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« Reply #120 on: September 03, 2008, 10:57:21 PM » |
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Having Gov. Palin's family at the convention tonight was very appropriate. She was introducing them. We all know that! Come on!
Gov. Palin is a terrific mother and a woman with morals and values that are good and decent.
If Sarah Palin can't get Mc Cain to win, than nobody can.
She's terrific!
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« Reply #121 on: September 03, 2008, 11:01:40 PM » |
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Of course we can never know whether our counterfactual speculations are true or not, but it's my opinion that electing Kerry would have resulted in more terrorist attacks on United States soil. I considered that vote as sort of like the choice Lincoln made about Grant. Yeah, he had all sorts of problems. But he couldn't spare the man because "he fights".
Are there specific positions that Kerry championed that would have made us more susceptible to terrorist attacks? No. But that was part of the problem. He didn't have any policies. He couldn't make up his mind whether he wanted to fight a war or call the cops. He was the man-caught-in-between. He also had a tremendously poor relationship with the military, which didn't lend me any confidence. I really don't feel like pulling details out of my brain from 4 years ago, though... so I am afraid you'll have to make do with these generalities. The point is that Bush has been a disaster in terms of government expansion, and my Republican acquaintances and I supported him only because we didn't trust Kerry to keep us safe. |
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« Reply #122 on: September 03, 2008, 11:09:12 PM » |
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Let's see who wins this race.
Everybody loves Sarah tonight that's for sure.
I just don't want Mc Cain/Palin to win.
I want them to win BIG!
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« Reply #123 on: September 03, 2008, 11:32:05 PM » |
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My God. Take your pom poms elsewhere unless you have something substantive to say. I like having conversations with intelligent conservatives who think and explain. You haven't yet qualified.
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« Reply #124 on: September 03, 2008, 11:50:41 PM » |
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Palin is definitely going to get more people rallying behind Mc Cain after her terrific speech tonight.
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« Reply #125 on: September 04, 2008, 12:05:51 AM » |
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Being retired this year, I am taking advantage of it and going on a month long vacation to Greece tomorrow.
Good luck to all!
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« Reply #126 on: September 04, 2008, 12:08:51 AM » |
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My God. Take your pom poms elsewhere unless you have something substantive to say. I like having conversations with intelligent conservatives who think and explain. You haven't yet qualified.
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« Reply #127 on: September 04, 2008, 12:09:39 AM » |
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My God. Take your pom poms elsewhere unless you have something substantive to say. I like having conversations with intelligent conservatives who think and explain. You haven't yet qualified.
I wish I had read this before my last post. Great minds think alike... |
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« Reply #128 on: September 04, 2008, 12:23:41 AM » |
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Being retired this year, I am taking advantage of it and going on a month long vacation to Greece tomorrow.
Good luck to all!
Ah, work here is done eh? Enjoy the trip |
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« Reply #129 on: September 04, 2008, 04:49:21 AM » |
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I remember going to the movies to see Pulp Fiction. In the seats behind me were families who brought little children. At one point, two of the children(maybe 4 and 5 years old) started crying and begging to go. I think someone was shooting someone's brains out on the screen. The kids kept saying, "please can we go?" Mom and Dad said no, the movie is not over and we want to see it.
They were all perfectly comfortable with their little kids sitting through that violence, language, sex, etc.
That was a place I felt children shouldn't be. I was quite disturbed by their crying on many levels.
Weren't they also breaking the law? I don't know what the classification was in the US, but in the UK it was 18 years and over. In the UK they would have almost certainly been turned away at the doors. |
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« Reply #130 on: September 04, 2008, 07:16:27 AM » |
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Having Gov. Palin's family at the convention tonight was very appropriate. She was introducing them. We all know that! Come on!
Gov. Palin is a terrific mother and a woman with morals and values that are good and decent.
If Sarah Palin can't get Mc Cain to win, than nobody can.
She's terrific!
Then she should shut up when people point fingers at how she neglects her DS baby and drags her pregnant daughter into the limelight. |
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inthelab, I love you for that.
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« Reply #131 on: September 04, 2008, 07:18:16 AM » |
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Being retired this year, I am taking advantage of it and going on a month long vacation to Greece tomorrow.
Good luck to all!
Bon voyage. |
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inthelab, I love you for that.
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« Reply #132 on: September 04, 2008, 07:23:48 AM » |
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Being retired this year, I am taking advantage of it and going on a month long vacation to Greece tomorrow.
Good luck to all!
Bon voyage. She's done this before. I doubt that it will be a long goodbye. I sorta wish we had not had the Ahastar experience. I can't help thinking she is a sock puppet. |
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« Reply #133 on: September 04, 2008, 08:01:21 AM » |
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My God. Take your pom poms elsewhere unless you have something substantive to say. I like having conversations with intelligent conservatives who think and explain. You haven't yet qualified.
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infopri
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« Reply #134 on: September 04, 2008, 08:32:17 AM » |
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I remember going to the movies to see Pulp Fiction. In the seats behind me were families who brought little children. At one point, two of the children(maybe 4 and 5 years old) started crying and begging to go. I think someone was shooting someone's brains out on the screen. The kids kept saying, "please can we go?" Mom and Dad said no, the movie is not over and we want to see it.
They were all perfectly comfortable with their little kids sitting through that violence, language, sex, etc.
That was a place I felt children shouldn't be. I was quite disturbed by their crying on many levels.
Weren't they also breaking the law? I don't know what the classification was in the US, but in the UK it was 18 years and over. In the UK they would have almost certainly been turned away at the doors. I don't know about the UK, but in the U.S. the movie rating system is not a matter of law, as far as I know. The rating system itself is voluntary (a successful gambit by the film industry decades ago to avoid regulation), and the admission guidelines are enforced by the theaters, not the government. BTW, I believe Pulp Fiction was rated R here, which means that children under 17 (not 18) aren't admitted without a parent. When I was young, the only movies kids (under 18) just couldn't get into at all were rated X. Sometime in the 1980s (give or take, can't really remember), this rating was changed to NC-17, which means no children under 17, with or without parents. It's like X except for the age (17 instead of 18) and, where X pretty much meant explicit sex, NC-17 could mean too much/intense adult content of any kind. |
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