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June 20, 2007
Tough Questions
Question 1:
If you knew a woman who was pregnant, who had 8 kids already, three who were deaf, two who were blind, one mentally retarded, and she had syphilis, would you recommend that she have an abortion?
Read the next question before looking at the response for this one.
Question 2:
It is time to elect a new world leader, and only your vote counts. Here are the facts about the three candidates. Who would you vote for?
Candidate A.
Associates with crooked politicians, and consults with astrologist He's had two mistresses. He also chain smokes and drinks 8 to 10 martinis a day.
Candidate B.
He was kicked out of office twice, sleeps until noon, used opium in college and drinks a quart of whiskey every evening.
Candidate C
He is a decorated war hero. He's a vegetarian, doesn't smoke, drinks an occasional beer and never cheated on his wife.
Which of these candidates would be our choice?
Decide first... no peeking, then scroll down for the response.
Candidate A is Franklin D. Roosevelt.
Candidate B is Winston Churchill.
Candidate C is Adolph Hitler.
And, by the way, on your answer to the abortion question: If you said YES, you just killed Beethoven.
Pretty interesting isn't it? Makes a person think before judging someone. Wait till you see the end of this note! Keep reading..
And Finally, can you imagine working for a company that has a little more than 500 employees and has the following statistics:
* 29 have been accused of spousal abuse
* 7 have been arrested for fraud
* 19 have been accused of writing bad checks
* 117 have directly or indirectly bankrupted at least 2 businesses
* 3 have done time for assault
* 71 cannot get a credit card due to bad credit
* 14 have been arrested on drug-related charges
* 8 have been arrested for shoplifting
* 21 are currently defendants in lawsuits
* 84 have been arrested for drunk driving in the last year...
Can you guess which organization this is?
Give up yet?
It's the 535 members of the United States Congress.
The same group that crank out hundreds of new laws each year designed to keep the rest of us in line.
This nifty piece of OfficeSpam was submitted by Jon. Jon is a photographer.
Political | By Cube Dweller | 10:23 AM
Comments
no comments on this one??
Posted by: ozzy at June 11, 2008 8:53 AM
http://www.snopes.com/politics/crime/congress.asp
old stale musty
Posted by: Sam I Am at June 13, 2008 12:00 PM
great! thanks very much for sharing!
Posted by: Gloria - Global Issues at June 19, 2008 1:36 AM
kill Beethoven, ... right... Beethoven was the second oldest child ... and his mother eventually died (not of syphillis) much later. His father was fine btw, since half of the time this story gives his father some terrible disease. It's just a dumb story used by religious fanatics to 'prove' their ideas. But if you extend it it means that every child should be born, that we should just fuck all day and that condoms preventing from aids are a sin and so on... enjoy
ow btw, u should check dawkins "the god delusion" , great book
Posted by: fred at July 16, 2008 7:27 PM
pathetic
A reader cannot learn any lesson from this piece, for both questions the reader only has a small amount of information to go by which they are then forced to make a judgement on. Even if the abortion thing was true there would be no way to know that a mother having syphillus or 8 other children most with problems is more likely to produce "miracle kids". Neither is someone who is vegitarian or faithful more likely to be a deluded megalomaniac. People who are chronic drinkers and rely on the advice of mystics on the other hand are less likely to be sound decision makers.
Damn this whole article made me unhappy enough to argue on the internet, I just wasted 5 minutes of my life :(
If any lesson is to be taken its that you should not argue on the internet, please dont make the same mistake I did
Posted by: anony mouse at January 9, 2009 9:52 AM
