The other rule of thumb is that the more stridently environmentalist bumper stickers a car has on it, the more pollution it emits.

I’m afraid you’re right but, darn it, we sure are missing out on a chance to learn from each other. What a waste of a potentially very valuable tool.

No.

Unfortunately, most blogs are totemic. Especially the lefty ones. People choose their virtual totem poles to cluster around and those who post adverse opinions are generally treated like pariahs, fitted for the troll hat. “Drive by” comments; vituperation; insults, often quite vile ones; and ridicule are common. I suspect the anonymity of the keyboard diminishes restraint.

Given the fact that both Bookworm and neo-neocon came from the …. uh Democrat tradition, how far do you think you want to go Don quixote?

We’re already somewhere in the middle in terms of personal transitions. If Democrats can’t communicate with those who were once part of the fold, what are the rest of us supposed to do.

As for blog sites, there’s the Left, there’s the Right, and there’s people in the middle. If the Left doesn’t want to talk on the middle sites of transition and sublimation points, then you’d have to invariably go to sites like Daily Kos to see their arguments. Although many have tried that, none so far seems to have succeded. Or at least they don’t brag about it.

Their slogans are quite cute — although Bookworm proved some months back we can be just as cute — but run down any Leftist logic path and you end up at bad news for America.

Patriotism, when it needs to be activated, almost always involves consequences. You may die. “Innocents” may die. Halliburton may make money. But included in these consequences are that freedom is protected, those who would take our freedom from us are destroyed, and the proposition that America stands for something Big and Good is furthered.

Cuteness can do none of the above.

Since Israel has more eyes, they won’t get blinded in a symmetrical war with the Arabs. The Left wants people to be blinded, that way they can maintain control over the masses. I relate this to Stalin’s communist agents. They would fight Britain/US or they would fight for Nazi Germany. They did the latter first, then the former. But regardless, their goal is to achieve power for themselves, they are not truly interested in Nazi Germany winning or the Allies winning.

An old strategy was called divide and conquer. The Left cannot take on Israel, because the Left has no military unlike the Soviet days. The Left cannot take on Hizbollah because Hizbollah is a terroist organization that executes people, something the fake liberals in Hollywood cannot control. Obviously, if America is weakened, if Hizbollah is weakened, if Israel is weakened all through fighting on an even level, an eye for an eye, we will all be blind with only the fake liberals having true sight.

Patriotism is about love. So I ask what is love. Love is the belief that someone else’s life is more valuable than your own. Whatever happens to you, the fate of your nation should be worth dieing for, that is patriotism. Because patriotism is an extension of familial loyalty and filia love, it is very strong on a genetic basis.

So, if your nation is facing a war of annihilation, and you believe that your side CANNOT win given the circumstances, then a valid argument for surrender comes into existence. Only idiots, retards, and religioius zealots would see the things that they love (Palestinian children) destroyed in order to harm the enemy. Reasonable people surrender when more fighting will cause more destruction.

Because the Left does not urge the Hizbollah, Syrian, and Iranian contingents to surrender, the fake liberals and the Left are supporting, advocating, and supplying the destruction of the Arab world. I do not tolerate their vision for peace. Their peace costs too much and has zero returns.