Yup! Looks like one too.
Posted on 08/30/2008 7:33:22 PM PDT by Tuscaloosa Goldfinch
SANTA ROSEA, Fla. | If Republican presidential candidate Sen. John McCain picked Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin to appeal to women, especially bitter supporters of Sen. Hillary Clinton, and I was one of those women, I would be deeply offended.
Palin is a militantly pro-life creationists who, with five children at the age of 44 and one born with Down Syndrome only four months ago apparently doesn't even believe in birth control, stands against just about every thing Clinton stands for.
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Yup! Looks like one too.
The real reason why men built the glass ceiling
The Female of the Species
WHEN the Himalayan peasant meets the he-bear in his pride,
He shouts to scare the monster, who will often turn aside.
But the she-bear thus accosted rends the peasant tooth and nail.
For the female of the species is more deadly than the male.
When Nag the basking cobra hears the careless foot of man,
He will sometimes wriggle sideways and avoid it if he can.
But his mate makes no such motion where she camps beside the trail.
For the female of the species is more deadly than the male.
When the early Jesuit fathers preached to Hurons and Choctaws,
They prayed to be delivered from the vengeance of the squaws.
'Twas the women, not the warriors, turned those stark enthusiasts pale.
For the female of the species is more deadly than the male.
Man's timid heart is bursting with the things he must not say,
For the Woman that God gave him isn't his to give away;
But when hunter meets with husbands, each confirms the other's tale—
The female of the species is more deadly than the male.
Man, a bear in most relations—worm and savage otherwise,—
Man propounds negotiations, Man accepts the compromise.
Very rarely will he squarely push the logic of a fact
To its ultimate conclusion in unmitigated act.
Fear, or foolishness, impels him, ere he lay the wicked low,
To concede some form of trial even to his fiercest foe.
Mirth obscene diverts his anger—Doubt and Pity oft perplex
Him in dealing with an issue—t the scandal of The Sex!
But the Woman that God gave him, every fibre of her frame
Proves her launched for one sole issue, armed and engined for the same;
And to serve that single issue, lest the generations fail,
The female of the species must be deadlier than the male.
She who faces Death by torture for each life beneath her breast
May not deal in doubt or pity—must not swerve for fact or jest.
These be purely male diversions—not in these her honour dwells—
She the Other Law we live by, is that Law and nothing else.
She can bring no more to living than the powers that make her great
As the Mother of the Infant and the Mistress of the Mate.
And when Babe and Man are lacking and she strides unclaimed to claim
Her right as femme (and baron), her equipment is the same.
She is wedded to convictions—in default of grosser ties;
Her contentions are her children, Heaven help him who denies!—
He will meet no suave discussion, but the instant, white-hot, wild,
Wakened female of the species warring as for spouse and child.
Unprovoked and awful charges—even so the she-bear fights,
Speech that drips, corrodes, and poisons—even so the cobra bites,
Scientific vivisection of one nerve till it is raw
And the victim writhes in anguish—like the Jesuit with the squaw!
So it comes that Man, the coward, when he gathers to confer
With his fellow-braves in council, dare not leave a place for her
Where, at war with Life and Conscience, he uplifts his erring hands
To some God of Abstract Justice—which no woman understands.
And Man knows it! Knows, moreover, that the Woman that God gave him
Must command but may not govern—shall enthral but not enslave him.
And She knows, because She warns him, and Her instincts never fail,
That the Female of Her Species is more deadly than the Male.
- Rudyard Kipling
Not many people know that
That's only because her troops, from the AK National Guard, were actually in KUWAIT when she visited them, you twit.
Crude is also fine with me! : )
Bob Hope had some movie material here:
He's right, though. It's a woman's natural impulse. But it can be trained out of us (a legal education is a good place to start).
Doesn't have as much to do with who your parents happen to be (there are plenty of ordinary folk without much breeding or money who aren't "common") as with a conscious rejection of decency and proper behavior. "Trash" is a little beyond "common" -- no breeding, no bringing-up, and no class. But "common" is well on the way to "trash".
I think the National Down Syndrome Society, National Association for Down Syndrome, March of Dimes, Children's Hospital and all of the other organizations that work with Trisomy 21 probably have it right by now.
Girlfriends?
Your entire post is perfectly stated and I wholeheartedly agree. It well describes Joe Biden. Obama is going to be very sorry he picked him.
As my grandmother used to say, "One of those people you couldn't possibly invite to dinner!"
I would love to see the phrase “Reagan in a skirt” enter the kultursmog and become commonplace. It would drive the left nuts!
The name of the syndrome, like so many others, is derived from the name of the physician who first described it - in this case, Dr. Langdon Down, a British physician in the mid-19th century.
So "Down's" is more technically correct (with the possessive identifying the doctor), just like "Kawasaki's", or "Asperger's", but as you note it appears that many organizations are omitting the possessive form these days.
Living here in PA we've had a birds eye view of Biden for close to 35 years.
During the Thomas hearings, I went to DC and his was one of the Senate offices I visited, demanding he stop his lousy treatment of Thomas and confirm him. Lucky me, he and Barbara Maculsky (Sp?) were the only two on the Senate floor, when I got there. I coudn't get near him, unfortunately. He had (and I'm sure it's much bigger now) a big bald patch on the crown of his head, which you can't see when he's on TV. He's pure slime. : )
If he's slimey, why do his constituents return him to the Senate?
Unions? Earmarks? Seniority? Ennui?
Little Tommy is about to discover that he’s a mouse trying to cross a room at a steamroller convention.
All of the above. We all know how the democrats admire slime, don’t we? Could it be any clearer after Clinton?
Guess you are right.
They'll just end up like that pitiful Carter girl.
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