LET'S START WITH RIDICULOUS IN A DIFFERENT SENSE--IF YOU DIDN'T ALREADY FEAR CHINESE GLOBAL DOMINANCE, THIS MIGHT PUT YOU OVER THE EDGE
Ironically, there is little in this video that isn't known technology in the USA. Why doesn't it happen here? Politics, unions, regulations, and government meddling--all of which are revolting and repulsive. Watch this for 3 minutes and ask why it wasn't done here in the USA. Better yet, send it to your Congressional representatives and ask them.
https://www.youtube.com/embed/GVUsIlwWWM8?rel=0 By the way, the Empire State Building was built in just over 18 months and that was more than half a century ago, with far less technological advancements. It could never happen now! Tragic? You bet it is!
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THE LENGTHS TO WHICH WE TAKE SOME THINGS IN AMERICA ARE RIDICULOUS--AND TO WHICH WE DO NOT TAKE OTHERS ARE REVOLTING
I saw a college basketball game stopped today because a player had a small scratch that was bleeding, and they needed to put tape over it to protect the other players from the obscure risk of being contaminated (with what) by this athlete's blood. Yet this weekend, the Gun Show(s) held openly all over out country allow people to buy lethal weapons with killing power (and speed) that so far exceeds the needs of any hunter, sportsman or citizen protecting their home--and often with no waiting period, and little or no background check or verification. That is truly revolting and ridiculous both. And this from a person who defends Americans rights to bear arms, and own them…but not arsenals of lethal weapons of war and terror. Those should constitute a serious criminal offense to just own them, and carry with it a sentence of prison time. To make room, upon a review of their behavior, release all of the "white collar" and "harmless crime" inmates who have served at least 25% of their initial sentences. That will save money for the states and country, and not increase the danger at all.
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I HEAR ABOUT THE "REPUGNANT NATURE OF TORTURE," BUT LITTLE ABOUT THE REPUGNANT NATURE OF MASS MURDER BY TERRORISTS
Why is that? The bleeding hearts of the Politically Correct faction in America are both ridiculous and at times repulsive in the way they distort their "pet issues" and in doing so deny the vast majority of Americans either their God-given or their Constitutionally granted rights. When criminals and terrorists are treated better than ordinary citizens--that is just plain wrong. When the rights of all Americans are trampled (including by the president and his minions) and then the rights of brutal, deranged and misguided criminals/terrorists are held sacrosanct--there is something seriously wrong. Perhaps those people who are most passionate about protecting the evil minority should have to live with them for a month or a year, in a constrained area of our country, isolated from good, God-fearing, honest Americans. This might have a dual purpose: the ACLU and bleeding hearts would see just how bad the bad people are--and there might be some of that a rancher friend of mine used to call "thinning of the herd."
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SOMETIMES THE CLEAREST OBSERVATIONS COME FROM OUTSIDE…
1) Only in America could the rich people - who pay 86% of all income taxes - be accused of not paying their "fair share" by people who don't pay any income taxes at all.
2) Only in America could people claim that the government still discriminates against black Americans when they have a black President, a black Attorney General, and roughly 18% of the federal workforce is black while only 12% of the population is black
3) Only in America could they have had the two people most responsible for our tax code, Timothy Geithner, the head of the Treasury Department and Charles Rangel who once ran the Ways and Means
Committee, BOTH turn out to be tax cheats who are in favor of higher taxes.
4) Only in America can they have terrorists kill people in the name of Allah and have the media primarily react by fretting that Muslims might be harmed by the backlash.
5) Only in America would they make people who want to legally become American citizens wait for years in their home countries and pay tens of thousands of dollars for the privilege while we discuss letting anyone who sneaks into the country illegally just 'magically' become
American citizens.
6) Only in America could the people who believe in balancing the budget and sticking by the country's Constitution be thought of as "extremists."
7) Only in America could you need to present a driver's license to cash a check or buy alcohol, but not to vote.
8) Only in America could people demand the government investigate whether oil companies are gouging the public because the price of gas went up when the return on equity invested in a major U.S. oil company
( Marathon Oil) is less than half of a company making tennis shoes (Nike).
9) Only in America could the government collect more tax dollars from the people than any nation in recorded history, still spend a Trillion dollars more than it has per year - for total spending of $7-Million PER MINUTE, and complain that it doesn't have nearly enough money
10) Only in America could politicians talk about the greed of the rich at a $35,000.00 a plate campaign fund-raising event.
11) Only in America can a man with no background, no qualifications and no experience ... and a complete failure at his job ... be reelected.
AT THE END OF THIS KIND OF EDITION, YOU DESERVE A CHANCE TO SMILE. HERE IS ONE!
1. You can't count your hair.
2. You can't wash your eyes with soap.
3. You can't breathe when your tongue is out.
Put your tongue back in your mouth, you silly person.
10 Things I know about you.
1) You are reading this.
2) You are human.
3) You can't say the letter ''P'' without separating your lips.
4) You just attempted to do it.
6) You are laughing at yourself.
7) You have a smile on your face and you skipped No. 5.
8) You just checked to see if there is a No. 5.
9) You laugh at this because you are a fun loving person & everyone does it too.
10) You are probably going to send this to see who else falls for it.
You have received this e-mail because I didn't want to be alone in the “Idiot” category.
Have a great Day. Laugh, and then Laugh and sing It's a Beautiful Morning even when it's not.
WHEN THINGS IN THE WORLD AROUND YOU ARE NOT GOING SO WELL, IT HELPS TO MAINTAIN YOUR SENSE OF HUMOR.
BEST, JOHN
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John L. Mariotti, President & CEO, The Enterprise Group, http://www.mariotti.net, http://mariotti.blogs.com/my_weblog/
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