dadmonson
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The rumor is that the baby is actually Gov. Palin's teenage daughter's, and that the governor faked her own pregnancy to cover up her daughter's shame.
It tells us nothing about Palin, it tells us a little about the mentality of some of Obama's supporters.
I promise you I'm not this retarded, but the baby could be Asian(there is a huge Inuit population in Alaska) and they could be trying to say that the baby has down syndrome because they know of the statistics. Here is a picture of Palin and her husband with the baby.
http://www.suzyb.org/SarahTrig.jpg
Yes, I'm bored.
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Uhm, the Democrat-Republican change in this country has been pretty steady. If you didn't realize, we had a Democrat in office 8 years ago, and we currently have a Democrat majority in the house. Before 1994, once again, we had a house controlled by Dems. They aren't some oppressed political party for Christ's sake.
Your entire post is filled with absolutely ridiculous claims that don't apply to most people in this topic.
I don't know if he is saying the democrats are oppressed.
The fact is though is that in the past 28 years alone, only 8 of those were years in which a democrat was president, a president who never earned a majority vote.
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There is a vicious rumor going around about her and her daughter. Anybody heard it? Some Democrats are trying to smear McCain's campaign by acting like High School gossipers. It's a shame really.
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the most average face is the most beautiful. By average, here, I do not mean plain, but rather, a face in which all features are the most average for humans. Average nose, average lips, etc.
Actually they have done studies on that and the studies pretty much concluded that it was the flawlessness of the skin on average faces that made them more attractive to people. When they blended faces together to get the average, blemishes and wrinkles dissappeared.
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Is anyone else not convinced of my claim that this is the first affirmative action election?
You say this as if all the presidents in the past have been elected based on merit.
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Ominous Parallels:
Obama: “We need somebody who's got the heart, the empathy, to recognize what it's like to be a young teenage mom, the empathy to understand what it's like to be poor or African-American or gay or disabled or old - and that's the criterion by which I'll be selecting my judges.”
John Galt’s speech, paragraph 3: “You have sacrificed justice to mercy.”
Obama: “This is the moment when we must build on the wealth that open markets have created, and share its benefits more equitably. Trade has been a cornerstone of our growth and global development. But we will not be able to sustain this growth if it favors the few, and not the many.”
Galt: “You have sacrificed independence to unity.”
Obama: “We should never forget that God granted us the power to reason so that we would do His work here on Earth - so that we would use science to cure disease, and heal the sick, and save lives."
Galt: “You have sacrificed reason to faith.”
Obama: “We have an obligation and a responsibility to be investing in our students and our schools. We must make sure that people who have the grades, the desire and the will, but not the money, can still get the best education possible.”
Galt: “You have sacrificed wealth to need.”
Obama: “People are whupped. I'm whupped. My wife is whupped. Unless it's your job to be curious, who really has the time to sit and ask questions and explore issues?"
Galt: “You have sacrificed self-esteem to self-denial.”
Obama: “Focusing your life solely on making a buck shows a certain poverty of ambition. It asks too little of yourself. Because it's only when you hitch your wagon to something larger than yourself that you realize your true potential.”
Galt: “You have sacrificed happiness to duty.”
How nice of you to leave out McCain.
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You all are feeling positive towards a nominee for VP that thinks creationism should be taught in schools?
Look who they are up against...
Man elections have almost become a joke, it isn't about issues or policies it is more about well "I like You and you make me feel good."
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It looks like McCain is trying to play the sympathy card too but what makes him think that she can be a vice president?
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I agree that Christianity is an individualistic religion and that's a good thing about it, but I don't think it's the primary source of the West's individualism. It is clear from Homer's works that the Greeks had the concept of the soul and worshipped individual heroes right from the beginning of their civilization. Christianity (and Judaism) probably just inherited it from them.
Do you think that the United States source of individualism could have something to do with the great controls that Britian had over them before the Revolutionary War?
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The most important concepts in the philosophy of Objectivism and the founding of the USA are freedom and individual rights.
I don’t know history as well as many of you but I don’t think religion is nearly as strong in America today as it was in the 18th century. But that didn’t stop the founding fathers from creating a constitution based on freedom and individual rights.
Maybe some of you can comment on how religion did or did not influence the rise of Communist nations. What role did religion play in the rise of the USSR? I found the following on Wikipedia:
As the founder of the Soviet state V. I. Lenin put it:
"Religion is the opium of the people: this saying of Marx is the cornerstone of the entire ideology of Marxism about religion. All modern religions and churches, all and of every kind of religious organizations are always considered by Marxism as the organs of bourgeois reaction, used for the protection of the exploitation and the stupefaction of the working class."
I found the following Obama quotes that clearly state his support of government forced redistribution of wealth:
"We have an obligation and a responsibility to be investing in our students and our schools. We must make sure that people who have the grades, the desire and the will, but not the money, can still get the best education possible."
"We need somebody who's got the heart, the empathy, to recognize what it's like to be a young teenage mom, the empathy to understand what it's like to be poor or African-American or gay or disabled or old - and that's the criterion by which I'll be selecting my judges."
"We need to steer clear of this poverty of ambition, where people want to drive fancy cars and wear nice clothes and live in nice apartments but don't want to work hard to accomplish these things. Everyone should try to realize their full potential."
"We live in a culture that discourages empathy. A culture that too often tells us our principle goal in life is to be rich, thin, young, famous, safe, and entertained."
All of the McCain quotes I’ve found seem to be related to maintaining military strength and cutting taxes.
Even if McCain is more religious than Obama and gives us “more of the same”, I don’t think I could ever vote for someone who publicly supports socialism as much as Obama does.
I understand that religion teaches that selflessness is moral which makes it easier for politicians to promote government forced redistribution of wealth by claiming to help people in need.
I also think it’s possible for a president to be religious but still fully understand and support the concepts of freedom and individual rights.
But to vote for Obama, simply because democrats are not as religious as republicans, while knowing from Obama’s own words that he doesn’t support freedom and individual rights, just doesn’t make any sense to me at all.
When Obama makes a mess of things then people will know that his views aren't sustainable...
Or are they? I know they are immoral(Only Objectivists realize this though) but are they sustainable?
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Wow, no one said anything positive. Big surprise!
I did like the points that Clinton and Kerry made in their speeches. Like how Clinton talked about how people said the same thing about him being too young for the White House, and he left with a really strong economy and a budget surplus.
I'd like to add that Bill Clinton actually reduced the burdens of government while Bush has expanded it.
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Another factor in this is safety. A baseball thrown at such a high velocity is dangerous.
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Funny how John McCain has been "The Maverick" for the past 8 years... that is, until he becomes the Republican nominee. Then all of a sudden he is George Bush III.
One of the Dems pointed that out. He said that instead of calling McCain "The Maverick" he should be called "The Sidekick" since he had voted in agreement with Bush so many times.
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Ok so I just tuned in and apparently I missed the nomination process, or they had already decided before air time. I had heard they were going to decide at breakfast (?) instead, not sure what happened with that.
It's astounding how rote and shallow the repeated claims are this convention. It boils down to:
*McCain is equivalent to 4 more years of Bush.
Isn't he though? This is their main point against McCain.
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That's a good point. Then my next thought was, well, Jordan was still challenged even though he made it look easy.
Michael Jordan wasn't always that good he didn't even make Varsity when he was a Sophmore in High School.
As far as the baseball situation though, I say keep the little guy in, can you imagine the confidence a kid would gain from hitting a homerun(Or the little league equivelant, I guess) against that kid? And someone probably will. Nobody is perfect all the time.
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What is most bothersome about this Rick Warren forum is that Obama and McCain agreed to do it. The guy is an evangelical christian preacher. I'm not saying he has any less rights than ourselves or anyone else, but, doing this perpetuates the significance of christanity and further establishes it in the mainstream political discourse.
Also, I was strongly disappointed that Bob Barr was not invited.
Obama's mother was an atheist so I don't know how religious he really is. America is a christian nation so maybe he is trying to get the christian vote.
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But many of the people who dislike the olympics enjoy sports like soccer.
I don't like soccer. This stuff is clearly subjective opinion.
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Some people say that you can't compete for medals in events like Track And Field, Weight Lifting, Swimming etc... without some kind of doping.
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This "ad campaign" may or may not have something to do with a new HBO series coming out in September called True Blood.
Well it doesn't say anything about the series in the ads. But yeah, that would make sense.
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The Vampire's Rights Amendment? I guess Vampires really do exist. What is your take on this? I saw this ad on HBO Talking about vampires wanting rights. Would you support the Vampires Rights Amendment? Here is the Ad that I saw... It almost made me LOL, check it out.
And apparently they have a whole organization called The American Vampire League.
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Has anybody seen it? I hear some people say that it wasn't that good but I'm still interested in going to see it in the theatre. I'm wondering what some of you here thought about it.
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Did they actually say in the movie that Capitalism caused Earth to be overrun by garbage? Was the movie all about the enviroment?
I keep on hearing that Wall-E is a great movie from everybody else.
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Being gay is not inherited but heritable, the same way that being a basketball player is heritable.
I have a friend that happens to be a girl who has always been a "tomboy". She says that she is NOT gay but she KNOWS that she is not a FULL female, either. That has always been intriguing to me
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It's funny that you all are using animals having intercourse with other animals of the same sex as proof positive that people are automatically born being gay since most animals of the same species no matter what gender look alike. Unless you look at the private area it is pretty difficult to tell which animal of the same species is male or female.
I'm not saying I disagree with homosexuality I just don't think there is a "gay" gene. I suppose that you all think though that there is a "violence" gene too.
Tsunami John (McCain's pick for VP)
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Where were you when Republicans(Including McCain) were attacking Obama by saying he had no experience? That was there main knock against Obama.