Originally Posted By WorldDisney You know with two main stories here bringing out, ONCE again, the birthers and truthers craziness, we should settle it once and for all and pit them together in a royal death match against each other! And it will be to the last man/woman standing. Who ever wins, they get a choice of living in a log cabin in Montana or a house in Wasilla Alaska, so they can be far away from civilization as possible, with everything paid for life and membership fees to their favorite rigt/left wing under-FBI-survellance fringe group. If they aleady HAVE a log cabin in Montana or a house in Alaska, which most likely they will, they can be shipped off to either Cuba or Kenya where they continue fighting the good fight there and irritate the locals for awhile with their air-tight theories of why the American government is hiding the truth from the people.
Originally Posted By DAR Posts 91 and 93. Usually those who chirp loudest about others being racists need to take a long hard look at themselves.
Originally Posted By Dabob2 Not necessarily, by any means. If you have any proof that skinnerbox and gad are racists, say it. Otherwise it's an unfounded innuendo, not at all fair, and not worthy of you.
Originally Posted By DAR I never said they were in particular and skinner and gad I apologize to you both if that's what you took from it. All I said that those chirp the loudest about such issues that offend them are usually found as the biggest practicioners(I have no idea how to spell that), racism(See Sharpton, Al) or homosexuality(See Haggard, Theodore)
Originally Posted By Dabob2 The Haggard/homosexuality thing is partly due to the closet and the fact that if you're gay you can still hide and pass for straight. And people like Haggard think they can throw people off by being anti-gay. As for Sharpton, remember that for every Sharpton there's a MLK, a Julian Bond, a John Lewis. Some people "chirp" about racism because it's a real thing that affects real people.
Originally Posted By skinnerbox <<All I said that those chirp the loudest about such issues that offend them are usually found as the biggest practicioners(I have no idea how to spell that), racism(See Sharpton, Al) or homosexuality(See Haggard, Theodore)>> Question for DAR: Which political party has the largest percentage of blatant, in-your-face, vote-for-anti-equality-ballot-measures racists, the Republicans or the Democrats? And please answer the question instead of misdirecting the discussion away from it. Thank you.
Originally Posted By DAR To answer your question: <<Which political party has the largest percentage of blatant, in-your-face, vote-for-anti-equality-ballot-measures racists, the Republicans or the Democrats?>> The Democrats
Originally Posted By gadzuux Yeah - I'd like to see some support for that contention too. As you know, I can recite chapter and verse about the GOP outrages, attacks on the constitution and garden variety demogoguery. But I'll hold off - you have the floor, DAR ...
Originally Posted By DAR The Democrats want minorities to become dependent on the government instead of letting people become self-reliant, Republicans at the very least want people to be self-reliant. It hasn't worked out that way though.
Originally Posted By Longhorn12 So the party trying to let people go to college so they can better themselves and their families is actually holding them back? And the party who wants everything to be good for the top percentages and doesn't care about the rest are helping them? That's mind blowing.
Originally Posted By DAR <<So the party trying to let people go to college so they can better themselves and their families is actually holding them back?>> Money doesn't solve every problem.
Originally Posted By DAR Believe it or not the government isn't the solution to everything but Washington for the last 20 years doesn't seem to get that.
Originally Posted By skinnerbox Wow. The last time any Republican played the victim card that strongly was Nixon during his Checkers speech in 1952. And the only victims he cited were the Nixons. The Party of Mostly White Dudes does not wish for minorities to be self-reliant. They basically want minorities to be self-depricating and self-loathing and afraid of their own shadow, so as to never have the self-esteem and determination to desire and expect anything that they don't have... like the White Dudes' jobs and lifestyle. This is pure spin designed to take the racial heat off the Republicans where it most certainly belongs.
Originally Posted By skinnerbox <<Money doesn't solve every problem.>> If that were true, then the top 2% wouldn't be spending billions in buying politicians to run the government to THEIR advantage and not the country's.
Originally Posted By Kar2oonMan >>Republicans at the very least want people to be self-reliant<< Until it doesn't work out. Then they come up with terms like "too big to fail" to help those self-reliant corporations.
Originally Posted By Longhorn12 >Money doesn't solve every problem. < Money doesn't solve everything... good thing my point was also about education. The more I think about it you are right though. The side that want's to take out scientific theories in favor of religious theories are helping us more with education. That is if by "helping" we mean "making worse"
Originally Posted By DAR <<The more I think about it you are right though. The side that want's to take out scientific theories in favor of religious theories are helping us more with education>> Why can't both exist together?
