Gardasil will make your Alan Keyes burst into flames.

[varkam]

That is all.

[beam me up scottie]

1. It gave me hairy palms.

I don't care what cosmik said...

[LeftishBrit]

2. Point taken- but what about the control condition?

Or in other words is there anything that *doesn't* make your Alan Keyes burst into flames?

[beam me up scottie]

6. I've found that liver with some fava beans and a nice Chianti works for me.

Of course it all has to be in a carrier solution.

[uriel1972]

3. What strange fellows your country produces

I had to look up him and Horvind, total nutters

[LeftishBrit]

4. I knew about Keyes, but had to look up Hovind just now

How insane can people get!

[realisticphish]

7. ah, hovind

at least HE'S in prison

[LeftishBrit]

8. Seems like he should have read Hilaire Belloc's Cautionary Tales...

J stands for James,

who thought it immaterial

To pay his taxes, Local or Imperial.

In vain the Mother wept, the Wife implored,

James only yawned as though a trifle bored.

The Tax Collector called again, but he

Was met with Persiflage and Repartee.

When James was hauled before the learned Judge,

Who lectured him, he loudly whispered, "Fudge!"

The Judge was startled from his usual calm,

He struck the desk before him with his palm,

And roared in tones to make the boldest quail,

"J stands for James, It also stands for JAIL."

And therefore, on a dark and dreadful day,

Policemen came and took him all away.


MORAL:


The fate of James is typical, and shows

How little mercy people can expect

Who will not pay their taxes; (saving those

To which they conscientiously object).

[realisticphish]

9. actual quote, and one of my favorites

“Scripture also says ‘Render unto Caesar what Caesar demands.’ And right now, Caesar demands a building permit,” County Commission Chairman Mike Whitehead said.

[onager]

10. Ha! Thanks! And he should have read a famous conservative...

I just wanted to say that your Belloc post is one of the reasons I love DU. I learn something new or find something entertaining and educational every time I wander into this madhouse. Thank you very much.

(Well, sometimes I learn that I actually died five years ago because of the explosives in my bloodstream or something, but even those posts are...cough...entertaining.)

Anyway, in addition to Belloc, our right-winger Ken "Dr. Dino" Hovind should have read a real arch-conservative: Dr. Samuel Johnson, responding to those whiny Americans in An Answer To The Resolutions and Address of the American Congress.

The U.S. today has a noisy "anti-tax" movement, mostly on the Far Right. They insist that government has no right to tax the citizens, that the U.S. income tax is unconstitutional, and on and on.

In words even a child can understand, Johnson explains the whole idea:

A tax is a payment, exacted by authority, from part of the community, for the benefit of the whole...all the subordinate communities are liable to taxation, because they all share the benefits of government, and, therefore, ought all to furnish their proportion of the expense.

Johnson also had a lot of fun pointing out the great American hypocrisy of the era:

We are told, that the subjection of Americans may tend to the diminution of our own liberties...

If slavery be thus fatally contagious, how is it that we hear the loudest yelps for liberty among the drivers of negroes?

And Johnson suggested a Modest Proposal that must have made hair stand on end in Virginia and Georgia: It has been proposed, that the slaves should be set free, an act, which, surely, the lovers of liberty cannot but commend.

I could quote from this masterpiece of sarcasm all day. But FOR ONCE, I won't. Here's a link to the whole thing:

http://www.samueljohnson.com/tnt.html

[LeftishBrit]

11. Thanks for that - good stuff!

Johnson was certainly a real old Tory, but he occasionally did come up with something quite reasonable.

[TZ]

5. Ick, Allan Keyes

Is from my state/area..he ran for the US Senate a few years ago.
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