WHY I’M A LIBERAL [AM: Yes, I know. I know]

aemedliberal ^

[PBRSTREETGANG]

It tells me poor people eat junk and don't exercise.

Not to worry. Soon they'll all have personal trainers, once they win their suit against McDonald's.

[Bikers4Bush]

Zork was awesome.

[Conspiracy Guy]

Retitle "Why I'm Stupid" .

[Under the Radar]

But does it tell you we’ve accomplished something when the biggest nutritional problem among the very poor is obesity?

Does it? You think this is better, I suppose, than seeing the bloated bellies of starving African children? Why, because it makes you "feel" better?

Note, however, the medical community still classifies obesity as being a result of "malnutrition." Just because you cannot see the visible results of heart disease and diabetes, among other ills of obesity, doesn't mean that they are not just as real.

The problem that many of us see with liberals is that you judge the worth of something, not on empirical evidence, but on your emotional response. The paragraph above highlights this tendency. You "feel" that one is better than the other, even in the face of rational evidence that both are equally morbid.

[Eric in the Ozarks]

The bike is probably a 68 Beeser with bad rings.

[avg_freeper]

KID: Mom, I saw a rat. And the rat said a lot of stupid commie-pinko things, then the rat looked at me. Then I realized that the rat was an idiot and decided to vote Republican for the rest of my life.

MOM: I'm so happy! I don't know what to say. Did the school teach him that?

ANOUNCER: No, I think it was the stupid rat ma’am.

[Constitution Day]

Personally, I think there are more refined tools available to us in the Information Age … Precision Guided Munitions of regulation, rather than the crude daisy-cutters. But if we don’t regulate, we’ll choke.

You should have to deal with CARB sometime.
They are definitely the JDAM's of regulation.

[FourPeas]

Look, I know that the biggest beneficiaries of the welfare programs in the last fifty years have been the people who work for the welfare departments.

I know that we’ve grown dysfunctional cultures like mold on bad French cheese.

But does it tell you we’ve accomplished something when the biggest nutritional problem among the very poor is obesity?

Our efforts in the past have grown large ineffective welfare departments and dysfunctional cultures, so we ought to continue to do more of the same because the very poor don't know or care about nutrition or exercise? That is absolutely the most twisted logic I've ever read outside of the rantings of Louis Farrakhan.

[FourPeas]

LOL (it's definitely "yellow")

[Dr. Frank fan]

First, the clean air.

Nixon

Next, the infrastructure.

He's a liberal "because of the infrastructure". So vague it could mean anything. May as well say he's a liberal because purple.

But Southern Californians live on the desert because of the infrastructure that gives us water, protects us from floods, lets us move around, etc. etc. etc.

Uh, the water thing has nothing to do with "liberalism", it's a fight specific to SoCal vs. NoCal. And the NoCals ('liberal' or not) are usually none too happy about it...

And the infrastructure isn’t just physical, but social as well. I have a bachelor’s and a master’s from the University of California, and it is a truism the public university has changed people’s lives.

The infrastructure is social because of this truism? Is it just me or has he actually not said anything with these two sentences? (other than to inform us of his great credentials)

Finally, charity and hope.

emphasis on "hope"

This hasn’t been a brilliant year for us financially, but we managed to give some away anyway,

Frankly this makes him sound decidedly non-"liberal". "Liberals" (meaning leftists) shun charity, they want the gov't to do it all.

I’ve always felt that I was an economic liberal because I enjoyed my nice things less when I had to either worry about someone trying to hit me on the head and take them away, or eat my meal in the window of a restaurant while a starving family stood outside.

What's this got to do with economic "liberalism"? Leftism, perhaps. Anyway what he's saying is that he wants the gov't to create a system to alleviate his guilt.

Oh yeah, and he wants to reduce crime? Leftists sure don't do that.

But does it tell you we’ve accomplished something when the biggest nutritional problem among the very poor is obesity?

Yes, it tells me that free market solutions such as "McDonald's" created a very efficient system of delivering calories to humans at low cost. Don't know what this has got to do with the government or "liberalism".

[Doc-Joe]

And the infrastructure isn’t just physical, but social as well. I have a bachelor’s and a master’s from the University of California, and it is a truism the public university has changed people’s lives.

Finally, charity and hope.

We spent Saturday night at the annual fundraiser for the St. Joseph’s Center in Venice. This hasn’t been a brilliant year for us financially, but we managed to give some away anyway, and enjoyed the company of a bunch of people who were doing pretty much the same thing.

OMG! I also have a BS and an MA from a public university. I give more than I can afford to charity and have volunteered countless hours. I guess I am also a liberal. Wait... My brain is still intact. Nevermind.

[Admin Moderator]

OK, I'll let him run free for a while, kind of like how I let run free those sleeper accounts that occasionally fly under the radar, signed up years ago but didn't really start posting until years later. We get quite a few of those. Oddly, they all seem to have the same political views. It is very strange.

[Only1choice____Freedom]

>>"But does it tell you we’ve accomplished something when the biggest nutritional problem among the very poor is obesity?"

It tells us that the worst day for the poorest American is like Disneyland for the vast majority of the world.

We have a gift - Freedom. Paid for in blood. We should do all we can to secure it for the next generation.

[Kaslin]

And libs are liars too, LA is still choking with smog. The only clean air is three miles west out to sea.

The liberals had a great teacher in Billy Jeff after all. He taught them well

[Billthedrill]

LA is a hole. It wouldn't be there if it didn't leech water and power off a three-state area. But practice your Spanish, son...

[RichInOC]

Clean air? Do you actually live in Southern California?

[Bars4Bill]

[Dead Dog]

"WHY I’M A LIBERAL?"


Lead Toxicity, it hinders reasoning. Possibly a combination of FAS and eating lead paint chips as a child.