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Ironically, I was a liberal until I moved to New York City, the most liberal city in the universe. Then I began paying taxes, began worrying about terrorism, and spent time considering what an abortion actually entails. I also started noticing that liberals were not as tolerant as I had thought (and I realized that I had not been a very tolerant liberal). I keep a catalog of intolerance of the left at my web site, Liberal Tolerance.


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Albert Arthur
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Albert Arthur
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Annegeles

For anyone who hasn't read it, I'll recommend Harry Stein's book, I Can't Believe I'm Sitting Next to a Republican.   · 15 minutes ago

And don't forget to use the Ricochet link to purchase it!

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Ack.

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Richard Fulmer

Retail Lawyer:
"Pakistanis are people, just like everyone else."

Who knew? · 24 minutes ago

From my website, Liberal Tolerance: "Margaret Hutchinson: I find our moral ground a bit slushy when we consider Americans important , other country police less important, bystanders barely mentionable. And forget that the attackers were human also. I thought the we decided a whole person was a real person when we fixed the Constitution."

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Retail Lawyer: "I know chimpy McHitlerBurton (Bush) will declare marshal law and stay in office.  I am 100% sure".  This came from my boss!

· 41 minutes ago

Oh, man. I totally forgot that an acquaintance told me the exact same thing in 2006 about Bush declaring martial law and ignoring the elections. At the time, I was a registered Democrat, but I still thought he was nuts.

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And the turtle's not standing on anything, it's swimming through space.

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Fake John Galt

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Richard Fulmer

Fake John Galt: 

Um, how did the alien life get started? · 15 minutes ago

Other aliens, duh. · 5 minutes ago

Actually that was his answer when I asked the same question.  I guess he thought they all started each other in a fit of diversity.  I gather that he saw a show on PBS that gave him the original concept. · 12 minutes ago

National Geographic has a show about how aliens built the pyramids.

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Richard Fulmer

Fake John Galt: evolution explains how we got the way we are but does not explain how life started, where that first living thing that we all evolved from came from.  He got quiet for a second then said that he was not really sure but thought the most plausible explanation was that we were visited in ancient times by aliens that left life on the planet.  I started to laugh before I realized that he was serious, ancient space aliens seeding life throughout the universe was a reasonable explanation to him, but God, now that was a step to far.  

Um, how did the alien life get started? · 15 minutes ago

Other aliens, duh.

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Does that mean the government has to make sure Muslims kill infidels?

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Let's face it, the reason I want the voting age to be higher is that a) young people are morons and b) they tend to vote for Democrats. Wait, is that redundant? Hey, I include myself in that! I was 26 when I voted for my first Republican. The reason Democrats want to lower the voting age is that a) young people are morons and b) they tend to vote for Democrats.

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Even Alan Colmes pointed out that the White House was going to announce the foiled terrorist attack anyway but got scooped by the AP.

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My mother was also 56 when she died from breast cancer, in 2008. It's very hard not to second guess and think, well, if only she had done this, or gotten this test, or tried that procedure. But things happened the way they did and I have to accept that, which I do, though I miss her terribly.

I think it's commendable that Jolie is speaking out. However, the last bit about so-called "hollistic" measures annoyed me. That whole industry is a sham. There are no "natural" remedies that will cure cancer, and new-age mountebanks who peddle them are contemptible.

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Yeah...ok.: Wasn't that pre-1900 as well? And what is wrong with exchanging an asset for a chance at a desired outcome?

I see nothing wrong with this.

I do not dispute that Obamacare will make this more expensive but Obamacare isn't what separated the customer from the merchant in the US healthcare system. · 39 minutes ago

There's nothing wrong with it. I'm not suggesting that healthcare should be free, or anything. But Obamacare was "supposed" to make us get healthcare delivered by elven doctors riding unicorns.

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I would go, but that's my birthday! I've got other things planned! Also, I live on the East Coast. But more important, that's my birthday!

:-)

Have fun!

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Thanks, Jim! I had heard about this last week, but it's great to get the inside scoop! It is rather astonishing that 1. they thought burning a book was funny, and 2. well, they thought burning a book was funny. You just can't make this stuff up.

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From a post I did at my blog, Liberal Tolerance:

Anti-Muslim hate crimes
2000 - 28
2001 - 481
2002 - 155
2003 - 149
2004 - 156
2005 - 128
2006 - 156
2007 - 115
2008 - 105
2009 - 107
2010 - 160
2011 - 157
Anti-Jewish hate crimes
2000 - 1,109
2001 - 1,043
2002 - 931
2003 - 927
2004 - 956
2005 - 848
2006 - 967
2007 - 969
2008 - 1,013
2009 - 931
2010 - 887
2011 - 771
Anti-Black hate crimes
2000 - 2,884
2001 - 2,899
2002 - 2,486
2003 - 2,548
2004 - 2,731
2005 - 2,630
2006 - 2,640
2007 - 2,658
2008 - 2,876
2009 - 2,284
2010 - 2,201
2011 - 2,076
Anti-Gay hate crimes
2000 - 1,277
2001 - 1,375
2002 - 1,234
2003 - 1,225
2004 - 1,164
2005 - 996
2006 - 1,169
2007 - 1,243
2008 - 1,266
2009 - 1,202
2010 - 1,256
2011 - 1,277
And for some real perspective of how Muslims do not face unusual discrimination, here's a group that is not a minority:
Anti-White hate crimes
2000 - 875
2001 - 891
2002 - 719
2003 - 830
2004 - 829
2005 - 828
2006 - 890
2007 - 749
2008 - 716
2009 - 545
2010 - 575
2011 - 504
 

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