It was time to start buying lots of bullets a long time ago.. if you don't have a stash already, it's going to be hard to build one now..

as for Sheriff Joe, I don't find any part of this surprising.. He's got a history of hardline tactics enforcing the law and God love him for it!

This move out of Washington is a clear signal from the Administration how they feel about enforcing border laws and policing the border.. Janet Nepalitano has a very selective sense of how laws should be enforced. Her view of America's military veterans and classification of them as threats is more than a little offputting..

but I'm just being paranoid. I know..

don't let 'em get you down, rose.

Don't be so hard on yourself! That should be my job!

why can't it just be for fun? i mean, it's not like they haven't done outrageous stuff in the past to mix things up.. I think it's funny and novel. why not.. it's not like you haven't wanted to see Marge nekkid, c'mon, you know you have.

besides throughout the series, she's always been portrayed as something of a sexual figure.. and she's done well to keep her figure over the years

so if marge wants to take it off for playboy, I say good for her!

you're just classy like that, Rose

??????

why not? private schools are just that: private. they can make up any rules they like. If you don't like the way they run their school, don't send your kid there, whether it's about prayer or what they serve in the cafeteria. if you don't like it, don't send your money and your kid there. it's really that simple. no one puts a gun to your head and forces you to..

I'm not telling her to leave.. just pointing out the alternatives and the places that enact the kinds of policies that achieve what ends she seeks here.



It's not a tiny word at all.. else you wouldn't have capitalized it. you know exactly the implication made by and the distinction between freedom of and freedom from. In some islamic countries, they have freedom from christianity being practiced in their presence. The price? authoritarianism.

Is authoritarianism what you seek? That's what it means to tell people that they only have their religious freedoms within the confines of the walls of their own homes..

says you.. fact remains it is not..

There might as well be a freedom from being offended. it'll never happen. you don't have the right to impede someone else's religious practices, whether they be christian, jewish, muslim or flying spaghtetti monster..

The way the first amendment was written it was specifically designed against protecting anyone from religion.. It's impossible to protect "freedom of" and "freedom from" at the same time.. you don't like the way someone prays? too bad.. walk away, turn off the tv, the radio, pull your kid out of school. do whatever you feel like you must, that's your freedom. but it's not your freedom, neither is it your right or imperitive to keep someone from practicing their faith as they see fit..

sorry.. if you don't like people practicing christianity, move to saudi or France.. they're perfectly happy to restrict your freedom of religion there..

and look on them now..

I would argue that it is the socialist tendencies of those economies in which their troubles lie..

think about how the housing bubble started.. socialist agenda in the congress began about getting people into homes that they couldn't pay for..

many argue that it was the repeated, socialis based, stimulus packages in Japan that resulted in their "lost decade"..

socialist ideology resulted in the Nationalist Socialist regime in Germany..

Socialist economic system resulted in breadlines in Russia and their ultimate dissolution..

It wasn't until they embrace socialism that those democrady based government oversee their own demise..

de Tocqueville:

college is fine.. but all you really need is a library card.

To MsHarmony: de Tocqueville is brilliant. Read him before you dismiss his writing as mere opinion. You wouldn't classify Plato or Socrates as mere opinion, would you? de Tocqueville's and Jefferson's writing are foundations of what conservatives, free thinking ones anyways, base their way of thinking..

Read the Federalist Papers..

if you're confused, for conservatism, try reading Alexis de Tocqueville "Democracy in America", try listening to some of Reagan's speeches (any of them really but the 1964 speech to the RNC is a good place to start), listen to Mark Levin, Neil Boortz. Levin has a great book that you've never heard of called "Liberty and Tyrrany"

For socialist thought, try reading The Communist Manifesto by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels. try reading "Rules for Radicals" by Sal Alinski. Listen to some of Obama's more open rhetoric before he came on the national scene, before he had to watch what he said when the camera was on. The 2001 WBEZ Chicago interview is particularly revealing..

those are good places to start..

foremost, think for yourself. Think on what the principles are on which this nation was founded, individual freedom, liberty, self determination, protection from tyrranical government, limited government, etc...

Don't let someone dissuade you from taking information from particular sources on the grounds that "they" think that source is biased.. chances are they don't want you to listen to Boortz or Levin because they know you might identify with some of what those people have to say..

you're right. should have given that some consideration..

still. if anyone thinks either side of that conversation represents an actual, discrete exchange of thoughts between two individuals rather than being a biased characature intended to put the "conservative" in a bad light, I have a bridge I'd like to sell you.

but if you want a characterization of people supporting Obama, here's an actual conversation recorded for WJR Detroit of people standing in line to get money through the City of Detroit..

Reporter: "why are you here?"
peroson in line: "to get some money"
reporter: "what kind of money?"
person in line: "Obama Money"
reporter: "Where's it coming from?"
person in line: "Obama"
Reporter: "and where did Obama get it?"
Person in line: "I don't know. His stash, I don't know. I don't know where he got it from but he giving [sic] it to us, to help us. We love him, that's why we voted for him."
Other person in line: "O-Ba-ma! O-ba-ma!"
Both persons in line (together): "O-Ba-ma! O-ba-ma! O-Ba-ma! O-Ba-ma!"
Reporter: "In Downtown Detriot, Ken Regurski, WJR News"

you really are a parody, aren't you?

the op himself implied he was a socialist.. actually didn't imply it at all.. he came out and said it..

check again.. ninth line of the "dialogue"

sorry you can't read..

So you admit to being a socialist?

everyone not shocked at this, raise your hand

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the timeless art of seduction...