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Thursday, September 19, 2013

Does your home's roof need to be replaced?

A roof replacement is one of the most important and expensive upgrades you can do to your home. If you take care, you can improve your home and also avoid some legal trouble.

Make sure the agreement is a proposal and not an estimate. An estimate is open-ended and you can expect to see additional charges.

The underlayment to shingle and flat roofs is crucial. Shingled roofs usually use synthetic underlayment and flat roofs use a bitumen underlayment. Peel and stick underlayment is preferred to tar paper. It can handle high winds far better.

Some contractors are specialists in certain types of roofs. Make sure you have the right one is you need a tile or metal roof.

Energy Star shingles can save money, but the color is often limited to white or if you need a better Energy Star shingle, it can add a hundreds to the cost of the job. You can get a Energy star Star Credit as of Oct 1 of up to $500 and Florida Power and Light (FPL) will provide a $325 rebate. In the writer's case, the Energy Star tax credit and FPL rebate was not enough to offset the cost of the Energy Star shingle upgrade.

Make sure ridge vents are installed on you new roof. the ridge vents and the soffits work together to remove heat nad humidity from your home. Make sure the soffits are clear of debris and excess insulation.

If you have a large chimney, the roof will need a cricket. If a cricket is not installed, roof leaks will eventually develop around the chimney.

Never pay a roofing contractor up front end money. Often contractor will be paid in two or three phases or at the end of the job. It is common to pay the contractor for a third of the job after the initial dry-in (lay down of the underlayment).Once the underlayment is down, your roof is waterproof.

Check with the county licensing department on the roofer. Does the roofer have a license. Roofing contractor license are usually issued by the country or the state. The state license is an "RC" followed by six numerals (Example - RC000001). You roofer minimally needs the country license. Be leery of roofers who only have state licenses.

Does he company have any employees? If it doesn't you are probably dealing with subcontracted work or independent contractors (day laborers). Some companies have a parent company that has liability insurance but no worker's compensation. If the company doesn't pay the sub-contractors, they can sue you. Likewise, if the roofing contractor doesn't have workers compensation, an injured worker can sue you, too.

Some roofing concerns are shells that have a parent company. If there is a problem, the subsidiary company cannot be sued because it has no assets or employees.

You county or city licensing office can tell you about the contractor and whether they are licensed, have insurance and workers compensation. A reference to worker's comp should be on the general liability policy. Licensing offices can also tell you if any complaints have been filed against the corporation.

Also, check out Angie's List and the Better Business Bureau. The writer used Angie's List to identify A-rated contractors. Roofing is a highly competitive business and many of the local roofing contractors had F-ratings.

Contractors with poor ratings may change their name. Ask a roofing company if they have ever worked under a different name.

Also, Make sure the roof will meet State of Florida building code and VA and FHA standards.

You may want to hire a different contractor to do the gutters after the job is finished. Ditto, for screen work.

Roofing repairs are important and can be relatively trouble free if you hire the right contractor to make this important and expensive upgrade to your home.

sources:

http://www.floridaroof.com/upload/files/FL_consumer_consideration_in_replacing_roof.pdf

http://www.fpl.com/residential/energy_saving/programs/roof.shtml

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Sunday, September 1, 2013

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Thursday, August 29, 2013

I fired the DAV yesterday

by the Major

Yes, I have had it. Working with the VA Regional Office (VARO) is bad enough, but the Disabled American Veterans (DAV) are just as bad. What follows in the laundry list of reasons I fired them.

Lets start off by saying something good about the DAV. As service organizations go, it is one of the best, perhaps even the best. It's national service officers are trained by the VA during a two year training period.

The DAV is one of the few organizations that has access to VA claims data. The DAV is automated and networked into part of the VA claims system.That is the good news.

The best the DAV and other service organization can do with service members claims after the second level BVA or DRO review is about 30 per cent success rate. That means less than 1:3 claims are approved by the VA even with DAV or other service organization assistance. The DAV may be satisfied with this percentage, but veterans should not. A thirty percent success rate is hardly impressive.

The DAV seems to be too chummy with the VA. We recently met with a DAV National Service Officer (NSO) who listened to our complaints about the VA. We strongly hinted we were about to bolt to an attorney, but the NSO suggested attorneys wouldn't have any better luck with the claim. The second time we met him he repeated verbatim the same pabulum we got back from the VA after a congressional inquiry.

The NSO also suggested we were just two retired people who spend all day working on our claim. This was the wrong thing to say to clients, particularly when my spouse works and I am politically active. I spend more time on my FB page and blog than on my VA claim. Perhaps someday that NSO will see this article and get a clue!

The DAV's activities are, for the most part, invisible to the veteran. The DAV rarely advises veterans of actions it takes on their behalf. If you fax or mail a letter to the DAV, you might get a letter back acknowledging the receipt and filing, if you are are lucky. They will also advise you of any hearings with the Decision Review Officer (DRO) or Board of veteran Appeals (BVA). That 's about it.

On well known VA blogger describes service organizations as mail rooms.He makes a good point.

The NSO's abilities vary widely. There are NSOs and senior NSO's. The senior NSOs are excellent but most of the other NSO's have wide variations in ability. In the case of the St. Petersburg VARO, NSOs rarely last more than a year. In an 11 year period, my spouse estimates we have had a minimum of 30 NSOs. Every 90--120 days, the local DAV changes the NSO for a vet based on his or her Social Security number.

We recently found out that the St.Pete DAV has never been a training facility. This was a cover story for some sort of a management problem in this office for a long time. Of interest, the number two supervisor in the St. Pete DAV had been replaced in the last couple of months. A 17-year senior NSO also resigned.

Not only do the NSOs rarely correspond with vets, it is not common for them to return phone calls either. I can recall perhaps 4 times that the DAV returned a phone call in past 11 years. When my wife thought I was dieing in a hospital, she called 4 times and the St. Pete DAV never returned any of the calls.

When my wife thought I was dieing in a hospital , she called 4 times and the St. Pete DAV never returned any of the calls.

In New York, a service officer must have legal training. This is not the case in Florida. The St. Pete DAV has abysmal knowledge of 38USC, BVA and USCAVC rulings.

The DAV has a tough job, my attorney explained, because they listen to sad stories all day long. They function much like social workers. It is a tough job with relatively low pay, about $48,000 per year.

After the major did a smack-down on the VARO during his last BVA hearing, one of the NSOs suggested at the time he apply for a job there because he was "knew more than anyone" in the DAV office.

Regardless, this would hardly be the kind of job a person with a technical background would want. You need a real people person as an NSO.

In Oct. 20l1 the major suggested the Veterans Benefit Administration (VBA) develop a checklist for veterans who were initiating claims. This was because the new claims process was so haphazard with the local DAV.

Not long after that the VA developed the Disability Benefits Questionnaires (DBQ) which the major thinks will help more vets develop successful claims. In many respect, the checklist idea was a workaround for vets who are assigned marginal NSOs.

Most of the NSOs appear to be former non-commissioned officers and some have an attitude toward officers. Others NSO's like to talk about their claims which wastes a vet's time.

The attorney is right. The NOS's are fundamentally social workers. Listening to the laments of vets who have been physically and mentally wounded wears you down over time. It's a tough job.

If fact, it's a job better for an attorney than a social worker. That's why the major fired the DAV.

An attorney will return phone calls and you can send them email. An attorney will provide an organized presentation to the DRO. BVA or USCAVC something the DAV will not do. An attorney will also suggest ways you can improve your claim, something that the service organizations rarely do.

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Wednesday, August 14, 2013

Why the VA sucks

I posted the initial article on the FB page, "The VA is lying."

The VA approves about 15 per cent of its claims overall. If you appeal to the BVA and prevail, about 30 per cent of VA claims make the cut.

If you appeal the BVA ruling to the USCAVC, about 70 per cent of those filings are overturned.. However, only a small percentage of vets who lose a BVA appeal, go to the USCAVC.

About 15 per cent of VA are fraudulent. This means when the dust clears, about 55 per cent of vets just give up. Perhaps the claim is poorly written or lacks appropriate medical documentation. Most vets just tire of the run-around.

If the VA makes an award, the award comes out of the local VA claims office's (VARO) hide. This is really a conflict of interest and may explain why the VA is so stingy.

About 40-45 percent of claims from Iraq and Afghan vets are being approved. Not bad.

However, if you are Vietnam era vet, it's about 2-4 per cent.

Is this a dual standard for vets? You betcha!

Essentially if 100 vets were to file claims, about 20 would be approved at the the VA Regional Office (VARO) level. If you are an Iraq and Afghan vet, a Purple Heart recipient, paralyzed or paraplegic, your odds improve.

If you appeal to the Decision Review Officer (DRO) or the Board of Veteran Appeals (BVA), another 20 per cent of those appellants get approved.

Keep in mind the DRO is bound by it VA Manual, M21-1. It does not consider precedent rulings from the United States Court of Appeals for Veterans' Claims (USCAVC) , the 38 CFR that is the VA directive or 38 USC that is public law.

The BVA will consider USCAVC precedent rulings that require a three panel judge, 38CFR and 38 USC. The BVA is legal administrative proceeding. the BVA will also consider the opinions of private practice physicians in letters and Disability Benefit Questionnaires.

The VARO will gloss over private practice evidence if it conflicts with the Compensation and Pension (C&P) clinicians findings. Keep in mind that many of the C&P examiners are nurse practitioners and physician assistants. A board certified physician will hold more weight in front of the BVA.

Make sure your key physicians have conducted record reviews of you military service records. This is important to the BVA.

However, the DRO or BVA base is smaller. Let's says that 50 of the 80 claimants who were rejected appeal. Only 10 would prevail at the DRO or BVA. At this point about 30 per cent of the claims have been approved. However, the BVA may only approve one of your 4 claims and remand the other three back to the VARO for development.

You are now playing remand ping pong with the your other three claims.

We now have 40 claimants left who didn't make the cut at the DRO or BVA. These appellants can apeal to the USCAVC. If 10 appeal, about seven will prevail.

These examples are hypothetical and based on limited data the VA has provided on claims. Much of this information was harvested from congressional testimony.

Of the 33 remaining claimants. about half (15) are fraudulent. If you file a fraudulent claim, you will most likely receive a quick reject. You can also be prosecuted.

It behooves the vet to appeal if he/she have a well grounded claim. The writer recently discovered he was very fortunate to prevail in front of the BVA without an attorney. Generally, once you get into appeals, you should probably hire an attorney.

Refine your claim based on the attorney's advice and bring in new substantial evidence at the DRO and BVA levels,

Once you appeal to the USCAVC, the claim is locked. You cannot introduce new evidence.

What do these statistics suggest. Appeal, young person, appeal!

Your odds of winning are highest at the USCAVC level, but you better have a solid claim. You cannot introduce new evidence once the BVA hearing is over.

graphics: courtesy of AskNod blog.

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Saturday, August 10, 2013

Rand Paul call first dog, Bo, uppity

The details are murky, but somehow the brazen Rand Paul stormed his way into the White House. He was greeted by the first dog, Bo, who promptly urinated on his trousers.

This angered Rand Paul, who said, Bo, a Portuguese water dog, was an undocumented illegal. Paul also claimed the dog was 47 per cent black like Obama. Bo is a black dog with white paws.

Paul said Bo was an uppity dog who needed to go to back to obedience school.

The White House declined comment.

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Thursday, August 1, 2013

GOP: An anit-social political party.

The GOP has been fragmenting for a long time. This started with political purity tests in the 1990s when Republican moderates were purged form the party. The Club for Growth would challenge Republican moderates in primaries, exhausting the moderates war chest. if the GOP moderate limped out of the primary, he/she became easy pickings for the Democratic opponent.

When Jeb Bush took the governor's mansion in the 1990s, the FL GOP purged Democrats from appointed positions. It also purged Republicans who worked with these Democrats because they werd no longer considered ideologically pure.

Some of this resulted from Newt Gingrich who became the House speaker in 1994. Gingrich discouraged GOP house members form socializing with Democrats. This actually prevented a lot of late-hours political business from getting done in DC.

The era of conservatives are different began. Some of this may have been inherited form the Christian right which tried to establish a Christan business community that only right wing Christians inhabited.

Rightardia thinks conservatives simply took themselves too seriously. They saw themselves as the wave of the future abut didn't realize their bubble would burst by 2008.

Boy, did that conservative bubble burst.!

But we now had conservative talk radio and Fox news. Academic institutions of higher learning wer mistrusted and Wikipedia that was founded by that libertarian, Jimmy Wales, was considered suspect

So a cartoon conservative version of Wikipedia called Cosnervapedia was born. If you want to understand the meaning of bias, check out Conservapedia.

Conservapedia is a good example of conservative anti-intellectual thought.

Neo-conservatism was militaristic in the beginning and brought neo-confederate, militia, white supremacist and libertarian groups under its wing.

All of these groups have a high degree of sociall anomie and reflect the growing anit-social nature of the Republican party,

As the moderates were purged form the party, many Republican ditto heads, Tea Partiers and libertarians descended into fascism.

Rightardia considers the lone wolf philosophy of libertarians to be another form of fascism. Ayn rand, was a Russian emigre, Her writing was a counter to Soviet Stalinism. She emphasized the importance of the individual over society. Her work was a reaction to Soviet collectivism. Her books and ideas were not popular after WW2 ended.

Rand's idea appealed to the political outsiders, the Republicans that were booted form office during the New Deal.

Libertarians want a Utopian society with minimal (minarchy) or no (anarchsit) government. No society on earth has ever had such a government.

One libertarian apologist tried to suggest that the US was libertarians prior to the Great Depression. If this bloke had known Us history better, he would have known this was dark period of trusts, 80 hour work weeks, child labor and the struggle for women;'s suffrage.

Teddy Roosevelt brought us out of the darkness with his progressive ideas and trust busting.

Such thinking about Us history is also historically present minded. Rand wrote her two book, Atlas Shrugged and the Fountianhead after WW2, not prior to the Progressive Era. .

We know know after 28 years of GOP leadership, that Reaganomics and supply side economics (trickle down) simply don't work. Newt Gingrich rescinded the Glass-Steagall Act and 10 years later our country went into the Great Recession under the watch of GW Bush and his failed ownership society. .

When the dust cleared, fewer Americans owned homes than before. This was largely due to GOP deregulation efforts. Treasury secretary Hank Paulsen even reduced the SEC reserve requirements of the big 5 Wall Street banks in 2004.

Teh GOP is anti-government. It really wants a seamless relationship between corporate and political leaders. This corporatism is often referred to as the first phase of fascism What the GOP does not want is the effective government that polices the corporate world.

The GOP envisions government with a lassez faire approach toward business. In fact, the GOp regularly cuts the budget of regulatory organization like IRS, EPA and the Department of labor when it can. It files the NLRB with "do nothing" GOP cronies and cut the manpower of OSHA to cripple this organizations from inspecting corporations.

Essentially, he GOP tries to neutralize government functions that doe not fit its ideology,

What we have today is an anti-social political party crowded on the 10 yard line of the right side of the playing field. it is party that has little chance of getting back into the game. All it can do is prevent the game from being played.

You can call them bad sports.

Rightrdia calls them an anti-social and disloyal opposition.

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Thursday, July 18, 2013

Starting a VA Disability claim: To be Pro Se or not to be

When you get ready to file a claim for disability, you have many options.

Many people go to the Veterans Administration (VA) and get a representative called a national service officer (NSO) to handle the claim for them. This would be organizations like the Disabled American Veterans (DAV), or the AMVETS. If you are going his route, the DAV is trained by the VA and has access to some of the VA databases. You have to give the a specific power of attorney (POA) to one of the service organizations.

You can also represent yourself. This is called Pro Se. There are advantages of being Pro Se. Besides having better control of the claim, any veteran proceeding Pro Se gets extra leeway in making his benefits case. Pro Se Veterans' Filings Must Be 'Read Liberally'
See http://blogs.findlaw.com/federal_circuit/2013/01/pro-se-veterans-filings-must-be-read-liberally.html

The bad news is as Pro Se you must educate yourself on the claims process and different strategies you can use. I recommend you start by reading two books: Claim Denied by John Roche and Veteran Administration Claims: What you Need to Know to be Successful by AskNod, The latter book should be used with the AskNod blog: http://asknod.wordpress.com/

I would read the Roche book first because it provides a more general review of the claims process. It also covers a lot of other VA programs you may have little interest in.

The AskNod book is specifically devoted to Disability Claims. You can also submit specific questions to the blog author.

You can file a claim using the old fashioned VA Form 21-526 . There is also an online version called the VONAPP see http://vabenefits.vba.va.gov/vonapp/main.asp.

The best way to file is a Disability Benefit Questionnaire (DBQ) that is signed by your doctor. The DBQ is in Acrobat format and can be completed online and filed in the VARO's Veteran Center. You can mail it to the VARO by certified mail with a return receipt.

You must write in a nexus staments that connect your medical condition to your armed forces service, Typically you might see a statement like "Mr; Jones medical condition is more likely than not related to his hospitalization in Baghdad, Iraq in 2004 for a leg wound.

The Asknod book will take you through the initial claim, organizing the claim and documenting it. It also address the Decision Review Officer Review. It is the only book that I have reviewed that addresses appeals to the Board of Veteran Appeals (BVA) and the US Court of Veteran Claims (USCAVC) in a comprehensive manner.

The AskNod book discuses filling of Notice of Disagreement, tricks VAROs use to deny the claim , the importance of the BVA Waiver of VARO review, why the the veteran usually gets the higher of disability ratings, Fenderson or staged ratings, and why you need s special statement in claims for Individual Unemployability. It also discusses how vets can get their effective dates for claims pushed back.

AskNod also suggests bringing in an attorney after a denial if you have a well-documented claim at the VARO level. This is where the POA become important.You can not bring in an attorney until the claim has been certified for an appeal to the BVA.

This is another reason why you may want to file the claim Pro Se, Otherwise you will have to rescind POA from the service organization before you can give the POA to an attorney,

AskNod has noted taht the vets are getting smarter and appealing. A BVA appeal can take 3- 5 years. If there are nay open issues, the appeal will be remanded. AskNod also suggests bringing in an attorney to get the claim resolved at the VARO level.

By law, the attorney can take 20 per cent of the claim. This can be expensive but it can avoid extending the claim for years.

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Saturday, July 13, 2013

The Party of No

If you have been watching the Republicans at the state and national level, certain trends are obvious.

Any GOP economic legislation is designed to favor the affluent and corporations, not citizens. In the case of the affluent, the GOP has blocked attempts of the Obama administration to make the tax system in the US more progressive and to reform the Bush tax cuts that favored the rich.

An example of GOP favored legislation that affect corporations is the Keystone XL Pipeline. First, the GOP claimed that the pipeline would create 40,000 short term jobs. The real number is actually closer to 4,000, I More importantly, this pipeline doesn't not benefit domestic oil production because the oil that flows through the pipeline is for export.

The Keystone XL pipeline is about energy industry profits and there is a significant environmental risk associated with the pipeline which is pressured and heated.

A great deal of GOP legislation is also focused on peripheral social issues of a prescriptive nature.
This is why the GOP is refereed to as the Party of No. Now welfare such as food stamps, no birth control for women, no abortion, no employment benefits, no unions and no sick leave.

The GOP id desperately trying to overturn a conservative reform to US medical care. Us medical care costs twice as much as the other industrial counties of the world and worse, only 75 per cent of the population had medical insurance. The Affordable Care Act got rid of lifetime medical insurance caps and pre-existing conditions. Parents can bring their children under their medical insurance umbrella until age 26.

Insurance companies must refund premium money to policy holders if the company doesn't spend 80 percent of more of its revenues on the policy holders medical expenses. That alone is enough to make a greedy corporatist cry.

The GOP rarely creates any programs that benefit people unless the program is privatized. Medicare advantage is good example. This privatized version of Medicare is subsidized by traditional medicare to the tune of $900 per medicare participant.

As of 2008, the federal government spent 12 percent more on Medicare Advantage than it did for comparable care under traditional Medicare. These subsidies (which added an additional $14 billion to the Medicare program last year alone) will gradually be reduced until payments to Medicare Advantage are in line with the cost of traditional Medicare.

The prescription drug program, Medicare part D, was an unfunded GW Bush initiative. About one-third of the people who use Medicare Advantage are enrolled in the prescription drug program.

There you have it. A political party is not people oriented, a a party that likes to proscribe what people can do, and party that doesn't do much for Americans unless it involves privatization.

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Monday, June 17, 2013

The Libertarian Scam

Rightardia has been following the libertarian movement since the 1960s. Rightardia has read both Atlas Shrugged and the Fountainhead. We consider both to be more like romance novels than political novels.

The author, Ayn Rand, was Russian Jewish immigrant who had experienced Stalinism first hand. Her novels were anti -Stalinist and anti-collectivist. Her novel empathized the importance of the individual. The Fountainhead's protagonist, Howard Roark, is an individualistic young architect who chooses to struggle in obscurity rather than compromise his artistic and personal vision.

Neither novel caught on in the academic circles across America. The were other people who also atered to the the GOP out crowd during the Depression and World War 2. Another was Abraham Vereide, a Scandinavian minister, who came to he Us to fight godless communism. He was the founder of the National Prayer Breakfast

Rand's book were the impetus for a Libertarian Party, This is what the Libertarian Party advocated in 1980.

One of the Koch brothers was running for VP of the Libertarian Party at that time which might provide a clue who is really behind this movement.

Both liberal and libertarian have the prefix "liber" in them, but liberalism and libertarinism have little in common in the modern world. Steve Kangas said when the nation was founded, both liberals and libertraisn were the same. Of course , you could accuse Kangas of being present minded, the Libertarian movement didn't start until after World War 2.

The Libertarian Scam

The libertarian scam works this way. Many liberals are really libertarians. Go take this test on the Political Compass and you will see.

The Political Compass test is horribly flowed.

The Political Compass test is flawed

First of all the opposite of authoritarian is not libertarian, it is egalitarian or democratic. The concept of a libertarian left and a right is also suspect. Almost all liberals who take the test will fall into the lower left hand quarter. The test really makes no distinction in this test between liberals and libertarians.

As far as Rightardia can tell, the majority of libertarians are fascists and fall on the extreme right of the political spectrum. Most have the same sentiments as Tea Partiers, ditto heads and militia.

The distinction`libertarians have with other conservatives is that most are not pro-defense and are against Us military adventures abroad. This was very apparent during the GOP primary season when hawkish establishment Republicans went after Ron Paul.

Libertarians want liberals to think the two movements are similar, but they really have little in common. The libertarian movement does not appear to be growing in conservative circles. Perhaps, it is hoping to attract liberals into the movement with the premise that liberals and libertarians have much in common.

Liberals have also asked if libertarianism is such a fabulous political philosophy, why are there no modern libertarian nations?

One bloke form the UK suggested that the US was libertarian nation in the early 20th century prior to the depression. That was the era of the the big trusts, union activism, child labor and the muckrakers. Theodore Roosevelt broke up the large trusts, and union activism helped build a middle calls in the US.

The era prior to the Great Depression was a tough item for Americans. The Roaring 20's could also be described as more libertine than libertarian. It was also an ear in which three consecutive GOP presidents led the US into the Great Depression.

Rightrdia's view is that this libertarian movement is withering. Men like Rand Paul and Paul Ryan claim to be libertarians, but few Republicans accept either as true libertarians.

Rightardia was on a libertarian FB page and asked who the libertarians if there was real libertarian who had been elected to public office.

Their answer was Sen. Bernie Saunders, a socialist , who caucuses with Democrats.

source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Fountainhead

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Sunday, June 9, 2013

Rightardia editorial: How conservatives can communicate on FB with liberals.

Rightardia boots trolls, lurkers and posers off of this FB page several times a week.

Many of the conservatives want a debate with the hope they an proselytize someone to their way of thinking. Unfortunately for them, Rightardia is not a debate site in the traditional sense.

We do allow debates within the big Democratic tent. We don't allow partisan debates between liberals and conservatives. We don't visit conservative sitea to proselytize. so we don't allow conservatives to do this on the Rightardia FB page either.

The owner of the page has been a conservative and he has heard these tired old right wing arguments for years. He simply does not believe current conservatism is a valid political philosophy that has a rationale economic basis. This country simply does not need more deregulation, privatization or militarization.

If you are a troll, poser or lurker, suggest you follow some of the recommendations if you want to stay on this site.

1. First and foremost, Don't defend GW Bush. He was a bad president. Michel Smerconish once called him the second worst president in US history. Wikipedia has rated him in the bottom 25 per cent of presidents and in a George Mason study of US historians, 60 per cents said the Bush presidency was a failure. Conservatives will find few friends on on this page with contrarian opinion about Bush. Liberals and progressives despise GW Bush.

2. Don't try to use conservative media to bolster your case. Most of the people here consider Fox News to be a propaganda organ or the RNC and Wall street. Ditto for the hate radio jocks such as Rush Limbaugh or Micheal Savage. Media Matters tracks the mutterings of these people. Their opinions have no credibility in this page.

3. Don't try to pass yourself as an expert with facts and then offer only opinion. Liberals and progressives get much of their data from international media, Wikipedia, Snopes, FactCheck and Politifact. If you want to express a contrary opinion, use a reputable source not Conservapedia or Fox News.

$. Avoid religious based arguments.We have a large non-believer and non-affiliated participation on this page, Expect to be attacked if you use Biblical based arguments which Rightrdia considers to irrelevant to modern American life.

6. Avoid ad hominem attacks. References to the the president as Obummer or Hiilary as Hitlelry will get you immediately blocked.

7. Understand the political spectrum. Most of the friends and followers here understand the difference between a socialist and fascist. Don't try to blur the distinction.

Rightardia is very aware that most conservatives cannot grasp liberal thought and few really have any interest in our view point. We also know there are far more Democrats than conservatives. To win an election, we do not need to proselytize Republicans. Having worked in OFA in both the 2008 and 2012 election, Democrats were instructed not to call Republicans.

Think about this for a minute. We don't need Republican votes to win elections, but you need Democratic. That's why your politicians are always looking for those Reagan Democrats every election!

Politburo of Teabilly Mockery

You won't find many on this site. If you want a debate site, try https://www.facebook.com/ThePolitburoOfTeabillyMockery

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