Huh.

Say that a stranger asks you a question.  You do not know the answer, but then notice a sign nearby that contains the answer.  Is it ableist to assume they know how to read?

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Thank you Dinosaur Comics for reminding me that self-actualization is at the top of the hierarchy of needs. One must achieve other shit first. This is why philosophy was known as a rich-man's sport - one must be well fed and tended for the mind to contemplate the immaterial.

'World Leader' to Obama: Explain Why 'They're Putting a Hitler Moustache On You'

ABC News Senior White House Correspondent Jake Tapper

President Obama at the Congressional Black Caucus Foundation dinner last night, discussing false claims made about the health care reform bill, told a little anecdote.

"I was up at the G20 -- just a little aside -- I was up at the G20, and some of you saw those big flags and all the world leaders come in and Michelle and I are shaking hands with them," the president said. "One of the leaders -- I won't mention who it was -- he comes up to me. We take the picture, we go behind.

"He says, 'Barack, explain to me this health care debate.'

"He says, 'We don't understand it. You're trying to make sure everybody has health care and they're putting a Hitler mustache on you -- I don't -- that doesn't make sense to me. Explain that to me.'"

Asked who this was, White House press secretary Robert Gibbs would say only "a world leader."

I don't get it either.  This country has the dumb.