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Quotes Of The Year 2013

As in every year, certain stories dominate the headlines for brief moments and for every story, there are usually memorable quotes.  Some are sage, some are inane and some are inadvertently funny.  Here is my recollection of some of the better quotes of the year, in no particular order, except for the one at the end which HAS to be the quote of the year.

“The world is running out of time”…Al Gore 1995, 1996, 1997,1998, 1999,2000,2001,2002,2003,2004,2005,2006,2007,2008,2009,2010,2011,2012,2013.

“Lean in”…Sheryl Sandberg

“The Pope buys a 1984 Renault…now that’s a man who believes in the power of prayer”…Car Talk

““You quarterbacks, you get all the good-looking women. What a beautiful woman …
If you’re a youngster in Alabama, start getting the football out and throw it
around the backyard with pop.”…Brent Musburger

““I don’t want to live in a world where everything that  I say, everything I do,  everyone I talk to, every expression of creativity or love or friendship, is  recorded.” …Edward Snowden

“You don’t need an AR-15, it’s harder to aim, it’s harder to use…Buy a shotgun! Buy a shotgun!”…Joe Biden

“I’m a flawed character”…Lance Armstrong

“I’m basically the healthiest fat guy you’ve ever seen” …Chris Christie

“At this point, what difference does it make?’…Hilary Clinton

“If you like your healthcare plan, you can keep it”… Barack Obama

And my vote for the quote of the year which will not likely be topped,

“I have more than enough to eat at home”…Toronto mayor Rob Ford

link Brent Musburger says Holly Rowe is really smokin — or does he? – latimes.com.

The emasculation of western society is well under way.  Poor Brent Musburger, who was only stating the obvious when he commented on the stunning attractiveness of Miss Alabama at a football game weeks ago, is being chastized by certain media types for his overt declaration of her va-va-va-voomness.   Though Musburger didn’t feel the need to apologize, his employer ESPN felt compelled to do so; to whom we’re not sure.  To Katherine Webb, Miss Alabama? Well she IS in the beautiful gal business, so that doesn’t make sense.  Perhaps to less attractive women since by inference, they are all made to feel inferior, less empowered, yada yada yada.

Maybe the ESPN boss’ wife made the network apologize.  Sort of as when a couple walks down the street and the wife is monitoring the eyes of her husband when a pretty gal walks by.  “You were looking!”  More likely, the Network felt compelled to respond because apologizing seems to be the fashionable thing to do these days.  Like gangnam style dancing,  everyone’s doing it.   No doubt  this phenomenon started with the weepy, sobby daily talk shows such as Phil Donahue and of course Oprah Winfrey.  Some transgression, real or imagined was ‘shared’ with everyone; tears flowed, a group hug followed and at the end, absolution.   But in most of those cases, they were cheaters, liars, murderers etc., and they deserved to apologize.  Today, we have Lance Armstrong and other disgraced public people who genuinely do have something to be sorry about.  Have at it.

But Brent was stating what every red blooded guy was thinking and what most women want to hear.   He was obviously amused enough by the hoopla when he snuck in the comment about fellow announcer Holly Rowe being “smokin” at the end of a broadcast weeks later.  We’ve become conditioned by an effeminate liberal media to subscribe to some imaginary and humorless value set.  So much so, that the regular folk have become an oppressed majority, at the mercy of the minuscule group of PC people running media.  People are afraid to be branded with the tired canards of intolerance and  insensitivity which the hyena-like mainstream media are wont to do upon those not subscribing to their particular worldview.

I say boink ’em. We’re all much better off if honest expressions are aired in general without the fear of offending some Orwellian value panel.  Let men be men and women be women…a darn good arrangement.  And we’re not sorry about that.