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cali Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-25-06 08:04 AM
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Dumbest Freeper Assertions (Add your own)
It's an embarrasment of riches over there in freeperville. Here are some of my favorites, in no particular order.

1. If you've got nothing to hide.......

2. Evolution is a religion.

3. The Abramoff scandal is bipartisan. Democrats are just as guilty as repukes.

4. Ruth Ginsberg is a far left liberal.

5. We're winning in Iraq.

6. Saddam Hussein was as bad (and dangerous) as Hitler.

7. The new President of Iran is as bad (and dangerous) as Hitler.

8. Canada is now a conservative country.

9. There's a war on Christianity in this country.

10. Federal judges are liberal activists.

11. Michael Schiavo murdered Terri, and Terri was responsive.
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ET Awful Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-25-06 08:07 AM
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1. 12. If you're against the war, you're against the troops.
13. The President is "our" Commander-in-Chief.
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Commie Pinko Dirtbag Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-25-06 08:10 AM
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2. 13. Sweden is a living hell.
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ET Awful Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-25-06 08:18 AM
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7. 14. Any legitimately elected Socialist leader of another nation is
a dictator.
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Stockholm Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-25-06 09:15 AM
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31. Who told them?
Barroso champions the Nordic approach to growth

Europe's leaders will today be urged to follow the Nordic route to economic success, as part of the latest plan to revitalise the Continent's sluggish reform drive.

José Manuel Barroso, European Commission president, has drawn lessons from the stellar economic performances of Denmark, Finland and Sweden in preparing the plan for a EU economic summit in March.

He will back the Nordic approach of increased spending on research and higher education, including removing all barriers to business investment in universities.

Europe spends only 1.28 per cent of its gross domestic product on higher education, compared with 3.25 per cent in the US. Mr Barroso also wants member states to create a framework to bring public and private research spending up from 1.9 per cent of GDP towards 3 per cent.

The plan also endorses "flexicurity" policies adopted in Nordic countries, where flexible job markets are underpinned by strong social security systems and policies to help women, young people and the elderly find work.

more http://news.ft.com/cms/s/5763f060-8d49-11da-9daf-0000779e2340.html

"The bumblebee is obviously flying" Per Nuder, Minister of Finance (Socialdemocratic)

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BushOut06 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-25-06 08:11 AM
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3. Well, they aren't too far off on #6
If you've ever read any history on Saddam, he was pretty evil. In fact, his family did have very close ties to Hitler and the Nazis.

Of course, so does Bushie boy, so what does that tell you?

Iran's president scares me also. He's certainly not helping his case with all this bullshit rhetoric he's been spewing lately, downplaying the Holocaust and calling for the elimination of Israel. Just because we have a horrible leader doesn't mean that other countries can't have worse ones.
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cali Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-25-06 08:21 AM
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10. Saddam was a nasty piece of work
and a mass murderer, but he was NOT a threat to either the US or any other country in 2003. And he was quickly dealt with in the first gulf war. He never posed the type of threat that Hitler did. In fact, Saddam was a dime a dozen dictator.

BTW, I NEVER mentioned bush. And as far as Iran's new president is concerned, he may be a despicable little creep, but he's not the threat they're making him out to be.
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BushOut06 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-25-06 08:41 AM
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18. I think given the chance, Saddam could have been
Edited on Wed Jan-25-06 08:42 AM by BushOut06
It's no secret that one of his goals was to unite the Arab world under his rule, and to revive the ancient Babylonian empire (Babylon sits where Baghdad is now), and that Saddam envisioned himself as a modern-day reincarnation of Nebudchadnezzar. Also, in the early days of the Baathist regime, they did execute quite a few Jewish people living in Iraq.

I don't think you'll find any disagreement that the world is a better place with Saddam gone. But it's the methods used to get rid of him that are questionable at best.
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cali Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-25-06 09:01 AM
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30. And one of my goals is to be empress of the known
universe. Not very realistic, is it? Saddam's pipe dreams did not pose a threat. Yes, it's good that he's gone. Is Iraq a better place? Is the middle east better off. Is the U.S safer? Stay tuned.
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calico1 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-25-06 08:12 AM
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4. If you disagree with the president you are
putting the troops in danger.

People on welfare drive expensive cars, wear designer clothes, and eat lobster and filet mignon every day.

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Mnemosyne Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-25-06 08:16 AM
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5. 14. We're fighting them over there.... Argh! n/t
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JohnnyRingo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-25-06 08:16 AM
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6. Global warming is a lefty myth dreamed up by tree huggers
My favorite:
Welfare creates poor people because if you offer it, people show up to collect who didn't need it before.



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BushOut06 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-25-06 08:19 AM
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8. 15. You can just pull yourself up by your bootstraps
Shit, why didn't I think of that myself? All I have to do is pull myself up and I can be rich! Hell, we can ALL be rich!
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Iris Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-25-06 08:22 AM
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12. The homeless are homeless because they WANT to be.
(I guess because they won't pull up their bootstraps.)
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Clark2008 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-25-06 08:45 AM
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21. They're, of course, forgetting that it's hard to pull yourself
up by your bootstraps when you're too poor to afford boots.
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FormerDittoHead Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-25-06 02:29 PM
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32. How Glenn Beck made me come back to being a liberal...
After having watched one of those Carlton Sheets "No Money Down!" tapes, Glenn Beck was 'inspired' to preach on his show that "The only reason you're not rich is because you've chosen not to be"...

Now, I had been on the skids with Rush for a while leading up to this with his wacky economic theories (when has a poor man ever 'given' you a job?).

So my mind was free enough to realize that in an economy, we can't ALL be rich. But this was the very implication that Beck was making. (after all, if EVERYONE "chose" to be rich, would it be POSSIBLE?)

So the 'last straw' for me came this day. At the tail end of Beck's diatribe, a man called up and explained how he thought that what Beck was inspirational, it didn't apply to everyone. As he was a quadriplegic, he explained, there was only so much he could do and becoming rich was most probably out of his reach.

LOOK AT STEVEN HAWKING! HE'S RICH! The only reason you're not rich is because you've chosen not to be rich!

And that was the last time I listened to conservative talk radio (on any regular basis).
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ScreamingMeemie Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-25-06 08:21 AM
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9. The French have never done a GODDAMNED thing for us.
:hi:
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ScreamingMeemie Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-25-06 08:21 AM
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11. Homosexuals are after our KIDS!!!!
:scared:
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cali Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-25-06 08:23 AM
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13. Right. How could I have forgotten the homosexual agenda? n/t
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Kahuna Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-25-06 08:23 AM
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14. This morning on WJ, in response to the Ben Franklin quote about..
freedom and liberty in the context of *'s illegal wiretaps,
Freeper: But Franklin also said, a stitch in nine saves time.
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Clark2008 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-25-06 08:46 AM
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23. Bahahahahaha!
Someone called and actually SAID that?

How in the hell does one make THAT connection. :rofl:

Only a Freeper could.
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baldguy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-25-06 08:24 AM
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15. Corrected
Edited on Wed Jan-25-06 08:25 AM by baldguy
1. If you've got nothing to hide, there's no reason for Bush to spy on you.

2. Evolution is a religion. It requires the same faith that "2 + 2 = 4" requires.

3. The Abramoff scandal is bipartisan. GOPers took money from Abramoff. Dems took money from his victims.

4. Ruth Ginsberg is a far left liberal - who was confirmed 96-3 in the GOP Senate.

5. We're winning in Iraq - if you call chaos, civil war & daily bombings "winning".

6. Saddam Hussein was as bad (and dangerous) as Hitler. But Bush's grand-dad could do business with Hitler.

7. The new President of Iran is as bad (and dangerous) as Hitler. But Uncle Dick can do business with him.

8. Canada is now a conservative country. In the same way Nazis were "Socialist" and therefore "liberal".

9. There's a war by "Christianity" in this country.

10. Federal judges are liberal activists - especially the Conservative ones.

11. Michael Schiavo murdered Terri, and Terri was responsive. Bill Frist said so.
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ComerPerro Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-25-06 08:34 AM
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16. Here's a few I learned from Savage Weiner
We should not back down, give in, or try to appease the terrorists. That being said, the biggest reason that the terrorists hate us is because of liberalism, which has produced things like feminism and acceptance of homosexuality. If it weren't for things promoted by liberalism, the terrorists wouldn't hate us.

Saddam was the new Hitler, and now the leader of Iran is the new Hitler. We are going to get hit with a terror attack or a nuclear device, and it will be the liberals' fault.

France knows that Iran has nuclear capability already, and France is secretly hoping that we get hit.

The failed occupation of Iraq is the fault of liberals. This is because the whole invasion was planned by liberals. The neocons, apparently, are liberals who are conservative, and its their liberalism that made them decide to go in and liberate Iraq...

Wolf Blitzer should be fired, because he is a liar. He said that the pro-life rally over this last weekend was an "anti-abortion" rally, and apparently describing pro-life people as anti-abortion is wrong.



So many contradictions that it would make your head spin.


Using just a few seconds of very basic logic, you can take Savage Weiner's statements and infer the following:

Michael Savage, conservative Christians, and the Islamic fundimentalists have a lot in common. They both hate liberalism, they both oppose abortion and gay rights, and they both seek to impliment drastic change on this nation.

Additionally, even though people who are supposedly "pro life" want to make abortion illegal and compare it to murder, they take offense to being called anti-abortion.
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Tim4319 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-25-06 08:39 AM
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17. 911....Iraq!
911...Iraq!
911...Iraq!
911...Iraq!
911...Iraq!
911...Iraq!
911...Iraq!
911...Iraq!

See, if you say it enough, it will eventually become the truth!

911...Iraq!
911...Iraq!
911...Iraq!
911...Iraq!
911...Iraq!
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porphyrian Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-25-06 08:43 AM
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19. "It's Clinton's fault!" - n/t
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BushOut06 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-25-06 08:44 AM
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20. Better yet - Clinton did it too
:crazy:
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FormerDittoHead Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-25-06 08:46 AM
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22. Racism no longer exists n/t
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FormerDittoHead Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-25-06 08:47 AM
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24. Corporations want the best for us, so we should do what we can for them nt
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FormerDittoHead Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-25-06 08:48 AM
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25. One chooses to be homosexual n/t
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leftofthedial Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-25-06 08:49 AM
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26. corporations are better than government at providing services
the media is liberal

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FormerDittoHead Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-25-06 08:51 AM
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27. The wealthy worked just as hard for their money as you did for yours
It's not like most of them were born into it and many of the rest were lottery winners in some short-term economic deficiency.
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FormerDittoHead Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-25-06 08:52 AM
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28. Repub'ns are still outside of "The Establishment" and need more power n/t
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Arkansas Granny Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-25-06 08:53 AM
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29. My personal favorite: George W. Bush is the best president ever.
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bunkerbuster1 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-25-06 02:32 PM
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33. 30. Ray Nagin had 2000 schoolbuses
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