21 WAYS TO BE A GOOD DEMOCRAT

A relative (and a democrat) sent this to me and I really enjoyed it. The best part about it is that its true and probably is distributed by the DNC (at Howie's behest) to potential candidates ;)

21 WAYS TO BE A GOOD DEMOCRAT

1. You have to be against capital punishment, but support abortion on demand.
2. You have to believe that businesses create oppression and governments create prosperity.
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 SUV's.
6. You have to believe that gender roles are artificial but being homosexual is natural.
7. You have to believe that the AIDS virus is spread by a lack of federal funding.
8. 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.
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 Mel Gibson spent $25 million of his own money to make The Passion of the Christ for financial gain only.
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 & A.G. Bell.
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 is 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 liar and a 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 interest to the United States.
21. You have to believe that this message is a part of a vast, right wing conspiracy

Iraq's a lost cause? Ask the real experts

Amidst all the doom and gloom and whining of the liberal democrats, there are other voices out there that are sounding a more optimistic note in the war in Iraq. Max Boot has a great editorial in the LA Times that should be required reading. In it he points out evidence that we are winning the war:

. . . in a survey last month from the U.S.-based International Republican Institute, 47% of Iraqis polled said their country was headed in the right direction, as opposed to 37% who said they thought that it was going in the wrong direction. And 56% thought things would be better in six months. Only 16% thought they would be worse.

The Iraqis are starting to believe that things are getting better.

American soldiers are also much more optimistic than American civilians. The Pew Research Center and the Council on Foreign Relations just released a survey of American elites that found that 64% of military officers are confident that we will succeed in establishing a stable democracy in Iraq.

Although both the Army and the Marine Corps are having trouble attracting fresh recruits — no surprise, given the state of public opinion regarding Iraq — reenlistment rates continue to exceed expectations. Veterans are expressing their confidence in the war effort by signing up to continue fighting.

Why doesn't the MSM and the liberal democrats listen to the same troops that they claim they support? Because they are invested in the U.S. losing the war. If we do badly, they win, if we do well they lose. They are politically invested in things going badly. This is why the campaign of lies and deception continues on the left.

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Don't you think you'd know?

You might think you'd remember whether you'd ever been drafted by a major league baseball team.

New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson (D) seemingly cannot recall if he was or not. According to the L.A. Times, Richardson has been claiming for about "four decades" that he was drafted by the A's in 1966.

Get this:

. . . an investigation by the Albuquerque Journal found no record of Richardson being drafted by the A's or any other team.

Informed by the newspaper of its findings, the governor acknowledged the error in a story in Thursday's editions.

"After being notified of the situation and after researching the matter … I came to the conclusion that I was not drafted by the A's," Richardson said. He said he had believed it was true based on an old program from an amateur team he had played for.

I can see that your memory might fade over time but this had been going on for 4 decades. What is it with politicians?

Thanksgiving - pray and give thanks for the troops

As I reflect on the things to be thankful for this Thanksgiving, my thoughts return as they always do to the God who gave us this great nation and the men and women that have sacrificed so much: from the first settlements in the "New World" to the current day heroes fighting in Iraq so that people there can be free from a life of repression and experience the freedoms that we take for granted here in America. Thanks be to God in that He has raised up those with a vision and a will for defending freedom.

However you celebrate this day today, take some time out to pray for and remember our troops spending this time away from their families and loved ones. They deserve our utmost respect and support.

God bless our troops and God bless America.

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Bob Woodward on Larry King: "No Bombshell"

On Larry King Live! on 11/21/05 Bob Woodward states that he never had a bombshell, that he found out about Valarie Plame in a "casual offhand remark" with a "source". Kinda makes you wonder about the liberals theory about the "conspiracy" against Joe Wilson.

Other interesting information from the interview:

KING: Last week the Post ombudsman, Deborah Howell, said "Last week we found out that he (Woodward) kept the kind of information from Downie, the editor that it is a deeply serious sin not to disclose to a boss. That kind can get a good reporter in the dog house for a long time." Why didn't you tell him?

WOODWARD: Because I, you know, I was focused on getting the book done. You know the significance of this is yet to be determined and what's the good news in all of this is when it all comes out, and hopefully it will come out, people will see how casual and offhand this was.

Remember, the investigation and the allegations that people have printed about this story is that there's some vast conspiracy to slime Joe Wilson and his wife, really attack him in an ugly way that is outside of the boundaries of political hardball.

Hmm, Bob says the good news is that all of this was casual and offhand: meaning there was no "plot" to "get" Joe Wilson in his mind. If Patrick Fitzgerald had any integrity, he'd rescind the indictment against "Scooter" Libby immediately.

The evidence I had firsthand, small piece of the puzzle I acknowledge, is that that was not the case. So, I'm trying to find out and focus on immense questions about are we going to go to war in Iraq? How are we going to do it? What is the nature of Powell's position? What did Cheney do? What was the CIA's role? How good was the intelligence on all of this?

I think at this point I was learning things like that the CIA Director George Tenet went in and told the president the intelligence on WMD in Iraq was a slam dunk. That was new. That was the basis of this incredibly critical decision the president and his war cabinet were making on do we invade Iraq?

How come the CIA director is never mentioned by the liberals? Why isn't he being held accountable by them? One reason may be because he was appointed by Clinton. All the liberals want to do is lie about Bush lying and manipulating the intelligence.

Once again, we find that when the truth starts to come out, we find out that the left has engaged in lying and deceit in order to advance themselves politically. Wow, what a surprise . . .

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Think Bush lied? McCain says you're a liar

Yes, that's right John McCain the RINO from Arizona actually stated on "Face the Nation":

". . . I want to say I think it's a lie to say that the president lied to the American people."

Read more at NewsMax.com

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