Thursday, October 26, 2006

It seems very strange to me that the party of "family values" seems to have none.  I would think that if you knew you had a sexual predator in your midst that you would do something about it.  Silly me.  Got to cover it up for the good of the party.  Well those days need to be over (Katherine Harris, if you believe that the separation of church and state is immoral you need to read the Constitution, you are unfit for office).  A message to both parties, if you know someone is doing something wrong, do something about it.  Your party's credibility will go way up if you do.  george bush has done very well hiding behind the bible in his political career.  He makes himself out to be a good christian.  Unfortunately he doesn't practice what he tries to preach.  I wonder if he has actually read any of the bible (there are a lot of big words in there).  David Kou has written a book called "Tempting Faith" which addresses this point.  bush holds the bible up but he doesn't utilize any of it's teachings.  Bill Maher brought up the point on "Real Time" that we know dubya loves Jesus but would Jesus love him.  Well Jesus would love everybody but I think he would disapprove of what dubya is doing.  It's one thing to talk about Jesus' teachings and quite another to live and abide by them.  I'm an atheist so I look at this totally in human moral code.  My parents are Methodists, the walk the walk, they talk the talk.  They live their lives in a moral way.  They do not preach.  The key is that to live your life in a moral way has nothing to do with religion.  It has everything to do with what is decent and caring to all other people.  Gay marriage, I've got no problem with it.  Why should anyone else?  How does it affect you?  I'm divorced, it had nothing to do with moral values, things just didn't work out.  Nobody to blame.  Over 50% of all marriages end in divorce.  This "protection of marriage" amendment that is on many ballots this year is a joke.  Let gays have the same legal rights as the rest of the population and the red tape that comes with it.  Why should you care?  We as a country have so lost sight of what's important.  We can't get a bill passed for health care for everyone but we can sure as hell put up an anti gay amendment on our state's constitution.  We need to send a message, politicians need to get their act together and realize what is truly important or we'll find someone else who will. 1:06:18 AM      Throw Me A Bone []

STAY THE COURSE! STAY THE COURSE! STAY THE COURSE! Of course now that the mid-term elections are looming, "stay the course", ehh, not so much.  Amazing what a 30% approval rating will do to change your mind.  Most of us could have told you long ago that to stay the course was the absolute wrong decision.  It's very sad that when the potential loss of the House and Senate rears up that the administration decides to change it's tune.  This is not leadership, it's blowing with the wind.  I'm not saying that the Dems don't do it as well I'm just saying that it's pathetic.  Accountability is what I'm looking for.  The administration has been making the wrong decisions for the past 3 (or more) years.  It's time to tell them what we think of those decisions.  Get out and vote on Nov. 7th.  Vote for a change.  Make these people pay for their arrogance. 12:45:38 AM      Throw Me A Bone []

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