I have changed the theme of my blog…I wanted to make it more user friendly….I do a lot of writing and it is difficult to keep up with me normally….this new theme will let my reader click on a specific category and find all the posts there….I am hoping this will increase the number of people commenting because I would like to hear all points of view on any given subject…..Please if you disagree with me or just want to add to the discussion, please do so…..I always respect someone’s opinion and I do demand civility from all comments…..we can disagree with being disagreeable…..I hope you enjoy the change….if not let me know and we can readjust the blog…..look forward to the comments and the debate……
Day: March 15, 2010
2010 Anal-Ocity #7
Beauty is skin deep, but stupid goes all the way to the bone…..and is forever…
In case you are new to the site…my anal-ocities are anal statements made by people in the “Know”……dumbass knows no bounds……it hits all parties, all races, all….you get the idea…
This one is from one of my favs….a man that cannot go a week without saying something stupid….Mr. Glenn beck…..
Beck’s newest rant is all about the 2010 Census……thanx to thinkprogress.org…..
He took particular issue with a question asking for the respondent’s race.
BECK: Why were they asking the race question, you said when, in 1790? … Right, they want to know, do you count as three-fifths? Do you count at all? So, you have to know how many slaves did you have? People find that offensive today because the idea was, if we’re going to count, we want to know how many are here for services etc. etc. and slaves would get less. Well that’s not right. One. One. ‘I’m not three-fifths, I’m one. Whites are not worth than me.’ Now reverse it, why are they asking this question today?
So you will get more dollars if you are a minority. So you are worth more as a monitory. Well there is no difference. The reason you don’t answer the race question is because one, everyone counts as one. All men are created equal. If you were offended back in 1790 about slavery and that everyone should count the same, do not answer the race question. How dare you. How dare you. At least in 1790, they were doing it to slow the South down on slavery. To try to stop it as much as they can. Today they are asking the race question to try to increase slavery. Your dependence on the master in Washington. No way, don’t answer that question.
This guy always makes the most outlandish statements and yet he is still on the air and on a network that claims to be “fair and balance”……but to say that the census will return the detestable practice of slavery is far beyond an anal statement and approaches mental illness…..but yet his moronic rants seem to play well with low information people…….btw, that means STUPID!
Equality? What Is It Good For?
Inkwell Institute
Professor’s Classroom
Subject: Equality/Philosophy/
Paper #7
Absolutely…NOTHING!
In the days of yore….a group of like minded aristocrats got together and with the help of a writer came up with a document for independence and the immortal words, “All men are created equal”…….now that brings us to the question what is equality? And what the Hell were they talking about?
I must preface my post with the fact that the concept of equality is subjective…..it means what you want it to mean….and that is not necessarily the most accurate of definitions…..
“All men are created equal”…..a great statement but here is absolute NO one that believes that for a second…..we all have our little things that we are somehow a bit better than someone else….if you do not agree then you are ignoring a basic human belief….we are not all born equal! Some are more intelligent or more gifted in certain duties than others….this is not to say that it is racist or bigotry just a basic evolutionary fact…..
If the Framers really believed the quote then why did they allow the institution of slavery to continue?….I do not think the Founders real believed that we were all born equal….however they did believe that we all have an equal opportunity to succeed…not would be a stark difference than their little line in a document…..but after all they were trying to get people on board with the whole independence thing….
If you truly think that the Founders believed their own words, would Jefferson have said this:
“Nothing is more certainly written in the book of fate than that these people [blacks] are to be free. Nor is it less certain that the two races, equally free, cannot live in the same government. Nature, habit, opinion has drawn indelible lines of distinction between them.” –Thomas Jefferson: Autobiography, 1821. ME 1:72
The “Opportunity for Equality” or to put it another way, the “Equality of Opportunity”…..that we all have the opportunity to be equal as far as economic issues go….with hard work and the rest of that imaginary crap goes…..
Equality? Like I have stated…there will be a wealth of opinions on just what the word means…..and in the beginning….the masters of the revolution never really intended for it to actually mean that we are all total equal……more that we all have an equal chance at success…..to put it simply….
Ain’t equality great? Thoughts?