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ORIGINAL: Aylee

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ORIGINAL: popeye1250

That's it!
Too bad we couldn't set up DYB on a date with,...Anrea Dworkin.
"So DYB, did you learn anything on your date with Andrea Dworkin?"
"Yeah, two things, one, never get in a buffalo-wing eating contest with her and two, Ann Coulter is a Goddess!"

Dworkin died in 2005. And while she was anti-porn her stance actually corrected a lot of the abuses of women in the porn industry.

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ORIGINAL: lockedaway

“ ...someone who looks ahead and not behind, someone who welcomes new ideas without rigid reactions, someone who cares about the welfare of the people — their health, their housing, their schools, their jobs, their civil rights, and their civil liberties — someone who believes we can break through the stalemate and suspicions that grip us in our policies abroad, if that is what they mean by a 'Liberal', then I’m proud to say I’m a 'Liberal'."

What a load of crap.  The problem is that the word "cares" in the first sentence means "taxes to support".  There...that's what being a liberal is.  Conservatives believe you should be able to secure your own health care, your own housing and be the primary educator of your children.  As far as civil rights are concerned, the party of civil rights is the republicans; note Abraham Lincoln and Dwight D. Eisenhower.  Giving an entitlement only creates a dependency on the entitled.  Those weak people will fight to the death to keep their entitlement even though their country is bankrupt, the well has run dry and their system has failed; Greece, Portugal, Spain, Italy, Ireland, France, Great Britain and the United States.  What happens when your debt is 300% of your GDP?  You cease to be a country.  And that is where all of the aforementioned countries age going.  RIP America

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ORIGINAL: RacerJim

The last sentence of your first paragraph demonstrates the difference between the 2 party's voters as well as anything. Democrats rely on attacking those who don't agree with them.

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ORIGINAL: lockedaway

Hi Charles,

I thank you for your brilliant post.  Someone who posted some of the identical content is a guy named Jerry Nadler D NY.  At least I think the fool is from NY.  He sent out some mass mailing about repealing DOMA and I had to write him back.  Here is a copy of my letter to Jerry Nadler:

Dear Jerry,

You are an idiot.  "Marriage" is defined as the union of a man and
woman joined together in a state of matrimony.  Who the hell are you
to change the definition of the word.  This is a matter of language,
not equal rights.  If you are going to expand the definition of the
WORD marriage, who says where the definition stops?  If gays and
lesbians can marry, why then can't a man marry two bisexual girls who
also love each other?  (Because it would be bigamy, congressman, if
you didn't know the answer.)  Why can't a woman then marry her Great
Dane or a man marry his favorite tree?  You cannot be so obtuse to not
understand this.

America favors that people go through life in pairs.  That is easy
enough to understand, isn't it?  There are certain rights afforded to
married couples with respect to income tax, estate taxes, death
benefits, health benefits and more.  Should there be a vehicle by
which gays, lesbians, transexuals, heterosexuals who eschew the
concept of marriage and others be able to enjoy these same benefits
when they are engaged in monogamous relationship?  Yes.  And that
vehicle is called a "Civil Union" or a "Domestic Partnership
Agreement" or a "Super-Beautiful-Rainbow-Love-Castle"...whatever.  The
point is that you create a vehicle in addition to the vehicle known as
marriage to enable that.  You don't put marriage on a slippery slope
of definitional gymnastics.  My God, man, how did you get elected to
Congress???

Please take me off of your mailing list.

Very truly yours,

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ORIGINAL: lockedaway

So draw some bright lines, Charles.  Everyone with an autistic kids brings that kid to New Jersey.  It is a huge business in this state and kids are over diagnosed without fucking shame!!!  How do I know that?  Because I have fought for children to have that classification, that label, to be removed from school files at endless IEP's. 

So what are your bright lines rules?  If a person has two arms, two legs, ten fingers and toes and an IQ within the normal bell curve, how much money should that person receive without working for it?  Well...Charles, you do realize that the next argument is going to be "well sure, he is physically normal but he is "emotionally" impaired!!!"  Ok...so now define emotional impairment with a bright line rule.

You people are soooo funny.  Try not to deal in such absolutes.  Nobody opposed the mentally retarded person from being suplemented if not entirely supported for life or any one of the millions of other people that are sclerotic or insane or maimed.  The problem is the abuse is larger than the whole.

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ORIGINAL: Sanity


Nobody has satisfactorily answered who the rebels are, the White House has as much as said they dont have a clue.

No one of substance in the media seems to be asking either, since its a Dem in the Oval Office none of the really hard questions are being asked at all.

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ORIGINAL: rulemylife

You mean like those really hard questions you and other conservatives didn't ask while we were searching for the phantom wmd's?

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ORIGINAL: rulemylife

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ORIGINAL: lockedaway

“ ...someone who looks ahead and not behind, someone who welcomes new ideas without rigid reactions, someone who cares about the welfare of the people — their health, their housing, their schools, their jobs, their civil rights, and their civil liberties — someone who believes we can break through the stalemate and suspicions that grip us in our policies abroad, if that is what they mean by a 'Liberal', then I’m proud to say I’m a 'Liberal'."

What a load of crap.  The problem is that the word "cares" in the first sentence means "taxes to support".  There...that's what being a liberal is.  Conservatives believe you should be able to secure your own health care, your own housing and be the primary educator of your children.  As far as civil rights are concerned, the party of civil rights is the republicans; note Abraham Lincoln and Dwight D. Eisenhower.  Giving an entitlement only creates a dependency on the entitled.  Those weak people will fight to the death to keep their entitlement even though their country is bankrupt, the well has run dry and their system has failed; Greece, Portugal, Spain, Italy, Ireland, France, Great Britain and the United States.  What happens when your debt is 300% of your GDP?  You cease to be a country.  And that is where all of the aforementioned countries age going.  RIP America

You know, I could be mistaken but I'm pretty sure a whole lot of Republicans are receiving Social Security checks.

Not to mention Medicare.

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ORIGINAL: Sanity


Are you trying to say questions about WMDs werent asked of Bush???

The talking heads were all over WMDs at the time.

Thats all we ever heard about

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ORIGINAL: rulemylife

You mean like those really hard questions you and other conservatives didn't ask while we were searching for the phantom wmd's?

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We've Become a Nation of Takers, Not Makers


More Americans work for the government than in manufacturing, farming, fishing, forestry, mining and utilities combined.

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704050204576219073867182108.html

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ORIGINAL: lockedaway

“ ...someone who looks ahead and not behind, someone who welcomes new ideas without rigid reactions, someone who cares about the welfare of the people — their health, their housing, their schools, their jobs, their civil rights, and their civil liberties — someone who believes we can break through the stalemate and suspicions that grip us in our policies abroad, if that is what they mean by a 'Liberal', then I’m proud to say I’m a 'Liberal'."

What a load of crap.  The problem is that the word "cares" in the first sentence means "taxes to support".  There...that's what being a liberal is.  Conservatives believe you should be able to secure your own health care, your own housing and be the primary educator of your children.  As far as civil rights are concerned, the party of civil rights is the republicans; note Abraham Lincoln and Dwight D. Eisenhower.  Giving an entitlement only creates a dependency on the entitled.  Those weak people will fight to the death to keep their entitlement even though their country is bankrupt, the well has run dry and their system has failed; Greece, Portugal, Spain, Italy, Ireland, France, Great Britain and the United States.  What happens when your debt is 300% of your GDP?  You cease to be a country.  And that is where all of the aforementioned countries age going.  RIP America

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ORIGINAL: Sanity


WTF are you referring to. Beside Clinton and Gore and everyone else in the world saying that Saddam posed a serious threat to his own people, pushing public opinion against Saddam... saying that he had used WMDs on his own people, and that he posed a threat to his neighbors, to the USA and to the world at large, every conceivable question had been asked about Saddam Hussein.

Do you forget that he took an entire nation hostage? That he was a brutal mass murdering tyrant? Whose sons raped  any woman they desired? The atrocities went on and on, and the Dems agreed on that point, because it is and it was completely irrefutable. 

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ORIGINAL: rulemylife
He had no WMD's since the Gulf War when Daddy Bush and Cheney both agreed that regime change in Iraq would cause more problems than it was worth.

A prophecy that has proven true.

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And then there is this...

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April 3 (Bloomberg) -- Service industries probably expanded in March at close to the fastest pace since 2005, a sign the U.S. economic expansion is broadening beyond manufacturing, economists said ahead of a report this week.

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G. Simon Harak, S. J. (born Derby, Connecticut) is an American peace activist and professor of theology and Director of the Center for Peacemaking at Marquette University.[1][2] From 2003 to January 2007, Fr. Harak served as the Anti-Militarism Coordinator of the National Office of the War Resisters League. He also helped found Voices in the Wilderness, which was nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize in 2001, 2002, and 2003.[citation needed] Fr. Harak was named "Metro New York Peacemaker of the Year" and "National Peacemaker of the Year" by Pax Christi Metro New York and Pax Christi Long Island in 2005.[3]