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  1. Ken Anderson

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    “Give a man a fish, and you feed him for a day.

    Teach a man to fish, and you feed him for a lifetime.

    Steal a fish from one guy and give it to another--and keep doing that on a daily basis--and you'll make the first guy pissed off, but you'll make the second guy lazy and dependent on you. Then you can tell the second guy that the first guy is greedy for wanting to keep the fish he caught. Then the second guy will cheer for you to steal more fish. Then you can prohibit anyone from fishing without getting permission from you. Then you can expand the racket, stealing fish from more people and buying the loyalty of others. Then you can get the recipients of the stolen fish to act as your hired thugs. Then you can ... well, you know the rest.” ― Larken Rose
     
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    That has been the strategy of the National Democrats since FDR, but the party as such, was re-done by Jimmy Carter. I read in a book by Hamilton Jordan, Carter's chief-of-staff, that Carter constructed a coalition of special interest groups, and in every campaign speech, gave something to the Labor lobby, something to the Gay lobby, something to the Environmentalists, something to the Blacks, etc. He constructed this coalition and that got him elected, but he was such a disastrous President that Reagan beat by a landslide in 1980. The Democratic Party has been a collection of special interests rather than a real unified party since that time.
     
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    KURV Television in McAllen, Texas did a poll on the Senate confirmation hearings on Supreme Court Justice candidate Kavanaugh, asking people what they thought about the Democrats demanding additional documents from Judge Kavanaugh. The results were 100% negative. Everyone thought that this was an unreasonable request. In addition, some of the comments really slammed Senate Democrats, referring to them as pigs, as insane, and an embarrassment. Nearly all of the names of the commenters were Spanish names.

    Yes, a television news poll is not scientifically valid but keep in mind that 85% of the population of McAllen is Hispanic or Latino, and McAllen has the largest Anglo-Saxon population of the area that KURV covers.

    I have been listening to most of the hearings on C-Span and I thought the Democrats came off as asses, but I frequently have such opinions of Democrats. When I lived in the Rio Grande Valley of Texas, candidates for local positions had to register as Democrats in order to even be considered, and voters had to register as Democrats in order to have anything to say about who represented them locally, because it was rare for a Republican to even be on the ballot, except in statewide or national races.

    I know that in the last ten years, Cameron County elected a Republican sheriff, and Republicans have been winning some slots or have been at least competitive in local elections.
     
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    And then, you restrict any fishing at all, without paying the TAX, a fishing license!
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    I didn't watch it, but I understand the Dems made total fools of themselves at the Kavanaugh hearing. How can it be that those people are supposed to be a "deliberative body"? I don't think they should even be in the same room with the likes of Kavanaugh.
     
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    The KKK consisted of mostly Democrats.

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    I watched this twice, and was almost rolling on the floor laughing. This is a spoof on a nature type of documentary, and voice over , but with pictures of Washington DC.

     
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    A woman in a hot air balloon realizes she is lost. She lowers her altitude and spots a man fishing from a boat below. She shouts to him, "Excuse me, can you help me? I promised a friend I would meet him an hour ago, but I don't know where I am."

    The man consults his portable GPS and replies, "You're in a hot air balloon, approximately 30 feet above a ground elevation of 2,346 feet above sea level. You are at 31 degrees, 14.97 minutes north latitude and 100 degrees, 49.09 minutes west longitude."

    She rolls her eyes and says, "You must be a Republican!" "I am," replies the man. "How did you know?" "Well," answers the balloonist, "everything you tell me is technically correct, but I have no idea what to do with your information, and I'm still lost. Frankly, you're not much help to me."

    The man smiles and responds, "You must be a Democrat." "I am, replies the balloonist. "How did you know?" "Well," says the man, "You don't know where you are or where you're going. You've risen to where you are due to a large quantity of hot air. You made a promise that you have no idea how to keep, and now you expect me to solve your problem. You're in exactly the same position you were in before we met, but, somehow, now it's my fault."
     
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    That was amazing! Great find.
     
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