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- luckyorphan0
Staying out of Int’l Affairs: Totally Disagree. This is Libertarianism, essentially, and it’s been proven to be an irresponsible political philosophy with regards to global relationships. One word: Holocaust. Be it in Germany, Russia, Rwanda or Darfur, it is incumbent upon the powerful to protect the powerless, especially when they are being indiscriminately killed and subjected to genocide. Furthermore, if a country wants to sell any of its goods to another country, it instantly becomes involved in international affairs.
- it is incumbent upon the powerful to protect the powerless... LOLCUBE!MyMommies
- You're right. The ethical thing to do is let the weak be destroyed by the powerful. My mistake.luckyorphan
- luckyorphan0
The Ability to Succeed or Fail: This is a meaningless bumper sticker. Of the 146 top colleges and universities in the US, 3% of freshmen come from poor backgrounds. Over 70% come from affluent backgrounds. The remaining 27% come from the middle class. This proves Carlin’s point of the rich succeeding at a greater pace than the poor and middle class, but it makes your “ability to succeed” concept sound oversimplified, at the very least. Furthermore, the majority of those college freshmen admitted to these top universities are the first-born child in their family—a case of pure luck leading to a work ethic that is more often found in the first child born in a family. Yes they worked hard, but they were instilled with a strong work ethic because of their birth order.
- OMG, it's the luckyorphan thread! Furthermore, I wish that I could shit in your mouth.MyMommies
- luckyorphan0
A Strong Family Unit: Please. I’ve personally witnessed a woman divorced three times produce two wonderful children entirely on her own, while at the same time a family of five with a mother and a father completely implode upon itself because of systematic dysfunction. And btw, gay couples are often incredibly good parents (not to mention military personnel). Families are important, yes, but it really does take a village.
- Gays should be banned from raising children. Period. Can't make em', can't raise em'.MyMommies
- How would you enforce this bigoted law?luckyorphan
- luckyorphan0
Small, Efficient Gov’t: Define it specifically. Otherwise, this is a buzz-phrase. Show specific examples of what you would cut and how you would get the cuts approved, given the society this gov’t serves. Gov. Christie of New Jersey is a proponent of this, and one of the ways that he achieves a small gov’t is through closing all state psychiatric hospitals and proposing massive cuts to education budgets, all while refusing to tax even the top one percent of earners in the state one bit more. That is simply immoral.
- I think that you are immoral.MyMommies
- Well argued, MM.luckyorphan
- luckyorphan0
The Ten Commandments: Commandments 1 & 2: “I am the Lord your God. Thou shall have no other gods before you but me.” I don’t believe in the God defined in the Judeo-Christian Bible (despite being raised Jewish). There is plenty of reason to not believe in God, and people who do not believe are not necessarily guilty of leading an immoral life. There is such a thing as a good agnostic, atheist, or believer in something other than a deity. On the contrary side, one has to simply look at the recent revelations about the Catholic Church to question the benefits of leading a religious life. I appreciate how the commandments were crucial to the creation of modern forms of gov’t, but I refuse to apply them as law in and of themselves. The active enforcement of such commandments is anathema to a free society.
Our rights come from GOD—not government: Please see previous paragraph. Which rights are these? The right to bear arms? The right to freely assemble? The right to practice any belief system one chooses? Whose God is this that is supposed to be the purveyor of these rights? And who should enforce that these rights be observed and followed? Should the democracy be replaced by a theocracy? Please explain. Is homosexuality an abomination? In Exodus 21:7, I am granted permission to sell my daughter into slavery. Should I? I insist on working on the Sabbath. Should I be put to death as is decreed in Exodus 35:2, despite my years of volunteer service to my country and fellow man? If so, who should do it?
- It's nit too late to become a good little jew-boy you know?MyMommies
- Your point being...luckyorphan
- luckyorphan0
Questioning gov’t rolls: Please elaborate. I'm not sure I know what this means.
- luckyorphan0
I think I’ve summed up how someone of good intention and clear thought could be against or take issue with a lot of your principles, and still be a contributing member of society. This is the point of this thread (if there is one)—to show each other that people can share a passion for one thing (design) while still disagree vehemently about other core issues in life and the world.
I’ll never believe that communism is a good solution—clearly history has proven humans too fallible to apply the ideal correctly. Churchill said it right: “Democracy is the worst form of government, except for all those other forms that have been tried from time to time.” The issue is humanity. People are fallible. They are selfish, unformed, reactionary and all manner of other negative things. But they are also graceful, generous, humble and all manner of positive things. Society should encourage the positive, and discourage the negative. I believe wealth=selfishness, and thus encourages the negative. Call that what you want, but that’s a core belief of mine, and it admittedly places me on the left side of the spectrum. I believe that wealth that is not reinvested in the society that provided it is the definition of greed.
That being said, I also believe that a murderer caught red-handed (as opposed to one sentenced based on circumstantial evidence) should be put to death.
So before you bypass my logical arguments and label me as a liberal nut job or call me any series of names as you have in the past, please follow your own advice and don’t play a game you can’t win.
Be polite, humble and open-minded. You might learn something, and help us all do the same.
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Sorry for hijacking the thread folks. I'm done.Sincerely,
luckyorphan- G'night folks.luckyorphan
- You say that wealth=selfishness... I say, fuck you asshole.MyMommies
- Another solid response. Well reasoned and executed. Golf claps for you.luckyorphan
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Income falls 3.2% during Obama's term
http://www.washingtontimes.com/n…
Real personal income for Americans - excluding government payouts such as Social Security - has fallen by 3.2 percent since President Obama took office in January 2009, according to the Commerce Department's Bureau of Economic Analysis.For comparison, real personal income during the first 15 months in office for President George W. Bush, who inherited a milder recession from his predecessor, dropped 0.4 percent. Income excluding government payouts increased 12.7 percent during Mr. Bush's eight years in office.
"This is hardly surprising," said Douglas Holtz-Eakin, an economist and former director of the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office. "Under President Obama, only federal spending is going up; jobs, business startups, and incomes are all down. It is proof that the government can't spend its way to prosperity."
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Drug addicts offered cash to stop reproducing
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/…
Addicts are being offered up to £200 cash to be sterilised so they do not give birth to drug dependent children.
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Read the bill: Obamacare socks middle class with $3.9 billion tax increase
http://www.washingtonexaminer.co…
This is worse than a tax on the middle class. It’s a tax on the middle class who are seriously ill. And what’s the over/under on how may times Obama is going to break that “no taxes on anyone earning under $250,000 a year” pledge, anyway?
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Barney Frank's nasty boyfriend verbally abuses two ophthalmologists
http://www.boston.com/ae/celebri…- hahaha..running out of material?ukit
- never, Dems are too easy to pick apart. look at him though... how can you not?********
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- luckyorphan0
In response to the article about Congress placing the Federal Employee Health Benefits Plan in limbo, Senator Charles Grassley, Republican of Iowa, said:
“The whole point is to make sure political leaders live under the laws they pass for everyone else,” Mr. Grassley said Tuesday. “In this case, after the committee completed its work, the coverage provision was redrafted by others, and that’s where mistakes were made. Congress can and should act to correct the mistakes.”
The federal employees program, created in 1959, now provides coverage to eight million people and, according to the Congressional Research Service, is the largest employer-sponsored health insurance program in the country.
Seems reasonable to me.
- MyMommies0
@luckyorphan
What your writings confirm to me is that you're a punk-ass liberal, dem-loving, jew-hater with a silver spoon up your ass. Absolutely nothing more, perhaps something less. Sorry you spent all night, trying to make yourself feel better, posting to this putrid thread. It didn't work. Hearts and minds unchanged.Btw, I hope you enjoy Hell®. But I hear that it's not such a nice place to stay.
P.s.: I know a Catholic priest who would like to tap your cute little rear. Let me know if you're available.
- ukit0
The tea party is the last gasp of a nativist, traditionalist part of the country that is scared because they are seeing the America of the past being swept away. The deficit has been a problem for years, why did it take until the first black President that they get out and protest? What's all this shit about Obama's birth certificate and being born in Kenya? What a crock of shit.
Their racism is only matched by how pathetic they are. Ask yourself when a group that advocated returning to the past has ever gotten what they wanted. Sure they might win some seats in Congress in the next election, but long term, the trend is against them.
I was reading that last year, 49% of all kids born in the U.S. were minorities. This year, for the first time, a majority will be. The old white dominated, racially segregated, conservative America that these gay teabaggers love is dying and will never be back.
- TEABAGGERS UNITE®utopian
- People get attacked for suggesting that race has something to do with this, but I believe it does.Josev
- I have a client who hates Obama -- she posts on facebook about him all the time. I recall her telling me, years ago, that she had to move her father out of his neighborhood because some blacks had moved in.Josev
- ago, that she had to move her father out of his neighborhood because some blacks had moved in.Josev
- Of course it doesukit
- ukit0
When Lt. Col. Terrence Lakin announced in a YouTube video late last month that he would refuse to deploy to Afghanistan until President Obama produced a birth certificate, the news spread thanks to a PR operation by a virtually unknown group called the American Patriot Foundation.
The Patriot Foundation created a flashy Web site to promote Lakin's story, www.safeguardourconstitution.com…... started a legal defense fund, and posted documents from Lakin's Birther quest like a letter to Obama asking the president to "assure the American people that you are indeed Constitutionally eligible to serve as Commander-in-Chief." A spokeswoman, Margaret Hemenway, was on hand to respond to media inquires.
It turns out that Hemenway is a former longtime GOP Hill staffer with a colorful past that includes an episode in which she filed a complaint because her daughter's 1st grade teacher announced she was marrying a woman. ("Since homosexual activists cannot reproduce their own children, recruitment to their cause ... is essential to the political agenda of promoting homosexuality and 'gay' marriage," Hemenway reportedly wrote at the time.)
Hemenway spent 15 years on the Hill working for prominent conservative members including Rep. John Shadegg (R-AZ), Sen. Bob Smith (R-NH), and as a policy analyst for the House Republican Study Committee, according to Hemenway's bios at various conservative publications. She also spent five years at the Defense Department and NASA "as a White House appointee" during the Bush Administration.
- BonSeff0
Another thing that cracks me up is that the lower income you make, the less loopholes and deduction options you have, but they are all up in arms about taxing rich who take advantage of all kinds of loopholes.. fuck look at exxon mobile
http://motherjones.com/mojo/2010…Their myopia is fucking outstanding.
- Year after year I love how Exxon has a special case excuse for this.Mimio
