A young woman was about to finish her first year of college. Like so many others her age, she considered herself to be a very liberal Democrat, and among other liberal ideals, was very much in favor of higher taxes to support more government programs, in other words redistribution of wealth.

She was deeply ashamed that her father was a rather staunch Republican, a feeling she openly expressed. Based on the lectures that she had participated in, and an occasional chat with various professors, she felt that her father had for years harbored an evil, selfish desire to keep what he thought should be his.

One day she was challenging her father on his opposition to higher taxes on the rich and the need for more government programs. The self-professed objectivity proclaimed by her professors had to be the truth and she indicated so to her father. He responded by asking how she was doing in school.

Taken aback, she answered rather haughtily that she had a 4.0 GPA, and let him know that it was tough to maintain, insisting that she was taking a very difficult course load and was constantly studying, which left her no time to go out and party like other people she knew. She didn't even have time for a boyfriend, and didn't really have many college friends because she spent all her time studying.

Her father listened and then asked, 'How is your friend Audrey doing?'

She replied, 'Audrey is barely getting by. All she takes are easy classes, she never studies, and she barely has a 2.0 GPA. She is so popular on campus; college for her is a blast. She's always invited to all the parties and lots of times she doesn't even show up for classes the next day because she's too hung over.'

Her wise father asked his daughter, 'Why don't you go to the Dean's office and ask him to deduct 1.0 off your GPA and give it to your friend who only has a 2.0. That way you will both have a 3.0 GPA and certainly that would be a fair and equal distribution of GPA.'

The daughter, visibly shocked by her father's suggestion, angrily fired back, 'That's a crazy idea. That would not be fair! I've worked really hard for my grades! I've invested a lot of time, and a lot of hard work! Audrey has done next to nothing toward her degree. She played while I worked my tail off!'

The father slowly smiled, winked and said gently,'Welcome to the Republican party.'

If anyone has a better explanation of the difference between a Republican Conservative and Democrat Liberal, I'm all ears.

I modified the end because there is really not much difference between a republican and democrat.  You can have a liberal republican and a conservative democrat.  But in general, we associate conservatism with the republicans, and liberalism with the democrats.  The truth is that there are Democrats who are conservative that I would have voted for over McCain if they were running against him.  Democrats like Zel Miller from Georgia, hell, even JFK I would have voted for.  JFK was more conservative than John McCain is now.  The conservatives do not have a strangle hold on the Republican party like the liberals do on the Democrat party. 

I got this in my email box earlier in the week.  I have not went through the URLs yet.  I will this weekend.  But feel free to read it if you want.  Interesting stuff here if it is all accurate.  Keep in mind I am not the author, so don't whine to me, I am just passing it along to you.

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It makes you wonder.......who is stupid ???  or just doesn't get it??  This email comes in three parts....Make sure you read all three parts! It is longer than most, but worth the read.

Part 1
Remember the election in 2006?

Thought you might like to read the following:

A little over one year ago:

1. Consumer confidence stood at a 2 1/2 year high;
2. Regular gasoline sold for $2.19 a gallon;
3. The unemployment rate was 4.5%.

Since voting in a Democratic Congress in 2006 we have seen:

1. Consumer confidence plummet;
2. The cost of regular gasoline soar to over $4.10 a gallon;
3. Unemployment is up to 5% (a 10% increase);
4. American households have seen $2.3 trillion in equity value evaporate (stock and mutual fund losses);
5. Americans have seen their home equity drop by $1.2 trillion dollars;
6. 1% of American homes are in foreclosure.
7. Food prices skyrocketing over 30% in 1 year.

America voted for change in 2006, and we got it!  Remember, it is Congress that makes the laws and spends our money not the President. He has to work with what's handed to him.

Part 2:
Taxes...Whether Democrat or a Republican you will find these statistics enlightening and amazing. Verify at: http://www.taxfoundation.org/publications/show/151.HTML

Taxes under CLINTON-1999	Taxes under BUSH-2008
Single earning:	Single earning:
30K taxed: $8,400	30K taxed: $4,500
50K taxed: $14,000	50K taxed: $12,500
75K taxed: $23,250	75K taxed: $18,750
Married earning:	Married earning:
60K taxed: $ 16,800	60K taxed: $   9,000
75K taxed: $ 21,000	75K taxed: $ 18,750
125K taxed: $ 38,750	125K taxed: $ 31,250

Barack Obama promises to return to the higher tax rates if elected. It is amazing how many people who fall into the categories above think Bush is screwing them and Bill Clinton was the greatest President ever. If elected, Barack Obama has already promised that he will repeal the Bush tax cuts, and amazingly, a good portion of the people who fall into the categories above can't wait for it to happen.

PART 3:
You think the war in Iraq is costing us too much?   Read this: Boy, am I confused.  I have been hammered with the propaganda that it is the Iraq war and the war on terror that is bankrupting us. I now find that to be RIDICULOUS.  Read on...

I hope the following 14 reasons are forwarded over and over again until they are read so many times that the reader gets sick of reading them.  I have included the URL's for verification of all the following facts.

1. $11 Billion to $22 billion is spent on welfare to illegal aliens each year by state governments. Verify at: http://tinyurl.com/zob77
2. $2.2 Billion dollars a year is spent on food assistance programs such as food stamps, WIC, and free school lunches for illegal aliens. Verify at: http://www.cis..org/articles/2004/fiscalexec.html
3. $2.5 Billion dollars a year is spent on Medicaid for illegal aliens. Verify at: http://wwwcis..org/articles/2004/fiscalexec.html
4. $12 Billion dollars a year is spent on primary and secondary school education for children here illegally and they cannot speak a word of English! Verify at: http://transcripts.CNN.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0604/01/ldt.0.HTML
5. $17 Billion dollars a year is spent for education for the American-born children of illegal aliens, known as anchor babies. Verify at: http://transcripts..cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0604/01/ldt.01.html
6. $3 Million Dollars a DAY is spent to incarcerate illegal aliens. Verify at: http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0604/01/ldt.01.html
7. 30% percent of all Federal Prison inmates are illegal aliens. Verify at: http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0604/01/ldt.01.html
8. $90 Billion Dollars a year is spent on illegal aliens for Welfare & social services by the American taxpayers. Verify at: http://premium.cnn.com/TRANSCIPTS/0610/29/ldt.01.html
9. $200 Billion Dollars a year in suppressed American wages are caused by the illegal aliens. Verify at: http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0604/01/ldt.01.html
10. The illegal aliens in the United States have a crime rate that's two and a half times that of white non-illegal aliens.  In particular, their children, are going to make a huge additional crime problem in the US. Verify at: http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0606/12/ldt.01.html
11. During the year of 2005 there were 4 to 10 MILLION illegal aliens that crossed our Southern Border also, as many as 19,500 illegal aliens from Terrorist Countries.  Millions of pounds of drugs, cocaine, meth, heroin and marijuana, crossed into the U. S from the Southern border. Verify at: Homeland Security Report: http://tinyurl..com/t9sht
12. The National Policy Institute, 'estimated that the total cost of mass deportation would be between $206 and $230 billion or an average cost of  between $41 and $46 billion annually over a five year period.'  Verify at: http://www.nationalpolicyinstitute.org/pdf/deportation.pdf
13. In 2006 illegal aliens sent home $45 BILLION in remittances back to their countries of origin. Verify at: http://www.rense.com/general75/niht.htm
14. 'The Dark Side of Illegal Immigration: Nearly One Million Sex Crimes Committed by Illegal Immigrants In The United States.' Verify at: http://www.drdsk.com/articleshtml
    

The total cost is a whopping $338.3 BILLION DOLLARS A YEAR. Are we THAT stupid? If this doesn't bother you, then just delete the message.  If, on the other hand, it  raises the hair on the back of your neck, I hope you continue to forward it to every legal resident in the country including every representative in Washington, D.C

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Customer glued to toilet seat sues Home Depot

This news story is great.  Someone played a unfortunate prank on a random person at Home Depot.  They put glue on the toilet seat.  The man is now sueing Home Depot because his cries for help went unanswered for 15 minutes.  The best quote of the story "They just let me rot".  Oh god that was so funny, I was seriously tearing up from laughter.  Can I sue a resteraunt for letting me go 15 minutes before getting my food order in?  They let me starve, I was skin and bones before I got my salad.  But seriously, this dude is sueing Home Depot?  That is just about the stupidest law suit I have heard of in a while.  I hope he loses, which probably won't happen.  Check out the story and let me know what you think.

So I was eating my lunch at my local BW-3 when I say a news alert on Fox News.  Apperently a judge deamed that it is unconstitional to recite the Pledge in public schools.  Well this ended my peaceful lunch.  What an attack against the american way of life from the inside.  I guess the United States is going the path of Rome and will destroy itself from the inside.  I am going to take stabs in the dark about this Judge and guess he is a Liberal... you know, the group that hates god, hates america being an actual superpower... the group that wants your children to learn the 5 pilars of Islam rather than recite the pledge of alligence.  The pledge to the country that won't kill you if you are in a different religion.  Saying the pledge of alligence to a country that up until this point has defended religious freedom is about the worse thing you can do.  But what can you expect from Judges that make law from the bench, a educational system that is basically an anti-american trainning center.  And don't give me the serperation of church and state argument.  The founders ment that to say that the church could not be in control of the government and determine law.  Not that the government could not give props to the church... any church that is. 

This type of thing just makes me sick and worry for the future of my children.  When I do, I am going to send them to a Catholic school so they get a good education based on actual results, not based on how hard they try.  And so they are spared all the liberal brainwashing bullshit the current school system seems to have.

Got this in my email this week.  I am not sure if Andy Rooney actually stated this since I don't watch 60 Minutes, but if you know let me know.  Either way, there are some good points in this rant.

Andy Rooney said on "60 Minutes" a few weeks back:

I don't think being a minority makes you a victim of anything except numbers. The only things I can think of that are truly discriminatory are things like the United Negro College Fund, Jet Magazine, Black Entertainment Television, and Miss Black America. Try to have things like the United Caucasian College Fund, Cloud Magazine, White Entertainment Television, or Miss White America; and see what happens... Jesse Jackson will be knocking down your door.

I believe they are called the Boy Scouts for a reason... that is why there are no girls allowed. Girls belong in the Girl Scouts! ARE YOU LISTENING MARTHA BURKE?

When 70% of the people who get arrested are black, in cities where 70% of the population is black, that is not racial profiling, it is the Law of Probability.

I believe that if you are selling me a milkshake, a pack of cigarettes, a newspaper or a hotel room, you must do it in English! As a matter of fact, if you want to be an American citizen, you should have to speak English!

My father and grandfather didn't die in vain so you can leave the countries you were born in to come over and disrespect ours. I think the police should have every right to shoot your sorry behind if you threaten them after they tell you to stop. If you can't understand the word "freeze" or "stop" in English, see the above lines.

I don't think just because you were not born in this country, you are qualified for any special loan programs, government sponsored bank loans or tax breaks, etc., so you can open a hotel, coffee shop, trinket store, or any other business.

We did not go to the aid of certain foreign countries and risk our lives in wars to defend their freedoms, so that decades later they could come over here and tell us our constitution  is a living document; and open to their interpretations.

I don't hate the rich. I don't pity the poor.

I know pro wrestling is fake, but so are movies and television. That doesn't stop you from watching them.

I think Bill Gates has every right to keep every penny he made and continue to make more. If it ticks you off, go and invent the next operating system that's better, and put your name on the building.

It doesn't take a whole village to raise a child right, but it does take a parent to stand up to the kid; and smack their little behinds when necessary, and say "NO!"

I think tattoos and piercing are fine if you want them, but please don't pretend they are a political statement. And, please, stay home until that new lip ring heals. I don't want to look at your ugly infected mouth as you serve me French fries!

I am sick of "Political Correctness." I know a lot of black people, and not a single one of them was born in Africa; so how can they be "African-Americans"? Besides, Africa is a continent. I don't go around saying I am a European-American because my great, great, great, great, great, great grandfather was from Europe. I am proud to be from America and nowhere else.

And if you don't like my point of view, tough...

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,162229,00.html

Follow the link if you must.  Bush met with the 7 democratic senetors who comprised half of the "gang of 14".  This is half of the group that pretty much pissed on our founding document when they refused to give any of President Bush's nominees an up or down vote ("nuculer option").  The so called nuculer option for supreame court... well any court, nominees was in practice in our nation for over 200 years.  And a majority of the republican in congress knows this but refuse to fight a press war to get the right people voted in.  If Bush picks a nominee off a list provided to him by this group of 8, well Bush would be making the greatest mistake of his presidential carreer, even bigger than not fighting a complete, total war in Iraq.

Bush was supposed to be following in the steps of Ronald Regean, the greatest president since the founding fathers time.  Bush has got to get this nominee correct if we want to get this country back on track.