Posted on 10/30/2014 12:23:27 PM PDT by BurningOak
Indeed, but the bigger point is this: When it comes to what software or computer you buy, you hardly have a choice in paying for cheap labor and a business which supports said agenda.
Purists are the problem because they with hold their votes and participation. This makes it possible for 17 trillion in debt, bloated government agencies, the elections of dems, and by extension the appointment of liberal Justices to take place.
We have a much better chance of influencing the GOP than we do the Dems. It is not my fault that you cannot see the forest for the trees. If we continue on with your strategy, yes, we will win in the South and some of the West. But for the most part we will get what we have now, nothing. Keep doing the same thing and expecting a different result.
I do not want liberal Republicans to be elected. But you say to stop voting for the lesser of two evils. Then who do we vote for? Dems? No one? Yes that will really teach the liberals a lesson. Why not use our heads, have a plan, and defeat the dems first? Then with GOP majorities influence the laws that are passed. Then work on the media and work on changing the culture and public education.
Your “I’m gonna take my ball and go home” strategy will get us nowhere. If you can tell me how more dem victories, not voting, or with holding our votes will change things for the better, I am all ears.
Maybe the media will complain less about Apple’s cheap labor because a homosexual is the CEO?
LOL I saw Ralph Nader the other day on CNBC ragging on Apple about their underpaid Chinese workforce at Foxconn.
The situation was a set up. Roman law would allow him to be charged with murder if he killed someone without the Roman government ordering it done. It was a lot about pointing outright intent. He strongly told the woman to “sin no more”.
Purists are the problem because they with hold their votes and participation. This makes it possible for 17 trillion in debt, bloated government agencies, the elections of dems, and by extension the appointment of liberal Justices to take place.
Not so. Compromisers made all those negatives happen by voting with Dems and not supporting Conservatives during the primary.
If you want purists to vote Republican don’t neglect purists.
Speak for yourself. It bothers me and many other Americans including many on FR. If you are fine with fagotry then that is your problem.
1. I'm a conservative.
2. Limited government. It is not a purpose of government to regulate private inter-personal relationships on less there has been an injury or a tort to be adjudicated. That is the preview of ethics, religion, and personal choice.
3. Privacy. I don't want the government in my bedroom or theirs. If I don't want the authorities monitoring me and regulating me and my partners behavior, why should I insist on the government monitoring and regulating yours? There would be incentives offered to neighbors and children to report "proscribed" activities to authorities.
4. Practicality. I prefer that our government not be encouraged to peep in windows seeking petty crimes and misdemeanors for punishment. Would the government require video camera installation in every bedroom, shower, and hotel room to assure compliance with government regulation? Enforcement is, in reality, impossible, and therefore creates an entire population of offenders. "What's your kink de jour?" Who defines "normal?"
5. Cost. Government regulation of such behavior never comes without a bureaucracy and costs of enforcement. This leads to cancerous growth of more government and programs.
6. Freedom. Government should exist only to facilitate freedom, to prevent individuals from injuring other individuals, and to provide for the general defense. Involving itself in more is the slippery we've slid down until we've reached the overly regulated society we occupy (I can't call it "live in") today.
Laws are never written to stop the law writer from doing something he himself is doing. Never. They are always written to stop something someone else is doing that the law writer doesn't like. It is an inherently anti-social, anti-freedom activity. My viewpoint maximizes freedom.
Think about it. The ultimate extension of that kind of thinking that one should not "live and let live" is what drive ISIS "fighters" to behead little three-year old Christian girls in Gingham dresses, fellow Muslims who read the same Koran, written by the same Mohammad, worshipping the same god named Allah, destroy their historic Mosques, merely because they have some slight disagreements about how they believe and behave. These same thoughts lead these "righteous men" to destroy ancient World Heritage sites merely because they were built by people who could not have ever even HAD those beliefs espoused by ISIS, having lived before Mohammad was a glint in his Daddy's eye as he knocked up his mother!
There has been a lot of historic blood spilled and splashed around the world by "self-righteous" people who simply cannot "live and let live" anyone who is even the slightest bit different. My own tenth-Great-Grandfather founded Salem, Massachusetts, and was involved in the witch trials. He was as self-righteous as they came. As I said, think about it.
There is a lot going on in this area, and what you mention is some of it. Yes, I think Liberals have a natural predisposition to go into those vocations, while conservatives tend to prefer more tangible sort of work like providing goods and services, but some of the lopsidedness of the industry is the result of deliberate efforts to block conservatives entry into those jobs.
They don't want us there, and they will go to great lengths to keep us out. Even so, a few occasionally sneak in, and others see the light and become conservative after they've been in the industry awhile. (Ronald Reagan, Charleton Heston, etc.)
Roger Simon (former Movie industry writer who is now over at PJMedia) was soliciting conservative writers and actors to get in contact with him about working on future projects to produce entertainment. Glenn Reynolds has been working quite a lot to make PJMedia into something more than an internet phenomena. Glenn Beck has been trying to get his Blaze network going, and Bill Whittle produces some pretty good video commentary, as do others.
What do we do to improve this? Well, I think the first thing we need to do is to make as many people as possible aware of the problem, and then convince them that something needs to be done about it.
After that, perhaps we can come up with enough brainpower and money to take some good stabs at solving it.
If homosexuality is not a perversion, then there is no basis for preventing homosexual marriage. Or imprisoning bakery owners for refusing homosexual wedding cakes.
There is no moderate or half-way position on this one. The moderate position loses. Perhaps it is now so late in the game that the strident position loses as well, but at least you stood for something.
Republic leaders are spineless. They tiptoe around immigration, homosexual marriage, race-baiting and a host of other issues because they are cowed and afraid the media will criticize them.
Yes, and they co-opted the rainbow as a flag. They really should have went with a brown flag. Can no longer enjoy a rainbow without being consider one of them.
I am not saying neglect anything or anyone. However, if the GOP had a substantial majority, then it would be less necessary in their eyes to reach across the aisle. Conservatives would have much more influence.
I always vote for the MOST Conservative candidate in the primaries. But, in the general election I sometimes have to hold my nose, or we will lose and get nowhere while the dems continue to advance, just so we can strut around expounding on purity and principles.
Good point… sin is sin and separation from God is the consequence for ALL sin. On that level, they are equally egregious and thank God for forgiveness’! Having said that, the word ‘abomination’ is used a number of times in scripture and it always seems to denote a higher level of despicableness…. Such is this verse…. Leviticus 18:22 “Thou shalt not lie with mankind, as with womankind: it is abomination. 23 Neither shalt thou lie with any beast to defile thyself therewith: neither shall any woman stand before a beast to lie down thereto: it is confusion.” This probably won’t satisfy anyone as to making an argument for “one sin being more egregious than another” but when verse 22 is stated in virtually the same breath as verse 23, it indicates that the act of homosexuality is on the same level as bestiality…..
there you go again with the disdainful comments towards purists when the problem is the compromisers whose actions make it impossible to reward with a vote.
Also Bush had a Republican majority in the House and Senate and Conservatives had little influence as Republicans spent like drunken Socialists.
Samsung is not run by the gay mafia so buy a Samsung smart phone or tablet
I’m condemning you? Sorry buddy but I think that you believe the message came from the messenger…as opposed to the messenger just passing it on. And if you think that interpretation is wrong, refute it! And while you are at it, refute Proverbs 13:20 “He that walketh with wise men shall be wise: but a companion of fools shall be destroyed.” Or to put it another way, “a person is known by the company they keep….”
Did I say anything about his personal choices? You implied...if he is a Damn good CEO and I’m invested in that stock and he is making me money I could care less the choices he makes within the confines of his bedroom
That is your liberal opinion. Most on FR are disgusted by men who play in other men’s fecal matter.
Far from liberal I just don’t get involved in the personal choices and decisions of others...that would be called none of my Damn business and others could learn a valuable lesson from obtaining that virtue.
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