Rebecca Ore wrote:

writes:

On Wed, 17 Dec 2003 00:31:33 -0500, "clamnebula"
wrote:

Be sure to print this out for all your buddies at the country club!
-Neb

Make sure to print this out and stick it up your ass, Clamidia




BLOW ME.


Truth **** you off, Paul?


Oh - I thought he was contributing to the list with Item # 26.





Bruce J. Richman

In article , clamnebula
wrote:

Be sure to print this out for all your buddies at the country club!
-Neb

Absolutely, we all like to laugh at the losers who haven't made it like
we have.




---Original Message---
From: "Ed King" jedwinking@e...
Date: Sun Dec 14, 2003 8:25 pm
Subject: Fw: Rules for being a good republican

25 Rules For Being A Good Republican by Michael Holman


1) Being a drug addict is a moral failing and a crime, unless you are
millionaire conservative radio jock, which makes it an "illness" and needs our
prayers for your "recovery".

2) You have to believe that those privileged from birth achieve success all on
their own.

3) You have to believe that the US should get out of the UN, and that our
highest national priority is enforcing UN resolutions against Iraq.

4) You have to believe that government should stay out of people's lives but
it
needs to punish anyone caught having private sex with the "wrong" gender.

5) You have to believe that pollution is ok, so long as it makes a profit.

6) You have to believe in prayer in schools, as long as you don't pray to
Allah
or Buddha.

7) "Standing Tall for America" means firing your workers and moving their jobs
to India.

8) You have to believe that a woman cannot be trusted with decisions about her
own body, but that large multi-national corporations can make decisions
affecting all mankind with no regulation whatsoever.

9) You have to believe that you love Jesus and Jesus loves you, and that Jesus
shares your hatred of AIDS victims, homosexuals, and Hillary Clinton.

10) You hate the ALCU for representing convicted felons, but they owed it to
the
country to bail out Oliver North.

11) You have to believe that the best way to encourage military morale is to
praise the troops overseas while cutting their VA benefits.

12) You believe that group sex and drug use are degenerate sins that can only
be
purged by running for governor of California as a Republican.

13) You have to believe it is wise to keep condoms out of schools, because we
all know if teenagers don't have condoms they won't have sex.

14) You have to believe that the best way to fight terrorism is to alienate
our
allies and then demand their cooperation and money.

15) You have to believe that government medicine is wrong and that HMO's and
insurance companies only have your best interests at heart.

16) You have to believe that providing health care to all Iraqis is sound
government policy but providing health care to all Americans is socialism
personified.

17) You believe that tobacco's link to cancer and global warming are "junk
science", but Creationism should be taught in schools.

18) You have to believe that waging war with no exit strategy was wrong in
Vietnam but right in Iraq.

19) You have to believe that Saddam was a good guy when Reagan armed him, a
bad
guy when Bush's daddy made war on him, a good guy when Cheney was doing
business
with him, and a bad guy when Bush needed a "we can't find Bin Laden"
diversion.

20) You believe that government should restrict itself to just the powers
named
in the Constitution, which includes banning gay marriages and censoring the
internet.

21) You have to believe that the public has a right to know about the
adulterous
affairs of Democrats, while those of Republicans are a "private matter".

22) You have to believe that the public has a right to know about Hillary's
cattle trades but that Bush was right to censor those 28 pages from the
Congressional 9/11 report because you just can't handle the truth.

23) You support state rights, which means Ashcroft telling states what locally
passed voter initiatives he will allow them to have.

24) You have to believe that what Clinton did in the 1960's is of vital
national
interest but what Bush did decades later is "stale news" and "irrelevant".

25) You have to believe that trade with Cuba is wrong because it is communist,
but trading with China and Vietnam is just dandy.

On Thu, 18 Dec 2003 00:18:07 GMT, Rebecca Ore
wrote:

I grew up in South Carolina. The state basically didn't allow women
to serve on juries, didn't allow black to vote, and basically bragged
about spending as little as possible on education (at one point, the
state per capita average was half of what one Virginia mountain county
was spending per capita on education).

(yadda, yadda, yadda)

Yawn.

John writes:

On Thu, 18 Dec 2003 00:18:07 GMT, Rebecca Ore
wrote:

I grew up in South Carolina. The state basically didn't allow women
to serve on juries, didn't allow black to vote, and basically bragged
about spending as little as possible on education (at one point, the
state per capita average was half of what one Virginia mountain county
was spending per capita on education).

(yadda, yadda, yadda)

Yawn.

South Carolina proves again that it should have spent a bit more money
on education, I suspect.

--
Rebecca Ore
http://mysite.verizon.net/rebecca.ore

Might you folks consider not cross-posting this back over into the webtv group?

I mean, it's fascinating and all but it's sort of way off topic for it.

r.a.o is always a fun read.

david gourley wrote:


So, in short, there's the 'government party' with the democrat and
republican wings.

Part of the mission is to keep as many folks as possible buried in that
stupid 'conservative vs. liberal' sandbox fight so they can't see
daylight otherwise. I think that strategy is called 'divide and
conquer.'

And every so often they add another point of contention - be it
guns(both want to take them away), taxes(both want your money to
spend), or whatever is the hot topic of the season. All to
deflect attention from the real truth - that politicians by and
large are in it for themselves at your expense.

In article ,
"Sockpuppet Yustabe" wrote:

"Ray Fischer" wrote in message
...

In the last 25 years it has been the Republican part which has run up
six trillion dollars of debt and who have passed budgets with NO plan
for ever balancing the budget. The Republican plan is to keep running
up ever higher debts until the US government collapses.


Right you are. We need to fix this right away. Let's immedately
deep six welfare and all other entitlement programs. If that
doesn't stop the red ink, let's eliminate all spending on
environmental protection, public health and education.

A drop in the bucket, budget-wise. Besides, I approve of the Republican
deficit on Keynesian grounds.

Stephen

"MINe 109" wrote in message
...
In article ,
"Sockpuppet Yustabe" wrote:

"Ray Fischer" wrote in message
...

In the last 25 years it has been the Republican part which has run up
six trillion dollars of debt and who have passed budgets with NO plan
for ever balancing the budget. The Republican plan is to keep running
up ever higher debts until the US government collapses.


Right you are. We need to fix this right away. Let's immedately
deep six welfare and all other entitlement programs. If that
doesn't stop the red ink, let's eliminate all spending on
environmental protection, public health and education.

A drop in the bucket, budget-wise. Besides, I approve of the Republican
deficit on Keynesian grounds.


As I approve of deficits, whether Republican or Democratic.
They lubricate the economy.




----== Posted via Newsfeed.Com - Unlimited-Uncensored-Secure Usenet News==----
http://www.newsfeed.com The #1 Newsgroup Service in the World! 100,000 Newsgroups
---= 19 East/West-Coast Specialized Servers - Total Privacy via Encryption =---

The Ghost In The Machine said:

Eenie, meenie, mienie, mo...who's gored ox has got to go?

The Osprey should go.

In talk.abortion, George M Middius

wrote
on Sun, 21 Dec 2003 16:22:02 -0500
:


The Ghost In The Machine said:

Eenie, meenie, mienie, mo...who's gored ox has got to go?

The Osprey should go.


Well I for one wouldn't miss him.

Or are you referring to the V-22 aircraft? :-) I'll admit I am
wondering why we need such an aircraft since we already have
the Harrier, which is of British make but in a pinch we could
probably license the design...?

Color me slightly puzzled.

--
#191,
It's still legal to go .sigless.

"The Ghost In The Machine" wrote in
message ...
In talk.abortion, George M Middius

wrote
on Sun, 21 Dec 2003 16:22:02 -0500
:


The Ghost In The Machine said:

Eenie, meenie, mienie, mo...who's gored ox has got to go?

The Osprey should go.


Well I for one wouldn't miss him.

Or are you referring to the V-22 aircraft? :-) I'll admit I am
wondering why we need such an aircraft since we already have
the Harrier, which is of British make but in a pinch we could
probably license the design...?

How many men can a Harrier carry?

Osprey is a troop carrier or medivac.

http://www.boeing.com/rotorcraft/mil...22/v22spec.htm



Color me slightly puzzled.

Very different missions.

ScottW

The Ghost In The Machine wrote:

In talk.abortion, George M Middius

wrote
on Sun, 21 Dec 2003 16:22:02 -0500
:


The Ghost In The Machine said:

Eenie, meenie, mienie, mo...who's gored ox has got to go?

The Osprey should go.


Well I for one wouldn't miss him.

Or are you referring to the V-22 aircraft? :-) I'll admit I am
wondering why we need such an aircraft since we already have
the Harrier, which is of British make but in a pinch we could
probably license the design...?

Color me slightly puzzled.

The V-22 (or similar) is necessary to replace both
the large cargo MC-130 aircraft and the smaller,
short-range MH-60 helicopters now used for Special
Operations.

It thus combines long range, vertical take-off/landing,
high troop and equipment-carrying capacity, and better
electronic defenses.

The Marines want it as their primary assault craft.
It is well suited to both of these duties.

On Mon, 22 Dec 2003 03:06:46 -0500, Dweezil Dwarftosser
wrote:



The Marines want it as their primary assault craft.
It is well suited to both of these duties.

when it's not falling out of the sky..

In talk.abortion, Dweezil Dwarftosser

wrote
on Mon, 22 Dec 2003 03:06:46 -0500
:
The Ghost In The Machine wrote:

In talk.abortion, George M Middius

wrote
on Sun, 21 Dec 2003 16:22:02 -0500
:


The Ghost In The Machine said:

Eenie, meenie, mienie, mo...who's gored ox has got to go?

The Osprey should go.


Well I for one wouldn't miss him.

Or are you referring to the V-22 aircraft? :-) I'll admit I am
wondering why we need such an aircraft since we already have
the Harrier, which is of British make but in a pinch we could
probably license the design...?

Color me slightly puzzled.

The V-22 (or similar) is necessary to replace both
the large cargo MC-130 aircraft and the smaller,
short-range MH-60 helicopters now used for Special
Operations.

It thus combines long range, vertical take-off/landing,
high troop and equipment-carrying capacity, and better
electronic defenses.

The Marines want it as their primary assault craft.
It is well suited to both of these duties.

Ah. Thanks to both you and ScottW for clearing that up. :-)

--
#191,
It's still legal to go .sigless.

"The Ghost In The Machine" wrote in
message ...
In talk.abortion, George M Middius

wrote
on Sun, 21 Dec 2003 16:22:02 -0500
:


The Ghost In The Machine said:

Eenie, meenie, mienie, mo...who's gored ox has got to go?

The Osprey should go.


Well I for one wouldn't miss him.

Or are you referring to the V-22 aircraft? :-) I'll admit I am
wondering why we need such an aircraft since we already have
the Harrier, which is of British make but in a pinch we could
probably license the design...?

Color me slightly puzzled.

--
#191,
It's still legal to go .sigless.

the version AV8 Harrier used by the USMC, is an updated American version of
the UK Harrier,

malcolm wrote:

the version AV8 Harrier used by the USMC, is an updated American version of
the UK Harrier,

Yes. They were built by McDonnel-Douglas (prior to
its purchase by Boeing) in the US, under license from
the Brits.

Both versions are updated/redesigned from the British
Kestrel, the first production VTOL jet.

And none of them can transport troops.

malcolm wrote:


Or are you referring to the V-22 aircraft? :-) I'll admit I am
wondering why we need such an aircraft since we already have
the Harrier, which is of British make but in a pinch we could
probably license the design...?

Color me slightly puzzled.

Bell Helicopter has been pushing the concept since the early 60s. IN
THEORY, the V-22 is supposed to have a longer range and larger payload
than existing Marine Corps helicopters, the newest of which are more
than a decade old.

Unfortunately, the V-22 has yet to meet design goals. It's over-weight,
remarkably unstable, and can't meet the payload requirements. In order
to fly the number of miles required, it takes an fuel bladder into the
troop/cargo compartment, that actually unbalances the aircraft further.
If it's loaded with enough fuel to actually make the required range,
it's CG is WAY out of balance.

And with the fuel bladder in the troop/cargo compartment, you can't load
the equipment & soldiers it's supposed to be able to haul.

Further, the V-22 can't auto-rotate the way a helicopter can if it has a
power failure while the propeller/rotors are in vertical mode. God help
the pilot, crew and troops is there's a power failure while it's in
transition flight. It can't glide like a fixed wing, it can't
auto-rotate like a helicopter, and it has all the aero-dynamic's of a BRICK!

The really bad thing is that there are helicopters currently in
production that CAN BETTER MEET the design payload requirements the
Marine Corps specified for the V-22. The only thing they lack is the
"speed"; they can lift the payload over the specified distance, it just
takes a little longer (4 or 5 hours to do what the Osprey is supposed to
do in 3).

Found them in another newsgroup.




Suggested bumper stickers for the next Bush/Cheney
campaign:

Bush/Cheney '04: Apocalypse now!

Bush/Cheney '04: Because the truth just isn't good
enough.

Bush/Cheney '04: Compassionate colonialism.

Bush/Cheney '04: Deja-voodoo all over again!

Bush/Cheney '04: Four more wars!

Bush/Cheney '04: Leave no billionaire behind.

Bush/Cheney '04: Lies and videotape, but no sex!

Bush/Cheney '04: Or else.

Bush/Cheney '04: Over a billion whoppers served.

Bush/Cheney '04: Putting the "con" in conservation

Bush/Cheney '04: Thanks for not paying attention!

Bush/Cheney '04: The economy's stupid!

Bush/Cheney '04: The last vote you'll ever need.

Bush/Cheney '04: This time, elect us!

Bush/Cheney: 1984

George W. Bush: A brainwave away from the presidency

George W. Bush: Honest as his day is long

George W. Bush: It takes a village idiot

George W. Bush: The buck stops somewhere over there
yonder.

Vote Bush in '04: Peace & prosperity suck big-time.

Vote Bush in '04: I has incumbentory advantitude,

Vote Bush in '04: Because every vote counts--for me!

Vote Bush in '04: Because I'm the President, that's
why!

Vote Bush in '04: Because dictatorship is easier.

Vote Bush in '04: Who would Jesus bomb?

In alt.flame lid wrote:

Any particular reason to send this to a webtv group?

To irritate top-posters.

*plonk*

--
alt.flame Special Forces
"He tried to steal more chain than he could swim with."
-- old slave traders' joke