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Re: House Speaker Frank McNulty and the Colorado civil unions bill (13 letters)

TomFromTheNews — Wed, 16 May 2012 08:17:54 -0000

I applaud those brave Republicans who "have betrayed their constituents". For, as Robert Bolt said in putting these words in the mouth of Sir Thomas More in his play A Man For All Seasons, "When statesmen forsake their own private conscience for the sake of their public duties, they lead their country by a short route to chaos."

Re: House Speaker Frank McNulty and the Colorado civil unions bill (13 letters)

jimmyB — Wed, 16 May 2012 07:08:47 -0000

WOW!! There's a real "adult" response. I guess you really told me off that time, didn't you? No real comeback, so you result to your typical childish name-calling. You are so predictable,

Re: Are Mitt Romney’s high school “hijinks” really a big deal? (4 letters)

goodspkr — Wed, 16 May 2012 06:00:53 -0000

I smell straw, Pete. Do you smell straw?

Re: Are Mitt Romney’s high school “hijinks” really a big deal? (4 letters)

goodspkr — Wed, 16 May 2012 06:00:10 -0000

The Obama campaign is either completely out of control or it is orchestrating the campaign to distract people.

There is a certain amount of truth to what you say. Last year there was a program on Starz called Boss. There was a scandal about illegal dumping of chemicals and the fiction Tom Kane and his staff set out to distract attention away from the scandal. I remember one of his operatives had a board where they were keeping track of the TV channels in Chicago to see when they switched coverage from the scandal to the story they were feeding them.

Obama put out one ad that was positive and spun what he's done. He has now gone to full court negative advertising with his steel ad about Bain Capital. Is that fair game? It might be, but is former Auto Czar said it wasn't and the facts show that when Bain Capital shut down the steel plant Romney had been gone for two years. Now it might have shut down even if Romney was there, but to make this mistake shows a bit of desperation.

Obama is responsible for his record and someone in his campaign for these distractions. The alternative is Obama is not responsible for anything and his staff is so incompetent that these things are simply "happening." Which one do you think it is?

Re: Feeding Denver’s homeless: Whose job is it?

Bob Locke — Wed, 16 May 2012 05:39:14 -0000

Been working on it. Care to help? I'd much rather see us care enough about our fellow man to do this WITHOUT the government getting involved. It's unfortunate in my estimation that we allowed it to get to that point.

Re: House Speaker Frank McNulty and the Colorado civil unions bill (13 letters)

Bob Locke — Wed, 16 May 2012 05:37:53 -0000

Would you substitute "plural family" for "gay couple" and maintain a similar stance?

Re: House Speaker Frank McNulty and the Colorado civil unions bill (13 letters)

Bob Locke — Wed, 16 May 2012 05:35:55 -0000

No need. If lawsuits are brought on the basis of "equal protection under the law" then the Fundamentalist Mormons can simply become party to those suits.

Re: House Speaker Frank McNulty and the Colorado civil unions bill (13 letters)

Bob Locke — Wed, 16 May 2012 05:34:33 -0000

I know you don't mean "all", because that would include plural relationships.

Re: House Speaker Frank McNulty and the Colorado civil unions bill (13 letters)

Bob Locke — Wed, 16 May 2012 05:33:13 -0000

Gay activists are claiming "equal protection under the law". Why does that not also apply to people in plural relationships? If we're talking about "fundamental rights" then why leave these folks out?

Re: Making energy a wedge issue won’t work in Colorado

oakley sunglasses — Wed, 16 May 2012 02:08:43 -0000

Does Obama's energy policy fail America?

Re: Are you intolerant for having morals?

kelcy — Wed, 16 May 2012 01:16:34 -0000

Ya know..... those of the muslim faith would find you to be immoral Norbert on any number of issues that you find yourself to be ethical and moral on. No doubt unless you are a bible literalists some christians might find you to be unethical and immoral. Same with orthodox jews.

The issue isn`t whether you speak out....it is whether you try to impose your view of ethics and morality on others. See, whether you like it or not it is all a matter of perspective.

We as a secular society set a certain minimum standard that can apply to all humans. You undoubtedly view it as based on christianity but some might say it is based on philosophers. Many, many, many philosophers from all over the world and across the millennia have been able to come up with moral and ethical standards just based on human reason rather than a higher power. And they have been pretty consistent on the minimum standard (like thou shall not kill). I`m not dissing a higher power....just pointing out that it can be done using other criteria.

So again....talk all you want but don`t try to impose your view on anyone else unless you are willing to have someone else impose their view on you. And theirs may be very different from yours who they may view as incredibly sinful.

Re: Are Mitt Romney’s high school “hijinks” really a big deal? (4 letters)

peterpi — Wed, 16 May 2012 00:53:27 -0000

Hey, Thor,
Is Obama responsible for the allegations against Herman Cain?
Is Obama responsible for Michelle Bachmann's bad photo ops and goofy ideas?
Is Obama responsible for Newt Gingrich's grandiose sense of self and his defense of lifelong, monogamous, stable heterosexual marriage -- for everybody but him?
Those were spectacular "distractions".
Amazing how the Machiavellian Obama managed to eliminate all GOP candidates except the most capable, the most rational, the hardest to defeat.

Re: Are you intolerant for having morals?

peterpi — Wed, 16 May 2012 00:52:30 -0000

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Re: Are Mitt Romney’s high school “hijinks” really a big deal? (4 letters)

peterpi — Wed, 16 May 2012 00:38:49 -0000

OK, call it a distraction if you must.
Do you have any proof Obama orchestrated it? No.
Every candidate likes distractions against their opponent. All of them, goodspkr -- Republicans too.
Period.
Obama is running on his record. He's running ads about saving GM, for example.
You may think those ads are pathetic, but he is running on his record.
If someone sneaked into whatever college Obama went to, and published all his infractions online, you don't think some in the Romney campaign would be enjoying the "distraction"?
Blast Obama's record all you want. Praise Romney all you want. But, please, Obama's not responsible for this.

Re: The facts about who is homeless in Denver

goodspkr — Tue, 15 May 2012 23:53:58 -0000

Hmmm, we've gone from 411 unsheltered people in 2011 to nearly 1000 in 2012. If we got them all together we could call it Obamaville.

Re: Making energy a wedge issue won’t work in Colorado

goodspkr — Tue, 15 May 2012 23:44:41 -0000

What absolute nonsense.

In 2011, wind power produced 1.2 percent of the energy used in the United States.
In 2011, solar power produced 0.1 percent of the energy used in the United States.

And this was done with enormous subsidies. For solar power, they were $775.64 per megawatt hour, for wind $56.29, for nuclear $3.14, for hydroelectric power $0.82, for coal $0.64 and for natural gas and petroleum liquids $0.64.

http://www.americanthinker.com...

I think this is the point were HR would come in and say something about rainbows and unicorns. And the answer to Bruce from Boulders question of what's not to like about what having balanced portfolio for energy? Solar and wind don't work well. If they did, you wouldn't need the massive subsidies and you would produce more than 1.3% of the energy in the USA.

While Obama keeps calling for the end of any subsidies for oil he is promoting the energy source with subsidies 121193% higher per megawatt hour.

Re: Are Mitt Romney’s high school “hijinks” really a big deal? (4 letters)

goodspkr — Tue, 15 May 2012 23:40:54 -0000

Pete, I think you mean well saying there isn't anything to this. I agree. But what Thor is saying is that this is simply a distraction.

Obama won't be running on his record. He doesn't dare to. Look at his speech today where he told people "it's not as bad as you think it is." I think that is as close as he will get to "running on his record."

Did you see the poll from the NY Times? It had Romney ahead by 3% and this was with 6% more Democrats (36%) than Republicans (30%). If you think the numbers will actually be equal in November, the real numbers would be Romney 50%, Obama 40.6%. If Republicans are more motivated to get out the vote, it would be worse than that for the Democrats.

It is as bad as most people think it is and it shows in the polls.

Re: Are Mitt Romney’s high school “hijinks” really a big deal? (4 letters)

peterpi — Tue, 15 May 2012 23:30:16 -0000

If we dismissed every candidate for office who acted stupid or bad in high school, we wouldn't have any candidates for any office.
Would it really say anything about Obama if he skipped classes in high school, so he could hang out with his "brothers" at the local mall and watch the ladies? Deliberately tripped up a fellow classmate in a high school basketball game? If he bet on the ponies while at college?
I'm interested in Romney's achievements or lack thereof in the recent past.
Why do you need to know Obama pulled girls' pigtails in junior high school and spent two Saturdays in detention watching filmstrips about the wonders of penicillin?

Re: Are Mitt Romney’s high school “hijinks” really a big deal? (4 letters)

peterpi — Tue, 15 May 2012 23:23:02 -0000

Obama's got a record. You just don't like the record. You accentuate the negative, eliminate the positive.
Fine. So be it.
I brought up Bush, because, for all I know, people brought up stupid stuff about Gore. Was that because Bush had no record of previous achievement as governor of Texas? And therefore the Bush campaign attacked Gore for something stupid? Or was it just some group of idiots attacking Gore for no good reason?
Why can't it be the same with Romney? Just some group with a grudge against Romney willing to dig up anything to attack him? Why do you need some Machiavellian master plan by Obama?
But, Wonder Boy Romney is your hero, so you gotta make Obama into a zero.
If Romney acted like a brute in high school, then straightened out his life -- which it sure looks like he has to me, and I bet to most Americans -- why not just dismiss this as overly zealous jerks determined to bring anything?

Re: Are Mitt Romney’s high school “hijinks” really a big deal? (4 letters)

Thorjohnson — Tue, 15 May 2012 22:52:22 -0000

Why bring Bush into the discussion. Looks like another distraction to me. But, like I wrote, when you have no record, any distraction will do.

Re: Are Mitt Romney’s high school “hijinks” really a big deal? (4 letters)

peterpi — Tue, 15 May 2012 21:27:48 -0000

Right. Because Republicans never threw up distractions against opponents when Bush was president.
Oh, but I forget: Bush's record was sterling, was flawless.
Go ahead, blame everything on Obama's record. Feel free to.
But, "never attribute to malice that which can be attributed to stupidity." This is some stupid move by rabid partisans. Why do you see Obama as the mastermind behind it all?
Of course, Republicans never threw trivialities at Kerry, did they? Or Gore? Or Obama, did they? Midrassas! College transcripts! Birth certificates!. Kenya! Nigeria! Indonesia! Philippines!

Re: House Speaker Frank McNulty and the Colorado civil unions bill (13 letters)

Jim — Tue, 15 May 2012 21:18:35 -0000

I'm not sure what you’re smoking but I don't see where you are getting your information on me. You still seem to be assuming.
If a gay wants to have a relationship fine. I personally don't think its right for me and I don't think my tax dollars should be spent on what I think is wrong.
If your partner is in the hospital and they won't let you in then that's a hospital issue not the governments.
It seems to me that a lawyer can set things up the way you want with out the governments involvement.
Won't a living will do what you want?.

Re: Circumcision legislation is no laughing matter

primafacie — Tue, 15 May 2012 21:11:56 -0000

I never said anything on this topic about religious belief, Jewish or otherwise, or superstition or God or even whether I'm offended by arguments against circumcision. I doubt I've ever stated whether my wife and I made a decision regarding circumcision for any of our children.

Why are you jumping to conclusions about something you know absolutely nothing about?

A parent makes myriad decisions on their children's behalf, especially in those hours and years before they can talk. He needn't defend any of them to you. And unless you want to open a can of worms that would spread into areas such as vaccinations, diet, schooling, household chores, television viewing habits or at what age a kid can throw a curveball, he needn't defend them to the state either.

Re: Are Mitt Romney’s high school “hijinks” really a big deal? (4 letters)

Thorjohnson — Tue, 15 May 2012 21:04:54 -0000

Judging his record is what we should be doing. Throwing up these distractions keeps our eyes off of the ball. That is what I would prefer if I had as dismal a record as President Obama has.

Re: House Speaker Frank McNulty and the Colorado civil unions bill (13 letters)

Guest — Tue, 15 May 2012 20:57:33 -0000

I think I will start one. I'll call it the "little jimmy whiner amendment"! You crybaby, always instigating and calling people a bully. Look at yourself "little jimmy"!! You've been on here all day doing nothing but cry and whine. And bullying!! Why don't you grow up or grow a pair, one or the other!!