Well I'm done with this thread, but dennis I really want you to know
how interesting it was (ealier in this thread) to see you use the term "Broad Brush"
Liberalism (from the Latin liberalis) is a political ideology or worldview founded on ideas of liberty and equality.Liberals espouse a wide array of views depending on their understanding of these principles, but generally liberals support ideas such as capitalism (either regulated or not), constitutionalism, liberal democracy, free and fair elections,human rights and the free exercise of religion.
Conservatism (Latin: conservare, "to retain") is a political and social philosophy that promotes retaining traditional institutions and supports, at most, minimal and gradual change in society. A person who follows the philosophies of conservatism is referred to as a traditionalist or conservative. Some conservatives seek to preserve things as they are, emphasizing stability and continuity, while others oppose modernism and seek a return to "the way things were"
God Bless America Land of Choice!
If there is anyone here bitchin' but not registered to vote...
shame on you!
( America entry into the War of 1812 was decided by ONE VOTE! )
How can I be " all washed up" if I'm so damn dirty?
I didn't paint Planned Parenthood with a broad brush. We all know what business they are in. Do they do some good? I'm sure they do but how anyone can support giving them TAXPAYER dollars is beyond me.
There are times you have to put a rabid dog down.
I cried when Travis has to put Old Yeller down, but I was 7 when I first saw the movie.
Yeah, I still kinda tear up when I watch the movie, because it brings back old memories of some dogs that I have had that met tragic endings.
Travis was a boy, who had to act like a man ! He accepted responsibility, and he did what was right for the safety of his family and the community !
So did Gee Wiz !
In California the Prisons are over populated, so the Progs snivel that we need to release the non-violent offenders. Guess what? If they are in the State Prison System, chances are, they are pretty darn violent. Yeah, the county jails have too many petty criminals, guys who have been busted with a nickle bag or a joint, where major White Collar Criminals skate.
So, we have VIOLENT CRIMINALS on the streets !
California Must Release 40,000 Prisoners
Prison Overcrowding State of Emergency Proclamation
South West of me, in Hemet, Ca. This is what the LEO's had/have to deal with.
Truck torchings may be latest attack on Hemet police
Booby Trap Attacks Targeting California Police Officers
Every now and then we seeThe tree of liberty must be refreshedWith the blood of patriots and tyrantsThe time has come againThe clash of free and tyranny will soak the EarthWith the blood of patriots and tyrants
“If a nation expects to be ignorant and free in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and never will be.”
--Thomas Jefferson, 1816.
Doughboy dennistyler Bush again? "tell women what to do with their bodies." I never understood this phrasing. This pro-choice cry seems to omit consideration for one thing...the baby. please address the murder to protect life issue! Do men have the right to tell a women you must carry to term if the child is deformed or a product of rape?
dennistyler Bush again? "tell women what to do with their bodies." I never understood this phrasing. This pro-choice cry seems to omit consideration for one thing...the baby.
Bush again? "tell women what to do with their bodies." I never understood this phrasing. This pro-choice cry seems to omit consideration for one thing...the baby.
please address the murder to protect life issue!
Do men have the right to tell a women you must carry to term
if the child is deformed or a product of rape?
Deformed? if the baby is deformed and you think it is justifiable to end its life, then why stop at abortion? Think of the money we could save by euthanizing those in society that are non-productive! Anyone with an IQ under 70 gets to swim with the sharks. This would be easy to figure out and all we have to do is wait for election day and find the ones that voted for Obama.
Who gets to define "deformed"? If you want a boy and it is a female is that deformed? What if we discover a gay gene, is that a deformity? Blond hair or male pattern baldness? "men" playing GOD is a slippery slope and I don't think we have the right to end innocent lives.
A good friend of mine said he never realized he wanted a child with Down's syndrome until he had one.
Obama's cronies really screwed this one up. All to make Barry look "tougher." Please!
Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.), chairwoman of the Senate Intelligence Committee, said Monday that someone at the White House was responsible for the recent leaks of classified information.
thehill.com/.../239661-sen-feinstein-says-someone-at-white-house-is-behind-leaks
You can hear the audio from the Supreme Court arguments starting at 1:40. IT IS UNREAL.
Newt Gingrich | July 18, 2012
This week's newsletter is excerpted from my new e-book "No Taxation by Misrepresentation,"
As I wrote last week, the Obama administration's attempt to rewrite history in the wake of the recent Supreme Court ruling on Obamacare ranks among the most brazen dishonesty in recent American political history. The rhetorical manipulation by the president and his allies regarding his law's most controversial provision, the individual mandate, is a scandalous attempt to deceive the American people.
It constitutes a level of systematic dishonesty worthy of Orwell's "1984" or of the Communist newspaper Pravda at the peak of the Soviet Empire. Uncomfortable facts become nonexistent. "Necessary" falsehoods become the new truth. Doublespeak reigns.
It is the opposite of the fundamental honesty needed for self-government.
America was founded on an explicit contract between the governed and those to whom they loan power. There is a citizen-based freedom in America that has become a model for the world.
This American model began with a deep belief that power could only come with the consent of the governed. It was framed early on in a simple, direct fight over taxes. Ironically the very issue of taxation that is at the heart of the fight over Obamacare was also at the heart of the American Revolution.
In 1750 Reverend Jonathan Mayhew of Boston delivered a sermon in which he asserted there should be "no taxation without representation."
This phrase became one of the two major complaints of the colonists in their grievances with the British monarchy. (The other was dictatorial judges imposing government orders on citizens against their will.)
The Declaration of Independence reaffirmed this principle of representation in several statements. The Declaration asserts government "deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed ... " can be changed by the people. It also blamed the British government and the King for "imposing Taxes on us without our Consent."
This demand for representation was at the heart of the American Revolution.
Our Founding Fathers believed that representative self-government and the very fabric of freedom required a basic level of honesty.
If people couldn't believe their leaders how could they have representative self-government?
The very concept of a bond between those in power and those who vote them into power requires some fundamental trust based upon honest discourse.
Thomas Aquinas summed up the simple matter quite well back in the 13th Century when he wrote "Men could not live with one another if there were not mutual confidence that they were being truthful to one another."
Five centuries after Aquinas, the first three presidents of the United States all shared similar attachments to honesty.
In his Farewell Address in 1796, our first president said "I hold the maxim no less applicable to public than to private affairs, that honesty is the best policy."
John Adams, our second president and a coauthor with Thomas Jefferson and Benjamin Franklin of the Declaration of Independence, shared Jefferson's belief in honesty being integral to representative self-government. In a letter to Jefferson in 1796, Adams wrote that he hoped his would be "the age of experiments in government, and that their basis will be founded on principles of honesty, not of mere force."
Thomas Jefferson, our third president and author of the Declaration of Independence, wrote in 1774 that "(t)he whole art of government consists in the art of being honest."
The Founders clearly understood that there is a very simple reason self-government requires some fundamental level of honesty.
The election process is essentially a contract. The candidate is promising to represent a set of values and work toward a series of agreed upon goals in return for citizens' votes.
Citizens are voting to lend power to someone in return for his or her commitment to use that power to work toward a shared vision of the future.
The very heart of the election contract is a basic understanding of what is at stake. When leaders are dishonest to the people about important issues, they undermine the trust that is fundamental to the idea of self-government -- or as Abraham Lincoln so eloquently put it, "government of the people, by the people, for the people."
President Barack Obama launched his campaign in 2007 in Springfield, Illinois invoking that spirit of Honest Abe. But it is clear President Obama hasn't grasped the basic truths and the ethic of simple honesty that Lincoln understood and which defined Lincoln's speeches and his presidency.
President Obama's systematic and pervasive dishonesty undermines the ability of the public to know what's at stake, which is the very basis of every judgment made by the American people.
If such dishonesty is not punished by the voters, I fear it will teach a generation of Americans that routine, systematic dishonesty can be a winning strategy that creates legitimacy by the very act of succeeding. The cost will be a terrible erosion of trust among men and women, and a tearing apart of the social fabric that can only be built upon relationships of trust.
The election stakes
This election is about much more than the economy and jobs.
This election is about much more than a radical power grab designed to create a Washington centered bureaucratic control of America on behalf of left wing values.
This election is also about a culture of corruption and dishonesty that threatens to undermine and replace the very fabric of American representative self-government.
The Obama system of dishonesty has been on its most blatant display recently about taxes in Obamacare.
The uniformity and discipline of the Obama administration's "it's not a tax" campaign since the Supreme Court's decision is a deliberate effort to impose a falsehood on historic fact that should anger every American.
To defend honesty as a core value of American self-government and to defend the American principle of no taxation without representation, we must decisively repudiate taxation by misrepresentation.
This is the most important election in over a century and the Obama dishonesty about taxation and Obamacare is just more proof of how dishonest and how destructive the Obama team is and why it must be defeated.
LOLOLOL! I hope you took your medication this morning you loon!
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Amy Payne
July 24, 2012 at 9:19 am
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Solar-cell manufacturer Solyndra became a household name when it collapsed, taking $627 million in American taxpayer dollars with it. It’s the poster company for the government picking winners and losers—or really, just losers—in the energy market. But there are 12 more “green energy” losers that have declared bankruptcy despite attempts to prop them up with taxpayer money—and the list is growing.
There’s a reason why these companies could not rely solely on private financing and needed help from the government. They couldn’t make it on their own; they couldn’t even make it with extra taxpayer help.
These green government “investments” take from one (by taxing or borrowing) and give to another, but they merely move money around. They do not create jobs. They send labor and resources to areas of the economy where they are wasted. Proponents of special financing and tax credits for solar companies claim that these benefits will pay for themselves down the line—but when the companies receiving them are going bankrupt, that is highly unlikely.
Kate Adams, a member of Heritage’s Young Leaders Program, and Heritage’s Rachael Slobodien compiled a list of the 12 members of the Green Graveyard—companies that received taxpayer money for green initiatives yet have filed for bankruptcy.
Some lawmakers are looking for a solution. The aptly named No More Solyndras Act would prohibit any new loan guarantees from Title XVII of the Energy Policy Act of 2005.
As Heritage’s Nicolas Loris wrote,
Republicans and Democrats alike need to end their addiction to energy subsidies, or we’re going to continue down the same failed path of wasteful spending…We don’t need to fix the energy subsidy programs. We need to abolish them.
President Obama said in 2010 that “the true engine of economic growth will always be companies like Solyndra.” He couldn’t be more wrong. Companies that are innovating and creating real value for consumers are the engine of economic growth, and they’re doing it without millions in taxpayer funding.
Do you have a single original self generated thought in your enormous and vacant cranium of yours? We are the " envy " of the world!!! Have you even seen the world or are you comfortable knowing thay you and your Good old' boys are what the world is about? OPEN YOUR EYEs!!! YOU are the MINORITY!! Health care for everyone? Hell No That be Damn !!! Can you read? Would you be willing to read? Didn't think so. Brady2sakic
www.americanbridgepac.org/.../bridge-briefing-romneys-record-on-veterans