Posted on 01/24/2008 11:16:15 AM PST by WalterSkinner
Roger Hedgecock interview with Duncan Hunter on remaining GOP candidates and his endorsement of Huckabee...
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1919703/posts
Completely disagree. It MAY be overhyped, but the science supports harm caused by second-hand smoke.
See the link below it is a good summary.
http://www.fumento.com/disease/smokingdebate.html
The brainwashing on second hand smoke is a living testament to Joseph Goebbels.
Envy? Only in the flipfloptastical world of plastic hair, plastic smiles and daddy’s money could that be believed.
Yep, I’m a product of a generation of people that prided themselves in producing goods.
Using someone elses money (possibly the huge resources of the LDS Church) to merge companies, forcing some out of business, while building up others, is a little like money changing to me.
Of course, your opinion will vary, especially if you’re in one of the like-kind fields. Personally, we people in the flyover country, are out in our fields producing gross national product. To me, it has more value. But, what can I say, I’m an old-fashioned kind of girl.
Go check the timeline. The SC Primary, Hunter quits. Fred just disappears to his mother's side with a hint that he wasn't coming back. Why would someone endorse someone who wasn't going to say he was in or out? It was pretty obvious Fred was out the same time, if he was ever "in the race' to start with.
We liked him.
Who had an idea of not doing business with China? If you mean Hunter, that is false. Hunter wanted to level the playing field for American manufacturers who hire American workers and be more careful about sending American technology to the ChiComs.
bttt
Romney Favors Hubbard Novel By Jim Rutenberg “What’s your favorite novel?” is a perennial campaign question, the answer to which presumably gives insight into leadership. A “Moby-Dick” lover may understand the perils of obsessively chasing of a goal. A fan of “To Kill a Mockingbird” may well focus on racial justice. I saw this on another thread...
When asked his favorite novel in an interview shown yesterday on the Fox News Channel, Mitt Romney pointed to “Battlefield Earth,” a novel by L. Ron Hubbard, the founder of Scientology. That book was turned into a film by John Travolta, a Scientologist.
A spokesman said later it was one of Mr. Romney’s favorite novels.
http://thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com/2007/04/30/romney-favors-hubbard-novel/
LOL! Good point but don’t expect the blind to suddenly see.
Hunter should have consulted with his lawyers.
Sure, there will be some layoffs in many cases like this, but more often than not, the alternative would be worse. You can’t expect businesses to be able to go on business as usual. I do a lot of consulting for small businesses and I can tell you the ones that won’t survive competing with big box stores (for example) are the ones that aren’t willing to change and want things to just go on as they always have.
Let’s use farm production for example. At the turn of the 20th century, 1 farm would feed one or two families. Now, big farms have banded together, often with the help of capital investment, one farm can feed millions. Yes, there are some farmers that were displaced, but generally those were ones who wouldn’t adapt or accept and work with the change. They are the ones who thought they could go business as usual. The ones who did adapt and were willing to change generally became the owners of the mega farms.
The novel is actually pretty good. Far better than the POS movie.
What makes you think Romney will be any better? He's been all over the board on immigration. He's been pro-amnesty then anti-amnesty and everywhere in between. Which one will we end up with? Pro-Amnesty Romney or Anti-Amnesty Romney? If you think anti-amnesty Romney HOW DO YOU KNOW?
In addition based on Romney's record in MA Romney=liberal nominations for SCOTUS (75% of his appointments to the MA courts were liberal democrats)=will throw away the Executive Branch of our Govt to the court system (as he already accomplished in MA by letting the courts dictate to him his executive powers as Governor which he then abused by issuing gay-marriage licenses)which will = the establishment of judicial tyranny (which is what happened in MA over the gay-marriage licenses Romney issued at his own discretion, they were never court mandated) which= the complete destuction of our constituion via the elimination of separation of powers =the destruction of our govt =the country's destruction=and then with Romney Chinagate now making headlines=God help us. On the judicial and court system ALONE this man is unfit to be President, let alone his other liberal positions he's flip-flopped on.
Some of you GOP who hate McCain so much and deservedly so need to research Romney just a bit more before blindly supporting the weasel. Face it we have no decent candidate - none.
Wow. Now I KNOW Hunter would have been a wrong choice.
I mean, Hunter can make the argument that Romney is too liberal, or that Romney changed his stance on this or that, or that Romney wouldn't be tough enough......
But Romney is probably the most squeaky clean aw-shucks one-wife no-alcohol no-caffeine type of politician in the last 100 years.
If Hunter REALLY thinks that Romney has no personal character... then I seriously doubt Hunter ever had the judgement to lead America.
I know I won’t.
Be ineresting to se a poll on who goes where.
(((((((”I’m an old-fashioned kind of girl.”)))))))
and a smart one. :)
I told you we would likely differ.
Did you know this:
(Speaking of the dfferences in the way Churches use their money)The true Mormon difference, however, lies in what the LDS church does with that money. Most denominations spend on staff, charity and the building and maintenance of churches; leaders will invest a certain amount—in the case of the Evangelical Lutherans, $152 million—as a pension fund, usually through mutual funds or a conservative stock portfolio. The philosophy is minimalist, as Lutheran pastor Mark Moller-Gunderson explains: “Our stewardship is not such that we grow the church through business ventures.”
The Mormons are stewards of a different stripe. Their charitable spending and temple building are prodigious. But where other churches spend most of what they receive in a given year, the Latter-day Saints employ vast amounts of money in investments that TIME estimates to be at least $6 billion strong. Even more unusual, most of this money is not in bonds or stock in other peoples’ companies but is invested directly in church-owned, for-profit concerns, the largest of which are in agribusiness, media, insurance, travel and real estate. Deseret Management Corp., the company through which the church holds almost all its commercial assets, is one of the largest owners of farm and ranchland in the country, including 49 for-profit parcels in addition to the Deseret Ranch. Besides the Bonneville International chain and Beneficial Life, the church owns a 52% holding in ZCMI, Utah’s largest department-store chain. (For a more complete list, see chart.) All told, TIME estimates that the Latter-day Saints farmland and financial investments total some $11 billion, and that the church’s nontithe income from its investments exceeds $600 million.
http://www.lds-mormon.com/time.shtml
So now, the LDS Church produces much of our food, and our National economy is deeply tied to its influence. Isn’t it fortunate that Mitt just happens to be the LDS “chosen son?”
I wonder how much of its influence helped make Mitt the money mogul. Does anyone know? Do you trust him? (I suppose you do)
Just posted the exact same logic.
If Hunter REALLY thinks a former owner from 10 years ago can just "make" a company do this or that at the snap of his fingers.... then Hunter obviously doesn't have a clue about the inner workings of business, foreign affairs, or human psychology.
Hunter also claimed Huckabee has superior "personal character" than Romney.... which also blows my mind.
Romney can be criticized for a lot of things, but the man is squeaky Ward-Cleaver clean.
The man doesn't drink alcohol, no caffeine, doesn't cheat on his wife, he was a missionary at 18 years old, and is an exemplary father and grandfather.
All this time I had thought Hunter was a smart conservative who unfairly just wasn't getting traction.
“His main problem with Romney is that he is not making his former company Bane stop a deal with China. Previously this company had dealings with Sadam Hussein that built the air defense system that attacked our guys. He said that he has asked him to make the company stop this deal and Romney is just ignoring him.”
Would Romney be able to stop it, if it is his FORMER company??
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