From: Terry Lane (tlane@mobynet.com)
Date: Thu Apr 10 2003 - 21:10:14 PDT
Terry lane wrote:
>
> <GREAT STORY>
>
> Subject: Go Andy Rooney!!! I never would have thought!
>
> Andy Rooney's Opinion 2/15/03
>
> I like big cars, big boats, big motorcycles, big
> houses and big campfires. I
>
> believe the money I make belongs to me and my
> family, not some governmental stooge with a bad comb-over who wants to give it
> (my money)away to crack addicts for
> squirting out babies.
>
> Guns do not make you a killer. I think killing
> makes you a killer. You can
> kill someone with a baseball bat or a car, but no
> one is trying to ban you
> from driving to the base ball game.
>
> I believe they are called the Boy Scouts for a
> reason, that is why there
> are no girls allowed. Girls belong in the Girl
> Scouts! I think that if you
> feel homosexuality is wrong, it is not a phobia,
> it is an opinion. I don't
> think being a minority makes you a victim of
> anything except numbers. The
> only things I can think of that are truly
> discriminatory are things like the
>
> United Negro College Fund, Jet Magazine, Black
> Entertainment Television, and
>
> Miss Black America. Try to have things like the
> United Caucasian College
> Fund, Cloud Magazine, White Entertainment
> Television, or Miss White America
> and see what happens. Jesse Jackson will be
> knocking down your door.
>
> I have the right "NOT" to be tolerant of others
> because they are different,weird, or tick me off.
When 70% of the people who get arrested are
>
> black, in cities where 70% of the population is
> black, that is not racial
> profiling, it is the law of statistics.
>
> I know what sex is, and there are not varying
> degrees of it. If I received
> sex from one of my subordinates in my office, it
> wouldn't be a private
> matter or my personal business. I would be "FIRED"
> immediately!
>
> I believe that if you are selling me a milk shake,
> a pack of cigarettes, a
> newspaper or a hotel room, you must do it in
> English! As a matter of fact,
> if you want to be an American citizen you should
> have to speak English! My
>
> father and grandfather shouldn't have to die in
> vain so you can leave the
> countries you were born in to come over and
> disrespect ours. I think the
> police should have every right to shoot your sorry
> ass if you threaten them
> after they tell you to stop. If you can't
> understand the word"freeze" or
> "stop" in English, see the above lines.
>
> I feel much safer letting a machine with no
> political affiliation recount
> votes when needed. I know what the definition of
> lying is. I don't think
> just because you were not born in this country,
> you are qualified for any
> special loan programs, government sponsored bank
> loans or tax breaks,
> etc.,so you can open a hotel, coffee shop, trinket
> store, or any other
> business.
>
> We did not go to the aid of certain foreign
> countries and risk our lives in
> wars to defend their freedoms so that decades
> later they could come over
> here and tell us our constitution is a living
> document and open to their
> interpretations.
>
> I don't hate the rich. I don't pity the poor. I
> know wrestling is fake, but
>
> so are movies and television, and that doesn't
> stop you from watching them.
> I believe a self-righteous liberal or conservative
> with a cause is more
> dangerous than a Hell's Angel with an attitude.
>
> I think Bill Gates has every right to keep every
> penny he made and continue
> to make more. If it ticks you off, go and invent
> the next operating system
> that's better and put your name on the building.
> Ask your buddy that
> invented the Internet to help you.
>
> It doesn't take a whole village to raise a child
> right, but it does take a
> parent to stand up to the kid and smack their
> little ass when necessary and
> say, "NO!" I think tattoos and piercing are fine
> if you want them, but
> please don't pretend they are a political
> statement. And please stay home
> until that new lip ring heals, I don't want to
> look at your ugly infected
> mouth as you serve me French-fries!
>
> I am sick of "Political Correctness" and of all
> the suck ups that go along
> with it. I know a lot of black people, and not a
> single one of them was born
>
> in Africa, so how can they be "African-Americans"?
> Besides, Africa is a
> continent. I don't go around saying I am a
> European-American because my
> great, great, great, great, great, great
> grandfather was from Europe. I am
> proud to be from America and nowhere else. And if
> you don't like my point of
>
> view, tough!
>
> Andy is 83 and entitled to his opinion.
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