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33 years old and married for 6 years. Avid runner and pet owner. Have 2 rottweilers, Kalil and Abby. Have 3 cats, Mr. Bojangles (Bo), Marley and Elanor Rigby (Elly). Thank the wife for those 3 names. Also a raw foodist. This means any food I eat I don't cook. I only eat fruits, vegetables, nuts and seeds.
Recent Comments
September 02, 2010
[quote]Hey if you want Social Security handed over to the wiz kids on Wall Street, vote Republican.[/quote]
Well if you're a supporter of SS the Democrats aren't going to be doing you any better. This Commission that Obama formed is full of anti-SS people who are going to wait until after the election before dumping their proposals on a lame duck Congress that will then vote their recommendations through. Just watch. It won't be pretty for those of you who still support SS.
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September 02, 2010
[quote]BTW, there's a really nice piece in Time that attempts to explain Obama's fall from the voters' grace....[/quote]
It's simple really. He hasn't come through on any of his promises and/or downright reversed his campaign pledges. The "independents" are disillusioned with him because our economy is horrible and he hasn't fixed it yet. The left is disillusioned with him because he is actively and gleefully running from them on every issue. Bush era terrorism policies, the health care issue, gay rights, economic policies, financial reform, etc. You can go on and on about why the Democrats are going to stay home this election season. He really has nobody to blame but himself for choosing a horrible, horrible chief of staff like Rahm Emmanuel. If that guy never spends another day in D.C. it will be a great day for everybody in this country. The right, well they were never going to vote for him anyway so who cares what they think in regards to Obama's "fall from grace."
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September 02, 2010
[quote]Whether you intend to project it or not you seem particularly enamored with the current president.[/quote]
You're simply projecting my wigged friend. Nowhere have I approved of virtually ANYTHING Obama is doing. What I take offense to, though, is people like you who fool yourself and others into thinking it's the Democrats who do all of this on their own. You refuse to recognize that the Republican party is just as corrupt and anti-freedom as anything you accuse the Democrats of. Your "who me" posts only make it harder for people like me who come at these issues from a NON-PARTISAN arena. We recognize the corrupting behavior of our two party system and try to work at either eliminating it or fixing it by illuminating it's corrupting behavior. You, on the other hand, apparently are enamored with the corrupt, two party system and appear to actively want to keep it going which is what you do when you act like one part of the two party is system is better than the other.
[quote]Mr. Obama has constantly made the case for a larger, more intrusive government.[/quote]
Just like every Republican has done before and will do after him. As I said, less freedom and more government isn't a monopoly of the Democratic party. It's a monopoly of the two party system of which the Republicans are happily a part of.
[quote]Since you cannot make a reasonable distinction between the party that focuses on individual rights and responsibility and that party that merely embraces the collective cogent argumentation is virtually impossible.[/quote]
I can't? How come I can recognize that the Libertarian party and it's candidates are for individual rights and responsibility while the Republicrat party isn't? What two parties have been in control of our government for over 70 years now? It's not the Libertarian party. It's not the Green party. It's been the Republicrat party for a long, long time. I think it is YOU who can't make the reasonable distinction.
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September 02, 2010
[quote]you certainly can believe anything you wish.[/quote]
Typical from you. I shouldn't really be surprised anymore. Heavy on rhetoric, light on facts.
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September 02, 2010
[quote]This president raped GM bondholders. darned if that's not a pro-business, pro-market strategy.
This president encouraged the bail out of failing firms. darned if that's not a free market solution!
This president has public stated that he favors a socialized, single payer health care system. The current monstrosity of obamacare is simply a step on the path
This president believes in the efficacy of governments making economic decisions rather than markets.[/quote]
Thanks for proving my point. You just pointed out things that either A) the Repbulicans support (bailouts & government making economic decisions) and/or would've supported (raping GM bondholders)and B) that you're taking something he said years ago over something he actually did (single payer vs. the law). His administration worked from day 1 of the year long health care debate to not support a single payer bill. This law does not put us on that path. So, in essence, you didn't disprove anything I said.
[quote]yep, he's a republican sort of president[/quote]
Actually, I prefer to use the term republicrat to signify the merging of the two parties into one behemoth bent on bigger government and less freedom. They work hand-in-hand to accomplish that.
[quote]Just what kind of libertarian are you?[/quote]
Depends on the day, actually. On some issues I'm still forming my opinions. Some days I'm what you would call a liberaltarian. Other days I'd probably be considered an anarcho-libertarian in the vein of Rothbard. Every day, though, I'm a libertarian who doesn't have his blinders on to hide the truth about the Republicans like most do here.
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September 02, 2010
Another thing I forgot to add about the typical American voter is that always they're inflamed by stupid and idiotic wedge issues or issues that have absolutely no bearing on the health of our country. As I've said many times before, if you actually take a look at both political parties and their stance on issues they are virtually identical! Sure, how they arrive at the goal is different, but the goal is always for bigger government and less freedom. They'll propagandize with the promise of less government and more freedom, but somehow we always end up with more government and less freedom. After 60 years of this crap you would think the people would learn their lesson! Absolutely not.
Instead, we care about a politician's stance on the Park51 community center. We care where they stand on abortion. We make it an unofficial requirement to pray to some God, though it better be the right God or we'll be less likely to support you. We care about what they wrote about in college instead of decisions they've made since. You pick an inconsequential wedge issue and I can guarantee that the average voter cares more about a politician's position on that than they do about Social Security, Medicare, Defense, or any of the other myriad IMPORTANT topics we should be focusing on.
Not only that, but we encourage our media, whose job it is to focus on the important issues, to cover inane things. As a person I follow on Twitter just said: "Afghanistan, blah blah. Middle East peace. Boooooooring. What the f*** was T.I. thinking?" That is our media today. Covering the latest celebrity gossip as if it's important.
Unfortunately, due to the intelligence of the average voter this won't change. We'll continue on the current path we're on until it's unsustainable. Future historians will look back on this age of America and wonder how the people could've become so dumb and actively allowed their country to implode.
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September 02, 2010
[quote]sure, if you say so![/quote]
If you aren't disputing it with counter evidence to back it up, then I must be on sturdy ground.
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September 02, 2010
[quote]This election is nothing less than a referendum on Obama's leftist policies![/quote]
Are you saying then that the Democrats are going to make gains because to call Obama and his policies leftist is to have little clue about what the political spectrum is.
Almost all of his policies are hard right or centrist/corporatist. When it comes to the economy he, just like the Republicans would, has bowed down to corporate interests over the interests of the people. Let us not forget the auto industry takeover and the stimulus sprang forth from a Republican administration. On the health care issue he bowed, once again, to corporate interests and produced a very pro-corporate bill. The insurance and drug industries absolutely LOVE the law. On terrorism and other matters related to the military he's either continuing a Republican administration's policies or going BEYOND them into territory that even the Republicans didn't have time to get to.
I can't even think of a consequential "leftist" policy of his. I'm sure there are some inconsequential policies you can point to, but they don't matter when it comes to the health of this nation.
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September 02, 2010
[quote]I happen to have a lot of confidence in the intelligence of the American voter.[/quote]
Wow. You have a lot of faith. I, on the other hand, don't share your optimism and faith. I tend to go the opposite way and most evidence I view just continues to reinforce my belief that the intelligence of the average American is extremely low when it comes to politics. Most have no idea what they're talking about. Most hold contradictory positions. Most fall for the propaganda that is spewed by the politicians, the candidates, and the media. In essence, they really don't care about the issues they just look to see who has the R or D next to their name. That usually settles who they're voting for. Not what I would call intelligence.
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