Dems will be on their voter's core issues the same as Republicans have been. Talk a good game about abortion, gay marriage, yadda yadda, then when the time comes you debate it for a few days and let it die on the vine. If the voters expected results it might matter, but all we expect is rhetoric, anyway.
Sorry to NEEDLE you. LOL... Man, that's cool, though. That was fast learning.
How long have you been doing this again? You must have picked up on it quick. That's darned impressive... ... *yuck yuck* get it? "darned"?
Lions are lions, guns are guns, pools are pools, doctors are doctors. Life is one big, wacky crap shoot.
Nope, I don't have pool either. I figure if I do go shopping for lions or pools, it has to be one or the other. There's less danger of my lion drowning if I don't have a pool. But... then there'd be less chance of me being eaten by a lion if there is a chance my lion will first drown in my pool. I'm sure if I worked at this long enough I could work out how owning guns, pools, and lions makes my home safer, and probably fit in open flames and chain smoking too. You can make any point
I'm not trying to steer the conversation away from the topic, I hope you don't think so. I've just been in the same position and it would be a tragedy for such to be tainted.
The muslim women here are much the same. I've found them to be surprisingly friendly, like you say smiling and saying hello. You get into the frame of mind that they are supposed to look down all the time, never let people see their faces, etc. I think like our discussion of the American south on the other blog, Americans have a lot of unfounded ideas about the average Muslim's world. They obviously aren't all walking around in tents. I know I get nutty about this stuff, but the se
election 2004 map, by county . Feel free to compare south to north, west to east. Even the "hillary for president" thing is a myth. There are very few blocks in those southern states that are 100% Republican, and if you look at Indiana, Pennsylvania and other northern states you'll see PLENTY of red. Lok at the most poverty ridden, hillbilly parts of Kentucky and you'll see blue. You've done a
"But the topic was the south, and I certainly doubt I'd find many people like me there." MMmm, yes, it's all banjos and mandolins there. *boggle*. There are no cities and no one has running water either. Can't you hear how lightweight this stuff you are spouting is? It tickles the crap out of me to think of Micheal Stipe, growing up in Decatur Georgia and forming REM in Athens, Georgia, being lumped in with all this. I could list for hours th
I guess what makes me mad about it is that they dwell on it when they have nothing to say about it. It's like the joke thing you see on SNL sometimes where they keep breaking in with more and more lurid lead-in graphics... but then say the same thing and say they'll have more later. I don't mind as long as it is important, but I think most of the time they do it just to seem like they are on top of things. It's like news people are clamoring for the next big bloodbath and when somethi
Ugly, ain't it. It surprises me that they don't want to get a tax credit for abortions. After all, they claim it is saving the world from the poor, unwanted dregs that would just be a burden on society, anyway. Hey, maybe she is donating to PP out of remorse that she has a 24 year old daughter to support...
Well, if you go far enough to the right that's where you end up. The strangest thing, though, is if you go far enough to the left you inevitably end up there, too. Look at Chavez. Any heavy-handed social engineering requires an iron fist. At least you are honest. There are lefties among us who would be the same thing, all the while pretending to be ruling for "the people" against the terrible rich ruling classes. The gulags wouldn't be any nicer.
Closing the 'b' tag since no one else will... I remember reading about this a few years back. It's supposedly been hijacked as a "health and wellbeing" matter in that a child in a house with guns is whatever percent more likely to fall victim to accidental gunshot wounds. They validate it by saying that instructing a kid about precautions about gun deaths is no different than instructing a kid about STDs or anything else life threatening. Note, though, that owning a lion
No, I won't accept that God is a hypocrite, a murderer, a Nazi. I don't believe God would hang around with Satan and allow him to kill people on a bet. I don't believe that God is somehow LESS civilized than we are. If you choose to believe that, fine, whatever you can stomach, I guess. Don't pretend it is much different than the God of the Philistines or any other from that time, though.
":but.....it seems to me you like to quote from the book when it suits you. Heck yes, I won't allow documents from primitive and barbaric people to define God for me. I won't tell God that unless he meets the definition carved out by barely civilized people He doesn't exist. If I did, I would be placing the mythology of man over God. "So actually you've got it backwards. I'd be like the Pharisee if I dismissed the sc
"well that's my take. I don't see him as wanting to touch anything. He wants to be absolutely sure before he puts his ladder up against anything. I don't think he's found the right building yet." I definitely won't settle for what I know to be flawed. I won't excuse it with patchwork doctrine and stretched scriptures to cover the gaps. Given the choice between blaspheming God or distrust for paper and ink, I choose not to tar God with the awfulness of
Look at your previous post (#60). You say the relationships are equal because: You dont think it matters whether you love someone from the same gender or not Just because someone has the same sexual organs doesn't mean that your love has some imaginary limit to it. You aren't explaining why you think they are equal, you're just saying you do, and then reiterating it in different wordings. You think it is equal... it doesn't matter about genitals, etc
"The most intolerant and unsophisticated people (aka idiots) in the American South aren't the rural folks that are poked at in this video. They (the idiots) are the "fine and well educated" folks that come in and pull stunts like this one." Crime in the United States by Community Type, 2005 The "deliverance" mindset is, and has always been bogus. People hype "dangerous" rural Americ
"As for being afraid of the south I am too. I can't imagine being able to survive an area where the most intolerant and unsophisticated carry deadly weapons and use them regularly. I let my mouth run away with me far too often to do well in that kind of environment. It's just not my world and I have no intention of visiting it unless I have no choice." If you look at where crimes are committed in the US, you'll find them mainly centered in not o
Irony, no. Hateful, hack-job social commentary posed as humor? Yeah. Borat was funny because it wasn't true, just like Sir Peter, even if the reactions are real. It was a character. This was smear disguised as "reality", and heavily edited smear at that. This wasn't the Python "Philosphophy Department of the University of Walamaloo". This wasn't Borat. Those are irony. This is just ignorant bias posed as irony. "Don't be a dick." <br
You don't understand because your BELIEF is otherwise. You have no objective reasoning for your belief, either. There's no universal standard there to impose, you just believe one thing, and they believe another. Such standards should be decided democratically in a democracy.
Right there it is. Southerners vs... soccer louts. Southerners vs... skinheads. You take tens of millions of people and compare them to a small slice of miscreants in another nation. Like I said it is the difference between "freedom fries" and actually going to France to threaten people and watch them run. No, the confederate flag only symbolizes slavery to the ignorant. It would be like me saying the British flag symbolizes imperialism or the Australian flag symbolizes the slaught
"You've never laughed at someone with a mullet, a fightin' attitude and an intolerance towards gays and NASCAR-haters? What DO you laugh at?" You're just being obtuse. Do you really think most people with a mullet care what these guys think? They can sit and think what they want, I don't give a damn. There are southern comedians that make jokes about that kind of thing all the time. No one stones them. The guys with the mullets even laugh.
link "That bit in our American Holiday Video where we were attacked by the rednecks in the Alabama petrol station: I realise now that I should have seen it coming. We'd been warned by some American modernists - i.e. Californians - that the southerners wouldn't take kindly to any of our light mockery of the things they hold dear - Bush, heterosexuality, NASC
What was funny about it, what part? Did you read the blog? Is that part of the skit? I'm sitting here trying to find something comical in it. There, I watched it again. Were the guy's reactions supposed to be funny? I'm sure its refreshing for hateful people to have someone they can be hateful about without being seen as hateful. It would be like me going to France and brandishing a gun in a mall, and then saying "See, look, French people are cowards" as they run away. T
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