The Pet Peeve

[SpaceCadet]

(07-05-2011 11:13 AM)Mufasa Wrote:  SC - please don't take all of this hoopla as a personal attack.
I would much rather see the IRS abolished, and force every elected official, both current and former - to surrender the majority of their pension in order to replenish S/S treasury. (starting with the democratic party)

There are so many major issues that are just plain wrong with our current... "everything", that .... well, I'll stop there before I get spooled up.
This is not the place for it. I will say that the above items are far more pressing than whether or not our government is invading my privacy by passing a law that says I am safer on a bike with a bucket than without it.
Strictly from a personal standpoint, and an experienced one at that - helmets will save you... and your friend.
If I (we) have offended, you have my apology, and I promise that it will happen again =)

No, neither offense taken nor attacks assumed - I never wade into the sewer of politics without Kevlar hip boots. At any rate, I'm seeing some "recycling" of arguments that step around points already made, so... see the above, particularly as regards the point on why (the single most important word in any language BTW, next to "beer,") one person's malady should never become an involuntary imposition on others for any reason. If it does, the problem is the link that makes it possible, not anything related to the malady itself - 'separate issues.

And besides, I just watched Roberto Benigni's Rome scene in "Night On Earth" for the umpteenth time - albeit several years since the last - and laughed so hard that I'm physically ill. I kid you not - I've been literally gasping for breath for the better part of a half-hour, my eyes are burning and I think I might've ruptured my spleen. ('Didn't need that &!%*#! thing anyway...) I even knew what was coming - the memory alone got me going, then Benigni started his riff, the priest got in, and... my God, Margaret, that movie should come with a warning label! *gasp! gasp!* Now, what was I talking about? Oyeah - this is "peeves," not "raves." Sorreee...

Umm... Onions. Onions are evil.
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