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May 08 2008
How to be agood republican | Print |  E-mail
By Shahram Vahdany   

Self help methods for those who have not achieved an honorary BS (bachelor of science) from Republicans School of Ethics.

-You have to believe that those privileged from birth achieve success all on their own.

-You have to be against all government programs, but expect Social Security checks on time.

-You have to believe that AIDS victims deserve their disease, but smokers with lung cancer and overweight individuals with heart disease don't deserve theirs.

-You have to appreciate the power rush that comes with sporting a gun.

-You have to believe everything Rush Limbaugh says.

-You have to believe that the agricultural, restaurant, housing and hotel industries can survive without immigrant labor.

-You have to believe God hates homosexuality, but loves the death penalty.

-You have to believe society is color-blind and growing up black in America doesn't diminish your opportunities, but you still won't vote for Obama.

-You have to believe that pollution is OK as long as it makes a profit.

-You have to believe in prayer in schools, as long as you don't pray to Allah or Buddha.

-You have to believe Newt Gingrich and Henry Hyde were really faithful husbands.

-You have to believe speaking a few Spanish phrases makes you instantly popular in the barrio.

-You have to believe that only your own teenagers are still virgins.

-You have to be against government interference in business, until your oil company, corporation, or Savings and Loan is about to go broke and you beg for a government bail out.

-You love Jesus and Jesus loves you and, by the way, Jesus shares your hatred for AIDS victims, homosexuals, and President Clinton.

-You have to believe government has nothing to do with providing police protection, national defense, and building roads.

-You have to believe a poor, minority student with a disciplinary history and failing grades will be admitted into an elite private school with a $1,000 voucher.

-You have to believe that Chinese communist missiles have killed more Americans than handguns, alcohol, and tobacco.

-You have to believe that the ACLU is bad because they defend the Constitution, while the NRA is good because they defend the Constitution.

-You have to believe that socialism hasn't worked anywhere, and that Europe doesn't exist.

-You have to believe that a woman cannot be trusted with decisions about her own body, but that large corporations should be free of all regulation and interference.

-You have to believe that government should stay out of people's lives, yet you want government to regulate same-gender marriages, access to birth control, and what your official language should be.

-You have to believe it is wise to keep condoms out of schools, because we all know if teenagers don't have condoms they won't have sex.

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1. 21-05-2008 05:32
Everything you wrote: All crap. I'll tell you why. 
 
With a name like "Shahram Vahdany," I wonder how you paid for your education? Oh! That's right, you didn't. Not one bit. Now, don't say you did, because it's obvious you didn't. Now, let me guess, While you were getting a free college education, you bought into the ultra-liberal, propagandist mantra(no offense) from professors, particularly from the Journalism faculty and staff, that brain-wash people like you(foreign)into believing that America is evil. 
 
I got some news for you. America is the greatest country in the world, and you simply can't stand it! Conservatives and Republicans have been making it the best country in the world since it began, clearly distinguishing the intellectual history of our country as having immensely more to do with conservatism than Liberalsim/Progressivism. Facts are facts, can you handle them? Can you handle that the same liberal/progressive ideas that people like you obviously believe in are practically the same ideas that brought despots like Stalin, Hitler and Mussolini to power?  
 
Your freedomphobia is a classic example of liberal-fascism.  
 
You are so hopeless.
Ole Dude
2. 22-05-2008 12:58
It is articles like this that flame the fire of polarization infecting the population. I have been conservative for years and come from a very conservative family, yet none of us look like the picture you have painted in this article.  
 
How about you get off the collectivism train and think for yourself? We are individuals and ought to be recogized as such instead of plopping us into your label grid.  
 
Surprise! We are all unique and dividing us into groups doesn't solve anything, it only makes it worse.
3. 04-06-2008 21:14
Racist Religious Right Republicans (R4s)
An excellent, witty and much, much too KIND summation of the evil, violent, genocidal, proto-Nazi, Racist Religious Right Republicans (R4s) who have devastated much of the world in the last 6 decades. 
 
Thus Indigenous Asian excess deaths (violent and non-violent avoidable deaths, deaths that should not have happened) presently total 25 million in post-1950 US Asian Wars (more than 50% of the dead are CHILDREN for goodness' sake).  
 
The anti-Arab anti-Semitic, Islamophobic, racist Zionist (RZ)-dominated 
Racist Religious Right Republicans (R4s) of what has now become the United States of Israel are STILL involved in genocidal Asian wars 
- the excess deaths associated so far with the Palestinian Genocide, Iraqi Genocide and Afghan Genocide total 0.3 million, 2 million and 3-7 million, respectively; post-invasion under-5 infant deaths total 0.2 million, 0.6 million and 2.3 million; and refugees total 7 million, 4.5 million and 4 million (see: Palestinian Genocide, Iraqi Genocide and Afghan Genocide ). 
 
And for the last few years these proto-Nazi, racist psychos have been threatening to extend this genoicdal devastation to remote, peaceful Iran. 
 
A message to decent America (that the world still loves) about the evil, racist, Zionist-dominated, Racist Religious Right Republican (R4) Bush-ite Amerika (that the world hates and fears)- take back your country from these racist psychopaths and remove their obscene racist, mass murdering, mass pedocidal agenda from American public life - just as the Nazis, neo-Nazis, KKK and like racist psychopaths have been sidelined in America.
gpolya@bigpond.comNOSPAM! ">Dr Gideon Polya
4. 27-07-2008 04:57
Racist Religious Right Republicans (R4s)
It's a good thing for Dr. Shithead that this wasn't an OP-ED(and that's all the hell it is, nothing more) about Darwinian Eugenics. He wouldn't have the balls to say anything about that. 
 
Every thing Dr. Shithead wrote above is nothing more than expected, unsubstantiated lies that are so easy for a coward, who puts the letters 'Dr' in front of his stupid name for everyone to see while posting on this stupid pseudo-news site, to say. Yes Dr. Shithead, you are a pure coward! I dare you to substantiate your ridiculous liberal rationale.  
 
You can't because it's totally bogus! just like you.  
 
Real PHDs know what substantiation and objectivity are. Oh, and I'm guessing they're educated, too. 
 
Have a nice day(compliments of the USA via the freedom we provide),you worthless schmuck!
Ole Dude
5. 27-07-2008 05:22
Zionist, Bush-ite abuse & mass murder
Horrible abuse from a presumed Zionist- and Bush-ite-sympathizer.  
 
There are at least 2 Americas. 
 
The America BELOVED around the World believes in Peace and that \"all men are created equal and have an inalienable right to life , liberty and the pursuit of happiness\".  
 
In contrast the violent, evil, racist Amerika of the Bush-ites, neo-Bush-ite and Zionist warmongers is hated and feared around the world. It can be estimated from UN data that the avoidable deaths in the Occupied Iraqi and Afghan Territories ALONE total 0.5 million EVERY YEAR. 
 
Indeed it is estimated that 7 million AMERICANS have died AVOIDABLY under the evil, Zionist-backed Bush Administration that places greater store on killing Muslim women and children than on saving American lives at home (see: De-valuation of American Lives. 7 million Americans, $49 trillion lost under Bush ).  
 
Zionist and Bush-ite Americans who have contempt for American lives are in a word TRAITORS. One can understand this treason from traitorous Zionist Americans whose prime allegiance is to a foreign, war criminal, racist, nuclear terrorist rogue state, Apartheid Israel.  
 
But the mind boggles at the hatred for their fellow Americans held by other Racist Religious Right Republican (R4) Bush-ite Americans.
gpolya@bigpond.comNOSPAM! ">Dr Gideon Polya
6. 28-07-2008 01:42
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Ole Dude
7. 27-07-2008 19:47
More Zionist, Bush-ite abuse
Readers of this thread - the horrible ad hominem abuse in posts above tells you something about why America and the World is in such a mess. 
 
Rational risk management involves sensible consideration of the data - for detailed documentation of the 7 million avoidable American deaths under the racist Zionist (RZ)-backed Bush Administration see De-valuation of American Lives. 7 million Americans, $49 trillion lost under Bush and links therein. 
 
What sort of Americans so horribly abuse grossly abuse humanitarians concerned with the avoidable loss of AMERICAN lives? - evidently backers of the Zionist- and Bush-ite-backed Bush Administration under which 7 million Americans can be estimated to have died avoidably due to warped, evil, racist Bush Administration priorities.
gpolya@bigpond.comNOSPAM! ">Dr Gideon Polya
8. 28-07-2008 05:10
More Zionist, Bush-ite abuse
Liberals are so disgusting and self defeating - Deranged vomit spewers, they are. :eek
Ole Dude

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