So, other than tax breaks, what can’t be taken care of by Powers of Attorney, Living Wills and such?

And the interpretation thereof. For example:

- If a commenter disagrees with the poster and someone else makes a comment that the poster doesn’t immedately refute, then the argumentative commenter accuses the host of agreeing, even if there is no evidence to support such.
– Perhaps the host doesn’t want to waste the time or hasn’t seen them.

- If a commenter disagrees with the poster and lists a few items that are not immedately addressed, then the host is accused of avoiding those topics.
– Perhaps the host doesn’t see the value of speaking to each point.

- If a commenter disagrees with the poster and the commenter lists items of contention, the poster is taunted to disprove the commenter’s statements.
– Perhaps the host is busy creating more content to make the blog better.

Have y’all ever found any of that … curious?

A common fallacy, which is why a lot of people who ordinarily would object to writing discrimination into the Constitution don’t see it as a big deal.

I’m for the death penalty.

I think the religious roots of the institute of marriage prevents gays from doing so. I also think they can take legal measures to get most of the rights married people have.

ID/Creationism in public schools? I don’t have a problem with it, but I think folks have gotten carried away with the whole “establishment clause” thing.

Tastes Great

Similar to R. Neal in overlapping agreement with you on the bigger issues, I was surprised at a few of them. I’m admittedly more pro gun regulation, within 2d amendment bounds — and I’m relieved to see you don’t see a right to nukes! We can work our way down from there, maybe.

One implication I think should be challenged, though: I don’t think that “believing in God and Jesus” is something that will offend most liberals, or even many liberals. Good for you — Jesus is one of my favorite political philosophers, too — I just seem to take away different lessons than our President does What raises my hackles is if the believer assumes or acts as if all Americans share that belief, that you must vote Republican or support this or that political agenda, or that church and state should be working hand in hand on issues of the day.

I’m all for you guys debating and there is validity to calling BH out on pointing out the punctuation. But the selling out comment really rubbed me the wrong way. In fact, I’d consider allowing someone against the grain to post here the opposite of selling out. Don’t worry, I’m tougher than I look. My feelings aren’t hurt that bad.

R. Neal:

4 things? Hmm, I’ll guess: social security. Bush being elected. God. And taxes. Am I close? I think maybe you’re a closet libertarian.

Manish:

I’d let you post here but you don’t even post at your blog

Since Uncle decided to put them out there . . . .
Here’s my views
Abortion is murder. Don’t quite know what to do about it though. Don’t think it should be legal, but understand that its gonna happen anyway and might best be doing it in a hospi …

Yeah, I used the term selling out, because that was my first reaction to having a self described, Lefty as a regular poster on SU. I feel it is pretty obvious BH is no Liberarian at all. That is probably how he/she “squares” his/her views on gun ownership to Liberal friends. That said.

Point #1 My post’s are labeled “hate”, and and “raves”. My posts are clear, and I repeat it… all facts…. I believe “incoherent” would mean they are illogical, non factual??? (I like my style of punctuation BTW, it is simply emphasis, but feel free to attack it as if a Southerner uses the term ya’ll, it means he/she is less educated no doubt, a clear attack on the messenger. These are MSM and as I stated the Clinton’s #1 line of defense.

Point #2 It would seem that BH does not first look to a candidate’s view on the Second Amendment when evaluating their ability to be our President. The answer (in my humble opinion) as to whether you are going to vote for Hillary Clinton is “No”, and I do not care if she is running against John McCain who is also anti Second Amendment. My reference to Waco in my first post is quite accurate in my opinion. That entire incident started over paperwork involving a machine gun. Instead, they intentionally escalated the incident, and even went so far as to allege that the Davidian’s were abusing children…. You know, smear the people… They are just “raving incoherently” about their religion (in the middle of a desert mind you), and full of “hate” (for a govt. that eventually killed them, and bulldozed the evidence).

Point #3 I feel that BH is intentionally “dodging” my question on Hadithia. I think if he/she had not heard of this in the MSM…. (I kind of doubt it), but if not, how about a quick little google search??? (dern there goes my emphasis habit again)

Point #4 Notice how the only questions that BH wanted to answer and debate were on abortion, which is fine, maybe you are most “passionate” on that subject, but it is clear that you wanted to dismiss all of the other questions regarding, Dem Presidents actions before major wars, and defending the “wrong war, wrong place, wrong time” statement, Hadithia etc. Those subjects were all “rant”.

Now, I will admit that I was a little less “congenial” with the directness and “tone” of the posts… but “hate”??? Now, I do not intend to quit reading SU, just because you have a “Lefty” on board, it’s your blog, and obviously much more popular than mine, for good reason (content), but I was looking to “draw out” BH on some subjects, rather than waste time, over time “nibbling around the edges. So many blogs/newspapers to read so little time.

To summarize I think those on the political left need to address where they are in our war efforts, as it pertains to what Abu Gharib, and Gitmo, the Marine who shot a terrorist in the mosque etc. On one hand they criticize every thing the Administration does, (not enough troops, no body armor, and of all things up armored humvee’s??? The Clinton Administration procured them, and saw the results of Mogadishu’s battle, and they did not up armor them??? I am sorry, the left needs to quit this charade of supporting the troops, and we need to challenge each and everyone of them on their positions. Period.

Let’s be serious, if a Dem were Pres, and followed the exact same options as “W” has how would the MSM cover it, and what would Rep. Murtha’s political attitude and/or statements be??? (Different I surmise)

I understand and agree, however, read up on how many times Harper’s Ferry (valuable because of the water power and the arms factories) changed hands during the War Between the States. I’ve hiked the mountains around there and I assure you there are plenty of great areas in the neighborhood that make ideal headquarters for artillery batteries.

Pepsi?, Pepsi? That’s it. I’m outta here.

Dang, i didn’t see that.

I take back everything. Don’t ever run for office. Don’t ever try to convince me of anything. Your worthless and weak! Your feeble minded preference for colored sugar water is an abomination of all that is good and right in the world.

PEPSI?!?!?!?!?!?

heck, thats even worse than coke.

RC Cola forever!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

congress even, we need you in Washington

I’ll even manage your campaign.

As for the AR/AK thing, I just spent considerable time on an AR this weekend (my brothers bushmaster) for the first time ever. I am pretty sold. Looking forward to building on. The lack of recoil was great, though I didn’t care for the way his muzzle break/flashhider directed the gas back towards you. His first shot I was standing behind him at 8 o’clock without my glasses on yet and got a blast right in the face.

(15) I like guns and EVERYONE ELSE should have them, because the criminals and the government already do.

That ought to be the quote of the day.

Oh and anyone want to explain Somalia to me? Didn’t we go in there to save all those starving people? Except what we were really doing is surreptitiously selecting a warlord to form a corrupt government by and for himself so we could bribe him to let us slip in and develop all those probable oil reserves. Oh, except we forgot the tanks and had our asses handed to us. Whoops.

It’s funny that just a few month before the Battle of Mogadishu, we had the Siege of Waco, and we didn’t forget the tanks there (nor the helicopter mounted machine guns, nor the incineratory tear gas)

Except for the recent unpleasantness (I think we are funding select warlords again) in 2006, Somalia has become quite the libertopia without an all encompassing federal government. Cell phone towers, no import taxes, internet cafes, etc.

http://www.mises.org/story/2066

It’s cheaper and more politically correct to build us an ally in Iraq rather than conquer it. “Imperialism”, we will never live that down. Notice the government we build and the constitution we wrote does not include the right to keep and bear arms. Things are stabilizing, but for a time there our troops were confiscating the individual arms that citizens without the veneer of government desperately needed to keep themselves safe. Another thing about the constitution that we wrote; it specifically prohibits the formation of militias for self-protection.

“Militia” is a word that’s still black and blue from the 90s, but if you will remember New Orleans, you will see that homeowners with firearms formed informal neighborhood watches to protect their property from looters.

And tell me again why we gave them a European parliamentary style of democracy? I thought we were the greatest nation on earth?

I will note with some happiness that my Iraqi constitution translation clearly says that the power of government derives from the consent of the people. Goodie, now they have the same charade that we have.

I ask you to name a single country anywhere in the globe where we have successfully transplanted a democratically elected republic form of government that includes powers derived from the people and every bit of goodness included in the bill of rights. Even Canada has rights extended to her Majesty’s subjects at the pleasure of parliament. That’s not good enough.

If it wasn’t only a desperate grab for resources, don’t you think we would vigorously guard our freedoms here at home? AT&T/NSA peering, warrantless wiretaps, sneak and peek searches, dynamic entry, keystroke loggers, all you phone records belong to us, etc.

I’ve got a bumper sticker for you:

http://www.coyoteblog.com/coyote_blog/2006/05/lol.html

As for defending ANWR… We already do, it’s called the 49th state to join the Union…

(4) If it was ONLY about resources, we would not be spending so much effort, blood, and money on keeping the local populace alive. IF the “nation-building” effort is successful (and we may not really know for years) it can’t help but change the complexion of the Middle East.

(5) Marriage is about “doing it” for the children (beget, begat, begot). Production of a new child still requires a contribution from each gender, as opposed to cloning (re-production?). As far as I am concerned, the only “state interest” served by the government involvement in marriage is minimizing the progeny of incest. Beyond that, anything else between two people is a partnership.

(6) ID/Creationism probably doesn’t belong in school. But let us not overlook that everything(?) else is a theory, right up to the point it is refuted.

(8) I tend to be Agnostic. I do subscribe to “there are no atheists in foxholes.”

(13) It would be useful to have a bailout account that was not part of general revenue, but everyone needs to plan for their retirement years, including not DEPENDING on ANY organization for a pension.

(15) I like guns and EVERYONE ELSE should have them, because the criminals and the government already do.

(16) Corporations are people, too.

(23) The free market takes care of workers as well as workers take care of the free market.

(28) So far, I like the AR better than the AK, and I will let you know about the Garand.

So now I’m confused as to what the fuck I am….

Hey, thanks for the quote, btw.
It’s especially funny when one remembers that I threatened to quit reading you in the past.

And vice versa, I’m sure.