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08/15/09
And laughing.
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[well that would be MY answer to that question.]
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"Calm yourself down or everyone will dismiss you as ignorant and crazy. Do your homework and do your best to get your facts straight so no one can nitpick them and use that against you and whatever you do stay calm and sane."
I certainly disagree with the woman but I'd respect, listen, and not roll my eyes at her if she listened to my mother's advice.
08/13/09
Also, contrary to her statement, "I'm 35 years old and have never been interested in politics!" she sure does have a lot to say in her review of Sean Hannity's book.
Have a look:
[www.amazon.com]
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"The laws of humanity make it a duty for nations, as well as individuals, to succor those whom accident and distress have thrown upon them." --Thomas Jefferson
The basis of our political system is the right of the people to make and to alter their constitutions of government. --George Washington
There must be a positive passion for the public good, the public interest, honour, power and glory, established in the minds of the people, or there can be no republican government, nor any real liberty: and this public passion must be superior to all private passions. --John Adams
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This is a vicious cultural cycle, and until it's broken, nothing's going to get done. I actually think it's taught from school age now. When I was a kid (which was not that long ago!), you played sports in gym class and you either won or lost. You were either good at playing or you were bad at it. Nowadays, everyone's a winner! Every action every kid does gets celebrated, no matter how clumsy or dumb they are. (Oh, and nobody's dumb anymore either, they just have either ADD or autism.)
Ah, I miss those days when the strong would pelt the weak with dodgeballs until none were left standing.
No, seriously, in life there are winners and losers. When you start thinking of everybody as the same, then you start pandering to the lowest common denominator, and anybody who is obviously above that level becomes an arrogant outsider. We need to start celebrating people that are smarter than us again, and we need to put those people in charge of taking care of us. That's the whole *point* of a representative democracy, which is what the Constitution is all about.
08/13/09
They owned humans. Their definition of "freedom" and a modern one do not coincide, and it's all well and good to point to the Constitution, but the damn thing was written hundreds of years ago, and it simply does not cover modern issues, the population we have now, the technology, etc. It is a nice document in theory. Now let's move on and deal with things in fact.
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Ah, if I lived in the US.
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Most of these protesters know nothing about the facts of health care reforms. I am willing to bet that at the core of these protests it's not about a fundamental opposition to socialized medicine, it's about the fact that the majority of this country voted for a progressive president and Congress and their status quo is crumbling. Be it healthcare reform or banking regulations, they will grab onto any hot button issue and escalate it to a circus atmosphere just to make a point. These crazies are simply arguing for the sake of arguing, no logic, no reason, with the only true motivation behind them being stubbornness, immaturity and stupidity.
08/13/09
Anyway all the "founding fathers blah blah freedom" tactics are just a way of obfuscating what they really mean: "I don't want people to have health care when they need it because I'm selfish".