"Who Said It" Answers and Winners
I just can't stump you, can I?
Anyway, here are the answers to yesterday's quiz, and the commenters who first correctly named our Mystery Guests.
(The individual articles don't seem to be indexed, but the quotation is from the one called "Breastfeeding God's Way" -- and yes, as I reread it, I think Cynthia M, is right, and it's the men who become homosexual if the babies are bottle-fed, because they don't see the women's breasts. And this sheds new light on the recent disagreement between Bill O'Reilly and Michelle Malkin about breastfeeding in public -- I guess Bill objected to it because he wanted to keep men from being forced into heterosexuality.)
Congratulations to our winners! They win a point for each right answer. Once a contestant wins a million points, he or she can trade them for such exciting prizes as the following:
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Surrounded by Idiots : Fighting Liberal Lunacy in Americaby Mike Gallagher
- Hardcover: 240 pages
- Publisher: William Morrow (June 28, 2005)
Yes, it's the first book by "second-string talk radio host" Mike Gallagher, who is the occasional replacement for Sean Hannity on "Hannity & Other Guy". You will note that Hannity wrote the foreward. I'm assuming that O'Reilly wrote the afterword, thus assuring that Gallagher's title is truthful.
And here's part of Publishers Weekly's description of the book:
The left is trying to destroy the pillars of our great country," Gallagher says. After a foreword by Sean Hannity, regular listeners will expect—and enjoy—attacks on familiar targets: Bill Clinton, Michael Moore, the Dixie Chicks, animal-rights groups, Hollywood liberals, parents who won't spank their kids and immigrants who don't or can't learn clear English ("Heh-yo, Hoppy China, yoh ohrduh peez?").
So, it's something new, fresh, and totally unprecedented in the world of conservative publishing, and undoubtedly on the fast-track for next year's Nobel Peace Prize in Literature.
And here's another book that you can redeem your points for:
Book Description
Among politicians of national stature today, there is perhaps none more respected as a principled conservative than Senator Rick Santorum (R-PA).
"Respected as a principled conservative" or "Ridiculed as a sanctimonius loon"? YOU make the call!
Throughout his book, Santorum emphasizes the central role of the family in contradistinction to the metaphorical village of the federal government, as promoted by Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton in achieving the common good. With a sustained argument touching on first principles throughout, this ambitious and original book is a major contribution to contemporary political debate. It Takes a Family will further establish Senator Santorum as the leader of reform-minded civic conservatives in America.
If you look really closely at the cover illustration, I think you will see that it pictures a family introducing their children to their dead fetus brother. It's things like that which further establish Senator Santorum as somebody who, in contradistinction to normal people, is really creepy, and who should be kept the hell away from YOUR family.
Style points to Sniper, for the great social observations about how traditional family values so often lead to murder, and to julia, for pointing out that Janice has apparently never seen a woman in an airport without immediately thinking that said woman must be a slut, and thus the concept of coworkers traveling for business never entered her Ph.D head.
Additional style points to Tara, Cynthia, and miel for their witty additions to the discussion. (And to CaliforniaDrySherry, for naming most of the wingnuts correctly in one comment.)
They all win this additional story of a fallen woman whom Janice Shaw Crouse (Cached) saw for a couple of minutes, and yet somehow knew was going to die alone.
The story takes place in a cafe in an old mining town in the Colorado mountains.
We had assumed the waitress was a co-ed soon to be headed back to college. She shocked us by saying that she was 28; then she cheerfully volunteered that she had recently moved to Frisco with her boyfriend with whom she has been living for 10 years. They decided, she said, to trade the beach scene in South Carolina for snowboarding in the Rockies.Funny how activists have made privacy such a sacred right, yet people still want to connect by revealing themselves to others.Our waitress had no idea how much her statement revealed to her customers --two people who analyze the nation's social trends. While the young woman eagerly looks forward to the pleasure of snowboarding this winter, frankly, we know that she probably can't count on a future with that boyfriend. While she is undoubtedly emotionally bonded to him, she doesn't have a commitment from him. After giving up ten years of her youth, she is unlikely to receive anything but heartbreak in return. Such relationships typically end with the girl being the loser. If and when they get married, it will be the boyfriend who makes the decision, not the girl and not them together. Typically, she doesn't know that a marriage after living together is more likely to end in divorce than if they had not lived together beforehand. When he decides to "get serious" it will probably be with a fresher, younger girl.
And, her biological clock is ticking; in fact, it's winding down fast. She probably doesn't realize how fast it is going, but at some point she will want a family and children. For many young women in her situation, that realization comes too late.
I assume that Janice told the woman all this in lieu of leaving her a tip.
Anyway, for extra credit, write a short essay giving some ideas about what the waitress deduced about Janice and her husband (the mop expert) as she served them their meal.
Oh, and here's another one of Janice's Sherlock Holmes-like deductions about the waitress:
Explaining her living arrangement was more intimate detail than we expected and we weren't surprised when the waitress abruptly started talking about the freak summer snowstorm outside. She had called her mom, she said, to tell her about the inch of ice on her car that morning.Her mom. She had called her mom.
Not her mom and dad, not her folks, but her mom.
There has to be a lot of history behind that simple statement: I called my mom.We did not, of course, ask about that history. Whatever it is, it is a painful story. But, again, our work with cultural trends provides a likely explanation.The behavior pattern of our waitress closely fits the profile of thousands of young women raised by unmarried moms who are either divorced or never married. Her mother may have been abandoned by the father of her child or she may have been one of the many who have bought into the myths associated with radical individualism that have become so dominant in our culture.
Or, maybe the waitress's father was at work when she called that morning.
But no, all waitresses are most likely the offspring of women who bought into the myths associated with radical individualism (i.e. they were tramps), and so, being immoral, were abandoned by their boyfriends as soon as they announced that they were pregnant. That's why waitresses inevitably repeat their mothers' mistakes by shacking up with snowboarding hedonists who refuse to marry them, and will dump them for younger, fresher girls as soon as they aren't attractive enough to bring in good tip money.
But thank heavens for concerned women like Janice, who are there to help these women by pointing out how men are dogs who abandon the cow after getting the milk, and how the girl who doesn't marry while in college has ruined her life.
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