Here we go again, bitches.
Revolver, 1. clearly ignored the first part lol...I can't force you to read the links.
What????? I
copied and pasted the part of that first link that backs up my point and disproves yours.... what are you talking about? The southern democrats were the ones against civil rights, as well as the southern republicans. It wasn't a republican vs democrat thing, it was a north vs south thing. The northern democrats fully supported the civil rights act, and, obviously, it was signed into law by a democrat. Again, the southern democrats were not socially liberal. They are not like the modern democratic party.
2. Seems totally pointless, I wasn't the one who brought up the Gay Marriage bit...you did, nobody is bitching about it. It's simple, some states passed it, others didn't. If you're gay and want same sex marriage, go to a state that has it. Simple, if not go to a state that bans it. Again, simple.
Again, it's not just about marriage. The majority of the republican party rallied against the repeal of DADT and many want it reinstated. And about the states, that's a horrible argument. I've heard it many times in arguments about states' rights. If your home is in a state that doesn't support gay marriage, why should you move from a place you otherwise love and call your home? It's the laws that should change, not you.
3. Obviously you never heard of something called "adoption" as I was, look it up you may be intrigued to learn there's always alternatives to "abortion" which again is merely used as a cop out and birth control just because people didn't act responsible or were too horny to care until you actually get pregnant. Who says if a random chick gets knocked up, the kid will automatically grow up in a "bad environment"? You must think every random girl who gets pregnant is around a bad environment? That makes no sense or is quite an assumption...my cousin had a baby last year, 19 tried to keep it a secret. Guess what? Even though she's liberal, she knew abortion was wrong because she lacked taking responsibility and wanted to keep it a big secret from everyone. Instead she considered adoption but ultimately decided to keep the baby and raise it, with some help.
I fully support adoption and think it's great if you decide to go that route. However, the problem is that you can't count on everybody to do that... in the majority of unwanted pregnancy cases not terminated by abortion, the baby is kept. It's a natural thing to keep your baby, whether it was intended or not. A lot of these children will be growing up in bad environments and it would be better to give the mother the choice of terminating the pregnancy if they don't want that. There's also the problem of the woman having to carry this baby for 9 months. Sometimes they can't afford to be doing that, whether it's work issues, having an abusive partner, drug addiction, etc. It's the same problem with saying that if people don't want an STD, they shouldn't have sex in the first place. No... you cannot choose what they're going to do, so it's better to increase the education and availability of things like condoms.
lol, you act as if I'm the ONLY person on this entire site who has issues with weed being legalized...like I said, for medical purposes I'm ALL FOR IT. Recreational? NO! We already have alcohol, why do you need weed? Do you not know you fuck up your brain cells? It's not like it's beneficial to smoke daily, like I said before. I knew this pothead who was a friend of my friend, couldn't remember my name. Kept calling me Paul, when I've met the guy numerous times telling him it's "Pete" yeah...let's legalize weed, now picture drunk and HIGH people behind the wheel...and I don't really care what Pat Robertson says, if Jesus or God said it then I may agree. Guess what, there will ALWAYS be a black market on something...nothing you can do about it. Legalizing every illegal drug will ultimately do more harm then good. And then guess what? Whatever IS illegal will still be out there on the black market...
At least you support medical marijuana, that should be a no-brainer. But you're completely wrong about marijuana and definitely need some educating on the sociological and economic impacts of drugs. First of all, no marijuana doesn't kill brain cells.... that's classic 1960s anti-drug propaganda. The study that showed this was actually a very interesting one. An experiment was done on monkeys in which they were put in gas masks and forced to inhale hundreds of times more marijuana smoke than one normally would. What caused the brain damage was actually oxygen deprivation, not the marijuana. All contemporary studies show no impact on brain cell structure (however, it does have a positive effect on fighting off cancer cells). Yeah, there are dumb potheads out there. However, many of these people are already like this, and have tendencies to gravitate towards drug use.
High people behind the wheel... not a big problem actually. Most scientific research done on this has showed little to no difference than sober driving. If I were to rate it from best to worst, I'd say sober>high on weed>sleepy>drunk.
As for the other drugs, I support decriminalizing it, but not legalizing it to have heroin sold in stores etc. The drug war has completely fucked up our prison system and we have spent billions trying to combat something we can't exactly fight. History has shown that fighting fire with fire doesn't work. We have to treat drug abuse as a public health problem, not a criminal problem if we want to better our society.
Yes, we are. Obama and the other radically left libs who think like him are pretty much saying "ok, we'll tax the rich higher and give that money to the poor, people less fortunate, people who want everything for free and have other hard working people work for stuff they want or feel obligated to have for nothing...that's hardly a logical concept to solve that issue. I think you need a lesson in reality, I did my research and unlike others don't believe everything "you hear" out there...I never said welfare people are lazy bums...when did I say this again? I said a lot of people on welfare want everything for free or choose to not better themselves. Why do I feel this way? Well, unless you're literally thrown into the street by a retarded, evil family how do you explain hard workers out there who actually got wealthy by working their asses off? Example, Donald Trump...so it's not really improving our country, perhaps to you but not to me.
No, no it's not like that at all. You don't know what the leftist policies entail. We're not taking money from the rich and giving it to the poor, we are taking money from the rich and putting it into public programs to help the poor and other disadvantaged people. It's not to add to the poor peoples' paychecks. There are some people on welfare who are lazy, but a huge amount of these people simply did not have the opportunities other people had, and were victims of things like drug addiction. When you grow up in a very low-income area, businesses do not want to be there. To actually get out of places like that you have to put in a very disproportionate amount of effort in and have a little bit of luck. Also, if everyone in this country was 100% equal... who would be doing our low-status jobs? We can't ignore the bottom rungs of our society, we have to make it so everyone has equal opportunity and everyone can live a healthy life.
Uh, you don't have to be rich to become a US citizen, and time? While I will say adults should be approved in less time, within a year or something not multiple years you'll still do it if you want to become an American legally. Like I said, I'm a prime example of why and how you do it by the book. And most of them would be denied? I doubt that, that's a false assumption on your part. If they're denied, chances are it's for a good reason. And that would never happen because Mexico is another country entirely, people would want to stay there. So your pretty much saying you support "illegal immigration"....
First of all, you don't have to be rich, but you need some disposable income. Just to file the proper forms with the DoS/USCIS can cost you hundreds of dollars. And people aren't denied just because of things like criminal history, they are denied because we only allot a certain number of immigrants into our country each year. If you can go through the legal process, great, but many people can't and can't wait long enough in their terrible homes to do so. If I had three kids, was making little income with no foreseeable opportunity for improvement in my country, and was surrounded by violent drug cartels (which, might I add, wouldn't be a problem with marijuana legalization
) I might do the same as these people are.
7. Hardly, if anything you're the one horribly ignorant to information and facts...all the libs do is pull out the "racist and bigot" cards for merely having a different perspective. Much like this video shows.
Oh my god, what the fuck? Did you not read what I wrote? I gave you a prime example of republicans striking down a hate crime law... and you respond with "hardly"???? Dude.... are you trolling?
Did you NOT know that it was a Republican Conservative President named Ronald Reagan who made Martin Luther King day a national holiday?! Not to mention Lincoln who fought for Blacks? You really are beyond ignorant. So don't give me that "all righties are racists" bullshit because I assure you, whenever you find a racist who happens to be rightwing, there's another one who's leftwing. And I must say Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson have to be the WORST hypocritical, racist libs out there...oh and let's not forget all the bashing the libs were doing to Palin and her family, attacking her grandchild for being slow, her daughter for having a baby...nahh, that's not hatred and bigotry right there..not at all. Oh and some lib site named slate.com who set up a "Santorum Sex Daughter mockery contest" hmm? Why aren't you bitching about that? Oh yeah because you're a lib...
Wow, Ronald Reagan made a black holiday, that sure did a lot for their communities. Lincoln fought for the blacks, yes... this was also in the 1800s when political parties were substantially different. When did I say all righties are racists? Sharpton and Jackson are interesting characters. They've said some dumb things (against homosexuality too) but IMO much of it is overstated. As for Palin, the daughter having a baby thing was a shot at her pro-family stance, which is very justified. It's the same thing with the pro-family Gingrich abandoning one of his wives and wanting an open marriage. The Santorum thing was funny... I don't see a problem with that. Why would anyone bitch about that? Lol. It's harmless, dude. By the way, I already talked about that Bill Maher vs Rush Limbaugh thing a while ago... I don't know why you're still bringing it up.
8. How is it a flawed argument when it's true though? NYC had it's best economic time or one of it's best during Rudy's administration as Mayor, he cut taxes, cut crime, got the city more jobs and was hard on security. Now compare that to when Dinkins or Bloomberg(who doesn't even know what he is now changing parties like he does clothes) and it's a nobrainer the former works better...and where have you been dude? We've always taxed the rich higher then the average joe or poor...they just pay less taxes but everyone still pays taxes regardless. Do you not know that people like Jeter, Trump, Oprah etc, etc pay ridiculous amounts in taxes far more then you and I do?
It's not about the dollar amount of your taxes, it's about the percentage of your income. The top 10% is paying proportionately less than the middle class. When you factor in things like loopholes, they're paying around 12-15% in income tax while the middle class pays 5-10% more than that. There's not justifiable reason why this should be happening. NYC had its best economic time during that period because the US was having one of its best economic times during that period. The same could be said about crime. There's no evidence that his tax policies (except possibly lowering of the hotel tax, which I would've supported) made that kind of positive effect.
And now for what's laughable:
http://www.wnd.com/2008/02/57231/
I'll also give you a short term list of terrorists Obama is friends with or associates himself with.
William Ayers - American Terrorist
Raila Odinga - Cousin, Radical Islamist
Raul Reyes - Columbian Terrorist
Antonio Rezko - Muslim Slum Lord- Recently Convicted of
Professor Khalidi - Muslim Terrorist Supporter
Reverend Wright - Racist Muslim Supporter/Preacher, Anti-American
Reverend James Meeks - Racist
Reverend Louis Farrakhan - Racist Nation of Islam / Faux Preacher
Reverend. Jesse Jackson - Racist - Anti-Semetic
Nadhmi Auchi - Muslim Billionaire
Sohaib Abassi - Muslim Millionaire
First of all, I find it hilarious how you go around accusing everyone here of listening to the mainstream media, when 95% of the sources you bring up are from extreme right-wing sites like World Net Daily. Secondly.... wow. This is just stupid. I can go down the list of names here if you want... just going to look at a couple. Now I understand though, you go to these kinds of sites, look at things like this, and just assume it's true without looking any further. Like, Sohaib Abbasi? Really? Why is this guy included on a list of TERRORISTS? This is why WND is a joke. This is a businessman who's done nothing out of the ordinary but try to increase educational programs throughout poor areas of the Middle East. Raul Reyes? Really? So because someone's group said something in support for Obama, they're now an associate of Obama? I know Obama just as much as this guy. Rashid Khalidi? Just another example of anti-zionists being touted as terrorism supporters... smh.
And as far as the Bush thing goes, I can't believe you won't accept that. It's not a conspiracy, it is a fact. The same thing goes with our partnership with Middle-Eastern dictators. It's been like this since the 1930's, it's a matter of public record.
. Rev, you're like my MK Bill Maher.
