I Have to Tell You A Story About This Freep(oops not a poll)

[hang a left]

Poll question: I Have to Tell You A Story About This Freep(oops not a poll)

Last week, after becoming overwhelmed by the one soldier video at savethemedia.com, decided I needed to send out the video to my email address book. So I did. Here was the only negative response I received:

http://takebackthemedia.com/onearmy.html

A Reply to 'Support Our Troops' (sic)

Well...here we go again folks! Ya know, it's too bad that, once again, we have to be the recipients of unsolicited "let's bash George Bush" e mail. I mean...all I did was sign my little Johnny for Little League---for gosh sake! I didn't know I had to join the Left Wing Howard Dean/Hillary Clinton Democratic Party Fan Club too! I just want my Johnny to learn how to play baseball...what say you?

And I do apologize for having to bore all of you a coupla months back with my erudite wisdaom while picking apart the oh so blantant lies of the left wing garbage that was so underhandedly disseminated then...but I promise I won't do that again even though the lies this time around are bolder and without precendent--even for the President of Howard Dean's Escondido fan club. (I sent something else a while back)

But, folks, I did ask my guardian angel what I should do and Gabriel responded, "Why don't you just call Ima Whiner and try and talk some common sense into her?" And I replied, "You mean you guys know her too?" "Don't call us 'guys', David...there's no sexism in heaven and we have girl, er lady, I mean female angels too, and yes we know who Ima Whiner is but she doesn't talk to us" Gabriel shrugged. "Oh well" I sighed, it's just that her son throws a 90 mile per hour fast ball and IF my little Johnny has to face him next year......" "Well Gabriel fidgeted, maybe I can talk to God and work it out so you and Ima Whiner can be on the same team again next year." "Would you like that," my angel asked? Knowing that I had painted myself into a tight corner, I reluctantly replied, "Thy Will Be Done". "Good, exclaimed Gabriel." "Now that that's settled I'm going to share with you a speech God made at a funeral yesterday...a very important speech one that I am sure God would want you to share with the group...so here goes.....

Today we mourn the passing of a beloved old friend by the name of Common Sense, who had been with us for many years. No one knows for sure how old he was since birth records were long ago lost in bureaucratic red tape. He will be remembered as having cultivated such valued lessons as knowing when to come in out of the rain, why the early bird gets the worm, and that life isn't always fair.

Common Sense lived by a simple, sound policy called the Golden Rule: Do Unto Others as you would Have Them Do Unto You. Common Sense was aided by reliable Parenting Principles, i.e. Adults, not kids, are in charge. His health began to rapidly deteriorate when well intentioned but overbearing regulations were set in place. Reports of a six-year-old boy charged with sexual harassment for kissing a classmate, teens suspended from school for using mouthwash after lunch, and a teacher fired for reprimanding an unruly student only worsened his condition. It declined even furtherwhen schools were required to get parental consent to administer aspirin to a student but could not inform the parents when a student became pregnant and wanted to have an abortion.

Finally, Common Sense lost the will to live as the Ten Commandments became contraband, churches became businesses, and criminal recived better treatment than their victims. Common Sense finally gave up the ghost after a woman failed to realize that a steaming cup of coffee was hot, spilled it in her lap and was awarded a huge settlement.

Commom Sense was preceded in death by his parents Truth and Trust, his wife, Discretion, his daughter Responsibility, and his son Reason.

He is survived by one stepbrother, My Rights.... and one stepsister, Ima Whiner.

Not many attended his funeral because so few realize he is gone.


Though this might get some response from the audience. I did respond and man is he pissed.

I typed this whole damn thing and didn't realize I was on a poll form, what a dork!

[Systematic Chaos]

1. Uh, the link is bad, too....

:shrug:

[hang a left]

2. I suck at this

I fixed the link....I hope.

[Systematic Chaos]

4. Don't worry about it - it's still early!

It's fine now, thanks.

And I loved the video and the song that went with it too. :)

[yolatengo]

3. maybe the retard should be asked...

what does your Reader's Digest Homily have to do with the savethemedia ad?

Is he saying he's got Common Sense because he's a rightwing f*ck?

Is he saying we should 'do unto others' (kick the sh*t out of f*cking
Ay-Rabs, ANY Ay-rabs) because we were bombed?

Does his 'Common Sense' tell him that we're doing the Right Thing
because, um, while we haven't found ANY link to Al Qaida OR WMDs
in Iraq, well, by god they're killin' Our Boys so whatever we did or do
to them is justified?

And finally; should the children of America blindly follow a leader
to their death? Should everyone just sign on up? Maybe we should
have 'motor voter' for the military; sign up with a Service and get
a free GOP voter registration card. No matter WHERE George "I
will NOT do ANY Nation Building' Bush sends you, and for whatever
reason (handing out no-bid contracts to Halliburton), you will NOT
object; it's now your DUTY to follow Bush, the GOP and this *sswipe
no questions asked!

Bigby

[MissMillie]

5. One ad hominem after another...

I wonder if this guy ever had an original thought in his life.

[gratuitous]

6. So, what does this dope's common sense tell him?

That invading another country on a flimsy pretext, killing it and stealing its assets and resources is supposed to make its citizens regard the invaders as saviors and liberators? That the answer to violence is more and greater violence? Something tells me that common sense died a long time ago in that cranium, and the body surfaced only recently.

[leesa]

7. Do Unto Others as you would Have Them Do Unto You.

I hope he remembers this as Iraqis kill our soldiers. They are certainly doing what we did to them.

The key line is I just wanted to teach my kid baseball. Me, me, me, mine, mine, mine, etc...

[Generic Other]

8. Common Sense didn't die; he was silenced by Panic and Fear

Panic and Fear the delinquent children of War held him hostage, then bound him and covered his mouth with duct tape.

Common Sense isn't dead. But Sheer Idiocy is alive and well! You will recognize him by the empty space between his ears.

[texastoast]

9. Not an original thought here

I got most of this stuff in an email months ago. Apparently, the "guy" has an Outlook folder: "Stock Reponses to Liberals." Nothing new. Funny, how God talks to him and shrub.

[XNASA]

10. Hmm...Talk about angels, fictional characters.......

...and lots and lots of opinions.

But no facts.

Talk of Common Sense and Truth and Trust, but no actual data or research to back it up.

No hard evidence of anything whatsoever.

How do people like this exist day to day in the real world?

[progressivejazz]

11. I'm reminded that Einstein once said...

...that common sense is the sum total of all the prejudices learned before age 18.

That's why we need facts to base opinions on.

This guy has no facts.