10 Signs you are Smart when it comes to the Far Right

[ck4829]

These are not in any particular order, and most of these apply to me (Even though it's just a joke).

1. When asked what the difference between Operation Rescue and Operation Blessing, you reply with "There's a Difference?!"

2. Fundamentalists are crazy about the number 666, but the number that sets you off is 18181.

3. You can tell if Bush has a Bulge.

4. You can not decide who is the bigger fraud, Paul Cameron or David Horowitz.

5. You know that Pat Robertson is connected to Al Qaeda by just 1 degree. (Through Charles Taylor)

6. You know more about the Abramoff-Reed-Norquist Scandal than anyone else who simply listens to the 'liberal' media.

7. You put apostrophe's around things like 'liberal' Media and 'christian' Right.

8. Your definition of Judicial Activism is Bush v. Gore

9. You laugh at the RW's claims that they have Superior Moral Values because you can cite several instances where they have been shown to be very immoral.

10. You can not tell how much power the 'christian' Right wants. Do they want to be like the Medieval Church or do they want to be like the Taliban?

[Democrats_win]

1. Awesome!

[dhinojosa]

2. I failed number 2 and number 4

What is number 2?

[ck4829]

3. Several Elections had people who won with 18181 votes.

All thanks to Diebold.

And they were all Republican.

http://demopedia.democraticunderground.com/index.php?title=18181&printable=yes

[myrna minx]

5. 18181 is about election fraud.

http://demopedia.democraticunderground.com/index.php/18181
The number 18181 has significance as the number of votes "won by an uncanny coincidence" by five Republican candidates in the 2002 mid-term US elections:

Danny Scheel - County Judge, Comal County, Texas
Carter Casteel - State Representative, District 73, Comal County, Texas
Jeff Wentworth - State Senator, District 25, Comal County, Texas
Candice Miller - US Congress, District 10, Lapeer County, Michigan
Michael Smigiel - State Delegate, District 36, Queen Anne's County, Maryland
Using a simple alpha/numeric substitution, where a=1, b=2, ...h=8, reveals the message: "ahaha", suggesting the possibility that a programmer somewhere thought this was a pretty funny election hack. This message may simply be a coincidence; the more significant fact may be that 18181 is a prime number, and a palindromic prime at that.

It is important to note that, in each of the five cases, they won with exactly 18,181 votes (either overall, or in a county sub-total), not by a margin of 18181 votes. There were 24,362 ballots cast in Comal County in the 2002 elections, out of 60,309 registered voters in the county.

It is interesting that the 2002 Comal County election results page (http://www.co.comal.tx.us/election_results2002.htm) was changed sometime since February 24, 2004, the last archive of this site (http://web.archive.org/web/20040224093706/www.co.comal.tx.us/election_results2002.htm) on the "Wayback Machine"; the number of votes for all three above Comal County candidates was inexplicably changed from 18,181 to 18,183!

Despite this odd alteration of election results two years later, the significance of these five candidates' votes (or vote sub-totals) all equalling 18,181 diminishes when one considers the thousands of county & precinct election results on a nationwide election day.

The number 18181 has appeared again in the analysis of votes for George W. Bush in Ohio precincts in the 2004 election. (more info here)

Links:

scoop.co.nz (http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/HL0307/S00064.htm)
Hartmann editorial (http://www.opednews.com/hartmann_theft_of_your_vote_just_a_chip.htm)
democrats.com summary (http://blog.democrats.com/node/886)
Maryland 2002 election results, shows Smigiel with 19,216 votes (http://www.mdarchives.state.md.us/msa/mdmanual/42electg/html/2002/2002del.html)
Michigan 2002 election results, shows Miller with 18,181 votes in Lapeer County (http://miboecfr.nicusa.com/election/results/02GEN/06010000.html)
Election Fraud/Texas



Retrieved from "http://demopedia.democraticunderground.com/index.php/18181"

[xxqqqzme]

4. no. 6?

not current on that; I know there R connections; uncertain of the details - afraid I'm behind in my reading on this scandal.



so many scandals...so little time!

[ck4829]

7. Here you go

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abramoff-Reed_Indian_Gambling_Scandal

[skypilot]

6. Paul Cameron or David Horowitz? Hmmmm.

Petulant and pathetic ex-leftie wacko or gay sex-obsessed whacko. Hmmm. I'll figure out a Rubix Cube before I figure out which of those two is the bigger fraud. Or the bigger whacko.

[brainshrub]

8. Great post!

Did you make this list up? It's wonderful.

I hate to admit it, but I don't know what the "Abramoff-Reed-Norquist Scandal" is.

[ck4829]

9. I made it myself

Also, here is a page on the scandal.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abramoff-Reed_Indian_Gambling_Scandal

[ck4829]

10. Self-Kick

[Czolgosz]

11. You shouldn't have to kick yourself

[ck4829]

12. I know....

I swear I'm not going to kick it myself anymore than once.

It just faded into the rush of the afternoon.

I think this is one of my better posts, so I just had to share it with the evening crowd.

[Czolgosz]

14. I wanna nominate Christopher Hitchens to be added into no. 4

(and I must confess ignorance about any defect -- beyond the obvious -- in Operation Blessing that would make it the immoral equivalent of Operation Rescue).

[ck4829]

15. It's a play on words.

Operation Blessing, Operation Rescue.

One's a terrorist group, the other is an organization that funnels money into Pat Robertson's pockets.

[Czolgosz]

16. I thought that there was perhaps something more ominous about Operation

Blessing that I didn't know about. Whew! We don't need any more non-Arab terrorist organizations to confuse Rush's insistence that we need racial profiling because that's the way to catch terrorists (except the non-Arab ones who bombed Oklahoma City, and abortion clinics, and the Atlanta Olympics, and Waco, and . . . ).

[Czolgosz]

19. Lest you feel the need to kick your self again.

[CrispyQ]

13. I love 2!

:rofl:

[Old Mouse]

17. I know this is meant in jest, but

even though the Bush voters were in fact less than 50% of the voting public, it is still a significant block of the population. Turning these people to our side is an absolute necessity for the swift removal of this criminal regime and to the continued survival of all parties.

We can let Bush turn them to our side by continuing to cause the deaths of so many innocents his guilt becomes undeniable to even his most ardent supporters, or we can attempt to win them over ourselves.

Sarcastic intellectual superiority is what fuels the right's resolve against us. As fun and as easy as it may be to ridicule them, in today's modern word "stupid" is the ultimate insult - it allows no room for compromise, and if we want to save this country we need to arrive at a compromise with the right.

[LSK]

18. damn, I must be an idiot

And Ive been here for 2 years. Where do you guys find the time to read everything? :shrug: