Claiming Darwin for the Left???

uswatl at ibm.net uswatl at ibm.net
Sun Nov 15 14:04:59 PST 1998


Dear LBOers,

Don't worry Max, I'm sure we will get to see this Singer cat on TV soon enough representing liberal-left moral and ethical values. Singer probably has an anglo-aussie accent which should give him big credibility sort of like Kissenger's germanic. Americans love hindsteiners with exotic accents; they sound so smart. I hope he registers Republican.

My great-grandfather John Charles Fremont Lehman a member of the Pennsylvania branch of the Tammany Society was a regular participant in taking foreign immigrants to see a judge who was a friend of his who would grant the immigrant American citizenship. The judge would however require the immigrant to answer one question about America.

On one occassion my great-grandad took an immigrant into see his friend the judge. The judge as usual had to ask the immigrant a question. The judge asked, "when did George Washington die?" The startled immigrant said, " goddamn son of a bitch I didn't know he died." At that point my great grandfather had to explain to the judge that the George Washington the immigrant was thinking of was a colored man that he knew. That explained the judge granted the immigrant his citizenship. I have left a few of the more colorful details of this true story out.

Sincerely, Tom L.

Max Sawicky wrote:


> >
> >
> > On Fri, November 13, 1998 at 14:26:25 (-0800) Marta Russell writes:
> > > .... According to Singer,
> > >a baby can be ethically killed by its parents within 30 days of birth.
> > >His rationale: infants are nonpersons because they are not "rational and
> > >self-aware." ...
>
> Highly loaded question:
>
> What is the difference between a baby less than
> 30 days old, and one whose head is still inside
> the mother?
>
> MBS



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