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[eruthros]

Okay, depressed or not, how could I resist some of Ann Coulter's latest? She was in a panel discussion with Al Franken yesterday, so no shortage of the Weird Quotes today. There's probably better stuff out there, but sadly I can't find a transcript, just a summary in the Hartford Courant.

When we won the war in a few weeks with amazingly few casualties, all the liberals had to complain about was some broken pottery. Any college student who was ever forced to gaze at Mesopotamian pottery was relieved. -- Ann Coulter

Have they read the Constitution? It's a short document. It doesn't say anything in there about gay marriage. We need to get them [the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court] looking for Osama Bin Laden, because if they can find gay marriage in that document, maybe they can find him. -- Ann Coulter

My only regret with Timothy McVeigh is he did not go to the New York Times building. -- Ann Coulter (this isn't recent at all, but ... well, it is very Ann Coulter, isn't it?)

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[friede.livejournal.com]

*sigh*

And I was just starting to feel better... blerg.

[eruthros]

No, no! Still feel better!

Despite standard idiots and bad press and protesters waving signs that make you want to just go home, the fact remains that some people are wonderful. That the MSJC did what they thought was right regardless of political repercussions. That Bush is trailing Kerry in most polls, which hopefully means that people are beginning to see the light. That Gavin Newsom, mayor of San Francisco, is willing to go to court for breaking the law -- civil disobedience to make a statement that other people should be allowed to marry. That two new Republican Congressmen denounced Rush Limbaugh's description of Abu Ghraib today.

There are a great number of vocal idiots, but their outrage and added volume usually means they're about to lose -- if the American public at large wasn't starting to disagree with him, they wouldn't be so loud.

(The outrage and vitriol and attacks were not as vehement when Bush was polling 89% popularity. Then, of course, people still said things like "George Bush, the man who will lead us out of this mess!" But they didn't say "the Left will tell you that..." or "the Left is trying to kick our president..." or "the liberally-biased media refuse to report anything good about the president. Clearly if Kerry won he'd be trying to run your lives and ruin your privacy and censor things! And Bush wouldn't do that..." or anything.)

[slyviolet.livejournal.com]

The things that are coming out of people's mouths... It just amazes me that people can be this unaware of how they sound. And I love the commentary on the Constitution. Yeah, it's a short document - because it's filled with really big blanketing statements that cover as much ground as possible, and it doesn't get tied up with naming every single thing that is protected, rather it goes for a big picture.

If my high school American history class memories serve, I believe that flying cars, curing cancer, and internet copyright aren't mentioned in the Constitution either. Clearly those should all be banned as well. If it wasn't important enough for those all-seeing founding fathers, it's not important to us.

*sigh* I love my non-Constitutionally-sanctioned icon.

[eruthros]

Heee.

Totally. I plan on outlawing soda. And buckwheat soba noodles. And jam. And also scanning electron microscopes and vibrators and polar fleece. Since none of those are in the constitution.

[slyviolet.livejournal.com]

We're all still supposed to have "unpaid help around the house," grow marijuana and tobacco in our back yards, wear silk stockings and powdered wigs, and ride around on horses with our paraffin lanterns making sure the redcoats haven't invaded. Why can't those poor deluded sinning homosexuals wrap their debauchery-addled brains around that?