I'll admit it -- I love Andy Rooney!!!!!

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>
> 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 citizen, 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 grandfather 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.