That's why I said "play with someone else." Your comments admittedly bare no relevance to my original statements on legal arguments. If you want to keep "playing" keep responding to a discussion you claim you're not having...Originally Posted by radind
You may ignore me, but I can make comments as i think approriate. I am not playing.
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I would assume that they are considered a business. I suppose the criteria would be that they have employees and make money?
BUSINESS: a: the activity of making, buying, or selling goods or providing services in exchange for money
"The only Good America is a Just America." .... pbrower2a
Yep. Viagra for old geezers that can't get their thingy up? A-OK. The Pill for women who don't want to get pregnant? THE HORROR!!!
The double standard is pathetic, I don't give a damn if you think it's the will of your made-up skyy-daddy.
To recommend thrift to the poor is both grotesque and insulting. It is like advising a man who is starving to eat less.
-Oscar Wilde, The Soul of Man under Socialism
Hispanics will not vote for a Republican, not after the horrific "immigration" laws in Arizona and Alabama backed by racists. The Republican Party had a choicer between Hispanics and Neo-Confederates, they picked the later.
To recommend thrift to the poor is both grotesque and insulting. It is like advising a man who is starving to eat less.
-Oscar Wilde, The Soul of Man under Socialism
I am in complete agreement.
To recommend thrift to the poor is both grotesque and insulting. It is like advising a man who is starving to eat less.
-Oscar Wilde, The Soul of Man under Socialism
Yes I'm sure enforcing the law is a very KKK-ish thing. While the Dems might get the massive numbers of the barrio vote by waving the bloody shirt of "the GOP is out to get you", I think more sensible voters in the rising Hispanic middle class will be objective. Hispanics split almost evenly for Bush and Kerry in 2004.
http://decoded.nationaljournal.com/2...ws-steeper.php
Here's an interesting article on Obama's approval ratings by state and how it ties in with his electoral prospects.
Any thoughts on who Romney's VP might be or what his Cabinet might look like? Personally I think Mike Huckabee would be an excellent balance to the ticket (or Marco Rubio but he has constantly declined any ideas of running for VP) and I'd like to see Jon Huntsman be Secretary of State.
"barrio vote"? your bigotry is showing.
Hispanics don't like seeing their families destroyed by deportation, and young AMERICAN CITIZENS being forced to live in a country they have never lived in because their parents were deported.
Those immigration laws are racist, and anyone who supports them are racist.
To recommend thrift to the poor is both grotesque and insulting. It is like advising a man who is starving to eat less.
-Oscar Wilde, The Soul of Man under Socialism
My guess for VP may be Condi Rice or Marco Rubio. The Daily Caller had an intriguing choice. Cathy McMorris-Rodgers congresswoman from Spokane WA.
Not anymore than "redneck".
I actually support a pass to citizenship for illegal immigrants but at the same time I don't think most Hispanics are single-issue voters.Hispanics don't like seeing their families destroyed by deportation, and young AMERICAN CITIZENS being forced to live in a country they have never lived in because their parents were deported.
I don't support those laws but this sort of rhetoric is exactly what makes people see anybody who support illegal immigrants and a path of citizenship for them as some sort of La Raza talking heads.Those immigration laws are racist, and anyone who supports them are racist.
Worth noting -- Catholics are much more liberal than the Catholic Church and even the US as a whole on reproductive rights. The Catholic Church can preach all that it wants, but about all that it can enforce is that people not copulate within a church while using birth control. (It obviously frowns upon copulating within any church building). That said, the parish priest surely hears lots of confessions about using birth control -- over and over.
The greatest evil is not now done in those sordid "dens of crime" (or) even in concentration camps and labour camps. In those we see its final result. But it is conceived and ordered... in clean, carpeted, warmed and well-lighted offices, by (those) who do not need to raise their voices. Hence, naturally enough, my symbol for Hell is something like the bureaucracy of a police state or the office of a thoroughly nasty business concern."
― C.S. Lewis, The Screwtape Letters
I think Secretary Rice is too associated with the Bush administration-as for Representative Mc-Morris-Roders I think she might be too similar to Sarah Palin (fairly obscure originally, from the same part of the country) for comfort. She also graduated from Pensacola Christian College, which make Bob Jones University look like UC Berkeley in comparison: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pensaco...istian_College
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So a bunch of inbred types do not like La Raza. Too bad.
Barrio? The "sensible Latino middle class" knows where it comes from, and people like JPT keep reminding them of such. It's a losing proposition.
You fail to recognize that the Hispanic vote irrespective of income is hostile to the anti-intellectualism and divisiveness of the Hard Right. That anti-intellectualism doesn't stop at some radical professor but instead all the way to the grade-school teacher. The largest occupational section of the middle class is school teachers. Anti-intellectualism directed at education is a losing proposition except among people doomed as losers irrespective of ethnicity.
That is not only a Hispanic phenomenon, by the way.
The greatest evil is not now done in those sordid "dens of crime" (or) even in concentration camps and labour camps. In those we see its final result. But it is conceived and ordered... in clean, carpeted, warmed and well-lighted offices, by (those) who do not need to raise their voices. Hence, naturally enough, my symbol for Hell is something like the bureaucracy of a police state or the office of a thoroughly nasty business concern."
― C.S. Lewis, The Screwtape Letters
What an enlightened, unbigoted, and tolerant comment!
We must stop giving in to the most unprogressive members of society. I guess you will tell me why you think we should?
How is the right anti-intellectual in the sense of opposing school teachers? Their main problem with school teachers is the power of the teachers' unions. In fact right now in LA, a teacher who has been charged with child molestation is on paid law because state law mandates that and even if he does get fired if the charges prove true he will get a pension.
I meant your referral of people as "inbred types", if I referred to blacks as "bastards" (in the illegitimate sense) for example that would correctly be regarded as bigoted and condemned.
This does not make any sense. The racists are that way because they are inbred, and proud of it. The fact that when you think of African Americans, you think of them as illegitimate says much about your sub consciouis thinking wrt them, and to your attitude toward sexual relationships free of religious chains. But many people are not very careful wrt to either of these things.
In addition, the Catholic church is getting more and more conservative in some areas. Crazy as this must seem, some bishops are writing the scripts for many parish priests on the topic of the *sin* of voting for a *choice* candidate. They did it when Kerry was running for president.
While there are some Catholics who will turn a deaf ear, the more conservative crowd will follow the Vatican's orders. Sad but sure.
"The only Good America is a Just America." .... pbrower2a
She's much more politically accomplished than Palin was. She also has an MBA from the University of Washington
GO HUSKIES!
http://uselectionatlas.org/FORUM/ind...topic=148376.0
The states, and not the People, elect the President -- as shown in 2000. In 2008 President Obama lost a bunch of states by huge margins while winning a bunch of other states by lesser margins. So far I see no reason to believe that President Obama will make significant inroads into the states that he lost badly... unless perhaps Newt Gingrich, who seems not to know which side is up in a Presidential campaign is the nominee.
Eighteen states and the District of Columbia have never voted for any Republican nominee for President since at least the elder Bush against Dukakis. President Obama won every one of those states by at least 10%. He could easily do much the same in 2012 in those states. Add Colorado, Iowa, Nevada, New Hampshire, and New Mexico, all of which he won by at least 8% and he crosses the victory line with with 272 electoral votes. That is against Mitt Romney. Then add Ohio, which President Obama likely won with the auto bailout and it is up to 290 electoral votes. Those are the states in blue -- likely Obama wins.
I now project the states in white to be winnable for President Obama to be inside the margin of error but winnable for President Obama. The Republicans could win all of the rest of the states by 20% and end up with a near-even split in the nationwide popular vote... but President Obama would still win
The case gets stronger against Gingrich.
The greatest evil is not now done in those sordid "dens of crime" (or) even in concentration camps and labour camps. In those we see its final result. But it is conceived and ordered... in clean, carpeted, warmed and well-lighted offices, by (those) who do not need to raise their voices. Hence, naturally enough, my symbol for Hell is something like the bureaucracy of a police state or the office of a thoroughly nasty business concern."
― C.S. Lewis, The Screwtape Letters
Well, and not to pick on your state specifically, but the state of Alabama does have two professional football teams. One at Auburn and the other at Tuscaloosa.
You could also argue the reverse, Romney could win the electoral college with Obama running up large advantages in California, New York Illinois etc. Its amazing though that we are talking about a 290 electoral college win for Obama which would mean the House stays Repub and they probably would pick the Senate as well. A weak victory of an incumbent and frankly I could live with that result as Obama could do no further damage....
