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To: greg s who wrote (618)	1/12/2004 7:43:06 PM
From: goldworldnet	Respond to of 6227

You Bet! * * *

To: greg s who wrote (618)	1/12/2004 11:15:06 PM
From: goldworldnet	Respond to of 6227

WHY DEMOCRATS ARE AN UNHAPPY LOT By Phil Brennan pvbr.com Most Republicans and married people are very happy; a lot of Democrats and unmarried folks are not. That's what the Gallup poll people discovered in a poll released on Monday, January 5. That sampling showed that fully 62 percent of Republicans consider themselves to be "very happy" while only 50 percent of Democrats put themselves in that joyful category. As for those who say they are unhappy, only 3 percent of Republicans are down in the dumps while more than double that number - 7 percent of Democrats - believe they are unhappy. And 4 percent of Independents also say they aren't happy. As for married folks most say they're swimming in a state of marital bliss while less than half of unmarried adults can say they are happy. According to Gallup, "Marriage is clearly associated with happiness. Only 45% of unmarried adults, compared with 62% of married ones say they are very happy. None of this should be surprising. Democrats are by their very nature, dourocrats. It's not in their makeup to be happy. If it was, they'd be Republicans. And there are scads of reasons why married folks should be happier than their unmarried compatriots. They live within the bounds of reasonable certainty while the unmarried state lacks that kind of anchor against the shifting winds of happenstance. Sure, there are unhappy married couples, and happy unmarried people. Nobody ever promised that a wedding ring is a ticket to a perpetual rose garden. And unmarried people, such as celibate Catholic priests, make up for the lack of a spouse to whom they are committed by making a lifetime commitment to God, or some worthy cause that demands total commitment from those who embrace it. But marriages properly entered into are arrangements truly made in heaven. That some couples turn them into battlegrounds from hell does not diminish the marriage compact's capacity for producing bliss. The genuine marriage is that between a husband and wife who truly become one, who make the happiness and welfare of their spouses their principal purpose in their personal lives. Who seek to give rather than take. A happy marriage is not one of thee and me - it must always be "we." Thee and me can easily be at cross purposes. We, on the other hand, have a commonality of goals and purposes that precludes any element of selfishness. I'm not saying that all married couples achieve that selfless state all of the time. But happy couples manage to get there most of the time. Marriage is a state of the certainty that grows out of a genuine commitment to another - one in which the happiness and welfare of another outranks one's own desires. It is a state of completeness. The hunt for the one person who can bring fulfillment to one's life is over. A happy man is one who has found his lifetime helpmate, a happy woman one who has found her lifetime protector, the rock that will shelter and adore her. We are told that it is more blessed to give than to receive. And marriages in which the couples seek to give instead of seeking the be given achieve that state of we-ness that for the most part eliminates serious strife. Sure, there will be disagreements. Sure a husband's habits may irritate his wife and some of her's will certainly get under his skin. But a happy couple recognizes that there are always thorns on rose bushes and you have to take the good with the annoying. So what if he doesn't put the toilet seat down. So what if she hangs her panty hose all over the bathroom. You let those petty annoyances spoil your life and your marriage and you'll never be happy because you'll never find that perfection you demand anywhere in your life's journey. Marriage teaches tolerance for the faults of one's spouse and helps one recognize one's own. Amor vincit omnia! Half of all Democrats - obviously the sad crew of tree huggers, gays, chronic malcontents and rabidly anti-war types now flocking to Howard Dean - are an unhappy lot. To them the glass is always half-full and sometimes just plain empty. They crave a materialistic paradise, and since there is no such thing in this world, they will always be unhappy because they can't get their hands on the ever-evasive socialist will 'o the wisp. Nowadays, Democrats are dedicated Marxists in everything but name. And Marxism is coercive Utopianism. Socialists are ardent believers that they can create heaven on earth - necessary because hardly any of them believe in a heaven above or in the God who dwells there. You want paradise, you better get it now because this is all there is. They believe that government power can be employed to create a change in humanity that will make people behave in such a manner as to eliminate war, poverty, disease, acne, constipation, canine distemper and all sorts of other unpleasantness. "Philosophers have explained the world," said Karl Marx. "We will change it." For the last two hundred years this feckless pursuit of changing the world and the people in it into good little Marxist automatons has filled the world's graveyards with a couple of hundred million obstreperous humans who refused to be good little Marxists, or otherwise constituted an obstacle to the creation of Utopia. This is an endless pursuit for Democrat Utopians. No matter how often it can be shown that Utopia is a Marxist mirage they keep slogging on across the political desert in the hopes that the socialist oasis they see in their minds eye is just out there beyond the horizon. And while slogging on they don't seem to mind tramping on people who don't share their dreams of a socialist paradise. Look at how they hate George Bush. He scoffs at the idea of Utopia. He proclaims his faith in God, the deity about whom the Socialist Democrats don't care a whole lot. He talks about faith and how obeying God's commandments and Jesus's instructions for men and women to look after and care for each other and to seek first the Kingdom of Heaven can create a measure of peace and harmony and wellbeing on earth, while the Democrat Utopians put their faith in socialist government programs (which they of course will supervise). If you seethe with that kind of hatred, you cannot be at peace, and without inner peace you can't be happy. If you spend all your time and all your energy seeking a Utopia that is unobtainable in this world, you will always be frustrated and frustration can't buy happiness. If you believe that you can change human nature by executive or legislative fiat despite the lessons of thousands of years proving that humans made in the image and likeness of God cannot be altered you are doomed to disappointment and to a life of unhappiness. That's why Democrats are less happy than Republicans. Republicans are realists educated in the frailties of humanity and willing to accept them and deal and work with them as such. Democrats, being Utopians, cannot accept that and seek to alter that which is unalterable, by brute force if necessary. And that is a sure path into the slough of despond where the worm of discontent dieth not. * * *

To: greg s who wrote (618)	2/10/2004 11:23:23 AM
From: goldworldnet	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 6227

Mr. Baird is a vice president at my company that gave me permission to do the poster. I will post the picture when I get it. 13 JAN 04 Mr. Baird. My name is SFC Chris E. Hahn. I am the First Sergeant of G Troop, 1st Cavalry here in Baghdad where your employees just sent my Troop a very nice poster that was signed by the members of your company. First, I want to say Thank You and we all appreciate this gift and your support very much. The gratitude and heartfelt congratulations that we receive from all the folks back home while we are deployed here really makes us feel that we are remembered and that you are behind us. Secondly, I want you to know that your gift will be placed above the bar in our new day room that we are building. We will have this completed in about two weeks and will take a picture of us all around it and send you a picture. In closing, once again Thank You for your support of these fine Troopers and we will all be home soon safely. Sincerely, Chris E. Hahn SFC, USA First Sergeant * * *