2 TOUGH QUESTIONS

[Silver]

2 TOUGH QUESTIONS




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.




Candidate A.
Associates with crooked politicians, and consults with astrologists. 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 your 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...



Never be afraid to try something new.
Remember: Amateurs...built the ark.
Professionals...built the Titanic







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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-disclaimer from Silver: I have no idea if the last is true or not.

 

[nr]

Silver,
Your disclaimer about the truth of that article was right on target. Below was on the internet (so also suspect!) but indicates there was some untruths in it. Don't you also question if someone can run for Congress if they've served time for assualt?
nr

Summary of the eRumor
A couple of ethical questions about abortion and judging character.
One describes a pregnancy that many would argue would justify an abortion but the child turns out to be Beethoven.
The describes three world leaders and asks which you would vote for.
Their qualifications seem clear, but their identities are surprising.


The Truth
The eRumor has some factual problems.

As far as we can tell from researching the life of Beethoven, it's misleading to set up the question by saying he would have been his mother's ninth birth.
Only three of the children born to Maria Magdalena Beethoven survived infancy, with the composer Ludvig Von Beethoven being the oldest of the three.
Beethoven himself suffered from deafness in adulthood, but we found no evidence of deaf, blind, or mentally retarded siblings as children.
We found no substantiation of Beethoven's mother having had syphilis.
She is said to have died of what at that time was called consumption or tuberculosis.

Regarding candidate A, Franklin Roosevelt, there is talk among astrologers that he consulted with astrologer Evangeline Adams, but we have not been able to document that.
We don't know how many mistresses Franklin Roosevelt had but he had an affair with his wife's social secretary Lucy Page Mercer. She was with him when he died in 1945 in Warm Springs, Georgia.
He did like his martinis and is credited with having been the first to mix a martini in the White House and was a smoker.

Regarding candidate B, Winston Churchill, according to WinstonChurchill.org, he was known for his drinking.
We could not find whether he used opium in college.

Regarding candidate C, Adolph Hitler, it is true that there is no evidence that he ever cheated on his wife but that's primarily because he was married to her for a few hours before both of them committed suicide.
Hitler's and his longtime mistress Eva Braun got married early in the morning on April 29, 1945.
At about 3:30 the next afternoon, both took cyanide although Hitler also shot himself in the head.

Hitler preferred a vegetarian diet, but was not a pure vegetarian.
It started when his doctor once put him on a vegetarian menu but Hitler is described by his biographers as liking a variety of meats including sausages.
There is no record of Hitler having smoked or been a user of alcohol and, in fact, he campaigned against the use of tobacco among his troops

 

[Silver]

.....and that is why you NEVER automatically believe everything you hear or read. Thanks for the other side of the story nr.