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The Left Squashes Life's Little Pleasures
Townhall.com ^ | April 13, 2010 | Dennis Prager

Posted on 04/13/2010 4:28:41 AM PDT by Kaslin

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1 posted on 04/13/2010 4:28:41 AM PDT by Kaslin
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To: Kaslin

Sums things up very well.


2 posted on 04/13/2010 4:31:17 AM PDT by wally_bert (It's sheer elegance in its simplicity! - The Middleman)
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To: Kaslin

bttt


3 posted on 04/13/2010 4:33:00 AM PDT by petercooper (Ignorant Obama Voters: Happy Now?)
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To: Kaslin

This is s very good post.

“Every poll has concluded that liberals are less happy than conservatives.”

No question about it. The LEFT is miserable and wish to take it our on happy people. THey are spoiled children that REFUSE TO GROW UP!


4 posted on 04/13/2010 4:33:19 AM PDT by nmh (Intelligent people recognize Intelligent Design (God).)
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To: Kaslin

Liberals are humor impaired for a very simple reason: It’s hard to be upbeat when you are a whining victim.


5 posted on 04/13/2010 4:34:06 AM PDT by Senator_Blutarski (No good deed goes unpunished...)
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The only humor they like is when the punchline involves a conservative being sodomized or killed.


6 posted on 04/13/2010 4:37:16 AM PDT by kosciusko51
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To: Kaslin; informavoracious; larose; RJR_fan; Prospero; Conservative Vermont Vet; ...
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7 posted on 04/13/2010 4:37:45 AM PDT by narses (Only half the patients who go into an abortion clinic come out alive.)
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To: Kaslin
Like medieval Christians who wore hair shirts

They didn't force anyone else to wear a hair shirt: hair shirts were private penance. These days, the Libs will force you to wear a metaphorical hair shirt 'for the children','for the planet' and for 'social justice'.

8 posted on 04/13/2010 4:38:12 AM PDT by agere_contra
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To: Kaslin

bttt


9 posted on 04/13/2010 4:40:38 AM PDT by aberaussie
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To: Kaslin

William Gardner takes the Burger King commercial as a direct insult to his defective son about whom no one but him knows or really gives a damn.


10 posted on 04/13/2010 4:42:00 AM PDT by bert (K.E. N.P. +12 . Ostracize Democrats. There can be no Democrat friends.)
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The only humor they like is when the punchline involves a conservative being sodomized or killed.

and I'll add, or a white male, is the bad guy.

11 posted on 04/13/2010 4:43:16 AM PDT by DYngbld (I have read the back of the Book and we WIN!!!!)
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To: Kaslin

I told a great story to my kids about tyranny. The story of a restaurant that slowly closed due to liberal laws involving limited hours to sell alcohol, no smoking, trans fats, salt and then ice cream. All but the ice cream part is true in NY.


12 posted on 04/13/2010 4:44:15 AM PDT by albie
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I remain convinced that at some point in a liberal’s life a switch is thrown that results in several phenomena:

1) They fall prey to one, some or all of the seven deadly sins and some others too numerous to mention here.

2) They are consumed with guilt which eventually turns to anger.

3) To assuage their guilt and anger they lash out at others around them, often complete strangers as anonymity provides cover for their cowardice.

4) The anger is often of a passive-aggressive variety which manifests itself in a lifelong resentment of anyone who achieves success without dependency or a rigged system (so-called ‘fairness’).

5) Since so many share their mindset, they constitute a voting bloc. Politicians take full advantage of their misanthropy and use it as a springboard to power.


13 posted on 04/13/2010 4:44:23 AM PDT by relictele
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To: bert
William Gardner takes the Burger King commercial as a direct insult to his defective son about whom no one but him knows or really gives a damn.

Now he has his fifteen minutes of "OH look at me"

14 posted on 04/13/2010 4:46:15 AM PDT by DYngbld (I have read the back of the Book and we WIN!!!!)
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To: Kaslin

Terrific article.

I think this particularly applies to food. If there’s anything good to eat (or drink) the left will frown on it, preferring that we chew on cous cous and broccoli and drink purified guava juice and even THEN frowning because we’re probably not consuming organic cous cous and broccoli, harvested by a pot-head hippie by hand and brought to market in a foot-powered wheelbarrow.


15 posted on 04/13/2010 4:46:29 AM PDT by Pravious
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I am one who happens to like broccoli


16 posted on 04/13/2010 4:49:01 AM PDT by Kaslin (Acronym for OBAMA: One Big Ass Mistake America)
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To: Kaslin
yup. if a conservative doesn't like something they leave it alone, if RATS don't like something, they don't want YOU to have it/do it either...
17 posted on 04/13/2010 4:49:42 AM PDT by Chode (American Hedonist *DTOM* -ww- NO Pity for the LAZY)
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To: nmh

You said it. Also liberals are easy to predict


18 posted on 04/13/2010 4:50:31 AM PDT by Kaslin (Acronym for OBAMA: One Big Ass Mistake America)
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Somewhere between 1960 and now....
The left has become the “intolerant” right they purport to
despise and the right has become the group of live and let
live. So many leftys tell me “I’m a hippie” and I tell them,
“No, you’re not.” They live the most anal-retentive, over
controlled lives of anybody I have ever seen. They are anything
BUT free spirited. Which would not be so bad except that they
want to control everybody ELSE’S lives as well.


19 posted on 04/13/2010 4:54:33 AM PDT by Anima Mundi (The trouble with trouble is that it starts out with Eutopia.)
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To: Chode

Exactly, and I can take me for a point. I personally don’t like guns, but I would never dream of telling any law abiding citizen they can not own guns. Also I don’t smoke and when I am somewhere and someone smokes next to me, I just ask the person to switch places with me so the smoke does not hit me


20 posted on 04/13/2010 4:58:17 AM PDT by Kaslin (Acronym for OBAMA: One Big Ass Mistake America)
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