I don't get this "God gave his only son" thing. If Jesus died from this shitty earth and went to awesome heaven, how is that even a sacrifice?

Cowboy1985

probably should have posted this to r/christianity, or something, to have them "explain" it.

Cowboy1985

I'm not quite as big a fan of Rand, but I live in Kentucky and he's gonna win. He's better at playing politics than his dad, he's softened his rhetoric, embraced certain endorsements, and has done pretty good at working the media. He's basically come from "no chance" last summer to "safe bet" in about 8 or 9 months. I'm very much in favor of his idea for Senate term limits, and if one had the chance to see him in July/August/September 2009, when there was less of a filter -- he's pretty cool.

Cowboy1985

WHO THE FUCK HAS BEEN SNEAKING INTO MY APPARTMENT AND TAKING PHOTOS!?! I have a perfectly good explaination for keeping dwarfs and drunken exhibitionists in my home. I apologize for nothing!

Cowboy1985

I'm begging you, please begin posting her comments and such. You can title it: "Kristina's Komments" and then give it a date. Or even start a blog with her comments, and give it an RSS feed so I can subscribe. They don't all need to be that funny, I'm just suddenly fascinated by what goes on in this girls head.

Cowboy1985

You're an idiot. There's a difference between neocon and Libertarian.

Cowboy1985

I'm referencing the numerous concessions that were made by so many founders, even concessions that ran against their notions of what true freedom means (slavery, certain tax policies, some districting plans, and even some concessions with banking in order to ensure an efficienct gov't) for the sake of preserving the union. I think claiming the union had failed the Southerners is too sweeping and a difficult statement to make. There are far too many tedious details to make generalizations. I'm sure you know that. Decisions made way in advance of the Civil War, even the Philadelphia Convention, were building up towards the War.

Cowboy1985

http://www.lneilsmith.org/abelenin.html http://sourcedmock.blogspot.com/2009/12/libertarian-ranking-of-united-states.html Lincoln took America off of a sound money system and empowered a nationalized banking system build off of debt. He suspended habeus corpus and could be notoriously severe against political combatants. He wielded near dictator powers for a while. Some Libertarians think he should have let the south secede instead of waging a war that was based on the idea that we should be united. Though, it's quite clear that the founders considered the union remaining unbroken to be vital to the survival of the nation. I happen to think some Libertarians are a bit too harsh on Lincoln. Maybe there were other ways around the war, maybe not. It's kinda hard to say with real certainty. The links are, IMO, unjustifiably harsh, but still worth hearing. Lincoln as an individual personality is notoriously hard to pin down. He's as complicated as anyone can be, so you can find nearly anything you want in him.

Cowboy1985

.....girl in turtle-neck sweater shows up.....

Producers: "What the..... Get her out of here!"

Cowboy1985

From the Q and A section: "So you believe you've got someones family member in a bottle for them to 'play around with'. Sick. Absolutely sick." sellers response: "Well i believe i do, you dont have to. and its no more sick than thinking jesus watches us from the clouds and will return as the light lol" LOL indeed.... Ummm, can I purchase two little bottles of irony please?

Cowboy1985

damn, where do you work. that sounds like a pretty good company.

Cowboy1985

really? 3? do you know if they have any chance against him? of course, I'd be happy to let one of them have it if it's to fill the void left by a Dr. Paul presidency.

Cowboy1985

when everyone else is so corrupt and so short-sighted, the healthiest thing is to be considered an outsider.

Cowboy1985

there's a reason corporations and lobbyist don't bother going to see Ron Paul.

Cowboy1985

Maybe you should blame Congress as a whole for spending all of our money. He wasn't a lone wolf in deciding how DC will spend money, so as to not have anything to fall back on in times of trouble. We elected these dickheads who can't shit without instructions, what do you expect? It's entirely too convient to lay this blame at the feet of one man when it's a constelation of poor decision-making that creates this mess.

Cowboy1985

this study has already been posted a bunch of times before and discussion has already played out.

Cowboy1985

The Senate should have planned ahead instead of waiting until the last second to get somthing on the floor, so that anyone could load it up with extra spending - because who's gonna vote against unemployment benefits right? Why not wait until it's desperate and we can attach anything we want. If they were really serious about helping they would have planned ahead and made some necessary cuts in spending to compensate for unemployment benefits or found the spending elsewhere. I agree with you on the Bush thing.

Cowboy1985

People aren't quite understanding what Bunning's deal was. Yes, he's kind of a jerk, yes he's kind of a neocon, but his reasons for obstructing the bill aren't as sinister as people think. There were a lot of transit systems, road projects, and other things in the bill besides just unemployment benefits. His main criticism seemed to be that we still have billions of stimulus money in DC that hasn't been used, so use that instead of adding to the deficit (especially given the pork in the bill).

Cowboy1985

it has a certain date/time it has to be voted on. if someone obstructs the vote by filibuster and the time expires, they have to basically redo the whole process of getting the bill to be voted on again.

Cowboy1985

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