Andy Rooney on 60 Minutes

by **SkiloDog2000** » Mon Jun 14, 2004 8:38 pm

--- This is what Andy Rooney said on "60 Minutes" a few weeks back:
>
>"I like big cars, big boats, big motorcycles, big houses and big campfires.
>I believe the money I make belongs to me and my family, not some
>governmental stooge with a bad comb-over who wants to give it away to crack
>addicts for squirting out babies.
>
>Guns do not make you a killer. I think killing makes you a killer. You can
>kill someone with a baseball bat or a car, but no one is trying to ban you
>from driving to the ball game.
>
>I believe they are called the Boy Scouts for a reason, that is why there
>are
>no girls allowed. Girls belong in the Girl Scouts! ARE YOU LISTENING MARTHA
>BURKE?
>
>I think that if you feel homosexuality is wrong, it is not a phobia, it is
>an opinion.
>
>I don't think being a minority makes you a victim of anything except
>numbers
> The only things I can think of that are truly discriminatory are things
>like the United Negro College Fund, Jet Magazine, Black Entertainment
>Television, and Miss Black America.
>
>Try to have things like the United Caucasian College Fund, Cloud Magazine,
>White Entertainment Television, or Miss White America; and see what
>happens.
>Jesse Jackson will be knocking down your door.
>
>I have the right "NOT" to be tolerant of others because they are different,
>weird, or tick me off. When 70% of the people who get arrested are black,
>in
>cities where 70% of the population is black, that is not racial profiling,
>it is the Law of Probability.
>
>I believe that if you are selling me a milk shake, a pack of cigarettes, a
>newspaper or a hotel room, you must do it in English! As a matter of fact,
>if you want to be an American citi zen, you should have to speak English!
>
>My father and grandfather didn't die in vain so you can leave the countries
>you were born in to come over and disrespect ours.
>
>I think the police should have every right to shoot your sorry self if you
>threaten them after they tell you to stop. If you can't understand the word
>freeze" or "stop" in English, see the above lines.
>
>I don't think just because you were not born in this country, you are
>qualified for any special loan programs, government sponsored bank loans or
>tax breaks, etc., so you can open a hotel, coffee shop, trinket store, or
>any other business.
>
>We did not go to the aid of certain foreign countries and risk our lives in
>wars to defend their freedoms, so that decades later they could come over
>here and tell us our constitution is a living document; and open to their
>interpretations.
>
>I believe a self-righteous liberal or conservative with a cause is more
>dangerous than a Hell's Angel with an attitude.
>
>I think Bill Gates has every right to keep every penny he made and continue
>to make more. If it ticks you off, go and invent the next operating system
>that's better, and put your name on the building. Ask your buddy who
>invented the Internet to help you.
>
>"I think tattoos and piercing are fine if you want them, but please don't
>pretend they are a political statement. And, please, stay home until that
>new lip ring heals. I don't want to look at your ugly infected mouth as you
>serve me french fries!
>
>I am sick of "Political Correctness." I know a lot of black people, and not
>a single one of them was born in Africa; so how can they be
>African-Americans"? Besides, Africa is a continent. I don't go around
>saying
>I am a European-American because my great, great, great, great, great,
>great
>grandfathe r was from Europe.
>
>I am proud to be from America and nowhere else. And if you don't like my
>point of view, tough. DON'T PASS IT ON!!"
>
>While life may not be the party we hoped for, while we're here we might as
>well dance.

^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
the lost prophet has been found

by **JimmyTango** » Mon Jun 14, 2004 8:47 pm

Andy Rooney has been having a fun time for a long time. I like him, I find him funny even when I do not agree with him.

Someone you may like is Lewis Black, a stand up comic. Very, very, very funny man.

by **Agent-Commando** » Mon Jun 14, 2004 8:56 pm

Originally posted by SkiloDog2000
[B>
>I think Bill Gates has every right to keep every penny he made and continue
>to make more. If it ticks you off, go and invent the next operating system
>that's better, and put your name on the building. Ask your buddy who
>invented the Internet to help you.
>
[/B]

This is so true... I support Bill and i'm sick and tired of whiners complain how Windows is crap...well gee then why don't you go invent another O/S yourself that's better?

by **deathBOB** » Mon Jun 14, 2004 9:15 pm

Windows IS crap... I juts have to use it to play the game i want to play and I dotn have the knowledge to make my own OS sry...

>I believe a self-righteous liberal or conservative with a cause is more
>dangerous than a Hell's Angel with an attitude.

Thats funny and true...

by **PudriK** » Mon Jun 14, 2004 9:38 pm

Please double-check your references, and don't forward stuff attributed to someone who didn't say it.

See here

and here

and here

One google search was all it took to check this.

This site proposes an actual source.

There is a serious danger in believing mass emails. It is relatively harmless when one idiot loses a thousand dollars to Nigeria. It is much more dangerous when ideas (no matter how true or funny) are attributed to people who did not say them. It is most dangerous when these emails contain supposed facts upon which people base their decisions.

It is a symptom of a society that is far to gullible. You must always be skeptical of everything you read, and see how many sources you can find to back it up. Even then, much becomes "truth" just through multiplication. (For example, when one tabloid announced that the Pakistanis had captured Bin Laden, and numerous international papers ran with it. -- that one caught me until I read more carefully.)

The surest sign in this case is, it doesn't sound at all like something Andy Rooney would say

by **Bagginses** » Mon Jun 14, 2004 10:03 pm

pwned

-Bagginses

by **FarginMofo** » Mon Jun 14, 2004 10:28 pm

Yeah, that text looked a bit fishy to me.

by **Heart Collector** » Tue Jun 15, 2004 4:25 pm

I don't care who said it, I agree with him.

by **Mr. Slayer** » Tue Jun 15, 2004 5:05 pm

Originally posted by Heart Collector
I don't care who said it, I agree with him.

I have to agree with whoever said this too. Some things tick me off like people hating Bill Gates or anyone else for how much money they have....

by **PudriK** » Tue Jun 15, 2004 6:03 pm

On the topic of Bill Gates wealth, here's a website that provides an interesting perspective. Tip: you have to click the zoom out button on the top right of the page.

Yeah, I know, it's a socialist web site, but it's still an amusing way of looking at statistics. (It's also very thought-provoking.)

by **Ralph Wiggum** » Tue Jun 15, 2004 6:33 pm

I know you've already disclaimed responsibility for the site, Pudrik, but I see a few things wrong with it. I don't have the figures in front of me, but I dispute the assertion that Bill Gates had $50 billion in income in any one year. First, I don't think the value of his stock ever went up that much in one year. Second, even if it had, that is not a measure of income but of wealth. And of course Bill Gates has lost billions on paper in other years too, but that wouldn't make a lot of sense for this site to report.

by **deathBOB** » Tue Jun 15, 2004 6:40 pm

I dont care how much bill has, he has earned it. Honestly I dont think anyone could ever spend 50 billion... I do also think he should donate more of it...

by **Fat Bastard** » Tue Jun 15, 2004 8:29 pm

I agree 110% with all that said, BRAVO to who ever wrote that.

by **JimmyTango** » Tue Jun 15, 2004 10:26 pm

Originally posted by deathBOB
I dont care how much bill has, he has earned it. Honestly I dont think anyone could ever spend 50 billion... I do also think he should donate more of it...

But shouldn't he have to pay for breaking the law? He and Microsoft really did break the law.

It is easy to say make your own OS, or internet browser. Many have, much better than Microsoft's products, too. The OS was a choice a user made, however the internet browser wasn't if you bought Windows.

The antitrust suit against Microsoft is very interesting, and a worthy read. Did you know in '95 Microsoft actually agreed not to bundle any of it's software with it's operating systems, you would have to buy them seperately or as a package deal.

Microsoft then decided IE was a feature of the OS, not a product of all of it's own, therefor it could be bundled with Windows and no other internet browser needed to be bundled with it.

Flaw: IE is available for other operating systems(Mac). If it is a feature of the Window's OS, then it can not be a program for other OS's. This is where Gates got caught with his pants down.

Here is the kicker, and where he deserves to lose money(besides just breaking the law above). You know when you have a fresh install of Windows. You go to your favorites in IE and there are a few there, like Real Player. Ever wonder why? Well guess what? Those companies paid money to be there. It had nothing to do with 'integration' into the OS, or a feature of the OS, it was simply that the #1 selling OS in the world would only have 1 internet browser, and that internet browser was raking in a good chunk of change because of paid advertisements in it.

Not only that, but Microsoft threatens PC makers of losing their Window's license if they pre-install Netscape on their PCs.

Antitrust at it's most ruthless.

Yes, Bill Gates and Microsoft deserves any and all fines leveled onto them. He does nto deserve to lose money because he is rich, but he sure as hell does for breaking the law.

by **PudriK** » Tue Jun 15, 2004 10:34 pm

Wiggum you raise a very good counter-point. I think the author chose the $50 billion number because it was the most dramatic. (Like most people trying to make a point, he wasn't content with sticking to solid facts.)

He does, however, admit to the inaccuracy of data when it comes to how much income the very wealthy have, including a link to this article, written by another author.

The problem is one I have come across in my own reading... most income statistics cut-off at $300K or $1M, which is really only upper middle class. (I know a few millionaires, they work 9 to 5 jobs in middle-management or as professional business owners (ie orthodontist).) Nowadays a million is not that much.

The shape of the curve does not change by cutting off the very end--the majority of human wealth is concentrated in the hands of very few. At least in America you can go from the middle to the top, if you're a bright guy and a ruthless businessman.

But hey, these are the guys who are going to spend the money to take space vacations... now where do I sign to be a janitor on their space hotel?

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