found this in a VERY old email from a friend. Andy was a great guy to watch/listen to. I Wish he was still around to comment on today's politics and general social environment.
<tt style="font-family: "Courier New"; color: rgb(85, 85, 85); font-size: 16px;">Andy Rooney said on "60 Minutes" a few weeks back:</tt>
<tt style="font-family: "Courier New"; color: rgb(85, 85, 85); font-size: 16px;">I don't think being a minority makes you a victim of</tt>
<tt style="font-family: "Courier New"; color: rgb(85, 85, 85); font-size: 16px;">anything except numbers</tt>
<tt style="font-family: "Courier New"; color: rgb(85, 85, 85); font-size: 16px;"> The only things I can think of that are truly</tt>
<tt style="font-family: "Courier New"; color: rgb(85, 85, 85); font-size: 16px;">discriminatory are things</tt> <tt style="font-family: "Courier New"; color: rgb(85, 85, 85); font-size: 16px;"> like the United Negro College Fund, Jet Magazine,</tt> <tt style="font-family: "Courier New"; color: rgb(85, 85, 85); font-size: 16px;">[FONT="] Black Entertainment[/FONT]</tt><tt style="font-family: "Courier New"; color: rgb(85, 85, 85); font-size: 16px;"> </tt> <tt style="font-family: "Courier New"; color: rgb(85, 85, 85); font-size: 16px;"> Television, and Miss Black America. Try to have</tt> <tt style="font-family: "Courier New"; color: rgb(85, 85, 85); font-size: 16px;">[FONT="] things like the United [/FONT]</tt><tt style="font-family: "Courier New"; color: rgb(85, 85, 85); font-size: 16px;">Caucasian College Fund, Cloud Magazine, White</tt> <tt style="font-family: "Courier New"; color: rgb(85, 85, 85); font-size: 16px;">[FONT="] Entertainment Television, or[/FONT]</tt> <tt style="font-family: "Courier New"; color: rgb(85, 85, 85); font-size: 16px;">[FONT="] Miss White America; and see what happens...Jesse[/FONT]</tt> <tt style="font-family: "Courier New"; color: rgb(85, 85, 85); font-size: 16px;"> Jackson will be knocking</tt> <tt style="font-family: "Courier New"; color: rgb(85, 85, 85); font-size: 16px;">[FONT="] down your door.[/FONT]</tt>[FONT="] [/FONT]
<tt style="font-family: "Courier New"; color: rgb(85, 85, 85); font-size: 16px;">Guns do not make you a killer. I think killing makes</tt>
<tt style="font-family: "Courier New"; color: rgb(85, 85, 85); font-size: 16px;">[FONT="]you a killer. You can[/FONT]</tt><tt style="font-family: "Courier New"; color: rgb(85, 85, 85); font-size: 16px;"> </tt> <tt style="font-family: "Courier New"; color: rgb(85, 85, 85); font-size: 16px;"> kill someone with a baseball bat or a car, but no</tt>
<tt style="font-family: "Courier New"; color: rgb(85, 85, 85); font-size: 16px;">[FONT="]one is trying to ban you [/FONT]</tt> <tt style="font-family: "Courier New"; color: rgb(85, 85, 85); font-size: 16px;"> from driving to the ball game. </tt>
<tt style="font-family: "Courier New"; color: rgb(85, 85, 85); font-size: 16px;">I believe they are called the Boy Scouts for a </tt>
<tt style="font-family: "Courier New"; color: rgb(85, 85, 85); font-size: 16px;">reason, that is why there are </tt> <tt style="font-family: "Courier New"; color: rgb(85, 85, 85); font-size: 16px;"> no girls allowed. Girls belong in the Girl Scouts!</tt>
<tt style="font-family: "Courier New"; color: rgb(85, 85, 85); font-size: 16px;">[FONT="]ARE YOU LISTENING MARTHA [/FONT]</tt> <tt style="font-family: "Courier New"; color: rgb(85, 85, 85); font-size: 16px;"> BURKE?</tt>
<tt style="font-family: "Courier New"; color: rgb(85, 85, 85); font-size: 16px;">> >></tt>
<tt style="font-family: "Courier New"; color: rgb(85, 85, 85); font-size: 16px;">I think that if you feel homosexuality is wrong, it</tt>
<tt style="font-family: "Courier New"; color: rgb(85, 85, 85); font-size: 16px;">is not a phobia, it is</tt> <tt style="font-family: "Courier New"; color: rgb(85, 85, 85); font-size: 16px;"> an opinion. </tt>
<tt style="font-family: "Courier New"; color: rgb(85, 85, 85); font-size: 16px;">[FONT="]I have the right "NOT" to be tolerant of others[/FONT]</tt>
<tt style="font-family: "Courier New"; color: rgb(85, 85, 85); font-size: 16px;">because they are different,</tt> <tt style="font-family: "Courier New"; color: rgb(85, 85, 85); font-size: 16px;"> weird, or tick me off.</tt>
<tt style="font-family: "Courier New"; color: rgb(85, 85, 85); font-size: 16px;">When 70% of the people who get arrested are black,</tt> <tt style="font-family: "Courier New"; color: rgb(85, 85, 85); font-size: 16px;">in cities where 70% of</tt> <tt style="font-family: "Courier New"; color: rgb(85, 85, 85); font-size: 16px;"> the population is black, that is not racial</tt>
<tt style="font-family: "Courier New"; color: rgb(85, 85, 85); font-size: 16px;">profiling, it is the Law of</tt> <tt style="font-family: "Courier New"; color: rgb(85, 85, 85); font-size: 16px;"> Probability. </tt>
<tt style="font-family: "Courier New"; color: rgb(85, 85, 85); font-size: 16px;">I believe that if you are selling me a milkshake, a</tt>
<tt style="font-family: "Courier New"; color: rgb(85, 85, 85); font-size: 16px;">pack of cigarettes, a</tt>
<tt style="font-family: "Courier New"; color: rgb(85, 85, 85); font-size: 16px;">newspaper or a hotel room, you must do it in</tt>
<tt style="font-family: "Courier New"; color: rgb(85, 85, 85); font-size: 16px;">English! As a matter of fact,</tt>
<tt style="font-family: "Courier New"; color: rgb(85, 85, 85); font-size: 16px;">if you want to be an American citizen, you should</tt>
<tt style="font-family: "Courier New"; color: rgb(85, 85, 85); font-size: 16px;">have to speak English!</tt>
<tt style="font-family: "Courier New"; color: rgb(85, 85, 85); font-size: 16px;">> >> </tt>
<tt style="font-family: "Courier New"; color: rgb(85, 85, 85); font-size: 16px;">My father and grandfather didn't die in vain so you</tt> <tt style="font-family: "Courier New"; color: rgb(85, 85, 85); font-size: 16px;"> can leave the countries</tt> <tt style="font-family: "Courier New"; color: rgb(85, 85, 85); font-size: 16px;">[FONT="] you were born in to come over and disrespect ours.[/FONT]</tt>
<tt style="font-family: "Courier New"; color: rgb(85, 85, 85); font-size: 16px;">I think the police should have every right to shoot</tt>
<tt style="font-family: "Courier New"; color: rgb(85, 85, 85); font-size: 16px;">your sorry ass if you</tt> <tt style="font-family: "Courier New"; color: rgb(85, 85, 85); font-size: 16px;"> threaten them after they tell you to stop. If you</tt>
<tt style="font-family: "Courier New"; color: rgb(85, 85, 85); font-size: 16px;">can't understand the word</tt>
<tt style="font-family: "Courier New"; color: rgb(85, 85, 85); font-size: 16px;">freeze" or "stop" in English, see the above lines.</tt>
<tt style="font-family: "Courier New"; color: rgb(85, 85, 85); font-size: 16px;">I don't think just because you were not born in this</tt>[FONT="] [/FONT]
<tt style="font-family: "Courier New"; color: rgb(85, 85, 85); font-size: 16px;">country, you are</tt> <tt style="font-family: "Courier New"; color: rgb(85, 85, 85); font-size: 16px;">qualified for any special loan programs, government</tt>
<tt style="font-family: "Courier New"; color: rgb(85, 85, 85); font-size: 16px;">sponsored bank loans or</tt> <tt style="font-family: "Courier New"; color: rgb(85, 85, 85); font-size: 16px;"> tax breaks, etc., so you can open a hotel, coffee</tt> <tt style="font-family: "Courier New"; color: rgb(85, 85, 85); font-size: 16px;">[FONT="] shop, trinket store, or [/FONT]</tt>
<tt style="font-family: "Courier New"; color: rgb(85, 85, 85); font-size: 16px;">any other business.</tt>[FONT="] [/FONT]
<tt style="font-family: "Courier New"; color: rgb(85, 85, 85); font-size: 16px;">We did not go to the aid of certain foreign</tt>
<tt style="font-family: "Courier New"; color: rgb(85, 85, 85); font-size: 16px;">[FONT="]countries and risk our lives in[/FONT]</tt> <tt style="font-family: "Courier New"; color: rgb(85, 85, 85); font-size: 16px;">[FONT="] wars to defend their freedoms, so that decades later[/FONT]</tt>
<tt style="font-family: "Courier New"; color: rgb(85, 85, 85); font-size: 16px;">they could come over</tt> <tt style="font-family: "Courier New"; color: rgb(85, 85, 85); font-size: 16px;">[FONT="] here and tell us our constitution is a living[/FONT]</tt>
<tt style="font-family: "Courier New"; color: rgb(85, 85, 85); font-size: 16px;">document; and open to their</tt>
<tt style="font-family: "Courier New"; color: rgb(85, 85, 85); font-size: 16px;">interpretations.</tt>[FONT="] [/FONT]
<tt style="font-family: "Courier New"; color: rgb(85, 85, 85); font-size: 16px;">I don't hate the rich I don't pity the poor.</tt>
<tt style="font-family: "Courier New"; color: rgb(85, 85, 85); font-size: 16px;">I know pro wrestling is fake, but so are movies and</tt>
<tt style="font-family: "Courier New"; color: rgb(85, 85, 85); font-size: 16px;">television. That doesn't</tt>
<tt style="font-family: "Courier New"; color: rgb(85, 85, 85); font-size: 16px;">stop you from watching them.</tt>
<tt style="font-family: "Courier New"; color: rgb(85, 85, 85); font-size: 16px;">I think Bill Gates has every right to keep every</tt>
<tt style="font-family: "Courier New"; color: rgb(85, 85, 85); font-size: 16px;">penny he made and continue</tt>
<tt style="font-family: "Courier New"; color: rgb(85, 85, 85); font-size: 16px;">to make more. If it ticks you off, go and invent the</tt>
<tt style="font-family: "Courier New"; color: rgb(85, 85, 85); font-size: 16px;">next operating system</tt>
<tt style="font-family: "Courier New"; color: rgb(85, 85, 85); font-size: 16px;">that's better, and put your name on the building.</tt>
<tt style="font-family: "Courier New"; color: rgb(85, 85, 85); font-size: 16px;">> It doesn't take a whole village to raise a child</tt>[FONT="] [/FONT]
<tt style="font-family: "Courier New"; color: rgb(85, 85, 85); font-size: 16px;">right, but it does take a</tt> <tt style="font-family: "Courier New"; color: rgb(85, 85, 85); font-size: 16px;"> parent to stand up to the kid; and smack their</tt>
<tt style="font-family: "Courier New"; color: rgb(85, 85, 85); font-size: 16px;">[FONT="]little behinds when necessary[/FONT]</tt>
<tt style="font-family: "Courier New"; color: rgb(85, 85, 85); font-size: 16px;">[FONT="] and say "NO!"[/FONT]</tt><tt style="font-family: "Courier New"; color: rgb(85, 85, 85); font-size: 16px;"> </tt>
<tt style="font-family: "Courier New"; color: rgb(85, 85, 85); font-size: 16px;">I think tattoos and piercing are fine if you want</tt>
<tt style="font-family: "Courier New"; color: rgb(85, 85, 85); font-size: 16px;">[FONT="]them, but please don't [/FONT]</tt>
<tt style="font-family: "Courier New"; color: rgb(85, 85, 85); font-size: 16px;">pretend they are a political statement. And, please,</tt>
<tt style="font-family: "Courier New"; color: rgb(85, 85, 85); font-size: 16px;">stay home until that</tt> <tt style="font-family: "Courier New"; color: rgb(85, 85, 85); font-size: 16px;"> new lip ring heals. I don't want to look at your</tt>
<tt style="font-family: "Courier New"; color: rgb(85, 85, 85); font-size: 16px;">ugly infected mouth as you</tt> <tt style="font-family: "Courier New"; color: rgb(85, 85, 85); font-size: 16px;"> serve me French fries!</tt>
<tt style="font-family: "Courier New"; color: rgb(85, 85, 85); font-size: 16px;">I am sick of "Political Correctness." I know a lot</tt>
<tt style="font-family: "Courier New"; color: rgb(85, 85, 85); font-size: 16px;">of black people, and not</tt>
<tt style="font-family: "Courier New"; color: rgb(85, 85, 85); font-size: 16px;">a single one of them was born in Africa; so how can</tt>
<tt style="font-family: "Courier New"; color: rgb(85, 85, 85); font-size: 16px;">they be</tt> <tt style="font-family: "Courier New"; color: rgb(85, 85, 85); font-size: 16px;">[FONT="] African-Americans"? Besides, Africa is a continent.[/FONT]</tt>[FONT="] [/FONT]
<tt style="font-family: "Courier New"; color: rgb(85, 85, 85); font-size: 16px;">I don't go around saying</tt> <tt style="font-family: "Courier New"; color: rgb(85, 85, 85); font-size: 16px;"> I am a European-American because my great, great,</tt> <tt style="font-family: "Courier New"; color: rgb(85, 85, 85); font-size: 16px;">[FONT="] great, great, great, great [/FONT]</tt> <tt style="font-family: "Courier New"; color: rgb(85, 85, 85); font-size: 16px;"> grandfather was from Europe. I am proud to be from</tt>
<tt style="font-family: "Courier New"; color: rgb(85, 85, 85); font-size: 16px;">America and nowhere else</tt>
<tt style="font-family: "Courier New"; color: rgb(85, 85, 85); font-size: 16px;">And if you don't like my point of view, tough...</tt>
<tt style="font-family: "Courier New"; color: rgb(85, 85, 85); font-size: 16px;">I PLEDGE ALLEGIANCE TO THE FLAG, OF THE UNITED</tt><tt style="font-family: "Courier New"; color: rgb(85, 85, 85); font-size: 16px;"> </tt>
<tt style="font-family: "Courier New"; color: rgb(85, 85, 85); font-size: 16px;">STATES OF AM ERICA, AND TO THE</tt>[FONT="] [/FONT]
<tt style="font-family: "Courier New"; color: rgb(85, 85, 85); font-size: 16px;">REPUBLIC, FOR WHICH IT STANDS, ONE NATION UNDER GOD,</tt>[FONT="] [/FONT]
<tt style="font-family: "Courier New"; color: rgb(85, 85, 85); font-size: 16px;">INDIVISIBLE, WITH</tt> <tt style="font-family: "Courier New"; color: rgb(85, 85, 85); font-size: 16px;"> LIBERTY AND JUSTICE FOR ALL!</tt>
<tt style="font-family: "Courier New"; color: rgb(85, 85, 85); font-size: 16px;">It is said that</tt>
<tt style="font-family: "Courier New"; color: rgb(85, 85, 85); font-size: 16px;">86% of Americans believe in God. Therefore I have a</tt> <tt style="font-family: "Courier New"; color: rgb(85, 85, 85); font-size: 16px;">very hard time</tt>
<tt style="font-family: "Courier New"; color: rgb(85, 85, 85); font-size: 16px;">understanding why there is such a problem in having</tt>
<tt style="font-family: "Courier New"; color: rgb(85, 85, 85); font-size: 16px;">"In God We Trust" on our</tt>
<tt style="font-family: "Courier New"; color: rgb(85, 85, 85); font-size: 16px;">money and having "God" in the Pledge of Allegiance.</tt>
<tt style="font-family: "Courier New"; color: rgb(85, 85, 85); font-size: 16px;">Why don't we just tell</tt>
<tt style="font-family: "Courier New"; color: rgb(85, 85, 85); font-size: 16px;">[FONT="]the 14% to Shut Up and BE QUIET!!![/FONT]</tt>
<tt style="font-family: "Courier New"; color: rgb(85, 85, 85); font-size: 16px;">Andy Rooney said on "60 Minutes" a few weeks back:</tt>
<tt style="font-family: "Courier New"; color: rgb(85, 85, 85); font-size: 16px;">I don't think being a minority makes you a victim of</tt>
<tt style="font-family: "Courier New"; color: rgb(85, 85, 85); font-size: 16px;">anything except numbers</tt>
<tt style="font-family: "Courier New"; color: rgb(85, 85, 85); font-size: 16px;"> The only things I can think of that are truly</tt>
<tt style="font-family: "Courier New"; color: rgb(85, 85, 85); font-size: 16px;">discriminatory are things</tt> <tt style="font-family: "Courier New"; color: rgb(85, 85, 85); font-size: 16px;"> like the United Negro College Fund, Jet Magazine,</tt> <tt style="font-family: "Courier New"; color: rgb(85, 85, 85); font-size: 16px;">[FONT="] Black Entertainment[/FONT]</tt><tt style="font-family: "Courier New"; color: rgb(85, 85, 85); font-size: 16px;"> </tt> <tt style="font-family: "Courier New"; color: rgb(85, 85, 85); font-size: 16px;"> Television, and Miss Black America. Try to have</tt> <tt style="font-family: "Courier New"; color: rgb(85, 85, 85); font-size: 16px;">[FONT="] things like the United [/FONT]</tt><tt style="font-family: "Courier New"; color: rgb(85, 85, 85); font-size: 16px;">Caucasian College Fund, Cloud Magazine, White</tt> <tt style="font-family: "Courier New"; color: rgb(85, 85, 85); font-size: 16px;">[FONT="] Entertainment Television, or[/FONT]</tt> <tt style="font-family: "Courier New"; color: rgb(85, 85, 85); font-size: 16px;">[FONT="] Miss White America; and see what happens...Jesse[/FONT]</tt> <tt style="font-family: "Courier New"; color: rgb(85, 85, 85); font-size: 16px;"> Jackson will be knocking</tt> <tt style="font-family: "Courier New"; color: rgb(85, 85, 85); font-size: 16px;">[FONT="] down your door.[/FONT]</tt>[FONT="] [/FONT]
<tt style="font-family: "Courier New"; color: rgb(85, 85, 85); font-size: 16px;">Guns do not make you a killer. I think killing makes</tt>
<tt style="font-family: "Courier New"; color: rgb(85, 85, 85); font-size: 16px;">[FONT="]you a killer. You can[/FONT]</tt><tt style="font-family: "Courier New"; color: rgb(85, 85, 85); font-size: 16px;"> </tt> <tt style="font-family: "Courier New"; color: rgb(85, 85, 85); font-size: 16px;"> kill someone with a baseball bat or a car, but no</tt>
<tt style="font-family: "Courier New"; color: rgb(85, 85, 85); font-size: 16px;">[FONT="]one is trying to ban you [/FONT]</tt> <tt style="font-family: "Courier New"; color: rgb(85, 85, 85); font-size: 16px;"> from driving to the ball game. </tt>
<tt style="font-family: "Courier New"; color: rgb(85, 85, 85); font-size: 16px;">I believe they are called the Boy Scouts for a </tt>
<tt style="font-family: "Courier New"; color: rgb(85, 85, 85); font-size: 16px;">reason, that is why there are </tt> <tt style="font-family: "Courier New"; color: rgb(85, 85, 85); font-size: 16px;"> no girls allowed. Girls belong in the Girl Scouts!</tt>
<tt style="font-family: "Courier New"; color: rgb(85, 85, 85); font-size: 16px;">[FONT="]ARE YOU LISTENING MARTHA [/FONT]</tt> <tt style="font-family: "Courier New"; color: rgb(85, 85, 85); font-size: 16px;"> BURKE?</tt>
<tt style="font-family: "Courier New"; color: rgb(85, 85, 85); font-size: 16px;">> >></tt>
<tt style="font-family: "Courier New"; color: rgb(85, 85, 85); font-size: 16px;">I think that if you feel homosexuality is wrong, it</tt>
<tt style="font-family: "Courier New"; color: rgb(85, 85, 85); font-size: 16px;">is not a phobia, it is</tt> <tt style="font-family: "Courier New"; color: rgb(85, 85, 85); font-size: 16px;"> an opinion. </tt>
<tt style="font-family: "Courier New"; color: rgb(85, 85, 85); font-size: 16px;">[FONT="]I have the right "NOT" to be tolerant of others[/FONT]</tt>
<tt style="font-family: "Courier New"; color: rgb(85, 85, 85); font-size: 16px;">because they are different,</tt> <tt style="font-family: "Courier New"; color: rgb(85, 85, 85); font-size: 16px;"> weird, or tick me off.</tt>
<tt style="font-family: "Courier New"; color: rgb(85, 85, 85); font-size: 16px;">When 70% of the people who get arrested are black,</tt> <tt style="font-family: "Courier New"; color: rgb(85, 85, 85); font-size: 16px;">in cities where 70% of</tt> <tt style="font-family: "Courier New"; color: rgb(85, 85, 85); font-size: 16px;"> the population is black, that is not racial</tt>
<tt style="font-family: "Courier New"; color: rgb(85, 85, 85); font-size: 16px;">profiling, it is the Law of</tt> <tt style="font-family: "Courier New"; color: rgb(85, 85, 85); font-size: 16px;"> Probability. </tt>
<tt style="font-family: "Courier New"; color: rgb(85, 85, 85); font-size: 16px;">I believe that if you are selling me a milkshake, a</tt>
<tt style="font-family: "Courier New"; color: rgb(85, 85, 85); font-size: 16px;">pack of cigarettes, a</tt>
<tt style="font-family: "Courier New"; color: rgb(85, 85, 85); font-size: 16px;">newspaper or a hotel room, you must do it in</tt>
<tt style="font-family: "Courier New"; color: rgb(85, 85, 85); font-size: 16px;">English! As a matter of fact,</tt>
<tt style="font-family: "Courier New"; color: rgb(85, 85, 85); font-size: 16px;">if you want to be an American citizen, you should</tt>
<tt style="font-family: "Courier New"; color: rgb(85, 85, 85); font-size: 16px;">have to speak English!</tt>
<tt style="font-family: "Courier New"; color: rgb(85, 85, 85); font-size: 16px;">> >> </tt>
<tt style="font-family: "Courier New"; color: rgb(85, 85, 85); font-size: 16px;">My father and grandfather didn't die in vain so you</tt> <tt style="font-family: "Courier New"; color: rgb(85, 85, 85); font-size: 16px;"> can leave the countries</tt> <tt style="font-family: "Courier New"; color: rgb(85, 85, 85); font-size: 16px;">[FONT="] you were born in to come over and disrespect ours.[/FONT]</tt>
<tt style="font-family: "Courier New"; color: rgb(85, 85, 85); font-size: 16px;">I think the police should have every right to shoot</tt>
<tt style="font-family: "Courier New"; color: rgb(85, 85, 85); font-size: 16px;">your sorry ass if you</tt> <tt style="font-family: "Courier New"; color: rgb(85, 85, 85); font-size: 16px;"> threaten them after they tell you to stop. If you</tt>
<tt style="font-family: "Courier New"; color: rgb(85, 85, 85); font-size: 16px;">can't understand the word</tt>
<tt style="font-family: "Courier New"; color: rgb(85, 85, 85); font-size: 16px;">freeze" or "stop" in English, see the above lines.</tt>
<tt style="font-family: "Courier New"; color: rgb(85, 85, 85); font-size: 16px;">I don't think just because you were not born in this</tt>[FONT="] [/FONT]
<tt style="font-family: "Courier New"; color: rgb(85, 85, 85); font-size: 16px;">country, you are</tt> <tt style="font-family: "Courier New"; color: rgb(85, 85, 85); font-size: 16px;">qualified for any special loan programs, government</tt>
<tt style="font-family: "Courier New"; color: rgb(85, 85, 85); font-size: 16px;">sponsored bank loans or</tt> <tt style="font-family: "Courier New"; color: rgb(85, 85, 85); font-size: 16px;"> tax breaks, etc., so you can open a hotel, coffee</tt> <tt style="font-family: "Courier New"; color: rgb(85, 85, 85); font-size: 16px;">[FONT="] shop, trinket store, or [/FONT]</tt>
<tt style="font-family: "Courier New"; color: rgb(85, 85, 85); font-size: 16px;">any other business.</tt>[FONT="] [/FONT]
<tt style="font-family: "Courier New"; color: rgb(85, 85, 85); font-size: 16px;">We did not go to the aid of certain foreign</tt>
<tt style="font-family: "Courier New"; color: rgb(85, 85, 85); font-size: 16px;">[FONT="]countries and risk our lives in[/FONT]</tt> <tt style="font-family: "Courier New"; color: rgb(85, 85, 85); font-size: 16px;">[FONT="] wars to defend their freedoms, so that decades later[/FONT]</tt>
<tt style="font-family: "Courier New"; color: rgb(85, 85, 85); font-size: 16px;">they could come over</tt> <tt style="font-family: "Courier New"; color: rgb(85, 85, 85); font-size: 16px;">[FONT="] here and tell us our constitution is a living[/FONT]</tt>
<tt style="font-family: "Courier New"; color: rgb(85, 85, 85); font-size: 16px;">document; and open to their</tt>
<tt style="font-family: "Courier New"; color: rgb(85, 85, 85); font-size: 16px;">interpretations.</tt>[FONT="] [/FONT]
<tt style="font-family: "Courier New"; color: rgb(85, 85, 85); font-size: 16px;">I don't hate the rich I don't pity the poor.</tt>
<tt style="font-family: "Courier New"; color: rgb(85, 85, 85); font-size: 16px;">I know pro wrestling is fake, but so are movies and</tt>
<tt style="font-family: "Courier New"; color: rgb(85, 85, 85); font-size: 16px;">television. That doesn't</tt>
<tt style="font-family: "Courier New"; color: rgb(85, 85, 85); font-size: 16px;">stop you from watching them.</tt>
<tt style="font-family: "Courier New"; color: rgb(85, 85, 85); font-size: 16px;">I think Bill Gates has every right to keep every</tt>
<tt style="font-family: "Courier New"; color: rgb(85, 85, 85); font-size: 16px;">penny he made and continue</tt>
<tt style="font-family: "Courier New"; color: rgb(85, 85, 85); font-size: 16px;">to make more. If it ticks you off, go and invent the</tt>
<tt style="font-family: "Courier New"; color: rgb(85, 85, 85); font-size: 16px;">next operating system</tt>
<tt style="font-family: "Courier New"; color: rgb(85, 85, 85); font-size: 16px;">that's better, and put your name on the building.</tt>
<tt style="font-family: "Courier New"; color: rgb(85, 85, 85); font-size: 16px;">> It doesn't take a whole village to raise a child</tt>[FONT="] [/FONT]
<tt style="font-family: "Courier New"; color: rgb(85, 85, 85); font-size: 16px;">right, but it does take a</tt> <tt style="font-family: "Courier New"; color: rgb(85, 85, 85); font-size: 16px;"> parent to stand up to the kid; and smack their</tt>
<tt style="font-family: "Courier New"; color: rgb(85, 85, 85); font-size: 16px;">[FONT="]little behinds when necessary[/FONT]</tt>
<tt style="font-family: "Courier New"; color: rgb(85, 85, 85); font-size: 16px;">[FONT="] and say "NO!"[/FONT]</tt><tt style="font-family: "Courier New"; color: rgb(85, 85, 85); font-size: 16px;"> </tt>
<tt style="font-family: "Courier New"; color: rgb(85, 85, 85); font-size: 16px;">I think tattoos and piercing are fine if you want</tt>
<tt style="font-family: "Courier New"; color: rgb(85, 85, 85); font-size: 16px;">[FONT="]them, but please don't [/FONT]</tt>
<tt style="font-family: "Courier New"; color: rgb(85, 85, 85); font-size: 16px;">pretend they are a political statement. And, please,</tt>
<tt style="font-family: "Courier New"; color: rgb(85, 85, 85); font-size: 16px;">stay home until that</tt> <tt style="font-family: "Courier New"; color: rgb(85, 85, 85); font-size: 16px;"> new lip ring heals. I don't want to look at your</tt>
<tt style="font-family: "Courier New"; color: rgb(85, 85, 85); font-size: 16px;">ugly infected mouth as you</tt> <tt style="font-family: "Courier New"; color: rgb(85, 85, 85); font-size: 16px;"> serve me French fries!</tt>
<tt style="font-family: "Courier New"; color: rgb(85, 85, 85); font-size: 16px;">I am sick of "Political Correctness." I know a lot</tt>
<tt style="font-family: "Courier New"; color: rgb(85, 85, 85); font-size: 16px;">of black people, and not</tt>
<tt style="font-family: "Courier New"; color: rgb(85, 85, 85); font-size: 16px;">a single one of them was born in Africa; so how can</tt>
<tt style="font-family: "Courier New"; color: rgb(85, 85, 85); font-size: 16px;">they be</tt> <tt style="font-family: "Courier New"; color: rgb(85, 85, 85); font-size: 16px;">[FONT="] African-Americans"? Besides, Africa is a continent.[/FONT]</tt>[FONT="] [/FONT]
<tt style="font-family: "Courier New"; color: rgb(85, 85, 85); font-size: 16px;">I don't go around saying</tt> <tt style="font-family: "Courier New"; color: rgb(85, 85, 85); font-size: 16px;"> I am a European-American because my great, great,</tt> <tt style="font-family: "Courier New"; color: rgb(85, 85, 85); font-size: 16px;">[FONT="] great, great, great, great [/FONT]</tt> <tt style="font-family: "Courier New"; color: rgb(85, 85, 85); font-size: 16px;"> grandfather was from Europe. I am proud to be from</tt>
<tt style="font-family: "Courier New"; color: rgb(85, 85, 85); font-size: 16px;">America and nowhere else</tt>
<tt style="font-family: "Courier New"; color: rgb(85, 85, 85); font-size: 16px;">And if you don't like my point of view, tough...</tt>
<tt style="font-family: "Courier New"; color: rgb(85, 85, 85); font-size: 16px;">I PLEDGE ALLEGIANCE TO THE FLAG, OF THE UNITED</tt><tt style="font-family: "Courier New"; color: rgb(85, 85, 85); font-size: 16px;"> </tt>
<tt style="font-family: "Courier New"; color: rgb(85, 85, 85); font-size: 16px;">STATES OF AM ERICA, AND TO THE</tt>[FONT="] [/FONT]
<tt style="font-family: "Courier New"; color: rgb(85, 85, 85); font-size: 16px;">REPUBLIC, FOR WHICH IT STANDS, ONE NATION UNDER GOD,</tt>[FONT="] [/FONT]
<tt style="font-family: "Courier New"; color: rgb(85, 85, 85); font-size: 16px;">INDIVISIBLE, WITH</tt> <tt style="font-family: "Courier New"; color: rgb(85, 85, 85); font-size: 16px;"> LIBERTY AND JUSTICE FOR ALL!</tt>
<tt style="font-family: "Courier New"; color: rgb(85, 85, 85); font-size: 16px;">It is said that</tt>
<tt style="font-family: "Courier New"; color: rgb(85, 85, 85); font-size: 16px;">86% of Americans believe in God. Therefore I have a</tt> <tt style="font-family: "Courier New"; color: rgb(85, 85, 85); font-size: 16px;">very hard time</tt>
<tt style="font-family: "Courier New"; color: rgb(85, 85, 85); font-size: 16px;">understanding why there is such a problem in having</tt>
<tt style="font-family: "Courier New"; color: rgb(85, 85, 85); font-size: 16px;">"In God We Trust" on our</tt>
<tt style="font-family: "Courier New"; color: rgb(85, 85, 85); font-size: 16px;">money and having "God" in the Pledge of Allegiance.</tt>
<tt style="font-family: "Courier New"; color: rgb(85, 85, 85); font-size: 16px;">Why don't we just tell</tt>
<tt style="font-family: "Courier New"; color: rgb(85, 85, 85); font-size: 16px;">[FONT="]the 14% to Shut Up and BE QUIET!!![/FONT]</tt>
