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A few other points
[Read the article: Is the GOP political platform contrary to Catholic teaching?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]The Repignicans also support the "sanctity" of marriage. They and the a large majority of the purported Christers reject gay marriage. This was supposed to be a big issue in 2004. Of course, the G-man has a couple of political problems with this - he lived with a gay couple after his divorce - and - (did I mention?) - his divorce and his annulment....
Why the Repignicans get way with wrapping themselves in the mantle of Christianity while pooping on all the principles that are attributed to Christ is beyond me. I wrote this in a fit of rage:
The Republican Sermon on the Mount:
And Jesus said:
"Screw the poor -
They are just a bunch of lazy, welfare-sucking, drug-taking, illegal-immigrant assholes.
Screw those who morn their dead -
Unless they are American - or perhaps Israeli.
Screw the meek -
When they get a backbone - then we will talk.
Screw those seek after righteousness -
Unless it's our kind of righteousness, then we will support their programs,however useless and riddled with corruption, with government funds.
Screw the hungry -
They can feed themselves on minimum wage and, if their jobs go overseas, well then, Jonathan Swift had 'A Modest Proposal.'
Screw the merciful -
Unless we kill those who oppose us, we are traitors to freedom.
Screw the pure in heart -
The ends always justifies the means- and if we happen to make Halliburton rich at the same time, all the better.
Oh yeah, and finally,
ESPECIALLY
Screw the peacemakers -
Bunch of shit-ass liberals."
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Thanks, Keith
[Read the article: The K Chronicles]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I needed a laugh after reading the news. Love the concept.
Take care all. I am good for $10.
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Cheney Wormtongue
[Read the article: Run, Dick, run]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]If you are looking for a literary analogy - you can't get any Grimer than that....
With his vinegary visage, he's the best Saruman for the office...
I hope the Repugnicans don't Sauron him....
I think he's Eying the office.
ghod save us from the "Lord of the Dicks."
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A 46 year old married guy
[Read the article: Are men spoiled rotten?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I am sometimes amazed when I take my son to birthday parties (he's 10) and I see dads that are 10-15 years my senior with kids younger than mine... I was at one a couple of weeks ago where dad - who appeared to be pushing 60 - sat there with 3 cameras around his neck so that he would be excused from any physical involvement with his 4 year old and 6 year old daughters. I thought that this was sad. He was short, balding with a substantial paunch - I never saw his wife, but I was curious as hell. I have been married for 15 years and we are pretty happy, but if anything were to happen to my wife, I would never want a younger woman. I work at a college where there are lots of women in their early twenties and, while I can appreciate feminine pulchritude, I would be mortified by the process of asking any of them out.... Maybe my imagination is too good. I can see myself as I suspect others see me. I also want to be with someone who is my own age as they are more familiar with the realities of aging and maturity. When I groan a little as I get out of bed, I know that my wife has some understanding of how I feel - something that anyone much under 45 would have no real clue about. I know that I wouldn't have, 15 years ago. I think being with your agemates is a blessing - I have a number of friends that I met in college and we are all, more or less, at similar stages in our lives. I find this comforting.
Re: the economic security issues of men in their 40's - I got out of college in the early 80's - in the middle of a recession. I was laid off from a crappy job in 1990. I retrained in physical therapy and that field fell apart in the later 90's - resulting in 2 more lay-offs. I went into computers in the late 90's, only to survive 2 more layoffs with the tech crash. I was very lucky to jump to the public sector in 2002 - 150 people applied for my $50,000/year job - in silicon valley where the median household income was more than twice that and a single family house couldn't be bought for less than $550,000 (now about $800,000). At 47, I am finally reaching some degree of financial security, but there are no real guaranties even so. My brother, who is 58 this year, had much easier economic path - the economic "bounces" caught him at the right time and propelled him pretty easily through life. Of course, he thinks it's just because he was smart. The boomers sucked a lot of good jobs out of the marketplace. I have worked hard all my life, hustled like hell, completed nearly 500 units of college credit, degrees in 3 distinct fields and I still feel like I am hanging on by my fingernails.
To re-cap -
1. Date people your own age.
2. Some of us middle aged guys still don't have it so good.
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Larry Lindsey should have been fired!
[Read the article: Incorrigible]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]His analysis was completely wrong....
He underestimated the cost of the war by at least 5x... His ineptitude led us into an expensive morass that we will spend years digging ourselves out from. He caused us to blindly charge into one of the most costly foreign adventures ever - second only to World War II in our nation's most costly war. (http://www.csmonitor.com/2005/0829/p15s01-cogn.html)
His foolish misunderestimating will cause debt that will take a generation to pay off. His reckless incompetence has led to a conflict which has cost us dearly in human lives, treasure and goodwill around the world...
Oh, what? He was fired by the Bush administration for OVERESTIMATING?
I'm very sorry. That's completely different.
Bitch.
(with a hat-tip to the late and dearly missed Gilda Radner)