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Sunday, Nov 8, 2009
Even if it is true that they are following the dictates of their conscience, the devastation that we have brought on Iraq should at least cause them some pause, some moment of uncertainty. And it doesn't.
This is by no means a defense of the Christian right, but very few people have moral beliefs that are free of contradiction. For example, I wonder how many people on UT are pro-choice and against capital punishment? These are in contradiction, just like being pro-death penalty and anti-abortion. The ethical principle that these issues share is the sanctity of life, but that principle is in conflict in the scenarios above.
Sadly, most people are incapable of higher-level ethical reasoning--not because of some inherent incompetence. Rather, most people are never taught the skill of ethical reasoning and those who have learned it often don't want to invest the time and effort to consider issues on a meta-ethical level. Indeed, most people are happy to make decisions based on a gut-level reaction or some aphorism learned in school, religious institution or from one's family. For people who can identify the ethical principles at stake in an issue, they often cannot order those principles consistently over diverse issues. Again, it has nothing to do with intelligence. Would that we could train everyone in ethical decisionmaking and afford everyone the time it takes to consider their ethical worldview each time they make a decision.
You have a party (Republicans) that, since 1980, has been elected on the premise that government is the problem.
Is it any wonder, then, that when people like that infect government offices, only crap policies are going to come out?
"...It is our liberty, our innate rights, protected FROM the government by our Constitution that allows us..."
I completely agree.
I would like to be free from government interference in:
* Who I choose to marry
* What faith I follow, including none
* What I do with my own body
* The privacy of my communications
* My freedom of speech
* The security of my own person
So glad to see that we're on the same page.
Women of America,
Instead of honestly presenting her policies and qualifications, Palin was WINKING, i.e. FLIRTING, to get your boyfriends and husbands to vote for her so that she can enact her extreme religious views when McCain kicks the bucket.
Proof: National Review's Rich Lowry wrote:
"I'm sure I'm not the only male in America who, when Palin dropped her first wink, sat up a little straighter on the couch and said, "Hey, I think she just winked at me." And her smile. By the end, when she clearly knew she was doing well, it was so sparkling it was almost mesmerizing. It sent little starbursts through the screen and ricocheting around the living rooms of America."
See: http://tinyurl.com/4haf92
We need an ad using the video of McCain checking out her butt and her winking to the Men of America.
It's like Legally Blonde, or Clueless... except this is a US presidential election!
Just for instance, "... I asked her if she had ever encountered an intelligent person who privately believed in the Immaculate Conception* - which of course she hadn't; and I also asked her if she had ever seen an intelligent person who was daring enough to publicly deny his belief in that fable and print the denial. Of course she hadn't encountered any such person."
As a follow-up, someone ought to ask Palin/McCain if they think the Iraq War was conceived by the doctrine of Immaculate Conception... or what? (*There have been two (2) debates now, ostensibly on 'national secruity' issues and not one question on *WHY* the U.S. is at war in Iraq. How can that be - there must be a reason?)
I've got a headache,
bah.
*Throughout Mark Twain's writing, he confuses the doctrine of the Immaculate Conception with that of the Virgin Birth of Christ. (Devoto)
Democrats got back in on a mandate from the people.
yet nothing has changed.
it lends credence to the assertions of many, including me, that indeed this nation is being run by one party with two factions rather than by two true parties. Worse yet, the two factions are in conspiratorial agreement on the direction this country should continue heading.
so, of course, the nation's ills make sense if and when the two faction government seeks to collapse the financial system so as to implement iron fisted rule over the people.
this is the explanation I think fits closest to answering the virtual silence of the democrats when it comes to addressing the issues the people want addressed.
from that perspective (seeking collapse of the system so as to institute a new order) this government is remarkably successful.
Do others have a more compelling scenario that explains all this inaction the past two years?
A beast, a species of any sort, will instinctively sense if a 17-hand high horse, bites, rears two hind feet to kick, or bites you, Pedinska, and who knows where? You would surely gallop back to O-Hi-O.
I stud-horse will gallop off to who knows where? Not even the revered, and ancient prophet, Allah knew... Maybe to Wabaton`gush? Miss P. Those brown banana's are freezable. Whatever.
What ever I was gonna say,`I forgot?
It's best, and it, a-bean-a-sumptin!
stumped me.o. amour-more a lucky?
more likely, stooped story.`a flopper.
Chores are done. Time to 'hit' the hay.
Hay! ok! hey. ay! horsey. or for a ox!
Who is not zonked? `O knock out me!
O me zonked O. O! `O clunk to dawn!
is that this is only a one party system.
there is no substantive second party to vote for.
instead we can choose from candidate ONE or candidate TWO of the controlling party.
I am writing in Ron Paul for president and voting every single other incumbent out.
I urge all Americans who still think this nation has a chance, and those who do not, to vote similarly.
The forces of evil have GAMED the American people successfully. The patient is dying on the bed and in its last gasps, being suffocated as it is by the lack of real VOTER choice in our government.
(as for Ron Paul not having a chance at winning, IF EVERY SINGLE PERSON VOTED FOR RON PAUL he would be president. It is called CHOICE, kidlets. Quit being a tool and begin to use your noggin for the FIRST TIME IN YOUR LIVES)
Much of the initial coverage about Fort Hood turned out to be wrong. Is there anything wrong with that?
The accountability imposed by another country for the CIA's kidnapping and torture reveals much about our own.
Fox News' morning show plays to type, talking about whether Muslims in the Army should face "special debriefings"
The survivor and author is upset about comparisons some on the right are making to genocide
Once seen as a lunatic fringe, reactionary anti-women groups are courting respectability
Salon headlines in your mailbox
