Posted on 03/23/2005 8:36:59 PM PST by Mike Fieschko
The good book tells me that children are a blessing.
Since graduating high school (1994), this SINK has lived his life in urban areas. The fact is, suburbia has NOTHING to offer single people but boredom and screaming brats running around.
It's up to parents to inculcate values. It's up to schools to reflect the values of the parents'.
Portland is a great city. A little lefty-lib, but still a great city. It feels like a small town in a way. I love that place. You're lucky.
My very American girlfriend wants at least 3.. Yikes! :P
Would expensive housing have anything to do with laws that combat sprawl, i.e. limitations of building housing? How about all the restrictions put up thanks to the wonderful environmentalists?
Apparently you don't fall into that group. That's your problem.
Actually, I agree with the premise.
Again, the problem is that by posting, "Intelligent people recognize Intelligent Design (God).", you appear to be ascribing the quote to God Himself.
Imagine if I came up with a patriotic slogan, let's take the one I use in my home page, "The United States of America was established by Divine inspiration and through Divine intervention to be the light to the World. We Americans have an awesome responsibility to this end."
After a bit of thought, I decide that George Washington would surely agree with that, so I post it as;
"The United States of America was established by Divine inspiration and through Divine intervention to be the light to the World. We Americans have an awesome responsibility to this end." (George Washington).
As egregious as that would be, it would not be blasphemy because it does not evoke God's holy name.
What I object to in your tag-line is that it falls under the 1. b. category of blasphemy from dictionary.com;
"blas·phe·my ( P ) Pronunciation Key (blsf-m) n. pl. blas·phe·mies
"The act of claiming for oneself the attributes and rights of God."
Please reconsider it.
Money, follow the money.
NO accident that these Yuppieopolises are the Blue state havens
Yes. Portland has bragged about having the "best" laws in favor of "smart growth" and against "urban sprawl."
But remember, a lot of the people who supoprt these laws don't understand Economics 101. They don't understand that restricting the supply of housing drives up the price.
So, in their ignorance of economics, they try to pass special initiatives to build "affordable housing." But real, genuine affordable housing doesn't come from government legislation. Real, genuine affordable housing comes when the government doesn't get in the way of the free market.
I think that just about every area in the country that lacks sufficient "affordable housing" is an area where the majority of the population voted for Kerry.
Ping
What are the poor people from NAMBLA going to do? That's the only reason Frisco wants young people.
Now, I've taken the time and effort to reply to you with all the clarity I can muster, and what do you do?
Ignore it.
>>> Wonder if they ever thought of who is going to take care of them?>>>
Why the government!!! Didn't you hear!? It's the government job to make sure the children are not little 'demons' as well as take care of the elderly that didn't bother to procreate to ensure someone cared enough to help take care of them. I heard a preacher say once, "Children are God's Social Security". He was right I think.
"Keep aborting, considering that most of the kids aborted are from lefties, no wonder the country keeps voting futher right."
That is why they are fighting like hell to get their ideology into the public schools. They have no kids of their own to indoctrinate, so they want ours. If we can keep them out as best we can, their kind will die off like the dinosaurs.
"And some can not procreate even IF they wanted to. These vibrant cities are also homosexual meccas... The selfish politically correct and homosexual agendas are in direct conflict with propagation and support of family life..."
Wouldn't it be great if we could go back to the vision of the Constitution, that is, that we are a free - trade zone, with a common military and foreign policy...and not a jot more.
Then we could have the benefits of union without the drawbacks of uniformity...the homos could have their meccas...but we could still sell them stuff.
Too bad the Constitution is dead.
"But real, genuine affordable housing doesn't come from government legislation. Real, genuine affordable housing comes when the government doesn't get in the way of the free market. "
You are such a racist Nazi. How dare you point that out. Doesn't everyone know that anytime there is something good out there - be it art, charity, anything, educated children ("if you can read this, thank a teacher...") - it came FROM THE GOVERNMENT? (big sarcasm)
Or they were killed while still a microscopic embryo, because their mother was eating artificial hormones.
Or they were weren't conceived in the first place, because their father was wearing a piece of rubber.
Or they weren't conceived in the first place, because those who would have been their fathers and mothers had turned to unnatural lust.
The arithmetic of cultural suicide.
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