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arwalden Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Oct-18-04 01:24 PM
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Please explain the tortoise thing to me....
... and the yak thing too.
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Phillycat Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Oct-18-04 01:24 PM
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1. I think the box turtle thing
was Rick Santorum equating gay sex with having sex with animals.

Dunno about the yak thing. :shrug:
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nickgutierrez Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Oct-18-04 01:27 PM
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3. John Cornyn, not Rick Santorum
"It does not affect your daily life very much if your neighbor marries a box turtle, but that does not mean it is right...Now you must raise you children up in a world where that union of man and box turtle is on the same legal footing as man and wife." - Texas Senator John Cornyn.
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Misunderestimator Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Oct-18-04 01:34 PM
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9. Yep Cornyn... DU had him as a top 10 conservative idiot for the comment
in July: http://www.democraticunderground.com/top10/04/164.html
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Phillycat Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Oct-18-04 01:34 PM
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10. Yes, of course you're right.
It IS the sort of thing Santorum would say though, isn't it? :)
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nickgutierrez Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Oct-18-04 01:53 PM
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12. It's exactly the kind of thing "Man on Dog" Santorum would say
Man on Dog said something similar, but a bit different.
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arwalden Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Oct-18-04 01:28 PM
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5. Ah... Santorum or Cornyn. That Makes Complete Sense Now...
Edited on Mon Oct-18-04 01:29 PM by arwalden
thanks you two!
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chookie Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Oct-18-04 01:30 PM
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6. Texas Senator John Cornyn
In a fit of astonishing lunacy, Texas Senator John Cornyn tried to explain the need to ban gay marriage in the context of the social harm that would accrue from allowing men to marry box turtles ("It does not affect your daily life very much if your neighbor marries a box turtle, but that does not mean it is right...Now you must raise you children up in a world where that union of man and box turtle is on the same legal footing as man and wife").
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htuttle Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Oct-18-04 01:26 PM
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2. You're in a desert walking along in the sand...
...when all of a sudden you look down and you see a tortoise.

You reach down, you flip the tortoise over on its back.

The tortoise lays on its back, its belly baking in the hot sun beating its legs trying to turn itself over but it can't, not without your help, but you're not helping.

Why?
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TXlib Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Oct-18-04 01:33 PM
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8. What desert?
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htuttle Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Oct-18-04 01:36 PM
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11. It doesn't make any difference what desert ...
...it's completely hypothetical.

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TXlib Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Oct-18-04 02:08 PM
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13. But how come I'd be there?
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arwalden Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Oct-18-04 02:09 PM
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14. Am I there alone? What day is it?
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kick-ass-bob Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Oct-18-04 02:09 PM
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15. I love dessert...
mmmmm....
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Misunderestimator Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Oct-18-04 01:27 PM
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4. Yeah, what about the yak...
surprised you didn't hear about the Box-turtle thing, though. :D
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arwalden Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Oct-18-04 01:31 PM
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7. I must have been camping that week.
No phone, no radio, no tv, no internet... just campfires, baked beans, roasted weenies, toasted marshmallows, wine, cheese, a good book and some crossword puzzles.

-- Allen
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