Personal Responsibility- Republican Style

[maineman]

As far as the War on Drugs ... I beleive you will find as many if not more on the right who have a libertarian view with Drug Decriminalization when compared to those on the left.

my ass. The religious right which dominates the republican party are the ones pushing the war on drugs.

From my perpsective on the left, I say, spark one up, and get mellow....can't we all just get along?

Merry Christmas klaatu, by the way!

 

[klaatu]

my ass. The religious right which dominates the republican party are the ones pushing the war on drugs.

From my perpsective on the left, I say, spark one up, and get mellow....can't we all just get along?

Merry Christmas klaatu, by the way!

Thats your perpsective maineman..as well as mine.... but there is a serious libertarian wing on the right who favor Drug Decriminalization ... as there are many old hat Dems on the left that will suppress the idea.

but I often maintian that the true intrests that keep Marijuana illegal are perpetuated by those members of the BAR who make up more than 90% of the elected officials who sit within Walls of Congress .... on both sides of the political isle...


And Merry Christmas to you Maineman ...

 

[OrnotBitwise]

Ornot.. I believe the point he was making is right on... a few people in this thread gave the impression that people who have a histroy of questionable behavior are not worthy of giving advice. I do not concur... in fact I believe those who have cleaned up their act are in a perfect position to counsel others and share life experiences with those who may be going through similar trials and tribulations.

As far as the War on Drugs ... I beleive you will find as many if not more on the right who have a libertarian view with Drug Decriminalization when compared to those on the left.

So please...spare me the moral hypocrisy.....

Oh, spare me the infantile self-centered moralizing, Klaatu. I was not addressing your positions at all. I was anwering the (laughably weak) assertions of some impotent dingleberry calling himself "AssHatZombie." Sounds like a 4th rate grunge band from Bellingham.

Those who've "cleaned up their act" can indeed teach us something. So can those who've fallen into error, albeit not in they way they might intend.

There is a distinct, qualitative difference, I submit, between merely disapproving of a behavior and attempting to disuade people from indulging in it, on the one hand, and attempting to criminalize that behavior, on the other. That was my only real point here.

 

[Damocles]

It was that crazy blonde woman, who was Paula Jones "spokesperson" - Susan Carpeter-MacMillan:

In 1980, she joined the antiabortion movement, rising to become the top media representative of the Right to Life League of Southern California. She drew national attention with her crusade to force Loma Linda University Medical Center to provide a heart transplant to a dying newborn known as Baby Jesse. But seven years ago, Carpenter-McMillan formally left the movement – because, she says today, it was dominated by "misogynists who don't care about women" and "crazies who murder doctors." Coincidentally, her departure came shortly after the Los Angeles Times reported that she herself had undergone an abortion as a 21-year-old unmarried college student.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/politics/special/pjones/stories/pj072397.htm

LOL. That wasn't 'while she was preaching the anti-abortion' stuff, it was when she was in college. Let's be a bit more genuine here...

 

[Cypress]

have another beer Damo.


We already discussed this very issue: her hiding her abortion from the public for twenty years. Go back earlier in the thread. This thread is months old.

 

[Damocles]

have another beer Damo.


We already discussed this very issue: her hiding her abortion from the public for twenty years. Go back earlier in the thread. This thread is months old.

Regardless, you stated, "while she was preaching this she had several abortions" or something much like it. So... 20 years before she was preaching that is "while" it was happening? Come on....

"Hiding" something that she thought to be shameful isn't something that is all that shocking. It was probably that experience itself that pushed her into that camp. It happens pretty often.

 

[Don Quixote]

Yeas like a couple of preachers I know that brag on how they were horrible sinners before they found salvation, all the while telling you not to do what they did or you will burn in hell.
Why not have fun now and repent later like they did

usc

Give me chastity and continence, but not just now.
Saint Augustine (354-430)
Confessions, 397-401, VIII, 7

I've seen this particular prayer referred to elsewhere as "The Libertine's Prayer".

 

[uscitizen]

usc

Give me chastity and continence, but not just now.
Saint Augustine (354-430)
Confessions, 397-401, VIII, 7

I've seen this particular prayer referred to elsewhere as "The Libertine's Prayer".

Umm I say no prayers since I believe in no supreme being or afterlife.