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I vowed long ago never to involve myself with the truly nasty anti-Mormon bigotry posted routinely on these threads but the distortions and lies posted here compel me to make this post.

I will attempt no rebuttal nor will I answer any posting that wants to contend about these matters. Contention is from Satan - not God.

Anyone wishing to learn about the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints should read the materials first hand, get to know some typical Mormons, peruse the many web sites both for and against and then after prayer, meditation and long pondering make up their own mind either for or against. If for then by all means look into it deeper. If against then drop it.

I do include alcohol. A very large percentage of violent crimes are committed under the influence of alcohol and a known alcoholic should not be carrying a gun.

And yes, there are exceptions to every right. These are dictated by common sense, common decency and human conscience. Rights are not license to do as one pleases and damn the consequences. Rights exercised irresponsibly will be lost - witness what has been happening in the United States of America. An amoral or immoral, irresponsible and ignorant people will not keep their rights and it does no service to anyone to insist that we must allow unlimited exercise of every right in any circumstance. That way lies slavery.

I would oppose issuing a concealed carry permit to any person who uses powerful mood altering drugs even when prescribed. Just as I would oppose issuing a driver’s license or a pilot’s license to such. There must be some degree of responsibility attached to the exercise of any right. These drugs are quite powerful and tend to produce sometimes drastic misperceptions of the environment (I have seen it many times). The last thing we need is irresponsible use of firearms by otherwise law-abiding citizens because they are too intoxicated to make a fully rational decision.

Truly free people are scary people. They are apt to think for themselves, speak without fear and act in accordance with what’s right. Truly free people succeed and fail, help and hinder, act or refuse to act in accordance with their own consciences. Truly fee people are not easily cowed or panicked and are unpredictable. Truly free people choose what they want to believe, form their own preferred associations and face the consequences of their actions squarely. A truly free people is feared by tyrants and by wicked busy-bodies intent on subverting all to feed their own perceived self-interests. Truly free people allow others freedom without fear and act to curtail freedom only by promising (and delivering) consequences for wicked acts that are punishing enough to deter the weaker among them from committing those acts. Truly free people cooperate and do not coerce.

Truly free people are becoming hard to find. It is dangerous to be truly free for the unfree, the tyrants and their toadies and sycophants will always strive to impugn, malign and ultimately destroy the truly free. The truly free submit willingly to what is Right and Good and Wise and refuse to submit to evil and folly. This means they are a threat to the wicked and must be suppressed or destroyed.

This is what happens when people have rights “to” things. A right to health care = free, substandard health care at the expense of those who produce. A right to housing = free, substandard housing at the expense of property owners (they stll “own” it they just can’t use it to make a living though they still have an obligation to maintain it). A right to education = unending schooling that produces mostly illiterates and ignoramuses at the expense of those who taught themselves to produce tangible goods and useful services. And so on ad nauseum.

“Win the Future” implies we have lost or are losing in the present. Which is the case. Other than winning elections Hussein cannot point to any “wins” of any significance in his past or in the present. He must redirect attention to the future where only marvelous things await us if we just trust him. Heh.

Both of your posts are very encouraging. And I assume you are a Milwaukee local and have watched him up close. Heaven knows this nation is in desperate need of real, principled leadership. Christie in New Jersey holds to his fiscal conservative points but from what I see he is no conservative in many other areas. If Governor Walker fits the bill - and your description seems to support the notion that he does - then he will certainly have my support.

Walker’s sudden rise is more a comment on the dearth of leadership in this country than anything else. There were similar spasms of enthusiasm for Scott Brown and Arnold immediately after the elections that put them into office. Recall also some such flurries for Fred Thompson and Giuliani. It may be that Walker is the real deal but it will take time to find out. I am very encouraged by his adamant stand in the present situation and if he can see this through to a successful conclusion it will go far to elevating him to the national stage. But I don’t know anything about his stand on other matters. But it sure would be nice to discover a principled conservative with courage who is competent, articulate and persuasive. I hope Governor Walker fits the bill. Such people are few and far between.

“by doing your heart’s bidding, you can find a way to burn with the white hot flame that can make the difference between having a job and having a career, a life’s work filled with joy and meaning.”

Ths is what passes for wisdom these days. Ted Bundy followed his “heart’s bidding”. So did Joseph Stalin, Al Capone, Jesse James and Tamerlane.

One man’s dream can be a nightmare for everyone else.

Find the truth and follow it. The world’s scriptures are meant to transmit truth. Christianity is truth’s fulfillment and fullest expression.

Reality is such a DRAG for these leftists. That few would want to shell out $40,000+ for a glorified golf cart with limited range is hard for them to believe. Of course if Obamacare passes in the Supreme Court that will give our rulers the green light to mandate purchase of these things. And don’t think the won’t try something like this (probably along the lines of phasing out manufacture of actual autos in favor of these stupid carts).

I do not believe he has any religious beliefs outside the American form of socialist/marxist/fascist claptrap that so many on the left hold with such fervor. His profession of Christianity is likely just another pose adopted to give him the proper aura within certain circles and to garner votes.

Singer is a monster that other monsters use to give a veneer of scholarly approval to their crimes. All the “isms” that, in the last century, erupted across the planet and whose acolytes murdered millions could claim the approval of “scholars”. Singer is referred to as some form of “ethicist” as if that gives his ideas some added weight or legitimacy. The “ethics” he peddles justify crimes and are purely evil.

The Mongols also destroyed irrigation systems over large areas effectively turning once verdant and productive tracts into wasteland. And that 40 million figure may be way under the actual total slaughtered or killed indirecly as a result of famine and disease that followed in the wake of the very destructive Mongol armies.

I believe we get insight into the kind of thinking that is pervasive among the inner circle of the green movement. Fewer humans = less carbon emissons = happy Gaiea. Not a few of these people would be quite happy to see wholesale slaughter of their fellow human beings. Their biggest worry in regards to that is means and not the end result (which they welcome). So long as people can be exterminated without filling the atmosphere with nuclear fallout or excessive carbon emissions from the burning of whole cities then it is OK (though “regretable”).

Our senators are hopeless. And we have sock puppet Bennet for another 6 years. I believe Udall is up again in 2012 so maybe we can give him an early retirement.

Good to see that my congressman is getting noticed - and for the right reasons. Keep it up Congressman Lamborn.

All this tells me is that politics is as much about fads as anything else.

All I know about Christie is that he is apparently a hard-liner on fiscal matters and not afraid to express himself with some candor. I have read some brief blurbs that he is not conservative when it comes to Second Amendment issues and some social issues. This would make him a pretty typical northeastern, left-leaning member of the GOP.

When Scott Brown was elected there was a bunch to talk about a presidential run. In the wake of some votes he has made since then all that talk has evaporated and now he is generally referred to as a RINO. Ditto Arnold after he won the governorship. There were more than a few on these very threads who wanted to amend the Constitution to allow him to run for president. But then time passed and reality intervened and Arnold has been exposed as the leftist Republican that he always was.

Stay sober folks. And be patient.

The next time they update the dictionary the entry under “hypocrite” should include her photo and under definitions: “see her”.

The “ardent Catholic” who supports abortion on demand and the degradation of homosexual “marriage”.

The “fiscally responsible” representative who wrote and/or introduced to congress and/or whipped her majority to pass every spending bill that came down the pike and under whom the deficit has exploded to over $14 trillion.

The “leader” who was going to bring transparency to the House and ensure the “most ethical” House in history who pushed massive bills without reading them, who curtailed debate and amendment at every turn and who employed legislative tricks and chicanery to pass bills opposed by the majority of Americans and then denigrated those who voiced their oppositon as “nazis”.

When she accuses others of being hypocrites it is case study in projection.

And, of course, she is adored by the left.

The FCC moves to impose government control of the internet even though congress and the courts have said they cannot.

EPA moves to take control of energy generation. What area of life does this not cover?

Obamacare moves to place life and death decisions in the hands of government.

Information, energy, medical care. That just about covers it all. Add in “hate crime” laws that outlaw certain forms of thought and there isn’t much left.

Next year will be crucial. If the new majority cannot or will not act to put a STOP to all this then it is no exaggeration to say that the Contitution is dead. We will retain the outer trappings of a republic but at its heart it will be a bureacratic tyranny run by an oligarchy of interchangeable ideologues who will rotate within the executive/ligislative/judicial branches of what has become a one-party government. And the party will be that of the “progressives” who will maintain the fiction of R and D opposition but who, in fact, agree on virtually everything.

Her “solution” is for government to tinker and meddle in an effort to entice the creation of preferred kinds of businesses. It doesn’t occur to these leftists that, if left to themselves, there are plenty of people who will put together their own plans and businesses. Some - most - will fail but some will succeed. And the ones who fail oftimes come back and try something new and then succeed. Leftists simply do NOT believe in liberty and equality of opportunity. They insist on trying to force matters to create circumstances more to their liking and never give thought to the possibility that their “dream” may well be a nightmare for others.

Of course the Chicoms want the west to tie itself in knots over energy production. The weaker the west the better for them (or so they believe). They don’t want a crash - that would be bad for bsiness - but the continued downward spiral is fine with them as they think they come out ahead in the long run.