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To: JakeStraw who wrote (5095)	5/2/2006 6:00:39 PM
From: Proud_Infidel	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 14758

After two years, and a DOD payment of $250,000 life insurance to the "Peace Mom", she has not had the time or bothered to have a headstone placed on this young hero's grave. And, she doesn't even have to pay for one, the DOD will provide one: "The Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) furnishes upon request, at no charge to the applicant, a government headstone or marker for the grave of any deceased eligible veteran in any cemetery around the world. For all deaths occurring before September 11, 2001, the VA may provide a headstone or marker only for graves that are not marked with a private headstone. Flat markers in granite, marble, and bronze and upright headstones in granite and marble are available. The style chosen must be consistent with existing monuments at the place of burial. Niche markers are also available to mark columbaria used for internment of cremated remains." She can find time to protest on at least 3 continents, get arrested various times, go on vacation in Hawaii, have photo ops with the Marxists in Venezuela but can't seem to find the time to properly mark her son's grave. oh yea — Cindy Sheehan recently treated herself to a brand new Volkswagen Beetle convertible. She still can't be bothered to buy a grave marker for her son though. snopes.com

To: JakeStraw who wrote (5095)	5/2/2006 6:11:05 PM
From: goldworldnet	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 14758

Hollywood It is true that many popular actors, singers, and other entertainers are not college-educated. And the few that are usually studied performing arts rather than science, economics or politics. Entertainers live in world that requires them to create fantasy and pays them incredible amounts of money to do it. They don’t have the same struggles and real-life learning experiences that mold other people into rational, logical humans. They are therefore more likely to make political choices based less on thorough analysis. It’s amazing that they get involved in politics at all. There are entire cable channels dedicated to showing the personal fiascos of singers and Hollywood actors. It’s strange that they volunteer so much advice about how to run the country when so many of them can’t run their own lives. Author Jack Wheeler suggests that the reason Hollywood actors are liberal is due to ‘liberal guilt.” He writes, “The vast amounts of money movie stars make is so grossly disproportionate to the effort it took them to make it that they feel it is unearned. So they apologize for it. The liberal's strategy is to apologize for his success in order to appease the envious. Liberalism is thus not a political ideology or set of beliefs. It is an envy-deflection device, a psychological strategy to avoid being envied.” [3] Whether it’s envy deflection or lack of education, Hollywood actors are definitely more liberal, and also noisy about their liberal beliefs. Conservative thought requires analysis. Artists are not analytical. They think with the right side of the brain, and end up on the left, with simplistic answers to complex questions. conservativevoice.com * * *