A nineteenth-century folktale tells about a person who went about slandering the town’s wise man.
One day, he went to the wise man’s home and asked for forgiveness.
The wise man, realizing that this man had not internalized the gravity of his transgressions, told him that he would forgive him on one condition: that he go home, take a feather pillow from his house, cut it up, scatter the feathers to the wind and return when done to the wise man’s house.
Though puzzled by this strange request, the man was happy to be let off with so easy a penance. He quickly cut up the pillow, scattered the feathers and returned to the house.
“Am I now forgiven?” he asked.
“Just one more thing,” the wise man said. “Go now and gather up all the feathers.”
“But that’s impossible. The wind has already scattered them.”
“Precisely,” he answered. “And it is as impossible to repair the damage done by your words as it is to recover the feathers. Your words are out there in the marketplace, spreading hate, even as we speak.”
McCAIN MAY HAVE HAD A CHANGE OF HEART BUT THE DAMAGE HE AND PALIN HAVE DONE WILL LIVE FOREVER IN THE HEARTS OF BIGOTS, HATEMONGERS, AND RACISTS. AND ON THE INTERNET!
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Pingback by Republican Anger Erupts in Fort Worth - Page 2 - Political Forum — October 13, 2008 @ 7:04 pm
Man,These Spambots are getting more stupid and annoying by the minute.
The next thing You know they will start spamming the blogs with trickledown taxcut morally righteous gay bashing clap-trap as they descend to the level of Tom Delay or worse freepers,Eee-ew!
it begs the question:Who is designing these unamerican webcrawlers?
I thought the thinktankers at Bob Jones,Liberty,Rice,BYU,TCU etc. only concern was turning hard-working americans into mouth breathing slack-jawed morons,
I had no idea they designed software to dummy down the world wide web.
Probably a third-party developer through a dummy behind a front located in India,IMO.
Just like the RIAA and MPAA to circumvent the laws and freedoms and rights of individuals which They cannot exploit,Suits Me,I can still whistle for free.
(whistles a popular tune badly):dooooo-doooo-dooooo-doooo-dooo………
Comment by Rainlander — October 13, 2008 @ 10:23 pm
Thanks for using the story and my words on your forum. Please feel free to use any of the things I post including the ‘toons’, mine are signed with a GK in the corner.
I went to your forum and boy that johnnyturk is typical of the willfully ignorant who suck up everything the McPalin team spews out. LOL
Rain I usually ignore the Spambots but checked this one out and it is not one of the nutzies. ;O
Comment by kerry — October 14, 2008 @ 12:27 pm
Thank You Kerry.
I was hoping it was a Trollie Boy however.
Comment by Rainlander — October 14, 2008 @ 10:15 pm