DISQUS

Rugby Reader · 1 year ago

Rush Limbaugh is a big fat idiot.

Rob · 1 year ago

Maybe, maybe not.

Did you have any points to make about what he actually said, though, or is third-grade-level taunting all we're going to get?

Rugby Reader · 1 year ago

Al Franken said it, not me.

Rob · 1 year ago

So you're telling me that Al Franken has the maturity level of a third grader?

I'm shocked.

Rugby Reader · 1 year ago

Could be. I'm from North Dakota, not Minnesota. However, I agree with Al Franken. And Ron Paul. And Ralph Nader.

Rob · 1 year ago

[quote]I'm from North Dakota, not Minnesota. However, I agree with Al Franken. And Ron Paul. And Ralph Nader. [/quote]

"Rugby Reader" pretty much tipped me off to your geography.

But saying that you agree with Ron Paul and Al Franken tells me that you must not know what at least one of those two guys stands for. One is for limited government, and one isn't.

Sounds like you need to spend a little more time informing yourself.

Hoth · 1 year ago

It looks like a new troll has hatched.

Rugby Reader · 1 year ago

I am quite well informed. I understand how the current two-party system we embrace is a complete farce. Democrats and Republicans kiss the behinds of the corporate world and are beholden to them. Obama, Bush, McCain are all of the same mold.

di butler · 1 year ago

The thing that surprises me is how many people DON'T know this is true. I was lucky I guess to learn this in elementary school, but I have heard many revisionist tales. Why? Why do people care enough to try to change history?

bill-tb · 1 year ago

The real story is always a good story ...

Rob · 1 year ago

[quote]I am quite well informed. I understand how the current two-party system we embrace is a complete farce. Democrats and Republicans kiss the behinds of the corporate world and are beholden to them. Obama, Bush, McCain are all of the same mold.[/quote]

And you think Al Franken isn't?

I guess we'll have to agree to disagree on that.

welder4 · 1 year ago

I wonder if any one agrees with the woman that showed a short movie and presentation on the real Thanks giving, lo and behold our founding fathers are grave diggers and drug addicts and all kinds of bad things . some people would destroy the real life story of anything or any one to get a small amount of attention , I think she had an audience of 200. This is also permeated through out present day text books , may be not as bad as her version but the real history has been eliminated or changed so people that went to high school in the 50's would not recognize the history of our great country. Rush Limbaugh is a little over weight ,but idiot nah! he has made more money then any one in the radio business and he does tell the truth as far as it goes. Rush is entertaining and also informative , and Al Franken? yes we need a comedian in there to liven things up a tad. A comedian and he is running for a position to make or break laws > ??? People tend to follow the strangest people .

Gman · 1 year ago

[quote]Al Franken said it, not me. [/quote]

Oh and that's a great reason to cite it.

Al Frankin picked one of those two parties that you despise so much.

So did Ron Paul.

Both are idiots and dangerous, as is anyone who cites their drivel.

I vote for people who stand for liberty, through strength, and less government waste. People who don't want to redistribute wealth to lackeys an morons who don't want to work for anything.

People who are students of the constitution and history, and know that more government = more tyranny, without exception.

WinstonSmith · 1 year ago

I think the "real story" should include the following.

Founding of Jamestown, Virginia 1607, first representative government created 1619. Due to conditions in the colony the people traded copper and iron tools for food with the natives. Not exactly a good use of capital investment but it kept people alive.

Mayflower lands in 1620. It was supposed to land in the established Virginia area but detours north in what became Massachusetts. Since it did not land where it was contracted several shipmates declare themselves free of the obligations. The Mayflower Compact is created to try and hold them to the religious separatists. The signatories were not in the majority.

Lincoln create a national day and ties it to Plymouth in Massachusetts instead of the Virginia colonists since it was in the north.

In 1939 FDR changes the day at the urging of retailers and it causes an uproar. Thanksgiving is moved up a week to provide more shopping days between the holidays.

kender · 1 year ago

Rugby reader quotes Ben Franklin;

"They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety."

Kender retors with a more fitting quote for the times from Thomas Jefferson:

[b]"A strict observance of the written laws is doubtless one of the high duties of a good citizen, but it is not the highest. The laws of necessity, of self-preservation, of saving our country when in danger, are of higher obligation.

To lose our country by a scrupulous adherence to written law would be to lose the law itself, with life, liberty, property, and all those who are enjoying them with us; thus absurdly sacrificing the end to the means."
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--Thomas Jefferson