So, you think it’s okay to loot, do ya? – Pukin on Looting.

[bethtopaz]

Wow! It's amazing - lots of people have read it - Pukin even knows the author. We can learn so much from immigrants. Did you hear Arnold Schwarzeneger (sp? - he's my governator, but i don't know how to spell his name!) at the Republican Convention? He was awesome. He talked about how he came over here from a socialist country. Didn't know anything about Republicans or Democrats, but he heard Nixon on t.v. (guess it was an election year) and asked a friend, "What is he?" "A Republican," his friend said, "Well," said Arnold, "then I am a Republican." He said when he heard the Democratic Nominee speak - it sounded just like the leaders in his socialistic country - Austria. Said he grew up with continual fear of the secret police taking his family away. It was powerful! Made you feel so proud to be an American!

[janetgreen]

#118 - BTTT!

"Compassionate conservatism" gets pretty old when you realize your state is going broke paying for illegal aliens. I'm speaking of Mexifornia, of course.

[gracie1]

I was 20 years old when I read it. I come from a family of die hard democrats. I remember my dads disgust at Reagan being elected Governor in 1966. Needless to say I absorbed a lot of that contempt of conservatism.
At the time I read the book I had a lot of questions on the "fairness" of capitalism. That book opened up my eyes on the results of socialism and marxism. That, and my husband is a "gun nut" who rivals Bert Gummer.

[dfwddr]

GREAT rant PD, please add me to your ping list.

DD - Thanks for the ping!

[bethtopaz]

Wow! What a story! I was raised in an evangelical fundamentalist home by conservative Republicans. My parents weren't really political, but mostly just good Christians who taught me more by their example of love and compassion for others than anything they said. When I was young I found a book in their library called, "I Found God In Soviet Russia," by John Noble. He lived in Russia with his family and because of their politics they were imprisoned in the concentration camps. It made a tremendous impression on me. I guess my life was so idyllic that I wanted to know more about the world, because I knew that it wasn't this way in other places. I went on to learn about the Holocaust and in learning more and more about socialism and fascism, I learned to appreciate my country -- more and more. Also, when I grew up in the 50's, it was a different America. Even when JFK was elected, my parents honored him as their president. I long for those days -- when, despite differences, love of country came first. I hope and pray that the country is moving in that direction again.

Arnold said something to the democrats in the CA legislature recently, and I'd like to think it applies the anti-American left: There's a train that's on the move, and you have three choices: you can either get on the train, watch the train go by, or stand in front of the train, and you know what will happen if you do that." (I paraphrased it as best I could, but you get the point.)

[kilowhskey]

"This aint about race, its about right and wrong, dammit."

Pukin' Dog speaks for me on that one. It all boils down to that single statement.

[wordsofearnest]

You ain't lost nuthin off your fastball!!!!

[kilowhskey]

The pilot's name is Viktor Belenko. Like many immigrants, he became one of the country's best promoters of our nation's virtues and opportunities.

[AFreeBird]

Good rant, Dog.

BUMP

[Czar]

"...Pukin Dog lionizes illegal aliens and..."

Well, that's too bad and unwise of Pukin Dog. Do you suppose we might have identified another quisling? Doesn't look good. We've been trying to thin out the herd.

[narby]

what strikes me, is the deafening silence of the so-called Black-Leaders, who could gain a few points of credibility in my book, were they to come forward and admonish those who have taken advantage of this crisis to score a larger television set, jewelry or the afore-mentioned Air-Jordans.

We bitch about the "moderate" Muslims that won't condem terrorists. This is the same issue. The fact that the black leadership tolerates this hooliganisim is the problem

[gracie1]

My family is depression era, 2nd generation American, FDR democrats. They still have the perception of conservatives in general, and republicans in particular, of being the elite rich. That paradigm has changed. Most of the republicans I know are either self employed, self educated, or otherwise people who came through life up the ranks on their own. Most of the liberals I know are either involved in public employment of some sort, social welfare of some sort, big labor, or some other sort of big nannyism. Or professional victims. Fortunately, a big influence on me ironically is my fathers view on welfare. It is simply this, people need to work for a living, period! Public aid should be only for the disabled or aged. And he hates Ted Kennedy! When he ran for president in 1980, he just shook his head "he will never be able to hold a candle to his brothers".

[Grandma Pam]

PD, you just get better and better. Remind me not to get on your bad side!

I know what you mean about your head exploding--I've been watching the looting footage since I got home from work, and I can feel my blood pressure climbing. The most infuriating thing to me about the looting is that it's looting solely for the sake of looting. If these people have lost their homes and there's no power, what are they going to do with DVD players and flat screen televisions?

[Chgogal]

Yup. I am ashamed of the looters they are disgusting. And the reporters are almost equally disgusting making ridiculous excuses for the looters' barbaric behavior as witnessed by the world. I'm furious at the reporters for legitimizing the looters' behavior. It wouldn't bother me one bit if the looters were stripped of their American citizenship/Green card and sent to a hellhole of my choice.

[Chgogal]

"But in the absence of an economy or electricity, I'd see little value in a television, either. Nothing justifies the wholesale stealing of electronics, jewelry and valuables. It's an interesting study in human behavior, to be sure."

As long as this "interesting study" is NOT done in my house or neighborhood and preferably in YOUR neighborhood I will find this behavior barely acceptable. This is simply a natural human response on my part. ;)

[HairOfTheDog]

You wish it on me? Whyever for? Was there something in my post that led you to believe I would wish it on anyone, or found the witnessed behavior acceptable?

[Chgogal]

Thanks for the ping.

[Pukin Dog]

If these people have lost their homes and there's no power, what are they going to do with DVD players and flat screen televisions?

Most likely, they are going to sell them at pawn shops for cash, or in their back-alleys for drugs.

[herewego]

The problem with my rants is that they are not strategic. I just get pissed off and start typing whatever is on my mind. Some people like what I write, some don't. I do it because it keeps my head from exploding.

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Best post I have read in a while, please add me to your ping list.
Thanks!!

[tet68]

This is why we see liberals fighting so hard against the
fair tax.