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Republicans, beware. The tables will turn. - (Garrison Keillor BARF)
Chicago Tribune ^ | June20, 2017 | Garrison Keillor

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.

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To: Kevin in California

NY state has 4 official political parties Dem Rep Lib Cons the permutations thereof are amusing as candidates tend to run on more than one line


61 posted on 06/22/2017 4:22:05 PM PDT by scottteng (Why fight it out lets split up the country peacefully now)
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To: thesharkboy

Radio boy.


62 posted on 06/22/2017 4:28:26 PM PDT by PhiloBedo (You gotta roll with the punches, and get with what's real.)
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To: BenLurkin

“I thought he was dead.”

He is. He was born that way.


63 posted on 06/22/2017 4:44:58 PM PDT by Psalm 144 (Why defend the EU?)
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To: re_tail20

Seems to me there used to be a guy named Garrison Keillor that was amusing about forty years ago, it’s incredible what liberalism will do to a person..........not really.


64 posted on 06/22/2017 6:54:26 PM PDT by Mastador1 (I'll take a bad dog over a good politician any day!)
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To: re_tail20; rdl6989
Schadenfreude BTTT!

What was that about "tables turning", Garrison?? :-D

65 posted on 11/29/2017 10:33:32 AM PST by nutmeg
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To: nutmeg

Well isn’t this interesting.


66 posted on 11/29/2017 10:35:33 AM PST by rdl6989
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To: Seruzawa
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.

WOW. I never heard that before. Of course this is what most smug, mean-spirited arrogant condescending liberal "icons" believe. That comment by Keillor needs to get out there on social media.

Happily though, this a-hole's career is most likely OVER as of today.

67 posted on 11/29/2017 10:38:51 AM PST by nutmeg
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To: rdl6989
OH yeah.... ;-)

Check out post 53 above. Keillor is a bigger a-hole than I realized. A pox on him!

68 posted on 11/29/2017 10:40:28 AM PST by nutmeg
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To: 2banana
Thanks for doing that for us. That's his answer? When the GOP loses it (and they will) and the moonbats reinfest the corridors of idiocracy, the will redistrict? Redistrict Montana into California?
69 posted on 11/29/2017 10:46:36 AM PST by RinaseaofDs (Truth, in a time of universal deceit, is courage)
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To: Kevin in California
Lots of liberals are included on a list by court order.

See Megan's Law...

70 posted on 11/29/2017 10:47:53 AM PST by Mad Dawgg (If you're going to deny my 1st Amendment rights then I must proceed to the 2nd one...)
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To: GMMC0987

If the cutoff does not work, gasoline will go flying all over the place when the tank is filled.


71 posted on 11/29/2017 10:48:23 AM PST by Tolerance Sucks Rocks (Women prefer men with money and muscles. DUH!)
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

Not too long ago I used a gas pump which had the latch. When I’d filled enough I tried to release the latch. It was jammed or caught in the slot. Pulling up the handle did not release it. Then the tank filled and the auto-shutoff malfunctioned. Gas began gushing out. It took pulling the metal latch up with one set of fingers while pulling the handle up with the other to shut it off. A few days later I pass the station and see the pump with a red plastic bag over it.

IMO only an imbecile walks away from a running gas pump. And it’s a lazy lout that fills his gas then leaves the vehicle at the pump to go do his business in the store.


72 posted on 11/29/2017 11:07:02 AM PST by Justa
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