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THE MOST EXPENSIVE DATE NIGHT IN HISTORY
Gayle
It is immaterial to me WHO BO is screwing - as long as it isn’t the country!Sorry to say that is exactly what he is doing.
Comment Posted By Alarm1201 On 2.06.2009 @ 10:30
GOP MORE POPULAR THAN AT ANY TIME SINCE YESTERDAY
I do not think the republican party needs to dump the social issues but we can use them to highlight the dems radicalism. For example take abortion. You are correct, most people do not want to outlaw abortion. But most people do not want there daughters going a Planned Parenthood and getting abortions w/o their consent, which is the democratic position. Likewise most people do not believe doctors should be allowed to collapse the skull of a full term partially newborn by sucking its brains out through a large needle hooked up to a vacuum.
Take also gay marriage. Most people do not want to redefine marriage to include homosexuals, but most are not against some sort of civil unions. Did you forget that California, the most liberal state in the country, just voted to add an amendment to their constitution forbidding a redefinition of marriage?
The social issues are important but they have been detrimental to the conservative/republican cause because we have allowed them to be an either/or issue: its either all abortions or outlaw abortions; its either no civil unions at all or redefine marriage.
I am a theocon but I believe we will continue to loose if we do not change our tactic and use social issues to point out the unpopularity of the democratic radial positions. To do that we will have to change are approach to this issues but not abandon them.
Comment Posted By Alarm1201 On 19.05.2009 @ 13:46
THE ENDURING POPULARITY OF STAR TREK
Great article and discussion. I have recently introduced my children (13 boy and 11 girl) to Next Generation and Voyager via DVDs.
Watching a few episodes also made me wonder about the political views of Roddenberry.
I think he was expressing his ideas of utopia but they were not Marxist or Communist meaning that the perfection of society was not brought about by economic/social engineering. Instead his leftist dreams are brought about through advances in science.
Two examples - In one episode of NG they found a planet were young beautiful people ran around in white diapers having all kinds of sensual pleasures. However, much to Picard's surprise one of the foundations of their society was capital punishment. When Picard explains why the federation does not have to exercise this punishment he says that their society had found a way to scientifically isolate those human traits that cause crime and remove them so that criminal behavior is removed.
A second quick example, the Enterprise is transporting a delegation of a primitive race that required live animals for their diet. When the representative of the primitive people asks Ryker why the do not eat animals he responds with something like this, "We no longer need to enslave animals because we have this thingy that replicates our food for us.”
Here are two examples of leftist dreams brought about by scientific discovery and advancement not social or economic tweaking.
Comment Posted By Alarm1201 On 12.05.2009 @ 12:24
