| Your Political Profile: |
| Overall: 45% Conservative, 55% Liberal |
| Social Issues: 50% Conservative, 50% Liberal |
| Personal Responsibility: 25% Conservative, 75% Liberal |
| Fiscal Issues: 50% Conservative, 50% Liberal |
| Ethics: 0% Conservative, 100% Liberal |
| Defense and Crime: 100% Conservative, 0% Liberal |
Dan requested I do this one. I have to say that I don't feel it is entirely accurate because several questions I didn't really agree with either answer and so I just picked the one that seemed the closest.
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True... These things are worthless apart from their entertainment value, still... compared to you I _bleed_ as a liberal! LOL!
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***Your Political Profile:***
Overall: 15% Conservative, 85% Liberal
Social Issues: 0% Conservative, 100% Liberal
Personal Responsibility: 25% Conservative, 75% Liberal
Fiscal Issues: 25% Conservative, 75% Liberal
Ethics: 0% Conservative, 100% Liberal
Defense and Crime: 25% Conservative, 75% Liberal
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For some reason and I guess it is because I don't like Bush I always get labeled "liberal." I know many hard core conservatives who hate Bush far more than I do, so I am not sure why I am singled out. I don't feel I am a liberal or conservative. I hate both parties equally. I think both parties lie just as much.
It's the small sample rate of the questions, Sir. They don't provide for a lot of nuance, and unlike the current occupant of the White House, I do nuance.
...And actually, I'm pretty big on personal responsibility regarding the environment, our treatment of one another, copping to a urological reality, and considering who it is who has to pay so I can play, you know?
Likely some small result of a long career living in countries all over the world, meeting new people, and then killing them, I suspect.
Taxes should be the price of admission paid to live in a full featured and efficacious society where I didn't have to lock my door _or_ have to keep a gun, eh?
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...The people _who_ annoy you. The people _who_ like the idea of wealth distribution...
Language is everything, Sir, forgetting we've likely identified the fork of our divergence.
Moreover, is seems we have a saving grace "middle class," at all, _because_ there is some attention to wealth distribution, you think? There _might_ be a difference between a Mom and Pop enterprise and Halliburton, eh? It _might_ even be said that the former is sacrificed on the sociopathic alters of the later... while the latter runs free without accountability. This may only be, though, the result of a liberal education.
I talk about this obliquely at my blog tomorrow... perhaps you'll comment over there.
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I don't believe in wealth redistribution, in that everyone should receive an equal amount no matter what they do or do not do. However, I do think there are many people who are undervalued by our society who should be getting more. Teachers are a good example. My sister teaches because she loves it. She teaches low income, special ed kids. Besides her low salary (and she is paid more than most because she has a masters degree) many things that should be provided for the class aren't and she has to spend her own money to get these things. People go on and on about how over powerful the NEA is, but my sister's salary does not reflect that.
The reason people hate Halliburton is that they were given no bid contracts worth billions. Since the VP use to work for them this looks wrong whether it is, or not. If there was really nobody else that could do things they are doing they shouldn't have worried about other bidders and had open bidding.
I am not saying my sister didn't know what she was getting into, she did and since she loves teaching it didn't matter to her. You are right it is a civil service job, however, unlike others who are suppose to be civil servants, like Senators, she gets paid a lot less and can't get "kick backs.":-)
"This may only be, though, the result of a liberal education." That is probably a fact. However, even though I attended the same type of liberal universities that you did, no doubt. I managed to hold on to my own ideas and not adopt those of some professor that considers themselves 'enlightened', and therefore smarter, or more intelligent then the rest of the world.
//Your convictions would appear admirable on the surface, your resolve unimpeachable, your integrity unquestioned... ...until the implications of these things are explored a little. Then it might be argued that you went to a sun-source institution and didn't really pay attention unless you were hearing something that justified profit-taking sociopathy or facilitated same. Then? Primary references to sociopathy in history were lost on you, you missed the classes regarding the mechanism of _your_ intellectual control by way of fallacy and propaganda, and you thought your art and literature classes a waste of time?
You likely wasted your time at college, I suspect. Friend, if college didn't change you? You weren't doing it right. Business major? Just guessing//
Moreover if you are going to qoute from my post, please use the copy and paste method, as then you will not be tempted to edit my words. I plainly used the word "redistribution" and not the word distribution. As you yourself stated, language is everything........
//Yeah........ ........but then I didn't waste time on a trifle, Sir, and pointed out in a gentle manner that your own thinking betrayed you with regard to considering people as people and not as objects to be manipulated by the predatory few for their profit. My quote was accurate _if_ poorly executed. No points. //
I still have no idea why the left has such a problem with Halliburton.
//Well -- how about pricey no-bid contracts they default on when they're not poisoning our troops with bad water, providing substandard food... oh, and employing mercenaries who (you would have said 'that') wander the mid-east murdering its citizenry?//
Is it because they make money?
//Oh, that's right. I forgot. Well, as long as they're making money... no harm no foul. Drive on "Big H."
If they are the only people in the world that can do what they do, where is the problem?
//Wow! Somebody didn't miss their kool-aid this morning. Just kidding. But seriously, you think the only big gun in the world belongs to 'Dick' Cheney? That's just ludicrous. How can you remotely entertain such a thought? The Japanese? The Germans? No way they can compete? ROTFL! //
Or is it just a sticking point because the V.P. was associated with them?
//Well... ...yeah. Look in the dictionary. Right next to the word "impropriety" is a little picture of Mr. Cheney.//
I mean making an attempt to compare a mom & pop shop to Halliburton is just comparing apples to oranges.
//I also said M&P were sacrificed on H's alters, too... moreover it wasn't a *comparison*. You implied I thought there was something wrong with making money. I implied it wasn't Mom & Pop poisoning troops, doing substandard work and getting paid regardless, and murdering citizenry. There's like a trillion dollars just *missing* over there, pardner. Pretty specious point on your part, Sir.//
Did a mom & Pop shop produce the computer that you are typing on?
//There's your apples and oranges! Good work, but you had to produce them yourself. And in the case of Apple and the Windows OS... started in a garage as I recall... which qualifies them... I suspect.//
Doubt it, and unless you built it yourself, as I did this one, you paid a large corporation to be able to enjoy the internet, and maybe to further your career.
//You're losing me here... could you clarify your point a little? And you didn't remotely build your computor... you plugged finished components together and didn't get it right the first time I'm betting... ...why, Al Gore invented the "INTERNETS" before you built your computer. Don't be silly.//
Even in building this computer I had to rely on those same type corporations to produce the individual components.
//This in no way excuses it when it goes beyond the barriers ensuring fairness, standards and practices, and best practice. You seem to suggest that it should?//
Large corporations are the ones that allow the American people to live and play in the manner they have become accustomed. Or is that also a bad thing in your opinion ?
//You tell me? I suspect its large corporations acting multi-nationally and without responsibility or oversight contributing to the asymptotic graph-lines defining the death of the very planet, but hey... //
Lesley, while I agree that teachers should probably be paid more, I have to reflect on the thought that these people knew what they were getting into.
//Wow! You're going to qualify our substandard education system in this country, too! Astonishing!//
I also taught some adult education courses at a local community college about a decade ago. While I was being paid very well for my time, I would not have considered it for a full time position. That type of job in my opinion is akin to civil service, in that you are never really off the clock. Such as police, and firemen, or dare I say even a politician ? I like my play time too much !! :)
//...and who pays? You know, you might consider consequences once in a while. It remains that you're more liberal than you know,
http://www.rense.com/general59/iamaliberal.htm
could have paid more attention in college,
http://abusedillusions.blogspot.com/2006/04/sociopathy-of-conspiracy.html
and forgone the presumption to lecture on politics as a thin excuse to have others justify or provide external validation for what could be called pretty psychopathic views, in my opinion. And don't get offended... you have to be certified _completely_ sane (above) to be a psychopath. That's just one example of what you find out when you pay attention in college.
Nonsense -- we were discussing your 'views' which _could_ be interpreted as psychopathic. You just couldn't make your points.
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You have the irritation experience of the guy who brought a knife to a gunfight. Call it a personal attack if you have to, but I don't believe that's what it was at all. Moreover? I suspect you don't think so either.
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