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Hmmm, these are the types of things I ponder.
First!
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Nice day over here in Alabama, sitting on the porch watching the critters in the back yard. There is a pair of Cardinals and a Eastern Bluebird @ the feeder and several squirrels in the P-Can and chestnut trees. The dang squirrels haven’t got into the pears yet since they have plenty to eat but they often rip open pears just to get the seed and waste the whole pear.
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It’s nice here in Central Texas this morning – about 75 or so. It’ll heat up rapidly when the sun clears the horizon and starts beating down.
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Well it looks like Rupert Murdoch has been in Bob’s stash; Looks like Biden already running. Very likely he wins nomination and be hard to beat. That said, scanning yesterday’s comments, I agree with Texpat on this one;
Texpat says:
September 7, 2015 at 7:32 pm145 Squawk
After watching this nation elect Obama twice, I truly believe just about anything is possible anymore.
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I’m for the yellow dog.
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It was relatively cool this morning at 6, however the humid was really high. I got a big case of the I don’t wanna’s yesterday and my lawn shows it. Mebbe tomorrow.
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As far as the O/C pic goes, wouldn’t it be soy leche ?
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http://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-34185291
Some of the weather guessers say this sand storm could last till the end of the week.
Asthmatics are not having a good time there now
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Today’s o/c pic: 😆
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wouldn’t it be soy leche
Don’t think “Mexican”, think Chicano. 🙂
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An openly gay Texas judge says she refuses to conduct marriage ceremonies for straight couples. No one tried to put her in jail. No federal judges tried to condemn her.
The Dallas County Judge Tonya Parker explained her decision at a monthly meeting for the Stonewall Democrats of Dallas.
“I do not perform them because it is not an equal application of the law. Period,” she said, according to the Dallas Voice, a newspaper for the gay community.
Parker is believed to be the first openly “gay” African-American elected official in the history of the state, according to NY Daily news.
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From the always excellent Bookworm Room:
On the right, many who fancy themselves thoughtful intellectuals are conceding that Anthony Kennedy’s decision legalizing gay marriage is utterly awful (my take’s here), but are adding words to the effect that “the law’s the law, so Davis ought to get with it or quit.” That view is fatuous and simplistic, because there are very big ideas at issue here, and a small town country clerk is proving to be the first American to put both Civil Disobedience and the First Amendment to the test in the 21st century.
Today, Tom Trinko made what I think is the most interesting observation about Kim Davis’s imprisonment, and that is that people on the Left who willfully violate laws governing traditional social norms are invariably celebrated as heroes…
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As the biggest refugee crisis since World War Two draws attention to the actions of European leaders, we forget how little Syria’s Arab neighbours are doing to ease the hardships facing the displaced.
Amnesty International reports that “from Asia to Europe, large wealthy countries have turned their backs on Syrian refugees. All six Gulf countries, Russia and Japan have not offered to resettle a single refugee”.
Despite their proximity to the war-stricken state, Qatar, United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Oman and Bahrain have not offered any resettlement places.
Saudi Arabia and the other Arab states along the Persian Gulf are not only close to Syria, but are very wealthy.
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A groggy Good Morning to the Couch. Where’s my coffee?
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The College Board has reported SAT results for the class of 2015, and they should be a wake-up call. Despite a decade of record spending and school “reform,” test scores fell to their lowest since 2005.
The average combined score on the SAT in 2015 for 1.7 million kids who took the test was 1490. That’s down from an average of 1514 in 2006 — a near 5% decline in math, critical reading and writing ability. That’s a huge shift, suggesting something profoundly wrong with our nation’s schools.
But what? It sure isn’t lack of money. Spending on education has soared in recent decades, the result of a misguided progressive notion that more spending on education equals success. Clearly, that’s not the case.
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Ah, finally, a good news headline up on Drudge: https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/europe/a-conservative-revolt-is-brewing-inside-the-vatican/2015/09/07/1d8e02ba-4b3d-11e5-80c2-106ea7fb80d4_story.html
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Why are we concerned about the Burning Man event and diversity? If black people don’t want to go, who the heck cares? As far as I know, the participants aren’t celebrating the KKK, so it’s a personal choice. This whole push to make every event in our society look the same is ridiculous. I don’t see a push to make white people move into the black neighborhoods.
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Pity them. They’ve got to do something and this is all they can do. You really can’t blame institutions for rigid behavior. It doesn’t know how to do anything else. To the EU, the refugee/migrants are just more applicants for a government program. To illustrate just how powerful institutional routines are, consider one of the recent emails which came to light during the investigation of Hillary Clinton’s e-mail server. It is from Chelsea Clinton to her mother, expressing horror at the absolute uselessness of the United Nations.
On February 22, after a four-day visit to the quake zone, Chelsea Clinton authored a seven-page memo which she addressed to “Dad, Mom,” and copied their chief aides. …
The memo—by a Clinton, with a master’s in public health from Columbia University, pursuing a doctorate in international relations from Oxford and with a prominent role at her family’s foundation—would have obliterated the public narrative of helpful outsiders saving grateful earthquake survivors that her mother’s State Department was working so hard to promote. …
“The incompetence is mind numbing,” she told her parents. “The UN people I encountered were frequently out of touch … anachronistic in their thinking at best and arrogant and incompetent at worst.” “There is NO accountability in the UN system or international humanitarian system.” The weak Haitian government, which had lost buildings and staff in the disaster, had something of a plan, she noted. Yet because it had failed to articulate its wishes quickly enough, foreigners rushed forward with a “proliferation of ad hoc efforts by the UN and INGOs [international nongovernmental organizations] to ‘help,’ some of which have helped … some of which have hurt … and some which have not happened at all.”
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20 Shannon
Domenech is fantastic in this piece.
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Maybe.
Hundreds of Muslim refugees are converting to Christianity in a Berlin church.
Pastor Gottfried Martens has seen his congregation at the evangelical Trinity Church grow from 150 to more than 600 in just two years, describing the number of conversions as a ‘miracle’, according to Associated Press.
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We can only hope that the presence of a loving God will be a great lure, once the threat of death from apostasy is removed.
Of course, a loving God has always been there for them. It’s the rejection of a loving God that is the root of the evil they have endured.
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Something about this little tidbit bugs me.
HEADLINE: Jeb Bush is one of the only Republican candidates who does not own a gun
The UK Telegraph still does not know the difference between a semi-auto and assault weapon.
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The Dunning-Kruger Effect is a cognitive bias wherein relatively unskilled individuals suffer from illusory superiority, mistakenly assessing their ability to be much higher than is accurate. Another name for this is the Joe Biden Effect, where a relatively stupid person is certain he is the smartest person in the room, when he is most likely the dumbest person in the room.
People in cults are prone to this because inside the cult, it appears to be a perfectly logical structure for viewing the world. Intelligence is seen as a measure of the degree of acceptance, as well as the ability to repeat dogma in various situations. The result is knowing the catechism better than everyone else makes you the smartest guy in the room.
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#14 – TP – I’m convinced that the mass exodus of “refugees” from mooselum countries is actually an invasion. From what I’ve read, they consist mostly of young men – no elderly, infirm, women, etc. that you would normally expect when a war or other calamity displaces people. Yes, Europe is being invaded and colonized, and welcoming it with open arms. Thanks to our fearless leader, they recognize that they only have about a year and a half left to conquer the world.
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Good morning Hamsters. Mugly 75 and ground mist early on, generally uncomfortable until a breeze moved in. A front approaching is welcome but not when it brings something like three days of 70% chance of rain. How’s about a strong enough front to sweep through into the Gulf and cool things off here while letting the rain fall over the water?
Meantime with the less than wonderful forecast for the week, we are doing the Snoopy Happy Dance here because at long last and after four attempts to find the source of a small but annoying leak in the garden room, it’s been found and is being repaired right now. Not a minute too soon providing that this is the fix to the leak that’s been off and on showing up since late December, thrice thought to be fixed, and umm, not so much.
Good news about the fourth attempt that approached it from the bottom rather than the top or middle of the roof. Water’s been backing up from the eaves and gutter rather than coming down from above. But earlier repairs did fix real deficiencies that could have caused other leaks sooner than later. Best of all we don’t need a new roof and might actually get 25 years’ worth of good service out of a 25-year roof.
Will find out if this fix does the trick when the heavy rain forecast becomes reality later in the week. Until it really is fixed we are delaying repairs to the ceiling in the garden room. And of course we missed dry weather opportunities while we were galavanting around Norway and London.
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#12 – Well BRAVO Judge!
certainly YOUR RIGHT to choose!
people need to wake the heck up ah SWEAR
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Adee, the way the invasion from MENA is exploding toward Europe, your recent trip might have been the last chance before all hell breaks loose over there.
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#20 TP: The commentary attached to your link is enlightening. Some even dare to write that all cultures are not equal.
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Why is government involved at all in the marriage issue? If a couple decides to be “married” all they should need to do is to declare themselves married. No paperwork, no government, no one else involved. Now, if for religious or other reasons they wish to have a ceremony performed publicly acknowledging their marriage, that is also their business as well as the business of the officiating individual or institution. The institution or individual if free to accept or decline the ceremonial duties but has no impact on the status of the “marriage.” Now where does government enter the picture? Beats me. Before long government will recognize marriage between a human and a goat which merely serves to prove the point that government has no business being involved in the marriage issue.
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All men are created equal. After that, they are on their own.
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Why is government involved at all in the marriage issue? If a couple decides to be “married” all they should need to do is to declare themselves married. No paperwork, no government, no one else involved.
El Gordo wins the internet today.
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#33 – Agreed 110%!!
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Why is government involved at all in the marriage issue?
Social engineering, this time via the tax code. At one time there was a tax benefit to marriage, now there may be a disincentive. Switch to a national retail sales tax and eliminate that tentacle into the private lives of the citizenry. The sales tax would stop a whole lot of nonsense.
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Just saw one of these for the first time. Very cool.
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#36 – After reading MULTIPLE reviews – there’s apparently a *next generation* version that is a LOT better product (heavier weight rating and of course a bit more pricey)
But STILL won’t TOUCH one of these Little Giants for versatility and Lord knows how long these will last (if anyone has any doubts about a Little Giant – Firefighters carry & use them!!)
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my #37 – p.s. I own the mid size Little Giant and have used it in all of it’s various configurations – I now see the newer versions can ratchet down one leg individually for uneven ground conditions – these critters are a tad bit heavy – but amazingly versatile and stable
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26 El Gordo
I’m convinced that the mass exodus of “refugees” from mooselum countries is actually an invasion.
On Monday, the church’s spiritual leader for southern Hungary — scene of some of the heaviest migrant flows anywhere in Europe — had a message just as clear: His Holiness is wrong.
“They’re not refugees. This is an invasion,” said Bishop Laszlo Kiss-Rigo, whose dominion stretches across the southern reaches of this predominantly Catholic nation. “They come here with cries of ‘Allahu Akbar.’ They want to take over.”
The bishop’s stark language reflects a broader spiritual struggle in Europe over how to respond to a burgeoning flow of predominantly Muslim men, women and children onto a largely Christian continent.
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Yes, it almost that time of year again.
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Government, marriage ?? Taxes, of course.
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What is this 42 doing all by itself??
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All men are created equal. After that, they are on their own.
Like snake hatchlings. 🙂
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#38 Katfish
a tad bit heavy
And I was wondering how much a 26′ extension ladder would weigh…
I have one that is 16 or 18 feet, which was my limit at the time I bought it. My test is, can I pick it up in the store? I was up on it this spring, spraying mold remover on a shady spot on the siding, but I can’t remember if I carried it from the garage by myself. Probably I did; don’t remember Hubs being around, all nervous and such.
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Check out the transformation illustrated at Weaselzippers.
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Some of the European nations have caught on to the invasion scenario and some haven’t. YET. How’s about only taking Christian refugees (but how do you know they really are?) See Texpat #22 & 39.
The Hungarians have as have the Slovaks, and presume the Czechs and Poles are right with them. Rush just mentioned that the Danes have finally had a bellyful and announced they have stopped the gravy train for invaders. The Brits (at least the conservative insurgent members of Parliament and the folks who elected them) have also had a bellyful of muslims turning neighborhoods into little sharia law enclaves, no-go zones for anybody who isn’t muslim. Never mind the terrorist attacks. The French are behind the curve but apparently catching up on that. Supposedly Sweden still has its open arms idea despite numerous indications its muslim population keeps getting bigger and less interested in fitting in before all this started.
Germany and Austria are likely viewing it through the impediment of Nazi guilt legacy that has to be clouding their reason in this instance.
Mharper42 #29 echoes thoughts we’ve had on past cruises on visiting places maybe a year or so before things started really going south. Like Tunisia a year before the radicals horned in and made a hash of the country; St. Petersburg and Estonia a year or so before Putin started getting seriously grabby; Greece and Turkey last fall before the mass migrations became serious. And Berlin before this happened.
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For those of you who think that government should “stay out of marriage”:
One definition of government is: the complex of political institutions, laws, and customs through which the function of governing is carried out. In other words a government tends to reflect the moral values of its population. If we “take government out of marriage” then we are effectively saying that, as a people, we don’t think marriage matters. The problem is that we have been taking small steps down this path for decades.
It started in WW-2 when necessity dictated that we take women out of the home and put them into the workplace. By the time the 60’s rolled around what had been a rarity just 2 decades earlier was now an accepted norm. Remember when we passed “no-fault” divorce? The dust-up between Dan Quayle and Murphy Brown about single parents? The legitimization (and government support) of single parent “families” – especially in minority communities? All directed toward the ultimate goal of de-legitimizing the family unit. And, now that gay marriage has been established, we already see the push for polygamy. And all of this floats on a fetid lake of hyper-sexualized media, and legitimized perversion.
The problem with all this is that the family is the foundational element of civilization. Without families we cannot have a stable society. At best we’ll get a dis-functional mess of a government which will keep trying to devolve into a dictatorship while it tries to provide the nurture and guidance that strong families should be furnishing. At worst we’ll simply end up in chaotic anarchy.
A family – mother, father, children, ancillary relatives as needed – is the basic building block of society. And, both a mother and a father are necessary. Not just from a biological basis. There are basic differences between the sexes in terms of psychology. Both are needed to successfully nurture a child. (Yes, there are single parents aplenty who manage to beat the odds, but if you will ask them they will answer, almost without exception that it would have been far easier and more effective with a complementary spouse.) If you want to see the effect of a society that relies on single parent families, you need look no further than the African-American community here in the US.
So, no I won’t be giving up on the idea that our Government should not legitimize gay marriages. Not because I hate gays, but because I love our country and I want it to become the bastion of freedom that it once was. We were founded on the bedrock of a Judeo-Christian ethical system that has served humanity for more than 2 millennia and has produced the most effective and free nations in history. I’m not willing to watch that slide away to satisfy the whining of a scant 2 percent of the population who want society to tell them it’s OK to do what their conscience convicts them of.
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If we “take government out of marriage” then we are effectively saying that, as a people, we don’t think marriage matters.
Thoroughly disagree with that statement. I think we should take government out of gun ownership. Does that mean I’m effectively saying I don’t think guns matter?
I agree in general terms with what you said about the decline of the family unit. However, there are some practical benefits of “marriage” that you as a heterosexual enjoy that homosexuals do not. I find that morally objectionable. I think that the disparity could have been more properly addressed in ways other than redefining what marriage means, but nonetheless, it’s a valid issue.
I don’t think maintaining the traditional definition of marriage would have stopped the moral slide you note anyway. That slide progressed quite nicely for decades in the absence of gay marriage. So while I see what you’re saying in theory about the traditional definition of marriage, the practical part of me knows that it wasn’t working. When in doubt, I’ll always opt for removing government from the equation when their presence is of questionable value.
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50 fat albert
Towards the end of LST five years ago this month, I was working on a series of essays on the origin and value of monagamous, heterosexual marriage and the vital role it has played throughout the incredible history of the success of the West.
I don’t have time to enter into it now and unfortunately, my old notes and drafts are in the wind. Someday, I’ll reconstruct the series. Finally, I agree completely with you.
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Apparently Rupert Murdock thinks Joe “the dips#!t” Biden is going to win the D nomination and will be tough to beat for POTUS. Based on the last 2 POTUS elections and the abject incompetence of the Rs to wage a decent campaign, he may be right. Any halfway decent campaign waged by the Rs (one that does not include the pig eyed sack o crap, Rove ) would humiliate Bite-me with at least a 45 state shellacking.
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Doood
Thoroughly disagree with that statement. I think we should take government out of gun ownership. Does that mean I’m effectively saying I don’t think guns matter?
That is a false analogy. A citizen’s ownership of a tangible weapon compared to a legal, matrimonial contract between a man and woman with all its extenuating survivor, parental, estate, inheritance and conservator issues is simply a non-starter.
Gay marriage is the end product of a very long war against the heterosexual, nuclear family beginning before Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels 167 years ago.
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Huckabee nailed George Steponallofus on the Kentucky clerk situation.
Among his statements was this:
We are bypassing the process when we have one branch of government acting as if it has authority over the other two. What I’m coming back to, and I think people are missing this, is that we live under the rule of law, which is a three-branch checks and balances system of government, or we end up with what I think was so powerful when Lincoln said this: “If the policy of the government upon vital questions affecting the whole people is to be irrevocably fixed by decisions of the Supreme Court the instant they are made, then in personal actions the people will have ceased to be their own rulers having to that extent having practically resigned their government into the hands of this eminent tribunal
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a legal, matrimonial contract between a man and woman with all its extenuating survivor, parental, estate, inheritance and conservator issues
So those legal benefits should not have been extended to homosexuals who were in committed, monogamous relationships? This is where a lot of you folks on the right lose me on this issue. Again, I don’t think redefining marriage was the right way to go about remedying the situation, but it was a situation that needed to be remedied.
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Gay marriage is the end product of a very long war against the heterosexual, nuclear family beginning before Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels 167 years ago.
If the above were not true, the issues, rights of survivorship, medical power of attorney, inheritance, separation of property with a split of the couple, etc could have and would have been accomplished by relatively simple legislation which would have left genuine marriage alone. I don’t think leaving traditional marriage alone was ever the objective. The destruction was the goal.
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I look at it a lot like I look at “Obamacare”. While it wasn’t the right answer to the problem, it was an answer. And medical costs are (and were) indeed a problem. I lay at least half of the blame for it at the feet of Repubs for failing to address it before Dems did.
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If government involvement is so important in the marriage equation, then why is it not against the law the cheat on your partner? My point is that the marriage contract is between two consenting individuals, regardless of outside influences. The disparities between married and unmarried partners are all the result of government influences and can be fixed without redefining marriage. None of the issues raised have any effect on the sanctity or the familial practices of the union. Next thing you know, government will be in the bedroom telling us exactly what practices are allowed and which are not, and defining who can do what to whom and when, requiring consent forms, limiting family size, etc. – oh wait……Get the government out of the marriage equation and all problems on that matter are solved. Want to marry your sister – what difference does it make if you are doing her anyway. What about your pet goat? Same answer.
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Dooood – It’s always nice to have someone in the group that thinks government is the solution. How about some government kool-aid to slake your thirst – I’m buying.
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I most assuredly do not think government is the solution. In the case of the medical cost issue the solution is the free market, but the solution has not been tried, nor will it be at this point. So I’ll pass on the gubmint kool-aid. Never had much of a taste for it. Much prefer beer.
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The Donald takes a shot at !Jeb
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To answer some questions:
So those legal benefits should not have been extended to homosexuals who were in committed, monogamous relationships?
Uh. . . no. I realize that this may go against some of your libertarian principles, but I think the government has a vital interest in the preservation of the nuclear family. Hence my objection to no-fault divorce. If Bill and John (or Kathy and Miranda) want to live together that’s their business. But the benefits you discuss are reserved for those who are actually married.
If government involvement is so important in the marriage equation, then why is it not against the law the cheat on your partner?
Because marriage/ divorce, et. al. have always been of civil, not criminal, law. (An exception is bigamy, which at this point has criminal penalties. I don’t think it will for very long.) In the days before no-fault divorce, cheating was a de-facto cause for divorce which had significant financial penalties.
Want to marry your sister – what difference does it make if you are doing her anyway.
That’s exactly my point! It DOES matter. Because society has a vested interest in establishing healthy families. If you want to do your sister (and she has no objections) have at it. No one is telling you you can’t. But please stop asking me, or the society I live in, for our approbation.
I realize that some of you are going to scream about how society – or the government – shouldn’t be judging. . . or making moral judgements. . . or defining right and wrong. But the fact is that failing to define a marriage (or family) as the traditional nuclear family is just as harmful in the long run as failing to establish a speed limit in a school zone.
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Bergdahl to be charged with misbehavior before the enemy in addition to desertion.
Observers wondered for months if Bergdahl would be charged with desertion after the deal brokered by the U.S. to bring him home. He was — but he was also charged with misbehavior before the enemy, a much rarer offense that carries a stiffer potential penalty in this case.
“I’ve never seen it charged,” Walter Huffman, a retired major general who served as the Army’s top lawyer, said of the misbehavior charge. “It’s not something you find in common everyday practice in the military.”
Bergdahl could face a life sentence if convicted of the charge, which accuses him of endangering fellow soldiers when he “left without authority; and wrongfully caused search and recovery operations.”
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I realize that this may go against some of your libertarian principles
It has nothing to do with libertarian principles. I simply think it’s immoral to deny same sex couples civil law benefits that heterosexual couples enjoy. That’s a whole different ball game than a redefinition of marriage. Those legal benefits could have been extended without redefining marriage, but by taking the hard line stance that homosexuals don’t deserve them, you’ve not only managed to lose that portion of the culture war, but alienated a large segment of the population who now see you as an unreasonable fundamentalist.
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#45 – I used to own so many various sizes & types of ladders – I had to walk out to the garage to check – AFAIK extension ladders at that length are 24 ft – next increment longer is a 30 footer. I no longer own one that long (sold my 24 footer when I moved back to TX from Denver in ’03)
I just looked online………….
Werner brand:
24 ft extension ladder (aluminum ‘painter grade’ @ 225 lb capacity)
weighs 34 lbs
24 ft ext5ension ladder (fiberglass ‘electrician grade’ @ 300 lb capacity)
weights 52 lbsLittle Giant newest version that can extend up to 26 ft weighs 53 lbs (a bit deceptive when completely “closed up” as this model is only 8ft long when reduced to it’s smallest configuration)
My Little Giant is a mid size (will work from 4ft “A ladder style’ up to 17 ft fully extended) weighs 32 lbs
These Little Giants have come down in price over the years BUT they are still more expensive than ‘typical’ ladders – I LOVE this unit because of the LIFETIME warranty and the versatility of varying positions available (the Largest unit offers 43 different possible configurations) – I have never stood / worked on a MORE STABLE ladder
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#63 – Wha? “changed”?
different brand of Scotch? *no smiley*
that so-and-so aint qualified to run for Dog Catcher’s freakin assistant IMHO
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#58 Dooood:
And medical costs are (and were) indeed a problem. I lay at least half of the blame for it at the feet of Repubs for failing to address it before Dems did.
The reason that medical costs were/are a problem is Government intervention. Much of it can be traced back to the point when Congress decided to make providing health insurance tax deductible for businesses but not individuals. The other big problem is that Congress (and the States collectively) deliberately continue to ignore the full faith section of the Constitution and so Insurance companies can’t work on a national basis.
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It has nothing to do with libertarian principles. I simply think it’s immoral to deny same sex couples civil law benefits that heterosexual couples enjoy. That’s a whole different ball game than a redefinition of marriage. Those legal benefits could have been extended without redefining marriage, but by taking the hard line stance that homosexuals don’t deserve them, you’ve not only managed to lose that portion of the culture war, but alienated a large segment of the population who now see you as an unreasonable fundamentalist.
Which is making it more difficult to defend Religious Freedom.
There are two “all or nothing sides” here. The one that’s saying “no religion anywhere, period” is winning.
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I had an incident today that really makes me realize how important it is to thank people and to recognize them. I put up a FB page devoted to the people that make a difference in my life.
You guys here keep me sane. You are very special to me. Thanks for being here. And special thanks to Hammy for giving us a space to go a little nuts, to hug each other, and to keep an eye on things that need eyes keeping on.
Love you all!
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OH, and I saw an interesting bumper sticker today. It took me a sec…
“My other auto is a .45 cal.”
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There are two “all or nothing sides” here. The one that’s saying “no religion anywhere, period” is winning.
I agree on both counts. And to open another can of worms, the all or nothing side of the abortion debate that won’t make any exceptions for incest / rape / mother’s health fall into the same camp as the “no civil law benefits to homosexuals” folks. They are indisputably losing too. Rightly or wrongly, if you are part of this camp you are viewed as an unreasonable fundamentalist.
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#67 Doood:
but by taking the hard line stance that homosexuals don’t deserve them
Uh no. Once again, you seem to have missed to point. Saying that un-married people deserve the benefits of marriage is like saying that motorcycles deserve the benefits of 4 wheels.
My stance is that homosexual activity is a choice. If you want to practice that activity, knock yourself out. I think it’s wrong, but it’s your life. However, traditional marriage is an institution that benefits society. A relationship between two people of the same gender does not provide the same benefits. It’s entirely appropriate for society to reward those who enter into a beneficial relationship. As a married person you get benefits which single people do not get. If you’re single and you want those benefits, then find someone and get married! It’s as simple as that.
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On your other point, I am totally willing to make an exception for abortions where the mother’s life may be in danger. As for rape/incest – I’m reluctant, but since the problem is so rare, I’d go along. One proviso – for the rape/incest provision – the mother MUST name the father, file charges and testify against him.
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#76 FA: That position is mine as well. Try and codify that and watch the wicked call you a misogynist, war on wimminzes etc. The wicked left will not stop until all restrictions on abortion up to the age of 5 are lifted.
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Dang, it looks like I missed a good Tuesday, I’ll have to scroll back up as I have time.
Well, I’m having way too much fun over here in Alabama, needless to say, I’ve been eating real good, last night we had pulled pork that Lil’ Sister made from a Boston Butt that she smoked all day, along with beans, coleslaw and corn on the cob. I got the old tractor out and after replacing the old battery she started right up. It rained off and on most of the day so I didn’t get much done but I rode around my old stomping grounds and man have they changed. I drove by the old Fan Drive In, that up until last year still had the screen, now there is a huge Pilot gas station there,….SIGH, I was hoping some old dude like me might have resurrect it. But, hey, “Life is Good!”
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I had never heard of “wordclouding” but when this survey was presented, the #1 word for Hillary was what first came to my mind.
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#48 Fat Albert, very well said and I agree wholeheartedly.
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Now don’t get too attached to your old home place, Dave. This is just a vacation, you are not retired yet. So, unlike me, you still HAFTA.
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Oops, looks like there may have been some coaching involved in the attack on the football ref. At least it’s not the head coach.
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On your other point, I am totally willing to make an exception for abortions where the mother’s life may be in danger. As for rape/incest – I’m reluctant, but since the problem is so rare, I’d go along. One proviso – for the rape/incest provision – the mother MUST name the father, file charges and testify against him.
Fair enough and agreed on that point. On denying the benefits of survivorship et al to same sex couples I continue to disagree. It’s not academic to me. My SIL will be in that boat soon. I agree it should not be considered a marriage in the holy matrimony sense, but to say they should be denied rights of survivorship should that come to pass strikes me as heartless and immoral. And I am neither.
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What impressed me about the ladder in my #36 -which I actually walked up to and touched today- was how cool and obviously beefy it looked and the fact that a 12.5 foot ladder collapsed to 30 inches.
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Thanks for all you do too, TT.
Even if you do wear a snood.
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I look at it a lot like I look at “Obamacare”. While it wasn’t the right answer to the problem, it was an answer. And medical costs are (and were) indeed a problem. I lay at least half of the blame for it at the feet of Repubs for failing to address it before Dems did.
The Democrats addressed it ?! Really, you must be kidding.
The Left used the the fact there were about 30 million people, mostly young adults, not covered by insurance. This, of course, is the result of decades of distorted incentives abetted by Congress to pervert the entire process.
Yeah, let’s screw the whole thing up and then rush in with a remedy that allows us to commandeer large portions of the economy. It’s a perfect opportunity to socialize the 16% of the GDP.Obamacare addressed healthcare as a fatuous, cynical, nasty power grab.
Your statement is pretty bizarre for one who professes to reject all government involvement in the personal choices of individuals.
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I thought the civil union and domestic partnership contracts gave the same financial guarantees to unmarried partners, whether same-sex or heterosexual couples.
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The Democrats addressed it ?! Really, you must be kidding.
I didn’t say they addressed it well. I said they addressed it. You’re right. They saw an opportunity to socialize medicine (which had long been their goal) and they took it. A vacuum existed and they filled it. If government intervention was the cause of exorbitantly high medical costs, where were the Repubs on the issue when it could have been addressed in a sane manner? Oh, that’s right. They’re all about big government too. Just different big government. I’m sure you understand my confusion.
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Gotta love ole Alfonzo Rachel telling it like IT IS!!
Rebel Wilson performed a skit that involved her dressing up as a stripper cop and claiming to be “disgruntled” because the stripper cop experiences she’s had don’t live up to the hype. BLM Activist Deray McKesson found this to be insensitive. Maybe Deray is too sensitive. Hear more in this ZoNation!
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#73 – Ah – reminds me of one of my ALL TIME favorite bumper snickers:
“Ted Kennedy’s CAR has KILLED more people than MY GUN!”
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IMHO – well WORTH the 60 seconds of reading…….
Good lessons to be pondered…………..
1..Today, I interviewed my grandmother for part of a research paper I’m working on for my Psychology class. When I asked her to define success in her own words, she Said, “Success is when you look back at your life and the memories make you smile.”
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2. Today, I asked my mentor – a very successful business man in his 70s- what his top 3 tips are for success. He smiled and said, “Read something no one else is reading, think something no one else is thinking, and do something no one else is doing.”
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3. Today, after a 72 hour shift at the fire station, a woman ran up to me at the grocery store and gave me a hug. When I tensed up,she realized I didn’t recognize her. She let go with tears of joy in her eyes and the most sincere smile and said, “On 9-11-2001, you carried me out of the World Trade Center.”
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4. Today, after I watched my dog get run over by a car, I sat on the side of the road holding him and crying. And just before he died, he licked the tears off my face.
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5. Today at 7AM, I woke up feeling ill, but decided I needed the money, so I went into work. At 3PM I got laid off. On my drive home I got a flat tire. When I went into the trunk for the spare, it was flat too. A man in a BMW pulled over, gave me a ride, we chatted, and then he
offered me a job. I start tomorrow.
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6. Today, as my father, three brothers, and two sisters stood around my mother’s hospital bed, my mother uttered her last coherent words before she died. She simply said, “I feel so loved right now. We should have gotten together like this more often.”
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7. Today, I kissed my dad on the forehead as he passed away in a small hospital bed. About 5 seconds after he passed, I realized it was the first time I had given him a kiss since I was a little boy.
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8. Today, in the cutest voice, my 8-year-old daughter asked me to start recycling. I chuckled and asked, “Why?” She replied, “So you can help me save the planet.” I chuckled again and asked, “And why do you want to save the planet?” Because that’s where I keep all my stuff,” she said.
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9. Today, when I witnessed a 27-year-old breast cancer patient laughing hysterically at her 2-year-old daughter’s antics, I suddenly realized that I need to stop complaining about my life and start celebrating it again.
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10. Today, a boy in a wheelchair saw me desperately struggling on crutches with my broken leg and offered to carry my backpack and books for me. He helped me all the way across campus to my class and as he was leaving he said, “I hope you feel better soon.”
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12. Today, I was traveling in Kenya and I met a refugee from Zimbabwe. He said he hadn’t eaten anything in over 3 days and looked extremely skinny and unhealthy. Then my friend offered him the rest of the sandwich he was eating. The first thing the man said was, “We can share it.”
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13. Today, I had the opportunity of sharing these with you. Did you get anything out of reading these. I learned that the best sermons are lived, not preached. I am glad I have you to send these to.
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Not to pile on, but I have several people in my world gone full libertarian. / insert establishment blame here.
It’s nice to say get the government out of everything, and believe me I’ve come a long way toward that goal, but libertarians refuse to see or here the left’s agenda. They keep churning and churning and have been for a century, they just put different faces on it.
MHarp is right, Civil Unions was an attainable solution solving all the issues everyone would be happy with. But that’s not what they wanted is it. You got to look past the issues drummed up and see the agenda.
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And yes, the right has agendas of their own.
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Or squatter tooters or whatever they’re called.
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A vacuum existed and they filled it.
I call total bulls**t on that one. There was a manufactured crisis and any other assertion is just crap.
Clearly, you are very confused.
I never once defended the Republican Party regarding insurance or medical care. It might be convenient to your argument, but, homeboy, it just ain’t true. Both parties have been irresponsible and criminal in their neglect regarding healthcare and health insurance (most people can’t begin to distinguish between the two) in this nation.
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Not confused in the least. Medical care costs too much in this country and has for quite some time. Republicans had a hand (or at least a lack of a hand in addressing that) in the situation. Yes, it is a separate issue from insurance and I never even remotely hinted otherwise.
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Speaking of that Squatty Potty — and I do forget who introduced that product to The Couch — I heard it advertised on the radio today. Probably 1070AM which is my most favored station these days. In spite of the RINO mooooshy tendencies of many of the syndicated hosts.
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Republicans should bear most of the guilt for standing by and letting the situation become as it is. Their apathy and impotence has been disgusting on the subject.
They have let Democrats run wild with America’s healthcare industry while the apolitical crony capitalist creeps in the insurance and hospital industries worked as their consiglieres and hitmen.
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#100 Texpat,
On that we agree completely.
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It’s getting a bit late but I can’t pass up on posting this:
http://theconservativetreehouse.com/2015/09/07/an-open-letter-to-jonah-goldberg-re-the-gop-and-donald-trump/Please read and see if you disagree with anything the Treehouse guys have to say.
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MHarpWow! Ok so you linked it, you get to watch for and advise Jonah Goldberg’s response. 😀
Edit: Since you’re retarred and don’t haffta anymore.
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I’d enjoy a critical response from the couch as well.
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I’d enjoy a critical response from the couch as well.
OK,…..well here goes; your Granny wears combat boots! 😀
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Crickets.
I’ll repost it tomorrow. Lots of Jonah fans here, don’t want them to miss this.
I expected to be at the dentist tomorrow but my appointment was rescheduled.
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#108!!! What am I doing up so late?!?!
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FWIW; my 108 was posted before I noticed that Iron Mary Cash saved the day.
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Step slowly away from the brewski SD. 😛
Glad you’re having a good time, I’m jealous!
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Yup we have lots of them over here.
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#110 “Life is Good!” 😀
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Oh, and your Mama’s so fat, they have to iron her clothes out on the driveway!
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