Dear Santa,
Here is my Christmas list. I know I can’t have everything I want, but could you please give me some of the things on my list, for the nation, if not the world? Please?
- The safe return of as many of our armed forces as possible, and the health and well being of their families
- Tort reform, with at least caps on awards, though I’d prefer to see a loser pays bill enacted
- Tax reform, with an end to "progressive" taxation, and taxation for the purpose of redistributing wealth (and if you could get rid of the IRS, that would be nice too)
- Oil drilling in ANWR, please
- Elected Republicans who start acting like Republicans who know they won the elections and don’t spend like Democrats
- The very best for the Iraqis and Afghanis in their new representative nations
- An end to Canuck whining, please
- A SCOTUS dominated by strict constructionists (not liberals, and not conservatives — constructionists)
- Complete dismantling of New Scam, er, New Deal programs (though since that’s not going to happen, I’ll take the administration’s ownership society initiative instead)
- Resurrection of treason charges, with mandatory death sentences carried out publically and carried by law on every television channel, starting with Taliban collaborators and moving on to the "human shields" who returned to the US from Afghanistan and Iraq, and including the "activists" in Oakland who tried to block shipments of supplies to our armed forces
- Mandatory death sentences for terrorists
- CAIR, ANSWER, CODE PINK and other pro-terrorist organizations brought up on terrorism charges (though with priorty on those named)
- Implosion of the unethical, amoral, pro-terrorist UN
- Free Iranian, and North Korean republics (I will take democracies as a second, though I think republics would be more successful and stable in both Iraq and Iran)
Thank you, Santa! Oh, one more thing. Could you PLEASE move the terrorists from Gitmo to someplace in Iraq or Afghanistan, to once and for all remove them from the jurisdiction of whiny liberal judges and the ACLU?
Merry Christmas!
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Why do you want to kill people who don’t agree with you? That doesn’t sound like one of the blessings of liberty. Do you want activism to be against the law? It’s against the law in Iran. I bet you wouldn’t want to live there.
Merry Christmas, Prof!
I like the “constructionist” wish!!!
Bless you and yours, sir! :)
For a Merry Christmas message and wish list, there sure is a lot of hate and intolerance of other views going on here.
Have you ever thought that such intolerant views and hatred of ‘the other side’ applies the same way of thinking as the losers who you are against in the first place? Liberals and lefty pinkos are not the enemy, they just think differently to you - as often happens in working democracies!
“Amoral, pro-terrorist UN”? Come on, that’s the same kind of talk that terror groups use to describe the US! Yes I agree that the UN usually need the US to kick their butt on responding to things that they should be doing (eg. Yugoslavian Civil War), but emotive and ridiculous statements as such as that is exactly the same kind of language that terror groups use to describe the actions of the US! - Emotive, erroneous and lacking on facts.
By the way.. most political right wingers I know come from backgrounds like the following. Are you by chance like this:
1) From an upper middle class upbringing and have never had to struggle to get anywhere. Political opinion comes from parents which is something like: “if you are poor, its cos you’re too lazy to work harder and probably deserve it”
2) Came from a low income background and worked your way to wealth and everyone who doesn’t do the same is lazy and needs to sit in the shit cos they don’t deserve anymore. “I made it, why can’t you?” etc
Ooops, I think i’ve just opened a can of worms. No hard feelings here, it sounds like i’m attacking you. I’m not, i just like a beefy debate and a lot of my family have similar opinions to yourself. Cheers and have a good Christmas!
Bob
No can of worms, Bob.
You’re just a liberal asshat, like 97% of the rest of them.
Your first giveaway is assuming conservatives are wealthy.
Can’t I be raised lower middle-class, and still be that?
You shouldn’t stereotype; that’s my job, you elitist snob.
Do the oil for food or rape scandals in the UN count as amoral? How about their typical anti America and/or Israel stance. Those guys are more corrupt than the Clintons!
How did you make your money, Bob?
Stepping on the little guy, oppressing minorities, white priveledge?
Merry Christmas, Bob! I’ll pray for you.
Great, another aggressive religious nut. Just what the world needs. People like you cause most of the problems in the world, what with your tough guy stance and absolute opinions and us vs them moralising.
Sure I made a few generalisations, i was stirring the pot for a debate. I never said the UN were great, it makes for a lot of writing to get right into point of view comments. I’m happy to have a chat, even disagree but I get the feeling you’ll just get into all that name-calling and self satisfying smug crap rather than debate. What is it with people like you? You’d rather intimidate and ridicule people with whom you disagree with. It seems like YOU are the snob here. You’ll pray for me? Jeepers..
I’m just a liberal like ‘the rest of them’? You sound like you think the world’s out to get you. What’s so bad or weak about having concern for others not so fortunate in society? (That’s my generalist - yes i know that’s a generalisation -view of what makes someone more left leaning than those on the right of politics)
I don’t care whether your points are totally valid and correct. It’s your attitude that sucks ass. The world isn’t black and white. There’s no good vs evil, it’s not as simple as that. Saddam is not evil, he’s just a total wanker who wanted power and control and did anything to keep it. Sure he did shocking abuses and deserves to go down - but evil? That’s just emotive political popularism talking. I suppose you think Communists are evil too? Sure their system failed and shitloads of people died because of it’s oppressive crapness. But they aren’t evil, they believed what they did was right. Just the same way, I think people who think dubya is evil are being simplistic. Of course he’s not evil (some totally love the guy), but plenty of dubya opponents believe that! See my general point here?
I suppose you’ll threaten to kick my ass or something now that I stood up to your ’setting me straight’ comments? But at least i won’t end my comment with a patronising quip like you offered me.
Yes bob, praying makes a person a religious nut.
Your tolerance is showing.
You wrote:
That pretty much says it all.
Merry Christmas, bob.
By the way, Prof, for an intollerant, hate-filled religious nut, you rock!
A very blessed Christmas to you and yours, sir! :)
Hmmm, no black or white, no right or wrong, no absolutes, no good or evil-just an ever confusing grey area of relativism and PC nonsense, heh Bob? That’s EXACTLY the liberal nut-job viewpoint of the world!
Sorry to hear that everything needs to be nice and clear and so pleasantville for you, Kurt. I wish life was as simple and watered down into easy compartments as you think. “Liberal nut-job” eh? I hate beaureaucratic crap and PC over the top red-tape baloney as any thinking person does. That’s just the left-wing version of personalities like our friend Jimmy here.
You and your right wing cronies would just love to label me a leftie freak - what makes you think i’m even a leftie? I just don’t believe in your whole aggressive “whoever disagrees with me must be a dick” attitude. I’ve looked at all these associated proud right wing websites, and boy don’t you all just love putting people down. I’ll wait for the next caustic put down where you and jimmy make out i’m a hippy no-hoper liberal nut-job.
Yeah, you the man now. I suppose if you had your way you’d “round ‘em all up and shoot ‘em”? I wonder if your favourite quote is “the problem with freedom of speech is that people have too much to say”.
This debate is silly, neither of us will convince each other of the merits of our views. Oh well, have a nice life anyway, hope the new year goes well and you don’t shoot any PC types.