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The Blame Shame
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My advice to any Republican asked to serve in an Obama
administration? You can run away now or you can run away
later!
-- A. C. Santore
GAY BY CONSTITUTION
Re: Robert Stacy
McCain's Gay
Rights, Gay Rage:
If marriage is a Constitutional right, then everybody can marry anybody under any circumstances. By definition, Constitutional rights cannot be taken away. People would be allowed to marry their parents, children, relatives, friends, co-workers and neighbors.
One problem with the language used in gay marriage bans is not specifying the biological sex/gender of both partners. I understand in England, a person can change their gender at any time by signing a piece of paper.
I'm very pessimistic right now; I believe the future U.S. Supreme
Court will discover gay rights exist in the Constitution.
-- Paul Hoffmann
San Antonio, Texas
I'm waiting for the Federal Courts to welcome these new perpetrators of hate crimes into their courts to prosecute them fairly and swiftly…
Is it not a hate crime to engage in acts of violence against
people and/or their property because of their religion?
To quote your author:
"As the California activists spewed their fury -- allegedly vandalizing Mormon temples, making terroristic threats toward Catholics, and hurling racial epithets at African-Americans (who voted 3-to-1 in favor of Prop 8, according to exit polls) -- their vitriolic rage highlighted how the progressive rhetoric of "rights" undermines and destabilizes political consensus."
I'm afraid today's political environment will not make this possible...
Lady Justice is no longer blind but a tool of the government to
impose its socialist will.
-- Boris Nazaroff
Sterling, Virginia
There you go again, dear Spectator, fulminating against gays, for there are so few people left to lash out at. I have no answer that you would accept, but surely there are questions you refuse to answer. To whit:
Until you and gay activists come up with a convincing reason for the existence of gays and our desires and proclivities neither you nor left-leaning gay activists can come up with a reasonable response to the issue.
Are we gay from birth? Were we straight and do we become gay? At what age? Are we made gay? When? And by what method or process or force? Forced into it by forces unseen? Did, and pardon the pun, a little fairy make us gay? Is it chemical? Genetic? Is it an allergic reaction? Psychological or psychiatric? Is it just a craven disregard for the future generations? Are we recruited? Do we chose to be gay?
There must be some reason for so many gay people all across the world, no? How could something so alien to humankind, as you pretend we are, be so imbedded in, well, humankind?
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frost| 11.18.08 @ 7:57AM
Garry apparently has a low opinion of our present president? As do I, and a pretty large bunch of others who see him as a totally inept betrayer of what 'way too many of us voted for; he did cut taxes, appointed a few judges.... and, everything else has been a big far Blah! Couldn't discipline his own party's spending, wouldn't or couldn't shut down the Illegal (NOT "undocumented") Alien crap, allowed even more inane government growth; and, why, pray tell, are we still paying for the Iraqi mess? First, he completely mishandled the war for too many years (until Petraeous) because of the McClellans in the Pentagon and his inability to get Victory, and now he allows the Iraqi government to reap the benefits of oil revenue while we're still paying the freight?!?
Yeah, Dubya ranks right down there with Jimmy Carter as the All-Time Worst Ever -- his (and Bush-the-Elder's) hairbrained "Compassionate Conservatism" is nothing more than Liberal Lite. His ethanol/lack of ANWR-offshore drilling ('til oil topped $100-a-barrel) was yet another miserable exhibition in his lack-of-leadership.
Face it, it's been an awful president, and I haven't even scratched the surface!
Democrats HATE Dubya with a passion – we Independents and conservatives bash Bush for a reason! Incompetence cubed, and the rest of the party ('cept Ron Paul and a very few others) also sucks. Guess that about covers it -- for the moment...
There's plenty more, but now, think I want to throw up...
frost| 11.18.08 @ 8:01AM
That "far" in the 4th line should'a read "Fat," okay?
Appleby| 11.18.08 @ 10:23AM
For those who hate President Bush more than they hate the Mommy who would not let them wear hot pants to church, I advise that you get back to me once bin Laden has blown up the Sears Tower and King O stands wringing his hands and crying in the ruins because he can't believe they don't love him unconditionally the way his handlers told him everyone in the world was now required to do.
In six months you will be looking back on the last eight years and wondering how you could have been as stupid as you were before the firebombing of daycare centres started and King O did nothing ...
garry greenwood| 11.18.08 @ 12:09PM
I sincerely hope "frost" is not referring to me in the first line of his comment. If so, he is sadly mistaken. Although I have many problems with what President Bush has done (e.g., amnesty for illegal aliens and out-of-control spending) I honestly find little fault with his actions against islamofascism. My family has not been attacked since 9/11; neither has "frost".
What is also sad is the obsessive and pathelogical hatred the left has for President Bush. It will be interesting to see how history records the contributions of the Clinton administration and the current democrat leadership in congress versus that of President Bush in the war against islamofascism. Somehow I don't believe it will come out the way "frost" would have liked.
frost| 11.18.08 @ 3:11PM
Sorry Garry. You're correct in that we haven't been attacked, but, all things considered, my guess is that that's because of the various failings by the world-be terrorists -- not anything Dubya's done (look at the TSA next time you're in an airport for an illustration). Mine isn't hate, and, God knows, I'm sure no leftist! But I sure do feel betrayed by a guy most of us thought would do a whole lot more to secure this once-great country.
There are two quotations that express those feelings rather eloquently: "We have a two party system. The evil party and the stupid party."
Annnnd, "I don’t trust the GOP; most politicians are pandering whores. BUT, the Republican Party contains fewer certifiable maniacs."
Those pretty much say it all. Hate saying this, but, when it comes to our not having been attacked, two things come to mind: (1) we lucked out; their ineptitude is worse than ours, and (2) in this age of Political Correctness, they're winning without any shots being fired -- Minneapolis foot-baths anyone?
Marc Jeric| 11.18.08 @ 3:12PM
"Liberal elite" (oxymoron, with the stress on moron) ridicules Sarah Palin as a non-believer in evolution. No, Sir. Evolution exists perhaps, even though its proof is a logical idiocy: the variant of a specie survived because it was fitter - this can be also stated as the variant was fitter because it survived. Aristotle warned us against such circular reasoning. Quite another matter is the creation of a single living cell out of that darwinist primordial soup; that has been shown as a mathematical impossibility by various scientists - not once could such a cell, however simplified, be created in the whole known universe by however long it could have been tried, to and including the infinity.
ruth| 11.18.08 @ 4:20PM
The Bush hatred in this country is off the charts. So much so, that he isn't even given credit for his courageous and brilliant national security strategy which has protected us from further horror. Such a fool's errand; it is also sick and ungrateful. I worry for our future.
Quartermaster| 11.18.08 @ 8:01PM
Alas, Lincoln was not a product of the Great Awakening, nor was he a product of the second great awakening. The man was a screaming infidel. The only thing that saved his political career was Herndon, his law partner, seizing a manuscript mocking Christianity from Lincoln's hand and hurling it into the stove. Herndon said that Lincoln lived and died an infidel, and John Hay stated that Lincoln did not change his religious opinion after he came to the District of Corruption.
As to him being the greatest President, I'll allow you your delusions. He refounded the country, destroying the Republic that was founded in 1787, which led directly to the serious problems we have politically today. Without the unitary Federal Government, paying only lip service to the constitution or the position of the states, the left would be completely irrelevant.
If you don't like what the left has been up to these past 70 years, just remember, Lincoln made it all possible.
ruth| 11.18.08 @ 9:50PM
As a social conservative I am not going to accept responsibility for the 2008 election debacle. BS! If a strong, articulate conservative had run, I believe he/she would not only have won the nomination, but would have had a real chance to win the election.
David Govett| 11.19.08 @ 1:39AM
Imagine, some people want to preserve the lessons of 8000 generations of Homo sapiens society. How silly of them.
Michael L. Hauschild| 11.19.08 @ 7:57PM
I would vote for Sarah Palin in a second. She could be the perfect candidate; leading by example, not governmental fiat, would probably satisfy the Social Conservatives, and her simple approach to cleaning house with a partisan broom would satisfy many like myself.