Republicans Don’t Believe in Leap Year

by Zack Stephenson | 27 Comments
March 2, 2008, 3:24 pm | Category: General |

27 Responses to “Republicans Don’t Believe in Leap Year”

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  • Martin
    March 2, 2008 at 4:44 pm

    C’mon now. I’m a democrat, and a left of center one. But these kinds of posts and headlines are the exact type of thing that just divide us more and more. Instead of making stupid jokes about the republicans, can we put ourselves above MDE and post some actual news.

  • Zack
    March 2, 2008 at 4:47 pm

    Lighten up. I’m just trying to have a little fun.

  • lojasmo
    March 2, 2008 at 5:06 pm

    “Ha ha!”
    -Nelson Muntz

  • Jason
    March 2, 2008 at 6:06 pm

    They started it.

  • donn
    March 2, 2008 at 6:22 pm

    I’m a middle of the roader and this is the kind of funny that I like. Personal attacks and attacks on appearance not so much.

  • DantheMan
    March 2, 2008 at 6:25 pm

    Everyone knows why we don’t acknowledge leap year: Until the IRS allows us to add another 1/365th to our personal exemption on the 1040, we’re not going to say we ever lived the day.

    Or it could be so we can say we’ve been in Iraq one less day.

  • linda
    March 2, 2008 at 7:53 pm

    Thanks for a good laugh!

  • Martin
    March 2, 2008 at 8:24 pm

    Eh, my bad. I’ve just gotten kinda sick of this stuff lately. I kinda came at it from a bad angle.

  • donn
    March 2, 2008 at 8:27 pm

    About half of American adults don’t believe in evolution. It is both funny because it’s true, and horribly, horribly depressing. Some old data here:

    link

    VIEWS ON EVOLUTION/CREATIONISM

    God created humans in present form
    All Americans
    55%
    Kerry voters
    47%
    Bush voters
     67%

    Humans evolved, God guided the process
    All Americans
    27%
    Kerry voters
    28%
    Bush voters
     22%

    Humans evolved, God did not guide process
    All Americans
    13%
    Kerry voters
    21%
    Bush voters
     6%

  • Frank
    March 2, 2008 at 9:33 pm

    Republicans don’t believe all Americans should be able to access health care when sick, so why should it surprise anyone that Republicans don’t believe in leap year.

  • Chris
    March 2, 2008 at 10:29 pm

    donn,

    What’s sad is that people like you follow the teachings of Charles Darwin on the one hand and support Barack Obama on the other. Darwin compared Africans to savages and believed that the white race was superior. Moreover, the Eugenics movement (which was later practiced by the Nazis in Germany against the Jews) was promoted by Darwin’s cousin as the next step in “hereditary improvement.”

  • Zack
    March 2, 2008 at 10:32 pm

    Chris -

    You don’t believe in evolution?

  • the seal
    March 2, 2008 at 10:38 pm

    I think not beliving in leap day has more to do with rejecting heilocentric astronomy, see the Book of Daniel.

  • donn
    March 2, 2008 at 10:49 pm

    chris -

    What i meant to say was it’s horribly depressing that ONLY half of Americans don’t believe in evolution.

  • donn
    March 2, 2008 at 10:54 pm

    obviously, i’m joking and i hope you were too.

  • DantheMan
    March 2, 2008 at 10:59 pm

    “Republicans don’t believe all Americans should be able to access health care when sick, so why should it surprise anyone that Republicans don’t believe in leap year.”

    We’ve actually created laws (EMTALA) ensuring all Americans do have access to health care when sick.

    It is that pesky little payment issue that we’re not for socializing.

  • donn
    March 2, 2008 at 11:18 pm

    A little joke about a programming error becomes a big issue!

    We need to fix health care to become competitive with the other nations that have socialized health care - even if it’s distasteful from a philosophical viewpoint. This isn’t a Republican or Democrat issue, it’s an American issue and it’s an issue that concerns our economic viability. We make a car, there’s $1500 of health insurance costs added in. We need to take a good hard look at what the government can do to reduce those costs, because the insurance industry isn’t going to do it on its own.

    You have a good point about access to health care when sick - you’re absolutely correct. But what you’re talking about is when someone is acutely sick and needs emergency medical treatment. We need to look into finding ways to provide good early onset care to people - stop these health care problems before they become catastrophic and a burden on society, on the hospitals, and on me and you.

    And of course, both of you partisan sides need to be more civil but also have a sense of humor about things.

  • DantheMan
    March 2, 2008 at 11:29 pm

    I agree this is a humorous thread — some things I just can’t let go uncorrected.

  • Student Guy
    March 3, 2008 at 2:14 am

    Evolution (or what people call Darwinism to use the faulty term since Darwin’s understanding of genetics was really wacko, gemmules people, gemmules look up that term!!!!; and Evolution has a foundation in genetics) is meant to be a biological issue. It is ‘social Darwinism’ thought up by some fool named Herbert Spencer that applied to human society and the natural world.

    Wow this is way off topic.

  • donn
    March 3, 2008 at 10:34 am

    Student Guy, are they using our tax dollars to teach you evolution in school? I demand equal time for my spaghetti monster.

  • Student Guy
    March 3, 2008 at 11:42 am

    donn- Also, I got taught evolution at college where I was in a major where evolution is important, somehow the FSM was left out of lectures, I think it was a conspiracy by the anti-pasta crowd.

    One comment for the people who don’t believe in evolution, when you get a nasty infection, like MRSA (bacteria infection that is resistant to penicillin to put it simply) since you don’t believe in evolution then penicillin should work wonderfully on that infection…

  • walter hanson
    March 3, 2008 at 2:40 pm

    You know folks I realize that Democrats are silly, but this ridiculous.

    A computer programmer designed the calender making the assumption that February has 28 days. To attack the whole party. Everybody in their live has done something stupid. To link that to not believing in leap year is the joke. The person who wrote this post should be ashamed of themselves.

    Evolution has nothing to do with leap year. And Republicans do care about health care. One problem with single payer is people wait and wait and wait to get health care in countries like Canada and England. That is how they control the costs! By limiting products and choice.

    Oh I forgot you folks have the calendars with just 27 days in February.

    Walter Hanson
    Minneapolis, MN

  • LB
    March 3, 2008 at 2:45 pm

    So Darwin was a racist. Oh my! I guess that means we better forget all the science he did, right? If we do that we better forget about 80% of the world at that point, who were for the most part racist, segregationist, and geocentrist.

  • Ruthie
    March 3, 2008 at 6:05 pm

    For Walter H: “One problem with single payer is people wait and wait and wait to get health care in countries like Canada and England.” How do you really know that, Walter? Did Rush Limbaugh explain it on his radio show? Do you have facts/stats to back this up? Oh, and quit being so damn uptight and try to find a sense of humor…life is passing you by…

  • Honeydog
    March 3, 2008 at 8:09 pm

    I don’t listen to Rush, and I know that they wait and wait for care in Canada and England. In fact, Britian is going to stop letting certain groups of people get care at all unless they stop certain behaviors such as drinking alcohol, smoking and BEING FAT.

    And Ruthie, if you think what Zack wrote is humorous, you’re nuts. There is nothing remotely funny about that. If you think that was funny, I bet you think pulling the legs off of Daddy Long Legs is funny too.

  • Student Guy
    March 4, 2008 at 2:16 am

    Fun fact: ‘Daddy Long legs’ are not true spiders; they are members of class Phalangidia (a member of Phyla/sub-Phyla Chelicerata which is part of Sub-Kingdom/Phyla Arthropoda along with things as diverse depending on the classification system you use), but not arachnids like spiders.

  • walter hanson
    March 4, 2008 at 2:56 pm

    Ruthie:

    Canada’s health care was so bad that people sued for the right to create private health care and Canada’s supreme court allowed for it. Why will people do that unless they are waiting and waiting and waiting or getting bad care, getting bad care, and getting bad care.

    The waiting period has been done in multiple news sources. It’s just that liberals ignore it and than say Republicans don’t care about people having health care. People come from Canada all the time because of their waiting period. A pet can certain tests faster in Canada and England than a human.

    Juss curious besides Michael Moore what’s your source of inaccurate information?

    Walter Hanson
    Minneapolis, MN

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