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2008-06-06 Home Front: Culture Wars

The Left and the law of unintended consequences

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Posted by Mike 2008-06-06 09:24|| || Front Page|| [7 views ] Top

#1 Aint it great? Turn left for death and despair. Turn right for happiness and prosperity. Got it?

Posted by Richard of Oregon 2008-06-06 10:08|| 2008-06-06 10:08|| Front Page Top

#2 When the government does stuff that's outside of it core competence (i.e. force) it fucks it up.

Why is that a shock to anyone?

Posted by Bright Pebbles 2008-06-06 10:54|| 2008-06-06 10:54|| Front Page Top

#3 All of the dictatorships responsible for mass murder and genocide were/are socialist.

Cambodia, USSR under Lenin and Stalin, Germany under Hitler, Angola, Congo, Zimbabwe...everyone a state sponsored mass murder organization.

I thought liberal meant being more tolerant of new ideas and independent thought........

Silly me.

Posted by James Carville 2008-06-06 11:24|| 2008-06-06 11:24|| Front Page Top

#4 "THE history of left-wing politics is a history of unintended - and invariably negative - outcomes."

Sorry, Tim - I have to disagree with that one.

I think most of the big Lefties did intend the negative consenquences - for everyone else, of course, never themselves and their toadies.

Look at a recent example - AlBore. He lives high on the ~~carbon footprint~~ hog while getting rich demanding the proles voluntarily give up any kind of a decent life and live in ~~caves~~ poverty.

All for his Big Idea of Truthiness,™ of course.

@#$%^&!* them all. And the camels they all rode in on.

Posted by Barbara Skolaut">Barbara Skolaut 2008-06-06 11:30|| http://ariellestjohndesigns.com/]">[http://ariellestjohndesigns.com/] 2008-06-06 11:30|| Front Page Top

#5 It'll be different, this time. Just wait until my boy Barack get into the Oval Office! He'll make things right!

Posted by Dan Rather 2008-06-06 12:41|| 2008-06-06 12:41|| Front Page Top

#6 Boy! This Dan Rather guy...Pretty witty, eh wot?

Posted by Bobby 2008-06-06 12:45|| 2008-06-06 12:45|| Front Page Top

#7 Communism turned Germans, Koreans, and Chinese poor while those identical cultural/ethnic groups prospered in Capitalist states next door. This is the perfect political version of a control group and Communism failed the test, Failed it badly. No further proof is needed that Communism just doesn't work and it's insane to see idiots defend it or attempt again and again to make it work.

Posted by rjschwarz 2008-06-06 16:11|| 2008-06-06 16:11|| Front Page Top

#8 Again, methinks the ANTI-US LEFTS, GLOBALISTS, and other AGENDISTS intended for OSAMA + RADICAL ISLAM TO TURN THE ISLAMIST SWORD FROM THE US-WEST AND NOW POINT SOLELY AT RUSSIA-CHINA AND CENTRAL ASIA/ASIA.

ISSUE > DO THOSE COMMIES + LEFTIST RADICAL MILITANT GROUPS PRESENTLY COLLUDING WID RADICAL ISLAMIST ORGS. e.g. COMMIE-MAOISTS in INDIA, SRI LANKA, etc., REALIZE IT YET, that they may de facto lose their heads once ISLAMIST IRAN + MILITANTS = JIHADISM-TERRORISM GOES NUCLEAR 2008-2012???

Posted by JosephMendiola 2008-06-06 21:35|| 2008-06-06 21:35|| Front Page Top

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