Events or Things Conservatives pretend never happened.

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Inspired by the thread "Things conservatives never heard of before Obama" by Ombudsman

[Crock Hunter]

May 3, 1994

To Members of the U.S. House of Representatives:

We are writing to urge your support for a ban on the domestic manufacture of military-style assault weapons. This is a matter of vital importance to the public safety. Although assault weapons account for less than 1% of the guns in circulation, they account for nearly 10% of the guns traced to crime.

Every major law enforcement organization in America and dozens of leading labor, medical, religious, civil rights and civic groups support such a ban. Most importantly, poll after poll shows that the American public overwhelmingly support a ban on assault weapons. A 1993 CNN/USA Today/Gallup Poll found that 77% of Americans support a ban on the manufacture, sale, and possession of semi-automatic assault guns, such as the AK-47.

The 1989 import ban resulted in an impressive 40% drop in imported assault weapons traced to crime between 1989 and 1991, but the killing continues. Last year, a killer armed with two TEC9s killed eight people at a San Francisco law firm and wounded several others. During the past five years, more than 40 law enforcement officers have been killed or wounded in the line of duty by an assault weapon.

While we recognize that assault weapon legislation will not stop all assault weapon crime, statistics prove that we can dry up the supply of these guns, making them less accessible to criminals. We urge you to listen to the American public and to the law enforcement community and support a ban on the further manufacture of these weapons.

Sincerely,

Gerald R. Ford

Jimmy Carter

Ronald Reagan

[O Really]

Nixon, in general, and specifically wage and price controls... http://www.econreview.com/events/wageprice1971b.htm

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"Mr. Conservative" Barry Goldwater, on abortion...

“Today’s so-called ‘conservatives’ don’t even know what the word means. They think I’ve turned liberal because I believe a woman has a right to an abortion. That’s a decision that’s up to the pregnant woman, not up to the pope or some do-gooders or the Religious Right. It’s not a conservative issue at all.”

[Crock Hunter]

Speaking of Tricky Dick. .. ... ..

“I don’t know why any individual should have a right to have a revolver in his house,” Nixon said in a taped conversation with aides. “The kids usually kill themselves with it and so forth.” He asked why “can’t we go after handguns, period?”

Nixon went on: “I know the rifle association will be against it, the gun makers will be against it.” But “people should not have handguns.”

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NRA/LaPierre supporting universal background checks in 1999...
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/01/3 ... 93937.html

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I'm pretty sure I remember that the Shrub-Saudi kiss on the lips is a photoshop and they actually brushed or kissed cheeks.

Oops, yep, I think you're right. That dead on the lips picture is probably a photoshop.

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Gerald Ford.
"Domestically, Ford presided over the worst economy in the four decades since the Great Depression, with growing inflation and a recession during his tenure. One of his more controversial acts was to grant a presidential pardon to President Richard Nixon for his role in the Watergate scandal. "

Not to mention...

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A little over ten years ago, George W. Bush fired his economic advisor, Lawrence Lindsey, for saying that the total cost of invading Iraq might come to as much as $200 billion. Bush instead stood by such advisors as Paul Wolfowitz, who said that the invasion would be largely "self-financing" via Iraq's oil, and Andrew Natsios, who told an incredulous Ted Koppel that the war's total cost to the American taxpayer would be no more than $1.7 billion.

http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc ... me/274477/

Wait, didn't the iraq war start under obummer???

The Iraq and Afghanistan conflicts, taken together, will be the most expensive wars in US history - totaling somewhere between $4 to $6 trillion.

Yup, it's all obummers fault our deficit grew so much.

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Easter, with rabbits and eggs, waaaay preceded Christianity.

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Happy Ēostre all!

Too bad most never understand why they're really having a "sunrise" service.

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I'm pretty sure I remember that the Shrub-Saudi kiss on the lips is a photoshop and they actually brushed or kissed cheeks.

Oops, yep, I think you're right. That dead on the lips picture is probably a photoshop.

Nope. If it's on the internet, it must be true. Ask MaddieAmurk'n.

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Happy Ēostre all!

Too bad most never understand why they're really having a "sunrise" service.

Apparently that Easter/Eostre relationship isn't supported by facts.

Many think that the goddess Eostre was invented by an English monk.

[Crock Hunter]

Many think that the goddess Eostre was invented by an English monk.

What I've read says that Bede referenced Oestre... Eostre was the Teutonic goddess of fertility and Spring

But for all the Oestres, Eostres, Ishtars, Ostaras and Estres. . . It appears that all can traced to the the Syrian sun goddess Astarte .. All celebrate the Vernal Equinox and all predate the Christian Easter by centuries.. .. .

Speaking of Bede.. . I believe we still use his calculation for establishing the date of Easter each year.. . The first Sunday after the first full moon after the vernal equinox. .. .

[Boatrocker]

There is no truly original Christian "holiday." They were all borrowed and bastardized from pagan observances.

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Were the disciples the first cannibals?

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Were the disciples the first cannibals?

Let's be fair- it was only ritual cannibalism.

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''We used to hustle over the border for health care we received in Canada. And I think now, isn't that ironic?''
—Sarah Palin, admitting that her family used to get treatment in Canada's single-payer health care system, despite having demonized such government-run programs as socialized medicine that will lead to death-panel-like rationing, March 6, 2010

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''The greatest threat to America is not necessarily a recession or even another terrorist attack. The greatest threat to America is a liberal media bias.''
—Rep. Lamar Smith (R-TX), June 4, 2009