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My Commie Cab Ride
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Posted on 01/08/2003 8:37:36 AM PST by Big Guy and Rusty 99

Sometimes, because my wife is six months pregnant, I must take a cab to work. Today, I had the "pleasure" of having a commie taxi driver. Our conversation started with my referring to the fact that the bank I work for is closing. He told me that you'll see more of that with a Republican administration in office. He told me how Highway 436 was filled with vacant shops during the Reagan Eighties.

I asked him: "Doesn't that fall on the role of the Governor?"

He said: "Ok. Nationally we were left with the biggest deficit ever under Reagan."

I told him: "Only because the Democratic Congress went back on their word to cut spending to balance the tax cuts."

He went on to blame talk radio because "It is easy to push the hot buttons of people."

I replied: "Talk radio is 'right wing' is because left wing shows fail every time."

He changes the subject: "It's like Iraq. We have no business being there."

I said: "He has nuclear and chemical weapons."

He said: "So do twenty-five other countries."

I said: "He's used them on his own people."

He said: "That's their own business."

I said: "With that kind of attitude, there would be no Jews in Europe."

He said: "If Irag attacks Tel Aviv, Israel will take care of it. Besides, that's not why we attacked the Germans."

I said: "Yes, I know that. We joined World War Two because they attacked our allies. Israel is one of our allies."

He said: "It was a different world then . . ."

I said: "It's the same world."

I couldn't look at his face. He had nostril hair long enough to braid. He also had lots of crusties, so that his nose hairs looked like stalagmites (or are those stalagtites?)

He said: "America of today is like Germany of 1930. Our civil rights are being eaten away with Homeland Security."

I asked angrily: "Are you comparing our President to Hitler?"

He worriedly shot back: "Uh no, Hitler was nuts."

I asked angrily: "Are you going to comapre the World Trade Center attack to the Reichtag fires?"

He worriedly shot back: "Uh no . . ."

He says: "I am just worried about my civil liberties. There was a case in Florida were a family were held in handcuffs and their dog shot just for being suspected of a crime."

I asked: "Would you rather that a cop gets shot?"

He said: "If it protects my civil liberties, yes."

I asked: "Aren't police officers there to protect you from crime?"

He trailed off: "Yes, but . . ."

He started to praise Clinton and how he was attacked by a "vast right campaign" started by right wing radio, while Reagan was given two presidential honeymoons because he was shot.

I asked: "Are you blaming him for that?"

He said: "No, It wasn't Reagan's fault. But he left this country a mess and Bush Jr. is taking away the rest of our civil liberties . . . "

We got to my destination. He is ranting on about his civil liberties and how Bush is taking them away. I really need to get to work. I pay him. (Yes, I did give him a tip even though he's a commie.)

I asked: "Do you like Lincon? Do you think he was a good President?"

He said: "Yes, He was pretty good."

I asked: "Did you know that during the civil war he suspended Habeus Corpus?"

He had no answer but kept on his Bush bashing rant. I told him: "Save your arguments, I've heard them all before." I got out of the cab and wished him a good day.


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Constitution/Conservatism; Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Editorial; Government; Miscellaneous; Philosophy; Politics/Elections; US: Florida
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To: Big Guy and Rusty 99
I asked: "Aren't police officers there to protect you from crime?"

No, they're there to solve crimes, not protect you.

61 posted on 01/08/2003 9:50:14 AM PST by Sir Gawain
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To: inquest
Taken the wrong way then. I prefer freedom but a moderation of both cannot exist without some group coplaining one way or the other. I do not think that anything that is done is good enough for some people so a happy medium must be found. I agree that freedom is important but safety is also as we live in different times. To weigh one against the other is very hard to do and the scales will never balance. I am satisfied right now as Gov. have been overstepping their boundries for years. But it is bafoons like us that keep re-electing these people who make these decisions. I do not feel any less free then what I did 10 years ago. I can still come and go as I please and the Gov. as 10 years ago can still obtain info on me at will if they wanted.
62 posted on 01/08/2003 9:50:55 AM PST by AbsoluteJustice
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To: Big Guy and Rusty 99
Hub,

Sorry you had to deal with Comrade Cabbie.

He told me how Highway 436 was filled with vacant shops during the Reagan Eighties.

ABSOLUTE CRAPOLA. Uhh... you should have told him that your wife lived in Orlando during those "evil Reagan eighties" and the shops of 436 were just fine.

Hairy nostril cabdriver heap big moron... well, duh... he's a commie...

PAYCE!

Reep

63 posted on 01/08/2003 9:52:46 AM PST by RepoGirl
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To: A tall man in a cowboy hat
We were in World War Two long before we were "in World War Two." We aided our allies because they were our allies. We entered the European Theatre to protect our allies and their enemies were allied with their enemies. The friend of my enemy is my enemy.

We tested our Nuclear weapons, but not on our own people. The Three Mile Island leak was covered up by the EPA, not the federal Government itself (meaning the Executive or Legislative branch.)

Yes, whatever, Bush is Hitler. He owns the state, he owns the church, he picks the winners of star search.

64 posted on 01/08/2003 9:54:30 AM PST by Big Guy and Rusty 99 (More coffins, Warden?)
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To: Sir Gawain
Doesn't taking criminals off the street (by solving crimes) protect you from future crime?
65 posted on 01/08/2003 9:56:16 AM PST by Big Guy and Rusty 99 (More coffins, Warden?)
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To: RepoGirl
Unfortunately, I didn't know enough about 436 in the eighties to reverse him. I did say it was the Governor's problem, not Reagan. I don't know if the Governor was a pub or a dim back then . . .
66 posted on 01/08/2003 9:58:14 AM PST by Big Guy and Rusty 99 (More coffins, Warden?)
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To: Big Guy and Rusty 99
You tipped him???
67 posted on 01/08/2003 9:59:51 AM PST by Libertina
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To: Big Guy and Rusty 99
Indirectly, I suppose, but police are not responsible for your life.
68 posted on 01/08/2003 10:00:14 AM PST by Sir Gawain
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To: Sir Gawain
I never said they were.
69 posted on 01/08/2003 10:00:57 AM PST by Big Guy and Rusty 99 (More coffins, Warden?)
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To: Libertina
He did his job well enough. I took the higher ground on this one.
70 posted on 01/08/2003 10:01:41 AM PST by Big Guy and Rusty 99 (More coffins, Warden?)
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To: AbsoluteJustice
I suggest you focus a little less on how free you "feel" and look a little more closely at what government's actually doing, and where that'll be taking us. When we separated from England, most colonists I think "felt" pretty free. The excesses that we read about today only really affected a small minority of them, and the "intolerable" taxes were actually considerably lower than what people in England had to pay. But it was the patterns they saw that led them to revolt. Of course, today we don't have to "revolt" to set things right, but we do have to wake up a little.

As for "balancing" freedom and safety, I tend to think that they work with each other far more than they work against each other. But in any case, there simply comes a point that when we surrender too much to the government, we lose the ability to decide where the proper "balance" should be. Simply saying, as Rusty does, that if you're not a criminal you shouldn't have to worry about what government does, is nothing but a green light for them to take everything from us.

72 posted on 01/08/2003 10:04:55 AM PST by inquest (mental note: gotta cut down on quotation "marks" - d'oh, did it again!)
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To: Big Guy and Rusty 99
Well done, Big Guy! I hear Commie rants like this all the time up here in the northeast.
73 posted on 01/08/2003 10:05:19 AM PST by nutmeg
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To: A tall man in a cowboy hat
"That is why it is a COMPARISON. I am saying that Bush used the WTC attacks the same way Hilter would have in our times."

WHAT!!!!!!???????
74 posted on 01/08/2003 10:06:19 AM PST by AbsoluteJustice
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To: nutmeg
That's why I left Boston.
75 posted on 01/08/2003 10:08:06 AM PST by Big Guy and Rusty 99 (More coffins, Warden?)
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To: Little Bill; ElectricStrawberry; RaceBannon
New England Bump!
76 posted on 01/08/2003 10:09:06 AM PST by Big Guy and Rusty 99 (More coffins, Warden?)
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To: AbsoluteJustice
You took the words right out of my mouth (or keyboard in this case.)
77 posted on 01/08/2003 10:09:50 AM PST by Big Guy and Rusty 99 (More coffins, Warden?)
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To: A tall man in a cowboy hat
I thought that our country had done nuclear testing on our own citizens.

Uhhhh.....no. We would have killed thousands if we had.

78 posted on 01/08/2003 10:13:26 AM PST by AppyPappy (If you can't beat 'em, beat 'em anyway)
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To: SkyPilot
Gollum will take you wherever you want to go, yes?
79 posted on 01/08/2003 10:13:39 AM PST by Big Guy and Rusty 99 (More coffins, Warden?)
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To: inquest
I really don't use feel and I do analyze things quite throughly and have come to the conclusions that I spoke earlier. I have seen what the Government's actually doing so much so I served in the USMC (3rd LAR) 29 Palms CA for 5 years thus allowing the free flowing of ideas to take place. No not me myself nut self sacrificing people like myself. (Not looking for a pat on the back)....I do agree with you in some areas though that people do need to wake up like you say and the green light comment at the end so see we can come to a consensus about some things. :)
80 posted on 01/08/2003 10:13:40 AM PST by AbsoluteJustice
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