Posted on 08/29/2011 1:13:25 PM PDT by tsowellfan
If you find yourself wondering how it was you missed the whole 4th season of Walker, Texas Ranger, while forcing yourself to attend Lamaze classes with your significant other. If on cool, crisp days the aforementioned tragedy causes you to wistfully wonder how to fill the emptiness inside - let me introduce you to the Rick Perry for President Campaign.
Perry, who has seemingly been Governor of Texas since around the time when remaining at The Alamo began to look like a questionable career move, is now ready to throw his 10-gallon hat, frothy intellect and custom-made cowboy boots into the national political ring.
Predictably, Democrats are laughing. He's just another dumb Texan. Another mentally challenged Republican. He's Reagan. And George W Bush. He can't win.
Does anyone else see the problem with this line of reasoning? Shhh, don't tell anyone, but Reagan and Bush The Younger served as president for roughly 50 per cent of the past 30 years.
Of course Perry can win, and in fact, if the Obama team keeps thinking that "patent reform" is the new WPA and continues to show that fighting Dukakis spirit, I'd go so far as to give Perry the advantage should he secure the GOP nomination...
(Excerpt) Read more at english.aljazeera.net ...
A little game of cowboys and muslims anyone?
JB, my concern was that I understood that Guardisil was mandatory. Someone emailed me with an explanation which shed a whole new light on the issue. I’ve been burned so many times on so-called Republicans that I look upon all R’s as suspect until my quibbles have been allayed. Thanks for your reply. sd
Bachmann was 20 years old in 1976. Carter also hoodwinked a lot of people into believing he was a good, upright Christian and Conservative Wallace Democrat. Contrast that with a nearly 40-year old Perry in 1988 when Gore’s record was just as left-wing as Dukakis (despite the revisionist history of the Perrybots). I should know, as Gore was my Senator.
I agree and respect the concern.
Vaccines, however, are kind of “group” activity, and really only work if everyone does it.
(E.g., polio vaccine worked only 70% of the time, so everyone had to use it to get “herd” immunity -— and I think we all agree that was a good thing.)
See my post above; I respect the concern people have with vaccines, and I think there should be a logical, opt-out.
The flip-side is, given that all vaccines need “herd immunity” to work, I really don’t want my kids around non-vaccinated children -— which is one of the (many) reasons I go to a private school with a “no exceptions” policy to vaccination.
Do you have a problem with the other 12 vaccinations that the government requires children to have before they enter middle school?
You know, if we’d let children get sick like they did for thousands of years, we’d all be better off for it. Might sound heartless, but it’s the truth.
They afraid of playing cowboys and Muslims?
Just when they were making so much progress in the military - banning farting, installing losing rules of engagement, inserting jihandists in positions of power (Hansan) and getting a General to enter the political arena to shout down free speech - burning an unholy koran is not allowed under shira.
Along comes a cowboy...who actually still believes Muslims blew up the world trade center and not domestic terrorist Christians.
Your kids first.
Ok, I sincerely hope so - they’d be more like we used to be - I haven’t had a vaccination since I was about twelve. I knew they were nonsense and told my mother I wasn’t getting any more. You know, when I was little, we didn’t get but three vaccinations. Not the ridiculous amounts now, and no phony flu vaccine. People are so gullible.
You need to tour an old polio ward with iron lungs.
Vaccines are “so phony” because they work so well.
HPV ain’t polio.
First, you will note I said that if I had a daughter, she would get it.
Second, I homeschool, so the government requirement is not a personal issue for me. I make decisions on my own without the helpful, gun-backed mandates of do-gooder nutjubs.
Third, they have their vaccinations. Just because some a-hole doesn’t stick a gun to a parent’s head doesn’t mean the parent will make retarded decisions.
No thanks. I don’t need your government or Rick Perry to tell me how to raise my kids, no matter how good y’all think you are at it.
No, he wasn't.
The Health Dept. has the authority to mandate vaccines and they are under the legislative, not the executive branch.
No branch can legitimately delegate any of it's authority to another branch, and if you should have any evidence that they did so, I would appreciate your posting of it.
Good job not answering the question. But do you feel as strongly about the other 12 vaccinations as you do about Gardasil?
“If the things you see and experience change your point of view, your point of view isn’t very grounded”
That’s the dumbest thing I’ve ever seen written on F.R.
“Good job not answering the question. But do you feel as strongly about the other 12 vaccinations as you do about Gardasil?”
How strongly I *feel* about a particular vaccination does not mean I believe the government has the constitutional or moral authority to force it onto others. Perry apologists are trying to say, “Well, these vaccinations are good so the government should force every child to get it.”
My brother had a child that was born prematurely at home because his wife (unknown to them at the time) had cancer. When the paramedics arrived they refused to give care to the newborn because they decided, before even checking his pulse, that he looked bad and wasn’t going to make it. When my brother got to his home, the paramedics were standing outside smoking and hanging out. He walked inside to see the neighbor (who decided the paramedics were idiots) performing CPR on his newborn son. His baby survived and, no thanks to the paramedics who had oxygen sitting in their truck, suffered permanent brain injuries from a lack of oxygen.
Now his son has a weakened immune system and he CAN’T receive all of the immunizations on the state government mandated schedule.
Not to fear, though, big government’s “concern” for my brother’s son and the general welfare of society over the individual has created a bureaucracy that doesn’t recognize that some kids can’t receive these vaccinations on some “scientifically” calculated schedule. The system created the problem and then punishes the victims.
So to all the so-called “conservative” big government “you don’t need to have any freedom to make a decision that I can make better” folks, THANK YOU! Thank you for giving us an environment where the paramedics can make “choices” like that. Thank you for a bureaucracy that destroys a life and then refuses to assist in the wake of its destruction because, due to their error, the victim can’t comply with government rules.
Yes, my kids have received their vaccinations, but neither you nor Rick Perry nor Barack Obama have the constitutional right or authority to use physical force to vaccinate children.
You believe the government has a higher right to a child than the parent. Okay. I got it. You support Rick Perry. That makes sense. For those of us who believe the parent has a higher claim to their child than the state, they probably won’t support Rick Perry. You aren’t going to win us over. To us, the Gardasil issue is a question of the legitimate power of government, not the effectiveness of Gardasil. So please drop the whole, “vaccinations are good” crap. That’s not why we’re concerned.
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