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Post by wavemaker9 (Rick D.) on Jul 2, 2008 16:54:22 GMT -5
. . . So, I was talking to this little girl Catherine, the daughter of some friends, and she said she wanted to be President some day.
Both of her parents, liberal Democrats, were standing there with us - and I asked Catherine - 'If you were President what would be the first thing you would do?'
Catherine replied - 'I would give houses to all the homeless people.'
'Wow - what a worthy goal you have there, Catherine.' I told her, 'You don't have to wait until you're President to do that, you can come over to my house and clean up all the dog poop in my back yard and I will pay you $5 dollars. Then we can go over to the grocery store where the homeless guy hangs out, and you can give him the $5 dollars to use for a new house.'
Catherine (who was about 4) thought that over for a second, while her mom looked at me seething, and Catherine replied, 'Why doesn't the homeless guy come over and clean up the dog poop and you can just pay him the $5 dollars?'
And I said, 'Welcome to the Republican Party".
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Post by brianedwards on Jul 2, 2008 22:47:13 GMT -5
LOL!
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Post by mfwilkie on Jul 24, 2008 21:03:50 GMT -5
LMAO, also!!!!!
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Post by Marion Poirier on Jul 24, 2008 23:10:36 GMT -5
Kids are so darn smart - funny, very; however
this child has more common sense than
a lot of liberals.
Marion
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Post by Ken_Nye on Jul 25, 2008 11:52:30 GMT -5
Marion, are you sure you want to begin threads like this on EP? I'm a liberal -- have been all miy life. I could say some nasty things about conservatives, but I don't think that's what
EP is for. (I've got to warn you, though: I'm having a hard time keeping my mouth shut right now.)
Your liberal friend,
Ken
P.S. I hope you have a nice day.
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Post by Marion Poirier on Jul 25, 2008 12:58:56 GMT -5
Ken, I beg your pardon. I did not start this thread
and I am only saying some liberals. For your
information I've been a life long democrat -
but I believe in the old adage -
paraphrased but the meaning is in tact.
Give a man a fish and he'll have food for a day.
Teach him to fish and he'll have food for a lifetime.
I thought that was the moral of the story.
FYI, I am neither liberal nor
conservative - I have an open mind;
what I wrote was NOT intended
to be interpreted as a political statement.
Let me make this perfectly clear, my liberal friend.
Thank you.
Marion
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Post by Ken_Nye on Jul 25, 2008 16:47:07 GMT -5
I'm sorry, Marion. I just read the whole thread and I shot my mouth off not knowiing what I was doing. I apologize. and I apologize to everyone who joined this and got an opportunity to see someone putting his fot in his mouth. I did the same thing this afternoon with my wife, Ann. Then and now I regret having opened my mouth. I'm blaming this on age, but whatever I blame it one, I'm sorry.
Your confused, irascible liberal friend,
Ken
Ke
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Post by mfwilkie on Jul 26, 2008 0:36:43 GMT -5
Heavens to Betsy, Ken,
I sure hope you're not sitting on the front porch with your foot in your mouth when Donna and I get there!!!! ;D
Hi to Ann.
Maggie
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Post by Ken_Nye on Jul 26, 2008 1:28:13 GMT -5
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When I was a baby I sucked on my thumb.
Now that I am a man, I suck on my foot.
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Post by Marion Poirier on Jul 26, 2008 9:28:16 GMT -5
Thank you, Ken. I do this all the time; (foot in mouth)
I pledge from this day forth I am going to follow
my own advice in the signature line below.
Hope you are out of the dog house at home,
my friend.
Marion
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Post by wavemaker9 (Rick D.) on Aug 1, 2008 9:43:16 GMT -5
No one should ever need to apologize to me or anyone seeking knowledge. The ones that don't seek need to apologize to us. Ken, you're my friend. You can say anything you like to me and I will learn. I'm conservative, we tend to have thick skins and have learned to wear cups. Right is right, wrong is wrong. Period.
Rick
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