Oregon Republican Party's Journal

weisside @ 1:43am: Fair Tax Explained (Partial)

What if you did not have to pay income taxes, capital gains taxes, Social Security Taxes, Medicare Taxes, corporate taxes, small business taxes, interest taxes, minimum income taxes, various utility / usage taxes and death taxes? If you are just a W-2 earner, you really only pay income taxes, Social Security Taxes, Medicare Taxes. Your gross yearly wage has been 60,000. If you had been paying all of these taxes, your take home was approximately 3,800 a month. Lets say you are not paying those taxes any longer. Now your monthly income is 5,000 a month.
( Read how the government gets paid on this deal here.Collapse )
Hopefully this sparked some interest and gets you to visit to learn more about the Fair Tax Movement

kinkybeaver @ 8:27am: x-posted
I hadn't seen this before and it is hilarious!


( Dear AbbyCollapse )

mbarrow @ 10:41pm: Iraq: The Rest of the Story

For those of you in the Portland Metro Area, the Washington County Republican Party would like to let you know about our latest event that will take place on Veteran's Day--Friday November 11th from 7:00pm-9:00pm.

http://washcorep.org/

Please visit our website for more information or to sign up!

This presentation, "Iraq:  The Rest of the Story," will include the first hand accounts of Marines, sailors, and soldiers who have recently returned from tours of duty in Iraq.  We will finally hear the news that the mainstream media refuses to share with the American people--news of success, of hope for the Iraqis, and the perspective of those who have actually been there.

Please come to support our troops and their mission!

newcorinthian @ 12:01am: Lost In The Republic For Which I Stand
I'm kind of at a loss. I don't understand what a liberal is. I have an idea of what a conservative is... But then again, no one manifests his or herself as a conservative, because the potential always exists for one person to pick up a penny someone else has dropped. In other words, no one is 100% conservative. And a "liberal"... hmmm... I guess a liberal would be, or could be at least, anyone who liberates his or her action or viewpoint past the conservative value of the individual with whom the liberal is arguing. And each human is an individual with innate human instincts; humans are selfish by creation. The Bible says so in Jeremiah. Hence being an individual, each human makes choices that could be considered conservative and in accord with one man's values, and liberal, according to another man's values.

Am I makiing sense? I dunno.

I just regret the idea of Fox News, of the Australian owned News Corporation, feeding folks false notions of conservative ideals and enforcing these notions with tabloids. I mean, I'm conservative on some issues and liberal on others. My conservative actions are bound to my personal values. For instance, I find the current government's spending spree completely liberal to my conservative ideals of financial management, not to mention completely contradictory to Biblical ethics. As well, the gap is widening between the rich and the poor. And then the same government takes money from the media corporations, who turn around and play the movies and television programs which pollute the atmosphere of American integrity. So I don't see how anyone could call the current president, or the entity of our current government, conservative. The conservatism of the current government conserves only the values of the Grand Ole Party (GOP), a group of bankers who came together in the 19th century to involve themselves in government for the installation and progression of an elite class. And the freedom of the Republic of the United States is what allowed the installation of this elite class, this GOP.

I'm not bashing on the freedom of the United States. Quite the contrary. I see the People of these United States being led astray by a corrupted State. And it scares me. And I would argue that we no longer live in a republic, but that we live in a what I call a "corporate confederacy" What I mean by this is, the government is no longer a union of states in representation of the people, but a confederation of corporations funded by the people.

And I would argue as well, the US does not spread democracy but materialism. So the "War on Terror" cannot be won. For the United States is a capitalist society. Capitalism breeds materialism; materialism breeds competition; competition breeds combat or war; and war breeds terror. Thus terror is inevitable in a capitalist society. Whether terror is good or bad is subject to the values of the individual. Perhaps the terror is worth the consumption. I dunno. Honestly, terrorism goes back to the dawn of agriculture in 12,000 BC. Rock, paper, scissors: bombs, guns and missles.

I don't mean to be rude, so if I have offended anyone here I apologize.

I consider myself conservative, because I have values. And I aim to conserve those values. And if I don't liberate my mind and open myself to observation, then my values, in my blind attempt to conserve them, may suffocate of constriction and rot and fall off into the depths of history.



I all respect,



.cicero

suicide2121 @ 4:59am: This is an interesting article about what America has done for Iraq.
http://andiamnotlyingforreal.blogspot.com/2005/01/like-millions-of-iraqis-i-made-long.html

navy_squid25 @ 4:03pm: There's Hope!
I just found the most amazing Documentary. FarenHYPE 9/11. CHECK THIS MOVIE OUT. No joke, it's one of the best films I've ever seen. It goes deep into Michael Moore's propaganda, and exposes him as the idiot he is.
Also, and interesting tidbit-- there were quite a few people in his movie who never met him, and didn't know they were in the movie until someone told them. Their images were used without consent.
I was able to check it out a Hollywood Video, so go! GO!! Check it out as fast as you can-- it's worth it.
God Bless America, and the creators of this film.

tatianaaa @ 7:35pm: questionnaire for Americans
Hi everybody!
I’m writing my thesis. I’m looking for respondents. If you are Americans (you were born and grown up in United States, you are not immigrants) then you can help me a lot!!! Complete this questionnaire . It will take no more then 5 minutes. Thank you. I appreciate it!

navy_squid25 @ 1:17pm: Merry Christmas!
Hello to all of you! This is my first time posting here, and I would like to invite all of you who enjoy Punk Music to come to the website Conservativepunk.com . It's hard to love the music and have the lifestyle when you're a conservative. This website is a place for us to realize that we are the true rebels (Anti-anti-establishment, if you get my drift.)
Where they love Michael Moore, we fawn over Charlton Heston.
Merry Christmas, to you and yours, wishing you a great Season!!

kinkybeaver @ 1:45pm: courtesy of The Edge
x-posted

my favorites are 2 and 6

Top 9 Differences if the President Were an Animal

1. Military bands would have to learn to play "Hail to the Chimp."
2. Out: Photo ops of president on jogging path. In: Photo ops of president on exercise wheel.
3. Everything would be exactly the same, only 15 percent more cuddlier.
4. "Four more rears!"
5. Second-term scandal involves forfeiture of White House cleaning deposit.
6. Within minutes of taking the oath of office, he starts urinating a circle around the White House.
7. 30 percent fewer mispronounced words.
8. Crotch-sniffing in the Oval Office still may not be quite acceptable, but at lest it's not an impeachable offence.
9. The manure coming out of Washington D.C. would finally have secondary value for farmers.

kinkybeaver @ 10:02pm: I just came up with this ... x-posted
The less education a woman receives, the more children she is likely to have.

Maybe that's why the liberals have gained so much power in the last 20 years.

BURN!

Says I with my "liberal weiner" icon. ::giggle::

kinkybeaver @ 7:45pm: The most horrifying thing just happened...

This pair of cute little ninjas came to the door, and I gave them each two peices of candy. One of them mumbled out, "Thank you... and vote for John Kerry!"

O.O

They got me good. My dad said I should've pushed them over and then took my candy back.

Now I'm printing out a Bush sign and putting it in our window!

kinkybeaver @ 8:06pm: I heard today that Measure 36 is pretty even in Oregon, but I have heard that everywhere (state) else it is landslidingly against gay marriage. Does anyone know the facts?

In the Voter's Book an argument opposing Measure 36 said that gays are denied the right to work on their partner's farm for less than minimum wage... I had to laugh.

artistoflosing @ 4:01am: Hey everyone, I just felt like introducing myself because I just joined. My name is Valerie and I really needed a place where I am not the only Republican I know. I decided to join this community after pretty much being told I was an ignorant bitch for being a conservative and I just needed a place where I know other Republicans exist and hopefully won't be called a brain washed whore. I have four friends with similar political views and one of them I just noticed is in this community.
I am so glad I did a search for Republicans in the interest boxy thing.

kinkybeaver @ 9:36pm: x-posted
MSN has a list of Dan Rather and CBS political cartoons... Although there are a few hopeless liberals trying to defend him, these are hilarious!!! Check it out:

http://cagle.slate.msn.com/news/CBSandDanRather/main.asp?GT1=5100

One of my favorites is this.

kinkybeaver @ 12:29pm: I don't know if this has been posted yet...
My dad said that the liberals filled up Ralph Nader's hall, but refused to sign the paper saying they had attended. To be on a state's ballot you have to have 1,000 attendees.

They beat us at our own game!

mbarrow @ 11:58pm: A Sweet Story from the RNC--Oregon Delegates get engaged at the Statue of Liberty!

I just wanted to share this with you all. 

http://www.nynewsday.com/news/politics/rnc/nyc-rep01,0,3981678.story?coll=nyc-gop-headlines

I gotta say, I know these two, and I had a feeling that it would happen there! 

Congratulations, Marc and Stacy!