Dumb and Stupid Quotes Thread: Idiotic Source and Context are Key.

[Borachio]

Bretons are Celts and the French are, or were,... well... French?

I'm not sure what you mean here. Do you mean the Bretons don't have a true sense of national identity? With a culture, and language, distinct from that of the French?

 

[Phrossack]

Bretons are Celts and the French are, or were,... well... French?

I'm not sure what you mean here. Do you mean the Bretons don't have a true sense of national identity? With a culture, and language, distinct from that of the French?

Few Bretons actually speak Breton anymore, due in no small part to deliberate French education policies intended to wipe out Breton (the policies are thankfully gone now). Most Bretons have considered themselves French for quite some time, though a few still speak the language, dance the dances, and so on.

But we won't really understand modern Breton identity within France until someone posts two pages' worth of centuries-old demographic data about Brittany and hour-long videos entirely in Breton.

 

[ReindeerThistle]

There's 300 million of us, it must be more than 5%.

Clearly we need to impose some Caesar onto this salad bowl.

That actually makes it less than 5%, since the world's population is over 7 billion.

300,000,000 is 4.286% of 7 billion.

The opposite of his position isn't "color blindness," I would never advocate that nor honestly expect it. The point is that there's nothing wrong with having your own identity. Korean-American is an identity, distinct from both Korean and American. Same with Indian-American, French-American, Scottish-American, Iranian-American, etc. What Jindal and other Nativists are objected to is the idea that even this is a legitimate identity. They want you to be just like the existing culture, to give up your identity completely. But more importantly than that, he's justifying racism by saying that it's the fault of the racially prejudiced that other people are racist towards them. Do you see why this is a horrid statement?

It's easier to assimilate. NOOOOOT! Read Dee Brown's Bury Heart at Wounded Knee. Really aggressive assimilation.

 

[Cutlass]

“A few years ago I heard about a teenage girl who was demon possessed, and people began to deal with the demon and try to cast it out. And you know what the demon said? ‘I had permission.’ And the permission was granted when this child had gone to some double-X-rated movie, or whatever it was, and had allowed this thing to come into her.”

Pat Robertson

 

[ReindeerThistle]

Pat "9/11 Was Brought on us by Gay Marriage" Robertson is an American treasure.

 

[dusters]

Bretons are Celts and the French are, or were,... well... French?

I'm not sure what you mean here. Do you mean the Bretons don't have a true sense of national identity? With a culture, and language, distinct from that of the French?

Bretons originate from celts.

 

[Borachio]

So I've heard.

But then the Celts claim to be ancestors of nearly everyone, including the Swiss.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Celts

 

[Antilogic]

Pat Robertson, especially on sexing teh transsexuals, is hilarious.

 

[Kyriakos]

Maybe I should offer a good thanks to the distinguished members of the majority, the Republicans, my chairman and others, for giving us an opportunity to have a deliberative constitutional discussion that reinforces the sanctity of this nation and how well it is that we have lasted some 400 years, operating under a constitution that clearly defines what is constitutional and what is not.

So the US has had a constitution since 1614. Time travel or mass cover-up?


Link to video.

 

[Borachio]

She's getting muddled with the 400 years of slavery referred to by Bob Marley et al, perhaps.

 

[Kyriakos]

^Slavery ended with the signing of the US constitution

 

[Dachs]

^Slavery ended with the signing of the US constitution

Representatives and direct Taxes shall be apportioned among the several States which may be included within this Union, according to their respective Numbers, which shall be determined by adding to the whole Number of free Persons, including those bound to Service for a Term of Years, and excluding Indians not taxed, three fifths of all other Persons.

Italics mine.

 

[Antilogic]

So the US has had a constitution since 1614. Time travel or mass cover-up?

Since it was clearly written by Jesus she is dramatically underestimating its age.

 

[madviking]

"I got a team of hoes like Pat Summit."

Action Bronson

 

[Cutlass]

"The hard left, human-hating people that run modern universities...should all be taken out and shot."
—

Austin Ruse of the Catholic Family and Human Rights Institute

 

[Kyriakos]

McCain: 'Russia is a gas station masquerading as a country'.

http://news.yahoo.com/mccain-ukraine-crimea-160807712.html

He is beyond senile now. Rather dangerous to have him visit foreign countries and play the US mediator.

 

[Borachio]

Electing Barack Obama president was the first step in redeeming American democracy. The second step must be indicting ex-president George W. Bush, giving him a fair trial, finding him guilty of many criminal acts and putting him in prison. Forget revenge. Think rule of law and justice.

Joel S. Hirschhorn
http://dissidentvoice.org/2008/12/george-w-bush-belongs-in-prison/

 

[SS-18 ICBM]

Who cares about thousands of additional cases due to delaying the eradication of polio by decades? What's really important is killing a terrorist figurehead, as one American life equals that of a few thousand Third Worlders.

"I disagree with your contention that it was wrong to use healthcare workers in the CIA’s effort to locate Bin Laden. By eliminating Bin Laden who was still the spiritual leader of al Qaida and Islamist terrorists, I think the greater good was served. Potential lives, arguably, could be saved through defeating their cause."
-Dan Weiss, comment on "How the CIA’s Fake Vaccination Campaign Endangers Us All "

 

[Cutlass]

"We have got this tailspin of culture, in our inner cities in particular, of men not working and just generations of men not even thinking about working or learning to value the culture of work, so there is a real culture problem here that has to be dealt with."
—

Rep. Paul Ryan

 

[gay_Aleks]

"It's never too late to correct historical errors," Vladimir Zhirinovsky

Yeah, all those bloody states getting in your way. So much better if part of Mother Russia, no?