Vodka is the only alcohol I drink chilled. Otherwise, I prefer my liquor, beer, and wine at room temperature. This isn't really relevant to my post today; I just figured I would throw this out there should you ever feel the need to make me a drink. Anyways, I'm taking a hiatus from all political discussions with my coworkers. My only conclusion on this subject is that you cannot judge a person's intelligence by their political views (or religious views for that matter). It just cannot be done.
This brings me to an interesting story (at least to me). I should preface this story with a little fact about myself when it comes to debating politics. Typically, I try to figure out what position you are taking, take the opposite one, and badger you until you get annoyed and drop the subject. I'm particularly effective at pissing off "conservative" Republicans. As an engineer, I tend to run into Republicans much more frequently; therefore, I have more practice with them.
Anyway, today while listening to the normal mindless ramblings of the coworkers; "Obama is going to ruin the country", "Bush was really a 'RINO' (Republican in Name Only)", "All environmental policy is a socialist conspiracy", blah, blah, blah... then the most interesting statement was made. Apparently, one of my colleagues honestly and truly believes that the Democratic party is directly responsible for the death of their cat. I really wish I was trying to make a terrible joke.
I suggested that the DNC sanctioned a contract hit on the unlucky feline. Nope, nothing that "crazy". So, I made the suggestion again that surely a G. Gordon Liddy style execution was planned by the Dems to take out the cat. Okay, now I am assured that this is not the case. So what was the big scandal? Great question... Unfortunately, I jumped the gun and caused my coworker to quit talking about it. Not the best story but that's all I have today.