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		<title>Comment on Goddamn Media&#8230; by thenonconformer</title>
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		<description>When I was busy working as a professional engineer  I personally  had no  time for or a real concept on how bad the real world is with much too many liars, thugs, bullies, abusers, distorters, racists , thieves, now too.. and someone how next I could not help but encountered many of them, but  I had by now learned how to best deal with them.  It is a two fold approach, first the Public exposure, the pen is mightier than the sword, and a good name is worth more than any silver and gold. But next also there is rightful demand, a need  for their  termination of employment, their real prosecution of the guilty, bad persons.  Both of these approaches personally so works best, for everyone&#039;s&#039; betterment. Ideally and rightfully I  do not hesitate to recommend any crook, bad minister, bad pastor, bad news reporter as well to be fired , terminated from his our her  job.  Sadly there are many people in this world who are hatred mongers, they have a false persistent agendas against some others, and they for many wrong reasons now wrongfully pursue much of their time in these matters now too foolishly and unwisely. Too often they the bad people firstly proclaim themselves as angels of lights, good Samaritans try to help others, but rather it too often seems they are merely trying to gain an advantage over others, and to promote themselves in some powerful, key job, economic, superior positions under these false agendas, disguise&#039;s in all kinds of social groups now too, the religious, political, cultural, governmental. Now I really hate these types of snakes and I rightfully do not hesitate to expose them once I encounter them.
 
Now we all know that in north America we all do really have freedom of religion, freedom of choice, freedom of speech, the right to be hard now as well.. Some people are now falsely abusing these right to promote a false war against a particular Christian group, the Pentecostal ones, or even the Catholic ones, etc. When I see this kind of unacceptable personal behavior I too do not accept it but do loudly object to it to all and do ask these hate mongrels be immediately fired, put in jail as well. No matter who they are now too.
   
&quot;Sarah Palin losing her sway over Christian voters
http://communities.canada.com/vancouversun/blogs/thesearch/default.aspx
 
The Sarah Palin effect, which brought evangelicals and other Christians rushing on to the Republican wagon when her nomination was announced, is now fading. In some cases fast.
 
A poll by the respected Pew Forum has found that some white evangelicals are losing their excitement about the political coupling of John McCain and Palin, who has deep Pentecostal roots in Alaska. White evangelicals, the crucial group that got George W. Bush into the White House in the past two elections, are beginning to edge away from the Republicans. Their support has dropped from 74 to 67 per cent in the past week or so.
Meanwhile, pollsters are beginning to predict that mainline Protestants, who tend to be more liberal than evangelicals, are moving firmly to Barack Obama and Joe Biden. The Democrat contender is now attracting 48 per cent of mainline Christians’ votes. As well, non-Hispanic Catholics have also switched and are now leaning more to Obama-Biden than McCain-Palin.
 
Go here for Pew’s easy-to-read poll http://pewforum.org/docs/?DocID=349&quot;
 
Comment by todd — October 26, 2008 @ 8:13 pm  &quot;
Thanks for your input Todd, this is the second time you posted back to me on my blog, unusual for a news reporter to comment on my blog too.http://anyonecare.wordpress.com/2008/08/30/sarah-palin-already-has-energized-conservative-religious-leaders/#comment-1746#comment-1746

&gt;&gt;A poll by the respected Pew Forum has found that some white evangelicals are losing their excitement about the political coupling of John McCain and Palin

My personal straight forward, honest, personal summation, experiences of Politics, dealing with you, the Vancouver Sun as well, and pollsters… they are statistically just liars, biased, people with hidden agendas.. and I told you that now in writing too many times too.. I rightfully have no respect for what you write still about Christians, evangelicals and so do many others now too.

what about the polls that show 30 percent of white people will also not vote for a black persons? racisms exists in the churches and police stations now too.

And my own experiences with Canadian liberal news media, liberals, liberal politicians are so blind they had undeniably now underestimated the starch of the all of evangelical churches, who had themselves formed the Reform, Alliance, and the new Conservative party, and next had wiped out both the old Conservatives under Brian Mulroney, and the Liberals under Jean Chrétien and Paul Martin.. I saw it coming , wrote about it 2 decades ago, but you did don’t see it coming. Do get an honest job now..

But the fact that Sarah Palin is getting now so much free publicity attention even from the liberals, democrats it all next simply means when I see the devil breathing on her back, she must be doing something really really good

Any possible Christian support of Obama is another liberal, democratic, news media false spins.. just like the devil often dos the same thing.. I read many of their emotional, gushy, lying, slanderous , sewage posts, opinions, but they are spins, lies and not facts and the US news media has lost loads of credibity, CNN especially the big liars, in their slanted election presentations, and that fact is not unnoticed.. but that was the same complaint thing they had often said about the Canadian News media, CBC, under the liberals who lost next.. wow!

And basically too no true, real practicing Christian would support the clearly anti Christ Obama.. who does supports abortions, gay marriages, alcohol as well..

My site statistics undeniably do show Sarah Palin is the most read topic in the last few months of over 100 different subjects, topics on my 6 related blogs, and that support I encounter is the tip of the iceberg only.. 80 percent of the posts read are about her.

Even the Canadian PM Stephen Harper, and the federal election. Bilden, McCain, Obama do not get 10 percent of her attention too.. the undeniably crooked Christian Missionary alliance church got just as much attention now, 10 percent  as they all did as well.. note this a new runner up in reading POPULARITY is the bad RCMP, bad Traffic cops of Alberta next.

As I also wrote often to thousands, Canadian politicians and news editors too now.. The truth about the ungodly Pentecostals bashings, wars against the Pentecostals on the net, even by the Vancouver Sun now too, or anyone else… is that I also still do not have to accept it or put up with it still too,  it is  an unacceptable perversity, human rights abuse, immoral. And it better stop otherwise I too will have to write to a lot more people about it too.. very much more..

http://witnessed.wordpress.com/ http://witnessed.wordpress.com/?s=bad+Pentecostals etc

http://anyonecare.wordpress.com/2008/10/26/the-declining-economy-and-the-federal-elections-are-the-voters%e2%80%99-top-concern/

http://anyonecare.wordpress.com/2008/08/30/sarah-palin-already-has-energized-conservative-religious-leaders/

http://thefocusonthefamily.wordpress.com/2008/09/01/sarah-palin/

http://witnessed.wordpress.com/2008/10/25/unbeliveable/</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>When I was busy working as a professional engineer  I personally  had no  time for or a real concept on how bad the real world is with much too many liars, thugs, bullies, abusers, distorters, racists , thieves, now too.. and someone how next I could not help but encountered many of them, but  I had by now learned how to best deal with them.  It is a two fold approach, first the Public exposure, the pen is mightier than the sword, and a good name is worth more than any silver and gold. But next also there is rightful demand, a need  for their  termination of employment, their real prosecution of the guilty, bad persons.  Both of these approaches personally so works best, for everyone&#8217;s&#8217; betterment. Ideally and rightfully I  do not hesitate to recommend any crook, bad minister, bad pastor, bad news reporter as well to be fired , terminated from his our her  job.  Sadly there are many people in this world who are hatred mongers, they have a false persistent agendas against some others, and they for many wrong reasons now wrongfully pursue much of their time in these matters now too foolishly and unwisely. Too often they the bad people firstly proclaim themselves as angels of lights, good Samaritans try to help others, but rather it too often seems they are merely trying to gain an advantage over others, and to promote themselves in some powerful, key job, economic, superior positions under these false agendas, disguise&#8217;s in all kinds of social groups now too, the religious, political, cultural, governmental. Now I really hate these types of snakes and I rightfully do not hesitate to expose them once I encounter them.</p>
<p>Now we all know that in north America we all do really have freedom of religion, freedom of choice, freedom of speech, the right to be hard now as well.. Some people are now falsely abusing these right to promote a false war against a particular Christian group, the Pentecostal ones, or even the Catholic ones, etc. When I see this kind of unacceptable personal behavior I too do not accept it but do loudly object to it to all and do ask these hate mongrels be immediately fired, put in jail as well. No matter who they are now too.</p>
<p>&#8220;Sarah Palin losing her sway over Christian voters<br />
<a href="http://communities.canada.com/vancouversun/blogs/thesearch/default.aspx" rel="nofollow">http://communities.canada.com/vancouversun/blogs/thesearch/default.aspx</a></p>
<p>The Sarah Palin effect, which brought evangelicals and other Christians rushing on to the Republican wagon when her nomination was announced, is now fading. In some cases fast.</p>
<p>A poll by the respected Pew Forum has found that some white evangelicals are losing their excitement about the political coupling of John McCain and Palin, who has deep Pentecostal roots in Alaska. White evangelicals, the crucial group that got George W. Bush into the White House in the past two elections, are beginning to edge away from the Republicans. Their support has dropped from 74 to 67 per cent in the past week or so.<br />
Meanwhile, pollsters are beginning to predict that mainline Protestants, who tend to be more liberal than evangelicals, are moving firmly to Barack Obama and Joe Biden. The Democrat contender is now attracting 48 per cent of mainline Christians’ votes. As well, non-Hispanic Catholics have also switched and are now leaning more to Obama-Biden than McCain-Palin.</p>
<p>Go here for Pew’s easy-to-read poll <a href="http://pewforum.org/docs/?DocID=349" rel="nofollow">http://pewforum.org/docs/?DocID=349</a>&#8221;</p>
<p>Comment by todd — October 26, 2008 @ 8:13 pm  &#8221;<br />
Thanks for your input Todd, this is the second time you posted back to me on my blog, unusual for a news reporter to comment on my blog too.http://anyonecare.wordpress.com/2008/08/30/sarah-palin-already-has-energized-conservative-religious-leaders/#comment-1746#comment-1746</p>
<p>&gt;&gt;A poll by the respected Pew Forum has found that some white evangelicals are losing their excitement about the political coupling of John McCain and Palin</p>
<p>My personal straight forward, honest, personal summation, experiences of Politics, dealing with you, the Vancouver Sun as well, and pollsters… they are statistically just liars, biased, people with hidden agendas.. and I told you that now in writing too many times too.. I rightfully have no respect for what you write still about Christians, evangelicals and so do many others now too.</p>
<p>what about the polls that show 30 percent of white people will also not vote for a black persons? racisms exists in the churches and police stations now too.</p>
<p>And my own experiences with Canadian liberal news media, liberals, liberal politicians are so blind they had undeniably now underestimated the starch of the all of evangelical churches, who had themselves formed the Reform, Alliance, and the new Conservative party, and next had wiped out both the old Conservatives under Brian Mulroney, and the Liberals under Jean Chrétien and Paul Martin.. I saw it coming , wrote about it 2 decades ago, but you did don’t see it coming. Do get an honest job now..</p>
<p>But the fact that Sarah Palin is getting now so much free publicity attention even from the liberals, democrats it all next simply means when I see the devil breathing on her back, she must be doing something really really good</p>
<p>Any possible Christian support of Obama is another liberal, democratic, news media false spins.. just like the devil often dos the same thing.. I read many of their emotional, gushy, lying, slanderous , sewage posts, opinions, but they are spins, lies and not facts and the US news media has lost loads of credibity, CNN especially the big liars, in their slanted election presentations, and that fact is not unnoticed.. but that was the same complaint thing they had often said about the Canadian News media, CBC, under the liberals who lost next.. wow!</p>
<p>And basically too no true, real practicing Christian would support the clearly anti Christ Obama.. who does supports abortions, gay marriages, alcohol as well..</p>
<p>My site statistics undeniably do show Sarah Palin is the most read topic in the last few months of over 100 different subjects, topics on my 6 related blogs, and that support I encounter is the tip of the iceberg only.. 80 percent of the posts read are about her.</p>
<p>Even the Canadian PM Stephen Harper, and the federal election. Bilden, McCain, Obama do not get 10 percent of her attention too.. the undeniably crooked Christian Missionary alliance church got just as much attention now, 10 percent  as they all did as well.. note this a new runner up in reading POPULARITY is the bad RCMP, bad Traffic cops of Alberta next.</p>
<p>As I also wrote often to thousands, Canadian politicians and news editors too now.. The truth about the ungodly Pentecostals bashings, wars against the Pentecostals on the net, even by the Vancouver Sun now too, or anyone else… is that I also still do not have to accept it or put up with it still too,  it is  an unacceptable perversity, human rights abuse, immoral. And it better stop otherwise I too will have to write to a lot more people about it too.. very much more..</p>
<p><a href="http://witnessed.wordpress.com/" rel="nofollow">http://witnessed.wordpress.com/</a> <a href="http://witnessed.wordpress.com/?s=bad+Pentecostals" rel="nofollow">http://witnessed.wordpress.com/?s=bad+Pentecostals</a> etc</p>
<p><a href="http://anyonecare.wordpress.com/2008/10/26/the-declining-economy-and-the-federal-elections-are-the-voters%e2%80%99-top-concern/" rel="nofollow">http://anyonecare.wordpress.com/2008/10/26/the-declining-economy-and-the-federal-elections-are-the-voters%e2%80%99-top-concern/</a></p>
<p><a href="http://anyonecare.wordpress.com/2008/08/30/sarah-palin-already-has-energized-conservative-religious-leaders/" rel="nofollow">http://anyonecare.wordpress.com/2008/08/30/sarah-palin-already-has-energized-conservative-religious-leaders/</a></p>
<p><a href="http://thefocusonthefamily.wordpress.com/2008/09/01/sarah-palin/" rel="nofollow">http://thefocusonthefamily.wordpress.com/2008/09/01/sarah-palin/</a></p>
<p><a href="http://witnessed.wordpress.com/2008/10/25/unbeliveable/" rel="nofollow">http://witnessed.wordpress.com/2008/10/25/unbeliveable/</a></p>
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		<dc:creator>Fact Checker</dc:creator>
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		<description>Were you old enough to vote in 2000? Just saying...</description>
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		<dc:creator>thenonconformer</dc:creator>
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		<dc:creator>Video: Keith Olbermann Special Comment &#171; POLITICAL VLOGZ</dc:creator>
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		<dc:creator>I Like Muslims...</dc:creator>
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		<description>Hilarious
What were the racist crazies even talking about?

&lt;strong&gt;Something about Muslims and how they are zany or something... I don&#039;t know.&lt;/strong&gt;</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Hilarious<br />
What were the racist crazies even talking about?</p>
<p><strong>Something about Muslims and how they are zany or something&#8230; I don&#8217;t know.</strong></p>
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		<title>Comment on The Final Debate: Plumbing &amp; Socialism&#8230; by Tacitus</title>
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		<description>The fact that you and the rest of the Obama flock are cheerleading the ritual media decimation of an average American simply because he asked Obama a pointed question on national television is indicative of a greater subtext anti-intellectualism present among Obama&#039;s supporters. Anyone who challenges the assertions made by Obama must be destroyed regardless of their standing or significance in the campaign.

Still, you&#039;ve done what few else have had the stones to do in the Democratic party: attack the criticism of Obama&#039;s outrageous position rather than the critics themselves.

You said:

&quot;Of course, and that’s why extreme forms of socialism never have and never will work. Also, the idea of the government distributing goods probably isn’t the greatest one of all time. But unless the Dark Knight just has a really, really good poker face, I haven’t heard him saying he would do the latter&quot;

You&#039;re either mistaken or duplicitous - &quot;spread the wealth around&quot; refers to having the government distribute dollars, which are a type of good. The idea of using progressive tax dollars as a means of wealth redistribution and social engineering has a lot of people unsettled, and for good reason. Wealth redistribution is indisputably socialist; it&#039;s obviously not the end-all be-all of socialism, but it&#039;s certainly a core tenet. 

You argue that by the logic of conservatives, anyone who consumes a public service provided by the government must also be a socialist. I don&#039;t see how you could come to that conclusion, and your last example of &quot;public companies&quot; as an example of socialism makes me think that you&#039;re ignorant of what it actually means to invest in a &quot;public company.&quot;

&lt;strong&gt;I&#039;m always amazed at people&#039;s ability to read into something and take out something that simply isn&#039;t there. At no point did I suggest there was anything remotely okay with the media (or McCain for that matter) intruding into some regular dude&#039;s life. At the same time, he set himself up for that failure... no one told his ass to go on Good Morning America, et. al. He wanted his fifteen minutes without remembering it often comes with a very steep price. That makes him an idiot.

Secondly, do yourself a favor and not lump me into the group of people who decide to follow either politician blindly. I&#039;m not one of those people. If the last eight years has taught me anything (and the history of politics in general) is rarely what a politician says amounts to what a politician actually does. 

Also, I never said wealth redistribution isn&#039;t a core tenet of socialism (I posted the definition for a good reason) which is also why I brought up the concept of publicly traded companies (I&#039;ll get to that in a minute). What I&#039;m arguing is there&#039;s no point in bringing up something that already occurred in this country long before Obama even thought about running for President. The same cries of socialism rang out with FDR&#039;s proposal and bumps in the road notwithstanding, he managed to work things out. So did Clinton regardless of what you may think of him (though free market capitalism did play a role). 

Both to some degree, used the idea of progressive taxes. I never said it&#039;s a great idea... I&#039;m not sure it necessarily is. What I do believe however, is making tax cuts that are fundamentally flawed permanent (as McCain would do) is far worse. If I&#039;m going to pick either of these two evils, I&#039;ll go with the progressive taxes. 

And now to your final point. While I&#039;ll admit to oversimplifying, don&#039;t make the assumption I don&#039;t understand the concept of a publicly traded company. Also, don&#039;t say the government &#039;provides&#039; the public services because technically they don&#039;t... we do. We pay for it and they take care of the rest.

Wait a minute... I think there&#039;s a word for that. 

P.S.: If there&#039;s one thing we can agree on is the appreciation for your avatar. Though this may surprise you, Atlas Shrugged is one of my favorite books and Rand has been relatively influential into my line of thinking that I simply suspect just isn&#039;t viable anymore.&lt;/strong&gt;</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The fact that you and the rest of the Obama flock are cheerleading the ritual media decimation of an average American simply because he asked Obama a pointed question on national television is indicative of a greater subtext anti-intellectualism present among Obama&#8217;s supporters. Anyone who challenges the assertions made by Obama must be destroyed regardless of their standing or significance in the campaign.</p>
<p>Still, you&#8217;ve done what few else have had the stones to do in the Democratic party: attack the criticism of Obama&#8217;s outrageous position rather than the critics themselves.</p>
<p>You said:</p>
<p>&#8220;Of course, and that’s why extreme forms of socialism never have and never will work. Also, the idea of the government distributing goods probably isn’t the greatest one of all time. But unless the Dark Knight just has a really, really good poker face, I haven’t heard him saying he would do the latter&#8221;</p>
<p>You&#8217;re either mistaken or duplicitous &#8211; &#8220;spread the wealth around&#8221; refers to having the government distribute dollars, which are a type of good. The idea of using progressive tax dollars as a means of wealth redistribution and social engineering has a lot of people unsettled, and for good reason. Wealth redistribution is indisputably socialist; it&#8217;s obviously not the end-all be-all of socialism, but it&#8217;s certainly a core tenet. </p>
<p>You argue that by the logic of conservatives, anyone who consumes a public service provided by the government must also be a socialist. I don&#8217;t see how you could come to that conclusion, and your last example of &#8220;public companies&#8221; as an example of socialism makes me think that you&#8217;re ignorant of what it actually means to invest in a &#8220;public company.&#8221;</p>
<p><strong>I&#8217;m always amazed at people&#8217;s ability to read into something and take out something that simply isn&#8217;t there. At no point did I suggest there was anything remotely okay with the media (or McCain for that matter) intruding into some regular dude&#8217;s life. At the same time, he set himself up for that failure&#8230; no one told his ass to go on Good Morning America, et. al. He wanted his fifteen minutes without remembering it often comes with a very steep price. That makes him an idiot.</p>
<p>Secondly, do yourself a favor and not lump me into the group of people who decide to follow either politician blindly. I&#8217;m not one of those people. If the last eight years has taught me anything (and the history of politics in general) is rarely what a politician says amounts to what a politician actually does. </p>
<p>Also, I never said wealth redistribution isn&#8217;t a core tenet of socialism (I posted the definition for a good reason) which is also why I brought up the concept of publicly traded companies (I&#8217;ll get to that in a minute). What I&#8217;m arguing is there&#8217;s no point in bringing up something that already occurred in this country long before Obama even thought about running for President. The same cries of socialism rang out with FDR&#8217;s proposal and bumps in the road notwithstanding, he managed to work things out. So did Clinton regardless of what you may think of him (though free market capitalism did play a role). </p>
<p>Both to some degree, used the idea of progressive taxes. I never said it&#8217;s a great idea&#8230; I&#8217;m not sure it necessarily is. What I do believe however, is making tax cuts that are fundamentally flawed permanent (as McCain would do) is far worse. If I&#8217;m going to pick either of these two evils, I&#8217;ll go with the progressive taxes. </p>
<p>And now to your final point. While I&#8217;ll admit to oversimplifying, don&#8217;t make the assumption I don&#8217;t understand the concept of a publicly traded company. Also, don&#8217;t say the government &#8216;provides&#8217; the public services because technically they don&#8217;t&#8230; we do. We pay for it and they take care of the rest.</p>
<p>Wait a minute&#8230; I think there&#8217;s a word for that. </p>
<p>P.S.: If there&#8217;s one thing we can agree on is the appreciation for your avatar. Though this may surprise you, Atlas Shrugged is one of my favorite books and Rand has been relatively influential into my line of thinking that I simply suspect just isn&#8217;t viable anymore.</strong></p>
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		<title>Comment on The Final Debate: McCain &amp; Abortion&#8230; by rsaling</title>
		<link>http://thehedonistperspective.wordpress.com/2008/10/17/the-final-debate-mccain-abortion/#comment-60</link>
		<dc:creator>rsaling</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 17 Oct 2008 06:34:40 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>You wanna talk about abortion? You needed to check out the Human Body exhibit that was on tour a year or so ago which showed a baby at the different stages of development from a week to full term. I don&#039;t know how anyone can be for abortion after seeing that. The truth is science has come a very long way since Roe v wade and we are now able to see beyond a shadow of doubt that what is inside of a woman is a live human baby, not anything less. By the way, there are many people alive today who are thankful that their mothers chose life and either kept them or gave them up for adoption instead of killing them.

&lt;strong&gt;Look, if you don&#039;t like abortion, that&#039;s totally fine. We could do this dance all day about whether it&#039;s right or wrong but I&#039;d like to think such a subject isn&#039;t as black and white as we&#039;d like it to be. Hence the reason why people can spend hours arguing about it without getting anywhere.

And you don&#039;t have to give me sanctimonious rhetoric about people being thankful their mothers didn&#039;t abort them. Please... spare me. Cause you would probably give me shit if I started pointing out mother&#039;s who have done unspeakable things to children they&#039;ve born into this world for whatever fucked up reason their minds have thought of.

You have your opinion and I don&#039;t necessarily agree with it but I completely respect it. But in the same way people don&#039;t want the government taking away their guns, I don&#039;t want the government handicapping a woman&#039;s choice; even if people like you think they are the worst people in the world because of it. </description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>You wanna talk about abortion? You needed to check out the Human Body exhibit that was on tour a year or so ago which showed a baby at the different stages of development from a week to full term. I don&#8217;t know how anyone can be for abortion after seeing that. The truth is science has come a very long way since Roe v wade and we are now able to see beyond a shadow of doubt that what is inside of a woman is a live human baby, not anything less. By the way, there are many people alive today who are thankful that their mothers chose life and either kept them or gave them up for adoption instead of killing them.</p>
<p><strong>Look, if you don&#8217;t like abortion, that&#8217;s totally fine. We could do this dance all day about whether it&#8217;s right or wrong but I&#8217;d like to think such a subject isn&#8217;t as black and white as we&#8217;d like it to be. Hence the reason why people can spend hours arguing about it without getting anywhere.</p>
<p>And you don&#8217;t have to give me sanctimonious rhetoric about people being thankful their mothers didn&#8217;t abort them. Please&#8230; spare me. Cause you would probably give me shit if I started pointing out mother&#8217;s who have done unspeakable things to children they&#8217;ve born into this world for whatever fucked up reason their minds have thought of.</p>
<p>You have your opinion and I don&#8217;t necessarily agree with it but I completely respect it. But in the same way people don&#8217;t want the government taking away their guns, I don&#8217;t want the government handicapping a woman&#8217;s choice; even if people like you think they are the worst people in the world because of it.</strong></p>
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		<title>Comment on Irony. Sex. &amp; American Politics Presents: High School Musical IV&#8230; by Gina Maria</title>
		<link>http://thehedonistperspective.wordpress.com/2008/10/15/irony-sex-american-politics-presents-high-school-musical-iv/#comment-59</link>
		<dc:creator>Gina Maria</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 15 Oct 2008 17:07:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I&#039;m one of those &quot;liberals&quot; and I take exception with your suggestion that we&#039;d  react like conservatives did if one of our own presented a rational argument in support of McCain.  I&#039;d greet it with my natural cynicism, of course, but I wouldn&#039;t dismiss it out of hand.  Every viewpoint that is supported with logic and truth bears considering.

&lt;strong&gt;I didn&#039;t make the suggestion on my own, merely referring to an opinion I heard earlier. I would hope to God something like that wouldn&#039;t happen but it would be a damn shame if it did.&lt;/strong&gt;</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I&#8217;m one of those &#8220;liberals&#8221; and I take exception with your suggestion that we&#8217;d  react like conservatives did if one of our own presented a rational argument in support of McCain.  I&#8217;d greet it with my natural cynicism, of course, but I wouldn&#8217;t dismiss it out of hand.  Every viewpoint that is supported with logic and truth bears considering.</p>
<p><strong>I didn&#8217;t make the suggestion on my own, merely referring to an opinion I heard earlier. I would hope to God something like that wouldn&#8217;t happen but it would be a damn shame if it did.</strong></p>
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		<title>Comment on Suspension of Disbelief&#8230; by thenonconformer</title>
		<link>http://thehedonistperspective.wordpress.com/2008/10/06/suspension-of-disbelief/#comment-58</link>
		<dc:creator>thenonconformer</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Oct 2008 21:09:45 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Realty, I am trying to forget the Democrat Bullies and bashers too..

http://mccainvrsobama.wordpress.com/2008/10/06/mccain-versus-obama-hot-free-speech/</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Realty, I am trying to forget the Democrat Bullies and bashers too..</p>
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