2. The Phrase “dear friend” aren’t all friends dear? If they aren’t perhaps you should be using the word acquaintance.

3. Begging for money. I’ve seen far far too many people essentially beg for money for X over the internet. One girl I ran across on LJ was begging for cash for a down payment on an apartment. Now I realize people run into problems, hell I’ve been so broke we ate the pantry bare. Like even the stuff that never gets eaten but it just bugs me. What I find even more incomprehensible are that people fall for it. I have zero problem donating to charity. I often do donate myself but there is a vast difference between a charity and a charity of one.

4. Snark Communities. Ok on the one hand I do enjoy sites such as you knit what. On the other hand snarking does not in fact mean you are better than the person being snarked.

1. The belief that anything you feel or say is so regardless of the facts. Examples are almost too numerous to cite. It’s too much fun not to refer back to the word of ‘wintergifted’ though.
2. The absolute lack of a sense of humor unless it involves feeling superior over those you have deemed less than yourself. This is proven by the whole range of online snarking communities and websites.
3. A belief that you have the right to give away other peoples money through so-called social justice when in fact it’s really white washed socialism. For this all you need to see are the difference in taxes paid by the Bush’s vs. the Kerry’s, pay special attention to the percentage of income they were taxed on. The needs of the many do not outweigh the needs of the one, in fact the needs of the one become the needs of the many to paraphrase something Kirk said to Spock.
4. That somewhere in the Bill of Rights exists the right to not feel offended. My uncle is a judge and he assures me that it’s not in there. However they wouldn’t know that since I doubt many of them have ever had to read the Bill of Rights.
5. That the US is a hateful place which has done little more than trod on the funny brown peoples everywhere.
6. That Saddam was a nice peaceful sort who never had anything nasty in mind for the US. Oh gee what about those mass graves we found? What about the State Rapists he had on staff? What about his attempted slaughter of the Kurds? What about his proven ties to terrorism and his absolute hatred of the Great and Little Satan’s
7. That Israel is always in the wrong and the Palestinians are always in the right.
8. That a meritocracy is in fact racist and sexist.
9. Oh and the most fun of all is that those who differ in belief from you are not in fact worthy of consideration or even common courtesy. The comments on Regan’s funeral over at moonbat central I mean democraticunderground.com should be more than enough evidence on this.
10. That unless you are one of the beautiful and elite why not just die, I mean who would want to live like that. No one in his or her right mind would want to be a vegetable. Or rather lets take an even better example that children born with easily fixed birth defects such as a cleft palate should in fact be put out of their misery. Never mind the fact that that’s something the real nazi’s did to those they felt were a drain on society and no matter how much you pretty up the words that is exactly what it is.

Let us now contrast that with traits that I associate with h. sapiens commonsensus:

1. The sure knowledge there is a difference between fact and make believe.
2. The ability to laugh at yourself and others instead of just others.
3. That someone is entitled to the fruits of their labors. If they want to give to charity it should be a choice rather than a state run obligation of tithing.
4. That the Bill of Rights is beautiful as it is.
5. The sure knowledge that the US has achieved the maximum amount of freedom for the maximum number of its citizens in the world. We may not be perfect but we’re a hell of a lot better off than any other place on earth. And yes I include the socialist paradise of Canada in this statement. I’ve lived there chances are you haven’t.
6. No matter why it happened the world is a better place without Saddam’s hand on the big shiny green button.
7. That there is never an excuse for targeting innocents like the homicidal bombers do.
8. That giving someone preferential treatment for something they can’t help (ie. race or sex) is in fact racist and sexist. I once got a job in IT solely because I in fact lacked a penis. Never mind the fact that I was actually qualified, in fact it appeared to be a pleasant surprise to them that I was. It was solely because I was a woman.
9. While I might in fact not like this, look at the general politeness of republican politicians in the face of such egregious leftist lies.
10. That life is worth living. I personally would rather err on the side of life than on the side of nazi like exterminations.

Now I know you’re saying there are more…Well of course there are. Just as there is wide variation in the former species known as h. sapiens sapiens, there exists wide variation in

h. sapiens libtardus and h. sapiens commonsensus but I have to leave material for other rants don’t I? Next rant shall be entitled “Modern Pacifism: Cowardly Ostriches”

we have a cat that we can not keep anymore
she is a good one but I am having a baby
and I just do not have time to take care of her. If you
take her I have a bag of food,litter and box.
food and water dish I need it gone asap
thanks

How much time does it take to take care of a cat? And you have to wonder if someday she won’t have time to take care of the baby.

So I just had some SOB tell me that because my hubby and I are pagan, we clash with the military’s standards??? WTF And he say’s I have no right to spout my opinions are say I hate the military because I should have known or I should have informed myself! How the hell was I supposed to know what crap is like???? Look, my hubby is in the 3rd toughest school in the US or is it the world? He is in the nuclear program and I’ve been told it is the hardest place on a marriage. I don’t need this BS. On top of this I also suffer from a chronic illness that I just had diagnosed and severe depression. Oh wait, we are getting discriminated because he isn’t in the sandbox, right????

So there are various responses along the lines of laugh it off or ignore it and she comes back with this gem

Everyone always seems to freak out when I say something that isn’t patriotic or pro military or republican. And when they find out that we don’t have kids, WHOA, the s*^t hits the fan!!!! Oh yeah, the recruiters do lie and if I hear one more person tell me that they don’t, they just "stretch the truth" I’LL SCREAM AND TEAR MY HEAD OFF!!! IT’S LYING DAMNIT!!!!!! LYING IS LYING! THE MILITARY SUCKS! I HATE IT!!!! SCREW ANYONE WHO DOESN’T AGREE! KICK ME OFF THE COMMUNITY!!!! I DON’T CARE!!!!! I KNOW I’M RIGHT!

 Lets take my objections to this asshat’s post one at a time shall we?

1) she should have taken it upon herself to research the life, I know I did. How the hell was she supposed to know? Same way I did Army + Wife @google.com

2) Lots of things claim to be the hardest on a marriage, he comes home doesn’t he? Special Forces guys are gone *all* the time. Navy guys are gone alot too.

3) I think fs is a bunch of crap, or if she’s that depressed its probably the depression.

4) Most people in the military take a huge amount of their identity from it so when you sprout off about how you hate they feel like you hate them. I’m sure you feel the same when something similar happens to you.

5) Justin’s didn’t Lie. I am sure some do. But we double checked everything anyway.

6) I so hope her husband is an officer and this wrecks his career. I mean sheesh you know I am not all rah rah all the time but at least I know enough to keep my trap shut when I am disliking his career choice.

7) Lastly this chick claims to be a Libertarian….well last I checked the Libertarians are closer to the right than the left. F****** idiot.