****The Official Friday Silliness Thread****

Republicans are liars and manipulators. Dividers. Fear mongers. Smiling when they talk about war and grinning when they tell their lies and distort their record. Trying to impose their hateful morals on the rest of the world. Have you seen their platform? Have you listened to their speeches? These warmongers? These liars? Let's get some things straight: Iraq had nothing to do with 9/11. Stop insinuating there is. Where is Osama? Why are we in Iraq if Osama Bin Laden is free? The 9/11 commission makes it very clear that Bush's administration ignored signs of a pending attack. There are no Weapons of Mass Destruction. BUSH LIED. IT WAS ALL FOR OIL. Don't try to call Kerry a liar to minimize his deceptions. Kerry served in Vietnam. Bush was AWOL. These are facts. "Swiftboat Veterans for Bush" was assisted by the Bush Campaign. More facts. Bush lied to the entire country and Colin Powell lied to the entire world as to why we should invade Iraq, then we did so in spite of the U.N. and without a plan to win the peace. Bush's actions have caused unprecedented anger and resentment towards the U.S. and made us less safe, not more. Iraq and Afganistan are not *free*. Stop saying they are. LIARS. They are under U.S. military occupation. Republicans cut taxes on the wealthy and then cut funding for children. Just released numbers show more Americans in poverty and more people without healthcare and jobs. Republicans think this is the way life should be. George W. Bush turned his back on the Middle East peace process begun by Bill Clinton causing a massive increase in violence and tensions in the region. Cheney should be in jail. Bush should be in jail for war crimes for that matter. The media is *not* liberal but now everyone assumes it is, and the conservatives get their way always. They are manipulators extraordinaire. Have you read the platform? Revisionism and manipulation at it's best.

Democrats offer a better solution and security for this country. They plan to get out of Iraq and end the occupation of war. They plan on trying to make peace with the terrorists. Democrats are honest and hard working and fight for this country to be the best. They honor our military and want to protect those that defend this country. Hillary will be the best President ever.

"Let us be thankful for the fools. But for them the rest of us could not succeed. "

April 1. This is the day upon which we are reminded of what we are on the other three hundred and sixty-four. ~Mark Twain, Pudd'nhead Wilson, 1894

April fool, n. The March fool with another month added to his folly. ~Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary

Fool me once, shame on you; fool me twice, shame on me. ~Chinese Proverb

Forgive, O Lord, my little jokes on Thee,
And I'll forgive Thy great big one on me.
~Robert Frost, "Cluster of Faith," 1962

He who is born a fool is never cured. ~Proverb

Let us be thankful for the fools. But for them the rest of us could not succeed. ~Mark Twain

If every fool wore a crown, we should all be kings. ~Welsh Proverb

I hope life isn't a big joke, because I don't get it. ~Jack Handey

We're fools whether we dance or not, so we might as well dance. ~Japanese Proverb

Even the gods love jokes. ~Plato

You can fool all the people some of the time, and some of the people all the time, but you cannot fool all the people all the time. ~Abraham Lincoln

The trouble with practical jokes is that very often they get elected. ~Will Rogers

A man always blames the woman who fools him. In the same way he blames the door he walks into in the dark. ~Henry Louis Mencken

A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools. ~Douglas Adams

It is the ability to take a joke, not make one, that proves you have a sense of humor. ~Max Eastman

Don't give cherries to pigs or advice to fools. ~Irish Proverb

A sense of humor is the ability to understand a joke-and that the joke is oneself. ~Clifton Paul Fadiman

It is better to weep with wise men than to laugh with fools. ~Spanish Proverb

I have great faith in fools - self-confidence, my friends call it. ~Edgar Allan Poe

The aim of a joke is not to degrade the human being, but to remind him that he is already degraded. ~George Orwell

Men reach their sexual peak at eighteen. Women reach theirs at thirty-five. Do you get the feeling that God is playing a practical joke? ~Rita Rudner

Suppose the world were only one of God's jokes, would you work any the less to make it a good joke instead of a bad one? ~George Bernard Shaw

Real friends are those who, when you feel you've made a fool of yourself, don't feel you've done a permanent job. ~Author Unknown

One thing kids like is to be tricked. For instance, I was going to take my little nephew to Disneyland, but instead I drove him to an old burned-out warehouse. "Oh, no," I said. "Disneyland burned down." He cried and cried, but I think that deep down, he thought it was a pretty good joke. I started to drive over to the real Disneyland, but it was getting pretty late. ~Jack Handey

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