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<DIV style="BACKGROUND: #e4e4e4; font-color: black"><B>From:</B> <A
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<DIV><B>Sent:</B> 2 October 2004 Saturday 2:21 PM</DIV>
<DIV><B>Subject:</B> Fw: Opinion OF: Andy Rooney</DIV></DIV>
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color=#000080 size=4 family="SERIF" ptsize="14" back="#ffffff"><B>Right on,
Andy Rooney! Andy Rooney said on 60 minutes a few weeks back: (for those of
you that don't know Andy Rooney, he is an 82 year old US TV commentator)
<BR><BR>I don't think being a minority makes you a victim of anything except
numbers. The only things I can think of that are truly discriminatory are
things like the United Negro College Fund, Jet Magazine, Black Entertainment
Television, and Miss Black America. Try to have things like the United
Caucasian College Fund, Cloud Magazine, White Entertainment Television, or
Miss White America; and see what happens. Jesse Jackson will be knocking down
your door. Guns do not make you a killer. I think killing makes you a killer.
You can kill someone with a baseball bat or a car, but no one is trying to ban
you from driving to the ball game. </B><BR><BR><B>I believe they are called
the Boy Scouts for a reason, that is why there are no girls allowed. Girls
belong in the Girl Scouts! ARE YOU LISTENING MARTHA BURKE? </B><BR><BR><B>I
think that if you feel homosexuality is wrong, it is not a phobia, it is an
opinion. </B><BR><BR><B>I have the right "NOT" to be tolerant of others
because they are different, weird, or tick me off. </B><BR><BR><B>When 70% of
the people who get arrested are black, in cities where 70% of the population
is black, that is not racial profiling, it is the Law of Probability.
</B><BR><BR><B>I believe that if you are selling me a milk shake, a pack of
cigarettes, a newspaper or a hotel room, you must do it in English! As a
matter of fact, if you want to be an American citizen, you should have to
speak English! </B><BR><BR><B>My father and grandfather didn't die in vain so
you can leave the countries you were born in to come over and disrespect ours.
I think the police should have every right to shoot your sorry self if you
threaten them after they tell you to stop. If you can't understand the word
"freeze" or "stop" in English, see the above lines. </B><BR><BR><B>I don't
think just because you were not born in this country, you are qualified for
any special loan programs, government sponsored bank loans or tax breaks,
etc., so you can open a hotel, coffee shop, trinket store, or any other
business. </B><BR><BR><B>We did not go to the aid of certain foreign countries
and risk our lives in wars to defend their freedoms, so that decades later
they could come over here and tell us our constitution is a living document;
and open to their interpretations. </B><BR><BR><B>I don't hate the rich. I
don't pity the poor. I know pro wrestling is fake, but so are movies and
television. That doesn't stop you from watching them. </B><BR><BR><B>I think
Bill Gates has every right to keep every penny he made and continue to make
more. If it ticks you off, go and invent the next operating system that's
better, and put your name on the building. </B><BR><BR><B>It doesn't take a
whole village to raise a child right, but it does take a parent to stand up to
the kid; and smack their little behinds when necessary, and say "NO!"
</B><BR><BR><B>I think tattoos and piercing are fine if you want them, but
please don't pretend they are a political statement. And, please, stay home
until that new lip ring heals. I don't want to look at your ugly infected
mouth as you serve me French fries! </B><BR><BR><B>I am sick of "Political
Correctness." I know a lot of black people, and not a single one of them was
born in Africa; so how can they be "African-Americans"? Besides, Africa is a
continent. I don't go around saying I am a European-American because my great,
great, great, great, great, great grandfather was from Europe. I am proud to
be from America and nowhere else. </B><BR><BR><B>! And if you don't like my
point of view, tough. DON'T PASS IT ON! ! </B></FONT><B><FONT lang=0
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