Who Said It?
Time to announce the winners of our special St. Patrick's Day edition of the game. Unfortunately, an act of Congress made us lose the links to the quotes, but here are the identities of our Mystery Guests, as well as a list of the very astute commenters who were the first to name them.
1. Peggy Noonan -- poetisa
2. Sean Hannity -- poetisa (as a back-up guess). So, half a point to her, and half a point to Auguste
2. Sean Hannity -- poetisa (as a back-up guess). So, half a point to her, and half a point to Auguste
Plus, we gave a point to Bill S. for this evocative description of our all-star Irish crew:
#1-Crazy Dolphin Lady. #2-The Irish Ape-man. #3-The creepy old guy your parents warn to stay away from. #4-Tweety. #5-The cousin of "Homicide: Life On the Street" Capt. Megan Russert. #6-The sanest person in the bunch.
1. Nooners (aka CJL) 2. Sean Insannity 3. Falouffal O'Reilly 4. Tweety Matthews 5. Apparently Pumpkinhead Russert 6. Jack Handey
(So, yes, creative name calling gets you just as many points as actual knowledge.)
Our winners can save their points and apply them towards such great prizes as
this Thomas Kinkade Bible!
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Yes, Art Lite meets Bible Lite in a volume your family will treasure until they're raptured.
Now, who said this?
1. Like Jesus, Terri was an innocent – at least for the last 15 years. [...]Like Jesus, Terri was betrayed. She has her Judas. His name is Michael Schiavo. [...]
Like Jesus, Terri may, too, have her Pontius Pilate. It's not too late for Gov. Jeb Bush of Florida to avoid playing this role. He doesn't have to wash his hands of the matter. He has found no fault in the woman. He has spoken favorably of her and championed her plight. But he is uniquely positioned at this moment to save her. He, himself has already acknowledged he has the power and the legal authority to do it. He has even threatened to do it. But, like Pilate, he seems to be weighing the political implications of saving her life rather than using the scale of moral imperative.
Hint: This wingnut was NOT a poster girl in the '70s, and won't be featured in a reality TV show later this year.
Oh, and our mystery wingnut's rhetoric reminds us of this line about the Schindlers' supporters from a recent NY Times article:
Many of those supporters are making parallels between Ms. Schiavo and Jesus, describing "the passion of Terri" as Easter approaches.
David E., who brought this article to our attention, quipped "Oh, no, Mel Gibson has found the subject for his next movie!:
2. Whatever you think about the merits of this proposal or that, few would disagree that Social Security faces funding problems essentially because society has changed. Few Americans lived to 65, let alone much past it, when the New Dealers created their Ponzi, er, pension scheme. Today the ratio of workers to oldsters is dropping like a stone because technology allows us to live so much longer.
You already know this, but let me explain it for Mystery Guest Number 2, who has apparently been spending his time watching "Star Trek" reruns, reading comic books, and collaberating on some fan fiction with TBogg instead of paying attention in class:
Yo, wingnut, per the Social Security Administration's website (ssa.gov/history/lifeexpect.html), life expectancy at birth in 1930 was only 58 for men and 62 for women, but life expectancy was low back then because of thehigh rate of infant mortality. And since we don't make infants neither work nor pay into Social Security (although we probably should), today's higher life expectancies do NOT mean that "Today the ratio of workers to oldsters is dropping like a stone."
So, go ahead and join the Army -- if you are killed in Iraq, your child can support your family.
3. Governor Jeb Bush may find it difficult to protect Terri's rights without risking impeachment. But in the great American experiment in republican government, much is demanded of those who are charged with protecting the rights of the people.
This call to Jeb to send out the tanks to rescue Terri (and then face impeachment like a man) was written by two guys from the Claremont Institute. The name-brand wingnut of the duo is a fine example to us all of his own commitment to sticking to one's values in the face of adversity (but only because, under the principle "What happens in Vegas, is supposed to stay in Vegas," he's now been rehabilitated, and is qualitifed to lecture others on moral issues).
4. The Constitution can be amended. We could give Congress -- Congress could give itself; it doesn't have the guts to do it, but if they wanted to -- Congress could pass a law that would give itself veto rights over Supreme Court decisions. This would be totally constitutional for them to do. Now, you wouldn't believe when I tell people that, they think I have lost my mind.
No, they just think it's the drugs talking again.
5. A TV Host mystery guest interviewing Dr. Bill Hammesfahr:
Mystery Guest: You were nominated for a Nobel Prize in medicine?HAMMESFAHR: Yes.MG: In 1999? For your work...HAMMESFAHR: ... in patients like Terri. For brain injury and stroke patients. [,,,] Terri is completely aware and conscious and responsive. She is like a child with cerebral palsy. We have kids in the Pinellas County school system every day that are much worse than her, that we're educating.MG: Doctor, wait a minute. I've got to get this straight here. You were nominated to get a Nobel Peace Prize in this very work. Are you saying that this woman could be rehabilitated?HAMMESFAHR: Absolutely.MG: Could she talk one day?HAMMESFAHR: Yes.MG: Then how is it possible we're in this position if you have examined her, you were up for a Nobel Prize. I -- this is mind boggling to me.[...]MG: This is your area of expertise that got you nominated for one of the most prestigious awards in medicine, the Nobel Prize.
As you (but apparently not our wingnut) know, Dr. Hammesfahr's nomination was made by his local congressman (who is not on the Nobel nomination committee, so his letter had the same effect of your mother sending a letter to the Pulitzer committee and nominating you for a Pulitizer Prize in oil changing); His nomination letter (addressed to the "Nobel Committee for Physiology or Medicine") "presents" the doctor for the "Nobel Peace Prize in Medicine."
Oh, and the details of the Doctors "nomination" were made public in 2002, but I guess our Mystery Guest doesn't read the papers, since we heard he just relies on the wingnut groundswells for info.
Anyway, I'm sure we all wish they had a Nobel Peace Prize for Wingnuttery so that we could nominate these Mystery Guests for the most prestigious award in their field
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