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Don’t Believe The Left’s Lies About Intolerance

May 26, 2012 By Joan of Snark

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For those of you who have “friends” on the left who remain steadfast in their belief that Conservatives are the ones who “hate”, are “racist” and “intolerant”, here are some facts you can share with them.

Investors.com, March 2012:

Not exactly shocking news for those exposed to them for years, but the respected Pew Research Center has determined that political liberals are far less tolerant of opposing views than regular Americans.

In a new study, the Pew Center for the Internet and American Life Project confirmed what most intelligent Americans had long sensed. That is, whenever they are challenged or confronted on the hollow falsity of their orthodoxy — such as, say, uniting diverse Americans — liberals tend to respond defensively with anger, even trying to shut off or silence critics.

The new research found that instead of engaging in civil discourse or debate, fully 16% of liberals admitted to blocking, unfriending or overtly hiding someone on a social networking site because that person expressed views they disagreed with. That’s double the percentage of conservatives and more than twice the percentage of political moderates who behaved like that.

The proportion jumps even higher when someone on a social site disagrees with a liberal’s post. Only 1% of moderates would block or shut out someone who dared to disagree with them, compared to 11% of liberals, whose rate was nearly three times that of conservatives.
nytimes.com, Nicholas Kristof, December 2008:

This holiday season is a time to examine who’s been naughty and who’s been nice, but I’m unhappy with my findings. The problem is this:  We liberals are personally stingy.

Liberals show tremendous compassion in pushing for generous government spending to help the neediest people at home and abroad. Yet when it comes to individual contributions to charitable causes, liberals are cheapskates.

Arthur Brooks, the author of a book on donors to charity, “Who Really Cares,” cites data that households headed by conservatives give 30 percent more to charity than households headed by liberals. A study by Google found an even greater disproportion: average annual contributions reported by conservatives were almost double those of liberals.

Other research has reached similar conclusions. The “generosity index” from the Catalogue for Philanthropy typically finds that red states are the most likely to give to nonprofits, while Northeastern states are least likely to do so.

“When I started doing research on charity,” Mr. Brooks wrote, “I expected to find that political liberals — who, I believed, genuinely cared more about others than conservatives did — would turn out to be the most privately charitable people. So when my early findings led me to the opposite conclusion, I assumed I had made some sort of technical error. I re-ran analyses. I got new data. Nothing worked. In the end, I had no option but to change my views.”

According to Google’s figures, if donations to all religious organizations are excluded, liberals give slightly more to charity than conservatives do. But Mr. Brooks says that if measuring by the percentage of income given, conservatives are more generous than liberals even to secular causes.

Conservatives also appear to be more generous than liberals in nonfinancial ways. People in red states are considerably more likely to volunteer for good causes, and conservatives give blood more often. If liberals and moderates gave blood as often as conservatives, Mr. Brooks said, the American blood supply would increase by 45 percent.
Dailycaller.com, March 2011:

Social scientists usually measure traditional racism against African Americans by looking at the survey responses of white Americans only. Among whites in the latest General Social Survey (2008) [conducted by the National Opinion Research Center at the University of Chicago], only 4.5% of small-government advocates express the view that “most Blacks/African-Americans have less in-born ability to learn,” compared to 12.3% of those who favor bigger government or take a middle position expressing this racist view.

[A]mong whites, Republican advocates of smaller government are even less racist (1.3% believing that blacks have less in-born ability) than the rest of the general public (11.3% expressing racist views). Thus, in 2008 Republicans who believe that the government in Washington does too much have 10 times higher odds of not expressing racist views on the in-born ability question than the rest of the population (79-to-1 odds v. 7.9-to-1 odds).

In 2008, only 5.4% of white conservative Republicans expressed racist views on the in-born ability question, compared to 10.3% of the rest of the white population. [T]his same pattern holds for white Democrats compared to white Republicans: in 2008 12.3% of white Democrats in the U.S. believed that African Americans were born with less ability, compared to only 6.6% of white Republicans.

In sixteen surveys from 1977 through 2008, overall white Republicans were significantly less racist on the in-born ability question than white Democrats (13.3% to 17.3%), and white conservative Republicans were significantly less racist than other white Americans (11.7% to 14.7%)…

[O]verall white Democrats were significantly more likely to support segregated neighborhoods than white Republicans (30.4% to 26.3%).

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Lawyers Eat Their Young

February 28, 2010 By Joan of Snark

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Just in case it wasn’t already crystal clear to you before today, Nancy Pelosi has again reveals the dangerous mindset of the progressive liberal.  They always know better and a federal government filled with them can manage your life far better than you can.

It took courage for Congress to pass Social Security and Medicare, which eventually became highly popular, she said, “and many of the same forces that were at work decades ago are at work again against this bill.”

If the last year has taught the average American anything, it is the reality of just how well the federal government has managed the Ponzi scheme that is Social Security, and just how well the federal goverment has managed Medicare.  The average American now understands that both of them were unsustainable ideas from the beginning and that today both are essentially broke.  But that doesn’t stop progressives.

“We’re not here just to self-perpetuate our service in Congress,” she said. “We’re here to do the job for the American people.”

“Time is up.  We really have to go forth.”

So even though the American people have clearly said, no, Madame, we don’t want some more, the Speaker of the Nuthouse thinks it’s time for all the Democrat to join hands, damn the reelections, and full-steam ahead shove socialized medicine down America’s throat.  She and her ilk continue to live in a fantasy world where we, the people, are just a bunch of drooling imbeciles, unable to comprehend what we read and see and to then form our own opinions about it.

“The Republican Party directs a lot of what the Tea Party does, but not everybody in the Tea Party takes direction from the Republican Party. And so there was a lot of, shall we say, Astroturf, as opposed to grassroots.”

And Congress wonders why over 75% of Americans now disapprove of them?  And why Obama’s job approval rating is now running neck-and-neck with the number who disapprove of the job he’s doing?

They remind me of a bumper sticker I once saw.  It read, “Lawyers eat their young.”

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More Liberal Compassion In Action

December 31, 2009 By Joan of Snark

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While the vitriol of the left no longer surprises, they’re spewings on Twitter tonight at the news that Rush Limbaugh was taken to the hospital with chest pains is painful.  As a public service, I’ve collected some of their comments and present them here for your edification.  If they’re a member of your family or a friend, please remember that this is the ordinary American kind of progressive liberal compassion that wants to take over your health care.

(For the Twitter-impaired, the “RT” means a “re-tweet” or reposting of someone else’s comment.)

CheddarChad: What is that racist bastard Rush Limbaugh trending for??

NYfitter: RT @Mopec35: RT @Pumpy_Beanis: DIE RUSH LIMBAUGH YOU FUCKING PIG MAN JUST FUCKING DIE//here he is @spongedocks @MOPEC35<—–Thats him

thesixthwoman: RT @JamesAkersJr: I hope Rush Limbaugh is saved by a black homosexual doctor with a questionable immigration status. <<who’s MUSLIM!!!>>

VRWCTexan: @HULAgate billpalmer come on God, I don’t ask you for much, & very rarely ask you to smite anyone. but please kill Rush Limbaugh tonight.

plan9production: Rush Limbaugh was rushed to the hospital. I told him Oxycontin and bacon cheeseburgers were a dangerous mix.

LeslieBright: RT @gammawaif: RT @JoeMyGod RT @JamesAkersJr: I hope Rush Limbaugh is saved by a black homosexual doctor with a questionable immigration …

DarlaV: Oh no! Limbaugh is in the hospital…you know what that means! If he dies, theres a god, bcause I’ve been praying for it.

mian: LMFAOO RT phontigallo I was scared of another death this year til I heard Rush Limbaugh was in the hospital. Come on 2009; don’t fail me now

gillywithaG: RT @DJBRIG: So Rush Limbaugh is in the hospital. Come on’09, you got a day. Let’s take a celebrity i actually don’t like!!!

trankedbojo: fuck rush limbaugh – hope he dies

CampGrooveThang: RT @CarrieCornish: I do hope Rush Limbaugh is saved by a black lesbian doctor with a questionable immigration status.

Ladygoogoogaga: Maybe Rush Limbaugh will die and seal 2009 as the best year ever. (via @Willseph)

LBTHEGREAT: RT @RickAfterDark I’ll be disappointed if Rush Limbaugh diessuddenly.That prick should have2suffer for weeks, or even months first.

carlosceldran: feels guilty that when he first heard of Rush Limbaugh’s heart attack, the first thing I thought was, “Oh, cool.”

steadierfooting: It’s a post-Christmas miracle! RT @ChicagoBreaking: Report: Rush Limbaugh hospitalized in Hawaii

rachel_snook: I try to never wish harm to another human being. But Rush Limbaugh. . .

scrappy_rocks: Are we lucky enough for this to be our #2 of 3? Report: Rush Limbaugh rushed to hospital with chest pains

TheFullGinsburg: No one wants Rush Limbaugh to die. But they do want his doctors to fail.

CerromeRUSSELL: RT @MsRoney: RT @tom_streeter: I do hope Rush Limbaugh is saved by a black lesbian DR wit a questionable immigration status HAHAHA!

Joe_Gamble: In other news, Rush Limbaugh is still alive. Too bad he didn’t get caught smuggling dope in China.

CalFireNews: It is much easier to score Oxycontin in Palm Beach than Hawaii apparently…

They kiss their mamas with these mouths.  Aren’t all you card-carrying Democrats proud?

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On The Desire Of “Justice For All”

December 28, 2009 By Joan of Snark

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Though sourced from a rather unusual quarter, in this excerpt from a fictional letter sent by the archangel Lucifer to his brother Michael comes an argument defining the dangers posed by liberal progressives:

Certainly, in hell there is no free will, for the damned relinquished it on their worlds.  This torment has been denied them by me.  Therefore, they cannot will to climb to Heaven by self-denial, by contemplation, by worship, by dedication, by acts of faith and charity.  These attributes shriveled in them during their lives, or were rejected scornfully by them in moods of risible sophistications.  They can desire to possess them now, but I would keep them safe and warm, as Our Father never kept them so!  So, they can will nothing.  They can only accept the pleasures -and the pains – I bestow on them.

In Heaven, however, free will is fully released.  The ability to reject, to deny, remains with archangels, angels and the souls of the saved.  The gift of repudiation is still with them and the possibility of disobedience.  Is that not most frightful?  What insecurity!  What danger!  My damned remain with me in eternal slavery because in life they desired only safety, and lacked the fire of adventure, though, God knows, they protested enough on their worlds!  But what did they protest?  Inequality, which is the variety of God.  Instability, which is the light of the universes.  Uneasiness of mind, which is the soul of philosophy.  Apparent injustices, which are the goad of the spirit.  Vulnerability to life and other men, which is a charge to become invulnerable through Faith in God.  The presence of suffering or misfortune – but these are a call for the soul to put on armor and serenity.  They demanded of their rulers that they remain in constant cocoons, silky and guarded by earthly authority.  They did not ask for wings to soar into the sunlight, and the ominous threats of full existence.  They rejected freedom for hell.  Certainly, they cried for freedom on their worlds, but it was freedom only to live happily without the freedom to be divinely unhappy.  

I have satisfied all these lusts of men. Strange, is it not, that my hells, though the ultimate success of the dreams of men, are filled with weeping?  And strange, is it not, that they still do not believe in the existence of God?  But then, they never did; they believed only in me.  They cannot will to believe in God.  They see absolute reality about them now, which was their will in life.  I will not pretend that I do not understand them, for was it not I who promised them all without work and without striving?

But lately I asked of a newly descended soul which had much acclaim on Terra:  “What was your greatest desire on your world, you who were applauded by rulers and admired by your fellowmen?”

He replied, “Justice for all,” and put on a very righteous expression.

That was admirable, for who does not admire justice, even I?  But I probed him.  He declared that in his earthly view all men deserved what all other men possessed, whether worthy or not.  “They are men, so they are equal, and being born they have a right to the fruits of the world, no matter the condition of their birth or the content of their minds, or their capacities.”  I conducted him through the pleasures of my hell and he was delighted that no soul was lesser in riches than another, and that every soul had access to my banquets and my palaces, no soul was distinguishable from another, none possessed what another did not possess.  Every desire was immediately gratified, he discovered.  He smiled about him joyfully.  He said, “Here, justice is attained!”

Then he saw that no face was joyful, however mean or lofty its features.  He remarked, wonderingly, on the listlessness of my damned, and how they strolled emptily through thoroughfares filled with music and through streets wherein there was not a single humble habituation.  He heard the cries of pleasure over my laden tables, and then heard them silenced, for there was no need now for food and where there is no need there is no desire and no enjoyment.  He saw that the poorest on earth were clothed in magnificence and jewels, yet they wept the loudest.  He was no fool.  He said, “Satiety.”  True, I answered him, but satiety can only live in the presence of total equality.  He pondered on this while I led him to the seat of thousands of philosophers, and he sat down among them.  But, as there is no challenge in hell, and no mystery, there can be no philosophy.  That night he came to me on his knees and begged for death.  I struck him with my foot, and said, “O man, this was the hell you made, and this was the desire of your heart, so eat, drink, and be merry.”

He attempted to hang himself in the manner of Judas, and I laughed at his futility.  I meditated that above all futility is the climate of hell.

He said to me, in tears, “Then, if you are, then God exists.”

“That does not follow,” I replied to him.  “But, did you not deny Him on Terra?  Did you not speak of supra-man and man-becoming, and the ultimate glorification of man on earth, without God?”

“I did not see God among men,” he said, wringing his hands.

“You did not look,” I said.  “You were too dull in your human arrogance and too enamored of humanity.  You never denounced your fellows for their lusts and their cruelties.  You told them they were only ‘victims.’  You refused to look upon their nature, for you denied the infinite variety and capacities of nature.  To you, one man was as good as any other man, and equally endowed, for the foolish reason that he had been born.  You saw no saints, and no sinners.  It was only a matter of environment, though the proof was all about you that environment is but a mere shading or tint on the soul, and is not destiny.  You denied that men have gifts of the spirit, often above those of other men.  In truth, you denigrated those gifts of striving and wonder.  You denied free will.  Everything evil that happened to a man was only the result of his fellowmen’s lack of justice.  You denied the reality of good and evil, the ability to make a choice.  In short, you denied life, itself.”

“Then God in truth does exist?” he asked, after a moment’s miserable thought.

“That you will never know,” I said.  “But rejoice!  All your dreams are fulfilled here.  Delight yourself.  Behold, there are beautiful female demons here, and banquets and sports and pleasures and soft beds and lovely scenes and all whom you had wished, in life, you had known.  Converse with them.”

“There is no desire in me,” he said.  “I want nothing.”

“You are surely in hell,” I replied, and I left him weeping.

 

Dialogues With The Devil, Taylor Caldwell, 1967.

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Quote Of The Day

December 24, 2009 By Joan of Snark

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“…Mother Nature delivered her verdict with yesterday’s blizzard in Washington.  I am cheered by the thought that finally, hell has frozen over.”
(Michael Goodwin, 12/21/09)

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Quote Of The Day

November 6, 2009 By Joan of Snark

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This was included in one of today’s emails:

“Calling an illegal alien an ‘undocumented immigrant’ is like calling a drug dealer an ‘unlicensed pharmacist’.”

Or like calling the people we elect to send to Washington “representatives”.

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Progressive Pigs

September 14, 2009 By Joan of Snark

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 This is but one example of the difference between the left-wing entitlement derangement syndrome types and conservatives. 

 

The D.C. Mall after Obama’s inauguration:

 

The D.C. Mall after an “angry mob” of over a million Americans protested on 9/12:

D.C. Mall after 9/12 protest rally

 

Any more questions?

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How Liberals Propose To Make The World A Better Place

July 27, 2009 By Joan of Snark

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To those of us in the Midwest, this about sums up why things in California are such a mess.  And why with people like Pelosi and allegedly-Occidental-college-educated Obama in charge in Washington, we’re now heading to hell in the proverbial handbasket.

 

See more funny videos and funny pictures at CollegeHumor.

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