tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-39620412011-04-21T14:04:06.325-07:00<b>I practice moderation passionately.</b><p> <b>Support America's Soldiers.<br> Elect a competent Commander-In-Chief.</b><p> <b>Clinton lied, Hillary cried.<br> Bush lied, people died.<br> </b><p> <a href="mailto:jollygiant66@bellsouth.net">Mail to The Flaming Moderate</a><p>TFMnoreply@blogger.comBlogger921100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3962041.post-1102555219327927022004-12-08T16:51:00.000-08:002004-12-08T17:27:14.613-08:00

Liberal Won't Support War...except for, umm, let's see, the Revolutionary War, the War of 1812, the Civil War, the Great War, World War II, the Korean War, Gulf War I, the Afghanistan Action, ... Peter Beinart's idea that "liberals" don't or won't support a "war on terror" or any use of American military power is horseshit, despite Matthew Yglesias attempt to extend his experience with Harvard's

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The Global Test. Yes, I know that the nation is founded on a "decent respect for the opinions of mankind", but even more pertinently, if George Bush cares so little for the world's opinion, why did he send Colin Powell to bear false witness against Iraq before the United Nations. The Flaming Moderate's Reflections

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Pet Goat Moment: The moment reflected on a politician's face when he realizes his country is under attack by terrorists and the only thing he can think to do is continue reading "My Pet Goat" to his intellectual equals or the moment during a crucial debate when all he can think to say is "Don't forget Poland" and signing the order to send soldiers to Iraq is "hard work." Also the effect of

TFMnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3962041.post-1096560500028459242004-09-30T09:03:00.000-07:002004-09-30T09:09:30.956-07:00

Too bad it isn't news. The WSJ might print it. Farnaz Fassihi of the Wall Street Journal recent sent an e-mail to friends that has now been posted on Romanesko's forum. It's the news from Iraquamire unfiltered by the WSJ editors sitting on their fat asses in NYC. The Flaming Moderate

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Apparently, one thing the "Old Marine" didn't learn was the meaning of "Semper Fidelis."

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Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice ..."Potemkin Politics. But who's fooling whom?

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Bush and O.J. Join Forces Believe sharing resources will result in quicker discovery of killer, WMD.

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Shorter Bill O'Reilly: "Discipline them darkies and they'll be more like white folks."

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Please remember that of all the people who got to choose Vice-Presidential candidates in the past four years, only Cheney got his first choice.

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June 30 2004: Another "Mission Accomplished" day.

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January Presidential Daily Briefing Revealed: U.S. Military Intelligence determined to beat the crap out of Iraqis. Condoleeza Rice says PDB, "just another historical document with a lot of boring footnotes that I didn't read." President Bush says, "It didn't have enough details or I would have put a stop to it. It didn't name any of the Iraqis and how the heck am I supposed to know where

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Cheny Monitors Hostage Crisis From Tokyo.Apparently, none of his undisclosed locations are far enough away from responsibility.

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The myth of Ronald Reagan winning the Cold War is equivalent to the rooster raising the Sun. I really hate to offer "after the fact" predictions, but it was evident to any reasonably intelligent student of sociology and demographics by the late 1970s that the USSR was only years aways from a meltdown. Several factors came together at a particular point in time: The inherent degeneracy of

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Disrespecting the South: Zell is right about many non-Southerners thinking the South is filled with boobs. But you can forgive them that error if you realize that most of the Southerners they know are politicians. The Flaming Moderate's Reflections

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Showtime: America's new network of Presidential fiction! The Flaming Moderate's Random Dictionary

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Religionist: A person for whom the object of his hatred is more important than the object of his adoration. The Flaming Moderate's Political Dictionary

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Some controversial comments from a CNN globe-trotter to USA Today's Peter Johnson: "CNN's top war correspondent, Christiane Amanpour, says that the press muzzled itself during the Iraq war. And, she says CNN 'was intimidated' by the Bush administration and Fox News, which 'put a climate of fear and self-censorship.' " "As criticism of the war and its aftermath intensifies, Amanpour joins a

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At White House insistence, the EPA eliminated information about the dangers of the environment in New York City after the World Trade Center attacks. So if gassing your own people is the mark of a terrible dictator who ought to be overthrown by forces of democracy.... The Flaming Moderate's Reflections

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Arnold's newest action role: The Squirminator.The Flaming Moderate's Reflections

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Excuse me, you idiots, he's a lawyer and a politician! Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image Apparently, the point is missed. The Flaming Moderate's Reflections

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Apparently, the placement of a partition around Roy Moore's graven idol has revealed a new symptom of "Head and Ass Confusion Syndrome," in which religionists mistake a rock for God. Stephen Hopkins, pastor of Burnet Bible Church in Burnet, Texas, was one of the 21 people arrested Wednesday night. He said he was willing to be arrested even though he has 10 children. "This is a great hypocrisy,

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Apparently, where the buck stops in this administration depends on what the definition of here is. Here's a thought...when William J. Clinton got caught in a lie, he took responsibility in a public apology to America. Don't you wish George W. Bush had Clinton's class. The Flaming Moderate's Reflections

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I saw Bush Family retainer and former CIA Director James Woolsey on a morning show today, saying that we really didn't go to war with Iraq over nuclear weapons of mass destruction and that the Iraqi chemical and biological weapons were more important. Well excuuuse me for noticing that we haven't found them either. And if Condoleeza Rice was so worried about chemical and biological weapons,

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I apologize the lack of recent wit. I've been very busy writing a security product training manual. The Flaming Moderate

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Wealthfare: The transfer of Social Security and Medicare taxes from workers into tax cuts for investors. The Flaming Moderate's Political Dictionary

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It is NOT true that the President landed the plane on the aircraft carrier. You have to pass a drug test before you can pilot a plane in the U.S. Navy. The Flaming Moderate's Reflections

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Well, damn, my bad again! I am reminded that Republicans are consistent in their support for ethnic cleansing. They opposed military action in Kosovo to stop ethnic cleansing and they support military action in Iraq to start ethnic cleansing. And they remind me that it's all because Clinton has a penis while Bush only has a Dick. The Flaming Moderate's Reflections

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Ethnic cleansing starts in Iraq. Republicans have already expressed their views on using military force to interefere with this sort of thing. The unpatriotic bastards won't support the troops. But good news...the Iraqi Oil Ministry remains safe! The Flaming Moderate's Reflections

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Oops, my bad! Colin Powell meant imperial wars in this century. Well gosh, let's see, how did Marine General Smedly Butler put it in 1935: I helped make Mexico and especially Tampico safe for American oil interests in 1914. I helped make Haiti and Cuba a decent place for the National City Bank boys to collect revenues in. I helped in the raping of half a dozen Central American republics for the

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Victory in Iraq. Iraqi Oli Ministry remains safe yet another day.

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Just enought land to bury the dead. Umm..., Colin, you might want to talk to the Spanish about Florida, Alabama, and Mississippi and Cuba; Mexico about Texas and most of the western states;The Philipines, where Viceroy MacArthur eked out a good living; (American) Samoa and other Pacific islands that weren't blown up in nuclear testing; and The Kingdom of Hawaii, to name a few. Do the name Ruby

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Well, somebody's got to take Jesse Helms' place.

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Ah...that's a shame. But at least the Oil Ministry is safe.

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I notice, Secretary Blowhard, that we aren't "allowing" the looters to rampage through the Ministry of Oil and Ministry of Interior, which, of course, in a Bush League Democracy, is where the Secret Police live. The Flaming Moderate's Reflections

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Bringing Bush League Democracy to Iraq. By the way, that includes NO BACKTALK. But seriously, folks, we're just trying it out in Iraq before we try this at home. The Flaming Moderate's Reflections

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War Plans. Well, this is interesting. Not only did the smugly incompetent ideologues hatch up a war plan that didn't account for a real war, they also didn't plan on how to deal with victory. The over-worked, poorly supplied soldiers of the 3rd Infantry Division heroically saved Rumsfeld's ass on the first part, but I don't think Secretary Blowhard and the Likud 5th column will get off on part

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Police Shoot At Americans Exercising Their Constitutional Rights. And so it builds...one little escalation of tyranny after another. The comfortable frog is getting warmer. The Flaming Moderate's Reflections

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A Short Note to Senator Daschle. Dear Sir: Thank you for your comments regarding the foreign policy failures of the Bush administration. As a retired Chief Warrant Officer (CW4) with almost 30 years in uniform and as one veteran to another, hold your ground. As for the critics who are demonstrating their willful ignorance, you owe no apologies to a bunch of gutless sons of bitches who "

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Celebrity Voices. Why does the media continue to give these people a platform to spout outrageous opinions on subjects about which they are profoundly ignorant, just because they have been elected or appointed to a political office. The Flaming Moderate's Reflections

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Everytime I hear him speak, I'm reminded of Mary McCarthy's comment about Lillian Hellman, "that every word she writes is a lie, including 'and' and 'the.'" There is no honor in this, so it is right that it should be done by dishonorable men. The Flaming Moderate's Reflections

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When the Supreme Court exercised its divine right to appoint a cowboy president, we hoped to get the best of Joel McRae and John Wayne, not the worst of Gabby Hayes and Liberty Valance. The Flaming Moderate's Reflections

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Separated at birth? Richard Perle and Ursala, villainess of The Little Mermaid. On the other hand, has anyone ever seen them together? The Flaming Moderate's Reflections

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Upun my word! Another hare-brained concern for the small-minded environmentalist. The Flaming Moderate's Reflections

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Maybe the problem isn't that the Justice Department and FBI are led by puritanical, small-minded, pretentiously moralistic twits. Let's give them the benefit of the doubt. Maybe they're just being led by incompetent lawyers and technologists. Yeah, that's the ticket! They aren't conspirators, they're just boobs! The Flaming Moderate's Reflections

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North Korea. Like a small child wanting the attention of a parent, North Korea won't settle for hugs by the aunts and uncles. It wants Papa to notice and nobody but Papa will do. And when Papa is way too distracted with sibling rival Iraq, little NK, just like a child, will keep upping the ante, keep increasing the pull on the pants leg, keep making a louder and louder noise UNTIL PAPA NOTICES

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Don't change the horse in mid-stream. A horse dropping offered by the horse's ass who got us stuck in the middle of the river to begin with, in an attempt to get us to drown with him instead of jumping on another horse's ass with at least enough sense to find the nearest river bank. The Flaming Moderate's Political Dictionary

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The Right To Privacy: The next time some anti-choice bigot whines about "privacy" not being in the Constitution, tell them it's in the same clause as the one giving the Supreme Court power to declare acts of the other two branches unconstitutional. The Flaming Moderate's Reflections

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Judicial Politics. 1. All governments are governments of men and not of laws. Any statement to the contrary is a wish, not a fact. 2. All positions in any government are political. This specifically includes judges, who are appointed in this country by politicians, generally as a reward for political contributions or political actions or political beliefs. For example, the current Chief

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Literalism: A conservative jurist's intellectually fradulent synonym for judicial activism. If Literalists were literal, then they could point to the actual words in the Constitution that gives federal judges the imperial power of unreviewable veto of the works of the other two branches. The claim of such power in Marbury vs Madison was a political act of the most flagrant judicial activism,

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Digital Display: Apparently, a communication device used extensively by New Jersey drivers. The Flaming Moderate's Reflections

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If you'd vote for four more years of this, then yes, you are as stupid as you look. The Flaming Moderate's Reflections

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Freepers Organize Mass Rallies To Support Bush. Crowds Estimated In The Dozens. Full Story Here

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Paying for the Bush League war: Here's an idea, George. Instead of me paying for your war, how about shifting the bill to the my children and grandchildren. Oh...never mind. The Flaming Moderate's Reflections

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The difference between a NASA engineer and a NASA manager: A NASA engineer and a NASA manager are playing Russian roulette. The trigger has been pulled five times. Each person is asked to calculate the odds of death on the sixth pull. The NASA engineer calculates that pulling the trigger creates a 100% chance of death. The NASA manager calculates that the previous history of succcessful

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The Union Of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) collapsed because of Ronald Reagan. A myth somewhat less true than, "A rooster's crow causes the sun to rise." By 1979 at the latest, competent intelligence analysts could, and did, predict the collapse of the USSR based on the work of Helene d'Encausse and Lindley's Second Law of Organizations. The effect of Lindley's Second Law was enhanced due

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Lewis 1935 fiction has factual basis. I enjoyed TBogg's revisit to the 1935 Sinclair Lewis novel "It Can't Happen Here." However, you may not be aware that the Lewis fiction was inspired by the factual attempts of rabidly racist and pro-fascist American businessmen and military organizations (The American Legion) to organize an anti-Roosevelt coup in 1934. This followed the unsuccessful attempt

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Michael Savage on MSNBC! Thanx, MSNBC, America needs another strident defender of willful ignorance and overt racism. But tell me, who's prouder of this representative of the businesses they manage, Bill Gates or Jeff Immelt?

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Terror Alert! Terror Alert! Al Queda threatens to bomb duct tape plants. Bush responds with tax cut plan for those whose mansions require large amounts of tape.

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Saddam - Osama Link Established! Thanx Democratic Underground! The Flaming Moderate

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Creationism: An attempt to explain the origins of life by limiting God's capabilities to the size of the believer's imagination. Put forth by those who understand neither science nor their own religion and for whom faith is not adequate evidence of things unseen. Rather, they are determined not only to see a sign, but to require us to have the same limited vision. The Flaming Moderate's

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A government of laws and not of men. A fiction that occasionally rises to the dignity of a bald-faced lie. A favorite excuse by corrupt men seeking to avoid their responsibility for either creating an evil law or for using a present law to create new evil. This appeal to the law is the first in the triad of excusatory appeals by men of high pretension and low character. It is followed by an

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Canada, O Canada Where are the voices in this land of liberty? The Flaming Moderate's Reflections

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Goodbye, Bill. Snoopy and I are down at the tavern today, quaffing a few root beers and mourning the loss of the one of the two best friends of every GI. Bill Mauldin said in pictures what Ernie Pyle said in words. Say "Hello" to Charlie for us, Bill. The Flaming Moderate's Reflections

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Original Sin: The original sin in every religion is the acquisition of knowledge. The Flaming Moderate's Reflections

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Asimov: A person who provides clear, simple, and elegant explanations of complex matters, leaving only the mentally deficient or willfully ignorant in darkness. An Asimov may not add original knowledge, but brings to the human mind something as important - understanding, without which there can be no wisdom. The verb form is to asimov. The Flaming Moderate's Political Dictionary

TFMnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3962041.post-878210452003-01-21T19:52:00.000-08:002003-01-21T20:38:27.000-08:00

Mark Twain Revisited: To convict someone without evidence is un-Constitutional, it is un-American, but it is no longer French! The Flaming Moderate's Reflections

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Impeaching The Deserter : I have seen several comments on other sites either edging toward or actually suggesting the impeachment of President Bush. I only want to remind you that when you consider the consequences of your prayers, you remember that one of the the most right wing Congressman of the last half century, President Cheney, would doubtless pick a self-reflective Vice President.

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Volunteer. Or Else! (Or, More Gas About Less Gas From The Bumbling Bush) The Flaming Moderate's Reflections

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Sanctity of Human Life Day: An exercise in political hypocracy that applies only to potential life. Does not cover actual persons who are rape victims, molested children, endangered mothers, or Texas defendants with sleepy incompetent lawyers. "I've never put an innocent person to death. At the very least, they were guilty of being either unable or unwilling to pick a better lawyer." Bush to

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Two Evil Midgets: Kim Jong Il and George W Bush on his knees. The Flaming Moderate's Political Dictionary

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Note: This is an ongoing definition occasioned by metaphorical madness, simile silliness, and allegorical assininity. Feel free to steal anything you can use. Attribution is welcome but not required. Politics: All politics is either class warfare, class suicide, or class murder. Those who have fear class warfare, prefer class suicide, and will commit class murder, if it can be done in the

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Note to my occasional readers: It's not that I don't want to receive mail, it's that I've apparently forgotten more than I ever knew about HTML. I think the Flaming Moderate email address is working now and I apologize to those of you who have sent unanswered comments. Of course, this does show an egotistical assumption! TFM

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Integrity Whore. An ethically, politically, or morally corrupt person who rents their carefully polished and maintained reputation for untarnished integrity as a temporary shield for ethically, politically, or morally corrupt acts. The IW is variously "surprised", "appalled", or "saddened" when the reputation is questioned. The IW is most vociferously assisted in maintaining the reputation by

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Thanx for making the point, Dave From The National Review's David Kopel 1. Lott praised Jefferson Davis. Well, Davis's birthday, May 2, is still an official state holiday in Mississippi. One should not condemn an elected official for praising people who are formally recognized as heroes by the state. The same goes for Hawaiian politicians who praise Prince Jonah Kuhio Kalanianaole (March 26)

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Jeez, not only can't we catch either bin-Ladin OR Omar, we can't even keep the Al Queda camps out of Afghanistan. Al Queda back in Afghanistan The Flaming Moderate's Flames

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No, not a lott like Christmas With the blogger research into the backgrounds of those being mentioned as new Republican Senate Majority Leader, (Nickles et al vs McConnell, Frist et al), it's beginning to look a lot like a battle between the bigots and the whores. Perhaps the Republican Senators will be able to compromise. I'm sure there's a bigoted whore somewhere in their ranks. The Flaming

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A Thousand Dollar Dog I was living on a quarter acre of caliche in East-side San Antone when the pin oak the previous owner planted over the sewer put its roots through the pipe. Sewage backing up into your bathtub is a lousy way to start a Wednesday; almost as bad as a lump of coal in Pogo’s jelly doughnut. So I hunted up a sewer firm that made house calls, waited until the diggers showed up,

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On the issue of the Confederate flag Of course I can understand the desire of some people to remember the heritage of the Confederate States of America through the display of the Confederate flag. As a native Mississipian and current Georgian, I never want to forget that the heritage left by my ancestors included the commission of treason against the United States. And that they committed that

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On the issue You know we're in a bad way when justice for molested children may depend on whether we have an extradition treaty with the Vatican. The Flaming Moderate's Reflections

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On the Southern Strategy If Republicans are going to enjoy the fruits of that poisonous tree, they shouldn't complain about the lot of racist crap used to fertilize it. The Flaming Moderate's Reflections

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The Flaming Moderate's pop quiz. President Bush today announced two actions. 1. He will cut federal funds for winter heat assistance to the poorest people in America. 2. He will permit faith-based groups to use federal funds to practice religious discrimination. For 10 points, which of these actions was compassionate and which action was conservative? For 5 points extra credit, would a

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Redneck Whiplash: A neck condition found in spineless politicians, usually caused by rapid head rotation during attempts to salute two flags, one of which represents treason to the other. Once common to a particular strain of Democrat, the affliction has now permanently settled among Republicans in Georgia, South Carolina, Mississippi, Alabama, and Virginia. Not to be confused with other

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NRA Membership List: A list of the gun producers, resellers, enthusiasts, and owners in America who support the Federal Government's Office of Total Information Awaress' right to have full details about what they own and where they live. This is what you guys signed those membership cards for, wasn't it? The Flaming Moderate's Political DIctionary

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59 Days In Peking: A film about all the time necessary during a one year period for Henry Kissinger to accomplish his tasks as Chairman of the 9-11 Investigation Commission or any other part-time government employment. This is not due to any particular efficiency on his part, but to the fact that if he takes 60+ days, he will have to reveal the names of his Johns. The Flaming Moderate's

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Class Warfare: The greatest fear of the corporate malefactors of great wealth who think they control the Republican Party, just as the Bayers, the Farbens, and the Krupps thought they controlled that little upstart from Bavaria . The prospect that those whom they have betrayed and robbed will actually recognize their crimes and organize a revenge gives them cold sweats in the night. So they go

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Religion: A method by which some become shepherds and some become sheep. If you choose to be sheep, don't complain if you are fleeced and your young are butchered. Why do you think the sheperd keeps sheep? For their welfare? The Flaming Moderate's Political Dictionary

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It can't happen here. One of four phrases describing the stages of denial that occur when a constitutional republic becomes a democratic dictatorship. The other three are It isn't happening here, It hasn't happened here, and Of course it's constitutional to hold Americans without charge or kill them without trial. What kind of anti-American terrorist supporter are you for even questioning our

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Self-Made Man: A trait of politicans, generally claimed by persons who evidence knowledge of neither architecture nor carpentry. (c.f., PMPQ: Politician's Mythical Personal Quality). The Flaming Moderate's Political Dictionary

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Democracy: A form of government that supposes the average opinion to be preferable to the informed opinion. The most perfect example of a democracy is a lynch mob. The Flaming Moderate's Political Dictionary

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Talk Radio: An opportunity for the cowardly to pretend that words don't have consequences. An example of the arrogantly opinionated leading the willfully ignorant. People who take umbrage at falsely being accused of murder, amorality, pedophilia, kleptomania, drug-taking, wife-abuse, and being traitors simply don't understand the playful manner of the entertainers involved. See also: "Fair

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Benign Despotism: The only universally desired form of government, as long as the desirer is the despot. The Flaming Moderate's Political Dictionary

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Political Contribution: A bribe made legal by those who receive it. An amount of money so small that, no matter how large, a politician is insulted if you think it affects his integrity (c.f., PMPQ: Politician's Mythical Personal Quality). The Flaming Moderate's Political Dictionary

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