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There was a link at Peach Pundit yesterday, Lee Anderson Website Issue Quiz! It is supposed to be off the website of Lee Anderson, who is running for Congress in the redneck triangle. PG couldn’t find it, but is confident that it is somewhere.
The quiz has four questions. There is a saying, and the idea is to find a current issue to go with the phrase. This ought to be a good excuse to spin out some text to go between the pictures. These images are from The Library of Congress. The answers are below the questions, and looking ahead is considered cheating. Anyone cheating on a meaningless internet quiz has got problems.
Question 1. There is an old saying, “G-d gives every bird a worm, but he doesn’t throw it in the nest.”
Tax Policy ~ Abortion ~ Wildlife Management ~ Job Creators ~ I’ve never heard anyone say this.
This is sort of a strange quote. Rumors of a pundit named Jerome Old turn out to not be true. If you ask Mr. Google, he says it is a Swedish folk saying, or that P.D. James said it. There is also a quote by Ogden Nash. “I am a conscientious man, when I throw rocks at seabirds I leave no tern unstoned.” If marijuana regulation were on the Georgia ballot, then this might be germane.
That site says the Question 1 phrase is a “Swedish Saying”. It has a quote by Anonymous: “Test-tube babies shouldn’t throw stones.” There is a quote from Brink Lindsey: “But in the terrible, simplifying clarity of war, it is apparent who is on one side and who is on the other. In the struggle between civilization and barbarism, those who throw rocks through McDonald’s and those who ram airplanes into buildings are expending their destructive energies in a common cause.”
Question 2. On the farm, keeping what you want in and what you don’t want out is important. Your fences need to be horse-high, pig-tight and bull-strong in order to do their job.
Birth Control ~ Wildlife Management ~ Illegal Immigration ~ Job Creators ~ Illegal Aliens are essentially livestock, no wait, the aliens are to like vermin or something, so our citizens are the livestock, and they shouldn’t be able to leave. Right? No?
Did someone say horse high? They might be talking about Latawnya, the Naughty Horse, Learns to Say “No” to Drugs. “This is the tale of three African American horses (Latawnya, Latoya and Daisy), who leave the stable and get drugs from four white horses (Connie, Chrystal, Jackie and Angie). It is a timely and poignant tale that will leave you laughing, crying, and making scary noises. It starkly and accurately presents the real dangers horses in black neighborhoods face from Caucasian equine drug pushers; when one of the horses died of a drug overdose, this reviewer wept openly. This is a lesson all children, foals, calves, chicks and cubs must learn before it is too late. A classic of our time. “
Question 3.Mark Twain once said that politicians are like diapers: they must be changed often and for the same reason. [Hint, he goes on to say: “In my view, 8-12 years is enough for anyone, and I will work to make term limits in Congress a reality.”]
Birth Control ~ Term Limits ~ Tax Policy ~ Diapers should probably be changed more often than politicians ~ We should vote out Barrow in Four Years?
Term limits is one of those things. When the Contract on America was foisted upon the Clintonized landscape of America, term limits was part of the deal. The fact that Newt Gingrich had been in Congress for sixteen years was not considered important.
Question 4. A teacher once told me that as long as the federal government is involved in education, it will always be mediocre for the same reason that in large kitchens, the cooking is usually bad.
Immigration Policy ~ Tax Policy ~ Federal Education Policy ~ Support of the Federal Cafeteria Awareness Act ~ Lee Anderson hates restaurants.
This does not indicate what subject the teacher taught. If he/she was a science teacher, this might be worth listening to. If he/she was a math teacher, then this doesn’t add up. If he/she taught English as a Second Language, then most Chinese restaurants have small kitchens.
1. Either Tax Policy or Job Creators would be correct. Lee Anderson thinks there is too much regulation and that’s like weeds in a garden. He then trumpets his rating from the National Federation of Independent Businesses, which endorsed John Barrow, so maybe he got a higher rating?
2. Illegal Immigration. Great line here: “Somehow the greatest country on earth, who put a man on the moon, can’t build a fence along the border with Mexico?”
3. Term Limits. And Mark Twain didn’t say this.
4. This is part of what appears to be a long diatribe about Emeril Legasse not accepting American culture, but if you said Federal Education Policy, I suppose you can count it as correct. But seriously, what is so bad about restaurants? Are they not job creators? If you eat at home, aren’t you costing American jobs?