Things Liberals Believe in

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Reinhard-

Perhaps the distinction can be drawn by labeling those defined as not friends of liberalism or liberty as libertines. They can do what they want as long as it benefits themselves (and/or screws everyone else over, but that part is not as important as just the self-benefit part).

[Trumplestiltskin 5,791]

Reinhard-

Perhaps the distinction can be drawn by labeling those defined as not friends of liberalism or liberty as libertines. They can do what they want as long as it benefits themselves (and/or screws everyone else over, but that part is not as important as just the self-benefit part).

If Liberals are libertines, I guess that makes Conservatives the American equivalent of the Spanish Inquisition

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Reinhard-

Perhaps the distinction can be drawn by labeling those defined as not friends of liberalism or liberty as libertines. They can do what they want as long as it benefits themselves (and/or screws everyone else over, but that part is not as important as just the self-benefit part).

If Liberals are libertines, I guess that makes Conservatives the American equivalent of the Spanish Inquisition

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My husband has one more:

The ACLU, which stands up for some parts of the Bill of Rights, is good, but the NRA, which stands up for other parts of the Bill of Rights, is bad.

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My husband has one more:

The ACLU, which stands up for some parts of the Bill of Rights, is good, but the NRA, which stands up for other parts of the Bill of Rights, is bad.

Well we must remember to Libs, the Constitution is a "breathing document", and meaning should be interpreted (by them) in the mood of the season.

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add lollipops and toothfairies to the list please are we finished yet??

[Trumplestiltskin 5,791]

My husband has one more:

The ACLU, which stands up for some parts of the Bill of Rights, is good, but the NRA, which stands up for other parts of the Bill of Rights, is bad.

Well we must remember to Libs, the Constitution is a "breathing document", and meaning should be interpreted (by them) in the mood of the season.

Well that's silly too. The ACLU (at least from the cases I've read about) is mostly concerned with the protection of freedom of speech.

But if you want to talk about selective defense of the constitution why is it that the second amendment is the only part of the Bill of Rights that some people are interested in?

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THings Liberals Believe in.

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1. People who use drugs deserve compassion and understanding — unless their drug of choice is tobacco.

2. Children can be exposed to years of violent and sexually-explicit imagery in popular culture with no ill effects, but an adult who is exposed to a racially insensitive remark is emotionally scarred for life.

3. Banning abortions will only drive them underground, but banning guns will make them disappear.

4. Teaching children about safe sex in school will make them sexually responsible, but teaching children about safe gun handling in school would make them violent killers.

5. The Enron accounting scandal is an indictment of free markets as such, but UNSCAM is no big deal.

6. An unemployment rate of 5.6% during the Clinton administration was unusually low, but an unemployment rate of 5.6% during the Bush administration is unusually high.

7. Successful government programs should be praised and publicized — unless the program is welfare reform.

8. A work of art portraying Jesus submersed in urine is daring and avant garde, but a work of art portraying Mohammad submersed in urine would be bigoted and hateful.

9. George Bush invaded Iraq for the oil, but the many profiteers from the oil-for-food program opposed the war out of principle.

10. Janet Jackson’s breast is protected by the First Amendment, but political advocacy ads are not.

11. Scientists and engineers can’t build a safe nuclear reactor, but global warming activists can accurately predict the weather.

12. Education should be value-neutral, except for values like multiculturalism and environmentalism.

13. We need to move beyond 9/11, so we can get back to obsessing over Vietnam.

14. The Second Amendment does not protect the right to keep and bear arms, but the Fourteenth Amendment mandates race preferences.

15. Fetuses do not have rights, but animals do.

16. Parents should have a choice over whether their children are born, but not what school they attend.

17. American corporations outsourcing jobs to poor foreign workers is bad; taxing American corporations and sending money to foreign dictators who promise to give it to poor foreigners, but actually squirrel it away in Swiss bank accounts, is good.

Wow that is spot on..

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well its no surprise you think so, BY. You get a hard-on over stereotypes. Edited October 22, 2008 by Paul Daniels

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well its no surprise you think so, BY. You get a hard-on over stereotypes.

Come on. Not one if those points is an exaggeration.

[Trumplestiltskin 5,791]

well its no surprise you think so, BY. You get a hard-on over stereotypes.

Come on. Not one if those points is an exaggeration.

Oh no. Of course not

Edited October 22, 2008 by Paul Daniels

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well its no surprise you think so, BY. You get a hard-on over stereotypes.

Come on. Not one if those points is an exaggeration.

Oh no. Of course not :rolleyes;

I don't get the picture of corn.

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My husband has one more:

The ACLU, which stands up for some parts of the Bill of Rights, is good, but the NRA, which stands up for other parts of the Bill of Rights, is bad.

Well we must remember to Libs, the Constitution is a "breathing document", and meaning should be interpreted (by them) in the mood of the season.

Well that's silly too. The ACLU (at least from the cases I've read about) is mostly concerned with the protection of freedom of speech.

But if you want to talk about selective defense of the constitution why is it that the second amendment is the only part of the Bill of Rights that some people are interested in?

PLease name a few of these groups.

Clearly a group like "The National Rifle Association" is upfront in it's very name about it's central interest. As are most that come to mind, but perhaps you know others.

well its no surprise you think so, BY. You get a hard-on over stereotypes.

Come on. Not one if those points is an exaggeration.

Oh no. Of course not :rolleyes;

I don't get the picture of corn.

I've wondered about that myself.

[Trumplestiltskin 5,791]

My husband has one more:

The ACLU, which stands up for some parts of the Bill of Rights, is good, but the NRA, which stands up for other parts of the Bill of Rights, is bad.

Well we must remember to Libs, the Constitution is a "breathing document", and meaning should be interpreted (by them) in the mood of the season.

Well that's silly too. The ACLU (at least from the cases I've read about) is mostly concerned with the protection of freedom of speech.

But if you want to talk about selective defense of the constitution why is it that the second amendment is the only part of the Bill of Rights that some people are interested in?

PLease name a few of these groups.

Clearly a group like "The National Rifle Association" is upfront in it's very name about it's central interest. As are most that come to mind, but perhaps you know others.

Name what groups? My point is that the NRA are solely concerned with the 2nd amendment while the ACLU are concerned with the first - which interestingly enough, seems to reflect the differing priorities between Conservatives and Liberals.

Your earlier suggestion was that "liberals" adopt a selective, laissez faire approach to interpreting the constitution. Clearly selective defense of the constitution isn't a one-way street, much as you would like to pretend that it is.