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Contact the Lunatic at Excelsior502@gmail.com.Matthew Notohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08881509233809999186noreply@blogger.comBlogger1785125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6161738.post-71438469930594286202017-04-25T09:49:00.004-04:002017-04-25T09:49:51.550-04:00The Lunatic Has Moved...If you've found the Lunatic's Asylum, please note that the Chief Inmate has moved.<br /><br />He can now be found at "My Planet, My Rules", at www.myplanetmyrules.blogspot.com.<br /><br />Please, stop by and sit a spell, and tell your friends!Matthew Notohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08881509233809999186noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6161738.post-29755173359250114382017-02-21T03:30:00.000-05:002017-02-21T03:30:38.215-05:0050 Shades of Bullshit<b><br /></b>
<b>The Modern Liberal's Torrid Sado-Masochistic Relationship with Lies</b><br />
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Niccolo Machiavelli once postulated (paraphrased) that politics could not be conducted without The Lie. That while force was not always necessary to the business of politics, one could not truly practice the art with any great skill or subtlety without a healthy dose of fraud. Machiavelli justified -- or at least rationalized -- the Lie as an unavoidable accessory to power, for in order to exercise it over the Masses it is often necessary to make use of them -- their desires, fears, aspirations, hatreds, opinions -- and if the Masses were ever to discover that they were being used in this fashion, they would revolt.<br />
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The Lie is necessary; it serves to hide one's true motives from the people over whom one wields power. Machiavelli understood that achieving power means lying and justified it, perversely, as a matter of honesty. The Ruler who was honest about his intentions (always to himself) could conduct public affairs in a much more straightforward, more efficient manner. For his ultimate goal is not, strictly-speaking, always the most good for the most people, but rather to continue in power, for no one accepts or takes power with the intention of voluntarily giving it up.<br />
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This is the genesis of the old saying that "The Ends Justify The Means".<br />
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I'm not the first to point this out, and I certainly will not be the last. But, we must start somewhere, and I really don't have the time --nor you the patience -- for me to go into the psychology of the modern liberal. Suffice to say, that's a scary place, and I'll introduce you to it one frightening piece at a time at a later date.<br />
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The problem with The Lie, however, is that eventually Truth is revealed. Reality has a nasty habit of making it's existence known. Sometimes, there's just too many Lies to keep straight, and the exposure of one Lie causes the collapse of all the others. Keeping a Lie hidden, and effective, requires a careful, conscious effort. The trick is to keep your Lies one step ahead of The Truth.<br />
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(Anyone who's ever read Orwell's "1984" is familiar with the concept of Doublethink, which is related to what we're talking about here).<br />
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The Modern liberal (small 'l' intentional) has taken Machiavelli's lessons to heart, for Modern liberalism is based upon a foundation of lies (which I will discuss in a moment) which needs to be protected by a fortress built of other lies. The Modern liberal has also taken this dictum about the need for The Lie one step further. Machiavelli postulated that the Ruler who was conscious of his lies could conduct affairs more realistically, more honestly. The Modern liberal went one better: it might be necessary to Lie to others in order to Rule, but it's goddamned essential to Lie to oneself so as to avoid the fatal slip that exposes the original Lie.<br />
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If that sounds complicated, I'm going to simplify it for you in a bit.<br />
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The Modern Left is all up in arms about Lies, these days. It sees conspiracies everywhere; elections rigged, foreign influence everywhere, a President who makes public statements that they claim do not jibe with physical reality, which is rich, since the Left avoids physical reality as if it came with a double dose of simultaneous AIDS and Ebola (again, wait for it!). The Left feels, collectively, that they are due honesty, which is hilarious to those of us who have two braincells to rub together, because the Leftist mindset is a cornucopia of lies that they eagerly scarf up like it was candy.<br />
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So, when the Left sees a Russian Conspiracy to rig an election, it neglects to admit that the e-mails on Hillary's and the DNC's servers show they conspired to do just that to Bernie Sanders during the primaries. It fails to admit that when it complains of foreign interference in elections that it freely and openly takes money from George Soros, and forgets inconvenient facts, like when Ted Kennedy begged Yuri Andropov to help him defeat Ronald Reagan. It cannot reconcile the difference between when, say, Donald Trump alludes to Europe's Muslim problem in an inartful way, and when it assured us that ISIS was the JayVee team and that all terrorism died with bin Laden, and it all had nothing to do with the flood of refugees from the Middle East<br />
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What matters, at that point, isn't so much the veracity of what is said, it's more about who is saying it, so long as it isn't a Lefty, and the motives for saying it automatically become suspect if it's someone they don't like giving voice to it. All of a sudden, the Left collectively rears up on it's hind legs to finally demand truth (as they define it, of course), and for scruples, and honesty and integrity, and all that good shit, and expect you to forget all the lies they've eagerly lapped up for a quarter century, worshiping the utterer of such falsehoods as gods, in the process. The people screaming the loudest about The Truth these last 90 days embraced the following Lies like they were lovers:<br />
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<i><span style="color: blue;">"I didn't inhale...".</span></i><br />
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<i><span style="color: blue;">"I did not have sexual relations with that woman...".</span></i><br />
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<i><span style="color: blue;">"I was named for Sir Edmund Hillary (who would not gain prominence for another six years after your birth)."</span></i><br />
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<i><span style="color: blue;">"She's the Smartest Woman in the World."</span></i><br />
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<i><span style="color: blue;">"It's just about sex."</span></i><br />
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<i><span style="color: blue;">"A vast right wing conspiracy is out to get us..."</span></i><br />
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<i><span style="color: blue;">"I was under sniper fire in Bosnia".</span></i><br />
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<i><span style="color: blue;">"There were no WMD's in Iraq".</span></i><br />
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<i><span style="color: blue;">"Benghazi was the result of a spontaneous demonstration instigated by a YouTube video...".</span></i><br />
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<i><span style="color: blue;">"Chicago doesn't have a criminal problem; it has a gun problem".</span></i><br />
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<i><span style="color: blue;">"The Science is Settled".</span></i><br />
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<i><span style="color: blue;">"I've turned over all the documents the FBI asked for, except for 30,000 pages of yoga routines , internet cat memes, and Chelsea's guest list".</span></i><br />
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<i><span style="color: blue;">"We've cut taxes for 95% of Americans".</span></i><br />
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<i><span style="color: blue;">"Green Energy jobs will put Americans back to Work".</span></i><br />
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<i><span style="color: blue;">"If you like your doctor, you can keep your doctor; if you like your plan, you can keep your plan."</span></i><br />
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Oh, I could go on, but bandwidth is limited and you get the picture. The Lie (whatever it was) was uncritically accepted by the greater mass of Leftards, it was often elevated until it became an article of faith. Because not only was it necessary to Lie to the public in order to see a "greater good done" (what that greater good is is, conveniently, never mentioned), it becomes necessary to tell even More Lies so as to protect the original ones, and then finally, it became necessary to Lie to themselves -- by either pretending not to notice the differences between utterance and action/consequence/result, or just to remain in the proper orthodox ideological mindset that won't get them kicked out of their social circle.<br />
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Because they believe that if they say it/deny it/claim to believe it enough, and with the proper fervor, well, then Reality is Bent to Their Will. Sheer obstinacy makes it True, even if actual Truth says it's not. And since bending reality to the will is necessary to the Ends Justify The Means mentality, it all serves a Greater Good to be a lying, hypocritical douche, and furthermore, to be defiantly arrogant about it. It becomes, perversely, necessary for them to Lie to themselves in order to avoid admitting that they're dishonest/stupid/intellectually lazy/unscrupulous rat bastards to themselves and everyone else.<br />
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We might kill them for it if we ever found out, you know (seeing as how we're all gun-happy hillbillies), or worse, just recognize them for what they are -- and ignore them completely. This, above all things, excepting mockery, drives them absolutely batty. They see themselves as special and virtuous, all the while knowing they aren't, and need to be continuously validated in this vision with fawning, unquestioning adoration. Take away the doe-eyed, uncritical admiration, expose their stupidity to the light of relentless derision, and they melt like an ice cube in a blast furnace.<br />
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And if you're lucky, they stay out of your Facebook feed for a few days.<br />
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Most Modern liberal (small "l" intentional) philosophies are founded upon Lies. It's not really required to run down all of the ideologies and all of the Lies told by all of the lefties since time began, so we'll concentrate specifically on what makes American Progtards such defiant liars, and such annoying little fuckers.<br />
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The Modern liberal swims in an ocean of Lies; she (it's usually a "she", because women tend to be more afraid of reality. Yes, broad brush. Save the hate mail) lies as easily and as reflexively as you breathe. She has such a casual relationship with The Truth that she lies even when there is no obvious reason to do so. The person who today insists that the GOP wishes to return America to the Evils of Slavery will viciously attack and torment anyone who has the temerity to remind her history shows the Democrats were the party of the Klan, that Democrats voted against the Civil Rights Act, that Democrats enacted Jim Crow laws, that no one is outlawing abortion or opening concentration camps in Peoria, and if you insist on persisting with your "facts", then your sources are attacked as blasphemy and "fake news", your motives are indistinguishable from the Will of Satan, you must be insane and a child molester, and you're a racist/sexist/homophobe on the payroll of Exxon-Mobil.<br />
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After all, "everybody knows" that none of this is true, she will tell you. This response is indicative of the loose relationship the Leftard has with reality (see below), so that the argument, "yeah, but more people (that I only associate with because they agree with me and reinforce my natural resistance to physical reality) agree with me, therefore, I am right" is laughable. The idea that reality is somehow altered, that space, time, and physical facts can be rendered useless, null-and-void, just because you managed to collect a bigger collection of morons under your banner, is indicative of deep mental defect.<br />
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The world does not become square because 8 out of 10 retards agree that it is. (Which is why you should never let a leftard beat you over the head with a poll; considering how wrong modern polling has turned out to be, polling isn't exactly an accurate or believable proof of anything. The only proof of anything is the end result. Period).<br />
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The American Lefty operates on three basic premises, all of which are outright Lies, or related to the act of lying:<br />
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<b>1, All Men are Created Equal.</b> This is lovely little fiction, for Reality has a way of making this a self-evident Lie. Michael Jordan was a superb basketball player; I am not. Beethoven and Mozart created stately passages of beautiful music with a mathematical precision; I couldn't play the kazoo on my best day. Einstein was a rare intellect who thought deeply upon the mysteries of the Universe and expressed them mathematically; most people in the world are slobbering nosepickers who can't even tie their own shoes, which is why we have Nikes with velcro fasteners, and why a can of oven cleaner bears a big, red label warning "Do Not Spray in Eyes".<br />
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Men are not Created Equal (they are considered equal under the law, but this does not change the fact that men are different); we all have different talents, different levels of intellect, differing capacities for work, etc, etc. This is REALITY, but the Lie is a beautiful and appealing one, and thus persistent. And it is universally accepted as literal truth by the Left.<br />
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Just as an aside, I often have great fun with my Lefty friends with the following exchange which illustrates the point:<br />
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<i><span style="color: blue;">"Do you believe in Evolution?"</span></i><br />
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<i><span style="color: blue;">"Yes, of course I do. All enlightened people do, you know."</span></i><br />
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<i><span style="color: blue;">"Then tell me why inequality isn't one of it's consequences?"</span></i><br />
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<i><span style="color: blue;">At this point, someone usually says "Go fuck yourself!" and storms off in a menstrual huff. because that's the sort of deep intellects we're dealing with here.</span></i><br />
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<b>2. Man Is Perfectible.</b> This is, strictly-speaking, a Judeo-Christian tenet, which is funny since the Modern liberal often rejects Christianity, and religion in general, as a mass of superstitious claptrap (I do too, but we're not talking about me). Judeo-Christianity assumes a redemption when Man is made Perfect, according to the judgment of God. It is one of the reasons why our "Pilgrims" and other Reformers and Non-Conformists of the 17th-19th Century fled Europe for America: they came here to build "The New Jerusalem", a visionary project that saw Man perfected by the Iron Rule of God.<br />
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Judaism foresees a day when a Messiah comes and brings Salvation; Christianity foresees a day when the Messiah will return, and do likewise. In both cases it is axiomatic that the Salvation doesn't come without Perfection: Man must do his best to enact the Will of God, he must strive to make this world better than when he found it, he must admit and correct his faults. Only then will Salvation be his. It is a wonderful philosophical point of view, for it keeps Man thinking about his future, unlike other religions that are firmly rooted in their past. This striving for perfection and redemption drives Man to make his world and his society better. It is probably one of the three most important ideas that have driven Western Civilization to it's present apex (that's another post!).<br />
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Of course, God did not keep his end of the bargain (funny how often that happens), and the religious zealotry that drove much of America's early development and politics fell by the wayside. Until Science gave the religious doofus a new explanation for failure in the form of Charles Darwin; God did not fail -- Man did -- because he's an animal, and an extremely stupid one, at that. All of his imperfections that were incredibly resistant to prayer and doctrine, might be bred out of him, like an inconvenient trait is bred out of animal. Science gave a new impetus where God slacked off.<br />
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I oversimplify, but the basic premise is true.<br />
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The late 19th and early 20th centuries are full of examples of this new, "enlightened" mindset (i.e. people who saw others as animals) and movements springing up to Save Man by Changing His Nature. The Temperance Movements, Prohibition, The League of Nations, Socialism, Communism, Fascism, Eugenics Movements, all came into being based upon this principle; that if only Man could be guided by his "betters", if his more ruthless and disgusting characteristics could be bred out of him by means of education, the use of shame, guilt, fear, hatred, and anger, the iron fist of law, if the re-ordering of society could be accomplished by those best disposed to do so, then Man could be perfected.<br />
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Much like one could breed better beef cattle, or a new strain of hardier wheat, Man could be made better, too.<br />
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It did not matter if we were talking about The New Soviet Man, the Nazi Master Race, killing the insane, aborting unwanted children before they become a burden to society, or the Bushido Code, it's all the same idea -- if Man could be dragged kicking and screaming into a new future by his betters imposing their systems, their tastes, their habits of thought upon them, whether by force or stealth -- we could create Paradise on Earth.<br />
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Naturally, this failed, too. Mostly because Human Nature is a tricky thing and does not allow itself to be suppressed, even if you present such a tyranny to it as for the Common Good. But the idea still burns bright in the tiny little heart of the Modern liberal. You can see his continuous struggle with Human nature in his attempt to corral it: where Human Nature rears its ugly head, the liberal tries to regulate, tax or ban it. For our own, good, of course.<br />
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<b>3. Reality is Subjective. </b>This gets into a mess of philosophical and psychological weeds that I'm not willing to wander into right now. In a nutshell, this premise assumes that Reality exists -- somewhere -- outside of itself. I'll rephrase that for you; they believe that Reality is Not Really Real, and that it's existence is conditional, meaning it's only Real when people agree to agree it's Real, even when it's not Real, or when the written record conforms to the Reality one agrees is Really Real. This is why the liberal is a big fan of revisionist history; if the mind perceives something as true, but the written record reflects something else, then something must be changed until both mind and record agree, creating a New Really Real Reality. Which simultaneously exists and doesn't exist. Really.<br />
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This is how you have to think when you're busy lying to everyone and yourself every minute of every day. I'm surprised they aren't totally exhausted by the effort. Now you know why statues have to be pulled down, buildings and countries must be renamed, flags have to be banned, etc. They are records or memories that express a different reality than the one the liberal wants or needs to exist.<br />
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Think about it: these are people who have evolved the dismissal of Objective Reality into an art form. They reject the reality of gender, for example. Gender becomes a "Construct" that society uses to oppress people -- unless you manage to construct your own gender and oppress Society with it. If I want to be a 7' tall Asian non-cisnormative transsexual , then I can magically be one and have the right to insist people suspend their Reality so as to recognize me as such, despite the fact that I'm a 5' 8" Italian with a pot belly and strong heterosexual tendencies.<br />
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<i><span style="color: blue;">And by the way, there are no "Chick With Dicks"...there are only "Guys With Tits". Just sayin'.</span></i><br />
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And when Reality insists upon making it's Reality too painful a Really Real Reality to bear, the Leftard resorts to a different form of lying, which is another form of Un-Real Reality: Subversion.<br />
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When a legislature does not give you want you want, you run to a court and subvert the rule of law -- by invoking the rule of law, and inventing "rights" out of thin air. When a business does things you don't agree with, you organize a picket line and camp out on the CEO's lawn with torches and pitchforks, and try to get him fired or drive him out of business -- and call it "the will of the marketplace". When someone says something you disagree with, you hound them from the public square, smear them with vicious rumors, innuendo, harry them with lawsuits -- and call it "Free Speech".<br />
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It's all lying in the service of other lies.<br />
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Any institution or circumstance which can be turned upon it's head to serve the purpose of protecting the Big Lies is fair game, and the hypocrisy is ignored, because to admit it is to admit you're lying.<br />
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Additionally, where fact, reason, and logic fail the modern liberal, feelings get injected into the conversation, so that when the Subjective is undermined by the Objective it in turn gets undermined by a further appeal to another source of Subjective (feelings). Suddenly, feelings, even vague, indescribable, remote, not-tethered-to-this-world feelings can become as solidly factual as the Rock of Gibraltar. Because feelz = reelz.<br />
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The liberal hates having any discussion on the basis of Objectivity, because Objectivity blows his cherished Lies to smithereens. Effortlessly.<br />
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I'll give you an example of how this works in real life:<br />
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If we assume that "All Men Are Created Equal", an objective observer will note, very quickly, that this is simply not true. The Reality does not match the statement. Even in circumstances which one might call "fair", where no one person has a substantial advantage over another, the results do not always follow expectations. The Outcome does not reflect Equality.<br />
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When this happens, Reality must be denied. So, true to form, The Lie of Equality must be protected by another Lie in order to keep Reality at arm's length.<br />
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Suzie Fivefoottwo wants to be an infantryman or a firefighter, and she can't because she does not have the physical tools. The Modern liberal finds this an unbearable situation: it doesn't matter if Suzie CAN be a Marine or Fireman, it's enough that she should WANT to be one. Because Equality. And Feelz.<br />
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Suzie fails Basic Training, or cannot complete the physical portion of fireman's training, and a whole host of excuses is vomited up to explain her failure: the test is unfair; training or testing is culturally biased; too much weight in evaluation is given to the physical over the emotional or psychological; even if she can't lift that hose up five flights of stairs, she can still be useful to the department or service (realistically by making coffee in the firehouse, or by vacuuming the barracks, but the liberal will argue as Fire Commissioner or Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff). The basic truth that Suzie is not up to snuff must somehow be changed or ignored. Suzie is a firefighter or a combat medic, dammit, even if she didn't pass the required course of training that would bestow that title upon her.<br />
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So, the liberal weaves a web of lies to MAKE it true.<br />
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It usually begins with a lawsuit that makes the argument that expecting Suzie to adhere to the same standards as men is (pick one, or all three) sexist, discriminatory, maybe even racist. There is no real sexism, racism, or discrimination -- the standards are objective and set according to the needs of the job, and Suzie just can't meet them. But this intrusion of Really Real Reality would be psychologically-damaging to her (it would identify her as a loser), and makes a mockery of "All Men Are Created Equal", especially if you get the right judge, which eventually results in a watering down of standards and requirements. Then we call Suzie "private" or "firefighter" -- elevated to that lofty position by legal decision, only -- despite the fact that she lacks the qualifications to be either. We pretend (another form of lying) she's equal. Because, again, Equality and Feelz and Different Reality.<br />
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We have to generate a series of smaller lies now to prop up the Lie that Suzie was made Equal (by obscuring the fact she was Unequal until made Equal by Legal Decision) and justify the notion that women are just as capable firefighters or riflemen, even with lower standards (even though Suzie just proved otherwise). So we learn that society is "patriarchal" and thus discriminatory, and the remedy is that The Law is used to force us all to be subjectively equal, despite it's inability to make us all objectively equal, and that, you sexist-potential-rapist, is all that matters. The Lie of "Disparate Impact" is trotted out, and the Lie of "Affirmative Action" is hitched to it like a wagon.<br />
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And then Really Really Real Reality sets in, and someone dies needlessly because Suzie couldn't toss a grenade far enough for safety, or carry a 250 pound man down a ladder. Reality is cruel that way. We have to lie again and pretend that Suzie wasn't the problem; it was inadequate training (never mind Suzie "won" the right in court to be trained to lower standards), or it was a defective grenade (even though it blew up, as advertised), or the ladder was designed for people with longer legs, or we failed to consider she had cramps that day, or none of her comrades came to her aid and picked up her slack, busy as they were putting out flames or outflanking the enemy machine gun that killed a third of the platoon, while Suzie killed the other third with her grenade because she throws like a girl (that assertion is sexist!).<br />
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And now our layer cake of lies needs a layer of frosting: If only the training program were further modified specifically for Suzie; if only the system of standards took into account the difficulty of being 5' 2" and 104 pounds in a job that requires great physical strength, if only Suzie had been assigned duties (i.e. promoted above her actual abilities) more commensurate with her superior abilities in something OTHER than the primary skills related to killing the enemy or of responding to a four-alarm fire, this wouldn't have happened. It's the system that failed!<br />
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And so on and so on; The Lie gets exposed by Reality, the excuses begin, a new series of lies is constructed, bore everyone to fucking tears with our feelz about how difficult it is to be female in a male world, and how unfair it is that Suzie just joined the Army for the college money and not to, like, you know, fight wars an' stuff, and eventually, society is to blame because it let/forced/allowed Suzie to fail.<br />
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Anything to prevent the painful admission that Suzie had no business being on the front lines or in the firehouse. The Lie becomes The Truth, which is then protected by so many other Lies that by the time someone discovers and exposes them, Real Truth will be a speck in the rear view mirror.<br />
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The overall objective can be summed up thus "<i><span style="color: blue;">If it is isn't True, then we must somehow make it true</span></i>". Fuck the consequences.<br />
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And you can extend this example to other areas of American life:<br />
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Raekwonn should be admitted to Law School despite the fact that he's a functional illiterate with a criminal record. Racial profiling is wrong, except to decide who gets into college.<br />
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Six-foot, 200 lb Steve, with five-o'clock-shadow and back hair ,and the linebacker's physique, should be able to use the Ladies Room whenever he goddamned wants to whether he's wearing his Vera Wang evening gown and matching size 13 Kenneth Cole pumps, or not, and despite his child porn conviction.<br />
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A Christian should be forced to bake a Gay Wedding Cake, because Equalz, but asking a Muslim to bake a Bar Mitzvah cake is considered offensive, because Feelz.<br />
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The End Must Justify the Means; the End being the exercise of power by those who own the system of lying. Power being defined as the ability to make others live as you want them to -- according to the whims, tastes, ideals, beliefs -- of the Directing Brains. Our Betters, so to speak, who have taken it upon themselves as a Divine Duty to lead Man to Perfection and Salvation.<br />
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By lying to us about everything.<br />
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It's really all about the mental comfort of a bunch of self-selected assholes with a God complex.<br /><br />
Objective Reality for the Peons must be bent to the Subjective Will of The Elites, or else they are no longer Gods.<br />
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Consider it a religion for people who would otherwise reject religion. However, whereas one type of religion concerns itself with a supposed (spiritual) truth, the other concerns itself with a series of outright (physical) lies in the quest for an Earthly paradise.<br />
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Remember all of this when you find yourself arguing with an idiot or a liberal (sorry, that was redundant), usually about some petty political point that they truly don't understand but feel compelled to talk about, anyway. If I may digress, we're not dealing with particularly bright people and they usually have little to no idea of what they're talking about -- because getting an idea means potentially exposing themselves to facts and opinions which might cause them to question the veracity of The Three Lies -- and yet they can't ever seem to shut the fuck up, anyway.<br />
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The liberal begins life by embracing the fantasy of The First Lie, he justifies it by claiming to be an enlightened person who is simply seeking a just and better society (no matter how many people have to be punished, dispossessed, fired, jailed, taxed, publicly shamed and ruined, beaten up, killed, aborted, denied jobs they deserve, or sued into oblivion) via the Second Lie, and he is continually prevented from seeing the futility of his cause or the faulty logic underlying his position by his ability to dodge reality and be dishonest with himself, as per the Third Lie. He doesn't know any better because he doesn't want, nor feels that he needs, to know better.<br />
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After all, he's saving us all -- by lying to us and himself -- and the people who fed him those lies are living quite well, content to do so forever, and so they have no compelling reason to upset the status quo (if you wonder why Trump gives the professional bureaucracy agita, here's your answer). They're not particularly interested in anyone's Salvation so much as they are interested in preserving their own sense of superiority, status as the arbiters of all that's good, and power.<br />
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The Modern liberal has his Lies, and they are a great comfort to him because through them he can forget -- for long periods of time -- that Life Sucks. The idea that it can be Unsucked can only be justified by untruths. Untruths are their crack, their cocaine, their high. They can't ever help themselves because that requires an ability to be honest with oneself. Honesty is in short supply in an ideological system predicated upon lies, advanced and supported by same, and enacted for reasons other than those stated.<br />
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I would have pity on them, but then again, it's hard to feel any sympathy for people who fail to recognize their own stupidity, and who insist on being such pompous pricks while they're at it.<br />
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Matthew Notohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08881509233809999186noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6161738.post-74357256057095900012015-09-10T07:32:00.000-04:002015-09-11T09:12:27.134-04:00On Morons and Elections, Part I....<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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I had pretty much decided some time ago to no longer devote time to this blog. I have so many other things to worry about, after all. I need time to work; I have a sick girlfriend who requires a great deal of care; I wasn't making much money with the damned thing, and so it became a pointless exercise in shouting in the wilderness that returned nothing for the energy devoted to it.<br />
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I was resigned to turning out the lights and locking the doors, leaving this little patch of cyberspace in much the same state as a Pharaoh's tomb, which is to say, something left undisturbed for centuries until some douchebag with too much curiosity and time on his hands might accidentally find it to plunder it's dank, musty mysteries as he saw fit.<br />
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But there's another election coming, and with elections, you can always count upon three things happening:<br />
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1. The morons come out of the woodwork.<br />
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2. The morons need to be put in their place.<br />
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3. I am, by nature, unable to resist putting morons in their place.<br />
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<a name='more'></a>The real tragedy of the American Political System is that people who couldn't find their own asses with both hands and a flashlight are allowed to vote. Worse, they are encouraged to do so.<br />
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I'm going to talk about the morons on both sides of the aisle this week, but it is perhaps appropriate -- and imperative -- that the doofuses of the Right be metaphorically boxed about the ears first. Mostly this is because I can churn a "liberals are retarded, poop-flinging monkeys" screed out without really expending much thought or effort, and I've always been one to take the hardest task first, and also because the consequences of NOT taking the Right to task immediately are much more dire. After all, if the Leftards should win the presidential election of 2016 we will simply get a continuation of the <i>status quo ante </i>with the only point of contention being how much higher the price tag will be.<br />
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So, let's get this party started....<br />
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I would like to begin with an observation.<br />
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Every four years, particularly after a republican loss in an election they should have won sleepwalking, we are thrust into a sort of Ground Hog Day-type scenario by the Right-leaning media (you know who you are, Sean Hannity) that goes something like this:<br />
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<i><span style="color: blue;">"We would have won if ONLY we had run a Real Conservative. The RINO's undermined us, and betrayed our conservative principles. We will now whine incessantly like menstrual teen aged girls for the next four years about how we're lied to, taken advantage of, taken for granted, never listened to, and persecuted. Until the next election cycle, in which we will demonstrate an inability to learn any lessons from failure and double down on Stupid, demanding a candidate that is even more rabidly conservative than the guy who lost previously, and subjecting the people we don't like to an intense and weaponized scrutiny that largely revolves around Medieval attitudes towards social issues that we have already lost the argument for/against. Much like Muslims, when we fail, we will insist upon a greater stratification of ideology and a more severe practice of same; basically, we lost because we -- excuse me, the Loser -- was not sufficiently pious and sanctimonious enough...like us. because I'd totally vote for an asshole exactly like me any day of the week."</span></i><br />
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When applied to Islam this sort of doubling down on stupid is called "radical fundamentalism".<br />
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When applied to GOP politics, especially those of the Far Right, is it is known as "standing up for principles".<br />
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That in neither case does this more fervent pursuit of ideological purity result in the sort of victory both seek over their enemies -- real or perceived -- sails completely over the heads of those who call for it. They are unable to see the self-defeating logic of their position. The Muslim fails because the stricter interpretation of his religious tenets and their extension into ever more areas of human endeavor simply results in greater failure, for it denies the ability to maneuver, to adapt, to think outside of the box, to be creative, and it has much the same effects upon republican politics, stifling the dynamic mindset and energy needed to win elections.<br />
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The reason why we repeat this little drama every four years is easy to identify. It doesn't have much to do with political ideology as much as it does with a certain type of mentality which is typically possessed by a particular brand of obnoxious cretin.<br />
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Before I identify this Philistine for you, let me first dissect the recurring complaint I noted above, so as to illustrate the point.<br />
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When you hear the words "REAL Conservative" vomited up by the people who make their living explaining the obvious to you what you must understand is that you are hearing a descriptive adjective that has no real meaning beyond a narrow-minded affiliation of like-minded individuals. The people who use this term have no idea what a "real conservative" is in the same way that a self-described liberal has no inkling of what liberalism is. It is simply a label, and worse, a dishonest one, that is deliberately misused so as to obscure the truth.<br />
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A REAL Conservative would, in the ideological sense, be a champion of what was once known as Classical Liberalism, that is, the system of political belief that invests sovereignty in the individual, and who holds that the preservation of the natural rights of the individual is to be the final arbiter in all things. Additionally, those fond of the REAL Conservative label fail to notice -- probably because they're assholes -- that what they advocate for, in most cases, is no different that what they routinely accuse their counterparts of advocating for, which is a monolithic mindset, rigorously enforced, where the nails that stand up must be hammered down by any means necessary, so that self-professed REAL Conservative is all for denying or running roughshod over the sovereign rights of the individual so long as the end result is something they happen to agree with.<br />
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They have met the enemy and decided to be just like them; The Ends Justify The Means.<br />
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Now, for the part about RINO's, this is simply a denunciation of those who disagree or who are not sufficiently deferential to the crying asswipe who feels "taken advantage of". It has nothing to do with politics; it's a form of tantrum thrown by people who simply did not get their way, in much the same way as the cheerleader who didn't get a date to the prom with the star quarterback will take to gossip and name-calling to castigate the cheerleader who did as a "whore" within their extended social group.<br />
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And one more thing, the words "Conservative" and "RINO" are used to differentiate and identify people: this one is one of us, that other one isn't. Neither is a term of political description so much as they are gang colors, and there's an in-crowd and an out-crowd, and we need to make it absolutely clear who belongs to which; you're either with us, or you're against us, and if you're against us, well, then we will behave like the jilted cheerleader and write nasty things about you on Facebook, or the Ladies Room Wall, and talk about you to the other girls behind your back when we call in to Rush.<br />
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So now you know, generally, who the cretin is; <i><span style="color: blue;">he's a semi-political version of the Mean Girls. </span></i>However, it goes deeper than this, for the Mean Girls typically have one other distasteful association to go with all their pent-up, water-retention-enhanced fury.<br />
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They tend to be religious bigots, too. And this bigotry manifests itself in a series of impossible-to-pass litmus tests -- <i><span style="color: blue;">on Abortion, Gay Marriage, Illegal Immigration, "What If?" games revolving around Supreme Court nominations, where to split the baby for politcial purposes means falling into the "gotcha!" trap -</span></i>- that cannot be passed except by one of their own. Should an outsider actually begin to come close to passing any of these tests, they find something else to disqualify them from membership. Just ask Rudy Giuliani, Newt Gingrich, Herman Cain or Mitt Romney, for example.<br />
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<i><span style="color: blue;">They set people up to fail, and then when the party inevitably fails, these people act is if they are the victims. What balls!</span></i><br />
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And so here we are, finally, the identification of the most pernicious threat to the political right, summed up for your convenience:<br />
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A religious zealot who typically has no ideas of his own that weren't spoon-fed to him by a pastor or a talk show host, or misinterpreted and lifted undigested straight out of Scripture, who is fixated upon a series of issues that he has already lost the (cultural) war on. He demands a rigidity of thinking which makes anyone who espouses it an unattractive candidate in a general election, and then blames the resulting defeat on others. When a candidate does come along who might be able to split the difference between what the zealot advocates for and what the electorate will stand for, that candidate is destroyed out-of-hand on the basis of ideological (really religious and racial) purity, for the very threat of compromise and pragmatism frightens the shit out of this sort of person, for they live in a zero-sum world where half a loaf is the same as no bread.<br />
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<i><span style="color: blue;">And they might even be forgiven this bulletproof-stupid idea when one considers that they believe in the divinity of a man who mystically materialized bread out of thin air to feed the masses. Jesus, incidentally, could not pass their ideological muster -- too liberal; he obviously believed in welfare and affirmative action -- and yet they'll cling to the authority bestowed by his divinity as an excuse for their bullshit.</span></i> Go figure.<br />
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As a (Classically Liberal) republican, I'm getting pretty sick and tired of seeing my party hijacked by the American version of the Taliban who has the temerity to insist upon candidates who appeal only to them, who then turns around and blames me for the resulting loss. I'm triply sick and tired of having to listen to the whining of people who cut off their own noses to spite their faces who arrived at that peculiar predicament because they obviously are incapable of THINKING. The proof of this assertion is that every four years we get the "if only we ran a REAL conservative...." bullshit.<br />
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When REAL conservatives (as described by the zealots) run, two things happen, just as assuredly as 99 precedes 100:<br />
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<i><span style="color: blue;">1) they implode because they are unable to keep the batshit crazy hidden, and so manage to soil every other republican through guilt-by-association (see: Todd Akin, for example),<br /><br />2) they hand elections to the democrats, because their influence has either produced a candidate that cannot win advancing a conservative agenda, or because they have so skewed the nomination process with their stupid brand of Search-and-Destroy politics that the only guy left standing at the end is a mass of ideologically-unbalanced contradictions, who they won't come out and vote for because he's either "too liberal" or the wrong religion (see: Mitt Romney).</span></i><br />
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The Zealots fail to take responsibility for their own culpability in losing elections, and then they take too much credit for being principled people for having helped it happen. <i><span style="color: blue;">They won't even take their own side in a fight, I guess.</span></i> Which is fine, maybe, considering that their stand upon "principle" has, in the last two dozen years, brought us 16 years of Bill Clinton and Barack Obama, made a celebrity and subject of sympathy out of Hillary Clinton, weaponized and militarized every anti-social identity group that was formerly anonymous and well-hidden -- <i><span style="color: blue;">and silent</span></i> -- which are now vocal, politically-connected, and media-savvy.<br />
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One other consequence of the undue influence exerted over party politics by these knuckle-dragging mouthbreathers, is that they have produced -- unintentionally, of course, but perfectly predictable -- the GOP leadership that they'd now like to have hung from the nearest, convenient tree.<br />
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That is to say, that when you're John Boehner or Mitch McConnell, and you've gotten shit from both sides, but the fusillade is always deeper, stinkier, and packs considerably more punch from your own, you pretty much begin to not give a shit. You go about your business, doing what you need to do in order to survive, knowing that it will never be popular and you're going to suffer the slings and arrows, in any case. Best to get along by going along and become a good little managerialist like the democrats, because it is only through managerialism that you can manage to put together a powerbase that allows you to squeak out future election wins without the aid of, or need to cater to, those who openly opine that they would rather see you dead, and who call you RINO all goddamned day long because it's still not legal to stone an abortionist in the public square, like they did in Deuteronomy,<br />
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You keep your job because you manage to bring home the bacon for your clients; the downside is that there's a constant cacophony from frustrated retards buzzing in your ears 24/7.<br />
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If it were up to me, this breed of political pest -- <i><span style="color: blue;">the one unable to keep his religion out of the voting booth, incapable of understanding the self-defeating nature of the demands he makes upon the party and it's personalities, the sort that believes it is government's job to establish a Theocracy By Statute, since it failed to do so by Constitution, who now suddenly feels under assault by all the formerly-hidden anti-social types who he went out of his way to fucking persecute for three decades, and who now seeks sanctuary from the golems he's created , the one who wants an all-out war on those who disagree with him waged with the full force of the government behind him in the manner in which they often accuse liberals of engaging in </span></i>-- would not only be stripped of the franchise, he'd be horsewhipped in public...and then we'd get to pour salt and lemon juice in the wounds.<br />
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Everyone, I'm thinking, knows at least one person like this.<br />
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The solution to this intractable problem, for me, anyway, is to simply tell this special breed of dumbass where to get off. The unfortunate part of applying that simple solution, however, is that it probably relegates the GOP to the political wilderness for a while. However, I don't think this is as great a tragedy as it appears to be at first glance. For if there were to be a parting of ways, inevitably the Zealots would fail because the "run with a real conservative" meme would be proven, once and for all, to be a logical fallacy and apolitical impracticality (and without "RINO's" to scapegoat the idea would have to stand or fall, mostly fall, upon it's own merits), and the "Welfare for Everyone" brand of modern Leftism would simply come to a screeching halt as the future inability to actually make good on it's promises would come into contact with the hard, cold, immovable object of REALITY.<br />
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That is to say, the Socialists will have finally run out of other people's money with which to buy votes.<br />
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But it's not my self-appointed task to help The Other Side clean up it's mess. it's my self-appointed job to help mine clean up it's own, and the first step is shoving the broomstick up the collective ass of these self-appointed REAL Conservatives.<br />
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<br />Matthew Notohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08881509233809999186noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6161738.post-39338009696877429772015-03-09T10:21:00.003-04:002015-03-09T14:00:14.234-04:00Feminism Would Work...If Only Men Would Do It For Us....<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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So sayeth the wise and sage Chelsea Clinton, scion of the "Smartest Woman in the World" and The Most Famous Bent Penis, fake television journalist, descendant of the vast criminal enterprise that is Clinton, Inc.<br />
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You can read what she had to say here:<br />
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<a href="http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/chelsea-clinton-men-must-lead-the-way-to-gender-equality/article/2561161">http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/chelsea-clinton-men-must-lead-the-way-to-gender-equality/article/2561161</a><br />
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Basically, what the daughter of Don Horneyleone says is that if feminism is to ever achieve it's stated purpose of a free-and-equal society, it is Men that have to make it happen.<br />
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<a name='more'></a><span style="background-color: white;"><i><span style="color: blue;">Considering that it has been Men that have made just about EVERYTHING in human history happen, this is hardly surprising.</span></i></span><br />
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If you want something done: call a Man. If you want something talked to death and smothered in contradictory logic and febrile emotion -- only with an interesting color scheme -- you leave it up to a chick.<br />
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Now, my issue is not with Chelsea. She is merely a product of her environment, which is to say, that when you're raised by clueless assholes, educated at the "best" schools where theory takes precedence over reason as a means of assuaging feelings, and marinated in , and separated by, the bubble created by a vast fortune accumulated through graft, dishonesty and the politics of division, you're bound to have stupid ideas like this.<br />
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<i><span style="color: blue;">And also be totally unaware of how stupid you sound when you air them in public.</span></i><br />
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Let's consider, for a moment, what Feminism is all about.<br />
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Despite the lip service paid to the notions of "equality", what Feminism is is an ideological system by which Women will be given all opportunity and absolved of all responsibility, while Men are simultaneously stripped of all opportunity and saddled with every responsibility.<br />
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This cannot be denied: the logic -- if you can call it that -- of the Feminist position, backed up by rhetoric and action, can lead you to no other conclusion. This is not so much fighting battles of principle in a largely-imaginary "War on Women" so much as it is a War on Men waged with all the menstrual ferocity females can muster.<br />
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It's penis envy.<br />
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Those that can, do. Those that can't, teach. Those that can't even do that invent a self-absorbed, bullshit political dialectic that falls apart the second a 4' 11", 90-pound woman can't carry a fire hose up three flights of stairs without her having a physical and emotional breakdown because it's too hard or entails the possibility of breaking a fingernail.<br />
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Feminism is a great big game of "Let's Pretend", and then when the pretense can no longer be justified, it becomes a great big game of "Who Can I Sue?".<br />
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Let us assume for a moment that Feminism has hit another one of those "glass ceilings" these whiny psychobitches are always on about. Why should this have happened? After all, if we take it as axiomatic that a Woman is every bit as capable as a Man in all things, then these "ceilings", logically, should not exist. The smart and clever Woman would have figured out how to break through. The strong woman would have persevered and burrowed her way to the other side. The determined Woman would have fixed her bayonet, unbunched her panties, and decided that the best way to win this War is to fight Fire With Fire, and by God!, given the patriarchy a taste of it's own medicine, thus proving the worth and equality of the female of the species.<br />
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Instead, none of that has happened.<br />
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Now, they have a myriad of bullshit excuses, typically wrapped in psychobabble and politically-tinged language, to excuse all these failures and when in doubt, they simply shout "sexism" at the top of their lungs in their shrillest banshee voice. But the fact of failure remains, and after 50 years the same excuses now sound worn and tired and have outlived their usefulness.<br />
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So now you have a new tactic being developed: Get Men to do it for us.<br />
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<i><span style="color: blue;">Which is what every Woman in history has done whenever challenged by an obstacle, whether it's catching a gazelle for dinner, squashing a spider in the bathtub, fixing the flat tire, reaching for an item on the top shelf, getting pregnant, or getting a promotion at work through fellatio: Depend upon a Man to do the heavy lifting.</span></i><br />
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No, I don't think I wish to help you achieve your goal, if only because in the process of doing so I'm only hurting myself. I don't wish to live in a world run by Women, if only because it's been my experience that most Women are dumber than dogshit (after all, they fell for Feminism) and are possessed of the most disagreeable character flaws: ingratitude, selfishness, vanity, and they tend personalize every slight -- real or imagined -- to the point where they become vicious and reckless in their quest to get even.<br />
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Men beat each other up, and the problem disappears; Women carry grudges forever that fester and are finally expressed in small acts of vicious cruelty intended to hurt someone in such a way as to scar them emotionally for life.<br />
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<i><span style="color: blue;">Think of it this way: we've lived (so far) through six years of Obama. Imagine how much worse it could have been had Michelle been in charge.</span></i><br />
And even though the example of a busybody racist cunt with a Marie-Antoinette syndrome might be a bit extreme, do you think Hillary Clinton would be any better?<br />
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These are all consequences that arise from ownership of a vagina which is awash in a sea of hormones, which ravages the body with cramps, water retention and a bitchy attitude, which deprives the possessor of a linear thought process and places a premium upon the emotional in all things rather than the logical. If this were not true, then <i>The Good Wife </i>or <i>Scandal</i> would not be on TV, replete with commercials related to feminine itching, douches, tampons, and yeast infections.<br />
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It's all about the vagina, you see. It always is. <br />
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Especially the monumental price all women put upon it, conveniently forgetting that their own self-professed ideology of Feminism tells them to give it away as an act of "empowerment'. It's only a snatch, ladies -- there are millions more out there for the taking. <br />
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Or at least for a couple of shots of tequila and a Jimmy Buffett T-shirt.<br />
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Low-hanging fruit.<br />
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If you're just as capable as we Men are, you don't need our help.<br />
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Chelsea Clinton just signaled to everyone with half a brain that you aren't, and in the process, told us all what her mother -- I assume Chelsea came out of that vagina (a frightening thought), and wasn't concocted in a test-tube somewhere -- intends to adopt as her campaign mantra in 2016.<br />
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Which is apropos, since Hillary Clinton never achieved a damned thing except through Bill, either.Matthew Notohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08881509233809999186noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6161738.post-78424238453621527962015-02-13T01:47:00.001-05:002015-07-14T08:54:53.320-04:00215 Reasons Why Liberals Suck...<span style="font-family: inherit;">My, but we're approaching </span>rarefied<span style="font-family: inherit;"> air, here! Who would have thought that when this list first began, we had but 50 piffling reasons why Liberals suck? If anything, the continued existence of this list and it's prolific expansion are testimony to the continued powers of super-human suckitude possessed by the modern Progtard!<br /><br />They should be proud.<br /><br />Actually, they should be shot, but that's against the law, unfortunately.<br /><br />Once again, I cannot claim credit for all of these; I have simply collected them from all over the place, and present them here for your reading pleasure.</span><br />
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<em style="line-height: 18px;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit;">1. Liberalism is a movement of the well-intentioned, but ill-informed, led by the well-informed and ill-intentioned.</span></em></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit;"><br style="line-height: 18px;" /><em style="line-height: 18px;">2. At heart, a liberal is an eternal adolescent, forever in search of escape from conventional morality, consequences and responsibility.</em></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit;"><br style="line-height: 18px;" /><em style="line-height: 18px;">3. Freedom from moral consequence can only be secured by a collectivist, totalitarian state.</em></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit;"><br style="line-height: 18px;" /><em style="line-height: 18px;">4. The Liberal religion worships the twin gods of The Government and The Genitalia. </em></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit;"><br style="line-height: 18px;" /><em style="line-height: 18px;">5. A Liberal believes that psychology is a hard science in the same way that chemistry is.</em></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit;"><br style="line-height: 18px;" /><em style="line-height: 18px;">6. Freedom, to a Liberal, refers solely to the freedom of the genitalia.</em></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit;"><br style="line-height: 18px;" /><em style="line-height: 18px;">7. All non-sexual individual freedoms are despised by the Liberal because they contain within them an element of personal responsibility, self-sacrifice, or abstention.</em></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit;"><br style="line-height: 18px;" /><em style="line-height: 18px;">8. Collectivism seeks to eliminate the need for personal responsibility and moral consequence by shifting blame for failure from the individual to "society" or "the System".</em></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit;"><br style="line-height: 18px;" /><em style="line-height: 18px;">9. The Constitution and the Bill of Rights are the enemy of the Liberal. Because they are clear in their elaboration of both the rights of the Individual and the Powers of Government, both documents must be subverted, re-interpreted, or ignored, as needed.</em></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit;"><br style="line-height: 18px;" /><em style="line-height: 18px;">10. The Liberal hates the United States because it has been the premier guarantor and promoter of individual rights in the history of mankind.</em></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit;"><br style="line-height: 18px;" /><em style="line-height: 18px;">11. All institutions – schools, environMENTAL organizations, Civil Rights Groups, Law courts, Markets, etc., serve no relevant purpose to a Liberal except when they can be made to promote the concept of the collective.</em></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit;"><br style="line-height: 18px;" /><em style="line-height: 18px;">12. Abortion is necessary to guarantee genital freedom and to further erode the concept of personal responsibility, while eliminating future generations of less-desirable human beings.</em></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit;"><br style="line-height: 18px;" /><em style="line-height: 18px;">14. The Liberal must create an atmosphere of perpetual crisis, fear, and envy in order to justify continued collectivist oppression.</em></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit;"><br style="line-height: 18px;" /><em style="line-height: 18px;">15. Religion is the enemy of the Liberal since it promotes morality and responsibility and suggests an authority set above Government.</em></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit;"><br style="line-height: 18px;" /><em style="line-height: 18px;">16. Despite decades of failure, the Liberal clings to his collectivist ideology because it is HIS religion.</em></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit;"><br style="line-height: 18px;" /><em style="line-height: 18px;">17. Liberals seek to dominate any institution that can be used to undermine or eliminate parental rights, such as schools, child-abuse agencies, pediatric associations, etc. and which can be used to turn children into informants for the State against their own parents.</em></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit;"><br style="line-height: 18px;" /><em style="line-height: 18px;">18. The Liberal seeks to sanction and jail those who dare to home school their children, or who have the balls and wherewithal to raise their children in an environment outside of Liberal control or influence.</em></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit;"><br style="line-height: 18px;" /><em style="line-height: 18px;">19. Individual ownership of firearms is the greatest threat to collectivism and the greatest expression of individual rights, therefore, all Liberals despise guns.</em></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit;"><br style="line-height: 18px;" /><em style="line-height: 18px;">20. All freedoms demand responsible behavior. The Liberal despises responsibility, therefore, he despises freedom.</em></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit;"><br style="line-height: 18px;" /><em style="line-height: 18px;">21. A Liberal worships his pantheon of Kennedys, Clintons, Cuomos, Jacksons, Gores and Obamas, for WHO they are, and in spite of WHAT they are.</em></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit;"><br style="line-height: 18px;" /><em style="line-height: 18px;">22. The Liberal despises National Sovereignty, which is a guarantor of individual freedoms.</em></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit;"><br style="line-height: 18px;" /><em style="line-height: 18px;">23. The Liberal promotes international government, such as the United Nations and the European Union, which seek to destroy National Sovereignty. The Soviet Union did not collapse, it merely moved west.</em></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit;"><br style="line-height: 18px;" /><em style="line-height: 18px;">24. The Liberal is obsessed with the idea of centralized control of all human endeavors.</em></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit;"><br style="line-height: 18px;" /><em style="line-height: 18px;">25. Liberals often speak of tolerance but can only tolerate other Liberals.</em></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit;"><br style="line-height: 18px;" /><em style="line-height: 18px;">26. Liberals seek to criminalize any speech promoting responsibility, morality, or individualism as "hate speech" or sedition.</em></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit;"><br style="line-height: 18px;" /><em style="line-height: 18px;">27. To a liberal, the thought cannot be separated from the deed -- unless one of his or her own is thinking or doing it.</em></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit;"><br style="line-height: 18px;" /><em style="line-height: 18px;">28. Environmentalists lie as a matter of course, promoting paranoia based upon verifiable falsehood.</em></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit;"><br style="line-height: 18px;" /><em style="line-height: 18px;">29. A Liberal’s only method of discourse is to insult and discredit all who disagree with him. Failing that, they attempt to draw attention away from the subject at hand by "moving on" and changing the subject.</em></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit;"><br style="line-height: 18px;" /><em style="line-height: 18px;">30. Your freedom is a Liberal’s oppression.</em></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit;"><br style="line-height: 18px;" /><em style="line-height: 18px;">31. Private property and wealth are disgusting and distasteful concepts to a Liberal -- unless they should have more than you do.</em></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit;"><br style="line-height: 18px;" /><em style="line-height: 18px;">32. Liberals hate freedom-loving people with a passion bordering on mania.</em></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit;"><br style="line-height: 18px;" /><em style="line-height: 18px;">33. The Liberal seeks to replace a moral world-view with an emotional one which can be more easily manipulated for political ends.</em></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit;"><br style="line-height: 18px;" /><em style="line-height: 18px;">34. A Liberal claims to "care" for the homeless, mentally ill, lame, lazy and shiftless, but would never invite one of them into their own home.</em></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit;"><br style="line-height: 18px;" /><em style="line-height: 18px;">35. The Liberal typically chooses a career – law, psychology, academic, bureaucrat, "activist", which produces nothing of value and which uses the power of government to extract the wealth of others.</em></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit;"><br style="line-height: 18px;" /><em style="line-height: 18px;">36. Liberal "programs" enrich Liberals and screw the people they were purportedly supposed to help.</em></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit;"><br style="line-height: 18px;" /><em style="line-height: 18px;">37. Liberals despise masculinity, as they view it as a symbol of individual freedom and power.</em></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit;"><br style="line-height: 18px;" /><em style="line-height: 18px;">38. Feminist groups exist to promote lesbianism and socialism and have nothing to do with "equal rights".</em></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit;"><br style="line-height: 18px;" /><em style="line-height: 18px;">39. The EEOC and Civil Rights groups regularly invent incidents of racism and discrimination in order to justify their existence and to promote collectivist ideals regarding employment and equality-of-outcome-type Liberal programs or thought.</em></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit;"><br style="line-height: 18px;" /><em style="line-height: 18px;">40. Liberals despise suburbs as the manifestation of individual property and prosperity -- but seem to have no such qualms about gentrifying ghettos. </em></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit;"><br style="line-height: 18px;" /><em style="line-height: 18px;">41. Liberals hate marriage and the family because they are institutions that strengthen the bonds between individuals -- leaving no room for collectivism -- and because they are institutions which frown upon immorality.</em></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit;"><br style="line-height: 18px;" /><em style="line-height: 18px;">42. Liberals despise the automobile as a symbol of personal freedom.</em></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit;"><br style="line-height: 18px;" /><em style="line-height: 18px;">43. Other diseases kill far more people, but Liberals are obsessed with AIDS because it is the consequence of promiscuity and immorality.</em></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit;"><br style="line-height: 18px;" /><em style="line-height: 18px;">44. Liberal activities are driven by ego and a need for self-satisfaction. A liberal believes and does the things he does because he must prove that he "cares" more than you do.</em></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit;"><br style="line-height: 18px;" /><em style="line-height: 18px;">45. Liberals thrive on emotion and die by reason.</em></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit;"><br style="line-height: 18px;" /><em style="line-height: 18px;">46. Anything espoused by a Liberal as "for the children" is a direct assault upon your family, your privacy, your wallet and your rights.</em></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit;"><br style="line-height: 18px;" /><em style="line-height: 18px;">47. Liberals have no compunction against using violence, deceit, or oppression if it furthers the collectivist cause.</em></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit;"><br style="line-height: 18px;" /><em style="line-height: 18px;">48. Liberals are elitists who routinely exempt themselves from the very rules and suggested behaviors they impose on everyone else.</em></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit;"><br style="line-height: 18px;" /><em style="line-height: 18px;">49. A Liberal must accept as an article of faith that my gun has killed more people than Ted Kennedy’s car or Janet Reno's ATF and FBI.</em></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit;"><br style="line-height: 18px;" /><em style="line-height: 18px;">50. Liberals believe that Geraldo Rivera, Katie Couric, Dan Rather, and Oprah Winfrey are "journalists".</em></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit;"><br style="line-height: 18px;" /><em style="line-height: 18px;">51. Liberals howl if a "protected" group is offended by speech or action, but will remain dead silent if the offended happen to be any of the following: Christians, White Males, Heterosexuals or Taxpayers.</em></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit;"><br style="line-height: 18px;" /><em style="line-height: 18px;">52. Liberals believe wealth is static and quantifiable, and that that it should be divided equally. So, if I have "too much money", it follows that I must have stolen someone else’s "fair share".</em></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit;"><br style="line-height: 18px;" /><em style="line-height: 18px;">53. Liberals believe that Richard Nixon was a vile criminal but that Stalin, Mao, and Fidel Castro are "progressive" leaders who had only the best of intentions.</em></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit;"><br style="line-height: 18px;" /><em style="line-height: 18px;">54. All Liberal ideologies tend towards worldwide totalitarianism.</em><em style="line-height: 18px;"><br /></em></span></div>
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<em style="line-height: 18px;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit;">55. A Liberal is quite ready to point out misconduct by a member of a group opposed to them, but will routinely excuse even more vile behavior by their own.</span></em></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit;"><br style="line-height: 18px;" /><em style="line-height: 18px;">56. Liberals are obsessed with the theory of evolution because the alternatives terrify them.</em></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit;"><br style="line-height: 18px;" /><em style="line-height: 18px;">57. A full-time, stay-at-home mother enrages a Liberal.</em></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit;"><br style="line-height: 18px;" /><em style="line-height: 18px;">58. Human life is cheap in a Liberal world.</em></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit;"><br style="line-height: 18px;" /><em style="line-height: 18px;">59. The Liberal routinely changes the definition of a word to suit his purpose. For example, you have the "choice" to abort your unborn children, but not the "choice" of smoking, owning a gun, or buying an SUV.</em><em style="line-height: 18px;"><br /></em></span></div>
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<em style="line-height: 18px;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit;">60. A Liberal cannot conceive of a problem that cannot be solved without Government intervention. Although more often than not, Government Action created the problem in the first place.</span></em></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit;"><br style="line-height: 18px;" /><em style="line-height: 18px;">61. Hillary Clinton's village is a totalitarian state: it used to be called the Soviet Union.</em></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit;"><br style="line-height: 18px;" /><em style="line-height: 18px;">62. Given the chance, a Liberal would ban the Bible, Constitution, Declaration of Independence and Tom Sawyer as "hate speech".</em></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit;"><br style="line-height: 18px;" /><em style="line-height: 18px;">63. Liberals view people as objects without moral motivation, thus we have the welfare state, abortion rights, etc. Conversely, they view inanimate objects in strictly moral terms, thus they are able to vilify and impart motives to firearms, cigarettes, SUV's, corporations, etc.</em></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit;"><br style="line-height: 18px;" /><em style="line-height: 18px;">64. "Third Way" politics is a new shade of lipstick on the same Socialist pig.</em></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit;"><br style="line-height: 18px;" /><em style="line-height: 18px;">65. Liberals are often intolerant, immature, violent thugs, laboring under the misapprehension that they do what they do for "social and moral causes" or "justice"..</em></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit;"><br style="line-height: 18px;" /><em style="line-height: 18px;">66. The Liberal would sooner pluck out his own eye than to cut a tax.</em></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit;"><br style="line-height: 18px;" /><em style="line-height: 18px;">67. Liberals still believe that Marx was right, despite the evidence to the contrary.</em></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit;"><br style="line-height: 18px;" /><em style="line-height: 18px;">68. Hitler was a Socialist, not a Fascist and certainly NOT a Conservative.</em></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit;"><br style="line-height: 18px;" /><em style="line-height: 18px;">69. Liberals believe that AIDS kills people because prevention and treatment services are underfunded, and not because people behave irresponsibly.</em></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit;"><br style="line-height: 18px;" /><em style="line-height: 18px;">70. Liberals detest the death penalty, but favor abortion, thus setting up the convoluted idea that it’s okay to save the guilty and kill the innocent.</em></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit;"><br style="line-height: 18px;" /><em style="line-height: 18px;">71. Liberals believe that trial lawyers are selfless heroes and that doctors are overpaid robber barons.</em></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit;"><br style="line-height: 18px;" /><em style="line-height: 18px;">72. A Liberal believes that gender roles are "imposed by society" and that homosexuality is "normal" behavior.</em></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit;"><br style="line-height: 18px;" /><em style="line-height: 18px;">73. A Liberal believes that business creates oppression and that Government creates wealth.</em></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit;"><br style="line-height: 18px;" /><em style="line-height: 18px;">74. To a Liberal, self-esteem, the concept, is far more important than doing anything to actually earn some.</em></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit;"><br style="line-height: 18px;" /><em style="line-height: 18px;">75. A Liberal regularly engages in symbolism because if he told the truth, no one would listen.</em></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit;"><br style="line-height: 18px;" /><em style="line-height: 18px;">76. Liberals hate the NRA for their defense of the Second Amendment, and praise the ACLU for their perversion of the First .</em></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit;"><br style="line-height: 18px;" /><em style="line-height: 18px;">77. To a Liberal, Taxes are too low and ATM fees are too high.</em></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit;"><br style="line-height: 18px;" /><em style="line-height: 18px;">78. Racial profiling by police departments is wrong, but perfectly acceptable for deciding who gets into Law School.</em></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit;"><br style="line-height: 18px;" /><em style="line-height: 18px;">79. The only difference between a Liberal and a Communist is that a Communist is AWARE of what he is doing.</em></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit;"><br style="line-height: 18px;" /><em style="line-height: 18px;">80. Continued Liberal support for the shiftless, lazy, halt, lame, and crippled is necessary because they are the groups most easily manipulated by fear and envy.</em></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit;"><br style="line-height: 18px;" /><em style="line-height: 18px;">81. Any proposal to build "low-income" housing is applauded by a Liberal, unless, of course, someone chooses to build it on the Upper West Side, or Malibu Beach.</em></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit;"><br style="line-height: 18px;" /><em style="line-height: 18px;">82. In Liberal math, an 8% increase in government spending on any favored program rather than the usual-and-customary 10% increase equates to a 2% "cut" in funding, which somehow always results in someone starving or dying unnecessarily.</em></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit;"><br style="line-height: 18px;" /><em style="line-height: 18px;">83. All of society’s ills can be cured by "education" inside a union-run institution that does no such thing.</em></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit;"><br style="line-height: 18px;" /><em style="line-height: 18px;">84. All Liberals use words like "Ethnocentric", "jingoistic", "homophobic" and "trans-gendered" at least three times a day.</em></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit;"><br style="line-height: 18px;" /><em style="line-height: 18px;">85. All Liberals have a primal urge to refer to any idea that they cannot comprehend -- or merely dislike -- as "sexist", "racist", "homophobic", etc.</em></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit;"><br style="line-height: 18px;" /><em style="line-height: 18px;">86. A Liberal finds it perfectly acceptable to dispense condoms in a public school, but would cry bloody murder if the package had the Ten Commandments printed on it.</em></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit;"><br style="line-height: 18px;" /><em style="line-height: 18px;">87. A Liberal advocates the killing of human beings (abortion) and the preservation of wildlife.</em></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit;"><br style="line-height: 18px;" /><em style="line-height: 18px;">88. A Liberal feels that the only thing wrong with Communist States of the past was NOT that they were founded upon a flawed political ideology and engaged in awful repression, but rather that the results would have been far different if only the RIGHT Communists had been available to run them.</em></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit;"><br style="line-height: 18px;" /><em style="line-height: 18px;">89. A Liberal believes that character doesn’t count...because they very often have none.</em></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit;"><br style="line-height: 18px;" /><em style="line-height: 18px;">90. A Liberal will tell you that the First Amendment protects those that burn a flag, protest at a dead soldier's funeral, or beat up a Tea Party activist, and in the same breath, insist that Rush Limbaugh promotes "hate speech".</em></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit;"><br style="line-height: 18px;" /><em style="line-height: 18px;">91. A Liberal would like to see the National Anthem replaced with the "Two Minutes Hate".</em></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit;"><br style="line-height: 18px;" /><em style="line-height: 18px;">92. Liberals have such high opinions of themselves, their motives, and their ideas, that they would have you believe that the rest of us actually want to live in a world with dirty air and water, hip-deep in starving schoolchildren and dying elderly people..</em></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit;"><br style="line-height: 18px;" /><em style="line-height: 18px;">93. Human nature does not exist to a Liberal, and when it routinely manifests itself, it is routinely ignored, and if possible, legislated and taxed.</em></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit;"><br style="line-height: 18px;" /><em style="line-height: 18px;">94. Liberals view people in the same way a sculptor views a lump of clay, or a block of marble.</em></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit;"><br style="line-height: 18px;" /><em style="line-height: 18px;">95. Liberals believe that man is inherently malleable and that all that’s needed is the proper training of man to enact to collectivist vision of the universe.</em></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit;"><br style="line-height: 18px;" /><em style="line-height: 18px;">96. Loyalty is a concept foreign to most Liberals because it entails responsibility.</em></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit;"><br style="line-height: 18px;" /><em style="line-height: 18px;">97. Ethics can be easily dispensed with in a Liberal world if they conflict with the creation of the collective.</em></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit;"><br style="line-height: 18px;" /><span style="line-height: 18px;"><em>98. Euphemism is the language of a Liberal, and symbolism is his</em> modus operandi.<em> Clarity and actual accomplishments are the enemies of Liberalism because Liberalism thrives on vagueness and the emotional aspects of "struggle".</em></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit;"><br style="line-height: 18px;" /><em style="line-height: 18px;">99. Liberals believe that criminals should have more rights than law-abiding citizens.</em></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit;"><br style="line-height: 18px;" /><em style="line-height: 18px;">100. Liberals routinely invent extra-Constitutional rights in order to further their agenda (i.e. abortion, gender and racial preferences, etc.) and routinely invent "repressed groups" in order to expand the power of the State (i.e. homosexuals, minorities, illegal immigrants, etc.) or to subvert the power of established institutions (i.e. the Church, family, nationalism, etc.).</em></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit;"><br style="line-height: 18px;" /><em style="line-height: 18px;">101. Most Liberals would feel more shame in standing to attention during the National Anthem then they would in stealing from a Poor Box.</em></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit;"><br style="line-height: 18px;" /><em style="line-height: 18px;">102. Socialism works...until you run out of other people's money.</em></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit;"><br style="line-height: 18px;" /><em style="line-height: 18px;">103. A Libtard refuses to acknowledge that anything which breathes, eats, shits and multiplies from the moment of conception is alive. If those are not the most basic functions of Life, I don't know what is.</em></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit;"><br style="line-height: 18px;" /><em style="line-height: 18px;">104. Libtards defend an economic policy which has consisted of taking $1.5 trillion out of the credit markets for bank bailouts and questionable Stimulus plans, keeping the printing presses at the Mint going 24/7/365, debasing the currency through "Quantitative Easing", spending tax dollars that have yet to be collected twice and then borrowing $5 trillion more in order to pay for programs which create no wealth, salable goods or products or private sector jobs, and which do not generate any tax income whatsoever is a responsible plan for 'recovery'.</em></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit;"><br style="line-height: 18px;" /><em style="line-height: 18px;">105. Liberals subsidize poverty and advocate for policies which discourage productive work, denigrate the profit motive and capitalism, and then claim to be the champions and guardians of the very perpetual poverty class they've created.</em></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit;"><br style="line-height: 18px;" /><em style="line-height: 18px;">106. Liberals believe that a man who simply reads the words written by others and fed to him by a teleprompter is the Greatest Orator since Cicero.</em></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit;"><br style="line-height: 18px;" /><em style="line-height: 18px;">107. Government 'investments' are simply transfers of wealth that are intended to dispose of industrial surplus, resources, and labor, without that expenditure ever leading to a rise in real living standards. You could just as easily bake millions of loaves of bread, and then set them on fire to achieve the same effect, but it doesn't have the appearance of true economic activity.</em></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit;"><br style="line-height: 18px;" /><em style="line-height: 18px;">108. Liberals believe that mortgage lenders are 'predatory' and people who don't read contracts or retain legal counsel before they sign on the dotted line are 'victims'.</em></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit;"><br style="line-height: 18px;" /><em style="line-height: 18px;">109. Collective Liberalism promises equality of prosperity, but only produces equality of misery.</em></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit;"><br style="line-height: 18px;" /><em style="line-height: 18px;">110. Liberals are neither Truly Liberal nor Democrats; they are shameless LIBERTINES who hate democracy because if given the choice between Collective Totalitarianism and Capitalist Freedom, the people would select Freedom and Capitalism every time, leaving the Liberal out in the cold and needing to work for a living.</em></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit;"><br style="line-height: 18px;" /><em style="line-height: 18px;">111. Liberals believe that people are incapable of changing their personal circumstances, or improving their lot in Life without an expensive and expansive government bureaucracy to 'help' them do it, usually at the expense of someone else.</em></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit;"><br style="line-height: 18px;" /><em style="line-height: 18px;">112. Liberals believe all wars are evil and unwinnable...unless they start them. Then they're humanitarian efforts intended to promote good ends and altruistic ideals.</em></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit;"><br style="line-height: 18px;" /><em style="line-height: 18px;">113. Liberals believe that when a terrorist is caught only because he fails to detonate his underwear on your flight, or fails to blow up his Pathfinder in Times Square, leaving his keys, cellphone, driver's license and address book behind in the glovebox, that the Homeland Security regime 'worked' to perfection.</em></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit;"><br style="line-height: 18px;" /><em style="line-height: 18px;">114. Liberals believe that Terrorism is not an act of war perpetrated by a sick and violent culture, but rather a law enforcement problem to be handled with civilian courts and Miranda rights....unless there's a bump in the polls to be had for shooting a terrorist in the face without a trial in a military raid on foreign soil.</em></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit;"><br style="line-height: 18px;" /><em style="line-height: 18px;">115. Liberals claim to stand 'for the Little Guy', but once the Little Guy's use as convenient political prop or rhetorical device is over, he is conveniently forgotten again.</em></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit;"><span style="line-height: 18px;"><i><br /></i></span><span style="line-height: 18px;"></span><span style="line-height: 18px;"><i>117. A liberal’s sources of information are ever-present and self-assuring. His newspaper is owned and produced by liberals; his evening newscast is owned and produced by liberals; his favorite magazines are owned and produced by liberals, so too his favorite television shows, movies, and music. Therefore, the liberal lives under the constant drumbeat of his own propaganda.</i></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit;"><span style="line-height: 18px;"><i><br /></i></span><span style="line-height: 18px;"></span><i><span style="line-height: 18px;">125. When a Liberal has a choice between fantasy and reality, he will choose the fantasy every time without hesitation, so Hillary Clinton is ‘the smartest women in the world’, Barack Obama is an ‘enlightened healer and leader’, Jesse Jackson is a defender of Civil Rights, Al Gore was robbed by a Bush Conspiracy rather than being a rotten candidate, Bill Clinton was the best friend the feminists ever had, etc…</span><br /><br /><span style="line-height: 18px;">126. The Liberal lives by the concept of Divide and Conquer, pitting one group of individuals against another for personal gain, while insisting that he is a champion of freedom and equality and an egalitarian. The more discord there is between people, the more inequality that is created, the better the Liberal likes it, because it affords him greater opportunity to acquire and centralize more power over others. .</span><br /><br /><span style="line-height: 18px;">127. The reason why liberals automatically dismiss any Conservative plan to restore personal liberty and economic freedom to Americans is because the the Liberals fortunes are tied directly to the sagging fortunes of the very people who would benefit. Without a constant supply of misery to feed on, the Liberal cannot survive.</span><br /><br /><span style="line-height: 18px;">128. No one who works indoors needs a union. In modern America, there is no longer a need for a labor union, at all. While labor unions once did great things and protected the rights of American workers in the past, their function has been largely </span><span style="line-height: 18px;">superseded</span><span style="line-height: 18px;"> by State and Federal law, and a Legal System that would see 4 million lawyers salivate over the prospect of a quick-and-dirty settlement over any perceived case of discrimination or unfairness.<br /><br />129. The Labor Union exists solely to support the democratic party (small 'd' intentional), keep the false promises of Communism alive, provide jobs for life for public sector workers who have no incentive to be productive, and ensure that capitalists are forced to hire and negotiate with Communists who seek their destruction.</span></i></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit;"><i><span style="line-height: 18px;"><br /></span></i><i><span style="line-height: 18px;">131. History, to a liberal, is infinitely mutable, and is continuously re-written to fit the liberal narrative. What is considered historical "fact" today can be changed tomorrow if doing so helps to bring the dreamed-of Liberal Collective one step closer. Entire areas of historical research and fact are being re-written in political terms right now. The hagiographies of such liberal luminaries as Stalin, Mao, Che Guevara, Castro, Pol Pot, John F. Kennedy, Bill Clinton and Barack Obama are constantly and deliberately altered to so as to convince future generations that these were not badly-flawed men, driven by ego and a thirst for power, but rather misunderstood men who had nothing but the best of intentions. Subsequently, the process is also being applied in reverse to the enemies of the Liberal, so that Ronald Reagan wanted nuclear war, George W. Bush refused to rescue black people during Hurricane Katrina, and Dick Cheney instigated 9-11 so as to bring profit to Haliburton's shareholders.<br /><br />132. Liberals discount the importance and effect of religion, and often deride those who have some form of faith as superstitious fools who are being led astray by self-interested little tyrants intent on squashing their freedoms. They neglect to consider or admit, however, the basis in religion (Jesus, the Buddah, among others) that form the fundamentals of their collective Ideologies, i.e. Socialism and Communism. There is no Marx without Christ.</span></i></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit;"><i><span style="line-height: 18px;"><br /></span></i><i><span style="line-height: 18px;">133. The Liberal believes that all of society's ills can be cured by a massive program of government-directed "education". In effect, this means the public schools and colleges have been repurposed to become the Indoctrination Centers utilized to spread collectivist ideals to captive audiences, while providing tenured positions for millions of unionized teachers, whose unions will</span><span style="line-height: 18px;"> give money to liberal-inspired causes. In return, we get incrementally dumber children who can't find their own country on a map, can't do math or lack the education to make something of themselves, leaving them open to more liberal manipulation later on in life.</span><br /><br /><span style="line-height: 18px;">134. Obama has drones and the NSA, which kill and violate people's privacy on a daily basis. Amazon proposes drones and runs a computerized information storage and retrieval system that might one day deliver groceries and medication to your doorstep. According to the liberal, only government (and liberal-controlled government) can make adequate use of these technologies while protecting human rights and </span><span style="line-height: 18px;">guaranteeing</span><span style="line-height: 18px;"> our safety and security. The private sector's use and expansion of technology must be controlled by the government, ostensibly for our own good, while liberal government routinely uses it to violate people's rights and destroy their lives and property whenever it feels justified in it's quest to create the Collective.</span><br /><br /><span style="line-height: 18px;">135. A Liberal Government takes $600 billion dollars from Medicare and produces a broken website that doesn't work and has </span><span style="line-height: 18px;">tremendous</span><span style="line-height: 18px;"> </span><span style="line-height: 18px;">security</span><span style="line-height: 18px;"> holes in it, which is just the tip of the iceberg when it comes to destroying both the insurance and healthcare industries (so that their roles may be taken over by government later on., as a matter of 'fundamental fairness' (as they like to put it). In the end, the broken website and the deliberately-planned undermining of two industries creates havoc, chaos and dislocation in people's lives. It takes away choices and freedom from the consumer so as to help "the less fortunate", while in the process creating even more "less fortunates". Private industry takes private investment (and much less of it) and creates salable goods and services for a profit and websites that work with complete security, which puts money back into the individuals pocket in terms of dividends and jobs and gives the individual greater freedom of choice (it's called The Free Market). Liberals hate Free Markets because they operate -- successfully --outside the sphere of Liberal Control and Manipulation.</span></i></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit;"><i><span style="line-height: 18px;"><br /></span></i><i><span style="line-height: 18px;">136. Conservatives Believe it When they See It. Liberals See it When they Believe it. </span><br /><br /><span style="line-height: 18px;">137. Many Conservatives have, at one time or another, been Liberals. No Liberal, however, has ever been a Conservative. This indicates that the Liberal is largely incapable of seeing the flaws in his own ideology, and unable to change his mind or accept an alternate point of view. The liberal celebrates this mental defect as a virtue.</span><br /><br /><span style="line-height: 18px;">138. A Conservative is a liberal who has been mugged by reality.</span><br /><br /><span style="line-height: 18px;">139. The Liberal believes that arresting technological progress for the few (I.e The Global warming scam) is the only way to achieve true progress for the many. He calls himself a Progressive and routinely accuses his enemies of wanting to "turn back the clock" but in all actuality, it is the liberal who lives in the past (in fact, he romanticizes the history of leftists movements and individuals, no matter how violent or corrupt) and who is unable to learn from the mistakes of the past, made in the name of his ideology.</span><br /><br /><span style="line-height: 18px;">140. The Liberal believes in the equality of outcomes rather than in the equality of opportunity. Therefore, all manner of anti-liberal polices that make a mockery of the word "Equality" (forced integration, Affirmative Action, legal action instead of democratic process, dehumanization of enemies real or perceived, government-engineered theft) must be enforced in order to ensure "Equality", but only the "Equality" the liberal finds politically useful at any given moment in history.</span><br /><br /><span style="line-height: 18px;">141. Left-leaning groups such as Occupy Wall Street, Greenpeace, Anarchists, and Labor Unions decry the "evils" of capitalism and Classically-liberal democracy without noticing that they are the direct beneficiaries of both systems. </span><span style="line-height: 18px;">These people are largely (mis</span><span style="line-height: 18px;">-)informed, organized, supported, nurtured and sustained by the fruits of the </span>internet<span style="line-height: 18px;">, modern communications, wealth extracted from others by donation, wage, or tax, and have their actions protected by a system of laws and a Constitution that were the by-products of Classically-liberal democracy. These are NOT people of conscience; they are boobs.</span><br /><br /><span style="line-height: 18px;">142. The Liberal fails to recognize that it is only free, economically-viable democratic societies which have the time and comfort to debate whether a woman has the right to abort an inconvenient fetus, or whether your local McDonald's cashier should earn the same money as the policeman or construction worker. Their answer to such questions (they call them "pressing social issues" which quickly become "crises") is invariably some variation on a theme which creates instability, decreases freedom, and redistributes wealth from the productive to the unproductive. The Liberal aims to solve small problems by, in effect, creating larger ones...and always under government control and management.</span><br /><br /><span style="line-height: 18px;">143. The True Believer Liberal is typically NOT a member of an underclass or a member of an oppressed group; they are typically the irrationally-guilty and brainwashed children of the very </span><span style="line-height: 18px;">privileged</span><span style="line-height: 18px;"> Middle Classes. They secretly hate themselves and seek to destroy that which provided for them as a means of assuaging their guilt.</span><br /><br /><span style="line-height: 18px;">144. In a Liberal World, The Lie must always remain one step ahead of The Truth in order to maintain the facade of both the benevolent Leftist and the benevolent Collective. When this can no longer be </span><span style="line-height: 18px;">accomplished</span><span style="line-height: 18px;"> or maintained, the Liberal begins to re-write both history and the facts (see #130), so that we can have the curious spectacle of a president who said "you can keep your plan and doctor" furiously explaining why the words he actually spoke bear no relation to what he actually means, and how you were too stupid to notice it. If the Liberal is ever caught and held responsible for this deliberate game of substituting Lies for Truth, it is always someone else's fault that she was forced to lie in order to serve a greater good.</span><br /><br /><span style="line-height: 18px;">145. In a Liberal World, all Freedoms cut only one way....and which way that cuts depends on what the Liberal needs to believe today in order to justify or preserve the dream of the All-powerful Collective, and to excuse their lying, cheating, and thuggery. Typically, freedoms exist only for the Liberal, and must be taken away or lessened for everyone else.</span><br /><br /><span style="line-height: 18px;">146. Liberals are the real racists and sexists in America. They all believe that women, </span><span style="line-height: 18px;">minorities</span><span style="line-height: 18px;">, gays, the poor, immigrants, and every other aggrieved group in the country cannot </span></i></span><i><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="line-height: 18px;">survive or prosper without their help. This help is usually delivered in a backhandedly-condescending and degrading form (i.e. Affirmative Action, Welfare, racial quotas), and does little to help anyone achieve happiness or prosperity because it is primarily purpose is to make people dependent upon the State, and thus, on the Liberal. In return, the Liberal gets to dictate the activities, tastes, thoughts, political ideology, voting habits and so forth of "the needy’, as a prerequisite for receiving more “help” in the future.</span></span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="line-height: 18px;">147. Despite the protests of liberals everywhere, The American Liberal dream has already been realized. It is called "Detroit", or alternately, "Washington, D.C.", "Camden", "Oakland", "New Orleans".</span></span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="line-height: 18px;">148. In the liberal mind, if the State -- read, the liberal's apparatus of government -- supports something, then it cannot be immoral.</span></span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="line-height: 18px;">149. Liberals never hold one another accountable. They have shown a remarkable tolerance for one another's hypocrisy, but only inasmuch as that hypocrisy serves the liberal's goals. Conversely, anyone else's hypocrisy is outed and ridiculed, the offenders hounded out of public life, and this hypocrisy-of-the-other is held up as a disqualification of any rival ideas.</span></span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="line-height: 18px;">150. Minorities and women will never be held accountable under a liberal system, and are, in fact, held to no standards at all. This is because both are seen as perpetual victims of "Evil White Men". In the liberal point of view, only White Men should ever be held to any (often impossible) standards. Yet, if you suggested that in the name of efficiency or accountability that positions of responsibility be given only to White Men -- as a consequence of the original premise -- so that the public may be assured that their business is done in a moral, effective and legal fashion, you are called a "racist" and a "sexist".</span></span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="line-height: 18px;">151. Liberals abuse courts and regulatory agencies to achieve by regulation and legal precedent what they cannot achieve by legislation and the electoral process. They call this "democracy".</span></span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="line-height: 18px;">152. The problem with the Patriot Act, from the libtard's point of view, was that George W. Bush and John Ashcroft got to use it first. The outrage expressed by liberals at the time, and which has continued until this day, was simply an indication of what they hoped to achieve with it had they been given the power to do so first. Recent NSA and IRS scandals bears this out.</span></span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="line-height: 18px;">153. The watchword when it comes to liberals is "Watch what I do, for what I say is often meaningless, and uttered for propaganda value".</span></span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="line-height: 18px;">154. The liberal totalitarians pay lip service to the concept of The Law, in full knowledge of the moral and traditional feelings this stirs up generally in people, while they do everything possible to undermine it, and always in the quest for power, personal profit or implementation of Collective ideals.</span></span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="line-height: 18px;">155. The Facts of Life are Conservative. Modern Liberalism is a fairy tale designed to soothe the fragile minds of people who cannot accept this.</span></span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="line-height: 18px;">156. In a Liberal World, (liberal) Mythology lives on inviolate, but only Reality is continually altered, or ignored, in order to allow the mythology to continue.</span></span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="line-height: 18px;">157. Liberals preach a gospel of multi-culturalism, inclusion and tolerance, viciously attacking any who may disagree based upon facts or principles, but seem unable to muster the same energy to defend this gospel against the most hostile, uni-cultural, exclusionary, and intolerant if they consider them allies in the war to advance of the Collective. This proves both that the liberal does not mean what he says, and is a moral coward who only attacks those he knows will not or cannot seriously threaten him.</span></span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="line-height: 18px;">158. Every liberal suffers from Narcissism, Manic-depression, Megalomania, and Cognitive Dissonance to one extent or another, in some combination or another. They must, because there is no other explanation for the fervor with which they continue to fight for ideals that have been tried and failed, repeatedly.</span></span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="line-height: 18px;">159. When a liberal "supports education" what she means is the further lowering or elimination of standards so as to ensure that their favored pets -- minorities, women, unionized idiots, government employees -- are further shielded from the consequences of failure, or the expense of a degree. The liberal does not wish to see a functioning educational system that is efficient and passes on real knowledge, because those the liberal manipulates and depends upon need to be kept in a state of ignorance. Inviolate facts and accurate information are anathema to the formation of the collective.</span></span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="line-height: 18px;">160. Reflexive contradiction is the ocean in which the liberal swims. If it is true, then it must be made false; if it is false, then it must be made true. Only in this way can the majority of people be left confused, disoriented or disinterested enough to fall victim to the collective.</span></span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="line-height: 18px;">161. Reflexive negativity is the default position of the liberal. In the liberal mind, we all live a Dickensian existence where we suffer needlessly but for the efforts of a few liberals who labor thanklessly for the greater good. That the liberal is cynical, devious, pathologically unable to see or utter truth (unless orthodoxy requires this) makes them extremely unpleasant people to be around, who never have a positive thing to say, or offer any sort of new idea towards solving any real problem, except to advocate for an ever more restrictive, controlling and liberty-crushing brand of liberalism. We will all be made equally miserable by force, for our own good when the collective arrives.</span></span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="line-height: 18px;">162. The liberal believes himself to be smarter, more enlightened, and caring than others, despite any supporting evidence.</span></span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="line-height: 18px;">163. The liberal believes that his ideology and feelings provide all solutions, and yet the show a remarkable lack of practical knowledge of the nature of our problems.</span></span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="line-height: 18px;">164. A liberal typically learns early in her life or career that society has about as much use for her self-asserted "superiority" as a dog does for fleas. This makes the liberal self-absorbed, reflexively negative, </span></span><span style="line-height: 18px;">querulous</span><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="line-height: 18px;"> to the point of insanity, and completely vicious when challenged by The Other (i.e. someone who is not a liberal).</span></span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="line-height: 18px;">165. Liberals lies, steal, cheat as naturally as they breathe, while insisting that they always occupy the moral high ground on any subject.</span></span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="line-height: 18px;">166. A liberal is incapable of feeling shame or guilt in the pursuit of the Collective's goals. All manner of immorality is rationalized away -- imprisonment, deportations, mass murders, theft, lies, etc. -- as simply the price others must pay in order to achieve the Liberal's dreams. The liberal excuses this behavior as necessary in "Serving the Greater Good".</span></span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="line-height: 18px;">167. A liberal is someone who never knows what they're talking about, and yet can't seem to shut the fuck up about it.</span></span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="line-height: 18px;">168. "White privilege" is a code word for "shut the fuck up, Unbeliever!". It has replaced the triumvirate of </span></span><span style="line-height: 18px;">castigation</span><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="line-height: 18px;"> -- racist/sexist/homophobe -- in the Liberal lexicon, because they have been so misused and endlessly repeated that they no longer have any sting or ability to shame The Other into silence.</span></span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="line-height: 18px;">169. Feminism is simply a system by which all responsibility is taken from Women and transferred to Men, while simultaneously denying all opportunities from Men and transferring them to Women.</span></span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="line-height: 18px;">170. Liberals tend to be generous with other people's money, but scream bloody murder when you try to take theirs. </span></span></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: inherit;">174. Liberalism is spewing hatred and profanity at conservative women, calling for gun control that leaves women defenseless against rapists and murderers, and celebrating misogynistic pigs like Bill Clinton while accusing OTHER PEOPLE of being engaged in a "war on women."</span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: inherit;">175. Liberals say that asking for voter ID is racist while claiming that black Americans are too uniquely stupid and lazy to get an ID </span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: inherit;">176. Liberals forcibly take money they don't deserve from the people who earned it and calls them greedy for not wanting to give even more.</span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: inherit;">177, Liberals believe that the government should confiscate guns from NRA members and kill them if they resist and then claim that they have no idea why anyone thinks they need guns to defend themselves.</span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: inherit;">178. A Liberal is a person who sneers at displays of the American flag, tells the world America isn't exceptional, and criticizes the country non-stop who gets mighty offended if their patriotism is questioned.</span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: inherit;">179. Liberals call for higher taxes and then vote for politicians who cheat on their own..</span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: inherit;">180. Liberals are bitter, race-obsessed people who see everything in racial terms, and accuse others of being racists.</span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: inherit;">181. Liberalism is saying you're for "choice" because you support abortion while taking away American's choices about their health care, schools, whether they want to bake cakes for gay weddings, or even the light bulbs they have in their house.</span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: inherit;">182. Liberalism is calling everyone who disagrees with you a racist, bigoted, homophobic Nazi and then labeling others as hateful.</span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: inherit;">183. Liberals consider it an act of compassion to forcibly confiscate other people's money to give away to constituent groups they hope will vote for them in exchange for the loot.</span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: inherit;">184. Liberalism is saying George W. Bush is a monkey who started the war in Iraq to "steal their oil" while becoming furious if anyone criticizes Obama in similar simian terms.</span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: inherit;">185. Liberals believe that Christians are dangerous while radical Islamists chanting "Death to America" and advocating Sharia law are harmless little lambs.</span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: inherit;">186. Liberals seek to disarm Americans while being protected by armed guards.</span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: inherit;">187. Liberalism is millionaires who have more money than they could spend in a lifetime railing against the horrors of "income inequality."</span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: inherit;">188. Liberals are "animal rights activists" who eat meat and wear leather shoes screaming profanity at women who hunt.</span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: inherit;">189. Liberalism is black pundits who got their jobs solely because they're black and willing to call other people racists going on TV and claiming that white gas station attendants and fast food workers are </span>benefiting<span style="font-family: inherit;"> from "privilege" because of their race.</span></i></div>
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Matthew Notohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08881509233809999186noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6161738.post-57052073935698248552015-01-11T23:44:00.005-05:002015-01-12T17:34:51.424-05:00The (liberal's) Rejection of Religion...<span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">Before I begin on this subject, I wish it to be known that I am not a godly person. Far from it. I do not hold to many traditional notions of Christianity, finding in them less a way of life than I usually interpret them as a consequence of mythology and long-useless tradition: the Pope sits on the Vatican Hill in Rome much as the Roman <i>Pontifex Rex</i> of yore did, a simple figurehead, to whom is attached much ceremony, superstition, and attribution of sacredness that is otherwise unwarranted -- as was true of his Roman prototype 1,000 years before.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">The Archbishop of Canterbury is less religious man than politician. This is obvious if one reads the history of England with a critical eye, and if one takes note that the modern Archbishop has, for all intents and purposes, no bishopric -- the pews are empty, the English non-conformists never took the COE seriously, and the good Anglican simply selects which bits of dogmatic flotsam and jetsam best fit their version of bastardized Christianity (mostly the ones where they get to rationalize what would once have been considered sinful) -- and he becomes one more symbolic anachronism, a Man simply going through the motions of pomp and circumstance, in keeping with traditions that most people cannot recall the origins of. Nor do they care to recall.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">Islam is obviously not a religion; it is a military code, at best, and at worst, it is a rationalization of the Nomadic Code of the Arabian Desert -- <i><span style="color: blue;">do unto others before they do unto you, and if they manage to do first, then whine like a bitch about what a victim you are while plotting your sneaky-ass-revenge-from-behind-because-you-have-no-balls</span></i>. If Islam is anything, it is, at heart, a "me-too" religion; if the Jews can consider themselves chosen, and the Christians can be considered the only ones worthy of "saving", then we'll just co-opt their religion and reserve the same chauvinism for ourselves.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">Besides, Mohammed was a child molesting, slave-owning thief and murderer. Who, seriously, would listen to someone like that? <i><span style="color: blue;">Oh, right...the other child-molesting, slave-owning thieves and murderers.</span></i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">But, I digress...The subject of this essay is the liberal (small 'l' intentional) rejection of God. When speaking of liberals, I mean specifically the modern, Western liberal, who is anything but, having rejected the tenets of Classical Liberalism almost as much as they have the tenets of religious belief.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">When I speak of "religion" in this context, I must make a bit of clarification: I am not interested in the mythology of the great religions, nor am I am interested so much in their eschatology. These, to me, anyway, border on the ridiculous; they are an amalgam of what modern religionists would consider "paganism" if they were applied to say, the worshiper of Thor or Zeus, and yet, there is very little obvious difference between Christ and Mithras, Odin and Yahweh, or Hermes and Quetzalcoatl, Mohammed and Jeremiah; we keep getting the same myths and speeches, only in recycled and tailored-for-the-audience form.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">No, what I'm primarily fixed upon in this context is the code of conduct, for lack of a better term. The ethical and moral codes that (supposedly) come with religious belief.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">When the liberal declares that "God is Dead", or simply refuses to acknowledge that God ever existed, what he seeks to do is to dispense with the moral and ethical code that comes with traditional religion. He has to for the following reasons:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"><i><span style="color: blue;">1. Inherent in the belief in moral and ethical codes are their adjuncts: responsibility, notions of good and evil, the question of the good of the many versus the good of the few, self-sacrifice, abstention, loyalty, the notion that actions or ideas have consequences, and finally, the very real possibility of judgement from the community.</span></i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">When the liberal rejects God, he rejects these as well. After all, the liberal spends his life trying to avoid responsibility, judgement, sacrifice, consequences, and so forth. it's WHY he's a liberal. He seeks to live in a world in which he is able to do what whim directs him to do, and all that baggage that comes with right and wrong/good and evil/responsibility and so forth simply kills his buzz. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"><i><span style="color: blue;">2. The existence of God suggests an authority, a final authority, set above Man. Since the liberal believes that Man is the measure of all things (if Man can think it, then he should be free to do it) any system of belief, any suggestion of standards, any possibility of having to suffer the (usually foreseeable and logical) consequences of the thought or deed, must be denied. Since you cannot deny them by reason (10,000 years of human civilization has given us a vast store of practical knowledge of things that are self-evident, although most refuse to use it properly), then the thing to do is to simply refuse to recognize it.</span></i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"><i><span style="color: blue;">3. In the end, all (modern) liberal systems of thought -- especially that oxymoronic nonsense that calls itself "Progressivism" -- lead directly to one place: forced collectivism and tyranny. Since the liberal wants what he wants when he wants it, and wants it all in the face of those who would deny it to him -- through the force of conventional morality and ethics -- the liberal seeks to achieve power (usually political) as a means of establishing his stupidity in government and law, simply arguing that those systems (devised by Man) are superior to those established by (a fake, dead) God.</span></i></span><br />
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<i><span style="color: blue;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">4. If the liberal ever told the truth about what he wants and why he wants it, he'd be shot dead in the streets by people who would be rightfully appalled.</span></span></i><br />
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<span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">The Collective is the ultimate goal: it is only through a forced, collective society (run by liberals, of course) that the liberal can achieve his ends. He has to use the weapons of Earthly Power to establish what the Unworldly Power would deny him.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">The one thing the liberal has in his favor in this fight is that the Unworldly Power doesn't seem very interested in actually stopping him. I mean, establish the "right" to an abortion on demand, and there's no rain of Brimstone from the Heavens. Insist that it's quite okay to stick your dick into anything that moves just because you want to, regardless of age, sex or species, and an Army of Angels does not descend to right an obvious wrong.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">So, it would appear as if the liberal is right: God is Dead. Or maybe just absent. Or you can take my personal view, which is God might actually exist, but She's an asshole (<i><span style="color: blue;">God must be female, for only a woman could fuck up this royally and still demand to be worshiped for it</span></i>); nothing like what conventional religion says She is. In this view, we're all God's toys: she built us, wound us up, and then sits over all of Creation watching us fuck up, laughing, waiting for the proper moment to stand over this anthill Earth with her giant magnifying glass to fry us all as we exit the hive.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">Now just because I've postulated that God may not be who or what we think She is, it doesn't mean that I also reject the notions of morality and ethics that come with conventional religion.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">I had the good fortune to be educated in Catholic schools, and while they failed terribly in indoctrinating me into their little mythological justification for living in a self-imposed prison of fear, guilt, shame, envy, ignorance, and terror, they also succeeded in imparting something of a moral code by which to live. "Love thy neighbor" is a fairly good point, if somewhat flaccid, for example, as it typically appears that all the loving is going one way, and that is how it should be (the object being to Love without expectation of reward, or even acknowledgement). But, putting that little example aside, it would seem to me that the basic moral and ethical code of the Judeo-Christian is, at the very best, the least worst set of rules for a gentle (not necessarily Gentile) society.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">It implies boundaries, for one. It implies the disapproval of the herd for transgression, for another. These are powerful brakes on the worst sorts of behavior, mainly psychological though they are. They're still better than no brakes at all.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">I don't mean to defend Christianity: I am no theologian and there's no frickin' way that one can defend all the inconsistencies between Christian belief and Christian activity and still consider oneself sane. I simply say that having a "Set of Rules" that seem to be pretty universally acceptable is better than having a Set of Rules which are created and enforced by complete retards.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">For the modern liberal IS a retard; he's morally, ethically, intellectually, logically, socially, and pathologically challenged.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">Before I get a load of e-mail from the thin-skinned legions of <i>doubleplus goodthinkers</i> who are quick to take offense (<i><span style="color: blue;">they laugh off or fail to notice any offense that they give, so it would seem the one-way-ness of the "Love thy Neighbor"dialectic at least appeals to them when they can manage to take advantage of it</span></i>), let me explain what "retarded" means.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">It means you're a dope. It means you have no intellect beyond an animal-level of understanding. It means you couldn't tie your own shoes or chew gum independently without a government program. I base this opinion on one, inarguable premise: <i><span style="color: blue;">that a liberal's concept of freedom typically always revolves around the twin Holy Grails of his/her genitalia and someone else's wallet.</span></i> So long as you get to screw what you want how you want to, and have someone else pay for it, you're all for freedom. If one would suggest that freedom has a corresponding set of responsibilities, then you get called fascist/racist/sexist/ethnocentric/jingoist/homophobic, etc.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">Once again, "Love thy Neighbor" only goes one way.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">But, in one of those Celestial Ironies that God must be laughing her Holy Ass off over, it would seem the liberal HAS, without noticing, still been infected (as they would put it) by conventional religion. For when you think about HOW the liberal goes about creating his Paradise on Earth, you find that he uses the same arsenal the Catholic Church does: fear, envy, guilt, shame, terror, ignorance. Then again, much of warfare is an exercise in using the enemy's weaknesses against himself. And yes we are at War.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">If you don't approve of this week's bit of regurgitated liberal stupidity, the Weapons are brandished:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">If you find homosexuality immoral, then it's because you fear gays and have a personal hang-up about sex (fear, guilt and shame).</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">If you find abortion objectionable, it's because you want millions of poor babies to be born who will have to be supported by the State, who will all starve in the streets (shame sympathy, ignorance).</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">If you believe that poverty is not caused by moral failings, but is instead simply the lack of material possessions, then you're a hating fucktard who stole everything you have from those "less fortunate", and are being a greedy bastard by refusing to "share" (shame, guilt, envy, ignorance).</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">If you can't understand that screwing cocker spaniels in public parks, locking up people you disagree with, having people who use their right to free speech in defiance of the Collective fired, or using the power of the government to take from the productive to give to the unproductive who thereafter never make an attempt to become productive, are all the wrong things to do, well, then it's because you're a fucking idiot who isn't as enlightened or as committed to freedom as the douchebag who simply follows the latest bit of hashtag activism, always in "solidarity with the masses", but who then never does anything to actually back it up (all of the above, plus a huge helping of moral preening).</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">Because action is anachronistic, you know. Physical courage is so....medieval. Not the sort of thing an enlightened pantywaist goes in for. Everything works so much better if you simply whine enough until society is worn down by the noise and gives in to your little passive-aggressive hissy fit. It worked on Mom and Dad, why not society at large?</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">Which brings us to the morality and ethics of action, and the religious context that comes with it.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">Because the liberal is forever attempting to create a world in which he is never responsible for anything, in which he can safely avoid the consequences of everything, the liberal takes no (meaningful) action, unless, of course, he is borne up by the faux bravery that comes with believing that he has numbers on his side.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">Obamacare, the Soviet and Nazi concentration camps, for example, are endeavors only undertaken whenever the modern liberal believes that his position is unassailable, that he has the legions of brain-dead thumbsuckers he calls "the Masses" behind him. (<i><span style="color: blue;">In another of those Celestial Ironies, the liberal hates The Masses, even while pretending to be their champion; their only use is as a convenient prop that excuses his crimes</span></i>). <br /><br />In this way, the liberal takes such drastic and eminently wrongheaded action because the sin is made collective, and not personal. You can't blame Mary in the office -- the one with the Meat Is Murder bumper stickers, and Kerry-Edwards coffee mug on her desk -- for the injustice that is Obamacare because, well, 52% of the voters wanted it, too. Hitler only got away with killing millions of "sub-humans" because the majority of Germans thought those people sub-human, as well. If enough people hold the same opinion, it cannot be "wrong", you see. And because there is no outside authority to judge right/wrong -- <i><span style="color: blue;">because God doesn't exist, and therefore everything, including moral codes, created or implied by her existence, are non-operative</span></i> --who is to say what is allowable, what is egregious, what is depraved?</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">In this way, the liberal almost convinces you -- <i><span style="color: blue;">but primarily convinces himself, because it's ALWAYS about him</span></i> -- that it's all justified because millions of others who, at least momentarily, believed the same thing he did at the time, are as guilty as he is; and if the guilt is collective, then it doesn't really attach to a particular individual, does it? Dodged another bullet!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">The rest of the time, that is to say, when the liberal doesn't have numbers on his side, he cries like a menstrual woman about how misunderstood and oppressed he is, and about how fucking unfair Life is, because the rest of us, who hold to some standards of behavior, hold him in check.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">But, back to the religious implications of action.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">Inherent in Judeo-Christian belief is a duty that is laid upon the faithful to make the world a better place than how they found it. The Messiah will only come (or return) when Man has proven himself worthy, or has prepared the world for this blessed event. It behooves Man, in the name of Salvation, to actively seek to eliminate the evils of the world -- dirt, illiteracy, disease, crime, sin, indecency, inequality, sadism -- they all must be eradicated. The question of "how" they are to be erased is left mostly unanswered, but it is assumed that whatever action is taken to this end it must be taken with regards to The Rules. That is, the ends must be justified by moral and ethical means.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">To the liberal, the ends (giving the liberal everything he wants) automatically justify the means, which don't necessarily have to be either moral or ethical. The liberal will lie, cheat, steal, intimidate, use violence, bully, riot, as his means. But then again, why shouldn't he? The Other Side, by committing itself to achieving it's goals within a moral and ethical framework has unilaterally disarmed.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">And disarmed people are so much easier to manipulate and terrorize.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">I started this essay with the premise that religious belief, in and of itself, is relatively useless, or at the very best, questionable, but I conclude that even if this is strictly true, one of the by-products has been a system of belief that at least attempts to live up to the standards it sets. It begins with a belief that God is Watching, and that God has set down The Rules for us all to follow, and therefore, anything done outside of The Rules is adjudged to be grievously wrong.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">The liberal, because she rejects the idea of God, rejects The Rules.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">And this makes her dangerous to a decent society.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">Yes, I am aware that there are (few, in my experience) principled liberals, even godly ones, but it is also true that when cherished beliefs conflict with cherished wishes, beliefs usually fly right out the window. Whenever this happens, the religious concoct a tautology that this is a manifestation of Free Will in defiance of God; the liberal responds that Free Will is all there is.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"><i><span style="color: blue;">Which translates to "all bets are off...".</span></i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">I think I've had enough of that kind of world.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">I don't advocate religion as the solution to all of our problems, nor do I wish to imply that all liberals should be forced to accept God; I simply state that it's probably better to live in a society which is guided by the principle of "the most right for the most people, done correctly" -- regardless of it's source -- than it is to live in a society where any perversion of thought, flesh, and deed can be justified on the premise that "there's nothing capable of stopping me".</span><br />
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Matthew Notohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08881509233809999186noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6161738.post-20120889264774155532015-01-02T07:43:00.004-05:002015-01-02T07:43:49.695-05:00Changes Coming Soon!Apologies to all the inmates. I've been away for far too long.<br /><br />However, Life sometimes conspires to keep us from the things we really wish to do, and I have fallen victim to this dictum (that fucking rhymed!). Between (paying) work, Tess' health problems, and general apathy, the Asylum has been left to languish in the Internet version of Limbo for a while.<br /><br />But no more!<br /><br />Coming soon: a new design, more insanity, more caustic bullshit from the fevered imagination of Your's Truly.<br /><br />Fasten your seat belts; it's about to get all sorts of crazy up in here.Matthew Notohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08881509233809999186noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6161738.post-38568106731479841812014-05-28T13:39:00.001-04:002014-05-28T13:43:31.319-04:00An Open Letter To An Inconsiderate Dumbass...I know this has but little chance of succeeding, but it seems a good place to try to get some vicarious justice, and perhaps serve as a warning to all the other inconsiderate dumbasses of the world.<br />
I want to thank the anonymous person who feels perfectly free to empty the contents of their car into my garbage cans, or simply dumps them on my lawn, at least once a week.<br />
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The two Sanitation summons I have received because someone put a bunch of aluminum cans in with my "normal" household trash, and on another occasion because loose trash was haphazardly tossed on the ground at the foot of my trash cans, were especially appreciated.<br />
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It goes so well with the broken glass I have been periodically cleaning up at least twice a month -- broken wine bottles, broken iced tea bottles, the occasional 40-ounce bottle -- that you thoughtfully either leave in front of my driveway, or have the audacity to break against my front porch, some 20 feet from the street and another 30 from the garbage cans. Apparently, you can occasionally make an effort to half-properly throw away your Whopper wrapper, but feel no ambition to do other than break glass in situ.<br />
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You have my heartfelt thanks for leaving me the responsibility of cleaning up the used fast-food containers you leave sprinkled on my lawn. I was especially pleased with this morning's fare of half-gnawed chicken bones and the now-sodden from last night's rain pizza box. I like nothing better than picking up the refuse from other people's meals after they've been scattered by the neighborhood cats overnight.<br />
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But what I really want to thank you for is your latest act of selfless courtesy.<br />
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For in the process of removing the remains of your chicken dinner from my flower bed at the verge, I happened to find two absolute nuggets of your generosity.<br />
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The first is the price tag from Macy's, from the Michael Kors handbag you purchased with a gift card (the card's identification number is printed on the receipt, so it should be easy enough to find out who originally purchased it and then gave it to you). This price tag identifies the store in which the item was bought, and modern cash registers also record the time of sale of a scanned item, so I'm certain the police will know which Macy's to go to and what time frame to search while looking through the security tapes for you.<br />
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They'll probably be looking for a no-class skank with a drinking problem and a declassee handbag (Really? Michael Kors? Couldn't afford at least Coach you miserable bitch? I assume this signifies that you're one of the Middle Class with No Class that predominates in some parts of this island), and so it should be easy enough to find you.<br />
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I also wish to thank you, from the bottom of my heart, for leaving the receipt from a previous meal which has your debit card number on it. I'm sure if the police can't track you down and charge you with vandalism, littering and malicious mischief via price tags, gift cards and security tapes, they can certainly track you via your bank records.<br />
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If not, I'm sure you won't mind if I take a little impromptu shopping trip on Amazon, no? It's only fair considering how much time, effort and money you've cost me with your piggish ways.<br />
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When the NYPD finally DOES find you, I will then sue you for the cost of two citations issued me by the Sanitation Department of New York in the last six weeks. They run somewhere in the neighborhood of $200.<br />
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I'd also like to take this opportunity to say, that while I have enjoyed cleaning up your messes and paying fines for things I haven't done on your behalf, that should I actually catch you in the act, lady or not, you will be subjected to an ass-whipping of epic proportions. I might even beat you with your Michael Kors handbag, you worthless guttersnipe. Matthew Notohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08881509233809999186noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6161738.post-10085993352788496732014-04-14T12:37:00.000-04:002014-04-14T18:14:28.829-04:00Douchebag of the Week (4/13/14): Eric Holder, Victim of Racism...<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Pity Attorney General Eric Holder.<br />
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No, seriously.<br />
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It must be tough to live in an America which is so vilely racist that a member of a formerly-enslaved race can rise to become the Chief Law Enforcement Officer in all the land, with, apparently, no intention or clue as to how to actually, you know...<em><span style="color: blue;">enforce the law</span></em>. Or maybe even understand it.<br />
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I mean, it can only have happened in someplace less-racist, like, say, Zimbabwe or China, that the son of Caribbean immigrants could grow up in the slums of New York, live a life of abject poverty in a hardscrabble fight for a decent life, be deprived of opportunity by the pernicious legacy of the slave trade, and then, by dint of hard work, inspiration, a do-or-die spirit, manage to raise himself up by his bootstraps to complete law school, to become a judge, engage in national politics, and then reach the very pinnacle of success by virtue of sheer competence and skill.<br />
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<em><span style="color: blue;">Yeah, that couldn't happen in racist America.</span></em><br />
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<em><span style="color: blue;">Then again, that's not Eric Holder's story, either.</span></em><br />
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For while Eric Holder is the son of Caribbean immigrants, and did, indeed, grow up in the Bronx, it would appear as if his parents were businesspeople. Real estate agents, as it turns out. <em><span style="color: blue;">A profession that the supporters of Holder's boss might refer to as "One Percenters"</span></em>. And then, of course, comes the Affirmative Action, something I'm certain the people of less-racist Afghanistan or Mozambique are very familiar with, you know, being far more egalitarian and fairer and stuff than America. Holder was selected to enter a program for "gifted" children at 10 (in Congo, they take you at 4!), graduated Stuyvesant High School (one of the better ones here in New York), and then Columbia University, where he received his J.D. before embarking upon a life of "public service".<br />
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Now, I used the term "Affirmative Action" in that last paragraph. Some people will have a problem with that, but I could give a fuck. I used it for a particular reason. Because if you take it at face value that Eric Holder was ever "gifted" in the sense that word usually implies you're probably trying right this very moment to figure out if maybe the definition changed while you were in the bathroom last.<br />
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Does Eric Holder strike you as "gifted"? Does he strike you as particularly bright? If the answer to both questions is a resounding "Fuck NO!", then you have to conclude that someone this stupid didn't get through Stuyvesant and Columbia based on his own merits and talents. <br />
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If you were still clinging to the mistaken impression that Holder was a genius, then your illusions would have had to have been shattered after last week's virtuoso performance of self-pitying douchebaggery. If they haven't been, then you need psychiatric help...and drugs...and a padded room.<br />
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Because, unlike enlightened Tanzania or Vanuatu, only in racist America can a man who claims to be the victim of racism go to a nakedly-racist venue -- in this case, "Reverend" Al Sharpton's "National Action Network" (three lies, same great, low price) conference and cry about the prevalence of...racism.<br />
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Eric Holder would have you believe that he's the victim of a racist country that does everything in it's power to undermine the success of the African-American. This is, of course, liberal (small 'l' intentional) boilerplate, but it has also been the rallying cry of the Obama Administration since Day One. To oppose the policies of the (half-)black President Obama, to criticize his (black) Attorney General, to analyze the vacation and spending habits of the (black) First Lady, is inherently racist and somehow morally wrong.<br />
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And it grates upon people, like Holder, that after having to endure centuries of second-class status in a country which prides itself on having gotten beyond racism -- after all, it has elected a (half-)black President, has a black Attorney General, and has had black Secretaries of State and black Supreme Court judges, and members of Congress, Generals, people at the very pinnacle of power -- because they have lost the protective cover of that former second-class status (<em><span style="color: blue;">what George W. Bush referred to as the "soft bigotry of low expectations"</span></em>) Holder and many like him are finally figuring out what White Men have known for centuries:<br />
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<em><span style="color: blue;">Competence, or lack thereof, has consequences. Especially in a democratic republic where people are free to express their opinions and there is a well-funded, 24-hour media machine that has a lot of airtime to fill. The world has changed.</span></em><br />
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Twenty or thirty years ago, Eric Holder could be an incompetent doofus in government service, and no one would know about it. Now they do.<br />
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Twenty or thirty years ago, Eric Holder could have skated through public life largely on Affirmative Action and an inflated resume that was bereft of actual achievements divorced from politics. Not anymore.<br />
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Twenty or thirty years ago, Eric Holder could give a speech at Al Sharpton's place, and no one but the sympathetic black press -- <em><span style="color: blue;">which even black folks largely ignore</span></em> -- would have reported on it. Yes, but that was yesterday.<br />
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What Holder and Obama and the people who scream racist the loudest these days are really pining for, above all things, was the good old days when racism was REAL, and when people weren't judged on, as Dr. King wished, the content of their character, but rather their skin color, which brought with it a truckload of excuses for failure. It wasn't the greatest, maybe, but it did have the virtue of allowing one to dodge responsibility, the requirement to produce any tangible results, or the necessity to live up to a standard.<br />
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But enough of the psychoanalysis of the Modern Black Racist, and let's take a look at why Holder and his boss are so, dare I say it?, uppity, about the consequences of the society they've both advocated for their entire lives.<br />
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Eric Holder is not some nameless, faceless, anonymous bureaucrat lodged deep within the bowels of the Department of Losing Important Paperwork; he's the Attorney General of the United States. He is the visible face of the American Justice System, and it is his job to ensure the people of the United States that the Law is being Enforced, fairly and apolitically. He sits at the head of a law enforcement apparatus which includes the FBI and ATF, among others, police forces which hold the distinction of having jurisdiction that crosses state borders, and which are guided by Federal, rather than State, Law.<br />
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These are not just police forces, involved in that kind of stuff you see on CSI: Miami, or Law and Order, either; they're also intelligence services, and have what are, for all intents and purposes, paramilitary arms, small armies of well-armed, lavishly-funded, soldier/commando/cops who answer to the Attorney General. <br />
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Holder is in charge of a great deal of America's anti-terrorism efforts, and armed with the Patriot Act, he effectively has the ability to name anyone as an enemy of the state, and therefore, subject them to all sorts of law-enforcement and intelligence-type processes without due process.<br />
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Holder is in charge of a network of tens of thousands of U.S. Attorneys, all over the country, giving him the ability to prosecute anyone, at anytime, so long as he can find a convenient excuse and get it past a judge.<br />
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The man wields enormous power. His boss has much the same power, but has added to it an entire regulatory and military system, up to and including, nuclear weapons.<br />
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<em><span style="color: blue;">But the country that would entrust that sort of power to the descendants of African slaves is somehow racist?</span></em><br />
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The problem began in earnest for Holder when he ascended to the throne. Having largely grown up in public service at a time when African-Americans in high-level government office were simply window dressing, a ploy trotted out by democrats to suggest that they were a more inclusive lot than they truly are, Holder was never subjected to the scrutiny that comes with responsibility. <em><span style="color: blue;">He wasn't expected to actually have to do anything; his value, politically, was always to be the black guy standing next to ___________ in the picture.</span></em><br />
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However, things change once you go from convenient racial prop to Da Man. Once you become Attorney General, President, Chief Justice, and so forth, people start expecting things from you. One thing they expect from you without exception is answers to their questions. People who have spent a lifetime in government service without responsibilities or having to produce results, get touchy when you start asking them questions.<br />
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<em><span style="color: blue;">Because then they're in danger of revealing just how stupid they truly are.</span></em><br />
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And because neither Eric Holder nor his boss can admit that they're stupid and grossly incompetent, they also cannot admit that they truly preferred the days when no one actually expected anything of them.<em><span style="color: blue;"> In other words, they pine for the days when racism actually made certain aspects of their lives easier; they have to find some excuse to explain away their inability to be truthful, their inability to answer questions they get paid to know the answer to, to avoid looking simply foolish and to explain what the purposes of their policies are. They can't, and so they fall back upon racism, again.</span></em><br />
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The sword has two edges, you see. One edge is protective -- <em><span style="color: blue;">"You shouldn't expect anything from So-and-So, he's black, you know"</span></em> -- and the other is a weapon -- <span style="color: blue;"><em>"You can't say/do/ask that! It's racist, and you should be ashamed!"</em></span><br />
<span style="color: blue;"><em><br /></em></span><span style="color: black;">However, the rules of the game have changed. Society has changed, and notions of racial inferiority are long in the past. The word "racist" has been flung around so casually and usually by the most racist people you know, that it has no power to evoke shame or impose silence, anymore.</span><br />
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So, to ask Eric Holder questions about why the ATF allowed Mexican drug cartels to buy firearms in America that were later used to murder hundreds of Mexicans, and several Americans; to ask what the FBI knows about Benghazi; to insist that the Justice Department tell Congress what it is doing and how it does it, is racist because Holder can't tell you why, either because a) he doesn't actually KNOW, thus showing his inability to do his job reasonably well, or b) he DOES know, but for political reasons that would reflect poorly upon his boss, cannot give you an answer.<br />
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So, he just claims that asking him these questions is the manifestation of racism. He believes that crying racism -- and why shouldn't he? He's only been conditioned his entire life and career to think so -- absolves him of responsibility.<br />
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To oppose a policy of this administration on general principles, ideological grounds, real differences in outlook or policy, is likewise, racist, if you ask Eric Holder because a) racism, and b) racism. After all, the man who advocates and allegedly crafted the policies is a minority.<br />
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Which brings us to the crux of the matter. <br />
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In liberal (small 'l' intentional) doctrine it is axiomatic that certain people, or groups of people -- African-Americans, Women, Homosexuals, Hispanics -- are victims of a virulently racist White Heterosexual Male-dominated culture, and therefore, to expect anything from them in the way of competence, forthrightness, honesty, integrity, organization, intelligence, is inherently racist/sexist/homophobic. The only way to correct this grave injustice is to give jobs to these members of oppressed groups in the highest circles of power, to even things out. <br />
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Whether they are actually qualified, whether they can actually do the job in question, is irrelevant: <em><span style="color: blue;">the very fact that they have had a title bestowed upon them, and can enjoy the trappings of power, is just compensation for centuries of oppression and repression, and to hold them to any standard is simply yet another manifestation of the White Heterosexual Male impulse to bully and control everyone.</span></em><br />
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Take a look at some of the rogues gallery of the democratic party that has been Modern Washington these last two or three decades:<br />
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Eric Holder, Kathleen Sebelius, Hillary Clinton, Nancy Pelosi, Maxine Waters, Susan Rice, Janet Napolitano, Janet Reno, Patty Murray, Sheila Jackson-Lee, Barack Obama, Elijah Cummings, Major Owens, Ruth Bader Ginsberg, Sonia Sotomayor, Samantha Powers, Lois Lerner, Elena Kagan, Valerie Jarret, Debbie Wasserman-Schultz, Elizabeth Warren, Eleanor Holmes Norton, Jesse Jackson, Al Sharpton.<br />
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Now, ask yourself the following questions about any of them:<br />
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<em><span style="color: blue;">Does any of them strike you as particularly competent? Even possessed of the same intelligence you'd expect to find in an Irish Setter?</span></em><br />
Of course not. And the liberal (small 'l' intentional) response, reflexively applied to that answer, is that it is to be condemned as some manifestation of a baser motive.<br />
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<em><span style="color: blue;">In today's racist America, only White Heterosexual men are ever held to any sort of standard.</span></em> In today's racist, intolerant America, if you're white and show any sort of incompetence you are to be immediately fired, but the black guy stays to avoid a lawsuit; if you show any kind of indication of having an independent thought process, you should lose your CEO position, be hounded publicly into silence or oblivion, have protesters show up on your front lawn bearing torches; you should be continually harassed by nuisance suits and false allegations of criminal wrongdoing whenever feasible; You are attacked for your political beliefs, your religious beliefs; your success is something you somehow stole from someone else. You have your mental state questioned publicly and continually. <br />
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You have to suffer these things because only White Heterosexual men are ever guilty in racist America.<br />
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<em><span style="color: blue;">Don't get me started on how that reeks of racial profiling, but that's for another screed.</span></em><br />
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And, of course, if you make the point that, if it is desirable that our public officials (elected or appointed) should be competent, intelligent, qualified, and diligent, able to express the aims and consequences of the policies they either advocate for or enforce, to act rationally and with equanimity, then perhaps it's best if we simply leave all the positions of responsibility to White Heterosexual Men, since they're the only ones ever held to such standards, you'd be denounced as...wait for it...RACIST.<br />
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<em><span style="color: blue;">So, Mr. Holder I say to you lighten up.</span></em> And yeah, I mean that figuratively. Come to think of it, fucking literally, too, only in the sense that it's way past time for you to put your Big Boy pants on and start acting like a responsible, respectable public official. I know in some precincts of Black America you'd be condemned for <span style="color: blue;"><em>acting white </em></span><span style="color: black;">(nothing inherently racist in that notion, huh?)</span>, but you know what?, that comes with the paycheck. <em><span style="color: blue;">If you don't want it or can't hack it, then have the good grace to go away.</span></em><br />
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Your story is one that can only happen in "racist" America. If it sticks in your craw so fucking much, I'm sure they'd love to have you in Zululand or someplace more amenable to your stupidity.<br />
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<em><span style="color: blue;">You wanted equality. Now you have it. Not all it's cracked up to be, is it?</span></em><br />
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History will judge you, Mr. Holder, and judge your Half-breed Reichsfuhrer (<em><span style="color: blue;">you keep forgetting he's HALF WHITE, too</span></em>) as well, and I reckon it shall not be kind to either of you. You see, it's not enough to simply want the outward appearances of having "made it"; sometimes, you have to do something of value, <em><span style="color: blue;">other than whine and bitch about how hard it is to be you</span></em>. We've had six years of people whining and bitching, and very little in the way of justifiable or effective actions, and the people we had a right to expect better of have done little but proven themselves woefully inadequate to the task.<br />
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Especially you.<br />
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So, because you're a clueless douche who doesn't realize that his very presence undercuts the logic of his own fucking argument, for being a stonewalling-do-nothing-know-nothing-take-the-paycheck-and-run bureaucratic dipshit, for being the "good soldier" and taking the unnecessary hits for your even-more clueless and incompetent president, and for having the sheer audacity to denounce people as racists while speaking at a forum sponsored by one of the biggest bigots who ever lived, I present you, Mr. Attorney general, with this Week's Douchebag of the Week Award.<br />
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<em><span style="color: blue;">And a gift certificate to KFC, muthafucka.</span></em><br />
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I hope you fucking choke on both.Matthew Notohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08881509233809999186noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6161738.post-65681782461276635302014-04-09T10:32:00.001-04:002014-04-09T10:39:46.043-04:00160 Reasons Why Liberals Suck...The Hits just keep on comin'!<br />
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It has been a very long time since this list began with merely 50 Reasons Why Liberals Suck, and the passage of time has simply allowed the modern liberal (small 'l' intentional) to continue to demonstrate the very special species of brain injury that underlies their philosophical and ideological outlook on all things.<br />
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You can read the last iteration of this series, <strong><span style="color: blue;"><a href="http://lunaticsasylum.blogspot.com/2013/12/145-reasons-why-liberals-suck.html">145 Reasons Why Liberals Suck</a></span></strong>, here.<br />
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In the meantime, enjoy this expanded list and take a moment to have some pity upon the poor souls who...I hesitate to say "think"...in this fashion. And then realize that these assholes, at present, hold many positions of responsibility in the Modern World, and see if you can figure out just why it is that things seem so ingloriously fucked up.<br />
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And then get angry...<br />
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<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="more"></a><em style="background-color: #cccccc; line-height: 18px;"><span style="color: #073763; font-family: inherit;">1. Liberalism is a movement of the well-intentioned, but ill-informed, led by the well-informed and ill-intentioned.</span></em><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><br style="background-color: #cccccc; line-height: 18px;" /></span> <em style="background-color: #cccccc; line-height: 18px;"><span style="color: #073763; font-family: inherit;">2. At heart, a liberal is an eternal adolescent, forever in search of escape from conventional morality, consequences and responsibility.</span></em><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><br style="background-color: #cccccc; line-height: 18px;" /></span> <em style="background-color: #cccccc; line-height: 18px;"><span style="color: #073763; font-family: inherit;">3. Freedom from moral consequence can only be secured by a collectivist, totalitarian state.</span></em><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><br style="background-color: #cccccc; line-height: 18px;" /></span> <em style="background-color: #cccccc; line-height: 18px;"><span style="color: #073763; font-family: inherit;">4. The Liberal religion worships the twin gods of The Government and The Genitalia. </span></em><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><br style="background-color: #cccccc; line-height: 18px;" /></span> <em style="background-color: #cccccc; line-height: 18px;"><span style="color: #073763; font-family: inherit;">5. A Liberal believes that psychology is a hard science in the same way that physics and chemistry are hard sciences.</span></em><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><br style="background-color: #cccccc; line-height: 18px;" /></span> <em style="background-color: #cccccc; line-height: 18px;"><span style="color: #073763; font-family: inherit;">6. Freedom, to a Liberal, refers solely to the freedom of the genitalia.</span></em><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><br style="background-color: #cccccc; line-height: 18px;" /></span> <em style="background-color: #cccccc; line-height: 18px;"><span style="color: #073763; font-family: inherit;">7. All non-sexual individual freedoms are despised by the Liberal because they contain within them an element of personal responsibility, self-sacrifice, or abstention.</span></em><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><br style="background-color: #cccccc; line-height: 18px;" /></span> <em style="background-color: #cccccc; line-height: 18px;"><span style="color: #073763; font-family: inherit;">8. Collectivism seeks to eliminate the need for personal responsibility and moral consequence by shifting blame for failure from the individual to "society" or "the System".</span></em><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><br style="background-color: #cccccc; line-height: 18px;" /></span> <em style="background-color: #cccccc; line-height: 18px;"><span style="color: #073763; font-family: inherit;">9. The Constitution and the Bill of Rights are the enemy of the Liberal. Because they are clear in their elaboration of both the rights of the Individual and the Powers of Government, both documents must be subverted, re-interpreted, or ignored, as needed.</span></em><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><br style="background-color: #cccccc; line-height: 18px;" /></span> <em style="background-color: #cccccc; line-height: 18px;"><span style="color: #073763; font-family: inherit;">10. The Liberal hates the United States because it has been the premier guarantor and promoter of individual rights in the history of mankind.</span></em><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><br style="background-color: #cccccc; line-height: 18px;" /></span> <em style="background-color: #cccccc; line-height: 18px;"><span style="color: #073763; font-family: inherit;">11. All institutions – schools, environMENTAL organizations, Civil Rights Groups, Law courts, Markets, etc., serve no relevant purpose to a Liberal except when they can be made to promote the concept of the collective.</span></em><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><br style="background-color: #cccccc; line-height: 18px;" /></span> <em style="background-color: #cccccc; line-height: 18px;"><span style="color: #073763; font-family: inherit;">12. Abortion is necessary to guarantee genital freedom and to further erode the concept of personal responsibility, while eliminating future generations of less-desirable human beings.</span></em><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><br style="background-color: #cccccc; line-height: 18px;" /></span> <em style="background-color: #cccccc; line-height: 18px;"><span style="color: #073763; font-family: inherit;">14. The Liberal must create an atmosphere of perpetual crisis, fear, and envy in order to justify continued collectivist oppression.</span></em><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><br style="background-color: #cccccc; line-height: 18px;" /></span> <em style="background-color: #cccccc; line-height: 18px;"><span style="color: #073763; font-family: inherit;">15. Religion is the enemy of the Liberal since it promotes morality and responsibility and suggests an authority set above Government.</span></em><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><br style="background-color: #cccccc; line-height: 18px;" /></span> <em style="background-color: #cccccc; line-height: 18px;"><span style="color: #073763; font-family: inherit;">16. Despite decades of failure, the Liberal clings to his collectivist ideology because it is HIS religion.</span></em><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><br style="background-color: #cccccc; line-height: 18px;" /></span> <em style="background-color: #cccccc; line-height: 18px;"><span style="color: #073763; font-family: inherit;">17. Liberals seek to dominate any institution that can be used to undermine or eliminate parental rights, such as schools, child-abuse agencies, pediatric associations, etc. and which can be used to turn children into informants for the State against their own parents.</span></em><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><br style="background-color: #cccccc; line-height: 18px;" /></span> <em style="background-color: #cccccc; line-height: 18px;"><span style="color: #073763; font-family: inherit;">18. The Liberal seeks to sanction and jail those who dare to home school their children, or who have the balls and wherewithal to raise their children in an environment outside of Liberal control or influence.</span></em><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><br style="background-color: #cccccc; line-height: 18px;" /></span> <em style="background-color: #cccccc; line-height: 18px;"><span style="color: #073763; font-family: inherit;">19. Individual ownership of firearms is the greatest threat to collectivism and the greatest expression of individual rights, therefore, all Liberals despise guns.</span></em><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><br style="background-color: #cccccc; line-height: 18px;" /></span> <em style="background-color: #cccccc; line-height: 18px;"><span style="color: #073763; font-family: inherit;">20. All freedoms demand responsible behavior. The Liberal despises responsibility, therefore, he despises freedom.</span></em><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><br style="background-color: #cccccc; line-height: 18px;" /></span> <em style="background-color: #cccccc; line-height: 18px;"><span style="color: #073763; font-family: inherit;">21. A Liberal worships his pantheon of Kennedys, Clintons, Cuomos, Jacksons, Gores and Obamas, for WHO they are, and in spite of WHAT they are.</span></em><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><br style="background-color: #cccccc; line-height: 18px;" /></span> <em style="background-color: #cccccc; line-height: 18px;"><span style="color: #073763; font-family: inherit;">22. The Liberal despises National Sovereignty, which is a guarantor of individual freedoms.</span></em><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><br style="background-color: #cccccc; line-height: 18px;" /></span> <em style="background-color: #cccccc; line-height: 18px;"><span style="color: #073763; font-family: inherit;">23. The Liberal promotes international government, such as the United Nations and the European Union, which seek to destroy National Sovereignty. The Soviet Union did not collapse, it merely moved west.</span></em><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><br style="background-color: #cccccc; line-height: 18px;" /></span> <em style="background-color: #cccccc; line-height: 18px;"><span style="color: #073763; font-family: inherit;">24. The Liberal is obsessed with the idea of centralized control of all human endeavors.</span></em><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><br style="background-color: #cccccc; line-height: 18px;" /></span> <em style="background-color: #cccccc; line-height: 18px;"><span style="color: #073763; font-family: inherit;">25. Liberals often speak of tolerance but can only tolerate other Liberals.</span></em><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><br style="background-color: #cccccc; line-height: 18px;" /></span> <em style="background-color: #cccccc; line-height: 18px;"><span style="color: #073763; font-family: inherit;">26. Liberals seek to criminalize any speech promoting responsibility, morality, or individualism as "hate speech" or sedition.</span></em><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><br style="background-color: #cccccc; line-height: 18px;" /></span> <em style="background-color: #cccccc; line-height: 18px;"><span style="color: #073763; font-family: inherit;">27. To a liberal, the thought cannot be separated from the deed -- unless one of his or her own is thinking or doing it.</span></em><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><br style="background-color: #cccccc; line-height: 18px;" /></span> <em style="background-color: #cccccc; line-height: 18px;"><span style="color: #073763; font-family: inherit;">28. Environmentalists lie as a matter of course, promoting paranoia based upon verifiable falsehood.</span></em><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><br style="background-color: #cccccc; line-height: 18px;" /></span> <em style="background-color: #cccccc; line-height: 18px;"><span style="color: #073763; font-family: inherit;">29. A Liberal’s only method of discourse is to insult and discredit all who disagree with him. Failing that, they attempt to draw attention away from the subject at hand by "moving on" and changing the subject.</span></em><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><br style="background-color: #cccccc; line-height: 18px;" /></span> <em style="background-color: #cccccc; line-height: 18px;"><span style="color: #073763; font-family: inherit;">30. Your freedom is a Liberal’s oppression.</span></em><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><br style="background-color: #cccccc; line-height: 18px;" /></span> <em style="background-color: #cccccc; line-height: 18px;"><span style="color: #073763; font-family: inherit;">31. Private property and wealth are disgusting and distasteful concepts to a Liberal -- unless they should have more than you do.</span></em><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><br style="background-color: #cccccc; line-height: 18px;" /></span> <em style="background-color: #cccccc; line-height: 18px;"><span style="color: #073763; font-family: inherit;">32. Liberals hate freedom-loving people with a passion bordering on mania.</span></em><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><br style="background-color: #cccccc; line-height: 18px;" /></span> <em style="background-color: #cccccc; line-height: 18px;"><span style="color: #073763; font-family: inherit;">33. The Liberal seeks to replace a moral world-view with an emotional one which can be more easily manipulated for political ends.</span></em><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><br style="background-color: #cccccc; line-height: 18px;" /></span> <em style="background-color: #cccccc; line-height: 18px;"><span style="color: #073763; font-family: inherit;">34. A Liberal claims to "care" for the homeless, mentally ill, lame, lazy and shiftless, but would never invite one of them into their own home.</span></em><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><br style="background-color: #cccccc; line-height: 18px;" /></span> <em style="background-color: #cccccc; line-height: 18px;"><span style="color: #073763; font-family: inherit;">35. The Liberal typically chooses a career – law, psychology, academic, bureaucrat, "activist", which produces nothing of value and which uses the power of government to extract the wealth of others.</span></em><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><br style="background-color: #cccccc; line-height: 18px;" /></span> <em style="background-color: #cccccc; line-height: 18px;"><span style="color: #073763; font-family: inherit;">36. Liberal "programs" enrich Liberals and screw the people they were purportedly supposed to help.</span></em><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><br style="background-color: #cccccc; line-height: 18px;" /></span> <em style="background-color: #cccccc; line-height: 18px;"><span style="color: #073763; font-family: inherit;">37. Liberals despise masculinity, as they view it as a symbol of individual freedom and power.</span></em><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><br style="background-color: #cccccc; line-height: 18px;" /></span> <em style="background-color: #cccccc; line-height: 18px;"><span style="color: #073763; font-family: inherit;">38. Feminist groups exist to promote lesbianism and socialism and have nothing to do with "equal rights".</span></em><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><br style="background-color: #cccccc; line-height: 18px;" /></span> <em style="background-color: #cccccc; line-height: 18px;"><span style="color: #073763; font-family: inherit;">39. The EEOC and Civil Rights groups regularly invent incidents of racism and discrimination in order to justify its existence and to promote the collectivist ideals regarding employment and equality-of-outcome-type Liberal programs or thought.</span></em><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><br style="background-color: #cccccc; line-height: 18px;" /></span> <em style="background-color: #cccccc; line-height: 18px;"><span style="color: #073763; font-family: inherit;">40. Liberals despise suburbs as the manifestation of individual property and prosperity -- but seem to have no such qualms about gentrifying ghettos. </span></em><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><br style="background-color: #cccccc; line-height: 18px;" /></span> <em style="background-color: #cccccc; line-height: 18px;"><span style="color: #073763; font-family: inherit;">41. Liberals hate marriage and the family because they are institutions that strengthen the bonds between individuals -- leaving no room for collectivism -- and because they are institutions which frown upon immorality.</span></em><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><br style="background-color: #cccccc; line-height: 18px;" /></span> <em style="background-color: #cccccc; line-height: 18px;"><span style="color: #073763; font-family: inherit;">42. Liberals despise the automobile as a symbol of personal freedom.</span></em><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><br style="background-color: #cccccc; line-height: 18px;" /></span> <em style="background-color: #cccccc; line-height: 18px;"><span style="color: #073763; font-family: inherit;">43. Other diseases kill far more people, but Liberals are obsessed with AIDS because it is the consequence of promiscuity and immorality.</span></em><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><br style="background-color: #cccccc; line-height: 18px;" /></span> <em style="background-color: #cccccc; line-height: 18px;"><span style="color: #073763; font-family: inherit;">44. Liberal activities are driven by ego and a need for self-satisfaction. A liberal believes and does the things he does because he must prove that he "cares" more than you do.</span></em><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><br style="background-color: #cccccc; line-height: 18px;" /></span> <em style="background-color: #cccccc; line-height: 18px;"><span style="color: #073763; font-family: inherit;">45. Liberals thrive on emotion and die by reason.</span></em><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><br style="background-color: #cccccc; line-height: 18px;" /></span> <em style="background-color: #cccccc; line-height: 18px;"><span style="color: #073763; font-family: inherit;">46. Anything espoused by a Liberal as "for the children" is a direct assault upon your family, your privacy, your wallet and your rights.</span></em><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><br style="background-color: #cccccc; line-height: 18px;" /></span> <em style="background-color: #cccccc; line-height: 18px;"><span style="color: #073763; font-family: inherit;">47. Liberals have no compunction against using violence, deceit, or oppression if it furthers the collectivist cause.</span></em><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><br style="background-color: #cccccc; line-height: 18px;" /></span> <em style="background-color: #cccccc; line-height: 18px;"><span style="color: #073763; font-family: inherit;">48. Liberals are elitists who routinely exempt themselves from the very rules and suggested behaviors they impose on everyone else.</span></em><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><br style="background-color: #cccccc; line-height: 18px;" /></span> <em style="background-color: #cccccc; line-height: 18px;"><span style="color: #073763; font-family: inherit;">49. A Liberal must accept as an article of faith that my gun has killed more people than Ted Kennedy’s car or Janet Reno's ATF and FBI.</span></em><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><br style="background-color: #cccccc; line-height: 18px;" /></span> <em style="background-color: #cccccc; line-height: 18px;"><span style="color: #073763; font-family: inherit;">50. Liberals believe that Geraldo Rivera, Katie Couric, Dan Rather, and Oprah Winfrey are "journalists".</span></em><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><br style="background-color: #cccccc; line-height: 18px;" /></span> <em style="background-color: #cccccc; line-height: 18px;"><span style="color: #073763; font-family: inherit;">51. Liberals howl if a "protected" group is offended by speech or action, but will remain dead silent if the offended happen to be any of the following: Christians, White Males, Heterosexuals or Taxpayers.</span></em><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><br style="background-color: #cccccc; line-height: 18px;" /></span> <em style="background-color: #cccccc; line-height: 18px;"><span style="color: #073763; font-family: inherit;">52. Liberals believe wealth is static and quantifiable, and that that it should be divided equally. So, if I have "too much money", it follows that I must have stolen someone else’s "fair share".</span></em><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><br style="background-color: #cccccc; line-height: 18px;" /></span> <em style="background-color: #cccccc; line-height: 18px;"><span style="color: #073763; font-family: inherit;">53. Liberals believe that Richard Nixon was a vile criminal but that Stalin, Mao, and Fidel Castro are "progressive" leaders who had only the best of intentions.</span></em><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><br style="background-color: #cccccc; line-height: 18px;" /></span> <span style="font-family: inherit;"><em style="background-color: #cccccc; line-height: 18px;"><span style="color: #073763;">54. All Liberal ideologies tend towards worldwide totalitarianism.</span></em><em style="background-color: #cccccc; line-height: 18px;"><br /><span style="color: #073763;"></span></em></span><br />
<em style="background-color: #cccccc; line-height: 18px;"><span style="color: #073763; font-family: inherit;">55. A Liberal is quite ready to point out misconduct by a member of a group opposed to them, but will routinely excuse even more vile behavior by their own.</span></em><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><br style="background-color: #cccccc; line-height: 18px;" /></span> <em style="background-color: #cccccc; line-height: 18px;"><span style="color: #073763; font-family: inherit;">56. Liberals are obsessed with the theory of evolution because the alternatives terrify them.</span></em><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><br style="background-color: #cccccc; line-height: 18px;" /></span> <em style="background-color: #cccccc; line-height: 18px;"><span style="color: #073763; font-family: inherit;">57. A full-time, stay-at-home mother enrages a Liberal.</span></em><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><br style="background-color: #cccccc; line-height: 18px;" /></span> <em style="background-color: #cccccc; line-height: 18px;"><span style="color: #073763; font-family: inherit;">58. Human life is cheap in a Liberal world.</span></em><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><br style="background-color: #cccccc; line-height: 18px;" /></span> <span style="font-family: inherit;"><em style="background-color: #cccccc; line-height: 18px;"><span style="color: #073763;">59. The Liberal routinely changes the definition of a word to suit his purpose. For example, you have the "choice" to abort your unborn children, but not the "choice" of smoking, owning a gun, or buying an SUV.</span></em><em style="background-color: #cccccc; line-height: 18px;"><br /><span style="color: #073763;"></span></em></span><br />
<em style="background-color: #cccccc; line-height: 18px;"><span style="color: #073763; font-family: inherit;">60. A Liberal cannot conceive of a problem that cannot be solved without Government intervention. Although more often than not, Government Action created the problem in the first place.</span></em><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><br style="background-color: #cccccc; line-height: 18px;" /></span> <em style="background-color: #cccccc; line-height: 18px;"><span style="color: #073763; font-family: inherit;">61. Hillary Clinton's village is a totalitarian state: it used to be called the Soviet Union.</span></em><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><br style="background-color: #cccccc; line-height: 18px;" /></span> <em style="background-color: #cccccc; line-height: 18px;"><span style="color: #073763; font-family: inherit;">62. Given the chance, a Liberal would ban the Bible, Constitution, Declaration of Independence and Tom Sawyer as "hate speech".</span></em><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><br style="background-color: #cccccc; line-height: 18px;" /></span> <em style="background-color: #cccccc; line-height: 18px;"><span style="color: #073763; font-family: inherit;">63. Liberals view people as objects without moral motivation, thus we have the welfare state, abortion rights, etc. Conversely, they view inanimate objects in strictly moral terms, thus they are able to vilify and impart motives to firearms, cigarettes, SUV's, corporations, etc.</span></em><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><br style="background-color: #cccccc; line-height: 18px;" /></span> <em style="background-color: #cccccc; line-height: 18px;"><span style="color: #073763; font-family: inherit;">64. "Third Way" politics is a new shade of lipstick on the same Socialist pig.</span></em><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><br style="background-color: #cccccc; line-height: 18px;" /></span> <em style="background-color: #cccccc; line-height: 18px;"><span style="color: #073763; font-family: inherit;">65. Liberals are often intolerant, immature, violent thugs, laboring under the misapprehension that they do what they do for "social and moral causes" or "justice"..</span></em><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><br style="background-color: #cccccc; line-height: 18px;" /></span> <em style="background-color: #cccccc; line-height: 18px;"><span style="color: #073763; font-family: inherit;">66. The Liberal would sooner pluck out his own eye than to cut a tax.</span></em><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><br style="background-color: #cccccc; line-height: 18px;" /></span> <em style="background-color: #cccccc; line-height: 18px;"><span style="color: #073763; font-family: inherit;">67. Liberals still believe that Marx was right, despite the evidence to the contrary.</span></em><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><br style="background-color: #cccccc; line-height: 18px;" /></span> <em style="background-color: #cccccc; line-height: 18px;"><span style="color: #073763; font-family: inherit;">68. Hitler was a Socialist, not a Fascist and certainly NOT a Conservative.</span></em><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><br style="background-color: #cccccc; line-height: 18px;" /></span> <em style="background-color: #cccccc; line-height: 18px;"><span style="color: #073763; font-family: inherit;">69. Liberals believe that AIDS kills people because prevention and treatment services are underfunded, and not because people behave irresponsibly.</span></em><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><br style="background-color: #cccccc; line-height: 18px;" /></span> <em style="background-color: #cccccc; line-height: 18px;"><span style="color: #073763; font-family: inherit;">70. Liberals detest the death penalty, but favor abortion, thus setting up the convoluted idea that it’s okay to save the guilty and kill the innocent.</span></em><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><br style="background-color: #cccccc; line-height: 18px;" /></span> <em style="background-color: #cccccc; line-height: 18px;"><span style="color: #073763; font-family: inherit;">71. Liberals believe that trial lawyers are selfless heroes and that doctors are overpaid robber barons.</span></em><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><br style="background-color: #cccccc; line-height: 18px;" /></span> <em style="background-color: #cccccc; line-height: 18px;"><span style="color: #073763; font-family: inherit;">72. A Liberal believes that gender roles are "imposed by society" and that homosexuality is "normal" behavior.</span></em><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><br style="background-color: #cccccc; line-height: 18px;" /></span> <em style="background-color: #cccccc; line-height: 18px;"><span style="color: #073763; font-family: inherit;">73. A Liberal believes that business creates oppression and that Government creates wealth.</span></em><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><br style="background-color: #cccccc; line-height: 18px;" /></span> <em style="background-color: #cccccc; line-height: 18px;"><span style="color: #073763; font-family: inherit;">74. To a Liberal, self-esteem, the concept, is far more important than doing anything to actually earn some.</span></em><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><br style="background-color: #cccccc; line-height: 18px;" /></span> <em style="background-color: #cccccc; line-height: 18px;"><span style="color: #073763; font-family: inherit;">75. A Liberal regularly engages in symbolism because if he told the truth, no one would listen.</span></em><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><br style="background-color: #cccccc; line-height: 18px;" /></span> <em style="background-color: #cccccc; line-height: 18px;"><span style="color: #073763; font-family: inherit;">76. Liberals hate the NRA for their defense of the Second Amendment, and praise the ACLU for their perversion of the First .</span></em><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><br style="background-color: #cccccc; line-height: 18px;" /></span> <em style="background-color: #cccccc; line-height: 18px;"><span style="color: #073763; font-family: inherit;">77. To a Liberal, Taxes are too low and ATM fees are too high.</span></em><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><br style="background-color: #cccccc; line-height: 18px;" /></span> <em style="background-color: #cccccc; line-height: 18px;"><span style="color: #073763; font-family: inherit;">78. Racial profiling by police departments is wrong, but perfectly acceptable for deciding who gets into Law School.</span></em><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><br style="background-color: #cccccc; line-height: 18px;" /></span> <em style="background-color: #cccccc; line-height: 18px;"><span style="color: #073763; font-family: inherit;">79. The only difference between a Liberal and a Communist is that a Communist is AWARE of what he is doing.</span></em><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><br style="background-color: #cccccc; line-height: 18px;" /></span> <em style="background-color: #cccccc; line-height: 18px;"><span style="color: #073763; font-family: inherit;">80. Continued Liberal support for the shiftless, lazy, halt, lame, and crippled is necessary because they are the groups most easily manipulated by fear and envy.</span></em><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><br style="background-color: #cccccc; line-height: 18px;" /></span> <em style="background-color: #cccccc; line-height: 18px;"><span style="color: #073763; font-family: inherit;">81. Any proposal to build "low-income" housing is applauded by a Liberal, unless, of course, someone chooses to build it on the Upper West Side, or Malibu Beach.</span></em><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><br style="background-color: #cccccc; line-height: 18px;" /></span> <em style="background-color: #cccccc; line-height: 18px;"><span style="color: #073763; font-family: inherit;">82. In Liberal math, an 8% increase in government spending on any favored program rather than the usual-and-customary 10% increase equates to a 2% "cut" in funding, which somehow always results in someone starving or dying unnecessarily.</span></em><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><br style="background-color: #cccccc; line-height: 18px;" /></span> <em style="background-color: #cccccc; line-height: 18px;"><span style="color: #073763; font-family: inherit;">83. All of society’s ills can be cured by "education" inside a union-run institution that does no such thing.</span></em><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><br style="background-color: #cccccc; line-height: 18px;" /></span> <em style="background-color: #cccccc; line-height: 18px;"><span style="color: #073763; font-family: inherit;">84. All Liberals use words like "Ethnocentric", "jingoistic", "homophobic" and "trans-gendered" at least three times a day.</span></em><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><br style="background-color: #cccccc; line-height: 18px;" /></span> <em style="background-color: #cccccc; line-height: 18px;"><span style="color: #073763; font-family: inherit;">85. All Liberals have a primal urge to refer to any idea that they cannot comprehend -- or merely dislike -- as "sexist", "racist", "homophobic", etc.</span></em><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><br style="background-color: #cccccc; line-height: 18px;" /></span> <em style="background-color: #cccccc; line-height: 18px;"><span style="color: #073763; font-family: inherit;">86. A Liberal finds it perfectly acceptable to dispense condoms in a public school, but would cry bloody murder if the package had the Ten Commandments printed on it.</span></em><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><br style="background-color: #cccccc; line-height: 18px;" /></span> <em style="background-color: #cccccc; line-height: 18px;"><span style="color: #073763; font-family: inherit;">87. A Liberal advocates the killing of human beings (abortion) and the preservation of wildlife.</span></em><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><br style="background-color: #cccccc; line-height: 18px;" /></span> <em style="background-color: #cccccc; line-height: 18px;"><span style="color: #073763; font-family: inherit;">88. A Liberal feels that the only thing wrong with Communist States of the past was NOT that they were founded upon a flawed political ideology and engaged in awful repression, but rather that the results would have been far different if only the RIGHT Communists had been available to run them.</span></em><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><br style="background-color: #cccccc; line-height: 18px;" /></span> <em style="background-color: #cccccc; line-height: 18px;"><span style="color: #073763; font-family: inherit;">89. A Liberal believes that character doesn’t count...because they very often have none.</span></em><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><br style="background-color: #cccccc; line-height: 18px;" /></span> <em style="background-color: #cccccc; line-height: 18px;"><span style="color: #073763; font-family: inherit;">90. A Liberal will tell you that the First Amendment protects those that burn a flag, protest at a dead soldier's funeral, or beat up a Tea Party activist, and in the same breath, insist that Rush Limbaugh promotes "hate speech".</span></em><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><br style="background-color: #cccccc; line-height: 18px;" /></span> <em style="background-color: #cccccc; line-height: 18px;"><span style="color: #073763; font-family: inherit;">91. A Liberal would like to see the National Anthem replaced with the "Two Minutes Hate".</span></em><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><br style="background-color: #cccccc; line-height: 18px;" /></span> <em style="background-color: #cccccc; line-height: 18px;"><span style="color: #073763; font-family: inherit;">92. Liberals have such high opinions of themselves, their motives, and their ideas, that they would have you believe that the rest of us actually want to live in a world with dirty air and water, hip-deep in starving schoolchildren and dying elderly people..</span></em><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><br style="background-color: #cccccc; line-height: 18px;" /></span> <em style="background-color: #cccccc; line-height: 18px;"><span style="color: #073763; font-family: inherit;">93. Human nature does not exist to a Liberal, and when it routinely manifests itself, it is routinely ignored, and if possible, legislated and taxed.</span></em><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><br style="background-color: #cccccc; line-height: 18px;" /></span> <em style="background-color: #cccccc; line-height: 18px;"><span style="color: #073763; font-family: inherit;">94. Liberals view people in the same way a sculptor views a lump of clay, or a block of marble.</span></em><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><br style="background-color: #cccccc; line-height: 18px;" /></span> <em style="background-color: #cccccc; line-height: 18px;"><span style="color: #073763; font-family: inherit;">95. Liberals believe that man is inherently malleable and that all that’s needed is the proper training of man to enact to collectivist vision of the universe.</span></em><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><br style="background-color: #cccccc; line-height: 18px;" /></span> <em style="background-color: #cccccc; line-height: 18px;"><span style="color: #073763; font-family: inherit;">96. Loyalty is a concept foreign to most Liberals because it entails responsibility.</span></em><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><br style="background-color: #cccccc; line-height: 18px;" /></span> <em style="background-color: #cccccc; line-height: 18px;"><span style="color: #073763; font-family: inherit;">97. Ethics can be easily dispensed with in a Liberal world if they conflict with the creation of the collective.</span></em><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><br style="background-color: #cccccc; line-height: 18px;" /></span> <span style="background-color: #cccccc; color: #073763; font-family: inherit; line-height: 18px;"><em>98. Euphemism is the language of a Liberal, and symbolism is his</em> modus operandi.<em> Clarity and actual accomplishments are the enemies of Liberalism because Liberalism thrives on vagueness and the emotional aspects of "struggle".</em></span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><br style="background-color: #cccccc; line-height: 18px;" /></span> <em style="background-color: #cccccc; line-height: 18px;"><span style="color: #073763; font-family: inherit;">99. Liberals believe that criminals should have more rights than law-abiding citizens.</span></em><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><br style="background-color: #cccccc; line-height: 18px;" /></span> <em style="background-color: #cccccc; line-height: 18px;"><span style="color: #073763; font-family: inherit;">100. Liberals routinely invent extra-Constitutional rights in order to further their agenda (i.e. abortion, gender and racial preferences, etc.) and routinely invent "repressed groups" in order to expand the power of the State (i.e. homosexuals, minorities, illegal immigrants, etc.) or to subvert the power of established institutions (i.e. the Church, family, nationalism, etc.).</span></em><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><br style="background-color: #cccccc; line-height: 18px;" /></span> <em style="background-color: #cccccc; line-height: 18px;"><span style="color: #073763; font-family: inherit;">101. Most Liberals would feel more shame in standing to attention during the National Anthem then they would in stealing from a Poor Box.</span></em><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><br style="background-color: #cccccc; line-height: 18px;" /></span> <em style="background-color: #cccccc; line-height: 18px;"><span style="color: #073763; font-family: inherit;">102. Socialism works...until you run out of other people's money.</span></em><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><br style="background-color: #cccccc; line-height: 18px;" /></span> <em style="background-color: #cccccc; line-height: 18px;"><span style="color: #073763; font-family: inherit;">103. A Libtard refuses to acknowledge that anything which breathes, eats, shits and multiplies from the moment of conception is alive. If those are not the most basic functions of Life, I don't know what is.</span></em><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><br style="background-color: #cccccc; line-height: 18px;" /></span> <em style="background-color: #cccccc; line-height: 18px;"><span style="color: #073763; font-family: inherit;">104. Libtards defend an economic policy which has consisted of taking $1.5 trillion out of the credit markets for bank bailouts and questionable Stimulus plans, keeping the printing presses at the Mint going 24/7/365, debasing the currency through "Quantitative Easing", spending tax dollars that have yet to be collected twice and then borrowing $5 trillion more in order to pay for programs which create no wealth, salable goods or products or private sector jobs, and which do not generate any tax income whatsoever is a responsible plan for 'recovery'.</span></em><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><br style="background-color: #cccccc; line-height: 18px;" /></span> <em style="background-color: #cccccc; line-height: 18px;"><span style="color: #073763; font-family: inherit;">105. Libtards subsidize poverty and advocate for policies which discourage productive work, denigrate the profit motive and capitalism, and then claim to be the champions and guardians of the very perpetual poverty class they've created.</span></em><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><br style="background-color: #cccccc; line-height: 18px;" /></span> <em style="background-color: #cccccc; line-height: 18px;"><span style="color: #073763; font-family: inherit;">106. Liberals believe that a man who simply reads the words written by others and fed to him by a teleprompter is the Greatest Orator since Cicero.</span></em><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><br style="background-color: #cccccc; line-height: 18px;" /></span> <em style="background-color: #cccccc; line-height: 18px;"><span style="color: #073763; font-family: inherit;">107. Government 'investments' are simply transfers of wealth that are intended to dispose of industrial surplus, resources, and labor, without that expenditure ever leading to a rise in real living standards. You could just as easily bake millions of loaves of bread, and then set them on fire to achieve the same effect, but it doesn't have the appearance of true economic activity.</span></em><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><br style="background-color: #cccccc; line-height: 18px;" /></span> <em style="background-color: #cccccc; line-height: 18px;"><span style="color: #073763; font-family: inherit;">108. Liberals believe that mortgage lenders are 'predatory' and people who don't read contracts or retain legal counsel before they sign on the dotted line are 'victims'.</span></em><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><br style="background-color: #cccccc; line-height: 18px;" /></span> <em style="background-color: #cccccc; line-height: 18px;"><span style="color: #073763; font-family: inherit;">109. Collective Liberalism promises equality of prosperity, but only produces equality of misery.</span></em><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><br style="background-color: #cccccc; line-height: 18px;" /></span> <em style="background-color: #cccccc; line-height: 18px;"><span style="color: #073763; font-family: inherit;">110. Liberals are neither Truly Liberal or Democrats; they are shameless LIBERTINES who hate democracy because if given the choice of Collective Totalitarianism and Capitalistic Freedom, the people would select Freedom and Capitalism every time, leaving the Liberal out in the cold and needing to work for a living.</span></em><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><br style="background-color: #cccccc; line-height: 18px;" /></span> <em style="background-color: #cccccc; line-height: 18px;"><span style="color: #073763; font-family: inherit;">111. Liberals believe that people are incapable of changing their personal circumstances, or improving their lot in Life without an expensive and expansive government bureaucracy to 'help' them do it, usually at the expense of someone else.</span></em><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><br style="background-color: #cccccc; line-height: 18px;" /></span> <em style="background-color: #cccccc; line-height: 18px;"><span style="color: #073763; font-family: inherit;">112. Liberals believe all wars are evil and unwinnable...unless they start them. Then they're humanitarian efforts intended to promote good ends and altruistic ideals.</span></em><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><br style="background-color: #cccccc; line-height: 18px;" /></span> <em style="background-color: #cccccc; line-height: 18px;"><span style="color: #073763; font-family: inherit;">113. Liberals believe that when a terrorist is caught only because he fails to detonate his underwear on your flight, or fails to blow up his Pathfinder in Times Square, leaving his keys, cellphone, driver's license and address book behind in the glovebox, that the Homeland Security regime 'worked' to perfection.</span></em><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><br style="background-color: #cccccc; line-height: 18px;" /></span> <em style="background-color: #cccccc; line-height: 18px;"><span style="color: #073763; font-family: inherit;">114. Liberals believe that Terrorism is not an act of war perpetrated by a sick and violent culture, but rather law enforcement problem to be handled with civilian courts and Miranda rights....unless there's a bump in the polls to be had for shooting a terrorist in the face without a trial.</span></em><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><br style="background-color: #cccccc; line-height: 18px;" /></span> <em style="background-color: #cccccc; line-height: 18px;"><span style="color: #073763; font-family: inherit;">115. Liberals claim to stand 'for the Little Guy', but once the Little Guy's use as convenient political prop or rhetorical device is over, he is conveniently forgotten again.</span></em><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><em style="background-color: #cccccc; line-height: 18px;"><span style="color: #073763;"><br /></span></em><span style="background-color: #cccccc; line-height: 18px;"></span></span> <span style="background-color: #cccccc; color: #073763; font-family: inherit; line-height: 18px;"><i>116. Liberals never change their minds, even when presented with undeniable facts or evidence by a non-liberal, because liberalism creates a feedback loop in which ONLY liberals are considered credible sources of information. This close-mindedness – a negative quality they regularly accuse their opponents of having – makes liberals impervious to any idea that threatens to undermine their beliefs.</i></span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: #cccccc; color: #073763; line-height: 18px;"><i><br /></i></span><span style="background-color: #cccccc; line-height: 18px;"></span><span style="background-color: #cccccc; color: #073763; line-height: 18px;"><i>117. A liberal’s sources of information are ever-present. His newspaper is owned and produced by liberals; his evening newscast is owned and produced by liberals; his favorite magazines are owned and produced by liberals, so too his favorite television shows, movies, and music. Therefore, the liberal lives under the constant drumbeat of his own propaganda.</i></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: #cccccc; color: #073763; line-height: 18px;"><i><br /></i></span><span style="background-color: #cccccc; line-height: 18px;"></span><span style="background-color: #cccccc; color: #073763; line-height: 18px;"><i>118. Liberals emphasize feeling superior, rather than achieving superior results. Mainly because achieving requires work, attention to details and reason. Liberals prize feeling and appearances over outcomes.</i></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: #cccccc; color: #073763; line-height: 18px;"><i><br /></i></span><span style="background-color: #cccccc; line-height: 18px;"></span><span style="background-color: #cccccc; color: #073763; line-height: 18px;"><i>119. Liberals are people who won’t even take their own side in a fight. Four Americans are killed in an attack on an American consulate, and all the liberals can do is imprison an American for utilizing his First Amendment rights.</i></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: #cccccc; color: #073763; line-height: 18px;"><i><br /></i></span><span style="background-color: #cccccc; line-height: 18px;"></span><span style="background-color: #cccccc; color: #073763; line-height: 18px;"><i>120. Liberals tend to deal with people as groups, rather than as individuals, and therefore, are often unable to reconcile away what appear to be glaring inconsistencies – like a Black Conservative – in anything except the most dismissive and prejudicial ways and usually with bigoted language. This while they sing the hymns of Diversity, Inclusion and Civil Rights.</i></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: #cccccc; color: #073763; line-height: 18px;"><i><br /></i></span><span style="background-color: #cccccc; line-height: 18px;"></span><span style="background-color: #cccccc; color: #073763; line-height: 18px;"><i>121. Liberals give themselves far too much credit for being liberal, a condition they believe makes someone wise, compassionate and superior. Therefore, the good in people springs not from their actions but from their ideology. This explains the misogynist who calls himself a feminist, the race baiter who accuses others of racism, or those who give nothing to charity but who somehow feel empowered to lecture others on compassion.</i></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: #cccccc; color: #073763; line-height: 18px;"><i><br /></i></span><span style="background-color: #cccccc; line-height: 18px;"></span><span style="background-color: #cccccc; color: #073763; line-height: 18px;"><i>122. Justice, to a liberal, refers solely to a court twisting the Constitution to give the liberal what he wants, and using the law to punish his enemies.</i></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: #cccccc; color: #073763; line-height: 18px;"><i><br /></i></span><span style="background-color: #cccccc; line-height: 18px;"></span><span style="background-color: #cccccc; color: #073763; line-height: 18px;"><i>123. Liberals cannot tolerate opposition because if people are given a viable alternative to liberalism, there would very quickly be no liberals, in much the same way the Muslim Clerics and Ayatollahs try to crush Christians, Jews, Buddhists and Hindus.</i></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: #cccccc; color: #073763; line-height: 18px;"><i><br /></i></span><span style="background-color: #cccccc; line-height: 18px;"></span><span style="background-color: #cccccc; color: #073763; line-height: 18px;"><i>124. Liberals are born hypocrites. They support free speech – unless it’s speech they disagree with; they support women’s rights – unless you’re Muslim; they accuse their opponents of the worst crimes – and commit far worse ones of their own; they resist the urge to impose values on people – unless they happen to be their values, in which case they are to be enshrined in law and educational systems, and enforced with all the power of the state; every Liberal policy eventually ends up hurting those the liberal claims to be helping.</i></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: #cccccc; color: #073763; line-height: 18px;"><i><br /></i></span><span style="background-color: #cccccc; line-height: 18px;"></span><span style="background-color: #cccccc; color: #073763;"><i><span style="line-height: 18px;">125. When a Liberal has a choice between fantasy and reality, he will choose the fantasy every time without hesitation, so Hillary Clinton is ‘the smartest women in the world’, Barack Obama is an ‘enlightened healer and leader’, Jesse Jackson is a defender of Civil Rights, Al Gore was robbed by a Bush Conspiracy rather than being a rotten candidate, Bill Clinton was the best friend the feminists ever had, etc…</span><br /><br /><span style="line-height: 18px;">126. The Liberal lives by the concept of Divide and Conquer, pitting one group of individuals against another for personal gain, while insisting that he is a champion of freedom and equality and an egalitarian. In fact, the more discord there is between people, the more inequality there is, the better the Liberal likes it, because it affords him greater opportunity to acquire and centralize more power over others. Just as Julius Caesar courted the mob in order to establish a dictatorship, and so ruined the Roman Republic, so the Liberal behaves..</span><br /><br /><span style="line-height: 18px;">127. The main reason why liberals automatically dismiss any Conservative plan to restore personal liberty and economic freedom to Americans is because the the Liberals fortunes are tied directly to the fortunes of the very people who would benefit, but usually can't, because they lack the tools to take advantage of new opportunities. These people largely lack these capabilities because the Liberal has found it politically useful to deny and politicize them, and hopes to avoid the resulting blame when this denial of basic rights is finally discovered.</span><br /><br /><span style="line-height: 18px;">128. No one who works indoors needs a union. In fact, in modern America, there is no longer a need for a labor union, at all. While labor unions did, indeed, do great things and protect the rights of American workers in the past, their function has been largely </span><span style="line-height: 18px;">superseded</span><span style="line-height: 18px;"> by State and Federal law, and a Legal System that would see 4 million lawyers salivate over the prospect of a quick-and-dirty settlement over any perceived case of actual discrimination or unfairness. The Labor Union exists solely to support the democratic party (small 'd' intentional), keep the false promises of Communism alive, and to ensure that genuinely stupid and lazy people who would mostly fail in the private sector (government employees and industrial workers for whom there is no more industry) can afford </span><span style="line-height: 18px;">Cadillacs</span><span style="line-height: 18px;"> and 48" Plasma screens without -- mostly -- having to put in an honest day's work for them. </span></i></span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: #cccccc; color: #073763;"><i><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="line-height: 18px;"><br /></span></span></i></span> <span style="background-color: #cccccc; color: #073763;"><i><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="line-height: 18px;">129. A Liberal brands an individual accused of a crime as guilty before proven innocent, while Conservatives brand those accused of crimes innocent until proven guilty. In some cases, where the accusation and implication of guilt is politically useful, the assertion of guilt is continuously made even after the individual has been proven innocent of the charges against him.</span></span></i></span><br />
<span style="background-color: #cccccc; color: #073763;"><i><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="line-height: 18px;"><br /></span></span></i></span> <span style="background-color: #cccccc; color: #073763;"><i><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="line-height: 18px;">130. History, to a liberal, is infinitely mutable, and is continuously re-written to fit the liberal narrative. What is considered historical "fact" today can be changed tomorrow, often sans evidence, if doing so helps to bring the dreamed-of Liberal Collective one step closer. As we speak, entire areas of historical research are being re-written in political terms. As we speak, the hagiographies of such liberal luminaries as Stalin, Mao, Che Guevara, Castro, Pol Pot, John F. Kennedy, Bill Clinton and Barack Obama are being deliberately and politically altered to so as to show future generations that these were not badly-flawed men, driven by ego and a thirst for power, but rather misunderstood men who had nothing but the best of intentions. Subsequently, the process is also being applied to the enemies of the Liberal, so that Ronald Reagan wanted nuclear war, George W. Bush refused to rescue black people during Hurricane Katrina, and Dick Cheney instigated 9-11 so as to bring profit to Haliburton's shareholders.<br /><br />131. Liberals discount the importance and effect of religion, and often deride those who have some form of faith as superstitious fools who are being led astray by self-interested little tyrants intent on squashing their freedoms. They neglect to consider or admit, however, the basis in religion (Jesus, the Buddah, among others) that form the fundamentals of their collective Ideologies, i.e. Socialism and Communism. There is no Marx without Christ.</span></span></i></span><br />
<span style="background-color: #cccccc; color: #073763;"><i><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="line-height: 18px;"><br /></span></span></i></span> <span style="background-color: #cccccc; color: #073763;"><i><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="line-height: 18px;">132. The Liberal believes that all of society's ills can be cured by a massive program of government-directed "education" despite the evidence that liberal education policies have done little than turn the schools into government-funded daycare centers where children are warehoused, often fed two meals a day, and denied the opportunity of a real education. Because of liberal policies on Affirmative Action, hiring practices, curriculum, and the influence of liberal-inspired speech codes and political correctness, the school has been repurposed to become the Indoctrination Center. This serves three functions: first, it relieves (liberal) parents of the responsibility of caring for their children. All liberals despise responsibility. Second, it enables to liberals to preach the liberal mantra to captive audiences while their minds are still impressionable, and finally, it provides jobs for hundreds of </span><span style="line-height: 18px;">thousands</span><span style="line-height: 18px;">, if not millions, of bureaucrats and unionized clock-punchers who vote democrat and give money to liberal-inspired causes. In return, we get incrementally dumber children who can't find their own country on a map, can't do math or lack the education to make something of themselves, leaving them open to more liberal manipulation later on in life.</span><br /><br /><span style="line-height: 18px;">133. Obama has drones and the NSA, which kill people and violate people's privacy on a daily basis. Amazon proposes drones and runs a computerized information storage and retrieval system that might one day deliver groceries and medication to your doorstep. According to the liberal, only government (and liberal-controlled government) can make adequate use of these technologies while protecting human rights and </span><span style="line-height: 18px;">guaranteeing</span><span style="line-height: 18px;"> our safety and security. The private sector's use and expansion of technology must be controlled by the government, ostensibly for our own good, while government uses it to violate people's rights and destroy their lives and property whenever it feels justified in it's quest to create the Collective.</span><br /><br /><span style="line-height: 18px;">134. Liberal Government takes $600 billion dollars from Medicare (tax payer money) and produces a broken website that doesn't work and has </span><span style="line-height: 18px;">tremendous</span><span style="line-height: 18px;"> </span><span style="line-height: 18px;">security</span><span style="line-height: 18px;"> holes in it, which is just the tip of the iceberg when it comes to destroying both the insurance and healthcare industries (so that their roles may be taken over by government later on., as a matter of 'fundamental fairness' (as they like to put it). In the end, the broken website and the deliberately-planned undermining of two industries creates havoc, chaos and dislocation in people's lives. It takes away choices and freedom from the consumer so as to help "the less fortunate", while in the process creating even more "less fortunates". Private industry takes private investment (and much less of it) and creates salable goods and services for a profit and websites that work with complete security, which puts money back into the individuals pocket in terms of dividends and jobs and gives the individual greater freedom of choice (it's called The Free Market). Liberals hate Free Markets because they operate -- successfully --outside the sphere of Liberal Control and Manipulation.</span></span></i></span><br />
<span style="background-color: #cccccc; color: #073763;"><i><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="line-height: 18px;"><br /></span></span></i></span> <span style="background-color: #cccccc; color: #073763;"><i><span style="font-family: inherit; line-height: 18px;">135. Conservatives Believe it When they See It. Liberals See it When they Believe it. </span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: inherit; line-height: 18px;">136. Many Conservatives have, at one time or another, been Liberals. No Liberal, however, has ever been a Conservative. This indicates that the Liberal is largely incapable of seeing the flaws in his own ideology, and unable to change his mind or accept an alternate point of view. The liberal celebrates this mental defect as a virtue.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: inherit; line-height: 18px;">137. A Conservative is a liberal who has been mugged by reality.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: inherit; line-height: 18px;">138. The Liberal believes that arresting technological progress for the few (I.e The Global warming scam) is the only way to achieve true progress for the many. He calls himself a Progressive and routinely accuses his enemies of wanting to "turn back the clock" but in all actuality, it is the liberal who lives in the past (in fact, he romanticizes the history of leftists movements and individuals, no matter how violent or corrupt) and who is unable to learn from the mistakes of the past, made in the name of his ideology.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: inherit; line-height: 18px;">139. The Liberal believes in the equality of outcomes rather than in the equality of opportunity. Therefore, all manner of anti-liberal polices that make a mockery of the word "Equality" (forced integration, Affirmative Action, legal action instead of democratic process, dehumanization of enemies real or perceived, government-engineered theft) must be enforced in order to ensure "Equality", but only the "Equality" the liberal finds politically useful at any given moment in history.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="line-height: 18px;">140. Left-leaning groups such as Occupy Wall Street, Greenpeace, Anarchists, and Labor Unions decry the "evils" of capitalism and Classically-liberal democracy without noticing that they are the direct beneficiaries of both systems. Hence, we get the G-20 protester (who wanders the streets in his Urban </span></span><span style="line-height: 18px;">Guerrilla-</span><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="line-height: 18px;">chic black clothing -- complete with picture of Che on it! -- produced in a factory in Honduras by someone working 80 hours a week for 12 cents an hour), smashing the windows of a local Starbucks or McDonald's after he's just enjoyed his </span></span>pre<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="line-height: 18px;">-riot latte and scone there, the Greenpeace activist who begs for donations to save tigers online, the </span></span>OWS dipshit<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="line-height: 18px;"> who arrived with her seven friends in Daddy''s gas-guzzling SUV sporting a "Split Wood, Not Atoms' bumper sticker, the former machine-press operator who yearns for the day when he can return to the factory and earn a living with his inefficient, 19th-century inspired machine tools, and who gives a fuck if the owner of the company loses money in the process? . These people are largely (mis</span></span><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="line-height: 18px;">-)informed, organized, supported, nurtured and sustained by the fruits of the </span></span>internet<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="line-height: 18px;">, modern communications, wealth extracted from others by donation, wage or tax, and have their actions protected by a system of laws and a Constitution that were the by-products of Classically-liberal democracy. These are NOT people of conscience; they are boobs.</span></span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: inherit; line-height: 18px;">141. The Liberal fails to recognize that it is stable, free, economically-viable democratic societies which have the time and comfort to debate whether a woman has the right to abort an inconvenient fetus, or whether your local McDonald's cashier should earn the same money as the policeman or construction worker. Their answer to such questions (they call them "pressing social issues" which quickly become "crises") is invariably some variation on a theme which creates instability, decreases freedom, and redistributes wealth from the productive to the unproductive. The Liberal aims to solve small problems by, in effect, creating larger ones...and always under government control and management.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: inherit; line-height: 18px;">142. The True Believer Liberal is typically NOT a member of an underclass or a member of an oppressed group; they are typically the irrationally-guilty and brainwashed children of the very </span><span style="font-family: inherit; line-height: 18px;">privileged</span><span style="font-family: inherit; line-height: 18px;"> Middle Classes, which they secretly hate and seek to destroy. The liberal does what he does not to benefit anyone, but to make himself feel (and appear) better than he is, and to assuage his sense of guilt for having been born to a better station in life. And to get back at his parents who gave him every advantage in life. The proof of this: you cannot name one prominent Leftist of the last 50 years in America who either didn't start out as a millionaire, or who didn't end up that way, at the expense of others, but who still managed to talk a good game.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: inherit; line-height: 18px;">143. In a Liberal World, The Lie must always remain one step ahead of The Truth in order to maintain the facade of both the benevolent Leftist and the benevolent Collective. When this can no longer be </span><span style="font-family: inherit; line-height: 18px;">accomplished</span><span style="font-family: inherit; line-height: 18px;"> or maintained, the Liberal begins to re-write both history and the facts (see #130), so that we can have the curious spectacle of a president who said "you can keep your plan and doctor" furiously explaining why the words he actually spoke bear no relation to what he actually means, and how you were too stupid to notice it. If the Liberal is ever caught and held responsible for this deliberate game of substituting Lies for Truth, it is always someone else's fault that she was forced to lie in order to serve a greater good.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: inherit; line-height: 18px;">144. In a Liberal World, all Freedoms cut only one way....and which way that cuts depends on what the Liberal needs to believe or espouse today in order to justify or preserve the dream of the All-powerful Collective, and to excuse their lying, cheating, and thuggery. Typically, freedoms exist only for the Liberal, and must be taken away or lessened for everyone else.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: inherit; line-height: 18px;">145. Liberals are the real racists in America. They all believe, in the black little pits they call souls, that women, </span><span style="font-family: inherit; line-height: 18px;">minorities</span><span style="font-family: inherit; line-height: 18px;">, gays, the poor, immigrants, and every other aggrieved group in the country cannot </span></i></span><span style="color: #073763; font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: #cccccc; line-height: 18px;"><i>survive or prosper without their help. This help is usually delivered in a backhandedly-condescending and degrading form (i.e. Affirmative Action, Welfare, racial quotas), and does little to actually help anyone achieve happiness or prosperity because it is primarily designed to make people dependent upon the State, and thus, on the Liberal. In return, the Liberal gets to dictate the activities, tastes, thoughts, political ideology, voting habits and so forth of "the needy’, as a prerequisite for receiving more “help” in the future.<br /><br />146. Despite the protests of liberals everywhere, The American Liberal dream has already been realized. It is called "Detroit", or alternately, "Washington, D.C.", "Camden", "Oakland", "New Orleans".<br /><br />147. In the liberal mind, if the State -- read, the liberal's apparatus of government -- supports something, then it cannot be immoral. <br /><br />148. Liberals never hold one another accountable. They have shown a remarkable tolerance for one another's hypocrisy, but only inasmuch as that hypocrisy serves the liberal's goals. Conversely, anyone else's hypocrisy is outed, ridiculed, the people involved hounded out of public life, and this hypocrisy-of-the-other is held up as a disqualification of any rival ideas.<br /><br />149. Minorities and women will never be held accountable under a liberal system, and are, in fact, held to no standards at all, if doing so promotes the goals of the collective. This is because both are seen as perpetual victims of "Evil White Men". In the liberal point of view, only White Men should ever be held to any (often impossible) standards. Yet, if you suggested that in the name of efficiency or accountability that, in that case, positions of responsibility be given only to White Men s-- as a consequence of the original argument -- so that the public may be assured that their business is done in a moral and legal fashion, you are called a "racist" and a "sexist". <br /><br />150. Liberals abuse courts to achieve by regulation and legal precedent what they cannot achieve by legislation and the electoral process. They call this "democracy".<br /><br />151. The problem with the Patriot Act, from the libtard's point of view, was that George W. Bush and John Ashcroft got to use it first. The outrage expressed by liberals at the time, and which has continued until this day, was simply an indication of what they hoped to achieve with it had they been given the power to do so first. Recent NSA and IRS scandals bears this out.<br /><br />152. The watchword when it comes to liberals is "Watch what I do, for what I say is often meaningless, and uttered for propaganda value".<br /><br />153. The liberal totalitarians pay lip service to the concept of The Law, in full knowledge of the moral and traditional feelings this stirs up generally in people, while they do everything possible to undermine it, and always in the quest for power or personal profit.<br /><br />154. The Facts of Life are Conservative. Modern Liberalism is a fairy tale designed to soothe the fragile minds of people who cannot accept this.<br /><br />155. In a Liberal World, (liberal) Mythology lives on inviolate, but Reality must be continually altered to allow the mythology to continue.<br /><br />156. Liberals preach a gospel of multi-culturalism, inclusion and tolerance, viciously attacking any who may disagree based upon facts or principles, but seem unable to muster the same energy to defend this gospel against the most hostile, uni-cultural, exclusionary, and intolerant . This proves both that the liberal does not mean what he says, and is a moral coward who only attacks those he knows will not seriously threaten him.<br /><br />157. Every liberal suffers from Narcissism, Manic-depression, Megalomania, and Cognitive Dissonance to one extent or another, in some combination or another. They must, because there is no other explanation for the fervor with which they continue to fight for ideals that have been tried and failed, repeatedly.<br /><br />158. When a liberal talks about "supporting education" what he or she means is the further lowering or elimination of standards so as to ensure that their favored pets -- minorities, women, unionized idiots, government employees -- are further shielded from the consequences of failure. The liberal does not wish to see a functioning educational system that is efficient and passes on real knowledge, mostly because those the liberal manipulates, and depends upon, could not succeed in such a system.<br /><br />159. Reflexive contradiction is the ocean in which the liberal swims. If it is true, then it must be made false; if it is false, then it must be made true. Only in this way can the majority of people be left confused, disoriented or disinterested enough to fall victim to the collective.<br /><br />160. Reflexive negativity is the default position of the liberal. In the liberal mind, we all live a Dickensian existence where we all suffer needlessly but for the efforts of a few liberals who labor thanklessly for the greater good. That the liberal is cynical, devious, pathologically unable to see or utter truth (unless orthodoxy requires this) makes them extremely unpleasant people to be around, who never have a positive thing to say, or offer any sort of new idea towards solving any real problem, except to advocate for an ever more restrictive, controlling and liberty-crushing brand of liberalism. We will all be made equally miserable by force, for our own good when the collective arrives.</i></span></span>Matthew Notohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08881509233809999186noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6161738.post-25333846126027540212014-03-25T09:58:00.001-04:002014-04-17T09:34:46.939-04:00The Bureauacracy Rampant...<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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I had occasion to accompany Tess to the New York City Department of Vital Records, yesterday, in an effort to recover some very important and necessary documentation, and was treated to a first-hand experience of just how stupid and quite redundant most public union...ahem...workers...are.<br />
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That picture on the left? That's a Rube Goldberg. For those who were born under rocks -- or after X-box, which is sort of the same thing -- Rube Goldberg was a cartoonist who used to create images of the most outrageous machines that performed the simplest of everyday tasks. The point was to go to an extreme to avoid doing something simple and mundane. This one shows a machine that wipes somebody's mouth without them having to dirty their hands. This fairly describes the Bureaucracy of the City of New York: why work efficiently when you can add so many complicated steps to the process? And employ a lot of seemingly useless people while you're at it? <br />
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After all, it's only TAXPAYER MONEY, right?<br />
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Let me state for the record: it is my considered opinion that most people who work in any governmental capacity -- at any level -- are basically no smarter than chimpanzees, and perhaps, no better. I base this judgment upon three factors:<br />
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1) The majority of Civil Servants have jobs only because they managed to pass a Civil Service Exam. Because this country -- especially government -- is obsessed with things like race and gender, those Civil Service Exams are written for a 3rd Grade reading level, and specifically designed so that women and minorities can easily obtain a passing grade. Which hovers somewhere in the neighborhood of 62.<br />
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2) It has been my experience with government that a simple function or request is beyond the capability of any one person to fulfill. This is done on purpose, because now that the Civil Service has all these mouth-breathers who passed with a 62 at it's disposal, it must find something for them to do. So, instead of engaging in linear thinking (government is incapable of linear thinking, it means using a logical process that progresses from point to point in a rational way until a task is complete. Imagine the process as a line rising from the bottom of a page to the top, with identifiable signposts on the way to success), government operates by the theory of lateral thinking, which is to say, there is no job that can't be done if you simply engage more people, working on their own one little bit of the task as inefficiently as possible. Instead of our line going upwards on the way to completion, imagine a line that moves steadily horizontally...forever.<br />
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The percentage chance that whatever you have asked the government to do will be fucked up beyond all recognition is about equal to the square of the number of people involved. I have noticed this formula holds true whether we're speaking of the DMV, the IRS, Traffic Court, The State Department, or the Census Bureau, all of which I have had the distinct misfortune of having to deal with at some point in the last decade.<br />
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3) A good many seem to be doing little else but jerking off in public.<br />
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Back to our story...<br />
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You see, Tess required copies of the death certificates of both of her parents. This because an insurance company (another bureaucracy that could probably do with fewer workers and more logic) will not transfer a policy into her name without proof that the original two beneficiaries are deceased, and that she is entitled to be named on the policy by virtue of familial bond. It's a sordid affair and I'm not quite certain I understand the whole thing, but suffice to say, there's probably at least twenty-three minimum-wage clerks and half-a-dozen overpriced lawyers involved in the process.<br />
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<em><span style="color: blue;">Everything in America would run more smoothly, I reckon, if you could horsewhip minimum wage earners, and shoot lawyers. But I digress...</span></em><br />
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The point of this monologue is the relative lack of quality in the public-sector employee, who is being paid with my tax money, and the inefficiency of the system, itself.<br />
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Tess and I arrive at the proper government office, after having to surf the web for several hours the day before to seek out the proper address.<em><span style="color: blue;"> You see, the City of New York may be online, but it's various department's websites were probably designed by the same people who brought you the ObamaCare website</span></em>. Back in the Old Days when we all lived in caves and had to catch our own food, you could simply pick up the Yellow Pages which contained a section called The Blue Pages, which had the phone number and address of all government agencies, state or federal, in your local area. Within a minute you could find things like The Board of Health's Chlamydia Hotline, or the location of the nearest Post Office.<br />
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This totally inefficient and archaic system (that was sarcasm) has now been replaced by this new-fangled Intertoobies thing that requires you to know the address that you're currently looking for so that the doohickey can then find it for you. You have to grapple with something called <a href="http://www.nyc.gov/">www.nyc.gov</a>, which is supposed to help you navigate the vast, Byzantine New York City government structure, but which instead leads to various pages that simply say "<em><span style="color: blue;">if you need more information, please call the City Helpline at 311</span></em>" where a legion of telephone operators are probably standing by to misinform you all hours of the day and night. That's when they aren't directing you to the exact thing you need, only for New York State, which can't help you with local records.<br />
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So, anyway, I finally managed to snag the address of the building we were looking for by using Bing, because God Forbid the City of New York should put the address under the "Contact Us" banner on the webpage. I was able to find the address by naming the building. "New York City Department of Records" yielded "125 Worth Street". Score another point for the private sector!<br />
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Upon arrival at 125 Worth Street, we are confronted with a security checkpoint which consisted of three rent-a-cops: One to open the doors, one to run the x-ray machine, and one to apparently hold conversations with everyone as they walked in. None is armed. None seems especially formidable. I could take 'em all in a fistfight, especially the fat Puerto Rican broad with a mustache who has probably not run for anything not stuffed with cheese for many years, and if she did, her pants would catch fire from the friction of her thighs.<br />
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I was instructed to put my backpack and heavy winter coat through the x-ray scanner. I emptied my pockets of all objects. I was wanded after I stepped through the metal detector. In the meantime, Tess, in her wheelchair, is off to the side, waiting for me, unmolested by building security. I'm sure Al'Qaeda is taking notes.<br />
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We then make our way to the proper room in the Department of Vital Records, and are met by a cheerful, smiling lady, who greets us with the paperwork we'll need to fill in in order to obtain the records we seek. She gives us two copies of the same form, since we need two death certificates, and points out a convenient place where we may fill them in. Forms filled in, we return to her, and then she points us to a computerized kiosk where we will have to enter the same exact information -- two more times -- into a touch-screen contraption that will spit out a number for us to take. It also processes payment via credit card.<br />
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We've just filled in a triplicate form. "<em><span style="color: blue;">Why did we have to fill in a triplicate form if we could just enter all the information into the computer?",</span></em> I wondered. I did ask the cheerful, smiling lady and she just nodded and said, <em><span style="color: blue;">"That's the way we do things..."</span></em><br />
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Well...<br />
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Anyhow, now armed with two slips of paper bearing numbers that we will have to wait to have called, plus a pair of triplicate forms that no one has taken from us, we patiently await our turn in a DMV-style waiting room. The numbers you have been given are called at intervals, so that you may be "serviced" by a knuckle-dragging, drooling idiot in the order in which your request was received.<br />
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Now, I use the term "knuckle-dragging, drooling idiot" with a bit of reticence here, because our interaction with them was minimal. They are behind thick glass, and thicker walls, and barely speak. They take your triplicate form, split it into it's component parts. They scan your identification documents. They write something unintelligible on one of the papers they've just taken from you, and staple another to a fourth piece of paper that gets spit out of a printer on the counter. The unionized douche behind the thick glass and bulletproof walls then informs you that the 48 minutes you've just spent waiting for your number to be called was a complete waste of time, because the two triplicate forms you've just filled in, the computer nonsense you've endured, the strip search you've received at the front door, were all for naught.<br />
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<span style="color: blue;"><em>Your documentation will be sent to you via snail mail in approximately 10 business days, because why should overpaid underworked New York City Bureaucrats be the only ones to have a piece of this scam. The Post Office needs some love, too.</em></span><br />
<span style="color: blue;"><em><br /></em></span><span style="color: black;">If you ask the woman you just told you this why this should be, she tells you </span><span style="color: blue;"><em>"that's not my job. If you need more information, there's an information agent on the second floor. Next time, you should do this by mail."</em></span><span style="color: black;"> When you complain to someone, <em><span style="color: blue;">"Hey, if I had known that I could have handled this entire thing by mail, I would have; why wasn't that on the website?"</span></em> you get told that this option is, indeed, on the website, and they point it out to you. And sure enough there was. It was an <em>instructional video</em> on how to make your request for vital records via mail.<br /><br />This is bureaucracy in 21st Century New York.<br /><br />Records that are not computerized so that someone has to search through rooms full of paper seeking them (hence, the 10 business day wait); clerks who are being paid to staple pieces of paper -- which they probably misfile or lose immediately -- after the information has already been entered into a computer system for them by the customer; websites that are difficult to navigate and which don't have the address of the agency you're trying to contact; cheerful idiots to hand you paper you don't need and then inform you that you just have to do it this way; a city agency that can take a credit card payment electronically, but which still relies upon the Pony Express to deliver what is paid for; long waits in an uncomfortable waiting room painted institutional canary yellow. All to get a piece of information that, had it been in the private sector's hands, or an efficient government's, would have been online and ready for immediate printing from my desktop.<br /><br />Rube Goldberg would be proud.</span>Matthew Notohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08881509233809999186noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6161738.post-61198655590422323462014-03-22T15:10:00.000-04:002014-04-17T09:40:11.843-04:00Apathy Explained...My apologies for such a long absence. I normally would not have gone this long without making a post of any kind, but truth be told, <em><span style="color: blue;">I'm in a phase where I could really give a shit.</span></em><br />
Sure, I could have posted 500 of the Obama/Pelosi/Liberals/Feminists/Muslims-Are-Stupid-type articles over the last month and a half. <em><span style="color: blue;">Heck, I can do that in my sleep.</span></em> The problem is that it gets repetitive. One can only make the same self-obvious statements (well, to anyone with a pulse and a baboon-level IQ, that is) before one begins to feel as if there is no point to it. That is to say, there is no point in making the same points.<br />
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I could have been all over this Malaysian airliner business, but that, too, bores me. Frankly, I'm at the stage where I couldn't care less. My point of view on the subject is this: airliners crash or get hijacked. It's inevitable. If whatever unholy accident created us had wanted us to fly it would have provided us with wings, or perhaps anti-gravity belts, and if terrorists of any stripe had the ability to actually see whatever it is they're terrorizing for become a reality, they wouldn't have to steal airplanes and kill people. I don't know anyone on board. It ain't my plane. I could go on being perfectly happy if the damned thing was never found again and the people aboard disappeared into the fabric of history.<br />
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<em><span style="color: blue;">The only passing interest I have in the whole, sordid ordeal is whether or not Boeing has made a defective product, just in case I have to get on one sometime soon.</span></em><br />
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No, I can hardly muster up the strength comment on the current state of affairs, most days. There's nothing to talk about that hasn't been talked to death: ObamaCare still sucks, the GOP is still run by retards, the democratic party is run by Rhesus monkeys for the benefit of dumber Rhesus monkeys, Pop Culture is still dominated by the need to cater to the lowest common denominator, The Media is no better than the writers of children's books, and the only way to improve the United States (and Western Culture) is to undertake a systematic program of euthanasia, so that we may rid ourselves of the sort of mentality that is entertained by reality television, believes it has the right to live 30 years beyond it's savings at other people's expense, or which believes that the Bible/Torah/Koran holds all the answers to the existential mysteries, and represents a positive political program for betterment, despite any evidence to the contrary.<br />
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That's where we're at: nothing short of violence and genocide, the systematic destruction of the weak, the stupid, the inbred, the useless, the elderly-beyond-repair will even begin to return the world to some semblance of sanity.<br />
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Why, I could write stuff like that all day, but why would you need to read it? I'm betting the majority of you are thinking it, anyway, and that some of that same majority doesn't realize that it applies to you, as well, in my mind.<br />
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Besides, that sort of thing is impractical. Hell, you can't even kill mosquitoes in this world without millions of sentimental mouth-breathers picketing outside your front door and calling you nasty names on the Internet or TV.<br />
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But the thought is tantalizing. I'm beginning to understand just what sort of appeal these kinds of ideas have had in the past on people like the Nazis. I don't mean to say that I wish to see it happen, only that I can begin to understand why it did.<br />
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Which brings me to something I actually DO care about, which is that there is a coming upheaval of a violent nature about to occur in this country. It will emerge from one of two quarters;<br />
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A) Inbred, redneck, Bible-Thumpin', sister-fuckin', flannel-wearin', NASCAR-watchin', tin-foil-hat-wearin' douchebags all over America will have finally had enough after 8 years of Obama, and decide that since they cannot win by electoral politics (<em><span style="color: blue;">because the GOP seems set to throw up yet another mediocre personality who's only virtue will be the ability to make it past Super Tuesday with enough money to coast to the Convention and nomination, but otherwise no convictions or plans beyond getting elected</span></em>), and take to the streets, armed to the teeth, to do those things the government WON'T do, but which they believe it should have done.<br />
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Like send the Mexicans back south, turn off the Welfare spigots, kill Muslims and Gays, and install some variant of an insane Christian doctrine as the Law of the Land, at gunpoint. It's the only way they can get Raptured, some of them will figure, and the dumber among them will see it as a Patriotic duty. <br />
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B) Millions upon Millions of America's Useless Mouths will take to the streets to riot when a GOP revolution sweeps Washington which will systematically dismantle the Welfare State one brick at a time, <em><span style="color: blue;">and threaten to toss them into the cold, cruel world of the Free Market where they will have to...gasp!...work for a living and compete against people who speak English, can add, don't have drug habits, criminal records, and a string of bastards, and who have evolved to a state of higher personal hygiene.</span></em><br />
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The carnage shall be great.<br />
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One side will figure it'll win because it's "Principled" defense of the Second Amendment means that it has more full-auto weapons and ammo on hand, before they lose that advantage by turning on each other in an argument over the "true" interpretation of some obscure Bible quote. The Other Side will foolishly believe that there is Strength in Numbers, neglecting to notice that their numbers include the lazy, the obese, the dumber-than-dogshit and will still be led by irrationally-guilty white Libtards hoping that an ersatz show of solidarity will mean the beast will eat them last, and who are by training and mindset incapable of leading a three-year-old to the crapper; because leadership means original thinking and a sense of responsibility. That's all before the rank-and-file turn on each other in one of those silly East Coast-versus-West Coast rap arguments that don't make sense to anyone able to read.<br />
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It will not matter who actually controls the government then, whether Republican or democrat (small 'd' intentional), Conservative or Liberal, Capitalist or Socialist, popular figure swept into power by a wave of public support or political apparatchik. The two groups are all set to go up against each other, and there is no courtroom, no voting booth, no sports arena, that will be able to contain it. It's unerringly headed for disastrous violence.<br />
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Which is a shame, because there's a whole lot of innocents that will be caught in the middle of this coming Un-Civil War, who would be quite happy to see the other two sides destroy each other, but will just to have to deal with all that extra traffic and the occasionally-empty shelf in a supermarket that's been looted twice in the same week, and all set for either fortification or arson the following week.<br />
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That's right, we sane people who don't believe religion and politics should mix, who don't believe that unproductive people should be given food, shelter, housing and medical care without a good prospect of the recipient representing some form of reasonable economic return, who don't care if your grandmother -- currently circling the bowl these last 18 months -- is brought in for a gentle landing when she finally does us all a favor and shuffles off this mortal coil by the expenditure of medical resources (paid for by other people) on a lost cause. We'll suffer more than the rest of you combined.<br />
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Because we already have to suffer for your stupidity. <br />
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You can't say anything these days without having to stop and consider if whatever you have to say can be construed as racist/sexist/homophobic/elitist, et. al. You can't make lifestyle choices --do I live in a bigger house? do I drive a less-fuel-efficient car? should I smoke or drink? -- without some self-elected shithead passing judgment upon you, mostly out of his own stupidity and jealousy. You can't tell the truth anymore, because truth hurts someone's feelings. You can't vote for people who approximate your political views anymore because both parties manage to manipulate voting blocs to such an extent that whatever stands for election isn't a qualified candidate, but an amalgam of myriad contradictions and compromises who can at least mouth the proper platitudes.<br />
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We have to suffer through MSNBC and NPR, and pay for Big Bird (who is a multi-billion dollar business in his ownn right). We have to deal with the consequences of a healthcare law we didn't want, didn't need, and now are expected to have to pay for. We have to suffer through the sanctimonious bullshit of an Al Sharpton, a Je$$e Jackson, a John McCain and a Sarah Palin. We have to struggle through a treacherous employment market made more so by rising taxes (to pay for the useless and the Baby Boomers, sorry, that was redundant) while being hammered over the head all day with epithets from the two sides that should kill each other:<br />
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Racist!<br />
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Sexist!<br />
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Homophobe!<br />
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Un-American!<br />
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RINO!<br />
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Heathen!<br />
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Personally, I resent having people who have, on the one hand, fucked up our political system by dragging their religion into it to the extent that that it can't be un-fucked short of violence, and on the other, people who live by the sweat of my brow who believe they have the inalienable right to judge me despite being unworthy of licking my sweaty scrotum or of scrubbing my floors, judging me or telling me what I HAVE to do.<br />
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To hell with both of you.<br />
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So, why should I care about anything? Does anyone on either side of the coming fight -- nose-picking fundamentalist or knuckle-dragging reprobate -- actually care what I'm thinking or feeling? Hell no: to one, I'm supposed to knuckle under and do what he wants me to because he thinks something called "God" says so, and to the other, it's my job to simply shut the fuck up, pay for their Jerri-Curl, diabetes, bi-lingual schools, and then don't dare to either remind them of it, or judge them for it, or expect them to do anything productive with it all.<br />
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Screw all of you! I hope you manage to kill each other by the tens of millions. In the meantime, I'll be shooting at both of you when the time comes.Matthew Notohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08881509233809999186noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6161738.post-50712589410496039152014-02-28T10:52:00.002-05:002014-02-28T10:52:53.354-05:00The Lunatic Will Be Back Shortly....Apologies for lack of activity, but the Lunatic has been extremely busy this past month. A new stream of mental diarrhea is on track for next week. Stay tuned!<br />
Matthew Notohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08881509233809999186noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6161738.post-2819915057260037432014-01-22T12:33:00.001-05:002014-01-22T21:58:30.988-05:00Douchebag of the Week (1/25/14): Governor Andrew Cuomo<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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There's an old saying in these parts, that is, on Staten Island, the Forgotten Borough of New York City, that the "apple does not fall far from the tree."<br />
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In our crankier and less-forgiving moments, this saying is often modified thusly:<br />
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<i><span style="color: blue;">"The turd doesn't fall far from the asshole..."</span></i><br />
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Oh, how we have been blessed here in New York State! We have had the distinct pleasure (<i><span style="color: blue;">about as pleasurable as having your ass shaved with a cheese grater and then having lemon juice poured on the wound</span></i>) of living under the enlightened despotism of two Cuomos. First, there was Mario (the Asshole), and now, we suffer under the misguided stupidity that is the regime led by his son, Andrew (The Turd).<br />
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<a name='more'></a><i><span style="color: blue;">Quite frankly, until Hurricane Sandy hit us here I was under the impression that we didn't have a governor. I'm fairly certain we could survive without one, too. </span></i>After all, we never saw the man, and if he had anything to say, no one reported it; if he was doing anything, no one cared. It was as if, by some mystical and largely anonymous convention, the office of Governor of the State of New York had been wordlessly abolished, as if there were no one sitting in the governor's office.<br />
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But then came Sandy, and whenever a disaster strikes you can count upon three things: FEMA will be here next month and promptly lose the required paperwork, the Illegal Immigrants will get any government aid that arrives first, and every pissant, shit-for-brains politician within 500 miles will show up to stand around in the devastation to get his/her face on the television.<br />
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And thus, I, along with millions of other New Yorkers, had suddenly discovered that we did, indeed, have a governor. In fact, we had had one all along, but just hadn't noticed. Then again, it isn't as if the man gave us anything to talk about, or did anything particularly noteworthy. For all intents and purposes a virtual nullity, a hole in the air, something akin to a bad-but-transitory odor has been occupying the governor's mansion in Albany. There was absolutely no reason to pay attention to Andrew Cuomo. It was as if we went from the blind David Paterson to the Deaf-Dumb-And-Blind Cuomo. There was no one steering the ship, and quite frankly, no one much seemed to mind.<br />
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But then came the Big Wind and in it's wake The Big Blowhard. Suddenly, we found out that we really did have someone who called himself governor, and by God, he was on this Hurricane shit like white on rice. He held a lot of press conferences, by golly, and he said a lot of things that no one really listened to or cares to remember, and he ate up a lot of airtime in the media....<i><span style="color: blue;">but nothing happened</span></i>. If you want to know just how effective all that posturing, all that time in front of television cameras was, then come here to Staten Island and see what's left of the South Shore nearly two years after Sandy. Houses are still piles of rubble, no one can rebuild because the promised state and federal funds haven't arrived, people are still homeless, and their insurance companies are dragging their feet on making good their losses.<br />
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But Andrew Cuomo certainly gave it to the utility companies, yessirrree!, for being unable to deal with a once-in-a-century superstorm. Why, he was up there with the rest of the Flapping Rectum Class (that would be anyone connected to the democratic machine of the State of New York) screaming about how the utility companies were "price gouging" while they couldn't deliver power to some places for all the downed transmission lines and flooded equipment, and threatening them with dire consequences ("<i><span style="color: blue;">I'll say bad things about you in the press,and sue you if you don't do what I want!"</span></i>) if they didn't perform a miracle and rebuild a damaged grid in the same manner in which Moses parted the Red Sea. Why, our Andy was all full of piss and vinegar....<br />
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<i><span style="color: blue;">But mostly full of shit...</span></i><br />
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Because as soon as the hubbub over Sandy dissipated, as soon as the cameras were gone, so was Andy. For he had bigger fish to fry than some homeless citizens who were in dire straits, up to their asses in floating debris. No, he had to immediately turn his attention to the really important issues that were keeping New Yorkers from living the American Dream.<br />
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<i><span style="color: blue;">After all, gays couldn't be legally married in New York State, and this was a tragedy on par with the Holocaust. </span></i>And when he had accomplished that mighty goal, he simply disappeared, again. And quite frankly, we kind of liked it that way.<br />
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But, as another local saying goes, "Shit Floats". It doesn't matter how you try to keep Andrew Cuomo down, he still manages to emerge from the sewer every once in a while and pollute the public discourse with his rancid brand of identity politics and pandering.<br />
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Which brings us to the latest Cuomo Kerfuffle; recently, our Intrepid Asswipe took to the airwaves, and in that singularly annoying, condescending tone he often employs, openly stated that anyone who doesn't adhere to the proper political program of the Modern Democratic Party -- <i><span style="color: blue;">that is to say, anyone to the Right of Stalin, or anyone with an opinion that he finds objectionable </span></i>-- has no place in New York. He goes on to say that pro-Life, pro-gun, Anti-Gay opinions are not "who New Yorkers are".<br />
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<i><span style="color: blue;">Quite frankly Andrew Cuomo wouldn't know who New Yorkers were if one ran up to him and bit him on his considerable ass (which is perched atop his neck)</span></i>. I'm not going to go back and reprint what the moron said, because it's not worth the bandwidth and if you're a thinking individual who can breathe without the assistance of a government program, you know what he said, already, and how he meant it (even if he has walked it back) because you pay attention. However, Cuomo has only been echoing the New Normal of Democratic Party Politics, which is to say that, having seen their boilerplate program of the last 40 years finally collapse in a collision with reality, the New Democratic Paradigm is to simply double down on stupid, get more vocal and strident about it, and persist on expending energy and other people's money on things that don't fucking work.<br />
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Like welfare. And class warfare. And using wedge issues wherever they can be found to pull people apart, all the while screaming about a lack of tolerance and courtesy, a lack of unity, and the polarization of American Politics.<br />
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A few words here on those issues: when it comes to diversity and tolerance, liberals (small "l" intentional) talk a good game, but at the end of the day, they mean not a word of it. They can only tolerate other liberals, that is to say, people who think and speak and act like they do. The mere existence of a contrary thought drives them into fits of apoplexy. Secondly, the words are made doubly meaningless because they are always spoken in the context of political power. That is to say, they are only important in terms of how many votes and campaign contributions they bring, and the amount of discord they generate that then can be put to political purposes. It's marketing, it's false advertising. In the case of Andrew Cuomo, it's the whole core of his political philosophy, for as he once famously said while he was Secretary of Housing and Urban Development:<br />
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<i><span style="color: blue;">"The PR is the important thing I do. Eighty percent of this battle is communications."</span></i><br />
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And speaking of his term as Housing and Urban Development Secretary, I want to engage in a little thought experiment; take a look at your local Urban. Does it seem developed to you?<br />
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Of course not. Mostly because HUD exists to perform political work, not the actual task of ensuring that people can afford homes, or that business comes to the inner city (just ask Detroit). It is a political creature that exists to perform public relations work for the loonier fringes of the American Left. In fact, under Cuomo's tenure as HUD chief, it's own inspector general caught him out in using federal funds to hire what were, for all intents and purposes, democratic party ward healers in many major cities in this country (the Community Builders scandal). Eight hundred of them, in fact, paid $100,000 a year with taxpayer money, who, according to the inspector general's report "<i><span style="color: blue;">Community Builders is a political organization that has no real accomplishments</span></i>."<br />
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Andy is also front and center in the destruction of the real estate market, for while at HUD, he leaned on Fannie and Freddie to make what everyone knew were bad mortgage loans to people based solely upon their race. If your house is now underwater -- in terms of it's mortgage, or literally in the aftermath of Hurricane Sandy -- you can blame, in part, Andrew Cuomo, who thought that pandering to "The Poor" in this country (note: we don;t have "Poor" people; we have mollycoddled lazy assholes), it might raise his own political profile. In fact, that's what Andrew Cuomo does all the time: tend to his political profile, for this flaming piece of shit believes he has what it takes to one day be President.<br />
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He's a self-promoting, do-nothing, say-anything apparatchik who thinks highly of himself when everyone else wishes with every fiber of their being that he would simply just disappear.<br />
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The truth about Andrew Cuomo is that he's a nobody. A speck of dust that lives under your refrigerator. If I were Mario, I'd ask for a paternity test. Then again, Mario probably already knows that Andrew is, unfortunately, his spawn, because the arrogance and stupidity were the hallmarks of his rule over the Empire State, too.<br />
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Do you know why Andrew Cuomo said what he did about Republicans not being welcome in New York State? Two reasons: one, he has just seen a complete communist, Bill DiBlasio, elected Mayor of New York on a platform similar to that of Stalin's persecution of the Kulaks, and figures he'd better get in on this electoral gold while the getting is good. Second, because he's testing the waters for a presidential bid in 2016, just in case Benghazi finally sinks Hillary Clinton for good. In order to do this, he must prove to the democratic base (that is, the welfare queens, the disability cheats, the lazy and stupid union workers, the bureaucratic class, the Communism-is-a-good-thing-if-only-you-find-the-right-Communists crowd, the Occupy Wall Street dipshits) that he can Out-Left Hillary, who can be counted upon to do only one thing, which is to do or say only those things that her pollsters, advisers and nominal husband tell her she needs to do and say.<br />
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Which tells you how much faith the democratic base has in Clinton, at this point in time. They know she'll say whatever she has to, and throw them under the bus, if need be, to get a nomination, and then rule as a centrist-in-name-only if she gets elected. They're so scared they're even willing to listen to an Andrew Cuomo, if he sings the proper tune. How do you think we got Barack Obama as a president, after all? Hillary portrayed herself as a near-normal, middle-of-the-road sort, and other than an occasional word or two about a stupid issue that interests Libtards, she practically sounded like a republican. Which is why she didn't get the nomination.<br />
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But, back to Andy....<br />
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Andrew Cuomo will never be a serious contender for the Presidency. hell, it's even a miracle he's managed to become Governor, until you realize that the denizens of New York City, who depend upon government funding for their lifestyle of bastardy and substance abuse, can outvote the rest of the goddamned state every day of the week. This is the curse of New York State politics, and it should come as no surprise that it would throw up a dingbat who can make a statement (paraphrased) that if you're not a fur-breasted, fire-breathing, New-Deal-Great-Society warrior willing to pander to the lowest common denominator, you ain't got a snowball's chance in hell in the new Democratic Party which has become ever more mean, ever more shrill, ever more dedicated to self-immolation ever since it hitched it star to a President who's only talent seems to be for going on vacation.<br />
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That's Andrew Cuomo, the last deckhand on the Titanic, valiantly striving to save the sinking ship by bailing with a thimble, in the desperate hope that, should he succeed, that he might be given command of his own vessel, one day. One which he will promptly run aground on a reef seeing as how he couldn't lead a three year old to the crapper, and has the thought process one usually equates with those afflicted by Cerebral Palsy.<br />
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So, Governor Cuomo, for being such a hateful, spiteful, mean-spirited asshole, for having the audacity to all-but-declare yourself an Emperor and not an elected official beholden to the people of the Great Empire State, for the accident of birth that saw you born the son of one of the worst Americans to ever live, for having the unmitigated gall to bestow upon yourself the title of Arbiter of All That's Right and Proper, and finally, for failing the people of my hometown, Staten Island, who needed help in the aftermath of a destructive storm (<i><span style="color: blue;">I'm sure if the residents of the South Shore were black, and you needed their votes, you'd have been there with the money and resources with bells on</span></i>), I bestow upon you the Douchebag of the Week Award.<br />
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Perhaps you and your new-found gay friends could find interesting things to do with it...Matthew Notohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08881509233809999186noreply@blogger.com8tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6161738.post-86016497531502367862014-01-20T23:21:00.001-05:002014-01-21T00:19:42.855-05:00A Tale of Two Kitties...I have to do it this way, Kiddies, because otherwise Libtards don't understand. I've discovered recently that a Libtard manages to just barely grasp a simple notion if you present it graphically, and if you can include cat pictures, they love it even more.<br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Now, I know that people are not the same as cats, but bear with me, because I have to explain a thing or two about these animals before I make my argument. Perhaps after this little explanation, the analogy will start to make sense. The cat on the Left (below) is a pampered housecat. The one on the Right (below) is a feral cat, and yes, my use of Left and Right does have a specific point, and that will become crystal clear as I get to the end of this little screed.</span><br />
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The pictures of the two felines below are a metaphor for American Life:<br />
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<i><span style="color: blue;">Fluffy, the Cat on The Left, is analogous to today's modern Liberal. </span></i>She lives entirely by the efforts of others; someone feeds her, she doesn't pay for the food, and all she has to do is probably kick up a fuss, and some dipshit with little native intelligence will bring her a bowl of food and some water, and perhaps the occasional saucer of milk. That's primarily why she's such a fat little fucking bastard.<br />
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I would not doubt that at some point Fluffy was de-clawed, meaning whoever runs the house that she lives in (and doesn't pay for) probably decided that since she was going to be a housecat -- a favored pet, if you will -- she would not need to go outside (where she might have to defend herself from other cats), and therefore, did not need her claws. Besides, if she had her claws she'd only do something stupid and inconvenient with them, like scratch up the furniture.<br />
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It's probably also safe to say that Fluffy has has been spayed, because if there's anything we don't need, it's more fat-ass lazy cats who won't carry thier own freight and climb the drapes like the cats do back on whatever continent they originated on.<br />
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Fluffy probably doesn't have to waddle her ginormous kitty backside to the litter box, either; Asswipe owner probably hauls her bloated carcass to the Shitbox, and then cleans it, because if there's anything worse than a fat fucking cat who plays in the Venetian blinds, doesn't chase mice (or much of anything else), claws up your carpets, and can't reproduce, it's one who's only reason for existence is to have food shoveled in one end and fecal matter ejected from the other, and considering the smell of cat dung that's been left around for any appreciable amount of time, it's probably a minor inconvenience to drag thirty pounds of cat around two or three times a day.<br />
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Eventually, because the drooling idiot who owns Fluffy has made her grossly obese with all the food and mollycoddling, the stupid cat will die of feline diabetes or something, but only after racking up enormous end-of-life-care bills at the vet because the above mentioned drooling idiot can't bear to part with the little fucking furball when reality -- and mortality -- finally sets in.<br />
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Fluffy is representative of the cancer that is eating America from the inside. <i><span style="color: blue;">She is a welfare queen, who has her every need catered to by a complete doofus who's thought processes are somewhat suspect.</span></i> After all, this person decided to own a relatively useless animal, a cat, and then pamper it in a way that would make a Saudi Prince green with envy. In this way, Fluffy demonstrates the symbiotic relationship between "The Poor" (I'll tell you why that's in quotation marks in a minute) and the well-meaning-but-utterly-clueless, feel-before-thinking, batshit-insane jerk who decided that what really gives her (it's usually a "her") peace of mind or happiness is to overindulge an animal who doesn't care, will never thank her for it in any meaningful way, never learn to fend for itself, and is probably plotting her demise right this very minute...if only she could get off her fat tush and claw that woman's throat out.<br />
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Think about it this way: Fluffy, before being fatter than Oprah finally does her in, will have been housed in someone else's house at no cost (Section 8 Housing), fed at another's expense and by another's labor (Food Stamps), will have been given access to birth control that she will never have to spend a nickle on and will be given every wonder of veterinary science in a useless effort to extend her unproductive life (ObamaCare), has food and water handed to her (EBT Card), has been disarmed for her own good (Gun Control), and her waste and sticky, upchucked hairballs carted away for her. Fluffy, on a good day, simply has to breathe and meow, and Delirious Cat Owner will give her whatever she wants, because Delirious Cat Owner is obviously a mental patient who has decided that the cost of keeping a cat as a prized pet is to overfeed it, spoil it within in an inch of it's life, expect it to do nothing all day, in an effort to avoid the more dire consequences of cat ownership -- which is a caterwauling mass of diabolical fur and teeth which often has the same disposition as a menstrual wolverine. If Fluffy were black or hispanic or gay, there'd probably be an affirmative action program or entitlement with her name on it.</div>
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Tiger is going to have lots of progeny, seeing as how her privates are intact. All those mouths to feed means that Tiger has to be a responsible mother, and so she does what tradition and instinct have told her it is necessary to do in order to ensure that her young survive; she feeds them from her own breast. She hunts more often in order to maintain her own food supply and to provide for her youngins. Eventually, when the kittens are old enough, she will teach them the hunting techniques that millions of years of evolution have given to cats. And because Tiger doesn't live at the equivalent of the Kitty Ritz-Carlton, she has to hunt and defend herself in the world with the weapons that God gave her: <i><span style="color: blue;">claws and teeth</span></i>. Without them, Tiger wouldn't last a minute in this cold, cruel world.</div>
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There are legions of bureaucrats who's only function is to "help" "The Poor". This "help" takes the form of victimizing them again and again: you'd be stupid to go get a real job since welfare pays so much better than anything you're qualified for. We could give you an education that would qualify for something better, but that would mean that thousands of so-called teachers on the union payroll might actually have to perform, rather than just collect a check and pay dues. </div>
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We could let you defend yourselves, but, alas, like the pampered housecat, giving you weapons only creates more problems for us (tattered drapes, ruined furniture, destroyed hardwood floors). There's people who live to "help" you fill in forms; some whose function is to answer the phones in some government office before giving you the wrong information. There are others there to simply "advocate" for you, to "investigate" you, to classify and count you, to hand you a check, to rubber stamp a form, to run the copy machines, to make coffee, and since they all "work" in a government building, they provide "jobs" for tens of millions of others just like them -- largely complete douchebags who only have a job because they managed to "pass" a civil service exam written by and for complete illiterates with a 62.. </div>
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Yes, Fluffy is emblematic of "The Poor"; they are the pampered pets of the democratic (small 'd' intentional) party that sees to their every need, coos encouraging words -- the words they want to hear -- in their ears, goes through the wasted effort of expending resources on an animal that is so fat and dumb it probably can't even lick it's own ass anymore, and does everything in it's power to keep it that way. After all, there's votes in all that poverty; the recipients will vote if you promise them more, the providers will vote because it means a continued paycheck, the bureaucrats will vote for it because it means they don't have to compete in the private sector -- and lose -- the Productive Class will give you the money because to not give it means millions of Fluffys manage to work up enough ambition to riot. And all the while it rains dollah-dollah everywhere, except on Fluffy. <br />
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We haven't handed out many DOW awards recently, what with the only possible winner being our President it hardly seemed worth the effort, but yesterday was a different story.<br />
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What, pray, did our intrepid, crybaby Speaker do? Gather 'round, my children, and I shall spin you a tale.<br />
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What the Orange Asswipe did was to take to a podium to browbeat the Tea Party and Fiscal Conservatives over their vocal opposition to the new Ryan-Murray budget "compromise" bill that seems set to pass Congressional Muster very soon. Boehner was angry that Tea Party republicans/fiscal conservatives would dare to criticize this budget deal, and that they should STFU if they knew what was good for them.<br />
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Now, that is a very unusual position for anyone not named Obama to take when it comes to dealing with legitimate criticism, offered in the context of a freewheeling political debate within a country that both guarantees the right to and encourages vigorous debate on any subject under the sun, and quite a few that should never see the light of day.<br />
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One saw in that tantrum a Boehner that seems to have a bug up his ass at what he sees as unfair criticism (and let's face it; when you've been criticized as much as Cryin' John for everything from your lack of guts to your unnatural neon orange glow, you probably have a short temper when it comes to criticism. Or maybe he was just suffering from cramps and water retention?). Maybe, just maybe, John has gotten to the end of his rope vis-a-vis these Tea party parvenus -- especially the ones that want his head yesterday -- but hey, guess what, Johnny Boy? they got company just about everywhere.<br />
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The particulars of the deal are largely irrelevant. When you live in a country hurtling towards $20 trillion in debt, the savings of a few score billion, at most, seems trivial. The spin that has been generated by some GOP congresscritters on the TV talking head programs about the deal -- this idea that we still get to keep 60/70/90-percent of the 'sequester' cuts over the long haul --- only heightens the sense among many that we're being sold a load of goods, once again. In a country that has been sold destruction of the healthcare and insurance industries, crony capitalism, phony Green Energy 'investments', spiraling debt, Benghazi's protest-gone-out-of-hand nonsense, surrender in the face of the Mullahs as 'progress' as something spectacularly wonderful by the Other Side, you cannot blame your own side for feeling that some sheep are about to pulled over someone's wool.<br />
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After all, Johnny you were the general who presided over a good many of those things, either as Minority or Majority Leader, or Speaker, and while you may not be personally responsible for them all you certainly haven't shown much in the way of being able to slow that runaway train of stupidity down, or of making much of a case that if only YOU had been in charge that things would look much different.<br />
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You are, after all, not all that much different than your counterparts -- Obama, Pelosi, Reid -- that is to say, a ticket-punching apparatchik. You may espouse a different political philosophy, but your bread was still buttered the same way theirs was, by being, above all, a Loyal Party Man.<br />
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But why, one asks, was the defense of what is really just a hold-the-line delaying tactic, and which should have been explained that way, something that required Boehner to attack the very people his party is going to depend upon next year to deliver majorities in both House and Senate? What the heck is going on here? Why does Boehner suddenly seem to have developed a pair of testes, and then, inexplicably, decided to apply the resulting influx of testosterone against his own? An explanation is in order.<br />
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But since we're not likely to get one from either Boehner himself, or from the 'official' quarters of the GOP, I will have to engage in some speculation as to why this is. Here goes, in no particular order:<br />
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1. Congress, and especially the GOP-dominated House, is about as popular as a battery acid enema. Much of this stems from the fact that House Republicans are a rather, shall we say, asinine lot. And I say this as a stalwart republican. Just look at who runs things there, after all. Boehner is ably assisted in his stupidity by another milquetoast in the form of Eric Cantor. The two of them remind me of those episodes of <i>South Park</i>, where Butters plays superhero with his little friend Dougie,<b><span style="color: blue;"><a href="http://www.southparkstudios.com/clips/153478/foiled-plot#searchterm=professor%20chaos%20and%20general%20disarray" target="_blank"> and they become Professor Chaos and General Disarray.</a></span></b><br />
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<i><span style="color: blue;">When you're operating in the public eye under the handicap that the rest of the planet believes you to be a complete dingus, you get to be a little touchy, admittedly</span></i>. Especially when you have few achievements of your own to point to or to deflect criticism. Had Boehner been able to turn his newly-won GOP majority in the House into something concrete and positive, rather than being able to simply stymie the hated Obamatards at every turn (appreciated, but not exactly exciting), then perhaps the criticism would cease.<br />
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But accomplishing something like that would require talent. Like for politics, and stuff. And would be hard work. Does John Boehner strike you as someone who either has any talent or who does anything harder than sit under a tanning light? Besides, you have all them pictures of yourself playing golf with Adolf Hit...erm...I mean President Obama, a man who gives millions indigestion as soon as his face shows up on television.<br />
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No, Johnny Boy, the criticism is just. Perhaps you did have a hell of a mountain to climb, but not only did you fail to climb it, you never even left base camp.<br />
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2. Congress is Unpopular, Part II. Mostly this is for two reasons: a) <i><span style="color: blue;">Congress is full of doofuses</span></i>, and b) <i><span style="color: blue;">the doofuses never seem capable of compromising and getting something productive or reasonable done</span></i>. True, there was a compromise here, but the jury is out on whether or not it will be a productive, reasonable enterprise.<br />
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Which might be the source of Captain Naranja's anger. He's been getting blasted for Congress having not achieved much in the positive, and here is an actual achievement that they're trying to spin as a positive, and it's being criticized. <span style="color: blue; font-style: italic;">Damned if you do and damned if you don't. </span>Nature of the beast. Suck it up and soldier on.<br />
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So maybe Boehner's objection is that the<span style="background-color: #cccccc;"><i> institution</i> </span>is being unfairly attacked for doing what most of America (actually, most of the Press) has begged it to do for much of the last five years -- get some of that bi-partisan compromise shit that Chris Matthews loves so much going and produce something, anything, that at least smells better and has less flies on it than what Congress typically produces.<br />
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Perhaps because the Institution has such a foul reputation that no amount of "bi-partisanship" (and I'll deal with this word in a second) can disguise the fact that if it looks like shit, still smells slightly like shit, that it probably is shit.<br />
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As to bi-partisanship. This is a code word. It really means that one side has managed to bribe the other enough so that they both can take some blame when their crimes are finally discovered. For democrats, this little bit of bi-partisanship is merely window-dressing; they have to run for election again next year, and perhaps the second-worst label they can be tagged with is "profligate spender". The biggest is ObamaCare, but they can't do anything about that now. Suffice to say, that all you'll hear from campaigning democrats next year is 'fiscal responsibility' and 'deficit reduction' and they'll point to their vote on this nonsense as proof of their credibility on the issue.<br />
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For the GOP, bi-partisanship is a shield that they will use to try (and fail) to deflect the enormous criticism machine of the American press which is permanently aimed in their direction. Whenever they're accused by MSNBC of being unreasonable, they'll point to this agreement and say "hey, we crossed the isle and worked with your side" and try to use that to quell the resulting shitstorm.<br />
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This will fail,. largely because the American press is <i>de facto </i>and <i>de jure</i> an arm of the DNC. It has no vested interest in giving the GOP credit for anything, let alone for giving democrats at least half of what they wanted. The GOP has to learn that it cannot win the propaganda war with the mainstream press, no matter how much it compromises. It must also learn that whenever it compromises it seems to take the worst of the deal, because the overriding concern for them is to make a deal above all else (to show they've accomplished something) and the devil is always hidden in the details (so that they don't have to admit what they've given away).<br />
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The optics of the recent government shutdown and the mock heroics of Ted Cruz must weigh heavily on John Boehner's mind, these days. It does not matter that, in the end, people like Mike Lee and Ted Cruz were right to try and force a government shutdown -- the public's attention has already waned on that subject -- the idea is that the only thing they will remember about the whole affair is that the Republicans made grandma's Social Security check late by a few days, and a soldier somewhere didn't get buried because his family didn't get the death benefit check in time for the funeral. The GOP is deathly afraid of being blamed for things like that, and with the possibility of reliving that drama all over again, it was perhaps thought better to cave on a few billion here and there than to hold the line of fiscal sanity.<br />
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<i><span style="color: blue;">Because that's how you get Rachel Maddow to like you, you know</span></i>. Despite the fact that having Rachel Maddow in your corner is probably the next best thing to having simultaneous terminal cases of AIDS, Lupus and Ebola, it's probably not such a good thing to be seen as letting your opponent off the mat just as the ref is about to count "three".<br />
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3. Frankly, when you're poised to recapture both houses of Congress because your ideological enemies can't stop shooting themselves in the ass, it's probably not such a good thing to beat your own side like a rented mule.<br />
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<i><span style="color: blue;">One characteristic of the GOP in the last 30 years is that it is perfectly capable of snatching defeat from the jaws of victory on any given day</span></i>. At any time, someone is capable of going off the reservation and do something stupid.that threatens to undermine the GOP majority, when they have one. Typically, this is someone who has higher aspirations who has to make some bold move or statement to distinguish himself from the crowd, or as the Press likes to say, prove that he's "a moderate", which is a code word for traitor who gave the demos what they wanted/needed. Sometimes, it's just hubris; the R's get just as carried away with power as the D's.<br />
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Here is Boehner shouting down his base. Is he trying to position himself for something greater in the future by showing the likes of Matt Lauer that he's capable of standing up to his own party, and therefore, not your typical caricature of a republican? Probably not. As I've said, John Boehner is not a worker, and it takes work to be President of the United States or to stay Speaker of the House.<br />
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Is Boehner trying to soften the GOP brand ahead of the mid-term elections by portraying the House GOP as more moderate than those whackjob God-Guns-and-Gays types and them Tea Party people? Maybe, but to what end? To prevent the Tea Party and Fiscal conservatives from running primary opponents against his majority members? Hey, it was the Tea Party and Fiscal Conservatives that GAVE you that Majority in the first place!<br />
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4. Are we seeing, at long last, the schism that must occur between the more Fiscally-conservative and Constitutional wing of the GOP and the more traditional, machine-driven, coalition of religious idiots and single-issue voters that prop the likes of Boehner up? Perhaps. Is this a good thing? Damned straight.<br />
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For the GOP, just like any brand name, any corporation, any sports team, needs to evolve in order to succeed on a continual basis. That means some people have to go, and new ones get brought in. It means old ideas must be re-examined, and those that are either no longer operative or defective, get chucked. It means that a new electoral coalition must be formed, one that looks nothing like the one that brought such otherwise unremarkable people like John Boehner to power.<br />
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So, here's Boehner, and he's surrounded; on one side you have the democrats who are always out for his scalp on general principles. On another, you have the coalition-by-formula-and-party-apparatus which is both failing and flailing, but upon which he depends. On a third side, you have a new, energetic, but badly maligned (even if they are right) force that seeks to unseat him, too. What would you do?<br />
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You dance with who brung you, is what. You don't bite the hand that feeds you. You try to maintain the status quo. You might try to discredit your frenemies by perpetuating the unfair stereotypes the media (who's love and attention you want so badly) created about them. You try to put a newer and sexier shade of lipstick on the same old pig, and maybe get her a breast enhancement, too.<br />
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You do something stupid, like forget the First Rule of Politics:<br />
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<i><span style="color: blue;">If you can't say something nice about the people you'll need to vote for you and your party in a year, then Shut The Fuck Up.</span></i><br />
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I don't particularly like most Tea Party people, either. But I happen to agree with them on most things. If they have an issue, it's that they usually find the worst examples to advocate for their beliefs. They'll learn.<br />
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But John Boehner seems incapable of learning. Then again, he's seemed incapable of doing much of anything for many years now. Except for picking up a paycheck and turning on the waterworks at the drop of a hat.<br />
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Even Barack Obama has better political skills and instincts than that. His weakness is that he's even dumber than Boehner.<br />
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So, for being a complete asshat and alienating the very voters you will count upon next November, for possessing an infallible instinct to do the wrong thing at the wrong time for the wrong reason every goddamned day of your life, for being a total dickwad in the face of American citizens exercising their Constitutional right to call you out on everything you've ever done in your life, and for having the unmitigated gall to walk around in public in that Rustoleum-like skin tone, you John Boehner, are our Douchebag of the Week.<br />
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Enjoy shithead, and here's hoping you get an early retirement.Matthew Notohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08881509233809999186noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6161738.post-52637149751811284232013-12-05T16:30:00.002-05:002015-07-27T12:06:55.676-04:00145 Reasons Why Liberals Suck...My, how far we have come! It seems like only yesterday (I believe it was 2003) when this meme began here on this site with a short list of 50 Reasons Why Liberals Suck, and the last decade has proven -- once again -- that liberalism (small 'l' intentional) is the gift that just keeps on giving.<br />
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Like AIDS.<br />
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This new fusillade of anti-Libtard observations was prompted by a website (which shall remain nameless, because it's a virtual internet sewer of stupidity) that re-posted one of the earlier iterations of it without my permission nor a back-link, violating, at the very least, internet etiquette rules, which resulted in my mailbox being jammed with angry and derisive e-mails from people who are happy to tell you that while they appreciate and wish to defend Free Speech, what I've posted equates to a permission slip for any crackpot to kill a liberal on sight, and as such, should be condemned as Hate Speech for having the potential to incite violence.<br />
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<b><a href="http://lunaticsasylum.blogspot.com/2012/10/125-reasons-why-liberals-suck.html" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">You can read the last iteration of this list here</span></a></b>. For now, the new-and-improved list has been bolstered by the addition of 20 new maxims about liberals and their wrong-headed policies. Without further ado, here are 145 reasons Why Liberals Suck.<br />
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<a name='more'></a><em style="background-color: #cccccc; line-height: 18px;"><span style="color: #073763; font-family: inherit;">1. Liberalism is a movement of the well-intentioned, but ill-informed, led by the well-informed and ill-intentioned.</span></em><br />
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<em style="background-color: #cccccc; line-height: 18px;"><span style="color: #073763; font-family: inherit;">2. At heart, a liberal is an eternal adolescent, forever in search of escape from conventional morality, consequences and responsibility.</span></em><br />
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<em style="background-color: #cccccc; line-height: 18px;"><span style="color: #073763; font-family: inherit;">3. Freedom from moral consequence can only be secured by a collectivist, totalitarian state.</span></em><br />
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<em style="background-color: #cccccc; line-height: 18px;"><span style="color: #073763; font-family: inherit;">4. The Liberal religion worships the twin gods of The Government and The Genitalia. </span></em><br />
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<em style="background-color: #cccccc; line-height: 18px;"><span style="color: #073763; font-family: inherit;">5. A Liberal believes that psychology is a hard science in the same way that physics and chemistry are hard sciences.</span></em><br />
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<em style="background-color: #cccccc; line-height: 18px;"><span style="color: #073763; font-family: inherit;">6. Freedom, to a Liberal, refers solely to the freedom of the genitalia.</span></em><br />
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<em style="background-color: #cccccc; line-height: 18px;"><span style="color: #073763; font-family: inherit;">7. All non-sexual individual freedoms are despised by the Liberal because they contain within them an element of personal responsibility, self-sacrifice, or abstention.</span></em><br />
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<em style="background-color: #cccccc; line-height: 18px;"><span style="color: #073763; font-family: inherit;">8. Collectivism seeks to eliminate the need for personal responsibility and moral consequence by shifting blame for failure from the individual to "society" or "the System".</span></em><br />
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<em style="background-color: #cccccc; line-height: 18px;"><span style="color: #073763; font-family: inherit;">9. The Constitution and the Bill of Rights are the enemy of the Liberal. Because they are clear in their elaboration of both the rights of the Individual and the Powers of Government, both documents must be subverted, re-interpreted, or ignored, as needed.</span></em><br />
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<em style="background-color: #cccccc; line-height: 18px;"><span style="color: #073763; font-family: inherit;">10. The Liberal hates the United States because it has been the premier guarantor and promoter of individual rights in the history of mankind.</span></em><br />
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<em style="background-color: #cccccc; line-height: 18px;"><span style="color: #073763; font-family: inherit;">11. All institutions – schools, environMENTAL organizations, Civil Rights Groups, Law courts, Markets, etc., serve no relevant purpose to a Liberal except when they can be made to promote the concept of the collective.</span></em><br />
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<em style="background-color: #cccccc; line-height: 18px;"><span style="color: #073763; font-family: inherit;">12. Abortion is necessary to guarantee genital freedom and to further erode the concept of personal responsibility, while eliminating future generations of less-desirable human beings.</span></em><br />
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<em style="background-color: #cccccc; line-height: 18px;"><span style="color: #073763; font-family: inherit;">14. The Liberal must create an atmosphere of perpetual crisis, fear, and envy in order to justify continued collectivist oppression.</span></em><br />
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<em style="background-color: #cccccc; line-height: 18px;"><span style="color: #073763; font-family: inherit;">15. Religion is the enemy of the Liberal since it promotes morality and responsibility and suggests an authority set above Government.</span></em><br />
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<em style="background-color: #cccccc; line-height: 18px;"><span style="color: #073763; font-family: inherit;">16. Despite decades of failure, the Liberal clings to his collectivist ideology because it is HIS religion.</span></em><br />
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<em style="background-color: #cccccc; line-height: 18px;"><span style="color: #073763; font-family: inherit;">17. Liberals seek to dominate any institution that can be used to undermine or eliminate parental rights, such as schools, child-abuse agencies, pediatric associations, etc. and which can be used to turn children into informants for the State against their own parents.</span></em><br />
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<em style="background-color: #cccccc; line-height: 18px;"><span style="color: #073763; font-family: inherit;">18. The Liberal seeks to sanction and jail those who dare to home school their children, or who have the balls and wherewithal to raise their children in an environment outside of Liberal control or influence.</span></em><br />
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<em style="background-color: #cccccc; line-height: 18px;"><span style="color: #073763; font-family: inherit;">19. Individual ownership of firearms is the greatest threat to collectivism and the greatest expression of individual rights, therefore, all Liberals despise guns.</span></em><br />
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<em style="background-color: #cccccc; line-height: 18px;"><span style="color: #073763; font-family: inherit;">20. All freedoms demand responsible behavior. The Liberal despises responsibility, therefore, he despises freedom.</span></em><br />
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<em style="background-color: #cccccc; line-height: 18px;"><span style="color: #073763; font-family: inherit;">21. A Liberal worships his pantheon of Kennedys, Clintons, Cuomos, Jacksons, Gores and Obamas, for WHO they are, and in spite of WHAT they are.</span></em><br />
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<em style="background-color: #cccccc; line-height: 18px;"><span style="color: #073763; font-family: inherit;">22. The Liberal despises National Sovereignty, which is a guarantor of individual freedoms.</span></em><br />
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<em style="background-color: #cccccc; line-height: 18px;"><span style="color: #073763; font-family: inherit;">23. The Liberal promotes international government, such as the United Nations and the European Union, which seek to destroy National Sovereignty. The Soviet Union did not collapse, it merely moved west.</span></em><br />
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<em style="background-color: #cccccc; line-height: 18px;"><span style="color: #073763; font-family: inherit;">24. The Liberal is obsessed with the idea of centralized control of all human endeavors.</span></em><br />
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<em style="background-color: #cccccc; line-height: 18px;"><span style="color: #073763; font-family: inherit;">25. Liberals often speak of tolerance but can only tolerate other Liberals.</span></em><br />
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<em style="background-color: #cccccc; line-height: 18px;"><span style="color: #073763; font-family: inherit;">26. Liberals seek to criminalize any speech promoting responsibility, morality, or individualism as "hate speech" or sedition.</span></em><br />
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<em style="background-color: #cccccc; line-height: 18px;"><span style="color: #073763; font-family: inherit;">27. To a liberal, the thought cannot be separated from the deed -- unless one of his or her own is thinking or doing it.</span></em><br />
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<em style="background-color: #cccccc; line-height: 18px;"><span style="color: #073763; font-family: inherit;">28. Environmentalists lie as a matter of course, promoting paranoia based upon verifiable falsehood.</span></em><br />
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<em style="background-color: #cccccc; line-height: 18px;"><span style="color: #073763; font-family: inherit;">29. A Liberal’s only method of discourse is to insult and discredit all who disagree with him. Failing that, they attempt to draw attention away from the subject at hand by "moving on" and changing the subject.</span></em><br />
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<em style="background-color: #cccccc; line-height: 18px;"><span style="color: #073763; font-family: inherit;">30. Your freedom is a Liberal’s oppression.</span></em><br />
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<em style="background-color: #cccccc; line-height: 18px;"><span style="color: #073763; font-family: inherit;">31. Private property and wealth are disgusting and distasteful concepts to a Liberal -- unless they should have more than you do.</span></em><br />
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<em style="background-color: #cccccc; line-height: 18px;"><span style="color: #073763; font-family: inherit;">32. Liberals hate freedom-loving people with a passion bordering on mania.</span></em><br />
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<em style="background-color: #cccccc; line-height: 18px;"><span style="color: #073763; font-family: inherit;">33. The Liberal seeks to replace a moral world-view with an emotional one which can be more easily manipulated for political ends.</span></em><br />
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<em style="background-color: #cccccc; line-height: 18px;"><span style="color: #073763; font-family: inherit;">34. A Liberal claims to "care" for the homeless, mentally ill, lame, lazy and shiftless, but would never invite one of them into their own home.</span></em><br />
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<em style="background-color: #cccccc; line-height: 18px;"><span style="color: #073763; font-family: inherit;">35. The Liberal typically chooses a career – law, psychology, academic, bureaucrat, "activist", which produces nothing of value and which uses the power of government to extract the wealth of others.</span></em><br />
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<em style="background-color: #cccccc; line-height: 18px;"><span style="color: #073763; font-family: inherit;">36. Liberal "programs" enrich Liberals and screw the people they were purportedly supposed to help.</span></em><br />
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<em style="background-color: #cccccc; line-height: 18px;"><span style="color: #073763; font-family: inherit;">37. Liberals despise masculinity, as they view it as a symbol of individual freedom and power.</span></em><br />
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<em style="background-color: #cccccc; line-height: 18px;"><span style="color: #073763; font-family: inherit;">38. Feminist groups exist to promote lesbianism and socialism and have nothing to do with "equal rights".</span></em><br />
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<em style="background-color: #cccccc; line-height: 18px;"><span style="color: #073763; font-family: inherit;">39. The EEOC and Civil Rights groups regularly invent incidents of racism and discrimination in order to justify its existence and to promote the collectivist ideals regarding employment and equality-of-outcome-type Liberal programs or thought.</span></em><br />
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<em style="background-color: #cccccc; line-height: 18px;"><span style="color: #073763; font-family: inherit;">40. Liberals despise suburbs as the manifestation of individual property and prosperity -- but seem to have no such qualms about gentrifying ghettos. </span></em><br />
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<em style="background-color: #cccccc; line-height: 18px;"><span style="color: #073763; font-family: inherit;">41. Liberals hate marriage and the family because they are institutions that strengthen the bonds between individuals -- leaving no room for collectivism -- and because they are institutions which frown upon immorality.</span></em><br />
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<em style="background-color: #cccccc; line-height: 18px;"><span style="color: #073763; font-family: inherit;">42. Liberals despise the automobile as a symbol of personal freedom.</span></em><br />
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<em style="background-color: #cccccc; line-height: 18px;"><span style="color: #073763; font-family: inherit;">43. Other diseases kill far more people, but Liberals are obsessed with AIDS because it is the consequence of promiscuity and immorality.</span></em><br />
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<em style="background-color: #cccccc; line-height: 18px;"><span style="color: #073763; font-family: inherit;">44. Liberal activities are driven by ego and a need for self-satisfaction. A liberal believes and does the things he does because he must prove that he "cares" more than you do.</span></em><br />
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<em style="background-color: #cccccc; line-height: 18px;"><span style="color: #073763; font-family: inherit;">45. Liberals thrive on emotion and die by reason.</span></em><br />
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<em style="background-color: #cccccc; line-height: 18px;"><span style="color: #073763; font-family: inherit;">46. Anything espoused by a Liberal as "for the children" is a direct assault upon your family, your privacy, your wallet and your rights.</span></em><br />
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<em style="background-color: #cccccc; line-height: 18px;"><span style="color: #073763; font-family: inherit;">47. Liberals have no compunction against using violence, deceit, or oppression if it furthers the collectivist cause.</span></em><br />
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<em style="background-color: #cccccc; line-height: 18px;"><span style="color: #073763; font-family: inherit;">48. Liberals are elitists who routinely exempt themselves from the very rules and suggested behaviors they impose on everyone else.</span></em><br />
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<em style="background-color: #cccccc; line-height: 18px;"><span style="color: #073763; font-family: inherit;">49. A Liberal must accept as an article of faith that my gun has killed more people than Ted Kennedy’s car or Janet Reno's ATF and FBI.</span></em><br />
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<em style="background-color: #cccccc; line-height: 18px;"><span style="color: #073763; font-family: inherit;">50. Liberals believe that Geraldo Rivera, Katie Couric, Dan Rather, and Oprah Winfrey are "journalists".</span></em><br />
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<em style="background-color: #cccccc; line-height: 18px;"><span style="color: #073763; font-family: inherit;">51. Liberals howl if a "protected" group is offended by speech or action, but will remain dead silent if the offended happen to be any of the following: Christians, White Males, Heterosexuals or Taxpayers.</span></em><br />
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<em style="background-color: #cccccc; line-height: 18px;"><span style="color: #073763; font-family: inherit;">52. Liberals believe wealth is static and quantifiable, and that that it should be divided equally. So, if I have "too much money", it follows that I must have stolen someone else’s "fair share".</span></em><br />
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<em style="background-color: #cccccc; line-height: 18px;"><span style="color: #073763; font-family: inherit;">53. Liberals believe that Richard Nixon was a vile criminal but that Stalin, Mao, and Fidel Castro are "progressive" leaders who had only the best of intentions.</span></em><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><em style="background-color: #cccccc; line-height: 18px;"><span style="color: #073763;">54. All Liberal ideologies tend towards worldwide totalitarianism.</span></em><em style="background-color: #cccccc; line-height: 18px;"><br /><span style="color: #073763;"></span></em></span><br />
<em style="background-color: #cccccc; line-height: 18px;"><span style="color: #073763; font-family: inherit;">55. A Liberal is quite ready to point out misconduct by a member of a group opposed to them, but will routinely excuse even more vile behavior by their own.</span></em><br />
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<em style="background-color: #cccccc; line-height: 18px;"><span style="color: #073763; font-family: inherit;">56. Liberals are obsessed with the theory of evolution because the alternatives terrify them.</span></em><br />
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<em style="background-color: #cccccc; line-height: 18px;"><span style="color: #073763; font-family: inherit;">57. A full-time, stay-at-home mother enrages a Liberal.</span></em><br />
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<em style="background-color: #cccccc; line-height: 18px;"><span style="color: #073763; font-family: inherit;">58. Human life is cheap in a Liberal world.</span></em><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><em style="background-color: #cccccc; line-height: 18px;"><span style="color: #073763;">59. The Liberal routinely changes the definition of a word to suit his purpose. For example, you have the "choice" to abort your unborn children, but not the "choice" of smoking, owning a gun, or buying an SUV.</span></em><em style="background-color: #cccccc; line-height: 18px;"><br /><span style="color: #073763;"></span></em></span><br />
<em style="background-color: #cccccc; line-height: 18px;"><span style="color: #073763; font-family: inherit;">60. A Liberal cannot conceive of a problem that cannot be solved without Government intervention. Although more often than not, Government Action created the problem in the first place.</span></em><br />
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<em style="background-color: #cccccc; line-height: 18px;"><span style="color: #073763; font-family: inherit;">61. Hillary Clinton's village is a totalitarian state: it used to be called the Soviet Union.</span></em><br />
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<em style="background-color: #cccccc; line-height: 18px;"><span style="color: #073763; font-family: inherit;">62. Given the chance, a Liberal would ban the Bible, Constitution, Declaration of Independence and Tom Sawyer as "hate speech".</span></em><br />
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<em style="background-color: #cccccc; line-height: 18px;"><span style="color: #073763; font-family: inherit;">63. Liberals view people as objects without moral motivation, thus we have the welfare state, abortion rights, etc. Conversely, they view inanimate objects in strictly moral terms, thus they are able to vilify and impart motives to firearms, cigarettes, SUV's, corporations, etc.</span></em><br />
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<em style="background-color: #cccccc; line-height: 18px;"><span style="color: #073763; font-family: inherit;">64. "Third Way" politics is a new shade of lipstick on the same Socialist pig.</span></em><br />
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<em style="background-color: #cccccc; line-height: 18px;"><span style="color: #073763; font-family: inherit;">65. Liberals are often intolerant, immature, violent thugs, laboring under the misapprehension that they do what they do for "social and moral causes" or "justice"..</span></em><br />
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<em style="background-color: #cccccc; line-height: 18px;"><span style="color: #073763; font-family: inherit;">66. The Liberal would sooner pluck out his own eye than to cut a tax.</span></em><br />
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<em style="background-color: #cccccc; line-height: 18px;"><span style="color: #073763; font-family: inherit;">67. Liberals still believe that Marx was right, despite the evidence to the contrary.</span></em><br />
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<em style="background-color: #cccccc; line-height: 18px;"><span style="color: #073763; font-family: inherit;">68. Hitler was a Socialist, not a Fascist and certainly NOT a Conservative.</span></em><br />
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<em style="background-color: #cccccc; line-height: 18px;"><span style="color: #073763; font-family: inherit;">69. Liberals believe that AIDS kills people because prevention and treatment services are underfunded, and not because people behave irresponsibly.</span></em><br />
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<em style="background-color: #cccccc; line-height: 18px;"><span style="color: #073763; font-family: inherit;">70. Liberals detest the death penalty, but favor abortion, thus setting up the convoluted idea that it’s okay to save the guilty and kill the innocent.</span></em><br />
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<em style="background-color: #cccccc; line-height: 18px;"><span style="color: #073763; font-family: inherit;">71. Liberals believe that trial lawyers are selfless heroes and that doctors are overpaid robber barons.</span></em><br />
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<em style="background-color: #cccccc; line-height: 18px;"><span style="color: #073763; font-family: inherit;">72. A Liberal believes that gender roles are "imposed by society" and that homosexuality is "normal" behavior.</span></em><br />
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<em style="background-color: #cccccc; line-height: 18px;"><span style="color: #073763; font-family: inherit;">73. A Liberal believes that business creates oppression and that Government creates wealth.</span></em><br />
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<em style="background-color: #cccccc; line-height: 18px;"><span style="color: #073763; font-family: inherit;">74. To a Liberal, self-esteem, the concept, is far more important than doing anything to actually earn some.</span></em><br />
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<em style="background-color: #cccccc; line-height: 18px;"><span style="color: #073763; font-family: inherit;">75. A Liberal regularly engages in symbolism because if he told the truth, no one would listen.</span></em><br />
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<em style="background-color: #cccccc; line-height: 18px;"><span style="color: #073763; font-family: inherit;">76. Liberals hate the NRA for their defense of the Second Amendment, and praise the ACLU for their perversion of the First .</span></em><br />
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<em style="background-color: #cccccc; line-height: 18px;"><span style="color: #073763; font-family: inherit;">77. To a Liberal, Taxes are too low and ATM fees are too high.</span></em><br />
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<em style="background-color: #cccccc; line-height: 18px;"><span style="color: #073763; font-family: inherit;">78. Racial profiling by police departments is wrong, but perfectly acceptable for deciding who gets into Law School.</span></em><br />
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<em style="background-color: #cccccc; line-height: 18px;"><span style="color: #073763; font-family: inherit;">79. The only difference between a Liberal and a Communist is that a Communist is AWARE of what he is doing.</span></em><br />
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<em style="background-color: #cccccc; line-height: 18px;"><span style="color: #073763; font-family: inherit;">80. Continued Liberal support for the shiftless, lazy, halt, lame, and crippled is necessary because they are the groups most easily manipulated by fear and envy.</span></em><br />
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<em style="background-color: #cccccc; line-height: 18px;"><span style="color: #073763; font-family: inherit;">81. Any proposal to build "low-income" housing is applauded by a Liberal, unless, of course, someone chooses to build it on the Upper West Side, or Malibu Beach.</span></em><br />
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<em style="background-color: #cccccc; line-height: 18px;"><span style="color: #073763; font-family: inherit;">82. In Liberal math, an 8% increase in government spending on any favored program rather than the usual-and-customary 10% increase equates to a 2% "cut" in funding, which somehow always results in someone starving or dying unnecessarily.</span></em><br />
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<em style="background-color: #cccccc; line-height: 18px;"><span style="color: #073763; font-family: inherit;">83. All of society’s ills can be cured by "education" inside a union-run institution that does no such thing.</span></em><br />
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<em style="background-color: #cccccc; line-height: 18px;"><span style="color: #073763; font-family: inherit;">84. All Liberals use words like "Ethnocentric", "jingoistic", "homophobic" and "trans-gendered" at least three times a day.</span></em><br />
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<em style="background-color: #cccccc; line-height: 18px;"><span style="color: #073763; font-family: inherit;">85. All Liberals have a primal urge to refer to any idea that they cannot comprehend -- or merely dislike -- as "sexist", "racist", "homophobic", etc.</span></em><br />
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<em style="background-color: #cccccc; line-height: 18px;"><span style="color: #073763; font-family: inherit;">86. A Liberal finds it perfectly acceptable to dispense condoms in a public school, but would cry bloody murder if the package had the Ten Commandments printed on it.</span></em><br />
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<em style="background-color: #cccccc; line-height: 18px;"><span style="color: #073763; font-family: inherit;">87. A Liberal advocates the killing of human beings (abortion) and the preservation of wildlife.</span></em><br />
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<em style="background-color: #cccccc; line-height: 18px;"><span style="color: #073763; font-family: inherit;">88. A Liberal feels that the only thing wrong with Communist States of the past was NOT that they were founded upon a flawed political ideology and engaged in awful repression, but rather that the results would have been far different if only the RIGHT Communists had been available to run them.</span></em><br />
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<em style="background-color: #cccccc; line-height: 18px;"><span style="color: #073763; font-family: inherit;">89. A Liberal believes that character doesn’t count...because they very often have none.</span></em><br />
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<em style="background-color: #cccccc; line-height: 18px;"><span style="color: #073763; font-family: inherit;">90. A Liberal will tell you that the First Amendment protects those that burn a flag, protest at a dead soldier's funeral, or beat up a Tea Party activist, and in the same breath, insist that Rush Limbaugh promotes "hate speech".</span></em><br />
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<em style="background-color: #cccccc; line-height: 18px;"><span style="color: #073763; font-family: inherit;">91. A Liberal would like to see the National Anthem replaced with the "Two Minutes Hate".</span></em><br />
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<em style="background-color: #cccccc; line-height: 18px;"><span style="color: #073763; font-family: inherit;">92. Liberals have such high opinions of themselves, their motives, and their ideas, that they would have you believe that the rest of us actually want to live in a world with dirty air and water, hip-deep in starving schoolchildren and dying elderly people..</span></em><br />
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<em style="background-color: #cccccc; line-height: 18px;"><span style="color: #073763; font-family: inherit;">93. Human nature does not exist to a Liberal, and when it routinely manifests itself, it is routinely ignored, and if possible, legislated and taxed.</span></em><br />
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<em style="background-color: #cccccc; line-height: 18px;"><span style="color: #073763; font-family: inherit;">94. Liberals view people in the same way a sculptor views a lump of clay, or a block of marble.</span></em><br />
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<em style="background-color: #cccccc; line-height: 18px;"><span style="color: #073763; font-family: inherit;">95. Liberals believe that man is inherently malleable and that all that’s needed is the proper training of man to enact to collectivist vision of the universe.</span></em><br />
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<em style="background-color: #cccccc; line-height: 18px;"><span style="color: #073763; font-family: inherit;">96. Loyalty is a concept foreign to most Liberals because it entails responsibility.</span></em><br />
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<em style="background-color: #cccccc; line-height: 18px;"><span style="color: #073763; font-family: inherit;">97. Ethics can be easily dispensed with in a Liberal world if they conflict with the creation of the collective.</span></em><br />
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<span style="background-color: #cccccc; color: #073763; font-family: inherit; line-height: 18px;"><em>98. Euphemism is the language of a Liberal, and symbolism is his</em> modus operandi.<em> Clarity and actual accomplishments are the enemies of Liberalism because Liberalism thrives on vagueness and the emotional aspects of "struggle".</em></span><br />
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<em style="background-color: #cccccc; line-height: 18px;"><span style="color: #073763; font-family: inherit;">99. Liberals believe that criminals should have more rights than law-abiding citizens.</span></em><br />
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<em style="background-color: #cccccc; line-height: 18px;"><span style="color: #073763; font-family: inherit;">100. Liberals routinely invent extra-Constitutional rights in order to further their agenda (i.e. abortion, gender and racial preferences, etc.) and routinely invent "repressed groups" in order to expand the power of the State (i.e. homosexuals, minorities, illegal immigrants, etc.) or to subvert the power of established institutions (i.e. the Church, family, nationalism, etc.).</span></em><br />
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<em style="background-color: #cccccc; line-height: 18px;"><span style="color: #073763; font-family: inherit;">101. Most Liberals would feel more shame in standing to attention during the National Anthem then they would in stealing from a Poor Box.</span></em><br />
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<em style="background-color: #cccccc; line-height: 18px;"><span style="color: #073763; font-family: inherit;">102. Socialism works...until you run out of other people's money.</span></em><br />
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<em style="background-color: #cccccc; line-height: 18px;"><span style="color: #073763; font-family: inherit;">103. A Libtard refuses to acknowledge that anything which breathes, eats, shits and multiplies from the moment of conception is alive. If those are not the most basic functions of Life, I don't know what is.</span></em><br />
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<em style="background-color: #cccccc; line-height: 18px;"><span style="color: #073763; font-family: inherit;">104. Libtards defend an economic policy which has consisted of taking $1.5 trillion out of the credit markets for bank bailouts and questionable Stimulus plans, keeping the printing presses at the Mint going 24/7/365, debasing the currency through "Quantitative Easing", spending tax dollars that have yet to be collected twice and then borrowing $5 trillion more in order to pay for programs which create no wealth, salable goods or products or private sector jobs, and which do not generate any tax income whatsoever is a responsible plan for 'recovery'.</span></em><br />
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<em style="background-color: #cccccc; line-height: 18px;"><span style="color: #073763; font-family: inherit;">105. Libtards subsidize poverty and advocate for policies which discourage productive work, denigrate the profit motive and capitalism, and then claim to be the champions and guardians of the very perpetual poverty class they've created.</span></em><br />
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<em style="background-color: #cccccc; line-height: 18px;"><span style="color: #073763; font-family: inherit;">106. Liberals believe that a man who simply reads the words written by others and fed to him by a teleprompter is the Greatest Orator since Cicero.</span></em><br />
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<em style="background-color: #cccccc; line-height: 18px;"><span style="color: #073763; font-family: inherit;">107. Government 'investments' are simply transfers of wealth that are intended to dispose of industrial surplus, resources, and labor, without that expenditure ever leading to a rise in real living standards. You could just as easily bake millions of loaves of bread, and then set them on fire to achieve the same effect, but it doesn't have the appearance of true economic activity.</span></em><br />
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<em style="background-color: #cccccc; line-height: 18px;"><span style="color: #073763; font-family: inherit;">108. Liberals believe that mortgage lenders are 'predatory' and people who don't read contracts or retain legal counsel before they sign on the dotted line are 'victims'.</span></em><br />
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<em style="background-color: #cccccc; line-height: 18px;"><span style="color: #073763; font-family: inherit;">109. Collective Liberalism promises equality of prosperity, but only produces equality of misery.</span></em><br />
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<em style="background-color: #cccccc; line-height: 18px;"><span style="color: #073763; font-family: inherit;">110. Liberals are neither Truly Liberal or Democrats; they are shameless LIBERTINES who hate democracy because if given the choice of Collective Totalitarianism and Capitalistic Freedom, the people would select Freedom and Capitalism every time, leaving the Liberal out in the cold and needing to work for a living.</span></em><br />
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<em style="background-color: #cccccc; line-height: 18px;"><span style="color: #073763; font-family: inherit;">111. Liberals believe that people are incapable of changing their personal circumstances, or improving their lot in Life without an expensive and expansive government bureaucracy to 'help' them do it, usually at the expense of someone else.</span></em><br />
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<em style="background-color: #cccccc; line-height: 18px;"><span style="color: #073763; font-family: inherit;">112. Liberals believe all wars are evil and unwinnable...unless they start them. Then they're humanitarian efforts intended to promote good ends and altruistic ideals.</span></em><br />
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<em style="background-color: #cccccc; line-height: 18px;"><span style="color: #073763; font-family: inherit;">113. Liberals believe that when a terrorist is caught only because he fails to detonate his underwear on your flight, or fails to blow up his Pathfinder in Times Square, leaving his keys, cellphone, driver's license and address book behind in the glovebox, that the Homeland Security regime 'worked' to perfection.</span></em><br />
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<em style="background-color: #cccccc; line-height: 18px;"><span style="color: #073763; font-family: inherit;">114. Liberals believe that Terrorism is not an act of war perpetrated by a sick and violent culture, but rather law enforcement problem to be handled with civilian courts and Miranda rights....unless there's a bump in the polls to be had for shooting a terrorist in the face without a trial.</span></em><br />
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<em style="background-color: #cccccc; line-height: 18px;"><span style="color: #073763; font-family: inherit;">115. Liberals claim to stand 'for the Little Guy', but once the Little Guy's use as convenient political prop or rhetorical device is over, he is conveniently forgotten again.</span></em><br />
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<span style="background-color: #cccccc; color: #073763; font-family: inherit; line-height: 18px;"><i>116. Liberals never change their minds, even when presented with undeniable facts or evidence by a non-liberal, because liberalism creates a feedback loop in which ONLY liberals are considered credible sources of information. This close-mindedness – a negative quality they regularly accuse their opponents of having – makes liberals impervious to any idea that threatens to undermine their beliefs.</i></span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: #cccccc; color: #073763; line-height: 18px;"><i><br /></i></span><span style="background-color: #cccccc; line-height: 18px;"></span><span style="background-color: #cccccc; color: #073763; line-height: 18px;"><i>117. A liberal’s sources of information are ever-present. His newspaper is owned and produced by liberals; his evening newscast is owned and produced by liberals; his favorite magazines are owned and produced by liberals, so too his favorite television shows, movies, and music. Therefore, the liberal lives under the constant drumbeat of his own propaganda.</i></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: #cccccc; color: #073763; line-height: 18px;"><i><br /></i></span><span style="background-color: #cccccc; line-height: 18px;"></span><span style="background-color: #cccccc; color: #073763; line-height: 18px;"><i>118. Liberals emphasize feeling superior, rather than achieving superior results. Mainly because achieving requires work, attention to details and reason. Liberals prize feeling and appearances over outcomes.</i></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: #cccccc; color: #073763; line-height: 18px;"><i><br /></i></span><span style="background-color: #cccccc; line-height: 18px;"></span><span style="background-color: #cccccc; color: #073763; line-height: 18px;"><i>119. Liberals are people who won’t even take their own side in a fight. Four Americans are killed in an attack on an American consulate, and all the liberals can do is imprison an American for utilizing his First Amendment rights.</i></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: #cccccc; color: #073763; line-height: 18px;"><i><br /></i></span><span style="background-color: #cccccc; line-height: 18px;"></span><span style="background-color: #cccccc; color: #073763; line-height: 18px;"><i>120. Liberals tend to deal with people as groups, rather than as individuals, and therefore, are often unable to reconcile away what appear to be glaring inconsistencies – like a Black Conservative – in anything except the most dismissive and prejudicial ways and usually with bigoted language. This while they sing the hymns of Diversity, Inclusion and Civil Rights.</i></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: #cccccc; color: #073763; line-height: 18px;"><i><br /></i></span><span style="background-color: #cccccc; line-height: 18px;"></span><span style="background-color: #cccccc; color: #073763; line-height: 18px;"><i>121. Liberals give themselves far too much credit for being liberal, a condition they believe makes someone wise, compassionate and superior. Therefore, the good in people springs not from their actions but from their ideology. This explains the misogynist who calls himself a feminist, the race baiter who accuses others of racism, or those who give nothing to charity but who somehow feel empowered to lecture others on compassion.</i></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: #cccccc; color: #073763; line-height: 18px;"><i><br /></i></span><span style="background-color: #cccccc; line-height: 18px;"></span><span style="background-color: #cccccc; color: #073763; line-height: 18px;"><i>122. Justice, to a liberal, refers solely to a court twisting the Constitution to give the liberal what he wants, and using the law to punish his enemies.</i></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: #cccccc; color: #073763; line-height: 18px;"><i><br /></i></span><span style="background-color: #cccccc; line-height: 18px;"></span><span style="background-color: #cccccc; color: #073763; line-height: 18px;"><i>123. Liberals cannot tolerate opposition because if people are given a viable alternative to liberalism, there would very quickly be no liberals, in much the same way the Muslim Clerics and Ayatollahs try to crush Christians, Jews, Buddhists and Hindus.</i></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: #cccccc; color: #073763; line-height: 18px;"><i><br /></i></span><span style="background-color: #cccccc; line-height: 18px;"></span><span style="background-color: #cccccc; color: #073763; line-height: 18px;"><i>124. Liberals are born hypocrites. They support free speech – unless it’s speech they disagree with; they support women’s rights – unless you’re Muslim; they accuse their opponents of the worst crimes – and commit far worse ones of their own; they resist the urge to impose values on people – unless they happen to be their values, in which case they are to be enshrined in law and educational systems, and enforced with all the power of the state; every Liberal policy eventually ends up hurting those the liberal claims to be helping.</i></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: #cccccc; color: #073763; line-height: 18px;"><i><br /></i></span><span style="background-color: #cccccc; line-height: 18px;"></span><span style="background-color: #cccccc; color: #073763;"><i><span style="line-height: 18px;">125. When a Liberal has a choice between fantasy and reality, he will choose the fantasy every time without hesitation, so Hillary Clinton is ‘the smartest women in the world’, Barack Obama is an ‘enlightened healer and leader’, Jesse Jackson is a defender of Civil Rights, Al Gore was robbed by a Bush Conspiracy rather than being a rotten candidate, Bill Clinton was the best friend the feminists ever had, etc…</span><br /><br /><span style="line-height: 18px;">126. The Liberal lives by the concept of Divide and Conquer, pitting one group of individuals against another for personal gain, while insisting that he is a champion of freedom and equality and an egalitarian. In fact, the more discord there is between people, the more inequality there is, the better the Liberal likes it, because it affords him greater opportunity to acquire and centralize more power over others. Just as Julius Caesar courted the mob in order to establish a dictatorship, and so ruined the Roman Republic, so the Liberal behaves..</span><br /><br /><span style="line-height: 18px;">127. The main reason why liberals automatically dismiss any Conservative plan to restore personal liberty and economic freedom to Americans is because the the Liberals fortunes are tied directly to the fortunes of the very people who would benefit, but usually can't, because they lack the tools to take advantage of new opportunities. These people largely lack these capabilities because the Liberal has found it politically useful to deny and politicize them, and hopes to avoid the resulting blame when this denial of basic rights is finally discovered.</span><br /><br /><span style="line-height: 18px;">128. No one who works indoors needs a union. In fact, in modern America, there is no longer a need for a labor union, at all. While labor unions did, indeed, do great things and protect the rights of American workers in the past, their function has been largely </span><span style="line-height: 18px;">superseded</span><span style="line-height: 18px;"> by State and Federal law, and a Legal System that would see 4 million lawyers salivate over the prospect of a quick-and-dirty settlement over any perceived case of actual discrimination or unfairness. The Labor Union exists solely to support the democratic party (small 'd' intentional), keep the false promises of Communism alive, and to ensure that genuinely stupid and lazy people who would mostly fail in the private sector (government employees and industrial workers for whom there is no more industry) can afford </span><span style="line-height: 18px;">Cadillacs</span><span style="line-height: 18px;"> and 48" Plasma screens without -- mostly -- having to put in an honest day's work for them. </span></i></span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #cccccc; color: #073763;"><i><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="line-height: 18px;">130. History, to a liberal, is infinitely mutable, and is continuously re-written to fit the liberal narrative. What is considered historical "fact" today can be changed tomorrow, often sans evidence, if doing so helps to bring the dreamed-of Liberal Collective one step closer. As we speak, entire areas of historical research are being re-written in political terms. As we speak, the hagiographies of such liberal luminaries as Stalin, Mao, Che Guevara, Castro, Pol Pot, John F. Kennedy, Bill Clinton and Barack Obama are being deliberately and politically altered to so as to show future generations that these were not badly-flawed men, driven by ego and a thirst for power, but rather misunderstood men who had nothing but the best of intentions. Subsequently, the process is also being applied to the enemies of the Liberal, so that Ronald Reagan wanted nuclear war, George W. Bush refused to rescue black people during Hurricane Katrina, and Dick Cheney instigated 9-11 so as to bring profit to Haliburton's shareholders.<br /><br />131. Liberals discount the importance and effect of religion, and often deride those who have some form of faith as superstitious fools who are being led astray by self-interested little tyrants intent on squashing their freedoms. They neglect to consider or admit, however, the basis in religion (Jesus, the Buddah, among others) that form the fundamentals of their collective Ideologies, i.e. Socialism and Communism. There is no Marx without Christ.</span></span></i></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #cccccc; color: #073763;"><i><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="line-height: 18px;">132. The Liberal believes that all of society's ills can be cured by a massive program of government-directed "education" despite the evidence that liberal education policies have done little than turn the schools into government-funded daycare centers where children are warehoused, often fed two meals a day, and denied the opportunity of a real education. Because of liberal policies on Affirmative Action, hiring practices, curriculum, and the influence of liberal-inspired speech codes and political correctness, the school has been repurposed to become the Indoctrination Center. This serves three functions: first, it relieves (liberal) parents of the responsibility of caring for their children. All liberals despise responsibility. Second, it enables to liberals to preach the liberal mantra to captive audiences while their minds are still impressionable, and finally, it provides jobs for hundreds of </span><span style="line-height: 18px;">thousands</span><span style="line-height: 18px;">, if not millions, of bureaucrats and unionized clock-punchers who vote democrat and give money to liberal-inspired causes. In return, we get incrementally dumber children who can't find their own country on a map, can't do math or lack the education to make something of themselves, leaving them open to more liberal manipulation later on in life.</span><br /><br /><span style="line-height: 18px;">133. Obama has drones and the NSA, which kill people and violate people's privacy on a daily basis. Amazon proposes drones and runs a computerized information storage and retrieval system that might one day deliver groceries and medication to your doorstep. According to the liberal, only government (and liberal-controlled government) can make adequate use of these technologies while protecting human rights and </span><span style="line-height: 18px;">guaranteeing</span><span style="line-height: 18px;"> our safety and security. The private sector's use and expansion of technology must be controlled by the government, ostensibly for our own good, while government uses it to violate people's rights and destroy their lives and property whenever it feels justified in it's quest to create the Collective.</span><br /><br /><span style="line-height: 18px;">134. Liberal Government takes $600 billion dollars from Medicare (tax payer money) and produces a broken website that doesn't work and has </span><span style="line-height: 18px;">tremendous</span><span style="line-height: 18px;"> </span><span style="line-height: 18px;">security</span><span style="line-height: 18px;"> holes in it, which is just the tip of the iceberg when it comes to destroying both the insurance and healthcare industries (so that their roles may be taken over by government later on., as a matter of 'fundamental fairness' (as they like to put it). In the end, the broken website and the deliberately-planned undermining of two industries creates havoc, chaos and dislocation in people's lives. It takes away choices and freedom from the consumer so as to help "the less fortunate", while in the process creating even more "less fortunates". Private industry takes private investment (and much less of it) and creates salable goods and services for a profit and websites that work with complete security, which puts money back into the individuals pocket in terms of dividends and jobs and gives the individual greater freedom of choice (it's called The Free Market). Liberals hate Free Markets because they operate -- successfully --outside the sphere of Liberal Control and Manipulation.</span></span></i></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #cccccc; color: #073763;"><i><span style="font-family: inherit; line-height: 18px;">135. Conservatives Believe it When they See It. Liberals See it When they Believe it. </span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: inherit; line-height: 18px;">136. Many Conservatives have, at one time or another, been Liberals. No Liberal, however, has ever been a Conservative. This indicates that the Liberal is largely incapable of seeing the flaws in his own ideology, and unable to change his mind or accept an alternate point of view. The liberal celebrates this mental defect as a virtue.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: inherit; line-height: 18px;">137. A Conservative is a liberal who has been mugged by reality.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: inherit; line-height: 18px;">138. The Liberal believes that arresting technological progress for the few (I.e The Global warming scam) is the only way to achieve true progress for the many. He calls himself a Progressive and routinely accuses his enemies of wanting to "turn back the clock" but in all actuality, it is the liberal who lives in the past (in fact, he romanticizes the history of leftists movements and individuals, no matter how violent or corrupt) and who is unable to learn from the mistakes of the past, made in the name of his ideology.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: inherit; line-height: 18px;">139. The Liberal believes in the equality of outcomes rather than in the equality of opportunity. Therefore, all manner of anti-liberal polices that make a mockery of the word "Equality" (forced integration, Affirmative Action, legal action instead of democratic process, dehumanization of enemies real or perceived, government-engineered theft) must be enforced in order to ensure "Equality", but only the "Equality" the liberal finds politically useful at any given moment in history.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="line-height: 18px;">140. Left-leaning groups such as Occupy Wall Street, Greenpeace, Anarchists, and Labor Unions decry the "evils" of capitalism and Classically-liberal democracy without noticing that they are the direct beneficiaries of both systems. Hence, we get the G-20 protester (who wanders the streets in his Urban </span></span><span style="line-height: 18px;">Guerrilla-</span><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="line-height: 18px;">chic black clothing -- complete with picture of Che on it! -- produced in a factory in Honduras by someone working 80 hours a week for 12 cents an hour), smashing the windows of a local Starbucks or McDonald's after he's just enjoyed his </span></span>pre<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="line-height: 18px;">-riot latte and scone there, the Greenpeace activist who begs for donations to save tigers online, the </span></span>OWS dipshit<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="line-height: 18px;"> who arrived with her seven friends in Daddy''s gas-guzzling SUV sporting a "Split Wood, Not Atoms' bumper sticker, the former machine-press operator who yearns for the day when he can return to the factory and earn a living with his inefficient, 19th-century inspired machine tools, and who gives a fuck if the owner of the company loses money in the process? . These people are largely (mis</span></span><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="line-height: 18px;">-)informed, organized, supported, nurtured and sustained by the fruits of the </span></span>internet<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="line-height: 18px;">, modern communications, wealth extracted from others by donation, wage or tax, and have their actions protected by a system of laws and a Constitution that were the by-products of Classically-liberal democracy. These are NOT people of conscience; they are boobs.</span></span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: inherit; line-height: 18px;">141. The Liberal fails to recognize that it is stable, free, economically-viable democratic societies which have the time and comfort to debate whether a woman has the right to abort an inconvenient fetus, or whether your local McDonald's cashier should earn the same money as the policeman or construction worker. Their answer to such questions (they call them "pressing social issues" which quickly become "crises") is invariably some variation on a theme which creates instability, decreases freedom, and redistributes wealth from the productive to the unproductive. The Liberal aims to solve small problems by, in effect, creating larger ones...and always under government control and management.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: inherit; line-height: 18px;">142. The True Believer Liberal is typically NOT a member of an underclass or a member of an oppressed group; they are typically the irrationally-guilty and brainwashed children of the very </span><span style="font-family: inherit; line-height: 18px;">privileged</span><span style="font-family: inherit; line-height: 18px;"> Middle Classes, which they secretly hate and seek to destroy. The liberal does what he does not to benefit anyone, but to make himself feel (and appear) better than he is, and to assuage his sense of guilt for having been born to a better station in life. And to get back at his parents who gave him every advantage in life. The proof of this: you cannot name one prominent Leftist of the last 50 years in America who either didn't start out as a millionaire, or who didn't end up that way, at the expense of others, but who still managed to talk a good game.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: inherit; line-height: 18px;">143. In a Liberal World, The Lie must always remain one step ahead of The Truth in order to maintain the facade of both the benevolent Leftist and the benevolent Collective. When this can no longer be </span><span style="font-family: inherit; line-height: 18px;">accomplished</span><span style="font-family: inherit; line-height: 18px;"> or maintained, the Liberal begins to re-write both history and the facts (see #130), so that we can have the curious spectacle of a president who said "you can keep your plan and doctor" furiously explaining why the words he actually spoke bear no relation to what he actually means, and how you were too stupid to notice it. If the Liberal is ever caught and held responsible for this deliberate game of substituting Lies for Truth, it is always someone else's fault that she was forced to lie in order to serve a greater good..</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: inherit; line-height: 18px;">144. In a Liberal World, all Freedoms cut only one way....and which way that cuts depends on what the Liberal needs to believe or espouse today in order to justify or preserve the dream of the All-powerful Collective, and to excuse their lying, cheating, and thuggery. Typically, freedoms exist only for the Liberal, and must be taken away or lessened for everyone else.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: inherit; line-height: 18px;">145. Liberals are the real racists in America. They all believe, in the black little pits they call souls, that women, </span><span style="font-family: inherit; line-height: 18px;">minorities</span><span style="font-family: inherit; line-height: 18px;">, gays, the poor, immigrants, and every other aggrieved group in the country cannot </span></i></span><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: #cccccc; line-height: 18px;"><i><span style="color: #073763;">survive or prosper without their help. This help is usually delivered in a backhandedly-condescending and degrading form (i.e. Affirmative Action, Welfare, racial quotas), and does little to actually help anyone achieve happiness or prosperity because it is primarily designed to make people dependent upon the State, and thus, on the Liberal. In return, the Liberal gets to dictate the activities, tastes, thoughts, political ideology, voting habits and so forth of "the needy’, as a prerequisite for receiving more “help” in the future.</span><br /><br /><b><span style="color: #073763;">NOTE: This post has been updated to 215 reasons Why Liberals Suck. You can read it </span><a href="http://lunaticsasylum.blogspot.com/2015/02/215-reasons-why-liberals-suck.html"><span style="color: red;">HERE</span></a></b></i></span></span>Matthew Notohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08881509233809999186noreply@blogger.com40tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6161738.post-31132186712590332522013-11-19T11:25:00.003-05:002013-11-27T17:29:48.014-05:00The Circular Firing Squad...<i><span style="color: blue;">Darwin was wrong.</span></i><br />
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The idea that living organisms evolve in order to take advantage of the circumstances of their environment, and adapt to changing conditions in order to assure the survival of the species, is belied by the existence of a certain subsection of the American electorate which is apparently so stupid and so stubborn that they are doing everything in their power to ensure their own disappearance.<br />
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And in the process, make life hell for everyone else.<br />
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This strange creature, which seemingly has embraced suicide as a strategy, is a certain brand of person who goes by a most deceptive, inaccurate, and self-bestowed appellation.<br />
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They call themselves "True Conservatives".<br />
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<a name='more'></a>I need to back up a little bit here, and explain how it is that I got here.<br />
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The idea began, as so many ideas begin these days (sadly), with an argument on Facebook. The particular details will be talked about in a moment, but what is vital to the tale is an explanation of the mindset of this peculiar genus of human being, and the damage they are doing not only to themselves, but to an entire civilization.<br />
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A political Conservative, in the American sense, is someone who believes in the preservation of Classical Liberalism. The term has different meanings in different political cultures, and I'm not about to run down the differences between, say, the American Brand and the English or European one, because this is not necessary at present. Now, for the less politically-astute, reading that Conservatives are actually Liberals may be disconcerting. Those people are, right this very second, fighting to keep their heads from exploding. For their benefit, I will define Classical Liberalism in the hopes that their confusion over terminology might be lessened, and the local emergency room will have one less aneurysm to deal with.<br />
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In a nutshell: Classical Liberalism is a political philosophy that holds that the individual is sovereign. Not government, not bureaucracy, not The Law, not a group, but the individual. Governments and all that come with them are established only with the consensus of free individuals co-operating of their own free will, and only for the purposes of ensuring that the conditions of Liberty necessary for the individual to thrive and prosper are maintained. Under Classical Liberalism, the individual has particular rights (natural rights) which are bestowed upon them by virtue of their being alive. It holds that sovereign individuals have political, human and economic rights, and that the function of government is to protect and advance these rights. Classical Liberalism is also a philosophy devoted to progress in all areas of human endeavor.<br />
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Do not be misled by the modern bastardization of the term 'Liberal', either, for today's Liberal is no such thing. This is a deliberate obfuscation that was consciously undertaken in the early 20th Century by political douchebags in order to deceive the less politically-astute and aware into following communism and socialism. Today's Progressive Liberal is anything but: <i><span style="color: blue;">he seeks to limit the freedom of the individual by taking things away (his money, property, rights, choices), and wants to arrest progress in the cause of exerting greater control over his fellow men (see: Global Warming, ObamaCare, Welfare State).</span></i><br />
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Today's Liberal is really little more than a tyrant in democratic clothing, but he's no different from the old despots of old, excepting that he believes he's smarter than they were, more caring than they were, more enlightened than they were, and that this gives him the ability to avoid the mistakes that the older despotic governments made. Unfortunately for them, human beings are not perfect, and the flaws in their particular philosophy become all too apparent, eventually, mostly because Reality has a funny way of making it's presence felt.<br />
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<i><span style="color: blue;">What a Conservative is, in this context, is someone who seeks to preserve the tenets of Classical Liberalism under the American Constitutional System.</span></i><br />
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But even this term, 'Conservative', has been warped by those who, for all intents and purposes, act much like the 'Liberals' they despise so much. Today, the 'Conservative', especially ones of a particular religious bent, is no different than his most rabidly 'Liberal' opponent. 'Liberals' are not the only ones who try to hide their true intentions behind flowery language and false labels, you know.<br />
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In the case of this Facebook argument, it basically went like this. Some asshole posted an article on his/her wall about ObamaCare and how the government knew that it would be an unmitigated disaster. Out of the woodwork came the True Conservatives, not because they had anything intelligent to add to the ensuing posting conversation, but because it was an opportunity to engage in their favorite sports of chest beating and baiting Liberals.<br />
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These doofuses began posting their usual nonsense. Stop me if you've heard these before:<br />
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1. If only we had elected a True Conservative, and the GOP had nominated any True Conservatives in the last two election cycles, we'd not have these problems, and this failure of a President would be herding cats...sorry, community organizing... and having other people write fake autobiographies for him back in Kenya, already.<br />
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2. Now that everything is so completely fucked up, it is the perfect time for True Conservatives to rise up and take control of the GOP, and thence, the Nation, in order to save it.<br />
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3. The current political climate is such that their particularly harsh brand of Conservatism (heavy on God, Guns and anti-Gay stuff) will be exceptionally palatable to an American electorate that has only rejected it the previous 400 times it's been tried. Now, apparently, the country has no other choice.<br />
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4. President Obama is God's punishment of America for abandoning it's True Conservative principles.<br />
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5. If the GOP would just stop nominating RINO's (Republicans in Name Only), like Mitt Romney and John McCain, there wouldn't be a democratic party to have to compete with, and the country would be in wonderful shape, with a glorious future and Angels descending from the heavens to bestow lollipops and candy canes on God's most beloved people. Or something similar...<br />
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That'll do in order to make the case against it all.<br />
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Look, I'm not Liberal, but neither an I a Conservative. I once thought I was a Conservative, but that was before the error of my ways was explained to me by the True Conservatives who skulk under rocks and lick each other's scrotums over at FreeRepublic.com (<i><span style="color: blue;">who believe in Free Speech so much that they banned me for daring to ask the question: "If Ronald Reagan was divorced and can be lionized as a great American Hero, why can't Rudy Giuliani -- who was to the right of Reagan on many issues -- be afforded the same consideration, especially when he is more conservative that Reagan?" They only like Free Speech when it tells them what they want to hear)</span></i>.<br />
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At that point, it was explained to me that one could not like a Gay-loving, gun-grabbing, God-hating, divorced, RINO piece of shit who once wore a dress on TV (funny, they thought that was all hunky-dory, and hilarious, when Uncle Miltie was doing it back in the day) as a Presidential Candidate and still consider themselves a Conservative, much less a republican.<br />
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Don't try to apply logic to that argument. It cannot be defended on logic, nor by facts. Because if you did try to apply both to the dialectic, and had the perseverance to hammer square pegs into round holes on the theory, you'd soon expose the True Conservative for what he (it's usually a He. Women tend to gravitate towards the Liberal side of extremism) really is: -- a religious bigot -- and the more you hammer away at this, the shriller and nastier they get, much like Liberals are when they are in danger of being exposed.<br />
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Generalization: the True Conservative is someone who is preoccupied and obsessed with Guns, Religion and Gays. They believe in an American past which is largely folklore and fairy tales. Much like today's Liberal, they believe that only by forcing the greater mass of society to accept their mentally-constipated ideals (<i><span style="color: blue;">they call them "principles", and wear this stupidity as a badge of honor</span></i>) can America be returned to a supposed Golden Age wherein we're always right, we're always the greatest, and the Ten Commandments can posted on everything from public buildings to condom wrappers.<br />
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True, most are not this ridiculously extreme. But by and large the self-professed True Conservative is an obnoxious asshole who is every bit as repulsive as the Taliban. In fact, they share a great deal, in terms of behavior, with that terrorist organization (<i><span style="color: blue;">they just haven't blown anything up...yet</span></i>); they are convinced of the righteousness of the their cause because it is they, and only they, who are in possession of the ability to divine both the Will of God, and the intention of the Founding Fathers. Much like the Taliban claims to be the true inheritors of the Divine Word and the Prophet. But, I digress...<br />
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Anyway, I had the questionable taste to mention that if only certain segments of the political right had not been blinded by their mental disorders, Mitt Romney might have won and things might be quite different. I clarified this statement by saying that if the 'True' Conservatives had only held their noses, and Evangelicals hadn't been so bigoted as to not vote for a Mormon, we'd be living under a Romney administration and most (by no means all) of what they hate about the current American Condition would be somewhat ameliorated. <i><span style="color: blue;">I had the audacity to suggest that people who sat home, deliberately not exercising their franchise as a means of "sending a message to the GOP" or because Pastor Bob told them they'd burn in in hell for picking the lesser of two evils, had no goddamned right to complain about anything, or claim any special status.</span></i><br />
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This brought the usual (and expected) name calling. I'm a Liberal Dupe. A RINO. A Gay lover. A heathen. And it was all backed up with the five talking points I have listed above. But, a few of the True Conservatives took pity upon me, and they explained (usually with atrocious spelling and poor grammar) that if the GOP had only selected such luminaries as Tom Tancredo, Duncan Hunter and Mike Hucakbee as it's Torch Bearer in the last few election cycles, we'd all be golden.<br />
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<i><span style="color: blue;">The Gays would have been put back in their place.<br /><br />The Mexicans would have been put back in their place, too.<br /><br />The democratic party would have been shattered forever.<br /><br />Socialism would be vanquished in both thought and deed.<br /><br />A Second American Revolution would have taken place, and the country would be hurtling at light speed towards The Promised Land, and the world would be made safe for the return of Christ.</span></i><br />
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None of these things have happened -- and America has suffered for it -- they'll be happy to tell you, because the GOP hates True Conservatives. if the GOP actually loved True Conservatives, then we'd all be living under the Banner of God and Country, manna would fall from the Heavens, we'd all be remarkably rich, there'd be no social ills, no deviancy, no drug addicts, no dirt, no crime, no taxes, no ObamaCare, no MSNBC, the Muzzbags would learn not to mess with us, and dogs and cats would be living in peace and harmony. It is only because the GOP <i><span style="color: blue;">conspires</span></i> to keep True Conservatives out of public office, and especially the White House, that we're living upon a modern-day Titanic, slowly slipping beneath the waves in a sea of immorality, lawlessness and filth.<br />
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Now, this argument needs to be taken apart at it's seams before I go any further.<br />
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First and foremost, none of the personalities noted above had a snowball's chance in hell of being elected President of the United States because, for the most part, what they're selling is simply not acceptable to a majority of Americans (remember, you do have to win a majority of votes -- preferably Electoral Votes, in order to win anything under our political system). While they might agree with a Tancredo or a Huckabee on some issues, the public is largely aware of the baggage attached to such a figure.<br />
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That baggage, largely consists of the following:<br />
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There is a belief that what motivates these men -- <i><span style="color: blue;">and whether this a fair assessment or not is immaterial; it exists</span></i> -- is another agenda, and that this agenda revolves around their religion, their biases, and the need to play to a certain segment of the American population that a good many clear-thinking people would avoid like Ebola virus. This segment mainly consists of single-issue voters whose personal itches revolve around gun rights, keeping non-white immigrants out of the country, frogmarching the gays and abortionists to the ovens, and ensuring that their brand of brain-crushingly-stupid Christianity becomes the dominant force in American Life.<br />
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And yes, that is a hyperbolic generalization, so spare me the avalanche of "but, I'm different..." , or, "but, you don't understand..." e-mail.<br />
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Anyways, that is the general impression when it comes to that sort of candidate. It might not always be true, nor even fair, but it is there all the same.<br />
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Now, the idea that the True Conservative (defined as religious dickhead with a gun fetish who wants Gay People stoned in the public square) don't get an opportunity to run for the presidency is belied by actual facts. Mike Huckabee ran a close second to John McCain in 2008, and then hung around for no other reason than that he could afterwards. Rick Santorum made a decent showing in the last cycle, staying in the race far beyond any point where he could make a contribution to the public discourse. In fact, it was the more conservative candidates -- Gingrich and Herman Cain being the best examples -- that were knocked out of the race earlier than necessary. Gingrch was hounded out by -- you guessed it -- bad press mostly generated by the True Conservatives (they didn't like the fact that he was an adulterer), and Cain just wasn't ready for Prime Time.<br />
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Other candidates, like Michele Bachmann, Ron Paul, Rick Perry, and Jon Huntsman, were badly flawed in one way or another. Bachmann creeps people out (regardless of whether you agree with her or not), Perry proved that he was a dunce and a bigot with some of the things he had to say about Mormons, Paul is operating on a different level of consciousness than most Americans (debatable as to whether this is good or not), and Huntsman was simply the Little Romney.<br />
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The early primary process, which heavily favors Evangelical Christians and doctrinaire conservatives, winnowed out the worst candidates right away, but then went too far (it always does) and got rid of the only real conservative left standing, Gingrich. So, your choice was, by default, between Santorum and Romney, and since Santorum could do little more than talk about abortion and what he had accomplished as a junior senator during the Clinton Years (and nothing since) it was, in effect, the True Conservatives who selected Romney as their candidate. And then they complained about it, that their needs and ideals are being completely ignored.<br />
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<i><span style="color: blue;">But then again, they always do.</span></i><br />
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For a start, this is because they make the mistake of believing there is but one kind of Conservatism, which is to say, their kind. There most certainly is not. For while I'm all in favor of people openly practicing their faith, and owning automatic weapons with cop-killer ammo in order to hunt squirrels and bullet-proof-vest-wearing deer, and while I don't mind people expressing their biases openly and publicly (after all, it's what I do here, ain't it?), and I want the Mooselimbs all blown to kingdom come, and I don't want anymore of this Clinton/Obama/Pelosi brand of Tried-and-Failed Socialism, there's more than one way to skin this cat.<br />
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The True Conservative is mostly concerned with social issues, and this blinds him to the other side of the Conservative Coin; the world does not revolve around the issues of religion and cultural turmoil. In fact, government is perhaps the WORST remedy/ally when it comes to many of those issues. Those are issues best left to the individuals that make up society; if you wish to change people's minds about religion, about guns, about not being gay,<i><span style="color: blue;"> then do what missionaries have done for thousands of years prior, and go out and convert them to your view, one person at a time</span></i>. That, however, takes too long, and involves too much work, so the True Conservative instead desires to use the levers of government power to impose a dictatorship that is acceptable to them, much in the same way the Progressive Liberal does.<br />
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The two, in terms of their actions, speech and fervor, are basically indistinguishable. If it wasn't for the flannel shirt one wears, and the Man Purse being carried by the other, you'd be hard-pressed to tell them apart.<br />
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But Conservatism is much more. There are small government conservatives, low tax and regulation conservatives, law-and-order conservatives, Libertarians, and people who are quite fiscally and governmentally conservative, and yet socially liberal (these, by the way, are all derided by the True Conservative as puppets of the Liberal Establishment, willing dupes who haven't yet understood that they are tying their own noose by not throwing in their lot with people they wouldn't follow through their own front door, i.e. the True Conservatives).<br />
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True Conservatives will complain, often and loudly, that in such an electoral environment, with so many competing visions of Conservatism, that they are continuously marginalized, outnumbered, ignored, taken for granted, but nothing could be further from the truth. All one has to do is to look at how well recent True Conservative candidates for Congress/Senate fared in local elections (which was terribly), and one need only remember Todd Akin, the True Conservative candidate for Senate in Missouri last time round, who had this to say about rape victims avoiding abortions because God will be displeased:<br />
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<span style="line-height: 22px;"><span style="background-color: #cccccc; color: blue; font-family: inherit;"><i>“It seems to me, from what I understand from doctors, that’s really rare,” Mr. Akin said of pregnancies from rape. “If it’s a legitimate rape, the female body has ways to try to shut that whole thing down. But let’s assume that maybe that didn’t work or something: I think there should be some punishment, but the punishment ought to be of the rapist, and not attacking the child.”</i></span></span><br />
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That has been the major problem with this brand of conservatism since the beginning of time; <i><span style="color: blue;">it's messengers are batshit insane, and no matter how hard they try to contain it, the crazy just oozes out of them.</span></i> Akin was denounced, and rightfully so, for implying that when it comes to rape there is a distinction to be made between the "legitimate' and 'illegitimate' kinds, but in neither case, should aborting an unwanted fetus that was created as the result of a criminal violation be allowed. Let's not get started on the Middle Ages point-of-view that statement conveys, either. It sounds like superstition grafted onto ideological dogsqueeze.<br />
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In the end, Akin did little more than deliver that Missouri Senate seat back to Claire McCaskill, one of the dumbest people alive, and one of leaders in the fight to turn America into the Soviet Union under the enlightened despotism of Reichsfuhrer Barack Odipshit.<br />
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This is what that brand of Conservatism throws up for election, and the fact that this sort of thing (and person) disgusts the general public -- to the point where such candidates loose routinely -- is totally lost upon the True Conservative. They are unable to learn lessons from what is going on around them. They are unable to compromise. They are incapable of pragmatism (in this case, getting what conservatism you can out of the electoral process under current conditions, while keeping your powder dry when you can;'t make any).<br />
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They are in the same curious mental state that has marked most marginal left-wing political movements throughout history: it is easier and more psychologically comforting to play the part of the martyr, the lone voice in the wilderness, for it is a romantic vision. In the end, most of those marginal left-wing political movements failed because they were stuffed to the brim with people who never truly wanted, nor ever expected, to have any sort of power, and who wished to avoid responsibility like it's a syphilitic whore, and because they are stuffed to the brim with ignorant loudmouths who don't truly understand either the foundations or the consequences of what they advocate and agitate for.<br />
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And true to form, the True Conservatives in this little Facebook morality play brought out their Big Gun. The threat that they all make when they're about to be blasted from the field of battle; if the GOP doesn't get more conservative, the True Conservatives will go home and take their votes and money with them.<br />
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<i><span style="color: blue;">And then we'll be listening to them complain about how the country sucks all over again, because no republican (or even someone who approximates their views) wins for lack of votes and support.</span></i><br />
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Which leads to another round of "I'm more Conservative Than You" chest beating, more skewed primaries producing flawed candidates, more name-calling, more pointless Facebook arguments, and another round of "if you don't get more Conservative, we'll stay home" bullshit.<br />
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The history of the Muslim peoples shows that one reason why they have never advanced beyond the 7th Century is that they are unable to learn the lessons of history. For 1,400 years, it has been axiomatic that whenever a Muslim Army has been defeated, or the ambitions of those who would rebuild the Caliphate checked, that the failure is always marked up to a lack of piety and orthodoxy by those who failed. It is never because they used the wrong strategy, or underestimated their opponents, or made mistakes, but because they lost God's favor. The remedy has always been a resurgence of religious fervor, with stricter standards of orthodoxy (we call this "Islamic Fundamentalism" today), and greater stupidity. Those who are unable to learn the lessons of history are doomed to repeat them.<br />
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Those who continuously repeat the same action and expect different results, are insane.<br />
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True Conservatives and Islamonazis have much in common, it would appear.<br />
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Since the Islamonazi will become extinct in the future through a combination of being unable to adapt to the modern world, unable to learn from his mistakes, and the high explosives those mistakes usually bring in return for being unable to learn and adapt, so will the True Conservative, although I do hope that we don't have to blow them up in the literal sense.<br />
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The political atmosphere of Modern America is such that a return to a Classically Liberal state is a distinct possibility. People are fed up by the extremists on both sides, and they feel as if they are under assault -- economically, politically, culturally -- from their own goddamned government. <span style="color: blue; font-style: italic;">The idea that what America needs right this very second is a high-pressure, high-volume True Conservative enema to flush all the crap away is patently ridiculous, and inherently dangerous. </span>What is needed is for clear-thinking, responsible people to come together to begin the process of putting other clear-thinking, responsible people into public office.<br />
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The last thing anyone needs is some religious asswipe waving his Old testament and his Daddy's shotgun around telling us that the way forward from here is to elect people who are as conceited, superstitious and stupid as they are, just so that they can have a Fag-Free Zone established around the creche they've set up at the local shopping mall next Holiday Season. Because this is what it's really all about, for some of them.<br />
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You're entitled to your beliefs. Just stop sticking them in my face, Asshole. And No, you're not getting Raptured for your devotion to the cause, so get used to it.<br />
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Charles Darwin, methinks your theory has at least one gaping fucking hole in it. Probably because you were too busy looking at turtles an beetles, and not men..Matthew Notohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08881509233809999186noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6161738.post-49357357949847393632013-11-06T13:08:00.000-05:002013-11-06T13:57:52.785-05:00The GROFT Principle...<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Back in the days when I was a young computer operator, I had a supervisor who, for lack of a better term, was a southern redneck. I mean a real hillbilly plowboy, a tobacco-chewin’, country-music singin’, flannel-wearin’, swaggerin’ farmboy from the inbred regions of South Carolina (which covers about 96% of the state). Why, he was so Southern he pissed moonshine and crapped fried chicken.<br />
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But that’s beside the point. In retrospect, nearly 30 years later he turns out to have been one of the smartest people I have ever met. He typically would use a colorful turn of phrase to get a point across (<i><span style="color: blue;">“Why, that boy looks as nervous as a whore in church…”</span></i>, <i><span style="color: blue;">“That generator ain’t turnin’ out enough power to pull a greasy string from a whore’s ass…”.</span></i> Harry was obsessed with whores, but this was how he talked), but that was only ever a means to an end. He knew that if you wanted people to remember something, you had to give it them in a way that they would remember it -- so that it would stick.<br />
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One of the man’s most important maxims, however, didn't involve prostitutes, bathroom humor, foul language or whatnot. It was a phrase that he repeated over and over and over until you could predict it’s next utterance with a 99.9% accuracy rate:<br />
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<i><span style="color: blue;">“The General Rule of Thumb is….”</span></i><br />
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Whenever there was an issue that arose in the Data Center and you needed to formulate a plan of action or investigate what was happening in order to fix something, Harry was there with his The General Rule of Thumb to set the starting point for whatever came after.<br />
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Those of us who worked for Harry, lo! those many years ago, took to calling this The GROFT Principle. We used to play a game at work where we would try to apply the GROFT principle to just about any human activity or to inanimate objects, and laugh our asses off (<i><span style="color: blue;">did I mention that people who do that kind of work for a living are rather strange and geeky?</span></i>). It was a big joke to us, especially when it was delivered with a southern twang.<br />
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However, the GROFT Principle has proven itself surprisingly resilient, and over the years there’s been many times when it’s reared it’s ugly head, and the circumstances have not been so goddamned funny. In fact, there’s times when the GROFT Principle has been applicable that make you alternately want to cry or shoot up a shopping mall.<br />
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(<i><span style="color: blue;">Not that we here at the Asylum advocate that anyone do so. But, if you do, please make it one in Tehran, Kabul or Cairo, where people deserve to die and you’ll be doing the world a favor by thinning out the herd of potential terrorists</span></i>).<br />
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The GROFT, of course, varies in its application depending upon subject. In this screed, I’m about to apply GROFT to the subject of Barack Obama and his unmitigated failures that make Jimmy Carter giddy with the thought that he will soon no longer hold the onerous title of “Worst President in American History”.<br />
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Before we begin to apply GROFT, we need to set out a case on the phenomena of Obama, liberalism, his policies, and why they don’t – and can’t ever – work. Bear with me.<br />
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<b><u>1. Defining Modern Liberalism</u></b><br />
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Although we rail against the evils of Modern Liberalism very often upon this page, we must begin by complimenting Liberalism, in general, on having achieved a great deal in it’s heyday, which I will date from approximately 1500 to about the ending of the Second World War. This is what we generally term “Classical Liberalism”, and it was the linchpin of the Renaissance, the Enlightenment, the Revolutionary Wars of the Americas and France, and it encompassed a great deal more in terms of advancements in Art, Science, Literature and Politics.<br />
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Classical Liberalism, in a nutshell, encompasses a few key axioms that form the foundation of much of modern political life. It is a philosophy in which the individual is assumed to have innate and obvious rights – to Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness. It has recognized and codified the concept of private property. It established the equality of all men before the Law. It revived the old Greek and Roman traditions of democracy and republicanism.<br />
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In the Sciences, the Classically Liberal point of view stated that the mysteries of the Universe are not the sole domain of God (and by extension, his priesthood), much to the consternation of the hard-line Christian Conservatives of the Inquisition type everywhere, but are discoverable and understandable by the human mind. Science, as we understand the term, is something that exists in its own right. It is a process of observation and discovery, advanced by inches over time, which relies upon rational thought and the divorcing of established fact from religious and social dogma.<br />
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In Art and Literature, Classical Liberalism (and it’s older step-brother, Humanism), ceased to be the reserve of the rich and royal, and became an expression of the individual’s point of view, a graphic example of the hopes, fears and aspirations of society, as a whole. They are expressions of freedom, often in the face of scathing persecution of church or monarch.<br />
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Classical Liberalism has always been concerned with the primacy of the individual, and on a grander scale, the relationship between the individual and the greater society in which he lives, and has been mostly an exploration of how these two competing forces could co-exist. If not peacefully, then at least civilly.<br />
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Modern Liberalism, on the other hand, has been about anything BUT the primacy of the individual. It is mostly a repudiation of the progress of the past. The individual is only important inasmuch as she can be made to serve the greater whole, which in time has come to mean, inasmuch as the individual has use to the government, and in more recent years, only inasmuch as the individual has a use to the candidate or political party at any particular moment in time.<br />
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Today’s Liberal is nothing more than the reincarnation of those who once fought against the spread of Classical Liberalism. They are the new Inquisitors, the new Henry VIII’s, Tsars and Sun Kings. <i><span style="color: blue;">Where Classical Liberalism states that the government is the servant of the individual, and exists in order to guarantee individual rights, the Modern Liberal dictates that the people live to serve the government, that rights are conditional, the Rule of Law is not necessarily the Rule of Law, and this entire “freedom” thing is altogether inconvenient when it comes to ensuring that the Modern Liberal gets his way. </span></i><br />
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The Modern Liberal behaves as the despot of old, believing in his innate superiority by virtue of either his political philosophy or (usually self-declared) elite status, and yet it is the Classically Liberal Conservative who is routinely accused of wanting to “turn back the clock”. Go figure.<br />
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This mindset is obvious in most of the Modern Liberal’s agenda: Progress in the developed world must be halted in order to “save” primitive headhunters in the New Guinea jungle (the better to exploit both). Capital punishment is a sin against humanity, but abortion must not be interfered with. Capitalism is bad, unless you need to beg Hollywood and Wall Street for enormous campaign contributions. The successful, productive and law-abiding are punished in order to reward the lazy, parasitical and criminal. Laws are to be obeyed, unless they run afoul of political need, in which case they can be safely ignored or subverted, or used as a weapon against your enemies. The concept of personal liberty is routinely shit upon in pursuit of the collective’s goals.<br />
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In the past, the Liberal was someone who dreamed big, who looked into the future and saw something better than what had come before. A landscape where life could be made much easier by freedom and progress, and wealth would become a general commodity and not just the plaything of the very few individuals who held a monopoly of force. Those Old Guard Liberals had established a system – through debate, experimentation, and yes, sometimes through bloodshed -- whereby those dreams could one day become a reality.<br />
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Today, the Modern Liberal is a backwards-looking tyrant, a bully who hides behind the power of government and law to force he individual to conform to her (it’s usually a ‘Her”) way of thinking. They are the very “reactionary forces” that appear within much of the Left’s modern political literature, but which is a term applied to their enemies. Where the Classical Liberal sees hope, promise, great leaps to be made, the Modern Liberal sees a dreary Dickensian world of poverty, dirt, oppression, whether it truly exists or not.<br />
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So, when we speak of Liberals and the political philosophy of Modern Liberals:<br />
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<b><i>GROFT</i></b> – the Modern Liberal is a petty dictator who simply assumes power for the purposes of gaining more power. The purpose of power is to use it to dictate to the individual how he should live, according to the Modern Liberal’s tastes, desires, or dictates. Without the enlightened leadership of the Modern Liberal, we would all be living in some real-life version of <i>Oliver Twist</i> or <i>Uncle Tom’s Cabin</i>. The truth, that we're living in a kinder, gentler, more hip version of <i>1984</i> is to be ignored.The Liberal takes power so as to enact the Modern Liberal program of control of every aspect of life, and to enrich the Liberal at the expense of others.<br />
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In this quest to hold sway over the tastes, ideas, activities and welfare of entire populations, the Modern Liberal finds it necessary to do away with the concepts of private property, of individual rights, of Equality before The Law, of human brotherhood, while continuing to shout slogans to the contrary and keep the rubes in a state of ignorance. What matters is to the Liberal is the thought, not necessarily the deed.<br />
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Unless it is one of their own who is thinking or doing it, and then all bets are off.<br />
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Human equality is to be avoided at all costs, because if it were ever achieved the Modern Liberal would have no reason to exist. With true equality the Modern Liberal could not justify his actions and would have to be truthful about his motives.<br />
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Just remember that when a Modern Liberal speaks of fairness, liberty, equality, he means none of it. When the Modern Liberal speaks of defending the Constitution and promoting our “shared values” he’s lying to you. For the defense of the Constitution requires recognition of what that document specifically states: that the power of government is to be limited, that the individual has a corresponding system or rights and responsibilities, and that the ultimate arbiter or power is the People, and not the government or the bureaucracy or the parasitical elitist snobs who draw their sustenance from them<br />
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For if there’s anything a Modern Liberal hates, it is these three things: <i><span style="color: blue;">to be responsible, to be held to any sort of standard of behavior, to be forced to accept the consequences of their actions.</span></i> This is the foundation of Modern Liberalism, with it’s vocabulary of victimhood, it’s seeming desire to turn every institution upside down and inside out, with it’s imperative to undermine the traditional values and replace them with a judgement-free zone where anything goes at taxpayer expense. It hides the fact that the Modern Liberal can only do what he does because the Constitution is no longer enforced or often just completely ignored.<br />
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Especially by, and for the benefit of, Modern Liberals. Why they should do this brings us to point Number Two.<br />
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<b><u>2. The Liberal Mentality</u></b><br />
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Generally speaking, all Liberals suffer from a variety of mental defects. The major defect is that they cannot deal with reality.<br />
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This sickness manifests itself in several ways. For example, the feminist ideal that there is, fundamentally, no difference between men and women. Occasionally, this idea runs smack dab up against Reality, and is then proven to be untrue. If you doubt this, ask yourself why it is that you don’t see many 5-foot-nothing-90-pound offensive linemen in the NFL, or why the US Marines don’t give female recruits live grenades to train with, or why your local police academy has one set of physical standards for men, and another for women.<br />
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Another example: if African-Americans score poorly on the SAT, it’s not because they’re stupid, poorly educated, lazy, or don’t put a priority on being prepared and ready to compete at the collegiate level; it’s because of the Legacy of Slavery, or because the test is “Culturally-biased” despite the fact that the majority will have been born, raised, and conditioned by the common American culture. This requires a system of Affirmative Action to remedy, in which we must pretend the obviously unqualified are just as good as those who put in the effort. When the failings of Affirmative Acton become apparent, there is suddenly a slew of new Civil Rights Legislation which does little more than deprive the non-African-American of his Civil Rights.<br />
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And this sort of thing carries through no matter what variables you plug into the equation: race, income, academic performance, relative intelligence, productive capacity, the efficiency of private enterprise versus government, etc.<br />
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The typical reaction of the Liberal Mindset to Reality is to ignore the fail. When it can no longer be ignored, the next step is to whine about it in the hopes that someone will do something to artificially “level the playing field’through gerrymandering the Law and by Judicial activism, and to keep this up until the opposition has been worn down. When the artificial leveling fails, the lying begins. When the lying no longer suffices the bullying and violence follows. At each step, the Liberal seeks to keep the fantasy one step ahead of the Reality. Reality is too painful for Liberals, especially for those at its controls, because if Reality ever became apparent to a majority of people there would soon be no more Liberals.<br />
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<i><span style="color: blue;">And they would have to find real jobs.</span></i><br />
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And this possibility frightens many of them. Not just the ones at the top, either. Your rank-and-file Liberal is literally scared to death that she might have to, one day, re-evaluate her system of beliefs, or give up her special feeling of uniqueness, or mostly-made-up drama of persecution which has become so rewarding and remunerative. It’s generally just easier, particularly psychologically, to live in a state of denial about all things 24/7/365.<br />
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Primarily, this is because most Liberals are not great thinkers. In fact, I’ll go as far as to say that most Liberals might actually suffer horrible, physical pain if they had to exert themselves in the Thought Process. Hell, in most circumstances, an original thought and cold drink of water could conceivably kill one. This is because most Liberals are emotional rather than rational people.<br />
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This becomes obvious in the <i>modus operandi</i> of the typical Liberal. They do not speak in realistic terms, but always in grandiose, flowery language which belies a detachment from physical reality. Symbols and Sloganeering substitute for direct communication because the symbols evoke raw emotions and the slogans are easier to remember than truth. Think back to every Liberal slogan of the last 50 years, and you’ll find they all have several things in common: they contain four words or less, can be easily repeated until you can remember them reflexively, they are purposely ambiguous or downright spurious:<br />
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<i><span style="color: blue;">No Blood for Oil, Hands off My Bush, Meat is Murder, Hope and Change, Think Locally/Act Globally, Split Wood Not Atoms, The (1 or 99) Percent, The New Deal, The Great Society, No Justice No Peace.</span></i><br />
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The Emotional aspect of Modern Liberalism is all too apparent: the appeals of “for the children”, or the democratic party’s habit of dredging up the worst examples of The Exception to The Rule for beatification during political campaigns, are simply manifestations of this emotional condition or brazen attempts to take advantage of it. These appeals, these examples, are intended to tug at people’s heartstrings, and thus, influence their behavior and activities. Recently, the Right has begun to do this, too, and in both cases, it’s rather disgusting. But that is beside the point. What counts is that the Modern Liberal must always be in a peculiar emotional state – standing on the knife-edges of fear, hatred, envy, jealously, guilt, convinced that everyone and everything is, in some way, “unfair”. People who live in this curious state of emotional turmoil are easier to manipulate. Combine this emotional condition with a large dollop of Welfare, and you have created a monolithic voting bloc.<br />
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The Faithful are kept on the reservation by a compliant media who are largely sympathetic to the Modern Liberal cause, and who, in general, are even less inclined to engage in critical thinking than the average Liberal. The people at the top feed the media their daily talking points, the media repeats them endlessly, the common Liberal – especially in today’s world – is simply inundated day-in-and-day-out by propaganda. In fact, in this time of The Internet and mobile, instantaneous communications, 24-hour cable news, the Modern Liberal is never out of earshot from his leaderships’ propaganda. It is in his newspaper, entertainment, news programs, books and educational experience. This Age of Facebook and MSNBC, where people can self-identify and find like-minded people with hardly any effort, ensures that the Modern Liberal only need interact (if at all) with people who prop up his own self-protecting fantasy. The Modern Liberal lives under the constant drumbeat of his own propaganda during nearly all of his waking hours. It reinforces all of his pre-conceived notions about the world, while relieving him of the responsibility of forming an opinion of his own, and he takes great comfort in this.<br />
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It has been said that a Conservative is a Liberal who has been mugged by reality. In practice, this means that a Conservative is someone who at one time managed to escape the mental cage most Liberals erect around themselves as a means of keeping Real Life at arm’s length. It indicates that, at some point, someone faces up to a reality that can no longer be ignored. In most cases, when this happens the Liberal simply retreats into a more strident, more offensive form of politics (what we call The Far Left), but in a few cases, it becomes a startling revelation that changes a life forever. And no four-word slogans or appeal to emotion serves as a shield against reality, or substitute for a personal opinion, ever again for those people.<br />
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A secondary mental deficiency of the Modern Liberal is their desire to be released from any sort of obligation or personal responsibility. In this way, the Modern Liberal is typically little more than a moody, whiny adolescent in an adult body who simply wants what he wants when he wants it, and who doesn't often understand the practical reasons why it should be denied to him.<br />
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This is, strictly speaking, why you find such overwhelmingly emotional and terribly-argued opposition from Modern Liberals on just about everything. Because they’re like 14 year old girls.<br />
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<b><i>GROFT-</i></b> the Modern Liberal is an unthinking creature who is guided by his emotions and desires. When presented with a conflict between Reality and His Fantasy, the Liberal will retreat into fantasy every time, or sulk about how he’s being persecuted unfairly. The Liberal mind is one that cannot grasp how the world works and which denies the existence of human nature.He is intellectually lazy and incurious, and prefers to live in an echo chamber where he is constantly validated by others who suffer under the same handicaps.<br />
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She refuses to believe that people are not always born equal in terms of their talents and intelligence, that it is easier to pretend or scapegoat than it is to face facts honestly, and that when the bubble of fantasy is finally broken the levers of government are able to keep reality at bay only by a self-defeating program of oppression that ultimately diminishes the human freedom and equality they pay lip service to.<br />
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He lives in a world of ignorance, broken only by moments of emotional release, and he does not fully comprehend that these moments are engineered for him, and that the timing of the release is often planned by those he follows or puts his trust in, and never for his more-than-momentary benefit.<br />
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She is easy to manipulate and misinform; it is child’s play to evoke the proper emotions in her. She can be lied to without much effort because she is preternaturally programmed to avoid truth. Facts are fungible to her, because they don’t really matter; all that matters is that she is protected in every way – from reality, from having to play fairly, from the consequences of her actions, and she foolishly believes, from the ultimate results of what she advocates be done to others.<br />
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It’s why they can swallow the most contrived tripe whole: Hillary Clinton is the Smartest Woman in the World, The Lewinski Affair was just about Sex, Barack Obama is a transformative figure and effective leader who never lies. He is brilliant, yet he never knows anything. It's why you need to pass laws before you find out what’s in them. It's how a country that spends more than the rest of the civilized world on Welfare is caricatured as a cruel place. It's a state where an education is only valid depending upon how much<br />
money you've wasted upon it with no tangible results at the end of it all.<br />
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This brings us to the President of the United States, and how he got there.<br />
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<b><u>3. Barack Obama</u></b><br />
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We now get to the subject of the President of the United States, himself, for he is a product of the Modern Liberal Mindset and the end result of Modern Liberal social engineering. He is the visible pustule that signifies the presence of the underlying disease.<br />
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And in true Modern Liberal fashion, this fact is never to be recognized or addressed. If you should do so, the bullying, petty bitterness and raw emotion that are the most powerful weapons in the Modern Liberal arsenal, are brought to bear upon you. To disagree with Obama on principle is to be branded a racist. To oppose any policy of his is to be likened to Hitler. You are accused of wanting to starve children, kill the elderly, return women and blacks to a servile state.<br />
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Yet it is the Modern Liberal who desires these things more than any other person alive. For in denying reality and by using the apparatus of government to paper over all the flaws in American Life, the Liberal makes us all slaves to his ideology, ans his ideology has but one destination:<br />
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The diminution of liberty and the reduction of the individual to little more than a slave of the State.<br />
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It was painfully obvious to anyone with half a mind in 2008 that Barack Obama wasn't qualified to be the dog catcher in a town full of cats. The pity of it all was that what the opposition offered was so much more pitiful, but that is for another post. Barack Obama had never held a job before in his life that didn't in one way or another draw a paycheck from government. He had supposedly studied and excelled in America’s best universities, but shows no sign of having learned anything of practical use. he cannot speak coherently off teleprompter. When confronted by a country in crisis – embroiled in two wars, economic crisis looming, a divided nation – Obama’s main thrusts revolved around nationalizing the (unionized) Auto Industry and banks, “reforming” the healthcare system by effectively setting it on the path towards nationalization, and by apologizing abroad for the country’s very existence, anything but the immediate problems.<br />
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Obama was, and always has been, a marketing campaign, and one that has and always was, targeted directly at those who were most likely to buy the load of crap he was selling, i.e. the Modern Liberal, who lives in a fantasy land and who could be easily frightened and propagandized.<br />
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Mitt Romney didn't lose that last presidential Election because he ran on a bad platform or because he was a bad candidate, but because Brand Obama had a better advertising agency that better understood the consumer market. While Obama ducked the important questions, he was still being presented as The Savior Of the Universe, while Mitt Romney was pitifully trying to make the case to a few constipated religious Republican minds that voting for a Mormon with a streak of (maybe misguided) federalism wasn't the same thing as voting for Satan.<br />
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<i><span style="color: blue;">Romney lost because those votes stayed home and Obama managed to win the messaging war, with help from Candy Crowley and CNN.</span></i><br />
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In terms of real accomplishments, Obama has few. We haven’t been allowed to see his grades from Harvard and Columbia. It hasn't been explained how he became the editor of the <i>Harvard Law Review</i> and yet never submitted an article of his own. It’s obvious that he was given the Nobel Peace Prize simply because the Europeans who make these decisions were quick to make an icon out of a black man who rose to power in what they consider a racist country. There was no legislative record, whether in the Illinois State House, or in the United States Senate, unless you count voting “present” a few thousand times as a record. There was no proven history of leadership.<br />
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I believe that Obama is simply the by-product of the Modern Liberal system. Raised up by Affirmative Action, defended and insulated by the thuggery of racial politics, fortunate recipient of the Liberal tendency to play Let’s Pretend, and marketed as all things to all people to a culture and a citizenry that was eager to lap it all up. He was elected because the alternative couldn't speak down to people in the same way, and re-elected because the alternative couldn't make it’s own case, even with a rotten economy, rampant unemployment and a terrorist attack a month before Election Day on it's side.<br />
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Obama was always simply a political campaign. He looked the part. He read (<i><span style="color: blue;">written by smart white guys and stuffed into a teleprompter</span></i>) “Great Speeches” that were long on words and lofty ideals, but short on meaning, but which stirred the heart. His mixed racial heritage appealed to squishy and irrationally guilty white liberals who still insist upon apologizing for slavery, and to a black electorate that was under the impression that they finally had one of their own who would shower them with Whtey’s cash. The unions wanted him to save their jobs even though they had done their level best to bankrupt both private employers and the taxpayer, the lazy wanted him to save their welfare, and through a masterful campaign of deliberate lies, casting blame for everything on his predecessor, a compliant press, and an electorate that couldn't find it’s own ass with both hands and a flashlight, he succeeded.<br />
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Ever since, he’s done little more than to reveal who he really is (a moron) and what he really stands for (Socialism), and how incompetent he and the rest of the Modern Liberals truly are.<br />
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<i><span style="color: blue;">And true to form, the Liberals have rallied to his side, denying reality at every step of the way</span></i>. Those who still have a sense of shame merely deny that they ever voted for him, his minions deny he said the things he has so obviously said. Large swaths of the democratic party mosaic deny that they were (willingly) duped, too. His hagiographers deny that the resume was always thin, the ghostwiritten autobiographies fake, the racial hucksterism always obvious, the application of double standards manifest, the speeches totally separated from reality.<br />
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For the Modern Liberal, Obama is the vehicle by which they have taken complete leave of Reality, while simultaneously staying true to ideology. He shouts the slogans, he stirs the emotion, he lies with a silver tongue to masses who don’t really care so long as the check shows up, and even if it means the complete destruction of civil liberties, crushing of the free press, Americans murdered with impunity abroad, the organs of government turned against citizens exercising what are supposed to be their Civil Rights, it still doesn't matter whether he actually said “<i><span style="color: blue;">You can keep your doctor if you like him. Period</span></i>”, or if an innocent filmmaker in California goes to jail for an Al’Qaeda attack in Libya.<br />
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What counts is the Symbolism of Obama. What matters is the feeling one gets from throwing their unbridled love and support behind the descendant of a formerly-oppressed people. What you gain from loving Obama is a sense of superiority that is, as always, completely unreal, but which eventually leaves you hollow and more eager to follow the next would-be Messiah. You may feel good about your vote or support of this man, but in the end, what has it really gotten you?<br />
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Well, if you live in the real world, it has gotten you the highest unemployment since the Great Depression; a full-time job that will soon become a part-time job; higher insurance premiums (assuming you haven’t been dropped or cancelled); an economy that is stuck in neutral; a $17 trillion debt; two wars have become five, The Government is reading your e-mail and listening to your phone calls, terrorists are stopped by American citizens on a plane to Detroit and in Times Square (<i><span style="color: blue;">not by the rapidly expanding police state</span></i>) and the government still takes credit for it’s Anti-terrorism regime.<br />
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You are daily lectured to by your supposed betters about what’s best for you, and if you don’t agree you are a sexist/racist/homophobe, or just too stupid to know any better. You don’t get nuance. You don’t understand that when the President says something, it means something else today and something else tomorrow, depending on what the news cycle requires. You have a Modern Liberal-controlled Senate that dare not put anything with the man’s name on it up for a simple vote because it’s afraid of assassination and unemployment.<br />
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Your support of Obama brought you a trillion-dollar Stimulus plan that largely went to reward his political allies and did nothing to spur economic growth. You got a President who speaks out of both sides of his mouth and his rectum, simultaneously, about questions of fundamental fairness and then he arbitrarily retracts, restricts, or re-writes, or grants waivers to his own laws as he sees fit. You got a promise of economic salvation by government “investments” in Solyndra, Solar One, and a host of others who all went tits up as soon as the government money ran out. You are the recipient of a brand-spankin’ new health care website that cost $634 million,…<i><span style="color: blue;">and which doesn't work.</span></i><br />
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There’s 300 million or so people in this country: <i><span style="color: blue;">the federal government could have given us each a million bucks to buy insurance and it would have been cheaper than ObamaCare's website</span></i>, but then there would have been no opportunity for graft, Michelle couldn't grease her former roommate’s palm, and half the democrats in Washington would have had nothing to campaign for re-election on a year ago.<br />
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You are confronted daily by the spectacle of a President who insists he’s in charge, but who is never responsible for anything, or even aware of what his own government does. It’s a shock to him to discover, in the wake of a Benghazi attack, or an IRS scandal, that he is, indeed, the President of the United States and that the buck does stop with him. Yet, he has no trouble taking the paycheck or the perks of the office: A ride on Air Force one to go on a date night in Manhattan, the golf courses at Andrews or Camp David, the ability to vacation every few weeks in the tony destination of your choice, guarded by the Secret Service.<br />
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Those things Obama knows how to do. The rest of it not so much. One gets the impression that Obama only remembers he’s President of the United States when it suits him to, and the rest of the time he leaves it all up to others.<br />
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And what a Rogue’s Gallery of Modern Liberalism that is: Joe Biden, Valerie Jarret, Kathleen Sebelius, Eric Holder, I could go on and on, but you get the point.<br />
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<b><i>GROFT- </i></b> One must assume that President Obama is, if not a complete retard, at least something very close to it. He is a vain and thin-skinned man who has never been trained or prepared, by experience, temperament or education for the job he now holds. He is, sadly, a figurehead, much like the British Monarchy, who are kept informed of the day-to-day activities of government, but not directly a part of it (<i><span style="color: blue;">unless it becomes necessary to deny that Obama is even informed of the day-to-day activities</span></i>). It is enough that he simply stand there and give great speech, that he be photographed in the War Room or Oval Office (to later re-write History in Symbolic, rather than concrete terms), that he be the face on the poster, the voice on the televisions. It is enough that he is (half-) black, and that he spout all the proper rhetoric to keep a bunch of fake Reverends happy, and make irrationally guilty white libtards feel better about being secret racists.<br />
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He is the ultimate expression of the Modern Liberal ideal: he is part savior, part victim. His talk is lofty and flowery and his accomplishments few. He is both responsible and not responsible. He has power and the next day is the plaything of his servants who cause him to misspeak.<br />
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When he says something and it is recorded on videotape, you are supposed to believe that he meant something else entirely and reject the evidence of your lying eyes and ears. If you catch him in a lie, or corner him logically on policy, you are a bigoted hater who should be sent to a concentration camp…<i><span style="color: blue;">or at least subjected to a five-year audit</span></i>. If you don’t want to pay more taxes you’re a Grinch who wants to steal Christmas from the children, force the elderly to survive on dog food and whatever they manage to forage from garbage cans., and who wants poor people to die in agony for lack of care (I plead guilty on all three counts; they’re not my children, it’s not my grandmother, and the sick should be allowed to die as Nature intended for the preservation of the species. We don’t have any “poor” people in this country, just an underclass of parasites).<br />
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There you have it: The General Rule of Thumb that explains how it is that we got here, and as plausible an explanation as any you’re likely to find as to why we need to seriously consider just who gets the right to vote in this country next time around.<br />
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Matthew Notohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08881509233809999186noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6161738.post-68556121213602097232013-11-01T11:52:00.001-04:002015-03-26T22:16:09.076-04:00Orwell Never Sleeps...<span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit;"><span data-reactid=".r[14mtl].[1][4][1]{comment10202253031396242_6614713}.[0].{right}.[0].{left}.[0].[0].[0][3].[0].[0]" style="line-height: 14px;"><span data-reactid=".r[14mtl].[1][4][1]{comment10202253031396242_6614713}.[0].{right}.[0].{left}.[0].[0].[0][3].[0].[0].[0]" style="color: #333333;">To Quote Orwell:</span><br data-reactid=".r[14mtl].[1][4][1]{comment10202253031396242_6614713}.[0].{right}.[0].{left}.[0].[0].[0][3].[0].[0].[1]" /><br data-reactid=".r[14mtl].[1][4][1]{comment10202253031396242_6614713}.[0].{right}.[0].{left}.[0].[0].[0][3].[0].[0].[2]" /><span data-reactid=".r[14mtl].[1][4][1]{comment10202253031396242_6614713}.[0].{right}.[0].{left}.[0].[0].[0][3].[0].[0].[3]" style="color: blue;"><i>"He who controls the Past, controls the Future. He who controls the Present controls the Past."</i></span></span><span data-reactid=".r[14mtl].[1][4][1]{comment10202253031396242_6614713}.[0].{right}.[0].{left}.[0].[0].[0][3].[0].[3]" style="color: #333333; line-height: 14px;"><span data-reactid=".r[14mtl].[1][4][1]{comment10202253031396242_6614713}.[0].{right}.[0].{left}.[0].[0].[0][3].[0].[3].[0]"><br data-reactid=".r[14mtl].[1][4][1]{comment10202253031396242_6614713}.[0].{right}.[0].{left}.[0].[0].[0][3].[0].[3].[0].[0]" /><br data-reactid=".r[14mtl].[1][4][1]{comment10202253031396242_6614713}.[0].{right}.[0].{left}.[0].[0].[0][3].[0].[3].[0].[1]" /><span data-reactid=".r[14mtl].[1][4][1]{comment10202253031396242_6614713}.[0].{right}.[0].{left}.[0].[0].[0][3].[0].[3].[0].[2]">Liberals understand history very well. They just have a different view as to how it is to be used. While Conservatives see history as something solid and immutable which is useful in teaching lessons, the Liberal sees history as a lump of clay which can be reshaped and remolded many times over, and always, for a political purpose.</span><br data-reactid=".r[14mtl].[1][4][1]{comment10202253031396242_6614713}.[0].{right}.[0].{left}.[0].[0].[0][3].[0].[3].[0].[3]" /><br data-reactid=".r[14mtl].[1][4][1]{comment10202253031396242_6614713}.[0].{right}.[0].{left}.[0].[0].[0][3].[0].[3].[0].[4]" /><span data-reactid=".r[14mtl].[1][4][1]{comment10202253031396242_6614713}.[0].{right}.[0].{left}.[0].[0].[0][3].[0].[3].[0].[5]">The Liberal must ALWAYS seek to re-write history. As an example: Barack Obama said, thousands of documented times, that if you liked your health plan and doctor, you could keep them under Obamacare. It was necessary to tell this lie in order to assuage public fear of a government takeover of health care (a political motive).</span><br data-reactid=".r[14mtl].[1][4][1]{comment10202253031396242_6614713}.[0].{right}.[0].{left}.[0].[0].[0][3].[0].[3].[0].[6]" /><br data-reactid=".r[14mtl].[1][4][1]{comment10202253031396242_6614713}.[0].{right}.[0].{left}.[0].[0].[0][3].[0].[3].[0].[7]" /><span data-reactid=".r[14mtl].[1][4][1]{comment10202253031396242_6614713}.[0].{right}.[0].{left}.[0].[0].[0][3].[0].[3].[0].[8]">Now, when we know the truth, revisionist history kicks in: What Obama REALLY said, say the Libs, is that you could keep your old plan and doctor unless they failed to adopt the public mandates of the ACA, which they knew all along were poison pills. Note the rewriting of history before your very eyes: there was a nuance added three years after the fact, and they insist that it was always there, in plain sight.</span><br data-reactid=".r[14mtl].[1][4][1]{comment10202253031396242_6614713}.[0].{right}.[0].{left}.[0].[0].[0][3].[0].[3].[0].[9]" /><br data-reactid=".r[14mtl].[1][4][1]{comment10202253031396242_6614713}.[0].{right}.[0].{left}.[0].[0].[0][3].[0].[3].[0].[10]" /><span data-reactid=".r[14mtl].[1][4][1]{comment10202253031396242_6614713}.[0].{right}.[0].{left}.[0].[0].[0][3].[0].[3].[0].[11]">Now, the fact that a bald-faced lie was told and the liar was caught doesn't mean anything, in a historical sense, to your average Libtard. They have been trained (indoctrinated) in the public schools and universities, and conditioned by the mass media, to forget that which is inconvenient immediately and then to deny it ever existed (Orwell called this Doublethink), and so far as the true believers and idiots are concerned, the lie will pass into historical truth, if you repeat it enough to numb what's left of their tiny little minds.</span><br data-reactid=".r[14mtl].[1][4][1]{comment10202253031396242_6614713}.[0].{right}.[0].{left}.[0].[0].[0][3].[0].[3].[0].[12]" /><br data-reactid=".r[14mtl].[1][4][1]{comment10202253031396242_6614713}.[0].{right}.[0].{left}.[0].[0].[0][3].[0].[3].[0].[13]" /><span data-reactid=".r[14mtl].[1][4][1]{comment10202253031396242_6614713}.[0].{right}.[0].{left}.[0].[0].[0][3].[0].[3].[0].[14]">History exists in only two places, Orwell said -- in written records and in human memories. Academics, who will one day write the history of this time, are predominantly leftard, and so they will most likely write the leftard (politically-acceptable) version of history that shows them to have been right and prescient. The modern media (which is unapologetically leftist) controls minds -- no one in this country is ever away from the reach of leftist propaganda for more than a few hours, at most, per day -- shapes opinion, memory, tastes, and thought patterns on a daily basis, and shares much the same view as the academics.</span><br data-reactid=".r[14mtl].[1][4][1]{comment10202253031396242_6614713}.[0].{right}.[0].{left}.[0].[0].[0][3].[0].[3].[0].[15]" /><br data-reactid=".r[14mtl].[1][4][1]{comment10202253031396242_6614713}.[0].{right}.[0].{left}.[0].[0].[0][3].[0].[3].[0].[16]" /><span data-reactid=".r[14mtl].[1][4][1]{comment10202253031396242_6614713}.[0].{right}.[0].{left}.[0].[0].[0][3].[0].[3].[0].[17]">And the good little liberal wanders about in a stupor, as he has been failed by both academics and media who have neglected to do their primary job of giving him unbiased education and information to help him make his choices, has the short-term memory of a garden slug.</span><br data-reactid=".r[14mtl].[1][4][1]{comment10202253031396242_6614713}.[0].{right}.[0].{left}.[0].[0].[0][3].[0].[3].[0].[18]" /><br data-reactid=".r[14mtl].[1][4][1]{comment10202253031396242_6614713}.[0].{right}.[0].{left}.[0].[0].[0][3].[0].[3].[0].[19]" /><span data-reactid=".r[14mtl].[1][4][1]{comment10202253031396242_6614713}.[0].{right}.[0].{left}.[0].[0].[0][3].[0].[3].[0].[20]">Now you know.</span></span></span></span>Matthew Notohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08881509233809999186noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6161738.post-22106885347918480802013-11-01T00:47:00.001-04:002013-11-01T01:05:06.062-04:00Poor People Suck, Part III......the Halloween Edition.<br />
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I usually hate Halloween. As a kid, I guess I found it pretty cool -- free candy! -- but as the years passed and I got older, I found the whole idea of dressing up in costumes, partying until I puked, and putting on an extra 15 pounds of Butterfinger fat something not worth the time and effort.<br />
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And then there's all the stupid little chores that go with celebrating Halloween -- carving Jack-o-Lanterns, putting up macabre decorations, and the subsequent cleanup after both -- that make this holiday a royal pain in the posterior. I feel the same way about Christmas, on a certain level; I hate putting up Christmas trees, and decorating them, and getting up on ladders to staple strings of lights to the house. I cannot stand life-sized plastic Santas (with reindeer) that light up and have this creepy, Made-in-China sound box that makes Santa's Ho-Ho-Ho! sound like your grandfather suddenly remembering he has a hernia.<br />
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Although I must say, I DO enjoy dressing up as Santa for the little kids in my family, and for my cousin's friends, which I have done for many years. Go figure.<br />
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<a name='more'></a>Anyways, we're talking about Halloween and the Scum of the Earth...errrm...Poor people.<br />
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Imagine my surprise when earlier this week I had decided that, dammit!, this year I was actually going to do something Halloween-ish. I was going to actually buy candy, and hand it out to all the kids in the neighborhood when they came to my front door. Normally, I don't do this at all. In previous years, any child who came a'knockin' on my door at Halloween was bound to leave disappointed. Since I'm not a "Halloween Person", so to speak, the idea of constantly responding to a doorbell every five minutes and then pretending to actually enjoy the process was more than I could normally muster.<br />
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It's not that I'm a curmudgeon...oh, wait...I am a curmudgeon. Rather, I should say that I found the whole thing rather pointless. I had forgotten what it was like to be a kid on Halloween, when visions of Baby Ruth's and Blow Pops, Tootsie Rolls and Twizzlers and Sweet Tarts and Laffy Taffy are all you can think about.<br />
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You see, I really do love children. Especially little ones, because when they get excited about something their enthusiasm is infectious. It doesn't matter how angry, depressed, pissed off, sullen, disappointed you are, if you find yourself in the company of any child between the ages of 2 and 6 all worked up into a lather of nervous excitement bordering on maniacal joy, it's hard not to get all swept up in it.<br />
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So, I decided that this year, I was actually going to become a participant in this tradition that I had so casually tossed aside so long ago. Maybe, I thought, I could even have some fun.<br />
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And then the Trick or Treaters came...<br />
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Now, I have to make a distinction here. When I say "the Trick or Treaters" I should make clear that I really am referring to a specific CLASS of Trick or Treaters. I'll explain.<br />
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Not one block away from Lunatic Central is a New York City housing project. The Todt Hill Houses. At one time, it was designated as public housing for the elderly, but this changed some time ago, I forget how many years it's been. Once the former elderly tenants who occupied the place finally died off, a new wave of public housing sponges took up residence. This particular class consists largely of racial minorities and the welfare-sucking parasites (ooh, sorry, that was redundant) that seem to multiply like bedbugs every time someone yells out the words "FREE!" or "SUBSIDIZED!".<br />
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Anyways, I expected to see lots of kids from the projects. That's not the issue. <i><span style="color: blue;">It's their goddamned parents...or rather, I should say, their goddamned gamete donors, because "parent" is too generous a word for some of them.</span></i><br />
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So, here I was; I had filled the largest salad bowl in the house with candy, and had plenty of spare ammo right behind the door (in fact, I refilled that sucker 6 times). When the children came to the door, I told them they could take whatever they wanted (the variety was great, for I had planned ahead: Snickers, Three Musketeers, Peanut Butter Cups, Kit Kats, Dum-Dums, M&M's, Lemonheads, Mike & Ike's), and as much as they wanted. Or, at least as much as Mommy and/or Daddy would allow.<br />
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The...shall we say...<i><span style="color: blue;">non-minority</span></i>...parents upon hearing the words "<i><span style="color: blue;">You take whatever you want, Sweetheart/Buddy. You can have everything you want</span></i>", would invariably tell their children to limit their swag to one or two pieces; to give thought to the other kids who would be coming later who might be disappointed if supplies ran low; and not to be ungrateful and ill-mannered by actually taking me up on my offer.<br />
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Not so the minority parents.<br />
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For at the words "<i><span style="color: blue;">You can take what you want; don't be shy</span></i>" the grabbing began with both hands. And it wasn't just the children. The parents would be grabbing with both hands, too. And because these folks showed up in large groups of 10-15 individuals, and because they were all concerned to make sure they got candy for their grandmothers/cousins/uncles/baby daddies, etc -- <i><span style="color: blue;">or in other words, the ones too fucking lazy or strung out to get up off their fat, minority asses to get free candy </span></i>-- as soon as the words were uttered, it was like feeding time at the shark tank at the Coney Island Aquarium.<br />
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Especially the teenagers. For there were many of them, most between the ages, I guess, of 13 and 16, still trick or treating (more likely, they're collecting candy for later resale, just like with food stamps. Hey, you have to get the money for Drank someplace, right?) racing the smaller kids from house to house in an effort to collect all of the bounty before the little ones got there.If they weren't actually casing your house. I had to chase two out of my back yard. Brazen little bastards went back there right in front of me, too.<br />
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At some point, I totally lost it.<br />
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"<i style="background-color: #cccccc;"><span style="color: blue;">What the fuck is wrong with you people?</span></i>", I asked. "<span style="color: blue;"><i>I'm doing this for the children, not you! If you want candy, go buy some. You're goddamned adults!</i></span>". Afterwards, I made it plain that I was only giving candy to children: no adults, no teenagers, and I don't care if your Auntie asked you to bring her home something, because she's probably only going to steal your candy, anyway, Child.<br />
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The words "Thank you" were a rarity (although to be fair, a few of these children actually did say it without being prompted by their parents). In fact, when dealing with this particular portion of the Trick or Treating community, any sense of friendship or even warm fuzzy feeling, was absent. It was a <i>pro forma </i>exercise; it's Halloween, you're supposed to give us candy. Dammit. There often wasn't even a "Tick or Treat!".<br />
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I guess four or five generations of having shit handed to you by the government probably puts you into that sort of state, and gives you that kind of chutzpah. I mean, think about it this way: this country hands out food stamps, subsidized housing, free medical care, taxpayer-funded schools, midnight basketball, Affirmative Action, preferential treatment in hiring and college admissions, cash allotments, tax credits and refunds for being a non-taxpayer. In recent years, we've been boondoggled into providing Obama phones, ObamaCare (well, if they could get the webpage to work, that is), Cash-for-Clunkers, Mortgage renegotiation schemes, and a goddamned (half-) Black President. I would think by now reparations had well-and-truly been paid. But at the end of it all, a crowd of greedy, entitled assholes shows up on your doorstep grabbing candy with both fists, jostling their own children off the front steps in the process.<br />
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Even the ones with strollers...<br />
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And you know they would have sued my Lilly White Ass if someone had gotten hurt, too.<br />
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I guess I shouldn't have expected any different. After all, I live in this neighborhood and I see what some of the people are up to, and how they live and behave. And I don't want to give the impression that it's only Blacks who behave this way, for the Latinos do it too, only in a different language that they think you don't understand -- as the woman who made a disparaging remark (to the crowd she came with: <i><span style="color: blue;">hey, this stupid Gringo said take what you want! Take everything; these people are rich!</span></i>) soon found out wasn't the case. She at least had the decency to act embarrassed.<br />
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...and now Halloween is ruined again.Matthew Notohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08881509233809999186noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6161738.post-51945774448551033122013-10-09T02:06:00.002-04:002013-10-09T02:06:14.419-04:00A Friendly Letter to Evangelical Christians...Dear Evangelical Douchebags,<br /><br />This is to inform you that I will no longer defend you in any political arguments that I have with Libtarded Obamabots. You have shown, by your otherwise inexplicable reluctance to vote for Mitt Romney in the last Presidential Election -- probably because Pastor Bob told you he was a Mormon, and thus, the next, best thing to a devil worshiper -- that you are no longer worthy of the effort.<br /><br />By staying home on Election Day, you allowed the agents of the Anti-Christ (Obama and the democratic party) to win.Your inability to let your good sense override the dictates of your phony-baloney religion has allowed Evil to prosper, and in the process, you have failed in your responsibilities to your country and your fellow Man.<br />
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I hope that make-believe God that you grovel and give money to is busy striking your names off the Rapture list as we speak.<br />
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I used to defend you, even if I didn't agree with you, to Libtards, but no more. There is no defense for what you have done, and now the rest of us will have to suffer for your "principles". No wonder the Romans wanted you dead.<br /><br />Please kindly take those Bibles you thump and thrust in people's faces and shove them up your collective ass. Sideways. I hope your rectums bleed from the massive number of papercuts that the book of Revelations alone should inflict.<br /><br />I hate to have to say this, but Julian Bond was correct -- there is a Taliban Wing in the GOP, and they sat home on Election Day. They have done more damage to this country than the real Taliban ever could.<br /><br />Fuck You and Have a Nice Day.<br /><br />Signed,<br /><br />The LunaticMatthew Notohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08881509233809999186noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6161738.post-90917307338751641952013-10-05T12:31:00.003-04:002013-11-01T00:36:06.629-04:00Poor People Suck, Part II...The Scene: <i>Your Intrepid Lunatic is in the local supermarket, doing his weekly grocery shopping. This mundane and ordinary activity (which he actually enjoys) is interrupted by the arrival of the Scourge of America: the single welfare mother with a brace of obnoxious children, armed with an EBT card. What follows is both disturbing and frightening. It is a microcosm of the future which would make one sick, if one could muster up enough concern to actually give a shit.</i><br />
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<a name='more'></a>There is no hope for some segments of American Society.<br />
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I have come to this painful conclusion only after many years of experience and the expenditure of billions of braincells. I see the signs of inevitable decline and human de-volution everywhere. Some say it's just me being a curmudgeon, others accuse me of the basest racism whenever I voice this opinion, but it is an inescapable fact of American Life that the greater mass of what we call, euphemistically, <i><span style="color: blue;">The Underprivileged</span></i>, are really little more than uncaged animals left to wander the landscape aimlessly, stripping the fruit from the trees and the crops from the fields like some endless plague of locusts.<br />
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Western Civilization has faced no greater threat: No Viking Raider, no Hun, no Vandal, no Mongol or Saracen was ever as great danger as the homegrown disaster that is the Welfare State Beneficiary, for in the process of providing such with every conceivable material comfort, extending every right and courtesy, by making every conscious effort to ignore the destructive behavior and tendencies this creature displays, we have encouraged and protected a tentacled cancer that will slowly sap the strength, the energy and the will of the cultural host.<br />
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The best place to see this rampaging bestiary up close and personal is in the supermarket. Consider it the urban equivalent of going on safari.<br />
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So, there I am, picking up the weekly groceries. I'm minding my own business, and so are the hundreds of other patrons wandering the isles trying to decide between Devil Dogs and Ring Dings, when in walks the biggest trainwreck of a woman I have ever seen, perhaps, in my entire life.<br />
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She stood, sans her 5" block-wedge shoes of a sort that reminds one of the clog worn by Victorian industrial workers, about 5' 6", and a conservative estimate of her weight would be about 270 pounds. She wore knock-off designer wear; a too-tight, too-short top that did nothing to hide the hideous, stretch-marked muffin top. The denim of her jeans was obviously strained to it's limits in attempting to hold back the avalanche of raw, puffy corpulence trapped within. Outrageously-large hoop earrings that are reminiscent of the ring that one attempts to pull as you pass by it on a carousel. Her fingers covered in gold and silver and diamonds (or perhaps these, too, were knockoffs). The hair was, for lack of a better term, bulletproof, buried under a thick layer of what I suppose was hair spray, applied in such a fashion that it resembled shellac on an antique table, I got the general impression that if I had wanted to, I could very well see my own reflection in that layer of hair spray. An oversized handbag, emblazoned in the logo of Louis Vuitton, the Bluetooth headset, the yawning gap between her golden front teeth (big enough to floss with a towrope, I reckon), the make-up applied with a trowel so that her face resembled something out of a National Geographic special.<br />
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This bloated mass of humanity enters the store with a large brood of children, roughly aged 4 to 16 or 17. I cannot give you an exact number of these. Suffice to say, there was a minimum of six,perhaps as many as eight. I am intimately familiar with their names, because for the next hour -- even from several isles away -- I could hear her screaming them. They were the sort of names that a certain subsection of the American populace gives to their children in the belief that in doing so they are bestowing a badge of uniqueness upon them, neglecting to understand that in so doing they are hanging a moniker upon their child that will make them a source of ridicule for other subsections of America who at least have the good taste to snicker in secret about it.<br />
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Let's put it this way: when you name your children Kia, Lexus, Mercedes, LeBaron, Murano, Jetta, Quattro and Malibu, or the like, you are doing them no favors.<br />
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The children are all of a singular type: they are sullen. They seem poorly cared for, to judge from the obvious presence of scratches, cuts, bruises, and the glaringly poor dental work I rather doubt that they all have the same father, and that if their paternity has been adequately established, that any of them has more than a desultory relationship with the man. They are dirty, not just in their appearance, but in their manners. Nose picking is common; sneezing without covering one's mouth appears to be an Olympic sport in this family. They are loud, obnoxious, rambunctious. The little ones cry constantly, the older ones use the F-word as a noun, verb, adjective, pronoun and probably as punctuation, too.<br />
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This does not shock me all that much. I have perhaps the foulest mouth of anyone I know, but one does not expect children of 7 or 8 years to use such language freely and easily.<br />
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The majority of the racket they produce stems from three main sources:<br />
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1. The children want something from the shelves, and Mother will not buy it. This is normal behavior for children, I'll admit, but the arguments very quickly get rather heated, and end with mother smacking or threatening bodily harm to at least one child.<br />
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2. The older children relentlessly pick on the younger ones. It's straight out of <i>Lord of the Flies</i>. When the younger ones, naturally, cry or kick up a fuss at being so rudely handled by their seniors, Mother's response is to tell them to "<i><span style="color: blue;">shut the fuck up, I'm on the motherfuckin' phone</span></i>", or to repeat, again, through clenched teeth "<i><span style="color: blue;">I'm gonna slap your motherfukin' ass, you little bitch</span></i>", which provokes defiance from the older children and another flurry of "motherfuckah".<br />
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3. Mother, despite the fact that she has brought a battalion of children into the supermarket with her, is keen to pay them no mind. Unless they do something to "embarrass" her. When this happens -- a child pulls down a display, one is rebuked by a store employee after breaking open a box of crackers and helping herself, or one of the little ones (who one would think would be potty trained by that age) wets himself -- she suddenly interrupts her phone conversation (which is impossible to listen to, assuming you wanted to, because of all the references to "that Bitch" and "that Niggah") to bring down some real Wrath of God stuff upon her litter.<br />
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The Brood Mare eventually collects two full carts of groceries. The carts are piled high with prepared foods, microwavable crap, frozen food, and very little in the way of fresh fruits and vegetables. I guess I shouldn't be as shocked by this as I am by the unbelievable idea that the children seem to get fed at all. We arrive at separate-but-adjacent checkout isles together. The cost of all this merchandise is tabulated, and then arrives that decisive moment, that split-second when you realize that the World Is Doomed and that civilization will be but a distant, fading memory, like it was in <i>Road Warrior </i>or something. It is now when you see the distinction between the dying breed of Old America and it Values, and the emergence from the ashes of the New America That Simply Doesn't Give a Flying Fuck.<br />
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It comes time to pay for the groceries.<br />
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I pull out a wad of cash, that I have earned, and pay the cashier with it.<br />
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The Breeder swipes an EBT card. The electronic display on that isle is visible to me. The Welfare Queen just "bought" $473.00 of groceries -- <i><span style="color: blue;">with other people's money</span></i>. Now comes the most disgusting part.<br />
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At the bottom of the display is a line which reads: <i>Remaining Monthly Benefit.</i> There is a number next to it. That number is approximately $3,250.00. In other words, that woman, that hulking mass of fat that spawned seven children who behave like a pack of wolf cubs, and in which she shows little to no interest beyond their use as convenient anger-management tool, <span style="color: blue;"><i>is being given some $3,700 per month to buy food by the taxpayer.</i></span><br />
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I would go as far as to say that, perhaps, the only reason she has that many children is to simply get more money on the EBT card every month.<br />
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And there it was, all of it on display for any who have eyes and ears: a Welfare Recipient who is given to buy Spaghetti-O's, microwave pizza and Ramen Noodles what some people who pay taxes would kill to take home in a month. And she has all the accouterments of what one would consider a Middle Class lifestyle: designer clothes (or a close approximation), money for an expensive hairweave and manicures (<i><span style="color: blue;">did I mention the four-inch, rhinestone-studded acrylic nails?</span></i>), the cellphone complete with Bluetooth, enough costume bling to choke a rhino.<br />
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We have created two societies in America: one of which works to support the other, only the priorities are all upside down and inside out, for the ones being supported are profligate with other people's money, their sexual favors (apparently), behave like wildebeests in full rut in public, and spit upon every notion of civilized behavior.<br />
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If you wish to know how it was that a complete idiot like Barack Obama was elected, twice, to the Presidency of the United States, and how he manages to avoid being tarred and feathered in the public square on a daily basis, then herein lay your answer. For there are millions of other "disadvantaged" freeloaders like this family scattered all over America, steadily sucking the lifeblood from the rest of us, and rewarded with ever-more free goodies in the hopes that they one day won't do what they do best (besides breed and steal) and pitch bloody riots all across the country.<br />
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Some people who read this will be offended because it appears as if I have singled out a woman of a particular race (although I did not mention what race that was, it will not matter, for they will recognize of whom I speak immediately), but what I'm really interested in here is Culture. This woman represents a sub-Culture, separate and distant from the Common American Culture which used to be prevalent, and which is now being swallowed whole by the Welfare State, unchecked immigration, and the steady erosion of our institutions.<br />
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If you are offended, then ask me if I actually care? The truth is often painful and offensive. If it bothers you that much then do something to correct it in your own community. I gather you won't, because most of the people who complain the loudest about "racism" are even lazier than the people who are the beneficiaries of it. For all intents and purposes, that woman with seven drolling idiots and an EBT card is the beneficiary of racism, what George W. Bush once called "the soft bigotry of low expectations".<br />
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She's not expected to work, or take care of her own needs, or those of her children, and so it was decided by society in general that we had to do something about it. However, in the process of 'doing something" we seem to have inadvertently created a mass of people who literally would die in days if left to their own devices, and because of it, demand ever more of our dwindling resources to be kept alive in a state of degrading stupidity.<br />
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Bread and Circuses, indeed...<br />
<br />Matthew Notohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08881509233809999186noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6161738.post-32341286785652476822013-10-03T10:52:00.003-04:002013-11-01T00:36:18.494-04:00Poor People Suck, Part I...I was reminded of this truism again yesterday after a trip on a New York City bus.<br />
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I needed to get to the Staten Island Ferry yesterday to keep an appointment in Manhattan. The fastest way, actually the ONLY way that doesn't involve calling a taxi, from my home is to take the S61 bus down Victory Boulevard to Bay Street, and thus, to the Ferry. During rush hour, this can take upwards of 40 minutes, but since it was 10:30 a.m. the trip should have been significantly faster for the lighter traffic and relative lack of commuters.<br />
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It was not to be...<br />
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For a start, whoever laid out the system of bus stops for the MTA on Staten Island should be taken out and have a red-hot steel rod jammed up his ass. Twice. The buses stop on just about every corner, because God forbid someone should have to walk a block in either direction to the nearest bus stop. Additionally, I get the idea the bus stops are placed politically; whichever restaurant, shopping center, doctor's office, etc., can manage to scrape up enough campaign cash, gets a bus stop right in front of their building.<br />
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So that's the first problem: too many stops. That can easily be fixed, I think, but it's the second problem which requires a more drastic approach. And because no one in this city, state or country has the guts to say it out loud, I guess it's left to me to do so. Consider it a public service.<br />
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This problem is the so-called "poor" people.<br />
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It is not unusual in these parts, once you hit the bad neighborhoods, to see people get on the bus and then refuse to pay the fare. In fact, I saw this three times yesterday morning, and once again in the afternoon on the way home. People will simply board the bus, pay the driver no mind, and find themselves a seat. A few, perhaps the ones with a smidgen of conscience, will put whatever change they have (but still short of the full fare) in the farebox, and a few will go through the pantomime of pretending to look through a purse for enough change, but the bottom line is that the fare does not get paid.<br />
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Some will be brazen about it, complaining if the driver should rebuke them that they "need" to be on this bus, and who gives a fuck about the $2.50? Some will threaten violence, often with the most obnoxious, and racist language. Some just pretend as if the rest of the world does not exist and as if they own the bus, and if they don't feel like paying the fare, they simply won't.<br />
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And it usually isn't just a single individual, but groups who have gotten on the bus together. The worst offenders are the small knots of single mothers who board with eleven children in tow, with strollers to boot, who first hold up the bus by taking their own sweet time to get their brood and impedimenta on board, and then refuse or simply don't care about paying the fare. The second-next worst group are the small gangs of teenagers (usually boys) who will either brazenly walk right past the driver, or wait by the back door for someone to get off the bus and then enter through that open door, practically daring someone to either say something or stop them.<br />
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I don't know, precisely, how big a problem fare beating on New York City buses is, but my general experience is that it's a pretty big one. After all, we're paying $2.50 for a ride, and you just know that whoever came up with that fare figured in that a certain segment of the population would feel it's entitled to steal and worked that fact into the final number crunching.<br />
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In any case, it is a time-consuming process while the driver waits for someone to produce a fare before giving up, or has to stand around waiting for Shaniqua and seventeen kids and four strollers to all be folded up and herded and brought aboard before she, too, refuses to pay the fare. Suffice to say, I missed my ferry, and was lucky enough to still be on time for my appointment. And this is a common problem; trips everywhere take twice as long, mostly because of the combination of poorly-laid out stops and farebeating poor people.<br />
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And I'm noticing a great deal about our fare-beating "poor", too. I'll give you some general observations here.<br />
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I would like to take this opportunity to say that it is apparent that when we use the term "poverty" in Modern America, we're not talking about a lack of material resources. You need only see the "poor" walking around in their Air Jordans, sporting cell-phones, designer headphones, playing their GameBoys, and pushing their very-well-dressed (Old Navy, Kids "R" Us and Gap seem to be the most popular attire) and badly-behaved rugrats around in top-of-the-line Graco strollers to see it. One need only stroll through my local housing project to see all the obese children and well-fed pit bulls (<i><span style="color: blue;">the weapon of choice for the local drug dealer, seeing as how up until recently Stop-and-Frisk was the law of the land</span></i>) which indicates that not only do "the poor" have enough taxpayer-provided food to put an extra 50, 60, or 100 pounds on their children, but enough left over to feed an 80-pound dog.<br />
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No, America's Poor lack for very little, unlike, say, the worst denizens of the Mumbai slums, or the Dogpatch, tin-shack "townships" of South Africa. If anything, our poor are decisively Middle Class in terms of what they eat, wear, and waste other people's money on. No, our "poor" suffer from an entirely different deficit -- or I should say from "deficits"?<br />
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<i><span style="color: blue;">The first deficit is an incredibly irritating, to those who see it, sort of uncivilized, irrational attitude.</span></i><br />
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There is a sanctimonious, self-righteous, belief system on display. "The Poor" are allowed, mystically, to behave badly, or at least they believe they are. Rules do not apply to them. Standards, if there are any, don't attach to their behavior and if you insist that they do, then you're a racist. They believe they are "owed" everything, and therefore, permitted to behave in the most egregious manner. Usually loudly and in a criminal way.<br />
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Some of this is the result of the political indoctrination large segments of the American minority communities are subjected to, and a good deal of it is simply crass stupidity. They simply don't know any better. But it has become a common thing with me lately that whenever I see a small group of minorities behaving as usual (talking over each other, cursing freely, spitting everywhere, failing to pay bus fares, obviously trying to intimidate others in the general vicinity) I get the instant mental image of a group of chimpanzees in the rain forest screeching wildly at the approach of a cheetah. I don't want to think this way, but I can't help it. The only things missing from this zoo-like display are the public copulation and the flinging of crap.<br />
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There's a pervasive sub-culture active which believes that anything goes, particularly if you're "Poor". Some apologists would say they are simply mimicking the behavioral standards of the prevailing culture, but I would disagree strongly. If anything, one could make the argument that it was the creation of the sub-culture that caused the overall general lowering of standards of behavior outside of it.<br />
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<i><span style="color: blue;">The second deficit is one of morals. </span></i><br />
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There is no longer any stigma attached to being a thief, a thug, a baby-making machine, a welfare recipient, a fare beater, a deadbeat, an idiot. Once upon a time, it was considered the duty of the Middle and Upper Classes in America to demand that the poor conform to simple standards of behavior. One was not to steal; one was to comport oneself in public in a certain manner; cursing in the presence of women and children was considered a shocking offense. One was supposed to be embarrassed by their lack of manners, culture, intelligence, by the obvious wrongness of their behavior. Apparently, this is no longer true.<br />
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Some will complain about me having made this statement. They will say that it is extremely unfair (and racist) of me, the White Guy, to dare to apply what are certainly White-European-culture-Judeo-Christian-based standards of morality to people who are not a) White, b) European, c) Judeo-Christian (if they profess any sort of belief system at all) to people who fall decidedly outside the realm of all three. To this I respond: this is America. It was founded by White, European, Judeo-Christian people. Therefore, the society and culture bear all the hallmarks of the White, European, Judeo-Christian people who built it. If you don't like it, go someplace else.<br />
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And, for the most part, we're not talking about foreigners. Even if I hate illegal aliens and Muslims with a passion bordering on mania, I can at least say this about them: they're at least well-mannered. No, I'm talking about the human sludge we've created in this country, people born into the same society and culture which has somehow managed to give them everything, and still be considered "racist" for having done it. When in Rome, do as the Romans do, or get the hell out. It's only fair: <br />
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<i><span style="color: blue;">The third major deficit is a complete lack of respect for all the things that make civilized society possible.</span></i><br />
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Law and civility are terms that have no value to these people. For if they did, one would not see people boarding buses and refusing to pay, and being completely unembarrassed about it, or insistent that this was, indeed, their birthright. Had any of the former standards by which society hummed along some 50 years ago still been prevalent, the bus driver, upon being presented with a farebeater, would have called a cop. Fifty years ago, anyone on board that bus who had witnessed such an incident would have demanded that the offender be kicked from the bus, and the full penalty of law been brought to bear upon the criminal.<br />
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No longer. For it has become the sorry state of things in this country that we are, by-and-large, ruled by our "Poor", who have become, for all intents and purposes, the new ruling elite, with the power of the Pharaohs and Emperors of old to inflict their mental diarrhea upon the rest of us and then demand that we pay for it, one way or another.<br />
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And we do pay for it. Taxes rise to keep "The Poor" in the Middle Class lifestyle to which they have become accustomed -- it is the price we pay to avoid social unrest and riots. The Health Care Industry is slowly being nationalized, complete with an entire propaganda campaign that purports to be about "fairness", when really all it is about is appearances: we're giving "The Poor" (who are already entitled to the best medical care in the history of the World in the Emergency Room, for free) the illusion that they will have the same sort of insurance as those who paid for it themselves, and thus, are somehow mystically "equal" to their economic and social betters. We pay for it in the growing prison population, in the declining schools, the general lowering of standards of all sorts so as to not hurt the precious feelings of "The Poor". "The Poor" have spawned an entire industry of government and charity which exists to suck resources out of the productive to cater to people who nothing this side of dynamite will ever change.<br />
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Poverty, no matter how much taxpayer money we throw at it, will never be erased because it is no longer about lack of wealth;<span style="background-color: #cccccc;"><i><span style="color: blue;"> it is a mindset, a way of life, a culture</span></i>.</span> And it is big business for those who know how to get themselves a piece of the anti-poverty pie.<br />
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The Poor, as <b><span style="color: blue;"><a href="http://www.fivefeetoffury.com/" target="_blank">Kathy Shaidle</a></span></b> is fond of saying, have become the Rich that Jesus warned you about. And if they aren't rich in terms of portfolios of stocks and fleets of Bentleys in the driveway, then perhaps the standard by which we now determine who is "rich" must be judged according to the same sliding scale by which "poor" is measured, and that is mainly by behavior, circumstance and political affiliation. Today's "Poor" behave very much in the same manner (encouraged by a political system that uses factors such as the welfare system, wealth and race distinctions as the basic tools of electoral success), only with four-letter words, drug habits and herds of children they refuse to take care of, as the Victorian robber baron of old.<br />
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In the case of both, there were no rules, and the true measure of success was to what extent one could influence the habits of a civilized people through rapacious and selfish behavior. Ultimately, such behavior is destructive. and if you need proof of this maxim, I suggest you ride your local public transportation or walk through the local housing project and see it for yourself first-hand.<br />
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Tomorrow, in Poor People Suck, Part II -- Scenes from the Supermarket.<br />
<br />Matthew Notohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08881509233809999186noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6161738.post-35030143051627642062013-09-23T16:18:00.000-04:002013-09-24T15:10:09.817-04:00The Bureaucracy Strikes Back...Sometimes, you just have to wonder what the fuck it is that we're getting for our tax dollars.<br />
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If you live in the State of New Yorkistan, I would say you're getting jack shit. And when I say this, I should clarify:<br />
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1. We are NOT getting a government that works smoothly and efficiently.<br />
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2. We ARE getting a government which is apparently run by rhesus monkeys who, on a good day, might be able to find their own asses with both hands and a flashlight..<br />
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The long, sordid, and all-too-sickening tale of this Lunatics battle with the mindless bureaucracy of the New York State Department of Motor Vehicles seemed to have the proverbial light at the end of that tunnel. But, alas!, the rhesus monkeys have found a way to annoy me yet again.<br />
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If you haven't heard this story before, then I suggest that you read <b><span style="color: blue;"><a href="http://lunaticsasylum.blogspot.com/2012/07/the-metamorphosis.html" target="_blank">this</a></span></b>,<b> </b><span style="color: blue;"><a href="http://lunaticsasylum.blogspot.com/2012/08/the-metamorphosis-part-two.html" target="_blank"><b>this</b>,</a></span> and <b><span style="color: blue;"><a href="http://lunaticsasylum.blogspot.com/2013/05/lunatic-1-bureaucracy-0.html" target="_blank">this</a></span></b>, and then you'll be up to speed with this entire tale of woe.<br />
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And then you'll probably want to either laugh or vomit. Probably both.<br />
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<a name='more'></a>You see, having achieved the Holy Grail, so to speak, and obtained a New York State Non-Driver Identification card, I decided to take it one step further and get my driver's licence back. I haven't had one since...oh, about 1994. The reason is simple: I didn't need one, anymore. The whys and wherefores for this aren't important, so I'll spare you the details. Suffice it to say, that since 1994 this Lunatic has not had a valid driver's licence, nor driven an automobile.<br />
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However, things have changed.<br />
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For a start, Tess is ill. She requires transport to and from doctors and hospitals, and although she qualifies for subsidized medical transport anywhere in New York City, arranging and utilizing such a service is a pain in the ass. You have to call the day before your appointment, and several factors go into determining when your ride is available. In most cases, you'll find your ride to a doctor available two hours before your appointment, and your ride home available two hours after. If you're lucky. If the stars are not aligned properly, you'll find yourself on that medical transport vehicle with other passengers who invariably need to go places too, just nowhere near where you need to be.<br />
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It's not uncommon to find yourself being picked up on Staten Island for an appointment in Manhattan but sharing the vehicle with someone who needs to go to Astoria, or the South Bronx, or somewhere in Brooklyn, and the rule is first on/first off, so that even if the transport arrives on time if you're Number Three, then you can find yourself taking the Five Borough Tour.<br />
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Secondly, Tess and I like to go places that don't involve doctors and hospitals every so often, and because she has trouble standing and walking, and taking a wheelchair on public transportation is a major hemorrhoid, we'd like to have a private vehicle so that we can come and go as we either need to, or please.<br />
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So, a month or two after getting my NYS Identification card, I decided to go take the written exam so that I could get my licence back. And it was then that I ran into a totally new flavor of Bureaucratic Stupidity.<br />
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I took the test. I passed it with flying colors (you have to be a complete moron to fail it), and then they tested my eyesight (which was perfect). One step closer. They gave me another piece of paper, and told me to wait for my number to called so that I might be given my Learner's permit (in New York, it does not matter if you have had driver's ed before, or are a former driver renewing a licence after several years of lapse time -- everyone must get a learner's permit and then subject themselves to 20 hours of driver's education).<br />
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Two hours and some minutes later, my number is called. I give the crosseyed union employee behind the counter the paper the other mental midget at the other window gave me, and fully expected to hear those magic words "that'll be $______, please. Have a nice day."<br />
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But it was not to be.<br />
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Instead I heard "I'm sorry, but I cannot give you a learner's permit".<br />
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When I asked why not, I was told that I would not receive one <i><span style="color: blue;">until I cleared up the five moving violations on my driving record that went all the way back to 1987, oh, and the one I somehow picked up in New Jersey, too.</span></i><br />
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I was shocked. For I know for a fact that during my time as a licensed driver, I had received but two (2) moving violations, and coincidentally, they were both for the same exact thing: passing a red light. I also know for a fact that I paid both of those tickets, and I then I never heard from the DMV again.<br />
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I asked the logical question. "What are these tickets for, exactly?"<br />
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The answer: "I don't know. They're so old they're not in the system."<br />
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"But, apparently they ARE in the system, because you have a record of them, no?"<br />
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"Well, yes, I know there's a ticket and I know the date it was issued, but I don't know what it's for. If you go next door to traffic court, they may be able to help you."<br />
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So, armed with a print out of the five violations (sans particulars, except summons numbers and dates) I went to stand in line at traffic court, to see the lady at the information desk who, one hoped, would be able to tell me what this was all about. Ah, but this is New York. Unionized Bureaucrats in New York are like Sergeant Shultz on <i>Hogan's Heroes</i>. They know nothing. But, she said said helpfully, if I wanted to just go see the judge and plead guilty and pay the fines (what? Pay fines and interest on 20+ year old tickets I don't think I ever got and no one can tell me what they're for? Are you fucking crazy?), this can all be cleared up!<br />
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Hell no, I said. There must be some way to find out what these tickets are all about, right?<br />
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Why, yes, there is! You can fill in yet another form, and send a check to Albany ($11.00 per ticket) to have another unionized dolt wade through all the paper in the warehouse (assuming my -- phantom -- tickets are all still on file) and get you what they call The Abstracts of these tickets. Never mind New Jersey. I know for a fact that I have never gotten a ticket there, but when you call their version of the DMV, the people there are apparently denser and dumber.<br />
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So, two months later, here's what I know:<br />
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1. I still don't have The Abstracts and no one can tell me when, if ever, they will be available.<br />
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2. All five tickets are no longer just moving violations. because I failed to show up in court or answer the summons, all five have been converted to Warrants...for my arrest.<br />
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Now, here's the kicker.<br />
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This Lunatic used to drink. An awful lot. And after drinking an awful lot, this Lunatic used to drive. Consequently, he would get himself pulled over by the police on suspicion of driving under the influence.<i><span style="color: blue;"> As a matter of fact, I have been stopped by the police exactly FIVE times (and there are witnesses to this!) and given field sobriety tests, and every time, I passed with flying colors. I have not been ticketed for DUI, I was never arrested. </span></i>I was always given a test -- including the breathalyzer -- and given a pat on the back and an admonition to "be careful".<br />
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And I know beyond a shadow of a doubt that I was wasted every goddamned time, too.<br />
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All five of these incidents occurred AFTER my phantom tickets supposedly became warrants. Which means the cops who took my driver's licence those five times did nothing with it, for if they had, I would have been arrested on a failure to appear warrant.<br />
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Twenty years later, and the State of New York still has outstanding warrants out on Your's Truly but have yet to pick him up. I can't figure out why. It's not like they didn't know where I lived, because they knew where to find me when it came time to pay my taxes. The politicians certainly know where to find me when they needed to send their retarded campaign materials to me. The PBA (Patrolman's Benevolent Association, the police union here in New York City) certainly has me on their mailing list when it comes time to ask for a donation.<br />
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<i><span style="color: blue;">Fuck, I've even walked into the Department of Motor Vehicles multiple times seeking identification and a driver's licence and they let me wander the fucking halls!</span></i><br />
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So, here we stand: I am waiting for someone, anyone, to give me the specifics on these tickets I've supposedly garnered and not paid, with warrants hanging over my head all this time, and the best the DMV can do is wade through 20-year-old paper, or suggest that I just shut the fuck up and pay the money and be done with it. Which, I guess, is the true aim of this entire process.<br />
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For the State of New York expects you to knuckle under like a good little peasant and just pay the fine, already. Especially when they're apparently in the wrong. I never got those tickets, I paid for the ones I did legitimately get, I don't know where they came from, and apparently being a cop in New York City means you don't have to do anything strenuous, like running someone's identification at a traffic stop to make certain they aren't wanted on an arrest warrant. Five times.<br />
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I have a feeling I know where those tickets came from, and who they actually belong to (because it's apparently too difficult to actually match a driver to his identification for a cop, too), but until I get The Abstracts from Albany, I'll never be able to prove it. In the meantime, I refuse to simply pay for something I didn't do just to dodge the mindless bureaucracy.<br />
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This state is fucked up beyond all belief.Matthew Notohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08881509233809999186noreply@blogger.com0