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   From: Schmenge@yahoo.com   
      
   "Don Griffen"  wrote in message   
   news:7886de546d5d5a37925fc0b31660913c@news.meganetnews.com...   
   > Commandments for Leftwing Liberals   
   >   
   > How to be a Good Leftwing Liberal   
   >   
   > 1. You have to believe that the AIDS virus is spread by a lack of   
   > federal funding.   
   >   
   > 2. You have to believe that the same teacher who can't teach 4th   
   > graders how to read is somehow qualified to teach those same kids   
   > about sex.   
   >   
   > 3. You have to believe that guns in the hands of law-abiding Americans   
   > are more of a threat than U.S. nuclear weapons technology in the hands   
   > of Chinese and North Korean communists.   
   >   
   > 4. You have to believe that there was no art before Federal funding.   
   >   
   > 5. You have to believe that global temperatures are less affected by   
   > cyclical, documented changes in the earth's climate, and more affected   
   > by soccer moms driving SUVs.   
   >   
   > 6. You have to believe that gender roles are artificial, but being   
   > homosexual is natural.   
   >   
   > 7. You have to be against capital punishment for criminals, even   
   > murderers, but support abortion on demand.   
   >   
   > 8. You have to believe that businesses create oppression, and   
   > governments create prosperity.   
   >   
   > 9. You have to believe that hunters don't care about nature, but loony   
   > activists who have never been outside of San Francisco do.   
   >   
   > 10. You have to believe that self-esteem is more important than   
   > actually doing something to earn it.   
   >   
   > 11. You have to believe that the military, not politicians, start   
   > wars.   
   >   
   > 12. You have to believe the NRA is bad, because it supports certain   
   > parts of the Constitution, while the ACLU is good because it supports   
   > certain parts of the Constitution.   
   >   
   > 13. You have to believe that taxes are too low, but ATM fees are too   
   > high.   
   >   
   > 14. You have to believe that Margaret Sanger and Gloria Steinem are   
   > more important to American history than Thomas Jefferson, Gen. Robert   
   > E.Lee and Thomas Edison.   
   >   
   > 15. You have to believe that standardized tests are racist, but racial   
   > quotas and set-asides are not.   
   >   
   > 16. You have to believe that Hillary Clinton is normal, and really a   
   > very nice person.   
   >   
   > 17. You have to believe that the only reason socialism hasn't worked   
   > anywhere it's been tried, is because the right people haven't been in   
   > charge.   
   >   
   > 18. You have to believe conservatives telling the truth belong in   
   > jail, but a draft-dodging liar and sex offender belonged in the White   
   > House.   
   >   
   > 19. You have to believe that homosexual parades displaying drag,   
   > transvestites and bestiality should be constitutionally protected, and   
   > manger scenes at Christmas should be illegal.   
   >   
   > 20. You have to believe that illegal Democratic Party funding by the   
   > Chinese government is somehow in the best interests of the United   
   > States.   
   >   
   > 21. You have to refuse to discuss the issues in a rational manner and   
   > whenever someone attempts to do so, outshout them (preferably with   
   > profanity and name-calling) and stick to personal slurs, smear   
   > tactics, slander and building strawmen so you can knock down the   
   > strawpersons and hopefully sidetrack the conversation.   
   >   
   > 22. You have to always ignore the message and attack the messenger.   
   > When stuck, change a couple of your adversaries words' and repeat   
   > their comments back to them verbatim and by all means always be sure   
   > to accuse your opponents of using the very tactics used by the   
   > Leftwing Liberals, remembering all the while that Lenin would be   
   > proud.   
   >   
   > 23. No matter how credible a source may be always claim it's been   
   > discredited and call anyone who believes it "mean spirited" and crazy.   
   >   
   > 24. Whenever demonstrated facts don't agree with your agenda, twist   
   > them and mangle them until you can make them fit into your prejudices,   
   > the media will assist you greatly.   
   >   
   > 25. Once you've told a lie or slandered someone, be sure to repeat it   
   > as often as possible until it becomes true. "Members and front   
   > organizations must continually embarrass, discredit and degrade our   
   > critics. When   
   > obstructionists become too irritating, label them as fascist, or Nazi   
   > or anti-Semitic .... The association will, after enough repetition,   
   > become "fact" in the public mind." [ ~ Communist Party, Moscow Central   
   > Committee, 1943]   
   >   
   > 26. You have to believe that all sprirituality and all religions   
   > except Islam are bad.   
   >   
   > 27. You have to use the following buzzwords as often as possible:   
   > "Nazi", "Hitler", "police state", "imperialism", "imperialist",   
   > "greedy corporations", "shrub", "fascist", "stolen election",   
   > "racist",   
   > "entitlements" "plight of the [fill in the blank] peoples,   
   > mean-spirited and, of course, overuse of the indispensible "F" word.   
   >   
   > 28. You have to believe that there were never any weapons of mass   
   > destruction in Iraq, even though they were used against Iran, the   
   > Kurds and the the Iraqi people and even though the many Democrats   
   > warned us about WMD before the Iraqi invasion: William Jefferson   
   > Clinton, Hillary Clinton, Sandy Berger, Madeline Albright, Senators   
   > Carl Levin, Tom Daschle, Robert Byrd, Jay Rockefeller, John Kerry, Bob   
   > Graham, Ted Kennedy, Representatives Nancy Pelosi and Henry Waxman and   
   > vice-president Al Gore to name only the most vociferous.   
   >   
   > 29. You have to be a purveyor of perennial pessimism and a dispatcher   
   > of doomsday gloom and hyperbolic hysteria whenever you can work some   
   > scare tactics into the foreboding warnings of eventual catastrophe at   
   > the hands of your adversaries, i.e. people who disagree with you.   
   >   
   > 30. Whenever possible, if you hear or read something that seems quite   
   > logical and might influence someone against the Liberal viewpoint, be   
   > sure to find some tiny, inconsequential irrelevancy, such as the   
   > misspelling or mispronunciation of a word, unusual facial expression,   
   > article of clothing or some morsel of arcane trivia to attempt to   
   > derail the conversation into petty bickering replete with name-calling   
   > and personal slurs. [Use of the "F" word is particularly effective,   
   > especially when combined with prepubescent profanity and puerile   
   > posturing.]   
   >   
   > 31. Always have unkind and accusatory slurs cocked and ready to use   
   > regarding any armed forces personnel other than your own candidates,   
   > sell-outs, turncoats, traitors and those who are guilty of or advocate   
   > treason.   
   >   
   > 32. When your adversary presents a particularly damning discovery,   
   > pervert it, twist it around, accuse him of something he didn't say,   
   > falsely attribute your invention to him and then proceed to argue   
   > against your own creation with the hope nobody will notice.   
   >   
   > 33. You have to remember that nobody but your adversaries, real or   
      
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