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Posted on 04/30/2005 8:29:58 AM PDT by fanfan
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The Canadian subversion is under way. Good luck. Maybe you could send us down some pre-owned Mulrooney sweatshirts.
This one rang a bell with me. I was sitting in a cafe in Europe (exact location redacted to protect the guilty), and talking with an assortment of Americans and Europeans. They were doing the usual tirade about American foreign policy. With the usual inconsistencies - they deplored the invasion of Iraq (implying we should have kept our hands off), but wanted us to do something about Saudi Arabia (implying we should have thrown our weight around).
I got exasperated at one point and said, "Look, you can't have it both ways. Every single thing the US does can't be wrong!"
The first words out of someone's mouth (one of the Americans, unfortunately) was "Yes, it can!"
Now, how can you have an intelligent discussion with someone who says something as stupid as that?
So I took a different tack. This was before the election, and I started challenging them on "put your money where your mouth is". I ended up winning about $100 on various bets - Bush winning the election, no draft reinstatement, free and open election in Iraq, etc. I didn't lose a single bet.
It's my hope that being forced to hand over money to someone with radically different political views, that person having proven a greater acumen on predicting political events, will cause them to re-examine their position. Wishful thinking, perhaps, but at least I got the pleasure of shutting them up for a while.
Here is her e-mail address:
queenvalemon@aol.com
I got it from her website here:
http://www.rondiadamson.com/index.html
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You can't. But making them pay up on bets was a good move. Well done.
I have a retail store, and this guy was making his buying decision. The sale was in the bag, as it were.
He asked to use the bathroom, and when he walked into the back room, he saw my US flags and Pro-Bush signs.
He used the bathroom, and then said he had changed his mind about the purchase for now, and would let me know.
Never saw the turd again. Oh well.
Beauty!
I think the proper approach is to keep making the bets, and pseudo-subtly start to encourage them to stay leftie. Maybe that will help them to see the link between "I lose money when I'm wrong" and "Leftie is wrong"...
Then again, their votes are tiny and they are probably not making a very effective statement for their causes anyway--so you might want to just keep them leftie for a constant revenue stream.
There are more of 'us' in western Canada. I've been a GWB fan since the Gov was running for election in August 2000. I prayed him through that election and recount and took last election day off to pray him through again. [I was thanking God the other day that Kerry never won.] I love Laura too. She's a wonderful lady - beautiful, intelligent, gracious. I'll be sad to see them both disappear from public life in 2008.
I have got to get one of those shirts.
Rondi Adamson is pro-Bush in that he is anti-terrorism, but nonetheless herself is "pro-choice."
That means that she likes to be protected, but does not feel motivated to protect others: i.e, the unborn.
She has just a bit more evolving to do.
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I e mailed her. :-)
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