Michele Dumbbell?
The only person dumber than Sarah Palin is Michele Bachmann. Or so says Matt Stopera at Buzzfeed. As evidence, he produces "The 10 Craziest Michele Bachmann Quotes."
Look them over yourself and decide how crazy they are. But it's #1 that fascinates me: "Not All Cultures Are Equal."
That's the craziest thing he could find? I assume Stopera will admit cultures are different. Heck, he probably celebrates it. I wouldn't be surprised if he'd also admit that he'd rather live in some cultures over others. Yet he feels even questioning if all cultures are equal is a sign of insanity.
Maybe there's no way, ultimately, to measure if one culture is superior to another. But we demonstrate through our actions every day that we prefer some types to others. If I asked Stopera "what do you think society should do, alllow homosexuals to marry, or stone them to death?," I find it hard to believe he'd say it's the same either way.
posted by LAGuy @ 12:11 AM
3 Comments:
Isn't Bachman a trained tax lawyer? In the end politics is played the same way. republicans call Biden a doufus, Democrats call Palin a moron, and neither is close to the truth.
I love how Democrats are calling the Ryan medicare proposal a proposal to end medicare and kill old people. It's tit for tat, where the Republican tat was renaming Obamacare committees designed to decide what treatments would be covered "Death Panels."
Er, when you have an administrative body that says, "no, we will not provide this care," why isn't death panel perfectly appropriate? A bit sensational, but nevertheless apt.
In contrast, a generalized "people will die" if we don't do it the speaker's way is too diffuse to make much sense, when it applies to everything and anything that can be proposed-speed limits, drinking, taxes, ethics, the gamut.
There is no reason to think Palin is a moron and much reason to think otherwise, but are you sure about Biden? I'll take your word for it, since you're a Guy.
Nothing in there about the inconsistency between supporting states' rights and a constitutional amendment defining marriage as between a man and a woman, eh? I guess it wasn't that kind of article.
Anon, the original proposed "death panels," as referred to by Sarah Palin, were designed to do nothing beyond provide end-of-life counseling for the terminally ill. Not serve as an administrative body that would decide what care to provide or not.
However, even if that's what they did, you could rename almost anything a death panel under your logic. Administrative body that decides on speed limits on particular roads? Death panel. One that covers milk expiration dates? Death panel. Etc, etc. DG's point is valid.
Post a Comment
<< Home