On Fri, Oct 29, 2010 at 2:26 PM, Eric Roberts <[email protected]> wrote:
What are you replying to? > No...he has always been personally against it, but realizing that not > everyone is a Christian of his flavor, not everyone is against it and as an > elected official, he has a duty to represent people of all faiths or lack > thereof...not just he folks in his church. Religious issues do not belong > in politics. He realizes that all people deserve the same rights, gay or > straight, even if he does not agree with same sex couples. > > > No...he has always been personally against it and stated it from the > beginning, but realizing that not everyone is a Christian of his flavoror > even a Christian at all, not everyone is against it and as an elected > official, he has a duty to represent people of all faiths or lack > thereof...not just he folks in his church. Religious issues do not belong > in politics. He realizes that all people deserve the same rights, gay or > straight, even if he does not agree with same sex couples. > ************************* So what are you saying? It;'s ok to be against gay marriage if your name is Obama? > When was the last time dems voted against unemployment benefits or tax > breaks for small businesses? You mean like two weeks ago when they refused to allow a vote on extending tax breaks? Semantics. > When was the last time Republicans did that? Was that why they voted against unemployment extensions? Nothing to do with the billions in pork for banks to loan to companies at inflated rates? Did they ever lend out that money? > I can think of several occasions just recently when republicans were very > vocal about voting against bills that would help the lower and middle class > and small businesses and were very vocal about measures that help their rich > buddies. That's not blinders Sam. If anyone, it you that has blinders on > since you apparently cannot see that. That's just bizarre. > OK...so they hired Bill Ayres...it doesn't mean that they are not a > conservative think tank. Bill Ayres is an educator and he was part of an > educational project by the ABP. Whaaaa? You think a conservative think tank would hire a terrorist? You've gone bonkers. The original and I believe the parent company is conservative but this division as as far left as you can get. > St. Petersburg times is hardly Left wing...they have received Pulitzers > prizes for their work. Not something that happens to partisan hacks. > ******************* You don't think the WaPo or NYT have Pulitzer? > Neither did we, but your buddies in the Republican party pushed that stuff. > If you are so against that, then why do you still support them? I thought the Republicans were locked out while Reid and his donors wrote the bill. Now you're saying they were allowed to participate? > I think $5 trillion wasted proves you wrong. > *********** > Wasted? How's that? It stemmed the job loss and brought the jobs back to > pre-Bush levels. Unemployment is back at 5%? > While unemployment is still lagging, it is getting better. Even counting the census jobs unemployment is near 10% > I can see that from the number of tech jobs coming my way. Companies are > hiring. I wonder if in the numbers, they include independent contract work > and other contract work? My dad, who has been an IT recruiter for years > told me that a lot of companies are hiring 1099 folk because they are trying > to get around paying taxes and benefits and the state labor departments are > actually going after them for fraud. > ************ So you're saying they're trying to avoid paying ridicules taxes? If only every company could get the Google deal. Weird that you support my claim or are you saying your dad works for scumbags that just want to beat the system? > Ah...ok...or at least an electronic way of doing so, this way it can be > automated. Piece of cake. All those worries for naught. > Hmmm started in 2000 we started to recover and then came 9/11. The > next year we were on to a full recovery. > But according to you the current problem was created on Clinton's watch. > ************** > Nope...the bubble didn't burst until after Bush got into office followed up > by a huge loss in consumer confidence after the he was given the presidency > by the SCOTUS. > ************** The bubble popped in 2000, I was in it. Came out not a millionaire, sux. My Allaire stock was rockin too. > I would rather we err on the side of caution than act like John Wayne and > jump into illegal conflicts that take resources away from legit ones. Don't you ever dis the Duke again! No ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:330603 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/unsubscribe.cfm
