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meegbear Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jul-07-05 02:55 PM
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Don't read 100 People Who Are Screwing Up America!!
Or this may happen to you!

(5 stars)
I sadly have to admit that before I read this book I had liberal views. This definitely put me in my place and has opened my eyes. I might not be a right winger yet but this book should be required reading.

http://www.amazon.com/gp/cdp/member-reviews/A3HD0ETGB810VX/ref=cm_cr_auth/104-6911620-0903914?%5Fencoding=UTF8
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Der Blaue Engel Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jul-07-05 02:57 PM
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1. Quaking
No! Put in my place! The horror! (Good thing this yahoo knows his/her place now, cowering in a corner.)
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LastKnight Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jul-07-05 02:58 PM
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2. well if youre buying a book like that...
and are easily swayed by such propaganda... i wouldnt say that your 'liberal views' were too strong.
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ghostsofgiants Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jul-07-05 02:59 PM
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3. Somehow I get the impression that most of the claims in that book...
Could be dismantled in two minutes with an Etch-a-Sketch.
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Sandpiper Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jul-07-05 03:05 PM
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4. Lying Liar Bernie Goldberg strikes again!
If nothing else, he gives hope to disgruntled has-beens everywhere, by showing them that right wingers will happily embrace professional failures as long as they have something bad to say about the left.
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onager Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jul-07-05 03:05 PM
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5. Bwa-ha-ha! Did you read the first review?
This may be old news, but it's the first time I saw it, and I was falling off my chair laughing:

Dear Conservative America,

We're ticked off at the way you've treated California, and we've decided we're leaving. We intend to form our own country, and we're taking the other Blue States with us.

In case you aren't aware, that includes Hawaii, Oregon, Washington, Minnesota, Wisconsin, Michigan, Illinois and all the Northeast. We believe this split will be beneficial to the nation, and especially to the people of the new country of New California.

To sum up briefly:
You get Texas, Oklahoma, and all the slave states.
We get stem cell research and the best beaches.
We get Elliot Spitzer. You get Ken Lay.
We get the Statue of Liberty. You get OpryLand.
We get Intel and Microsoft. You get WorldCom.
We get Harvard. You get Ole' Miss.
We get 85 percent of America's venture capital and entrepreneurs. You get Alabama.

We get two-thirds of the tax revenue. You get to make the red states pay their fair share.

Since our aggregate divorce rate is 22 percent lower than the Christian Coalition's, we get a bunch of happy families. You get a bunch of single moms.

Please be aware that Nuevo California will be prochoice and antiwar and we're going to want all our citizens back from Iraq at once. If you need people to fight, ask your evangelicals. They have kids they're apparentlywilling to send to their deaths for no purpose and they don't care if you don't show pictures of their children's caskets coming home.

We do wish you success in Iraq and hope that the WMDs turn up, but we're not willing to spend our resources in Bush's Quagmire.

With the Blue States in hand, we will have firm control of 80 percent of the country's fresh water, more than 90 percent of the pineapple and lettuce, 92 percent of the nation's fresh fruit, 95 percent of America's quality wines (you can serve French wines at state dinners), 90 percent of all cheese, 90 percent of the high tech industry, most of the U.S. low-sulfur coal, all living redwoods, sequoias, and condors, all the Ivy and Seven Sister schools, plus Harvard, Yale, Stanford, Cal Tech, and MIT.

With the Red States, on the other hand, you will have to cope with 88 percent of all obese Americans (and their projected health care costs), 92 percent of all U.S. mosquitoes, nearly 100 percent of the tornadoes, 90 percent of the hurricanes, 99 percent of all Southern Baptists, virtually 100 percent of all televangelists, Rush Limbaugh, Bob Jones University, Clemson, and the University of Georgia.

We get Hollywood and Yosemite, thank you.

Additionally, 38 percent of those in the Red states believe Jonah was actually swallowed by a whale, 62 percent believe life is sacred unless we're discussing the death penalty or gun laws, 44 percent say that evolution is only a theory, 53 percent that Saddam was involved in 9/11 and 61 percent of you crazy bastards believe you are people with higher morals then we lefties.

Sincerely,

The Brain Trust States


Link to original on Amazon by Robert Stephenson:

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0060761288/ref=cm_aya_asin.title/104-7044529-9327920?%5Fencoding=UTF8&v=glance
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Rob H. Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jul-07-05 03:32 PM
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7. Ha! That's great!
:rofl:
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jonnyblitz Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jul-07-05 03:37 PM
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8. LMFAO...that is awesome!
:thumbsup:
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LastKnight Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jul-07-05 03:58 PM
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12. schweeeeet
im in... im movin to MN (closest blue state)

now if only it were true.
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XemaSab Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jul-07-05 04:00 PM
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13. Every time I see this
I feel the need to remind people that there is a condor re-introduction site in Arizona.... just so's you know.
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Bleacher Creature Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jul-07-05 03:11 PM
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6. Anyone wanna bet that Mitchell W. Anderson
wouldn't know what a "liberal view" was if it bit him in the ass??
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edbermac Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jul-07-05 03:39 PM
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9. I think Mitch has been bitten in the ass...by Jeff Gannon...
:kick:
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Bleacher Creature Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jul-07-05 03:52 PM
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10. He may actually BE Jeff Gannon
He's already on his second name, so maybe he's moved on to something else!
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edbermac Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jul-07-05 03:57 PM
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11. Jeff bit his own ass?
I didn't realize he could bend over and reach that far to bite his own...uh, never mind...

:wow:
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Bleacher Creature Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jul-07-05 04:04 PM
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14. Please stop. You are going to give me nighmares!
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