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“I moderate jokes on a Kids Jokes website. A lot of joke submissions can’t be published because they don’t make any sense, the child got a genuine joke completely wrong, or they’re a bit too rude for kids… so I publish them here instead. I have not edited or made up any of these jokes.”
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Post-it notes on Andy’s car
Just remember folks, if you’re looking into buying a new Ford, do NOT go to carfaqs.com, do NOT check kelleybluebook, do NOT talk to any competitors at all, ONLY look at official press releases and facts from Ford’s website!
Same goes if you’re looking at getting involved in a pyramid scheme, do not, I repeat DO NOT talk to any of your friends or neighbors who have been burned by this scheme. DO NOT ask them about their experiences with the business.
People who tell you it is all a scam are what we call ‘Dream Crushers.’ They are to be avoided at all costs!!!
Grand Tetons, Jackson WY
January 13, 2013
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The GOP has, in recent years, become the party of saying or doing anything to pander to the most voters it can. It doesn’t really have principles anymore, it just wants you to agree with it in a way that is at odds with liberal beliefs. At any cost. And unfortunately, legitimate things like fiscal conservatism have taken a back seat to rampant social conservatism and the touting of hardcore religious beliefs, neither of which should be at the forefront of any political party’s platform due to rampant suckitude and shittiness. The result of this is the emergence and spread of things like creationism in schools.
Sit down, kids, you need to hear this — creationism is not true. And what’s more, you can have faith and still understand science. They work together, they really do.
To a certain group of conservatives in the GOP, science and faith are at odds all the time. Some believe that science is liberal and open for debate. It’s really not. Science has no politics; it just is. It doesn’t want to prove you or me wrong — it just wants to prove the truth. Science is impartial all the time, even if scientists aren’t always. But when people like Donald Trump make climate change a political issue, or others make creationism vs. evolution an issue, it politicizes something that has no business in that realm and, what’s more, it makes it seem like it’s open for debate. It’s not. There is no debate.
Even now, as the Republican Party looks forward to 2016, some of the members that the media is projecting as potential frontrunners to lead the party are being asked questions like how old they feel the Earth is, another question you don’t get to have an opinion on, because science already has the answer, and they’re either outright refusing to answer or tossing out ridiculous answers like “It’s a mystery.” You know what’s a mystery? What happened to Jennifer Connelly’s boobs. The age of the Earth is pretty straightforward.
No one has a choice to believe in evolution any more than they can choose to believe that the sun is hot or that shit stinks. But because some people, either willfully or otherwise, are ignorant of the facts, the GOP has latched onto this and made it a rallying cry. They’ve turned their policies vs. Democratic policies into God vs. atheist non-believers, or working people against dirty, freeloading hippies. They make it seem like people who want to teach evolution are anti-God and want to rob you of your Christianity, and then it’s a slippery slope into gay marriage and welfare checks and heroin overdoses for everyone, isn’t it?
But evolution isn’t an attack on Christianity. It’s science showing you where people who didn’t have answers way back in the day got it wrong. It happens. A lot of stuff in the Bible is wrong, and we’ve come to accept much of that, unless you’re holding hard to the law that calls shellfish an abomination or that part in Leviticus that supports slavery. By continuing the faulty debate, on this and any other issues, it sets the country at odds and creates an artificial and ignorant discord solely for the sake of ensuring that people never come together and maybe start to work on bigger problems. It’s meant to ensure that you support your party and they support their party and we never find cause to meet in the middle, and it’s a dirty-ass trick.
Across the aisle, Dems aren’t above selling out to avoid ruffling feathers as witnessed by their hasty inclusion of God and Israel in the party platform. When Republicans saw it was missing, starched and uptight eyebrows were raised. The response was a rushjob to change the language to recognize Jerusalem as the capital of Israel and specify people’s potential as “god-given” because you want to make sure the opposition approves of your wording when you’re running a political campaign, lest someone think you have different ideas.
The liberal media does a disservice to Conservatives as well by choosing the best and brightest twats from the right to keep on the news at all times. In fact, the conservative media is complicit in this as well, whether knowingly or unknowingly. Could you ever get a liberal to agree with any fiscally conservative platform, even one that was 100% sensible and reasonable, if it was being presented by a troll like Bill O’Reilly? Or Ann Couler? Or Glenn Beck? These people are living, breathing shit puddles who sensationalize everything and make it objectionable. The right will never win over the left with fools like this and the left will never listen to the right because they raise the blowhards up and pretend they represent the party as a whole when really they only represent the small but vocal group of prolapsed anuses that somehow learned to speak.
Of course, nowhere was the Democratic machine more in weak, wussy form than in Obama’s first debate in which he let Mitt Romney dance a mudhole in him with a good natured smile on his face. And why? Because the GOP goes for the throat while Democrats are happy to just sit back and hope for the best. The entire debate was a really delightful microcosm of current American politics as a whole. Mitt Romney told lies convincingly, Barack Obama let them slide and tried really hard to explain what he thought was best. One side lies, the other closes its eyes and sings “lalala” really loud and then they wait to see if more than 50% of people are standing behind them when it’s done.
Fact is, political discourse is broken right now. Issues are never issues, reactions and scare mongering are what wins elections. A huge number of people are ill informed about what they need, what could help them and how they can attain it. And politicians aren’t going to educate uninformed voters, they’re going to herd them like cattle by dangling prizes. Are you ignorant and hateful of gay people? We’re going to ban gay marriage and maybe send them all to France, where gay comes from. Are you ignorant and in need of health insurance? Vote for me and I’ll make sure that herpes gets cleared right up!
The problem with running a country like America is that it is not simple. 300 million people need a lot of shit in order to be happy and productive. It’s not easy but the majority of those 300 million want it to be easy. They want easy answers, easy lives and easy decisions. So policy makers cherry pick simple ideas, they manufacture drama that you can understand and point you in the direction they want you to go, and then they do whatever they want afterwards because the election’s over and you can’t do shit about it for the next 4 years anyway. Enjoy those herpes, yo.
