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hyphenate Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jul-21-08 01:29 PM
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Listen up, you idiots on the right!
You, my dears, are in the minority. You're also mental midgets. Oh, now, you mustn't get angry--I'm just calling them like I see them.

You attack any and all liberals and progressives for perceived policies, but have you looked at your idiot in the white house lately? Have you reviewed his "performance" over the past 7 and a half years? Have you even tried to get out of the mire you call "security" and the rest of us call complete failure?

It's hard, as I sit here trying to figure out how I'm going to get my van back on the road, a task I simply can't afford right now, and buy gas for it at the same time. And spending outrageous amounts at the grocery store for food that was only 1/2 as expensive before King George got himself crowned. He has caused the greatest recession in our country since the Great Depression, he has caused untold numbers of unemployment, he has caused our country to lose the respect of almost all nations worldwide, he has put our defense in severe distress by starting a war with one nation in a pre-emptive strike, he has made millionaires out of many of his friends, and in doing so, he has crippled the United States for what might be decades to come.

He has made large gas guzzlers irrelevant, he has watched the property values of homes plummet into previous unreached depths, he is only a few steps from the insane Greg Stillson from "The Dead Zone" in pushing us to the brink of nuclear devastation, but more than anything else, he has caused the continual degradation of our educational system into unplumbed ignorance and despair.

Mr. Bush can't help doing these things, though, and the 28% of you who stand with him know that it's part of his illness. But there is a definite line between blithe innocence and corrupt sociopathy, and Bush and his entourage haven't been on the side of good for even a ten minute stretch anytime since January 20, 2001.

And what have you really gotten out of the past 7 and a half years?

Wealth? Nope, unless your income is over $250,000, and I would say if it is, you share little in common with most people anyhow;

Health? Oh sure, if you have full and complete insurance and a guaranteed golden parachute. Otherwise, you're as screwed as the vast majority of folks in the U.S.;

Booming economy? Oh, please. Take a look around. Most of us are looking for creative solutions to keep food on the table. Once upon a time, there were victory gardens in most urban settings for people who wanted to grow their own vegetables, fruit and herbs. Nowadays, there is no land for such endeavors, and if there was room to make such use of the earth, right now they would be known as desperation gardens, because there is no victory to celebrate, now or in the future.


You are a supporter of George W. Bush for the following reasons, and these reasons only. Even if you would like to deny these charges, you would be adding lying to the list:

You are a bigot. You hate foreign nationals, you hate them being in YOUR country, how dare they! You think blacks shouldn't get uppity and demand the same rights as white folks. You forget that anyone who isn't 100% native American is and always was a "foreign national."

You are afraid of gays and lesbians, and the thought that someday their "unnatural" deeds will take over the country, and you will be screwed--both literally and figuratively. You will never understand that most of the gay community never really had a choice--that in fact, the "compulsion" to love members of their own sex is as natural as your own sexual preferences. And we know how young you like them, and how difficult it is for you to admit you are perverted yourself.

You are afraid of women. Let's face it: you want to keep women subservient and pliable. When women get equal status, they get uppity and bold. They don't give you sex when you want it, they take control of portions of their own lives which men have controlled for most of recorded history, and they get their own friends and begin to demand things. And don't even mention abortion!!! That's up to you to decide--if you don't give them the money to get one, perhaps they will forget it, have the kid, and end up as you best like them--barefoot and pregnant.

You feel the need for speed. Or rather, in these days, the need for an SUV that shows the world how much power you have and are in charge of. It doesn't matter if you live in the middle of a city, and the only off-roading you will ever do is to find a good patch of grass at a drive-in theatre. So what if the price of gas has gone from about $1.50 during the Clinton years to over $4 in our country today? You won't drive as far, that's all. You don't need to go to the next county to prove that--your neighbors will see it instead. And you don't really need to drive that behemoth anyhow! As long as it's there, in front of your house, it's still a symbol of your power! (Back some years ago, it used to be a convertible for those folks who had the need to show off. Wouldn't you like to have one of those now? Only trouble is, the dealers aren't taking a lot of SUVs anymore in trade, so be prepared to put your house on the market instead--which isn't going to sell, either, but hell, your boss, George Bush tells you everything is going to be okay.)

You hate anyone who doesn't share your religious views, which are so narrow that the eye of a needle is wider. The point here is that you might know your "bible" inside out, but you don't even know what is in the Constitution of the United States, except for the second article in the Bill of Rights. The Bill of Rights has a clause that states that there will be NO establishment of a government religion, as there was in England, France and Spain, among other Western countries. It means that all citizens have the right to worship as they chose, whether it be some form of Xtianity, Judaism, Buddhism, Islam, Wiccan, or something else entirely. It's part of the reason people came to this country--because they were being persecuted in their own country for their beliefs. Look-Adolph Hitler was a Xtian--ask anybody! And the Spanish Inquisition wasn't exactly a holiday for anyone who wasn't Xtian. Christians haven't exactly been the pacifistic role models for goodwill and accord worldwide. So, I would simply tell you to stuff it.

You are the only one who knows why you are still supporting the idiot in the white house. Whether you have a mental illness yourself with the belief that GWB is the second coming, or that GWB is bringing all you fundies closer to the End of Days, or simply that you have no soul to examine life as closely as the rest of us, your existence is undeniably sad in your failure to recognize that this administration is the single most horrific event to happen in the United States, even worse than the Civil War, the American Revolution, the World Wars and the Great Depression.

As a wrong-winger, you would pooh-pooh such exaggeration, but if you even acknowledge any of the above catastrophes, you are close to the admission that very few people have benefited from the past 7 and a half years, and that no matter how much you deny this, it's your sanity that's at stake. The rest of us just look in wonder at how twisted and warped your judgement is to still stand behind the policies carried out by this complete debacle in our country.

So folks, it's up to you to decide: shall we make the attempt to move forward, our country united in a bipartisan effort to clean up this ungodly mess? Shall we add a footnote to the 43rd presidency as being the great blotch ever to reek havoc on our country? Shall we finally decide that people are getting hurt, killed and annihilated and it needs to stop?

Or are you too greedy, too selfish, too vain to put out a hand and help someone out of the abyss that has been created? If you call yourself a Xtian, you know that militant tactics were never Jesus's choices--that he helped men and women, thieves and kings alike in his philosophical endeavors. But if you can't admit that you are unable to help because of hatred and fear, perhaps it's time for you to lock your doors on January 21, 2009 and never come out again. The rest of us would like for you to join us in celebrating the end of the dictatorship of Bush and Cheney and move ahead, but if you are so consumed by your own wickedness, perhaps it is best you don't come out at all.
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Cronus Protagonist Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jul-21-08 01:30 PM
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1. Cliff notes version?
I have work to do you know. :)
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InternalDialogue Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jul-21-08 01:56 PM
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2. I took the honors of doing it for you...
Edited on Mon Jul-21-08 01:57 PM by InternalDialogue
You, my dears, are in the minority. You're also mental midgets. Oh, now, you mustn't get angry--I'm just calling them like I see them.

You attack any and all liberals and progressives for perceived policies, but have you looked at your idiot in the white house lately? Have you reviewed his "performance" over the past 7 and a half years? Have you even tried to get out of the mire you call "security" and the rest of us call complete failure?

It's hard, as I sit here trying to figure out how I'm going to get my van back on the road, a task I simply can't afford right now, and buy gas for it at the same time. And spending outrageous amounts at the grocery store for food that was only 1/2 as expensive before King George got himself crowned. He has caused the greatest recession in our country since the Great Depression, he has caused untold numbers of unemployment, he has caused our country to lose the respect of almost all nations worldwide, he has put our defense in severe distress by starting a war with one nation in a pre-emptive strike, he has made millionaires out of many of his friends, and in doing so, he has crippled the United States for what might be decades to come.

He has made large gas guzzlers irrelevant, he has watched the property values of homes plummet into previous unreached depths, he is only a few steps from the insane Greg Stillson from "The Dead Zone" in pushing us to the brink of nuclear devastation, but more than anything else, he has caused the continual degradation of our educational system into unplumbed ignorance and despair.

Mr. Bush can't help doing these things, though, and the 28% of you who stand with him know that it's part of his illness. But there is a definite line between blithe innocence and corrupt sociopathy, and Bush and his entourage haven't been on the side of good for even a ten minute stretch anytime since January 20, 2001.

And what have you really gotten out of the past 7 and a half years?

Wealth? Nope, unless your income is over $250,000, and I would say if it is, you share little in common with most people anyhow;

Health? Oh sure, if you have full and complete insurance and a guaranteed golden parachute. Otherwise, you're as screwed as the vast majority of folks in the U.S.;

Booming economy? Oh, please. Take a look around. Most of us are looking for creative solutions to keep food on the table. Once upon a time, there were victory gardens in most urban settings for people who wanted to grow their own vegetables, fruit and herbs. Nowadays, there is no land for such endeavors, and if there was room to make such use of the earth, right now they would be known as desperation gardens, because there is no victory to celebrate, now or in the future.


You are a supporter of George W. Bush for the following reasons, and these reasons only. Even if you would like to deny these charges, you would be adding lying to the list:

You are a bigot. You hate foreign nationals, you hate them being in YOUR country, how dare they! You think blacks shouldn't get uppity and demand the same rights as white folks. You forget that anyone who isn't 100% native American is and always was a "foreign national."

You are afraid of gays and lesbians, and the thought that someday their "unnatural" deeds will take over the country, and you will be screwed--both literally and figuratively. You will never understand that most of the gay community never really had a choice--that in fact, the "compulsion" to love members of their own sex is as natural as your own sexual preferences. And we know how young you like them, and how difficult it is for you to admit you are perverted yourself.

You are afraid of women. Let's face it: you want to keep women subservient and pliable. When women get equal status, they get uppity and bold. They don't give you sex when you want it, they take control of portions of their own lives which men have controlled for most of recorded history, and they get their own friends and begin to demand things. And don't even mention abortion!!! That's up to you to decide--if you don't give them the money to get one, perhaps they will forget it, have the kid, and end up as you best like them--barefoot and pregnant.

You feel the need for speed. Or rather, in these days, the need for an SUV that shows the world how much power you have and are in charge of. It doesn't matter if you live in the middle of a city, and the only off-roading you will ever do is to find a good patch of grass at a drive-in theatre. So what if the price of gas has gone from about $1.50 during the Clinton years to over $4 in our country today? You won't drive as far, that's all. You don't need to go to the next county to prove that--your neighbors will see it instead. And you don't really need to drive that behemoth anyhow! As long as it's there, in front of your house, it's still a symbol of your power! (Back some years ago, it used to be a convertible for those folks who had the need to show off. Wouldn't you like to have one of those now? Only trouble is, the dealers aren't taking a lot of SUVs anymore in trade, so be prepared to put your house on the market instead--which isn't going to sell, either, but hell, your boss, George Bush tells you everything is going to be okay.)

You hate anyone who doesn't share your religious views, which are so narrow that the eye of a needle is wider. The point here is that you might know your "bible" inside out, but you don't even know what is in the Constitution of the United States, except for the second article in the Bill of Rights. The Bill of Rights has a clause that states that there will be NO establishment of a government religion, as there was in England, France and Spain, among other Western countries. It means that all citizens have the right to worship as they chose, whether it be some form of Xtianity, Judaism, Buddhism, Islam, Wiccan, or something else entirely. It's part of the reason people came to this country--because they were being persecuted in their own country for their beliefs. Look-Adolph Hitler was a Xtian--ask anybody! And the Spanish Inquisition wasn't exactly a holiday for anyone who wasn't Xtian. Christians haven't exactly been the pacifistic role models for goodwill and accord worldwide. So, I would simply tell you to stuff it.

You are the only one who knows why you are still supporting the idiot in the white house. Whether you have a mental illness yourself with the belief that GWB is the second coming, or that GWB is bringing all you fundies closer to the End of Days, or simply that you have no soul to examine life as closely as the rest of us, your existence is undeniably sad in your failure to recognize that this administration is the single most horrific event to happen in the United States, even worse than the Civil War, the American Revolution, the World Wars and the Great Depression.

As a wrong-winger, you would pooh-pooh such exaggeration, but if you even acknowledge any of the above catastrophes, you are close to the admission that very few people have benefited from the past 7 and a half years, and that no matter how much you deny this, it's your sanity that's at stake. The rest of us just look in wonder at how twisted and warped your judgement is to still stand behind the policies carried out by this complete debacle in our country.

So folks, it's up to you to decide: shall we make the attempt to move forward, our country united in a bipartisan effort to clean up this ungodly mess? Shall we add a footnote to the 43rd presidency as being the great blotch ever to reek havoc on our country? Shall we finally decide that people are getting hurt, killed and annihilated and it needs to stop?

Or are you too greedy, too selfish, too vain to put out a hand and help someone out of the abyss that has been created? If you call yourself a Xtian, you know that militant tactics were never Jesus's choices--that he helped men and women, thieves and kings alike in his philosophical endeavors. But if you can't admit that you are unable to help because of hatred and fear, perhaps it's time for you to lock your doors on January 21, 2009 and never come out again. The rest of us would like for you to join us in celebrating the end of the dictatorship of Bush and Cheney and move ahead, but if you are so consumed by your own wickedness, perhaps it is best you don't come out at all.
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hyphenate Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jul-21-08 04:54 PM
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8. Thanks
Good summary. ;) I tend to ramble at times.
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Brigid Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jul-21-08 05:45 PM
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9. Love the color.
How did you do that?
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InternalDialogue Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jul-22-08 01:23 PM
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10. In the HTML lookup table...
There's a character string for font appearance. I just deleted
everything but the "color" part, which I just
inserted "red" into.

So 
[font color="color" size="size"
face="face"]Text[/font] 

becomes
[font color="color"]Text[/font]

becomes
[font color="red"]Text[/font]
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bdf Donating Member (430 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jul-21-08 02:24 PM
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4. There's another reason applying to some
There are some Xtians who know that Bush and Cheney are evil. So evil, in fact, that perhaps one of them is the Anti-Christ. And just as the opera ain't over until the fat lady sings, the apocalypse can't start until the Anti-Christ makes his appearance and does terrible things.

Some support Bush because they believe he will bring on the end times. But they forget that doing evil, or permitting evil to be done, in order to further the invisible sky-being's ends is punished rather than rewarded. Without Judas there would have been no cruci-fiction, and without that there would be no Christianity, yet Judas is reviled rather than being honored as a saint for his essential part in the proceedings.

They would do better to ask themselves "What Would Satan Do?" Satan would periodically bring forth false Anti-Christs to tempt the fundies into permitting evil to be done and thereby dooming their immortal souls. In fact, it appears (to those who believe in this kind of thing) that Satan has done just that over the past 2,000 years: on many occasions people have convinced themselves they were in the end times, and that's just the conventional religions. The Jehovah's Witnesses predict the end times on an almost annual basis...
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GreenPartyVoter Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jul-21-08 02:01 PM
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3. You said "stuff it!" *snickering* But really, good post.
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EnviroBat Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jul-21-08 02:34 PM
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5. I really liked the "need for an SUV..." part.
Although, I don't usually think of people driving SUV's as "powerful", more like moronic. They give us intelligent, and practical people something to point and laugh at. A 4-Wheel Drive dumpster with a radio.
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Canuckistanian Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jul-21-08 03:37 PM
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6. It's 21% now.
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treestar Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jul-21-08 03:44 PM
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7. k/r
And we can add:

You are obsessed with power over others, and want to live vicariously through the U.S. army you refuse to join to kick around strangers halfway across the world just so you can feel powerful. And you expect minorities and the poor to gladly be the ones to actually join this army and risk their lives, then you call them volunteers whom you don't have to adequately equip or give treatment for the damages incurred to them carrying out your egotistical will.

Your egos are so puny that you can't live if someone is deemed inferior to you at birth, thus your smug superiority for just being born in the U.S., or into a race, or into a gender, or into a wealthy Repuke family. So you can look down on others and claim that whatever goods you have greedily gathered are due you because of your alleged accomplishments.

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