Tough Questions

[JR F]

TOUGH QUESTIONS

Question 1:

If you knew a woman who was pregnant, who had 8 kids already, three who were deaf, two who were blind, one mentally retarded, and she had syphilis,would you recommend that she have an abortion?



Read the next question before looking at the response for this one.



Question 2:

It is time to elect a new world leader, and only your vote counts. Here are the facts about the three candidates.



Candidate A.

Associates with crooked politicians, and consults with astrologist. He's had two mistresses. He also chain smokes and drinks 8 to 10 martinis a day.



Candidate B.

He was kicked out of office twice, sleeps until noon, used opium in college and drinks a quart of whiskey every evening.



Candidate C.

He is a decorated war hero. He's a vegetarian, doesn't smoke, drinks an occasional beer and never cheated on his wife.Which of these candidates would be your choice? Decide first... no peeking, then scroll down for the response.



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Candidate A is Franklin D. Roosevelt.

Candidate B is Winston Churchill.

Candidate C is Adolph Hitler.



And, by the way, on your answer to the abortion question: If you said YES, you just killed Beethoven.



Pretty interesting isn't it? Makes a person think before judging someone.

Wait till you see the end of this note! Keep reading...



Never be afraid to try something new.

Remember: Amateurs...built the ark.

Professionals...built the Titanic







And Finally, can you imagine working for a company that has a little more than 500 employees and has the following statistics:

* 29 have been accused of spousal abuse

* 7 have been arrested for fraud

* 19 have been accused of writing bad checks

* 117 have directly or indirectly bankrupted at least 2 businesses

* 3 have done time for assault

* 71 cannot get a credit card due to bad credit

* 14 have been arrested on drug-related charges

* 8 have been arrested for shoplifting



* 21 are currently defendants in lawsuits

* 84 have been arrested for drunk driving in the last year...

Can you guess which organization this is?







Give up yet?

It's the 535 members of the United States Congress. The same group

that crank out hundreds of new laws each year designed to keep the rest of us in line.

JR

 

[JAMES MOORE]

Ya and 2/3 of the rest of them are getting free sex from their interns.

 

[Aaron Scott2]

Source of info on the congressmen? If true, that is sick.

 

[TrepMan]

Aaron - Check the link below to Snopes.com for details on the Congressfolks. It basicaly says the information is true, but being arrested or accused is not the same as being "convicted". But basicaly its correct data that seems a bit harsh, but is true.
http://www.snopes.com/inboxer/outrage/congress.htm

 

[David Hunt]

A couple of quotes from the attached link:



Also, Beethoven was not born to a woman who "had 8 kids already." Although his mother, Maria Magdalena Laym (nee Kewerich) gave birth a total of eight times during her lifetime, Ludwig was only her third child. (Her first two children, one from a previous marriage, both died in infancy.) Only two of Beethoven's five younger siblings survived beyond their first few years of their life.



Even if we take this example at face value, its message is still problematic. If the woman in the example had been advised to abort her pregnancy based on the (mis)information supplied here, the world would never have known the magic of Beethoven's music. But maybe a different woman who did opt to terminate her pregnancy might have spared the world another Stalin or Hitler. This is the sort of speculative "What if?" game that neither side can win, so it's best not to play at all.




http://www.snopes.com/glurge/twoquest.htm