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ORIGINAL: KenDckey

rofl   oh Julia  I only had a few college classes   suddenly becomming a single parent and going to the field in the Army sorta got in the way and then I lost interest.   I regret it now.  I had to learn all that stuff to get my professional certification the hard way.   Most of my peers have Masters in the field.   And I didn't take Debate in HS   Only Journalism.   I am a Toastmaster.   I even had to learn programming the hard way.  The army didn't teach it in Oakland and Atlanta. 

Question   weren't your papers footnoted?   that might help   I see a lot of that here and have done it here where People post links to their sources.

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ORIGINAL: juliaoceania

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ORIGINAL: KenDckey

rofl   oh Julia  I only had a few college classes   suddenly becomming a single parent and going to the field in the Army sorta got in the way and then I lost interest.   I regret it now.  I had to learn all that stuff to get my professional certification the hard way.   Most of my peers have Masters in the field.   And I didn't take Debate in HS   Only Journalism.   I am a Toastmaster.   I even had to learn programming the hard way.  The army didn't teach it in Oakland and Atlanta. 

Question   weren't your papers footnoted?   that might help   I see a lot of that here and have done it here where People post links to their sources.

My papers had in text citations. And I am not about to cite every post unless someone wants the link, and if I can't cite it with a link I will post the name of the book the information can be found in... but this is a casual affair, not an academic exercise.

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ORIGINAL: juliaoceania

I am not apologizing that I do not like the republican party and all that it stands for, and I am not a democrat cheerleader either. My OPINION is that the Bush admin, which represents your party has Guns Oil and Drugs as its God... I can point to what gave me this opinion, such as taking out Noriega and increasing the flow of Cocaine twice fold through Panama and Nicaragua , taking out the Taliban and increasing Opium poppy output, involving our troops in babysitting pipelines in Colombia for Occidental Petroleum, and kidnapping Chavez in Venezuela.

Now you may not agree with me, but Republican is not synonomous with Christian, so it is no insult to your religion whatsoever, if you want to tie your political affiliation that closely with your religion, that is your issue, not mine. I am not speaking of every democrat or republican as human beings or as individuals, I am talking about party leadership, and unless you are the ones making these decisions, well my comments are not directed at you at all. I love the fact I am an independent and have no team I have to get insulted and offended for.. because it really is a waste of energy in my opinion

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ORIGINAL: juliaoceania

I am not apologizing for that characterization which is about the politicians in your party, and if you cannot see the difference that is of little impact on me in my life. Partisans tend to take it personally when their leadership is attacked, the cure for that is not to be one.

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ORIGINAL: EnglishDomNW

In case the link to WereNotAfraid.com didn't appear earlier, you can see some of the images from all over the world here

http://www.werenotafraid.com/

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ORIGINAL: juliaoceania

I think we were far more divided during Vietnam. The debate in this country takes place in an echo chamber designed by corporations. It is not covering what is really happening. The same happened back in the Vietnam era, but once questioning and real dissent started it became a firestorm that erupted into Kent State Massacre... if you are unfamiliar with Kent State Philosophy.... please go google it, I think it will illustrate how wrong Rather was in what he stated.

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ORIGINAL: CrappyDom

Ken,

If the Republican party stood for individual liberty and fiscal conservancy, they just might have my vote but they don't.  Bush and this crew have done more real actions to limit guns than all the Democrats combined since 1968.  I don't even have to talk about fiscal policy though, do I?

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ORIGINAL: philosophy

absolutely no offence intended Ken, but while i totally understand what you're saying here.....

"When you say republicans and not the party you are refering to the inddividuals.   Since I am one of those individuals I am due a public appology for the mischaractirazation, slander, etc. "

....you betray it rather when, on another thread, you insisted that most californians were mad...or something, i could go find the exact quote but i know you're honest enough to remember. If you're going to throw generalisations about it isn't fair to then ask not to have generalisations thrown at you.
Personally, when it comes to things like politics and religion i find it best to be as specific as possible, that way if people are disagreeing with you, they are at least disagreeing with what you actually said.