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Unread 12-17-2009, 08:46 PM   #1 (permalink)
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I tripped on this site while looking for a tough question to ask in the person above me thread. I found these facts to be interesting.


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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. Who would you vote for?

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 our 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..

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.

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Unread 12-17-2009, 08:49 PM   #2 (permalink)
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wow. howabout that? Learn something new every day.

I voted for Hitler. I'm just a bit ashamed...
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Unread 12-17-2009, 08:52 PM   #3 (permalink)
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It's been floating around the Internet for ages.
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Unread 12-17-2009, 09:04 PM   #4 (permalink)
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It's been floating around the Internet for ages.
Sorry but I have never seen it before and just figured I would share it.
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It's been floating around the Internet for ages.
Is that so? Guess I've been under a rock for some time because it's totally news to me.
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Unread 12-17-2009, 09:32 PM   #6 (permalink)
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It's been floating around the Internet for ages.
I haven't seen this on the Internet so this is a first like SC mentions.
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Unread 12-17-2009, 10:34 PM   #7 (permalink)
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It's been floating around the Internet for ages.
What he said.

Although the bit about the Congress was new to me.
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Unread 12-17-2009, 11:11 PM   #8 (permalink)
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Interesting!
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Unread 12-17-2009, 11:13 PM   #9 (permalink)
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this is not really shocking. it's taken out of context but it makes a nice "shocker" effect
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Unread 12-17-2009, 11:16 PM   #10 (permalink)
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I tripped on this site while looking for a tough question to ask in the person above me thread. I found these facts to be interesting.
I think it is hard to trust this. I did look up Beethoven's mother and that seems to be untrue. Let me provide her biography and a link. I believe it is well known. She was quite respectable and died of tuberculosis as did many people in that day.

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Maria Magdalena van Beethoven (1746-87) Beethoven's mother.

Maria Magdalena Keverich was the daughter of Heinrich Keverich, chief overseer of the kitchen at the palace of the Elector of Trèves at Ehrenbreitstein. It is this, no doubt, that led her future father-in-law to denigrate her as a chambermaid. In fact her family were well-to-do, including a number of wealthy merchants, court councillors and senators.

Maria married a certain Johann Laym, valet to the Elector of Trèves, in 1763 when she was sixteen. She bore him one son who died in infancy. In November 1765 her husband died. Thus, by the age of 18, Maria was already a widow and mother - which certainly counted against her when Johann van Beethoven introduced her to his father, the Kapellmeister.

According to the Beethoven's neighbour, Gottfried Fischer, the Keverich family - although they too were opposed to the marriage - would have given Maria a good wedding celebration in Ehrenbreitstein. But Kapellmeister Beethoven refused to go there, insisting the marriage ceremony be done with quickly in Bonn.

Maria's unhappiness was compounded by the death of her first child by Johann, Ludwig, at only six days. Three of a further six children survived to maturity, the eldest being LUDWIG van BEETHOVEN.

It was clear to Maria from soon after her marriage that her husband would fail to fulfil his musical ambitions, and as he descended into alcoholism she resigned herself to an unhappy marriage. To a friend she described marriage as 'a chain of sorrows'.

She was a good mother. In 1784, when the Rhine flooded their house on the Rheingasse, she gathered up her three children and directed them to safety across the roofs of neighbouring houses. But she found Ludwig difficult and distant, unable to comprehend the genius that set him apart from her and his brothers.

Maria died at the age of 40 of consumption on 17 July 1787. Two months earlier Ludwig was in Vienna where he had met Mozart, who agreed to take him on as a pupil. But his father wrote to him to say he must return to Bonn immediately as his mother was gravely ill.

Ludwig wrote after her death that he returned from Vienna to find his mother 'still alive but in the most deplorable state; her disease was consumption, and about seven weeks ago, after much pain and suffering, she died. She was such a kind, loving mother to me, and my best friend'.

Fischer described Maria Magdalena van Beethoven as a 'handsome, slender person, rather tall, longish face, a nose somewhat bent, spare, earnest eyes'. Frau Fischer recalled that she had never seen Frau Beethoven laugh; 'she was always serious'.
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Unread 12-18-2009, 06:16 AM   #13 (permalink)
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luckily i didn't kill Beethoven (even though I agree with Botts and dont believe the thing about his mother is entirely true!)

unfortunately though, I did vote for Hitler...oooooopps... whats even more worrying is that, apart from being a war hero, we have the other things in common! SH*T!!!!
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Unread 12-18-2009, 09:25 AM   #14 (permalink)
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Now I'm wondering about an overall rap sheet that is composed of every AD member's life status?
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Unread 12-18-2009, 11:46 AM   #15 (permalink)
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I did kill Beethoven, but I totally voted for Churchill instead of Hitler. Any man who drinks a quart of whiskey every night and sleeps till noon is a true leader in my book!
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I saw the Hitler thing coming since he's the only vegetarian leader I know of. Didn't vote to kill Beethoven though. Had a different train of thought that wasn't related to abortion. :S

I really don't care what politicians do during their spare time. Will I vote for someone with a DUI on their records? Maybe. I just look at their platform, not the actual person. If I did care about what a person did, then I wouldn't had voted for one of the most arguably one of the best Canadian leaders in the last few decades.
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Unread 12-18-2009, 12:48 PM   #17 (permalink)
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There are more to the "shocker" effect.
but it would just de-shock yall.
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Unread 12-19-2009, 10:40 PM   #18 (permalink)
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I've seen this before and I found it to be untrue for the most part. This is simply a "shocker chain email", it's designed to shock the reader to pass it on.
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