joshua

[sarcasm] Yeah, wow! I'm so glad we voted away all those god-forsaken homos! Now that the whole government is sinless and god-fearing, we can make all of those people just completely illegal! No more worry of them gays having queer parades and turning our children against us! [/sarcasm] This is a disaster for civil rights and I hope you see that. Well, I know you don't see that because if you did, no religious demands could have convinced you to support the Republican 'platform'. And if you want to shoot somebody, feel free to track down some Iraqi civilians. I'm sure another random dozen dead innocents won't matter if they're wearing those stupid picnic blanket hats.

Testing...

I think what Rehmeyer means to say is if you're going to lambaste Kerry voters so, the least you could do is present reasons why voting for him is so ridiculous as to warrant such outrageous commentary.

Oh, I'm sorry, I didn't know I was supposed to consider only one issue and vote on it!!! Why didn't anyone inform me of this? I have always assumed that when voting you're supposed to consider all the issues and then vote accordingly. I'm sorry I'm not as good a citizen as you, Rehmeyer. ;)

And whoever said I was voting based on my religious beliefs? Far from it. I actually support gay marriages and am against the death penalty. Oh, and I don't care one way or the other if they take 'under God' out of the pledge. The only thing that could even remotely be construed as a 'religious' issue is my views on abortion, which have little to do with my religious beliefs. In my opinion, abortion is murder, and is no more condonable than the death penalty. I think most people, regardless of their religious beliefs, think that murder is wrong.

Why did I vote for Bush? For one, I want pro-life justices on the supreme court. More than likely, Bush will appoint 1, maybe 2, justices. Supreme court justices are a huge deal that is greatly overlooked in elections.

I also support his educational platform. I support his economic policies, including his tax cuts. While I think most economic occurences have little to do with the president's decisions, I think the tax cuts he initiated have sped up the economic recovery. All the leading economic indicators are pointing to a strong, stable, GROWING economy. Jobs, while at a net loss (not W's fault), are INCREASING. The economy was already in decline before W took office.

I think we should pipeline the heck out of Alaska.

I think government should get its hands out of Social Security and that it should be privatized.

I support the war on Terror and in Iraq. I think Bush is the best man for the job when it comes to leading a war. Who cares if he has problems speaking publicly. Who cares if he can't say the word 'nuclear' correctly. What I care about is how he reacts under pressure and how he handles national threats. Reference post-911 actions. We couldn't have asked for a better president. It's just plain bad judgment to change leaders in the midst of a war... think of all the crap that we would have to go thru to get a new administration up to par with the last 4 years of intelligence, etc. Ok, so there weren't any WMD... but our evidence and intelligence all pointed to the fact that they had them. We made a judgment call, and I think it was the best one.

Grr, I'm tired of typing. I think that's enough reasons why I support Bush.

Several gay marriage bans being passed isn't, I think, quite a disaster--not like the war on drugs.

I'm also inclined to call the rights to life a civil liberties issue. [rant] One of those life-related disasters, abortion, is a leading cause of unnatural death, beating out HIV/AIDS and the cultural revolution; it's rapidly gaining on WWII (has it beat if you don't include civilian casualties, who really took the brunt). Gay marriage affects gays. Abortion affects gays, and everyone else. [\rant]

I feel Josh is grossly underinformed about a lot of the issues, but that hardly matters now. I posted again on my webpage, commenting on a related subtopic. Regarding Tom's comment - I read it six hours ago and it still makes me almost pass out from confusion whenever I re-read it. Can you expound on what you mean by 'cultural revolution'?

Ok, Reh, what, pray tell, should I be informed about? Do tell. Why exactly do you hate Bush?

Btw, If you haven't noticed by now, I'm pretty much a Libertarian, and not a Republican.

Sorry, I should have capitalized. I meant Mao's 1966 Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution (无产阶级文化大�命). Furthermore, less than a million died in it; I was thinking of his Great Leap Forward (大跃进) that starved 20 or 30 million in the decade before the Cultural Revolution.

(Wikipedia has good articles on both)

Sorry about making your head spin; I'm not a very good apologist.

Grr.. the Chinese looked fine in the preview, but MT has mangled it.

Because you asked so nicely, here you go..

You said "... but our evidence and intelligence all pointed to the fact that they had them."

http://www.sierrafoot.org/soapbox/Bush_lies_iraq_powell.html
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/3378467.stm
http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/38CDF820-17B8-47C3-85C8-ECDF602720CB.htm
http://www.cnn.com/2003/US/03/14/sprj.irq.documents/ (read the last paragraph)
http://www.tvnewslies.org/html/powell_lies_to_un.html
http://www.buzzflash.com/contributors/03/03/27_lies.html
http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2004/07/11/1089484242583.html?oneclick=true
http://www.politicalstrategy.org/2003_03_10_weblog_archive.htm
http://www.cnn.com/2003/WORLD/meast/06/08/sprj.irq.main/
http://www.bushwatch.com/iraqevidence.htm
http://www.bushlies.net/pages/9/

And here's a nice picture that I like for no reason
http://media.michaelmoore.com/_media/images/home/bush-small.jpg

It costs more to drill oil from permafrost than it can sell for in the United States. We get cheap middle eastern oil. Drilling in Alaska will not reduce the price of oil in the US or reduce our dependency on foreign oil. The reason the oil companies support drilling there, and thus the reason Bush pushes for such drilling, is so that they can sell it to other countries where the price of oil is higher.

At least you are now more informed on one issue.

i dont know who you are josh-but you are really funny. i looked up the word clavicle on google.com and got this website, i figured i might as well read it, and found what you have to say very interesting. hmmm...

The commment from meg just ended this post.
Thanks meg.