RE: George Washington (weirdness)
September 9, 2010 at 2:26 am
(This post was last modified: September 9, 2010 at 2:26 am by TheDarkestOfAngels.)
... uh... Well, he was, I suppose, the original "bulletproof" American Badass (seriously), along with Andrew Jackson (my favorite president), John F. Kennedy, John Quincy Adams, and Teddy Roosevelt (my other favorite president).
Though I'll always remember him from Lisa the Iconoclast episode of the Simpsons where be beat the crap out of the pirate Jebediah Sprungfeld who I think wanted his money.
(I recently had a mini-marathon of season 6 and 7 out of boredom.)
Other than that, I don't have a comment on the video other that it is indeed wierd.
Though I'll always remember him from Lisa the Iconoclast episode of the Simpsons where be beat the crap out of the pirate Jebediah Sprungfeld who I think wanted his money.
(I recently had a mini-marathon of season 6 and 7 out of boredom.)
Other than that, I don't have a comment on the video other that it is indeed wierd.
If today you can take a thing like evolution and make it a crime to teach in the public schools, tomorrow you can make it a crime to teach it in the private schools and next year you can make it a crime to teach it to the hustings or in the church. At the next session you may ban books and the newspapers...
Ignorance and fanaticism are ever busy and need feeding. Always feeding and gloating for more. Today it is the public school teachers; tomorrow the private. The next day the preachers and the lecturers, the magazines, the books, the newspapers. After a while, Your Honor, it is the setting of man against man and creed against creed until with flying banners and beating drums we are marching backward to the glorious ages of the sixteenth centry when bigots lighted fagots to burn the men who dared to bring any intelligence and enlightenment and culture to the human mind. ~Clarence Darrow, at the Scopes Monkey Trial, 1925
Politics is supposed to be the second-oldest profession. I have come to realize that it bears a very close resemblance to the first. ~Ronald Reagan
Ignorance and fanaticism are ever busy and need feeding. Always feeding and gloating for more. Today it is the public school teachers; tomorrow the private. The next day the preachers and the lecturers, the magazines, the books, the newspapers. After a while, Your Honor, it is the setting of man against man and creed against creed until with flying banners and beating drums we are marching backward to the glorious ages of the sixteenth centry when bigots lighted fagots to burn the men who dared to bring any intelligence and enlightenment and culture to the human mind. ~Clarence Darrow, at the Scopes Monkey Trial, 1925
Politics is supposed to be the second-oldest profession. I have come to realize that it bears a very close resemblance to the first. ~Ronald Reagan
