Say Anything Blog

I say no.

"The national budget must be balanced. The public debt must be reduced; the arrogance of the authorities must be moderated and controlled. Payments to foreign governments must be reduced if the nation doesn’t want to go bankrupt. People must again learn to work, instead of living on public assistance.”
Cicero, 55 BC

Apparently there are some in Great Britain who think so.

When the people fear their government, there is tyranny; when the government fears the people, there is liberty.

-- Thomas Jefferson

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Crap, I must have been the most racist child on the planet if food is the determining factor.  As a German/Norwegian hybrid, I not only disliked lutefisk, but also sourkraut.  Apparently I was self-loathing as well.

We’ll have to ask “reverend” Wright.....because it takes one to know one

This is a rediculous ‘study’.

While kids are learning about things as they grow, they tend to stick with things they know they like, and will automatically say ‘yuk’ or ‘I don’t like it’ or ‘I hate that’ when offered new things, even before trying them.

They are comfortable in what they know.

My kids are the same way, and I try and get them to try someone at least once before they say they don’t like it.

If my kids don’t like broccoli it doesn’t mean they hate green people. {rolls eyes}

Kids do NOT associate food with people.

And I am really getting sick of the surge of, ‘You might be a racists if...’ that is saturating the news because of this election.

Where will this go next? If I love Mexican food (which I do), does this mean I am pro-illegal immigration? No, it means I like Mexican food.

Where they picked up racism in all this I have no idea. Kids associate food with taste and comfort zones (things they know they like), not with people.

Hell I doubt a kid would know the difference between a Middle Eastern person and a German, except in the way they talk or the clothes they wear.

And that isn’t racism, that is cultural differences.

My kids are the same way, and I try and get them to try someone at least once before they say they don’t like it.

Meant something, not someone.

Which brings up a strange thought.
If a cannibal doesn’t like a certain culture, Mexican, Canadian, Italian, ect, does this mean he is racists if he doesn’t like to eat that type of person?

/weird strange thought

Stick a fork in Great Britan, folks; she’s done.

spagetti! those damn italians! lol!

oh here we go now.......its spagHetti…

So, if an American were to turn up his nose against British food...say, warm beer and kidney pie, that would make him a racist, too?

For any voter trying to choose between the two candidates for commander in chief, there is no better test than this: When American strategy in a critical theater was up for grabs, John McCain proposed a highly unpopular and risky path, which he accurately predicted could lead to success. Barack Obama proposed a popular and politically safe route that would have led to an unnecessary and debilitating American defeat at the hands of al Qaeda.

Frederick W. Kagan