Important Stuff -- Or Not: An Embarrassment of Riches

Thursday, September 01, 2005

An Embarrassment of Riches

Of the 191 other countries in the world (192 if you count Taiwan -- and I do), 20 have responded with condolences or offers of help. But the list is slooooowly growing. Japan is donating a whopping $500,000. A whopping $200,000 will go to the Red Cross and they are also rounding up a whopping $300,000 worth of relief supplies such as tents and blankets. Singapore has sent three U.S.-based CH-47 Chinook military helicopters to assist in relief operations. The choppers from Singapore's Peace Prairie detachment in Grand Prairie, Texas, arrived at Fort Polk, Louisiana, on Thursday. Yes, other countries have military detachments in the USA. Canada is readying forces and equipment, including aircraft, water purification plants and electrical generators. Australia, New Zealand, Russia and Venezuela are among the other nations to volunteer assistance. Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh wrote a letter to President Bush expressing sympathy and confidence that the American people will respond to the victims with empathy. The South Korean government says President Roh Moo-hyun, in a letter to Mr. Bush, expressed concern for the damage and hopes for a speedy recovery. Cuban President Fidel Castro joined lawmakers at a parliamentary session today in Havana in a minute of silence for the hurricane victims. One can only guess what was going through his head during that minute. The speaker of the Iraqi national assembly, Hajim Al-Hasani, expressed sympathy in a letter to U.S. lawmakers. Meanwhile, Islamic terrorists believe the hurricane was revenge from Allah. El Salvador's government says it will offer assistance, but adds it has yet to receive a petition for help. Vietnam's President Tran Duc Luong and Prime Minister Phan Van Khai sent the messages of condolence Thursday to President Bush while Foreign Minister Nguyen Dy Nien wrote to Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice. Thanks guys, now give us back our MIAs. If that list looks "stingy," just remember that not every country can be us. We are the wealthiest country in the world and also the most generous -- and the most envied. The debate in many countries today is whether rich nations deserve any kind of aid whatsoever. But I express gratitude for what we're getting.

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Talking Points

I don't use talking points, I create them.

1. Hate makes people stoopid.

2. There is nothing so impenetrable as a closed mind.

3. A stupid person is not someone who can't learn, but someone who refuses to learn.

4. It is a small mind that has no room for God.

5. You can take Stalin out of the gene pool, but you can't take Stalinism out of liberals.

6. The best way to sabotage a bad plan is to follow it to the letter.

7. The race card is the first refuge of people who have nothing to say.

8. Ignorance is the cornerstone of arrogance.

9. Which is more racist, to hate someone who is not white or to assume someone is racist because he is white?

10. Children are not stupid. If a child is taught, the child will learn. If a child is not learning, the child is not being taught.

11. To express righteous indignation, one must first be righteous. And that's a label that doesn't stick to liberals.

12. Profanity is ignorance made audible.

13. An open mind is a liberal's worst enemy.

14. Paternalism is the purest form of racism.

15. People who bend the truth, usually bend it in their favor.

16. If you always stand in opposition to liberalism, you will never be wrong.

18. Life is simple. People who make it complicated usually have an agenda.

19. Getting your news from the corrupt, liberal media is like sticking your head in the sand, except you don't get grit in your teeth.

20. Liberals' emotional development stops at the age of 16.

21. To anger a conservative, lie to him. To anger a liberal, tell the truth.

22. Idealism seldom matches up with reality.

23. Those who don't hate communism have never lived it.

24. This was a much more civil country when men walked about heavily armed.

25. This economy will never heal as long as Obama keeps picking at the scab.

26. Liberals don't think outside the box; they ARE the box.

27. You cannot change the hearts and minds of liberals, because they possess neither.

28. There is no such thing as a kind liberal.

29. Reading Democratic Party platforms is like reading the history of human rights abuses and crimes against humanity in this country.

25 Immutable Truths About Liberals

Over the years I've been writing this blog, I've been throwing out little self-evident truths that seem to have no exceptions that prove the rule. I've made a list of some of them and will add to it as I remember them or make up more. Most of this list I've come up with myself. A few I've borrowed from others.

1. Always expect the worst from a liberal and you will never be surprised.

2. Never try to reason with a liberal. They disregard any evidence that conflicts with their beliefs.

3. You can always tell what liberals are up to by what they accuse conservatives of doing.

4. Liberals don't debate, they argue.

5. The only standards liberals have are double standards.

6. Liberals feel, conservatives think.

7. Whenever you don't understand a liberal's motives, just look for the money.

8. Liberals cannot be embarrassed. They lack the gene to blush.

9. The Liberal Golden Rule is, "Do unto others but scream bloody murder if they do unto you."

10. Liberals don't have leaders, they have demi-gods.

11. There are no honest liberals. If they were honest -- especially to themselves -- they would be conservatives.

12. A liberal's business is nobody's business, but everyone's business is a liberal's business.

13. Liberals have an inflated sense of self-worth. They are like house flies that criticize the air-worthiness of a Stealth fighter. (Sarah Palin, George W. Bush, ad infinitum are morons.)

14. Liberals lack a sixth sense that conservatives have in abundance -- common sense.

15. Liberals never stop hating.

16. There are only two types of liberals -- the deceivers and the deceived. The difficulty is telling them apart.

17. Every time liberals get on their high horse, they get bucked off.

18. Liberal programs are so wonderful that they have to be forced on people.

19. Liberals always choke on their own medicine.

20. When given a moral choice, liberals always come down on the wrong side of the fence.

21. The only way liberals can build themselves up is by tearing others down.

22. Liberals not only refuse to learn from their mistakes, they refuse to admit them.

23. Liberals have only two political positions -- blind devotion and blind hatred.

24. Liberals are incapable of attacking the message, so they always attack the messenger.

25. Liberal diversity is only skin deep.