Tandecredo.

Tom Tancredo has recently decided that it'd be good to turn to voter literacy laws again. He announced it at the recent Tea Party event, even though there was this huge movement in the sixties of sort of repressed people who weren't allowed to vote which already overturned them. But I guess we don't have to learn from our mistakes. It'd just be enough to repeat them again. Maybe they'll turn out differently? Maybe this time, with all the political correctness and what not, it'll be absolutely obvious that this isn't wrong at all.
 
I think this is disgusting. It's disgusting to see this sort of bigotry and elitism allowed in the halls of our legislative buildings, and on the podiums of our events, and applauded by hundreds of people. That's probably the thing that sickens me the most-- the applause and whooping at the end of his speech.

A literacy test completes undermines the tenets of democracy; "the people" doesn't just represents those good at test-taking or those who can write. There are plenty of intelligent people who can't write, or who may not be able test-takers. A literacy test basically tells people that if they're not smart enough, they're not a part of our country.

Then there's the fact that they'd be fundamentally racist. Extraordinarily racist. In his speech, Tancredo is obviously gearing this test towards keeping immigrants or minorities out of the vote.

Then, Tancredo blames the election of Barack Hussein (a word he spits out with so much venom it probably burned the stage beneath him, and ran straight to hell) Obama on the absence of a literacy test. What's that mean, huh Tancredo?

Don't deny it, don't buy it.

BLOGGING ASSIGNMENT NUMBER2

"Our desire to conform is greater than our respect for objective facts." 
- Margaret Dabble----------------->

Yeah.
It is.

Our desire to conform is really very powerful. We'll do a lot to be accepted in society, including bending our moral compass and deciding what facts are true or not (the irony being that facts are always true). Throughout history, people have decided to join an incorrect thought pool because it's the new "in," the new trend or fashion in mental wardrobe.

For instance, people still deny the holocaust.  

/thread

This first post is forced.

Ah, so my Creative Writing teacher wants us to write a response about Rahm Emanuel's use of the phrase "fucking retarded", more specifically, "retard," as I suppose the rest of the bloggersphere is doing.

Personally, I don't really care, and think it's sort of lulzy. But I guess, as a human being, I owe it to the world to have some humanity. So the question is whether or not the word "retard" should be politically incorrect, and banished with the other non-pc words to the back of our minds to be said quietly in ourselves while we look at people.

So the context of this is whole sitch is as follows: Mr. Emanuel was just a bit exasperated because he believed MoveOn's members were dingbats for planning on smearing the names of those Blue Dog members who voted down the health care bill. He came into the meeting, guns a-blazing, and proclaimed the members to be "fucking retarded."

The only critique I have for this man is to next time, not make such statements in a board-room full of butthurt liberals (I'm not conservative, but c'mon), and other professional types. They're obviously going to whine to the press about you saying something like that, and mask it as politically incorrectness, just to see your name go up in flames. Realistically, saying that something's "fucking retarded" is the equivalent in today's society as saying something's "fucking stupid," or "fucking moronic," or "fucking dumb." LIKE SRSLY? What is the ISSUE? All we need to learn from this is to NOT say any words in a raging political war that might have any gray spot about them whatsoever. "Retarded" should definitely not be deemed politically incorrect.

AND THEN PALIN.
WHAT THE SH*T, PALIN?
ARE YOU RETARDED?
O wait-- I might be offending your down-syndrome child who is
a) not called "retarded" anymore in the first place. Now we have resepctable terms like "mentally disabled" and "socially inept".
b) named after his aforesaid malady. That's disgusting, Palin.
c) a tool you've used to put yourself in the spotlight. God, what a pig.
d) not quite as disabled as you.
That's all I really have to say.