Townhall.com::Confronting the Donkey::By David Limbaugh

Townhall.com::Confronting the Donkey::By David Limbaughcat1 writes: Sunday, April, 01, 2007 12:15 AM
The real world
It wasn't hostile to swift boat John Kerry? It wasn't hostile to use Willie Horton? Democrats are militant? Democrats are sheep compared to the GOP. Being proud of Cheney and Rumfeld is really sick. Most of the time conservatives wouldn't recognize respect if it hit them in the face. They are so full of fear and anger. Really this whole piece is a complete lie, but that was the whole point, wasn't it? Extreme conservatives base their whole philosophy of privilege on lies. Take anything to the extreme, and it loses any truth it started with. The truth is the enemy to extremists. They cannot bear it. Their whole purpose is to avoid it. They go through life living in a fantasy. They don't have the strength to face reality.

OpinionJournal - Thinking Things Over Responses

OpinionJournal - Thinking Things Over Responses: "Our Arrogance Is Our Weakness
Mike Ballard - Denver

The reason we were in Vietnam was the false 'domino theory'--that communism would spread like cancer. Today Vietnam is a bastion of free market economics and capitalism--and an ally of the U.S.

Besides the obvious differences in terrain and climate, the biggest strategic difference between Vietnam and Iraq is religion. Thousands of would be martyrs are flocking to Iraq to fight the infidel--that is, us--from every Muslim nation in the world.

We didn't understand the Southeast Asian culture, and we don't understand Arab culture either. Americans assume every nation thinks like us, and if they don't they certainly should. We had the opportunity in Iraq, but we are blowing it because we don't have enough interpreters, we don't understand Iraqi customs, and we think that we can impose our ways on them.

Our arrogance is our weakness. We are a nation that came into being as an oppressed people that rose up against the greatest power in the world. We have forgotten where we came from, and this is a sure formula for failure. Until we learn humility and respect for other cultures, we will continue to dishonor ourselves on the world stage."

The Democratic Party

The Democratic Party: "This week, Boise State University College Republicans have joined the list of College Republicans who have held anti-immigrant 'games' by creating a despicable ad to promote a conservative speaker on campus. The ad advertises a food stamp drawing and a free meal at a 'Mexican restaurant' for students who 'climb through the hole in the fence' and submit illegal identification. This recent derogatory stunt comes on the heels of national news reports that confirm the rise in hate groups who are feeding off of anti-immigrant sentiments. Sadly, while these activities continue on America's campuses and while Republican presidential candidates use harsh words on immigration for political gain, the national Republican Party has remained quietly on the sidelines."

Obama

Indeed Obama is a cross between Kennedy and Howard Dean. I wish him all the luck in the world, but I'm afraid of him getting swift boated. He talks about campaigning on a higher level. Isn't that what Dukakis tried to do?

Recreational Drugs and their level of harm

March 24, 2007 Just how dangerous are recreational drugs and what’s the most effective way to classify drugs as the basis for law enforcement? With the technologies for creating new substances now well ahead of the law’s ability to even recognise them, it’s clearly time for a new way of doing things. Last year, the UK’s House of Commons Science and Technology Committee tabled a report entitled Drug classification: making a hash of it? which concluded that the current UK classification of drugs into A, B and C classes should be replaced with a new system more closely reflecting the harm they cause. One of the most striking findings of the report was that based on the committee’s assessment of harm, tobacco and alcohol (in red on the chart) would be ranked as more harmful than cannabis, LSD and ecstasy. The report also stated that, on the basis of harm, "alcohol would be classed as B bordering on A, while cigarettes would probably be in the borderline between B and C". Now a leading researcher on substance misuse has expressed concern that the proposed classification regime is too limited in its approach to serve as a basis for changes in the law.

FBI: Extremists seek school bus work - Yahoo! News

FBI: Extremists seek school bus work - Yahoo! News: "WASHINGTON - Members of extremist groups have signed up as school bus drivers in the United States, counterterror officials said Friday, in a cautionary bulletin to police. An FBI spokesman said 'parents and children have nothing to fear.'
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Asked about the alert notice, the FBI's Rich Kolko said 'there are no threats, no plots and no history leading us to believe there is any reason for concern,' although law enforcement agencies around the country were asked to watch out for kids' safety.
The bulletin, parts of which were read to The Associated Press, did not say how often foreign extremists have sought to acquire licenses to drive school buses, or where. It was sent Friday as part of what officials said was a routine FBI and Homeland Security Department advisory to local law enforcement.
It noted 'recent suspicious activity' by foreigners who either drive school buses or are licensed to drive them, according to a counterterror official who read parts of the document to The Associated Press."

: "'You know, this war is so fucking illegal.' - SPC Pat Tillman"