In a somewhat related matter, although I didn't flunk Chemistry, I also had a problem with my Chemistry teacher, but because he was an idiot, I won't mention his name here. I got thrown out of his class because I interrupted him too often when he made mistakes during his classes. By the time I took Chemistry in High School I had already read hundreds of chemistry texts for 5 years and so I fancied myself as a know-it-all. In fact, when I started working for Baker Castor Oil when I was 17, one of the chief chemical technicians decided to nickname me Doctor Beilstein, after Friedrich Konrad Beilstein, who wrote the monumental Handbuch der organischen Chemie (1880–82; Handbook of Organic Chemistry), in which he set out to record systematically all that was known of every organic compound.

But I digress. There is a point about dyslexia I wanted to make. I believe we all suffer some sort of dyslexia. In liberals, the syndrome manifests itself in translating unpleasant events that disagree with leftist philosophy (if one can call it that) into completely different perceived events. Let me give you an example. During the Abu Ghraib reporting, leftists seized on the faux torture reporting and went into hysterics about our so-called torture tactics. They were blind to the torture techniques of Islamic terrorists (which leftists view as freedom fighters against American Imperialism) and instead equated American techniques such as sleep deprivation, food deprivation, noise, and our women soldiers wearing wet tee shirts with Muslim eye-gouging, bone-crushing, drilling hands, severing limbs, blow-torching the skin, suspending from ceiling and electrocuting, and squeezing head in vice. [Muslim Torture Manual]

Cindy Sheehan is a perfect example of twisting facts to suit her agenda. Somehow George Bush forced her son to enlist in the Army and once she even stated that her son "was killed for lies and for a PNAC Neo-Con agenda to benefit Israel" [Wiki]. But even Liberals soon learned that this attention whore cannot be satisfied with merely attacking one political side of America, she needed to attack the left as well. Too late they realized that she despises all of America, not just G.W. Bush.

The difference between my dyslexia and those of severely retarded liberals, is that I will trouble myself to shake my head and re-parse what I am reading so that I do not mislead myself. Liberals like to believe that America is evil, Capitalism is bad, Corporations rule the world, high taxes are good for the economy, there is no Islamic Terror threat to America or the world, the WTC collapse was orchestrated by either Israel or our own government, that Saddam's Iraq was never a threat to the peace of the world, that there would be no Islamic attacks if we stopped supporting Israel, that Palestinians are peaceful, innocent victims of Israeli aggression, that people are too stupid to take care of themselves and so the government has to do it for them, that our government is fighting a war against the poor [Amazingly, this is something Roseanne Barr actually believes (1)], that blacks are too stupid to go to college on their own, that Hispanics are too stupid to learn English, and so on.

This is why argument and reasoning do not work in trying to convince a leftist of his stupidity. They cannot parse statements that conflict with their cemented-in-their-minds positions. Although logic and reasoning do not work well on leftists, they are easily swayed by slogans of which there is no shortage: No Blood for Oil and Bush Lied People Died come to mind.

Of course this doesn't explain people like Michael Moore who purposely distort the facts to fit their agenda. Michael knows the true facts but decides the truth does not make for good documentaries. But he does know one thing: Liberals will eat up whatever he shovels out as if it were the pure, unvarnished truth. I suppose if Michael Moore or the New York Times did not exist, liberals would not be able to view or read anything at all. It would be like looking at a red world with red glasses on.

And just as most of the world only knows about the encierro or the Running of the Bulls at Pamplona, there is more to the fiesta if one only investigates a little further. The festival of Saint Fermin, the patron saint of Pamplona, is actually a nine day event with fireworks and music and a carnival with rides and Ferris wheels. When darkness descends, Pamplona explodes into one big party. The giants and the big heads parade through the streets with great fanfare and celebration. It ain't just one simple bull run.

Most things in life are more than one-dimensional and simple slogans usually mask the great variety and complexity of life. If you really want to have fun, ask a liberal to explain what the phrase, "It's all about Oil" means. We have been in Iraq for a few years. Has anyone in America seen any free barrels of oil coming into America?

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Roseanne World, IMPEACH....

IMPEACH THE PRESIDENT AND THE VICE PRESIDENT, THEY ARE TRAITORS TO AMERICA, AND SO ARE ALL OF THEIR SUPPORTERS. IMPEACH! ANYONE IN CONGRESS WHO REFUSES TO SAVE OUR UNION FROM THESE TRAITORS BY DOING NOTHING NEEDS TO BE RECALLED. SAVE OUR TROOPS!!! SAVE OUR SCHOOLS AND HOSPITALS AND JOBS. FEED OUR HUNGRY AND POOR! SAVE THE DROWNING PEOPLE IN NEW ORLEANS! ANYONE WHO MENTIONS PARIS HILTON ONE MORE TIME MUST DIE!