Left/Right differences?
Here are 25 of the t0p 100 diferences between left/right according to Political Junkie.
Abortion: My Body, My Choice / It’s a Child, Not a Choice
Animal Rights: “A Rat is a Pig is a Dog is a Boy” / Man is the Pinnacle of
Creation
Child Raising: It Takes a Village / It Takes a Loving Mother and a Devoted
Father
Crime: Crime is an Economic Problem / Crime is a Moral Problem
Education Policy: Outcome-Based Education / Back to the Basics
Favorite Celebrity Spokesman: Alec Baldwin / Charlton Heston
Favorite Motivating Factor: Power / Liberty
Favorite President: Franklin Delano Roosevelt / Ronald Reagan
Favorite Term for People Who Illegally Enter Our Country: Undocumented
Workers / Illegal Aliens
Central Goal: Pursuit of Equality / Pursuit of Excellence
How They View Each Other: Believe Conservatives Reactionary / Think
Liberals Utopian
Individual Modality: Self-Expression / Self-Control
Achieving Peace: Visualize Peace / Peace Through Strength
Politics: The Personal is Political / The Political is Personal
Popular Saying: Do Your Own Thing / Do Good and Avoid Evil
Public Policy: All Social Problems Have Solutions / All Policy Involves
Trade-Offs
Rights: Group Rights / Individual Rights
Societal Motivator: Cooperation / Competition
Human Nature: Human Nature Can be Modified by Public Policy / Human Nature
is Unchangeable
The Constitution is: A Living Document / An Inviolable Pact of and for the
People
The Military: The Military is a Vehicle for Social Change / The Military
Objective is Simply to Defend and Protect this Country
The Three R’s: Racism, Reproduction and Recycling / Reading, Writing and
‘rithmatic
Wages: Government Should Assure a Fair and Living Wage / Wages Must be
Based on Productivity
Wealth: Wealth Must be Redistributed / Wealth Must be Created
Which Side on the Reading War?: Whole Language / Phonics
Of course, one point of contention is the fact that this is using the out-dated left-right line-paradigm, which is completely irrelevant. There is no place for people like me: libertarians.
1 commentUN a force for good?
This disgraceful report of UN behaviour appears in today’s DT letters page:
Sir – Having survived the tsunami in Sri Lanka, I have one abiding memory of the aftermath.On New Year’s Eve, I was returning to my evacuee relief centre, when I passed one of Colombo’s finest restaurants. It was with surprise and dismay that I saw it was filled with freshly suited UN officials, their finely polished official cars and dutiful drivers parked ostentatiously outside (News, Jan 10).
I went to bed early, on the floor of a sports hall along with 500 other displaced tourists. I couldn’t get into a hotel; they were full of aid officials.
Tarquin Desoutter, Battle, E Sussex
It will be interesting to see what Diplomad has to say about this.
Comments are off for this postInteresting email…
From: Bonnie Neubeck
Date: 12 January 2005 08:53:33 GMT
To: Andrew Ian Dodge
Subject: The USA is in deep trouble. The answer lives in Harpswell.
The body was blank. I got to admit its a rather amusing thing to get first view in the morning.
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Its called Weasel Words & Lies… can you guess who he is writing about? Makes for sobering and rather stomach-churning reading.
Comments are off for this postStop Me If You’ve Heard This…
Old joke, so I apologize if you’ve heard it—but, hey, I got nothin’ tonight.
A travelling salesman has a car breakdown and makes his way to a farmer’s house.
The farmer asks him if he’d like something to drink, and hollers: “Hey, Princess!”
And a pig with only one hind leg comes hopping out of the kitchen and hands the salesman a perfectly mixed martini.
Later on, the farmer asks the salesman if he’d like to listen to some music, and hollers: “Hey, Princess!”
And the pig comes hopping out of the kitchen, sits down at the piano and flawlessly plays an exquisite Chopin étude.
The salesman finally leans over to the farmer and says, “That’s quite a remarkable pig you’ve got there.”
The farmer nods and says, “Ay-yup.”
“I am curious, though. How did Princess lose her hind leg? An accident of some sort?”
The farmer didn’t speak for a long time, and then drawled:
“Weyalll, when you’ve got a pig that talented, it’d be kind of a shame to eat it all at once.”
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