea of big government. I loathe the law in New York state requiring gas pump nozzles to not latch. This means that I must stand beside my vehicle, holding the nozzle lever open, instead of latching it and walking into the gas station to use the john which, if you're an older male and hear gushing liquid, you feel a powerful urge to do, so thanks to legislative over-regulation, I am on the verge of humiliating myself.
Liberals believe in universal suffrage, but I don't think the right to vote should be extended to people walking around with wires going into their ears. If you need to walk through the world in a state of stupefaction, you don't belong in a democracy. The ballot should belong to people who pay attention.
I have other strong conservative tendencies: I accept limitations as inevitable, even sometimes futility. I once gave a very funny speech in the chapel of an Ivy League college and my voice went ricocheting around the Gothic arches and came back to me 15 seconds later and it was incomprehensible, even to me whose voice it was. I might as well have been speaking Navajo. Nobody laughed. I did not complain to authorities. I was amused. Stuff happens.
Life is unfair. The National Endowment for the Arts bestows pots of gold on poets, chickenfeed on humorists, and so what? The federal government is responsible for the announcement in airports warning you to report to authorities any stranger who asks you to carry an object aboard an aircraft. It's like telling people to report any sightings of unicorns. But who cares? Not I.
All around Washington stand handsome temples housing the ABA,...
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An excellent example of the “registered Liberal” political “Hopeful Monster Theory”.
There is an actual political party in NY State that is called the Liberal Party - have no idea, but maybe that is what he means. There is also a Conservative Party - one of their most well-known members is Sean Hannity, who often notes that he is not a Republican, but is in fact a registered Conservative.
If you read the whole piece you will see it’s a comedy piece.................
His comedy is below average.
“He used to be funny, 40 or 50 years ago.”
QFT on the “used to be” and I would reckon it to be in the 80s and maybe 90s. We had a couple of his books on tape the kids liked to listen to during road trips. Those kids are now 36 and 31 with kids of their own.
He was entertaining 40 years ago. Now, not so much.
Maybe he could move to New Jersey where it is the law that an attendant must pump your gas for you.
But this is average for him.................
He is (was?) married to a Dane. Perhaps Denmark could keep him?
The man is an insufferable condescending prig, as evidenced perfectly by this article.
I think he should stick to bringing hotdish to church dinners.
This buttwipe once wrote an opinion piece in which he stated unequivocally that all the people in the military are bloodthirsty psychopaths. Keillor is a POS and beneath contempt.
This buttwipe once wrote an opinion piece in which he stated unequivocally that all the people in the military are bloodthirsty psychopaths. Keillor is a POS and beneath contempt.
Mindless, incomprehensible, stream-of-consciousness drivel.
Isn’t he referring to the latches on pumps that automatically shut off when the tank is full?
There is no fixing stupid.
Go away silly liberal douche bag you are embarrassing yourself and all of liberal douachebagkind.
“What is a registered liberal?”
“A lib who has a parole officer?”
Plus, they’re required to sign up at an online registry. The public can then look them up prior to moving into a neighborhood.
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