<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto"><div><span></span></div><div><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; ">Courtesy of Addicting Info at:</div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; "><br></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; "><span style="font-size: 15px; line-height: 19px; white-space: nowrap; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.296875); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469); -webkit-text-size-adjust: none; "><a href="http://www.addictinginfo.org/2012/01/14/you-might-be-a-conservative-if/">http://www.addictinginfo.org/2012/01/14/you-might-be-a-conservative-if/</a></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; "><br></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; "><span style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.296875); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469); ">--------------------------------------</span></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; "><br></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; "><h1 style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; font-size: 26px; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.292969); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469); text-align: left; "><a href="http://www.addictinginfo.org/2012/01/14/you-might-be-a-conservative-if/" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent Link to You Might Be A Conservative If…" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: rgb(0, 66, 118); text-decoration: none; ">You Might Be A Conservative If…</a></h1></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; "><br></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; "><img src="cid:184C04F7-8784-416B-BBD7-2D1E1CBED92A" id="184C04F7-8784-416B-BBD7-2D1E1CBED92A" width="640" height="777"></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; "><br></div><div><div style="text-align: -webkit-auto; "><span style="text-align: left; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">1: You’re irate over the president taking so many vacation days on the taxpayer’s dime (61 thus far), but you thought George W. Bush earned every minute of his leisure time (196 days at the same point in his presidency).</span></div><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left; "><div style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; text-align: -webkit-auto; "><br></div><div style="text-align: -webkit-auto; "><p style="text-align: -webkit-auto; margin: 0px 0px 15px; padding: 0px; "><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">2: You’re happy with your 40 hour work week, paid vacations and company-provided healthcare, but you’re strongly anti-union, because those commies haven’t done anything for you lately.</span></p><p style="text-align: -webkit-auto; margin: 0px 0px 15px; padding: 0px; "><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">3: You strongly support the First Amendment and its guarantee of religious freedom to all, but you don’t think Muslims have a right to build an Islamic Community Center in Manhattan.</span></p><p style="text-align: -webkit-auto; margin: 0px 0px 15px; padding: 0px; "><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">4: You believe Ronald Reagan was a devout Christian, even though he hated going to church, but any president who spends twenty years going to the same Trinity United Church in Chicago must be a Muslim.</span></p><p style="text-align: -webkit-auto; margin: 0px 0px 15px; padding: 0px; "><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">5: You believe when a Republican governor creates a healthcare package with an individual mandate for everyone in his state, that’s a good idea. But when a Democratic president does it, suddenly it’s unconstitutional.</span></p><p style="text-align: -webkit-auto; margin: 0px 0px 15px; padding: 0px; "><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">6: You’re so enthused about demonstrating your Second Amendment rights, you can think of no finer place to brandish your pistol in public than at a presidential rally.</span></p><p style="text-align: -webkit-auto; margin: 0px 0px 15px; padding: 0px; "><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">7: You believe Bill Clinton was responsible for Osama bin Laden’s escape ten years ago, but thankfully George W. Bush caught up with him and killed him in Pakistan.</span></p><p style="text-align: -webkit-auto; margin: 0px 0px 15px; padding: 0px; "><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">8: You believe in putting American jobs first, except when president Obama rescued 1.5 million GM and Chrysler autoworkers, because that was socialism.</span></p><p style="text-align: -webkit-auto; margin: 0px 0px 15px; padding: 0px; "><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">9: It angers you that you can’t communicate with the Mexican busboy at your local Olive Garden, but when you took a vacation to San Francisco’s Chinatown, you thought it’s quaint that so many Chinese-Americans are holding fast to their traditional language. Because <em style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; ">that’s</em> America!</span></p><p style="text-align: -webkit-auto; margin: 0px 0px 15px; padding: 0px; "><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">10: You deny that the lunatic who tried to murder Gaby Giffords was a conservative, even though he targeted a Jewish, pro-choice, pro gay rights, Democratic Congresswoman.</span></p><p style="text-align: -webkit-auto; margin: 0px 0px 15px; padding: 0px; "><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">11: You thought it was perfectly normal that every president in history had an untethered right to raise the debt ceiling when warranted, but when Obama asked the GOP held congress to do it, you thought it only natural that it be tied to cutting Social Security and Medicare.</span></p><p style="text-align: -webkit-auto; margin: 0px 0px 15px; padding: 0px; "><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">12: When the new 112th Congress was sworn in, you swooned as they promised to focus on “Jobs, jobs, jobs.” But when they pivoted, and went after NPR, Planned Parenthood and gay rights, you cheered.</span></p><p style="text-align: -webkit-auto; margin: 0px 0px 15px; padding: 0px; "><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">13: You accuse president Obama of raising your taxes to the highest point ever, even though they’re lower today than at any time since 1950.</span></p><p style="text-align: -webkit-auto; margin: 0px 0px 15px; padding: 0px; "><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">14: You believe the wealthiest Americans are “job creators,” and they are — but it doesn’t bother you that all the workers in those positions are in India, China and Malaysia, and they’re doing the jobs that our fathers once did.</span></p><p style="text-align: -webkit-auto; margin: 0px 0px 15px; padding: 0px; "><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">15: You believe gays are anti-American, because their lifestyle is a threat to the children… unless they’re married to Tea Party-backed presidential candidates from Minnesota.</span></p><p style="text-align: -webkit-auto; margin: 0px 0px 15px; padding: 0px; "><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">16: You strongly defend individual freedom, but that freedom doesn’t include a woman’s right to decide her own healthcare needs.</span></p><p style="text-align: -webkit-auto; margin: 0px 0px 15px; padding: 0px; "><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">17: You believe corporations are people too, and are deserving of the same rights as the rest of us. Just not the same obligations to pay personal income tax free of corporate loopholes, or penalties for massive criminal behavior and tax evasion. In these matters, corporations are deserving of <em style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; ">special rights</em>.</span></p><p style="text-align: -webkit-auto; margin: 0px 0px 15px; padding: 0px; "><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">18: And since corporations are now people too, you must believe in their right to a driver’s license, the right to marry, to adopt children, etc. These rights shall not be denied to Exxon, Halliburton and BP (but still immune from the right of the People to try, convict and sentence to death any corporation that conspires to commit a felony… because at that point, they’re suddenly not people again.)</span></p><p style="text-align: -webkit-auto; margin: 0px 0px 15px; padding: 0px; "><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">19: You still believe Climate Change is a myth, and the recent record highs, lows, floods and droughts around the world coinciding with climate scientist’s predictions are all an amazing coincidence. Oh, and Al Gore is FAT!</span></p><p style="text-align: -webkit-auto; margin: 0px 0px 15px; padding: 0px; "><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">20: You believe when George W. Bush took the national debt from $5 trillion to $11 trillion, it was necessary for him to do so to keep America safe. But when Barack Obama added to it by trying to rescue the country from a second Great Depression, he was deliberately trying to destroy America!</span></p><p style="text-align: -webkit-auto; margin: 0px 0px 15px; padding: 0px; "><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">21: You believe America is a God fearing country, and that the Almighty protects those who believe just as you do. But it’s never crossed your mind that the majority of tornados, hurricanes and floods all occur in the Bible Belt.</span></p><p style="text-align: -webkit-auto; margin: 0px 0px 15px; padding: 0px; "><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">22: You believe that no matter who’s in the White House, the office, if not the man himself is deserving of your respect. The only exceptions to this rule, are if his middle name sounds Muslim, and if he’s not at least as white as that black guy who works down in the mailroom at the office.</span></p><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><div style="text-align: -webkit-auto; ">--------------------------------------</div><div style="text-align: -webkit-auto; "><br></div></span></div></span><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; ">Seeya 'round town, Moscow, because . . .</div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; "><br></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; ">"Moscow Cares" (the most fun you can have with your pants on)</div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; "><a href="http://www.MoscowCares.com">http://www.MoscowCares.com</a></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; "> </div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; "><div>Tom Hansen</div><div>Moscow, Idaho</div><div><br></div><div>"<span style="font-size: medium; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.292969); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469); ">There's room at the top they are telling you still</span><span style="font-size: medium; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.292969); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469); "> </span></div><span style="font-size: medium; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.296875); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469); ">But first you must learn how to smile as you kill </span><br style="font-size: medium; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.296875); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469); "><span style="font-size: medium; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.296875); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469); ">If you want to be like the folks on the hill."</span></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; "><font size="3"><span style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.292969); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469);"><br></span></font></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; "><font size="3"><span style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.292969); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469);">- John Lennon<br></span></font><div> </div></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; "><br></div></div></div></body></html>