my mind is a strange and wonderful place

(most times)

My daughter and I were just discussing this case. We concluded that, while we may have some chance of living through an affirmative action presidency, we would really rather not have to rely on affirmative action firefighters who failed the qualifying test to be in charge of saving us from a burning inferno.

I’m going to have to speak up here for all people who have worked hard and spent a lot of money to attain their college and graduate degrees. It does mean more than a hill of beans.

Thank you, Queen of Hearts. I worked hard, earning a degree in Chemistry and Philosophy, which aren’t exactly courses in Basket Weaving. I work with a lot of very intelligent people who also worked hard getting their degrees. In addition, there are many who post here who are quite intelligent, many with advanced degrees–that is one reason why I come here. It beats reading some of the hogwash that passes as intelligent repartee on other websites.

To paraphrase Socrates, “The truly wise man knows he is ignorant”. (Which is one among many reasons to enroll in college).

As a Hispanic who opposes Sotomayor I challenge you to show me one conservative who opposes her because she’s a “spic” or retitle this post.

I am so sick and tired of you holier-than-thou racist liberals.

I feel these days like I am living in the age of McCarthy. ‘Racist’ is the new ‘Communist’. Or the rise of the Third Reich and ‘rich white people’ (basically defined now as any Caucasian family with a roof over their head, food in the fridge, a car in the driveway and a little put aside for their children’s ‘fancy’ degrees) are the new ‘Jews’.

Who are our society’s current devils? People with ‘fancy’ degrees. Families in urban areas who bring in $250,000. Anyone who has worked hard during their lives and succeeded. Anyone who isn’t on the public dole. Small business owners who generate jobs and income for other people. Fat people. Anyone who believes in God instead of Obama. People who think the Constitution is important (you know – those racist deadender teabaggers).

Unless, of course, you are the Obamas or a Democratic member of Congress. They are exempt from these standards of ‘evil’, of course. Although they may make 10 times as much as the ‘rich’ families they now target, that is well deserved compensation and not ill-gotten, unlike the $250K the small business owner may take home after a year of risk-taking, hard-working job generation. No, that is ‘evil’ incarnate, and the small business owner must pay for his/her sins.

I am, frankly, sick to death of all the lying, scum-sucking hypocrisy.