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I received the following diatribe from someone who didn't leave their name, brave soul that they were.
Flush BOTH The JOHNS!!! (John Kerry AND John Edwierds)

Ask an Iraqi if Life was Better under Sadly Insane Hussein

Every Day I Thank God That "The Rest Of The World" Can't Vote In American Presidential Elections

When I Want "The Rest Of The World's" opinion, I'LL BOMB IT OUT OF THEM

If Life In "The Rest Of The World" is so "Wonderful", Why Are They All Moving HERE?!??

If My Ancestors Had Wanted To Be "Just Like The Rest Of The World", THEY WOULDN'T HAVE ESCAPED TO AMERICA.

Clinton's "Triple-Screw" Legacy: Gennifer, Monica, and The American people.

No one's Life, Liberty or Property Are Safe As Long As Liberals Are Alive.

Beautify America, SHOOT A LIBERAL

Prayers, "Peaceful Thoughts", "Loving Our Enemies", Rainbows, Puppy Dogs and Little Babies Didn't Free Afghanistan From The Taliban. AMERICAN BOMBS DID.

Official John Kerry Footwear: FLIP-FLOPS.

1997: Al-Qaeda Bombs Khobar Towers - 19 US Troops die.
1998: Al-Qaeda Bombs US Embassies - 500 die, 4,000+ wounded.
2000: Al-Qaeda Bombs USS Cole, 17 US sailors die.
CLINTON LIED WHILE HUNDREDS DIED.


So, let's take it line by line:
Flush BOTH The JOHNS!!! (John Kerry AND John Edwierds)
One of the cornerstones of 1st Amendment law is the idea that a marketplace of competing ideas is vital to a healthy democracy. So no problem here.

Ask an Iraqi if Life was Better under Sadly Insane Hussein
Using that argument we should rightly be in the Sudan, not Iraq. But alas what's out and out genocide compared to a land full of oil.

Every Day I Thank God That "The Rest Of The World" Can't Vote In American Presidential Elections
I too would agree. Can you imagine letting some fuck like Margaret Thatcher tell me who my president is going to be. NOT!

When I Want "The Rest Of The World's" opinion, I'LL BOMB IT OUT OF THEM
Without the French we would have lost our Revolutionary war for freedom. They built the Statue of Liberty. It was an ALLIANCE that won WWII. We don't have to let other people tell us what to do. But we should be mature enough to listen to their concerns about what we do.

If Life In "The Rest Of The World" is so "Wonderful", Why Are They All Moving HERE?!??
They are not all moving here. Immigration is largely a product of geography and politics. While poorer people do still want to come here for a better life (just like the Germans, Irish and Italians before them) you don't see any large rush of Japanese, Finnish, English, Spanish, Dutch, Aussies and many more. Just because we have it good, and we DO have it good, doesn't mean the rest of the world had it bad. They don't. In fact, if we were mature enough to look, we might learn a few things from the "rest of the world" that could improve our lives here even more. (Just as they could learn from looking at us on a few issues.)

If My Ancestors Had Wanted To Be "Just Like The Rest Of The World", THEY WOULDN'T HAVE ESCAPED TO AMERICA.
Point taken. Thank god your ancestors had the choice to come. Now extend that to the other families trying to come here today.

Clinton's "Triple-Screw" Legacy: Gennifer, Monica, and The American people.
Can't argue with that. But at least Gennifer, Monica and the American People are for the most part self aware adults. Ronald Reagan screwed mentally ill people and threw them out onto the streets. How fucking low can you get? I have no sympathy for someone who would treat the disadvantaged the way he did.

No one's Life, Liberty or Property Are Safe As Long As Liberals Are Alive.
Go back to the first point. Dissenting views are what makes democracy, especially our democracy healthy. It's better to live with someone who disagrees with you than to live under one voice. Remember Stalin? Pol Pot? Mussolini?

Beautify America, SHOOT A LIBERAL
I just addressed this...

Prayers, "Peaceful Thoughts", "Loving Our Enemies", Rainbows, Puppy Dogs and Little Babies Didn't Free Afghanistan From The Taliban. AMERICAN BOMBS DID.
Can't argue with that. One of the problems liberals DO have is that there is a time and place to fight. The price of freedom is eternal vigilance and if we are not prepared to defend our freedom we do not deserve it. However Afghanistan and Iraq are not the same thing by any stretch of the imagination. Of course now that opium and the warlords are back in full swing in Afghanistan anyway, what's the point of braggin' about what we did there?

Official John Kerry Footwear: FLIP-FLOPS.
As opposed to who? Newt? Jeb? Kerry's not alone in the ways of political expediency. Go back and re-read W's excuses for the war in Iraq. They change time and time again to deflect attention away from his own (proven false) assertions.

1997: Al-Qaeda Bombs Khobar Towers - 19 US Troops die.
1998: Al-Qaeda Bombs US Embassies - 500 die, 4,000+ wounded.
2000: Al-Qaeda Bombs USS Cole, 17 US sailors die.
CLINTON LIED WHILE HUNDREDS DIED.
That adds up to 536 dead servicemen. God rest. But W's almost doubled that in less than half the time by sending them where they didn't need to be.

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I flip the dial over to love 105 today right when Howard stern is announcing his deal with Sirius satellite radio. Very interesting and very savvy move for Howard. He could well revolutionize radio by legitimizing satellite radio.

but it raises a question: what do we lose as a nation, as a collection of views when the only media we are exposed to is totally customized to our likes. How can we claim objectivity? How can we claim a common culture? Do we need those things? Does democracy need those things?

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Better Dante's hell than Bush's heaven

If your life is such that you need a ferret for a pet, the ferret won't help

AOL Disks: weapons of mass communication

Dirt is dirty, Howard is dirtier

Liberal Media Watchdog aboard this vehicle

Why haven't all those gung-ho NRA members signed up for this war?

Need an excuse to rebel? Turn on the news

Are you paying attention yet?

Unicorns roamed under rainbows in fairer times. And tasted good with potatoes.

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