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| Subject: Funny: “What’s riskier than being poor in America?” Here are 50 examples… Tue Oct 16, 2012 12:39 am | |
| So, an MSNBC leftist loon screams at her guests, “What in the world is riskier than being a poor person in America?”
Well, offhand, I can think of 50 things that are much, much riskier. Feel free to add some of your own in the comments section.
50 things that are riskier than being poor in America:
Being poor anywhere in the Third World
Being a Christian in the Muslim world
Being a Jew in the Muslim world
Being a woman in the Muslim world
Being a secularist in the Muslim world
Being a Hindu in the Muslim world
Being a Buddhist in the Muslim world
Being a Baha’i in the Muslim world
Being gay in the Muslim world
Being a Christian, Jew, woman, secularist, Hindu, Buddhist, Baha’i, or gay in European cities with Muslim majorities
Being a female baby in China
Being a female baby in India
Living in Chicago
Drawing Mohammed
Being a U.S. soldier in Iraq
Being a U.S. soldier in Afghanistan
Being an Israeli living near the Gaza border
Being an Israeli taking a bus to work
Being an Israeli on vacation
Living in a Mexican/American border town on the Mexican side
Living in a Mexican/American border town on the American side
Being a critic of Vladimir Putin
Investing with Jon Corzine
Being a black American conservative
Being a U.S. border agent armed with beanbag guns while your government is giving drug lords automatic weapons
Being a Muslim who converts to another faith
Being a woman at an “Occupy” camp
Being a law-abiding citizen in a country that bans legal gun ownership
Being David Stein, pretty much every friggin’ day
Being an Apple employee in China who screws up on the assembly line
Being that employee’s supervisor
Being the supervisor’s family when they are charged for the bullet
Being a Hindu bride with an insufficient dowry
Being a Hollywood conservative
Being a North Korean who enjoys seconds at dinner
Being anyone with the last name “Lohan”
Being a competent journalist at the L.A. Times
Being a woman who accepts a drink from Roman Polanski
Being a woman who accepts a ride from a Kennedy
Being a woman who goes home with Julian Assange
Being a Cuban who asks his doctor if he can go to one of those amazing hospitals featured in Michael Moore’s “Sicko”
Being a “white Hispanic” who is concerned about crime in his neighborhood
Being a Londoner who wants to eat bacon, walk a dog, or own a pig figurine
Being a white farmer in Zimbabwe
Being anyone in Zimbabwe who pisses off Robert Mugabe
Being an independent media outlet in Venezuela
Being married to Sean Penn
Being a good teacher in a U.S. public school who defies the union
Being one of Obama’s Third World relatives
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