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There Are Two Americas, and One Is Better Than the Other (Guess which he means)
Slate ^ | December 20, 2013 | Josh Barro, politics editor, Business Insider

Posted on 12/21/2013 9:05:49 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet

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To: kcvl
"Who came up with the rule that a viewpoint is supposed to be respected just because the holder declares it to be a religious one?"

Who came up with the rule that a viewpoint is supposed to be respected just because the holder likes to have a penis shoved in his anus?

61 posted on 12/22/2013 6:23:54 AM PST by cincinnati65
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To: 9YearLurker

Yeah, Paul said it first as Phil was paraphrasing Romans 1:26-30.


62 posted on 12/22/2013 6:25:42 AM PST by cincinnati65
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To: eartick

If it were just homosexuals, I would agree with you, but I said homofiliacs, not just those that are homosexual, but those who seem to love and respect homosexuality. Throw in the racebaiters, climate-changers, and all those whackos, and you got enough for granted, maybe 30% of the area of the country.


63 posted on 12/22/2013 6:29:07 AM PST by cincinnati65
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To: HiTech RedNeck

Barro is the youngest member of the growing center-right contigent (see Ross Douthat, David Frum) seeking to reform the Republican party. His efforts on that front have earned the contempt of hardline conservatives — The Atlantic recently labeled him “the loneliest conservative” — and praise from moderates. David Brooks, the New York Times columnist, recently commended him for “puncturing [GOP] sentimentality and groupthink.”

http://www.politico.com/blogs/media/2013/05/josh-barro-to-business-insider-164955.html#.UaX8OiqdFN0.twitter


64 posted on 12/22/2013 8:03:42 AM PST by kcvl
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To: cincinnati65

“Josh Barro volunteered for Romney during his 2002 gubernatorial campaign, interned for Grover Norquist’s Americans for Tax Reform, landed a job as a Koch Associate at the Tax Foundation, and eventually migrated to the Manhattan Institute and started writing for Salam’s blog at National Review. In early 2010, after Paul Ryan unveiled his sweeping budget overhaul, Barro and Salam wrote a 3,000-word article for National Review laying out the standard conservative-reformist assessment.”

And we wonder what is wrong with the Republican Party?


65 posted on 12/22/2013 8:06:29 AM PST by kcvl
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To: cincinnati65

God will solve the problem of the over crowding. No need to worry.


66 posted on 12/22/2013 9:03:55 AM PST by eartick (Been to the line in the sand and liked it)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

What do you expect from a fag? Faglacious reasoning, of course.


67 posted on 12/22/2013 9:09:25 AM PST by WashingtonSource
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To: j.argese

My hometown:

Kelley is a city in Story County, Iowa, United States. The population was 309 at the 2010 census. It is part of the Ames, Iowa Metropolitan Statistical Area.


68 posted on 12/22/2013 11:07:33 AM PST by 2ndDivisionVet (A courageous man finds a way, an ordinary man finds an excuse.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
"Matt Lewis writes of the controversy over Duck Dynasty that "There really are two Americas" and that the divide over the show "has as much to do with class and geography and culture and attitude as it does with religion.""

" That's true. Specifically, there's one America where comparing homosexuality to bestiality is considered acceptable, and another where it is rude and offensive."

" In one America, it's OK to say this of gays and lesbians: "They’re full of murder, envy, strife, hatred. They are insolent, arrogant, God-haters. They are heartless, they are faithless, they are senseless, they are ruthless. They invent ways of doing evil." In the other America, you're not supposed to say that."

" There's one America where it's OK to say this about black people in the Jim Crow-era South: "Pre-entitlement, pre-welfare, you say: Were they happy? They were godly; they were happy; no one was singing the blues." There's another America where that statement is considered to reflect ignorance and insensitivity. In one America, it's OK to attribute the Pearl Harbor attacks to Shinto Buddhists' failure to accept Jesus. In the other America, that is not OK."

" There are two Americas, one of which is better than the other. And it's instructive who's sticking up for the worse America."

Really, you pick out one-sided quotes and that's your analysis? Pathetic. With out much trouble, one could find quotes far worse from the other side. The difference is, those quotes never make the news, because they aren't "controversial", because all the right people agree with them.

69 posted on 12/22/2013 12:20:49 PM PST by Jabba the Nutt (You can have a free country or government schools. Choose one.)
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To: Frank_2001

“Agreed! I would like to know EXACTLY WHO ever blamed Pearl Harbor on Shinto Buddhists’ refusing to convert to Christianity? I suppose the fact that they worshiped the Emperor as a god, was irrelevant? /s This fruit is NUTS!”

I’ve never actually heard this theory before now, but I suppose its postulation is possible. Certainly if Shinto Buddhists had converted to Christianity the associated cultural change would have dramatically altered the coarse of Japanice policy and history, perhaps avoiding their axis investment in world war 2 all together.

We really can’t say due to a lack of specific information on how such a thing would have effected Japanese polices and their relations with the outside world which was critical to the Japanese reasons for aggressive expansion across the pacific and Asia. (they needed resources)


70 posted on 12/22/2013 2:50:24 PM PST by Monorprise
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To: eartick

I agree with you on the need for separation, we cannot allow our children and grand children to be taught this self-destructive nonsense. It put in jeopardy our future as well as their souls.

Perhaps the most key difference between the Romans who built an empire and the Greeks was the Romans abhorrence for Homosexual decency. When the Romans started looking at Homosexual behavior like the Greeks their republic turned empire and stagnated into oblivion due to growing demographic problems forcing an unsustainable growing reliance upon non-indoctrinated Romans. (I think the reasons is obvious)

In the end Rome fell because there were not enough Romans to man their own armies. Rome was literately sacked by the very people they came to rely upon just to make up for their own demographic short comings.

Homosexuality is death, not just for the progeny of the individual who suffers from it but for the civilization that embraces rather than fights this decease.

Telling a Homosexual that their activity is ok is like telling a alcoholic to drink or a diabetic to eat lots of sweats. Your hurting them and the people who make a habit of doing this are the disgusting sick ones. They are a threat not only to those they preport to support but to our entire civilization.


71 posted on 12/22/2013 3:07:10 PM PST by Monorprise
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To: Pox
Who elected these asshole journalists to be the judge of what is right or wrong in society? It's well past time to put these pigs in their place and to bring back judgment of social “norms” to the average American.

The Gay Lobby infilatrated the news rooms in numbers far higher than general population to bias and advocate within "news" broadcasts.

Don't ask, don't tell is supposedly bad policy in the military but FABULOUS for swishy swaying the minds of the nation when they remain closeted in the media.

72 posted on 12/26/2013 8:23:19 AM PST by a fool in paradise (America 2013 - STUCK ON STUPID)
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To: Washi

Great point. Needs to be shoved in libs’ faces everywhere.


73 posted on 12/26/2013 8:25:51 AM PST by MrB (The difference between a Humanist and a Satanist - the latter admits whom he's working for)
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To: GeronL

Ah... I have an additional condition in the “treaty of separation” between Free America and the USSA -

neither political entity can prevent people from leaving,
but they CAN screen people for entry.

You know what would end up happening there...


74 posted on 12/26/2013 8:29:23 AM PST by MrB (The difference between a Humanist and a Satanist - the latter admits whom he's working for)
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