"TOUGH"

I like big cars, big boats, big motorcycles, big houses, and big campfires. I believe the money I make belongs to me and my family, not some governmental stooge with a bad comb-over who wants to give it away to crack addicts for squirting out babies.

Guns don't make you a killer. I think killing makes you a killer. You can kill someone with a baseball bat or a car, but no one is trying to ban you from driving to the ball game.

I believe they are called the Boy Scouts for a reason, which is why there are no girls allowed. Girls belong in the Girl Scouts.

I think that if you feel homosexuality is wrong, it is not a phobia, it is an opinion. I don't think being a minority makes you a victim of anything except numbers. The only things I can think of that are truly discriminatory are things like the United Negro College Fund, Jet Magazine, Black Entertainment Television, and Miss Black America. Try to have things like the United Caucasian College Fund, Cloud Magazine, White Entertainment Television, or Miss White America and see what happens. Jesse Jackson will be knocking down your door.

I have the right "NOT" to be tolerant of others because they are different, weird, or tick me off. When 70% of the people who get arrested are black, in cities where 70% of the population is black, that is not racial profiling, it is the law of statistics.

I know what sex is, and there are not varying degrees of it. If I received sex from one of my subordinates in my office, it wouldn't be a private matter or my personal business. I would be "FIRED" immediately!

I believe that if you are selling me a milk shake, a pack of cigarettes, a newspaper or a hotel room, you must do it in English. As a matter of fact, if you want to be an American citizen you should speak English.

My father and grandfather shouldn't have to die in vain so you can leave the countries you were born in to come over and disrespect ours.

I think the police should have every right to shoot your sorry ass if you threaten them after they tell you to stop. If you can't understand the word "freeze" or "stop" in English, see the above lines.

I feel much safer letting a machine with no political affiliation recount votes when needed.

I don't think just because you were not born in this country, you are qualified for any special loan programs, government sponsored bank loans or tax breaks etc., so you can open a hotel, coffee shop, trinket store, or any other business.

We did not go to the aid of certain foreign countries and risk our lives in wars to defend their freedoms so that decades later they could come over here and tell us our constitution is a living document and open to their interpretations.

I don't hate the rich. I don't pity the poor.
I know wrestling is fake, but so are movies and television, and that doesn't stop you from watching them.

I believe a self-righteous liberal or conservative with a cause is more dangerous than a Hell's Angel with an attitude.

I think Bill Gates has every right to keep every penny he made and continue to make more. If it ticks you off, go and invent the next operating system that's better and put your name on the building. Ask your buddy that invented the Internet to help you.

It doesn't take a whole village to raise a child right, but it does take a parent to stand up to the kid and smack his little ass when necessary and say "NO".

I think tattoos and piercing are fine if you want them, but please don't pretend they are a political statement. And stay home until that new lip ring heals, I don't want to look at your ugly infected mouth as you serve me fries.

I am sick of "Political Correctness" and of all the suck ups that go along with it. I know a lot of black people, and not a single one of them was born in Africa, so how can they be "African-Americans"?
Besides, Africa is a continent. I don't go around saying I am a European-American because my great, great, great, great, great, great grandfather was from Europe. I am proud to be from America and nowhere else.

John Stossel, huh?
Who'd a thunk it.
Gotta admit I would never in a million years thought Stossel would have anywhere near the stones to do something like that.

I believe there was also a SNL comedian (Andy Kaufmann?) who wound-up severely injured & in a neck brace after *only* one body slam, too. (~was thrown down onto the same *soft* canvas mat these guys do their falls on, at that... :o) )

Reminds me of a song, when it comes to punking-off about certain topics from afar.
Song's titled, "The Bravery Of Being Out Of Range."

...most appropro', no? ;^)

John Stossel approached Dr. D (Dave Schultz) backstage after a "performance" circa 1985. Obviously still winded and no doubt pulse still pounding, Dr. D was known as a loose cannon even when the cameras were not rolling. Stossel walked up to him, shoved a mic in his yap and said, "I think wrestling's fake."

The wrestler turned and swatted him across the ear with an open hand and dropped him right there. And then nailed him across the other side of his head yelling, "You think that's fake?!"

The look in Stossel's eyes was utter fear. They ended up settling a lawsuit for about a half-million.

Andy Kaufman had a running verbal fued with Jerry Lawler who is still an announcer (atleast,when I last checked a few months ago.) His running diatribe is actually quite humorous (imho). I was around when that little war was going on and I still think Kaufman was playing the "injury" up for the sake of the ongoing saga. There was plenty of money to be made by keeping that battle in the headlines.

As far as those that cry "Wrestling is FAKE!" They're also the same ones that tune in every week to see what Tony Soprano does next.

"The wrestler turned and swatted him across the ear with an open hand and dropped him right there. And then nailed him across the other side of his head yelling, 'You think that's fake?!'"

I repeat...these people on the professional wrestling circuit are some mighty, big, boys (& girls).
Of course you know that, already; however, people misconstrue the very *meaning* of the word, "fake."
Take it to mean these guys -- if they wanted to -- couldn't inflict harm if they tried.

Truth is, they're not trying.
I *invite* anyone -- regardless of size, strength, fighting skills -- to walk up to one of these guys & punk-off to 'em to their face.
Just to make it fair, too, they can punk off before the act; before, adrenalin levels are off the scale. :o)

"The look in Stossel's eyes was utter fear. They ended up settling a lawsuit for about a half-million."

I believe the colloquial term for that *look* might be, "Terminal Shock"? ;^)
Stossel's extremely lucky to be alive to spend *any* moneies a'tall, IMO.

"Andy Kaufman had a running verbal fued with Jerry Lawler who is still an announcer (atleast,when I last checked a few months ago.) His running diatribe is actually quite humorous (imho). I was around when that little war was going on and I still think Kaufman was playing the 'injury' up for the sake of the ongoing saga."

Honestly?
I can't comment on the validity of that fight.
Only to say that brace & the way he sport it looked real enough to me.

"There was plenty of money to be made by keeping that battle in the headlines."

HA!!
No doubt.
There're people out there who are actually *surprised* to learn what these #1 names in professional wrestling earn in a year.
Same ones who're *shocked* a hick like Dale Earnhardt could out-earn Michael Jordan, too.
I've found a good barometer -- the sure-mark -- of one's "narrow-mindedness" on matters like these??
Is always the sincere shock they'll show.

...after learning the kinds of $$s we're talking about, here? :o)

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