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What's the deal with your nickname? How did you get it? If your nickname is self-explanatory, then tell everyone when you first started using the internet, and what was the first thing that made you say "wow, this isn't just a place for freaks after all?" Was it a website? Was it an email from a long-lost friend? Go on, spill it.

Trolling for feckless snarky comments.

Born in an eastern blue state. Live in a western blue state. Once was a liberal until attacked by ignorant, prejudiced left wingers.
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conservative: yes. bigot: no.
pickup truck: yes. rural: no.
shade tree mechanic: yes. trailer park: no.
woman's right to choose: yes. single payer: no
beer belly: yes. hunting: no.
personal responsibility: yes. higher taxes/more government: no.

preservation of the identity of the Jewish people: yes. anti-semitism: no.
strengthening of the State of Israel: yes. radical militant islam: no.
protection of Jewish rights everywhere: yes. left wing anti-Israel: no.

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What the Heck Is a Neocon?
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The Arab-Israeli Conflict: A Brief Guide for the Perplexed where among other things, Israel’s record is matched with that of any other country in the region, indeed well beyond the region, when it comes to the values Americans hold dear.

There is Israel, for us at least. What no other generation had, we have. We have Israel in spite of all the dangers, the threats and the wars, we have Israel. We can go to Jerusalem. Generations and generations could not and we can. Elie Wiesel

Israel is still the only country in the world against which there is a written document to the effect that it must disappear. Menachem Begin

Israel has created a new image of the Jew in the world—the image of a working and an intellectual people, of a people that can fight with heroism. David Ben Gurion

When I was first here, we had the advantages of the underdog. Now we have the disadvantages of the overdog. Abba Eban

It is crystal clear to me that if Arabs put down a draft resolution blaming Israel for the recent earthquake in Iran it would probably have a majority, the U.S. would veto it and Britain and France would abstain. Amos Oz

Alan Dershowitz states in his book The Case for Israel:

...the small and decreasing Arab-Muslim population of the area was also a transient and migratory population, as contrasted with the more stable, if smaller, Jewish population. The myth of a stable and settled palestinian-arab-muslim population that had lived in villages and worked the land for centuries, only to be displaced by the Zionist invaders, is simply inconsistent with the recorded demographic data gathered not by the Jews or Zionists but rather by the local authorities themselves.

Why the Arabs Love Israel. Written by an Arab-American.

Friends of Israel is a growing list of links by Jewish WatchDog. Look in the sidebars of Israpundit for a large list of relevant links. Good list of sidebar links here.

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One trick pony? You wish...

Subterranean Homesick Blues
Bob Dylan
Ah get born, keep warm
Short pants, romance, learn to dance
Get dressed, get blessed
Try to be a success
Please her, please him, buy gifts
Don't steal, don't lift
Twenty years of schoolin'
And they put you on the day shift

G-d
John Lennon
I don't believe in Zimmerman

Working Class Hero
John Lennon
When they've tortured and scared you for twenty odd years
Then they expect you to pick a career